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Trump Goes to Mexico and Everyone Is Bored

by TarenAiken Posted on August 31, 2016

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I’m back from lunch and it’s time to catch up on Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico. How did it go?

Apparently the answer is “meh.” After all his big talk about Mexico paying for his wall, Trump didn’t bring it up once he got face to face with Enrique Peña Nieto. I gather he didn’t bring up much of anything else either. Even Twitter seemed bored by the whole thing.

On the bright side, Trump didn’t say anything too barbarous, which is being hailed by Republicans as Trump acting “presidential.” The soft bigotry of low expectations comes to the rescue once again.

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CNN: Trump Had Last Minute Wedding Jitters Over Mike Pence

by Peter02Jgulyfk Posted on July 15, 2016

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Um, what?

What kind of moron leaks something like this? Is it actually some kind of Trump-approved effort to make sure Pence knows his place? Jesus. Apparently Trump can’t even make up his mind about his running mate, let alone something that’s actually important.

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Climate denier tries to expose scientists, fails miserably

by ClydeFyans Posted on June 20, 2016

Climate denier tries to expose scientists, fails miserably

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A recent study from Indiana University found that Americans are more likely to follow advice from climate scientists who have worked to cut their own carbon footprints. In light of this, science-denier blogger Anthony Watts did some sleuthing on Google to supposedly prove that prominent climate scientists don’t practice what they preach.

Watts posted what he calls “aerial surveys” or satellite images of their homes, including those of Michael Mann, Jonathan Overpeck, and Kevin Trenberth, scientists who are regular right-wing targets. He deduced that none have solar panels on their rooftops.

“The results don’t speak well for them,” he writes. You can sense how thrilled he was with this discovery.

Except … he was wrong.

DeSmog’s Graham Readfearn did real-life reporting and followed up with these scientists. He found that nearly all of them use some form of renewable power in their homes. As Michael Mann confirmed to Grist, “our power comes entirely from wind. Apparently it didn’t occur to Anthony Watts that there are a variety of sources of renewable energy, and a variety of plans (in Pennsylvania and elsewhere) that allow you to elect to purchase your power entirely from renewables.”

With this out of the way, maybe Watts can go forth with an equally valuable scientific inquiry: Proving, once and for all, that the Earth is a giant cube.

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Donald Trump Melts Down In Epic Whinefest

by JonathonNeubauer Posted on May 31, 2016

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Donald Trump is pissed off again. Surprise! This morning he held a press conference to announce who was getting the money from his January veterans fundraiser, and immediately proceeded to tee off on the press for…lèse-majesté? I’m not sure what else to call it. Trump pretty plainly tried to avoid making the personal $1 million contribution he promised at the time, and now he’s outraged about being held accountable for this. Here’s a quick rundown.

What Trump Says Now

What He Said Then

On why it took so long to disburse the money: “When you send checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars to people and to companies and to groups that you’ve never heard of, charitable organizations, you have to vet it. You send people out. You do a lot of work.”

The organizations had been chosen before the event even took place: “The night benefited twenty-two different organizations, a number of which are Iowa based Veterans groups.”

On the purity of his motivations: “I wanted to do this out of the goodness of my heart. I didn’t want to do this where the press is all involved.”

This was a publicity stunt from the start, driven by Trump’s feud with Fox News: “When they sent out the wise guy press releases a little while ago done by some PR person along with Roger Ailes, I said ‘Bye bye.'”

On his well-known penchant for low-key philanthropy: “If we could, I wanted to keep it private because I don’t think it’s anybody’s business if I wanna send money to the vets.”

This might be the most laughable thing Trump has ever said. When he announced his boycott of the Fox debate, Trump explicitly made it all about ratings: “They can’t toy with me like they toy with everybody else…So let ’em have their debate and let’s see how they do with the ratings.”

On his bad press: “I’m not looking for credit. But what I don’t want is when I raise millions of dollars, have people say, like this sleazy guy right over here from ABC. He’s a sleaze in my book. You’re a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well.”

Trump very plainly tried to avoid making the personal $1 million donation he promised. From David Farenthold a week ago: “In the past few days, The Post has interviewed 22 veterans charities that received donations as a result of Trump’s fundraiser. None of them have reported receiving personal donations from Trump….To whom did Trump give, and in what amounts? ‘He’s not going to share that information,’ Lewandowski said.”

On the media’s lack of suitable gratitude: “Instead of being like, ‘Thank you very much, Mr. Trump,’ or ‘Trump did a good job,’ everyone said: ‘Who got it? Who got it? Who got it?’ And you make me look very bad. I have never received such bad publicity for doing a good job.”

Poor baby. Apparently the press hasn’t yet gotten into the habit of kowtowing to him the way his employees do. Apparently he still has a lot to learn about running for president.

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3 Medical Conditions That Bacon Can Cure

by TrinaUccenoyuhd Posted on January 14, 2015

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As we all know, the internet is obsessed with bacon. Physicians, however, are usually less bullish about the delicious yet notoriously artery-clogging treat. Until now: Over at the medical blog KevinMD, Dr. Jennifer Gunter combs the scientific literature and turns up three actual medical conditions that bacon can help treat:

  1. Nosebleeds. Last October, Stanford otolaryngologist Ian Humphreys developed a nasal tampon made out of bacon that cured a young girl’s bloody nose, an accomplishment for which he was awarded a 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine. “Apparently the high salt content of bacon is believed to induce swelling which causes the blood vessels to constrict slowing the flow of blood and helping clotting,” writes Gunter. When Humphreys won the IgNobel, Robert Jackler, chair of Stanford’s otolaryngology department, told Stanford’s Scope medical blog, “We are squealing with pride.”
  2. An incredibly disgusting-sounding infection called furuncular myiasis in which the larvae of an insect called Dermatobia hominis nest in the human soft tissue or skin, resulting in boils and sometimes tissue destruction. Shudder. “The treatment largely consists of manually picking out the larvae with tweezers,” writes Gunter. “Apparently bacon fat can be used as bait to lure the larvae to the skin surface for faster and more effective removal.”
  3. Scabies. Apparently, bacon fat was once used in topical sulfur and salicylic acid creams used to treat this itchy and highly contagious skin infection. A 1991 study compared the bacon fat formulation to the more modern cold cream version and finds, Gunter writes, that “while the cold cream combination was 100% effective versus 88 percent for the bacon fat base the authors noted that the bacon fat concoction was 238 times less expensive than the cheapest scabicidal medication in the U.S.”

So there you have it: Bacon as medicine. Something to keep in mind if you have any left over after you make that gross bacon lattice thing for your Super Bowl party.

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There’s arsenic in your rice, but don’t worry about it, says FDA

by d2wk58 Posted on September 10, 2013

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Rice grows in water, which is often contaminated with arsenic.

Whenever you eat rice, a prevalent but poisonous element is all over your meal like, well, white on rice.

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration tested 1,300 samples of rice and rice-based products and found that they all contained very low levels of arsenic [PDF].

Grains of rice tested had average levels of inorganic arsenic ranging from 2.6 to 7.2 micrograms per serve. Tragically, instant rice contained the least amount of arsenic and brown rice had the most. Products containing rice ingredients also contained arsenic.

That isn’t much arsenic — a microgram is one-millionth of a gram, and there are 28 grams in an ounce. But is it dangerous?

In the short term, the FDA says no. “These amounts of detectable arsenic are not high enough to cause any immediate or short-term adverse health effects,” the agency wrote on its website. In the long run? Nobody’s really sure. “The FDA intends to conduct a risk assessment considering how much arsenic is consumed from rice and rice products, and whether there are variations in health effects for certain segments of the population.”

Can you get your rice without arsenic? Apparently not. From The Christian Science Monitor:

FDA toxicologist Suzanne C. Fitzpatrick said that because arsenic is naturally occurring it is going to be in food, and because rice is grown in water it will always have higher levels.

“It’s not something that we can just pull off the market,” she said.

The rice industry said Friday that it is working with the FDA and is encouraged by the results of the study. The industry has been conducting several of its own studies to try to figure out how to reduce arsenic levels, including investigating different ways to manage the water in which rice is grown and looking at processing and rinsing methods to see if there are ways to reduce arsenic levels.

Meanwhile, the FDA suggests that you balance a mix of grains and other foods in your diet to help water down any risks.

Read more about arsenic in rice — and how it got there. 

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