The Mormon capacity for denial is strong in this one... Give me a D... Give me an E... Give me an N... Give me an I... No prizes for guessing what I'm going to spell.
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You need an education in remedial reading skills. I can see that because I was an English teacher with a credential in teaching them. Let me repeat it: The Snopes article is barely two months old, and it accurately describes how the story "played out," and it had nothing to do with "Black Lives Matter." Here are the relevant parts: >>Jeffries’ quote was manipulated
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Right... Try speaking to what it said, and as for your claims of a "Garden of Eden" in Africa, seriously, spare us the deflections. What the NY Times article said was the school Board was "advancing a plan" while your subline claimed the city school district was going to remove Washington and Lincoln's name from schools. I also can't find that reference to Bill Maher; h
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Somehow, SC can advance claims from 2019 but holler about a Dec. 2020 Snopes citation I offered and imply it is somehow invalid because it's from "last year." And ohmygarshgoodness, what about those Neanderthals in our ancestry? And Denisovans? Inquiring minds want to know... "Mitochondrial Eve" is simply a "mathematical construct," and in identifying a common
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Politically, too many are "thinking right," only they're not doing it correctly. /English teacher voice on Don't use use no double negatives, seriously (big smiley face)
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/san-francisco-lincoln-blm/
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This is an interview from the old Salt Lake Tribune with William Law that was printed in 1887. https://www.mrm.org/law-interview >>Dr. William Law lives with his son, Judge “Tommy” Law. The house is a fine cottage, large, well-kept grounds surround it. We entered a cheerful looking room and there sat William Law, dressed in black, a most venerable looking figure. >>I sat
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In thirty years or so cabbing... I got close to quite a few dialysis patients who, sadly, almost never made it more than about five years except for a few exceptions. I had to admire their spirit,,,
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Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican. Seriously on Planet Utah, Romney is a godsend. Look at how they gerrymandered Ben McAdams out of his congressional seat. Edit: From the HuffPost: https://www.aol.com/news/mitt-romney-trump-impeachment-trial-160138162.html >>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Sunday called the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump im
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Nobody here understands the math, and I've looked at what "string theory advocates" say, and there's disagreement on the "ten dimensions vs. eleven" proposals... I will take issue with the semantics since I do have an education in that area. Physics doesn't suggest anything; some physicists are offering some thoughtful speculation, but so what? The excessive subordination w
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>>There is no purpose to life. None. I disagree with that (/cabdriver philosopher voice on). Life has the meaning we give it...
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As a "Technical Nevermo," I prefer the expression "Horse $#*! Prophesy," but as a Planet Utah resident, I'm grateful he's a U.S. Senator... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY0S2XMIFJ4 >>Romney: Those Supporting Trump Objection To Election 'Complicit' In Attack On Democracy
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The counting will resume tonight, and the capitol building has been secured. Police from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia have been called in to quell the insurrection. The horror is that one woman was shot and killed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsD8ZqY1rps Former Sergeant at Arms: "There was a freaking failure of capitol law enforcement" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLBL
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This was in the 80's, and I took a junior level course called "Introduction to Science Fiction." He was a guest lecturer for one class period. We read "Ender's Game" as part of the assignments. My 30-year old memories are hazy, but I remember I wasn't impressed. I recall the professor had a hard time with the whole genre as well. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land&
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This is an oldie, but I hadn't seen it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4M39FRIGc Less is Mormon... >>Your cult may be legit in Utah, but in the rest of the country it’s regarded as Scientology lite.
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https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/neanderthal-genes-could-increase-the-severity-of-covid-19-symptoms/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/health/neanderthal-genes-human-health-covid19-scn-wellness/index.html >>Pääbo and his team have turned their attention to medical science's most pressing concern, the coronavirus pandemic, to see if Neanderthal DNA can shed any light on Covid-19. &g
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>>Nothing to do with the definition of bravado Then why did you use the word? >>Winston Churchill was a great man but like most great men he had his flaws* and those flaws were often evident in his every day life as a politician prior to WW2. By the end of the war the people were tired of everything associated with it... There's an American phrase, "Damned with faint pra
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https://news.yahoo.com/mormon-church-sued-alleged-role-220221039.html >>December 28, 2020, 3:02 PM MST PHOENIX (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was hit with several lawsuits Monday for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona, marking the latest litigation before the state's end-of-year deadline for adult victims to sue. I
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One possibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD8IPzypuQ8 They were simply outnumbered by the Homo sapiens...
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>>Africans carry a surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/africans-carry-surprising-amount-neanderthal-dna >>The researchers found that African individuals on average had significantly more Neanderthal DNA than previously thought—about 17 megabases (Mb) worth, or 0.3% of their genome. They also found signs that a handful of Neanderthal gen
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Okay, that's as good an answer as any; the reality is at this point, scientists aren't certain and debate persists. The genetic evidence shows interbreeding between the two hominids, and "sorting out" the details is problematic. Here's a sample: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-scientists-discovered-the-staggering-complexity-of-human-evolution/ >>In the late 19
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Good grief, that revisionist insult aimed at Sir Winston is laughable. Lemme guess, you've got Neville Chamberlain in your genealogy. And the English Channel is hardly a "sea barrier"; study your history starting with William the Conqueror. When you arrive at the 20th Century, look at this Churchillian quote: "Never was so much owed by so many to so few."
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/remedial schoolteacher voice on These are two planets "in conjunction," not stars. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/world/christmas-star-jupiter-saturn-solstice-scn-trnd/index.html
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Les accents des jeunes filles étaient terribles. Vraiment.
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Praise be to the Google God... http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/2012/04/15/jackie-robinson-nothing-inevitable-about-him/ >>Jackie Robinson: Nothing Inevitable About Him My own comment from years ago has survived: >>I have seen exactly one “major league” game in my life (no worries; television suits me fine, and I can even name the starting line-up of the ’61 Yankees
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>>We have always been at war with Oceania... This one looks like revisionist history to me, and some folks are trying to sweep $#!% under the rug... The black players of that era were great players, period. Jackie Robinson was a little before my time, but Elston Howard--who integrated the NY Yankees--wasn't. To stamp actual history with an after-the-fact "separate but equal"
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Not even worth more than a one-word reply. Sheesh, I wrote a sophomoric piece on this subject when I was in high school. Fifty-fifty, my Aunt Sadie. Science works partly on the phenomenon of "reproducibility," and the probability that a group of people will agree on something approaching objective reality is overwhelming. Some folks need to lay off the holiday egg nog.
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Mine isn't a guess; it's a prediction based on knowledge of the Electoral College. I learned that stuff in high school civics... The Supreme Court has already replied "Denied" to Dumbf's court filing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D079sck3Pc >>Trump Loses Last Ditch SCOTUS Case, Locking In His Loss To Biden
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>> I won't claim that privilege here myself here either... Seriously, you're claiming you didn't say what you said? #crickets
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