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Last year the TSA intercepted a record number of guns from carry-on bags. Wapo says 2,212, an average of six per day, with 83% of them loaded. I haven't heard of any of them being terrorist tied, though, and the numbers don't sound so bad when you consider they're frisking an average of1.8 MILLION people every day.
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This is my Monday morning, every Monday. And Tuesday through Friday. I've gotta say, hope reigns eternal - everyone out there thinks he/she can shave a few seconds off of ... what? ... and eventually ends up in my clinic getting xrayed and stitched up, or treated for that third-degree burn from the plasma torch that (oops!) hit the ground and damn-the-switch-turned-on ... I keep trying to put myself out of business (strange, I know), but these folks keep me in business. |
There's a reason it's called an accident.
Some of those are more preventable than others though. |
And some are called, 'hold my beer and watch this".
Then on very rare occasions... |
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Remember that video showing perceptions of wealth inequality vs. the reality of wealth inequality from a couple of years ago? Of course the data is outdated, the wealthiest one percent no longer own 40% of the world's wealth; it trickled down to all the rest of us. (ha ha! Not.) It's higher but I'm not sure I have the stomach to find out. Well the original final graph needed ten extra columns for the 1% to fit on the graph. Out of curiosity I wanted to see what the graph would look like if the 1% had only the single column. I did a little paste up and here it is. Phone viewers keep moving. Or scrolling...
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They're using up all of my green ink
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that makes me sick to my stomach
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That's a shame BigV, this may help... by making you puke.
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The David Rumsey Map Collection is a cartography web site that has an on-line searchable database.
An article in Slate lead me to a section of 1880 maps communicable diseases, etc. Attachment 50282 This next map shows the number of deaths in 1898 due to measles per 100 deaths from known causes, with the following comment: Quote:
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Yes, xoB, you're right (again).
My mind was stuck on this 1880 map of measles, which was the ratio of deaths due to measles among known causes. |
That's a great collection of maps. I noticed this map, dated 1926, describing the pilgrims arrival in the New World.
http://cellar.org/2015/capetoon1.jpg Some of the things they found were mysterious, remorseless savages, monstrous, sarcastic leopards, and colorful campgrounds. http://cellar.org/2015/capetoon2.jpg OMG the toadstools, tremble in terror before your toadstool overlords... The map was created by Frederick Coulton Waugh a British ex-pat, cartoonist/illustrator/painter, son of marine artist Frederick Judd Waugh, and grandson of the Philadelphia portrait painter Samuel Waugh. |
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