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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.
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There's a reason it's called an accident.
Some of those are more preventable than others though.
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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 Of course the data is outdated, the wealthiest one percent no longer own 40% of the world's wealth; it trickled down to all the rest of us.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. 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. Last edited by Lamplighter; 02-04-2015 at 11:57 AM. |
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That's a great collection of maps. I noticed this map, dated 1926, describing the pilgrims arrival in the New World.
![]() Some of the things they found were mysterious, remorseless savages, monstrous, sarcastic leopards, and colorful campgrounds. ![]() 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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