For later reading

Suicide prevention:

What you’re not seeing is the guy up on the overpass who had intended to jump.

so while trying to talk him out of it, the cops asked truckers if they would park under the overpass. to shorten his fall if he did. They finally persuaded him to come down peacefully.

Headsup Dustbury.

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Roger Simon, the screenwriter and blogger, discusses moral narcissism, where saying the PC thing is more important than what you actually do....the idea if you echo the politically correct meme you are good.

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LAT thinks the increased rate of autism spectrum diagnosis is a "good thing".

why is autism more common in whites?

but I am old enough to remember when these kids were diagnosed as "retarded" and institutionalized. Then they started "deinstitutionalization" and the parents were confronted with trying to care for a disruptive child.

"retarded" is a bad word, but since "RainMan", being autistic is considered more PC. So people with severely mentally disabled kids with autistic symptoms would just insist he was autistic... as if he was like the Rainman character and really a savant so how dare you notice his low IQ.

The dirty little secret about autism no one seems to notice:

Of the 75 children with ASD, 55% had an intellectual disability (IQ<70 16="" 28="" average="" but="" disability="" had="" intellectual="" intelligence="" moderate="" only="" severe="" to="">IQ>85) but only 3% were of above average intelligence (IQ>115).

Those children with normal IQ should be able to fit into society, so deinstitutionalization is good.

But in today's world of bullying, it can be hard for them to try to fit into society: and rejection can cause anger: the Toronto killer, the Conneticut shooter, and probably others were angry Aspergers.

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tourists find a sick bat, take it to the vet. Bat had rabies. Tourists disappeared back to Switzerland, and the CDC is worried they might catch rabies, so contacted the Swiss gov't.
Folks got treated for rabies exposure.

Bats who bite folks are probably rabid. 

I once blew the public health budget for our town when we had to give 24 shots to a girl bitten by a bat. By the 15th shot, she was getting terrible allergic problems from the shots but it was better than risking rabies.

Now it is three shots over three weeks and here it costs 600 pesos a shot....And you also get a 4th shot of anti rabies antibodies if the risk is high.

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A rapper sort of said he liked Trumpieboy?

Maybe he knew about this: at a time when Palm Beach clubs excluded Jews and Blacks, Trump didn't.
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a history of Maralago includes this snip (originally published Nov 2015).

In 1998, Trump invited Sean Combs, the rapper then known as Puff Daddy. But Combs scandalized Palm Beach when he was caught on a beach in the "middle of his midnight romp with a long-legged stunner," according to the Page Six account in the New York Post.

and then there is this:

Palm Beach has a lot of rules: No whistling allowed on public streets after midnight. No "Missing Dog" — or any sign — posted on a tree. And no flag poles taller than 42 feet. In late 2006 Trump put up a giant American flag on an 80-foot pole. That led to a $1,250-a-day fine against him, drawing national headlines that Trump basked in.

yes, a publicity scam. But it worked.

of course, I am old enough to remember when country clubs were "restricted", meaning no Jews, no Catholics, and no minorities. This was especially hard on the doctor community, who had the money to join the club to golf and eat at the restaurant, or so their kids could swim, but they were not welcomed.



Trumpie boy is not Jewish but he is from the Bronx, so think of him as a gentile version of Rodney Dangerfield and Comey et al as Ted Baxter.

and who is the Gopher? Discuss, class.




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Garrison Keillor says Comey has jumped the shark, and that the real issue should be Canadian Illegal immigrants.

LOL


He was thrown out of PBS but is back to doing essays...not all of them full of hatred as they were for awhile.

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and yes there are illegal Canadians in the USA (and illegals from everyplace else). and the dirty little secret is that a lot of countries are deporting those without documentation:

RIYADH – A total of 253,086 people have been arrested in five weeks since the start of the ongoing crackdown against violators of residency and labor regulations in the Kingdom.

not only Saudi but nearly everyone else is doing this: for example, the Gulf States, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong kong have been deporting OFW without proper papers. Even the Philippines suspects they have one million plus without proper papers.

But most of them are Chinese, Filipino, Indian, or Pakistani.

But you only hear about the US or Israel when they do this, of course.

Me? I'd be happy if they just let anyone live where they wanted to live. But then the poor without proper papers will be exploited by employers, lowering the wagers for locals. And who pays for them when they get sick or retire?
 Sigh.
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Headline in the Inquirer:

North Korea's Kim crosses border to talk to South Korean president.

is it Trump, or is it because their nucleara testing site just collapsed?

Beijing is particularly concerned about the North’s nuclear tests, since the Punggye-ri site is less than 100km (60 miles) from the border with China.

North Korean nuclear tests have caused seismic events in Chinese border towns and cities, forcing evacuations of schools and offices, sparking fears of wind-borne radiation and leading to a backlash among some Chinese against their country’s unpredictable traditional ally.

Chinese authorities have said they’ve detected no radiation risk from the tests. Kune Yull Suh, a professor of nuclear engineering at Seoul National University, warned last year that further tests could threaten to cause a volcanic eruption at Mount Paektu, which is about 100km away. 

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the US deep state hates Duterte. 
Who wudda thot?

They tried their best to get the CIA's American girl elected and they have been pushing back on Duterte since then.

The Philippines was in danger of becoming a major narcostate, and a place where drugs could be distributed all over Asia. Most of the cartels were Chinese, but even the Mexican cartels were starting to establish a base here at the time Duterte took over.

 Not to mention the increase of crimes by druggies that was threatening the middle class. (the upper class, of course, has body guards and live in gated communities, so the small businessmen and middle class were at the most risk).

Never mind that Duterte's fight against drug cartels has a much much lower death rate than the murder rate by drug cartels in Mexico, which tends to be ignored.

and compare and contrast Duterte to the dictatorship in Thailand, the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingye.

but I guess the CIA carries grudges.

To paraphrase: This is how you get China.

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