“Caribbean Carnival”—here are the top fifteen countries in the world in descending order of intentional homicides per 100,000 population according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). They really know how to party down there in the Caribbean. Marksmanship, not so much.
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Partisanship turns one’s brain off:
In a landmark 2013 study, Dan Kahan, a Yale University law professor, and colleagues assessed the math skills of about 1,000 adults, a mix of self-described liberals, conservatives and moderates. Then, the researchers gave them a politically inflected math problem to solve, presenting data that pointed to whether cities that had banned concealed handguns experienced a decrease or increase in crime. In half the tests, solving the problem correctly showed that a concealed-carry ban reduced crime rates. In the other half, the correct solution would suggest that crime had risen.
The result was striking: The more adept the test-takers were at math, the more likely they were to get the correct answer—but only when the right answer matched their political outlook. When the right answer ran contrary to their political stance—that is, when liberals drew a version of the problem suggesting that gun control was ineffective—they tended to give the wrong answer. They were no more likely to solve the problem correctly than were people in the study who were less adept at math.
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A quiet Saturday’s drive in Daytona, Florida
Stewart-Haas Racing said Preece was headed back to North Carolina after getting clearance from doctors at Halifax Health Medical Center. The team earlier said Preece was “awake, alert and mobile” and “had been communicating with family and friends.”
The 32-year-old Preece was able to climb out of his mangled No. 41 Ford on Saturday night with help before emergency workers put him on a gurney and into an ambulance. He initially went to the track’s infield care center before being transported to Halifax Health for overnight observation.
Preece tweeted about two hours after the race, posting: “If you want to be a race car driver, you better be tough. … I’m coming back.”
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Yeah because Leftists are freaking morons. I don’t need a study to prove that. Just look at every country in the world run by them including the US.
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The National Security Agency, the shadowy hub for the United States’ electronic and cyber spying, has instructed its employees that foreign targets of its intelligence gathering “should be treated with dignity and respect,” according to a new policy directive. The directive, released this summer as internal guidance, is for the NSA’s vaunted signals intelligence, or SIGINT, division, which is responsible for covert surveillance and data collection worldwide.
“In recognition that SIGINT activities must take into account that all persons should be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their nationality or wherever they might reside,” says the previously unreported directive, which was issued by NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone.
Among the policy directives, item 5(e)(5) prescribes:
e. Not conduct SIGINT collection activities for the purposes of prohibited objectives listed in section 2 of Executive Order 14086 (Reference a), including for the purposes of:
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- affording a competitive advantage to United States companies or United States business sectors commercially.
Can’t have that! Industrial espionage must remain a one-way road to China.
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Yet another example of the pope calling the kettle black. 
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Apparently, it wasn’t the PRC:
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This Pope is a Satanic tool. The doctrine of the Church is supposed to be based on Eternal truths given to us by Jesus and spread about by the Apostles. How in the hell does the Pope not understand that to be an eternal truth, the information in that truth is CONSTANT throughout time irrespective of the changes in the secular world? Ugh.
Faster please.
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Yup the biggest Rancher in the world is Bill “JR Ewing” Gates. The same schmuck who wants us to eat three D printed “meat” or some such crap. Again I say faster please.
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The strength of the weed today is 10x order of magnitude from the 70s.
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I know and it’s awesome.
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This is new to me and quite remarkable:
The interview also ventured into a different facet of Errol Musk’s character that had a profound impact on Elon Musk’s upbringing.
“He was such a terrible human being,” Elon Musk said. “You have no idea. My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.”
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