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2,986 Shooting Victims in Gun-Controlled Chicago During 2015
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On January 1, the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago for 2015 was 2,986.Mind you, Chicago has a “violence tax” that raises the price of every gun and bullet sold at retail, an “assault weapons” ban, limits on the number of gun stores and the locat...
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Dear Prudie: Feel Guilty about Leaving Job
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Q: Hate job but feel guilty about leaving: I’m 30, and have been working off and on for the same employer since high school. I’ve been with them full time for eight years. My father worked for the same (small) company for 30-plus years as a high level manager, and was unceremoniously let go by the owner’...
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On Perilous Migrant Trail, Women Often Become Prey to Sexual Abuse
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On Perilous Migrant Trail, Women Often Become Prey to Sexual AbuseBy KATRIN BENNHOLDJAN. 2, 2016 Photo A 35-year-old Syrian refugee, Samar, in November with her three daughters, then 2, 8 and 13, at a shelter in Berlin. “Everybody knows there are two ways of paying the smugglers,” she said. “With...
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A Clever Study Shows How States’ Anti-Evolution Bills Have Evolved Slate
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How Anti-Evolution Bills Have Evolved 1.2k 995 Creationists provide an example of descent with modification.By Rachel E. Gross Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo. Photos by Eric Isselee/Shutterstock, Paul S. Wolf/Shutterstock, jlarrumbe/Shutterstock, Harald Toepfer/Shut...
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Help! Should My Daughter’s Girlfriend Stay With Us if Her Parents Don’t Know She’s Gay?
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Help! Should My Daughter’s Girlfriend Stay With Us if Her Parents Don’t Know She’s Gay? Q. Houseguest or no?: My 16-year-old daughter is gay. This past summer, she met a girl on our family vacation who was at first a close friend but whom she now considers to be her girlfriend. Because they live on oppo...
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Teacher Bans LEGOs for Gender Bias
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Dear Amy - my neighbor tried to commit suicide
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DEAR AMY: I need some advice on what to say (or not say). I live in a senior apartment complex and my neighbor tried to commit suicide last weekend. She and I talk but are not really close. Of course I’m praying she will recover and come back to her home here, but I am not really sure what to say to her when she r...
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Mundane Monday
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At least, that's my hope. Boss is back after the holidays, so mundane is a pipe dream. Hoping my dad comes home today. I'm just ready for life to go back to normal. ok geeks, go be normal for me
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Jeb Bush cancels Iowa TV buy, shifts money to ground game
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eb Bush cancels Iowa TV buy, shifts money to ground gameON POLITICSJennifer Jacobs, The Des Moines Register4:13 p.m. EST December 30, 2015134 Shares Jeb Bush speaks at the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum during a campaign stop on Dec. 1, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa. (Photo: Matthew Putney, T...
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On January 20, 2017 Bernie Sanders Will Be Sworn In as America's 45th President
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On Friday, January 20, 2017, Bernie Sanders will be sworn in as our nation's 45th president. I explain why Sanders wins the Democratic nomination and presidency in my recent appearance on The Thom Hartmann Program. If you've disagreed with my thought process in the past, just watch the segment an...
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Why I'm Ditching My 'Bitch Voice' In 2016
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I've never been a big believer in New Year's resolutions. Eat less, eat better, exercise more, work harder, relax more... yadda yadda. The onset of a new year has never motivated me to want to make changes in my life. I try to be a decent human year-round and to be kind to myself and others and crap like tha...
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Economy Would Be Better with a Republican President
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Hillary Clinton wants Americans to believe the economy does better with a Democratic president than a Republican in the White House—that is simply false.Unless a president presides over an absolute economic disaster — as did George W. Bush or Herbert Hoover—comparing one with another is tricky b...
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Puzzler - card game
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New Puzzler Ray's Card Game RAY: We're going to play a little card game. I'm going to deal out 21 cards from an ordinary deck of cards to a pile in front of us. We're going to alternate taking cards from the pile.Here are the rules:When it's your turn, you can take as many as three cards, but you must take...
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29 Top false news stories of 2015, too long to post.
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What if JAWS was a Disney movie
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48 surprisingly damaging things that men hear all the time.
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Italy confirms higher cancer, death rates from mob dumping
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Italy confirms higher cancer, death rates from mob dumping .View photoFILE -- In this Nov. 18, 2013 photo, rubbish is piled up on the edge of cultivated land near Caivano, in the surroundings of Naples, southern Italy. An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-nor...
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Question for the mods...
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Is there a way to "ignore" someone where you don't have to see their posts?
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South Carolina Dem Equates Late-Term Abortion with Erectile Dysfunction
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A South Carolina Democrat lawmaker has proposed a bill that would make it more difficult for men to obtain medications that treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in retaliation for a Republican measure that would restrict abortions past the fifth month of pregnancy. State Rep. Mia McLeod said her legi...
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Crazy dog kady, AKA, Fred.
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So, I thought this was worthy of it's own thread. I went to pick out my puppy yesterday, from the breeder. My boyfriend had to work, so I took my best friend with me. I cautioned her on the way that I really didn't know what we would find. I knew the lady bred the dogs to show, and had looked up a bunch of her do...
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Heartbreaking cries of dog that had been abused for so many years it did not know how to react to affection
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Heartbreaking cries of abandoned dog that had been abused for so many years it did not know how to react when it was shown affection for the first timePriscilla the puppy is seen crying when stroked at a shelter in RomaniaThe two-minute clip then shows the dog slowly getting used to affectionIn final s...
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Something Saturday
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I got an Insta-pot for Christmas. I am so excited. It's a pressure cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker, yogurt maker, all in one. You can even sear meat in it. Does anyone have any good pressure cooker recipies they like? I am anxious to use it, and I can google pressure cooker recipies, but I thought I woul...
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Grace and Frankie
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We've been watching "Grace and Frankie" on Netflix. Has anyone else watched it? It's good.
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Political Correctness Protects Muslim Rape Culture
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An epidemic of rape cases across Europe has police in the U.K., Norway, Sweden, Germany and other nations worried. But you won’t hear much about it in the U.S. mainstream media because the epidemic is a byproduct of the influx into Europe of a million, mostly Muslim, migrants.What has happened to p...
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Oh Daddy’ Cries 4-Year-Old at Wake of Veteran Father Killed by Taliban
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Oh Daddy’ Cries 4-Year-Old at Wake of Veteran Father Killed by Taliban19971 18 Andrew Burton/Getty Imagesby EDWIN MORA30 Dec 2015Washington, D.C.3,706“Oh, Daddy, Daddy!” repeatedly lamented a 4-year-old boy as he cried at the wake of his father — an NYPD detective and Air National Guardsma...
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Happy New Year!
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its 12:01 EST! Happy New year!
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Wishes for 2016
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Dear Geeks, Wishing everyone an exciting, wonderful, healthy, prosperous, kind and successful 2016! RTL
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