Anal probe finds parsnips and pigs' tails | Education | The Guardian

Anal probe finds parsnips and pigs' tails | Education | The Guardian
"In 1995, the Ig Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to two surgeons who painstakingly assembled a study called Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's Literature. 

Those case reports involve, among other items: seven light bulbs; a knife sharpener; two flashlights; a wire spring; a snuff box; an oil can with potato stopper; 11 different forms of fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs; a jeweller's saw; a frozen pig's tail; a tin cup; a beer glass; and one patient's remarkable ensemble collection consisting of spectacles, a suitcase key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine.

The doctors, David B Busch and James R Starling of Madison, Wisconsin, were inspired by one of their own patients: "A 39-year-old married white male lawyer presented with a self-inserted perfume bottle in his rectum that he was unable to remove using various objects, including a back scratcher..."

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#1 This day 1978-----Chic - le freak - 1978

"Edjewkashun"-----11-Year-Old Grade Dropped For Not Bashing Trump

11-Year-Old Grade Dropped For Not Bashing Trump:
"It's so bad that now an 11-year-old in Annadale, New York, was docked 15 points on a homework assignment because she failed to answer a question demanding students bash Trump..."

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Number of cops killed near 50-year low in Trump's first year - Washington Times

Number of cops killed near 50-year low in Trump's first year - Washington Times:

"President Donald Trump’s first year in office has coincided with a near 50-year low in a very grim statistic: The number of police officers killed in the line of duty.
A report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, shows that 128 officers died in 2017. That number is a 10 percent decrease from 2016, when 141 officers were killed while wearing the badge."

NINE YEARS AGO... Al Gore Predicted North Pole Would Be Completely Ice Free by Today

NINE YEARS AGO... Al Gore Predicted North Pole Would Be Completely Ice Free by Today
"NINE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH—

Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years.

...According to Al Gore the North Pole should be completely melted by now.

Junk scientist Al Gore also made the same prediction in 2009.

From the video:

Former Vice President Al Gore references computer modeling to suggest that the north polar ice cap may lose virtually all of its ice within the next seven years. “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years,” says Gore.

In January 2006, Al Gore posited “within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return” and “a true planetary emergency” due to global warming..."

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History for December 30

History for December 30 - On-This-Day.com
Rudyard Kipling 1865 - Short-story writer, Bert Parks (Bertram Jacobson) 1914 - Actor, singer, Del Shannon 1939


Matt Lauer 1957 - TV host ("Today"), Tiger Woods 1975 - Golfer, LeBron James 1984 - Basketball player


1460 - At the Battle of Wakefield, in England's Wars of the Roses, the Duke of York was defeated and killed by the Lancastrians.


1853 - The United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.


1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" was first performed, at Paignton, Devon, England.


1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.


1936 - The United Auto Workers union staged its first sit-down strike, at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, MI.


1953 - The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.


1978 - Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the Gator Bowl. Bauman had intercepted an Ohio pass.

'Fake News': Half of all Americans believe the media make up anti-Trump stories - Washington Times

'Fake News': Half of all Americans believe the media make up anti-Trump stories - Washington Times:

"Nearly half of all Americans believe the media fabricate negative stories about President Trump, according to a new survey.

Forty-four percent of respondents in the 2017 Poynter Media Trust Survey say the media invent “fake news” to make the president look bad.

Of that cohort, 24 percent say negative stories about Mr. Trump are made up “about half of the time”; 14 percent “most of the time”; and 6 percent “all of the time.” Seventy-seven percent are Trump supporters, and 74 percent are Republicans."

The way we were-----Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz (Official Video)

Boob-tube-----Sesame Street - Episode 8 (1969)

MYSTERY: Awan Brothers Court Date Disappears From Calendar After Being Postponed Twice

MYSTERY: Awan Brothers Court Date Disappears From Calendar After Being Postponed Twice
"Another day, another plot twist to the ‘Awan Brothers,’ story. 
Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak discovered Thursday that the Awan brothers’ next court date, scheduled for January 8th, 2018, disappeared from the calendar. 

“Strange: The next #AwanBrothers court date was supposed to be January 8 (after being postponed twice) but it is not showing on the court’s calendar as of now,” tweeted Rosiak on Thursday.

Luke Rosiak

✔@lukerosiak

Strange: The next #AwanBrothers court date was supposed to be January 8 (after being postponed twice) but it is not showing on the court's calendar as of now.

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Tax cuts may reduce gas, electric bills in Michigan, regulators say

Tax cuts may reduce gas, electric bills in Michigan, regulators say:
"LANSING, Mich. — Michigan regulators are ordering 13 utilities to study the impact of new federal tax cuts and how savings will be passed along to consumers through lower electric and gas bills.
The order was issued Wednesday during a special meeting called by the Michigan Public Service Commission.
...Commissioner Rachael Eubanks says utilities will likely see a "significant" reduction in federal taxes, and their response to the state will "provide broader input regarding the appropriate avenue for how to extend benefits to customers."...
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Confederate monument vandalized inside Georgia cemetery resulting in $200,000 worth of damages - Washington Times

Confederate monument vandalized inside Georgia cemetery resulting in $200,000 worth of damages - Washington Times:

"Authorities in Rome, Georgia, are investigating a recent act of vandalism that caused an estimated $200,000 worth of damages to an 130-year-old statue of a Confederate soldier.
The confederate monument called Rome’s Myrtle Hill Cemetery home for over a century until it was discovered seriously vandalized last week, ABC News reported Tuesday.
“It has been reported, the damage has been estimated and, yes, [we] are investigating,” said Rome Police Department Lt. Danny Story.
Vandals appeared to have breached the cemetery’s grounds late Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning and subsequently smashed the soldier’s face and removed a stone rifle from its hands, according to news reports."

Trump's Momentous First Year

Trump's Momentous First Year:
"We’ve experienced a miracle in our day that a lot of us thought we might never see again.

The conservative base wanted a consequential President; one who could overcome a combination of our country’s decline, the neutering of conservative principle, the increasingly poor economy, the leftward lurch of our major institutions, the suicidal tendencies grafted into our country by the left, and the increasing mindlessness of our culture.   
Trump filled the ticket as a candidate.
We’ve seen his Presidency for the better part of a year.  
We can now say emphatically, this is the most effective first year of any President in our lifetime, perhaps in a century.  
Including Ronald Reagan, who was the one that drew me to the political realm...
An incomplete list:

• The economy has taken an unprecedented move towards the better.
• GDP is moving upwards.  Most are forecasting close to 4% growth in 2018.
• New jobs are increasing monthly. 
• Manufacturing jobs are returning to the country for the first time in thirty years.
• The bleeding of corporations leaving the country has stopped.
• Corporations have begun to reinvest in American factories and interests.
• Trade deals are being renegotiated to our economic benefit.
• The first major tax cut legislation in thirty years was just signed into law.
• Massive amounts of regulation have been cut, spurring business optimism.
• Consumer optimism is higher than in the past two decades.
• The coal industry in our country has been revived.
• Pipelines for oil have been released for construction completion.
• We have expanded oil drilling, even in ANWAR.
• We are virtually energy independent as a nation.
• Our energy businesses have become exporters.
• Our stock market is through the roof, up 30%, new highs almost daily.
• Business optimism has not been higher.  Atlas stopped shrugging.
• The horrid Obamacare individual mandate was torpedoed.
• Justice Neal Gorsuch was voted to the Supreme Court.
• Trump appointed more judges in his first year than any other President.
• He is remaking the judiciary in a conservative image as he promised.
• He has slowed illegal immigration to a level not seen in thirty years.
• He is destroying MS 13, and other illegal immigrant gangs.
• He is speaking openly of ending chain immigration.
• He has successfully gone after ISIS, virtually driving them into the ground.
• He has acknowledged Jerusalem as the Capitol of Israel.
• He has reset our alliance with Israel.
• He is quietly helping to remake a Middle East that is a bulwark against Iran.
• He has quietly reset our alliance with the new leaders of Saudi Arabia.
• He is quietly reversing the horrible Iranian deal left us by Obama.
• He has been the first President to stand against the insanity of North Korea.
• He has connected with the Chinese leadership, enlisting them as allies.
• He has pulled out of TPP, beginning negotiation on a better deal.
• He is renegotiating NAFTA.
• He has pulled us out of the ridiculous and harmful Paris Climate Accord.
• He has begun to dismantle the corruption of climate data by our bureaucracies.
• He has reset an agenda for space exploration by NASA.
• He has brought hope to the mission of our military. 
• He has worked and enacted better care and treatment for our Veterans.
• He is redefining our mission in national security with his speech last week.
• He has put the United Nations on notice for their arrogant nonsense.
• He has and is exposing the national media for the leftist activism base it is.
• He has fought the self-tarnished media more effectively than any other.
• He has exposed the Democratic Party as corrupt, issueless, and powerless.
• He has exposed the fecklessness, and fraud of the GOP.
• He is quietly remaking the GOP from their own ashes.
• He has exposed the deep state to public view.  And is just beginning.
• He is exposing the corruption of our bureaucracies by the Obama administration.
• He is exposing the insanity of the hard left, and their utter lack of decency.
• He has driven mad the constituency of #nevertrumpers on the right.  Exposed.
• Last mentioned: he has earned the unity and praise of the elected GOP.  Which has been well deserved.  This is one we on the right should all applaud.

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