Interstellar studly stud claims to have sired many, many alien babies. He puts the count at sixty.

Vaguely NSFW, if your IT folks have a problem with a badly-painted naked alien woman.

Wondering if you've seen Live PD, apparently the fastest-growing "reality TV" show.

It's not painting a very good picture for drug legalization advocates - especially if you insist on noting the principle that when you make something more available, more people will use it.

Lenona,

You keep asking for a 'better' source on the differences in international tracking on infant mortality. Try this source.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/how-infant-mortality-rates-in-the-united-states-compare-to-rates-in-other-countries/#item-start

What do you want Rad? I can get it for you. Truly exotic things may take a while to ship and will cost quite a bit more. But that is true of most products. General product are available for most tastes and flavors. The word you were looking for was cheaper.

Wondering if you've seen Live PD, apparently the fastest-growing "reality TV" show.

I've seen some episodes. I'm not a big fan of the show, simply because they pay the constabulary in question an amount of money to tag along.

At some point, the constabularies will start staging encounters "straight from the headlines" because they get paid for it.

For instance, the Wakulla County (FL) Sheriffs Office has already been on at least twice. Wakulla County has a population of about ~32,000 and is probably one of the sleepier counties in Florida. So, I presume they concentrate on the drug crimes because that's flashier.

Who wants to see the sheriff get popped for DUI? nah, can't embarrass the constabulary.

Remember, they're the tolerant ones.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/19/ex-today-assistant-who-admitted-to-matt-lauer-affair-called-whore-homewrecker.html

I just pictured Coates with his face twitching in the same way the character Sheldon Cooper does when he can't win an argument:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/arts/ta-nehisi-coates-deletes-twitter-account-cornel-west.html

Gosh, I never thought chess could be so...sexxxy...

https://worldchess.store/2018/20

The provocative 'alternative logo' official World Chess Championship print is likely to become a collectors' item

More recent version of Ben's link on infant mortality:

2017 numbers

"The word you were looking for was cheaper."

Uhh, no. As you should know, $$ is not the only currency used to obtain drugs. "Available" is also showing up in the misery brought from states where weed is legal to those it is not: they drive impaired, sometimes severely.

"For instance, the Wakulla County (FL) Sheriffs Office has already been on at least twice."

If you watched a little bit longer, you'd notice that they stay with the cops for weeks, and the size of the force varies. Wakulla County? Granted. But Richland, in SC, and Spokane Valley, in WA are not so little - and neither is El Paso.
For me, sobriety testing and car searches don't have much appeal - even if the poor sot calls it a "variety test" because he's fried.

Are you implying that the audience will not be able to tell if action is forced? I've seen cops pull a bicyclist over and search him for not having a headlight, surely a minor issue - but many of the incidents result in warnings, also shown.

"He puts the count at sixty."

1) That is merely a very bad painting of Tera Patrick.

2) He has obviously been cuckolded by James Tiberius Kirk.

Apple confirms it slows down old iPhones:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16800058/apple-iphone-slow-fix-battery-life-capacity

Then you are being foolish Rad. Anything you want is completely available already. Illegal yes but still available.

"Then you are being foolish Rad."

Why must you be obtuse?

You should stop. You haven't noticed that demand can go up when police step aside, and thus price can remain the same at higher demand.

More people are going to use drugs when they are not illegal, and when they do, they will drive and do other things under the influence. This is what is shown, without room for doubt, on Live PD, and that is the point.

I'm not being obtuse Rad. You already have 100% availability. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. The only question is at what price. Making them legal doesn't really affect the availability. What it does affect is the price. You no longer have to use risky covert distribution system which reduces costs but on the other hand you have to pay taxes which raises costs. Some areas that decriminalized didn't see a drop in illegal channels because taxes were high enough to make illegal sources cheaper.

You are right that behaviors do change. Not really the amount consumed. But how and where do change.

I'll see your interstellar stud, Daddy, and raise you an eighteen-inch schlong.

Stephen Baldwin Thinks Alec Will Vote for Trump After He Gets a Big Tax Cut

Trump! Tax reform reaction - companies are rewarding employees and growing:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/tax-reform-reaction-att-is-giving-bonuses-to-200000-employees.html

The Hollywood Left eats its own:

Matt Damon Skips Film Premiere amid Backlash over Sexual Harassment Comments

Obama! Congress to Investigate Obama Scheme to Nix Investigation into Hezbollah Terrorists:

http://freebeacon.com/issues/congress-to-investigate-obama-scheme-to-nix-investigation-into-hezbollah-terrorists/

The Gaystapo is at it again:

Donut shop uses Salvation Army for Christmas donations, LGBT activists furious

Trump theratens to cut aid to countries that oppose his Jerusalem decision: "Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-cut-aid-u-n-members-over-173533423.html

Believe it or not?

http://world.edu/banned-books-awareness-charlottes-web-eb-white/

Posted by R. Wolf Baldassarro | April 3, 2011 | 0 responses

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Charlotte’s Web is an award-winning novel published in 1952 by American author E.B. White about the friendship between a pig named Wilbur, and a barn spider named Charlotte.

This classic of children’s literature is 78th on the best-selling hardcover list; has sold more than 45 million copies; been translated into 23 languages; and been adapted several times on film.

So how did the recipient of the 1953 Newbery Honor end up on the American Library Association’s frequently challenged classics list?

Well, it’s simple, really. In 2006, some parents in a Kansas school district decided that talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural; passages about the spider dying were also criticized as being “inappropriate subject matter for a children’s book.”

According to the parent group at the heart of the issue, ‘humans are the highest level of God’s creation and are the only creatures that can communicate vocally. Showing lower life forms with human abilities is sacrilegious and disrespectful to God.’

One has to wonder if they’ve ever seen Bugs Bunny, or ANY Disney film, for that matter.

Sometimes the reasons behind a book being challenged aren’t because a particular group is offended, but because an alternate group might be.

Such was the case at a junior high in Batley, West Yorkshire, England, which became the center of international attention in 2003 when the school’s Headteacher decreed that all books featuring pigs should be removed because it could potentially offend the school’s Muslim students and their parents. No such complaints were ever filed by any parent involved with the school, but the school official felt she was being proactive in her policy.

Islamic leaders in the community asked the school to drop its ban, which included Charlotte’s Web, Winnie the Pooh, and the Three Little Pigs.

The Muslim Council of Britain formally requested an end to the “well-intentioned but misguided” policy, and for all titles to be returned to classroom shelves.

Inayat Bunglawala, of the MCB, said: “It is understandable, but this is a misconception about Islam which is often encountered. The Headteacher has acted sensitively, because there are parents and families who believe that portraying the pig in books is wrong. But there is absolutely no scriptural authority for this view. It is a misunderstanding of the Koranic instruction that Muslims may not eat pork. Drawings and photographs of pigs have always been used in children’s books to teach values common to all the great religions, and these are perfectly legitimate in Islam as well. There can be a cultural misunderstanding, and it is good for everyone to discuss it and clear it up.”

The practice of book banning has occurred in cultures all around the globe and throughout human history. From the advent of the written word, books have enlightened us, instructed us, entertained us, and, yes, even offended us; some works were so skillfully written that they did it all at the same time.

So long as common sense and intellect prevails, they will continue to do just that for generations to come.

Sources: American Library Association, Wikipedia.com, Cornell University, The Guardian (UK)

What I'd like to know is, has the book ever been banned because the word "manure" keeps showing up?

> I'm not being obtuse Rad.

It breaks your mother's heart, the way you two kids squabble this way.

> companies are rewarding employees

Right. "Companies."

Are you seriously, seriously so naive that you think this has nothing to do with convincing Trump's DOJ to allow the Time Warner deal?

Honestballs?

You little fellers should be following Sinofsky anyway.

> We'll save a lot."

Can you, Snoopy, without Googling, say how much the United States spends on foreign aid every year?

They spend billions, and that is billions too much, IMO. But they will continue spending billions per year, so that they can buy enmity toward us from other countries, rather than getting it for free.

In other words —words you can't find although they're scattered around you at all times... Your desk, your work, your car, you meal tables and your bedding— you haven't a fucking clue.

Neither, I'm certain, does the racist Snoopy.

"Can you, Snoopy, without Googling, say how much the United States spends on foreign aid every year?"

I'm not him, but I'll take up the challenge... I'll guess around $25B.

Today in "Everybody Wants to Boff My Children!" world:

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/st-john/letters-to-santa-mailbox-in-laplace-a-concern-to-parents/501243013

A neighborhood letterbox for "Children's Letters to Santa" alarms parents.