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    Jim Pattison donates $75M to Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital Foundation

    Way to Go, Mr. Pattison!! _______________________ B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison has donated $75 million to the St. Paul's Hospital Foundation in Vancouver. The St. Paul's Foundation says the donation is the largest by a private citizen to a single medical facility in Canadian history. "Jim...
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    The Morality Pill

    This looks amazing. I'm sure there are negative things about this that I haven't yet or wouldn't think of myself. But on the face of it at this point and time, it seems awesome. Thoughts? ______________________________________________________________________ Writing in the New York Times...
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    Michael Dunahee vanished 26 years ago today

    He would have turned 30 yrs old today. The police came to our house and asked if we'd seen anything. My daughter was born Nov of that same year and Michael Dunahee's disappearance haunted me so much, that I never took my eyes of my daughter for a second and I thought about him all the time...
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    Why Donald Trump is like Richard Nixon all over again

    Interesting read. Author John A. Farrell discusses a president prone to paranoia, and stoking up angry, white voters. He also mentions Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s excesses lend an air of novelty to his presidency: we have never, we tell ourselves, seen the likes of him. But one of the big...
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    Favorite food

    I love spicy food. Indian is my favourite. Its also my favourite to make at home. I love the smell.
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    Trump's Family Trips Cost Taxpayers Nearly As Much In A Month As Obama's Cost In a...

    ah, yes...his legacy will be the president who lied and lied and lied and lied and lied. Trump's Family Trips Cost Taxpayers Nearly As Much In A Month As Obama's Cost In A Whole Year Donald Trump's regular jaunts to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida appear to be costing taxpayers a small...
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    Trump’s budget is how the U.S. hands over leadership of 21st century technology to As

    Thoughts? fears? ( try to ignore the emotional pleas in the words they used) ____________________________ It is superpower suicide Donald Trump’s first budget blueprint is a macro-economic scandal. It does nothing to contain the spiralling costs of middle class entitlements and pensions that...
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    Little Ceasars Quietly Paid Rosa Parks Rent...

    a feel good story...about bloody time. We need to read more of these wonderful (CNN)Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly remembering his impact on friends, on Detroit residents, and on the...
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    Trump’s wiretapping tweets weren’t literal, White House says.

    hmmmm, interesting. _________________________________ Trump’s wiretapping tweets weren’t literal, White House says. He was using ‘the word wiretap in quotes’ The White House on Monday appeared to soften President Donald Trump’s unproven assertion that his predecessor wiretapped his New York...
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    Somali migrant arrested on six counts of sexual battery prior to deportation

    This is breitbart insider for ya: At least this breitbart site is entertaining.... ___________________________________________________ SOMALI MIGRANT ARRESTED ON SIX COUNTS OF SEXUAL BATTERY PRIOR TO DEPORTATION A Somali Migrant who allegedly entered the US through the gulf of Mexico has...
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    Wild New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships

    aliens! (so awesome) ______________________________________ Since their discovery ten years ago, fast radio bursts have confounded astronomers. These intergalactic pulses of radio energy have defied explanation, but a new theory suggests a technological origin, whereby aliens use these beams...
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    91.2% of Americans Who Live in Mexico Are Living There Illegally

    huh, had no idea Americans were living in Mexico illegally. ____________________________________________________________ Mexico’s Excélsior reported 91.2% of all Americans who live in Mexico are living there illegally. The figure is based on findings from a 2015 census survey from Mexico’s...
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    There's an intriguing sociological reason so many Americans are ignoring facts lately

    As a rule, misinformed people do not change their minds once they have been presented with facts that challenge their beliefs. But beyond simply not changing their minds when they should, research shows that they are likely to become more attached to their mistaken beliefs. The factual...
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    Canada named 2nd best country in the world…again, report finds

    This may sound like a broken record but Canada has been named the second best country in the world yet again. For a second year in a row, the Great White North was ranked second in the annual “Best Countries” survey from the U.S. News & World Report, in conjunction with Young & Rubicam BAV...
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    What the US looked Like Before the EPA

    Photos: What America looked like before the EPA | Grist In 1972, the year-old EPA had photographers traverse the country to document the (often dire) state of the environment. This project, Documerica, was "the visual echo of the mission of the EPA," according to one photographer. Now, 40...
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    Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM

    a good story about trump ( who knew it were possible even?) It's nice to read a nice political story for a change(regardless of any ulterior motive ;). The White House just gave women in STEM a boost. President Donald Trump signed two laws on Tuesday that authorize NASA and the National...
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    Steve Bannon Just Revealed Trump’s Entire Agenda at CPAC and Everyone Missed It

    huh, interesting. Thoughts? _______________________________________________________________________________ Steve Bannon — President Trump’s chief White House advisor — just made a very revealing statement while addressing right-wing activists. The overall theme of Bannon’s speech was...
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    Samsung the most Racist of Companies.....

    Proof:
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    Canadian bacon

    what?
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    Canadian bacon

    DO NOT MOCK the MOOSE! that is not helpful or kind. I love moose. I haven't had it in awhile. years actually. I haven't run across mock moose. T&T had mock ocotpus which was quite good in spaghetti. Tofoctopus? octofus?