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June 25th, 2017 - 1:46 am § in Misc.

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Before Eden, There Was Knowledge

Prehistoric stone tools bear 500,000-year-old animal residue The Torah seems to have left out what came before Eve.  Now, among elephant remains  at a Lower Paleolithic site near Revadim, Israel, Prof. Ran Barkai has found “handaxes” and “scrapers,” … prehistoric sto[...]

June 25th, 2017 - 1:23 am § in Misc.

Dogs on the Bus

CommentaryFrom The Blog Quixotic: Dog on Bus Complaint Follow-up (minor edits) A North Seattle resident complained to Sound Transit a month ago about a woman who brought a large bloodhound aboard the bus with her.  The dog was apparently not a service animal because it had no vest. Nor was the do[...]

June 24th, 2017 - 11:00 pm § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: 6/25

How The Senate Health Care Bill Could Disrupt The Insurance Market “If you can get insurance after you get sick, you will,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told NBC’s Today Show. “And without the individual mandate, that sort of adverse selection, the death spiral, the elevated premiu[...]

June 24th, 2017 - 5:31 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.

Kushner Lights Fires Under Israeli:Palestinian Conflict

Abbas was supposedly furious with the president’s son-in-law after Kushner relayed Netanyahu’s demands with no movement on new settlements in illegal areas of the West Bank but the immediate halt of payments to terrorists and their families.  Abbas angrily accused Kushner and Trump̵[...]

June 24th, 2017 - 10:59 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.

What Does the Secret Service Call President Trump?

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June 24th, 2017 - 8:47 am § in Misc.

Have a Bud

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June 24th, 2017 - 8:38 am § in Misc.

PHOTOGRAPHY

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June 23rd, 2017 - 9:49 pm § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: 6/24

US releases photos showing ‘unsafe’ intercept by Russian jet over Baltic Arab states want obedience from Qatar, alternative is parting ways – UAE minister Amid chaos of Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines, police allegedly hold people for ransom RAND PAUL: Insurance should be available for[...]

June 23rd, 2017 - 8:55 pm § in Misc.

Chart: Washington’s giver and taker counties

Unless you live in Columbia, King, Kittitas, San Juan, or Skagit County, you’re getting more from the state than you’re paying in state taxes. If you live in Seattle, over a third of your state taxes go elsewhere. Here’s the breakdown (click on image to enlarge):[...]

June 23rd, 2017 - 4:47 am § in Misc.

Typewriter Patented

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.”[...]