05/09/2024 11:42:09 AM PDT
· 7 of 20 buridan
to Freee-dame
Yep. “[T]he vast, vast majority of everything that they need” for defense implies that they are not getting arguably offensive weapons — and, indeed, that they are not getting a minority of what they need for defense.
03/11/2024 5:47:45 AM PDT
· 29 of 94 buridan
to Alberta's Child
“September 21, 1982
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The spontaneous formation on November 9, 1976, in Kiev, Ukraine, of the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords affirmed once more that the human spirit cannot be crushed and that the desire for human freedom cannot be conquered.
The long prison terms meted out to members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group for their courageous activities to secure greater freedom in Ukraine are graphic testimony to the inability of Communism to compete with the principles of freedom in the marketplace of ideas. The flagrant persecution and imprisonment of Ukrainian citizens for their attempts to exercise basic human rights is an international embarrassment to the Soviet Union and proof that the Soviet Union has failed to live up to its pledges to honor the understandings embodied in the Helsinki Accords.
In commemorating this sixth anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group, we renew our determination never to forget the valiant struggle of the peoples of Ukraine for their inalienable rights, and we pledge to do all we can to ameliorate the plight of those Ukrainians who have been persecuted by the Soviet authorities for attempting to assert their rights.”
“The product with the highest amount of phthalates per serving in nanograms was Annie’s canned organic cheesy ravioli, which contained 53,580 nanograms of phthalates per serving. . . . the CDC says that between 2 and 20 nanograms per milliliter of blood can cause people adverse health problems.”
The average adult supposedly has somewhere around 5000 ml of blood, so one serving of that ravioli would give you about 10.7 ng per ml.
I wonder if the phthalates are coming from the lining of the can.
Great question about how a 774 AD event is evidence for another apparently occurring 14,300 years ago. The article is not clearly written, but there seem to be two different trees and two different events involved:
“”. . . in 2012, Fusa Miyake discovered a sudden and unexpected spike in radiocarbon levels in a Japanese tree from 774 AD . . . Our storm is another Miyake event . . .”
09/14/2023 7:21:52 PM PDT
· 77 of 81 buridan
to MountainWalker
“his VP was trounced by Nixon”
Nixon trounced McGovern in 1972, but the 1968 result was closer. Nixon had about half a million more popular votes than Humphrey, although he did win in the Electoral College 301 to 191. (Wallace had 46 electoral votes.)