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Massive Ebola outbreak continues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo "The World Health Organization reported 1,009 cases (944 confirmed, 65 probable), including 629 deaths (564 confirmed, 65 probable)... "Violent attacks and lingering distrust have hampered medical responses throughout the outbreak. Earlier this month, militants attacked a treatment center in the city of Butembo in North Kivu, killing a police officer and injuring health workers. Last month, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspended medical responses after two other attacks on treatment centers. In both attacks, unidentified assailants partially burnt down facilities." https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/ebola-cases-surpass-1000-in-drc-outbreak-the-second-largest-of-all-time/ Grrr.....

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I've never seen the point of putting people in charge who hate the source material, don't know the source material, or are apathetic toward the source material. And it doesn't matter if you are talking Snyder's DC movies, JJ Abrams Star Trek, or JJ Abrams Star Wars.

Until there's a political party that promotes my beliefs, I still think it's important to hand Republicans defeats in elections until they get the concept that I don't want either Trumpism or Democrat-lite. I used to be able to point to 20-40 Republican politicians at the national level that espoused my ideals when I got into party politics 40 years ago. Now after working for decades to increase my faction's tiny share of the party, that number of politicians has shrunk to less than five and I no longer have the health to campaign, run for local office, run the county convention, or be a delegate to the state or national conventions. But I'd still rather the party be a force for good rather than evil. And that's not going to happen unless the party loses at the ballot box consistently enough to get the idea that they're doing the wrong thing and changes what they're doing. I don't really care about the next election. I worry about where the country will be 40 years from now if there continues to be two major political parties, each doing the wrong thing. We've threatened a couple of different times to have a presidential nominee who would move the party back toward limited government and fiscal conservatism. So I don't think it's completely out of the question that it could happen. The party is pretty much conditioned to give a president whatever he wants, as we've seen with Trump. So it isn't out of the question that the right president for eight years followed by a worthy successor for another eight years could completely change the trajectory of the party.

It was Bobby Ewing.

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Prison Break Point

Walking Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Bridge on the Riverdale

Orange is the New Black Mirror

Black Mirror Universe

Star Trek: Discovery Channel

Supernaturally, Danny Seo

Keystone COPS < singing > Bad boys, bad boys What ya gonna do? What ya gonna do when they come for you? < /singing >

I've always played it that you have to have a weapon equipped to use skill levels associated with that weapon. My 2 cents: He's learned a sword skill which allows him to dodge around with a sword without cutting himself or something else at random in his surroundings or getting his sword stuck in something...all without having to be particularly careful about it. That "not having to be particularly careful about it" is what gives him the DCV advantage from the skill levels. He moves fluidly and his skill allows the sword to move with him as if it is part of his body: he's not in any danger from his sword but his opponent still has to respect the sword and work around it in order to successfully attack. The player can't use the sword levels to dodge when he's completely unarmed because the opponent isn't having to work around the player's sword in order to successfully attack. The opponent can just go in and swing unobstructed. Similarly, the player hasn't paid points to learn how to dodge around with a bow without being particularly careful about it. If he isn't careful, he could snap the bow by whacking it against something or lose all the arrows out of his quiver. So his ability to dodge is more constrained than it would be if he had skill in knowing how to dodge while using a bow and arrows.

My daughter watches these so that she can understand pop culture and talk to her friends without having to actually sit through various movies that she has no interest in seeing.

Darn it! Now I want to be knighted, own property on Sealand, and get my Sealand identity card. That'd cost me $197.65 That's pretty much my entire entertainment budget for the rest of the year. Curse you, Funny Pics II thread!!!

Dr. Strange – a white rabbit (10) Cyclops – a wolverine (1) Daredevil – a seeing eye dog (7) Conan the Barbarian – a rhino (7) Ice – a polar bear cub (3)

There's not many small-government Constitutionalist Republicans in the party anymore (at the national level). I can count them on the fingers on one hand. I fought like hell to keep W. Bush from getting the nomination but people kept telling me that "he's a conservative" despite the fact that he openly ran for governor of Texas as a moderate who could work across the aisle because he wasn't ideological. Looking back, I wonder why I dedicated so much of my life to the attempt to save the party from itself and its repeated bad decisions.

The deficit certainly shrank during the last years of the Clinton administration, due in large part to there being a Republican-controlled House of Representatives for the first time since 1958. But the actual difference between the reality of "the government running a small deficit" and "showing a surplus to the public" came from changes in accounting procedures so that both sides could claim a political victory, rather than coming from an increase in tax revenue or a decrease in spending to actually completely close the gap.

What they'd be saving is money. Evans and RDj require a heck of a lot more money per movie (RDj in particular) than a replacement actor would. By the time RDj get his set pay plus his share of the profits for Infinity War plus Endgame, it is estimated that he'll get $200,000,000 from just those two movies. In contrast, Cheadle got $1 million for his first appearance (Iron Man 2). It's estimated he got $3-5 million for Civil War but I've never seen a solid number on that. I'd imagine the studio would think it'd save a lot of money by replacing RDJ. Now whether people will show up to the theater to see a replacement Iron Man might be a different calculation but it looks like the studio would have a lot of wiggle room coming from the cost difference between the two actors.

Since Obamacare passed into law, I'm on my 7th general practitioner. The first ended his practice because he was already having trouble making enough money to keep the practice going and the cost of upgrading his computer systems to comply with the online medical documents mandate was more than he could justify spending. The second decided she didn't want patients who had chronic health problems and encouraged me to find someone else because she wasn't willing to put in the work and take the risk it'd be to remain my doctor. The third got disgusted with the Obamacare changes and quit accepting medical insurance at all. He changed his whole practice into a concierge medical service where you paid $4000 per family member per year up front for the privilege of letting him be your doctor. He told me he anticipated being able to drop more than half of his workload, most of his paperwork headaches, and still keep his income the same. The fourth was a good doctor but the practice was having trouble making money so he moved out of the city where I presume his costs were lower. The fifth was in the same practice as the fourth doctor. But the practice still wasn't making money even after moving to cheaper offices. She still couldn't make money and didn't want to put up the the hassle of being a GP, so she quit being a general practitioner and became a specialist. The sixth was a physician's assistant (PA) in the same practice rather than a full doctor. So I'd have an appointment with her and a productive conversation, and we'd decide on a course of action. Then after I left, at some point later she would have to run the plan we came up with by one of the other doctors in the practice, none of whom took Medicare patients like me. Then that doctor without familiarizing herself with my full medical history would make changes to what the PA and I discussed and those changes wouldn't be communicated to me. Such winners as cutting one of my diabetes medicine dosages in half (and the PA and doctor later being forced to admit whoops, that was a flat out mistake in writing out the prescription) and deliberately removing me completely from triglyceride medication despite the fact that my levels were still far above the recommended level and that my history from the last time I was completely off of medication was that my level was six times the recommended maximum (my GP doctor at the time had his nurses come in and look at the rash caused by the blood fats boiling out of the surface of my skin. Nurses generally don't get to see that because people are dead before they get that bad.). Now, for my 7th GP, I'm making the drive out to the country to go back and again be a patient of the fourth doctor, who was at least competent, interested, and still in business. I'd had 2 GP's in the previous thirty years before Obamacare became law. Since Obamacare became law nine years ago, I've had 7 GP's. Two of those changes the doctor himself said the reason he would no longer be my doctor was Obamacare. I can't tie the other ones directly to Obamacare but when my average time being with a GP changes from 15 years each to 1.28 years each, obviously something has destabilized things in a way that didn't exist before.

That's straight out of Marvel Avengers: The Ultimate Character Guide #2 published in 2015.

Iron Man – an armadillo (2) Spider-Man – a pooh bear (9) Mr. Fantastic – an owl (9) Thor – a brontosaurus (6) Cyclops – a wolverine (1) Daredevil – a seeing eye dog (7) Dr. Strange – a white rabbit (10) Ice – a polar bear cub (3) Lex Luthor – a hairless cat (1) Thanos – a dust mite (4)

I really liked the boat story. A lot of things made of wood just disintegrate into nothing over time so it's tough to figure out whether some of these ancient guys were telling the truth or not when they described something. Sometimes they saw things in person, sometimes they repeated rumors, sometimes they would repeat rumors as if it were something they witnessed themselves, sometimes they would make things up because it made for a good story...and it's many times tough to tell which is happening when reading their writings.