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Tuesday, August 4. 2015

Find out what your DNA says about you and your family

New York guys flee ‘Trainwreck’ women

You’re 100% Wrong About Showering

5 Reasons Why Being Immortal Would Suck

Rogue waves more than a myth

How to Raise Grateful Kids in an Entitled World

Funhouse Psychotherapy With Poker Chips - When the casino is a harsh classroom

The Decline—and Fall?—of Religious Freedom in America

Dutch King: the Party’s Over - RIP, the Welfare State.

How Single-Payer Health Care Failed in Progressive Paradise

Obama poised to unveil major climate change plan

All This for .01 Degrees Celsius?

More Green Cards in 10 Years Than Population of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina Combined

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Green Cards in 10 Years Than Population of Iowa, New Hampshire, and
South Carolina Combined - See more at:
http://moonbattery.com/?p=61492#sthash.HQShWIRR.dpuf

Hillary Supporters Call For Repealing Bill of Rights - "You can't have the rules of yesteryear now"

Why I Think Scott Walker Would Make a Great Foreign-Policy President

Russia Is Upgrading S-300 Defense Missiles Intended For Iran

Vietnam's Unending Oppression

Why Empower Iran?

Fences Rise Across Middle East as Jihadi Threat Escalates

Who Is Destroying the Palestinian Dream?

A book: Strategic Failure: How President Obama's Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America

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You’re 100% Wrong About Showering

before I clicked on this link, I figured it would have reference to "saving the planet's resources", it being Newsweek and all. It didn't, but had at least 5 annoying popups.

The Amish rarely bathe. you don't want to be standing in a group of them on a hot July day, even if you are outside.
Maybe sedentary office workers can get away with this, but I tend to smell "farm-ish". I will shower every day, sometimes twicea day, thank you.

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How to Raise Grateful Kids in an Entitled World

Not only is having them do chores and work for their own luxuries make them grateful, but it keeps them from having to go to rehab, counseling and out of jail. Keep them busy. Also, no "self esteem" classes necessary. You learn life's lessons by living, not by sitting in a classroom. You learn the value of self this way.

All this for .01 degree Celsius

McCarthy was on the TWC this morning. Repeatedly stating that "this is for the children". And our health. And our well being.

Somehow my TV survived.

#1 fjord on 2015-08-04 09:16 (Reply)

DNA: The Wife and I have taken DNA tests offered by ancestry.com, and have had several members of our families tested as well. It can be a big help in developing lines in family trees. Also dispelled bunk from my late mom concerning Indian (NA) ancestry - not a scintilla.

#2 LWS on 2015-08-04 09:23 (Reply)

One summer during college, I shared an apartment with three other fellows whom I hadn't met before I moved in. One was Native American (Navajo).

One afternoon, we were talking and one of the other lads (whiter than Christmas in Sweden) told us his grandmother was "a Cherokee Indian princess" and our Navajo roommate started roaring with laughter.

We asked what was so funny and he said "Every white person always says their grandmother was Cherokee."

Apparently it was so common that -- according to him -- it was treated as basically stereotypical white-people behavior among Native Americans.

A couple days later, a friend of his (also Native American) came over and we asked him if white people always said their grandmothers were (at least part) Cherokee. He didn't even blink before he confirmed that it happened "all the time."

(Which, now that I think about it, is probably why Sen. Warren didn't get more push-back from the various tribes when her claims were aired during her campaign -- from their vantage point what she's done is just the way the typical white-man acts.)

#2.1 Thos. on 2015-08-04 14:27 (Reply)

Showering

I'm reminded of a remembrance George Orwell related in 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. When he was a young, his upper-middle class upbringing included being taught that the poor and working class smelled. And smell they probably did with their limited access to running water, much less heated, running water.

Among others with old discriminatory attitudes, the out group was often said to smell. Smell being a very deep memory sense.

So the showering may simply be a product of our diversity in America. An adaptation to a variety of different peoples living in close proximity.

#3 JK Brown on 2015-08-04 09:38 (Reply)

Everyone had 'the smelly kid' in their class.

It was not an advantage.

#3.1 Bulldog on 2015-08-04 09:45 (Reply)

I'm sure, being the cubicle cowboy that I am, I could get away without showering each day. I used to do it when I was younger. Of course, my hair was stringy and oily and flopped limply on the side of my head.

As I entered my teens, I began showering regularly, because teens stink. I walk into the rooms of my two teen boys, and even though they shower once a day, they still stink.

I'm also certain the article has a good point. I'm sure there is plenty of beneficial bacteria we're washing away. But I shower for a number of reasons.

First, even though I'm a cubicle dweller, it gets hot in the city. I sweat. I may not be working out, but I've come home drenched more than once from simply walking.
Second, I've gone for weekends without shaving or showering, usually when I'm doing a hefty DIY project. I don't think there's any advantage to showering if I'm working hard and just going to exert myself more. Even so, I feel nasty when I go to sleep and feel even nastier when I wake up. I definitely have to change the sheets after those nights.
Finally, when I wake up in the morning a shower wakes me up. I'm sure I could find other means of jumpstarting my brain, but a shower is like plugging in each day.

I could probably go a day or two each week without a shower, but I'd need to be choosy. As some of the comments on that Newsweek thread mention, have you ever noticed, when you travel abroad, the odors people have? I notice them on the subway every day - and most of those people shower!

#4 Bulldog on 2015-08-04 09:44 (Reply)

Only on rare and extreme occasions does body odor get old and stale enough to offend me, but I purely detest the least whiff of a scented deodorant or, worse, any overt perfuming--those affect me from a considerable distance. I've never understood what bothers people about the way bodies usually smell.

I know other people don't agree, so I take steps to avoid offending them, even if they don't reciprocate.

#5 Texan99 on 2015-08-04 09:47 (Reply)

For women, you should really be showering every day during certain days of the month. If you aren't...um, yuck. You don't necessarily need to be washing your hair every day. Especially if you have curly or wavy hair. Or don't use lots of products in your hair.

For men, you should be showering every day b/c sorry, you are sweatier and stinkier than women.

I thought it was interesting that the actress said it was a 'white people thing.' I knew a girl in the military who was black. She showered every time she changed clothes. I am not kidding. She would shower in the morning and put on her uniform. Shower in the afternoon to put on exercise gear. Shower after exercise to change into normal clothes. Shower in the evening before she put on her pajamas.

No, showering is not a 'white people' thing. It has to do with how you were raised and how your own parents cleaned themselves and taught you to clean yourself.

#6 MissT on 2015-08-04 11:03 (Reply)

RE Psychotherapy With Poker Chips

they're called "casino checks", and it's called "basic strategy", not "perfect strategy". the fact that he's playing 21 and roulette (among the worst odds for any table game) shows he hasn't learned anything in the "harsh classroom." all betting systems are doomed because of house betting limits, multiple decks, bankroll limitations and the inevitable appearance of the gambler's fallacy.

that said, there are always a few loose 25 cent video poker machines near the entrances in casinos that have a positive expectation as a gimmick to bring in customers. craps can be played at virtually even odds on the pass/don't pass or come/don't come lines if the player is willing to make the maximum odds bet (say, 50x the line bet, but paid at true odds). small bettors can survive longer with Place 6 or 8 bets.

real poker is another story.

for what it's worth, the last paragraph codes for gambling addict.

the rest of you people, hit the showers.

#7 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-08-04 11:13 (Reply)

The closest I've ever come to gambling is buying raffle tickets from some local cause I know is legit. Never won a thing. Nothing else, ever. And, I've spent a good bit of time in Vegas, Beirut, Antigua, even Paramaribo, among others. Never made it to Monte Carlo; no reason to go.

#7.1 BillH on 2015-08-04 11:25 (Reply)

Roulette: the longer you play, the more certain you are to lose. If you must play, calculate the grand total of all you will ever bet on roulette and put it on one attempt. Unfortunately, those are your best odds. Does that explain why you shouldn't do it?

One of my sons (an accountant) regularly wins at poker at Foxwoods. Just not every time. He wins even more playing with friends in Nome, which is generally so easy for him that he forgives their debts regularly. My father-in-law was the same. I don't even try.

#7.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-08-04 16:11 (Reply)

if you're in Casablanca and Rick Blaine tells you to put it all on 22, suggest you do just that.

no limit holdem is very much a psychological game. from the right position and with the right bet/raise/checkraise strategy, you can get good book players to lay down hands without you knowing what two cards you're holding.

#7.2.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-08-04 17:29 (Reply)

How to Raise Grateful Kids in an Entitled World

At Christmastime our children have even suggested giving some of the money we would spend on them to buy gifts for orphans or donating it to the church.

not buying it.

#8 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-08-04 11:22 (Reply)

I've long suspected that rogue waves were examples of solitons, a particular wave shape that will not dissapate like normal waves. Once they get started, they can go until external conditions finally destroy them.

#9 jay on 2015-08-04 12:16 (Reply)

Re: RIP the welfare state

One can only hope, but I'm not so optimistic. With the number of welfare participants exploding - especially the boomers who will demand they get what they paid into Social Security (with justification) - and the number of people who are happy to tell you you're poor because "the man" is keeping you down, it will be very difficult to turn this ship around. There are too many people who benefit from the welfare state who have no qualms about bringing down the whole system as long as their short term desires (power or $$) are met.

I recently watched "Gifted Hands" about Ben Carson. If more people had half the gumption and spirit his mother had, we wouldn't need a welfare state and we wouldn't have the race problems we have now.

#10 mudbug on 2015-08-04 12:32 (Reply)

I learned in my preteens (I'mnow 72) I wasn't a good gambler. We played poker usually at the playground for pennies and nickles. I was too poor to even have pennies and nickles but I would collect old newspapers and sell them for 5 cents a 100 lbs. To this day I still regret ever penny and nickle I lost at 8,9 10 years old and haven't gambled since. My best friend would win those games. He would lose some, win some and when all the money was finally in on pot it was his. To this day he gambles and make regular trips to Vegas. He is 73 and still works because he must to live and has nothing except an old car. He is still a better poker player then I could ever be and he wins often (or at least says he does) and has nothing to show for it. So which is better to be a good and lucky gambler or to choose to never gamble?

#11 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-08-04 18:38 (Reply)

So which is better to be a good and lucky gambler or to choose to never gamble?

that depends on your ability to determine whether a 100-1 wager is good or bad.

#11.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-08-04 20:44 (Reply)

RE Find out what your DNA says about you and your family

for 99 cents I learned:

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain
I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag
I was schooled with a strap right across my back
I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread
I was crowned with a spike right through my head

But it's all right now.

In fact, it's a gas.

#12 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-08-04 20:50 (Reply)

Just think what you would have learned if you paid the whole $99!

#12.1 mudbug on 2015-08-04 21:03 (Reply)

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