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  1. Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that’s left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests a new study.
    The paper, accepted for publication in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, describes the single largest deposit to date of mutilated and processed human remains in the American Southwest.
    The entire assemblage comprises 14,882 human skeletal fragments, as well as the mutilated remains of dogs and other animals killed at the massacre site — Sacred Ridge, southwest of Durango, Colo.
    Based on the archaeological findings, which include two-headed axes that tested positive for human blood, co-authors Jason Chuipka and James Potter believe the genocide occurred as a result of conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups.
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39268873#.VDry61cXOXg

  3. But, but, we all know that NA was a utopia filled with peace loving first immigrants until the evil Columbus showed up.
    EBD, thanks for the music. Sons of the Pioneers were a favorite in our family when I was a kid.
    “Martin Amis: how Hitler had sex
    The author imagines that Adolf Hitler did not touch Eva Braun and “fortified his underpants with clean serviettes and napkins” before sex.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/11157053/Martin-Amis-how-Hitler-had-sex.html

  4. I think the only other version I have heard of this song, was by John Charles Thomas. They both do it well, but then songs are just poems put to music. Well, in most cases anyway. That is to say,
    most beautiful music!

  6. Please release my first comment. I know I used a word (s*x)from a Telegraph.co.uk article about Hitler’s personal life.

  7. Ken, it’s easier to just edit it as “s e x”, than wait for the message to be released, if ever.

  10. “The Pentagon can make smart investments now to prepare for the future, . . . .”
    No, it bloody well cannot.
    The Pentagon can RECOMMEND smart investments to prepare for the future, but the purchasing decisions will be made by the Congress.
    Example 1: M1A1 Abrams panzer. The Army specifically rejected the prototype because of its turbine engine. The Army preferred the competitor with the diesel engine they knew and loved. Congress voted them the turbine.     — h lynn keith

  11. Example 2: PA-48 Enforcer [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-48_Enforcer]. Piper Aircraft came up with the idea to stick a turboprop engine in a Mustang fighter, load it with hardpoints, and make it a COIN aircraft. … Piper lobbied Congress, and Congresscritters voted $4 million to explore the idea. The Air Force detailed no one for that nonsense and returned the money at the end of the fiscal year. The next year, Congresscritters voted $11.9 million for the Enforcer and ORDERED the Air Force to spend the money. The Air Force program manager began all his briefings with “Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear . . . .” … the A-1 SPAD (Skyraider) was several times better in the COIN mission, the OV-10 was at least as good, the A-37 was better, and the A-10 Warthog was several orders of magnitude better than all of them.
    — h lynn keith

  12. Example 3: F-35 Lightning II (aka MacNamara’s Zombie Revenge). The Air Force-Navy-Marine Joint Strike Fighter is built in three versions — A, B, and C — ’cause the version that meets Air Force requirements does not meet Navy requirements and the version that meets Marine requirements does not meet Air Force requirements. About the only thing the three versions have in common is the canopy and the F-35 designator. The whole project is an excuse to transfer money from the public treasury to Lockheed-Martin. You think the Air Force, Navy, and Marines wanted this abomination? (The Marine version makes sense. The others? Pffft.)
    The chances of the Pentagon making smart investments for the future is zero.
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    Live long and prosper
    h lynn keith

  16. O’narcissist’s “*sole legacy”: “massive” PTSD.
    “**This loss of hope may be the most important and surprising legacy of the Obama years.”
    “This is his *sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “**All he had to do was show everyone around the world that we Americans really are nice people – to charm them with his cosmopolitan wiles, soaring rhetoric and Nobel Peace Prize and they would go about their business and leave us alone. But now we have given up on the notion that even Obama can change things. This loss of hope may be the most important and surprising legacy of the Obama years.”
    “We live in a fallen world: Growing sense that no one can bring lasting peace to Middle East”
    “Matt K. Lewis: We can try our best to manage wars, to be smart, to minimize them. But the notion of a world that is entirely peaceful seems increasingly utopian”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/12/matt-k-lewis-we-live-in-a-fallen-world-loss-of-hope-may-be-most-important-legacy-of-obama-years/
    …-
    “The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    http://lettingfreedomring.com/2012/01/28/barack-obama-narcissist-or-merely-narcissistic/

  17. Very interesting. Luckily pipelines carry other things besides oil.
    http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKCN0I201Y20141013?sp=true
    and
    http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2014/10/10/canada-weighs-impact-of-plunging-oil-prices/#.VDwKNRaKVr9
    Besides, does Saudi Arabia doesn’t have the same oil clout anymore. This is just the latest flinch in SA’s attempt to battle North American production. I guess Steyer, Soros et al aren’t getting the message through – oil sands dirty, Arabian oil nice. Anyway, we don’t need them anymore. Slowing demand worldwide is also a big reason oil prices have dropped.
    I think SA is a price taker now anyway. Any correction/buying opportunity will be welcome and Canada is in the sweet spot in the oil and gas game, benefiting from higher and lower prices (within reason of course) especially with fiscal policy paying off for the Harper government – while Europe and the US decline – and Canadians in general, unless Justin gets elected and like his daddy starts a debt snowball running downhill in a snowstorm:
    http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/bob-plamondon-canada-is-finally-back-to-where-it-was-in-1967
    Are we in a buying opportunity phase for good quality Canadian oil & gas, banking and consumer businesses?

  18. Wasn’t he also the guy who did “Just Rock ‘n’ Roll In a Cowboy Hat”? Now that was brilliant and on-point. RIP Slim Dusty and long live real country music.

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