Archive of entries posted on September 2021

Straight Line of the Day: Scientists Say Climate Change, Theft, and Human Development Are Affecting Tarantulas. So…

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Straight Line of the Day: Scientists say climate change, theft, and human development are affecting tarantulas.  So…

Climate Change Affecting Colorado Tarantula Population
Associated Press | September 25, 2021 | Conrad Swanson

DENVER (AP) ― About this time every year, southeastern Colorado towns like La Junta see more visitors looking to glimpse saucer-sized Texas brown tarantulas as they scurry out of their burrows and across fields and roads in search of a mate.

The eight-legged spectacle might not last long: Scientists say climate change, theft and human development are cutting into tarantulas’ population, with fewer emerging year after year.

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Gun or the Babe?

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Welcome to our stand in polling until we are ready to go to the next Rock ‘n Roll Throwdown, the 1960s. The results of the weighted voting for testing purposes with Star Trek vs Star Wars and the totals are…

Star Trek 253 – Star Wars 147

So ya’ll are Trekkers, eh?

Anyway have another poll for you and we return to the eternal debate. The Gun or the Babe.

The time for choosing has arrived.

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Babesleaga Week 6 : Heather Locklear vs Jaclyn Smith

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Heather Locklear vs Jaclyn Smith

Heather Locklear (3-2-0 Pts.574)

  • Lost to Farrah Fawcett 110-122
  • Defeated Tanya Roberts 103-97
  • Defeated Cheryl Ladd 113-76
  • Lost to Dana Delaney 102-119
  • Defeated Erika Eleniak 146-89

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Jaclyn Smith (0-5-0 Pts. 304)

  • Lost to Tanya Roberts 72-144
  • Lost to Farrah Fawcett 86-114
  • Lost to Dana Delaney 63-130
  • Lost to Cheryl Ladd 100-119
  • Lost to Bo Derek 62-149

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Babesleaga Week 6 : Erika Eleniak vs Bo Derek

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Erika Eleniak vs Bo Derek

Erika Eleniak (2-3-0 Pts. 507)

  • Defeated Dana Delaney 120-94
  • Defeated Cheryl Ladd 105-96
  • Lost to Farrah Fawcett 89-108
  • Lost to Tanya Roberts 014-110
  • Lost to Heather Locklear 89-146

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Bo Derek (3-2-0 Pts. 615)

  • Defeated Cheryl Ladd 142-92
  • Lost to Dana Delaney 109-112
  • Defeated Tanya Roberts 105-85
  • Lost to Farrah Fawcett 110-115
  • Defeated Jaclyn Smith 149-62

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209 votes · 209 answers
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Babesleaga Week 6 : Tanya Roberts vs Farrah Fawcett

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Tanya Roberts vs Farrah Fawcett

Tanya Roberts (3-2-0 Pts. 579)

  • Defeated Jaclyn Smith 144-72
  • Lost to Heather Locklear 97-103
  • Lost to Bo Derek 85-105
  • Defeated Erika Eleniak 110-104
  • Defeated Dana Delaney 143-116

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Farrah Fawcett (5-0-0 Pts. 581)

  • Defeated Heather Locklear 122-110
  • Defeated Jaclyn Smith 114-86
  • Defeated Erika Eleniak 108-89
  • Defeated Bo Derek 115-110
  • Defeated Cheryl Ladd 122-61

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Babesleaga Week 6 : Cheryl Ladd vs Dana Delaney

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Cheryl Ladd vs Dana Delaney

Cheryl Ladd (1-4-0 Pts. 444)

  • Lost to Bo Derek 92-142
  • Lost to Erika Eleniak 96-105
  • Lost to Heather Locklear 76-113
  • Defeated Jaclyn Smith 119-100
  • Lost to Farrah Fawcett 61-122

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Dana Delaney (2-3-0 Pts. 571)

  • Lost to Erika Eleniak 94-120
  • Defeated Bo Derek 112-109
  • Defeated Jaclyn Smith 130-63
  • Defeated Heather Locklear 119-102
  • Lost to Tanya Roberts 116-143

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Babesleaga Week 5 : Results and Standings

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Looks like Farrah may be unstoppable. We will find out this week.

Results

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211 votes · 211 answers
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235 votes · 235 answers
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Standings

ContestantsRecordTotal PointsAverage
Farrah Fawcett5 – 0 – 0581116.2
Bo Derek3 – 2 – 0615123.0
Tanya Roberts3 – 2 – 0579115.8
Heather Locklear3 – 2 – 0574114.9
Dana Delaney2 – 3 – 0571114.2
Erika Eleniak2 – 3 – 0507101.4
Cheryl Ladd1 – 4 – 044488.8
Jaclyn Smith0 -5 – 030460.8

This week’s matches with polls closing on Sunday October 3rd.

  • 10:00 am Cheryl Ladd vs Dana Delaney
  • 2:00 pm Tanya Roberts vs Farrah Fawcett
  • 6:00 pm Erika Eleniak vs Bo Derek
  • 8:00 pm Heather Locklear vs Jaclyn Smith

Straight Line of the Day: CNN Says Four Little Words Help Spread Vaccine Misinformation: …

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These Four Words Are Helping Spread Vaccine Misinformation
CNN  |  9/21/2021

Four little words — “do your own research” — are hurting the US pandemic response, CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. And it is having real consequences as personalities from Nicki Minaj to Sean Hannity continue to promote the idea.

Straight Line of the Day: CNN says four little words help spread vaccine misinformation: …

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Friday Night Open Thread: It’s Not a Question of Morality

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Suppose God puts you on some distant planet, with a beloved pet.

 

OK, OK, and a spouse and a house, and whatever family you want, and friends, and a whole community and nourishment and stuff. But we’re going to focus on the pet.

 

And God sayeth unto you, “”I verily Giveth unto thee a Choice!!”” (He talks in thunderous tones and double quotation-marks.) “”Your pet can be short-lived, or live all the days of your life. You may choose.””

 

No-brainer, right? Why not choose a pet that dies around the same moment you do?

 

But that’s not the world we live in. Why not?

 

We learn about death in the cruellest way.

 

Perhaps because we are not angels, and do not deserve perfection. I’ll leave that to the theologians.

 

But I’ll offer this possibility: perhaps we have a lot to learn about what to value — and when. And how.  Perhaps shoving it in our face is the only way to make the lesson stick.

This isn’t a particularly humorous thought, but since we can’t live on that ideal other world, let’s enjoy the humor and the frolicking that goes on in the only one we’ll ever know. It’s not at all a question of morality.  By letting the kitten play in that paper bag, when our time comes, we may find that we were essentially doing the same thing.

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