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Agreed. In fact, regardless of party affiliation, if I were a sane person (which is questionable), I would vote for McMullin.

Frued would be proud.

So I'm watching the Bears - Vikings pre-game show. It's been going on forever and still no game. So.naturally, I start wondering if actual bears pee and crap all over themselves when they hibernate. Turns out the answer is no, and it's pretty intriguing. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=6812.0 During their hibernation, the bears neither defecate or urinate. This would normally mean that nitrogenous wastes during that time would cause poisoning to the urinal system. However this it does not do. The bear solves its nitrogenous waste problem by a form of recycling." The hibernating bears body diverts nitrogen from pathways that synthesise urea into pathways that generate amino acids and new proteins. And it does this by glycerol (produced when fats are metabolized) and recycled nitrogen as the building blocks From www.bear.org To remain in good physical condition for months without eating requires change in a bear’s body chemistry. Some of the physiological changes in healthy hibernating bears would be a real problem for people. How hibernating bears remain healthy in winter and how their physiological adaptations might be useful in human medicine are subjects of study at some of North America’s leading medical research centers. For example, bears living off their accumulated body fat have hibernating cholesterol levels more than twice summer levels and more than twice as high as the normal cholesterol levels of most humans. Yet bears exhibit no hardening of the arteries or formation of cholesterol gallstones. Medical studies reveal hibernating bears produce a bile juice, ursodeoxycholic acid that may help them avoid problems with gallstones. When this acid is given to people it dissolves gallstones and eliminates the need for surgery. Hibernating black bears also exhibit reduced kidney function. They do not urinate for months but still do not poison their bodies with waste products such as urea. Urea is somehow broken down and its nitrogen is reused to build protein. The ability to build protein while fasting allows black bears to maintain their muscle and organ tissue throughout the winter. They only use up fat. Evidence is accumulating that hormone-like substances control physiological changes in hibernating black bears. These substances also produce hibernation-like effects when injected into other species—both other hibernators and non-hibernators, suggesting potential human medical applications.

Jesus, that was astonishingly good! Excuse me while I go listen to it 18 more times.

PA, you have to think of it on a state by state basis. Who cares if Wyoming has Trump 2-1? He was going to win there anyway, and it's just 3 electoral votes. Hillary is winning a vast majority of the swing states, and that's all that matters. I think she is going to win by 100+ electoral votes.

Yeah, count me in on the Kulikov bandwagon, too. I really like him a lot.

So some guy in NC asked his wife to pick up some Powerball tickets. The wife then buys a scratch-off ticket instead, with the intention of using this as a lesson to her husband about how buying lottery tickets is just throwing money away. ...and wins $1 million. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/10/26/North-Carolina-womans-lottery-lesson-to-husband-backfires-with-1M-win/5061477493996/

Thank you, thank you, thank you for stating this so correctly and succinctly. I agree 100%. The only way my simple mind can see this ever changing is if we can get to a critical mass here in the US of single issue voters who care about (virtually) nothing else. When voters finally stop prioritizing abstract things that have nowhere near as much impact on our lives as healthcare does, there may finally be hope, but not until then.

Earthquake in Rome - I have no other details or links at this time. Edit - here's a link http://news.trust.org/item/20161026172140-on1uj/?source=reTheWire

Love that hit as a Flyer's hater, but Kulikov probably should have let up on that one.

Liger we need a math update!

Is it just me or is Simmonds the invisible man tonight?

power play!

The Sex Pistols were like the French Revolution - ugly, vile, repulsive, anarchic, short-lived, doomed from the start, and yet oh so satisfying. They absolutely NEEDED to happen when they did, and things are so much better as a result of them. You're going to laugh at this juxtaposition, but when I hear Elton John's Candle In The Wind, I think of the Sex Pistols, not Marilyn Monroe.

Yeah baby!

Larsson didn't miss by much

That was Ennis

I can't stop thinking about Pierre Turgeon when I see Kulikov in #77

cuz Wild Card likes him

Heathen Flyers don't even sing O Canada!

LOL I'm with you brother. Here in NC we are getting bombarded with ads, as you can imagine. I'm counting down the days, but I keep having this nagging thought that just like some loony B-movie monster flick from the 50's, when you finally see the words on the screen THE END, then a question mark appears.

When negotiations are necessary, let the lawyers handle it...

Good one, NS. I love Siouxsie. Did you know Killing Joke in the 80's? This song always knocked me out and still does.

As crazy as this sounds on the surface, Evan McMullin is on the presidential ballot in Utah and has a really legitimate chance of taking those 6 electoral votes. Is the race to 270 electoral votes actually a race to 267? http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-24/mormon-support-could-push-mcmullin-over-the-top-in-utah

I have subscribed to IBD for the last 15 years, because there is no better source for information and strategies on investing - none. However, when it comes to politics, they are so extremely, blindly right wing that they simply cannot be taken seriously. They make Fox look like NPR.