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1. 23 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “Hundreds of papers were published at the end of the 60’s into the 70’s about a coming ice age. It is a myth that it never happened….”

   “Hundreds”, please list them. I know you will not answer, and your mind is already made up, so this is for others…

   Here is a discussion of the papers, and the sensationalism that rose up around them: (You can google “1970s prediction of an ice age”)

   “One of the undying, zombie-like arguments against climate change is that you can’t trust climate scientists because they started out making doom and gloom claims about global cooling in the 1970s.”

   “But people who obsess about these few instances of cooling-focused press are being a bit selective. It’s not as if the concept of global warming was absent from the 1970s media (or even the 1950s or 1960s media). A 1977 New York Times headline read “Climate Peril May Force Limits on Coal and Oil, Carter Aide Says,” for example. "

   arstechnica.COM/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-climate-science-really-call-for-a-coming-ice-age/

2. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I go a step further, and log out of my Google account on my Android phone. Maps still work, Play Store does not (I log back in twice a year for app updates).

3. about 2 months ago on Herman

   I was thinking it would be hard as a rock, or at least rock like!

4. 2 months ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Reminds me of the book: “Yellow River” by I.P. Daily

5. 4 months ago on Luann

   All I really remember is the Treasure Map inked across the two ladies butts. I was in my 20s, and thought that was something??? (I remember it, but do not remember why I remember it… old!!!)

6. 4 months ago on Luann

   “Lust in the Dust” was a funny western movie back in the 1980s. IMDB gives it a 5.9, so not terrible!

7. 4 months ago on Herman

   Birds? Maybe it is the Wife’s hands up, with her head out of picture and she is mocking him with hand puppets???

8. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

   The US problems with IVF started much earlier than “W”. A 1973 attempt in the US was shutdown, and the researcher left the institution. The Wiki article does not explain the why. IVF was perfected in England, and came to the US when people who wanted to get pregnant said hey, we want that!!!

   First IVF baby in the UK, 1978, first baby in the US 1987, nine years behind Socialized Medicine. Makes you wonder about that “Greatest Healthcare in the World” claim???

   en.wikipedia.ORG/wiki/History_of_in_vitro_fertilisation

9. 4 months ago on Michael Ramirez

   “Social security is a self funded program” this was not always the case (yes it was mostly supposed to be), Reagan and the 1983 changes took SS “Off Budget”, before that it was just another line item in the overall USA Budget (Reagan was also the one that started taxing SS Benefits in 1983)

   en.wikipedia.ORG/wiki/History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States

10. 5 months ago on Speed Bump

    replace “there” with “their”