Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, Trump allegedly told her, “You don’t know anything about the boxes.”
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Nice family you have there …
(off camera) … give this to Fredo…
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Texas Jesus would wonder WTF did black people need an education for, anyway?
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Fascinating
It’s almost always the men.
Unusually for a piece of genetics research, Pääbo’s results became the stuff of salacious tabloid headlines. Playboy magazine interviewed Pääbo about his research, producing a four-page story titled “Neanderthal Love: Would You Sleep with This Woman?” The mucky Amazonian Neanderthal woman featured in their illustration was not designed to be a fantasy object. Meanwhile, men wrote to Pääbo volunteering to be “examined for Neanderthal heritage” – perhaps seeking a scientific basis for their stereotypically Neanderthal traits, being “big, robust, muscular, somewhat crude, and perhaps a little simple”. It was mostly men who wrote in, though there was the occasional woman convinced her husband was a Neanderthal.
They’re still alive!
Other readers of this research have found Pääbo’s conclusions a source of comfort. Those wondering what had happened to the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago had long been tempted by a dark speculation: perhaps we, Homo sapiens , with our superior weapons and new microbes, had killed them off. But Pääbo’s conclusions give an otherwise tragic story something of a silver lining: the Neanderthals are still alive, as alive as the archaic Homo sapiens they interbred with. They live on, to use an apt cliche, in us, their (very) hybrid heirs. The one vital trace they have left behind lies in our genes, in the frustrating susceptibility that modern Eurasians with Neanderthal DNA have to burn in the sun and develop Crohn’s disease. Perhaps that is a surer way to restore them to dignity than any other: to see them not as falling prey to our ancestors but as our ancestors.
No, they’re not, but how much difference does it take to be different.
Not all Neanderthal researchers draw such comfort from the DNA studies. Ludovic Slimak thinks the Neanderthals no more live on “in us” than an extinct wolf lives on in the poodle who shares sections of the archaic wolf genome. In Slimak’s way of thinking about the question, the comforting idea that there was no extinction, only a sort of “dilution”, is tantamount to a failure to see that Neanderthals were a genuinely “other” kind of humanity, neither better nor worse, and certainly not “soulless”. “That humanity”, he writes with a brutal brevity, “is extinct, totally extinct.”
Researchers anxious to emphasise how much Neanderthals were like us may well be motivated by the same worthy aspirations of those who thought they could fight racism by denying the existence of any real difference between human groups. But that, Slimak proposes, is itself racist. “Racism is the refusal of difference … Racism is those old images of Plains Indians trussed up in three-piece suits: just like us.” He sees this as a denial of radical difference, or “alterity” – a term popular in French philosophy and the social scientific theory inspired by it.
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At least he is honest about it. Trump didn’t ask him for anything he went and offered himself, and since then, he has been unable to keep his mouth shut and standing in the bus lane.
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I sure remember all those right wing Pulpit Pimps back in the 60s denouncing Gawdless long hair. Billy Graham being the #1 denouncer saying it led to drugs…
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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They just figured that one out after, what, almost 8 years?
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OK, there’s a bathroom. Filled with stuff. Not boxes! Did I use the word boxes? You don’t know anything about boxes, OK?
Now, I want you to go in there and put the stopper in the tub and sink and turn on all the taps.
Why? Because I want to singlehandedly drain all the potable water from Florida, that’s why! Idiot! And remember there weren’t any boxes in there, OK?
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I am NOT going to post a photo of MTG, we can all get by without it.
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“ It’s a real shame when lawyers do things like this, and all I will say is that their bill is way in excess to anything approaching legitimate fees.”
I’m guessing a lot of Gulianni’s former clients will sign on to that statement and demand a refund.
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It’s supposed to be controllable.
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“Stand back, and stand by!”
Pogroms are in the planning stages.
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Who’s Who In the U.S.-Iran Deal?
A rundown of the prisoners involved in the two-way trade between the U.S. and Iran.
I’ve been to Iran.
Anyone who criticizes Biden for getting our fellow Americans out of a hell hole prison is an asshole. I have seen the outside of Evan Prison in Tehran. It ain’t a Club Med.
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When The Weaker Of The House utters that BS be prepared for a LONG shutdown.
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Circle the MAGA wagons, the librul media is coming for Lauren Boebert !!!
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What Happened To Ken Buck?
Buck continued:
These facts — like all facts — are stubborn things.
Republicans in the House who are itching for an impeachment are relying on an imagined history. Their inquiry, formally announced by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday, rests heavily on a fictitious version of Shokin’s career, with the alleged investigation of Burisma at the center. It’s a neat story, and one that performs well in certain media circles. But impeachment is a serious matter and should have a foundation of rock-solid facts.
“The GOP’s ‘gotcha’ narrative.” “No evidence.” “Itching for an impeachment.” “An imagined history.” “A fictitious version of Shokin’s career.”
Funny how a Republican, a member of the Freedom Caucus, can see the BS that this Biden “inquiry” is tit-for-tat.
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So is long hair one of their excuses for oppressing women?
BTW, this guy’s hair seems to cover his ears.
What a steaming load of manure.
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