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Anyone watch the debate last night?

Heard Hillary rocked it.

There is a thread on that topic here, rather than taking this one off topic:

US Presidential Elections 2016 News and Views

 

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American inventors and their flying machines...

Aero-X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Terrafugia Transition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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haha I plead guilty.

Helping children around the world to read (including pronunciation): LeapFrog Enterprises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (English, French, Spanish, Chinese)

Of course they also have phone and tablet versions.

 

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“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

-Emma Lazarus

 

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She left us for Israel


Jenna Jameson filming reality show about conversion to Judaism | Fox News

 

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How the Average American Family Spends Their Income - And How to Trim It - The Simple Dollar

"I’ve often wondered how the typical household budget is spent. Several times in 2009, I came across this thoroughly interesting infographic, originally from VisualEconomics.com:

The picture depicts how the average American family spends their income based on Department of Labor data. For those without the visuals, I’ll break the info on the chart down into a list for you.

Household Budget Breakdown
Housing – shelter – $10,023
Pensions, Social Security – $5,027
Housing – utilities, fuels, public services – $3,477
Food – food at home – $3,465
Transportation – vehicle purchases – $3,244
Transportation – other expenses and transportation – $3,130
Healthcare – $2,853
Entertainment – $2,698
Food – food away from home – $2,668
Transportation – gasoline, motor oil – $2,384
Apparel and Services – $1,881
Cash Contributions (optional retirement and cash savings) – $1,821
Housing – household furnishings, equipment – $1,797
Education – $945
Housing – household operations – $984
Miscellaneous – $808
Housing – housekeeping supplies – $639
Alcoholic Beverages – $457
Personal Care – $588
Life, other personal insurance – $309
Reading – $118

For many people, this describes some form of their annual budget. Yes, some numbers are higher for some of us and other numbers are lower, but this really is a rough approximation of how we all spend our money."

 

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This map should change the way you think about foreign aid
Updated by Matthew Yglesias on November 8, 2015, 8:00 a.m. ET @mattyglesias TweetShare on Twitter(418) ShareShare on Facebook(2,711) LinkedInShare on LinkedIn great map from the cost information website HowMuch.net reveals, one reason for that is that promoting development and helping the poor isn't actually what motivates a lot of America's foreign aid:

<img alt=" " src="https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/D0...ries-scaled-to-economic-aid-from-usa-a800.jpg">
As you can see, the biggest recipient by a long way is Israel (this is fiscal year 2014 data, but nothing's changing), and two other big ones are Egypt and Jordan, which both have aid packages that are tied up with their peace treaties with Israel. None of these are poor countries (indeed, Israel is downright rich), and the point of the money is to advance an American foreign policy agenda — not to help the poor. Pakistan and Afghanistan, which round out the top five, actually are pretty poor, but, again, the main American interest in them is clearly foreign policy rather than poverty.