- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Absolutely beautiful book. An incredible story and unforgettable characters.
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The Negative Mammogram Myth
Mammography is an imperfect test. A “normal mammogram” report does not mean that a woman does not have breast cancer. Overall, mammograms will pick up 80 to 90 percent of cancers. That’s pretty good, but there are still 10 to 20 percent of cancers that will not be seen, and will present as an “interval cancer” with a palpable lump, as in the example above.
The cancer detection rate plummets in women with dense breasts to only 40 to 50 percent of cancers picked up on a mammogram. That’s about the odds of a coin toss. This is ineffective screening by anyone’s standards. Read more.
[Image: Stacey Vitiello]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygsfdDrH91qcokc4o1_400.jpg)
Mammography is an imperfect test. A “normal mammogram” report does not mean that a woman does not have breast cancer. Overall, mammograms will pick up 80 to 90 percent of cancers. That’s pretty good, but there are still 10 to 20 percent of cancers that will not be seen, and will present as an “interval cancer” with a palpable lump, as in the example above.
The cancer detection rate plummets in women with dense breasts to only 40 to 50 percent of cancers picked up on a mammogram. That’s about the odds of a coin toss. This is ineffective screening by anyone’s standards. Read more.
[Image: Stacey Vitiello]
Ron Paul’s “South Was Right” Civil War Speech With Confederate Flag
20.01.2012 - Ron Paul has made no secret the fact that he thought that the South was right in the Civil War. Here he is giving a speech in front of a giant Confederate Flag about why he believes the North was wrong in the Civil War and why the South was right.
Ron Paul is a neo-Confederate, and proud member of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, which has been labeled as a neo-Confederate organization. In the video he claims that the North should have paid to buy slaves from southern slave owners to avoid the war, rather than the South renouncing slavery. Paul also fails to bring up the fact that it was the South that started the war by attacking the North in 1861.
Ron Paul was also was the only member of congress to vote against honoring the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 on its 40th anniversary in 2004. Paul would also claim that he wouldn’t have voted for it at the time, putting him on the side of the racists in both the fight against slavery and the fight against Jim Crow segregation, the two defining struggles of Black people in America.
Several Ron Paul supporters have asked that the video be taken down, from the pro-Confederate channel, Patriot Review but Patriot Review believes that the video could help Paul win South Carolina. If they do take it down, Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has downloaded a copy of the video.
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via News One
a portrait of lunacy
Jesus fucking Christ.
I’m regretting those two lunch sundaes, because I’m starting to feel them come back up.
I couldn’t get through this, and I doubt my followers will be able to, but it’s important that everyone sees it.
He is. A racist. Homophobic. Sack. Of. Dicks.
People will still support him because “this was s long ago” and “he wants to legalize drugs”. Some people refuse to see the truth.
i just need people to note that this happened on
JANUARY 20, 2012
This is not some skeleton from his past. This is 6 days ago.
Fuck Ron Paul, and fuck anyone who supports him.
MEI Architecten - Block 11 parking garage (nicknamed the goblin garage, notice the print), Volksgrant 2011.
I’d say they look more like gnomes rather than goblins.
Last year at some point I posted a boatload of individual shots from this great survey of Miami Beach’s historic architecture. However, now that the Library of Congress has redesigned its digital archives, it’s easier to share the link that will let people simply browse. Some really delightful images. Sample below.
I learned something new today. I had no idea where tasty, tasty cashews came from and now I do. This odd looking fruit seen above. One may wonder, what happens to the fruit? It is too delicate to transport. I imagine most of them end up in the trash.
I’ve been reading Anna Karenina for a week but it feels like it has been a month. It is a very long book that I have decided to challenge myself with. I’m only 25% through it. I could have done without the description of the horse and the race, however, I have a feeling that whole bit of the story is going to be symbolic to the outcome of a certain couple of people. And the descriptions of farming! It’s so descriptive. I’m enjoying the story so far though, no matter how much it makes me want to punch them all in the face. All of them. In the face.
U.S. soldiers returning home face a culture that doesn’t understand them:
The 1 percent tends to be concentrated in the southern states and among the working and lower-middle classes. With a few notable exceptions—such as vice-president Joe Biden’s son Beau—the children of the elite have not served in these wars. It’s a sharp change from the night of Pearl Harbor, when Eleanor Roosevelt told a radio audience, “I have a boy at sea on a destroyer, for all I know he may be on his way to the Pacific.”
Instead, America now has its first generation of political and business leaders who have not served in the military, and it shows. With the Pentagon ordered to slash spending as part of wider government budget cutting, military benefits, such as pensions, and college education funding for veterans are on the chopping block.
“Veterans’ Struggle.” — Anna Fifield, Financial Times
See also: “The Last Two Veterans of WWI.” — Evan Fleischer, The Awl, May 3, 2011
(via theatlantic)
