[Epoch Times] Mike Dyson, 33, passed away suddenly on Christmas Day after several drinks, before he even had a chance to open his presents. No mention of the thousands each year who get involuntarily "passed away" due to drunken drivers.
Dyson went to his neighbor’s house to drink at 1:30 p.m. After drinking about four glasses of whiskey and some hot water, he lay down on a bed. Everyone thought he was sleeping. It wasn’t until around 7 p.m. that his family members and neighbors discovered to their horror that he was not breathing. So they called an ambulance and gave him CPR at the same time.
Each year, alcohol kills approximately 95,000 people (68,000 men and 27,000 women) in the United States. Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States (the first is tobacco, and the second is poor diet and lack of exercise).
From 2006 to 2014, alcohol-related emergency room visits increased by 47 percent. Of all emergency cases, 18.5 percent were alcohol-related. In 2019, there were 10,142 drunk driving deaths in the United States, accounting for 28 percent of all driving deaths.
In 2018, top international medical journal The Lancet gave alcohol drinkers a bitter pill to swallow. After a systematic review of alcohol consumption and health effects in 195 countries from 1990 to 2016, this study concluded that the safe intake of alcohol is zero.
The researchers stated that alcohol consumption might have some protective effects on ischaemic heart diseases and diabetes in women in some cases, but emphasized that more research showed that alcohol consumption had no or insignificant protective effects on all-cause mortality or cardiovascular health.
Many people believe that drinking red wine is good for their health. In fact, this is mainly due to the presence of resveratrol in red wine. You can also get resveratrol from purple or dark red grapes, blueberries, cranberries and peanuts without the intake of alcohol. You can also have a glass of rich grape juice instead, and benefit from the resveratrol content without the negative effects of alcohol. Looks like I picked a bad day to stop drinking.
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My cardiologist (Harvard Med School) keeps harping on me to cut back to one beer a day, and I keep looking at him like he's got a huge zit on his forehead.
#7
Genetics, genetics, genetics. My mother smoked2-to-3 packs of cigarettes a day. On the other hand my Dad and older sister were binge drinkers (Sister: "When I start drinking wine I don't stop until I's really drunk"). This One Size Fits All™ medical nostrums gets old.
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Remember it was these very 'experts' telling us to drink a glass of wine a day some years ago. Now, it's suddenly 'Mike Dyson has died... boo hoo hoo...!'
A year from now it's gonna be, 'Did you know whiskey can actually kick your ticker into performing better?'
#11
Food Pyramid says, "It's not my fault you are obese..."
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I guess I should be dead by now but I'm still posting weird comments on Rantburg. Doesn't say much for the Lancet's credibility. But then, weren't they the ones who said covid came from bat soup?
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After a systematic review of alcohol consumption and health effects in 195 countries from 1990 to 2016, this study concluded that the safe intake of alcohol is zero.
They ran numbers through a spreadsheet. It was likely designed to reach this conclusion.
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The Killjoy brigade strikes again.
I love the scare anecdote at the beginning. Four glasses of whiskey KILLED HIM! Uh yeah, that's not what whiskey does.
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Here, Here - I'll drink to that! Cheers! And a round for everyone in the house here at Rantburg!
Bottoms-up - And with this I invoke Irish Diplomacy
[IsraelTimes] Their newly opened airspace has nothing to do with Israel, they say, and normalization can’t happen until there’s a Paleostinian state. But actually, obviously, it’s all about Iran.
As of this writing, Israeli planes are not yet routinely overflying Saudi airspace to and from India, China and other destinations. This year, at least, Israeli Moslems were not able to take Israeli charter flights direct from Ben Gurion Airport to Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... for the hajj.
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normalization can’t happen until there’s a Paleostinian state
I don't think Israel's worried about its moslems not being able to hajj. At least they shouldn't be. And neither are saudis. The Saudis can't do anything by themselves. They just need friends, to stay afloat in the churn that is the moslem world. How much anti-establishment Sunni wahhabi nonsense is stopped daily because of Israeli surveillance software and friendly inputs? I think the paleostine routine is just for the bearded, crazy eyed moslem tool who would challenge the establishment otherwise.
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I don't think Israel's worried about its moslems not being able to hajj.
If I understand correctly, they can — they just need to fly in from Jordan or Egypt with the contingents from those countries.
Lots of things have been happening without fanfare for the past decade at least. But Israel is getting awfully tired of being snuck in through the servants entrance, when countries like Morocco celebrate reestablished formal contact.
With regards to Rudyard Kipling and the later British Empire:
"And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
#8
Everybody talks about Sun Tzu (or Sun Pin) but the Chinese Mandarins were writing scrolls on "managing barbarians" thousands of years ago and passing theses insights on... Besides with a large fractious population the Chinese had plenty of practice on each other.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding strikes on the Odessa port. If you carefully study the published documents of the agreement on the export of grain, it is easy to see that:
1. There are no obligations of Russia not to strike at Odessa. There are only obligations not to attack the infrastructure necessary for the export of grain.
2. The destroyed boats in the port have nothing to do with the export of grain. These are military targets that can and should be destroyed as part of achieving the goals of the NMD, which have not disappeared anywhere.
3. This strike simply shows that the export of grain according to Istanbul-1 does not mean the cessation of hostilities and attacks on Odessa will continue.
4. How does it work? Take Hodeida in Yemen. In 2018, from June to November, as part of Operation Golden Victory, the Saudi coalition, with the support of Israel and the United States, fought intense battles against the Houthis, with missile and air strikes, with thousands of dead and hundreds of pieces of destroyed equipment (Saudi and co. raked).
All this did not interfere with the process of implementing the agreements (although they were also thwarted) on the entry of ships with food for the starving population of Yemen into the port of Hodeidah. agreements under the auspices of the UN.
So, the war is separate, the grain is separate.
The tantrums about the strikes are to try to provide cover for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Odessa with grain export agreements. The worst thing that the Russian Federation could do is to stop strikes on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa and the Odessa region because of the tantrums of Kyiv and its sponsors.
I hope the strikes continue. The best way to stop attacks on the port of Odessa is to withdraw the entire military infrastructure from there, while the city is not yet liberated.
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed yesterday's strike on the port of Odessa, pointing to the destruction of a Ukrainian boat with precision weapons. As yesterday I wrote https://t.me/boris_rozhin/58119, the Russian Federation has no restrictions on strikes against military facilities in Odessa and the Odessa region.
All obligations of Russia relate only and exclusively to ships and that part of the port infrastructure that is involved in the export of grain. Yesterday the United States and the UN began to understand this, so against the backdrop of ritual condemnations, publications about "Russia's technical ability to strike" began to appear. At the same time, the actual preparation for the implementation of Istanbul-1 does not stop, which was confirmed by Turkey, the UN, and Ukraine. So we can continue.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, confirmed (see briefing for July 24 https://t.me/boris_rozhin/58173 ) yesterday's strike on Odessa.
In the seaport of the city of ODESSA, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based high-precision long-range missiles destroyed a Ukrainian warship in the dock and a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the United States to the Kyiv regime. Also, the production facilities of the enterprise for the repair and modernization of the ship structure of the naval forces of Ukraine were put out of action.
So it is possible and necessary to hit the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa.
...who expected that with the conclusion of Istanbul-1, Odessa would stop flying, hello.
This week SouthFront published the appeals and stories of US mercenaries Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh, who were captured in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine in June 2022.
At the same time, the US media began to raise the question of what are the options of returning US citizens to their homeland. Apparently, given all the circumstances of Alexander Drueke’s and Andy Huynh’s detention, this is only possible through an exchange procedure.
US officials say they are in constant contact with their Ukrainian counterparts and are making every effort to include the mercenaries on the exchange list. Previously, the warring sides had already exchanged prisoners of war on several occasions.
However, from the point of view of Russia and the DPR, these individuals do not have the status of prisoners of war because they are citizens of a third country who took part in the conflict for fees. In other words, they are considered criminals who are accused of committing a number of crimes against citizens of Russia and the DPR.
In particular, they have been charged under Article 430 of the DPR Criminal Code. This article is identical to Article 359 of the Russian Criminal Code.
Under Article 430 of the Criminal Code of the DPR and Article 359 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a mercenary is a person acting for the purpose of material reward who is not a citizen of a state participating in an armed conflict or hostilities, does not reside permanently in its territory, and has not been sent to perform official duties.
An important fact is that legal actions against detainees are carried out by DPR law enforcement agencies, not Russians. Apparently, this is due to the fact that in July 2022, the DPR authorities lifted the ban on the death penalty as a capital punishment. Previously, the other 3 foreign mercenaries (Shaun Pinner, Aidan Aslin, and Saadoun Brahim) had already been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution. The only chance for these convicts to stay alive was the act of pardon by the head of the DPR, Denis Pushylin.
It is likely that a similar sentence will be passed on Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh.
An exchange of mercenaries for DPR or Russian military personnel seems hardly probable due to their legal status. Does this mean that the Americans’ fate is sealed? Definitely not. There are procedures of political exchange of convicts, which have happened many times before between the USA and the Russian Federation (USSR). The last case took place on April 27, 2022, when US citizen Trevor Raudi Reed, who had been previously convicted in the Russian Federation, was exchanged for Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been convicted in the US. Legally, the procedure was formalised through acts of pardon.
Thus, it is possible for US citizens to avoid the death penalty and return home. There are about 400 Russian nationals in US prisons, a significant part of whom are convicted on political grounds. Perhaps the most striking example is Viktor Bout, who has already served half of his sentence in a US prison.
Read the rest at the link, which includes videographed statements by the two US detainees.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] A fragment of the film "At the edge of the abyss. The Battle for Mariupol" by military film maker Max Fadeev.
The film is currently in the editing stage. The material presented is as impressive as ever. Max Fadeev has produced some visually stunning work in the past. Recalling from memory, he uses a mix of crowd and Russian government funding.
This extended trailer is only partially translatable, though not very well:
The film depicts a mix of Russian, Russian speaking militia and Chechen rifle troops engaged in room clearing, and evacuation of civilians and wounded soldiers in large apartment buildings in Mariupol.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Seversk.
Fighting continues in the area of Serebryanka, Verkhnekamensky and Ivano-Daryevka. The RF Armed Forces are engaged in grinding enemy positions on the heights adjacent to the city. The enemy suffers significant losses, including prisoners. The Seversk-Soledar road is regularly shelled by Russian artillery.
2. Soledar.
Fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of the city, the RF Armed Forces are advancing from Stryapovka. Fighting continues near Yakovlevka and Belogorovka. The enemy is intensively bombarding Berestovoe in order to prevent our troops from establishing full control over the village.
3. Artemovsk.
Our troops advanced in Pokrovsky. The enemy has been pushed into the northern part of the village. The capture of Pokrovsky will mean that the Klinovoye-Pokrovskoye line has been broken and Artemovsk itself is already moving on, to which 2-3 kilometers are left. Fighting also continued at the Veselaia Dolina, as well as at the Uglegorsk TPP and Semigorye. The enemy from the Artemovsk region continues to shell the territory of the LPR, including the recently liberated Lisichansk agglomeration.
4. Slavyansk.
No significant changes. Fighting continued near Sidorovo, Dolina, Bogorodichny and in the forests to the north-west of the city. The objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration are subjected to daily missile strikes, which in the event of strikes against the dispositions of enemy units leads to large one-time losses in manpower. In the Izyum direction, there are also no changes so far. The enemy is trying to probe the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the Balakleya area.
5. Kharkov.
Fighting positions continue in the area of the settlement. Udy, Tsupovka, Dementievka, Great Passages, Nursery, Upper Saltov. There are no serious advances on the front. The RF Armed Forces continue to strike at the targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Kharkov, Chuguev and Zolochev. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are shelling the border villages, as well as Cossack Lopan.
6. Avdievka.
No significant changes. Positional battles along the Konstantinovka-Avdeevka highway, as well as in the Avdievka industrial area. Active work of artillery on both sides + ongoing shelling of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and other settlements. The situation is identical in the region of Gorlovka and Dzerzhinsk. Static front + artillery shelling.
7. Ugledar.
Positional battles continue in the area of Pavlovka, Novomikhailovka and in Maryinka. The enemy tried to attack in the direction of Glorious. Our troops are crushing the enemy south of Velikaya Novoselovka. In general, the front here is positional in nature.
8. Zaporozhye.
On the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka line, medium-intensity positional battles continued, as well as artillery shelling. The enemy continues to probe the possibilities of advance in the direction of Pologi and Vasilievka.
9. Nikolaev.
The enemy tried to carry out an attack in the area of Potemkino and Vysokopolye with the forces of two battalions, suffered heavy losses in killed and wounded and was forced to withdraw. Nevertheless, it is quite obvious that political circumstances will push the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be active in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions, which we have been observing in recent weeks.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation stop this threat with regular strikes in the Krivoy Rog direction. Attacks on Nikolaev are also continuing, which inflict serious losses on the enemy and prevent serious activity from being launched in the direction of Kherson. It is also worth noting the creation in the Kherson region of the "Odessa brigade", which will be used to attack Nikolaev and Odessa.
10. Odessa.
In Istanbul, an agreement was reached on the export of Ukrainian grain. They will be exported through Turkey under the control of passing ships by Turkey, Russia and the UN.
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Nations now understand that It is time to stop these US puppets serving the US insanity from taking over governments. These puppets are American deep state funded terrorist, taking over national assets, defenses and public funds, allocating all of it and more towards the US agenda and against the security of the state they are seated.
Hu Xijin
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Hu Xijin is the former editor-in-chief of the Global Times. Previously he worked as a reporter in the People's Daily and covered the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
An exclusive report in the Financial Times on Tuesday quoted multiple sources as saying Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, will visit Taiwan in August amid her trip to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
If Pelosi, a fellow Democrat with US President Joe Biden, visits Taiwan, no one will believe it is because Biden "cannot control her". People are more likely to believe that her visit is part of Washington's tactic of "good cop/bad cop."
As the Speaker of the House, Pelosi is second in the US presidential line of succession according to the US Constitution. Her visit to Taiwan is not only an escalation of US support for "Taiwan independence," but a major incident. It was reported in April that Pelosi would make the visit, but the planned trip to Asia was canceled because she tested positive for COVID-19 then.
It has been proven that the US will not be reasonable on the Taiwan question, and the only way for China to respond to Washington's provocation is to use resolute countermeasures to make it clear the cost of playing the Taiwan card, which is the only language the US understands.
Although then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich visited Taiwan in 1997, the travel was seen more as an outward manifestation of the US domestic political bad blood, since Gingrich was a Republican, opposite of then-president Bill Clinton. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, if takes place, however, would be a blatant challenge to China by the US as a whole.
I believe that China's countermeasures will be overwhelming, and we will not accept this crude advance of US support for "Taiwan independence," but will clearly tell the US that they are making a subversive mistake.
As a media personality who has long been watching the situation in the Taiwan Straits, I suggest that China take firm action this time to make sure that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is scuttled, either she abandons the planned visit out of fear or that her visit becomes a risky trip, leaving both her and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority in Taiwan, who will host her, in a state of panic and with a keen sense of loss.
When it was reported in April that Pelosi was going to visit Taiwan, I wrote an article advocating that the Chinese mainland should establish a no-fly zone over Taiwan, or the People's Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes should fly over the island. Today, I would like to reiterate the above advocacy.
I would further suggest that PLA warplanes could "escort" Pelosi's plane at an appropriate distance, enter the island at the same time as she does, skim over her landing site, and then fly over the island and return to the Chinese mainland. There would be low probability of causing a direct military confrontation by doing so, and once PLA warplanes fly in and cross the island, it would be an even more landmark precedent than Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. In that case, we would probably have to thank Pelosi instead for creating the opportunity for PLA warplanes to fly over the island, opening up a whole new space for PLA warplanes to exercise sovereignty over the Taiwan island.
The Chinese mainland must be brave enough to take this step of flying warplanes over the island, which, unlike warplanes flight around Taiwan, can truly reflect China's sovereignty over the territory, and is more substantial than any visit to Taiwan by senior foreign officials. Using Pelosi's visit to Taiwan to complete this leap is most likely to make it a peaceful transition.
Of course, in order for PLA warplanes to fly over the island of Taiwan, we must be fully prepared for military confrontation, and I believe such preparations by the PLA have been ongoing. We have no intention of seeing a war break out in the Taiwan Straits now, but we are undoubtedly the party that is least afraid of a war in the Straits breaking out right now. PLA warplanes will sooner or later fly over the island. If the Taiwan military dare to fire at PLA warplanes, the response will be a resolute action of shooting down the Taiwanese warplanes or striking its military bases. If the US and the island of Taiwan want an all-out war, then the time will come to liberate Taiwan. I advise both the US and the island not to have any illusions.
Let Pelosi and the Biden administration as well as the Taiwan authorities make their choice.
The author is a commentator with the Global Times. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
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Taiwan has an election coming up next spring and they say anybody overseas from Taiwan that wants to vote has to be in Taiwan without any exit for six months before the election.
Lots of people from Taiwan who live in California might put voting in Taiwan's critical election over voting in California Elections this November.
One wonders if the reason Pelosi wants to go to Taiwan is to convince them to let the people from Taiwan in CA vote in the November elections before going to Taiwan for a half year.
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Do Taiwanese-Americans in California traditionally vote Democrat, 3dc? Is the Democratic Party’s hold on California so tenuous that this particular group will tilt the election?
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Visit Taiwan escorted by two fully loaded Raptors. Tell the pilots, if a PLA plane even so much as shows up on radar, lock on it briefly. Later, you can call it a reflex reaction of the pilot, 'he's been reprimanded' an' all that.
Meet the leaders, wave and smile. Come back and win your election. Two problems solved for the next four years at least.
But that advice is not fit for a Pelosi, only someone like DJT could pull it off.
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With Biden, it's more likely the plane would immediately surrender and the chinese would steal it and parade it around. Pelosi would be given back immediately cause nobody stand to be near it for more than 5 seconds.
Aren't the Democrats, Social Media, ANTI-FA & BLM by its actions, which range from, political censorship, voter fraud, fake evidence for Russia Gate, political Impeachment, staged violent riots, looting, failure to prosecute, blackmail, murder and false imprisonment,
in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 241?
....If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States......fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both...
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....Sadly, I expect that the answer will be, "It's not treason when WE do it...."
Mike
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"You thought it wasn't treason when you did it, sunshine. Times have changed.
USA 2029
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Speaking with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren, former AG Bill Barr, 72, said the Mexican government isn't 'serious enough' about disbanding the cartels, who are 'poisoning' Americans with fentanyl
'I think [the Mexicans] have to be forced and pushed into action with us,' he said. 'We have to approach the cartels more like ISIS and less like the mafia'
He also said the individualized prosecution against cartels is ineffective, as they are 'effectively' acting like 'terrorist organizations'
Barr said the cartels are bringing in methamphetamines and other drugs with fentanyl and 'poisoning' Americans, who 'don't even know what's in the drugs'
Barr claimed Biden 'abandoned the border,' where more than 207,000 migrants tried to cross in June
#5
it is 'mehicos' business not ours. we should detain and repatriate illegal border crossers. No drug should be illegal. if you want to take it do so.
#6
Per the discussion the other day of battery replacement costs in EVs: Should hard drug users have to buy a bond / insurance against their future cost to society? Should weed users have to pay a "productivity penalty" as part of their weed purchases?
I'd say, yes, yes they do...
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And they pay that by signing off organs. Like have an eye or a kidney harvested when they do aggravated assault or something. Both eyes on two counts. I'll wager they won't be causing no more aggravation thereafter.
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I smoke weed and already pay a cost of productivity cost. It's called the final price.
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As soon as we (openly) cross the border with troops to suppress the cartels Cuba and parties south will lend covert Russian aid. Already embedded cartelians be emboldened to unconstrained direct action.
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"Mexican drug cartels should be wiped off the face of the Earth"
Isn't that what Trump was doing on multiple levels.? Sealing the border, remain in Mexico, ICE and DEA actually being allowed to do their jobs, speedy deportations and or prison sentences.
The opposite of what is now being done under the Biden Puppet Admin.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Each year, alcohol kills approximately 95,000 people (68,000 men and 27,000 women) in the United States. Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States (the first is tobacco, and the second is poor diet and lack of exercise).
Why does the world insist on "two states" made out of Israel and "one state" made from Taiwan and Mainland Taiwan? 
