The government has changed the way a lot of things are calculated now, the new numbers aren't comparable. Food and energy, which often rise the most, sometimes aren't figured into the inflation rate.

The unemployment rate isn't trustworthy either. It used to estimate the unemployed, but now sometimes they exclude people who are unemployed but aren't collecting unemployment anymore. If you lose your job and collect unemployment, you count, but if after you lose your benefits and are still unemployed, you don't count.

I used to buy chicken breast at $1.79 a pound, now I pay $2.99 a pound. Milk was $2.45 a gallon, now it's $3.75 a gallon. That's just two years ago, and they're both over 50% more expensive, a far cry from the 10% the government claims.

I believe this is shown in a post credit scene of the documentary Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

The positive part of this story is that unlike Australia and their loss in the Great Emu War, it put a victorious end to the US's Great Cattle Rebellion of 1863. Log cabins also know their place.

And yet my pet poppy seed still doesn't recognize his own face, he continues to glare the poppy seed in the mirror.

I was using a scanner with OCR software in 1991. It was a somewhat new technology, but not cutting edge. I worked for a small publishing company and while the OCR wasn't perfect, it was still much better than having to retype an entire book.

Yes, absolutely. People argue that's not what it means, but if you're calling yourselves "People" or "Human Beings," then everyone else are not "People" or "Human Beings" and that's that.

Your dad sounds like a prick.

I don't know, but I suspect various people and places use the name White Eagle.

This fight, the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, was considered such a heart-breaking defeat that the Comanche never recovered and didn't put up the same amount of resistance afterward. They'd had such strong faith that they would win and then realized they were completely outmatched.

The Comanche people are properly called the "Nʉmʉnʉʉ," translated as "The Human Beings" or "The People." The Ute Indians introduced to the Spanish to the Nʉmʉnʉʉ calling them "kɨmantsi," which the Spanish wrote as Comanche. Kɨmantsi means "Enemy." Nʉmʉnʉʉ is pronounced "nuh-MUH-nuh."

Isatai'i led the Nʉmʉnʉʉ and some allies, a group estimated to be around 1,000 warriors against twenty-eight men and one woman armed with long-range hunting rifles who were staying in a small adobe building. A scout and hunter, Billy Dixon, killed a Comanche warrior from 1,500 yards away, one of the longest recorded sniper shots. Realizing they were vulnerable at such a distance broke the spirit of the attacking Native Americans. Dixon is one of eight civilians awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

If you add Burt Reynolds, Bob Hope, or a chimp to a road movie it's a hit.

But if I say they all look alike I'm the bad guy.

I don't want to start any trouble, but has anyone else noticed that Ichiro looks like that guy in The Northman and we look like the guy on the ramen package?

Puns are tricky word play, they're like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

You think she pulled the wool over our eyes?

People buy food on Thanksgiving, not gifts.

I didn't see a video and I don't know what KB is.

Though she often wrote about religion and morality there's no information about specific religion. Her father's side of the family was from Wales and they appear to have been Baptists, but I couldn't find anything about her mother's side. I suspect if she had been a Quaker that would have been mentioned.

I didn't learn it today, I wrote about it today. I had read about Hale a while ago, I think when I took my family to New England. Last night I happened to see something that reminded me of the story so I found a link and posted it this morning.

Sawyer claimed the story as her own and tried to make a living off of it, selling wool and memorabilia. Sometime after her death Thomas Edison got involved. He'd heard the poem and they were the first words recorded on phonograph. Years later he had a book published supporting Sawyer's unfounded claims.

That story is nonsense. It's written to suggest that the tale happened in 1815 and fifteen years later Hale published it as her own poem, but that's not remotely the truth. Hale's poem was published in 1830 and almost 50 years later a woman came forward claiming that she was the Mary in the poem and that a young man visiting the village wrote the poem for her on a slip of paper. She never produced the paper and there's no evidence that Roulstone wrote the poem other than the word of Mary Sawyer.

Roulstone himself died very shortly after having supposedly written the poem, he never wrote anything else and there's nothing tying Roulstone to the poem, Sawyer, or Hale, other than the word of Sawyer. It was never seen or published by anyone anywhere until Hale, a prolific author, journalist, and poet, put it in her book.

There's also no evidence that Mary Sawyer was the Mary in the poem. She came forward with that story only several months before the death of Sarah Josepha Hale.

Her father was a Revolutionary War veteran and a believer in education, which led to her becoming home schooled, unusual for a woman at that time. She worked as a schoolteacher for a time, then in 1811 she married a lawyer and they had five children. Her husband died only eleven years later, leading her to wear black the rest of her life. With support from her late husband's Freemason's lodge, she published a book of poetry. Four years later, in 1827, she released her first novel, one of the earliest novels condemning slavery.

She was then hired as the editor, or "editress" as she called herself, of the influential Ladies' Magazine. Continuing as a writer for the magazine and herself, she released another books of poems, including "Mary had a Little Lamb" based on an experience as a schoolteacher.

Starting in 1846 and over the course of seventeen years and five presidents, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln, she urged that the local New England tradition of Thanksgiving become a national holiday. It became the third national holiday, after Independence Day and George Washington's birthday. It was her menu, described in one of her novels, that became the template for Thanksgiving dinner.

A believer in education, she helped found Vassar College and advocating the hiring of woman as professors and administrators. Hale was also instrumental in raising the funds for the Bunker Hill Monument. Her novels, articles, and poetry were very influential and inspired many women to become writers, publishing some in her magazine. Hale finally retired at the age of 89 and died the next year.

This is from WebMD? Why the hell are they fighting babies?

Men are more likely to be murdered because men are more likely to be in confrontations and men are more likely to engage in crime.