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Canaries have highly sensitive metabolisms. They would begin swaying on their perches when exposed to methane and carbon monoxide, sometimes well before they stopped singing and died, hopefully giving miners ample time to escape before an explosion or cave in.
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Thank you Siannan. ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/thumbs.gif) I knew a Ranter would know! ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/icon_cool.gif)
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
(Philip K.Dick)
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Thank you Siannan. I knew a Ranter would know! My Uncle Jack was a coal miner. He also never used to shut up about it once he retired. I kinda really miss him cause he was fun. My dad used to say he was 5 pounds of crap crammed into a 2 pound bag (it was an accurate description), but he was fun too. I learned a lot of stuff from Uncle Jack, most of it stuff I never thought I would need to know. You'd be surprised at how often that stuff has cropped up in my life.
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Reagan must have been well into his Alzheimers when he signed his last name first on that bill in 1986. Saw a news program of him about him about that time where a reporter asked him a question, in the Rose Garden. He was totally silent and you could hear Nancy say, under her breath, "We're working on it." He then repeated the same thing. Very scary.
Critical thinking - our other national deficit.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time,but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.[A. Lincoln]
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