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<\/p>\nYesterday was strange – not that nothing happened around the nation and the world, but that so many of the things that did happen were so odd.\u00a0 We can blame climate change for some of it, but not for all, certainly.\u00a0 I think I remember that Colleen’s delayed surgery was for carpal tunnel or somethiing of the sort – if so, she may be recovering just fine but not feel up to commenting yet.\u00a0 I hope that’s the case, but also hope to hear soon.<\/p>\n
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Short Takes – News of the Weird today!<\/p>\n
WFAA – ‘Once you see one, you’ll see another’<\/a>: Have you seen one of these worms in your yard? They’re toxic. Here’s how you deal with them. NBC News – Vehicles stuck on Detroit freeways after torrential downpour<\/a> NextShark – Australian Woman Who Woke Up From Surgery With Irish Accent May Be Stuck With It for Life<\/a> Food for Thought Yesterday was strange – not that nothing happened around the nation and the world, but that so many of the things that did happen were so odd.\u00a0 We can blame climate change for some of it, but not for all, certainly.\u00a0 I think I remember that Colleen’s delayed surgery was for carpal tunnel or somethiing […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,3704,3723,3751,4103,3831],"class_list":["post-44251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-gop-insanity","tag-health","tag-world","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – \u201cThe way this flatworm harms our ecosystem is it eats earthworms, which are necessary for our forests, our crops…our gardens to survive,” Morgan-Olvera said, \u201cIn order for it to digest earthworms, it secretes a chemical, or a neurotoxin, and that can cause an allergic reaction on your skin if you\u2019re handling it.”
\nClick through for full story<\/a>, including what – and what not – to do.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – [I]t was predicted that the city would get close to two inches of rain Friday night, but nearly seven inches fell. “The intensity of these storms exceeded the design standards for pump stations and combined sewer overflow facilities serving the Detroit region,” Brown said at a press conference on Saturday. There was so much rain that there was nowhere for the water to go, he explained, other than flooding streets and basements.
\nClick through for more.<\/a> (But there’s no such thing as climate change. Right.)<\/p>\n
\nQuote – This week, Yen underwent a brain scan which confirmed \u201cnothing wrong.\u201d But she was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), a rare medical condition that may be triggered by neurological or psychological damage, according to speech pathologist Kirrie Ballard. \u201cForeign Accent Syndrome is a legitimate disorder. It\u2019s described as a person\u2019s speech changing, so that it sounds as though they\u2019re speaking in a different accent to their habitual accent,\u201d Ballard told 60 Minutes.
\nClick through for the story<\/a>. Bizarre, but true. And it says a lot about how we humans treat each other – none of it good.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/prolife.jpg\")
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