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Now if there was a Trump golf course there, the taxpayer money would be pouring in.

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It really isn't that difficult to use common parlance of "the 95 percentile confidence range of 2658 to 3290 deaths" being the statistically most likely estimate.Saying "the study estimates roughly 3,000 more deaths occurred, give or take 300, than would have happened without the hurricane" is a reasonable estimate (and dumps the argument of "hurricane-caused" has to be from drowning or something ) and is understandable. We are talking about people capable of working out odds on racetrack betting, and able to work through statistics to select their favorite Fantasy Football players.

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He doesn't understand why he should waste his precious resources on those non-American islanders.Then again, he doesn't understand why he should waste his precious resources on *anything* that isn't him.

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*head explodes*

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No, see, you're doing it wrong. What you want to do is hurl dirt clods everywhere until you've obtained a >95% confidence interval of hitting me.

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Thanks, Carlos.

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The Mueller investigation has cost nothing extra, these are men and women who are anyway paid to work for this country.

Manafort has "surrendered" properties on which he should have paid taxes years ago.

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I do hope that he gets the chance to write "Trump in Attica."

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Does Zeena know that Paula is using her picture? Or is she moonlighting from the beauty clinic? https://uploads.disquscdn.c... http://nazlaser.com.au/

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The Mueller investigation has cost (so far) approximately $17 million. Manafort has surrendered bank accounts and properties worth something like $49 million.

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xkcd.com had something on this today, only a little more science-y https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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I found a spambot from the internet that one time.

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[frantically trying to work out with pencil and paper the trajectory needed to hit you with a dirt clod]

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Of course, nobody understands those either.

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well, statistics, but close enough.

[ducks]

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