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Keep the plate!!! Keep the plate!!!!

New Hampshire woman fights DMV demand to surrender her 15-year-old vanity plate
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Associated PressAugust 27, 2019
ROCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman is fighting the state Department of Motor Vehicles over her 15-year-old vanity license plate showing a common parental phrase.

Seacoastonline.com reports Wendy Auger, of Rochester, has been asked to surrender the plate, which reads “PB4WEGO.” The state says phrases related to excretory acts aren’t permitted.

Auger’s appealing. She asked: “Who has a mom or dad or parental figure who hasn’t said that to kids before leaving the house?”

She’s one of 92 New Hampshire drivers who received vanity plate recall letters this year. State records show there are 152,028 vanity plates on the road in New Hampshire.

A DMV spokesperson said plates must be rejected “when they do not conform to legal requirements.” The spokesperson said the state cannot comment on the specifics of Auger’s case.
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Looks like the Guv has stepped in and we may have a settlement!!

N.H. governor intervenes to allow woman to keep 15-year-old vanity plate

A Rochester woman doesn't have to turn in her vanity license plate showing a common parental phrase.
 
Loose bull attacks two men in Madison
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By Molly Shelly Morning SentinelAugust 30, 2019

MADISON — Two men were severely injured after a bull got loose from its pen on Friday afternoon, according to Mike Mitchell, chief deputy of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office.

Around 12:56 p.m., officers were called to a farm on the Horsetail Road to find Ronald McEwen, 57, of Madison and his father-in-law, Robert Neal, 83, of Madison with severe injuries from trying to apprehend McEwen’s bull, which had escaped its enclosure.

According to Mitchell, Neal received severe injuries to his arm and leg and McEwen to his face and leg.
After the men were attacked, McEwen retrieved a rifle from his residence and was able to “dispatch the bull” before it caused further harm.

Neal was transported by Life Flight to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and McEwen by Anson-Madison Ambulance Service to Redington-Fairview General Hospital in Skowhegan for treatment of injuries that were not considered life threatening.

Mitchell said that the risk to public safety would have been significant if the bull had continued to roam at large outside his enclosed pasture.
 
“Listen, the last time people did this, people ended up killing themselves,” Goldberg said, referring to Joseph McCarthy’s Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s. “This is not a good idea, OK?” As Meghan McCain nodded in agreement, “Your idea of who you don't want to work with is your personal business. Do not encourage people to print out lists because the next list that comes out, your name will be on and then people will be coming after you.”

“We had something called a blacklist and a lot of really good people were accused of stuff,” she continued. “Nobody cared whether it was true or not. They were accused. And they lost their right to work. You don't have the right! In this country, people can vote for who they want to. That is one of the great rights of this country.”

“You don't have to like it, but we don't go after people because we don't like who they voted for,” Goldberg added. “We don't go after them that way. We can talk about issues and stuff, but we don't print out lists.”

Speaking to Messing and her Will & Grace co-star Eric McCormack, who joined her in her call to print the list, Goldberg said, “I'm sure you guys misspoke when you said that because it sounded like a good idea. Think about it. Read about it. Remember what the blacklist actually meant to people and don't encourage anyone—anyone to do it.”




 
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Fish Shop Shut Down for Using Googly Eyes to Make Fish Look Fresher

Brilliant, or nightmare fodder? A little of both!

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By Jelisa Castrodale
Sep 4 2018, 2:24pm
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In George Bernard Shaw’s play Back to Methuselah, that Old Testament serpent tells his Garden of Eden neighbor Eve, “You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say “Why not?” Robert F. Kennedy (or at least his speechwriters) changed the wording slightly and used it in a campaign speech in 1968. And last week, the owner of a fish shop in Kuwait brought those words to life, by dreaming up an idea to make his past-its-prime fish look fresher, pasting some googly eyes over their yellowing sockets, and asking “Why the hell not?”

The shop was closed by Kuwait’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry after a widely shared Facebook video revealed the owner’s scam. (We’re admittedly torn about this, because there’s nothing funny about foodborne illness, but googly eyes are HILARIOUS. And, rotten or not, those fish are 100-percent more entertaining than The Happytime Murders.) In the ten-second clip, a woman uses her gloved finger to remove the fish’s fake eye, revealing its own sunken, yellowed eyeball. According to Gulf News, if a fish has yellow, recessed eyes, it’s more than two days old and less-than-fresh.

After pretty much everyone on Twitter got those “This seems fishy” jokes out of their system, others raised real concerns about fish sellers’ willingness to scam their customers; several weeks ago, a different vendor was busted for filling his fish with nails to increase their weight. “One time nails, the next fake eyes, next time they will sell us fake fish toys, lack of honesty and cheating is mastered by a lot of people looking for quick profits,” one man harrumphed.

Meanwhile, one of this shop’s competitors has announced that it only sells “fish without cosmetic surgery,” which is definitely a better angle than “If our fish are rotten, you’ll know they’re rotten.” When this store re-opens, surely the owner knows that anything he offers for sale will face extra government scrutiny—so his next fish decorations better be good.
 
Roller Coaster Hero Makes One Hell Of A Catch

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New Zealand fistball player Samuel Kempf was caught on camera plucking a flying cellphone from the air as he hit speeds of 80 mph on the Shambhala roller coaster at PortAventura Park near Barcelona, Spain.

After the ride was over, Kempf returned the iPhone X to its rightful owner.

“He couldn’t believe it, he gave me a big hug,” he told New Zealand’s Stuff website. “The funniest reaction was when we had got off the rollercoaster and you go down to look at the photos and videos they take and half the people there seemed to be watching our screen and then everyone started cheering and clapping when it happened.”



hell of a catch..................
 
Asteroid which wiped out dinosaurs ‘exploded with force of 10 billion atomic bombs’
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Scientists have thrown light on the day when a giant asteroid smashed into our planet - unleashing a terrible firestorm which blotted out the sun, and killed the dinosaurs.

Scientists dug retrieved cores 4,265 feet (1,300m) below the submerged 'Chicxulub' crater, where an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago.

It revealed proof of an explosion with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs of the size used in World War II.

The charcoal, granite and other sediments revealed details of how the impact unleashed huge tsunamis and wildfires across the planet - along with a cloud of sulphur which blotted out the sun.
 
Are these people crazy?

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Boozy dead rat soup has landed Brooklyn's borough president in hot water with animal activists who say his plan to exterminate the animals is grotesque and inhumane.
Animal rights organizations representing about 60,000 New Yorkers united against Eric Adams after he scooped dead rats out of an alcohol-based rat trap during a live demonstration in Brooklyn Borough Hall Thursday afternoon.
"I was horrified, there were just no words to describe it," said Allie Feldman Taylor, board member of Voters For Animal Rights. "To see this was really like a punch in the gut."
 
WhatKnot said:
Are these people crazy?

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Boozy dead rat soup has landed Brooklyn's borough president in hot water with animal activists who say his plan to exterminate the animals is grotesque and inhumane.
Animal rights organizations representing about 60,000 New Yorkers united against Eric Adams after he scooped dead rats out of an alcohol-based rat trap during a live demonstration in Brooklyn Borough Hall Thursday afternoon.
"I was horrified, there were just no words to describe it," said Allie Feldman Taylor, board member of Voters For Animal Rights. "To see this was really like a punch in the gut."
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so they're protesting the way the rats are trapped & killed???

They're freakin' rats. Who cares how you do it.
 
Wonder if Meteor can find a mate so you VA boys can have a Yak Hunting Season in the future. In the least any Yetis named Bubba roaming in VA have a familiar food source available...

Yak on ride to butcher shop escapes to Virginia mountains

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Associated PressSeptember 14, 2019
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This yak named Meteor was on its last ride Tuesday from Buckingham, Va., to the butcher when it got out of its trailer. Laura Cooper/Nelson County Farm Bureau via AP

LOVINGSTON, Va. — Authorities in Virginia say a yak on its way to the butcher’s shop escaped to the nearby mountains avoiding animal control officers and treats trying to lure it back into a trailer.

The News & Advance reports the yak named Meteor was on its last ride Tuesday from Buckingham, Virginia, to the butcher when it got out of its trailer.

The escape was called in as livestock on the loose, and Nelson County Animal Control officer Kevin Wright says he figured he was looking for a cow.

Wright says the yak crossed a busy highway and avoided officers trying to capture it by heading for the mountains.

The yak was last spotted Wednesday at an inn, where the owners tried unsuccessfully to lure it into a trailer using treats.
 
Fisherman Catches Terrifying 'Dinosaur' Fish And Then Eats It

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A man fishing in Norway pulled a fish out of the water that looks like something from another planet.

Oscar Lundahl, a fishing guide for Nordic Sea Angling, was fishing for blue halibut off Norway's coast when he hooked something he'd never seen before.

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“We were looking for blue halibut which is a rare species about 5 miles offshore. I had four hooks on one line and felt something quite big on the end of it. It took me about 30 minutes to reel it in because it was over 2,600 feet deep.”

On two of those hooks were the blue halibut he was fishing for. But on a third hook was this monster.

One of Lundahl's colleagues knew what this alien-looking fish is. It's called a ratfish and is a distant relative of sharks. They're believed to be about 300 million years old and only reside in very deep, dark water, which is why its eyes are so big.

The ratfish died while being reeled in due to the change in pressure. Lundahl didn't want to be wasteful, so he took the fish home and cooked it. "It was really tasty,” he said. “It is a bit like cod but tastier.”
 
A lost 8th continent is hidden nearly 1,000 miles under Europe, new research shows. Scientists named it 'Greater Adria.'

  • Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth had one giant supercontinent named Pangea.
  • Pangea eventually broke up into smaller land masses, which then fragmented further and became our modern-day continents.
  • New research shows that an eighth continent slid underneath what is now Southern Europe about 120 million years ago, and it's still hidden deep within the Earth.
  • Scientists named this lost continent "Greater Adria." Its uppermost regions formed mountain ranges across Europe, like the Alps.
very cool - interesting read..........................

"All Hail Atlantis......................."
 
Navy seems to be confirming that we are not alone....................
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Navy Confirms: Those UFO Videos Are Real And Never Should've Been Released

The U.S. Navy has for the first time reportedly verified the authenticity of a series of three UFO videos leaked over the past two years and insisted the footage never should’ve been made public.

“The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena,” Joseph Gradisher, spokesperson for the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, told the Black Vault, a website dedicated to exposing secrets and revealing declassified government documents. The statement was later confirmed by Motherboard.

The military increasingly prefers the “UAP” phrasing over UFO.

In one video, two Navy pilots tracked an unidentified object flying off the East Coast in 2015.
“Wow! What is that, man? Look at that flying!” one of the pilots said in the clip.


In another instance, an object called the “Tic Tac” ― because it was shaped like the candy ― was spotted descending from 60,000 feet to 50 feet in a matter of seconds off the coast of California in 2004. One pilot described a disturbance up to the size of a football field in the water at the same time.

And in a 2014 incident, a U.S. Navy Super Hornet pilot almost collided with an unidentified flying object during a mission near Virginia Beach.

Although the Defense Department had no comment about the videos at the time, Luis Elizondo, the former military intelligence official who led a government UFO program, said there was even more information out there that the public has not yet seen.

“My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” Elizondo, who is now part of the TTS Academy, told CNN in 2017.
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much more at the link - makes me wonder - Edvac's been MIA for awhile - was he taken - or - was he called home???
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The US government warns people against using conditioner after a nuclear explosion. It could trap radiation in your hair.

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Nuclear explosions afford people little time to seek shelter. Within about a tenth of a second after an explosion, the sky is overtaken by a brilliant flash of light and a giant orange fireball. The blast also emits shockwaves that can topple buildings, along with sweltering temperatures that can burn skin and ignite fires.

Those closest to the bomb face death, while people up to 5 miles away could endure third-degree burns. Even those up to 53 miles away could experience temporary blindness
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I dunno............
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I'm thinkin' pretty much after something like that the last thing I'm going to be thinking about it washing my hair.
 
wader said:
The US government warns people against using conditioner after a nuclear explosion. It could trap radiation in your hair.

:oops:

Nuclear explosions afford people little time to seek shelter. Within about a tenth of a second after an explosion, the sky is overtaken by a brilliant flash of light and a giant orange fireball. The blast also emits shockwaves that can topple buildings, along with sweltering temperatures that can burn skin and ignite fires.

Those closest to the bomb face death, while people up to 5 miles away could endure third-degree burns. Even those up to 53 miles away could experience temporary blindness
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I dunno............
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I'm thinkin' pretty much after something like that the last thing I'm going to be thinking about it washing my hair.
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If this happens, I hope it lands right on my head.
 
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