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Tokyo Games may be too big a gamble, disease expert says | amNewYork

As embattled Tokyo Olympics organizers enter the final six months of preparations for the delayed Games on Saturday, virus experts believe hosting the world's
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Couldn't have happen to a more deserving country.
I have nothing against the People of Japan, but the lying Government over there I have no respect for.
It was funny how they had almost " no Corona" until they postponed the Oympics, then it was a majot outbreak.
 
jpd said:
This is a bizarre story, it appears she was sleeping with the fishes for almost 32 years.
If you're paywall blocked right-click and open incognito.

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Missing mother Brenda Kerber's case tied to car pulled from Muscoot Reservoir

The case of Kerber, who went missing in 1989, is connected to the vehicle pulled from the Muscoot Reservoir.
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There was a story out of Florida where a guy was using a drone to take vids of his neighborhood and noticed something in the local ditch filled with water. Turned out to be a car with a body of a guy who was reported missing from the '80s or '90s.
 
DarthBaiter said:
There was a story out of Florida where a guy was using a drone to take vids of his neighborhood and noticed something in the local ditch filled with water. Turned out to be a car with a body of a guy who was reported missing from the '80s or '90s.
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I lost a freind who was a passenger when the driver dozed off @ the wheel and drove into a ditch. Got himself out, but couldn't get my freind out. No alcohol or drugs involved.
 
I heard that the kids quickly named him "Wiley". After being apprehended an frisked, he was not carrying any ACME devices...

Coyote captured after sneaking into South Carolina elementary school during morning drop off​


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Moncks Corner, SC (FOX Carolina) - A South Carolina school had an unexpected visitor Thursday morning when a coyote slipped in during morning drop off.

We're told it all happened at Cane Bay Elementary School in Berkley County.

The sheriff's office says the coyote, nicknamed Wiley by the deputies that captured him, was quickly taken into custody thanks to the swift actions by school's staff and law enforcement.

Wiley was captured in the school bathroom without any incident to students or faculty members.

Deputies say he was turned over to the custody of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources unharmed.

Coyote in SC school

(Source: Cane Bay Cat Facebook Page)
 
I wonder if he called his doctor regarding an erection lasting longer than 4 hours???

A Surprise in a 50 Million-Year-Old Assassin Bug Fossil: Its Genitals​

Scientists were surprised to find the insect’s preserved penis, which suggests it was an unknown species.

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Two views of a fossil recovered from Colorado of a new genus and species of predatory insect known as assassin bugs, Aphelicophontes danjuddi. A small beetle was also fossilized with the specimen. Credit... Palaeontological Association

The exclusive club of fossilized phalluses has a new member.

The latest addition is the sexual organ of a 50-million-year-old assassin bug. Some well-placed sediments and the protective powers of a prehistoric jock strap preserved his penis, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Papers in Paleontology.

The exquisite preservation of the fossil, which represents an undescribed species, is “extraordinary,” said Daniel Swanson, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the paper’s lead author. Running about the length of an aspirin tablet from head to bottom, the bug would have been full of soft innards and “easy to squish,” he said. And yet, it persevered, delicate genital tissues and all.

The specimens described in the paper “blew me away,” said Katy Estes-Smargiassi, the collections manager of invertebrate paleontology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, who was not involved in the study. “They’re just incredible.”

Assassin bugs, which belong to an insect family called Reduviidae, date at least as far back as the Jurassic. In the eons since, the group has splintered substantially, with more than 7,000 known species still around. Most are ambush predators, and a number of the family’s modern members are vectors of Chagas disease, a tropical parasitic illness that spreads when the bugs sip the blood of sleeping humans, then defecate near the wound.
 
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‘Gondor has no king’: pro-Trump lawsuit cites Lord of the Rings

Texas case offers baseless mix of allegations of electoral fraud but cites the imaginary kingdom of Gondor as evidence Donald Trump in Circleville, Ohio, on 24 October 2020. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump’s diehard supporters are often accused of living in fantasyland, but...
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Donald Trump’s diehard supporters are often accused of living in fantasyland, but one court case recently launched to try to reinstall him as president has surprised even the most hardened observers of Trumpian strangeness by citing as evidence a mythological realm from The Lord of the Rings.

“Gondor has no king,” the lawsuit states, a footnote providing an explanation of the woeful fate of Tolkien’s entirely imaginary land populated by dragons, wizards, hobbits and elves, all threatened by a baleful Dark Lord backed up by an army of orcs and with famously little time for due democratic process.

“This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington DC a group of individuals calling themselves the president, vice-president and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American people,” the case states.

It adds: “Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as ‘Aragorn’, occurred at the end of the story.”

The lawsuit then suggests that America’s version of the stewards of Gondor should be selected from among – surprise, surprise – Trump’s cabinet members, who should run the country.
 
wader said:
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‘Gondor has no king’: pro-Trump lawsuit cites Lord of the Rings

Texas case offers baseless mix of allegations of electoral fraud but cites the imaginary kingdom of Gondor as evidence Donald Trump in Circleville, Ohio, on 24 October 2020. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump’s diehard supporters are often accused of living in fantasyland, but...
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Donald Trump’s diehard supporters are often accused of living in fantasyland, but one court case recently launched to try to reinstall him as president has surprised even the most hardened observers of Trumpian strangeness by citing as evidence a mythological realm from The Lord of the Rings.

“Gondor has no king,” the lawsuit states, a footnote providing an explanation of the woeful fate of Tolkien’s entirely imaginary land populated by dragons, wizards, hobbits and elves, all threatened by a baleful Dark Lord backed up by an army of orcs and with famously little time for due democratic process.

“This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington DC a group of individuals calling themselves the president, vice-president and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American people,” the case states.

It adds: “Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as ‘Aragorn’, occurred at the end of the story.”

The lawsuit then suggests that America’s version of the stewards of Gondor should be selected from among – surprise, surprise – Trump’s cabinet members, who should run the country.
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