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MUSKEGO - A local news station's truck was pulled from a lake Tuesday, nearly two days after becoming partially submerged in ice and mud. After five hours of work, recovery efforts were called off Monday because the CBS 58 (WDJT) van was stuck in a lot of mud.
Work will resume Tuesday morning when crews return with special gear. In the meantime, a lot of onlookers have been flocking to the odd scene at Big Muskego Lake. Say, Clem. Ya think this here's a metaphor fer the current state of the eeelectronic mass medidia?
Aaaayup...
Jim Konkol has been coming to the lake most of his life and was shocked to hear someone drove on the frozen canal. "They probably didn't know about it. It looks like a road, but it's not," Konkol told TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Jonathan Vigliotti. Dozens of other people watched in disbelief. ...and them there city folk always be pickin on us. Well, not today.
"Well, it says 'boat launch' over there. This is where you always access the boat when you go on the lake," said Muskego resident Tracy Blair. Yah, ya dumbass city folk! Caint yall read none!
Recovery crews have been working since Sunday night. Monday morning they carved out hundreds of feet of ice to make a path to tow the truck. That's when they found another problem. "This van is in some real silt. That van is in two and a half to three feet of silt at least," said Kristopher Mageske with KEM Underground Recovery. The water also froze inside. The mess happened while a photographer with CBS 58 was covering a story on the dangers of thin ice. She didn't realize she was driving down an frozen canal. Ya know, Chuck if this was, like, thin ice, I'd really be....
Police were keeping an eye on the area until efforts resumed again Tuesday morning. Channel 58 representatives have also been on scene. They say they're just glad no one was hurt. They'll also be glad when someone is unemployed. Estimated cost, 250 grand. Pics at the link.
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This is just the cold weather version of the on-the-scene reporter standing knee deep in surging floodwater while saying "Authorities warn against wading in floodwater".
DURHAM. N.C. - That cup of coffee just not getting it done anymore? How about a Buzz Donut or a Buzzed Bagel? That's what Doctor Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, has come up with. Bohannon says he's developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two cups of coffee. So a cup of coffee and a doughnut will now equal 3 cups of coffee. Next we'll have de-caff doughnuts.
While the product is not on the market yet, Bohannon has approached some heavyweight companies, including Krispy Kreme, Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks about carrying it.
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HOMER SIMPSON twiddling fingers in nervous uncertainty > "But, Marge, Donuts are so delicious and crinkly sweet... ... Donuts, is there anything they can't do".
TAMPA - You probably see ice just about everydaybut not in a big block that has fallen from the sky and totaled a parked car. But it happened on Hilldrop Court in Town 'n Country around 9:30 Sunday morning.
Neighbors woke up to something they never thought theyd see. Came out to find a large piece of ice sitting on the car, and ice all over the place, said neighbor John Young. The damaged car, a Ford Mustang, belongs to Carlos Javages son. He left the car here overnight, and they called him to tell him a piece of ice had totaled his car, and I told him, hes crazy, Javage said.
Police say they checked with air traffic control to see if any planes were flying in the area when the ice hit the car. But their investigation shows there were none. So that leaves the questionwhat happened? Were guessing an airplane, or some weird meteorological phenomenon, said neighbor John Young.
Ramon Rodriguez was the only one on the block who was there when the ice hit. I was in the driveway when I heard a loud noise, Rodriguez said, in Spanish, through a translator. Then I looked over and saw the windshield was smashed, he said. Neighbors estimate the block weighed at least fifty pounds. Rodriguez says he has no idea where the ice came from, but he definitely heard it fall.
As difficult as this spectacle is to believe, its not the first time something like this has happened. Just one week earlier, two homes were damaged by planes dropping ice. The first was in Philadelphia; the other in San Diego. In all three incidents, no one was injured.
A PERTH psychologist says forcing a patient to wear a dog collar and call him master is well within his profession's ethical guidelines. Bruce Alistair Beaton, 64, of Fremantle, was giving evidence at his Western Australia District Court trial for indecently assaulting the 22-year-old woman between January and March 2005. He has pleaded not guilty to four counts of indecent assault and one of aggravated sexual penetration.
Mr Beaton was arrested when police burst into his office in March 2005, after hearing whipping sounds while they secretly video recorded one of his treatment sessions with the now 24-year-old woman.
Mr Beaton told the court he had resorted to drastic treatment with his vulnerable, bulimic patient because gentle methods were not working because she was involved in violent relationships. He said he thought role playing a master/submissive relationship would help - so he made her wear a dog collar, call him master and cracked a whip in treatment sessions in order to build a more trusting relationship.
Mr Beaton said his drastic treatment was allowed by the Australian Psychological Society. "It is right within the ethical guidelines," Mr Beaton told the court. "I am not saying it would be alright if I hit her. I did not hit her."
The jury has watched the tape on which Mr Beaton is heard calling the woman his "delicious" submissive and she calls him "master". She is seen wearing a dog collar and heard swearing an oath to give him her body in order "to become a better person". Beaton gives her a pink cat-o'-nine tailed whip and it is heard, but not seen, cracking 12 times before police intervene.
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You always hurt the one you love
The one you shouldn't hurt at all
You always take the sweetest rose
And crush it till the petals fall
You always break the kindest heart
With a hasty word you can't recall
So If I broke your heart last night
It's because I love you most of all.
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I guess I was better off ethically being "date raped" by my Indian proctologist during my recent colonoscopy.
I got a nice set of complementary photos afterward, but was still creeped out when he startd whistling "Whistle while you work..."
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I hate the hand puppets and "who's your daddy!" thing Capsu..you too?
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#7: I couldn't be sure if I was dreaming or not, but for some reason I kept thinking I heard someone say "Hi, I'm Hank... We want you on our cellblock"
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To Shipman and all other Rantburgers:
Seriously, I have been labeled a big wimp, diagnosed with a very low threshold of pain, don't like doctors, dentists or their offices, would have done very poorly in the "Hanoi Hilton", but when it comes to this particular procedure, by all means get it done...
The prep day is worse than the actual event and the prep day is no worse than than the results of say, a bad chimichanga from an all night street vendor, if you get my drift.
You owe it to those that love you or at least put up with you. Find a buddy with the same reservations and make a "field trip" out of it if it makes you feel better. Just Git er done!
The prep day is worse than the actual event and the prep day is no worse than than the results of say, a bad chimichanga from an all night street vendor, if you get my drift.
Locally known as Vesuvius Sunday. Twicer a year... :>
She may end up with more flip-flops than John Kerry.
During her first visit as a presidential candidate to early-caucus state Iowa, Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke out strongly in favor of boosting the production of ethanol in the United States. But thats a complete turnaround from her earlier actions regarding the alternative fuel, which is made from corn and could provide a big boost to the economy of agricultural Iowa.
At a town hall meeting in Des Moines, the state capital, on January 27, Clinton said: "I believe weve got to take a strong stand on limiting our dependence on foreign oil. And we have a perfect example here in Iowa about how it can work with all of the ethanol thats being produced here.
According to an article in the Chicago Tribune cited in a release from the Republican National Committee, Clinton "took questions and spoke of boosting production of ethanol. And the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Clinton "genuflected before ethanol, which is big business in Iowa.
But as a Senator from New York, Clinton has voted at least 17 times against measures promoting ethanol production, the RNC noted.
But as a Senator from New York, Clinton has voted at least 17 times against measures promoting ethanol production, the RNC noted. During a question-and-answer session in 2004, Clinton was asked about "her outspoken opposition to legislation that would double the use of ethanol as a gasoline additive, the Des Moines Register reported at the time. "She was momentarily stumped by a question as to why she opposed the ethanol mandate, but then said she was concerned that it would raise gasoline prices for her constituents.
Clinton reportedly said: "I have to look to first protecting and supporting the needs of the people I represent right now. In 2002, Clinton even signed a letter that read in part: "There is no sound public policy reason for mandating the use of ethanol.
Its not surprising that Clinton would have a change of heart regarding ethanol when addressing Iowa voters, considering that the ethanol industry generates $2.49 billion in total sales back to local communities, according to the Iowa Corn Growers Association. Also, "more than 14,750 Iowa jobs are affected by ethanol, the Association notes, "including 2,550 directly related to ethanol production.
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I don't think Hillary knows squat about the details of ethanol use as a motor fuel, but then none of the other politicians (including W) know either. The MSM plays along with this political pandering by always omitting the key facts. On Jan. 17 the wholesale price of ethanol in Des Moines was $2.04. Ethanol only delivers 2/3 the energy of gasoline as a motor fuel, this would be like paying $3.10 wholesale for pure gasoline without ethanol, about $3.60 after fuel taxes are applied. Yesterday's price at the Murphy USA on the NE side of Des Moines was $1.89/gal, probably for 10% gasohol, it would have been cheaper if they left the ethanol out!
US ethanol production is made financially possible by a $0.54 a gallon tariff on imports. This had been set to expire in October, but our gracious Congress voted last month to extend it through 2009. (Hillary's record on this?) Congress also supports the industry by tax breaks to refiners & wholesalers.
I think the US would be better off by putting the same tariff on imported petroleum and letting the ethanol industry live or die on its own merits. This will not happen. For the next 17 months or so we will all have to suffer from this s*****y posing, reporting and analysis, from pols and newsmen alike.
At least the ethanol boondoggle is raising the price of corn for Iowa farmers...
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Why not drill for more Oil and increase your refining capabilities until you know what you are going to do? Everybody talks about alternative until the rubber meets the road and then they learn that it is just too expensive or inefficient. Don't even go into the subsidy game. That is one sure way to fail.
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Call the tariff a "war tax", raise it $1 a gallon every 2 years until it gets to $5. Use the funds to pay for the counter-jihad & all associated costs, like supporting a degree of energy independence, caring for the wounded, widows & orphans of the conflict. Not. Going. To. Happen.
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I've read that as part of their first 100 hours, the House donks have pushed a bill that is nothing more than a tax on domestic oil production.
Which side are they on again ?
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The cheap oil in the US has already been extracted. Now drilling for more domestic oil makes more sense the higher the price of imports becomes. Higher priced oil encourages consumers to find alternate ways to live their lives, and not just by using oil more efficiently.
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It's not just Iowa, either, there are several states with abundant grain production that stand to gain by investments in bio fuels. It's putting Americans to work doing what can be done to replace dependancy on lunatic Arabs. There's a lot more to be gained in bio fuels than in stem cell research.
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#11 - it's a boondoggle when tariffs and tax supports are essential to promote ethanol use & development. Let the industry sink or stand on its own. I can see the government investing tax money in research to make ethanol production more efficient and less costly, but not in articially propping up the entire industry.
If W's recent proposal to use alternative fuels actually happens, more than the entire US annual corn production will be used for ethanol production before his proposed goal is reached. The hitch there is than corn is needed for other uses also. Are we supposed to start importing corn so we can produce tariff-supported ethanol?
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One of the other results of higher corn prices means higher feed prices for livestock. Those higher prices will get passed on to the consumers in the form of higher prices for beef, pork, chicken, milk, cheese, and eggs as well as all corn-derived products. Cereals, corn meal,canned and frozen corn, all will increase in price. I'm not trying to deny corn farmers a decent price for corn , merely showing wahat a higher price means for the rest of us. This is nothing short of consumer subsidization of the ethanol industry.
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Plus, of course, to grow corn, you need OIL - lots of it. Fuel for farm machines, fertilizer, processing, etc. I haven't seen the figures of how much oil it takes to produce a gallon of ethanol, but I'll bet it's at least a good portion of a gallon.
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Anguper Hupomosing9418: I love the "war tax" idea. But use it to conquer, occupy and exploit all "Arab" and "Persian" oil fields. The tax vanishes as soon as the matter is in hand.
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#8 wx: "Which side are they on again?"
Hint: Not ours.
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We have the room to grow all the corn we need to make the ethanol we need to replace all the oil we need. (With about 30% to spare, if memory of the ol' Popular Mechanics article holds.)
What was a little hazy was how much diesel was used to plant, harvest and transport that corn to make that ethanol.
And we'd have to replace the oil imports with FOOD IMPORTS.
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The US will run out of corn well before it repolaces a sizable fraction of gaoline. The US used 140 billion gallons of gasoline in 2005 or 200 billion gallons of ethanol equivalent energy. Estimated 2006 ethanol production is 5 billion gallons using 20% of the corn crop. So 100% of the corn crops (25B gal) would only replace 12.5% of the gasoline used. But since Jan 2006, corn prices have increased from $2/bushel to $3/bushel. May 2007 corn futures are at $4/bushel. Great for farmers, terrible for consumers.
To top all that, almost at much fossil fuel energy goes into making ethanol as you get out of it. The net energy gain is 1.34 according to DoE, lower according to most research papers. For comparision, oil drilling to gasoline production energy balance is 15. Add in labor and capital and it's a losing proposition kept alive by tax subsidies and environmental laws.
Btw, Hilary loves ethanol. How you you think she got Bill?
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All I know is that the price of taccos in Mexico have gone up 30-60%. Which if you think about it is pretty funny.
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Species is only different if the DNA is not compatible. However, in situations like the Galapagos adaptations, you might end up with very different looking breeds that can still mate, or separate species.
There is a good possibility that these "Hobbits" could be either, created by the same "island effect" that results in "punctuated equilibrium", or adaptation to an environment in a small number of generations.
Traditions of such small people are extensive in the Pacific, even including the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where they were called "Menehana". The Menehana mythology comes across as odd, as mythologies go, as they are not seen as good or evil, or particularly magical, just "lucky". That is, the native Hawaiians had a realistic tradition about them, which is what you would expect if at some point they had actually known living Menehana.
In Bibical times in the Middle East, there were several legends of unusual type people. Goliath, who fought David, was alleged to be one of the last of a band of such giants, as was one king who ruled a nearby land.
Celebrity Big Brother star Jermaine Jackson hopes to convert brother Michael to Islam.
Jermaine told the BBC Asian Network that his Muslim faith helped him cope with life inside the Big Brother house.
"The Big Brother house"? Not the big house?
"If I didn't have Allah and my prayer rug, I would not have survived, and the reason why is because it kept me focused, it kept me calm," said the former Jackson Five singer, who now lives in Bahrain.
He woldn't have survived making a teevee show? Whudda delicate flower.
"Michael, I feel, needs to become a Muslim because I think it's a great protection for him from all the things that he's been attacked with, which are false. There's a strength and a protection there. I brought him a lot of books, and he reads everything and he reads a lot. I think he's probably given it serious thought because he's spent a lot of time in Bahrain. I was the reason why he had gone there because I wanted him to get out of America and just go somewhere peaceful and quiet, where people pray five times a day. It's a beautiful thing."
"And he really likes running around in a burka..."
Jermaine, who came second in the Channel 4 reality show, also denied branding Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd "white trash".
He said: "I didn't make that statement. I was repeating something that someone else had said and I was trying to let Shilpa know what some of the housemates felt was the reason why she was attacked. They didn't show who originally said it.
"I was raised no different from Michael and the rest of our family. We don't look down upon people because of their colour or anything. People are people to us. That's how we were raised, and I would never call anybody 'white trash' because it's just not right."
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Michael Jackson a Muslim? Given the leanings of the original prophet, then it's the PERFECT FIT. Why not take the lead of Cassius Clay and change his name to Mohammed Jackson as well?
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"I was raised no different from Michael and "We don't look down upon people because of their colour or anything. People are people to us."
yeah, right:
Nov 25, 2005 - ABCs Good Morning America on Tuesday broke a story about Michael Jackson that has received surprisingly little press. In a report about the pop stars finances, as well as his relationship with financial advisors, an audiotape was played of a telephone message Jackson left for a former business associate:
JACKSON: They suck - they're like leeches. I'm so tired of it. They start out the most popular person in the world, make a lot of money, big house, cars, and everything, end up with, penniless. It is conspiracy. The Jews do it on purpose.
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I dunno, he's kind of gray, with strange-looking skin... big eyes, but expressionless, kinda like a shark or a doll... no apparent nose or ears, not the kind you can easily see, anyway... no body hair... makes squeaky noises when he talks, and clearly isn't very familiar with what's considered normal life on this planet... Gawd, I think he might be an human- alien hybrid!
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tu3031, Dirk Bennedict rocks. The original Starbuck, Face from the old A-Team. Cancer survivor. If he's anything like the characters he plays he'd be a blast to have a beer with.
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My same thought, RJS. Dirk Benedict's the only name I recognized, besides Jermaine's.
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The only ones I recognize are Jermaine, Benedict, Leo Sayer, who did nauseating pop songs back in the 70's, and Donny Tourette, who I believe invented Tourette's Syndrome.
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I think it's surah 52:25 that promises little boys to Muhamhead's murderous islamics.
Jackson following the Pedophile for Profit makes sense. I bet the only think he can think about is children bending over 5 times a day. Trouble is that his Jesus Juice would be forbidden. But he can always fall back on Allah's Swine Sperm Beer.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
TAMPA - You probably see ice just about everydaybut not in a big block that has fallen from the sky and totaled a parked car. But it happened on Hilldrop Court in Town 'n Country around 9:30 Sunday morning.
