Kilo Bravo and I purchased a pet bed for our cat. After she used it for a couple of weeks her fur was falling out in chuncks. We shitcanned the bed and now she is fine. Like everything else the bed was made in China.
A French retailer has withdrawn from sale Chinese-made sofas and armchairs after hundreds of buyers said they developed a painful rash from them, Agence France-Presse reported.
Isabelle Hoppenot, spokeswoman for the French retailer Conforama, said the company removed the items in July after a doctor warned they could be linked to an eczema outbreak in one of his patients. The retailer has sold the sofas and chairs since 2005.
Hoppenot said some of the furniture, made by Chinese company Link Wise, contained too much of an anti-mold substance that may cause an allergic reaction in some people.
French newspaper Le Parisien said a dozen people had been hospitalized in serious condition after buying the chairs, AFP reported.
Conforama has received complaints from 400 customers seeking damages. Eight hundred buyers have been given a refund or an exchange, Hoppenot said.
MICHELLE Obama, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, has made People magazine's list of the year's top ten best-dressed women.
"Politics may be tougher than ever, but Obama has wowed along the campaign trail with confidence, in polished looks that bring to mind a famous former first lady," wrote People in an apparent reference to Jacqueline Kennedy.
At 44, the tall, athletic former lawyer was the most senior woman on the magazine's annual list.
"Sticking mainly to favorite hometown designers like Maria Pinto, who crafted her sleek purple sheath, Obama has also tried new looks by Isabel Toledo and jeweller Tom Binns for campaign fund-raisers," the magazine wrote.
The list also includes Barbados-born singer Rihanna, pop star Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas and Oscar winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Charlize Theron, as well as the star of Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker.
BELMONT, NC (WBTV) - The 911 dispatchers in Gaston County took a bizarre call about a cat stuck in a toilet this weekend.
The cat has never been a problem until Sunday. Klassette was in the kitchen and heard Charlie squealing. The sound was coming from the bathroom. The cat's back legs were stuck in the drain.
"He was splashing water everywhere," she said. Klassette tried everything to get the feline loose. "I thought he was just sitting there but when I went to pick him up he wouldn't move," she said.
She picked up the phone and called 911. The fire department arrived in five minutes. They used hammers to break the toilet bowl.
"They had to either bust the toilet or break his legs," Klassette said. In about 15 minutes, Charlie was free.
Klassette isn't sure whether her 3-year-old son William tried to flush Charlie or if the feline was trying to drink water from the bowl. Next time, Klassette says she'll leave the cover down. "He's a miracle cat," she said. "I thought he was a goner."
The family rescued the stray a short time ago and never intended to keep him. Charlie the cat is up for adoption and looking for a good home. Belmont is a nifty little city in the hills back of Charlotte. I lived there for a couple of months in 1973. My friend Ken and I had decided to do the Jack Kerouac thing and wander around the country when we got out of the army. We ended up there, flat broke. I mentioned this unpleasant fact to him. He said, "Gee, maybe we should get jobs or something."
"Jobs?" I said.
"Sure, it's simple. You work some, nowhere near as hard as the army, and they give you money every Friday."
There was a thread finishing mill in nearby Mount Holly. It turned out there was a serious labor shortage in the area. We strolled into the personnel office, and came out employed on the nightshift. We planned to stay only long enough for our funds to be replenished, but we met a couple of girls from Marshall University in Kentucky who were there for the summer, and ended up staying till school started. It's true what they say about Kentucky women, especially a certain 5'0" redhead. (Hi Marsha, if you're reading this;)).
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Wouldn't have been easier to have closed the lid and flushed the toliet?
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How to wash a cat
1) Thoroughly clean the toilet.
2) Add the required amount of shampoo to the toilet water, and have both lids lifted.
3) Obtain the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.
4) In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids (you may need to stand on the lid so that he cannot escape).
CAUTION: Do not get any part of your body too close to the edge, as his paws will be reaching out for any thing they can find.
5) Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a "power wash and rinse" which I have found to be quite effective.
6) Have someone open the door to the outside and ensure that there are no people between the toilet and the outside door.
7) Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.
9) The now-clean cat will rocket out of the toilet, and run outside where he will dry himself.
With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when ones logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy- driven denial, the Democratic party serves them well."
-- Ted Nugent
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Geez Ted, don't you know how to make a political statement?!
You have to make a semi-coherent rant and scream profanities and doom-laced predictions! You have to assert fantastic claims, then when asked to reinforce it with facts, freak out and yell "conspiracy", "Nazi Stormtroopers", "Racism", or something like that. Nobody's gonna listen to a rational person.
Jeesh!
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I call time out. The story says this kid was holding the fish while he was taking a leak then the fish slipped out of his hand and fell into his penis. I'm pretty sure I speak for all males when I say we point that think downward. Nothing call 'fall in'.
This kid was 'experimenting'.
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That's what I'd tell my mother.
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That's prolly the kind of lame-ass story I'd make up if I stuck a fish up my junk and lost it.
As rumors swirl around campus about whom might be protesting on campus during the debate, the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan confirmed they will be here, but not as demonstrators.
The Klansmen will be "invisible," trying to blend in just as anyone else, the emperor of the MWK said in an e-mail. The emperor wrote, "The Mississippi White Knights will have officers and Klansmen on hand for the presidential debate on September 26, 2008. Our people will be in Oxford and on the campus 'invisible.' That means our people won't be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you'll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.
"Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions about the Mississippi White Knights. "....not that we'll answer them or anything. (see below)"
'NON SILBA SED ANTHAR'
Emperor, Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan."
The e-mail came from the address, emperor@mississippiwhiteknights.com, but the sender would not identify himself nor respond to more questions.
The Latin words, "Non silba sed anthar," translate to: "Not for oneself but for others," a motto the Klan has used since the 19th century.
Executive assistant to the Chancellor Andy Mullins heard the rumors three weeks ago but said Thursday that no one had applied for a permit to demonstrate.
However, groups who want to protest on debate day will not have to apply for permits with the university, Vice Chancellor for University Relations Gloria Kellum, said. The U.S. Secret Service has designated the band practice field behind the Music Building, formally Scruggs Hall, for those who want to stage protests, Kellum said.
The university is entirely a "free-speech zone," but people are encouraged to go to "speakers corners" to talk, university attorney Lee Tyner said. The corners are located at the flagpole in the Circle and in the area between the Union and the Grove.
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So there is no story here other than the media whipped up a Klan boogey man. They didn't pull permits, they won't be demonstrating, and we don't even know how many followers (if any) this guy has. But the invisible boogeyman will be there. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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Sooo, if I'm reading this correctly, there's going to be some racists there, but they won't be telling anyome they are?
Same could be said for just about any meeting anywhere. Hell, I bet Obama has given speeches at union meetings with more racists.
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Really, really off topic, ----
Betty -- I just want to be sure -- that you get credit for that dropping of the ATodd bomb comment yesterday!
The other day in CO -- Sarah used some sentence in which she said, "guys and gals," the audience responded loudly to that.
Now, the guys have Sarah, the gals have First Dude. He really doesn't like First Dude, Greta questioned him pretty good on that, wants Todd -- he ain't gonna git his wish!
Kutubuddin Ansari, whose photograph was seen around the world following the Godhra riots, has expressed his anger that it was used to justify the weekend blasts in Delhi. A photograph of helpless and ravaged Ansari, pleading with folded hands and tearful expression, was a shocking representation of the genocide and abuse the minority experienced in the riots. But the recent blasts bring back bitter memories of the Gujarat riot. The terror mail shot off just before the weekend blasts in Delhi by Indian Mujahideen and titled "An Eye for an Eye" carried the photograph of Ansari to support its message of revenge.
Ansari has expressed his anger at his photograph being used to send across a message of revenge which he opposes strongly. Ansari told TOI that he has been insisting on peace and wants to promote communal harmony. Ansari said that he doesnt know how to stop terrorists from using his photograph. He also wondered why his photograph was used by politicians to appeal the Muslim community in the Bihar assembly.
Ansari became famous because of the photograph, as the West Bengal government subsequently helped him by buying him four sewing machines to earn his livelihood.
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"The company said we aren't going to give you any time to pray, but this is a free country," said Ahmed Abdi, a spokesman for the largely Somalian group, who formerly worked at the plant. "We are Muslim and this country is about freedom."
I think he missed the part about freedom to do what you want on your own time, not on the company's time.
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They don't quite get the freedom thingy do they? Well its a new concept, being muslim and all. I hope swift gives them a little "foot meets ass" and solves the whole damned thing. I bet they'd want to talk reasonable if a couple bus loads of mexicans showed up on monday morning.
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They don't quite get the freedom thingy do they?
In talking to some immigrants, I've discovered that their idea of "freedom" is the freedom to do whatever they want, in the sense of winning every political dispute and doing things that cost other people in terms of money and inconvenience. In other words, if they don't get their way on Israel, we're not free. If they can't hawk up a loogie and spit it on the sidewalk without dirty looks, we're racist.
The University of Rochester is a major private university. It's noted for its medical center and research, a well-funded laser lab, and research into controlled nuclear fusion. This is a huge opportunity for our veterans.
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Good catch, Chuck, I posted this on our NY Gathering of Eagles website.
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well done U of R and Chuck for catching it!
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Smart move. I suspect the increase in alumni donations will more than offset the lost tuition. Unlike other schools that flip off ROTC and PO alums.
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Heh. You also understand they're in the lead to capture the elusive adult male to repopulate their campus. There's nervousness in academia because of the disproportional number of women [after decades of rants of 'unfair' and 'discrimination']. Universities and colleges are starting to look bad [and for good reason]. What better source of 'recruiting' not only males, but males with discipline and focus.
Hurricane Ike appears to have damaged about 10 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, US officials said Sunday, raising concerns that the storm could hurt oil production and lead to a spike in prices at US gas stations.
Eileen Angelico, a spokeswoman with the US Mineral Management Service (MMS), told AFP that officials were only able to make a rough estimate of the number of damaged platforms based on "flyovers" of the area, which has some 3,800 oil platforms.
"We expect (the number of) damaged platforms to be around 10," she said, adding that the reports of damage at this point are "preliminary." "We don't know yet the extent of this damage," she said.
The MMS said that Hurricane Katrina in 2005 ravaged 44 platforms, while Hurricane Rita which struck the Gulf Coast oil installations later that same year damaged 64 platforms.
Ike hammered the oil hub early Saturday, apparently impairing US oil production as it stranded thousands of people and caused billions of dollars in damage.
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That must have been the East Tennessee Ten that got damaged. that would explain why the price of gas went up here about $1.50 /gal the day before Ike made landfall.
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Ike destroyed about 28 platforms - 10 of our company alone. But they were all older facilities with fairly modest production - perhaps 1000 barrels per day per platform, average. It is likely this production is permanently lost however, because the total reserves still potentially recoverable in those reservoirs are not sufficient to pay for expensive new platforms and wells.
Three drilling rigs were destroyed and several others severely damaged.
At least one pipeline was damaged, but many more must be tested before they can be put on production again. Fields off eastern Louisiana mostly had only minor damage and are being restored to production - this oil should start reaching shore in a week or so. It will take longer to assess damage and make repairs to the platforms and pipelines off western Louisiana though.
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BrerRabbit,
Check the 'Colonial Pipeline' to understand more about why shortages (and price hikes) were where they were/are. It collects refined products from plants along the Gulf Coast and transports them up through Georgia and the Carolinas, with branches to Chattanooga and Knoxville. Gustav cut power to a number of the pumping stations and just as it was getting back on line Ike took the supplying refineries off (as well as cutting pump power again). I don't know if it is back on line yet (certainly the western part is not, but feed-ins from some Mississippi River plants may be underway.) Combine that with a large surge in demand from evacuating people. Add in the fact that the distributors were drawing down their more expensive summer blend stocks to make room for the winter blends (which were just starting to come in) and you are guaranteed spot shortages. Add in panic buying and you get widespread outages (understand that the total storage volume of refined gasoline in the entire system is less than the empty space in America's vehicle's gas tanks under normal conditions - or so I have been told).
I know of one distributor in East Tennessee who was low but not out and had set their sales price at $4.99. After being threatened with gouging prosecutions they dropped it to $4.49, sold out in hours, and closed down indefinitely. So customers who got the gas are less unhappy, but others who did not can't even get to work now, and people who were on vacation sit stranded - they would have been less unhappy to have paid the $4.99. So it goes. Should shake out in a few more weeks, I believe.
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.
A French retailer has withdrawn from sale Chinese-made sofas and armchairs after hundreds of buyers said they developed a painful rash from them, Agence France-Presse reported.
As rumors swirl around campus about whom might be protesting on campus during the debate, the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan confirmed they will be here, but not as demonstrators.
Hurricane Ike appears to have damaged about 10 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, US officials said Sunday, raising concerns that the storm could hurt oil production and lead to a spike in prices at US gas stations.
