Police in Middletown arrested a woman Monday night who they said was dressed in a cow suit and seen acting erratically. "Outta the car and putcher hands on the roof, Bossie!"
Michelle Allen of Middletown was arrested on one count of disorderly conduct on accusations of getting in the way of traffic on Wilbraham Road and chasing children in her cow suit, NewsChannel5 sister station WCPO-TV in Cincinnati reported. She also urinated on a neighbor's front porch, police said. Wait'll they find the cow pie in the driveway!
According to officers, Allen talked back and threatened to cause problems in the jail if she was arrested. "The stall ain't been made that can hold me!"
Allen appeared in court Tuesday morning dressed in the suit. "Hi, yer honor! Want some milk?"
It is not clear why she was wearing the costume.
Instead of the fluffy little creatures seen today, these big birds boasted 'teeth', a 16ft wingspan and once flew over Britain.
Today, scientists announced the discovery of fossil skulls of these birds buried in clay on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It is not the first time fossils of these duck have been found, but the experts believe this find is among the best-preserved.
The enormous birds, known as Dasornis, soared over the wetlands of prehistoric southern England when the land which now covers London, Essex and Kent was underwater.
Related to present-day ducks and geese, 50 million years ago these giants once skimmed the waters, snapping up fish and squid with their bony-toothed beak. Their massive wingspan - the length of a family car - also meant they could cover huge distances. Dasornis was in many ways similar to the modern albatross.
Dr Gerald Mayr, from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, who described the find today in the journal Palaeontology, said: 'Imagine a bird like an ocean-going goose, almost the size of a small plane.
'By today's standards these were pretty bizarre animals, but perhaps the strangest thing about them is that they had sharp, tooth-like projections along the cutting edges of the beak. Like all living birds, Dasornis had a beak made of keratin, the same substance as our hair and fingernails, but it also had these bony "pseudo-teeth".
'No living birds have true teeth because their distant ancestors did away with them more than 100 million years ago, probably to save weight and make flying easier. But the bony-toothed birds, like Dasornis, are unique among birds in that they reinvented tooth-like structures by evolving these bony spikes.'
The fossil is in a collection at the Karlsruhe Natural History Museum, Germany.
There's a ticking time bomb underneath the oceans, and it's about to go off, some scientists say.
A Russian research ship trawling the Arctic off Siberia's northeastern coast has found huge amounts of methane bubbling up from the seafloor, according to reports in London's Independent newspaper and the Canadian Press wire service.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, trapping 20 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. While there's little of it in the atmosphere, there are gigantic frozen deposits of it, called methane clathrates, trapped in rocks in seabeds all over the world.
One of the leading global-warming doomsday scenarios involves all that methane thawing out as sea temperatures rise, then rushing to the surface and into the air, creating a runaway warming scenario.
Now there's some evidence that's beginning to happen.
"For the first time, we documented a field where the release was so intense that the methane did not have time to dissolve into the seawater but was rising as methane bubbles to the sea surface," Swedish researcher Orjan Gustafsson, aboard the Russian ship Jacob Smirnitskyi, told the Independent in an article published last week.
"It's a time bomb because, as the permafrost thaws — and we don't know how fast it will thaw — it's going to slowly and maybe catastrophically at some point, release all that methane that's trapped underneath as a solid," Marianne Douglas, head of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute, told the Canadian Press.
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When we're still here in 5 years, revoke all these ninnies' academic credentials and turn them out of their jobs. When we're still here in 10 years, banish them to their beloved shrinking (NOT) icecaps...
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Uh, isn't methane fuel? I think I have a solution...
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Methane has been bubbling up from the seafloor for years. In fact, that is one of the possible explanations for ships disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle. A large methane release will cause the buoyancy of the ship to plunge as the displacement effect collapses and it is like trying to sail a ship on air. Instant sinkage.
This means we have a right, nay a moral responsibility, to capture this nasty methane and burn it into CO2 which will make it only 1/20th as deadly for globular warmening.
#1
The financial shudders that we experience are nothing compared to what is happening in weaker markets. We catch cold, they go critical with pneumonia. Nancy's hurting the EU, Australia, OPEC, AU countries, China, Russia worse than she is hurting us. I saw yesterday that the dollar surged. In the midst of a financial hurricane, the dollar is one of the few lifeboats.
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I've been busy with work . . . .
Checking back, I see some rumblings about the Russian markets . . . . They closed today, they will open tomorrow as has happened in the past. No big deal.
As an aside, I caught a documentary about Litvinenko on TV yesterday (British?). The premise was that Putin is basically a criminal. The whole thing was made to be very depressing, except interview with Lugovoi. It was hillarious to see how Lugovoi was describing Po 210 and its properties denying that he had put it in Litvinenko's tea. Then he politely offered a cup of tea to the Bitish reporter. The poor guy almost choked there: "No, no, thank you!"
At the end they mentioned that sometime before he died, Litvinenko converted to Islam. They explained that he was trying to unify religions or something like that. He probably was not rational by then.
P.S. Interestingly, they showed Berezovsky at his funeral in London.
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The premise was that Putin is basically a criminal.
Ya because killing journalist, shutting down dissent and seizing companies is such a good thing, right? Damm commies, God as a special plan for you though, Ezekiel 38/39, Rosh/Magog. Coming soon in your future.
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Thank you. Now, what are REOs (other than speedwagons) and ATVs, and what is the significance of a change in Adjustable rate Mortgage? They didn't explain this in Econ 105 thirty years ago.
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Sorry, couldn't resist. REO is "Real Estate Owned". Basically the bank owns it now.
LTV is Loan-to-Value: a ratio of the loan amount to the value of the house. (Lower is better.)
ARMs adjust. It is what they do. However many loan originators were qualifying people for a loan based on a) a possibly inflated appraisal of a home's worth and b) there ability to squeeze into a payment at a low, initial interest rate. The hope--and I consider it a "hope"--is that the value of the property would increase, and so would the purchaser's ability to pay. In many cases, when the rate adjusted upward, the buyers were not able to make the new payments. In many cases they also couldn't refinance out since they suddenly discovered there house worth less than they thought up front.
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When did they change it from Other Real Estate Owned, i.e. real estate the bank had foreclosed on as opposed to the branches and building the bank owned to conduct its business, the true Real Estate Owned? Were they worried calling it OREO would confuse it with someonething else?
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Just one more reason why I haven't watched an NBA game since 1998. I used to be a big fan, but I got tired of all the rapists, drug thugs, bad actors and fixed games.
Too late, NBA. You're done as far as I'm concerned. Stick a fork in yourself.
#1
The bar owner seems like a typical liberal piece of foulmouthed trash. Think a minor-league Larry Flynt and you've got the idea. He admits he painted the picture of Palin using his adult daughter as the nude model.
I'm fairly certain that not ALL Democrat Party members are criminals and perverts. The problem is that all of them I encounter are one or the other, or both. It's truly worrisome to think there are so many depraved people in the U.S.
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Let's see if he helps or hurts the Palin vote in Chicago. My guess is that some of the bums will vote for her. Can't help themselves. Probably good for business, though. Makes me rethink our libel laws for public figures.
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Look at the picture, it's not exactly what I'd call a masterpiece.
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 Russian research ship trawling the Arctic off Siberia's northeastern coast has found huge amounts of methane bubbling up from the seafloor, according to reports in London's Independent newspaper and the Canadian Press wire service.
