Victims of an unforgiving one-two punch from superstorm Sandy and a nor’easter that both hit New York’s Staten Island say FEMA has forgotten them.
Already without power for more than a week in the wake of Sandy, hard-hit residents of the borough’s South Shore braved a winter storm Wednesday night, with many — perhaps hundreds — huddling in condemned homes and ignoring orders to evacuate out of fear looters would take what little Mother Nature has left them.
“FEMA packed up everything yesterday and left the area,” said MaryLou Wong, whose home in the Midland Beach neighborhood was destroyed. “They haven’t come back.”
A billboard that will be placed outside Nevada public schools is sure to make for interesting Thanksgiving dinner conversation, that is, if kids let the turkey make it to the table.
PETA plans to place a billboard that reads, “KIDS: If you wouldn’t eat your dog, why eat a turkey? Go vegan,” with a picture of a dog head on a turkey body, near Reno public schools.
Did they really think this through? Ok let’s try the converse to see if somehow these issues are similar. Would you get a pet turkey? OF COURSE NOT! Turkeys make lousy pets. The wild ones are either skittish or downright aggressive, the domesticated ones are stupid, and again still can be aggressive. They aren’t cute, they aren’t particularly cuddly. Sorry they aren’t at all like dogs.
Now would you EAT your dog? Well President Obama sure did! **snicker** Now if I had a pet dog would I eat it? Probably not, as pets are kept for companionship, not for food. Certainly I wouldn’t mind eating a food dog. You might not be surprised by my header, I’ve raised ducks as a child. Their poop is horrible, but they’re kinda neat pets. I kinda prefer them to be “wild pets”, they swim in the pond, I go and visit them, and they take care of their own food and poop, and I don’t get to pat them as much….fair trade I guess.
You know what else ducks are good for? DUCK MEAT! Duck meat is FANTASTIC, and I eat it every chance I get.
Lee County Sheriff’s officials say a 20-month-old girl is dead after her mother accidentally backed over her with the family car….The newspaper says the child’s 24-year-old mother was backing the car out of the home’s driveway while Meyah and her 5-year-old sibling were playing outside. Investigators believe the toddler saw her mother’s car and walked behind it, unbeknownst to the mother.
Of course when an accident happens with a gun, those who use “Gun Death” to further their agenda break out the dancing shoes. Meanwhile with sad stories like this? NOTHING. Only “Gun Death” counts.
A protest at the University of Mississippi against the re-election of President Barack Obama grew into crowd of about 400 people with shouted racial slurs as rumors of a riot spread on social media. Two people were arrested on minor charges.
The university said in a statement Wednesday that the gathering at the student union began late Tuesday night with about 30 to 40 students, but grew within 20 minutes as word spread. Some students chanted political slogans while others used derogatory racial statements and profanity, the statement said.
Peckerwoods still exist, and they’re still dangerous.
About 700 people held up candles outside the administrative building at the University of Mississippi, countering Tuesday’s protest over President Barack Obama’s re-election.
A captive-bred Goffin’s cockatoo has surprised researchers by spontaneously making and using “tools” to reach food.
The species is not known to use tools in the wild.
Researchers in Austria recorded the cockatoo – named Figaro – repeatedly breaking off splinters from a wooden beam and using them to reach nuts on the other side of his wire enclosure.
The team believe Figaro’s feat is the first recorded instance of tool-making among parrots….”No-one has ever reported [a parrot] sculpturing a tool out of shapeless wood in order to use it later with great sophistication,” said Professor Alex Kacelnik of Oxford University, an author of the study.
While birds from the corvid family, such as New Caledonian crows, are known to make tools in the wild, this specialised ability is very rarely reported in other bird species.
Researchers were unexpectedly alerted to Figaro’s tool-using ability while he was playing with a pebble and accidentally dropped it out of reach on the other side of his wire mesh enclosure.
After some unsuccessful attempts to reach his toy with his claw, Figaro used a stick from the aviary floor to try to fish for the object, levering it with his beak.
What I want to know is when he builds the perfect splinter-lever from the board, if he saves it for future use. Watch the video, its neat!
Steven Gleason said he still doesn’t know what provoked the attack that killed his younger brother in a St. Cloud alley, even after sitting Tuesday in a Stearns County courtroom where a teenager was formally accused of killing Colton Gleason, 20.
A juvenile petition filed in Stearns County District Court alleges that 17-year-old Jesse J. Smithers punched Colton Gleason of Greenfield on Thursday, causing him to hit his head on the ground.
Smithers is accused of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault.
Smithers remains jailed while the county attorney’s office seeks to have him certified to be prosecuted as an adult.
Now these attacks are so deadly because they are completely random. Somebody attempts to punch out an unaware stranger it can VERY easily turn deadly, as the victim has no time to react or defend themselves.
Still I must think about the deadly force angle. A person was MURDERED with a single punch. The person who threw the punch shows motive, opportunity, and ill-will. SHOOT THE BASTARD! Not only can you not trust these monsters while they’re still standing, this is most likely a gang initiation, and when a few of the plebes get sent to the morgue maybe they will stick to killing each other rather than “civilians”.
Just got back from the theater where I saw the latest Bond film.
As you might know, I’m a serious Bond junkie. I’ll make this review spoiler-free and just talk about the style points on this installment.
First up, this is a big recommend. Now I’ll start by saying the Daniel Craig Casino Royal is my #1 favorite Bond film. Its gritty, dark, and Bond is not a suave “Gentleman Spy” as in the previous films, but the Brutal and Brutish assassin who depends more on his wile and strength vs. Charm and gadgets embraced by Hollywood. I think this Bond is more true to Flemming than anything else. I will also say the following film Quantum of Solace was the WORST Bond film ever made, even eclipsing The World is Not Enough in its horribleness.
Skyfall is not the best, but its damn good and worth your time.
So for style points. Again Bond is brutal and gritty, getting injured in his battles, getting dirty and disevaled, and showing that he is indeed a human. Tough, and smart, but still human. Love it.
Also the main theme is right up there with many of the classics:
Also Awesome.
Javier Bardem is one of the better Bond Villains. He’s larger-than-life, without being comical like some Bond villains managed to be.
I wasn’t a huge fan that a Bond film set in a modern setting would still have him dragging along the Walther PPK, sorry that was the covert/concealed carry gun of my Father’s generation. Today’s Bond would be carrying a double-stack gun, especially after all the firefights he gets his ass in. Also the hammer on the Walther was often back when it should be down, only gunnies will be annoyed by that, but I’m a gunnie, and that annoyed me!
Product placement was a bit over the top in this one. OK I can see the Jaguar, Audi, and Aston Martin cars, and the McCallen Scotch, but Volkswagon and Heineken Beer? Distracting!
Now there were a lot of cool looks at human issues like mortality, and Bond spend much of the first act drunk, disheveled, unshaven, and popping pills. Still you can portray 007 as an alcoholic and a pill junkie, but his iconic chain-smoking from the early films and books are too politically incorrect? Fuck you PC Police!
Despite assumptions to the contrary, a basement is no place for a few thousands rats and mice. After learning that as many as 10,000 rodents perished in the basement of a research center run by NYU Langone Medical Center during Hurricane Sandy earlier this week, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the US National Institutes of Health to investigate the hospital for failing to ensure the safety of the furry little creatures.
The reason the drowning of these rodents made headlines, by the way, is because they were being used for research for studying heart disease, cancer, autism and schizophrenia, among other ailments. And they were reportedly carefully bred, which made them quite valuable. But the NYU hospital, which is located on the east side of midtown Manhattan, thought its basement could withstand surges 20 percent higher than what occurred historically
And PETA believes NYU was negligent. “It appears that even though it had ample notice, NYU may not have had or executed an adequate disaster preparedness plan for animals in its laboratories, as required by federal animal welfare policy,” the group wrote in a letter yesterday to Patricia Brown, who heads the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. And PETA believes many of the rodents were used in research funded by the NIH.
This probe won’t go anywhere, as we all know the hospital did all in its power to prevent this disaster, and even if you want to play devil’s advocate and claim the researchers didn’t care at all (which is bullshit), this disaster set back the research, and funding Months, if not years, and probably will cost a lot of money, even with insurance.
Still the big point is “why were the animals in the basement?” Easy, so they were out of sight, and therefore out of the cross-hairs by militant animal rights advocates like Peta, ELF, and ALF. I’ve worked in several animal husbandry labs, and in my career interviewed with even more. They’re all behind locked doors, they’re all hidden from public view, and they do all they can to keep things a secret. Also most of them have disclaimers you have to sign to make sure you have never worked for those groups because they’ve gone so far as to plant moles in facilities.
Sorry Anti-Science extremists, but the blood of those animals are on your hands!
