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http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c4#/video/offbeat/2013/01/26/ac-ridiculist-goat-takes-on-reporter.cnn I think they might need a little more finesse in dealing with the press. However- I'm quite sure it's not the first time someone being interviewed has felt like belting the reporter. Any comments from CJ???

Why is this mutt still employed? (FYI Rex Ryan- coach of the underachieving Jets 6-10)

R U Foxy?

I call it the Internut Exploiter.

That's one of those situations that I used to drink myself out of. Talking to someone is less destructive. Sometimes I use Tylenol PM or Advil PM. It takes the edge off and you can sleep.

I've played Diplomacy- and make a rather nasty English monarch.

Sorry Mike. Maybe you'll like this one better.

One of the most nasty and difficult to treat persistent infections is Lyme Disease. It is caused by bacteria spread by the deer tick. There really no sense in running away. The damn things are everywhere. the deer tick, geneus Ixodes the "bull eye" pattern that appears soon after a tick bite that is common in lyme cases Lyme disease is pretty nasty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease). It's not fatal but it is debilitating. For years doctors have wondered- why does lyme disease respond so well to anti-biotics sometimes and so poorly in other cases? Borrelia burgdorferi- this nasty little spirochete has a double membraned envelope. It is predominate in North America but is also present in Europe. The answer may well be that there are several infectious agents causing very similar disease. In the past six months two new infectious agents have been discovered that cause what has been diagnosed as Lyme disease BUT the infectious agent is something altogether different than the Borrelia bacteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrelia_burgdorferi) that causes the vast majority of Lyme disease cases. The Heartland Virus was identified in August 2012. It presents itself almost identically to Lyme disease (http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20120829/new-tick-borne-disease-heartland-virus). The latest discovery is an as yet unnamed febrile illness very similar to lyme disease but caused by Borrelia miyamotoi which is native to and first identified in central Russia. Of all the cases treated in the study, 3% of them turned out to be caused by the organism. (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255152.php) Hopefully the discovery that lyme disease may be caused by a spectrum of organisms will lead to better diagnostics and treatments. Ticks are very efficient vectors of zoonotic infections (diseases that pass from animals to man). They should be strenuously avoided. Should you get one, remove it as soon as possible without crushing the body of the tick. Its ability to transmit disease is proportional to how long it stays attached. If you are bitten and see the bullseye pattern around the bite, see a doctor asap. Best to treat it before it gets established.

Seen at a gas station in south Mississippi- captured by my iPhone.

Yummy cheesy napalm! Wonder if I can get some for my stupor-bowl nachos.

It's hard to name a favorite. I haven't played any of these for decades or more. Computer games are so much easier to play and you don't have to manage a bunch of players. Risk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_%28game%29 Classic multi-player game. Tactic II http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1574/tactics-ii Sort of the mother of all wargames, it was easy to play and was a great beer & pretzels game. Blitzkrieg http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4168/blitzkrieg A much more complicated game than Tactics II but it shared basic common elements. Had three types of armored units, four infantry units, neutral countries and resources. Could take a whole weekend to play. Russian Campaign http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2808/the-russian-campaign An absolutely brilliant recreation of the war between Germany and Russia. Very, very educational as most Westerners don't understand how big and ugly that conflict really was. Germany will run wild until mid-1942 and then it becomes a meatgrinder for them as Russia's manpower takes its toll. Federation & Empire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36/federation-empire Best described as Risk in the Star Fleet Universe (classic) but MUCH more complex. The game puts you in charge on one of the major galactic powers making decisions about economics, planning, diplomacy and strategy. Can seat up to eight players and take as long as a week to play. to play. Jutland http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4984/jutland Recreation of the massive WWI battle between British and German fleets for control of the North Sea. Midway http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2250/midway Recreation of the Battle that turned WWII in the Pacific. Submarine http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3083/submarine Tactical level combat sim of WWII submarine combat. Command Decision http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6699/command-decision-iii Tactical level combat sim rules for WWII armored conflict using miniatures. Victory at Sea http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/129985/victory-at-sea-far-flung-seas Tactical level combat sim rules for WWII naval combat. I still have my Japanese cruisers and destroyers squadrons I used to humble many overconfident players that spent all their points on battleships. ------------------------------------- PS- Yes- I was/am an Army brat and got exposed to a lot of this stuff very young.

$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia'http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/trillion-shale-oil-find-surrounding-coober-pedy-can-fuel-australia/story-fndo471r-1226560401043 Herald Sun SOUTH Australia is sitting on oil potentially worth more than $20 trillion, independent reports claim - enough to turn Australia into a self-sufficient fuel producer. Brisbane company Linc Energy yesterday released two reports, based on drilling and seismic exploration, estimating the amount of oil in the as yet untapped Arckaringa Basin surrounding Coober Pedy ranging from 3.5 billion to 233 billion barrels of oil. At the higher end, this would be "several times bigger than all of the oil in Australia", Linc managing director Peter Bond said. This has the potential to turn Australia from an oil importer to an oil exporter. "If it comes in the way the reports are suggesting, it could well and truly bring Australia back to (oil) self-sufficiency," Mr Bond said. State Mineral Resources Development Minister Tom Koutsantonis said there were exciting times ahead for SA's resources industry. "Shale gas and shale oil will be a key part to securing Australia's energy security now and into the future," he said. Linc has hired Barclays Bank to find an investment partner for the next stage of the project, costing $150-$300 million. The company aims to drill up to six horizontal wells to further confirm its figures, but Mr Bond is confident the region will be home to oil production. The need to build another oil and gas hub, like the Santos production facility at Moomba, depends on the size of the discovery. "If it really takes off, that's when you start to look at Moomba-type pipelines." Mr Bond said there was the potential for a US-style "shale oil" boom in SA. The Wall Street Journal reported last week the US could pass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer this year, thanks to the shale oil explosion. Shale oil extraction involves using new technologies to drill vertically and then horizontally for distances of more than one kilometre through shale rocks that contain oil. The process was once prohibitively expensive but advances have created a new oil boom in the US. Mr Koutsantonis said: "We have seen the hugely positive impact shale projects like Bakken and Eagle Ford have had on the US economy. "There is still a long way to go, but investment in unconventional liquid projects in South Australia will accelerate as more and more companies such as Linc Energy and Altona prove up their resources." Mr Bond said the potential in SA was "massive", but even at the lower end of estimates - about 3.5 billion barrels - it was still very large. "If you look at the upper target, which is 103-233 billion barrels of oil, that's massive," he said. "The opportunity of turning this into the next shale boom is very real. "If the Arckaringa plays out the way we hope it will, and the way our independent reports have shown, it's one of the key prospective territories in the world at the moment." Mr Bond said each well could flow at 1000-2000 barrels per day. "You put in 50 of them and that's a lot of oil," he said. "We have a very good idea that this will be an oil-producing asset." Mr Bond said Linc had so far spent about $130 million in the Arckaringa Basin, drilling four deep wells and "a couple of dozen" shallower wells. British company Altona Energy was scheduled to start drilling this month to discover more resources for a proposed coal to liquids and power project also in the Arckaringa Basin. That project, which could cost up to $3 billion, would involve an open-cut coal mine and possibly a 560 megawatt power plant. The Linc Energy reports, from consultants DeGolyer and McNaughton and Gustavson Associates, are available on the Australian Securities Exchange website.

I made a mistake. In a post, I used a racial pejorative. "White trash" may be accepted but it no less wrong to use than any other racist language. I apologize to anyone that I may have offended.

Can't stand the stuff. If I want to see religious nuts and miscellaneous pecker-woods white trash in their natural environment, I'll just go to Walmart.

Sean Payton was reinstated today as the Saints head coach. He is already organizing the scouting of the senior bowl.

OK- vary the way you start paragraphs. This is what pronouns are for: He refocused and set up for his final reps. His muscles burned and tightened up through his last reps, as the weight settled down he looked up into the mirror to look at himself; JW flexed his arms down and his triceps flexed into a knot. He relaxed his flex and his arms loosened up; sweat was covering his body now. JW quickly glanced at the mirror and saw the giant working his dead lift set and he was impressed.[3] The giant had perfect technique, perfect form and surprisingly heavy weights surprising power[4]. Three hundred and fifteen pounds was not exactly a huge dead lift but, for someone that was easily a twelve inches taller than him, it was actually[2] quite impressive to watch. I did this too for a long time. The problem with repetition in exposition like this is that people unconsciously start skimming through it and miss details. By mixing it up, you keep the reader engaged; to pay attention, you might miss something! [2] adverbs slow things down. Use them sparingly if at all. [3] no need to be impressed twice in the same paragraph. [4] kill the adverb, try the suggested variation. ______________________ Just a couple of things that I noticed. Welcome to my fellow Southerner. At least I know what a wampus cat is.

I tried writers support. They sent me a therapist.

Just got an iPhone 4S a few days ago. I'm loving playing with it. My ringtones scare the crap out of people. my ringtone:

The Palawan shoals hold the wreaks of ships that go back as far back as the bronze age. In WWII the super-battleship Musashi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Musashi) was sunk near the shoals in the Palawan Passage in the phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf called the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea. The Battle for Leyte Gulf was so large that it took several days and consisted of four different engagements. China is looking at those waters for possible sources of oil and natural gas. So far, they haven't found much. Some explorers/speculators think the geology is favorable while others do not. Only time will tell. There are two tectonic plate at play. The Chinese side has been bare so far while the Philippine side is rich. There is (or were) significant oil fields in present day Indonesia and the Philippines(Davao specifically). Prior to WWII they were run by the Dutch and were a primary target of the Japanese when they went on a tear in 1941.

Take two twinks and call me in the morning.

In the inflatable concept, water is used as a radiation shield but its problematic. It becomes a big power drain to keep it in its liquid state. I can see it for temporary structures but permanent installations need the hardened structure.

As San Francisco is our unofficial homoland, I am pulling for them to win the NFC title.

Crew evacuated from Navy minesweeper stuck on Philippine reef By Brad Lendon, CNN updated 9:40 AM EST, Fri January 18, 2013 http://us.cnn.com/2013/01/18/world/asia/navy-ship-aground/index.html (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy has evacuated all 79 crew members from a minesweeper that ran aground Thursday on a reef in the Philippines, the Navy's Seventh Fleet said in a statement Friday. The 224-foot-long,1,312-ton ship was on its way from Subic Bay to its next port call when it struck the Tubbataha Reef, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east-southeast of Palawan Island in the Sulu Sea, the Navy said. Initial efforts to free the Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship at high tide were unsuccessful, and the crew was transferred by small boats to the USNS Bowditch and the MSV C-Champion, ships of the Military Sealift Command, according to the Navy statement. "Seventh Fleet ships remain on scene and essential Guardian sailors will continue conducting survey operations onboard the ship as needed until she is recovered," Vice Adm. Scott Swift, U.S. Seventh Fleet commander, said in a statement. "Several support vessels have arrived and all steps are being taken to minimize environmental effects while ensuring the crew's continued safety." Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to threatened and endangered marine species, including fish, corals and sharks. "The site is an excellent example of a pristine coral reef with a spectacular 100-meter perpendicular wall, extensive lagoons and two coral islands," according to the UNESCO website. The cause of the grounding was under investigation, the Navy said. __________________________________________ The waters off Palawan in the Philippine Islands have been labeled on charts as far back as the 1600s as "Dangerous ground". In World War II it played a part in the Battle for Leyte Gulf in Oct. 1944. The reef forced the main body of the Japanese fleet into a narrow channel of the Palawan Passage were they were set upon by US submarines Darter and Dace. Two heavy cruisers were sunk, one of them the fleet flagship, and a third was so badly damaged that she was out of the war. The reef was severe to both sides. Darter went aground on the Palawan shoals and had to be abandoned the following day. Her hulk remains there to this day. -JS

She did a lot to put to rest some of the hostility toward gay people. She got many letters from mothers and fathers of gay and lesbians and made it clear: your gay kids don't have a problem. They don't need to be cured. You do.

Dear Abby, ‘always compassionate toward gay people,’ dies at 94http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/dear-abby-always-compassionate-toward-gay-people-dies-at-94/ Staff- LGBT Nation MINNEAPOLIS — Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and opened the way for the likes of Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil and Oprah, has died. She was 94. Phillips died Wednesday in Minneapolis after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, said Gene Willis, a publicist for the Universal Uclick syndicate. Phillips willingly expressed views that she realized would bring protests. In a 1998 interview she remarked: “Whenever I say a kind word about gays, I hear from people, and some of them are damn mad. People throw Leviticus, Deuteronomy and other parts of the Bible to me. It doesn’t bother me. I’ve always been compassionate toward gay people.” Indeed, Phillips once responded to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.” “You could move,” was her simple, to the point response. In another “Dear Abby” column, Phillips once wrote, “Sexual orientation is not a measure of anyone’s humanity or worth. Thank you for pointing out how important it is that people respect each other for who they are, not for what we would like them to be.” “There wasn’t a subject my mother wouldn’t take on.” said her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now writes the famous syndicated column. Aside from the Dear Abby column, which appeared in 1,000 newspapers as far off as Brazil and Thailand, Phillips conducted a radio version of “Dear Abby” from 1963 to 1975 and wrote best-selling books about her life and advice. “My mother leaves very big high heels to fill with a legacy of compassion, commitment and positive social change,” said Jeanne Phillips, in a statement. Private funeral services were held Thursday. _______ You know that you have made it if John Prine writes you a song. -JS