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[gotbeer]

3 hours ago, Redondo said:

This PC stuff is getting way out of hand.

 

Critics attack Mother’s Day as ‘offensive’ because it’s a ‘gendered holiday’

 

Good to see that that Dick that sued the Angels is expanding his practice.

[Blarg]

I really wish those critics had never had a mother. You know, the whole chicken and the egg conundrum. 

[Tank]

8 hours ago, Redondo said:

This PC stuff is getting way out of hand.

 

Critics attack Mother’s Day as ‘offensive’ because it’s a ‘gendered holiday’

holy crap.

[arch stanton]

You know blowhard assholes have been around for as long as people have been congregating. We just now decided to listen to them 

[Redondo]

California baby born weighing 13.5 pounds

A California family was expecting their newest addition to be big, but nobody predicted that Raymond Reyes would making his debut on April 30 weighing a whopping 13.5 pounds.

“Nothing fits him,” Jenna Reyes, Raymond’s mother, told ABC 7. Reyes explained her new bundle of joy uses size 2 Pampers and wears clothes typically made for 3- to 6-month-old babies.

[Tank]

14 hours ago, Redondo said:

California baby born weighing 13.5 pounds

A California family was expecting their newest addition to be big, but nobody predicted that Raymond Reyes would making his debut on April 30 weighing a whopping 13.5 pounds.

“Nothing fits him,” Jenna Reyes, Raymond’s mother, told ABC 7. Reyes explained her new bundle of joy uses size 2 Pampers and wears clothes typically made for 3- to 6-month-old babies.

sounds like a future member of aw.com.

[Redondo]

Girl Scout leader on the lam after stealing $15,000 worth of cookies

Leah Ann Vick, of Auxier, Ky., was formally indicted by a Pike County jury on a charge of “felony theft by unlawful taking,” and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, according to district attorney Rick Bartley.

Authorities are currently looking for Vick, 26, who they believe to be actively evading law enforcement.

The crime originally occurred on Feb. 1, per the indictment. According to the Bartley, Vick picked up a large order of cookies for her Wilderness Road chapter — and perhaps a few orders belonging to other troops — in Pikesville, Ky.

Vick was then supposed to return to pay for the cookies once they had been sold (the local troops don’t normally provide payment up front), but she never went back. The Girl Scouts also say they have no record of Vick dropping off her troop’s shipment with her girls.

Vick’s indictment follows a similar, though more disturbing incidence of theft from a Girl Scout in California. On Feb. 17, a 12-year-old scout in Union, Calif., was robbed at gunpoint while selling cookies outside a Safeway supermarket alongside her mother. The Union City Police Department later raised $1,000 for the girl’s local troop.

[Tank]

"Felony theft by unlawful taking" sounds wonderfully redundant.

[Blarg]

According to the Bartley, Vick picked up a large order of cookies for her Wilderness Road chapter — and perhaps a few orders belonging to other troops.

 

When did Kentucky legalize pot?

[Redondo]

 

[gotbeer]

Woman Charged for Pointing Gun at Teen Allegedly Raping Dog

PETA and SJW's heads probably exploded over this one.  On one hand, raping a dog is bad.  But she used a gun on a minor. 

[Redondo]

• Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus drop curtain on 'Greatest Show on Earth'

After 146 years and having entertained generations of Americans, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus gave its final performance Sunday night.

With cast and crew gathered together under the big top, and with dozens of retired and former circus performers in the audience, Ringmaster Jonathan Lee Iverson led a singalong of "Auld Lang Syne."

Sunday night's 7 p.m. performance was the last of three final shows at the Nassau County Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., about 30 miles east of New York City.

Ringling's parent company, Feld Entertainment, announced in January it would close the show, citing declining attendance and high operating costs. The circus had also fought a running battle with animal rights activists, who had claimed that forcing animals to perform and transporting them around the country amounted to abuse. The company removed its famous elephants from its shows in May 2016, but ticket sales continued to decline.

In the end, Feld executives said they knew the circus couldn't compete with iPhones, the internet, video games and massively branded and carefully marketed characters. Their other productions — Frozen on Ice, Marvel Live, Supercross, Monster Trucks, Disney on Ice — resonate better with younger generations.

[gotbeer]

U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to 'patent trolls'

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The justices ruled 8-0 that patent suits can be filed only in courts located in the jurisdiction where the targeted company is incorporated.

Outside of true patent reform.  Boom goes the dynamite on patent trolls.

[Redondo]

Utah mom locks kids in trunk of car while she shops at Walmart, police say

A Utah woman was arrested Thursday after she allegedly locked her two children in the trunk of her car while she went shopping at Walmart. 

Tori Castillo, 39, faces four counts of child abuse with physical injury and one count of theft, Fox 13 reported. Two women told police they were in the Walmart parking lot in Riverdale when they heard the children's voices coming from the car. 

"I could hear some kids crying," the woman recounted to Fox 13. 

"I turned to my friend and I'm like, 'There's people in this trunk. There's kids in this trunk!'"

"I started talking to the little girl that I could hear screaming," she said. "She was [yelling], 'Mom, let me out! Let me out! Mom! Help!" She was screaming, crying."

Four people worked to rescue the children as they yelled for help. One of the women guided the children to the emergency latch inside the trunk. Eventually, it popped open. 

"Both kids just came out... they just jumped out at us," the woman told the station. "One lady took the 2-year-old, I took the 5-year-old."

Castillo eventually returned to the parking lot and reportedly told the women the reason for locking her children in the trunk was because the "babysitter didn't show up." 

A witness later said she saw Castillo lock her children in the trunk of the car before walking into the store. 

[JAHV76]

What a POS

[gotbeer]

Interesting case.  Might have some big ramifications down the line.  Also it's interesting the direction that the highest court is going with their take on patents.

Supreme Court overturns Lexmark’s patent win on used printer cartridges

 

 

[gotbeer]

Doctors warn women against putting wasp nests in their vaginas

 

[Tank]

9 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Doctors warn women against putting wasp nests in their vaginas

brought to you by the same people that require a label on hair dryers that says "do not use this in the shower."

[Redondo]

Craziest driver's license ever?

One Arizona man said he is the first person in the state to take a Driver's License photo, while wearing a colander on his head.

The man said he finally won the right to wear the colander in the photo, and said as a Pastafarian, it is his religious right to wear it in the photo.

"I was almost expecting to receive that letter, and was pleasantly surprised when the license actually did arrive in the mail," said Sean Corbett, who tried several MVD locations to get the photo approved, and succeeded in his last attempt. He said the pasta strainer is a symbol of his religion, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

"The Pastafarians believe the Earth was created by an unseen flying ball of spaghetti, and the world was created in four days," said Corbett. "The whole premise behind Pastafarianism is you're just supposed to enjoy life and do whatever you really need to do while being slightly intoxicated."

[Redondo]

 

California is now 13 acres bigger

 

This May 22 aerial photo provided by John Madonna shows a massive landslide along California's coastal Highway 1 near Big Sur, Calif.  (John Madonna via AP, File)

A recent landslide is the largest a California Department of Transportation representative is aware of, and the U.S. Geological Survey explains just how big it was.

The May 20 slide in Big Sur involved more than a million tons of rock and dirt, and by analyzing before-and-after photos, the USGS has determined that roughly 13 acres of "new California land" were created, per a Thursday tweet.

In a Facebook post, it provides some other ways of looking at the slide, writing that it was big enough to have "filled 800 Olympic-sized swimming pools [and] buried Highway 1 more than 65 feet deep."

The Mercury News provides a visual of its own, saying the new bit of California is as big as 10 football fields—"an exhilarating event for a state used to watching its edges erode." Kevin Schmidt with the USGS agrees, telling the paper, "It has been a number of decades since something this large increased our land mass."

The falling rock covered a quarter-mile stretch of Highway 1, and the state's transportation department believes it'll take more than a year to get it clear for passage again.

 

[Redondo]

What is mechanically separated chicken?

Take a look at the ingredients list of food products including Slim Jims, hot dogs and other inexpensive meat-based foods that don’t actually look like meat and you’re bound to encounter mechanically separated chicken or turkey, usually as one of the primary ingredients.

The name of this one ingredient sounds pretty ominous. What exactly is being separated, and why are machines needed?

So what exactly is it? Is it actually chicken? And how is it made?

According to the USDA, “Mechanically separated poultry (MSP) is a paste-like and batter-like poultry product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible tissue, through a sieve or similar device under high pressure to separate bone from the edible tissue,” which is then treated with a small amount of ammonium hydroxide as an anti-microbial agent.

The definition of “edible tissue” is stretching it a bit here as it essentially refers to anything left on the bones, including nerves, blood vessels, cartilage, and skin, as well as a small amount of meat.

The resulting product is the poultry equivalent of “lean finely textured beef,” also known as “pink slime,” even though the production method is different. Consumption of mechanically separated beef was banned in 2004 due to fear of mad cow disease.

Mechanically separated meat (which also includes pork), is found in plenty of foods, including chicken nuggets and frozen pre-formed chicken patties, but while there’s a limit on mechanically separated pork in hot dogs (20 percent), there’s no legal limit on mechanically separated chicken in hot dogs, so you may want to check the ingredients list before your next cookout.

[Tank]

we do not have any mechanically separated soy products.

[arch stanton]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

we do not have any mechanically separated soy products.

You sure about that?

 

[Tank]

arch, fry that in some olive oil and add a touch of garlic and paprika. you can thank me later.

[Blarg]

That's matzo, you dip it in egg and fry it.