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Michael Egan
replied:
In memory.
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION
BANDCAMP MUSIC
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC
Music: “La Tarantula” from the album DIABOLICAL!
Artist: The Delstroyers
Artist Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Info: “The Delstroyers are an instrumental surf band from murky Seattle, WA USA that worships things like Fender Reverb units and creatures that go bump in the night. In 2017, the band has teamed up with producer Johnny Sangster (Mudhoney, The Posies, The Supersuckers) on their first full-length album, DIABOLICAL!”
All songs by the Delstroyers.
pnw_kook, a fan, wrote, “This is a ‘must have’ album. absolute perfection of a genre. Three-piece bliss. Favorite track: ‘Karate Surf.’”
Price: $7 (USD) for 13-track album. Tracks cannot be bought separately.
Genre: Surf Instrumental
Links:
The Delstroyers on Bandcamp
"DIABOLICAL!"
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Current Events
Ah ha ha hah!
Predator's request for an additional debate has been denied. (It's the loser who's always eager for a debate--the winner/stronger candidate has all the power.)
And Predator has suddenly realized that some people will have already voted before the first debate takes place so he's calling for the date of the first debate to be moved up.
Rots of ruck with that, Loser! Schadenfreude! Ah ha ha ha ha ha hah!
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Thanks, Linda!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
JD is on vacation.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
There was a power outage and afterwards my "good" computer wouldn't fire up.
The repair shop was closed, so I'm gonna try to piece today's page together using notepad.
Don't have access to the templates, images, links, trivia answers (to be made into questions), and a whole bunch of stuff.
Have to upload the page to proofread it.
Argle. Bargle.
The Osbournes
Aimee Osbourne
Aimée Osbourne, the elder daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, has revealed why she chose not to appear on her family’s reality show as a teenager.
The married couple, along with their two children Kelly and Jack, were the subject of reality TV series The Osbournes, which ran on MTV from 2002 to 2005.
However, older sister Aimée Osbourne chose not to appear on the series, telling New York’s Q1043 radio in a new interview that she valued her privacy too much to want to star on the series.
With her father finding fame as the frontman of Black Sabbath, Osbourne explained: “For me, I had grown up around having a pretty well-known dad anyway… I always really valued my privacy within that family.
“For me personally, and for who I am, as far as morally and also just to give myself a chance to actually develop into a human being as opposed to just being remembered for being a teenager, it didn’t really line up with what I saw my future as,” she continued.
Aimee Osbourne
Pulled By CW After One Episode
‘Taskmaster’
It was a very short run for British comedy game show Taskmaster. Just days after its premiere, The CW has pulled the show from its schedule after one airing.
Supernatural reruns will take over Taskmaster‘s 9 pm Sunday timeslot for the next few weeks. Other options for Taskmaster, including a run on CW Seed, are being explored, sources said.
Taskmaster premiered on Sunday with back-to-back episodes, which averaged a 0.1 adults 18-49 and drew 432,000 and 224,000 viewers, respectively, in Live+same day. It was among several alternative acquisitions made by The CW to its summer lineup.
Taskmaster is an International Emmy and triple BAFTA nominated comedy game show starring comedian and actor Greg Davies in the title role of the all-powerful Taskmaster, who issues simple comedic and bizarre tasks to five regular contestants – usually comedians – with Alex Horne (the show creator) acting as the Taskmaster’s assistant. The tasks – usually performed in isolation, but occasionally in teams – are designed to encourage the players to think laterally and creatively.
‘Taskmaster’
Pulls ‘Trolls World Tour’ Doll
Hasbro
Hasbro will remove a Trolls World Tour doll from major retailers following complaints that it encourages child abuse and pedophilia.
The toy company announced Wednesday that it will remove the movie’s “Trolls World Tour Giggle and Sing Poppy” doll from store shelves after an online petition signed by upwards of 160 thousand concerned parents and supporters requested they do so.
The doll in question is designed to giggle when it sits upright. However, the activation button that prompts the toy to function is inappropriately placed under the doll’s skirt and between her legs. The petition, created by Jessica McMains, is addressed to Target, Walmart, Amazon and other retailers.
Hasbro spokeswoman Julie Duffy spoke to The Providence Journal about the doll and the company’s decision to pull it from stores.
“This feature was designed to react when the doll was seated, but we recognize the placement of the sensor may be perceived as inappropriate,” Hasbro spokeswoman Julie Duff said in a statement. This was not intentional and we are happy to provide consumers with a replacement Poppy doll of similar value through our Consumer Care team. We are in the process of removing the item for purchase.”
Hasbro
Guess Who?
‘Lying Draft Dodger’
Republican veterans who are voting against Donald Trump (R-Failure) in November’s election have released a scathing new attack ad against the president.
The advert, released by Republican Voters Against Trump, complies clips from a number of US veterans detailing why they refuse to vote for Mr Trump.
The group is a political initiative that brings together “Republicans, former Republicans, conservatives, and former Trump voters who can’t support Trump this fall”.
The veterans then berate the president, saying “he does not care about you, he does not care about this country” or the “constitution”.
They make reference to Mr Trump’s deferments from military service during the Vietnam war, calling him a “coward” and a “lying draft dodger”.
‘Lying Draft Dodger’
Wild Claims
Rudi
President Donald Trump (R-Inept)'s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani (R-Flaccid) has claimed Black Lives Matter is a "domestic terrorist group," despite the group never being tied to a single terrorism event in a global database of almost 200,000.
"These are killers, and these are people who hate white people. They're people who hate white men in particular. And they want to do away with a mother-father family," Mr Giuliani said on Fox and Friends on Thursday, although ample evidence debunks that claim.
While the US State Department has a list of foreign terror organisations, the government does not legally denominate domestic terror groups.
Rudi
Court Reverses Order
Dakota Access Pipeline
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a judge’s order that shut down the Dakota Access pipeline pending a full environmental review.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with pipeline owner Energy Transfer to keep the oil flowing, saying a lower-court judge “did not make the findings necessary for injunctive relief.”
But the appellate court declined to grant Energy Transfer's motion to block the review, saying the company had “failed to make a strong showing of likely success.”
The appeals court said it expects the parties to “clarify their positions” in the lower court.
On July 6, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the pipeline closed within 30 days while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fulfills his demand to conduct a more extensive environmental review than the one that allowed the pipeline to start moving oil near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation three years ago. This process could take more than a year.
Dakota Access Pipeline
Virus Lockdown
Pygmy Hogs
Pygmy hogs — the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig — are under a virus lockdown.
Not because of the coronavirus, but because of the first outbreak of African swine fever in India. There is neither a vaccine nor cure for the highly contagious viral disease that has already killed over 16,000 domestic pigs, said Pradip Gogoi, an official at Assam state’s animal husbandry wing.
The shy, 10-inch tall pygmy hogs suffered severe habitat loss and were thought to be extinct in the 1960s. Then in recent decades, a captive breeding program and other conservation efforts have brought the species back.
Now there are nearly 300 animals living in pockets of the northeastern state of Assam, but scientists fear the virus could decimate the still-endangered population.
After authorities confirmed the swine fever outbreak reached India on May 18, scientists virtually locked down the breeding centers and adopted strict precautions, said Parag Deka, who heads the Pygmy Hog Conservation Program run jointly by Indian authorities, U.K.-based Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and local nonprofit Aaranyak.
Pygmy Hogs
'Hell Ant'
Amber
Around 99 million years ago, a juvenile cockroach met a hellish fate. It was snapped up by the jaws of a Cretaceous hell ant, a fierce predator with long, curving mandibles that swept up toward the top of the ant's head.
Just moments later, the ant and roach were trapped in sticky sap that eventually turned to amber, providing scientists with a first glimpse of how the weird-faced ants trapped prey.
The profile of a hell ant, with exaggerated upward-facing jaws that arc like the Grim Reaper's scythe, is unlike that of any ant alive today. Adding to the facial weirdness is a hell ant's horn, which comes in a variety of shapes in this ant group, known as Haidomyrmecine.
Researchers had long suspected that hell ants swung their prominent mandibles upward to catch their prey, unlike modern ants that snap their jaws together horizontally. In the piece of Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, scientists found the first confirmation of this hunting technique.
Hell ants lived during the Cretaceous period (about 145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago), and are known from amber deposits in Myanmar, France and Canada spanning 100 million to 78 million years ago, said evolutionary biologist Phillip Barden, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Barden and his colleagues described the amber-embedded hell ant in a new study, published online today (Aug. 6) in the journal Current Biology.
Amber
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