zEN mAN (observing the delicious and disconcerting vegetable (a member of the lily family) known as "ass per gas" (asparagus)....I remember a dinner I once had as a child....ham....beets...and asparagus....it really freaked me out about an hour after ingestion....I went to the bathroom and not only did I have pig farts from the ham....my pee was "red" and "stinky" from the asparagus....but ...like "moose turd pie" ..."...it's good though...")
Paul Krugman: The Blackmail Caucus (New York Times)
If President Obama is re-elected, health care coverage will expand dramatically, taxes on the wealthy will go up and Wall Street will face tougher regulation. If Mitt Romney wins instead, health coverage will shrink substantially, taxes on the wealthy will fall to levels not seen in 80 years and financial regulation will be rolled back.
Thom Hartman: Across 18 States, 25 Americans Are Dead And Another 344 Sickened By A Growing Meningitis Outbreak
… the pharmaceutical company that's responsible for the outbreak, Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Company, was cited for numerous violations in 2004 while Mitt Romney was Governor. However, his administration did nothing to punish the company or place more regulations on it. Records show that that between 2003 and 2006 - there were six complaints against the New England Compounding Company, yet the Romney administration did not crack down on the company, and instead signed an agreement allowing the company to regulate itself in the future.
Connie Schultz: "Why Romney Will Lose Ohio (Hint: Vroom, Vroom)" (Creators Syndicate)
In the wake of Romney's ad, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne felt the need to send a letter to his employees: "Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand," he said. "It is inaccurate to suggest anything different." Nevertheless, as I write this, Romney's ad continues to run in Ohio.
Froma Harrop: "The Romneys: Conflicts 'R' Us" (Creators Syndicate)
Have you been following the career of Mitt Romney's boy Tagg? As his dad runs for president denouncing "crony capitalism" and "big government," Tagg has been gathering some of Mitt's richest friends into a private-equity fund called Solamere - a clever instrument for pursuing government subsidies, contracts and tax breaks should Romney win. … True to form, Solamere has set up shop in the Cayman Islands to shield its investors from U.S. tax liabilities.
12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research (Discover)
Alan Kingstone, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, had a problem: all humans have their eyes in the middle of their faces, and there's nothing that Kingstone could do about it. His 12-year-old son, Julian Levy, had the solution: monsters. While some monsters are basically humanoid in shape, others have eyes on their hands, tails, tentacles and other unnatural body parts. Perfect. Kingstone would use monsters. And Julian would get his first publication in a journal from the Royal Society, one of the world's most august scientific institutions.
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Came across this picture the other day, and note the word 'puggle' in the caption.
Bo, a 55-day-old baby Echidna known as a puggle, sleeps in the hands of vet nurse Annabelle Sehlmeier at Taronga Zoo in Sydney November 1, 2012. Photo by Tim Wimborne
Seemed like a natural for a trivia question.
So, while I was going for echidna, a cross-bred dog kinda works, too.
OTOH, in the dog world, a puggle remains a puggle it's whole life.
In the monotreme world, only young echidnas are puggles.
Still, Can O'Worms.
Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria). The only surviving examples of monotremes are all indigenous to Australia and New Guinea, although there is evidence that they were once more widespread. Among living mammals they include the platypus and four species of echidnas (or spiny anteaters).
Infant echidnas are sometimes known as "puggles", alluding to their similarity in appearance to the Australian children's toy designed by Tony Barber. The same term, though not generally accepted, is popularly applied to young platypuses, as well
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Alan J was first with:
Puggles are the result of crossbreeding Pugs and Beagles.
Adam answered:
The cross of Pug and Beagle dogs.
Charlie wrote:
Platypus, but also echidna (spiny anteater), though Wiki Answers reports:
The term 'puggle' is often used for a young platypus just as it is for a young echidna. This is incorrect, and there is no official name for a baby platypus.
The term "puggle" has reportedly been used in Australian bush lore as a name for baby echidnas for many decades. There have been claims that it developed as a name for baby echidnas, as they resembled "Puggles", an American soft-toy character. Perhaps because echidnas and platypuses are both monotremes, the term began to be applied to young platypus as well.
The company producing the "Puggles" toy considered legal action against the unauthorised use of the term "puggles". Whether or not this action went ahead is undetermined, and some have alleged that it could be illegal to use the word for anything other than the soft toy.
The term puggle may be used to refer to the pups of a Beagle and a Pug. Beagle+Pug=Puggle
I also looked up "puggle" in the 1966 Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Unabridged Edition (often considered authoritative), and the term does not appear therein.
Sandra in Bangor said:
beagles and pugs
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Puggle is the name for a crossbreed dog with a beagle parent and a pug
parent.
Walt replied:
They are offspring of a pug and beagle, also known as a bug. They are
actually mutts but by being called designer dogs can be sold for hundreds of
dollars. The crossbreeding allows the beloved pug to inherit the annoying
beagle howl. Rescued one, he was the omega dog in our pug pack.
Marian answered:
crossbreed between a Pug and a Beagle
Sally, thanks to Sandy, is still without electricity.
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
A puggle is what you call a baby Echidna or Platypus. The Echidna and Platypus are the only Australian marsupials that lay eggs and not live young. The short-beaked Echidna is covered with sharp spines and has strong legs and claws. The male platypus also has poisonous stingers on his rear feet.
BttbBob responded:
A 'Puggle' is a canine cross breed between a beagle and a pug. Who knew? Not me... They even have their own organization (will the madness ever end?)
I like dogs much like some people do kids... well enough as long as someone else owns them...
MAM wrote:
Dog ~ Puggle is the name for a crossbreed dog with a beagle parent and a pug parent.
And, Joe S answered:
Puggles are what the young of Muggles are called in some sectors. Puggle is a derogatory term, as is Muggle, and to refer to Muggles regardless of the age of the creature, as an animal is in very poor taste. I mean the Muggles are there and they aren't going anywhere, and it's the burden of the Magical Class to look after their well being. There's no need to demean them more than necessary.
Here is a picture of a typical Muggle family, notice the offspring (the Puggle) is rather on the large size. They tend to be glutinous as youngsters and the males carry the trait into adulthood. The females are generally, but not always, on the thin side as they are often pushed aside when feeding. They, the females, are routinely given 30% less food than the males.
Some Muggles refer to the offspring of the Echidna as Puggles. This is totally false of course, probably meant to divert attention from themselves.
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Think I'm coming down with something - feels like I've been gargling glass. Ack.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with an old 'CSI: The 3rd One', or maybe an old 'Criminal Minds', and some local crap, for sure.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with the LIVE'Breeders Cup', followed by the movie 'Rudy'.
'NBC opens the night early on the Left Coast with the LIVE'Breeders Cup', followed by some local crap, then the movie 'Rudy'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Louis C.K. hosting, music by fun.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'The Candidate'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars Texas', another 'Storage Wars Texas', 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', and another 'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rambo III', followed by the movie 'Rambo', then the movie 'First Blood'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10Episode 1
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10 - Episode 2
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Moore Place
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Trobiano's
[11:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Hot Sauce Hustle
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS - Volume 2
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 07-08 - Episode 1
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 07-08 - Episode 2
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 07-08 - Episode 3
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 6 - PhantasmsNEW
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 7 - Dark Page NEW
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 8 - Attached NEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 9 - Force of Nature NEW
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 5 - The Angels Take Manhattan
[9:00PM] BEDLAM - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Dare NEW
[10:00PM] HEX - Season 1 - Ep 5 - Possession
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 2 - Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench, Javier Bardem NEW
[12:00AM] THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
[2:30AM] FUNNY AS HELL 2012 - Part 2a NEW
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 4 - The Power of Three
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 5 - The Angels Take Manhattan (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has fills the night with the movie 'Apollo 13'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Mean Girls', followed by the movie 'Wedding Crashers', then the movie 'Hot Tub Time Machine'.
FX has the movie 'Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer', followed by the movie 'Armageddon'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'The Men Who Built America', another 'The Men Who Built America', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[7:15AM] Exorcismus
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-I'm a Monkey's Uncle
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-In the Sweet Pie and Pie
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Love at First Bite
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Malice in the Palace
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Matri-phony
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Monkey Businessmen
[12:00PM] Man About Town
[2:00PM] Raising Arizona
[4:00PM] Cassandra's Dream
[6:15PM] Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
[8:00PM] Star Trek: The Motion Picture
[10:45PM] Ali G Indahouse
[12:30AM] Star Trek: The Motion Picture
[1:15AM] Ali G Indahouse
[3:00AM] Bunk
[3:30AM] Bunk
[4:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
[4:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Michael Cera Wears a Blue Denim Shirt & Red Pants (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - France (Episode 1, Season 1)
[6:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - South Africa (Episode 2, Season 1)
[7:00A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Turkey (Episode 3, Season 1)
[7:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Holland/Belgium (Episode 4, Season 1)
[8:00A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - India (Episode 5, Season 1)
[8:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - UK (Episode 6, Season 1)
[9:00A] The Good Thief
[11:00A] The Pool
[12:45P] Amar
[1:00P] Brideshead Revisited
[3:15P] The Good Thief
[5:15P] Blood and Wine
[7:00P] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comedian Tig Notaro & Parenthood's Jason Ritter (Episode 4, Season 2)
[7:30P] ICONOCLASTS - Christy Turlington Burns + Tory Burch (Episode 4, Season 6)
[8:00P] In the Loop
[10:00P] The Beach
[12:00A] Autoerotic
[1:15A] Nights and Weekends
[1:35A] I'll Come Running
[3:35A] Autoerotic
[4:50A] Bitch (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Category 7: The End Of The World', followed by the movie 'Metal Tornado', then the movie 'NYC: Tornado Terror'.
Screenwriters and directors Andy Wachowski (R), his sister Lana Wachowski (C) and Tom Tykwer pose during a photocall for the Russian premiere of the new film "Cloud Atlas" in Moscow November 2, 2012.
Photo by Maxim Shemetov
The "Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men" honcho - who's used the vanity cards at the end of his shows to expound on everything from former "Men" star Charlie Sheen to the humilities of aging - used Thursday night's "Big Bang Theory" card to rant about presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the current state of the Republican party.
Unfortunately for fans of political mud-flinging, the card never made it to air. Lorre published the card on his website instead, noting that he'd opted for self-censorship.
"I've decided to save everybody a lot of unhappiness and not submit this week's vanity card to the CBS censors (I know when I've crossed the line with these things and don't need a bunch of corporate lawyers getting their cotton blend panties in a bunch)," Lorre wrote.
The card takes shots at GOP politicians' recent stances on everything from rape to FEMA, along with a dig at the reality series "The Bachelor" and a not-so-veiled reference to Romney's Mormonism.
Cast member Kurtwood Smith and his wife Joan Pirkle pose at a gala screening of "Hitchcock" during the AFI Fest 2012 at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California November 1, 2012.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
A bridge in the Bahamas was renamed Friday to honor Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier, with no sign of any protests called for by an opposition politician.
Hundreds of spectators cheered as Poitier and Prime Minister Perry Christie arrived for the rechristening of the Paradise Island Bridge as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of Bahamian Independence.
The bridge, the largest in the island chain east of Florida, will now be known as the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge.
Poitier spent much of his childhood in the Bahamas, mostly on sparsely populated Cat Island, and he has served as a Bahamian ambassador to Japan and UNESCO. In a dedication speech, Christie noted his philanthropy in the Bahamas and his "awe-inspiring," life story.
"Political Animals" has not been elected to a second term.
The USA Network miniseries from "Brothers & Sisters" executive producer Greg Berlanti and starring Sigourney Weaver as a divorced former First Lady turned Secretary of State, won't be returning to the network.
The news isn't terribly surprising, as "Political Animals" was conceived as a miniseries, but the project marked an ambitious jump for USA.
"Political Animals" premiered July 15 -- a night that also saw the highly anticipated Season 5 premiere of AMC's "Breaking Bad" - and grabbed 3.8 million total viewers in Live Plus 7 Day ratings, which takes into account DVR viewings. Over its six-episode run, the miniseries averaged 3.2 million total viewers in Live Plus 7 Day.
Actor Peter Fonda and his wife Margaret pose at a gala screening of "Hitchcock" during the AFI Fest 2012 at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California November 1, 2012.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Russia's prime minister said Friday the women in the Pussy Riot punk band serving two-year prison sentences should be set free, while a band member's husband tried to visit his wife in jail in a central Russian region known for its gloomy Stalinist-era gulags.
Three members of the band were convicted on hooliganism charges in August for performing a "punk prayer" at Moscow's main cathedral during which they pleaded with the Virgin Mary for deliverance from President Vladimir Putin.
One of them, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on appeal last month, but the other two, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, were sent to prison camps to serve their sentences.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that he detested the Pussy Riot act, but added the women have been in prison long enough and should be released. He made a similar statement before October's appeal hearings, fueling speculation about their possible release. Medvedev's latest comment is unlikely to take effect, since he is widely seen as a liberal yet nominal government figure whose pledges and orders are seldom followed through on.
Also Friday, Tolokonnikova's husband, Pyotr Verzilov, was turned away by authorities when he tried to visit her at a prison camp in the village of Partsa in Mordovia, a region well known in Russia for the Gulag camps here filled with the tens of thousands in the 1930s.
People take pictures of lanterns depicting a traditional band performing Korean royal ancestral rites, on the eve of the Seoul Lantern Festival 2012 at Cheonggyecheon in central Seoul November 1, 2012.
Photo by Kim Hong-Ji
A Los Angeles judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by the one-time confidante of pop star Britney Spears, ruling there was insufficient evidence to go forward with the trial on allegations of defamation, assault and breach of contract.
"I really thought long and hard. It's the right thing to do, so I am going to do it," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bruguera said, announcing her decision to throw out the case after hearing two weeks of evidence in the civil trial.
Sam Lutfi, the self-styled manager of the pop star for a brief period in 2007 and early 2008, had sued Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, for defaming him in her 2008 book "Through the Storm." Lynne Spears wrote that Lutfi controlled her daughter, cut her telephone lines and tried to cut the star off from her family.
Bruguera also dismissed claims filed by Lutfi against Spears. He said the singer hired him as her manager after they met in a nightclub in 2007, and he was entitled to a portion of her earnings.
Lutfi case against Spears' father, Jamie Spears, was also thrown out. Lutfi alleged that Jamie Spears punched him in 2008 while the singer was in a Los Angeles psychiatric ward.
An email message mistakenly sent to Newt Gingrich's list serve this morning told subscribers that President Obama would no doubt win in 2012 and that they should be more worried about Obama's winning in 2016.
That's right, despite the 22nd Amendment, which limits any one person to two presidential terms, the email that went out to Gingrich's supporters suggests President Obama would be running again in 2016, and possibly serve through 2020.
The email, titled "What's really at stake this Tuesday ..." came from Gingrich Marketplace and went out to people who'd given their contact information to the Gingrich campaign when the former speaker of the House was still in the presidential race. Bygone candidates, such as Gingrich and Herman Cain, regularly rent out their email address lists to advertisers.
"The truth is, the next election has already been decided. Obama is going to win. It's nearly impossible to beat an incumbent president," advertiser Porter Stansberry wrote in the email to Gingrich supporters. "What's actually at stake right now is whether or not he will have a third-term."
A worker's hands are covered with gunpowder as he makes fire crackers at a factory in Kolkata November 2, 2012. Firecrackers are in great demand ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri
A well-known British DJ reacted to news that his show had been canceled with an extended on-air rant against what he called the "pinheaded weasels" running the BBC.
Danny Baker joins a roster of disgruntled employees who have decided - like Peter Finch's unhinged news anchor in the film "Network" - that they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.
Baker blamed the decision to ax his afternoon show on BBC London local radio on cost-cutting middle management "who know only timid, the generic and the abacus."
"I hope their abacus comes undone and they choke on the beads," he said.
Listeners took to Twitter to support Baker, who has been a respected broadcaster for 30 years. Comedian Stephen Fry called him "the best" and slammed the BBC's decision.
Experts say the skeletal remains of a pigeon discovered in the chimney of a house in southern England carried a mysterious, long-forgotten message from World War II.
Historians at Britain's Second World War-era code breaking headquarters say the bird was almost certainly returning from Nazi-occupied France during the June 1944 D-Day invasion.
What the message says remains unknown. It was coded, an unusual measure generally reserved for the most sensitive secrets.
Bletchley Park said Thursday that one of its curators is now trying to unravel the message using World War II logbooks.
Shaolin monks perform qigong, a type of traditional Chinese martial arts, during the opening ceremony of the fourth Southern Shaolin Martial Arts Cultural Festival in Putian city, Fujian province, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.
A British safety official who inspected Titanic before its maiden voyage thought it should have more lifeboats, according to his private notes, which are being offered for sale this month.
However, Capt. Maurice Clarke, a Board of Trade safety and emigration officer, didn't express that belief when he testified at the official British inquiry into the ship's sinking. He also was not asked then whether he thought Titanic carried an adequate number of lifeboats.
There is no record of Clarke ever expressing his view publicly, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said Friday.
Clarke's notes indicate he was rebuffed by the White Star Line and he believed he had no legal grounds to require more lifeboats. In his notes, Clarke wrote "I suggest 50 percent more."
Clarke did not testify at the U.S. Senate's inquiry, but its official report zeroed in on the lifeboat issue. It called for U.S. law to "require sufficient lifeboats to accommodate every passenger and every member of the crew."
Most regular travelers pay little attention to those snooze-inducing inflight safety videos. But Air New Zealand has found some magic by celebrating the upcoming premiere of the first in the "Hobbit" movie trilogy.
The airline's four-minute safety video featuring the character Gollum and film director Peter Jackson got more than 2 million hits on YouTube within a day of being posted Thursday. The carrier calls itself "the airline of Middle-earth" and cabin staff appear in the clip as film characters.
The hobbits themselves would be proud. After all, author J.R.R. Tolkien created the mythical creatures as risk-averse.
Two of the author's great-grandsons even make cameos. Royd Tolkien appears wearing prosthetic feet.
A skull and bones are seen on a grave during the Day of the Dead celebrations at a cemetery in Mixquic November 1, 2012. On the Day of the Dead, Mexicans pay homage to their dead relatives.
Photo by Edgard Garrido
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