Marc Dion: I Stole a Cherry Pie (Creators Syndicate)
The Wal-Mart I go to can be uninterestingly described as "urban." The place is full of obese women in pajama pants and guys in wife beater tank tops with "money over bitches" tattooed on their necks. The cashiers are so used to government benefit cards that, if you give them a $20 bill, they make you sign it on the back before they'll take it.
Margaritomancy is divination with pearls, usually by either casting pearls or studying pearls in oysters. The word is derived from the Latin margarita, meaning pearl.
One ancient use of margaritomancy involved throwing a pearl into a cast iron pot that was sitting in a fire and watching it to determine a person's guilt or innocence in a crime. If the pearl started moving then the person was believed to be guilty. If it stayed in place they were not guilty.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Pearls.
mj wrote:
Wild, wild, guess
It uses fresh tomato sauce, fresh buffalo milk mozzarella, and basil
leaves to predict midnight heartburn.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
by bouncing pearls
Deborah responded:
I'm guessing Margaritomancy isn't divination my Margaret, the redhead from "Dennis the Mance" comics.
I actually looked it up. It's divination using pearls. Never heard of it.
MAM, loved your P.S. - that's the image I had in mind.
Happy weekend!
Randall replied:
OBVIOUSLY...
margaritas!
...either that or
Pearls
Marian said:
pearls
Deborah, we have the AmGen riders going through our city today. City has warned us that we are stuck in our houses from noon until 3 as the only road out of my house crosses the main street that they will be on. We are invited to come watch them but can't drive to get there as there will be nowhere to park.
MAM, wrote:
Pearls ~ Usually by either casting pearls or studying pearls in oysters.
Joe S answered:
Fairly easy question today, obviously the answer is a margarita and a cat. One makes a margarita, then drinks it. Then one makes several more margaritas and drinks them also. At a certain point when one feels the time has come, and you'll know when that is, dip four fingers of the right hand into a margarita. Unless you are left-handed, then use the four fingers of the left hand. Actually it doesn't make any difference which hand you use. I mean which hand one uses, what ever hand feels handy.
Did I mention the cat? Hold the cat in the hand that isn't in the margarita, it might be easier to get a hold of the cat before you dip your fingers in the drink. Just saying. Annnnnyway, take you fingers out of the margarita and sprinkle the drink on the cat's back. you know, like shake your wet fingers over the cat, don't pick up the glass and and try sprinkle that way. Just the fingers. Then watch the cat to see how it shakes off the booze, or if it tries to lick it off, which gives you a whole nother set of things to devine.
Lubed Lois Of Oregon replied:
Margaritomancy is a form of divination using...bouncing
pearls. Well. You know where my mind is gonna go...sorry
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State and federal wildlife agencies in California are deploying what they say is the biggest fish-lift in the state's history through this month, rolling out convoys of tanker trucks to transport a generation of hatchery salmon downstream to the San Francisco Bay. California is locked in its driest four-year stretch on record, making the river routes that the salmon normally take to the Pacific Ocean too warm and too shallow for them to survive.
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While we may be familiar with states of matter all around us like solid, liquid and gas (and even plasma) there are a whole slew of weird man-made alternatives that have been discovered in recent decades like supercritical fluids, condensates and degenerate matter, just to name a few. All of these are defined by changes in their temperature, heat capacity and pressure and are not found normally in nature but instead made in the laboratory.
This latest discovery, recently published in the online journal Science Advances, involves something called buckyballs, a pure carbon-lattice that has a spherical molecular structure and looks much like a soccer ball and inherently has superconductivity capabilities. Researchers discovered that when these buckyballs were combined with the metal rubidium, a never-before-created state of matter was made that had both metallic and crystalline structure with enhanced superconductive powers.
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Attorney Bill Quigley said their legal team asked the court on Thursday for their immediate release, arguing that the two years they had already spent in prison was longer than what they would be sentenced for on the remaining charges.
Quigley, who is also a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, said the court ordered their immediate release on Friday until a formal resentencing.
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Russian suspicions of Western intentions have been further heightened because of tensions over the conflict in Ukraine.
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Plain Green charges annual interest rates of up to 379 percent for its loans, which are typically used by low-income borrowers in need of emergency cash. The company is owned by Montana's Chippewa Cree Tribe, which uses the tribal-sovereignty doctrine to ignore states' laws that cap interest rates on payday loans.
The doctrine grants tribes the power of self-government and exempts them from state laws that infringe on that sovereignty, and it gives them immunity in many judicial proceedings.
Non-Indian companies have formed partnerships with tribes to operate the lending operations while benefiting from tribal sovereignty, a setup the lawsuit calls a "rent-a-tribe" scheme. In this case, a company called ThinkCash provided Plain Green with the marketing, funding, underwriting and collection of the loans, according to the lawsuit.
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The budget decisions reflect a pattern in Maryland and across the U.S. of prioritizing spending on incarceration over education-calling to mind what's become known as the "school-to-prison pipeline"-and the elderly over the young.
Spending on prisons nationwide has outpaced spending on schools in many states in recent years, according to a 2014 study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research institution. Though most states still spend more on education than on corrections, budget outlays on prisons and jails is on the rise while spending on schools is declining. The study found that the states making the deepest cuts to K-12 spending-Arizona, Alabama, and Oklahoma-are all among the 10 states with the highest incarceration rates.
Although prisons are more expensive per person than schools, and imprisonment leads to costlier outcomes for criminal offenders compared with those who graduate from high school, such policies have been pushed most heavily in the last couple of decades by politicians who call themselves fiscal conservatives and are members of the Republican Party. Hogan is a Republican, and the Board of Public Works that approved the new jail is part of the executive branch.
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The carcasses of the snow geese were found in March in eastern Idaho, where dozens of state Department of Fish and Game workers and volunteers retrieved and incinerated most of the dead birds to avoid spreading what biologists believed to be avian cholera.
But testing by a state lab of a small number of sample carcasses indicated several of those birds died from zinc phosphide poisoning, while lab results were inconclusive for avian cholera, said Fish and Game spokesman Mike Demick.
Zinc phosphide is a compound found in rodenticides used on cropland. Results from testing have been sent to the Idaho Department of Agriculture for further review, Demick said.
"Basically, they just fell out of the sky," Gregg Losinski, conservation educator for the agency, said at the time.
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Republican US Senator John McCain (R-Get Off My Lawn) has turned down a post as advisor to Ukraine's pro-Western President Petro Poroshenko, saying constitutional constraints prohibited him from accepting.
McCain, who has pressed Washington to send lethal weapons to war-torn Ukraine, rejected the offer to join an advisory council aimed at building global support for Ukraine citing his obligations as a US senator.
"I was honoured to be asked to join Ukraine's International Advisory Council on Reforms, a forum for discussing ways to ensure Ukraine's territorial integrity and security and support the country's democratic future in the face of Russian aggression," McCain said in a statement released on his official website in Washington Thursday.
"However, under provisions of the US Constitution concerning the interaction of Members of Congress with foreign governments, I am obligated to decline the invitation," the statement said.
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