[CBSNEWS] FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a Florida liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue center and was released unharmed.
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge officials say the opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach, Florida, police officer on Nov. 24. A liquor store employee found the animal next to a broken and empty bottle of bourbon.
"A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it," said Michelle Pettis, a technician at the refuge. "She definitely wasn't fully acting normal."
Pettis told the Northwest Florida Daily News the female opossum appeared disoriented, was excessively salivating and was pale. The staff pumped the marsupial full of fluids and cared for her as she sobered up.
"We loaded her up with fluids to help flush out any alcohol toxins," Pettis said. "She was good a couple of days later."
Pettis says the opossum did not appear to have a hangover.
The store owner, Cash Moore, says he never had an opossum break in before.
"She came in from the outside and was up in the rafters, and when she came through she knocked a bottle of liquor off the shelf," Moore said. "When she got down on the floor she drank the whole damn bottle."
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I see the beginnings of a glorious ad campaign:
"I don't often drink, but when I do, I drink bourbon."
-- The World's Most Interesting Marsupial
[FOXNEWS] ABC News announced Saturday that Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross had been suspended for four weeks without pay over a botched "exclusive" about former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Ross' suspension is effective immediately. ABC News spokeswoman Heather Riley would not comment on whether anyone else had been suspended in connection with the error.
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I'm sure Soros will more than make up for his lost wages...
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I've wondered the very same thing about Federal Reserve manipulation of the NYSE CF. Raise the rates, don't raise the rates. Raise the rates, don't raise the rates.
People who lost money when the Stock Market went down 350 points based on the False and Dishonest reporting of Brian Ross of @ABC News (he has been suspended), should consider hiring a lawyer and suing ABC for the damages this bad reporting has caused - many millions of dollars!
6:15 AM - Dec 3, 2017
The LSM has no problem going after businesses and industries that screw over the public. Make it their turn for QA failures.
"ABC News president James Goldston excoriated staff Monday over Brian Ross' major error on a report about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and announced that Ross, the network's chief investigative reporter, will no longer cover stories related to President Trump."
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Lost cost bidder or politically affiliated bidder?
Adamo Group out of Detroit did the implosion. It looked like a dud to me but WXYZ Detroit says otherwise.
According to the city, the first implosion will break the metal beams that are used to keep the roof inflated at the perimeter of the stadium.
The rest of the demolition will be conducted in phases over the next year, using hydraulic excavators to break up materials and a vacuuming process to pick up the pieces.
Adamo says:
It could still fall, but the timetable is uncertain, said officials with Detroit-based Adamo Group, the demolition company.
Ten percent of the explosive charges failed to go off because of a wiring problem, said Rick Cuppetilli, executive vice president with Adamo. These were in eight key locations.
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Pontiac. Wiring. GM ignition systems. Somewhere there is a joke hidden in all this. If you can work something in about the beautiful Aztek (not!) extra bonus points).
Although some of those fractures are bigger than others; could this be the rebirth of the Wide-Crack Pontiac???
[PRESSTV] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced that his country will be introducing a new cryptocurrency to battle the US financial "blockade."
Will they print it on plain paper using their computer printers?
"Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency... the 'petro,' to advance in issues of monetary illusory sovereignty, to make financial transactions and overcome the financial blockade," said Maduro in his weekly televised broadcast on Sunday.
He added that it will be backed by natural resources reserves without providing further details.
I thought their oil reserves were mortgaged to China a few years ago. What else can they use as backing — the annual coca crop?
The announcement drew widespread scorn from the economically-crippled country's opposition, who voiced doubt over Venezuela's ability to launch of a cryptocurrency.
The country's own currency, the bolivar, has lost around 57 percent in the last month alone.
Maduro's move comes at a time that the cryptocurrency known as bitcoin has soared to an all-time high of well above $11,000 on major exchanges and digital currency indexes.
Created in 2009, bitcoin uses encryption and a blockchain database that enables the fast and anonymous transfer of funds outside of a traditional centralized payment system.
It has increased more than 10-fold in value so far this year, posting the largest gain of all asset classes, amid increased institutional demand for crypto-currencies as financial and mainstream use has expanded.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... Representatives of the Venezuelan government and opposition have made "significant advances" in negotiations aimed at resolving the country’s political and economic crisis.
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Cryptocurrency Fraud (Wikipedia) (This is right up a corrupt governments ally).
On August 6, 2013, Magistrate Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas federal court ruled that because cryptocurrency (expressly bitcoin) can be used as money (it can be used to purchase goods and services, pay for individual living expenses, and exchanged for conventional currencies), it is a currency or form of money. This ruling allowed for the SEC to have jurisdiction over cases of securities fraud involving cryptocurrency.[42]
GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform, suddenly shut down on October 26, 2013. Subscribers, unable to log in, lost up to $5 million worth of bitcoin.[43][44]
In February 2014, cryptocurrency made national headlines due to the world's largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, declaring bankruptcy. The company stated that it had lost nearly $473 million of their customer's bitcoins likely due to theft. This was equivalent to approximately 750,000 bitcoins, or about 7% of all the bitcoins in existence. Due to this crisis, among other news, the price of a bitcoin fell from a high of about $1,160 in December to under $400 in February.[45]
On March 31, 2015, two now-former agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Secret Service were charged with wire fraud, money laundering and other offenses for allegedly stealing bitcoin during the federal investigation of Silk Road, an underground illicit black market federal prosecutors shut down in 2013.[46]
On December 1, 2015, the owner of the now-defunct GAW Miners website was accused of securities fraud following his development of the cryptocurrency known as Paycoin. He is accused of masterminding an elaborate ponzi scheme under the guise of "cloud mining" with mining equipment hosted in a data center. He purported the cloud miners known as "hashlets" to be mining cryptocurrency within the Zenportal "cloud" when in fact there were no miners actively mining cryptocurrency. Zenportal had over 10,000 users that had purchased hashlets for a total of over 19 million U.S. dollars.[47][48]
On August 24, 2016, a federal judge in Florida certified a class action lawsuit[49] against defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy and Cryptsy's owner. He is accused of misappropriating millions of dollars of user deposits, destroying evidence, and is believed to have fled to China.[50]
On November 21, 2017, an online company (Tether) which backs bitcoin cryptocurrency with fiat currency claims they were hacked, losing $31 million in USTD from their primary wallet.[51] The company has 'tagged' the stolen currency, hoping to 'lock' them in the hacker's wallet (making them unspendable). Tether indicates that it is building a new core for its primary wallet in response to the attack in order to prevent the stolen coins from being used.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Six of the most advanced American stealth fighter jets arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a new round of war games aimed at North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, according to local reports.
The Defense Department sent the F-22 Raptors to participate in a four-day joint military exercise in South Korea. The games are taking place just days after North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears capable of reaching the eastern seaboard of the U.S.
"It will be the first time for six F-22 stealth fighter planes to fly over South Korea at one time," according to Yonhap News Agency. "The U.S. also plans to send F-35A and F-35B stealth jets, F-16C fighter planes and others including an unspecified number of B-1B bombers. The South Korean Air Force will dispatch F-15K, KF-16 and F-5 fighter jets and other planes for the exercises with about 230 aircraft at eight U.S. and South Korean military installations being mobilized."
North Korean state media touted last week’s missile as being able to carry a "super-large heavy warhead, which is capable of striking the whole mainland of the U.S." The regime has pursued the nuclear weapons systems in order to help assure against an American and South Korean invasion of the north.
But North Korea also hopes to use the threat of a nuclear attack on the U.S. to force a withdrawal of American forces from South Korea, according to a former diplomat who defected from the regime. In dictator Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s mind, the defector said, that U.S. withdrawal would set the stage for a northern invasion of South Korea.
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[Breitbart] Volunteers have criticised the Red Cross charity after receiving a communication telling them to remove crucifixes from the walls of their branches as the organisation looks to become more secular.
The Belgian branches of the international aid organisation received an email from the Provincial Committee of the Red Cross in Liège to remove all crucifixes. André Rouffart, president of the Red Cross in Verviers, said: "We were asked to respect the principles of the Red Cross", and not to distinguish between race or religious belief 7sur7 reports.
Mr. Rouffart said there had been pushback from volunteers and other members on the issue but downplayed the issue, saying: "I think it’s a storm in a teacup."
Several volunteers spoke to Belgian broadcaster RTL and expressed hostility to the move, with one saying: "Let things remain as they are. We used to say ’Christmas holidays’, now it’s ’winter holidays’. The Christmas market in Brussels has become the ’Winter Pleasures’." And yet another reason my support goes to The Salvation Army.
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Well, get rid of that Red Cross logo, you fucksticks.
New game. What logo should they use to replace it?
[DAWN] Eight people, including four Arab nationals and a senior district council official, have been enjugged You have the right to remain silent... for being involved in illegal hunting of migrating houbara bustard birds in an area near the Pak-Afghan border in Nushki district.
Official sources said on Saturday that the personnel of Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...anti-smuggling operations.... deployed at a checkpoint in the Omer Shah area close to the border signalled a convoy of vehicles moving towards the border to stop. When people in the convoy ignored the signal and tried to escape, the personnel opened fire on them forcing them to stop. As a result, one person in the convoy was injured.
The personnel took all the people in the convoy into custody and shifted them to Nushki.
A security official said that the arrested people included four foreigners ‐ three from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and one from Oman. The other four were District Council Nushki’s vice chairman Muhammad Khalil and three local people, he added.
The sources said that the arrested men were going for illegal hunting of houbara bustard because they had no permit from the government for it.
They said the foreigners reached Nushki from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on the invitation of Mr Khalil. They said the foreigners were later shifted to Quetta for further investigation.
The injured was identified as Muhammad Yaqoob, a local man.
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I've never understood. What is so desirable about sending falcons after these birds?
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When mankind in Heaven has mustered
To spy on this cluster, unflustered,
They'll see but a scarab
And maybe an Arab
Nonplussed as he's cussed by a bustard.
[USAToday] Neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider racked up more than a dozen malpractice claims and settlements in two states, including cases alleging he made surgical mistakes that left patients maimed, paralyzed or dead.
He was accused of costing one patient bladder and bowel control after placing spinal screws incorrectly, he allegedly left another paralyzed from the waist down after placing a device improperly in his spinal canal. The state of Wyoming revoked his medical license after another surgical patient died.
Schneider then applied for a job earlier this year at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was forthright in his application about the license revocation and other malpractice troubles.
But the VA hired him anyway.
He started work in April at a hospital that serves 184,000 veterans in 50 counties in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
Some of his patients already have suffered complications. Schneider performed four brain surgeries in a span of four weeks on one 65-year-old veteran who died in August, according to interviews with Schneider and family members. He has performed three spine surgeries on a 77-year-old Army veteran since July ‐ the last two to try and clean up a lumbar infection from the first, the patient said.
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My Czech GP, my urologist, my opti man, oral surgeon, and dentist are all millionaires. Why would anyone with talent work for the gov't. Oh wait. :-(
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...on that line. Remember, there's the upper half of the graduating class and a bottom half. Where do the latter go to work? Oh, and the AMA has worked damn hard for decades in keeping the (supply) number of graduates to a minimum in order to make sure the market prices are as high as possible.
[The Hill] NFL player protests continued during the national anthem prior to Sunday’s early games, despite a league agreement to fund player activism efforts.
At least 20 players demonstrated during or after the national anthem on Sunday, The Associated Press reported. Three players for the San Francisco 49ers and three Miami Dolphins players took a knee during the anthem before the teams’ respective games.
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Tyus Bowser knelt for the first few verses of the national anthem, then stood for the rest, as he has done previously this season.
Tennessee Titans wide receiver Rishard Matthews, who has stayed off the field for the anthem before, was inactive on Sunday, but did not appear on the field prior to the game.
Three other Titans players raised their fists over their heads after the song concluded.
In light of the underwhelming support of the NFL of recent, they might want to re-think that jerseys strategy. And I'm certain the telethons will be something to behold.
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Let those players fund their own activism if they feel so strongly about it. They certainly make enough money. And boot them out of the league if they don't respect the national anthem.
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Honestly at this point, the NFL should FIRE all of it's players and start with completely new ones on new contracts stating that anyone kneeling or doing other stupid moronic crap during the anthem is automatically held in breach of contract and not only fired but liable to pay back all money taken prior to that point.
"Last week, the NFL offered kneelers a massive payout to stop their protesting, and this week 49ers safety Eric Reid revealed where the money is coming from.
Reid claims that the league’s proposed initiative to shell out $89 million to social justice causes is actually going to come from breast cancer awareness and military support funds.
Yes, that means that the NFL would be stealing cash from veterans–the very people whom they also don’t support during the national anthem.
Of course, the NFL has tried to dispute this claim."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CBSNEWS] FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a Florida liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue center and was released unharmed.
North Korea
[DAWN] Eight people, including four Arab nationals and a senior district council official, have been 
[USAToday] Neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider racked up more than a dozen malpractice claims and settlements in two states, including cases alleging he made surgical mistakes that left patients maimed, paralyzed or dead.
[The Hill] NFL player protests continued during the national anthem prior to Sunday’s early games, despite a league agreement to fund player activism efforts.
