TUESDAY #2102

NEWSY BITS...

I nominate ISIS to take the airstrike challenge.

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Ever wonder why there are so many football injuries?

I think there is a rule about that.

This is a kickoff return...

The kicker attempts to make the tackle and gets a shoe to the face. The returner literally ran over the guy.

Team loyalty...

 Note that the two states with a menagerie of teams is South Carolina and Florida.
But why would Hawaii be Seahawk fans?

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Everyone's talking about tomorrow's supermoon—how big, bright, and beautiful it will be. It's always the same. But how big is it going to be, exactly? This image shows how much the moon size varies in the sky from its perigee (it's closest point to Earth) to its apogee (the furthest point from Earth.)
If you ask me, that's a huge difference.

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Police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes.

An owner of a small barbecue restaurant in Staunton, Va., was stunned when police took $17,550 from him during a stop in 2012 for a minor traffic infraction on Interstate 66 in Fairfax. He rejected a settlement with the government for half of his money and demanded a jury trial. He eventually got his money back but lost his business because he didn’t have the cash to pay his overhead.

I've been writing about this for a while. Remember, the people were charged with no crime...their money was just taken anyway. As I understand it, many areas fund upgrades to their police by these takings. It's a disgrace.
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I have no idea what that is about, I just thought it was weird that a Canadian would do something like that.

FYI - I like today's post.

Geologists found evidence that oxygen-producing life existed on Earth some 3.02 billion years ago--60 million years earlier than previously thought.
Ya'll might want to write this shit down.

Yes, this works...

...but if he had gotten his device trapped, it would have broken his arm.

If you don't know what this means, I'm very, very proud of you...

 HAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAH!!!

My goal this week is to move just enough each day that no one pokes me to see if I’m dead.

That was written as a joke. I think it's beautiful. 

 I wonder how many people know there are four states of matter. Plasma happens when the atoms are torn apart...mostly by heat.

My wife before and after she has a massage....

She walks in the back door and I say, "Have you had a massage?" and she says, "How did you know?"....TRUE.

Guys, when a woman is mad, just tell her she’s overreacting and she will realize you’re right and calm right down.

Watched a lecture concerning birth rates. Here are a couple of facts...

 When it gets down to 1.3, then your culture is doomed.

 You might want to research that.

What I lack in ambition I make up for with idleness.

I’ve started referring to myself as a free spirit, because it sounds classier than out of control drunken asshole.

A few that were almost too silly for a quality rag like this...

And you will never look at it the same again.

Wow!

You could die at any moment. 
Stop and smell the….TIME’S UP!

You know that look you get on your face when forced to participate in workplace team building exercises? I more or less have that expression permanantly.

 The passenger pigeon is an extinct North American bird. Named after the French word passager for 'passing by.' it was once the most abundant bird in North America, and possibly the world. The extinction of the passenger pigeon had two major causes: commercial exploitation of pigeon meat on a massive scale and loss of habitat. A captive-bred female passenger pigeon named Martha (photo above) was the last of her kind. On September 1, 1914, Martha died in the Cincinnati Zoo.

 Well, this changes everything...

You people who just drink one beer…what’s that like?

Yeah, I got a thing for lightning...

I’m just taking life one Bud Light at a time.

In British-ruled, cobra-infested India, a bounty was offered for cobra-skins, so enterprising folks started breeding cobras, leading to the program's cancellation, whereupon all those farmed cobras were released into the wild, a net increase in cobra population...TRUE.

One Of My Very Own...

My wife signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing. Hell…if she had any loose-fitting clothes she wouldn’t need an exercise class.

Supposedly, taking a friend with you increases your chances of success. My wife took her bartender....and that is 100% factual.

Good luck, my friend...

The growing stones aren't just unique because of its ability to multiply. These rocks are composed mainly by a hard stone core and the rest is made up of sand which forms around the core as its shell. Trovants can only be made by highly-porous sand accumulations and sandstone deposits that are cemented by waters rich in calcium carbonate.

My wife hires many young black women. A couple of them flat out stated that they only dated white guys. 

This man talked my wife in to loaning him $150.

 He signed a contract and everything. Then he told us he got a job at Amazon on the night shift. Then he was arrested for attempted murder....for the second time. He also once tried to rob a bank by taking a taxi to the bank. He has dozens of other arrests, but IS STILL ON THE STREET.

My wife and I help a lot of needy people and we try very hard not to let disappointments like him jade us out of giving....but it's hard...real hard.

Have you ever made yourself a margarita in your kid’s Slushie machine? I have no regrets.

Just a little cultural juxtaposition thing...

Don't we all, dearie, don't we all...

Never judge people by the color of their skin unless they clearly have a spray-on tan.

Cut outs, by Pejac...

Does this dust on my treadmill make me look fat?

Photography...

Freedom of religion also means I get to practice witchcraft and you can’t fucking burn me for it.

One would hope so.

People were less fatigued during attention-demanding work when they had a plant on their desk....TRUE.

Have you ever seriously considered registering as a sex offender just to keep the neighbors’ kids out of your yard?

Drinking habits...

When students were instructed to read material so they could teach others, they learned more than when they read with the intention of learning as well as they could.

A new, better, horseshoe...

Ain't science nice?

This man knows dogs...

No, really, I'm impressed.

TRUE: While sitting at a redlight in the middle of nowhere, I watched two very old ladies walk to a pickup where one old woman stopped at the passenger door. The other old woman walked to the back of the truck, hefted a concrete block, took it to the front door and let the other woman use it as a step to get in the truck. She then hefted it back and put it in the bed. I will never forget that.

I've gotten comments concerning my lack of credit for my sources. There is just no way I can attach a link to each site per image...sorry. The best I can do is share my most visited sites. I like them a lot.

I plan to include this list with each post. 
Do with it what you wish.