There is lots of lunacy in Walmart parking lots
Most of us have seen those pics of the crazy people that are shopping in Walmart. But the parking lots are just as insane.
This woman was spray-painting her car black in a Walmart parking lot on a windy day.
So a Guy on a Horse Just Lassoed a Bike Thief in a Walmart Parking Lot
A Real Cone of Silence in Washington D.C.
The Environmental Protection Agency is spending nearly $25,000 to construct a secure, soundproof communications booth in the office of Administrator Scott Pruitt, according to government contracting records.
“What you are referring to is a secured communication area in the administrator’s office so secured calls can be received and made,” EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said in a statement. “Federal agencies need to have one of these so that secured communications, not subject to hacking from the outside, can be held. It’s called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). This is something which a number, if not all, Cabinet offices have and EPA needs to have updated.”
It would look something like this:
Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma who is the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Nominated for the EPA position by President Donald Trump, Pruitt was confirmed by the United States Senate to lead the EPA on February 17, 2017.
Pruitt represented Tulsa and Wagoner Counties in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 until 2006. In 2010, Pruitt was elected Attorney General of Oklahoma. In that role, he opposed abortion rights, same-sex marriage, the Affordable Care Act, and environmental regulations as a self-described “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.” In his campaigns for Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt received major corporate and employee campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, taking in at least $215,574 between 2010 and 2014, even though he ran unopposed in the latter year. As Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Pruitt sued the Environmental Protection Agency at least 14 times regarding the agency’s actions. In 2012, Pruitt was elected as chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association, and re-elected for a second term in February 2013.
Pruitt rejects the scientific consensus that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are a primary contributor to climate change, and has falsely claimed there is no scientific consensus on climate change. As EPA administrator, Pruitt reversed and delayed numerous environmental rules, relaxed enforcement of existing rules, and halted the agency’s efforts to combat climate change.
From the 1960’s TV spy comedy ‘Get Smart’ the Cone of Silence. Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, always wanted to use the Cone of Silence when what he thought was sensitive information was going to be discussed with the Chief.
Portable Cone of Silence
Hold on to your hats. The World is suppose to end tomorrow!
End of the world on April 23?
A slew of numerologists and other assorted nuts are predicting Monday, April 23 will be the day the world ends.
How the tin-hat brigade came to believe this day will be the end was quite a journey.
So far there are two theories: Planet X (honest) is going to slam into earth or it will be the second coming of Jesus Christ.
One of doyennes of the doomsday scenario is David Meade, however, he’s taking April 23 off the table. Think sometime between May and December is when we’ll be obliterated.
Meade — a prominent conspiracy enthusiast — is warning something called “Nibiru” is now among us.
“The Book of Revelation states that men will approach Armageddon on horseback.
“Nibiru is here and the earth will be prepared for the next event on its calendar,” he told the Daily Express.
“That’s all in the Book of Revelation, too.”
And hopefully, you have your act together because Meade thinks the souls of the righteous will ascend to heaven. The unworthy? Well, it looks like “the pits of hell” for us.
But before the Rapture, look to seven lousy years of horror and suffering hammering the planet from one end to the other.
After that, the survivors are supposedly sailing because the Kingdom of Christ will apparently establish a 1,000-year-long reign of “peace and prosperity,” Meade claims.
“So the world isn’t ending anytime soon – in our lifetimes, anyway!” the prophet proclaimed.
Meade had previously predicted the earth would end on Sept. 23, 2017. That one was slated to be a Planet X hit job but it never materialized.
However, boffins are unconvinced.
Jonathan McDowell — an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics — mocked Meade’s claims, calling them “a hoax.”
“I don’t know what to say except that it’s nonsense,” he told the Express. “Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims.”
This Rapture thing looks like fun.
Smokey
Smoke rises at the 4.20 marijuana rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Today’s Pics
Mr. Jack
Moscow
Hong Kong
Somewhere in Russia
Unknown location
Verne Troyer (Mini Me, just passed away) and Chewbacca actor Joonas Suotamo
Empire State Building
Dubai
Yellow Submarine
Gas station
Winnipeg Jets street party
Jets fans
Assiniboine River in Winnipeg meltdown
Syrian War Tunnels
BBC
Syria ‘chemical’ attack: Douma’s warren of war tunnels revealed
Bomb-proof tunnels big enough to drive down: the war-torn Syrian town of Douma has been yielding up its secrets since rebels abandoned it this month after the suspected government chemical attack there.
The tunnels, fitted with electric lights, snake under the town.
The impressive structures have reinforced walls and are paved in places.
EPA
Exits to the daylight world quickly reveal why people sheltered so deeply underground.
EPA
Much of the former opposition bastion has been reduced to rubble.
Charles Bukowski on Drinking
Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, in the LA underground newspaper Open City.
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
“‘I think I need a drink.’ ‘Almost everybody does only they don’t know it.'”
“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn’t dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren’t thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”
“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn’t become obvious yourself.”
“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
“‘What? You mean you’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?’ ‘That’s when you need a drink the most.'”
The People that Live on the Sea
The Sama-Bajau refers to several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia with their origins from the southern Philippines. They usually live a seaborne lifestyle, and use small wooden sailing vessels.
The Sama-Bajau are traditionally from the many islands of the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines, coastal areas of Mindanao, northern and eastern Borneo, the Celebes, and throughout eastern Indonesian islands. In the Philippines, they are grouped together with the religiously-similar Moro people. Within the last 50 years, many of the Filipino Sama-Bajau have migrated to neighbouring Malaysia and the northern islands of the Philippines, due to the conflict in Mindanao. As of 2010, they were the second-largest ethnic group in the Malaysian state of Sabah.
Sama-Bajau have sometimes been called the “Sea Gypsies” or “Sea Nomads”, terms that have also been used for non-related ethnic groups with similar traditional lifestyles, such as the Moken of the Burmese-Thai Mergui Archipelago and the Orang Laut of southeastern Sumatra and the Riau Islands of Indonesia. The modern outward spread of the Sama-Bajau from older inhabited areas seems to have been associated with the development of sea trade in sea cucumber (trepang).
A few Sama-Bajau still live traditionally. They live in houseboats which generally accommodates a single nuclear family (usually five people). The houseboats travel together in flotillas with houseboats of immediate relatives (a family alliance) and co-operate during fishing expeditions and in ceremonies. A married couple may choose to sail with the relatives of the husband or the wife. They anchor at common mooring points (called sambuangan) with other flotillas (usually also belonging to extended relatives) at certain times of the year.
Flotilla
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