Last year we posted on the invasion of women's spaces and particularly sports by men who were undergoing sex changes .....
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| The Picture That Told The Story Of The Race .... |
.... and the threat this woke movement and its 'straight' backers. were creating to women's rights, safe spaces, and progress.
I genuinely thought that I had come across every version of the Roswell crash incident ....
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| Roswell Daily Record |
As of 2014, the Catholic church had defrocked 848 priests
over the previous decade, and doled out lesser punishments to another
2,572 .....
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| Priests And Money Can Be Bad Mix |
These priests had nearly all been accused of committing the most serious of charges, namely of raping and molesting children or other concerning behaviours, but there were also some others defrocked for crimes.
The suburb of Gresham in Portland Oregon has been plagued by some sort of anti-eco lumberjack ...
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| Gresham Tree Attacks |
.... who has been cutting down trees - around 700 trees in the area and counting for no apparent reason.
Three drug smugglers had to be rescued ...
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| Columbian Cocaine Smugglers ..... |
... after the trio's boat had sunk in the high seas, forcing them to use their cocaine packs as floaties.
Even though I am by inclination a centre right leaning kinda political animal .....
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| Under Every Stone ..... |
Florida is the state that just keeps giving .....
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| The Man, The Bus And The Deer |
... even when its residents are not actually in the state.
Coopers Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, is the scene of a quintessentially British sport ....
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| Race Location |
.... where every year (Covid restrictions not withstanding) hundreds of contestants chase a 7lb (3kg) Double Gloucester cheese down the nearly vertical hill.
Now the inhabitants of New York are used to seeing (and smelling) some strange things in a city that never sleeps, and that has a lot of street life and crime .... and garbage strikes ....
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| New York Garbage Strikes Are Common |
.... after all, the The Five Families didn't always clean up after a hit.
We have discussed cats up trees, once or twice before on this blog ....
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| Dead Cats Up Trees Are Rare |
.... to whit, whether cats were or are really stuck up trees or not, and if they are, why don't we see dead cats in trees? ... the jury is out on that question, although as the fire department points out, it does seem strange that they can get up, but not come down.
Apparently 10 per cent of cabbies in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe ......
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| Kissing Banned In Some Taxi Cabs |
...... have banned kissing in their taxis.
In a tale that shows just how pernicious the drug trade has become ....
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| The Drugs Seized From Monk Arsara, In Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar In 2017 |
.... its been reported that even Buddhist monks are not immune from the influences of the drug trade.
"Despite outliving every dog in history, his 11,478 days on earth would never be enough, for those who loved him ...."
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| 'Bobi' The Longest Lived Dog. |
These were the words from veterinarian Dr Karen Becker, that let the world know that 'Bobi', the worlds oldest ever recorded dog had passed away on the 21st of October 2023.
In China, traditionally children have cared for their elderly parents ...
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| Elderly Care China |
But with an ageing population and fewer young people to care for their parents, with a phenomenon known as “4-2-1” .... where a family may consist of four grandparents, two parents, and a single child there is a growing strain in some families ....
When we think of religious extremism these days ....
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| ISIS Flag Burning |
... most of us think of Islam, with ISIS and the Taliban fresh in our minds.
