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Dallas Fishing Outlook: Excellent For Brown Trout

DALLAS - About 1 million gallons of raw sewage spill is flowing toward White Rock Lake in Dallas, known as the crown jewel of the Dallas parks system.

Soon to become known as the brown jewel....

 

The Injustice Collector

The whack-job who shot up the newsroom in Maryland yesterday has been described by a long-time FBI profiler as an "injustice collector", meaning that every perceived slight is continually re-lived. Forgetting about it isn't a concept that he understands. It doesn't matter whether these slights are real or imagined; he hangs onto them regardless.

If you've seen his mug-shot, you know he's as looney-looking as Charlie Manson was.

 

Reset The Clock

A shooting has occurred at the Capital Gazette in Anne Arundel County, a paper that is owned by The Baltimore Sun, according to reports from Gazette staff. Multiple people evidently have been shot, no fatalities yet confirmed.

Weapon was reportedly a shotgun.

UPDATE: 5 dead, several others "gravely injured".

Suspect is in custody.

 

Occupy Meets DHS In Portland

DHS is currently clearing the front of the building, arresting the people who were chained up and threatening people with felony charges. We are here holding shit down and we’re not going anywhere. Arrest us today, we’ll grow stronger tomorrow! #OccupyICEPDX

Yeah, right. Very nice to see the feds stepping in, finally, to remove the trash.

At least nine protesters were arrested as authorities broke up part of the protest camp surrounding Southwest Portland's Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters early Thursday morning.

The "protesters" wakeup call came around 6 a.m. today. Hope it didn't make any of them late for work. Or, heaven forbid, disrupt their bowel movements.

 

Whoops.

It was a "controlled burn", right up until it wasn't.

Faron Bryant looks over his property after wildfires swept through his neighborhood on Ridge Road in Eastpoint, Fla., Monday, June 25, 2018. Bryant's home only lost its siding, but his workshop, a truck and boat were destroyed.

36 other homes were destroyed. Florida blames a contractor and extends its heartfelt apologies. As my longtime work-mate opined after Oregon torched his acreage: "Controlled burn, my ass!"

Here in the Northwest:

SILVERDALE, Wash. -- An Auburn couple were the proud new owners of a travel trailer Tuesday afternoon. For all of 20 minutes.

They broke it after they bought it, so....

That has to be some sort of record. Maybe if you buy a travel trailer, you drive slowly at first.

 

Unbearable

Apparently, efforts to fight global cooling/global warming/climate change have kind of backfired over in Europe:

A shortfall of CO2 in Europe comes at a time of excitement over the World Cup soccer tournament and amid peak season for summer barbecues. On Tuesday, Tesco-owned food wholesaler Booker started to ration beer and cider supplies. The food retailer, which is used by bars, restaurants and traders, is restricting customers to 10 cases of beer and five of cider or soft drinks. The drinks industry is not the only one to have been hampered by the crisis. CO2 is also an essential part of the production process for packaging meat.

So what do you want: beer, cider, soft drinks and meat - or ridding the planet of evil CO2?

And a vacation in the Canary Islands went terribly wrong for one guy:

A man who caused a Transavia flight that originated in the Spanish island of Gran Canaria to make an emergency landing in Portugal has died from tissue necrosis, De Telegraaf reported. The male passenger, now identified as Russian rock musician Andrey Suchilin, purportedly smelled so strongly that others on the flight began fainting and vomiting before the plane could touch down at the Netherlands' Schiphol Airport.

He was 58, and apparently contracted an infection of necrotizing bacteria while on vacation in the islands.

Another reason to stay the heck away from Florida:

It's sea lice season down there. Again. They're kind of irritating, causing itchy rashes and bumps.

The sea lice are actually tiny jellyfish larvae and cells, Dave Greenwood, the director of public safety for Pensacola beaches, told the Pensacola News Journal. “It’s just one of those you have to deal with when you go into the Gulf of Mexico. You are a land animal and the Gulf is not our native environment.”

If you must go for a swim in the Gulf at this time of year, it's probably best to go naked, as they tend to get caught in bathing suits and under T-shirts. There's probably some sort of law against that, though.

 

The Breakfast Club

Simple minds is what we have in Portland - they elected a high-school dropout to the city council. It shows.

This was done in 1985, and I've watched a couple of times. Well worth it - unlike the simple minds at Portland City Council.

Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage

Aren't they wonderful?

The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia will remain closed until July 5 in the wake of continued controversy over the owner and staff kicking White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders out after she and her family had been seated for dinner Friday night, Fox News reported Tuesday night.

Dang. Who'd have thunk it?

Oh, they've also disconnected the phone there.

Answering machine must not have been able to handle all of the requests for reservations....

 

Well, There's That, Too

At Least They Died Happy

(CNN)The collapse of a warehouse wall at a distillery in Kentucky didn't just send 9,000 bourbon barrels crashing to the ground. The accident last Friday also killed hundreds of fish when bourbon leaked into nearby waterways, state officials said.

There's 53 gallons of bourbon in each barrel. That's around 495,000 gallons of bourbon.

The dead fish were mostly minnows, but state inspectors also found smaller numbers of catfish, suckers, darters, gar and small largemouth bass.

No big loss, in other words, but the producer still gets slapped with hefty fines.

Barton 1792 bourbon may be going on sale really soon.