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Weekend At Biden's

No to Joe.

 

Heeere's Johnny!

Too bad the guy's gone, but he's still funnier than the current crop of late-night hosts.

 

 

Mutant Crawdads!

Ahh, Science!

Escaped self-cloning mutant crayfish created in experimental breeding programmes have invaded a Belgian cemetery.

"It's impossible to round up all of them. It's like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble," said Kevin Scheers, of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research.

Well, at least they're not mutant ninja turtles.

 

 

Anthropodermic Books

Yes...books bound in human skin.

In January of 1869, Dr. John Stockton Hough stooped over an autopsy table to examine the emaciated corpse of Mary Lynch.

When Dr. Hough opened Lynch's chest cavity to inspect her tuberculosis-wracked lungs, he noticed an unusual cyst in her pectorals. Under a microscope, his vision swam as countless tiny worms wriggled around. Lynch was the first known case of trichinosis in Philadelphia.

However, Dr. Hough is not most famous for this discovery but, rather, for what he did immediately afterward: He cut a slice of Lynch's skin from her thighs and preserved it in a chamber pot. Decades later, Dr. Hough used this preserved human skin to bind three of his most prized books, all of which dealt with women's health.

Everybody's got to have a hobby....

 

No Fear

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gerald, the inordinately aggressive turkey that forced the closure of Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden, is off to greener (albeit less rosy) pastures. The solution to this months-long saga was quite similar to the problem that started it, when a wildlife capture expert posed as a frail, old woman to lure Gerald in. (His preferred victims seem to be older women, according to complaints to Oakland Animal Services.)

Sorry, folks - closed due to turkey attack.

 

Oregon Skyline

Yep, that's one of our fires, to the west.

Gifts From Northern Idaho

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho. (AP) — Health officials say people with COVID-19 in Northern Idaho soon may have to be sent to Seattle or Portland, Oregon, because the region's hospitals are nearing capacity. Kootenai Health hospital said in a statement Wednesday that their hospital is at 99% capacity for patients that need medical or surgical care. As of Wednesday morning, Kootenai Health had 31 COVID-19 inpatients and 11 required critical care. 

Do they only have one hospital in all of Idaho? If so, it seems that they've not done a very good job of planning ahead for health emergencies.

 

Score One For The Little Guys

Over the summer, the co-owner of Taste of Sicily — an Italian restaurant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania — made headlines when he defied left-wing Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 shutdown mandates and scoffed at the $10,000 in fines that came along with them.

 

“Some rob you with a gun, while others rob you with a pen,” co-owner Mike Mangano declared to PennLive at the time, referring to Wolf. “We ain’t paying crap.” “There’s absolutely no fear here. We’re going to continue to come to work, and the governor ain’t going to do anything about it.” 

Taste of Sicily took the matter up in court — and won. Judge Carl Garvey ruled the family business was unconstitutionally cited and the restaurant was found not guilty, the station said, adding that Winter noted Taste of Sicily’s owners won’t have to pay any fines, and they’re waiting for a hearing date against the Department of Agriculture.

Unsurprisingly, the governor says he plans to appeal the decision.

Of course, the governor's using tax dollars to pursue his vendetta, while the restaurant owners are using their own money.

The joint had been shut down for quite a while; owners and employees - unlike the governor - actually had to earn a living, and so they re-opened. Good for them! It's past time that ordinary people were able to tell the politicians to take a hike.

 

Found On The Net

Covid-19 May Be Stoppable

On Wednesday, Anika Chebrolu from Frisco, Texas was named the winner of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge after discovering a molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-COV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. Her discovery could lead to important developments in COVID-19 research. By binding to the spike protein in the coronavirus, the molecule she found can potentially prevent virus entry into the host cell, and can be used in creating a potential drug to cure COVID-19.

She's 14 years old, and was working on a school science project. Kids these days....