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D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

Matrimonial attorneys across the nation have prepared for this January, when divorce filings peak.

Out with the old, in with the new, it seems.

"'Till death do us part" is outdated, apparently. Now it's "until debt do us part", or more often, "I'm just tired of you". More often than not, it's the wife who initiates things, so the husband is often in blissful ignorance until she drops the hammer and demands half or more of everything. And she'll likely get it, too, as courts rule in favor of the poor woman far more often than they do for the dumbfounded man.

They love to start that around the first of the year. Exactly why remains unclear at the moment, though guesses abound.

Researchers examined divorce filings from 2001 to 2015 in the state of Washington and determined that filings did indeed increase in January, compared to December.

 

Why The Price Of Hamburger Keeps Increasing

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Grocery stores now have "digital teams"?

 

DEA Unleashed

BOSTON (WCAX) Hundreds of people are under arrest and millions of dollars' worth of drugs were seized before they could be sold across New England. The Drug Enforcement Administration is showcasing the results of its latest drug operation that spanned six states: Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

This all happened in a two-week span. The DEA says it brought all of its resources to bear.

They seized a lot of drugs-- more than 75 kilos of fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana, and 7,800 fentanyl pills. The DEA says that would sell on the streets for about $2.5 million.

They also got 51 firearms and $1.2 million in cash.

645 folks were arrested.

Vermont, in particular, has a long history of illegal narcotics trafficking; mostly heroin and meth, though New Hampshire has been giving them a run for their money over the past few years.

Fentanyl seems to be the hot new trend on the drug scene, probably because it's easy to make and inexpensive to acquire.

 

When It Absolutely, Positively HAS To Be There

UPS to the rescue!

A group of United Parcel Service (UPS) employees are accused of smuggling shipments of drugs and counterfeit vaping oils from Mexico and distributing the illicit products around the U.S. for at least a decade.

Authorities arrested 11 people, including four UPS drivers and supervisors, in Tucson, Ariz., for their roles in the alleged smuggling ring, the Department of Homeland Security said. Investigators say the suspects moved thousands of pounds of marijuana and other drugs into the U.S. from Mexico each week using the company's standard cardboard boxes, bypassing security measures.

Raul Garcia Cordova, 47, faces more than a dozen charges. A police raid at his home turned up 50,000 counterfeit vaping pens, a Chevrolet Corvette and a Range Rover.

Obviously, crime paid somewhat more than the standard UPS job.

Right up until it didn't....

 

Dis-Comfort Animals

WASHINGTON — It seemed, in retrospect, a bit of a low point — a medium-size dog racing through an airplane at 30,000 feet, spraying diarrhea toward passengers throughout the cabin.

But according to some transportation officials, it was an increasingly typical scene that has stemmed from the growing use of comfort animals on airplanes.

“Over the last three years, there has been an explosion of emotional support animals, which seems to have coincided with websites that tell people how to get their pets on board and not have to pay for it,” said Sara Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants.

Since 2016, the number of behavior-related service animal problems, “including urinating, defecating or biting,” has increased 84%.

There is no such thing as an "emotional support" animal; the applicable term is "pet". It'd be really interesting if someone shows up to board a plane with their "emotional support" elephant. Probably just a matter of time....

 

Can You Help?

The U.N. "climate summit" next month has been moved from Chile to Spain, and little Greta's flummoxed. She's asking for the public to help her make the 6,000-mile trip from Los Angeles to Spain (of course, by "eco-friendly" transport only).

“As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,” Ms Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles.

“It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way.”

“Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November … If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.”

Thunberg refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions involved. I'd suggest water-wings and swim flippers, but they're made with petroleum products, so that's out. Maybe she could take one of these:

 

Florida's Magic Beans

In promotional materials and patents, Joi Scientific has claimed to have found an efficient way to generate hydrogen from seawater, something that would be a major scientific breakthrough. (Joi Scientific)

Presumably, they've also found a way to turn lead into gold.

A Florida-based hydrogen company that received millions of public dollars from New Brunswickers has told shareholders that its technology doesn't work as previously described, CBC News has learned. NB Power paid Joi Scientific $13 million Cdn to license a technology that claims to be able to efficiently generate hydrogen gas from seawater to generate electricity on demand, something that would be a major scientific breakthrough. 

One of the company's patents claims it can generate hydrogen at 200 per cent efficiency. For one watt of input energy, the patent says two watts of energy in the form of hydrogen gas are produced.

Evidently, the geniuses running that Canadian power company are unaware of Florida's long-standing history of scams. 200% efficiency? Really? Somebody must have flunked high-school physics.

Hydrogen is magic, all right....

 

The Cimate! Shave The Planet!

When you thought it couldn't get any wackier...

Apparently, the supporters of the climate change hypothesis are jealous of the streaming service because they released something almost as funny as a comedian on Netflix. They are complaining that watching Netflix (or porn) releases CO2 into the atmosphere and causes Climate Change.

Per Maxime Efoui-Hess, which is associated with the French think tank The Shift Project: “Watching a half-hour show leads to emissions of up to 1.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide.” That’s the equivalent of driving 3.9 miles.

 

Kamal-Toe

Kamala Harris is an ardent abortion activist — no pro-life voter could be addlepated about that.

But Harris wants to make sure Democrat presidential primary voters know she’s staunchly in favor of aborting as many babies as possible, right up to birth. Harris is so pro-abortion she just told an audience that killing babies in abortions is something that should be declared “a priority.”

Naturally, Harris wrapped this horrific reality in language about so-called “reproductive rights.”

“We need to have presidential candidates indicate where they stand on it, and we need to declare it a priority like any other health-care priority,” Harris said in an interview with The Daily Iowan. Harris told the DI that states such as Alabama that drastically tightened their abortion laws are “completely out of touch with reality.” Harris highlighted reproductive rights in her stump speech, saying that state legislatures “dare to impede on a woman’s right to reproductive health care.”

Sorry, Kamal-Toe - abortion is not "reproductive health care". In fact, 96% of biologists agree that human life begins at conception.

As the usable responses began to come in, I found that 5,337 biologists (96%) affirmed that a human’s life begins at fertilization, with 240 (4%) rejecting that view. The majority of the sample identified as liberal (89%), pro-choice (85%) and non-religious (63%). In the case of Americans who expressed party preference, the majority identified as Democrats (92%).

Even Democratic biologists disagree with Kamal-Toe. It's pretty simple, really: if you don't want a baby, then don't make one. With all of the inexpensive birth control options available today, such as condoms, the pill, etc., there really is no justification - in the vast majority of cases - for murder. As Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii recently observed, abortions should be “safe, legal, and rare.”

Kamal-Toe is the one who's out of touch with reality.

“Top-level employees of Planned Parenthood admit to changing their procedures to harvest intact bodies of unborn children for body-part trafficking,” said Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice.

Day one of the preliminary hearing for pro-life activist David Daleiden kicked off Tuesday morning at the San Francisco Superior Court with testimony from an abortion technician, a third-trimester abortionist, and a vice president of the National Abortion Federation, who testified she doesn’t know what a human tissue procurement company is or does.

NAF Vice President of External Affairs Melissa Fowler also testified she recognized StemExpress—a human tissue procurement lab exposed in Daleiden’s undercover videos that is now under federal investigation—as a repeat vendor of her for-profit organization. NAF is a third-party abortion trade group.

After Fowler, Doe 7 took the stand, a non-physician who performed surgical abortions for Planned Parenthood Northern California. She testified she regularly provided fetal tissue from the abortions she did and heard of money exchanges with StemExpress.

Planned Parenthood is not in business for the measly $350 it charges for killing babies. They do it for the baby parts. Just the eyeballs are worth $10,000. Pure evil.

 

 

 

The Saga Continues - And Gets Deeper

A British family currently held in U.S. immigration custody was arrested for making what U.S. agents believe was a deliberate attempt to enter the United States illegally from Canada, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said Tuesday.

The arrest and detention of the Connors family has received extensive coverage in the United States and Britain after their attorney described them as tourists who accidentally drove across the border and ended up jailed with their small children in what they called squalid conditions. The family’s attorney, Bridget Cambria, said her clients were driving near the U.S. border south of Vancouver on Oct. 2 when they swerved to avoid an animal and veered into the United States inadvertently. The family members said they were stopped by a U.S. agent, were denied a request to return to Canada and instead were sent to a family detention center in Pennsylvania, where they are being held pending deportation.

Well, I've been up there, and what they did was no "accident" - the parallel roads along each side of the border have numerous signs declaring the existence of the international boundary. Moreover, in many places there are fences, while in other areas there are ditches. Oh, and lots of CCTV cameras as well....

CBP officials disputed the family’s version of events and said the Connors were spotted via video surveillance “slowly and deliberately driving through a ditch onto Boundary Road in Lynden, Washington,” between parallel roadways on the U.S. and Canadian sides. The roads are not connected by cross streets, and the only legal way to traverse between the countries is through staffed border stations throughout the region. The CBP statement said U.S. agents also determined that two of the family members had applied for travel authorization to visit the United States and were denied.

“Attempts were made to return the individuals to Canada, however, Canada refused to allow their return and two attempts to contact the United Kingdom consulate were unsuccessful,” the CBP statement read.

BUT the tale grows deeper:

The Irish travellers were accused of scamming and stealing their way around Brisbane allegedly used their children to steal designer shoes, police revealed. Most of them are believed to have fled Australia at the weekend after their images were released, while four remaining suspects are being closely monitored by Queensland police and border force officers. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was asked about the Irish scammers on Wednesday, insisting people who commit crimes in Australia should be hauled before the courts.

Looks to me as though our border patrol folks did a good job, here.

As to why Canada declined to have them back: they likely talked with Aussie authorities - the "family" has been banned from returning to Australia.