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Global warming is a real thing. A highlight of an Alaskan cruise is sailing Glacier Bay. First time my wife and I saw the glacier calving icebergs twice during the hour we the ship spent there. The ship is far enough away that you see the iceberg falling before hearing the sharp crack noise of the ice separating, rumble and splash. On our most recent trip it sounded like being at a rifle range, the glacier was calving so frequently. The activity has caused the glacier to retreat more than twenty miles from Captain Cook's maps in some places. Also the lake in front of the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau - I would have described it as a pond thirty years ago.

Way ahead of you. My house is almost one hundred years old. Not as easy as it sounds. Replacements parts such as fuses were getting hard to find. Whenever I went to a small town with an old hardware store I'd buy all the fuses. (Pre-internet.) Had circuit breakers installed twenty-some years ago to replace assorted fuse boxes and switches that looked like they came out of Dr Frankenstein's lab. Also had the cloth-insulation wiring and wall switches replaced to bring things up to code. The switch looked something like this: My power goes out two or three times a year so I still have the infinite pleasure of resetting the microwave oven clock.

There's a triple switch in my living room, one of which turns off the outlet for the television set. Can't tell you how many times during the 1980s I had to reset the clock and programming on the VCR because my wife flipped the wrong switch.

Years ago I had my first apartment up on the sixteenth floor. Due to some peculiarity I could hear conversations at street level when the windows were open which they often because valve on the steam radiator wasn't working properly. Got to be Christmas and the one of the neighbors living in a house far below got a puppy for Christmas. They named it Butchy. At first everything was great but within a few months the guy became abusive to the dog. I could hear the shouting, the thump of him kicking the dog and the dog whimpering. I'd go to the window to try to identify which of the neighbors was involved but I couldn't see the yards through the canopy of trees. Summer turned to autumn and one morning the shouting began earlier than usual. Butchy started growling. Suddenly there were cries of pain. "No, Butchy! Stop, Butchy!" Good for you, Butchy. Good boy! Every dog has its day and Butchy had his. I celebrated with a beer. I can't stand people who abuse animals - or children or women for that matter. After that, one of his kids must have been assigned dog care because there wasn't any more shouting or whimpering.

If Ernest Borgnine wasn't dead he'd kick your ass.

It was funnier the first time.

Washcloths are okay. Poof ball things are good. Loofahs are better. Salux exfoliating washcloths are the best. A new level of clean. And it is 11" X 35" / 28cm X 90cm - big enough to scrub your own back. Trust me.

Didn't get the memo about not using Imgur three months ago?

My wife named the cat Ginger. When the cat got lost, she walked around the neighborhood. "Gin! Gin Gin!" Sounded like a girl on a bender. When my wife got back home I was on the porch with an extension cord and the electric can opener and Ginger and about fifteen other cats.

Neither do I.

薩英戦争 (Satsuma War) AKA Bombardment of Kagoshima. August 15 - 17, 1863. The British demanded £100,000 for the Namamugi Outrage, in which Charles Lennox Richardson was killed for not showing the proper respect to the Japanese regent. The shogun was in Kyoto; the bakufu (Tokugawa shogunate administrators) paid the British but Satsuma Province refused to apologize by executing the two samurai and paying a £25,000 compensation to Richardson's survivors. The reasoning was the Unequal Treaties. An example is white people behaving as they pleased without obeying Japanese law and custom which caused a growing anti-foreigner sentiment. Emperor Komei decreed the "Order to expel barbarians". After months of stalled "negotiations", British warships sailed from Yokohama Bay into Kagoshima Harbor. To teach the Japanese a lesson, they pirated several commercial steamships (which they burned to the waterline - pissing off the British sailors as they wouldn't have a share in the plundered prize money). Meanwhile, Satsuma Province had enough of the British shit . The city was evacuated and shore batteries began firing on the ships. Suffering heavy losses, the British left. It is curious how often American and European powers resorted to naval and military action against foreign cities and fortresses if things didn't go their way.

You have no idea how correct you are. The American team certainly didn't fool the nomads. The article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/09/14/first-ever-u-s-team-plays-rugby-on-horses-with-a-decapitated-goat-at-world-nomad-games/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.602f0ce76d95 The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVKnYB8bf4I I would give a member of the American team credit for driving a Nomad. How many days until PETA charters a jet to the games?

That's right, Trash. Just ask Robert Pickton.

Think we've found our Quasimodo for the Surly production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It's not like he has any lines to remember or anything ...

Can this be the same person? Left, June 2018. Right, January 2002.

September 2, 1945. Japanese representatives signed the surrender.

Yes. There is betting on kok boru (decapitated goat polo). The problem is the places I found are overseas and blocked so you'd need an international proxy IP. And then there are issues with using a credit card on the internet overseas. Some of the bookies have already posted lines on the 2020 presidential elections. Trump is the front runner. Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison is definitely a dark horse. Whatever you do, don't bet on the USA. We suck at kok boru.

Which put Harry Allen out of work. Kind of an interesting guy. Wore a bow tie to honor the solemnity of his duties. Kept a notebook listing all of his executions. Names, dates, heights, weights and the necessary drops. The idea is to swiftly break the neck causing unconsciousness and rapid death without strangulation or decapitation (as in the case of US military hanging on January 15, 2007 of Barzan Mohamed who was decapitated due to miscalculations of his weight and too long a drop). English justice was swift and so were the hangings. The convicted prisoner was assigned to a condemned cell. When the time arrived. a partition was removed. The adjoining room was the execution room. The prisoner was on the trapdoor with noose around neck and the door was sprung within seconds.

Over the past three years on Shaggy and Surly, this chick has aged twenty years. We're all adults. You don't want to see anything bad happen to anyone. Maybe she'll be incarcerated long enough to clean up and receive health care to turn her life around. At least she wasn't in the restraining chair this time so I suppose that's a step in the right direction.