...stuffed inside woman's luggage at Thai airport


They rescued the poor little guy when the x-ray machine showed the skeleton of a live animal inside her overweight, checked luggage. He would never have survived another five or six hours sealed up inside that suitcase. And it's a soft-sided suitcase! He could have been crushed to death.

I hope the judge throws the book at her and gives her the full four years that the law allows.

P.S. -- I hope they give her a lot of time to get acquainted with the Thai prison system. Time for her to look up Martha Stewart's home-made shank recipe.

...Dumping Their Sh!t Off Our Coast :pissed:

Federal environmental regulators in San Francisco today announced a new plan to ban large cruise and cargo ships from discharging their sewage within three miles of California's coastline.

The move is part of an effort to close what California environmental agencies and environmental groups said is a gap in the state's coastal water protection. The proposal, which would ban ships weighing 300 tons or more from releasing sewage within three miles of the state's 1,600 miles of coastline, is expected to take effect after a 60-day comment period, which begins today.

"What this will do is say it's illegal to discharge sewage of any kind in this three-mile zone," said Jared Blumenfeld, regional administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, at a news conference overlooking the San Francisco Bay late this morning.

Blumenfeld said Californians view the state's coastline "as a treasured, pristine place" that supports recreation, tourism and the fishing industry.

He said California's no-discharge zone, which would be enforced by the U.S. Coast Guard, would be the largest in the country and would eliminate an estimated 20 million gallons of sewage from coastal waters.

The new regulation "will give us the final authority we've been seeking," California Secretary for Environmental Protection Linda Adams said.

The state had requested that the EPA establish the no-discharge zone under the federal Clean Water Act.

Russell Long of Friends of the Earth called it " a little bit of good news" for a marine environment "under siege" by oil spills, garbage, ocean acidification and polar melting.

He, like Blumenfeld, called on other states to consider similar measures.

"We hope that this will be precedent-setting," Blumenfeld said.

Sorry but I can't get the original link to work. Here's the original link: Let's ban cruise ships from dumping their urine and feces into our bay [SF Appeal]

As announced this am, Ken Mehlman, former RNC and Bush Campaign chair is gay. <shocking>. And is now going to advocate for the legality of same sex marriage. "Mehlman, The Atlantic said, acknowledged that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role in keeping the party from pushing an anti-gay agenda. He told the magazine he regrets not taking the party message to the gay community."

NY Times Article

Try not to barf when you read that, especially the part about the couple who are keeping a dozen koi in a tiny 450-gallon aquarium in their living room. What the wife likes the most about their aquarium is the fact that she has a choice of 64 different colors she can choose from to light the tank. The lighting is computer-controlled just like a rock concert stage. She just pushes a button and the koi change colors with the change in lighting. Her favorite color is fuchsia, because it turns the koi a deep pink.

Many of those aquarium owners don't even want to have to feed the fish themselves. They pay the aquarium maintenance company $150 per visit to come out to feed the fish. A water change cost $500.

This 700-gal reef aquarium cost more than $200,000. (You have to endure a commercial before the video clip comes on.) That tank is suspended from the ceiling and all of the equipment is located in a bedroom closet on the floor below.

Most of those aquarium owners are completely clueless, as is the author of the article who refers to the "different breeds of fish."

Hello, I'm new here and just wanted to say hi!

Seabreacher X

:eek5:



Specifications

260hp supercharged engine, propelling the vessel to a top speed of 50mph on the surface and 25mph below. Maximum depth: 6 feet.

Only $109,000 but you have to go to Dubai or Saudi Arabia to get one. The distributor in Dubai also has showrooms in Monaco and Cannes. You could pick one up the next time you visit the Monaco Aquarium or attend the Cannes Film Festival.

North Korea Gets Facebook Account, Says It's "Interested In Men."





:kiss:


That's North Korea's official state-run Facebook account. They also have official Twitter and YouTube accounts.

Global Warming Killing Indonesian Reefs Faster Than Expected

Water temps peaked at 93F this year vs. long-term average of 86F for that area:

Sea surface temperatures in the Andaman Sea—an area that includes the coasts of Myanmar, Thailand, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and northwestern Indonesia—have been on the rise. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Hotspots website, temperatures in the region peaked in late May, when the temperature reached 34 degrees Celsius. This represents a dramatic 4-degree rise over the long-term averages for the area.

Hi All,

Interesting article: Do your civic duty: Eat this fish! - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

Regards,

Scott

Im sorry, Im comfused too where I should had post this.

Date of minor stroke 5/02/2010

Date I began this message 5/27/2010

Due to the minor stroke, I knowingly began this message knowing it would take me a long while to complete it, while each time reviewing this message, I was editing it due to the many errors made, so hopefully when posted, this message will be clear enough for all too understand. For im only able to type a short while depending on my physical strength and disabilities that was cursed by the minor stroke on 5/02/2010. My doctor advised that following the minor stroke I should remain hospitalized for close observation due to any further complications. I was told that I was at risk of a possible full blown stroke in the next few days to a stronger and more serious stroke.

Since 5/02/2010 I only seen my grandchildren I think three times, im unable to help with the kids as I done so sense almost eight years ago following their birth. Im sleeping a great deal these days for which im feeling extremely over tired much of the time and due to the stroke im left with a content piercing headache with a lost of vision and im setup with a specialist for as well, my hearing I feel has as well been damaged. As well im mostly always feel with extreme confusion and so, most of the time im staying home now for I now only try driving when its only a must.

I just remembered that im with numbness feelings on the left side of my face and left leg, it was hard to know this after the stroke because I was with great deal of confusion.

The reason for this message is that im very sad to say that I am force to quit the hobby after so many enjoyable years of tis marine hobby. And now im looking for what else I might do in the place of the marine hobby and im thinking of going back to oil painting and as for reading, it will have it difficulties for I been trying to read much at this time and I find myself falling a sleep and always awaking feeling confused, and I remember little at time of what I readied before falling a sleep.

I can say that im for the first time after so many years is feeling extremely scared, with fear to what if this disability becomes much worst.

I will be looking to sell my tanks and books and such, put I first need to put the time into it to taking pictures of everything and hopefully most items will be pick up in person, if I need to ship certain items, I will need the time to get a proper box for that shipping, put the tanks are to be pick up only.

I also almost forgotten that im with a strong numb feeling inside my skull, you know, like a feeling after some ones head struck a hard floor. I guess I cannot exactly explain that as well as I would like too.

So there be three large tanks, the two tanks I had setup as my eel tanks has been setup as one system. It’s a 70 and 120 gallon tanks with a 40 gallon sump I think it is with a euroreef skimmer and under the other tank stand is a UV with a chiller.

The other tank was to be my dream SPS tank, but I see now that it will never happen now, I waited so long and paid so much and now im with no choice but to call it quits. But rather then to say im quitting, im retiring from the hobby. Also I have the equipment I brought, the chiller for the 240 and skimmer with a calcium reactor. There be books and a few hundred lbs of aragonite sand, its clean and in 5.5 gallon pails.

Pictures of everything when I can manage it, will be taking of every item. Its funny, I bought a Macro lens a few years ago believing that I will have this reef tank up and running. Now I will either trade it in or I do some other hobby with it taking photos of butterflies and such.

On my computer, I had my computer guy make larger and have a magnifier for other wise I have for more greater problems to read anything. I do hope that this message is fully understood that im with no choice to retire from this marine hobby. I will retake up oil painting and take photos outdoors when im able too. I been typing a little ever so on and had been editing often for there would be many more errors.

After making a personal decision to retire from this marine hobby and I waited a few weeks so to know for sure my decision to leaving the hobby was a right choice to make. The thing here is, im napping much of the day off and on, for most days im taking three too four long naps. Im very tired at most times and I fall to sleep now quite easily, with that, im up most of the night, were as I sleep much of the day.

The one other thing which troubles me is that I wish to be always able to fend for myself, but it is much difficult now to manage cleaning house, I can not do as well in this as I done before the stroke. You all can see why im with much concern and is also a reason to wanting to move from this house in which the nearest house is about a few hundred yards down the road, so im with no one living near to check in on me, or my condition. And so im hoping to move from here somewhere after 18 months and I of course would need to find a walk in apartment.

I been also during these past two months, working on the list of items to sell. It isn`t the much typing I done, but rather was difficulty, much more difficulty then its ever been. I deleted the hundreds of files and everything totaled more then a thousand links for a few hundreds a lone were articles.

Sincerely,
Buddy

...when you cross a donkey with a zebra?



You get a zedonk with striped knee socks!

A female donkey (Equus africanus asinus) crossed with a male zebra (E. quagga) results in a zedonk, as shown above. A female horse (E. caballus) crossed with a male donkey (E. africanus asinus) results in a mule. If you cross a female donkey with a male horse, the offspring is called a hinny. These hybrids are all infertile, which I believe is true for all mammal hybrids, but it is not true for most, if not all, fish hybrids.

Fish don't go around looking to mate with a fish of a different species, it only happens in areas of overlapping ranges where the population of one species greatly exceeds the population of the other species. At least that's how it happens with Centropyge hybrids.

This is funny!

Just watch it. Don't click on the English subtitles option because that will just distract you. It's much funnier to just watch it in Chinese and guess what they're saying.

I think these are the same people who did something similar in covering the misadventures of Tiger Woods. Those cartoons were hilarious and much funnier without English subtitles. They managed to produce updates on the latest developments within 24 hours or so after the events happened in real life.

Wow! Check this out?

Is it real or photoshopped? I think it's real; what do you think?