the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/35-old-nashville-skydiving-instructor-103139639.html[/URL]
:oops:

There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to start.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.10news.com/news/team-10/completely-blindsided-retailers-restaurants-threatened-with-lawsuits-over-receipt-paper[/URL]

Initiative and Referendum, predatory lawsuits, the sheer ineffectiveness of this bright idea and the unintended consequences all just make my hair hurt.

This is how a Nobel Laureate behaves, not being a self-promoting, attention grabbing Pimpasaurus rex...
[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]His Off-the-Grid Vacation Was Interrupted by Winning a Nobel Prize[/SIZE][/HEADING]
Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.

Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday afternoon after camping and hiking across the Rocky Mountains when his wife, Laura O’Neill, suddenly started shouting.

He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, Ms. O’Neill had regained cellular service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.

“No, I didn’t,” said Dr. Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode, he recalled in an interview. But she said, “I have 200 text messages saying that you did!”

They had missed a 2 a.m. call from the Nobel committee that Dr. Ramsdell and two others had been awarded the [2025 prize for medicine]('https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/health/nobel-prize-medicine-physiology.html') for their research into the immune system. They also missed congratulations from their friends and family. His lab, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, said he “was living his best life and was off the grid on a preplanned hiking trip.”

Dr. Ramsdell, 64, had not expected any important phone calls that morning and was offline, as he usually is while on vacation. His wife, on the other hand, preferred to be more communicative with her friends and family.

“I certainly didn’t expect to win the Nobel Prize,” he said from a hotel in Montana. “It never crossed my mind.”

The stop in Montana near Yellowstone National Park on Monday afternoon was nearly the end of a three-week vacation that crossed the mountain ranges of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Dr. Ramsdell, Ms. O’Neill, their Gordon setter and rescue husky mix had set off last month from Seattle in their Toyota 4Runner with a small teardrop trailer in the back.

At work, Dr. Ramsdell’s research has helped improve care for autoimmune diseases like some types of arthritis, multiple sclerosis and Crohn’s disease, he said. Outside of work, he likes to unplug in nature.

“I spend as much time as I can up in the mountains,” he said. “We tend to go into the remote areas,” he said, adding that he and his wife always looked out for bison, moose, elk and eagles.

When he got to the hotel in Livingston, Mont., on Monday night, he finally spoke with Thomas Perlmann, the secretary-general of the Nobel Assembly, about 20 hours after Dr. Perlmann first tried to call him. Dr. Perlmann said in an interview that it had never been this difficult to reach a laureate since he assumed the role in 2016.

Dr. Ramsdell tried returning Dr. Perlmann’s call from the campground, but it was 11 p.m. in Sweden and Dr. Perlmann had fallen asleep. They finally connected when Dr. Perlmann woke up at 6:15 a.m. on Tuesday. “Eventually, it worked,” Dr. Perlmann said.

On Tuesday, Dr. Ramsdell planned to drive the six hours left on his trip to get to his fall and winter home near Whitefish, Mont.

[SIZE=5]“I was just grateful and humbled by getting the award, super happy for the recognition of the work in general and just looking forward to sharing this with my colleagues, as well,” he said.[/SIZE]

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.newsday.com/long-island/environment/shinnecock-aboriginal-fishing-rights-court-case-afph515e[/URL]

Text of article. Because paywall:

A federal district court judge last week cited a vacated 2007 opinion and colonial-era "royal proclamations" in ruling against three Shinnecock Indian Nation fishermen who sought a declaration affirming their aboriginal right to fish in New York waters.

The case, which stems from a 2018 federal lawsuit brought by the three tribe members who had been cited in separate commercial fishing cases by the state, denied a motion for summary judgment seeking to prevent state regulators from interfering with their fishing beyond tribal waterways.

The decision by Central Islip-based federal District Judge Gary Brown granted a summary judgment sought by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and its officers, including former DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos and two Long Island enforcement officers, rejecting the Shinnecock claim.

In his ruling, Brown, while acknowledging he "need not reach the question of aboriginal rights," nevertheless weighed into a contentious issue, citing a 2007 opinion by former District Court Judge Joseph Bianco that found 17th century land purchases "by British colonists and subsequent royal proclamations demonstrate an ‘extinguishment of aboriginal title’ in present day Southampton."

Bianco’s "well-reasoned determination undermines plaintiff’s arguments that they have aboriginal title to fish in Shinnecock Bay," Brown wrote, even while noting that the Bianco decision was later vacated "on other grounds."

David Taobi Silva, one of the fishermen, in an interview, called the decision "disappointing," and said he plans to appeal. "It really feels like the judge didn't read anything that we submitted," said Silva of hundreds of pages of amicus briefs by Indian law experts and professors, including from Stanford University.

In addition, Silva said, the Bianco decision was about land, not fishing rights. "The judge drew a conclusion that was not even presented to him," he said. "It's a misapplication is really what it is. These are totally different cases."

The Shinnecock Nation has consistently rejected the Bianco opinion, saying they have never relinquished ownership of their sovereign land, notably in cases involving its Westwoods property in Hampton Bays. The U.S. Department of the Interior affirmed their aboriginal title to the land earlier this year.

The DEC, in a statement to Newsday, said, it was "pleased" the judge "granted summary judgment in DEC’s favor. DEC is eager to return our focus to fostering our working relationship with the Shinnecock Nation and their leadership."

Beside the question of aboriginal rights, Brown also pointed to the need for fishing regulations and prior rulings that show Indian nations can be subject to them.

State regulators at the DEC have instituted regulations to "protect aquatic species," notably the American eel population that Silva was cited for taking without a license.

"Conservation of eel species is essential for maintaining food chains in aquatic ecosystems and protecting species for whom eel is an important food source, such as various fish, birds, and mammals," Brown wrote.

The main question is whether, "regardless of any aboriginal title, the state fishing regulations at issue are reasonable and nondiscriminatory," Brown wrote. He also noted that under the doctrine of conservation necessity, states "can impose reasonable and nondiscriminatory regulations on an Indian tribe’s treaty-based hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on state land when necessary for conservation."

Brown also noted a case brought by the Unkechaug Indian Nation in federal court in which the Mastic-based nation "challenged these same American eel regulations." In that case, Brown wrote, Judge William Kuntz granted summary judgment for the state, finding that New York "has a clear interest in conserving the American eel population, and it has imposed reasonable, non-discriminatory regulations in furtherance of this interest."

Maintaining the eel population," Brown wrote, ... "benefits recreational and commercial fisheries, which provide employment opportunities and play a vital role in numerous industries."

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.newsday.com/long-island/environment/shinnecock-aboriginal-fishing-rights-court-case-afph515e[/URL]

Text of article. Because paywall:

A federal district court judge last week cited a vacated 2007 opinion and colonial-era "royal proclamations" in ruling against three Shinnecock Indian Nation fishermen who sought a declaration affirming their aboriginal right to fish in New York waters.

The case, which stems from a 2018 federal lawsuit brought by the three tribe members who had been cited in separate commercial fishing cases by the state, denied a motion for summary judgment seeking to prevent state regulators from interfering with their fishing beyond tribal waterways.

The decision by Central Islip-based federal District Judge Gary Brown granted a summary judgment sought by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and its officers, including former DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos and two Long Island enforcement officers, rejecting the Shinnecock claim.

In his ruling, Brown, while acknowledging he "need not reach the question of aboriginal rights," nevertheless weighed into a contentious issue, citing a 2007 opinion by former District Court Judge Joseph Bianco that found 17th century land purchases "by British colonists and subsequent royal proclamations demonstrate an ‘extinguishment of aboriginal title’ in present day Southampton."

Bianco’s "well-reasoned determination undermines plaintiff’s arguments that they have aboriginal title to fish in Shinnecock Bay," Brown wrote, even while noting that the Bianco decision was later vacated "on other grounds."

David Taobi Silva, one of the fishermen, in an interview, called the decision "disappointing," and said he plans to appeal. "It really feels like the judge didn't read anything that we submitted," said Silva of hundreds of pages of amicus briefs by Indian law experts and professors, including from Stanford University.

In addition, Silva said, the Bianco decision was about land, not fishing rights. "The judge drew a conclusion that was not even presented to him," he said. "It's a misapplication is really what it is. These are totally different cases."

The Shinnecock Nation has consistently rejected the Bianco opinion, saying they have never relinquished ownership of their sovereign land, notably in cases involving its Westwoods property in Hampton Bays. The U.S. Department of the Interior affirmed their aboriginal title to the land earlier this year.

The DEC, in a statement to Newsday, said, it was "pleased" the judge "granted summary judgment in DEC’s favor. DEC is eager to return our focus to fostering our working relationship with the Shinnecock Nation and their leadership."

Beside the question of aboriginal rights, Brown also pointed to the need for fishing regulations and prior rulings that show Indian nations can be subject to them.

State regulators at the DEC have instituted regulations to "protect aquatic species," notably the American eel population that Silva was cited for taking without a license.

"Conservation of eel species is essential for maintaining food chains in aquatic ecosystems and protecting species for whom eel is an important food source, such as various fish, birds, and mammals," Brown wrote.

The main question is whether, "regardless of any aboriginal title, the state fishing regulations at issue are reasonable and nondiscriminatory," Brown wrote. He also noted that under the doctrine of conservation necessity, states "can impose reasonable and nondiscriminatory regulations on an Indian tribe’s treaty-based hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on state land when necessary for conservation."

Brown also noted a case brought by the Unkechaug Indian Nation in federal court in which the Mastic-based nation "challenged these same American eel regulations." In that case, Brown wrote, Judge William Kuntz granted summary judgment for the state, finding that New York "has a clear interest in conserving the American eel population, and it has imposed reasonable, non-discriminatory regulations in furtherance of this interest."

Maintaining the eel population," Brown wrote, ... "benefits recreational and commercial fisheries, which provide employment opportunities and play a vital role in numerous industries."

Indians are not black. They all smoke crack in mastic, no boats. Who comes up with this crap fishing rights.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/julia-fox-thinks-men-just-152619298.html[/URL]

OK
I can work with that.......................

8-)

He wants f able men. See?

This post was deleted because the poster, posted it knowing it was Political.

If it continues I will lock the thread.

Regards,

WD

I Mean Really?!!?!

[SIZE=4][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][Is this what it's come to?]('https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-221317260.html')[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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:rolleyes:**

Oh , do tell....... :rolleyes:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/dmv-workers-arrested-cheating-on-commercial-driver-tests/[/URL]

Let me guess. Issued to No Name Given?

Oh , do tell....... :rolleyes:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/dmv-workers-arrested-cheating-on-commercial-driver-tests/[/URL]

Let me guess. Issued to No Name Given?

Sounds about the right timing.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!

Apparently consulting and DEI training contract deals? :eek:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://apnews.com/article/ian-roberts-ice-superintendent-iowa-d11c6bc49815e2655b758fb8497bb23e[/URL]

Looks like somebody blinked, or opened their eyes.

You just can't make this $#it up...

Oh wait.... you don't have to. 🙁

That's it. I am sick to goddam death of trans people being banned from Quidditch tournaments.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://people.com/jk-rowling-responds-after-park-officials-offer-apology-for-decision-to-host-harry-potter-event-11828280[/URL]

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/massive-blast-tennessee-explosives-plant-102639437.html[/URL]

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/massive-blast-tennessee-explosives-plant-102639437.html[/URL]

not good, wreaks of sabotage…
last week, there was a Fuel Refinery in California heavily damage by fire too… not good…

1916 ammunition depot jersey waterfront, sabotage blew so hard , ya have to read it.. Lady Liberty had her backside ripped… cell…
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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nps.gov/articles/black-tom-wwi.htm[/URL]

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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/dear-abby-tell-neighbor-alligator-070000712.html[/URL]

:oops:

ah - yes

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/dear-abby-tell-neighbor-alligator-070000712.html[/URL]

:oops:

ah - yes

I swear most of those questions are pure fiction.

I swear most of those questions are pure fiction.

one can only hope so or we've got a lot of dumbass people in the country....

not good, wreaks of sabotage…
last week, there was a Fuel Refinery in California heavily damage by fire too… not good…

1916 ammunition depot jersey waterfront, sabotage blew so hard , ya have to read it.. Lady Liberty had her backside ripped… cell…
.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nps.gov/articles/black-tom-wwi.htm[/URL]

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Of all WWI explosions, Halifax, NS was the unfortunate winner...

[HEADING=1][FONT=Linux Libertine][COLOR=rgb(16, 20, 24)]Halifax Explosion[/COLOR][/FONT][/HEADING]
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On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]SS Mont-Blanc[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Mont-Blanc') collided with the Norwegian vessel [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]SS Imo[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Imo') in the harbour of [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]Halifax, Nova Scotia[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia'), Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]high explosives[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_material'), caught fire and [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]detonated[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonate'), devastating the [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]Richmond district[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Nova_Scotia') of Halifax. At least 1,782 people, largely in Halifax and [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]Dartmouth[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth,_Nova_Scotia'), were killed by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]largest human-made explosion[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#Largest_accidental_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions_by_magnitude') at the time.[[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)][1][/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnauer201256-1') It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]kilotons of TNT[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent') (12 [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]TJ[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terajoule')).[[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)][2][/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#cite_note-FOOTNOTERuffmanHowell1994276-2')

[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error[/SIZE][/HEADING]
Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal. Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.

The Trump administration on Saturday raced to rescind layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

Among those wrongly dismissed were the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, and the team that assembles the C.D.C.’s vaunted scientific journal, The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

After The New York Times reported the dismissals, two federal health officials said on Saturday that many of those workers were being brought back. The officials spoke anonymously in order to disclose internal discussions.

The mistakes rocked an agency already in tumult, and which has been a particular target of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The C.D.C. lost about a third of its staff in April; many were rehired weeks later.

In August, a gunman emptied more than 500 rounds of ammunition at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta. Later that month, Mr. Kennedy orchestrated the ouster of the agency’s director, Susan Monarez, and precipitated a series of high-profile resignations.

Among the workers whose firings were revoked were members of the elite corps of “disease detectives” who are typically deployed to the sites of outbreaks. The team that puts together the M.M.W.R., which communicates the agency’s recommendations and research, has also been brought back.

The employees “were sent incorrect notifications, which was fixed last night and this morning with a technical correction,” a senior administration official said. “Any correction has already been remedied.”

In order to ensure that teams confronting disease outbreaks include scientists with varied expertise, they comprise staff from various parts of the agency.

The two top leaders of the measles response, for example, are officially employees of the office of the director at the Global Health Center, and the office of the director at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. When outbreaks die down, team scientists return to their regular positions.

The leaders of the measles team were let go when the administration eliminated those two offices. But just as entire units must be cut in such a layoff, entire units must also be restored.

Athalia Christie, who was “incident commander” of the measles response, had nearly 30 years of experience managing outbreaks, including Ebola, Marburg and mpox, previously called monkeypox. The White House often reached out to her for help with outbreaks.

“Athalia is very well liked by the administration,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who led the respiratory disease center before he resigned in August. He had brought in Dr. Christie to lead the measles response.

Another senior infectious disease expert, Maureen Bartee, was working at the Department of State. But both their jobs fell under the director’s office of the C.D.C.’s Global Health Center, which was eliminated in the layoffs.

By Saturday night, employees of both offices, including Dr. Bartee and Dr. Christie, had received notices of their rehiring. They and others received a two-paragraph email saying that the notice they had received “on or about” Oct. 10 had been revoked.

“You will not be affected by the upcoming RIF,” the email said.

The confusion over how the disease teams are organized “demonstrates their lack of understanding that this thing is an interconnected organism,” Dr. Daskalakis said, referring to the C.D.C.

“I’m happy people are back, but this damage is not easy to repair both for current staff and for people who will lead public health in the future,” he added.

The agency’s entire Washington office, which was laid off on Friday, will not be rehired. Nor will employees of the office of the director of the center for injury prevention, or those at the division of violence prevention policy.

“This is going to be devastating to Americans and to the global community,” said Dr. Debra Houry, who served as the agency’s chief medical officer before she resigned in August in protest against the administration’s policies.

“They are dismantling public health,” she added.