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

I was just going to post that!!!! lol!!!! GO CLAM DIGGERS!!!

I was just going to post that!!!! lol!!!! GO CLAM DIGGERS!!!

It was a "Diggerette In Training"! The culprit has been apprehended…

HAMPDEN, Maine — Thursday, Hampden Deputy Police Chief Scott Webber confirmed the person behind these actions was a female minor.
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Webber said two of the three houses were repeated offenses. On the first day, there was poop in their mailboxes. The next day, their Trump signs were vandalized.

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There's a link to an interactive NOAA map that shows the effects of a 10 foot sea level rise. It puts my block as becoming part of the Onancock Creek.
:oops:

Article originally published by Popular Mechanics.

WOW!!

*"The Times They are a Changing"

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Still don't like the man - but - you have to give credit where credit is due.

Ummm...maybe you should take the next exit

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Rut-roh, I see a 50s horror movie in our future, Invasion of the Crazy Worms!!!

[SIZE=7]Crazy worms found in Topsham transfer station woodchip pile[/SIZE]
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By Darcie MooreTimes RecordSeptember 21, 2020
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An invasive juvenile Crazy worm, a type of earthworm native to East Asia, as seen in June after it was found in a woodchip pile at the Topsham transfer station. Mature Crazy worms have a smooth, milky white band. Photo by Raija Suomela

TOPSHAM — Topsham’s solid waste director is working to destroy an invasive species of earthworm called crazy worms that were discovered in a woodchip pile at the town’s transfer station early this summer.

The worms have the potential to damage local forests.

Crazy worms are a type of earthworm native to East Asia, according to the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s horticulture program. The worms are native to Korea and Japan, and are now found in the United States from Maine to South Carolina and west to Wisconsin.

According to the state’s crazy worm website, the worms jump and thrash about and may shed their tail when handled. They also have a milky white, smooth band around their bodies and leave behind soil that looks like coffee grounds.

Raija Suomela, a member of Topsham’s Conservation Commission, said she found the suspect worms in the pile of woodchips at the transfer station on Townsend Way in June and contacted the state, which later confirmed they were crazy worms.

The woodchips are ground from brush and wood Topsham residents drop at the transfer station. The concern, Suomela, said, is that residents who have taken woodchips home over the summer may have unwittingly spread the worms.

Maine Horticulturist Gary Fish said the state took samples of the immature worms from the pile, which had to mature and become reproductive in order to identify them as crazy worms. The state recommended last month that the town compost the woodchips at 105 to 112 degrees to kill the young and adult worms, Fish said.

Ed Caron, the town’s solid waste director, said Monday he continues to compost the woodchips and will work with the state to make sure the worms are destroyed.

Caron said residents will no longer be able to take woodchips home. He is also no longer accepting ground woodchips from commercial chippers as an added precaution.

Fish said crazy worms are not regulated in Maine but are a concern in a number of states across the country because they can have a significant impact on forest health. He praised Topsham for its work to stop the spread of the worms.

“Basically, they consume all of the (debris) on the forest floor so that it makes it basically a desert underneath there where things won’t grow and roots start to be exposed,” Fish said of the worms.
The state is most concerned that people may move materials around that are contaminated with the worms, and that they will be moved into forests where they could do the most ecological damage, especially in hardwood forests.
Fish said crazy worms were first identified in Maine back in the early 1900s, but only in greenhouses. An established population was found in 2014 and it’s only been in the past four years that the state had tried to raise awareness about the pests and encourage people to report them. Residents can visit the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s website to [learn more about crazy worms]('https://www.maine.gov/dacf/php/horticulture/crazyworms.shtml') and how to identify them.
“We’re quite certain they’re quite widespread, especially in urban areas,” Fish said.
For residents who may have crazy worms on their property, they shouldn’t share plants with people or move leaf debris or other materials from their property to other properties, Fish said.
Suomela said while the state can’t make the worms go away now that they’re here, “it’s most important to educate and also prevent as much as you can the spreading just to slow it down.”

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jpd thats Y mojoe goes bare :LOL::p;),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,[COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)] ><)))):>

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Who collects used condoms in the first place?

Who collects used condoms in the first place?

Probably gets them wholesale from the whorehouses

Not sure about how I feel about this...

[SIZE=7]California to stop sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035[/SIZE]
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By ADAM BEAMAssociated PressSeptember 23, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will halt sales of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, a move he says will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% in the nation’s most populous state.

The proposed rule would not ban people from owning gas-powered cars or selling them on the used car market. But it would end the sales of all new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in the state of nearly 40 million people.

“Pull away from the gas pumps,” Newsom said. “Let us no longer be victims of geopolitical dictators that manipulate global supply chains and global markets.”

California and the roughly dozen states that follow its lead on auto emissions standards make up a significant part of the U.S. auto market, giving the day’s move huge potential impact for the U.S. automobile industry as well as for long-term efforts against pollution and climate change, which is driven by fossil-fuel emissions. It also is likely to meet opposition from President Donald Trump, who wants to roll back tougher Obama-era auto emissions standards and is battling California to force it to comply.

Not sure about how I feel about this...

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Proposed rule - does that mean state wide referendum? US car culture / hot rods started there - gonna be a riot!

Proposed rule - does that mean state wide referendum? US car culture / hot rods started there - gonna be a riot!

***Newsom’s order directs the California Air Resources Board to develop and approve regulations to meet the 2035 deadline. He also ordered them to make a rule requiring all medium and heavy-duty trucks be 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2045 “where feasible.”

California to stop sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035***

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Not sure about how I feel about this...

[SIZE=7]California to stop sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035[/SIZE]
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By ADAM BEAMAssociated PressSeptember 23, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will halt sales of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, a move he says will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% in the nation’s most populous state.

The proposed rule would not ban people from owning gas-powered cars or selling them on the used car market. But it would end the sales of all new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in the state of nearly 40 million people.

“Pull away from the gas pumps,” Newsom said. “Let us no longer be victims of geopolitical dictators that manipulate global supply chains and global markets.”

California and the roughly dozen states that follow its lead on auto emissions standards make up a significant part of the U.S. auto market, giving the day’s move huge potential impact for the U.S. automobile industry as well as for long-term efforts against pollution and climate change, which is driven by fossil-fuel emissions. It also is likely to meet opposition from President Donald Trump, who wants to roll back tougher Obama-era auto emissions standards and is battling California to force it to comply.

Remember GM's EV1? When it came out California passed a law that 10% of vehicles sold in the state had to be electric. Amazingly, they quietly repealed that years later when it didn't work out. GM took all their EV1s back and crushed the ones that didn't end up in museums.

The thing these idealogues never realize is that you can't legislate markets. You cant legislate technology or infrastructure either. It all sounds good in the fantasy world these people live in, but when engineering and money collide it all vanishes in a puff of reality.

jpd thats Y mojoe goes bare :LOL::p;),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,[COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)] ><)))):>

TMI o_O

Proposed rule - does that mean state wide referendum? US car culture / hot rods started there - gonna be a riot!

I doubt there's anybody left in California that can change a flat, let alone build a hot rod.

This one is really disturbing. :unsure:

I was making a straight ocifer. I swear I was.

Are you okay? Yeah I'm okay. The muscles are still hot and it
goes unnoticed until about an hour later and then you find out
there's something broke.

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