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Hi hewee,

I've substituted the "finalizing" icon of your choice (assuming it was clicked by mistake) for one you'll surely find more suitable. :)
 
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buffoon,

I just had to say that and the timing was just right seeing how I got the 2nd Odd post in the 2nd Odd Thread. :D
in the 2nd Odd Thread.
....surely you're not implying that we have only two of them?

:D
 
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More and More Americans Think Astrology Is Science

"I believe in a lot of astrology." So commented pop megastar Katy Perry in a recent GQ interview. She also said she sees everything through a "spiritual lens"…and that she believes in aliens.

According to data from the National Science Foundation's just-released 2014 Science and Engineering Indicators study, Americans are moving in Perry's direction. In particular, the NSF reports that the percentage of Americans who think astrology is "not at all scientific" declined from 62 percent in 2010 to just 55 percent in 2012 (the last year for which data is available). As a result, NSF reports that Americans are apparently less skeptical of astrology than they have been at any time since 1983.
 
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Police Officers Who Shot at Two Innocent Women 103 Times Won't Be Fired

The eight Los Angeles police officers who shot at two women over 100 times will not lose their jobs. They won't even be suspended. They'll just get some additional training.

They'll need it, since the shooting happened at the height of the manhunt for cop-killer Christopher Dorner, when police mistook two women delivering newspapers in a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck for one man hellbent on revenge in a charcoal Nissan Titan pickup truck and shot at them 103 times. One of the women, who was 71 at the time, was hit twice in the back. The second woman was hit by broken glass. I would say those cops should get some training in target practice, but then it's probably best for innocent newspaper carriers that they don't.
 
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This boat hull was left rusting in a bay until it turned into a forest

The SS Ayrfield was built in 1911. It transported supplies to American troops in World War II, and after that it transported coal for decades, until, in 1972, it was sent to Homebush Bay, in Australia, not far from Sydney.

The bay was a dumping ground, and at this time, a "ship breaking" yard. For years the bay was polluted (although Australia cleaned it up around the time of the Sydney Olympics). The hull of the SS Ayrfield, along with a few other ships, was left there to rust. And over the years, the Ayrfield grew into a forested island:
 
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10-level steel wheelchair ramp dumbfounds Dunbartonshire

The mother of a disabled girl has attacked a local council after it responded to her two-year campaign for improved wheelchair access to her house by building a 10-level winding wheelchair ramp covering most of her garden.

Clare Lally, 33, spent two years campaigning for improved access for her daughter Katie, seven, who uses a wheelchair, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs.
 
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The mother of a disabled girl has attacked a local council after it responded to her two-year campaign for improved wheelchair access to her house by building a 10-level winding wheelchair ramp covering most of her garden.

Clare Lally, 33, spent two years campaigning for improved access for her daughter Katie, seven, who uses a wheelchair, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs.
There's a lot more to that than is being reported.
It seems, and I've not fully investigated as some of the details are restricted, that the house is council property and the family live rent free. Apparently they have been offered alternate accommodation on several occasions, but turned it down. It also seems that the family have been a pain in the proverbial, demanding everything they can get on the welfare state and continuously complaining. It seem that the council may have gotten fed up and delivered this to make a point. Health and Safety(sic) rules have been followed (deliberately) meticulously and determine the layout. It was felt (it seems) by the council that if there was any room for claims, should any accident occur, the family would try to sue the council.
 
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There's a lot more to that than is being reported.
It seems, and I've not fully investigated as some of the details are restricted, that the house is council property and the family live rent free. Apparently they have been offered alternate accommodation on several occasions, but turned it down. It also seems that the family have been a pain in the proverbial, demanding everything they can get on the welfare state and continuously complaining. It seem that the council may have gotten fed up and delivered this to make a point. Health and Safety(sic) rules have been followed (deliberately) meticulously and determine the layout. It was felt (it seems) by the council that if there was any room for claims, should any accident occur, the family would try to sue the council.
Thanks for the additional information. It did seem out of line.
 
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Reality show snake-handling preacher dies -- of snakebite
By Ashley Fantz, CNN
updated 3:43 PM EST, Sun February 16, 2014

On "Snake Salvation," the ardent Pentecostal believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural South.

Coots was a third-generation "serpent handler" and aspired to one day pass the practice and his church, Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, on to his adult son, Little Cody.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/16/us/snake-salvation-pastor-bite/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
 
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US military awaits pizza that lasts years

They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat.

Soldiers have been asking for pizza since lightweight individual field rations-known as meals ready to eat, or MREs-replaced canned food in 1981 for soldiers in combat zones or areas where field kitchens cannot be set up.
 
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