Yesterday I was at my local Kroger's buying a large bag of Purina Dog Chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog, and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

What did she think... I had an elephant?

So because I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is, to load your pants pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story. Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her, no, I stopped to pee on a fire hydrant and a car hit me. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Kroger's won't let me shop there anymore. Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say.

I know we've had a few threads on this type of topic before, but I want to present a new one so our new members can take part.

Not sure if this belongs in the metaphysical forum, or the paranormal forum, because sometimes it's a hard call.

Have you ever had something move from where you left it, even if just a little bit?
This is called Spooky Quantum Movements.

Quote:Scientists have seen "spooky" quantum behaviour happening to objects at the human scale, according to a new paper.
Researchers have seen quantum fluctuations "kick" large objects such as mirrors, moving them by a tiny degree but one big enough to measure.

Such behaviour has previously been predicted by quantum physicists. But it has never before been measured.

The movements are the result of the way the universe is structured, when seen at the level of quantum mechanics: researchers describe it as a "noisy" space, where particles are constantly switching in and out of existence, which creates a low-level fuzz at all times.

Normally, that background of quantum "noise" is too subtle to detect in objects that are visible at the human-scale. But the new research shows that scientists have finally detected those movements, using new technology to watch for those fluctuations.

Researchers at the MIT LIGO Laboratory saw that the those fluctuations could move an object as big as a 40-kilogram mirror. The movement pushed the large mirrors a tiny amount, as predicted theoretically, allowing it to be measured by scientists.

The researchers were able to use special equipment called a quantum squeezer that allowed them to "manipulate" the noise so that it could be better observed.
"What's special about this experiment is we've seen quantum effects on something as large as a human," said Nergis Mavalvala, the Marble Professor and associate head of the physics department at MIT, in a statement.

"We too, every nanosecond of our existence, are being kicked around, buffeted by these quantum fluctuations. It's just that the jitter of our existence, our thermal energy, is too large for these quantum vacuum fluctuations to affect our motion measurably. With LIGO's mirrors, we've done all this work to isolate them from thermally driven motion and other forces, so that they are now still enough to be kicked around by quantum fluctuations and this spooky popcorn of the universe."

My neighbor just dropped off over twenty dragon fruit to my house.

I have only eaten it as a novelty treat and have never had this many before. The fruit is supposed to be very healthy for you. It is barely on the sweet side of the spectrum, but I just don't see myself eating twenty fresh from the cactus dragon fruit before they become over ripe.

I have found some recipes online, I am looking for some tried and true recipes.

I am going to try the smoothie route after I make it to the store to get some complimentary fruits, so smoothie recipes are also welcome.

Thanks in advance.
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Explanation: Firstly to set and frame the scene and problem [metaphorically speaking] 

Quote:[The episode starts where the house was vey quite and something is wrong, Ren is sitting on the floor next to the chair acting so weird.]
Ren: Oh Danny Danny Danny Danny...... You are the keeper of the dreams. My little one and you told over my friends. [Rans to the glass tables.... Laughs evilly] My collection of lass coffee tables. Danny, Raymond and Dasi.
Stimpy: [comes home] Ren, I'm home! Where are you?
[Ren with his creepy eyes in the bathroom sitting on the shower.]
Stimpy: Are you in there? [opens the bathroom and saw him sitting on the bathroom with the lipstick] You okay, big brother?
Ren: [giggles] Never been better!
Stimpy: Just checking... FIVE!!!! [playing the golf and landed on Ren's Bedroom] Oh crap, Ren's bed. Hmmmm... [Scratching his bed with his bed] FIVE!!!! [Hits the golf ball and Accidently crash into Ren's mirror full of his perfumes and crash into the floor and Stimpy is petrified]
[Ren opens the door and see his mirror and his perfume crashed and Stimpy is really scared.]
Stimpy: Now, now! Don't kill me, Ren! It was an accident! I'll fix it, Ren! I PROMISE!!!
[Ren starts going outrage and going losing out of control and then...]
Ren: Excuse me, I'll have to go end it all. [walks out the bathroom and Stimpy realize something wrong] He glass coffee table and eep do ba danny.
Stimpy: I don't like this, Ren. Something Wrong! You need help-
Ren: DON'T YOU EVEN BOTHER!! You have this coming for 4 years! [Turns on the sink full of cutting to death] OH, mother of bottle caps! Father of bent forks! I'm coming home!!! [and he is killing himself and spinning around like crazy, Stimpy was really scared.]
Stimpy: Oh, terrible! I'm must call.... THE PROFESSIONALS!!!! [rans to the phone and calls] [sobbing] Hello? Shady Brain Farms? REN NEEDS HEEEEEELP!!!!!!

Quote:According to McVeigh's authorized biography, he decided that he could make the loudest statement by bombing a federal building. After the bombing, he was ambivalent about his act and the deaths he caused; as he said in letters to his hometown newspaper, he sometimes wished that he had carried out a series of assassinations against police and government officials instead.

Quote:The Declaration of Tokyo is a set of international guidelines for physicians concerning torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in relation to detention and imprisonment, which was adopted in October 1975 during the 29th General assembly of the World Medical Association, and later editorially updated by the WMA in France, May 2005 and 2006. It declares torture to be "contrary to the laws of humanity",[1] and antithetical to the "higher purpose" of the physician, which is to "alleviate the distress of his or her fellow human being."[2] The policy states that doctors should refuse to participate in, condone, or give permission for torture, degradation, or cruel treatment of prisoners or detainees. According to the policy, a prisoner who refuses to eat should not be fed artificially against his will, provided that he or she is judged to be rational.

The CCP shipped about $130K worth of parts that would convert 10,000 AR-15s and AKs into fully automatic weapons.

This is the same type of destabilization technique used to create havoc in countries all over the world.  Supply enough people with the equipment to foment anarchy ... and that's the crop you'll be serving for dinner.  In what month does the Harvest Moon rise?

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I do a lot of shopping on-line related to my shooting hobby.  If you think the shelves ran bare of toilet paper and that was remarkable, consider that you're unable to buy a multi-thousand dollar press (a bullet maker) without an 8 week delay (due to backorders).  When I get going full-swing on my older model, I can fabricate a good 600 rounds every hour and I go 5 hours on any given type of round.  I'm slow though.  Some people can get upwards of a thousand rounds/hr.

To me, it is unbelievable there are all of a sudden that many gun enthusiasts who've just taken up the hobby of making their own ammunition.  But ... you can't buy any kind of common pre-made ammunition ... so, maybe that's it.  I can't buy two kegs of powder (limit one per household ATM).  And I'm having no luck buying bullets (the little piece that flies through the air) in bulk quantities.  Fortunately, short the powder, I am fairly well stocked.

I guess the folks at the SEALS museum had fun portraying Kapernick getting attacked by some of their dogs.   Of course, "OMG"by the left, I'm sure.   Personally, I think it's funny, having worked with shutzhund.  I also appreciate the contrast between their loyalty and K's disloyalty.   However, what I want to know is this:   how strong IS Josh, the guy in the bite suit?   Holy crap.   I've seen one single gsd/malinois take down many a man, and he manages to stay upright with multiple?   I.  Am.  Impressed. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...event.html

This will do the trick.... and if you have a system with speakers turn it up..

The plagiarism of what has been known as the great biblical flood has its' roots going back possibly 20,000 years.

Many of us have heard there are other accounts of the flood but what I find interesting is the straight out account of some god telling a guy to build a boat, take his wife and gather animals for a flood is coming to wipe out humanity. OK he builds the boat, floats away until the waters recede and ends up atop a mountain.

Many different gods telling many different guys going way way back in written and oral history.

I have heard of this before.
It is supposed to be a real event that was well documented and My Chinese Comrades in the MSS were very interested, enough so, that they did send a team in to locate and study, I don't remember or know the outcome.
Here is a short video I found.
 
Or this video is about 7 minutes long.
 To me, those look like severe radiation burns.
So,,,,,, does anyone know of these Cauldrons?
Have you any ideas?
Do you think they were placed on Earth as defensive devices to protect our planet?

Many of us dream of flying just once in our lifetimes in a helicopter. In 1970 times were so-so and being 19, I was doing nothing either creative or productive. The times were about the War and the demonstrations against it, many facing the draft still. I was one of those, and at least to have some choice in what I was to be doing in the service, I joined the Army. During those years virtually everyone except "Some Senators Son" was sure to end up in South East Asia, specifically The Republic of Vietnam. The Day I left for Vietnam, I was at Fort Lewis, located in Washington state, it was a gray drizzly day filled with gloom, which was intensified by someone there at the staging center who thought it cool to be playing the bag pipes. That along with the gray drizzle cast a surreal atmosphere about the place. I was leaving all I had known up to that point, all that was familiar, behind. Upon riving in Cameron Bay, I spent several days before being dispatched to Camp Eagle, to the far north of the country, and then to Quang Tri, only 3-4 miles from the DMZ of North Vietnam and the South. Spending a month there I saw some firefights that will forever be in my memory. Some two or three months later we stood down to Camp Eagle again in a seemingly unwind of where I had come from, and finally to the South, to a fire base known as Camp Bearcat. It was at Camp Bearcat that I was afforded the opportunity to become a Doorgunner on a Huey (slick) and jumped at the prospect. Having heard all the horror stories of short lifespans of Crew Chief's and Doorgunners, it was admittedly a scary proposition to undertake, but never the less I jumped on board. Our typical day consisted of inserting Blues Platoons and Rangers. Otherwise we would fly to an airbase and spend the day 'waiting'. Some days were intense others life threateningly boring. Lift off was a feeling of being lifted by some invisible rubber band, then the tail rising to an extreme angle and collective applied, the Birds' were on our way, quickly rising to an altitude of 2,000 feet and leveling off at that point as a cruising altitude most commonly. Morning was a mixture of many things, and prop wash on my side intensified everything to the point, there was no guessing the weather, you were in the thrust of it. Some mornings the cold chill of low temperatures was apparent, or the occasional rains would dampen out 'Jets' and gung-ho,edness, by virtue of a good collateral soaking. Other times in the early dawn stillness it was beautiful, almost too beautiful to be a war zone, never the less there was an ever present danger all around us as often times we went to places not allowed, to retrieve downed crafts or rescue pilots or soldiers. Often times after the monsoon season, flying was much different, there were smells not present the rest of the year, and while flying over low clouds or jungle mist the shadow of the Slick's prop on the clouds would appear as a circular rainbow, very unusual and pretty to see. Cold days brought the wop,wop bounce felt as the prop was in dense air, much more so than in dry conditions. Late night incursions were few, but we had our share. Ar night there was an absence of ground based lights, as many 'Villes' had no electricity, the only thing seen might be a small fire or a lantern, often times extinguished at our coming presence. The stars were so bright in the night sky, they seemed to be your one familiar sight that you could cling to, the sometimes cold was all around you when flying at night because our altitude was often times increased to 3,000 feet. During the warm summer months there was less lift and a feeling of comfortable warmth, but being in a huge fan, never too hot. Rising to altitude, there was a significant 'feel' change as the temperatures varied. But during the days it was much more uniform in temperature. I did this every day for nearly a year, either finding My way somewhere on foot, or by air. What many would pay to fly as much a I have flown. To experience the seasons, the smells, and all the nuance's of flight. The feeling of power with two Cobra's, two Loaches and three to four Slicks indescribable, simply you just had to be there. These days I'm content to have an M35A2 Deuce. It is sufficient to stir memories, after all the ride to the flight pad was in a Deuce.