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[Rare Meat] If you like your steaks rare you might say “I like them bloody” but the red liquid that comes out of a rare steak isn’t actually blood (the majority of which is removed during slaughter) but water retained in the muscle tissue mixed with a protein called myoglobin. |
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The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question but to post the wrong answer. |
![]() There could be as many as 80 meteors per hour at the peak of the shower, NASA added, noting it’s among the brightest of all such meteor events. Plus they can be enjoyed during summer’s warmth, unlike the often nippy nights during the Leonids of November or Geminids of December. “This major shower takes place during the lazy, hazy days of summer, when many families are on vacation,” EarthSky.org Bruce McClure said. Additionally, there won’t be any significant distracting moonlight, as the moon will only be a thin crescent in the sky. The Perseids can be best seen during the pre-dawn hours from Tuesday through Aug. 14, according to Earthsky.org, with the best show on Aug. 13. |
It has been published that FKAA will be charging their sewer customers a fee for usage once the notice to hook up is posted. Even if there is no connection. No turds have been processed by the mandated sewer, no service rendered. So how can they bill for no service rendered? A long time ago, before anyone wants to admit, the FKAA was also committing dubious billing practices, causing the South Florida Water Management District to go down to Key West and take over the FKAA until all the unethical and/or Illegal acts were rectified and miscreants dealt with as required (promoted to a higher position or allowed to resign with a ‘golden parachute’). From all the information available regarding this CRWS I hope that someone besides me should start asking WTF is going on. Anyone else tired of the whitewash; all because of this mandate which has been around since 1989? |
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[Deep, Not Shallow Wells] I can show you photos of excavations at the site showing tunnels, and layers of muck between layers of rock. The well videos from a lowered camera show tunnels and coarse holey rock starting at about 85 feet. There is absolutely no way that injected water does not escape rapidly. I firmly believe this last test is just more deceit from people who got caught pulling another fast one over the public and now are trying to save their face using our money. Call their bluff. |
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[Crooks] When the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority installed its first sewer system in Little Venice-City of Marathon, which I had the privilege of being the senior field inspector, there was no extortion and no City of Marathon citizen was forced to give up their property.No taxpayer of the City of Marathon was forced to hire an electric contractor to install a high-voltage electric system to run their sewer system. No citizen of the City of Marathon is required to pay for the electricity to run their sewer equipment.The whole county voted for a tax to fund the sewer system so citizens — taxpayers — wouldn’t have to be discriminated against. |
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[FKAA Pay] Zuelch at $191,963, Deputy Executive Director Kerry Shelby at $172,182 — plus benefits. |
![]() Maybe a year ago, Dave was taken to his Pennsylvania hometown by childhood friends for a high school reunion. When he returned to Key West with money they had given him, he started downhill. Maybe that was too much of a jolt for his fragile (bunker-hardened) psyche: going back in time to be with old friends who are doing well and he was homeless in Key West. Or maybe what tilted him over was they offered to get him inside, and a job, up there, and he turned them down because, he told me, he was free, they were not; why would he want to be like them? Whatever, I watched Dave go downhill after they tried to save him, after I told them he might not respond well to their efforts to try to save him. Before then, Dave would fall off his rocky horse and be nutty but not mean or aggressive. After the trip north, he changed. I told him the other day I sometimes write about him, so his old friends will know how he’s doing – a couple of them receive my daily ravings. Dave told me to tell them to all go fuck themselves. Now Dave is the Key West Police Department’s problem. I hope they deal with him appropriately. He needs to be Baker Acted. He needs to be on a locked ward for a good while. Perhaps he can be stabilized on meds, which he does not like taking for bipolar disorder, he has told me. Perhaps he can be persuaded to lay off booze and spice if he is released. It would be a bad move by the Key West police to force KOTS to take Dave back. He’s dangerous. He has been trying to provoke fights at KOTS. I have seen it myself. The police need to treat Dave as dangerous until, if, he is turned around by mental health professionals. And if that doesn’t work, he should be in jail where he is less likely to hurt someone else or get himself hurt. He is a small man. He thinks he’s bullet proof. There are plenty of bigger people around who might be inclined to prove to him that he is not. And then they might be in jail. ~Homeless Sloan |
[“30% surcharge for foreign use”] I think you heard wrong. The surcharge is 3% not 30 for international use. You are correct that the Discover Card has no foreign surcharge. |
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When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth. ~Billy – age 4 |
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I think you will enjoy this video about saving a whale tangled in net. Video. |
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[The Healthy Reef] Dakuwaqa’s Garden – Underwater footage from Fiji & Tonga. Video |
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[Homeless Sloan] I think it was Friday before last, the water fountain in the county library on Fleming Street was broken and closed off for repairs. About last Thursday, I asked a fellow behind the front desk about the water fountain still being closed off, and he said they had put in three work orders. Today, Monday, ten or so days later, the water fountain still is closed off. I didn’t ask about it. But I wonder if it was the water fountain outside county county commissioners Heather Carruthers or Danny Kolhage’s offices, or outside county administrator Roman Gastesi’s office, it would still be down and closed off? Lots of homeless people use the library. They use the water fountain to fill their water bottles. I wonder if that is in play? No water fountain, maybe less homeless people will hang out at the library? |
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[Haiku for Corruption] Nuevo Gangsters Of Three Stole our Money |
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[“Diet menus”] The only diet menu of which I’m aware requires the user to monitor what and how much passes between their lips. |
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Potation is one of the pitfalls of living ion the lower Keys too long. Many call it Keys disease. |
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[Swim Record Set] First woman to complete shark-infested swim. It has been called one of the most dangerous swims in the world and Kim Chambers has just become the first woman to complete it. She swam 30 miles between the Farallon Islands and San Francisco in seas that contain some of the largest great white sharks in the world. Audio |
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[“Legalize it”] Legalize what? Drug-induced insanity? Get real. The findings that there is no medicinal value to marijuana stands. And no, state laws do not circumvent or overpower federal laws. Of course, you’re free to try. |
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[Iraq] The US replaced a corrupt dictatorship in Iraq with a corrupt democracy. |
![]() [Watermelon Pizza] You’ll need a fork, the watermelon could collapse at any moment. |
[Grinder Pump Location] I’ve been notified that my neighborhood is getting grinder pumps, and now I have to tell them where I want them to locate the equipment. I am looking for thoughts on the pros and cons of various locations. Close to the street? Or close to the house? Corner of property? Center of property? Anything else I should consider? I’m sure that loaded question will generate some good, sarcastic replies. |
![]() I made a horrible mistake; I bought a drink for a Jersey girl last night and look what was waiting for me this morning! |
[Police Scanner] I used to be able to pick up local feeds (MCSO, KEYS, etc) using a scanner app on my smartphone, but now all I see is the Islamorada Fire Department. Anybody know what happened? |
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[Haiku to DirecTV] Saw my bill Almost passed out Cancelled |
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[Hacking] I have a website that is continually resisting hacking attempts from different countries, usually Slovenia, Russia, China and other nasty countries. Today there were 5 attempts at hacking — all from Salt Lake City! Are the Mormons trying to get to me because I made fun of their silly underwear? |
![]() Drank too much, passed out on the bar. |
I used to think I had a drinking problem so I quit thinking. |
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Four stories about Merle Haggard. Link |
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[Germs] Do some unscrupulous doctors spread diseases just to make money? Some office waiting rooms make you think so! |
[Haiku for the government tinkering with the weather] No Rain Desert coming Endangered Species Extinct |
![]() DEF; Judge n. A egomaniac playing God in chambers. DEF; Hardass n. That calloused condition one gets just before alcoholism turns into diabetes. DEF; Bore n, A person who cries in their beer while wearing ear plugs. DEF; AT&T n. Attack Terrorize & Tax DEF; FKAA n. @#$% $%^# #$&* #$& |
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