Posted on 01/09/2020 9:14:49 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Was that “topless bar” playing “I ain’t got no body” on the jukebox? Just asking.
[Or, even worse that I just thought up, were they playing Whitney Houston’s great song, “I want to dance with some body”?
In southern bars, they would be playing Patsy Cline’s “I got to pieces” on the jukebox.
And the “beat goes on”!!!
Like it or not (not in my case), law enforcement has been building a DNA database on each and everyone of us. They do this by buying DNA profiles from various DNA websites which allow you to have your DNA examined. After they have collected DNA from someone in y0ur family, they have enough of your DNA to begin a backwards match. Once they’ve narrowed down the DNA to a particular family, it’s not too hard for them to collect DNA surreptitiously, by following their suspect, and collecting cigarette butts, soda bottles, even silverware in a restaurant.
While the idea behind it sounds benevolent, inevitably, the government will misuse this information. How you ask? Well, in time, they will have a database info on all of us, such that our medical and life insurance may cost more, simply because of genetic flaws. One doesn’t need to look to far to see the creative ways this information could be abused, with scientists eventually providing measures of likelihood of criminality, based on genetic factors. The world of predictive policing will be upon us, as is now the case for these “red flag” laws. Employability may also be affected by accessing prospective candidates propensity to be hard workers, to be less sick than the general population, and the list goes on and on.
Alas, poor Yorick!
I knew him Horatio.
How terribly sad.
CNN reports since they can’t find the body, they can’t be sure he is dead. /s
He could died of natural causes, animal attack or overdose, etc.
No. This was a coal hole.
Yes, sat view shows lots of coal strip mining.
Hopefully when it’s all done, they can reclaim the land nicely:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_State_Recreation_Area
OT rant: Info. on Pyramid Park is really “chaotic” - it’s hard to even find a map online depicting which roads are open to the public (or not), which lakes (there are more than the 24 number sometimes cited) near park boundaries are or are not actually in the park, etc. Google hilariously shows “busy times” - huh? Maybe during hunting season - otherwise the almost 20k acres is almost deserted. My family spent an entire Labor Day weekend afternoon driving around the park on a REALLY nice day, a few years back: Not counting the office parking lot we saw TWO cars and one guy fishing in a boat. I’ve looped by a few times on trips from St. Louis to KY, etc., and it’s been the same story. If they are going to have a park like this... The State of IL’s promotion of the site is just incompetent times 10.
But, at least the land IS nicely reclaimed and doesn’t look like a moonscape! My Dad was quite involved in developing improved / economical methods of strip mine reclamation back in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s.
Back OT, assuming no really evil acts, I hope the deceased is RIP. Somehow it seems that “peace” may have been lacking during the latter part of his life.
Warrants are dismissed; case closed now.
I figured it was, but his name being “Gold”, I was making an attempt at humor.
I knew that after I posted it. But in reality those coal holes in KOO-Koo County have a LOT of secrets in them.
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