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A young man was caught sexually molesting a horse in Alabama last week — and the owner of the animal has reason to believe this wasn’t their first rendezvous. “I would say seven, maybe 10 times,” owner Francince Janes told NBC 15, in reference to the number of times she found evidence that her barn had been tampered with last month. “Toilet paper had been left. The hay stacks had been removed. Items had been turned over. And that’s as far as I want to go.” Daniel Bennett, 18, of Irvington, is currently awaiting trial after being arrested last Thursday night by officers from the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. He reportedly confessed to attempting to molest the horse — a 20-year-old steed named Polly — inside Janes’ barn and was charged with possession of burglar’s tools, criminal trespassing and bestiality, which is a misdemeanor. According to AL.com, the official warrant for Bennett’s arrest says he “engaged in or submitted to any sexual contact with an animal, to-wit: a horse.” Janes told NBC 15 that her husband was the one who caught the young man after their dogs woke them up barking. He reportedly held Bennett at gunpoint and spoke with him briefly before police arrived. Describing what Bennett told her husband, Janes said: “He likes horses. He wanted to pet the horse.” Asked what the young man told investigators, she replied: “That he molested the horse.” Whether it was a spur of the moment decision or not, Polly’s owner hopes Bennett will eventually seek treatment for bestiality. “I sincerely hope the judge mandates that he goes for psychiatric help,” Janes said. “But just not a slap on the wrist.”

Well, Dr. WTF is no longer my doctor. The insurance company I had last year went out of business after December. I spent hours researching & calling the NY State exchange and found out that only Emblem Health would be accepted by my 3 main doctors. Then I spent more time on the phone with Emblem Health confirming that all would. Then I called at least the other 2 (don't remember if I called WTF's office) and was told that they would accept it. So yesterday I called Dr. WTF's office to get referrals to all the doctors he wanted me to see (plus a colonoscopy I have scheduled). Today at 5:05 PM their referral person called me to tell me that Dr. WTF isn't accepting ANY plan from the exchange, and none of my other doctors (who are all part of the same large medical group) will be accepting any either. And of course, since it was after 5, I couldn't call any other doctors to confirm. Now I have to find a whole new set of doctors. But at least my insurance premiums are still fairly reasonable! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I visited a concentration camp during a 3 week, many country trip through Europe in 1991. I still remember the AAA travel guide book: Dachau is a pleasant little town... (that has the remains of a concentration camp). I also went to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam on that trip. Very sobering.

James Bond is Brooklyn bound. Sources in the borough are buzzing that Bond starDaniel Craig is the mystery buyer of a Brooklyn brownstone sold by author Martin Amis and his wife, Isabel Fonseca, for $6.75 million. The home burned in a fire on New Year’s Eve a year ago, and Amis and his family have reportedly decamped to a Downtown Brooklyn high-rise. The 1901 Cobble Hill home was bought through an LLC called On the Rows last year, according to property records. Reps for Craig and his wife, Rachel Weisz, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A broker for the property declined to comment on Friday. Craig and Weisz reportedly lived previously in an $11.5 million Soho penthouse purchased in 2012 after Craig sold a Tribeca pad. They’d be just the latest celebs to call booming Brooklyn home, following stars such as Michelle Williams, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, and John Krasinksi and Emily Blunt (who are reportedly selling their $8 million Park Slope home). Amis and Fonseca bought the home for $2.5 million, in 2010. But last year, a faulty chimney led to an accidental blaze that ignited the roof. A Corcoran listing for the 6,600-square-foot property explained it was being “offered as a clean, blank slate and ready for a purchaser to finish to their specifications. This home has just received a brand new roof and extensive repair after damage from a fire that was contained to the top floor and is ready for a contractor to begin the finishing work . . . Wall studs are intact, and most mechanical systems are in good working order (including radiant heat in two of the bathrooms and the garden level).” Amis reportedly said the fire was like “the last kick in the arse of 2016.” Amis’ famous father, Kingsley Amis, published a 1968 Bond novel, “Colonel Sun” — under the pseudonym Robert Markham — after the death of Ian Fleming. He also wrote a book called “The James Bond Dossier,” analyzing Fleming’s novels.

Private Emmanuel Mensah, who died in a tragic Bronx fire after rescuing four people, will receive a Medal of Valor and a Soldier’s Award from the Army, the Daily News has learned. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who pushed the Army to pay posthumous tribute to Mensah, said the young soldier deserved the recognition for his “courage, sacrifice and utter selflessness.” The Soldier’s Award is the Army’s highest peacetime honor for bravery. It’s given for acts of personal danger and voluntary risk of life under conditions not involving conflict with an armed enemy. The Medal of Valor is awarded to those who display similar acts of heroism, the Army said. Mensah died Dec. 28 in a horrific blaze that killed 12 others. The Army private had rushed in and out of the burning Bronx building at least three times to guide four people to safety, Army officials said. Officials believe Mensah, 26, was trying to rescue others when the smoke and flames overtook him. Schumer hailed the soldier as a “hero” in his letter to Army officials last week. On Monday, he applauded the Army for its swift and fitting response. “On behalf of all New Yorkers, and all Americans, I want to express my sincerest gratitude to Pfc. Mensah, and his family, for the heroic actions he displayed on that fateful day; it will never be forgotten,” said Schumer. Mensah, a permanent legal resident, had emigrated to the U.S. from Ghana with his family. He enlisted in the New York Army National Guard in 2016. Mensah had lived in the Bronx building where the fire broke out before he left for training in Virginia. He was home for the holidays when the tragedy occurred, Army officials said. Mensah was to begin training with the 107th Military Police Company this month. http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3745266.1515451644!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/180102-z-a3538-1001.jpg http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3745264.1515451641!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/fire.jpg

Now that Hallmark Channel's inane, annoying, endless, horrible, suicide-inspiring, (seemingly) year-round Xmas extravaganza has ended, the girls are back. Yay! One of my favorite Dorothy being sarcastic scenes:

Hallmark cuts out that entire intrauterine scene. They tend to cut whole scenes to get the episode down to 20 minutes, whereas Lifetime used to cut a line here, a line there.

Prepare to be impressed:

Even in his Emmy-award winning appearance on GOLDEN GIRLS?

I've always wondered... Do you think Will is a top, bottom, or versatile? I thought of this again this week when he & Grace were boffing Megan Mullally's hubby.

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You gave away a little secret. :rolleyes:

Somebody to clean, paint, and redecorate my apartment.

I watched the first episode. It has potential. Interesting actors and characters.

To caress and serve. A New Jersey police department has offered “cuddles” to local residents who might need some heat during the winter storm. The Matawan Police Department posted an image of its officers on Facebook Thursday along with a caption that offered some special protection. “Our men and woman keeping our town safe during what we hope to be the first and only blizzard of 2018,” the post read. “Some of our officer are specially trained “cuddlers”, who can stop by if your heat happens to go out.” The department did not respond to a request for comment by The Post. They eventually took the image down, followed up by an explanation and apology. “We tried to have some fun. Some folks don’t like that. Sorry to all the rest,” the department posted at 5:30 p.m. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Gale-force winds toppled the roof of a New Jersey gas station on Thursday, a video shows. The canopy of the Delta gas station on River Drive in Garfield, New Jersey, came loose at around 2 p.m. Local firefighters were on scene and had cut the power and cleared all people out of the station when the top blew off a few minutes later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZz3ujyFhdI

Mike Trout might not belong in Los Angeles for a reason that has nothing to do with baseball. The Angels superstar has made his affinity for the weather known in recent years, striking up a relationship with meteorologist Jim Cantore and posting videos and messages about a variety of storms on his Twitter account. The snowstorm that hit the Northeast on Thursday, deemed the “bomb cyclone,” caught Trout’s interest a day earlier and led to an onslaught of weather-related messages to his wife. It didn’t take long for Jessica Cox, who wed Trout in December fittingly in a snow-covered setting, to grow tired of her husband’s hobby. “He’s about one weather map photo short of me muting his text message alerts… #theobsessionsisreal,” she wrote on Twitter, in response to Cantore’s high praise for Trout’s knowledge of meteorology. Cantore, who has had Trout call into his show on The Weather Channel and sent him a weather balloon in 2016 to track trends, said the two have been actively discussing the blizzard as details kept surfacing this week. “I’ve been talking to Mike Trout all week. He’s so excited about this storm right now. He’s been blowing up my phone,” Cantore said on SiriusXM’s MLB Network Radio. “There’s no question that he would have been a meteorologist if he wasn’t a phenomenal baseball player. He really loves weather. He’s a total geek about it, and it’s great talking to him.” http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mike-Trout-Angels.jpg http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0917/mag_troutcoverbts_12.jpg http://www.homorazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mike-trout-shirtless.jpg

Mike Trout might not belong in Los Angeles for a reason that has nothing to do with baseball. The Angels superstar has made his affinity for the weather known in recent years, striking up a relationship with meteorologist Jim Cantore and posting videos and messages about a variety of storms on his Twitter account. The snowstorm that hit the Northeast on Thursday, deemed the “bomb cyclone,” caught Trout’s interest a day earlier and led to an onslaught of weather-related messages to his wife. It didn’t take long for Jessica Cox, who wed Trout in December fittingly in a snow-covered setting, to grow tired of her husband’s hobby. “He’s about one weather map photo short of me muting his text message alerts… #theobsessionsisreal,” she wrote on Twitter, in response to Cantore’s high praise for Trout’s knowledge of meteorology. Cantore, who has had Trout call into his show on The Weather Channel and sent him a weather balloon in 2016 to track trends, said the two have been actively discussing the blizzard as details kept surfacing this week. “I’ve been talking to Mike Trout all week. He’s so excited about this storm right now. He’s been blowing up my phone,” Cantore said on SiriusXM’s MLB Network Radio. “There’s no question that he would have been a meteorologist if he wasn’t a phenomenal baseball player. He really loves weather. He’s a total geek about it, and it’s great talking to him.” http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mike-Trout-Angels.jpg http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0917/mag_troutcoverbts_12.jpg http://www.homorazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mike-trout-shirtless.jpg

I just read a review that highly praised this miniseries that I couldn't possibly care less about. I was just curious about whether there'd be a review of Ricky Martin's performance (there wasn't), or I wouldn't have wasted those precious few moments of my life reading the review.

But what would (the two of) you eat?

https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/luckiest-passenger-ever-gets-entire-plane-to-herself/ By Lauren Steussy January 4, 2018 Luckiest passenger ever gets entire plane to herself Amid countless holiday-travel horror stories, one traveler provides a beacon of hope. Beth VerSteeg got an entire plane to herself this week after accidentally scoring a seat on a flight intended solely for airline staff, according to Mashable. VerSteeg provided a tell-all look via Reddit at the lonely, beautiful flight, which only had one flight attendant — who, yes, still gave the safety spiel for her audience of one. The happy mistake happened earlier this week, after VerSteeg’s original flight from Rochester, NY, to Washington, DC, was canceled and she and several other passengers were rebooked on a later flight. Airline staff quickly realized they had mistakenly booked the DC-bound passengers on a crew-only flight and managed to squeeze them onto an earlier flight. VerSteeg, however, missed the memo — and only realized something was off when she found herself alone in the waiting area 45 minutes before takeoff. “One of the airport agents came over while I was waiting and asked if that was the flight I was waiting for, then said, ‘I knew this would happen,’ ” VerSteeg wrote in the thread. Happily, they agreed to take her anyway. Once she’d boarded, VerSteeg chose a seat in the third row (there was no first-class section on the small plane). On her Reddit thread, she recalls making “awkward eye contact” with the lone flight attendant on board and spreading out over two seats. “My top half had the window seat and the bottom half had the aisle,” she writes. https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/luckiest-passenger-ever-gets-entire-plane-to-herself/ By Lauren Steussy January 4, 2018

https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/offensive-food-truck-plans-to-return-after-court-victory/ By Gabrielle Fonrouge January 4, 2018 | 4:46pm ‘Offensive’ food truck plans to return after court victory The Wandering Dago could be headed back to the Capitol in Albany. The provocatively named Italian food truck plans to return to Empire State Plaza after an appeals court reversed a decision banning them from the premises, owner Andrea Loguidice told The Post. “We are definitely going to apply if they offer the program next year,” Loguidice, 38, said by phone Thursday after the Wednesday appeal. “We just feel satisfied and we feel like the court did the right thing. We hope that it helps other businesses going forward.” The catering company and food truck business sued the state back in 2013 after an application for a permit to sell food at the Empire State Plaza, which sits on Capitol grounds, was denied because the state found the word “dago” to be offensive and derogatory due to its history as a slur for Italians, the lead attorney on the case George Carpinello explained. “An employee, who was Italian-American, saw the application. It was presented to him and he said,‘I find this offensive and I’m not going to allow you to be on the plaza,’ so we filed a federal lawsuit,” Carpinello said. “The food truck is run by Andrea and she’s Italian. She used the name ‘Wandering Dago’ in kind of a playful way but also as a reaffirmation of her Italian heritage… it’s our understanding that everyone that applied got accepted except for our client.” There’s mixed opinions on where the word “Dago” comes from and what it means exactly but Carpinello said the state claims it was derived from the name “Diego” and used as a derogatory term to refer to people of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese descent, where the name Diego is popular. Carpinello said Loguidice believed it had to do with the type of work Italians did when they first immigrated to America. “When my client chose the name she always understood… that the term derived from the fact that many Italians, when they came to the country, were day laborers and got paid ’as the day goes’ and that’s where she thought the term came from.” Loguidice lost her first suit against the state in district court when a judge ruled the state was within its right to ban the truck because the name was derogatory and offensive, Carpinello said. She was forced to reorganize her business into a catering company after getting banned from the plaza proved to be “quite a financial hit,” Carpinello said. The company took the case to the second court of appeals in New York where they unanimously agreed to reverse the decision due to its violation of first amendment rights. “We’re very pleased, we feel vindicated because the court adopted our reasoning, which we had been arguing since the very first day we brought the case,” Carpinello said. “[Andrea] is very happy of course, it’s been a long haul for her.” The Wandering Dago also sued the New York Racing Association after being banned from Saratoga Race Course. The association reached a $68,500 settlement with the truck’s owners in January 2015. https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/offensive-food-truck-plans-to-return-after-court-victory/ By Gabrielle Fonrouge January 4, 2018 | 4:46pm