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Queen: Live in Rio

VIDEO HERE  (59:30 minutes)

-JD

At 2:00 AM on January 12th, 1985, Queen stepped out on stage to make one of their most historic concert appearances to date as they opened the Rio De Janeiro's "Rock In Rio" festival to an audience of over 250,000. Hits featured during this Rock 'n' Roll spectacular are "Love of My Life", "Tie Your Mother Down", "Radio Gaga" and many more!

Old habits die hard

A Chicago man with a criminal record spanning four decades has been sentenced to six years in prison after committing a pair of break-ins less than 48 hours after his last release from the Illinois Department of Corrections.

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America's Most Realistic Submarine Documentary

VIDEO HERE  (56:11 minutes)

I made this one hour primetime television special in 1989. At the time, it was a big deal for the American Navy to let me on one of their submarines. I loved the experience and the submariners. This documentary won the Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival. 

In my opinion what makes this so realistic is the everyday life submariners experienced and how when they trusted me and the crew, they let me record how things were when no one was watching.  I was impressed with how professional they were and how, though underwater for months at a time, they treated each other decently and with respect.  

As you can see in this documentary, smoking cigarettes at that time was just fine on a nuclear submarine. Just a few years later, those rules changed. And it was very strange to be on or should I say in a boat that carried or could carry nuclear weapons. It was strange to be completely disconnected from life on the surface.

It takes a certain kind of person to be a submariner and I have deep respect for their professionalism and their patriotism.  I know from so many who have commented on this video that to some extent, life on board a submarine has changed.  For example there is no smoking cigarettes for sure.  But in other ways, the life on board a Boomer or and attack sub isn't all that different from what is shown here. 

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Fucking buzzkills

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Getting high around a campfire in a national park, especially in Wyoming, is likelier to get you prosecuted under a new Justice Department policy cracking down on minor marijuana offenses on federal land.

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Back around 1983 or so, one of my friends that worked in the steel mill at the ammo plant decided to spend the day fishing a stream right on the boundary of Yosemite National Park with his dog. He'd parked on a wide spot of a dirt road just inside the park. Him and Rover or whatever his dog's name was had a great day and as he's loading his dog and fly rod into his truck, a Park Ranger pulls up. He's cool, he doesn't fuck with Scotty one bit, just sitting there shooting the shit about different flies that work well that time of the year, so Scotty whips out a joint and fires it up right in front of the incredulous Ranger, then offers him a toke.

Bam, Scotty suddenly finds himself under arrest for drug possession on Federal property. Not only that but Ranger Bob adds insult to injury and ticketed him for having his dog unrestrained in the Park when the dog jumped out of the back of the truck as Scotty was being searched.

We fucked with Scotty hard. He protested that the Ranger seemed cool but we shut that shit down real quick by asking if he would ever offer to smoke a joint with a CHP that was cool and let him out of a traffic stop with just a warning?

It ended up costing him several thousand dollars in lawyer's fees because there was a very real danger of a jail sentence, lost wages for the days he had to go to court in Yosemite (yes, the park has a jail and courthouse) and the thousand dollar fine he eventually ended up with.

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Good Morning

-WiscoDave
 

That is NOT the way to housebreak a dog

Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet announced the arrest of Gene Eddie Theriot, 51, of Houma, following a Cruelty to Animals complaint reported early Sunday morning. 

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-JD

Knight Foundry, The last water powered foundry and machine shop in the U S Sutter Creek, CA

This cast-iron foundry and machine shop was in continuous operation for 123 years between 1873 and 1996 before being preserved as a working museum.

VIDEO HERE  (31:17 minutes)

-Elmo

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When you can't be bothered with 2 minutes of paperwork

A woman in North Carolina is facing charges after police said she took a dog to an animal shelter and threw it out of her car in front of the building.

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Here, hold my beer

Yellowstone wolf watchers were gathered in awe on the morning of Oct. 6, ogling a pack of at least five black wolves roaming through the sagebrush near Lamar Valley. 

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Good Morning

 

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Somebody has some explaining to do

A police department in Nebraska says it is investigating after a man took his own life while in police custody.

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Scratch one political career

An Iowa judge was busted driving the wrong way down a highway and appeared to be passed out as she crashed into a median, according to police.

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