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No Wetlands, No Seafood.

A recent event in Atlantic Beach, on Bogue Banks, illustrates one of the reasons why environmental degradation is going to continue, and probably accelerate, in coming years.

There is one rule that every coastal developer and regulator knows — you can’t build in a salt marsh. Even so, the LPO in Atlantic Beach recently permitted construction of several houses in a salt marsh immediately adjacent to the Atlantic Beach post office — in plain sight of the main highway that runs the length of the island.

Narragansett, the traditional brew of New England, has returned.

Narragansett has a long history in New England. During the ’50s and ’60s, 64 percent of all beer sold in New England was ‘Gansett, sold in it’s traditional “Tall Boys,” 16-ounce cans.

The goal, he said, was to give New England a beer it has been and always will be associated with. He said he wants Narragansett to be synonymous with New England just as Lone Star is with Texas and Yuengling is with Pennsylvania.

Sadly, it’s non-alcoholic, so we won’t see comely bitches bumming cigarettes from the barflys.

Slobber Lager is not the first beer launched for dogs. Dog Star Brewing Co. has marketed Happy Tail Ale, another nonalcoholic beef-flavored brew, since 2004.

If drinking dogs isn’t enough for you, there’s always the beer pigs.

“When it’s very, very quiet, I often actually have to go over and give them a couple of drinks because, yeah, they do look forward to it,” Free told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals often investigates complaints about the pigs’ drinking but have found the porkers unharmed.

One step closer to the Buxton Casino.

The Roanoke-Hatteras and Mattamuskeet Indians are part of the larger Algonkian tribe who inhabited much of coastal North Carolina and the eastern United States. The earliest known writings about the Roanoke-Hatteras indians dates back to July 1584 when Arthur Barlowe described his first meeting with them upon arrival to the Outer Banks.

Together, the Roanoke-Hatteras and Mattamuskeet tribes are conducting historical and genealogical research with the intent of filing a petition for official recognition as Indian Tribes by the State of North Carolina.

Tossing a 10-foot cast net.

A Nigerian prince named Fred Ozaka showed me how to cast my first 10-foot net. He tied the line to his left wrist, letting it dangle from the bottom of his fist. Then he looped the line, holding it the same way each time, until he came to the net. Then he kept looping the net beginning at the horn, which is the plastic or brass fitting in the center of the net, until he had three coils of net in his hand. Lifting a forward weight, he put it between his teeth. Then he spread the leads until two-thirds were dangling from his right hand where he held the mesh about 18 inches above the leads.

He swayed back and forth, crouching ever lower to his left side at each swing as though rocking to a beat. Suddenly, he shot the leads into the air with his right hand and let go of the rest of the net. It looked like a starburst shell on the Fourth of July, covering me and anything else within a 20-foot radius.

The Tarpon life cycle.

Biologists generally agree with the observations of anglers that on the new and full moons of July, tarpon leave the green water passes and outside beaches and head offshore to spawn. Schools of thousands of fish have been observed at the edge of the continental shelf, apparently the spawning zone for most of the tarpon that live along the west coast.

In any case, when the adult tarpon finish spawning, they do not return to their normal haunts, the waters where anglers are used to sight fishing for them. But they do come back inshore. Far inshore - many miles beyond the beaches, moving into the black water areas created in large estuaries

“Hey, watch this cast!!

A former colonel in the Israeli army has happened upona new strategy for defending his country: Yogic flying, aka the Super Ass Flex.

As Hezbollah rockets fired from nearby Lebanon boomed in the background, he explained that the solution to the latest conflict to engulf the Middle East was “not to kill the enemy but to kill enmity.”

This can be done through the “technology” of yogic flying which, for those trained in the technique, is the spontaneous result of transcendental meditation, said Zelinkovsky as he emerged Tuesday from the first of two daily four-hour sessions.

Of course, as we’ve noted before, you don’t even need buns of steel–at least not more than once–as long as you have Photoshop.

Team says Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone - Cycling - Yahoo! Sports

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site.

I hate to believe it and I’ll wait until the “B” sample has been tested but, if Landis is found to have been doping during the Tour, it could be the final nail in cycling in America for some time to come. It’ll be hard to believe that any cyclist isn’t doping. It’ll be harder to believe that Lance Armstrong wasn’t doping during his seven wins in Le Tour.

I’ll hold out a little hope, but it’s depressing news.

I’ve heard of crazier ideas. However, if Sir Charles decides to run for governnor of Alabama, I hope he wins it. He would certainly be entertaining. Since I don’t live in Alabama, I don’t have a stake in the outcome.

However, according to the experts, he’s not ready:
“Jim Seroka, a political science professor at Auburn University, said the former Auburn basketball star is getting ahead of himself by talking about possibly running without first building a base of support or looking at finances.”

I’d agree w/Mr Seroka except Charles is not a “typical” candidate and is already pretty well known throughout the world both as a former NBA player and currently as commentator for NBA on TNT. As to the money issues, he could probably bankroll the whole run out of his own pocket. However, I bet Nike would endorse him and provide some shoes! Finally, there’s over 4 years left until the voters decide, so there’s plenty of time to work on the support base & fund raising.

What can we expect from Sir Charles:

Regarding his party affiliation: “What I’ve said is I’m rich like a Republican. But I’m not one.”

Regarding Alabama and it’s past leadership:
“If it wasn’t for Arkansas and Mississippi, we’d be dead last in everything. I think we can do better,” he said.

Regarding black kids and education:
“There are too many black kids and their parents who do not value a good education,” he said. “There are places where a black kid who is a good student and tries to speak correctly, you hear stuff like, ‘He’s trying to be white.’ Well, I say, if that’s true, we need more kids trying to be white.”

See, it’s already entertaining and we’re over 4 years away from the election!!

RUN, CHARLES, RUN!!!!!

(FULL DISCLOSURE: As a citizen of North Carolina, we have also seen similiar political apirations as well. Among the unsuccessful runs was the Nature Boy and the King of NASCAR)