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Mr. and Mrs. Pickles, partners for 27 years, recently welcomed three baby hatchlings named Dill, Gherkin, and Jalapeño, according to the Texas zoo's website. A 90-year-old tortoise native to Madagascar, the oldest animal at Houston Zoo, is now reportedly a first-time dad thanks to a zookeeper with a keen eye. Mr. Pickles moved to the Texas facility 36 years ago and partnered up with Mrs. Pickles 27 years into his residency, the Houston Zoo shared. The couple remained childless until recently when a worker noticed Mrs. Pickles' eggs at closing and quickly scooped them up to take them to the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suffered a concussion after a fall at a local hotel and remains hospitalized “for a few days of observation and treatment,” a spokesman said Thursday. The Kentucky senator, 81, was at a Wednesday evening dinner for the Senate Leadership Fund, a campaign committee aligned with him, when he tripped and was admitted to the hospital, his office said. The dinner was at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC, formerly the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C. Spokesman David Popp said McConnell is being treated for a concussion and “is grateful to the medical professionals...

WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, when Sen. Bernie Sanders said he would not challenge President Joe Biden in 2024, Biden was so relieved he invited his former rival to dinner at the White House the next night. Biden has been eager for signs of loyalty — and they have been few and far between. Facing intensifying skepticism about his capacity to run for reelection when he will be nearly 82, the president and his top aides have been stung by the questions about his plans, irritated at what they see as a lack of respect from their party and the...

An older golfer was chipping his ball from near a water hazard; his club fell into the water. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, "Why are you crying?" The golfer replied that his club had fallen into water, and he needed the club to win the tournament to supplement his meager pension. The Lord went down into the water and reappeared with a golden club. "Is this your club?" the Lord asked. The golfer replied, "No. The Lord again went down and came up with a silver club. "Is this your club?" the Lord asked. Again, the...

TEN (10) THINGS I KNOW ABOUT YOU 1) You are reading this. 2) You are human. 3) You can't say the letter ''P'' without separating your lips. 4) You just attempted to do it. 6) You are laughing at yourself. 7) You have a smile on your face and you skipped No. 5. 8) You just checked to see if there is a No. 5. 9) You laugh at this because you are a fun loving person & everyone does it too. 10) You are probably going to send this to see who else falls for it. "Do not regret...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP6kBcP7LKo I plan to do an article on this filthy commie animal on YT who has on many occasions tried to shut down my blog and my channel and those of my friends. He is one of the biggest scum on youtube. A hater of God, religious freedom and gun rights. He has stated over and over again, that religion should be criminalized and those who don't agree with him should be banned from voting. If ever liberalism and fascism were the same here's proof

Here is the English translation to the latest speech by al-Adnani. They call John Kerry “the old uncircumcised geezer” and Obama “the mule of the Jews” and take on his lecturing on Islam: So America and its allies rose in order to save the world from the “terrorism and barbarity of the Islamic State” as they allege. They rallied the entire global media, driving it with false arguments to delude the masses and lead them to believe that the Islamic State was the root of evil and the source of corruption, and that it was the one killing and displacing...

The 85-year-old business mogul has been dating women in their 20s for decades. It's funny how the women he dates never age, but he still does. We've put together some lovely leading ladies close to his age. Sorry Hef!

ALPINE, Texas - Mike Flynt was drinking beer and swapping stories with some old football buddies a few months ago when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: Getting kicked off the college team before his senior year. So, one of his pals said, why not do something about it? Most 59-year-olds would have laughed. Flynt's only concern was if he was eligible. Finding out he was, Flynt returned to Sul Ross State this month, 37 years after he left and six years before he goes on Medicare. His comeback peaked Wednesday with the coach saying he's made...

96-Year-Old Gangster Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charges Wednesday, February 28, 2007 FORT LAUDERDALE — A 96-year-old gangster who oversaw robberies, money laundering, bank fraud and other crimes for one of the United States' largest Mafia families pleaded guilty Wednesday, but because of his age will likely be sentenced to house arrest. Albert "The Old Man" Facchiano pleaded guilty to a Florida charge of racketeering conspiracy and a New York charge of conspiracy to tamper with a witness. From 1994 to 2006, Facchiano supervised associates of the Genovese crime family who committed robberies, money laundering, bank fraud and possessed stolen property,...

(CBS 5) SAN JOSE It was in 1968, when CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite did a tour of Vietnam, and came back highly critical of that war. His pronouncement that the Vietnam War was unwinnable led to such a shift in public opinion against the war that President Lyndon Johnson said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost America." The 90-year-old Cronkite was in San Jose on Friday addressing the Commonwealth Club. In an exclusive interview with CBS 5, he weighed in on the situation in Iraq. "We should have gotten out a long time ago. This is a mistake, this entire...

Dennis and Stephen Henley filling sand bags together. Department of Defense photo. CAMP RAMADI -- It has been nearly four decades since Dennis Henley filled a sand bag in a war zone. In 1967, he was a Marine Corps corporal in Quang Tri, Vietnam. This September while visiting Camp Ramadi, he found himself once again holding a sand bag, but this time the chore proved to be a very special, emotional moment as the individual standing beside him with the shovel was his youngest son, Marine Corps Corporal Stephen Henley. DennisÂ’ 20-year-old son Stephen is in his final days of...

Bill Clinton is a sexagenarian. The 42nd president spent his 60th birthday yesterday celebrating quietly with friends and family, said his spokesmen.

All, as noted in the thread Prayer requested for Sionnsar's family, I have a new, quite significant, and high priority pull on my time that will continue for an indefinite period of time. I will do what I can, and newheart and Huber long ago volunteered to help out with posting and pinging the Traditional Anglican ping list during my times away (traveling). Unfortunately I think these two are even busier than your truly --- but we'll do what we can to keep the Traditional Anglican ping list going. For the Washington State ping list I have mostly been pinging...

No big deal to hardly anyone but me, but today.....ol' RightOnline turned the Big Five-Oh. The Half Century Club. Halfway to centenarian and greetings from the fat guy on the Today Show...... I just thought I would take a few moments, after a thoroughly wonderful day, to share a few things I've picked up or things I've reflected on today with my beloved fellow FReepers (and you ARE just that, beloved ......well, as a group....some of ya.....well.....) 1. Whatever 50 is supposed to feel like, I don't feel it. I lift weights 5 days a week and am in better...

Officials in the southeastern Minnesota town of Goodview are relieved nobody was hurt in their annual parade. An 86-year-old woman drove into the parade Sunday, frightening spectators and participants. Police Chief LaVern Hauschildt says it's a miracle no one was injured. Police say the woman turned her red Cadillac directly into the oncoming parade. She nearly struck several children and adults, and almost mowed down a girl's gymnastics team, as she reached speeds of 35 to 50 miles an hour. An officer tracked her down at home. The chief says the driver was upset police hadn't kept people off the...

Burt Reynolds would no doubt give anything to return to the days when he was a fresh-faced sex symbol. Anything including, it seems, large sums of money for plastic surgery. The 1970s heart-throb appears to have had an extensive and expensive series of operations on his once-chiselled features. But whether or not the result is an improvement is open to debate. Reynolds, 69 next month, made his latest public appearance at the festivities surrounding this weekend's Superbowl event in Jacksonville, Florida. From a distance he looked in remarkable shape for his age. Close up, however, his appearance was less impressive....

Three women in their 70s were hospitalized after an elderly motorist apparently lost control of her Mercedes-Benz and plowed into the La Valencia Hotel on Prospect Street yesterday afternoon, police said. A busy stretch of Prospect Street was closed for about 90 minutes as paramedics tended to the injured and police conducted their investigation. The accident victims were near the Whaling Bar & Grill at the La Valencia about 1:30 p.m. when an 87-year-old woman driving a 1978 Mercedes-Benz suddenly accelerated in front of the hotel, jumped the curb and struck them with her vehicle, traffic investigators said. "Witnesses told...