Fly boards, Dennis, pot, Olympics, KFC: another one of those news roundups

The roundup file was getting kind of long so I suppose it's time for another one.

This first one is going to take some explaining. In July a boat caught fire on a Minnesota lake and passengers abandoned it. A guy using a fly board hovered over the fire and put it out in about two minutes. Basically a guy puts his feet into boots on the apparatus. Exhaust water from a wave runner is pumped through the device and downward which lifts the rider above the surface. 

It's going on two years since Alaskans voted to legalize marijuana and there hasn't het been a single ounce of it sold legally yet. Meanwhile Colorado is funding schools and help for the homeless from taxes on pot sales. And: Oregon collects $25.5M in taxes on recreational marijuana in first 7 months of 2016

According to milklife.com, nine out of ten US Olympic athletes grew up drinking milk. Now, about that tenth athlete, what did that one drink? And how was this ever polled?

July 2016 was the hottest month on record in Anchorage, Alaska, with an average temperature of 62.7 degrees F.

Jay North who played Dennis the Menace on TV turned 65 Aug. 3. Not so menacing now, are you?

Speaking of which: Here's a stat for you: Of all the people aged 65 or older who have ever lived, more than half are alive today. Think about that one.

Jim Thorpe the famed Olympics athlete, still holds a major league baseball record – most walk-off home runs with 14.

Thanks to KFC, Fried Chicken Sunscreen is a thing that exists

So George Zimmerman was introducing himself in a restaurant by bragging he was the guy who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Another fellow described only as "big" came over and punched him in the face. Poor George had to call 911 for police help. So far no charges against the guy who punched him. That's all from gopocalypse.com.

Given that Rio de Janeiro stands just about on the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere, the summer Olympics this year were actually staged during winter.

Pedal Forrest, pedal! Someone wearing a bushy fake beard and a red baseball cap robbed a bank in Anchorage, Alaska, and escaped on a bicycle.

The US men's Olympic volleyball team had an official team psychologist. Really? Is this a thing now?

Kenny Baker, the man under the dome of the Astromech droid R2-D2, died at the age of 81. He portrayed R2-D2 in the original six Star Wars films

All those medals awarded in the Olympics and not one for participation.

A cow moose was spotted on the beach of the Arctic Ocean. (photo by Ted Jones, no relation)

There's a street near Wasilla, Alaska, called Knick Knack Mud Shack Road. Honest. There's an elementary school at 7068.

Facebook thinks I might like a story headlined "Olympic dream crushed by penis."

According to one source Ramen, not cigarettes, is the new black-market currency in US prisons

Scotland goes a whole day on wind power alone. Portugal goes four days on renewable. In the United States a Tesla went 400 miles on a single charge.

 

According to Libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, Alaska ranks among the top five states for personal freedom. 

Trending on facebook: Somebody named Farrah Abraham who's listed as a reality TV star says she doesn't date black men. Why is this news? Also, for the record, I don't date black men either.

Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay religious lobbying group the Family Research Council, who says God sends natural disasters to punish gays had his home destroyed during Louisiana "biblical" flooding in mid August.

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