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It’s a NINJA TURTLES weekend..
BUT.. it’s all bad. Very bad.. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is scoring awfully bad on Rotten Tomatoes.. Only 19% of critics liked it. . 66% of movie goers so far.. One review: “It may be the dullest movie ever made” .. wow..

WEEKEND THEATER COUNTS:

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: 3845

INTO THE STORM: 3434

STEP UP ALL IN: 2072

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY: 2023

MEGAN FOX AND HER FOUR FRIENDS.. ALL THUMBS OR HEROES IN A HALF SHELL? IT’S UP TO YOU, MOVIE GOERS OF THE PLANET.


Ebola has now been declared an international emergency..

CDC warns America: Ebola is coming..


Fear grips Africa: “Don’t touch the walls”


Outbreak being called ‘unprecendented’

FDA authorizes Ebola test; vaccine will probably take until 2015..


Check out this HOLIDAY INN express ad featuring a joke about the Ebola virus.. It is not new–Holiday Inn would be lambasted for bad timing.. It actually appeared in 2001, back when the ‘deadly Ebola outbreak’ wasn’t nearly as deadly as it is now.. Also think of this..People got offended less in entertainment. 9/11 changed that a bit, with hypersensitivity becomnig the norm.. the EBOLA COMMERCIAL is being called predictive programming by some conspiracy theorists.. I disagree, as it was too long ago to really conincide with this year’s outbreak..BUT the ad is getting renewed attention in the past 24 hours after several websites found it and re-linked it again.. some even believe that the ad is new.


Not something you see at every Sunday service: Exotic dancers to go topless at Church protest..



Miley Cyrus NBC special sparts FCC investigation..



The supermoon rises, part 3: August 10’s version, though, will be the biggest of the year..


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For the first time since combat operations ended and soldiers were brought home from Iraq, the United States is reentering the theater.. President Obama announces aid packages are on the way.. as are bombs and air raids..

It begins: Fighter jets strike ISIS in Iraq..

But will it be enough to stop ISIS?

As Gaza grabs the headlines, epic slaughter engulfs the rest of the region. But where are the protests? ..

Christians in Iraq being slaughterd in mass numbers..


Where’s Donald Trump when you need him!? MSNBC’s Chris Jansing says that President Obama is interested in the Africa summit because “he’s from Kenya”


Russia bans ALL food imports from the West..



Could this be the end of the porn industry in LA? The well-endowed entity on the left coast may have gotten a rude awakening: A law that all porn stars must wear condoms.. The exodus begins..

Why they’re fleeing..


Iselle downgraded.. but not before forcing roofs to fly off houses..


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Harrisburg hell.. imagine a water bill of $75 gouing to $745.. or Another being $6528. It’s all true.. and happening in the midstate of Pennsylvania, where residents are steaming angry..


Another store in big trouble: Staples to close 165 stores in 2014..

Unhappy meals: McDonalds sales drop for third month..


Here is a question you may have never pondored: Do inanimate objects have feelings? .. your logic may scoff at the notion, but as Tara MacIsaac writes, some scientists ponder the possibilty..


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And here’s a fun flashback to yesteryear.. August 2007: The Miss Teen USA answer that will live in infamy..


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