Month: May 2015
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ISIS takes control of Ramadi: Online video showed Humvees, trucks and other equipment purportedly speeding out of Ramadi, with some soldiers gripping onto their sides. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered security forces not to abandon their posts across Anbar province, apparently fearing the extremists could capture the entirety of the vast Sunni province that saw intense fighting after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country to topple dictator Saddam Hussein.
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UK Police feared extraterrestrial attacks at turn of the millennium
UK Police feared extraterrestrial attacks at turn of the millennium
So there.
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This is the outfit that Lindsey Logan chose to wear while she was performing community service. Fashion police online have swarmed in to offer ruthless tirades of brutal criticism …
A part of me thinks people should lay off, let her be.. and let her wear whatever she wants to. She sports the sultry community service outfit well, as a matter of fact..
But I am uncomfortable about the picture for this reason–not her outfit–but the fact that it was taken at a women’s shelter and posted online. Sometimes, even in the Internet world, private things should stay private, LILO..
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The simple swat at a fruit fly suddenly can make you feel thoroughly guilty
Next time you restlessly try to catch a fruit fly floating around your kitchen (and good luck trying) consider this:
From creepy shadows to even the person chasing the fly, there may be an emotional surge of fear.. Food for thought as your flies feast..
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There was no need for an evolutionary equal pay law: It was natural in most of recorded history, says a new study
New science now revealed: Early humans, we are told by leading anthropologists, had general equality. A research study concludes that for most of the evolutionary history of human, both genders had equal footing in the chaotic game of life..MORE:
Mark Dyble, the leading anthropologist on the study at University College London, said: “There is still this wider perception that hunter-gatherers are more macho or male-dominated. We’d argue it was only with the emergence of agriculture, when people could start to accumulate resources, that inequality emerged.”..

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I can explain the headline. But I sure can’t comprehend the body
The Large Hadron Collider, now fired up and colliding with energy, have observed a rare and new decay of the Bs particle.. It is a previously unseen subatomic process that only occurs about four times out of a billion, an advance that may help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe..
The rest is physics. And science.. And I have trouble, as I have always had, wrapping my mind around the metaphysical.. Not that I don’t try.
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The FBI and Homeland Security (really?) are responding to a shocking goatse photo bomb in ATLANTA.. The photograph is sickening. If you’d like the full effect and not the blurred version, follow the links through to IMGUR and REDDIT where you can see the picture in full glory. And it is horrifying. But for top agencies to be on the case? That’s where the overkill question certainly needs to come in. Meanwhile, prayer for Goatse.
A flashback, since it seems appropriate for those new to memes and especially hardcore disgusting ones: In 2013, GAWKER was on the case and tracked down Kirk Johnson, the man who is responsible for the disturbing Goatse meme.. There’s some good Sunday reading if you need it.
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Who paved the road to ISIS?
A long look back: Who created ISIS? That question has suddenly became a campaign issue for Jeb Bush. But it is also an American issue–a question that should be answered with some thorough facts. NEW YORK attempts to begin putting the puzzle together–though it neglects to talk about weapons that the United States, under Obama, was pouring into to the ‘freedom fighters’ in Syria and Libya. The world has played chess for quite some time in the Middle East..
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Speed controls have been installed on ‘dead man’s curve,’ the crash site in Philadelphia.. But that may only be a part of the story.. There is still intrigue swirling not only around the engineer of the train, but also the eyewitnesses and visual evidence that something really big and fast hit the train prior to it crashing.. There are even rumors that two projectiles hit the train around the same time..
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More death of the coal region news
I feature some telling headlines from my hometown now and then, today’s offers more compelling information that the dream of the coal region, once filled with hope and coal in veins, is slowly becoming a relic of a past generation..
Catholic parishes in Ashland, Gordon and Girardville to merge
This is a double whammy, of sorts: A region losing its luster, and a religion losing its collections.
Telling tales from northern boundary of the coal region this Sunday morning..