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Xi chosen as 'Person of the Year' in Russia
Post Date: 2014-12-12 07:41:32 by Tatarewicz
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China Daily President Xi Jinping was named as "Person of the Year 2014" by the Russian Biographical Institute for the "strengthening of economic and political ties with the Russia", which reflects the rising influence of China and its leader. It is the first time the institute has given the award to a leader of a country that doesn't belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Russian Biographical Institute, founded in 1992, is a nongovernmental and noncommercial organization based in Moscow. Its Person of the Year award acknowledges the recipients involved as being guided by the principles of social, spiritual and moral responsibility. Besides Xi, four ...
12-Year-Old Girl Shoots Mountain Lion in Self Defense
Post Date: 2014-12-12 01:22:17 by James Deffenbach
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Alyssa Caldwell and her father had been hunting all day. The weather had been nasty; cloudy skies with snow and rain alternating. They had seen a few elk, much too far away to try a shot. They left their makeshift blind to see if they could spot another elk before the end of the day. It was the middle of the afternoon . . . At 12, Alyssa Caldwell was already an experienced huntress. She had started shooting at five-years-old. On this day, Alyssa had a new rifle: a stainless Howa 1500. Alyssa and her father had only gone a few hundred yards from the blind when her father remembered that he’d left the shooting sticks behind. He told Alyssa to wait while he went back to retrieve them. ...
Pay It Forward - Kindness Boomerang
Post Date: 2014-12-10 10:45:29 by Lod
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Britons do ‘backyard burials’ over high costs: Lawmaker
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:54:59 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Rising costs are forcing Britons to hold “do-it-yourself” funerals and bury their loved ones in their own backyards, a British lawmaker warns. Emma Lewell-Buck, a Labour MP, said in a parliamentary session on Tuesday that tens of thousands of Britons struggle to pay for funeral costs, with some resorting to the practice of laying their relatives to rest in their own gardens. Citing a Royal London report, Lewell-Buck said 100,000 families struggle each year to afford the cost of a funeral. According to the British MP, an average funeral now costs £3,551; however, in some areas where there are problems regarding burial space availability, the price reaches ...
CIA Paid Millions to Company for Developing Interrogation Techniques
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:11:56 by Tatarewicz
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by Sputnik company, established by two psychologists with no background on interrogation, was awarded millions of dollars by US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for developing and implementing the agency’s enhanced interrogation techniques against the detainees, suspected in terrorism, a report released on Tuesday by the US Senate said. “In 2006, the value of the CIA’s base contract with the company, formed by the psychologists with all options exercised was in excess of $180 million; the contractors received $81 million prior to the contract’s termination in 2009,” the report read. According to the report, in 2005, the psychologists formed a company for the ...
Walk With Me a Bit...Let's Talk
Post Date: 2014-12-07 18:13:29 by James Deffenbach
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Until Friday, it wasn't a big deal. Surgery that is. I knew it was going to happen but until yesterday, I couldn't put my finger on a calendar and show you that date. It was just a fuzzy, non-specific thing. Something that was to be scratched off a to-do list. It wasn't a big deal. I assigned it little relevance...just something I needed to do and move on. But it is a big deal. On January 16th, I will be admitted to Seton Medical Center in Austin Texas. On that day, Doctor and ENT Surgeon Peter Scholl will cure my cancer. He will do so by removing my larynx, possibly my thyroid and every lymph node in the general vicinity. We didn't come to this decision lightly. The ...
Time to put a Cork (County Cork, Ireland) in it
Post Date: 2014-12-06 13:25:18 by James Deffenbach
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Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
Post Date: 2014-12-06 05:45:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScientificAmerican... If you’ve spent more than about 5 minutes surfing the web, listening to the radio, or watching TV in the past few years, you will know that cognitive training—better known as “brain training”—is one of the hottest new trends in self improvement. Lumosity, which offers web-based tasks designed to improve cognitive abilities such as memory and attention, boasts 50 million subscribers and advertises on National Public Radio. Cogmed claims to be “a computer-based solution for attention problems caused by poor working memory,” and BrainHQ will help you “make the most of your unique brain.” The promise of all of these products, ...
And They Would Have You Believe That Men Don't Remember Stuff
Post Date: 2014-12-05 13:13:13 by James Deffenbach
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Woman Makes Fun Of Her Husband's Ability To Have Sex. But Then He Says This.
Post Date: 2014-12-05 11:12:01 by James Deffenbach
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New DNA Tests Raise Questions Over British Queen’s Legitimacy
Post Date: 2014-12-05 00:38:07 by Tatarewicz
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Craig Rex, who claims to be a 7th-generation descendant of another well-known English monarch, King George III stated that the legitimacy of the present British Royal family raises some questions due to the latest DNA tests. LONDON, December 5 (Sputnik) — New DNA analysis of the remains of one of England’s most well-known monarchs, King Richard III, has led to fresh questions over the legitimacy of the present British Royal family, the House of Windsor. Cameron Broke Royal Protocol When Detailed Private Conversation with Queen “We question the legitimacy of the current Royal family. If they, the Royal heirs, are prepared to offer their DNA then ‘finality’ would ...
Bicycle pumps used in Indian state for sterilization operations
Post Date: 2014-12-04 02:57:58 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... An Indian state has shut down mass sterilization operations at health camps after a physician was found using a bicycle pump to inflate patients' abdomens. Dr. Mahesh Chandra Rout said that he had regularly used a bicycle pump to carry out sterilization operations in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, the state-run BBC reported on Wednesday. "Cycle pumps are routinely used in many other parts of the state in the absence of costly medical equipment. There is no reason to make a big fuss about it as it has been proved fairly safe, and an affordable alternative," said the doctor, who used a pump on 56 women last Friday. Indian state officials said that using pumps ...
Mystery Surrounds NASA's Secret Mission in Africa
Post Date: 2014-12-04 02:47:26 by Tatarewicz
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Dec 3, 2014, 12:57 PM ET By LEE FERRAN Lee Ferran More from Lee » ABC News... A NASA official recently confirmed that one of the agency’s aircraft had been spotted on an American military airstrip in eastern Africa a few weeks ago, but like a series of U.S. military officials, declined to say what the space agency’s high-tech bird was doing there. “I really can’t give you any of the details,” Jim Alexander, a NASA official with the WB-57 High Altitude Research Program, told ABC News. “You know, the airplane was there, you see it in the picture. But I really can’t tell you what it was for.” The broad-winged white plane belonging to the agency ...
I’m gay, and I oppose gay marriage
Post Date: 2014-12-02 10:22:32 by James Deffenbach
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In our sometimes misguided efforts to expand our freedom, selfish adults have systematically dismantled that which is most precious to children as they grow and develop. That’s why I am now speaking out against same-sex marriage. By the way, I am gay. A few days ago I testified against pending same-sex marriage legislation in Minnesota’s Senate Judiciary and House Civil Law Committees. The atmosphere at these events (I’ve also testified elsewhere) seems tinged with unreality—almost a carnival-like surrealism. Natural law, tradition, religion, intellectual curiosity, and free inquiry no longer play a role in deliberations. Same-sex marriage legislation is defended ...
Danny Macaskill: The Ridge (This is Awesome!)
Post Date: 2014-12-01 09:31:54 by James Deffenbach
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Dogs Babysitting - too sweet
Post Date: 2014-11-30 19:37:27 by Lod
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The following websites are fake news websites that prey on conservatives
Post Date: 2014-11-30 15:24:35 by Dakmar
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The following are fake websites. The purpose of these websites are to make money. They create fake headlines that people want to believe. This prompts readers to share the headlines on Facebook. Often these sites get tens of thousands of Facebook shares for their fake articles. This generates ad revenue for the site. The following fake news site either prey of conservatives specifically or at least tend run headlines that conservatives would like to believe are true. Some of these site generate massive amounts of traffic due to viral Facebook sharing. The owners are laughing all the way to the bank. DailyCurrant.com (100% fake political stories) NationalReport.net (100% fake political ...
Survived Black Friday at Wal-Mart
Post Date: 2014-11-30 10:52:56 by James Deffenbach
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Must have been at the Wal-Mart in Ferguson.
The Best of Amazon's Black Friday Deals
Post Date: 2014-11-29 23:23:04 by James Deffenbach
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The Best Of Amazon’s Black Friday Deals
A Disabled Girl Will Keep Her Dog, and a Bad Law Will Go Away
Post Date: 2014-11-29 23:13:07 by James Deffenbach
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After a national backlash, Moreauville has reversed its controversial breed-specific legislation. Those of us who oppose breed-specific legislation got a small victory recently. Thanks to a nationwide backlash and an online petition, the village of Moreauville, Louisiana, now says that it will rescind an ordinance banning Pit Bulls and Rottweilers. The ordinance is a very new one; it was passed on Oct. 13 and gave owners until Dec. 1 to get rid of their dogs. About halfway through November, Joanna Armand got a notice from the city giving her two weeks to find a new home for their Pit Bull, Zeus, or he would be taken into custody and euthanized. Or actually, "further ...
Black Friday shopping: my experience
Post Date: 2014-11-28 16:51:05 by X-15
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I just knocked out a lot of shopping on my laptop sitting on my sofa, I googled promo codes and got additional discounts/free shipping on top of internet Black Friday specials. Walmart won't see my $$ for anything but a few groceries.
I already told you that!
Post Date: 2014-11-27 15:03:20 by James Deffenbach
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Where's My Riot?
Post Date: 2014-11-26 12:05:40 by christine
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Kelly Thomas
Duck Dynasty's Sadie Robertson
Post Date: 2014-11-25 19:48:03 by Neo TryingtoWarnYou
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Crackhead nigga lays down his pipe for good....
Post Date: 2014-11-23 13:00:25 by X-15
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Divisive and flamboyant, maddening and beloved, Marion Barry outshone every politician in the 40-year history of District of Columbia self-rule. But for many, his legacy was not defined by the accomplishments and failures of his four terms as mayor and long service on the D.C. Council. Instead, Barry will be remembered for a single night in a downtown Washington hotel room and the grainy video that showed him lighting a crack pipe in the company of a much-younger woman. Click for Full Text!
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