Surviving an ISIS Massacre

A great story of survival in what has become hell on earth.

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George Zimmerman - Not Guilty!

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I just want to say one thing. Any of you people of color, or not of color for that matter, who disagree with the result in this case, or who choose to make your voice(s) be heard because of that belief - but who also did not watch the trial proceedings, nor know the facts of the case - SHAME on you! They got it 100% right this time, and that's all there is to it.

OK, one more thing. Mark O'Mara is a brilliant man, and deserves every ounce of the credit he receives.

This is Why All Cops Need an AR-15

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Then again some would say it's also a great argument for stricter gun-control measures. No measures taken, however, are going to prevent an otherwise normal guy from "snapping" one day, and deciding he's done living his life. Thank goodness these officers weren't injured too badly.

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Crazy 747 Crash in Afghanistan

So apparently this happened in Afghanistan Monday. According to the link, which contains incredible video footage, seven Americans were killed in the crash near Bagram Air Base.
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PGA Tour's WGC-Accenture Tourney Snowed-out

...in southern Arizona


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That's right. A few miles north of Tucson, AZ got a bunch of snow, and the PGA tourney there had to be postponed. Talk about a first!

Please click HERE to go see more pictures from PGA Tour's Facebook page..

The 2/15/13 Meteor Fly-by Has Happened

So this was reported to happen several days ago.. on several sites.

There are now new videos on the Internets showing that it actually happened.

An asteroid, or meteor has been recorded on video passing very close to earth in the sky above Russia.


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∙ "Possible meteorite hits central Russia" - from Reuters

∙ Hundreds hurt after Russian meteor shower - from KSAT12 News, San Antonio

∙ Another very accurate Russian news report - from rt.com


And most national news channels are focusing on the docking of the crippled Carnival cruise ship...

Nice Rachel Maddow Quote

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Foo Fighters - The Pretender

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This - probably their best song, and certainly my favorite of theirs - in honor of the Foo Fighters announcing they're going "on hiatus". Let's hope it IS a hiatus, and not a complete break-up!

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More Dr. Thomas Sowell quotes here: Domestic Divapalooza..

There's Soon to be a Floating Golf Course

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The powers that be of the Maldives Islands are going to build a golf course on one of their newly constructed man-made islands! It's expected to cost more than a half-a-billion dollars, and will be -essentially- the world's first floating golf course.

Click here to go read the full article at UK's Mail Online..

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Family Destroys Norwegian Cabin

Apparently a family of FOUR broke into a Norwegian cabin earlier this week. The owners found the cabin completely ransacked, with a wall destroyed, and numerous furniture items completely destroyed. What's even crazier is all the food in the cabin had been eaten, and that included 100 beers!

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It's a good thing the perpetrators didn't hang around when the owners returned - because the responsible individuals were not human. It was a family of bears!

Here's the story, courtesy Yahoo! News..

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So We Landed on Mars

That's who I thought we'd see there!

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While we're at it, NBC should contact NASA

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Serious Kudos to Reddit

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For the first time I can recall since about September 11, 2001, I have been glued to the news regarding the Aurora, Co. movie theater incident.

I've flipped among HLN, CNN, MSNBC, and even FoxNews for almost two straight days now. While these networks have done a decent job in their reporting of the events as they occur (some better than others), their journalism skills are in great need of improvement.

FoxNews was actually very good with today's coverage of the investigation of Holmes's apartment. I don't normally watch FoxNews. Nope, never. CNN and HLN were both doing well at first until they both dropped the ball, and started rebroadcasting loops of CNN's Anderson Cooper's and Piers Morgan's interviews.. and HLN's Jane Valez-Mitchell & Vinnie Politan seemed to speculate for hours while independent media outlets were coming up with new updates by the minute!

Reddit user integ3r has provided to the public (along with hefty assistance from nilicule, shankee, quantumraiders, and dozens of other contributors), the most detailed report of the events -as they happened- as I've ever seen.. for any event, ever. These guys deserve some SERIOUS credit for the unprecedented realistic & thorough journalism work they've put in. (integ3r has already been given tons of credit across the Internets, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.)

The LIVE feed from 9NEWS out of Denver has been top-notch, and I have chosen to watch it over any of the main national media outlets. It is however not online 24/7. Nothing against them - they can only do so much, and what they have done has been incredible!

I have taken the time to post this because as a quasi-journalist myself, I am SICK of the national media, and their lame reporting of extremely important news. I remember how things were during the 9/11 attacks, but I was just beginning to see it then. They did the same thing during the Casey Anthony trial, and they do the same thing whenever there is a major celebrity death.

Something I saw on CNN today: "We are trying very hard to focus only on the victims in this case, and not the individual who chose to take the lives of these victims, blah blah blah.." Not a quote, it's my paraphrased statement. Five seconds later the station posts a picture of James Holmes, and the voice being heard says something of the like: "Who is this James Holmes? We'll be right back with more information about his background, his possible motives, and more details we've just discovered." Again, not a direct quote.

This is my point. Besides the fact that every 2 minutes someone is injecting their own speculation as to "why this, or why that." And it's not only that. The national media is a complete failure because of their inadequacy on the job. Mispronouncing names.. blatantly getting stuff wrong.. FoxNews is still to this minute saying there were 71 victims! "Why would he join a sex site?" is another gem I heard. Why would anyone join a sex site?

Here is the link to the creme of the crop coverage directly from Reddit. They have also provided a blog site with all of it in one place.

This is the definition of journalism.

US Government Considering Using Super-Scanners

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Apparently these new scanners are able to instantly discover everything there is to know about you - from 164 feet away - without your knowledge, and it does it all in real time! These are new laser-based molecular scanners, called Picosecond Programmable Lasers, that our government is considering placing in our airports to replace the TSA's current methods of body-frisking and -scanning.

Here is the full story at Gizmodo, and here is the product's website.

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Fallen Soldier's Puppy Gives Hope to a Grieving Family

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Tick Causing Meat Allergies in Virginia

Apparently there is a species of tick in Virginia that's causing quite a scare to many, many people. A bite from this tick can supposedly cause an allergy to MEAT.

Hmmm... Something tells me PETA might be behind this one.
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Nevertheless, here is the story.

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LA People never Seem to Cease to Riot

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EDIT: Ok there's no evidence really that the shooter had anything to do with the Lakers. So I jumped to a conclusion that would've made a lot of sense, based on common past occurrences when sports teams get beat in (or even win) big games.. Los Angeles comes to mind first for me when considering such criteria.

The Trayvon Martin Case

-- has nothing to do with race.

The sooner all you black protesters realize this - the better.

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And why is it that it doesn't make national news when tons of people are upset about a white person's seemingly wrongful death? It's because we don't feel it is necessary to collectively come together and publicly RIOT every time a white person is wronged. It is always an issue with race for them whenever one of their own is wronged - in this country.

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A lot of people are pissed off at the way Kelly Thomas was murdered. But do you see mobs of white people protesting, and causing civil unrest because a handful of police officers beat him to a pulp? No. What you see there is an organized effort to investigate a group of officers who went overboard in their attempts to subdue a non-violent person, resulting in his death.

If you oppose the actions of the officers involved in the Kelly Thomas case, but are also blinded by reverse-racism in support of Trayvon Martin, then maybe you need to rethink exactly what you stand for. Go take some time and think about what it means to protect your own human life. Go take a moment to realize that George Zimmerman didn't want to pull the trigger any more than Kelly Thomas wanted to plead for his life for 15 minutes, while cops beat him to death.

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

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