Woman who called police after getting stuck in home's chimney during alleged break-in arrested

Deputies and firefighters helped rescue a woman who became stuck in the chimney of a house in Spring, Texas, during an alleged break-in.

The woman, identified as 20-year-old Lauren Fox, has since been charged with criminal trespass, the same offense she was charged with about two weeks ago on another property. Harris County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a burglary call just before 6am on Friday.
Officials say the stuck woman called 911 from inside the chimney after she couldn't move any further. Deputies said she had already been in the chimney for more than two hours. “She was vocal with us but she didn’t comment about how she got in there,” said Spring Fire Department District Chief Kevin Wiseman.

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Firefighters responded with special equipment and worked for a couple of hours from both inside and on top of the home to get the woman out. She was treated for minor scrapes before being placed in the back of a sheriff's car. The woman told deputies she tried to get into the home because she was cold. Deputies say the property was vacant at the time. Chief Wiseman also said in 19 years in the fire service, he's never seen a rescue like this one.

Fugitive bit off fingerprints in bid to hide identity

Authorities in Tampa, Florida, have been looking for Kirk Kelly for about six months. He was wanted on a probation violation. Police said he's known for selling drugs and guns. Early last Sunday morning he was finally found near Akron, Ohio. He tried to lie about who he was, but it's not hard to see where's he from. He's got 813 and Port Tampa tattoos, even what looks like a Rays logo. He couldn't hide those.

But he did try and hide his finger prints in a most gruesome way. "Given where he was and the the time of day. It's safe to say they weren't selling girl scout cookies," said Tallmadge police chief Ronald Williams. Ohio police found Kelly by chance on Sunday morning. An officer pulled over the car he was in because the registered owner had a suspended license. Kelly, who's alias include Cracka Boy, lied about who he was. Police said he even trying to use his younger brother's identity.

Then he over heard police say they were going to get a portable finger print scanner. That's when police said he tried to bite the skin off his fingers. "I've heard of people sanding them and so forth but I never had a person chew their fingers off during an investigative process. No that hasn't happened to me," said Chief Williams. Biting those finger prints off got Kelly another charge for tampering with evidence. He also tried to run away, but was quickly caught.

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Police in Ohio eventually figured out who he was and that he sold guns. A number of which may have been linked to possibly 15 murders in the Tampa area. "I think it's shocking. And I think it explains why a person would chew their finger prints off," said Chief Williams. Police said they don't what Kelly was doing in Ohio, but are sure he was up to no good. Marijuana was found in the car. Kelly will eventually be extradited back to Hillsborough County. His record also includes arrest for robbery and aggravated battery.

7-Year-Old Finds Ancient Figurine in Israel

7-Year-Old Finds Ancient Figurine in Israel

The 3,400-year-old clay figurine features a portrait of a naked woman.

Scientists discover major Jurassic fossil site in Argentina

Paleontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic-era fossil site four years after it was first discovered.

The site, which spans 23,000 square miles (60,000 square kilometers) in Patagonia, southern Argentina, came to light this week with the publication of a report in the journal Ameghiniana.

"No other place in the world contains the same amount and diversity of Jurassic fossils," said geologist Juan Garcia Massini of the Regional Center for Scientific Research and Technology Transfer (CRILAR).

The fossils -- between 140 and 160 million years old -- lie on the surface because they were recently exposed by erosion, said Garcia Massini, who leads the research team investigating the site.

"You can see the landscape as it appeared in the Jurassic -- how thermal waters, lakes and streams as well as plants and other parts of the ecosystem were distributed," he said.

The fossils were preserved almost immediately, in less than a day in some cases.

"You can see how fungi, cyanobacteria and worms moved when they were alive," Garcia Massini said of the site that lies along the Deseado Massif mountain range.

Ignacio Escapa of the Egidio Feruglio Paleontology Museum said the researchers had found "a wide range of micro and macro-organisms."

The fossils are so well preserved, that researchers say each rock extracted from the site could possibly open the door to a new discovery.

Will Climate Change Boost Mosquito-Borne Disease?

Will Climate Change Boost Mosquito-Borne Disease?

Will climate change cause an increase in diseases like Zika? Probably, but it won't be the only factor.

Monarch Butterfly Population Surges in Mexico

Monarch Butterfly Population Surges in Mexico

The success marks a recovery for the threatened species that migrates across North America.

Loyal dog keeps running away from home and waiting where she last saw her missing owner

Every day, Kerry Morgan, 53, would walk his dog Ataahua, "beautiful in Maori", along the banks of the Waikato River in Hamilton, New Zealand. But on Friday they had their last walk together at around 2pm. Later that night Ataahua was found sitting on the banks of the river near Morgan's shoes and hat - but he was nowhere to be seen. Police launched a search, which included the dive squad, but he has not yet been found.
On Sunday Morgan's daughter, Lorraine Cook, gathered with other family members at the Hamilton East house her father shared with her mother. Cook said four-year-old Ataahua, who Morgan got as a puppy, kept escaping the house to go and sit at the river. "When we were told my dad had gone missing my brother and sister were here at the house, waiting for news from police, before we all turned up. They let Ataahua out of the house to go toilet. At about 11pm that night they had to go looking for her. One of the cops and my brother found her down by the river again in the same place, just sitting there.
"It was like she was waiting for him to come back. She keeps running there - It's sad to watch her. She looks sad." She said her father wasn't sick or taking medication and his disappearance was out of character. "It's out of character for him to hop into the water because he couldn't swim," she said. "The longest he can stay away from the house and the dog is about an hour and that's it. Ataahua and dad are tight, they were always together. It's been three days since he went missing. It's hard, you know. It's hard because you can't do anything but wait. That's the hardest part."
A police search of the river over the weekend failed to locate Morgan, Waikato District Command Center Senior Sergeant Robbie Hermann said. "Morgan takes his dog for a walk along the river path most days, and he often stops at an area about 100 meters north of the Wellington St beach and sometimes sits in the shallows of the river while his dog has a swim in the river. A hat and pair of shoes belonging to Mr Morgan, along with his dog, were found next to the river [on Friday evening] which would indicate he's potentially gone into the river."

Man whose neighbor's horse died after he shot bowling balls from homemade cannon arrested

Lisa Kroll went to feed her horses last summer and found a grease-spotted bowling ball on the floor of her barn and a hole in the ceiling. Out in her pasture she found her 5-month-old horse dead with a lump on its head. Now, a man from Spring Valley, Wisconsin, faces charges of unsafe use of a homemade cannon and endangering Kroll in the incident.

There was not enough evidence to show that the cannon killed the horse. Kroll told a sheriff’s deputy that she had seen the horse earlier that day and it was still alive. She estimated the horse was worth about $10,000. An investigation by the sheriff’s deputy revealed a large party was held July 4th to celebrate the holiday about half a mile south of Kroll’s residence; the owner of the property told police her brother, 65-year-old Ricky Thorne, brought along his cannon.
Neighbors admitted they had fired eight to 10 bowling balls out of the cannon, as well as eight bowling pins. Kroll said she found three bowling balls and three pins on her property. When questioned by authorities Thorne apologized, saying he didn’t expect anything fired from it to land on anyone else’s property or to hit anyone’s buildings. The neighbor said Thorne had assured her the objects would land on her own property and bury themselves deeply under the soil.

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Kroll, who operates a business selling and breeding horses, estimated the damage to her barn would cost $3,000 to $4,000 to repair. St. Croix County District Attorney Eric Johnson called the case unusual, and use of the cannon unsafe. “I have been D.A. for 34 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. Johnson said there is no law in Wisconsin that forbids the use of a cannon. Thorne has now been charged with recklessly endangering safety and negligent handling of a weapon.

Snake wasn't happy after getting head stuck in mousetrap

Usually it snakes that kill mice, but in a turn-up for the books, the smell of a mouse almost lured one highly venomous western brown snake to its death in Australia's Northern Territory.

Rex Neindorf from the Alice Springs Reptile Centre said his group got a call on Friday to alert them that a snake was in a home. When snake handler Nadia Rosen arrived, she learned the ravenous reptile had trapped its head in a reusable mouse trap.
"It wasn't happy, the poor thing," Ms Rosen said. "I was quite surprised that it wasn't hurt at all." She said it was a delicate operation to get the mouse trap off the 90-centimetre-long snake, which involved using tongs to free it once it had been taken back to the Reptile Center.
Mr Neindorf said the snake had probably been attracted to the smell of mice that had run across the trap in the past, even though there was not a mouse in the device when the snake became trapped. Western browns are among the world's most venomous snakes and there is enough venom in their bite to kill six adults, Mr Neindorf said. The freed snake will be kept at the Reptile Center to ensure it is healthy, before being released back into the wild.

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Today in History

1791		Congress passes a resolution authorizing the U.S. Mint; legislation creating the mint will be passed on Apr. 2, 1792.
1803		The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, begins.
1817		The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans is opened.
1845		Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.
1857		Under pretexts, Britain and France declare war on China.
1861		The serfs of Russia are emancipated by Alexander II as part of a program of westernization.
1863		Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.
1877		Rutherford B. Hays, the republican governor of Ohio is appointed president, his election confirmed by an electoral commission after disputed election the previous November.
1878		Russia and the Ottomans sign the treaty of Stenafano, granting independence to Serbia.
1905		The Russian Czar agrees to create an elected assembly.
1918		The Soviets and Germany sign a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk depriving the Soviets of White Russia.
1919		Boeing flies the first U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington.
1923		The first issue of Time magazine is published. It’s editor, Henry R. Luce, is just out of Yale.
1931		Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem.
1939		In Bombay, Gandhi begins a fast to protest the state’s autocratic rule.
1940		A Nazi air raid kills 108 on a British liner in the English Channel.
1941		Moscow denounces the Axis rule in Bulgaria.
1942		The RAF raids the industrial suburbs of Paris.
1945		Finland declares war on the Axis.
1952		The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York’s Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.
1969		Sirhan Sirhan testifies in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy.
1973		Japan discloses its first defense plan since World War II.
1999		Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.

The Teen Who Invented Bras

Young debutante Polly Phelps didn’t like what her corset did to the appearance of her dress in 1910 and put two handkerchiefs together to replace it. Her brassiere became popular, and she patented it in 1914. She then sold the patent for a pittance, but she didn’t need the money. That’s when Polly’s life got really interesting.

After her invention she met Harry Crosby, who confessed his adoration for her in a Tunnel of Love. She promptly divorced her first husband, married Harry in 1922, changed her name to Caresse and moved to France. Harry had also suggested the name Clytoris, but they decided to name their dog that instead. From Europe, Harry sent a telegram back to Boston to his family declaring: "PLEASE SELL 10,000 WORTH OF STOCK. WE HAVE DECIDED TO LEAD A MAD AND EXTRAVAGANT LIFE."

And it was an amazing life. Caresse Crosby ended up with a list of accomplishments that ranged from substantial to silly, which you can read about at Racked.

Human Teeth Likely Shrank Due to Tool Use

Human Teeth Likely Shrank Due to Tool Use

Wisdom teeth may have shrunk during human evolution says a new finding that could lead to a new way of figuring out how closely related fossil species are to modern humans.

U.S. Performs Its First Uterus Transplant

U.S. Performs Its First Uterus Transplant

Following on a technique already proven in Sweden, the surgery could help women suffering from infertility.

Can Low-Frequency Sound Waves Make You Sick?

Can Low-Frequency Sound Waves Make You Sick?

Hush for a second. Can you hear that low, low hum? Neither can we! But, it's there and it may cause some people all kinds of problems. We listen in on spooky, low-frequency tones called infrasound.

Big Corp. Is So Afraid Of A Liberal SCOTUS They Just Settled A MASSIVE Lawsuit

Big Corp. Is So Afraid Of A Liberal SCOTUS They Just Settled A MASSIVE Lawsuit

Scalia screwed this chemical company from the grave.

Greedy Oil CEO Fires 20 Percent Of Employees, Awards Himself $18 Million

Greedy Oil CEO Fires 20 Percent Of Employees, Awards Himself $18 Million

Just when you though corporate greed couldn’t get any worse.

Idaho wingnut thinks ‘trauma’ prevents pregnancy in rape

Idaho wingnut thinks ‘trauma’ prevents pregnancy in rape: ‘That may be true with incest a little bit’

“I read a lot of information. I have read it several times,” Nielson said. “Being a father of five girls, I’ve explored this a lot.”

Wingnuts flip out over Air Force Academy spending $380 so pagan cadets can worship

Wingnuts flip out over Air Force Academy spending $380 so pagan cadets can worship

In a statement, the academy said its cadets have the right to observe any faith, or no faith at all.

How Hollywood appeased wingnuts and forced on-screen couples into separate beds

How Hollywood appeased wingnuts and forced on-screen couples into separate beds

As it de-sexualized cinema, production code films dedicated themselves to marriage, an institution they were required to portray as sacrosanct. Adulterers were punished and sex outside of marriage was forbidden. Married couples weren’t cleared for lusty displays, either.

Man paint-bombed furniture store after his new sofa wouldn't fit through the front door

A man who gave the wrong measurements for a new sofa which would not fit into his house claimed he paint-bombed a furniture store in Northern Ireland because he was unable to get his money back. Robert Alan McDowell (47), unemployed, who lives in Ballymena's Harryville area, struck at the Harveys branch in the nearby Braidwater Retail Park on January 27 this year. At Ballymena Magistrates Court on Thursdsy he admitted causing criminal damage which cost £833 to remove paint from shutters and windows.
A prosecutor said McDowell had a dispute with Harveys over an invoice. Defense solicitor Stewart Ballentine said McDowell had paid £700 for a suite of furniture. He added: "It appears he got his measurements wrong and they could not get it through the door". Mr Ballentine said the sofa was taken back and when a refund was not immediately forthcoming " the red mist came down".
However, he now accepts he did wrong and is remorseful. District Judge Des Perry told McDowell he should have contacted a solicitor regarding the dispute and by taking matters into his own hands he now has to pay more. Judge Perry said he would defer sentence until September to allow the defendant to pay for the damage he caused at the store.

Shoplifter said she was too impatient to pay

A Florida woman was arrested after police say she tried to steal $500 worth of groceries from a store because she didn't want to wait in line.

Hope Hanak, 56, from Clermont, has been charged with grand theft and possession of a controlled substance in the incident at the Publix on Citrus Tower Boulevard on Friday afternoon.
Police said Hanak loaded groceries into reusable bags and went to the customer service desk to buy cigarettes. After paying for the cigarettes, she continued to walk out of the store without paying for the other items, according to the report. The total amount of items Hanak had in her bags was $508.75, police said.
The store manager stopped Hanak, then called police. Hanak told police she had "just been been stupid and did not want to wait in line," according to the report. Police said Hanak also told them she had health needs and was taking several medications. At the jail, multiple pills were found in her purse and Hanak did not have a prescription for them, according to police. She was booked into the Lake County jail.

Ham burglar caught after leaving a trail of fat to his front door

A thief led his victims straight to his front door after stealing seven legs of Iberico ham and leaving a trail of fat as he dragged them along the ground. Domingo Infante, 34, arrived at his tapas bar in southwestern Spain on Monday to find the door forced open and the till gone along with a TV and the cured meat that had been hanging above the bar. While he dealt with police and waited for a locksmith to come and fix the damage, wife Cristina, 36, and mother-in-law Maria, 68, spotted a trail of fat on the road outside. They followed it along the pavement to a house behind their family-run business in Sanlucar de Barrameda near Cadiz. They then made a second call to police to say they had caught the suspected culprit. Officers rushed to get a search warrant after being refused entry to the rented property and found two of the legs of ham inside along with the empty cash till and TV. The cured meat has now been taken to the police station along with the other valuables while detectives search for the missing five legs, thought to be in the hands of the alleged criminal’s accomplices.
The break-in happened overnight in the early hours of Monday morning. Infante, whose bar is called Los Caracoles, English for The Snails, said: "We didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It’s like something out of a silly film. I’ve never imagined my wife and mother-in-law would turn out to be the detectives who solved this. And even then they thought the fat trail from the ham would lead to a car park and a vehicle that had long gone, not a house in the street behind us. There were traces of fat everywhere, on the pavement outside the property, the stairs and even the front door."
The suspect lived there with his parents who wouldn’t let police in at first but they got a search warrant within 20 minutes and found the cured meat when they went inside along with the till and TV. "Each leg was worth around €120 and the till which had about €500 in it was empty. But every cloud has its silver lining and it looks like we’ll be getting some of what was taken back thanks to my wife and mother-in-law." Cristina added: "They smashed the door open and caused a lot of damage. We decided to follow the trail of the ham because they had dragged the legs along the floor. My mum had the idea. We got right to the house. Later we saw how the police brought almost everything that had been stolen out of the same house, except that is the other five legs of ham which we’d still like to get back."

Will Weakening El Nino Give Way to La Nina?

Will Weakening El Nino Give Way to La Nina?

The weather-affecting phenomenon is weakening, and it may be followed by something with far different effects.

Male Nursery-Web Spider Ties Up Partners During Sex

Male Nursery-Web Spider Ties Up Partners During Sex

Bondage during mating can be a matter of life and death for the long-limbed arachnid.

Biker Picks Up Abused Dog Off The Road and 'Cycles Him to Safety

Brandon Turnbow, a singer/songwriter from Burleson, Texas, was riding his motorcycle en route to his father's house one day when he witnessed a terrible sight. He noticed a blue SUV that was pulled over, and saw a man in the SUV who looked like he was hitting something, yet the target of the violence was out of Turnbow's sight just then. Turnbow continues the story,

"The opposite side passenger door flies open and the man knocks this little white dog up into the air and onto his back in the ditch. I was in shock at that point seeing this little harmless dog on his back in convulsions from the blow…So I go straight to the place where the dog was and find the dog standing about two feet from the highway where the vehicles were passing. Im scared he is going to dart out and get hit but he doesnt thank God. I jump off my bike and just kneel down beside him and start talking to him. He slowly steps closer shaking like crazy and his breathing was very heavy. I take a chance and just fold my body over him to see if he will bite or trust me. He then just lays his body into me shaking so I just stand up with him in my arms and sit him on the bike seat.”

The SUV driver sped away before Turnbow turned around and was able to reach the scene. But now the dog, whom he calls Mr. Davidson, is in good, caring hands. A look at the smile on the dog's face in the picture below says it all.

Check out Turnbow's Facebook page for more uplifting updates about his new best friend, and follow him on Twitter as well.

Helicopter used to track down runaway unicorn

A white pony dressed as a unicorn eluded the California Highway Patrol on Wednesday night, darting through a busy commute for several hours. CHP spokesperson Officer Joshua McConnell said the pony first ran from a children's birthday party in Madera at around 2:30pm and was recaptured shortly after. "Then it escaped again from another child at about 5:30 pm and ran out on to the roadways.

"It was seen in traffic before it was finally located in an orchard by the CHP H40 helicopter, using the heat seeking FLIR radar," McConnell said. A nearby resident with another horse on her property helped officers approach and finally capture the frisky pony. Some motorists were surprised and were hesitant to report the pony with a horn in the road as a unicorn, but others were quite sure they had actually seen one.
Joking aside, McConnell said, had the pony been hit by a car moving at speed the driver and any occupants could have been seriously injured or killed. Animals running in roads are a daily local roadway hazard, he said, and cause a significant number of traffic accidents when drivers hit them, slam on their brakes or swerve and lose control trying to avoid them. "Children should not be tasked with restraining any animal near roadways, especially the large ones."

The unruly 500 to 600 pound pony would have also likely been injured or killed, he said. "No injures were reported but there were several near misses (by cars). The pony was just lucky. It was to it's owner unharmed and was secured. No citations were issued in this case, but had the pony been hit by a car - it would have been a different story. The business or owner providing the pony would have been financially liable for all injuries, property damages and other costs, which could have been significant," McConnell said.

Horse led to water kept on swimming

A racehorse named Rebel Rover has survived a two-kilometer swim out to sea after being spooked during a training session at a beach in Brisbane, Australia. The five-year-old gelding with a track record of misbehavior was being trained in chest-high water at Sandgate just before 9:00am on Thursday when it was startled, tipped its rider and headed for deeper water.

Rebel Rover swam across Bramble Bay toward Redcliffe and was eventually rescued near Woody Point. Volunteer Marine Rescue Brisbane spokesman Glen Philip said the 90-minute rescue operation was their most unusual call out for help, and a little like herding sheep. "When we got to the horse he was in about four meters of water and he was swimming quite freely," he said.
"Luckily, we were able to maneuver our boat close to him and get a lasso around the top of his head which meant we could pull him nice and close to our boat and put a rope on its bridle." Brisbane Water Police joined the operation, bringing the horse's jockey out to sea to help settle the animal. He managed to jump on Rebel Rover's back and ride the horse out of the water. Rebel Rover's trainer Brad Smith said horses could swim, but did not normally do so very much. "Any other horse, 20 minutes would probably see them out, but this horse - he must have a pretty amazing lung capacity," he said.
"The vet looked at him yesterday and again this morning and he's pretty well amazed with how he's coped with it all. [He's] a little bit tired and sore in the muscles because he was swimming for a hell of a long time, but he's quite remarkable for what he's been through." Mr Smith described Rebel Rover as a character, saying its owners are now tipping big things. "A couple of them told me he could probably run in the Melbourne Cup after that," he said. He also said Rebel Rover had only recently returning to racing after a ban in Victoria for misbehaving in the barriers. Rebel Rover is expected to resume racing next month.

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Today in History

1776		Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston.
1781		Maryland ratifies the Articles of Confederation. She is the last state to sign.
1797		The Directory of Great Britain authorizes vessels of war to board and seize neutral vessels, particularly if the ships are American.
1815		To put an end to robberies by the Barbary pirates, the United States declares war on Algiers.
1836		Texas declares independence from Mexico on Sam Houston’s 43rd birthday.
1853		The Territory of Washington is organized.
1865		Lincoln rejects Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s plea for peace talks, demanding unconditional surrender.
1867		The first Reconstruction Act is passed by Congress.
1877		Rutherford B. Hayes is declared president by one vote the day before the inauguration.
1889		Congress passes the Indian Appropriations Bill, proclaiming unassigned lands in the public domain; the first step toward the famous Oklahoma Land Rush.
1896		Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, is sentenced to two years of hard labor in the state pen for cattle rustling. He would only serve a small portion of the sentence.
1901		Congress passes the Platt amendment, which limits Cuban autonomy as a condition for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
1908		An international conference on arms reduction opens in London.
1908		Gabriel Lippman introduces the new three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences.
1917		Congress passes the Jones Act making Puerto Rico a territory of the United States and makes the inhabitants U.S. citizens.
1923		In Italy, Mussolini admits that women have a right to vote, but declares that the time is not right.
1930		Novelist D.H. Lawrence dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at the age of 45.
1943		The center of Berlin is bombed by the RAF. Some 900 tons of bombs are dropped in a half hour.
1945		MacArthur raises the U.S. flag on Corregidor in the Philippines.
1946		Ho Chi Minh is elected president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1951		The U.S. Navy launches the K-1, the first modern submarine designed to hunt enemy submarines.
1955		Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks‘ famous arrest for the same offense.
1956		France grants independence to Morocco.
1965		More than 150 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes bomb two bases in North Vietnam in the first of the “Rolling Thunder” raids.
1968		The siege of Khe Sanh ends in Vietnam, the U.S. Marines stationed there are still in control of the mountain top.
1973		Federal forces surround Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which is occupied by members of the militant American Indian Movement who are holding at least 10 hostages.
1974		A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concludes that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up.
1978		Czech pilot Vladimir Remek becomes the first non-Russian, non-American in space.
1981		The United States plans to send 20 more advisors and $25 million in military aid to El Salvador.

Here are 11 things other countries do way better than America

Here are 11 things other countries do way better than America

America! Land of the free, home of the brave, and the greatest country on the face of the planet, right? A country with seemingly limitless natural resources, and according to many politicians, anointed by dog herself to lead the world out of the wilderness and into a bright new age of liberty and justice for all. Too bad the road to that vision is pockmarked with so many potholes, because we haven’t raised enough taxes.

All Brains

Human Brain Might Have 10 Times Its Estimated Storage Space

If you think your brain already has all the space it needs for memories and other info, you're right. It has that with room to spare. But file this nugget in your high-capacity noggin: We may have been low-balling it all these years.

How Islamophobia Spread Through the Media Is Emboldening Racist, Violent Extremists

How Islamophobia Spread Through the Media Is Emboldening Racist, Violent Extremists

You know of course that pointing out the Haters hate speech is considered by the Haters to be hate speech - they must be allowed unfettered  spewing of their hate speech but you can never point out that it is hate speech.

Birmingham Tells Alabama Wingnuts To Go Fuck Themselves, Passes Highest Minimum Wage In The South

Birmingham Tells Alabama Wingnuts To Go Fuck Themselves, Passes Highest Minimum Wage In The South

Alabama Republicans were quickly trying to ban all cities and counties from raising the minimum wage, but one city gave the wingnuts the finger and beat them...

Big Banks Fleeced The Working Poor Out Of $11.16 Billion In 2015

When you find out how they made this money you will be infuriated.

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Illinois wingnut bill attacks single moms

Illinois wingnut bill attacks single moms: No birth certificate or financial aid without the father

A bill sponsored by Republicans in Illinois would deny birth certificates to the children of single mothers who do not name a father.

Bristol Palin Loses Full Custody Of Son In Humiliating Court Defeat

Bristol Palin Loses Full Custody Of Son In Humiliating Court Defeat

If she had practiced abstinence, she wouldn’t have these kinds of court battles.

Fox News mocks woman on minimum wage who can’t afford food

Fox News mocks woman on minimum wage who can’t afford food: It’s the ‘lifestyle you chose’