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Texas students are idiots and are being kept that way by the wingnuts in the state
Welcome to ...
The place where the world comes together in honesty and mirth.
Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.
Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Angry white Texas students storm out of class after teacher says humans emerged from Africa
Modern humans did evolve in Africa roughly
200,000 years ago, meaning all non-Africans are descended from people in
Africa between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago.
Man caught in police sting had arranged to pay prostitute with cheeseburger and fries
Police in Casper, Wyoming, arrested four women suspected of prostitution
and one man suspected of soliciting prostitutes in an undercover
operation on Thursday evening.
Police arrested Bailey Bruce, of Evansville; Cassandra Combs, of St. Paul, Minnesota; Canisha Martinez, of Casper; and Alexandra Tyler, who was homeless, on suspicion of prostitution. Officers also arrested 22-year-old David Mangus, of Casper, on suspicion of soliciting prostitution.
Undercover police officers contacted the women through online advertisements and the women agreed to perform sex acts in exchange for payment ranging from $150 to $350, according to arrest affidavits. Police arrested the women when they arrived at the location where they previously agreed to meet.
Mangus responded to an online ad posted by officers and agreed to pay an undercover officer posing as a prostitute a quarter-pound cheeseburger and medium fries from
McDonald’s for sex, according to an arrest affidavit. Officers arrested
Mangus when he arrived at the predetermined location with the bag of
food.
“Hookin’ for cheeseburgers isn’t normal,” Detective Dan Dundas said.
Mangus was booked into the Natrona County jail and later released.
Man arrested for shoplifting was trying to raise money to pay his wife's bail for shoplifting
A man charged with shoplifting in Florida told police he was trying to raise money to pay his wife’s bond.
Brian Crume, 48, of Wisconsin is accused of stealing from Walmart in Winter Haven on Wednesday, according to officials. Police say he took three packs of electronic wire. Crume told an officer that he was hoping to sell the wire on the street.
The Winter Have Police Department said: “He needed to raise money to bond his wife out who was arrested earlier in the day in Lake Wales for, you guessed it, shoplifting.”
Police remind residents to lock their doors after man entered home, stripped and cooked eggs
Police are reminding residents of Vancouver, Canada, to lock their doors
and windows after a man was arrested in connection with an unusual home
invasion.
Investigators said a 35-year-old walked into a home on Tuesday night, through a closed but unlocked door.
He removed all of his clothing, took eggs out of the fridge and began making a meal in the kitchen, police said.
He managed to damage the stove and microwave during his meal preparation. A resident of the home was in another room watching TV, but when he heard the intruder he assumed it was his roommate.
He decided to investigate anyway, and found a naked stranger in his kitchen. The resident chased the man out of the house and then called police, who arrested a suspect a few blocks away. Police have recommended that the Crown lay charges of mischief and break-and-enter.
He managed to damage the stove and microwave during his meal preparation. A resident of the home was in another room watching TV, but when he heard the intruder he assumed it was his roommate.
He decided to investigate anyway, and found a naked stranger in his kitchen. The resident chased the man out of the house and then called police, who arrested a suspect a few blocks away. Police have recommended that the Crown lay charges of mischief and break-and-enter.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
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Today in History
| 741 | Charles Martel of Gaul dies at Quierzy. His mayoral power is divided between his two sons, Pepin III and Carloman. | |
| 1746 | Princeton University, in New Jersey, receives its charter. | |
| 1797 | The first successful parachute descent is made by Andre-Jacques Garnerin, who jumps from a balloon at some 2,200 feet over Paris. | |
| 1824 | The Tennessee Legislature adjourns ending David “Davy” Crockett‘s state political career. | |
| 1836 | Sam Houston is sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas. | |
| 1862 | Union troops push 5,000 confederates out of Maysville, Ark., at the Second Battle of Pea Ridge. | |
| 1859 | Spain declares war on the Moors in Morocco. | |
| 1907 | Ringling Brothers buys Barnum & Bailey. | |
| 1914 | U.S. places their economic support behind Allies. | |
| 1918 | The cities of Baltimore and Washington run out of coffins during the “Spanish Influenza” epidemic. | |
| 1938 | Chester Carlson invents the photocopier. He tries to sell the machine to IBM, RCA, Kodak and others, but they see no use for a gadget that makes nothing but copies. | |
| 1954 | As a result of the Geneva accords granting Communist control over North Vietnam, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes a crash program to train the South Vietnamese Army. | |
| 1955 | The prototype of the F-105 Thunder Chief makes its maiden flight. | |
| 1962 | The U.S. reveals Soviet missile sites in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade on further shipments of military equipment to Cuba. Following a confrontation that threatens nuclear war, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on October 28 on a formula to end the crisis. On November 2 Kennedy reports that Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled. | |
| 1964 | Jean Paul Sartre declines the Nobel Prize for Literature. | |
| 1966 | The Soviet Union launches Luna 12 for orbit around the moon | |
| 1972 | Operation Linebacker I, the bombing of North Vietnam with B-52 bombers, ends. | |
| 1978 | Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II; born Karol Jozef Wojtyla. The Polish-born Wojtyla is the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI died in 1523; he would become the second-longest serving pope in the history of the Papacy and exercise considerable influence on events of the later portion of the 20th century. | |
| 1981 | The US Federal Labor Relations authority decertifies the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) from representing federal air traffic controllers, as a result of a PATCO strike in August that was broken by the Reagan Administration. | |
| 1999 | Maurice Papon, formerly an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity for his role in deporting more than 1,600 Jews to concentration camps. | |
| 2005 | Tropical Storm Alpha forms, making 2005 the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms. |
Sad Chairs of Academia
Chairs
at colleges take a beating and rarely get replaced. If there’s a
shopping list, something else gets a higher priority. Poorly-paid
professors are used to getting along with little and keep using old
chairs, no matter what shape they’re in. The universality of these
conditions inspired the Tumblr blog Sad Chairs of Academia. Here’s a recent post, illustrating the picture above.
This multi-denominational congregation of sad chairs stoically gathered in a former basketball court (which for the past 40 years has been re-purposed as the Art + Design department’s Foundation Drawing Studio) to greet new students this September. This gang of seats was deemed enough of an embarrassment that the administration sanctioned replacing them all with set of previously decommissioned chairs that were, at least, matching.See hundreds more chairs with sad existences at the blog.
Historic and Hollywood Clothing to be Sold
The Fashion Institute of Technology is cleaning out its closet
and trimming its collection of 50,000 pieces of clothing and
accessories with an auction. The Charles A. Whitaker Auction Company
will conduct the auction Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29 in New Hope, Pennsylvania. You must register to bid by phone. Pictured on the left is lot #535, a young man’s French jeweled court suit from around 1790. On the right is Lot #605,
a chiffon dress with metallic lace and sequins from the Roaring
Twenties. You could lose yourself just perusing the lovely items to be
sold. See the auction catalog here.
The versatility of pronouns and shifting identity
A
new scientific study reveals the fascinating ways in which we use
pronouns to negotiate social identity. While much of the recent popular
discussion on the topic of pronouns and social identity has focused on
how third person pronouns in English (she/he and his/her...
Uncertainty about your social rank might be bad for your health
Having
strong social connections has many benefits – from the opportunity to
split the tab on a pizza to having someone to binge watch “Stranger
Things” with on Netflix. But for rhesus macaque monkeys at the
California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) who are...
Novel Alzheimer’s disease risk gene found among Icelanders
Scientists
at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological
Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital are part of a
multicenter collaborative study that has identified a novel genetic risk
factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The...
Women Wouldn’t Need Tampons If They Had Any Self-Control
This is so jaw-droppingly ridiculous there just are no words.
Police thank wanted woman who contacted them after accidentally handcuffing herself
Police in Sacramento, California, had help from a wanted woman on
Wednesday morning who handcuffed herself and called police for help.Cana Greer, 29, called the Sacramento Police Department for help after
she and a friend, who used to be a security guard, were messing around
with an old pair of handcuffs.
Greer accidentally handcuffed herself and discovered that there was no key to unlock the cuffs. Responding officers conducted a records check before arriving to help Greer, and found that she had a felony burglary warrant out of El Dorado County.
"When officers arrived, they thanked the woman for arresting herself and transported her to a nearby fire station to have the old cuffs removed," the police department said. Greer was taken to the Sacramento County Jail and booked on her outstanding warrant.
Friday, October 21, 2016
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Asia
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Mongolia - Nepal - Oman - Pakistan - Plestine - Saudi Arabia - Singapore - Sri Lanka - Taiwan Thailand - Tibet - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan - Vietnam - Yemen
Africa
Algeria - Chad - Congo - Egypt - Ethiopia - Ivory Coast - Kenya - Libya - Madagascar - Morocco Mozambique - Nigeria - South Africa - Sudan - Tunisia - Zambia - Zimbabwe
The Pacific
Australia - French Polynesia - Guam - Marshall Islands - New Zealand - Papua New Guinea Philippines
Some of our readers today have been in:
The Americas
Antigua - Argentina - Aruba - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Bolivia - Brazil - Canada - Chile Colombia - Costa Rica - Dominican Republic- Ecuador - El Salvador - French Guiana - Guatemala Haiti - Honduras - Jamaica - Mexico - Nicaragua - Paraguay - Peru - Puerto Rico
Sint Eustatius and Saba - Sint Maartin - Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos - United States Uruguay - Venezuela - Virgin Islands
Europe
Albania - Armenia - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - England - Estonia - Finland - France - Georgia - Germany Greece - Hungary - Iceland - Ireland - Isle of Mann - Italy - Jersey - Latvia - Lithuania - Macedonia Malta - Moldova - Monaco - Montenegro - Netherlands - Northern Ireland - Norway - Poland Portugal - Romania - Russia - San Marino - Scotland - Serbia - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - Wales
Asia
Afghanistan - Azerbaijan - Bangladesh - Brunei - Burma - Cambodia - China - Hong Kong - India Indonesia Iran - Iraq - Israel - Japan - Jordan - Kazakhstan - Korea - Lebanon - Malaysia - Mauritius
Mongolia - Nepal - Oman - Pakistan - Plestine - Saudi Arabia - Singapore - Sri Lanka - Taiwan Thailand - Tibet - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan - Vietnam - Yemen
Africa
Algeria - Chad - Congo - Egypt - Ethiopia - Ivory Coast - Kenya - Libya - Madagascar - Morocco Mozambique - Nigeria - South Africa - Sudan - Tunisia - Zambia - Zimbabwe
The Pacific
Australia - French Polynesia - Guam - Marshall Islands - New Zealand - Papua New Guinea Philippines
Today in History
| 1096 | Seljuk Turks at Chivito slaughter thousands of German crusaders. | |
| 1529 | The Pope names Henry VIII of England Defender of the Faith after defending the seven sacraments against Luther. | |
| 1600 | Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in battle and affirms his position as Japan’s most powerful warlord. | |
| 1790 | The Tricolor is chosen as the official flag of France. | |
| 1797 | USS Constitution, a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate built for the newly formed U.S. Navy, is successfully launched into Boston Harbor, with Captain James Sever breaking a bottle of Madeira wine on her bowsprit. She will serve in the First Barbary War and will go on to defeat five British warships in the War of 1812; her battle with one of them, HMS Guerriere, earns her the nickname “Old Ironsides.” Constitution will be retired from active service in 1881, but enduring public adoration saves her from the scrap yard and ultimately allows her to become the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. | |
| 1805 | Vice Admiral and Viscount Horatio Nelson wins his greatest victory over a Franco-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Nelson is fatally wounded in the battle, but lives long enough to see victory. | |
| 1837 | Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida. | |
| 1861 | The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Va. begins, a disastrous Union defeat which sparks Congressional investigations. | |
| 1867 | Many leaders of the Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache sign a peace treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kan. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker refuses to accept the treaty terms. | |
| 1872 | The U.S. Naval Academy admits John H. Conyers, the first African American to be accepted. | |
| 1879 | After 14 months of testing, Thomas Edison first demonstrates his electric lamp, hoping to one day compete with gaslight. | |
| 1904 | Panamanians clash with U.S. Marines in Panama in a brief uprising. | |
| 1917 | The first U.S. troops enter the front lines at Sommerville under French command. | |
| 1939 | As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the underground war room in London. | |
| 1940 | Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published. | |
| 1942 | Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings. | |
| 1950 | North Korean Premier Kim Il-Sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung. | |
| 1959 | The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in Manhattan. | |
| 1961 | Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400. | |
| 1967 | The “March on the Pentagon,” protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters. | |
| 1969 | Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigns over disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policies related to the Palestinians. | |
| 1983 | The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada. | |
| 1994 | North Korea and the US sign an agreement requiring North Korea to halts its nuclear weapons program and agree to international inspections. |
Life in the Victorian Workhouse
The
British government established workhouses in 1834 as a cheaper
alternative to “outdoor relief,” or the practice of giving food or money
to the poor. Instead, they would be offered “indoor relief,” a chance
to work for their keep. Workhouses were meant to be intimidating places,
a deterrent to becoming so poor that one had to ask for help there.
Northwich Workhouse was one such institution that has since been
converted to a museum. While the workers’ dormitory has been demolished,
visitors can get a glimpse of what life was like for those destitute
enough to work there.
Men, women and children were separated on arrival, partly as a means of maintaining order, but also to prevent what was often referred to as ‘pauper breeding’. Families who had arrived together were only permitted to see each other for a few hours a week, while husbands and wives ate, slept, worked and exercised independently of each other in separate parts of the building.Read more about the Victorian workhouse experience at History Extra from the BBC
Clothing and possessions were removed, washed and then placed in storage. Inmates were given a brief health check by a medical officer, issued with a workhouse uniform – and made to take a bath. For many, this was a terrifying prospect. In 1891, a newspaper reporter who had visited the workhouse wrote: “The state as to filth and vermin in which some old neglected people arrive, on their entering the house is indescribable. To have not washed the body for years and years is a common state of things with them...”
8 Haunted Houses You Can Buy Right Now
Have
you ever dreamed of living in a haunted house? Making that dream come
true is as easy as believing the home you are in is haunted. But if you
want a haunted house that has been scaring other people for years, you
can certainly purchase one. For example, there’s the Priestly House in
Canton, Mississippi.Originally built by physician James Priestley in the 1950s, this Greek Revival home stayed in the Priestley family until the 1990s. When new owner Frankie McMillan moved in, she became concerned that Priestley’s wife, Susan, hadn’t gotten the message to clear the premises. McMillan claimed to have seen Susan in hallways and in the bedroom where the woman is believed to have died. The home was restored in 2004 and is listed for $699,000.There are a range of locations, prices, and ages among the eight haunted houses on the market right now that you can check out at mental_floss.
26 Facts about the Science of Family
Scientists
study families a lot, because it’s an extremely important human unit
both socially and genetically. How different or alike are siblings? How
does birth order affect your life? Studies like this help to determine
which traits are genetic and which are learned. Sometimes those things
are hard to separate, since families not only share genes, but also
learn from each other. We also have new research about how families have
changed over time. John Green has some really interesting findings
about families this week’s episode of the mental_floss List Show.
Scientists find new genetic roots of schizophrenia
UCLA
scientists have made a major advance in understanding the biology of
schizophrenia. Using a recently developed technology for analyzing DNA,
the scientists found dozens of genes and two major biological pathways
that are likely involved in the development of the...
Malaysian religious government body says that hot dogs 'must be renamed'
Food outlets selling hot dogs in Malaysia have been asked to rename
their products or risk being refused halal certification.
The Malaysian Islamic Development Department, a religious government
body, said it adopted the ruling after complaints from Muslim tourists.
Director Sirajuddin Suhaimee said the name might cause "confusion".
"In Islam, dogs are considered unclean and the name cannot be related to
halal certification," he said.
Malaysian halal food guidelines say "halal food and halal artificial flavor shall not be named or synonymously named after non-halal
products such as ham, bak kut teh, bacon, beer, rum and others that
might create confusion," local media said.
Muslim-majority Malaysia practices a moderate form of Islam but
conservative attitudes are on the rise. On Monday, popular pretzel store franchise Auntie Anne's was refused halal certification unless it renamed its "Pretzel Dog". Mr Suhaimee said it was "more appropriate" to call it a "Pretzel Sausage". A representative of the US chain described it as a "minor issue" and said the firm was fine with changing the name on the menu. Malaysian Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Aziz slammed the ruling, calling it "stupid and backward".
"Hot dog is hot dog lah. Even in Malay it's called hot dog - it's been around for so many years. I'm a Muslim and I'm not offended," he said, adding that there was no reason for the religious body to take offence at the word. "It comes from the English language. Please do not make us seem stupid and backward." Malaysia often prides itself on being a moderate Muslim nation, which allows other religions freedom of worship. However,
Police say there's nothing illegal about fishing from a canoe on top of a bus
Police in Boulder, Colorado, received an unusual call on Thursday, when
witnesses reported that some college-aged men were fishing from a canoe.
On top of a bus.
Boulder police first got the call at about 2:15pm, according to Boulder police spokeswoman Laurie Ogden.According to police radio traffic, the call came in as men in the canoe on top of the bus singing loudly and drinking beer with fishing poles while throwing money. But upon arriving on scene, officers said the men were not drinking and that the bus was parked.
They were using dollar bills as bait on their fishing poles but were not throwing money. Because they were not drinking, officers decided the men were doing nothing illegal and left them alone. "They were just having some fun," Ogden said.
Woman stole shovel, chainsaw, pecan trees, fertilizer and a prom dress from neighbor
A woman from Freeport, Florida, is facing charges for allegedly stealing
some unusual items from her neighbor's property.
According to the Walton County Sheriff's Office, Skyler Anderson, 26,
made off with her neighbor's shovel, electric leaf blower, chainsaw,
two bags of Miracle Grow, three pecan trees, along with a prom dress and
a vanity mirror.
Randall Brown called deputies at 7:35am on Sunday to report that he'd
seen his neighbor Skyler "Sky" Anderson, "in his yard with his rake and
a plastic bag."
Brown told authorities that when he approached Anderson she went back to
her house.
He said he could see some of his belongings in Skyler's yard.Responding deputies set up a perimeter around Anderson's home and waited while a search warrant was obtained. The deputies could clearly see items Brown had identified as stolen in the yard outside the home. "After several hours," the arrest report said, "Skyler came out of the home and was arrested."
She was charged with burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, burglary of an occupied dwelling and grand theft. The items she had stolen were inside Brown's workshop and carport. Anderson objected to being arrested by kicking at the windows and the partition of the patrol car in which she was placed. She also head butted and spit on the partition on the way to the Walton County Jail.
Einstein proved right yet again
Since its discovery in 2008, astronomers
have been puzzled by a cosmic mystery so vexing that it has even led
some to question whether the general theory of relativity – Einstein’s
masterpiece theory of gravity – is wrong on cosmic scales.
Dust Mite Allergens Share Rare Combo of Qualities
A
combination of stability and abundance may be what gives
allergy-triggering dust mite proteins their sneeze-inducing power, says a
new study by scientists at Duke University and the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Of the thousands of...
Amazonian frog has its own ant repellent
Special
chemicals covering the skin of a tiny yellow-striped Amazonian frog
provide a protective shield that wards off leaf-cutting ants allowing it
to live comfortably among them. "It helps the frog blend in, because it
imitates the ants own chemical signals," says...
Man pursed by angry elk forced to take refuge up lamppost
A Swedish man managed to save himself from an angry elk on Tuesday by thinking fast and climbing up a lamppost.
The incident occurred in Vendelsö, south of Stockholm. The man was in the vicinity of a supermarket when the elk started running towards him.
Despite there being several other people in the vicinity, the elk only had angry eyes for the one specific man it had decided to chase. So the victim took to the lamppost.
“It's obviously a very agile and nimble man we’re talking about,” police
spokesperson Albin Näverbeg said.
According to witness reports, a motorist eventually came to the rescue
by honking his horn, causing the elk to flee in the direction of a
nearby forest. Neither the nimble man nor the elk were harmed.
“I came driving past and saw a man on the lamp post while an angry elk stood below and looked at him. It was quite comical. Cars had stopped along the side of the road. I honked my horn to see if I could scare it, but it didn’t react at all,” eye-witness Jonny Karlström said. A game warden has now been tasked with locating the irritated elk to make sure that it has not gone to a new area to wreak further havoc.
“I came driving past and saw a man on the lamp post while an angry elk stood below and looked at him. It was quite comical. Cars had stopped along the side of the road. I honked my horn to see if I could scare it, but it didn’t react at all,” eye-witness Jonny Karlström said. A game warden has now been tasked with locating the irritated elk to make sure that it has not gone to a new area to wreak further havoc.
Black bear family of four spotted having dinner in a crab apple tree
People in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, are accustomed to seeing black bears wander throughout their city.
But a mother bear and her three cubs enjoying a quick meal in a crab apple tree is something that isn't seen every day.
Megan Sigurdson was driving through her neighborhood recently when she spotted the four black bears in the crab apple tree.
Bears are a common sight in her neighborhood, but she said she's never seen anything like this.
"I was wondering how they were all supported on the tree without breaking it," she said.
"They were on really small branches. I don't understand how it worked," she added.
"It was like a circus."
But a mother bear and her three cubs enjoying a quick meal in a crab apple tree is something that isn't seen every day.
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