Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Marijuana farmer's dreams go up in smoke during California wildfires
California requires pet stores to sell rescue animals
By 2019, pet stores will have to legally sell dogs, cats and rabbits from shelters or adoption centers. If the new law is not followed, pet stores can be charged $500 for each animal that is not a rescue animal, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Buddy The Iguana Thinks He's A Dog
Buddy has apparently been taking notes from the dogs in his neighborhood because he comes running every time his owner Dave Durham calls him, and he can't wait to get petted just like a pooch!
Monday, October 16, 2017
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Today in History
| 1555 | The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England. | |
| 1701 | Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Killingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal. | |
| 1793 | Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution. | |
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| 1859 | Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason. | |
| 1901 | President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. | |
| 1908 | The first airplane flight in England is made at Farnborough, by Samuel Cody, a U.S. citizen. | |
| 1934 | Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Jiangxi due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the “Long March.” | |
| 1940 | Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army’s first African American Brigadier General. | |
| 1946 | Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany. | |
| 1973 | Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies. | |
| 1995 | The Million Man March for ‘A Day of Atonement’ takes place in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1998 | General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, is arrested in London for extradition on murder charges |
A Brief History of Bat-Marriage
The Batman and Wonder Woman of the Brave and the Bold animated universe nearly got married in All-New Batman Brave and the Bold #4, having been hit with a spell from Eros, the Greek god of attraction, that makes them fall for each other. The two break out of the spell thanks to Diana’s lasso of truth, but decide to plan a lavish wedding anyway... and use it as a trap to draw out a bunch of supervillains—who couldn’t resist attacking the wedding of Wonder Woman and Batman!—that they then proceed to beat the snot out of.Batman went to the altar with many of those famous brides more than once, plus a few other less memorable characters. So far, they've all been stopped at the last minute, annulled, or occurred in a dream or an in alternate universe. Read the short versions of each of Batman's marriages at io9.
The Creepiest Urban Legend in Every State
Why it's creepy: What’s not to be creeped out about? An 8-foot, musty-smelling, barefoot man with a reputation for being unnaturally aggressive is a hell of a thing to consider encountering in the woods. Some reported sightings were just that: sightings. However, reports like Ken Zitzow’s made the Hairy Man more than an apparition, but something to fear. Zitzow returned from driving in the woods with dents all over his car hood and said the Hairy Man jumped onto the road and began pounding the hood.Read the creepiest urban legend from your state and all the others at Thrillist.
Where it came from: Nobody really knows. Sightings trace back to the '60s, had a significant increase in the '70s, and still happen from time to time. Some say it’s a legend. Some say there was an old hermit living in the woods who wasn’t too keen on your rascally kids wandering his land. Others say the Hairy Man is real and point to a mysterious skull discovered in the Vergas Trail area that is human-like, but not hominid. It was discovered by a private citizen who didn’t turn it over, so no one knows if it’s human, Bigfoot, animal, or hoax. -- Dustin Nelson
Global warming Is making wildfires and hurricanes worse
People with high IQs are more likely to suffer from mental disorders
A new study suggests that highly intelligent
people have a significantly increased risk of suffering from a variety
of mental disorders.
Things That Happened When I Tried Tongue Scraping For a Month
Who knew that getting rid of the gunk could do so much?
Most Americans know NFL kneelers aren't protesting flag
A new poll released on Saturday by HuffPost/YouGov found 57 percent of Americans knew that players were protesting police violence when they kneeled during the national anthem--up from 48 percent of Americans who knew what kneelers were protesting in September.
Why people stay friends with their rapists
Since The New York Times reported about
how Harvey Weinstein has been paying off accusations of sexual
harassment for decades, more and more women have been coming forward to report abuse, in some cases from years ago.
Writer, journalist and playwright, Natalya Antonova, thinks she understands why some have kept silent for so long.
She has personal experience with the issue.
“We have a stereotype about the way that 'real' rape
victims are supposed to act, and basically what the stereotype says is
that when this happens to you, you recognize the man as the monster, you
cut off all ties, and you torch him in the public square,” says
Antonova. "That’s not how a lot of people respond to this crime, and
it’s definitely not how I responded when it happened to me."
When she was raped, Antonova says she was in denial and
couldn’t even think of what happened to her as rape for a very long
time.
“The brain obviously wants to survive, and in order to
survive my brain decided to create this fiction, where we were just
doomed lovers,” she says, “where he was in love with me; I was in love
with him; it was just a beautiful love story.’’
In the US, only about a third of rapes are reported.
Antonova didn't report her rapist, but, after years, has begun "trying
to rebuild my self-worth against all odds." She wrote more about her
experience for Vox First Person.
Weinstein takedown leaves Dumbass Trump sex assault victims frustrated at lack of justice for themselves
While women in the entertainment industry and
beyond may rejoice and feel vindicated by the public downfall of
Hollywood producer and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, the women victims of Dumbass Trump do not feel so vindicated.
Five arrested in Georgia over 1983 murder of black man Timothy Coggins
The body of Timothy Coggins, 23, was found on Oct. 9, 1983, in a grassy area near power lines in the community of Sunnyside, about 30 miles (48 km) south of downtown Atlanta.
He had been “brutally murdered” and his body had signs of trauma, the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement
New Jersey cop caught on video attacking black teen girls has controversial history
Fight involving hair-pulling with teen girls not cop’s 1st controversy
South Dakota high school cancels homecoming
“It’s the worst day I’ve ever had,” Sturgis Brown High School Principal Pete Wilson told the Associated Press.
Tensions are high as administrators attempt to contain the fallout.
“The incident has caused severe backlash, including several Facebook threats from people affiliated with both sides,” NBC Newscenter 1’s Sam Kraemer reported.
One particularly worrisome image spray-painted above the “go back to the Rez” message are the letters SS, which can refer to Schutzstaffel, Adolph Hitler’s paramilitary force. Skinheads and neo-Nazi’s often use such symbolism to express their views of white supremacy.
Oklahoma cop busted for racist Facebook threat against NFL players
“Precisely why I don’t watch NFL, bunch of fuckin' overpaid greasy headed moon crickets expecting everything for nothing!!"
Nazi white supremacists from Charlottesville chased away by crowd
Counter-protesters charged Nathan Damigo, Evan
McLaren and JonPaul Struys as they left Charlottesville General
District Court on October 13, chasing them into a parking garage where
the three Nazi assholes jumped into a vehicle.
Nazi white supremacist Spencer questions whether women should be allowed to vote
Nazi White Nationalist Spencer’s tiki torch circle jerks in Charlottesville, Virginia, and his distant dream of forming a white ethnostate steal headlines, but his views about women—that their role in politics be shrunk down to a barely visible place that would be unrecognizable to almost anyone in modern America—is seldom highlighted.Taxpayers are picking up the tab for white nationalists’ ‘free speech’ circle jerks
Campus officials at the University of Florida are preparing for Nazi white
nationalist Richard Spencer to visit their campus next month — and are
being forced to spend upwards of $500,000 to provide him with security.
It’s the latest in a series of wingnut circle jerks which taxpayers and
beleaguered universities are picking up the bill for. 
Sunday, October 15, 2017
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Today in History
| 1529 | Ottoman armies under Suleiman end their siege of Vienna and head back to Belgrade. | |
| 1582 | The Gregorian (or New World) calendar is adopted in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal; and the preceding ten days are lost to history. | |
| 1783 | Francois Pilatre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon. The first flight was let out to 82 feet, but over the next few days the altitude increased up to 6,500 feet. | |
| 1813 | During the land defeat of the British on the Thames River in Canada, the Indian chief Tecumseh, now a brigadier general with the British Army (War of 1812), is killed. | |
| 1863 | For the second time, the Confederate submarine H L Hunley sinks during a practice dive in Charleston Harbor, this time drowning its inventor along with seven crew members. | |
| 1878 | Thomas A. Edison founds the Edison Electric Light Co. | |
| 1880 | Victorio, feared leader of the Minbreno Apache, is killed by Mexican troops in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. | |
| 1892 | An attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kan., ends in disaster for the Dalton gang as four of the five outlaws are killed and Emmet Dalton is seriously wounded. | |
| 1894 | Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, is arrested for betraying military secrets to Germany. | |
| 1914 | Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which labor leader Samuel Gompers calls “labor’s charter of freedom.” The act exempts unions from anti-trust laws; strikes, picketing and boycotting become legal; corporate interlocking directorates become illegal, as does setting prices which would effect a monopoly. | |
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| 1924 | A German ZR-3 flies 5000 miles, the furthest Zeppelin flight to date. | |
| 1941 | Odessa, a Russian port on the Black Sea which has been surrounded by German troops for several weeks, is evacuated by Russian troops. | |
| 1945 | Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval is executed by a firing squad for his wartime collaboration with the Germans. | |
| 1950 | President Harry Truman meets with General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island to discuss U.N. progress in the Korean War. | |
| 1964 | Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union. | |
| 1966 | Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale establish the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary socialist political group, in the US. | |
| 1969 | Rallies for The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam draw over 2 million demonstrators across the US, a quarter million of them in the nation’s capital. | |
| 1987 | The Great Storm of 1987 strikes the UK and Europe during the night of Oct 15-16, killing over 20 people and causing widespread damage. | |
| 1989 | Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky makes his 1,851st goal, breaking the all-time scoring record in the National Hockey League. | |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR, receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in making his country more open and reducing Cold War tensions. | |
| 1997 | Andy Green of the UK becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in the Earth’s atmosphere, driving the ThrustSSC supersonic car to a record 763 mph (1,228 km/h). | |
| 2003 | China launches its first manned space mission, Shenzhou I. | |
| 2007 | New Zealand police arrest 17 people believed to be part of a paramilitary training camp. | |
| 2008 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 733.08 points, the second-largest percentage drop in the Dow’s history. | |
| 2011 | Protests break out in countries around the globe, under the slogan “United for Global Democracy.” |
A Brief History of the Danse Macabre
The
Dance Macabre, or Dance of Death, is an idea that's been handed down
for centuries. The image is of skeletons escorting people through death
and to their final fate in the afterlife. The message is that no matter
who you are in life, you will face death one day. While the dance has
evolved over time, the message remains. Though a few earlier examples exist in literature, the first known visual Dance of Death comes from around 1424. It was a large fresco painted in the open arcade of the charnel house in Paris’s Cemetery of the Holy Innocents. Stretched across a long section of wall and visible from the open courtyard of the cemetery, the fresco depicted human figures (all male) accompanied by cavorting skeletons in a long procession. A verse inscribed on the wall below each of the living figures explained the person’s station in life, arranged in order of social status from pope and emperor to shepherd and farmer. Clothing and accessories, like the pope’s cross-shaped staff and robes, or the farmer’s hoe and simple tunic, also helped identify each person.From there, the images spread all over Europe. Atlas Obscura traces the evolution of the Dance Macabre from the Paris fresco to David S. Pumpkins.
Located in a busy part of Paris near the main markets, the cemetery wouldn’t have been a quiet, peaceful place of repose like the burial grounds we’re used to today, nor would it have been frequented only by members of the clergy. Instead, it was a public space used for gatherings and celebrations attended by all sorts of different people. These cemetery visitors, on seeing the Dance of Death, would certainly have been reminded of their own impending doom, but would also have likely appreciated the image for its humorous and satirical aspects as well. The grinning, dancing skeletons mocked the living by poking fun at their dismay and, for those in positions of power, by making light of their high status. Enjoy it now, the skeletons implied, because it’s not going to last.
The Spookiest Ghost Stories From All 50 States
At the center of the historic section of Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City’s public burial grounds, there’s a grave surrounded by a chain link fence. Local lore claims that the grave belonged to a witch who lived along the Yazoo River, who used to lure fishermen to the shore to torture them. When the Yazoo County sheriff came to arrest her, she fled into the swamp and fell into quicksand. The sheriff found her half sunk. Before she drowned, she swore to take revenge on Yazoo City. No one thought much of her threat, but they fenced in her grave just in case. Then, on May 25, 1904, a fire nearly wiped out the entire city, spreading quickly on unusually fierce winds. After the fire, Yazoo City residents found the chain link around the witch’s grave cut open.How does your state's scariest ghost story stack up against that one? Read a ghost tale from each of the 50 states at Mental Floss.
The Ancient Origins of Both Light and Dark Skin
But most of the variants that Tishkoff’s team identified, for both light and dark skin, have an ancient African origin. They likely arose in hominids like Homo erectus long before the dawn of our own species, and have coexisted in balance for hundreds and thousands of years. In many cases, the older variant is responsible for lighter skin, not darker. That’s consistent with an idea from Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist from Pennsylvania State University, who thinks that the ancient ancestors of humans—much like other primates—had pale skin. “As our ancestors moved out of the forest and into the savannah, they lost their hair and evolved darker skin,” says Nick Crawford, a researcher in Tishkoff’s lab.The study doesn't pretend to answer all questions about skin color, but it opens some doors for further research. Read more details about the genetic study at The Atlantic.
An Aurora borealis named "Steve"
You might wonder what Steve means. At first it didn't mean anything. It
was just a name. Steve comes from the animated movie Over The Hedge. In
the movie, the main characters were watching bushes rustle. Out came an
animal that they didn't know. So they named it Steve.That's how Steve, the new type of northern lights, got its name. Citizen scientists took a few photos of Steve and showed the photos to NASA scientists. NASA scientists initially couldn't explain the newly discovered aurora type, so they all decided on naming it Steve for now. NASA scientists have now created a "backronym" - Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement.
NASA has set up a project called Aurorasaurus. At Aurorasaurus, you can see where the northern lights are predicted to be located in the near future, and actual reports of the northern lights from people around the world.
Can magic mushrooms help to cure depression?
Researchers from Imperial College London suggest that magic mushrooms, also known as psilocybin, may help ease symptoms of the mental condition. Their study, published Friday in Scientific Reports, found that magic mushrooms are effective for depression as a way to “reset” the brain.
Melissa Etheridge busted for medical marijuana at US/Canadian border
Etheridge was diagnosed with stage two breast
cancer in 2004 and has undergone surgery and five rounds of chemotherapy
and radiation with no indication of a relapse.
Arizona day care workers arrested for playing with sex toy while on duty
Gabriella Del Carmen Garcia, 25, was featured committing the acts in the video with a sex toy. Fatina Saywer, 24, was responsible for shooting and publishing the video. A third woman, Janae Peterson, 21, was identified in the video as having watched the incident unfold. The Chandler Police Department (CPD) was notified of the video's existence Monday. An unidentified person who reported the video discovered it on Snapchat, police said.
‘Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law’
A new book by James Whitman will leave you as
startled as this respected legal scholar was when he came upon a
meticulous record of a meeting of top lawyers in Nazi Germany after
Hitler’s rise to power.
Sheriff's deputy caught using racial slurs about a local attorney loses his job
White supremacists fly into white-hot rage at news some Vikings may have been Muslim
Uppsala researchers found Vikings buried in Sweden with cloth inscribed with the word “Allah,” the Muslim word for “Dog,” suggesting that as they roamed the world, Vikings encountered adherents to Islam and perhaps some of them converted.
Vikings are one of white supremacists’ most favorite things, embodying the “racial purity” and ferocity in war that thousands of 4chan keyboard warriors aspire to. Nazi websites like The Daily Stormer regularly truck in Viking imagery and Norse myth when appealing to disaffected whites, so the news that some Vikings could be Muslim was bound to hit some racists pretty hard.
KKK ‘imperial wizard’ who shot at Charlottesville counter-protesters denied bail
Richard Wilson Preston, a Ku Klux Klan
“imperial wizard” who was caught on video was denied bail. The judge
wasn't buying his defense.
Teacher ‘used Dog and christianity’ to lure teen into sex
The victim filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing Tuscaloosa County School System officials of failing to stop the sexual abuse by teacher Joe Bradley Petrey, reported AL.com.
Petrey taught the victim twice, when she was a freshman and then again as a junior at Brookwood High School.
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