Ned Colt (NBC) dropped dead of a stroke yesterday.. he was “supposedly” kidnapped during the Iraq war for several days, then freed?
Bob Simon (CBS) died in a car crash yesterday.. he was “supposedly” kidnapped held captive for 40 days in an Iraq jail
David Carr (NY Times) just died suddenly after interviewing Edward Snowden, and had just come out against Brian Williams from NBC while on CBS… calling Williams out for lying about being shot down in the Iraq war. Continue reading “4 US journalists dead past 24 hours”
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Tom Wolf said he will offer the state’s 186 death row inmates temporary reprieves from each scheduled execution, calling the system “error prone, expensive and anything but useful.”
The newly elected governor, who campaigned against the death penalty, said the moratorium will remain in effect until he has reviewed a task force report on capital punishment. The task force review has been ongoing over the past four years, examining a number of questions surrounding the death penalty – including how it is carried, out, whether it’s constitutional and if it reduces crime. In 2012, the task force called on former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett to suspend executions. Continue reading “Pennsylvania gov. declares moratorium on ‘unjust’ death penalty”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Bart Campolo broke with the church almost five years ago, he immediately began to feel something missing.
It wasn’t so much that the pastor’s son no longer believed in God; he’d never been that much of a believer anyway. What he missed, Campolo said, was what the church had represented to him: a place where like-minded people could gather for fellowship, to pursue moral justice, to help one another and to try to live good lives. Continue reading “US colleges bringing in chaplains to serve the nonbelievers”
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s security service says a shooting at a Copenhagen cafe that left one person dead and three police wounded during a free speech event was likely a terror attack.
IRVINGTON — An Essex County Grand Jury has declined to indict three police officers in the fatal 2013 shooting of a city man, Acting County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Just hours after Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his decision to resign, a subpoena arrived in a state office building confirming that federal agents are looking into the influence-peddling scandal that led to the abrupt end of a four-decade political career.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 (UPI) — Television announcer and voice artist Gary Owens has died at his home in Los Angeles after a lifelong battle with diabetes. He was 80.
Variety reported he died Thursday, but the entertainment industry trade newspaper did not specify an exact cause of death.
Best known as the announcer on the sketch comedy series Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, Owens also lent his voice to more than 3,000 cartoons, perhaps most notably providing the voice of the title character on the animated series Space Ghost. Continue reading “Gary Owens of ‘Laugh-In’ and ‘Space Ghost’ fame is dead at 80”
I am a curious person. Everytime I see a good logo, I wonder where it came from and what motivated the owners with their company name meaning. What made them feel that the name was going to advertise well? Was there a more personal reason? Did it just boil down to vanity? Here are well known companies, their logo and the reason behind their company name meaning. Continue reading “How These Major Companies Came Up With Their Name Is Insane”
There is an almost epidemic hierarchy of wheat-related ailments in America today. From intolerance that causes gastrointestinal discomfort to a debilitating disease, the number of people who do not consume wheat is multiplying exponentially.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — The suspect in the deaths of three Muslim college students in Chapel Hill had at least a dozen firearms stashed in his home, according to search warrants released Friday as world leaders decried the shootings.
Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action held their lobby day in Olympia, WA on Feb. 10th, 2015. On hand to cover the manufactured PR stunt was Laughing At Liberals.
The day started off at a church near the capitol building, where they bussed in activists, handed out their manufactured signs and propaganda talking points, and where they only wanted their own media present, as Bloomberg/Everytown organizer Meera Bhardwaj ejects LaughingAtLiberals. Continue reading “Moms Demand Action Lobby Day Gets Crashed”
Police officers in the City of Stockton, California says its officers are not to blame for firing over 600 rounds into a disabled SUV, hitting an innocent hostage more than 10 times.
It all happened after armed bank robbery suspects took off in the SUV with a hostage. The police knew this much, but it didn’t cause them a moment’s pause when they unloaded magazine after magazine full of rounds into the vehicle, suspects and hostage. Continue reading “Cops fire 600 rounds at bank robbers & kill only their hostage”