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The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton
Seriously? Is jailing elderly women in the best interest of society here in Amerika?
First an elderly woman was jailed and is currently being held for violating her parole by leaving stale bread crumbs out in her yard for birds. Continue reading “Another 81-Year-Old Lady Jailed, this Time over a Missed Hearing Due to Cancer”
Two people aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 were traveling with passports reported stolen in Thailand, foreign ministry officials in Italy and Austria said.
Italy’s Foreign Ministry said that an Italian man, Luigi Maraldi, who was listed as being a passenger aboard the aircraft that was carrying 239 people, reported his passport stolen last August. Continue reading “Two aboard missing Malaysia Airlines jet traveling with stolen passports”
New York Times – by BENJAMIN WEISER
To be chosen as one of the jurors in the terrorism trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden, would understandably cause some unease.
But for one woman, serving on the jury has brought about some unexpected tension: the loss of her job. Continue reading “Juror Loses Job for Serving in Terror TrialJuror Loses Job for Serving in Terror Trial”
This is what I did in the Navy. Now going black budget. Nice.
Hoping to nudge Congress into providing some extra cash in its 2015 budget, the US Navy is looking to put 22 Boeing electronic attack jets onto a list of “unfunded priorities” and send it to lawmakers. Continue reading “Navy puts electronic attack jets on ‘unfunded’ list”
The Tampa Tribune – by James L. Rosica
The Rev. Al Sharpton will lead a rally against the state’s “stand your ground” law Monday morning in the Capitol courtyard, according to the website of his National Action Network.
Sharpton, also an MSNBC host and commentator, will be joined by the parents of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis. Continue reading “Al Sharpton to march on Tallahassee against “Stand Your Ground””
A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health. Their research is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in an article titled “Discovery of a New Class of Non-beta-lactam Inhibitors of Penicillin-Binding Proteins with Gram-Positive Antibacterial Activity.” Continue reading “New class of antibiotics discovered by chemists”
Activist Post – by Amanda Warren
Phoenix military-style police were in a stand-off with an armed robbery suspect who was in his home on Wednesday. They had blocked off the entire suburban road.
A little pup walked in the middle of the operation and decided to pick a fight, barking at the police to stand down. Continue reading “Attention Police: This is How You Handle a Puppy In a Stand-off”
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton
Petaluma, California’s Rancho Feeding Corporation recalled 8,742,700 pounds of meat products in February after the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) determined that the meat came from uninspected, “diseased and unsound” animals.
“Thus, the products are adulterated, because they are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise are unfit for human food and must be removed from commerce,” FSIS concluded. Continue reading “9 Million Lbs. of “Diseased and Unsound” Meat May Have Reached 35 States, Says USDA”
All those flower children who said, “Dropping acid/dancing with Lucy/a dose of this stuff melts your worries away, man” weren’t (just) tripping, after all.
The results of the first clinical study of the therapeutic use of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in humans in more than 40 years were published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease this week. They show that LSD can promote statistically significant reductions in anxiety. Continue reading “LSD Can Ease Anxiety for Dying Patients”
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton
That’s right.
An elderly woman violated her probation by leaving bread crumbs out in her yard for crows and will remain behind bars. Continue reading “Sleep Soundly, America: 81-Year-Old Lady Jailed for Feeding Birds”
The bells are tolling on the American economy. Every day, another expert is warning us of the imminent demise of our way of life. If you’re paying attention, you can see it coming, like some huge storm system, bearing down on you. You don’t stand there and wait for it to hit you. You don’t have to be a passive victim of the economy. It’s time to sit down and take a long hard look at where your money is going. Lots of financial experts give tips about reducing your discretionary spending but what about those fixed expenses? You can free up some large sums of money by reducing your monthly output. Continue reading “Weathering the Economic Collapse: Can You Reduce Any of These 10 Fixed Expenses?”
CenturyLink – by DARLENE SUPERVILLE
KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — The crisis in Crimea won’t keep President Barack Obama from forging ahead with a weekend getaway with his wife and daughters in the Florida Keys.
But it’s more than the Oval Office that will be dark as Russia’s incursion into Ukraine reaches its one week mark. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife are vacationing in the Virgin Islands. And national security adviser Susan Rice is traveling in the Middle East for meetings with her counterparts. Continue reading “Ukraine doesn’t keep Obama from Florida vacation”
BEIJING — Malaysian officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane Saturday said they were not ruling out terrorism — or any other causes — as reports emerged that two Europeans listed on the passenger manifest were not aboard and may have had their passports stolen.
Vietnamese military aircraft participating in a search-and-rescue operation for the Boeing 777, which was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, had spotted two oil slicks in the waters off southern Vietnam, the Associated Press reported. Continue reading “Terrorism not ruled out in disappearance of Malaysia Airlines jet”
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