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Opinion: Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming

Richard — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:01:38 +0000

The authors of the Jan. 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed, ‘No Need to Panic about Global Warming,’ respond to their critics..

This is very interesting article. I didn’t really read the original article which is linked above but I found their response very interesting.

Read the full response at the Wall Street Journal

Iran threatens pre-emptive attack on Israel

Richard — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:38:02 +0000

Iran threatened to launch pre-emptive action against Israel Tuesday in the event of an attack on its nuclear facilities.

Mohammed Hejazi, the deputy head of Iran’s armed forces, hinted that Tehran could order proxy militant groups in Gaza and Lebanon to fire rockets into Israel.

“We are no longer willing to wait for enemy action to be launched against us,” he told Iran’s Fars news agency. “Our strategy now is that we will make use of all means to protect our national interests. We enjoy the ability to show them all types of confrontation in case of a foolish act by the Zionist regime.”

Read Story @ Vancouver Sun

North Face jackets ‘using feathers taken from force-fed geese’

Richard — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:52:33 +0000

A major outdoor clothing brand has been using down from force-fed geese to fill its quilted winter jackets, it has emerged.

The North Face, an American company whose outdoor clothing is worn by the likes of Barack Obama, Angelina Jolie, Sharon Stone and Elle Macpherson as well by numerous BBC reporters, has been found to use down from Hungarian geese farmed for foie gras.

Despite the company assuring customers in the past that the down used in their jackets would never come from a force-fed goose, animal rights campaigners found that the down came from Hungarian farms where geese are fattened using the force-feeding method to make foie gras from their bloated livers.

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Girl, 15, finds out parents are swingers when she turns on TV and sees mother in cage and father as Batman in sex show

Richard — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:29:16 +0000

A 15-year-old girl turned on the television and saw, to her shock, her parents cavorting in a programme about a swinger’s club.

The girl’s mother was wearing stockings and suspenders and was in a cage while her father was dressed as Batman with a sex toy in his hand.

The embarrassed couple in Germany tried to sue the broadcasting company RTL for massive damages, claiming emotional upset for their daughter.

Read Story @ Daily Mail

Video Friday: World’s Largest Rope Swing

Richard — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:53:44 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B36Lr0Unp4

Air-quality study: Electric cars out-pollute gas engines

Richard — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:44:25 +0000

A Chinese study found electric vehicles in China are creating a bigger dent in the environment than gas-burning vehicles.

While electric car sales now outnumber those of conventional gas vehicles two-to-one in China, fine-particle pollution has increased as the “green” cars’ popularity has increased.

Researchers found that generating the electricity used to power an electric car releases more pollution into the atmosphere than burning gasoline to drive. Particulate matter is a fossil-fuel byproduct that includes acids, dust, soil, organic chemicals and metals. The impact an electric car has on the environment is similar to that of a diesel bus, according to the study.

Read Story @ Daily Caller

Electric cigarette explodes in Fla. man’s mouth taking out some of his front teeth and a chunk of his tongue

Richard — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:15:52 +0000

A faulty battery caused an electronic cigarette to explode in a Florida’s man’s mouth, taking out some of his front teeth and a chunk of his tongue and severely burning his face, fire officials said Wednesday.

Tom Holloway, 57, of Niceville, was trying to quit smoking so he was puffing on the device Monday night when it blew up, fire officials said. Officials have not publicly identified the victim. But a Facebook page under his name was filled with well-wishers commenting on the injury and database searches matched his address with his name.

“The best analogy is like it was trying to hold a bottle rocket in your mouth when it went off,” said Joseph Parker, division chief for the North Bay Fire Department. “The battery flew out of the tube and set the closet on fire.”

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Diner suffers cardiac arrest while eating a Triple Bypass Burger in restaurant called the Heart Attack Grill

Richard — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:33:57 +0000

It was always going to be unwise naming a restaurant that glorifies unhealthy food the Heart Attack Grill.
And on Saturday the inevitable happened when a customer suffered a cardiac arrest in the chain’s Las Vegas branch.

An onlooker captured video of paramedics wheeling the unidentified man, thought to be in his 40s, out of the fast-food diner.

He was midway through eating a 6,000-calorie Triple Bypass Burger when he began experiencing chest pains.

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No wrong answers left behind

Richard — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:52:50 +0000

Staffers at Cayuga Elementary School in Philadelphia were ordered to do whatever they had to do — even cheating — to get better test scores, according to sources. Principal Evelyn Cortez reportedly met with teachers days before the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), a yearly standardized test, to make sure the message was clear.

Before the tests, the students were instructed by Cortez to write the answers on scrap paper first, then check them with teachers before marking them in the testing booklet, the staffers said.

“The announcement was made over the loudspeaker to the whole school: ‘Students, do not bubble anything in on your books. When your teacher gives you approval, then you may put it in your book,’” one teacher disclosed to the Philadelphia Enquirer.

Read Full Story @ DailyCaller.Com

Samuel L. Jackson: ‘I Voted for Obama because he’s black’

Richard — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:19:35 +0000

Politics aside actor Samuel L. Jackson said he rallied and subsequently voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because of his race.

In an interview for Ebony magazine’s March issue the Oscar nominated actor says his vote cast for President Obama was absent of political belief.

‘I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,’ Mr Jackson told the magazine according to the New York Post.

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