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Archive for the month “August, 2013”

Acid Attack in Zanzibar

Two Jewish girls walking along a street in Zanzibar sustained skin lesions after they were sprayed with acid by a roving gang of thugs. The girls, Kristie Trup and Katy Gee, are both British citizens who had gone to Zanzibar on a volunteering mission. Police have yet to identify or arrest their assailants.

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A Tip on Race Relations

Is color-blindness in racial outlook a good thing? Zo says it is not. After all, why would God have created all sorts of beautiful shades of skin and ethnicities, if He did not want us to enjoy the variety? Zo explains that the goal should not be to be blind to diversity, but rather to not care what race people are when deciding who to be friends with or who to hire.

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Has the NSA Gone Too Far?

“This is not a partisan issue, it’s not about being right or left politically. It’s about a basic, fundamental constitutional right,” says Rev. Rick Hoyt.

Rev. Hoyt is leading his church, the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, and 19 other organizations to sue the NSA for first, fourth, and fifth amendment violations resulting from electronic surveillance. Rev. Hoyt sat down with ReasonTV’s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss the lawsuit and why his church has a history of getting involved in political matters of this nature.

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Excerpts from My Novel

Pleated Jeans’ Jeff Wysaski shares a few excerpts from the novel he’s not actually writing.

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The Decline of Newspapers

How much has print declined in America? What are the most significant factors behind the sale of The Washington Post, Newsweek and The Boston Globe? What publications are people still reading in both print and digital form? The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.

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Th Obamacare Dodge

If Obamacare is so great, how come the members of Congress and IRS employees all want to exempt themselves from its rules and regulations? Pundit Dick Morris discusses the hypocritical maneuvering by which Congress dodged the same health care system they imposed on everyone else.

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Is Sharknado Possible?

Well? Is it?
No.
But that doesn’t mean that this … bizarre … attempt at cinema doesn’t raise some interesting questions. Questions explored in this episode of SciShow. Hold on to your buckets!

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Jihadists Target Olympics

Jihadists get in some giant slalom practice ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Although this bunch looks more like downhill racers because as soon as they start flapping their jowls, it’s all downhill from there. Score them as “zeroes” for originality.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The original video has disappeared from YouTube. In its absence, we present a Vice video about these jihadists. The Vice description: “Islamic extremists in Russia want to blow up the Sochi Winter Olympics. They’ve already succeeded in terrorizing a city 600 miles away with three separate suicide attacks in which more than 40 people have died since the end of October. Russia’s Jihadists come from loosely affiliated cells modeled on Al Qaeda whose goal is the creation of an Islamic Emirate in the southern part of the country. Their dream state would also include Sochi itself.”)

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Obama Puts Putin on Hold

U.S. President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin after the former cold-war superpower’s decision to grant asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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Naruto the Movie!

In honor of Geek Week…a fake, but fun trailer tribute to one of the most beloved shows of all-time.

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