How Large Is It?
…It’s Visible From Earth–Huffington Post headline, 5/1/2010
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Images: (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) via blogs.theage.(Snow-Boston) via estatevaults.com.au:(weather woman) 1bp.blogspot.com via 14musicvideo09.com; (Alien head) via mwctoys.com; (Saturn) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com
Jordan Romero, California 13-Year-Old, To Attempt To Climb Everest
RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | 04/ 6/10 06:27 AM | AP
LOS ANGELES — A 13-year-old California boy plans to try to climb Mount Everest in a quest to reach the summits of the highest peaks on all seven continents.
If Jordan Romero succeeds, he’ll become the youngest person to […]
Drunk, high dad leaves baby in oven overnight, police say
By Jason Kessler, CNN
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(CNN) — A Kentucky man high on marijuana and drunk on whiskey put […]
MSNBC
Woman Shuts Daycare Down After Children Drink Windshield Fluid
updated 12:16 p.m. ET, Fri., March. 13, 2009
A Scott woman has voluntarily turned over her license and shut her daycare down after children there were accidentally served windshield wiper fluid to drink.
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This can’t be the explanation!!
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Image: (WW Fluid) trendtechsupport.com
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Image: (Christine movie box) (GOYA-illus of Tribunal of the Inquisition) via pierretristam.com; (drawing of burning) via rogerwendell.com; (two priests) via luciferknight.files.wordptress.com; (skull & crossbones) via mystae.com
…and I am not thinking of FIELD & STREAM.
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A HUNTING TROPHY: In this undated photo, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and one of her daughters pose with a caribou she shot. A woman in an exceedingly macho state, Palin has not always been taken seriously. But opponents cross her at their peril.(Associated Press VIA LA TIMES) […]
August 23rd, 2008
Mark Nickolas
Huffington Post
The Anatomy of a Deception: How The McCains Changed Their Baby Adoption Story Just Before 2008 Campaign Began
Posted August 21, 2008 | 12:32 PM (EST)
As was pointed out yesterday by the Christian Science Monitor, the McCain campaign was called out for lying about the purported urging of Cindy McCain by Mother […]
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This live satellite feed amply demonstrated the building anger as
Chinese Olympics officials found it necessary to restrain the
visibly distraught parents of the Gymnastics team.
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The story is here.
Most popular boy/girl baby names in 1950:
1. James / Linda
2. Robert / Mary
3. John / Patricia
4. Michael / Barbara
5. David / Susan
6. William / Nancy
7. Richard / Deborah
8. Thomas / Sandra
9. Charles / Carol
10. Gary / Kathleen
Here’s the list from last year:
1. Jacob / Emily
2. Michael / Isabella
3. Ethan / Emma
4. Joshua / Ava
5. Daniel […]
Obviously, child abuse is no laughing matter, but
I think this headline writer could have been more careful.
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:02pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Parents who teach “tough love” by disciplining their children with spankings could be making them more likely to have sexual problems as teenagers and adults, a leading researcher said.
Image: […]
(Don’t get too excited, DBp condemns child-battering.)
While not uncommon in discount stores and on interstate motor coaches, this behavior is rare aboard airliners. Once could assume the contrarian position and conclude that the woman was concerned that her children’s talking and whining would be cause for banishment from the flight.
The story about the […]