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Why I'll never visit Yellowstone National Park:
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After foot discovered in Yellowstone hot pool, investigators find handwritten poems, photo album and $447
No other remains were found after a search of Abyss Pool but investigators noted apparent "fatty tissues" floating in the 140-degree Fahrenheit pool.
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U.K. medical practice mistakenly texts patients they have "aggressive lung cancer" instead of wishing them a merry Christmas
They were also sent a form meant for people with terminal illnesses to apply for benefits.
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OMG. Just saw this on my news feed.
Newport News: Boy aged six detained after shooting teacher in US
1st grader shoots teacher with a handgun. In a classroom. A school with a 550 student enrollment. It's a typical public school. Kindergarten through Fourth Grade have four teachers for each grade, and Fifth Grade has two teachers, so around twenty-five students per classroom.
Neither article doesn't mention if it was just the two of them in the classroom, or if the event happened with a class full of First Graders.
Police are still investigating, obviously, but one of the obvious questions is how the 6-year old got a hold of a loaded gun. My guess is that one or both of the parents are going to see jail time.
I do have a very strong opinion about whether or not guns make us "safer", but I'll refrain from stating it, as discussing the issue of gun regulation is justly considered a political misdemeanor around here.
But we can all agree that this is a tragic and horrific event.
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The actual transgression is bad enough, but the follow-through was abysmal.
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Every employee on the flight, including the pilot, did not show this poor lady the least bit of consideration or empathy. The airline practically ignored the whole thing (although they DID ban the urinator from flying with Air India for 30 days), and it wasn't until 6 weeks later, after public outcry that the man was arrested.
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My opinion is that the entire flight crew should be fired, including the pilot, flight crew AND ground crew, and the airline should be somehow punished for their lack of consideration of their passenger's needs.
The assailant was employed by Wells Fargo as Vice President in charge of operations in India, and has now been fired and jailed.
Wells Fargo Fires Top Exec After He Allegedly Urinated on Elderly Woman During Flight to India
Shankar Mishra, the now-former Vice President of Wells Fargo in India, is accused of urinating on a woman mid-flight
Every employee on the flight, including the pilot, did not show this poor lady the least bit of consideration or empathy. The airline practically ignored the whole thing (although they DID ban the urinator from flying with Air India for 30 days), and it wasn't until 6 weeks later, after public outcry that the man was arrested.
My opinion is that the entire flight crew should be fired, including the pilot, flight crew AND ground crew, and the airline should be somehow punished for their lack of consideration of their passenger's needs.
The assailant was employed by Wells Fargo as Vice President in charge of operations in India, and has now been fired and jailed.
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Yes, very strange. The six year old was incarcerated when enlistment in the Marine Corp is the obvious path. The parents should be jailed for providing the child with a firearm and not providing proper training!!!
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I suspect that the press did not reveal that she was also proficient in the Clean and Jerk and other barbell lifts, not just powerlifts. Mainstream media lies!
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It is best to avoid any kind of nature, as Woody Allen has accurately pointed out that it is like one big restaurant.Nuff said!Why I'll never visit Yellowstone National Park:
After foot discovered in Yellowstone hot pool, investigators find handwritten poems, photo album and $447
No other remains were found after a search of Abyss Pool but investigators noted apparent "fatty tissues" floating in the 140-degree Fahrenheit pool.
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Saw this story first on The Guardian website.
Simply Orange has been my favorite orange juice brand for years, and now the company (owned by Coca-Cola) is being sued for promoting themselves falsely for being “all natural ingredients”, “simply natural”, and “nothing to hide”, while knowing that their product contains toxic chemicals (PFAs and other dangerous chemicals hundreds of times above the federal limit; PFAs are Perfluoroalkoxy alkanes are fluoropolymers). Evidently, while PFAs are prohibited in drinking water, there are no similar protections for orange juice.
The complaint states, "“In reality, testing has revealed that the product contains [PFAS], a category of synthetic chemicals that are, by definition, not natural . . . ”
It's a premium brand, and I haven't done any fact-checking on the allegation. The article does not have links to any evidence of the claim, links to the plaintiffs' testing entity or its results, nor does it list who the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are.
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The Miami Herald seems to have more specific information regarding the lawsuit.
"A New York man who previously bought Simply Tropical juice is suing Coca-Cola and the Simply Orange Juice Co., which is owned by Coca-Cola, alleging false and deceptive advertising when it comes to its tropical drink product, a complaint filed Dec. 28 says. “Simply beverages are aggressively marketed to health-focused consumers with the products’ pervasive ‘all natural’ representations prominently displayed across the products’ packaging,” the complaint says."
"The New York man argues he had an unspecified, independent third party test Simply Tropical juice drink revealing the product had high levels of certain PFAs that have been “indisputably linked to negative health effects.”"
Ah. "I had it tested by 'someone', and they say it's toxic stuff." It is somewhat odd, if I'm reading between the lines correctly, that this "New York man" decided to have his Simply juice tested. What would have prompted him to do that in the first place?
Simply Orange has been my favorite orange juice brand for years, and now the company (owned by Coca-Cola) is being sued for promoting themselves falsely for being “all natural ingredients”, “simply natural”, and “nothing to hide”, while knowing that their product contains toxic chemicals (PFAs and other dangerous chemicals hundreds of times above the federal limit; PFAs are Perfluoroalkoxy alkanes are fluoropolymers). Evidently, while PFAs are prohibited in drinking water, there are no similar protections for orange juice.
The complaint states, "“In reality, testing has revealed that the product contains [PFAS], a category of synthetic chemicals that are, by definition, not natural . . . ”
It's a premium brand, and I haven't done any fact-checking on the allegation. The article does not have links to any evidence of the claim, links to the plaintiffs' testing entity or its results, nor does it list who the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are.
‘All-natural’ Simply Tropical juice has high toxic PFAS levels, lawsuit alleges
Coca-Cola claimed juice was healthy despite toxic ‘forever chemicals’ levels ‘hundreds of times’ above federal limits, suit says
www.theguardian.com
The Miami Herald seems to have more specific information regarding the lawsuit.
"A New York man who previously bought Simply Tropical juice is suing Coca-Cola and the Simply Orange Juice Co., which is owned by Coca-Cola, alleging false and deceptive advertising when it comes to its tropical drink product, a complaint filed Dec. 28 says. “Simply beverages are aggressively marketed to health-focused consumers with the products’ pervasive ‘all natural’ representations prominently displayed across the products’ packaging,” the complaint says."
"The New York man argues he had an unspecified, independent third party test Simply Tropical juice drink revealing the product had high levels of certain PFAs that have been “indisputably linked to negative health effects.”"
Ah. "I had it tested by 'someone', and they say it's toxic stuff." It is somewhat odd, if I'm reading between the lines correctly, that this "New York man" decided to have his Simply juice tested. What would have prompted him to do that in the first place?
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Earth’s Inner Core May Be Reversing Its Rotation, Study Finds
The change may shave the length of the day by a fraction of a millisecond over the course of a year.
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Bald men in Mozambique could be targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, after the recent killing of five men for their body parts. The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold.
I can not stress this enough: that belief is false!
Mozambique police warn bald men after ritual attack
Some people in Mozambique believe that the heads of bald men contain gold.
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I can not stress this enough: that belief is false!
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Proof that people are easily manipulated into believing things that are demonstrably false.Bald men in Mozambique could be targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, after the recent killing of five men for their body parts. The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold.
Mozambique police warn bald men after ritual attack
Some people in Mozambique believe that the heads of bald men contain gold.www.bbc.com
I can not stress this enough: that belief is false!
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Can we maybe consider the nation where it happened? Or is that taboo in modern parlances?
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Well, yes you could, but I think it's a worldwide phenomenon that people are manipulated into buying or believing things that that they ought not to. There was someplace, I recall, where they had to stop putting pictures of babies on baby food jars, because people thought it contained babies.
Here in the United States there are people that believe the earth is flat, that 9/11 was "an inside job, or that an election was stolen. People actually fall for email scams, thinking that they are going to get part of an inheritance from a Nigerian prince. People are manipulated into buying gift cards to pay "the IRS department" to avoid getting arrested. In some places people spend decadent amounts of money on elephant tusk powder or rhinoceros horn.
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I'm afraid that do not see the equivalency of believing that gold lies hidden in the bald cranium to many of your United States examples. Quite frankly, some Nations have better science education than others. For example, Russia-Gaters truly believe that an election was stolen based upon information from government sources, but would any of the misled believers, or anyone in the U.S., believe that mining the scalps of the hairless for gold is remotely rational? So ignorant of human physiology? I think not! 😄
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