Monday, September 1, 2014

In the news, Wednesday, August 20, 2014


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AUG 19      INDEX      AUG 21
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)
from Breitbart
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from CBS News (& affiliates)

New York stylist gives free haircuts to the homeless
When stylist Mark Bustos isn’t cutting the hair of fashion designers and real estate moguls, he’s traveling around giving free haircuts to the homeless.

from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

ABC Reports Obama Team Knew In Advance of ISIS Plans to Kill U.S. Journalist

Irate Chris Matthews Taken Aback by Obama Reax to Foley Beheading; Says of ISIS 'If They Want to Die, Help Them Out'
Chris Matthews usually reserves rants like these for conservatives!
He FINALLY goes after Obama for something! Love affair over?

from Daily Mail (UK)

School suspends teen who said 'bless you' to another student who sneezed

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from Discover Magazine
from EarthSky

Wow! Spectacular landscape of star formation
New image of star-forming regions in southern Milky Way. Star cluster NGC 3603 is 20,000 light-years away. Glowing gas clouds NGC 3576 is about half as far.

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from East Oregonian

Hot, dry spring cuts into wheat harvest
Low yields harvested in Umatilla, Morrow counties

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from FactCheck.org

Headed for the Hall of Shame
A Republican ad attacking Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas says he “voted to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants.” Actually, what Pryor voted for wouldn’t have paid a penny to any immigrant while here illegally.

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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from Freedom Foundation (WA)
from The Guardian (UK)

Former top general calls on Obama to wipe out Isis in wake of Foley killing  John Allen, who commanded Afghanistan war, writes op-ed amid varying US views on how to respond to journalist’s beheading

Neanderthals walked among us – study  Species now thought to have held out alongside modern humans in Europe for thousands of years but extent of mixing is unclear

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from The Heritage Foundation
from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Moses Lake elementary schools targets of burglaries, keys stolen

Moses Lake man sentenced for attacking ex-girlfriend's boyfriend

Girl playing with a lighter allegedly starts house fire in Ephrata

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from IFL Science

Marine Plankton Found On Surface Of International Space Station

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from The Independent (UK)

James Foley: A photojournalist who was 'drawn to conflict to expose untold stories'  James Foley, the missing American journalist Islamic militants claim to have beheaded, was abducted in Syria in 2012.

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from LiveScience

Real Paleo Diet: Ancient Humans Ate Snails

Humans Did Not Wipe Out the Neanderthals, New Research Suggests  Neanderthals are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, and lived in Europe and Asia. Recent findings suggest that Neanderthals were closely related enough to interbreed with ancestors of modern humans — about 1.5 to 2.1 percent of the DNA of anyone outside Africa is Neanderthal in origin.

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from Money Talks News

8 Personal Finance Tips From ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Amid the wiseguy banter and exploding spacecraft are lessons about hard work, career and managing your finances.

Store Credit Cards Are Now a Worse Deal Than They Were Before

Most Americans Spend Some of Their Vacation Working

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from National Geographic

Successful Marburg Virus Treatment Offers Hope for Ebola Patients  A new approach, similar to one previously tested on Ebola, saved monkeys up to three days after infection with Marburg virus.

Neanderthals Died Out 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought, With Help From Modern Humans
New fossil dates show our ancient cousins disappeared 40,000 years ago.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from Patheos
[Information from this site may be questionable.]

Louisiana Tea Party opposes common core math standards because they will turn students gay.  Atheist Channel

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from POLITICO
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from The Raw Story
[Information from this site may not be reliable.


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from Real Clear Politics

Chris Matthews: "No Matter How We Got Into This, It's Obama's War Now"  I think a lot of Americans watching that execution set-up we were just witness to, they would like to push the button and have all of the people killed. They can't stand what they saw. This will cause rage in this country to see the way they did this.

Eugene Robinson: ISIS Beheaded Journalist Because Obama's Airstrikes Are Working

Krauthammer on Obama's Beheading Statement: "A Political Reaction To A Horrific Event"

Obama: "ISIL Speaks For No Religion"

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from RT (Russia Today)
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Life in space? Sea plankton discovered attached to ISS outer hull

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from ScienceDaily

How lizards regenerate their tails: Researchers discover genetic 'recipe'  By understanding the secret of how lizards regenerate their tails, researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans. Now, a team of researchers is one step closer to solving that mystery. The scientists have discovered the genetic “recipe” for lizard tail regeneration, which may come down to using genetic ingredients in just the right mixture and amounts.

Missing protein restored in patients with muscular dystrophy
A research team has succeeded in restoring a missing repair protein in skeletal muscle of patients with muscular dystrophy, a scientific first. The team has offered a proof-of-principle study and restored the missing protein in skeletal muscle of patients with muscular dystrophy. Three patients carrying a dysferlin mutation received a single systemic dose of a proteasome inhibitor. After only a few days the patients’ musculature produced the missing dysferlin protein at levels that could be therapeutically effective.

Paleolithic diet may have included snails 10,000 years earlier than previously thought  Paleolithic inhabitants of modern-day Spain may have eaten snails 10,000 years earlier than their Mediterranean neighbors. Snails were widespread in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, but it is still unknown when and how they were incorporated into human diets.

Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA research shows
NASA research shows Earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) from an unknown source decades after the compound was banned worldwide.

Life can persist in cold, dark world: Life under Antarctic ice explored  The first breakthrough article to come out of a massive U.S. expedition to one of Earth's final frontiers shows that there's life and an active ecosystem one-half mile below the surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, specifically in a lake that hasn't seen sunlight or felt a breath of wind for millions of years. The life is in the form of microorganisms that live beneath the enormous Antarctic ice sheet and convert ammonium and methane into the energy required for growth.

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)

Want to Know How to Deal with the Muslim ISIS Terrorists? Watch This  [VIDEO]  Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a FOX News analyst, recently gave his assessment on how the United States should deal with the Muslim ISIS terrorists following the beheading of American photojournalist James Foley.

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from Universal Free Press

One Country Is Banning Islamic Literature And Searching Vieled Muslim Women On Sight
Russia will be passing a law by 2015 that prohibits certain Islamic literature from entering the country. For now, Russian police are searching Muslim madrases (Islamic schools) and stopping Muslim women wearing veils to interrogate them in Crimea.

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from The Wall Street Journal

A Texas-Size Abuse of Power
A left-wing public interest group gets a special prosecutor to indict Gov. Rick Perry.

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from The Washington Post (DC)
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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Awesome: This Politician Just Took A Major Stand For Sgt. Tahmooressi That Mexico Can’t Ignore
As Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto prepares to be honored at a luncheon hosted by California Gov. Jerry Brown, at least one of the state’s elected officials will be noticeably absent. Assemblyman Tim Donnelly sent a pointed letter to Brown expressing his disapproval of the upcoming luncheon and explaining what he will be doing instead of attending it.

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from WND (World Net Daily)

BLACK COP KILLS WHITE MAN, MEDIA HIDE RACE
Limbaugh: 'A black person can never be the oppressor'

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