Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews hurled stones and slashed the tires of buses bearing ads promoting female worship at a key Jerusalem holy site, Israeli police said Tuesday. MORE

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Unless California gets some heavy rain, and soon, the state’s roughly 38 million residents will eventually be up a creek without a paddle — or without a creek, for that matter. The latest media reports indicate that some 14 communities throughout the state are now on the verge of running completely dry, and many more could join them in the coming year if conditions remain as they are. MORE

The Ministry of Justice’s bizarre plan includes a regime of physical punishment and restraint that would be a recipe for child abuse.

No one, but no one, supports this bizarre proposal, except for the companies that would profit from building the £85m complex. The government has refused to publish the rules or any details about what it is euphemistically calling a “secure college”. Next week the House of Lords will scrutinise the legislation and consider an amendment suggesting the whole idea be put on hold until more details are published. MORE

No reports coming out of Hawaii on this yet….  currently the webcams on Pu’u’ O’o’ Volcano ( on the flank of Kilauea ) shows a heavy cloud, and another cam on the adjacent flank shows hazy smoke of some kind. “That being said, it looks like a minor blast of some kind occurred.  Which can occur when large volumes of water hit hot lava surfaces. MORE

City officials told Donald Knapp that he and his wife Evelyn, both ordained ministers who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel, are required to perform such ceremonies or face months in jail and/or thousands of dollars in fines. MORE

Pope Francis marked the end of a spirited gathering of Catholic bishops in Rome by beatifying the pope who started the Synod of Bishops, Paul VI. Pope Paul VI, elected in 1963, presided over the last part of the Vatican II council and over his 15-year reign implemented many of its momentous reforms to the Catholic Church. He is not as popular as either Pope John XXIII, who launched Vatican II, or Pope John Paul II, both of whom Francis canonized earlier this year. MORE

Given the frenzy of interest following the announcement of the Apple Watch, you might think wearables will be the next really important shift in technology.

Not so. Here are nine signs that implantable tech is here now, growing rapidly, and that it will be part of your life (and your body) in the near future. MORE

I was at a library sale where they gave out VHS’s free. This Tuskegee Airmen movie was one of them. It’s about the first black airmen. Many of the Senators were hindering these airman because they were black. In the movie,  Eleanore Roosevelt went to the training center and had the black training instructor take her up for a flight. This opened the door for them and they wound up becoming hero’s in the war. At first I didn’t believe she did this but as you can see, it’s a true story. I give the movie three stars.  Hope you can find one. MORE

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Bad food Smithfield Farms, the largest pork producing farm in the USA was sold in September to China with the unanimous support of its stockholders!! The hogs will still be raised here, but slaughtered and packaged for sale there before being sent back here. Continue reading →

The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to use its strict voter ID law in the November election even after a federal judge said the law was the equivalent of a poll tax and threatened to deprive many blacks and Latinos of the right to vote this year. MORE

Conspiracy sites are highlighting a book called “Absolute Zero,” written in 1999 about an “African man” carrying Ebola “arrived unhindered in Dallas”  and experts assure the public there is no cause to fear. Sound familiar? MORE

This video gets right to the heart of the matter.  As one person blogged, “Seriously, this speaks for itself.”  Another blogger wrote, “The evidence is that the female waist has indents above the naval, and the male waist has indents below the naval, and Serena has indents below the naval.  Also there’s a ratio where the male shoulder is three heads wide or more, and the female shoulder is 2 and a half heads wide, and the male body is 8 heads tall.” MORE