Always trust Fox News...
 

So, there is a train with many cars with a lot of oil on board, and only a single human is responsible...

Breaks are the responsibility of the employees (oh, sorry, only one human) and then the train catches on fire....

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/10/quebec-police-treating-oil-train-derailment-site-as-crime-scene-death-toll/[/url]

"Human error"
 

(Post moved to a more appropriate thread. Chris, why did you post that here?)

They've discovered the actual color of an exo-planet, and that color is navy blue. Now, the question on my mind is what the heck does navy blue look like, and is the planet bluer than planet Earth. Also, I wonder if it's from water or something else making it blue.

Going to read the article now, but if anyone knows the average color of planet Earth, I'd love to know.

Edit: Okay, apparently, the blue color is either from molten glass(silicon) or actual water. But according to one of the scientists, the color is consistent with water.

[url]http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/07/11/1819259/first-exoplanet-to-be-seen-in-color-is-blue?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed[/url]

hmmm
another gem
[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/zimbabwe-hospital-charges-women-5-for-each-scream-during-childbirth-8705954.html[/url]
Zimbabwe hospital charges women $5 for each scream during childbirth

[QUOTE=ewmayer;346221]Now if we could only do similarly in the developed world for car alarms and gratuitous shouting of all sorts ... "If your car is not being vandalized or stolen and your person is not under assault or in the act of preventing harm to another, that'll be $5 per noise, please."[/QUOTE]

When it comes to gratuitous car alarms, I suggest that the fee should be $5 [I]paid to every person disturbed by the damned thing.[/I]

Everything Wrong With America In One Simple Image (INFOGRAPHIC)
 

[url]http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/12/american-decline/[/url]


Hmmmmmmmmm.....:sick:

Man arrested for having a stroke while Black, left to die on jail floor.
 

[URL="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/15/1223852/-Man-arrested-for-having-a-stroke-while-Black-left-to-die-on-jail-floor?detail=email"]http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/15/1223852/-Man-arrested-for-having-a-stroke-while-Black-left-to-die-on-jail-floor[/URL]

Words fail, except to say that I can imagine the same sort of thing happening just about anywhere in the States.

Then I'm going to Mars.
 

:no:

re: Then I'm going to Mars
 

Would you happen to have a spare seat in whatever conveyance you are using? Can I come, too?

It seems that the minion has spawn, it's a boy... Now can we change the subject?

[QUOTE=firejuggler;347016]It seems that the minion has spawn, it's a boy... Now can we change the subject?[/QUOTE]Yup, she's dropped her sprog. Ho hum.