In Wake of Everest Deaths, Another "Traffic Jam" Expected
Just days after four people died on Mount Everest during a rush by climbers to take advantage of favorable weather, experts say a similar "traffic jam" scenario could play out this weekend. The four climbers were among approximately 200 who summited the world's tallest mountain this past weekend during the first of only two summit windows available this season—each just two or three days long. "Normally the summit bids might get spread out over a number of days, but what happened this year is the weather was bad"—too little snow, for example, left too much slippery ice exposed—"so teams that...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:27:25 AM
The Culture of Death’s ‘golden idols’: six roasted abortion victims found on black market
A British citizen native to Taiwan was arrested in Bangkok Thursday after Thai police discovered in his belongings bodies of six tiny children, apparently all young enough to be victims of abortion, roasted and covered in gold leaf. The UK’s Independent newspaper reports that the children, aged between two and seven months’ gestation, were roasted “as part of a black magic ritual.” No word on whether any of the “foetuses” were still alive when the ritual began. Chow Hok Kuen, 28, faces a 2,000 baht fine ($64 U.S.) and a year in prison for possessing the bodies. “He said he...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:27:25 AM
Why 'Swamp People' Star Mitchell Guist was so Loved
On Monday, "Swamp People" star Mitchell Guist died in his boat. A Baton Rouge news program said a passenger in his boat saw him suffer what seemed like a seizure. Guist fell in the boat and efforts to revive him failed. Mitchell and his brother Glenn shot to fame on The History Channel's "Swamp People." The show features alligator hunters, but the Guist brothers brought a whole different view of the Louisiana swamp life.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:27:25 AM
Man [Illegal Alien] pleads guilty in hit-and-run death of Santa Rosa 4-year-old
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — A Santa Rosa man pleaded guilty Thursday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court to hit-and-run and other charges stemming from the death of a 4-year-old boy he struck and killed in a crosswalk in August. Marcos Lopez-Garcia, 23, pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run causing injury or death, and to misdemeanor charges of gross vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence and driving without a license, defense attorney Walter Rubenstein said. Garcia faces five and a half years in prison when he is sentenced on June 29, Rubenstein said. "He wanted to resolve the case because he feels bad...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:27:25 AM
To Heaven... and Back
If Steve Jobs' "Oh, wow... oh WOW!" wasn't enough for you... Now we've got another sane, intelligent, sensible, only vaguely religious person giving us a peek of life on the other side... and boy is she ever convincing:_______________________________________________________________________ I felt no pain... I was struggling (drowning in a kayak)... at that point, I really did give-up my spirit over to God. I immediately experienced complete and absolute peace... calm... I had no pain, I felt great. And I was being held, and comforted, and re-assured as then my body was sucked-out of the boat (into the water) and my spirit peeled-away from...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:27:25 AM
‘Understood properly, the Death Star is not worth it.’
I wish to address the most important policy question of the millennium: Should we build a Death Star? This debate picked up this year after some Lehigh University students estimated that just the steel for a Death Star would cost $852 quadrillion, or 13,000 times the current GDP of the Earth.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:27:25 AM
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