A 58 year old man described as a ‘drifter’ shot up a movie theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing two people and injuring nine others.
Movie goers had convened for the screening of Amy Schumer’s new romantic comedy, ‘Trainwreck’, when the tragedy struck. As the theatre was dimmed after previews for the movie to commence, John Russel Houser stood up, pulled out his handgun, and started shooting indiscriminately.
These are exciting times for those of the scientific orientation, as NASA keeps pushing the frontier of space exploration.
After the recent New Horizons mission to Pluto, another exciting discovery has been made for science buffs.
The white supremacist Dylan Roof who shot up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, has been indicted by a grand jury, to stand trial on 33 charges, including federal hate crime.
The grand jury’s indictment charges Roof with 33 counts, including federal hate crime and firearms charges, reports CNN.
At this point those who get harmed whilst trying to take a selfie need to get a citation for stupidity. When people have actually been killed trying these insane stunts, you would think others would take note. A San Diego resident, Todd Fassler, ended up in hospital after trying to take a selfie with a … Read more
Sandra Bland was arrested by police during a routine traffic stop and sent to jail. Three days later she would be found dead in her cell.
The circumstances seemed highly suspicious. Bland was in Texas to interview for a new job when she was arrested. Her family said she was lively, and had no reason to commit suicide. And being a black arrested by a white policeman, the racial undertones never went away.
At times one just despairs of the capacity of the human animal for carrying out horrific, callous acts, and the capacity for sheer stupidity.
Sixteen people have been arrested in Assam, India, in connection with the death of a 63 year old woman. Purni Orang was accused of being a witch in the village she lived in, with villagers saying she cast evil spells on her enemies.
The world famous South African pastor who feeds his followers snakes and other assorted items which he has allegedly turned into chocolate, has reportedly been arrested in South Africa.
Pastor Penuel of the End Times Ministries has become something of an online sensation, with his bizarre stunt and gullible congregation who see him as some sort of god. Thankfully, reports indicate he has been arrested in his homeland.
When you have a system of ideas which is as intrinsically tribal and racist as religion is, issues like these are inevitable.
Every religion believes they have the way, and every religion believes everyone else is doomed to eternal damnation. In that system, how do you effectively integrate with those you have earmarked for hell?
You wouldn’t get this happening anywhere in the world, except North Korea where everything is controlled, including what the State News Agency is allowed to tell us.
Last year we were told a North Korean election to elect the 687 seats in the Supreme People’s Assembly achieved 100 per cent voter turnout and 100 per cent approval of the government’s policies—today, we are being told there was 99.97 per cent turnout during yesterday’s North Korea’s election.
Pyongyang’s state news agency reported that voters were “singing and dancing” as they cast their votes in polls to elect new provincial, city and county representatives put forward by the ruling party.
All polling stations were “clad in a festive atmosphere”, according to official Korean Central News Agency.
Local elections have been held every four years since 1999. They are partly an effort to legitimise the use of “democratic” in the nation’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – with 27,390 delegates elected in the last vote, held in July 2011.
Over the years, North Korea which is ruled by Kim Jong-un has become synonymous to propaganda and BS—if they are not claiming to have a single ‘tablet’ that cures Cancer, Ebola and HIV, they are telling us they had 100% election voters turnout.
Churches are not new to ripping people off. In fact, it is my contention g that for most of them, that’s all they do, everything else is a side show. However, you would be hard pressed to find one that goes in this hard, with no attempt at subtlety.
A Florida woman is furious at her church, after they wrote her a letter telling her to pay up to a $1,000 in fees or get booted from the church. Candace Petterson received the letter from Greater Mount Moriah Primitive Baptist Church, after becoming a member not long after she moved to Tampa.
A gunman opened fire on two US military installations late Thursday night, going on a rampage that left four US Marines dead.
I honestly do not get the craze to change everything about yourself so much that at the end you’re less real than a Barbie doll?
I’m sure you’ve heard what some ladies do to get their waist thin these days. It is a process which is a legitimate health hazard, but nobody cares because they need that pencil thin waist, don’t they?
Why is it that whenever the word ‘religion’ is put into any situation people automatically suspends their reason and start behaving wildly irrationally?
Yesterday saw the story of the South African pastor who directed his congregation to eat snakes, and they did. Which human being whose brain works straight would do that?
The two Moroccan women who were arrested and put on trial for the ‘crime’ of wearing skirts have been acquitted and discharged.
The two women were arrested in the Moroccan town of Inezgane, after a market trader drew attention to what they were wearing and a crowd gathered around them.
The notorious Mexican cartel boss Joaquin Guzman has escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison that has been holding him for over a year now.
