Marathon bombing suspect on Rolling Stone cover Our Eastern Washington Newspaper has nothing good to say about this cover at the Rolling Stone. What next … Sadma Hussein in an Angel Suit or Vlad Putin in a thong? “The cover of the magazine’s Aug. 1 , 2013 edition is a photo i[...]
Archive for August, 2015
August 24th, 2015 - 11:27 am § in Misc.
Fashion From The Arab World .. Kaftans!
What led Sara Al-Ateeqi to the world of fashion has blown into one of the hottest trends of the season When the founder of QUMAR14 was unable to find a stylish and well cut kaftan, devoid of the customary embellishment, she began making them herself. And she quickly found out that others like[...]
August 24th, 2015 - 10:40 am § in America
The stock market correction explained
Stocks had become overvalued due to (a) Federal Reserve policies, and (b) lack of returns from other types of investments. The U.S. stock market was overdue for correction. A 10% correction is usually an annual event, but U.S. stocks haven’t had such a correction since 2011. U.S. economic grow[...]
August 24th, 2015 - 10:14 am § in Misc.
Core Curricuum: Scrapping History??
Curriculum focus on core skills NATASHA BITA History and geography will be scrapped as separate subjects in the new national primary curriculum.[...]
ISIS destroys ancient temple
The Baalshamin Temple of Palymyra, Syria, is no more. ISIS has destroyed it, just as the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan. Both sites were UNESCO World Heritage sites, cultural treasures of global importance, but to Islamic fundies they’re idols offensive to Allah. These van[...]
August 23rd, 2015 - 12:45 pm § in Misc.
Facts You Did Not Need to KNow
Flaccid, the penis of the gorilla and the orangutan, both with much bigger bodies than man, is virtually invisible.[...]
August 23rd, 2015 - 8:20 am § in Environment, Misc.
Seals Like Wind Farms!
Tagged Seals Revel Hangouts Near Wind Farms … Bad News for Salmon! (click to enlarge) Seals tagged with GPS reporters have revealed that at least some of them really, really like to hang around wind farms and pipelines. A study published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 21[...]