PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A former waitress has settled her lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant that gave her a toy Yoda doll instead of the Toyota she thought she had won. Jodee Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest at the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she had won a new Toyota and happily was escorted to the […]
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Young Muslims are still flocking to radical jihadist groups in record numbers. A United Nations study found that at least 25,000 people from more than 100 nations have left home to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other radical groups. The number of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide increased by 71 percent from mid-2014 to March 2015.
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Crack cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs because of its strong, quick-onset high that lasts minutes, leaving users wanting more. Less addictive drugs are not necessarily less dangerous. Opioid pills, for example, can be gateway drugs to heroin.
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Yearly odds of a U.S. student being killed at school: 1 in 3 million
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Of the world’s billion Internet users, one in three logs on in English. That’s no surprise. The technology got its start in the U.S., most Web pages are English, and more than 60 percent of the U.S., Canadian, U.K., and Australian populations are online. But China is catching up. The number of Chinese speakers using the Internet is five times […]
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Playing poker with tarot cards – Got a full house…. People died! ~ Steven Wright
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“Dare to live the life you’ve dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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THE LINT LIMERICK (By Joseph Cavera) There once was a swordsman named Link Who wore everything from light blue to pink He unsheathed his sword As he confronted a demon horde Who beat him with clubs in a wink Ganondorf was a man of Hyrule, Who one day, challenged link to a duel To the warriors surprise He […]
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“Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” – Logan Smith
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