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Photographer Lalage Snow takes pictures of soldiers’ faces before, during and after the war in Afghanistan.

Amazing photostream. They can all be found here.

Battling demons with indoor plumbing

It’s been tough being a parent so far.. Ayden  has turned two, and now the real battle begins: Potty training. Mom and Dad have been introducing it to the little man recently.. he’s been understanding of the concept from totally contempt of trying it. We were proud once when he wanted to sit on a toilet at a restaurant that he likes to eat pizza at. But it was a false alarm.. And at home?? No luck.. His grandfather thinks that my wife and I should buy him an old fashioned wooden potty with arms on it—made in America. Which, unfortunately, is just about impossible to find and buy.

But.. perhaps now there is a godlike solution for the poop and pee conundrum. Maybe my son Ayden needs a good old fashioned exorcism. 

Seriously.

This website, http://www.demonbuster.com/potty.html, explains all the ways to ‘bust’ those demons up in your household. And potty training, it would seem, summons the most demons of all.. A reader of DemonBuster wrote into the site and said, 

"Well my baby boy has been difficult to potty-train. He is past the age that he should be trained and I was getting really tired of it. I would sit him in the toilet for a long time and nothing would happen. When I would put him back in diapers, he would go! And I was sick and tired of it. So I got really mad, sat him in the potty and told him he had to "go". The baby started screaming and I got the idea that it was a demon. So I commanded it to manifest and give me his name. The baby continued screaming and saying: "You can’t make me, you can’t make me". I insisted in the demon telling me his name, so the Holy Spirit said: "That’s his name, "you can’t make me". I commanded it out. The baby had deliverance and he has been potty-trained since."

So tonight maybe it’s time to sit down my wife after Ayden goes to bed, and we write a script. Is this the weekend to command the evil spirits out? Is this the weekend where we tell the demons to leave our son poop in peace? 

I love the internet. Before this, who’d ever though that it was demons preventing billions of kids in the past from learning how to properly go to the bathroom indoors?

Thanks demonbuster. Continue the ‘good’ work.

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If you have 52 extra minutes, check this video out. Interesting stuff, regardless of your thoughts. Rand Paul went to Howard University to speak about race—and got some very tough questions from a young audience.. r

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Burn em! A new study claims that bras make breasts saggier..

So evolution of the penis may have happened, too.. 

Women may have shaped men’s penises through natural selection..

I’d like to get the creationist view on this. Perhaps certain penises couldn’t fit on the ark.

Let’s be careful with this one, folks.. please? Early dinosaur embryos found in China..

US INTELLIGENCE: NORTH KOREA COULD PUT A NUKE ON A MISSILE

US INTELLIGENCE: NORTH KOREA COULD PUT A NUKE ON A MISSILE

How did your country’s criminals die? A 2012 capital punishment report has been released..

Wha…? 

The taxman readeth: The IRS says it can read emails without a warrant! That’s right.. the ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents in which they tell themselves they can read pretty much any form of communications whenever they want to..

UN DONE? MISSILES LOWERED

Caption this.?

Rumors in China say that the United States created their bird flu. Fears in the rest of the world now that the bird flu may turn into the 1918 of 2013.. 

Nothing to fear? US races to create bird flu vaccine.. just in case.

H7N9 has Tamiflu resistance..

The aliens among us may be.. us

Science is confirming something that has been around for a long, long time: The notion that we are star people.  But does this mean we have been created by aliens? Some are realistically exploring that possibility.. and not just those who believe in the 10th planet..

And serious publications are asking it.. such as DISCOVERY.. They are running an article tonight “Is an Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?

Have you any news of Art Bell's return?

I wish I had some better news.. but nothing earth breaking yet. Recently the owner of the Facebook fan site, People Who Miss Art Bell on C2C, asked Bell directly what is happening with any potential deal. He actually answered and said he cannot speak about anything on whether he’d come back ‘til a deal is done.’

What I worry about is his age.. 
And listening lately to George Noory it’s clearly evident as to why either Art Bell or someone else must take over the show—or it needs to be canceled. I cannot believe how bad Noory has gotten lately..

I used to talk somewhat on a regular basis with Art Bell through email and Facebook. But I am sure he gets more than thousands of messages a day..

Nonetheless, I’ll keep following up and hopefully Art Bell will give news soon. 

Dreams and nightmares.

I had a surely strange dream last night involving several things. To make a long nightmare short, there were a few things that stuck out.. a long-lost friend of mine was in it. He owed a spa.. and his number was 717-747-and I forget the rest.. He lived in a place called “Normandy, PA.” And when I got home from visiting him, my father was driving up the yard in a car he doesn’t own anymore, and he fell into a giant sinkhole.. and then I wake up and see a Russian city is being eaten alive by sinkholes. I don’t see any truly correlation, but … it irritates me when I have dreams like this and am left wondering if there is anything to it..

Samara is the Russian city being eaten alive by sinkholes..

You're as old as you feel.. right?

And the new generation feels a lot older than their parents at the same age!
Really..
Dutch researchers are telling us something that maybe we all had a little hunch about for a while: Kids these days are obese, unhealthy, have high blood pressure, and are fixated on computer screens. While the best of the best bloggers on TV are thin and svelte, it appears that, if the Dutch study is correct and believable, then the majority of the youth these days are really about 15 years older healthwise..

More here..

There is something under the Sea

Amazing stuff..

There is something under the Sea

…of Galilee.

An amazing story is in the works from the Middle East. Researchers have found a human-made structure under the Sea of Galilee. It was made on land.. and covered by water as the Sea rose..

Also noteworthy: The mysterious structure is said to weigh about 60,000 tons and rises about 32 feet..

Meet the bearded woman.

She’s loud, she’s proud, and she has grown a monumental face of hair..

Meet the woman, that’s right, the woman, who is a mom and also a proud owner of a thick goatee.

She may put some men to shame..

Hopefully she won’t start a trend. 

Finish this statement:

Lil Kim will huff, he’ll puff, and he________________?

Serious question for any plant lovers out there: I have a shamrock plant, and tonight when a thunderstorm started, the shamrock plant drooped down and moved away from the window.. I know there is a certain luck of the Irish that comes with any shamrock plant but is there also an intelligence I was not aware of?