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Saturday morning wrap

Worker dies at Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan // The worker was carrying equipment when he collapsed and died later in hospital //

New book claims that Roswell UFO crash was a Stalin ploy to panic America..


Meet Brian Obman: The man who has everything HE-MAN, and a house I am very jealous of to say the least..

Anchor stores and malls closing around the country.. Is it the death of the great American mall? OR is it just the rise of the great American internet purchase.. the great American (mostly Chinese) Walmart? … Shopping has changed. Habits have changed. But I dare say we will all miss the mall once it’s gone for good.

The river is rising.. The Mississippi River floods the land..
The fruited plains become the flooded plains..
Louisiana farms flooded..

Scientists alarmed by shark die-off.. The FDA says that fake herbal sex pills actually contain real Viagra..

Full face transplant patient makes first public appearance..

New claim: There was a giant porn stash at Osama Bin Laden’s compound..

Saturday night’s main event: May 14 alignment in the sky: A map shows how Saturn, the moon and the bright star Spica will appear..

Science experts: It’s not the end of the world yet..

Hope we find something: Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley are aiming a radio telescope to detect signals of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets..

Jupiter’s moon lo has magma beneath its surface..

A magnitude-6 earthquake shook the capital city of Costa Rica on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey

Judgement day coming? Ridiculous May 21 rumors continue as some are predicting massive May 21 earthquake.. And then the rapture. The end times upon us, so some say..


A man has spent his retirement money on running ads for May 21’s ‘rapture’..

Amazing video: Solar flare erupts right after a comet hits the sun..

Dancing can be dangerous: Kym Johnson in hospital after DANCING WITH THE STARS rehearsal..

Etta James in the hospital for blood poisoning..

Will Ferrell will receive Mark Twain award for comedy..

Matthew Perry: Back to rehab..

Are horror movies scary anymore?

Rob Lowe directing horror comedy..

"Priest" review: Worth it..
"Priest" review: Unholy mess..

Nationwide outrage after mom forces 8-year-old daughter to get botox.. San Fran pursues mom who injected.. She was doing it to give her daughter an edge over others.. Doctors around the nation outraged along with many others who saw the story for the first time on GOOD MORNING AMERICA this past week..

Woman beheaded at supermarket..

Justice: Jurors in an Ohio woman’s third trial found her guilty Friday of killing her baby daughter by cooking her in a microwave oven..

Pity the once great mall

It’s a tough job these days holding up a mall.

Wayback in time to last century, when main street was killed by the way of shopping, with floors shiny and new and fountains rolling fresh water for background news. Yes, indeed, those were the days. Food courts… stores as far as the eye could see.. Even small kiosks selling things you’ve never buy but sure were happy to laugh at as you walked by..

The great American mall. The shopping experience of your lifetime, whenever you wanted it.

Fast forward to the new age… Walmart has everything you need.. No matter where it was made and how good or bad the quality may be.. And what’s not there can be found online. No need for bookstores when you have Amazon, or even your Kindle. No need for food courts when you have McDonalds and drive throughs..
We seemingly have chosen less quality simply because with it comes convenience.

These days, though, the great American mall is struggling to stick around.. Some think they have overstayed their welcome.. others feel they’ll be missed.

My local mall is no different.. Three stores there have closed within the last month alone. Walking the halls of the immense Schuylkill Mall has turned into a pretty lonely venture. 

But it’s not just the abandoned coal mines of Pennsylvania facing the prospect of a future without a central shopping location.. it’s nationwide: A simply Google news search will bring back results from all over the nation of malls and stores closing in rapid style.. Even more: Go for a Google image search of mall closings from all over.

All of that, along with continuing weak numbers in the retail salescategory, is spelling out trouble for the near future. Specifically speaking: Do you know WHY retail sales are up? … and if you look deep into the numbers, PURCHASES ARE DOWN. The disconnection is easy to understand: Inflation has caused a surge in prices. So while there are more dollars coming in there aren’t really more products going out..

The nation’s economy is crumbling.. Infrastructure is at its most horrendous in many areas of the United States.. Inflation is rearing its ugly head. Gas prices are dangerously high. Food prices are extremely dangerous too.. And all the way, people are deciding: No shopping, no books, no jewelry. 

Hence the death of the mall.

.I remember a time, early in my life last century, when a family visit to the mall was exciting. I’d be allowed to buy a He-Man action figure.. my sister would shop in those hip stores where most clothing looked like Madonna wore it.. And after all was over, we’d eat at one of the many choices for food.

Now.. the mall is a quick experience. People do go, but only for what they really need. And when they get there, sometimes they are surprised to see the store they were going to closed down with a sign on not to trespass..

Live from Atlanta—in 1977—Linda Ronstandt asks when she will be loved.

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Hunger Strike — Halestorm

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Wow…..

inothernews:

FLIGHTNING   A video framegrab shows lightning striking an Emirates airliner as it flew through a storm over London on April 23.  No injuries — or plane damage — was reported.  (Photo: Chris Dawson via the New York Daily News)

Figure this one out: AP reports: Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.

Figure this one out: AP reports: Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.

President Obama's White House to end long-running practice of 'staging' news events

President Obama's White House to end long-running practice of 'staging' news events

Obi-Wan Kenobi is dead

*This site linked is pure genius*

The Blogger snobbers don't know what to say

It’s not often the Google blog team has trouble..But for hours so far today they have. Blogs are down, posts are being deleted, and all sites hosted on Blogger.com have been put into ‘read only’ mode.. This as Blogger attempts to upgrade and redo its system *and make it look a bit more like Tumblr in style and approach, as well..

I find it fun, though, that the Blogger snobbers, who have bashed the reliability of Tumblr for some time now, find themselves without a platform of expression.. This as Tumblr tumbles and reblogs itself into the evening hours this Thursday night.

But as someone who has a blog on Tumblr, and one on Blogger, I have come to learn the hard way that a third site I seldom update but still own is the best: It’s pure HTML, uploaded and updated in Notepad. Nothing can go wrong unless I don’t pay a bill… 

I guess in the end the net is a fragile place.

I have often wondered what I’d do were I to find my Twitter Tumblr Blogger and others all deleted. I think it would be a FTPing shock, but life would go on. And maybe it would all be better, at that..

Strange world: Blogger is down while Tumblr works.

This can’t be real!?

New Osama information revealed..

He was shot in his underwear but the real question is: Was he shot in the back of the head?

So last night a comet hit the sun and a massive CME resulted (or didn’t result and it was just by chance?). If I see Nic Cage walking around with papers filled with dates I’m booking it to a cave.

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The Show — Lenka

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Midday slump

Quick headlines from the world at large

Apocalypse watchers flock to French town..

Submit: TSA defends Kansas patdown—of an infant!

100,000 Facebook apps are giving your information to third parties..

Lady Gaga going to release more music: on Farmvile!

Too much? Dimension teases SCREAM 5..

Have you ever seen the Rain — CCR

I’ve seen enough dead people

Senator John McCain, declining an invite to see Osama Bin Laden’s dead corpse with President Obama

The President throws a corpse photo party

Invited guest to see Osama Bin Laden’s dead body: Joe Lieberman.

The person not going: John McCain

You just have to love the New York City subway system

Take a token. Enjoy the ride. 

Oh and avoid the crazed naked man scaring everyone on his rampage. Next stop!! Hoboken!

Panic on the streets of Rome: People, fearing the 'big one,' leave town.. Facebook helps fan fears that an earthquake will strike May 11

Panic on the streets of Rome: People, fearing the 'big one,' leave town.. Facebook helps fan fears that an earthquake will strike May 11