Your car owns you.

This may shock you if you’re a GM car owner (as I am) . The company claims that you don’t own your car.. instead, you’re just renting it, leasing it.. borrowing. The argument comes down to whether people can crack the code of their car computer and repair things themselves… GM says they don’t have the right to. The copyright claim is undoubtedly going to to through a legal process. If GM wins, your purchase of your car will simply be a licensing agreement. A whole new world..

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Why TMZ exclusives need to be triple sources before being believed..

Why you should always find at least three sources for every online rumor you hear.. TMZ had a scoop about a standout football player in Harrisburg Pa. They reported that Adrian Robinson was shot and killed in his hometown. The only trouble was that he was not. He died after a suicide, a painful and private ordeal for the family.. TMZ blamed “Harrisberg police” … the “Harrisburg” police denied the TMZ accusation.. The world of tabloids, where anyone can claim an exclusive no matter how right or wrong it is..

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THE POLTERGEIST FAIL

The POLTERGEIST remake is released today.. For better or worse.. And while some horror fans may be enthusiastic about the prospects of the classic film, modernized, being in theaters, others are decrying a lack of imagination, and over abundant use of CGI, and a sloppy uninspired mess of a movie.. You can find the reviews yourself–the review roundup on ROTTEN TOMATOES isn’t pretty, with the film scoring less than half positive press with writers.. Horror site BLOODY DISGUSTING checked in with its own review of the movie, with the site lamenting the overuse of special effects, the acting that just doesn’t seem to be convincing, and a climax of the movie suffering from what Kalyn Corrigan called fake-looking spirits.. The movie, it can be said, doesn’t prove itself when compared to the classic from the early 1980s.. I frankly still can’t understand why this movie was picked from the litter of horror films as the target for a re-do. There was almost no need, perhaps less of a need than even Rob Zombie’s messups of the HALLOWEEN films. POLTERGEIST, circa 1982, is a movie about family, love, spirits, death, mystery, and illusion. The modern fare seems more bent on cheap scares and lousy special effects that don’t do anything but give a jump or two in a movie theater. Certainly no long-lasting nostalgia will be created by this remake.. Poorly done, from the reviews I have read, and perhaps something not at all worth it in theaters..

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Police officer killed right before maternity leave

Omaha police officer killed–she was just HOURS away from maternity leave.. Officer Kerrie Orozco, 29, was scheduled to go on maternity leave Thursday to take care of her daughter, Olivia Ruth, born premature in February, according to authorities. Orozco was a 7-year veteran of the department and had worked in the North Gang Suppression Squad since 2012… Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmanderer said Orozco and other officers were in pursuit of 26-year-old Marcus D. Wheeler when Wheeler began shooting at police. Police returned gunfire, hitting Wheeler..

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Quadruple murder suspect has been caught along with four associates.. Darren Wint was apprehended in the nation’s capitol.. “Just got him,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday night..

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A good night of television

Rand Paul fillibustering the Patriot Act on Cspan… David Letterman says bye on CBS. .. I may go with the Rand stand if he reads kids stories..

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The ongoing horror in Britland

HISTORY and disgusting: Over 1400 individuals are under investigation by British police as part of the ongoing inquiry into numerous alleged historic VIP sex abuse network thought to include celebrities and politicians. Information released by Operation Hydrant, the group of police officers tackling the alleged ring, said that the 1,433 suspected offenders included 76 politicians, 43 musicians, and 135 from film, television and radio…

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The simple swat at a fruit fly suddenly can make you feel thoroughly guilty

Next time you restlessly try to catch a fruit fly floating around your kitchen (and good luck trying) consider this: Caltech has released results of a study in which they conclude, in certain circumstances, fruit fly exhibit emotions! From creepy shadows to even the person chasing the fly, there may be an emotional surge of fear.. Food for thought as your flies feast..

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There was no need for an evolutionary equal pay law: It was natural in most of recorded history, says a new study

New science now revealed: Early humans, we are told by leading anthropologists, had general equality. A research study concludes that for most of the evolutionary history of human, both genders had equal footing in the chaotic game of life.. MORE: Mark Dyble, the leading anthropologist on the study at University College London, said: “There is still this wider perception that hunter-gatherers are more macho or male-dominated. We’d argue it was only with the emergence of agriculture, when people could start to accumulate resources, that inequality emerged.”..

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I can explain the headline. But I sure can’t comprehend the body

The Large Hadron Collider, now fired up and colliding with energy, have observed a rare and new decay of the Bs particle.. It is a previously unseen subatomic process that only occurs about four times out of a billion, an advance that may help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe.. The rest is physics. And science.. And I have trouble, as I have always had, wrapping my mind around the metaphysical.. Not that I don’t try.

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Who paved the road to ISIS?

A long look back: Who created ISIS? That question has suddenly became a campaign issue for Jeb Bush. But it is also an American issue–a question that should be answered with some thorough facts. NEW YORK attempts to begin putting the puzzle together–though it neglects to talk about weapons that the United States, under Obama, was pouring into to the ‘freedom fighters’ in Syria and Libya. The world has played chess for quite some time in the Middle East..

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Speed controls have been installed on ‘dead man’s curve,’ the crash site in Philadelphia.. But that may only be a part of the story.. There is still intrigue swirling not only around the engineer of the train, but also the eyewitnesses and visual evidence that something really big and fast hit the train prior to it crashing.. There are even rumors that two projectiles hit the train around the same time..

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More death of the coal region news

I feature some telling headlines from my hometown now and then, today’s offers more compelling information that the dream of the coal region, once filled with hope and coal in veins, is slowly becoming a relic of a past generation.. Catholic parishes in Ashland, Gordon and Girardville to merge This is a double whammy, of sorts: A region losing its luster, and a religion losing its collections. Telling tales from northern boundary of the coal region this Sunday morning..

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Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts signed a state of emergency declaration on Thursday after federal agriculture officials determined a second farm in the state has tested positive for the highly contagious avian flu virus H5N2.

And that is not a good thing for turkey prices, chicken prices, egg prices, or birds.

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An eastern South Dakota farm with 1.3 million egg-laying chickens is the first in the chicken-production business in the state to be infected with a deadly flu virus despite efforts to prevent it

The bird flu continues to spread.. From state to state.. bird to bird.. And your wallet. Turkey, egg, and chicken prices will continue to rise as the number of dead birds pile up..

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At least 136 people were hospitalized after an Amtrak train derailed north of Philadelphia, according to figures from several local hospitals.

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More first hand reporting on the AMTRAK train crash in Philadelphia

Thanks to an NBC NEWS producer.. MORE.. Janelle Richards, an NBC Nightly News producer, was on the train. She said all of a sudden she heard a loud crash and people flew up in the air, there was a lot of jerking back and forth, a lot of smoke, then everything just stopped and people starting asking how to get off the train. “The people that were able to get up, stood up and were able to find an exit,” Richard, who was okay, said. Richards said her car did not tip over. A passenger on the train had blood streaming from her face as they got up and made their way to the rear of the train car, where a man was able to open up a door wide enough for them to get out.

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DEVELOPING: AMTRAK CRASHES IN PHILLY!

An Amtrak train has crashed in Philadelphia, and several people appear to be injured. Train 188 was traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York City on Tuesday night when it crashed. MORE.. First responders are swarming onto the scene.. An AP reporter was on the train.. a former Congressman is too, and is tweeting pictures.. SUCH AS THIS PHOTO It would also appear that Patrick Murphy broke the news, Tweeting that he was just on am Amtrak that crashed..

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Earth shakes

Nepal earlier.. now this: A powerful 6.8 earthquake has struck off the eastern coast of Japan’s Honshu island, USGS and Japan Meteorological Agency report. Shaking has been felt in Tokyo.

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THE ‘Subway Conquestors’ hit NYC..

It’s like a setup for a new NINJA TURTLES movie… instead of Shredder and the Foot Soldiers, this is reality.. Various sources report: A rogue group of subway vandals calling them the ‘Subway Conquestors’ is allegedly on a mission to attack the rail system From CBS in NEW YORK: Police sources believe they were responsible for an explosion in the Bronx, and have been linked to one at Brooklyn’s Nostrand Avenue station in April. In the Nostrand Avenue incident, police arrestedKeyshawn Brown, 16, and accused him of placing a piece of metal on the tracks. “There are plenty of other people out there in the same gang, engaging in the same activities,” Max Diamond explained. Diamond is a self-proclaimed rail enthusiast. He has tracked the group for two years on social media. He said the acts are getting more extreme as the vandals try to one up each other. They have been accused of changing destination signs to confuse passengers, surfing train cars, and stealing MTA equipment and gear.

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