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Aurora shooter James Holmes being held in solitary, other inmates want to kill him

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So I’ll bet this is why the police won’t release Holmes’ mug shot — he did dye his hair red, did call himself the Joker, and he probably gave the booking officer with the camera an extra big, terrible smile. Why give holmes the satisfaction? From NY Daily News:

“The man accused in the Colorado movie theater massacre was still behaving erratically on the day after his rampage at a midnight screening of “The Dark Night Rises” — the last film in the Batman trilogy. “Let’s just say he hasn’t shown any remorse,” a jail employee told the Daily News. “He thinks he’s acting in a movie.” A released inmate said Holmes’ behavior behind bars was increasingly irrational. “He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,” the inmate told The News. “He’s spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.”  [...] “All the inmates were talking about killing him,” Wayne Medley, 24, said as he left the facility. “Everyone was looking for an opportunity. It’s all they could talk about. [...] Holmes — who had dyed his hair red — was also wearing red clothing beneath the black body armor that terrified moviegoers saw when he opened fire early Friday morning, Danilov said. Jail guards “blacked out his windows with duct tape so no one could see him,” said Danilov. “He was cuffed in the back and had leg shackles. Six officers were walking him.” The deranged suspected killer, a former honors student and Ph.D. candidate, said nothing and walked slowly to his cell. Danilov said that if Holmes was released into the general jail population, “he won’t live to see Monday’s court appearance.””

According to NY Daily News, these photos may be of Holmes’ new look off the website “Adult Friend Finder:”

Meanwhile in the middle and southern U.S.

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See all 23 photos at MSNBC.com…

An apparent tornado destroyed most of the Henryville elementary, middle and high school during a severe weather outbreak in Henryville, Ind. on March 2. [Garry Jones / AP]


A school bus is crushed into a business in Henryville, Ind. on March 2. [C.e. Branham / AP]

Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in East Limestone, Ala., on March 2. [Gary Cosby Jr. / The Decatur Daily via AP]

03/03/2012: Twisters’ death toll likely to rise - (CBS News) Henryville, Ind. – A string of deadly tornadoes in the Midwest and South has left at least 35 people dead in four states. Seventeen deaths were confirmed in Kentucky. The latest death toll figures from local authorities also include 14 dead in Indiana, 3 in Ohio and 1 in Alabama. State police here say it has been a painstaking process, searching for the missing, and they say the death toll is likely to rise.

03/03/2012: BBC News – Clear-up after tornadoes wreak havoc across US Midwest - The states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Alabama were all affected by the intense winds which flattened homes, lifted rooftops and downed powerlines. An unknown number of people are missing after communication lines were damaged. A total of 90 tornadoes and 700 severe weather events were reported on Friday. Correspondents say it will be impossible to make an immediate assessment of the full extent of the damage.

04/29/2011: Climate change could spawn more tornadoes

Two separate studies in 2007 reported that global warming could bring a dramatic increase in the frequency of weather conditions that feed severe thunderstorms and tornadoes by the end of the 21st century.

One study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that locations could see as much as a 100% increase in the number of days that favor severe thunderstorms.

“The densely populated regions of the South and East, including New York City and Atlanta, could be especially hard-hit,” reported study lead author Jeff Trapp of Purdue University.

[...]  In the other study, lead author Tony Del Genio, a NASA research scientist, said the basic ingredients for whopper U.S. inland storms are likely to be more plentiful in a warmer, moister world.

“The strongest thunderstorms, the strongest severe storms and tornadoes are likely to happen more often and be stronger,” Del Genio said when the study was published.

Mitt Romney’s best impressions of human emotion (photos)

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Seldom do you hear voters, journalists, or, frankly, anyone commend Mitt Romney for his authenticity. Even among his fans, words of praise for the man are typically limited to “adequate,” “haircut,” “electability,” and “there’s nobody else.” But what Romney lacks in normal human emotion, he more than makes up for with effort. Here, we’ve found some instances of Romney doing his very best impression of a human being.

Slideshow: Photos of Mitt Romney Appearing to Fake Emotion

Photos: Meanwhile back in the 1970s

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via: kateoplis

America in Crisis in the 1970s | The Atlantic:

As the 1960s came to an end, the rapid development of the American postwar decades had begun to take a noticeable toll on the environment, and the public began calling for action. In November 1971, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a massive photo documentary project, called DOCUMERICA, to record these changes. More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. By 1974, more than 80,000 photographs had been produced. The National Archives has made 15,000 of these images available, and I’ve spent much of the past week combing through those to bring you these 46 glimpses of America in the early 1970s, with an eye toward our then-ailing environment.

There are 46 photos which really capture the feeling of the early 70s.

The Osama-bin-Laden-Isn’t-Really-Dead conspiracy theory

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So who’s in on this conspiracy to fool the world?


  • Osama bin Laden (he was really taken to a farm where he’ll be able to run and play);
  • An anonymous Pakistan security official who took photos of 3 dead men, a wrecked U.S. helicopter and the Abbottabad compound about an hour after the U.S. military had left with Bin Laden’s body (CONVENIENT!!);
  • A senior al Qaeda member on Riyadh’s most-wanted list named Khaled al-Qahtani (ALSO WANTS TO GO TO A FARM);
  • And, of course, Pakistan — because, more than anyone else, they have SO MUCH  to gain in this situation. (WIN!!)

Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow discuss birthers and deathers [starting at about 3:33 mins]:

Rachel: “The idea that the birth certificate is the real story, and Osama bin Laden is the ‘distraction’ from it, tells you everything you need to know about the people who are really invested in the birth certificate story. If you think bin Laden is the DISTRACTION that America needs, I think that puts that in the proper perspective.”

Should the White House release the photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse?

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Meet The Deathers: Andrew Brietbart Website Pushing Conspiracy Theory That Osama Might Not Be Dead

Mere hours after President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, supported by incontrovertible DNA evidence, the conspiracy theorists are hard at work. Andrew Breitbart, a prominent right-wing commentator with close ties to the Republican Party and the Tea Party, is pushing the theory on his website Big Peace.

On Breitbart’s website, J. Michael Waller, suggests Obama take a number of extraordinary steps so he can “make sure [Osama] is dead.” Pictures are apparently not enough. Walker asserts that he needs to be able to “walk right up to bin Laden’s corpse and view it.”

PTSD and the Myth of WW II

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When I posted Abandoned hospitals: Greystone Park State Hospital – Morris Plains, NJ yesterday, under the section “Some History” was this fact:

In just four years after Greystone opened, it was already accommodating around 800 patients in a facility designed for 600. …Patient numbers are believed to have peaked in 1953 with an impressive 7,674 people packed into spaces designed for significantly fewer. An explanation for this dramatic increase can be found in the fact that World War II had ended and left many soldiers requiring treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, which included procedures such as insulin shock therapy and electroconvulsive therapy.

With this being Memorial Day, I was thinking about the many sacrifices that have been made by our service men and women, including their mental health and well-being.

Then I found this excellent post from Progressive Historians:

PTSD and the Myth of WW II

Another myth of good wars versus bad wars is that only the combat veterans from Vietnam suffered lasting adjustment problems; the 1945 vet came home to enjoy prosperity, satisfied with a job well done, and with few qualms about the war…But some suffered an anguish that damaged their lives and that of their families. For some, the stress continues even today.-Michael C.C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II

When do we let go of the myth that only in “bad” wars do combat veterans suffer from mental wounds? When do we let go of the idea that only weak people are affected by the overwhelming mental stress of combat? Because that myth is killing America’s young veterans today, as witnessed by Ilona’s rec’d diary over at dKos.

But history suggests that the inherent justness of the war cause doesn’t cause or prevent PTSD; if it did, then the “Greatest Generation,” fighting in the Second World War,  would have had no problems, right? Yet they did. Below the fold is a look at how PSTD affected combat veterans in “the Best War Ever.”

Read the entire thing. It’s well worth your time.
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Thank you

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To honor the bravery and sacrifice of America’s service men and women and their families

A Memorial Day video tribute:

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Richard Sullivan writes:

Sixty-five years ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki, capturing [the] spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender.

[LGF]

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Photos of Memorial Day 2009 from Boston.com:

Collected here are a handful of photographs for remembrance, acknowledging some of the men and women who have passed in conflicts from the U.S. Civil War through Iraq and Afghanistan today.

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Soliders from the U.S. Army Old Guard place flags at grave stones at Arlington National Cemetery May 21, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. It took 1,300 soldiers, sailors and Marines about three hours to place a flag at each of the more than 300,000 gravestones at Arlington ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Visitors walk among white marble crosses at the American Cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer. Traces of World War II can still be found across this stretch of Normandy, on the beaches, in the museums and above all, in the cemeteries where President Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkzoy and some of the last veterans will commemorate the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 landings in just a couple weeks. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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Laura Youngblood, widow of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Travis L. Youngblood, touches his gravestone while visiting his grave in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery during the Memorial Day weekend in Arlington, Virginia, May 24, 2009. Youngblood died of wounds received in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in July of 2005 in Iraq. (REUTERS/Larry Downing)

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Joe Landaker poses at his home in Big Bear City, Calif., with a portrait of his son, Jared, a Marine helicopter pilot who died on his last mission in Iraq. Landaker is among more than 300 volunteers who honor veterans buried in Riverside National Cemetery by reading their names leading up to Memorial Day each year. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Evelyn Shepherd of Colonial Beach touches the gravestone of her late husband, Korean and Vietnam wars veteran Clarence Shepherd, during her visit to Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Va., on Sunday May 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Aleks Dolzenko, News & Messenger)

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Army Lt. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley, commanding general of the United States Army Accessions Command, presents an American flag to Heather Jackson the fiance of Army Staff Sgt. William D. Vile, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday, May 21, 2009, during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. According to the Department of Defense, Vile died of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using direct fire on May 1 near the village of Nishagam, in Konar Province, Afghanistan. Vile was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan. Also holding an American flag at left is Donna Vile, Staff Sgt. Vile's mother. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

See the entire set of photos here: Boston.com

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President Barack Obama will deliver the Memorial Day address

at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery’s 11th Annual Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 31, 2010. A prelude to the official ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. The official ceremony will begin at 11:30 a.m. All Memorial Day activities will be held at the main flag pole within the cemetery. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Memorial Day resources: Department of Veterans Affairs

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This used to be a dolphin

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In this May, 23, 2010 photo, a dead oil-covered dolphin lies on the ground in Venice, La. The dolphin was spotted on May 22 during a fly-over of the southwest area of the Mississippi River by U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials. (AP Photo/Plaquemines Parish Government)

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A worker shovels oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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A young heron sits dying amidst oil underneath a mangrove on an island in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Related:

  1. BP Public Relations
    BPGlobalPR Please text “Wildlife” to 20222 to donate hot dogs to the BP Corporate Memorial Day Picnic #bpcares #3dayweekend 29 May 2010 from web

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  • Soup: “The Florida Keys, third longest barrier reef in the world, is a dead zone. Ninety percent of the big fish, the tuna, the sharks, and other things, are already gone in the oceans. There’s a dead zone in the Gulf Of Mexico every summer the size of New Jersey, where there’s not enough oxygen for things to live. So it’s not a question of ‘Can the oceans take any more?’ The oceans can’t take any more. They couldn’t take any more fifty years ago. The question is, when are we going to stop?” – Phillippe Cousteau, Jr.

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