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- A tour bus overturned Friday afternoon on U.S. Route 93 near Hoover Dam , killing at least six people and injuring at least 16 others, an Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman said. Authorities work on the crash scene Friday on the highway near Hoover Dam. The accident happened at 4 p.m. on U.S. 93 at mile marker 27, about 27 miles south of Hoover Dam, said Lt. James Warriner. (just happens to be us 93, at 27-27) . The dead lay in body bags on the roadway near the bus, which was stretched on its side across both lanes and onto the shoulder on the highway. The injured were being taken to University

A family of four has been found dead in a suburban Columbus, Ohio, home in what's believed to be a murder-suicide, authorities said Thursday. Police in Whitehall, east of Columbus , responded to a call around 2 p.m. Wednesday and found the bodies of M ark M eeks, 51; his wife, Jennifer Dallas-Meeks, 40; and children Jimmy, 5, and Abbigail, 8. "We're confirming all four victims had gunshot wounds, and a gun was found at the scene," Sgt. Dan Kelso said. A suicide note purportedly written by Meeks also was found at the scene, but police are not releasing the note's contents, Kelso said. Authorities believe Meeks shot his wife and two children and then himself, Kelso said. It was the second time this week that a family died in an apparent murder-suicide. On Tuesday, the bodies of Ervin Antonio Lupoe, his wife and five children were found in their Los Angeles, California, area home after Lupoe faxed a letter to a local television station explaining that he and

We aren't usually much troubled by celebrities' affiliations with Scientology. Hell, Celine was a Nazi collaborator, and we still love his books. And we're not such fans of Look Who's Talking Too that Kirstie Alley's and John Travolta's religious beliefs would spoil it for us. We do like Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson et alia, but because she's just a voice we don't have much opportunity to look at her and say, "She really believes little aliens live inside her and has given $10 million to the people who made her crazy." That may be coming up in our heads more often, alas, since we heard this tape (found via Xenu TV ) of Cartwright robo-calling for a Scientology event. It's not so much that she starts by saying, "This is Bart Simpson" -- she quickly says she's just kidding and identifies herself. But she keeps talking in the voice of Bart as she announces "I'm now auditing on New OTVII," says t

I just want to add a little mystery to this ongoing story, It all started with this: Suspected Wilmington gunman, wife had lost jobs at Kaiser Permanente [UPDATED] "In these tough economic times, there are other options," Garner said. "In my 32 years, I've never seen anything like this." Through the Looking glass discovered the masonic connection HERE , and HERE . At the bottom of the note, the man wrote, " Oh lord, my God, is there no hope for a widow's son ?" While being slain, Hiram, with uplifted hands, cried out, "Oh Lord, My God, is there no help for the widow's son?" This has since become a general Masonic distress call . The Widow's Son is Freemason code for Hiram Abiff, chief architect (i.e. "master mason") of Solomon's Temple, who was murdered by three jealous builders . However, the term "The Widow's Son" equally applies to Jesus Christ, Merlin, and Perceval--interestingly enough, who are

(Typical HFCS eating giraffe) A test of popular processed foods from some of the biggest names in the industry found trace amounts of mercury, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a nonprofit group based in Minneapolis. The amounts of mercury found was far less than that commonly seen in most fish and seafood, but turned up in many foods not previously known to be sources of mercury, including many preferred by children, the group said. It includes Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars, Quaker Oatmeal to go bars, Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, Yoplait Strawberry yogurt, Market Pantry Grape Jelly and Coca-Cola, it said. "This seems like an avoidable source of mercury that we didn't know was out there," said David Wallinga, one of the study's co-authors. The study concluded that the mercury came from food plants that use caustic soda laced with mercury to produce high fructose corn syrup for major food companies. The researchers cautioned that t

In this four-hour miniseries , Oscar winner Mira Sorvino ("Mighty Aphrodite ," "Mimic") stars in an epic action-adventure tale about the greatest mystery of modern time. As the journey begins, Tess Chaykin (Sorvino), a Manhattan archaeologist, reluctantly teams up with FBI agent Sean Daley (Scott Foley, "The Unit," "Felicity") - and the pair are drawn into a fast-paced, romantic adventure as they attempt to uncover the lost secrets of the legendary medieval Knights Templar. The miniseries also features Victor Garber ("Eli Stone ," "Alias") as Monsignor De Angelis, a high-placed Vatican envoy. Veteran thespian Omar Sharif ("Doctor Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia") rounds out the all-star cast playing the role of Konstantine, a Greek savant who rescues Tess and Agent Daley after they are shipwrecked and wash up on the beach at Symi. "The Last Templar" opens in 1291 with the fall of the Latin Ki

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Miami police issued a plea for information Saturday after at least one person with an assault rifle opened fire on a crowd of people on a streetcorner Friday night, killing two teens and wounding seven other people. "We need the community to come together, someone come forward and give us a tip," Miami Police Officer Kenia Alfonso told CNN. "There are a lot of people in that area. Someone must have seen something, someone must know who could've done this horrific crime." Alfonso said two teens, ages 16 and 18, died in the attack, which broke up a game of craps in front of a grocery store about 9:50 p.m. Friday in the city's Liberty City neighborhood. Five of the shooting victims were still in the hospital Saturday night, according to CNN affiliate WSVN. Others told WSVN that a masked man with an AK-47 burst onto the scene and ordered everyone to the ground. "Boy came round the corner; he was like, 'Get down,' and he just

The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. In a filing in San Francisco federal court, President Barack Obama adopted the same position as his predecessor. With just hours left in office, President George W. Bush late Monday asked U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to stay enforcement of an important Jan. 5 ruling admitting key evidence into the case. Thursday's filing by the Obama administration marked the first time it officially lodged a court document in the lawsuit asking the courts to rule on the constitutionality of the Bush administration's warrantless-eavesdropping program. The former president approved the wiretaps in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "The Government's position remains that this c

BLACKSBURG , Va. (Jan. 21) — A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday. Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on Jan. 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said. Her accused attacker, 25-year-old Haiyang Zhu of Ningbo, China, knew the victim but no motive for the slaying has been determined, Flinchum said. School records showed that Haiyang was listed as one of Xin's emergency contacts. Haiyang was charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney. Haiyang and Xin had been having coffee in a cafe in the Graduate Life Center, where Xin was living. About seven other people who were in the coffee shop told police that the two hadn't been arguing before the attack. Police received

Guess this is to be expected from a group that plays in a giant illuminated pyramid!

-- President Obama retook his oath of office Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed while delivering it at Tuesday's inauguration. The second oath -- also administered by Roberts -- took place at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday in the White House's Map Room. Roberts asked Obama whether he was ready. "I am, and we're going to do it very slowly," Obama replied. The do-over was aimed at dispelling any confusion that might arise from Tuesday's take -- in which "faithfully" was said out of sequence -- and erase any question that Obama is legally the president. However, per the Constitution, Obama became president at noon Tuesday without taking the oath. "We believe that the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday," White House counsel Greg Craig said Wednesday in a written statement. That seemed to throw the chief justice off stride, and he proceeded to mix up the order of the

Masonic type golden shield handled by white gloves, with interesting blue sun interior. The Bible upon which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was sworn in for his first inauguration is displayed at the Library of Congress in Washington December 23, 2008. On January 20, 2009, President-elect Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible Lincoln used.

Marvel Celebrates Historic Inauguration in Amazing Spider-Man #583 To celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama, Marvel is proud to present an all-new story teaming up one of the world’s most recognizable political figures with one of the world’s greatest super-heroes as President-Elect Obama joins Spider-Man in "Spidey Meets the President," a special addition to Amazing Spider-Man #583 (NOV08 2358). This all-new story written by Zeb Wells and drawn by Todd Nauck and Frank D’Armata takes place in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day and finds one of Spider-Man’s oldest foes attempting to thwart the swearing in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States. This story will be featured as a bonus story in Marvel Comics' Amazing Spider-Man #583, now available in comic book shops nationwide. The issue's special variant cover by artist Phil Jimenez featuring the President-Elect and Spider-Man available for this issue is shown left. The

City of Ember is now out on the torrent sites for download. I thought it was great, and any of the regular readers of this blog will enjoy it. The reviews are mediocre and it was a box office failure. I think this is because people aren't really understanding the movie. This is because they don't want to think or deal with the issues brought up in the movie. It is really about consciousness, and dealing with the shadow self. On a more superficial level, it is about dealing with people who are asleep in your everyday life. Here is my brief synopsis (without giving too much away). Some sort of cataclysm destroyed life on the surface of the earth. The remaining people fled to an underground city which can sustain life for about 200 years. The "builders" (architects/masons) decided to hide the information of an outside world, from society for 200 years. The box will be passed down to each mayor, and in exactly 200 years it will open. Future generations are born in under

Real World Brooklyn :: The Gayest Yet? Think there is enough all seeing eyes on the front door? The cast seems to all come from broken homes, and have been traumatized in some way. Traumatized by sexual abuse, physical abuse, the army, and the mormon church. Guess this makes it easy for the producers to control the outcomes of the show. Cast Member Age 1 Hometown Biography RW/RR Challenges Chet Cannon [ 4 ] 23 [ 6 ] Salt Lake City, Utah [ 6 ] Chet has been described as a " punk rock Mormon ", a " hipster " and "straight as an arrow", who eschews alcohol and premarital sex. He is a conservative Republican , a University of Utah fraternity member with nine siblings, and an occasional prankster. He is an aspiring TV host, and his stated goal on the series is to "show people that Mormons are fun." [ 6 ] [ 5 ] None Ryan Conklin [ 4 ] 23 [ 6 ] Gettysburg, Pennsylvania [ 6 ] Ryan was in the Army for three and a half years, having enl

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