A homeless man, panhandling on a street corner in Michigan, gets a diamond ring from a good Samaritan and believes she didn’t mean to give it up. He thought about pawning, after all Michael Secaur has been living on the streets of Pontiac, Michigan for two years. Mr. Secaur has something else though that his rough life hasn’t taken from him, he’s honest. Video below and sorry about the commercial…but…. [...more]
What actually went on in the early morning hours at the State Assembly in Madison, Wisconsin? Yes the GOPers did win this round in their drive to kill unions. Yet even with a working majority something strange happened. Immediately after the vote was called for the digital vote system of the body announced 51 ayes and 17 nays on its display board and then shut down. Since all 96 members were in the chamber that means 28, not [...] [...more]
When a nationally syndicated television show reveals the true America the video goes viral it provides a big whoop for the audience and the viewers at home. Yeah it’s funny and a sign of how mainstream marijuana, for medical or recreational use, has become in American society. According to a Gallop Poll, 46 percent of voters nationwide and more than 50 percent of voters in western states already support legalizing marijuana for adults. Yet with all these signs of progress more than 750,000 [...] [...more]
Think Progress went to Capitol Hill to ask your GOPER Congressman if they were going to turn down the health insurance premiums you pay for them. Presented here is the video of their double talk. [...more]
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Demonstrating students broke windows at the complex housing the headquarters of U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party in London in protest against plans to cut funding to universities and increase tuition fees. The protesters smashed glass on the ground floor of the 27- story Millbank Tower on the north bank of the River Thames, close to Parliament, today as a planned march turned violent. Demonstrators started a fire outside the building, burning effigies of Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick [...] [...more]
Why not, we’re about to elect the ignorant even if the anti-masturbation witch doesn’t get to Washington some fools will. Why not this guy [...more]
Had to share this. The Snow Bird is an ornithopter, a flying machine first proposed by Leonardo da Vinci. The Maestro never managed to build it and it is doubtful his design would have ever flown. Yet the dream of man powered flight using flapping wings like a bird has died. A group of Canadians created the Snow Bird. The ornithopter is towed into the air, landing and take off wheels would have been much [...] [...more]
This is a report from China Daily. The audio is in Chinese, but the animation is pretty self explanatory. WARNING: Do not drink beverages when viewing this video to prevent nasal spray of said beverages. [...more]
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