"Chris [Pratt] never uses a spit bucket. When you do scenes where a character is eating, you eat and then spit it out into a ‘spit bucket.’ Chris just keeps eating. If you see Andy eating a cheeseburger in a scene, you should know Chris Pratt ate like 8 cheeseburgers. I love that guy." - Aziz Ansari
This Week in God, 9.6.14 | MSNBC: "Winter Garden Mayor John Rees, a nonpartisan official leading an Orlando suburb of about 37,000, was caught on video demanding that an audience member stand for a prayer, which thanked God for “allowing us to live in a country where we’re free to believe, think, and pray.” The audience member responded, “I don’t believe I have to do that, thank you.” After the prayer, Rees again instructed the constituent, identified by the Orlando Sentinel as Joseph Richardson, to stand for the pledge to the flag as “children have to in school.” Richardson again politely declined. “Okay. I asked him to either stand or please be escorted out as we do the Pledge,” Rees says in the video. “It’s just not fair to our troops and people overseas, sir.” By order of the police, the local dissenter left as instructed...
The problem, of course, is that the mayor had no idea what he was talking about. Whether an American sits or stands for government-endorsed prayer has nothing to do with the troops overseas. For that matter, children are not legally required to stand for Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. In fact, there’s a fascinating Supreme Court ruling from 1943 called West Virginia v. Barnette in which the court majority said the exact opposite. Writing for the court, Justice Robert Jackson warned, “[T]hose who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.”"
Jack The Ripper Identified — Aaron Kosminski UnMasked As Infamous Killer - Hollywood Life: "A forensic scientist claims to have finally identified Jack The Ripper. DNA testing allegedly shows who is responsible for a string of horrific murders that took place in 1888, the Mail on Sunday reports. Jack The Ripper Identified — Aaron Kosminski UnMasked As Infamous Killer According to this DNA testing, Aaron Kosminski, a Polish Jew who fled to London in the 1880s, was Jack the Ripper...
Russell Edwards, 48, the author of Naming Jack The Ripper (out Sept. 9), made the discovery after he bought a shawl, found by the body of the Ripper’s fourth victim Catherine Eddowes, at an auction house in Bury St. Edmunds in 2007.
“There was no evidence for its provenance, although after the auction I obtained a letter from its previous owner who claimed his ancestor had been a police officer present at the murder scene and had taken it from there,” Russell said...
Apparently, Russell handed the shawl over to Dr. Jari Louhelainen, a world-renowned expert in analyzing genetic evidence from historical crime scenes. Russell said that Dr. Louhelainen proved the shawl was genuine by tracing a descendent of Catherine’s, who agreed to provide a DNA sample. They then compared that sample with one of a British descendant of Aaron’s sister, who wishes to not be identified. According to Russell, the DNA samples were a match. “Kosminski was not a member of the Royal Family, or an eminent surgeon or politician. Serial killers rarely are. Instead, he was a pathetic creature, a lunatic who achieved sexual satisfaction from slashing women to death in the most brutal manner. He died in Leavesden Asylum from gangrene at the age of 53,” Russell said."
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