Archive for February 7th, 2012

The Strawbs â€“ A Walk Down Memory Lane

Posted on February 7th, 2012

by Simon Barrett in All News, Music News, Op-ed

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I do not tend to use YouTube, in my mind it is mostly a collection of homemade videos of people doing really stupid things that likely resulted in a visit to the hospital, or cutesy videos of cats and dogs behaving in some bizarre manner. Â Â However I upgraded my opinion of the site yesterday. [...]

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7 Year Old Boy Sets Home On Fire, His Little Sister Dies In The Fire

Posted on February 7th, 2012

by Jan Barrett in All News, Society and Culture

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A 2 year old little girl lost her life as she slept through a burning home, that her older brother set on fire. Shea Shea Yates was found by firefighters dead in her bedroom early Monday morning. The home was a trailer in Petersburg, Virginia, and the girlâ€™s father, Cecil Yates said that the fire [...]

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Susan Powellâ€™s Boys Struck With an Axe Before Explosion

Posted on February 7th, 2012

by Jan Barrett in All News, crime, Society and Culture

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A Pierce County Medical Examiner said that the two children of the missing Utah Woman, Susan Powell, that died in a house explosion along with their father, Josh Powell both were severely injured by â€œchops to the neckâ€ but they died from carbon monoxide poisoning preceding an explosion. They are also listing the cause of [...]

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IQ, conservatism and racism

Posted on February 7th, 2012

by jonjayray in All News

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On 22nd January I commented on claims by two Canadian psychologists to the effect that conservatives and racists have low IQs. One look at the study told me that it was brainless so I just reproduced the journal abstract and pointed out two of the things that made it brainless. I didn’t see any point [...]

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