Heart in the Sky
DALLAS – December 14, 2018 A flight to Dallas had to return to Seattle last weekend when it became known that someone forgot a heart on board, Southwest Airlines said on Thursday. Flight 3606 arrived in Seattle from Sacramento, California. Someone forgot to unload the heart before the flight left for Dallas, and the captain announced that they had to return as they flew over Idaho, reported the Seattle Times. The heart had traveled from California to Washington state, across Idaho and back to Washington, according to the Times. The Southwest flight spent about three ho...
California Hopes to Tax Text Messages: What? Who? Why?
California residents may be facing yet another tax….this time for every text they send. Soon, Californians may have to think twice before texting. The proposal was filed by California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), a group that regulates public utilities operating in the state. In addition to communications services, such as cell phone carriers, the group is also responsible for regulating energy, water, and transportation over rail systems, and passenger cars. “From a consumer’s point of view, surcharges may be a wash, because if more surcharge revenues come from...
11-Year-Old Forced to Change “Trump” Last Name Due to Bullying at School
An 11-year-old boy’s parents raised their fears with staff at Talley Middle School in Delaware about their son’s safety last week. The elementary school student had to leave school, get homeschooled for a year, and then change his “Trump” last name in order to stop relentless bullying that lasted for more than two years, his parents have revealed. Joshua Trump, a student at Talley Middle School in Wilmington who is not related to the 45th president, started getting teased by classmates when Donald Trump first announced plans to run for the White House in June 2015. Megan...
Christmas and New Year’s Are Best Time to Die
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA – December 13, 2018 Christmas and New Year’s are not only the best holidays, but also, perhaps, the most dangerous time of the year. People get injured decorating the Christmas tree and wind up in the hospital due to food and alcohol poisoning. Every year, the Christmas holidays takes dozens of lives. Such are the sad statistics not only in the US, but in the whole world. People often catch colds and get frostbite. Also scientists say that cold and cloudy weather could increase the risk of having a heart attack. For example, Swedish scientists...
The Silent Epidemic
NEW YORK – December 13, 2018 Gun deaths in US have spiked to their highest level in 20 years. After some of the worst mass shootings in history, American gun laws are more flexible than ever. The ability to access, buy, and now, print guns is easy, even for criminals. No wonder that the rate of gun deaths in the US has spiked to its highest point in more than 20 years, with almost 40,000 people killed in shootings in 2017, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The credit for the success is largely owed to a steady rise in suicides...
Racism Has Gone Too Far: 9-year-old Girl Commits Suicide After Being Bullied at School
It seems like news from another reality, a made-up world of madmen where everything’s been turned upside down. An Alabama 9-year-old girl took her own life on Monday night, leaving her family in shock. Unfortunately, in the modern U.S., it doesn’t take long to figure out the reason… McKenzie Nicole Adams was a fourth grader at U.S. Jones Elementary School in Demopolis, AL — where she had transferred after her mother and grandmother told the school that she was being bullied at her previous school. On December 3, the 9-year-old’s grandmother found the child at their home...
Nuns steal $500,000 from school to gamble in Vegas
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA – December 11, 2018 Two Catholic school nuns in California admitted to embezzling about $500,000 and using the funds for travel and gambling in Las Vegas. The school does not want to press charges, but the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said it will be a "complaining party." Sisters Mary Margaret Kreuper and Lana Chang took money from tuition, fees and donations at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, south of Los Angeles. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles said the missing funds were discovered during a routine audit and it is believed the nuns stole...
Nebraska Principal Tries to Ban Candy Canes, Claims They’re Shaped Like “J” for Jesus
A Nebraska elementary school principal was placed on administrative leave Thursday after banning a slew of Christmas-related items like reindeer and Christmas trees over religious concerns and candy canes, which she claimed are shaped like a “J” for Jesus Christ. Manchester Elementary principal Jennifer Sinclair sent a memo to parents and students about what was acceptable and unacceptable Christmas decor, according to Liberty Counsel, a group that focuses on religious freedom. In the memo she informed them that candy canes were off limits because “Historically, the shap...
High School Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Transgender Student’s Preferred Pronoun
On Thursday, a widely respected teacher in Virginia was released from his teaching position at West Point High School, leaving his family with no income after he committed the gravest of politically-incorrect sins: He used the word “she” to refer to a girl. Peter Vlaming, who taught French at West Point High School for almost seven years, lost his job after all five board members voted that his objection to using male pronouns for a female student was a fireable offense. Vlaming, 47, had taught a rising-9th-grade student in the 2017-18 school year, when the student still...