Category: Anxiety

Chinese woman jailed over balloon-popping guns set free

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BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court on Thursday set free a woman who had been jailed for three-and-a-half years for illegal ownership of guns used in a balloon-shooting game, a case that sparked anger over what many people see as the uncompromising application of the law.


China girlfriend rental app gets leg up from Lunar New Year demand

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BEIJING (Reuters) – As millions in China head home to celebrate the Lunar New Year holiday with their families, 24-year-old Luoluo is busy answering messages on a mobile app from desperate men looking to hire an instant girlfriend whom they can present to mom and dad.


That was fast: Giddy Obama invites new French Socialist BFF to the White House

http://twitter.com/#!/stephenkruiser/status/199353713247264768

President Obama and François Hollande are totes going to be besties. Kinda like Meghan McCain and Sandra Fluke.

When Obama called to congratulate the French president-elect, he invited him to visit the White House later this month for a lefty gab-fest. They can stay up late reading Marx and Engels while mocking austerity measures and fiscal restraint. Oh, and they’ll have to gossip about Stinky Sarkozy. Good times!

The Twitterverse noted the budding friendship.

So Obama tossed out Churchill but welcomes the new French Socialist president with open arms?

— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) May 7, 2012

Hollande has been invited to the White House by Obama for dinner, or as I call it, the "Screw the World" summit.

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 7, 2012

Obama vows close ties to France's Socialist leader http://t.co/jwhD0NWc

— Andrew Malcolm (@AHMalcolm) May 7, 2012

Obama has already invited the newly elected Socialist French President to the White House this month. Birds of a feather…

— Todd Schnitt (@toddschnitt) May 7, 2012

https://twitter.com/#!/DadofSpecialTwo/status/199457900882702337

Giddy Obama invites socialist Hollande to WH, can't wait to start working on 'shared economic' goals w him. http://t.co/mbgAaS5g

— Dan Andros (@DanAndros) May 7, 2012

Some Twitter users wondered if Hollande would bring his wife along. Why? Oh, no reason:

Future French First Lady Nicknamed ‘Rottweiler’; Obama Immediately Extends Invitation to White House http://t.co/aKmZaeLF #twisters #tcot

— Snarky Basterd (@Snarky_Basterd) May 7, 2012

Word has it that with #France's new First Lady nicknamed "Rottweiler", #Obama is planning to make an urgent trip to Paris. . . #tcot

— Stephen England (@stephenmengland) May 7, 2012

snort. RT @toddstarnes: The wife of the new French Socialist president is nicknamed "The Rottweiler.' Obama's stomach just growled.

— Nikki (@nikkibama) May 7, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/05/07/that-was-fast-giddy-obama-invites-new-french-socialist-bff-to-the-white-house/

This Old Video Is A Tutorial For One Seriously Disturbing Procedure

Brain surgery is a delicate procedure now, but back in the day, it was even more nerve-wracking. Doctors had to use tools and techniques that would be considered barbaric by today’s standards. The movement toward using more modern methods in the 1920s eventually picked up steam, but it was a slow process, as this brain surgery training film from that era illustrates.
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It’s a little hard to follow, but here’s a transcript of the video’s text for your reference:

Drilling a pin-hole through scalp and skull, 4 cm. to right of middle line, well in front of Rolandic fissure. After penetrating the skull with the grooved drill, stilette and blunt, hollow needle are inserted along the track. On reaching cavity of Lateral Ventricle, cerebrospinal fluid appears. Cisternal or Sub-Occipital puncture. Needle inserted immediately above 2nd cervical spine, pencil in patient’s ear to guide aim of needle. Lumbar Puncture Needle inserted between L4 and L5 laminae, just to right of middle line.

Watch it all unfold in the video below.

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(source HuntleyFilmArchives)

I have a headache just from watching that. This is yet another reason why I’m grateful to be alive in 2016.

Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/brain-surgery-tutorial/

Media lapdog dismisses Nunn campaign’s reliance on lapdog media

http://twitter.com/#!/exjon/status/493895265167106049

A confidential campaign plan document from the Michelle Nunn campaign for U.S. Senate has leaked online.

http://twitter.com/#!/elianayjohnson/status/493790451510427648

National Review Online’s Eliana Johnson reports:

Her strategists are optimistic that the media won’t prove much of an obstacle. They write that at some point her opponent, who at the time the document was written had yet to be determined, will be “shoveling research” against her. But they say they anticipate they will often have “fair warning” about negative news stories and can work to “kill or muddy” them.

“I would love to know what kind of already-formed relationships they have in Atlanta and even in the national media that they’re planning on using as sources and conduits of information,” Swint says. “It’s certainly interesting to see it in writing like that.”

Jay Bookman at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution immediately attempted to kill or muddy this negative news story about the Nunn campaign using friends in the media to kill or muddy negative news stories.

http://twitter.com/#!/jaybookmanajc/status/493874447011438592

Not a smidgen of scandal, because Nunn is a Democrat after all.

The document also suggests the Points of Light foundation had financially supported Hamas during Nunn’s tenure as CEO.

http://twitter.com/#!/jaybookmanajc/status/493882465132744706 http://twitter.com/#!/elianayjohnson/status/493882555230191617

Boom.

http://twitter.com/#!/DraftRyan2016/status/493891514331070466

So what you have is a “reporter” giving a politician the benefit of the doubt on everything. That’s his job, right?

http://twitter.com/#!/billmurphy/status/493888654751055872

It doesn’t appear so.

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/07/28/media-lapdog-dismisses-nunn-campaigns-reliance-on-lapdog-media/