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[Green Habit]

Paywalling its articles is also another way in which it's killing its audience among Millennials. It needs to be more permeable like what the NYT and WSJ do with links coming from social media.

[verb_to_trust]

So Chicago State University cancelled Spring Break to help get students their diplomas before they run out of money. Living in a state with an 8 months and running budget impasse sure is a bitch...

I'm moving to Iowa

just move to alabama...we're rich as h*ll here

I'm actually pretty serious about the Iowa thing.

Where in Iowa? My wife grew up in Long Grove.

Eastern iowa, probably Davenport area. Maybe iowa city. Illinois is just a total shit show and I live close enough to the Mississippi River that it's becoming increasingly unreasonable for me to stay on the broken side of it.

[McParadigm]

Iowa is beautiful country. All the weather patterns that die out before they can water Nebraska soak up at the river and shower down on Iowa. It's the best looking plains state by a country mile.

[Stickman]

Real heroes come in all sizes.

10-Year-Old Girl Dies Saving Two Toddlers


A 10-year-old California girl died while saving two toddlers from a runaway vehicle, according to officials.

Kiera Larsen, the girl, instinctively pushed two babies, ages 1 and 2, away from the SUV, police in Lakeside said. The car started rolling while the three were playing in the yard.

The vehicle struck the 10-year-old and pushed her through a fence, KGTV reported. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The vehicle began rolling in reverse down a dirt driveway off Olde Highway 80 near Los Coches Road after 5 p.m. on Monday, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) told KGTV. Neighbors said children were playing in the yard when the car rolled.

Officials didn’t explain why the SUV, a 1999 Mercedes-Benz, started rolling in reverse down the driveway.

“She is truly a hero. She will forever be my kids’ guardian angel,” said Alissa Jenkins, who is the mother of one-year-old Adison and two-year-old Emma, the girls Kiera had saved.

Jenkins added: “She saved both my daughters’ lives. These are my two kids that I have and both of them could’ve been gone in an instant and she stepped in and took over and did what she knows best to do—and that’s to protect those around her.”

Jenkins and fiance Jonathan Gusich said they’ll never be able to repay her.

“She was a big sister to them. She was always looking out for them and apparently she gave her life for my kids,” Gusich told FOX5. “I don’t know how to repay them, repay her. She must have been the guardian angel yesterday and they’re here because of her.”

A GoFundMe account was set up for Kiera’s family, and more than $39,000 has been raised as of Thursday afternoon. “Please donate any amount that you can for funeral expenses. Every dollar helps,” it stated.

A CHP officer on the scene also described her as a hero.

“A child died heroically, I mean if you think about it, she sacrificed herself for another small child,” CHP Officer Kevin Pearlstein told FOX5.

He added that police are “going to do an inspection on the vehicle, find out why this happened, find out if there was some sort of malfunction on the vehicle and go from there.”

[Kaius]

[E.H. Ruddock]

Jesus that is amazingly heartbreaking

[Sgt. Crackpot]

God fucking damn.

[Kaius]

I've heard so many children dying stories this year already that I just want everything to end.

[BurtReynolds]

as long as I don't read it, nothing bad happened.

[LoathedVermin72]

Everyone already knows how I feel.

[Stickman]

Virginia police officer killed on her first day

[Rangi Guy]

Virginia police officer killed on her first day

Cops are the worst!

[LoathedVermin72]

So North Korea is "readying" nukes.

[BurtReynolds]

So North Korea is "readying" nukes.

oh thank god

[LoathedVermin72]

So North Korea is "readying" nukes.

oh thank god

They're probably watching the GOP debate

[E.H. Ruddock]

So North Korea is "readying" nukes.

oh thank god

Yeah just end it all now

[Kaius]

I don't want to die yet.

[E.H. Ruddock]

anyone following this story of the knife found at OJ's house? Apparently it was found back in the 90's by a construction worker. That dude gave it to a cop who kept it until recently. They are testing for DNA, but not sure what good that will do since the dude kept it for like 15 years before saying anything.

[nyquillyn]

LOL. Texas.

Anti-Gay, Pro-Creationism Birther Could Change America’s Textbooks

Mary Lou Bruner is one runoff election away from changing the curriculum for Texas schools—and perhaps the nation—thanks to the state’s outsized influence on publishers.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... books.html

[Self]

Overpopulation might not be a thing, t2b. We can agree that there are way too many of those people, right? How do they survive? We need to encourage more snake handling in church.