The Fall of Democracy

This is for all of you “The Sky is falling”, Chicken Little folks out there.
 
It was just a matter of time before this little ditty would show its ugly head again.  This time it is even longer, check out the last paragraph. I’ve included results from (in red) and linked to Snopes throughout this piece.

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SALUTE to Denmark

In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark. But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen, one didn’t see Muslim immigrants.
The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives [...]

Prayer soothes the soul…

A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out.
She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site. She [...]

Our glorious Gov’ment, by da peeps, fo’ da peeps!

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time [...]

Weird Sex Facts…

This showed up in my inbox again! This time I went out to see who appears to the originator. It seems to be be from WeirdFacts.com. Even if they aren’t, they are definitely worth a look… Great Job!
1. Actual amount of semen per ejaculation: 1-2 teaspoons
2. Average number of times a man will ejaculate in [...]

All physics…

Read first before viewing video:
There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in these images. Everything that you see happened in real time exactly as you see it.. The recording required 606 takes and in the first 605 takes there always was something, usually of minor importance, that didn’t work. It was necessary for the recording team to install [...]

Did you know?

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little “stringy things” off of it. That’s how the primates do it.
Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It [...]

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