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Is it just me or has the rest of this forum disintegrated into tabloid style articles. If someone posts a news story of real substance, it gets ignored. That makes this thread one of the few redeeming ones in Current Events.
Is it just me or has the rest of this forum disintegrated into tabloid style articles. If someone posts a news story of real substance, it gets ignored. That makes this thread one of the few redeeming ones in Current Events.
Because many of the 'current events' posted here were pertaining to gun violence, law enforcement, or other topics containing a racial element, that quickly morphed into mud slinging and nasty arguments, and ended up being locked or moved by the moderators.
When 9-year-old Katie Stagliano was in elementary school, her teacher gave all the students an assignment to plant and grow a cabbage seedling.
Katie’s cabbage went on to become an unusually whopping 40-pound vegetable – so the Stagliano family decided to donate the greens to a nearby soup kitchen in Summerville, South Carolina.
Feeding 275 other people with her cabbage ignited a spark in the young student, and led her to create Katie’s Krops: an organization that encourages other kids in America to grow their own vegetables and feed thousands of hungry people nationwide.
When a daycare provider in Langford was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution, these West Shore RCMP officers stepped up to look after the four kids awaiting their parents.
According to the West Shore RCMP, the boys in blue knew exactly what they were doing: “playing with balloons, singing songs, making French fries out of Play-Doh and above all, making sure those children were well-looked after while trying to make contact with parents to come and pick up their children.”
Emotions were high in America the night after Election Day – so Alejandro Andrade decided to spread the love to his fellow classmates.
The 18-year-old psychology student stood on the campus of Virgina Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia shivering from the cold weather. Despite the chill, however, he refused to stop holding his sign reading “In light of the hate and/or mistrust… FREE HUGS”.
When I asked him how long he had been standing there for, he chuckled and said “What time is it? Eight thirty? So about eight hours.”
The other VCU students – Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian alike – were also apparently pretty grateful for the compassionate gesture.
A Florida man dedicates every Sunday to cleaning the blackened headstones of veterans, as his way to thank them for their service. I'm not on Facebook, but understand he has a page there for anyone interested. Look for The Good Cemeterian.
A teenager from Arizona will be breaking bread with strangers this Thanksgiving after someone's Grandma invited him via wrong text message.
Jamal Hinton, 17, a senior at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, received a text Tuesday from an unknown number inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 24 at 3:00 p.m.
"Let me know if you are coming," the text read. "Hope to see you all."
The helmet’s design relies on a honeycomb pattern that absorbs force throughout the structure rather than just in one place. It can sustain damage from every angle, but can still be folded up and carried in a purse.
The Shoe That Grows can now accommodate children’s ever-growing feet by expanding five sizes, making them last up to ten years.
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Thanks to these shoes, children won’t be so susceptible to soil-based diseases and infections, and they can always be ready to race wherever their legs may lead them.
Because many of the 'current events' posted here were pertaining to gun violence, law enforcement, or other topics containing a racial element, that quickly morphed into mud slinging and nasty arguments, and ended up being locked or moved by the moderators.
I suspect that at least some posters for whatever reasons choose stories for shock value. So they post the nastiest, stupidest stuff they can find.
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If someone posts a news story of real substance, it gets ignored. That makes this thread one of the few redeeming ones in Current Events.
