HELLFREEZE A Chicago Fire Department lieutenant walked near an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night on the city’s South Side. Ice encased the building as firefighters battled the blaze amid freezing temperatures. (Photo: John Gress / Reuters via The Wall Street Journal)
A major snowstorm has blanketed parts of the Middle East, including Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank, and Turkey, causing at least eight deaths. Above, the city of Istanbul.
(Photos: Bulent Kilic / AFP-Getty via NBC News)
“I can’t think of a better advertisement for gun control than Alex Jones’ interview (Monday) night. It was startling, it was terrifying in parts, it was completely deluded. It was based on a premise of making Americans so fearful that they all rush out to buy even more guns … the kind of twisted way that he turned everything into this assault on the Second Amendment is exactly what the gun rights lobby people do.”
Here’s looking at you, NRA.
(via The Huffington Post)
A New York film aficionado’s dying wish to see the not-yet released Star Trek flick before he succumbed to terminal cancer came true thanks to J.J. Abrams.
The “Star Trek: Into Darkness” director gave Dan Craft and his wife, Paige, early access to the highly-anticipated film, which hits theaters in May, just days before Craft died at age 41.
“Of course, he loved the film,” family friend Grady Hendrix told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was the last thing he got to do before he passed away.”
Abrams got in touch with Craft, director of the New York Asian Film Festival, after a pal posted Paige’s request for an early screening for the avid Trekkie on Reddit.
“A day or so after the thread began, Paige, Dan’s wife, got a voicemail from JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof that was very nice and very straightforward: a producer for the movie would get in touch with them,” Hendrix wrote in a follow-up on Reddit.
Producers arrived at Craft’s doorstep with the coveted rough cut the next day.
… After the credits rolled, Craft returned to his bed, where he remained until Paige took him to the hospital for hospice care Friday. He died the same day – just six weeks after he was diagnosed.
- STOP SUBSIDIZING HEALTHCARE!!! But please make sure you provide extensive mental health screenings for everyone lest some people get their hands on guns and oh can you make sure it’s not part of Obamacare???!!!
- STOP SPENDING TAXPAYER MONEY!!! But please let’s put armed guards in every school in America, ever. The only thing preventing bad guys with guns are good guys with guns!!!
- STOP GUN VIOLENCE!!! But please let us have our semi-automatic rifles and other guns that can fire many bullets per second!!! We’re entitled to our recreation even if some kids die once in a while.
NRA, GTFO A demonstrator held up a banner as Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, delivered a statement in Washington on Friday. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images via The New York Times)
I’m sincerely asking my followers to reblog the shit out of this photo.
Via The Guardian, a gun ownership map of the world.
The United States is blood red.
- CBS Radio News reporting at least one possible DOA; Hartford Courant reporting “one confirmed death,” possibly school’s principal
- Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT; students are in grades K-4; school has been locked down
- Local TV station reporting “possible active shooter” on scene
WHAT IF Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney meets with President Barack Obama during a visit to the White House on Thursday. Mr. Romney probably didn’t ask the President if he “can sit in the big chair for just like two minutes, please Mr. President sir?” (Photo: Pete Souza / The White House via The New York Daily News)
COVER-UP Workers assemble the first section of a colossal arch-shaped structure that will eventually cap the exploded nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. (Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP-Getty Images via The Telegraph)
Today, we are very excited to launch Instagram badges, a tool that will help you link to and promote your Instagram web profile. Add them to your personal blog, brand website, or campaign promotions to direct new followers to your Instagram web profile and encourage others to discover and engage with your Instagram content.
Instagram badges are available in a range of sizes and can be easily added to your website, blog or anywhere that you want to link to your Instagram web profile. There are two ways to access Instagram badges:
- Navigate to your Instagram web profile page. Click on your username to access the drop down menu and choose “Badges”
- Visit instagram.com/accounts/badges
To create a badge for your account, make sure you are logged into the account you’d like to link to. Select the badge you’d like to use, then just copy the code and paste it into your site.
If this also affects tea, you just created your worst enemy climate
Daniel Lawlor from Los Angeles poses after winning first place in the freestyle moustache category at the third annual national beard and moustache championships in Las Vegas.
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