Last night, a huge wind storm knocked out power lines in Lachine, a suburb of Montreal. This amazing video captures an electrical fireball traveling down power lines outside of some very luck (to survive) person's home.
Excerpts from Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's Double Down are popping up all over the internet, and the newest revelations include Michelle calling Romney a liar, Obama's advisors acting out his worst debates, and Romney not being a fan of the overweight.
A Quebec man survived for more than three months in the Canadian wilderness after a bear attack left him unscathed, but his food gone and equipment ruined. He was found Wednesday, hypothermic and dehydrated, in the already very cold conditions of northwestern Quebec. His beloved dog however, didn't survive.
The relationship between the United States and the strongest country in Europe continues its downward plunge: Asked about the ongoing investigation by Germany into U.S. spying, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said he would be willing to assist and provide clarification about leaked documents that have already proved disastrous to the diplomatic standing of the U.S. in Germany.
[A group of assholes reveled this morning. Photo by Charles Krupa via AP]
In many ways the Hamptons are a typical wealthy resort town, and the crime reports tend to reflect that — you've got your garden-variety DUI's, Goldman Sachs employee arrests, and unlocked car thefts (seriously people, how hard is it to lock your goddamn cars?) — but the East End's paper of record, the East Hampton Star, has also recorded some ephemeral, bizarre, and truly poetic criminal encounters over the season.
Spirits, alcoholic ones, have their way of sinking their depressive tendrils deep inside, drawing up everything we keep locked away. My man and I spent the night apart, out and about Brooklyn. We lace fingers and make our way home, bellies full of fried food and spirits. He falls asleep soundly, peacefully.
Thanks Obama! Chris Brown might very well have been saved by the Secret Service, thanks to an agent who witnessed Brown's arrest for assault last weekend in DC. According to the agent, the victim told an MPD officer that Brown never threw a punch. Both the victim and the cop deny the conversation took place.
Employees at the Department of Homeland Security routinely bill unworked overtime hours, according to seven whistleblowers at six different offices, and the overtime pool — referred to by some employees as a "candy bowl" — is even advertised as a "perk" to new hires.
The satirical Egyptian television show "al-Bernameg " hosted by Bassem Youssef (dubbed Egypt's Jon Stewart) was suspended from the air last night, only minutes before airing. Last week, Youssef had turned his attention to making fun of Egypt's military rulers, sparking even more controversy and resulting in new, stricter editorial conditions from the show's network. Apparently, Youssef's writing staff failed to meet the new conditions.
"Francis Specker, 50, of Riverside, was supposed to take a 10:30 a.m. flight to New York out of Terminal 3. ... Specker lived in New York during the 2001 terrorist attacks and said Friday’s shooting was not a huge surprise. 'I guess this is sort of the new normal, right?'" More on today's LAX shooting here.
As if all the mayoral-campaign-season tributes to the corrupt and monstrous reign of Rudolph Giuliani weren't enough, now Bernard Kerik—the one actual convicted felon among the city's recent run of lawless and unethical police commissioners—has crawled back into the light of freedom after three years in prison, and he wants to talk. He learned things in the correctional system, he told Matt Lauer. Things that America's Cop (not to be confused with America's Top Cop) had never imagined. Such as?
