20 Strange and Mysterious Medical Syndromes

Doctors have come across some baffling day-to-day ailments, but few conditions are as strange as these 20 disorders, which range from biological to psychological to cultural in nature.

Foreign Accent Syndrome
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a speech disorder that causes sudden changes in speech pattern, intonation and pronunciation so that the victim is perceived to speak with a "foreign" accent. FAS usually results from severe trauma to the brain, such as a stroke or head injury, and typically develops within one or two years of the injury. Of the 50 to 60 cases that have been verified since 1941, only a few FAS sufferers regained their normal speech pattern, although some experienced success through speech therapy.

900 Boxes of Coffee Laced With Viagra Seized

It's been a strange day for me so this interesting little story seems to fit...

Malaysian authorities have confiscated 900 boxes of coffee laced with Viagra, a newspaper report said Sunday.

Health Ministry officials raided a company in Kuala Lumpur that marketed the coffee as an energy booster, The New Straits Times said. The report did not say whether the package labeled Viagra as an ingredient.

Sunday's report said the 900 confiscated boxes containing some 9,000 coffee packets were worth more than 72,000 ringgit ($20,000). Some of the Viagra-laced coffee had been distributed nationwide, it said.

Click here to read the rest at NBC Washington

Why the State Sovereignty and Secession Movements? The Feds Are Selling Us Into Servitude

by Brian Roberts

Washington is selling servitude.

• We watched as they destroyed the financial sector by forcing banks to give loans to people that could not afford them… then they stepped in to “save the day” by gaining direct control of our financial sector.
• We watched as they destroyed a once powerful automotive industry through excessive regulation and labor union control… then they stepped in to “save the day” by gaining direct control of our automotive industry.
• We listened as they verbally assaulted capitalism when government regulations were to blame.
• We watched as they asked the American people to fund a $1 trillion dollar stimulus bill, they yelled emergency as they slipped cash from our children’s pockets to their political allies.
• We watched, as they worked to destroy the rule of law by arbitrarily dictating revised terms to legal contracts and installing a Supreme Court justice that promotes social justice over rule-of-law.
• We know, they intend to control our children, it’s written in the GIVE Act.
• We know, they intend to control our resources, it’s written in the Cap and Trade Bill.
• We know, they intend control of our very lives, it’s written in the Health Care Bill.
• We know, they intend to control our votes, the 2010 census is now controlled by the white house and the ones registering voters are corrupt
• We watch and wait as they install unaccountable czars for dictating not representing
• We watch and wait as they increase “organizer” funding from millions to billions of our tax dollars. And we wonder how these groups will be used to steal our life, liberty and property from us.

The fifth sentence of the Declaration of Independence states, “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

A movement based on the 10th amendment is undeniably lawful and moral.
Click here to read the rest at LewRockwell

Meet Samsam the Bubbleman!

How does one go about becoming world famous for bubbles?
Just ask Samsam Bubbleman (aka Sam Heath) who started his love affair with them almost 20 years ago, in 1989.

It all started with just a single bubble," he said. "I was sitting in a field and a bubble just floated past. I took the word away from the object and just looked at it for what it was. I captured my imagination and I just thought what an amazing thing that was. It's like one of those anomalies of nature that just shouldn't exist."

Samsam Bubbleman now earns a living doing what he loves best. He eventually formed a company called Bubble Inc and now sells mixtures, equipment, clothing (bubble tights?) and performs shows for large audiences.

Photo & text via The Telegraph

The Afghan Crop Currency

The U.S. sent agents to help shut down Afghanistan's opium industry--the business that funds Taliban operations and provides the world's major opium supply. But how can the U.S. win this war?
Click here to see a video on Newsy about what the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan, and the challenges we face if we eradicate their opium crops. It's a Catch 22 if I ever saw one.

Listen to some famous radio broadcasts

Check out these voices from this historical archive
(Example links below)
Listen to some of the most famous speeches and broadcasts of the yesteryear.
Japan Surrenders
Hiroshima News Bulletin
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hitler Opens The Olympics
Click here to hear the rest at Old Radio World

Learn more about how the British live

This is Britain.

We live here. We are called the British people. Find out all about us and the way we live!

This is a guide to Britain written for Americans who may be planning a visit here. Use this guide to help you become familar with the many complex, sometimes strange customs of the British People.

Click here to find a guide to British language, culture and customs which will help to know the people better.

Someday I hope to visit England as that's where my roots are. The Stancliff's have lived in America for nine generations, going back to William Stanclift. Before that we were stonecutters in Yorkshire and other areas.

President Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service

President Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.

By Toby Harnden in Washington

Since President Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of "In the President's Secret Service."

Some threats to Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicized, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.

Click here to read the rest at The Telegraph

One in 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan

An international team of geneticists have found an astonishing statistic; one in every 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan. These men have the same male Y chromosome as the great warlord Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan conquered many countries during his reign (between 1162 and 1227) and in this campaign he captured many beautiful women and fathered many children on the way. According to on Persian historian, that within a century of Khan’s birth and his extravagant mating habits had resulted in more than 20,000 children. And now his descendants make about 8% of the men in Central Asia after a genetic study of these men.

Click here to read the rest at Digital Journal

Pete the Pug gets an early start on being a booze hound!

Photo via Imgur

Pollution free cars are coming soon

We are now entering the era of pollution free driving. Car maker Nissan has unveiled the world's first affordable zero-emission car. The car can be easily charged from home (like your cell phone) and will have a range of 100 miles after it is juiced up. Nissan has not announced the cost of this vehicle yet, but they state it will be "competitively priced." The car will be launched late 2010 in Japan, the USA, and Europe.
Last year I wrote a column about another pollution free car "Vehicles that run on air are ready" that got a great reader response. I can't help wondering what happened to "Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) who had plans to release a new car in America this year.