CAROLINA NATURALLY: Feb 8, 2016

Monday, February 8, 2016

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Today in History

1587		Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded in Fotheringhay Castle for her alleged part in the conspiracy to usurp Elizabeth I.
1807		At Eylau, Napoleon‘s Marshal Pierre Agureau attacks Russian forces in a heavy snowstorm.
1861		Delegates from seceded states adopt a provisional Confederate Constitution.
1862		Union troops under Gen. Ambrose Burnside defeat a Confederate defense force at the Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C.
1865		Confederate raider William Quantrill and men attack a group of Federal wagons at New Market, Kentucky.
1887		Congress passes the Dawes Act, which gives citizenship to Indians living apart from their tribe.
1900		British General Buller is beaten at Ladysmith, South Africa as the British flee over the Tugela River.
1904		In a surprise attack at Port Arthur, Korea, the Japanese disable seven Russian warships.
1910		The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
1924		The gas chamber is used for the first time to execute a murderer.
1942		The Japanese land on Singapore.
1943		British General Orde Wingate leads a guerrilla force of “Chindits” against the Japanese in Burma.
1952		Elizabeth becomes Queen of England after her father, King George VI, dies.
1962		The U.S. Defense Department reports the creation of the Military Assistance Command in South Vietnam.
1965		South Vietnamese bomb the North Vietnamese communications center at Vinh Linh.
1971		South Vietnamese ground forces, backed by American air power, begin Operation Lam Son 719, a 17,000 man incursion into Laos that ends three weeks later in a disaster.
1990		CBS television temporarily suspends Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and ant-black remarks in a magazine interview.

16 Unusual Items For Sale on the Government’s Version of eBay

Handy Polygraph Chair

Occasionally it can be fun to peruse the oddities that the general public accumulates and ends up selling on craigslist or eBay. Or, as it turns out, if you'd like to get a little weirder than that, you can hit the U.S. government's answer to eBay, G.S.A. auctions. Its full name being General Services Administration, the entity's mission as stated is to provide “the best value in real estate, acquisition and technology services to the government and the American people."
Goodies like the one pictured above can be found for sale: a polygraph chair. Absent that bulky, results-non-court admissible piece of machinery, just imagine the possibilities for those two roomy armrests!

Coastal Park, Elizabeth City, NC

But that's not all, shoppers. Pictured above is another tempting parcel one can purchase for a mere several million: the Coastal Park area of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Located on this piece of land are 82 apartment housing units, basketball courts, a tennis court, a playground, a gazebo, and according to the ad, tons more room on which to build recreational facilities. But just one catch: everything's liberally coated with layers of lead-based paint. Which may or may not even represent a problem to you as a consumer! What myriad opportunities.

So whether your interests run toward Gucci watches that look like they've survived multiple mob wars, boats, planes or more screwdrivers than you can shake a large box of screwdrivers at, don't hesitate to scope out more government swag at mental_floss.

Amazon planning to open up to 400 physical bookstores

Then again maybe not ...

The Fight To Curb Debt Collector Lies

‘These Are People’s Lives You’re Playing With’

The lawyers who enable an abusive business model for collecting consumer debts are now on the hook for their clients' screw-ups.

FBI Joined The Investigation Of Michigan’s Moron Snyder Over Flint Water Crisis

FBI Joins Investigation Of Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder Over Flint Water Crisis

FBI Joined The Investigation Of Michigan’s Moron Snyder Over Flint Water Crisis

This is good news for all those calling for the arrest of Snyder. #ArrestSnyder

California attorney general sues gas company over 'unprecedented' methane leak

‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Threatens To Shoot McDonald’s Drive-Thru Worker

‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Threatens To Shoot McDonald’s Drive-Thru Worker

Not a day goes by when a prominent figure on the lunatic fringe doesn’t remind us that “good guys with guns” — basically anyone carrying...

Gays can’t foreclose on my cult until they birth babies ‘through their anus’

Anal Retentive/Anal Obsession Derangement Syndrome On Garish Display

‘Christian’ Dad Beat Daughter With Frozen Bacon While Quoting Bible — For Jesus

‘Christian’ Dad Beat Daughter With Frozen Bacon While Quoting bible — For jesus

Some people should never be allowed around children.

Kansas wingnuts threaten teachers with jail time for perfectly legal sex ed material

State Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook (R) (Screenshot/YouTube)

Kansas wingnuts threaten teachers with jail time for perfectly legal sex ed material

The bill, sponsored by Pilcher-Cook (R), stems from a controversy over a poster in the Shawnee Mission public school district in which a poster reading, “How do people express their sexual feelings?”

Archaeology News

4,500-Year-Old Boat Found Near Pyramids

The 59-foot-long boat, dating to about 2550 B.C., was discovered at an ancient tomb, in a cemetery south of the Giza plateau.

Humans evolved by sharing technology and culture

Humans evolved by sharing technology and culture

Blombos Cave in South Africa has given us vast knowledge about our early ancestors. In 2015, four open access articles, with research finds from Blombos as a starting point, have been published in the journal PLOS ONE. “We are looking mainly at the part of South...