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A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force.


More than 1,000 people were killed, and the toll was expected to rise as rescuers struggled to reach hard-hit remote areas where the dead were buried even as desperate efforts were underway to save those trapped.


The magnitude-6.8 quake, the biggest to hit the North African country in 120 years, sent people fleeing their homes in terror and disbelief. One man said dishes and wall hangings began raining down, and people were knocked off their feet. The enormity of the destruction came into view in the daylight.


The quake brought down walls made from stone and masonry not constructed to endure quakes, covering whole communities with rubble and leaving residents picking their way precariously through remains.

Remember those hulky-bulky CRT idiot boxes that had a place in most households till a few years ago? Could 2015 be the year of their demise??

Analysts think so. In 2013 - four million CRT sets were sold while their anorexic cousins aka LCD TVs registered sales of six million.

Presently - LCDs cost twice as much as CRTs and which ( ie the hard-to-forgive-and-forget price difference ) keeps the show going. The day manufacturers find a way to produce the LCDs at the very same price-point where they churn out CRTs, cathode ray tube television will breathe its last.

To summarize - LCDs are preferred now-a-days because they are more power efficient and offers a plethora of screen real estate.

( The author is a full-time LCD owner and part-time CRT hobbyist. )

I was always there
Waited for so long
Now I am gone
I am no more here

If you ever came
I won’t be there
You’ll see the place
It’ll be the same

With its hanging bowers
The grass may be green
And the trees that tower
The house will stare
With the rooms all bare

While walking on the pave
You’ll crunch some dead leaves
You may think you heard
Someone scream

You’ll clutch your heart
You may depart
But I won’t be there
I am gone for good

Now it is me
Who is lost forever!

The Supreme Court of Appeals found Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder and he was sentenced to thirteen years and five months in prison. The judge said that it should have been fifteen years but the time he’d already served was taken into account. This already is a farce for he had only served 10 months in prison, the rest of the time he spent in his millionaire uncle’s house in luxury after being put under house arrest.

The judge said he did not show enough genuine remorse.

This is after Pistorius, a former paralympian, was earlier acquitted on a charge of murder and found guilty on a lesser charge of culpable homicide. The state was not happy with the six year sentence handed out to Pistorius after he killed his girlfriend and so they went to the Appeal Court.

The girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, planned to leave him and he subsequently killed her by firing four shots through the bathroom door, claiming that he thought that she was a burglar.

One can only have sympathy with Reeva’s parents. Although some token of justice was attained, it cannot bring her back.

And the other big news from Southern Africa is a new President for Zimbabwe. Methinks our neighbors to the north are rejoicing too quickly for Emmerson Mnangagwa is certainly no angel and with his strong ties to the military, he was probably the mastermind behind the plot that ousted Robert Mugabe. I cannot believe for one moment that ZANU-PF will be keen to relinquish power in a fair election. They only replaced one terror with another.

I think that we can look forward to another rigged election.

UPDATE: (10/26) - Amy Coney Barrett Sworn In As SCOTUS Associate Justice.


A Look At ACB - From When She Was Considered For The Seat Filled By Kavanaugh

A Leftie Take On ACB -

Yep, we get to kick him and his corrupt cronies to the curb and Trump into court.

Only 56 shopping days until the Biden inauguration and you can bet,
he won't have to lie about the attendance.



Trump lied over 22,000 times while in office.
No one should ever support such horrendous behavior.




After 4 years of record lies, corruption, and ineptness,
finally the USA will again have a real president and VP, who will actually help
the average American, rather than themselves.



The countdown to Biden inauguration continues !

Would you do it?