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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Her Five Sisters Were Kidnapped by ISIS

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August 19, 2014
TAKEN
Hanifa's family is missing five young girls, ages 10 to 22. Countless other families are mourning their daughters and sisters taken hostage in a mass kidnapping of 500 women and girls by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq. America's limited military help has raised hopes for some, but Yazidi families despair as they begin to doubt they'll ever find their sisters and daughters taken away by ISIS.
M.I.A.
The National Rifle Association has been warning us about the threat of a heavily armed government crushing dissent for decades. Every dystopian warning of the gun group has come true in Missouri, writes Cliff Schecter, yet the organization is offering no sympathy for the African American victims.
HEAVENLY FATHER

Pope Francis said that he only expects to live "two or three" more years before he is "off to the Father's house." Speaking on a flight from South Korea back to the Vatican, Pope Francis said, "I try to think of my sins, my mistakes, not to become proud. Because I know it will last only a short time. Two or three years and then I'll be off to the Father's house." He also said he would retire if he could no longer fulfill the demands of serving as Pope. His processor Benedict XVI did in kind.

THANK GOD

Liberia's information minister said on Tuesday that all of the suspected Ebola patients who fled quarantine centers this past weekend have been located. "We are glad to confirm that all of the 17 individuals have been accounted for and have now been transferred to JFK Ebola specialist treatment center," Lewis Brown said. He also noted that three Ebola specialists being treated with the experimental drug ZMapp are showing "remarkable signs of improvement." Liberia has been hit the hardest of the four West African countries struggling with Ebola. It has a total count of 834 cases with 466 deaths. According to the World Health Organization, Ebola has claimed the lives of 1,229 people during this most recent outbreak.

CURTAIN CALL

The man who was the voice of Saturday Night Live since its first episode in October 1975 has passed away. Don Pardo died Monday at age of 96. His time on SNL was just one chapter of his 70 years in show business, beginning a career in radio at NBC in 1944. Pardo was hired by SNL creator Lorne Michaels to introduce the Not Ready for Primetime Players and his voice was a part of of the show except for one season. He moved to Arizona after his wife died in 1995 but flew back to New York each week to do do the show. "It was always exciting," Michaels said of Pardo. "Whatever montage we did to open the show, whatever pictures we used, it didn't really come alive till you heard him say it."


LIARS?
Cops Arrested 78 in Ferguson, Not 31
Police list contradicts official tally.
TRUCE OVER
Gaza Air Strikes, Rocket Fire Resume
Israel says peace talks collapsed.
CLOSE CALL
CA Teens Busted for School Shooting Plot
At South Pasadena high school.
RESOLVED
Kluwe, Vikings Settle Anti-Gay Charges
Allegedly harassed with slurs.
GOLDEN OLDIE
Man Has Worked at Same Company 70+ Years
And he's 101 years old.

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