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Or does the news seem exceptionally regurgitated here lately? I’ve been skimming the news feeds and I swear most of the headlines I could have sworn I saw last month or even last year. It seems to me that when there is no “sensational” news to break with, reporters decide to bust out with the old and tried articles. Spruce them up a bit and hit “publish” The general populace will never notice they’re reading garbage!

Found a survey on Dneero and the questions are supposedly taken from headlines:

See what I mean? The survey seems so general and random, and that’s what’s been in the news lately. Just a bunch of bs.

Okay, so I thought I would close this blog. I wasn’t keeping it up to date anymore, and even though I had a lot to say on a variety of news topics (mostly wacky news) I could never seem to get my butt over here to write.

And yet despite this, I kept getting comments asking me to come back. And the visitor widgets from blog catalog and mybloglog have been positively jumping with activity.

When I closed all of the comments I figured that would be the end of it. Then I started getting emails from people saying that reading the stuff on my personal blog just wasn’t the same. Yeah, I can see that, since I tend to cut way on the news bits there. So have much thought, I decided to give running three blogs another try. Will I keep this blog as updated as my other two? I doubt it, considering N-I is being updated daily as it is. But I’m going to give it my best shot. So here we go, one more time.

Yesterday evening bumper to bumper traffic clogged up the two available lanes in the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the bridge, which normally boasted eight lanes, had been closed down to two due to construction efforts. Motorists sat in their vehicles, slowly inching their way off the clogged bridge to their homes, unaware that in moments they would soon be plunging into the murky waters of the Mississippi river below:

MINNEAPOLIS - The entire span of an interstate bridge broke into sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday, sending vehicles, concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water.

Hometown newspaper The Star-Tribune reported that nine people had been confirmed dead. The Associated Press put the number at seven so far. Authorities said the death toll was expected to climb.

Asked about the possibility of finding more survivors, Fire Chief Jim Clack said, “The likelihood is fairly slim.”

“This will be a very tragic night when this is over,” Mayor R.T. Rybak said.

(Full Article)

Currently, rescue attempts have been halted this evening and will resume again tomorrow morning. The rescue attempt was halted since for the past few hours they were no longer pulling out survivors but bodies. The death toll is anticipated to rise tomorrow. This will a long night for those whose family members are still missing and unaccounted for.

What gets me is that in the wake of this tragedy I have to see this plastered in the article:

No indication of terrorism
The Homeland Security Department said the collapse did not appear to be terrorism-related. The National Transportation Safety Board planned to send a team of investigators to Minneapolis, NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said.

Not everything is tied to terrorism people! I swear, for every foul and tragic event that occurs there is always someone looking for links to terrorist cells. Hello! Sometimes things really do happen on their own without the machinations of terrorists behind them. So let’s start looking at facts please instead of jumping at shadows.

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