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... “When you see that much blonde hair on the floor, you know something is going on,” says Nicole Butler, creative director and master colorist at Daniel’s Salon in Dupont Circle. During the notoriously slow month of November, her salon received a startling number of bookings, with at least three women a day sitting in her chair and asking for a drastic change, like cutting off six inches, going black, or going platinum. “Usually stuff like this is planned for weeks and put on the books after several consultations, but this was very spontaneous,” Butler says. “It was like a...

Donald Trump really should have gone bold and appointed -- or reappointed -- Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. That is if he couldn't find another unemployed general to hire. The Clinton appointment might not have made America great again, but it sure would have neutralized the Washington/New York liberal political and media establishmen

For the past several weeks, there has been a lot of talk about the so-called “Black Lives Matter” protests, and how the protests seems to be growing in violence, with less and less being done to deal with them. President Obama, as expected, appears useless to stop the violence, even siding with the violence by his same refusal. There is a lot of talk about “racism,” “discrimination,” and the usual language. There are even calls for blacks to take over southern states, create their own country, and “kill all the white people”: The end game is land ownership. The endgame...

BLOCKBUSTER: Patsy to police: The CIA killed Mateen, and they will kill me! Quick explanation: The man arrested in Santa Monica with bomb material and automatic weapons to "attack a gay pride parade" actually turned himself in to the Santa Monica police for protection after he heard Mateen (who was part of his CIA team) was killed in the shooting! Get a load of this, it appears to be the false flag bust of the century!

Once again Donald Trump is frazzling the custodians of civil discourse....... But dismissing JFK’s assassination as a trivial subject is one mistake that Donald Trump does not make. His gambit is an old story in American culture. With his intuitive media personality, Trump is drawn, moth-like, to an eternal flame of American culture: the JFK story......... The issue facing the next president–and those who will vote for him or her– is not “Who killed JFK?” The issue in 2016 is “Who will kill JFK secrecy?” The Law::::::Within a year of taking the oath of office President Trump (or President Clinton)...

The Steelers continue to face backlash over the team's decision to sign Michael Vick. The Animal Rescue League has decided to move one of its biggest events away from Heinz Field because Vick's now on the roster. The ARL was going to hold its 16th annual Paws Prints Gala at Heinz, but the group decided to move the Oct. 31 event to Pittsburgh's CONSOL Energy Center instead because of the Vick signing. "While we understand that Mr. Vick has made an effort to atone for his past mistakes and has worked to help strengthen animal abuse laws, we do not...

Ed Schultz ‏@edshow As Hurricane #Sandy approaches, remember that under Romney, there'd be no federal relief for natural disasters. #edshow http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/26/why-romneys-not-ready-for-hurricane-sandy/ …

There are lots of experts in this forum of one kind or another. Here we have James Holmes. Why wasn't he taken down? Would you have done it?

Why I will no longer give my support for Romney but instead will cast my vote for Obama.

The invitation to an exclusive party at Hollywood's famed Supperclub showed a relaxed, smiling young man welcoming patrons to a birthday celebration for Metta World Peace. At first glance, it appears to be a fundraiser for a deserving children's charity. But read further and it becomes clear that this is a party for the former Ron Artest — the first fabulous bash thrown by the Los Angeles Lakers forward who officially changed his name. But why Metta World Peace? "Metta is going to be the first name and it means like friendship, love and kindness," Artest told sports journalist Stephen...

Coca-Cola thought they were being festive when it introduced a snow white can for the holidays. Unfortunately, it made customers a little less-than-merry. -snip- Coca-Cola hadn’t just chosen white because it reminded them of snowy winter days. It had a partnership with the World Wildlife Fund to raise awareness and funds for the polar bear and its habitat.

Virgin Mary in Africa Sky or Project Blue Beam? Video at YouTubeKindly watch this video all the way to the end. Something striking is happening here and I will admit that (assuming the video isn’t a hoax along the lines of the countless bogus UFO videos out there) whatever it is looks very much like the traditional Catholic image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It appears to have been recorded with a smartphone. There is no descriptive information associated with the video except for that it is purported to have been taken in April of this year somewhere in...

Study finds that faults beneath the Salton Sea ruptured during Colorado River floods and may have triggered large earthquakes on the southern San Andreas FaultSouthern California's Salton Sea, once a large natural lake fed by the Colorado River, may play an important role in the earthquake cycle of the southern San Andreas Fault and may have triggered large earthquakes in the past. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Nevada, Reno, discovered new faults in the Salton Sea near the southern end of the San Andreas Fault. By examining...

At first glance, the numbers released by the Census Bureau last week showing a precipitous drop in Detroit’s population — 25 percent over the last decade — seem to bear a silver lining: most of those leaving the city are blacks headed to the suburbs, once the refuge of mid-century white flight. But a closer analysis of the data suggests that the story of housing discrimination that has dominated American urban life since the early 20th century is far from over. Detroit is not the only American city to face persistent residential segregation, but it is among the worst: it...

Tea Party Spells KKK, Rights Leader Says Black Leaders Outraged Over 'Restoring Honor' Rally By JOHN R. PARKISON Aug. 26, 2010 A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend. The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991, called on African-Americans to organize a "new coalition of conscience" to rebut the rally scheduled for Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial featuring Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin....

Nothing has been quite as exciting and as disappointing or even disgusting as the grand drama of this Democratic contest for the nomination. We have seen Barack Obama rise and, with a new tone, make biracial identity a public fact of American life. We have also seen Americans reinvigorated, surging with a refreshing patriotism that is fully aware of the country's shortcomings. We have seen America's history of struggling toward fairness become, perhaps for the first time, a common heritage that crossed lines of color, class, religion, region and sexual identity. In Obama's world, every American can lay claim to...