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10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

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10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

Is there a persistent Internet argument that you're just sick of responding to? Don't have the energy to explain the problem with the argument for the billionth time? These comics can help, countering those troublesome arguments with a few words and pictures.

Image from someecards, likely inspired by this xkcd comic.

1. The Terrible Argument: "You're violating my free speech!"

Some people are under the mistaken impression that free speech means that they can say anything they want without criticism or consequence. But this comic from Randall Munroe's xkcd reminds us exactly what free speech means:

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

Be sure to head over the xkcd to read the hover text, which further explains why you shouldn't use claims of "free speech" as an argument with private entities.


2. The Terrible Argument: "Not all [insert group] are like that! I'm not like that!"

Sometimes, in response to complaints of harassment/bad actions by a particular group, a member of that group will respond with, "Not all of us are like that!" as if it is some sort of argument against the complaint.

To highlight the problem with that response (and doing nothing to solve the problem at hand), Dick Jarvis made the comic "Gull Factory" about a conversation between a seagull and rat. It doesn't go so well. Jarvis includes this note:

If you feel like this comic doesn't accurately represent you, and that you personally don't act like this, good. That means this comic isn't about you.

If you DO act like this, and are working on a counter argument about how not all _____ are ______ , well that's just disappointing.

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments


3. The Terrible Argument: "Evolution is just a theory."

There is a whole slew of arguments that we've all heard from people who don't believe in evolution: If we're descended from apes, how come there are still apes? How can we discuss evolution as accepted science if it's the Theory of Evolution?

In this excerpt from his book Science Tales: Lies, Hoaxes and Scams, Darryl Cunningham takes on common challenges to evolution, debunking them point by point. It probably won't change the minds of someone who firmly believes evolution is lie, but it's helpful for people who are genuinely confused.

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments




4. The Terrible Argument: "I'm being unfailingly polite, so you should debate this with me whether you want to or not."

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

Have you ever encountered someone who insists that their politeness is the most important aspect of your conversation, and that you owe it to them to debate every single point with them because they are being oh so polite about it? Thanks to David Malki's Wondermark, that phenomenon now has a name: Sea Lioning. Damn intrusive marine mammals.



5. The Terrible Argument: "Things were never this bad before [insert event] happened."

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

Need to respond to the relative who unironically says "Thanks, Obama," regarding things that have absolutely nothing to do with who's in the White House? Maybe pass along this Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic in which Zach Weinersmith points out that, by referencing atomic bombs, you can make all sorts of things sound terrible.


6. The Terrible Argument: "We shouldn't say that black lives matter, because everyone's lives matter."

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

In response to people who complain about the Black Lives Matter movement, because singling out black people who have been killed by police officers is somehow a form of racism, Kris Straub posted this installment of Chainsawsuit. It perfectly skewers the bizarre insistence that we should talk only about "equality" and never about the individual groups that are demanding equality.


7. The Terrible Argument: "I never see this form of harassment happen, so I suspect it doesn't happen as much as people say."

It's true, we as human beings tend to believe our eyes and ears, and it can be surprising when someone tells us that there's a huge, persistent problem that we ourselves have never seen. Over the past year, there's been a lot of discussion about harassment of women and how many men have never witnessed it themselves. Robot Hugs shines the light on harassment and gently reminds us all that even if we don't experience a particular negative event in our daily lives, that doesn't mean it's not happening.

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments


8. The Terrible Argument: "I'm not privileged because I have hardship in my life."

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

Life is hard. Everyone has issues that they have to deal with, and the fact that they have some disadvantages in life doesn't mean that they don't have advantages as well. Jon Rosenberg offers up a rather absurd version of someone claiming their particular hardship negates their privilege in Scenes from a Multiverse. But for nuanced discussions, there is also Jamie Kapp's explanation of white privilege and another excellent comic from Robot Hugs laying out how privilege works, that it isn't absolute, and that, while "privilege" isn't a word that should be hurled like a weapon, it is a good thing for us as human beings interacting with other human beings to be aware of.


9. The Terrible Argument: "Portrayals of muscle-bound men are the same as portrayals of sexy women."

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

This installment from David Willis' Shortpacked! is a classic, wonderfully illustrating the difference between a male power fantasy and objectifying men by showing a sexy male (who also happens to be Batman) that's clearly not a male power fantasy. Of course, that doesn't stop people from trying to make this argument again and again.

By the way, there's also a sequel to this comic where one character starts to chime in with what is surely a terrible counterargument.


10. The Terrible Argument: Pretty much everything you've heard against vaccines.

10 Comics That Shut Down Terrible Internet Arguments

It's a series of arguments that somehow won't go away, and Maki Naro (who also created the comics Sci-ənce and Sufficiently Remarkable) counters them all in this comic for The Nib. And if you need more information about the MMR vaccine controversy, Darryl Cunningham has written about that as well. However, debunking vaccine myths isn't always as useful as we think it is.



Thanks to Greg Thelan, Channing Kennedy, Terry D. Johnson, and Esther Inglis-Arkell for suggestions!

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Girlfriend of Walmart Police Shooting Victim Dies in Car Crash

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Tasha Thomas, the girlfriend of John Crawford, III, the man shot dead by police last August in an Ohio Walmart, was killed in a high-speed car crash on New Year's Day, Ohio's ABC 22 reports.

The Montgomery County Coroner's Office identified the victim as Thomas because her address and birthdate matched what she told police when a detective interrogated her for 90 minutes about how her boyfriend obtained a gun. Meanwhile, at the Walmart where Crawford died, law enforcement determined the alleged firearm was just an air rifle he had picked up from a store shelf.

Police say Thomas was riding in a car driven by 30-year-old Frederick Bailey in Dayton Thursday when the vehicle hit a pole at 90-100 miles per hour and overturned multiple times. Both of them were thrown from the car and killed.

"When I came over the one lady was still breathing," a witness told ABC 22, "I tried to use a towel to cover her up but the police got here and the ambulance was already here."

A police sergeant confirmed first responders tried to save Thomas, but she died after being transported to a hospital.

"It's just tragic," Michael Wright, the Crawford family's attorney, told the Guardian Friday, "It is a sad set of circumstances continuing from what happened at Walmart."

[h/t The Root]

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Brooklyn Man Found Dead After Vanishing During Yoga Retreat in Mexico

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Brooklyn Man Found Dead After Vanishing During Yoga Retreat in Mexico

Authorities in Mexico are searching for Hari Simran Singh Khalsa, a yoga teacher from Brooklyn who disappeared Tuesday while on a hike in the Tepozteco Mountains. Before he went missing, Khalsa sent his wife Ad Purkh Kaur, née Emily Smith, a selfie from the mountains with the caption, "Looking down on you"; not long after, Kaur received a second text from Khalsa, saying he had "accidentally summited another mountain" and would be "a little later coming back."

Khalsa was in contact with another friend before disappearing: "I'm on top of a really high mountain in Mexico and I'm not exactly sure how to get down," he said. Khalsa, who'd been at a nearby yoga retreat with Kaur, was reportedly carrying with him only a liter of water and a package of trail mix.

Kaur and Khalsa's friends hoped information released by T-Mobile would help track the missing 25-year-old's movements but so far have had no luck; in cooperation with the FBI, the phone company released all the information from Khalsa's phone but said the GPS had been turned off before his disappearance.

Now friends and family are raising money on GoFundMe to hire helicopters and rent special infrared technology to find Khalsa.

"Everyone who knows him, we want to do everything we can, because he's counting on us," family friend Hari Khalsa told CBS New York.

UPDATE 4:32 pm: The Associated Press is reporting that Khalsa has been found dead. Searchers found his body in a narrow ravine, according to the Mexican civil defense official who spoke with the AP.

[Photo via GoFundMe]

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United Airlines Customer Service Was So Bad It Made a Monk Lose His Cool

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United Airlines Customer Service Was So Bad It Made a Monk Lose His Cool

Perhaps you traveled by air this holiday season, and perhaps you wouldn't use the word "exemplary" to describe your customer service. Perhaps the airline representative took a tone with you over the phone, and perhaps you said some things you didn't mean in return. Congrats! You're in good company.

The New York Times brings us the story of Brothers Noah and John Baptist of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, in Abiquiu, N.M., who also had a less-than-exemplary experience with an airline recently. In late November, John Baptist flew via United Airlines to Malawi, where he is from, to visit his sick mother, purchasing a round-trip ticket for $2,489. Eventually, it became clear that he'd need to stay longer than expected, so his colleague Noah called to make the new arrangements. That, in the words of the Times, is "when the trouble started."

A monk at the monastery, Brother Noah, called United and said he was told that the company never received payment for the ticket. This sounded insane, given that Brother John Baptist had already used the outbound portion of the itinerary. United's rep then said something a little contradictory: Brother John Baptist actually had credit for a return flight, but he could not use this credit because of suspicion that the original transaction was fraudulent.

The best idea, the rep suggested, was for the monastery's leader, Abbot Philip, to visit the United desk at the airport in Albuquerque, a three-hour drive away.

Things went on like that for a while until Noah finally erupted into a fit of righteous anger, or something like that.

"I said to her something like: 'Thank you for speaking. God bless you. I will pray for you. But you have not been helpful.' "

Hold him back, holy one!

"It was my tone of voice," he said. "I know that it manifested anger."

After an open letter posted to the monastery's website and quite a bit more back-and-forth with United, the airline finally issued the ticket, along with an apology and a $350 credit for future flights. "We really appreciated this," Noah told the Times, "because it was the first time someone had said it wasn't the monks' fault!"

[Image via AP]

Ga. Police Chief: I Accidentally Shot My Wife While She Slept in Bed

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Ga. Police Chief: I Accidentally Shot My Wife While She Slept in Bed

William McCollom, the Peachtree City police chief who shot his wife early Thursday morning, said in a 911 call that the shooting occurred as he moved the gun from his bed while his wife slept. "…the gun was in the bed," he said. "I went to move it to put it to the side and it went off."

Later, when the operator asked him to identify himself, McCollom gave her his official title. "Yeah, unfortunately yes," he said when asked to confirm his job as police chief.

Throughout the call, which was released Friday, McCollom's wife Margaret can be heard moaning in pain. "She's starting to have trouble breathing now so it must be internal," McCollum said. "Come on guys, get here."

From ABC News:

There was some confusion about the number of shots fired, and though he is heard telling the 911 operator that his wife was shot twice, investigators have since said that she was only shot once.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was notified of the incident an hour after it happened and have launched an investigation, as is customary when a police officer is involved in a shooting.

During a Thursday news conference, GBI spokeswoman Sherry Lang said that McCollom is not being held but has been cooperative with the investigation.

Margaret McCollom was airlifted to a hospital in Atlanta, where she remains in critical condition.


Weddings Are Boring, But This Kid Knows a Good Dance Move

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Weddings: Good for you. Nobody cares. This kid, Harlan, and his sweet dance moves (actually, it's more like one really good move): A lone bright spot in several dark hours interacting with people's relatives.

Applause to you, Harlan. You are Good. Your dancing is a Good and Amusing thing to do at your age, and delivers the soothing balm of laughter to today's downtrodden Adults, in whose mirthless ranks you will one day march.

Congratulations to the happy couple.

[h/t Digg Video]

Zoe Saldana Gives Birth to Hipster Scum

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Zoe Saldana Gives Birth to Hipster Scum

When it comes to naming a human child, the only hard and true rule the Baby Name Critic adheres to in her private name consultation business (email leah@gawker.com for more info and rates) is that the child should be given an actual name, and not a name that is a pile of shit. It appears that Zoe Saldana, a Na'vi person, is yet another celebrity who has not heeded my timeless advice.

Saldana, with "artist" husband Marco Perego, gave birth in November to twin sons Cy and Bowie. After exhaustive research I have determined that these are not names, but weak attempts at cultural "coolness." "Cy" does not meet the required character count for an American name (three characters). When measured on the Baby Name Critic's Name Prententiousness Meter (a Christmas gift), "Bowie" scores a 92 (room for error if Saldana and Perego perhaps named their son after beautiful Bowie, Maryland).

Let it be said: Do not name your child after a rock star. Do not name your child after an actor or actress. Do not name your child after any celebrity. Celebrities are dumb, and this will cause your child to be dumb.

This has been Baby Name Critic.

Leah Finnegan is Gawker's Baby Name Critic.

[Pic via AP]

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Get Ready: Bitterly Cold Weather Will Grip the Eastern U.S. Next Week

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Get Ready: Bitterly Cold Weather Will Grip the Eastern U.S. Next Week

An intense outbreak of cold weather will descend on the eastern two-thirds of the country next week, with widespread low temperatures in the single digits and below zero for a couple of days. Lows in the teens are even possible as far south as Alabama and Mississippi.

People are still a little...touchy...about the polar vortex after last winter. I don't think we should be afraid of using the term as long as it's responsible and in the proper context. Let's get it out of the way right now—yes, this cold outbreak will be influenced in part by the polar vortex, but nowhere near on the scale we saw last winter. The best way to describe it is a glancing blow.

The polar vortex is a persistent, large-scale counterclockwise circulation around the Arctic that acts like a moat keeping bitterly cold air confined to the far north. The vortex often looks like a smooth belt, but every once and a while the circulation will become wavy, allowing cold air to flow south out of the Arctic. Last year, the vortex broke into several upper-level lows, one of which rotated over Ontario and the Great Lakes, causing a prolonged period of extremely cold weather in the United States.

This time around, the main circulation will stay safely up by Greenland, but a trough extending off of the upper-level low will swing down through the Great Lakes and Northeastern United States, facilitating low temperatures at or below zero for a large portion of the Midwest and Northeast for a few days next week.

Get Ready: Bitterly Cold Weather Will Grip the Eastern U.S. Next Week

Using this morning's run of the GFS model, here's a look at the 500 millibar level of the atmosphere (16,000-18,000 feet above sea level) beginning around 7:00 AM EST on Tuesday and ending before sunrise on Friday. Cooler colors show lower heights (correlating roughly to lower surface pressure) and warmer colors show higher heights. The model shows the main circulation of the polar vortex firmly planted over Baffin Bay, with a trough extending from the low and moving through Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the Northeast between Tuesday and Friday.

People don't much care for nuance, and since the sound of chattering teeth is too hard to type out, the media will call this the second coming of the polar vortex. Ignore that noise. It really is more of a glancing blow than anything like what we saw last winter.

It's going to get cold, though.

Get Ready: Bitterly Cold Weather Will Grip the Eastern U.S. Next Week

How cold will it get? Again, from the GFS, low temperatures on Thursday morning could dip to almost 40 degrees below normal around Lake Michigan. Chicago's average low for January 8 is 17°F. The GFS model is trying to paint lows on Thursday morning dipping to -18°F in the Windy City. Normally I would throw out these temperatures as too extreme, but this morning's run of the European model is corroborating what the GFS predicts, if not five to ten degrees warmer on the whole.

Here's a look at model-predicted high and low temperatures for New York City over the next couple of days:

Get Ready: Bitterly Cold Weather Will Grip the Eastern U.S. Next Week

...and Boston:

Get Ready: Bitterly Cold Weather Will Grip the Eastern U.S. Next Week

For now, forecasters aren't exactly hopping on the record cold bandwagon yet, but if the weather models continue to show these dangerously cold temperatures through the weekend, it's a distinct possibility that many residents in the interior Northeast, and especially the Great Lakes and Midwest, will wake up to temperatures below zero one or more mornings next week.

Regardless of how cold actual temperatures wind up getting, the pattern is clearly shifting to the miserable cold pattern that we should see around this time of the year. Many of us have enjoyed days where you can almost get away with not wearing a coat when you go outside, but those are done for the foreseeable future. We're about to realize how easy we've had it these past few weeks.

[All model images via WeatherBELL]


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Leo DiCaprio's Beach Party Shows Startling Drop in Model Percentage

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Leo DiCaprio's Beach Party Shows Startling Drop in Model Percentage

Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and founding member of the Pussy Posse, is a well known babe wrangler and party boy about town. Sadly, it seems the cold winds of January have blown in a steep drop in the percents model of his parties. Has the playboy fallen into a rut?

According to TMZ, DiCaprio partied with a handful of ladies on a private beach in St. Barts on New Year's Day. The "half a dozen or so" chicks, the site claims, were taken to a beach "only accessible by boat" to usher in the new year. Some images appear to show the actor hovering around—often above—his 80 percent model range:

Leo DiCaprio's Beach Party Shows Startling Drop in Model Percentage

Leo DiCaprio's Beach Party Shows Startling Drop in Model Percentage

Leo DiCaprio's Beach Party Shows Startling Drop in Model Percentage

However, a photograph taken of the full scene tells quite a different story:

72.7% model.

Let's hope Leonardo can get his numbers up as the year advances.

[images via Splash, Twitter]

Creator of "Fuck Her Right in the Pussy" Admits It Was All a Hoax

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Apparently some people missed the memo that the I-can't-believe-it's-not-Idiocracy catchphrase "Fuck Her Right in the Pussy" originated with a couple of completely fake news bloopers before it spread rapidly, not unlike herpes, to actual TV broadcasts. Today, the creator of the worst meme that dominated the worst year cleared that up with a video officially confessing the hoax.

John Cain, who played a reporter in the very first FHRITP video, back before he introduced the bearded, be-sunglassesed (shut up, it's a word) character of "Fred," posted outtakes Friday from his early, staged attempts to make Fuck Her Right in the Pussy a thing. This is how your FHRITP sausage was made.

And, lo, many bro hearts were shattered into tiny fragments that day, and the sad, unfunny meme was abandoned with the rest of last year's gross, viral detritus. And the internet saw that it was good. And it was 2015, and it was morning.

[h/t BroBible]

"Mr.

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"Mr. Brinsley's short life was a series of disappointments." The New York Times has profiled Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the man who recently shot and killed two NYPD officers in Brooklyn. "If he couldn't get it together, he told the mother of his second child in early December, he would kill himself."


Despite Warning, Suicidal Rikers Island Inmate Found Dead

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Despite Warning, Suicidal Rikers Island Inmate Found Dead

A Rikers Island inmate who threatened to kill himself was found dead yesterday after correction officers failed to put him on suicide watch, the New York Times reports. Rikers Island remains a brutal hellhole.

Jail records obtained by the Times show that a mental health clinician visited the inmate, Fabian Cruz, on Wednesday afternoon. Cruz threatened to harm himself, and the clinician asked that he be moved to a mental observation unit "as a precautionary measure against acts of self-harm or accidental death," the report said. He was never moved.

24 hours later, Cruz was found dead in his cell, a bedsheet wrapped around his neck. "Patient most likely committed suicide," an internal report said. "He hanged himself."

About two weeks earlier, Cruz had plead guilty to one felony count of attempted first-degree criminal sexual act. Prosecutors alleged that he sexually abused his girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter over a period of three years. According to the Times, Cruz was going to be sentenced on January 12 to five years in prison.

Rikers Island is such a medieval place—thanks in large part to one police union chief—that federal prosecutors recently announced plans to sue New York City over it.

[Photo credit: AP Images]

Commissioner to Cops: Don't Turn Your Backs to de Blasio at Funeral

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Commissioner to Cops: Don't Turn Your Backs to de Blasio at Funeral

Ahead of Sunday's services for murdered officer Wenjian Liu, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton sent a clear message to members of his department on Friday: "A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance."

That's how Bratton began a memo urging police not to use the event as a venue for protest, as many had last weekend when they turned their backs to Mayor Bill de Blasio at the funeral of slain officer Rafael Ramos.

"The city's and the country's consciousness of that funeral has focused on an act of disrespect," wrote Bratton. "It was not all the officers, and it was not disrespect directed at Detective Ramos. But all officers were painted by it, and it stole the valor, honor, and attention that rightfully belonged to the memory of Detective Rafael Ramos."

Bratton emphasized that his plea was not a mandate and that he was not threatening to discipline officers, but wished to "remind" them that "when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor, and decency that go with it."

Below, via the New York Post, is Bratton's memo in full:

TO: All Commands, All Members

RE: Comportment at the Funeral of Detective First Grade Wenjian Liu

A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance.

Last Saturday, the New York City Police Department buried a hero. Tens of thousands of officers from our department and hundreds of other departments came to show respect for Detective First Grade Rafael Ramos. His family witnessed the kind of love that only his second family in blue could display. But for the last seven days, the city's and the country's consciousness of that funeral has focused on an act of disrespect shown by a portion of those tens of thousands of officers. It was not all the officers, and it was not disrespect directed at Detective Ramos. But all officers were painted by it, and it stole the valor, honor, and attention that rightfully belonged to the memory of Detective Rafael Ramos's life and sacrifice. That was not the intent, I know. But it was the result.

On Sunday, we will gather together again, with the rest of New York City and law enforcement officials nationwide, to mourn for Detective First Grade Wenjian Liu. We gather to support his parents, his widow, and everyone who is there to remember a life tragically cut short.

The assassination of Detectives Liu and Ramos was an attack on us all. As a cop, one who lived and worked through the assassination threats of the 1970s, I understand that emotions are high. I issue no mandates, and I make no threats of discipline. But I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor, and decency that go with it.

William J. Bratton

Police Commissioner

**To be read and/or viewed and displayed at all roll calls on Friday January 2, Saturday January 3, and Sunday January 4**

[Image via AP Images]

Does ISIS Have Ebola? Probably Not! Media Reports It Anyway

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Does ISIS Have Ebola? Probably Not! Media Reports It Anyway

The New York Post decided that it was a good idea to report that members of ISIS may have been infected with Ebola. In other news, Andy Borowitz has been hired at the New York Post. (Haha, no, kidding. Can you imagine, though?)

Apparently, the World Health Organization is investigating claims made by Iraqi newspaper Al-Sabah that Ebola and HIV-AIDS are spreading among residents of Mosul, brought there by "terrorists and expats from different countries, especially Africa." Mosul is held by ISIS; Al-Sabah is the official Iraqi government newspaper.

Mashable reports that the story, which originated in Al-Sabah, has spread amongst other pro-government and Kurdish newspapers. Like a virus! Might such outlets have an interest in encouraging the notion that ISIS fighters were stricken with highly-stigmatized diseases? Hmm.

Meanwhile, Forbes reported in October that ISIS maybe possibly could use Ebola as a weapon:

If ISIS wanted to send half a dozen of its operatives into an Ebola outbreak region and intentionally expose themselves to the virus, they very well could. The idea is then once they had intentionally infected themselves, they would try to interact with as many people in their target city or country of choice.

So maybe that ridiculous scenario is coming to pass. Maybe! Maybe. There's just no way for us to know for sure. Then again, "We've seen no specific credible intelligence that [ISIS] is attempting to use any sort of disease or virus to attack our homeland," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in October.

Oh, and also, according to Iraq's Ministry of Health, there are no doctors in Mosul that have the capacity to diagnose Ebola. The reports are "incorrect" and "unfounded," a ministry spokesman said.

[Photo credit: AP Images]

"Brave Little Girl" Survives Plane Crash That Killed Her Parents

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"Brave Little Girl" Survives Plane Crash That Killed Her Parents

After surviving a deadly plane crash in Kentucky on Friday that killed her sister, cousin and both of her parents, a 7-year-old Illinois girl walked bloodied and barefoot for help, eventually finding it on the doorstep of an elderly stranger.

"The little girl come to my door," 71-year-old Larry Wilkins told NBC News. "She told me that her mom and her dad were dead, and she was in a plane crash, and the plane was upside down. She asked if she could stay here."

According to the Associated Press, the FAA lost contact with the plane piloted by the girl's father shortly after he reported engine problems at around 5:55 p.m. About half an hour later, Wilkins called 911 to report the crash.

"I felt so sorry for her, tears come to my eyes," said Wilkins, "Seven years old. Brave little girl."

The unnamed 7-year-old was then taken to a nearby hospital with "non-life-threatening injuries." She has since been released.

On Saturday, Kentucky police identified the dead as 49-year-old Marty Gutzler, 45-year-old Kimberly Gutzler, 9-year-old Piper Gutzler and 14-year-old Sierra Wilder.

[Image via Facebook]

9 Negative Truth-Claims About Kid Rock, According to Kid Rock

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9 Negative Truth-Claims About Kid Rock, According to Kid Rock

9. "I'm not embarrassed."

8. "I don't smoke much weed, it makes me dumb."

7. "Schoolbook-wise I'm not as educated as some politicians."

6. "I don't exactly look like Brad Pitt."

5. "As an ordained minister I don't look forward to marrying gay people..."

4. "But I'm not opposed to it."

3. "I don't think crazy people should have guns."

2. "I am no fan of abortion."

1. "I'm not just wealthy, I'm loaded."

[Photo credit: AP Images | The Guardian]

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