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For ISIS jihadis in Syria who originally hail from Western countries like France, life is rough. It’s especially tough as winter sets in and your iPod breaks.
In letters reprinted by Le Figaro newspaper, one of the 376 Frenchmen currently waging jihad writes:
"I'm fed up. My iPod doesn't work any more here. I have to come back."
Another writes:
"I've basically done nothing except hand…
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent out a Christmas card with a photo where he poses with his wife. There’s just one problem: his face is so “fabulously awkward” that it doesn’t look like it could possibly have been sent out this way. And yet Mr. Blair’s office confirmed it is “indeed the Blairs’ official card for 2014.”
Twitter lit up with responses to the card, comparing his face to…
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Texans quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw 358 yards and 6 touchdown passes on Sunday, but he was upstaged by his math whiz son in the post-game show.
Proud dad Ryan, who played in college for Harvard, invited his son Brady onstage during the postgame press conference. Ryan asks Brady to multiply any number between 90 and 99 with another number between 90 and 99 – it’s amazing how well he…
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The Hells Angels motorcycle club stood in line for five days before Black Friday at a Walmart in Fresno, California for a surprising reason – they bought up the store’s entire stock of children’s bicycles.
The 200+ bikes they purchased will go to homeless children at Poverello House, a Fresno non-profit that helps the needy and impoverished.
They were noticed by Reddit user Draculia_54…
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President Obama is willing to let the government shut down if Congress ties his hands on immigration, stated White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest at today’s White House Press briefing.
“If Congress passed a funding bill that tied the President’s hands on the immigration executive order, basically undid it or made it impossible to carry out, would the President veto such a bill?”…
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Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) staff posted a video today of Bachmann rapping a few of the line’s from Macklemore’s 2012 hit, “Thrift Shop.”
“I just have to start laughing whenever I see the word ‘incredible,’” Bachmann giggles. She then raps: “I wear my granddad’s clothes, I look incredible!”
“I got 20 dollars in my pocket,” she sings another of the song’s lines, before bursting into…
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The Islamic State is tweeting support for violence in Ferguson, Mo., telling protestors to embrace Islam. “… and then we will shed our blood for you, and send you soldiers that don’t sleep, whose drink is blood and their play is carnage!”
Rioting and looting broke out in Ferguson last week after a grand jury declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed…
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Five members of the St. Louis Rams offensive line entered the field with a “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” pose in apparent solidarity with protestors of the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in the nearby town of Ferguson.
Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt “came out with their hands up, before being joined by the rest of the team to start the game,”…
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Good news: the Girl Scouts of the USA are about to allow you to buy your favorite cookies online!
“Online is where entrepreneurship is going,” said Sarah Angel-Johnson, chief digital cookie executive for the organization.
The Girl Scouts parent organization will sell the cookies through the web site and mobile apps.
From the Associated Press:
More than 1 million scouts, from kindergarten-…
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New Orleans Saints NFL player Benjamin Watson posted this to his Facebook page about the recent Grand Jury decision and violence in Ferguson. His solution is one that so many agree with, his post is going viral.
His Facebook post reads:
At some point while I was playing or preparing to play Monday Night Football, the news broke about the Ferguson Decision. After trying to figure out how I…