Sunday Show 11/9/14
Veterans Day
On the 11th hour of the
11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary
cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and
Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.”
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John
Muir
John
Muir's birthplace was a four-story stone house in Dunbar, East
Lothian, Scotland. His parents were Daniel Muir and Ann Gilrye. He
was the third of eight children: Margaret, Sarah, David, Daniel, Ann
and Mary (twins), and the American-born
Joanna.
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US
Unemployment Rate Falls for Younger Workers
Younger
workers benefited from the October uptick in hiring. While still
high, the unemployment rate for teenagers fell to 18.6 percent from
20 percent in September as 266,000 of them landed jobs. The jobless
rate for workers in their early 20s declined to 10.5 percent from
11.4 percent.
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AUSTRALIA STRIVES TO
KEEP CLIMATE CHANGE OUT OF G20 ECONOMIC SUMMIT
The government of
Australia, which has been at the forefront of resisting international
pressure of developed countries to manage their economies around the
threat of climate change, is expected to resist more spending
proposed at the summit for a "Green Climate Fund," which
would give money to underdeveloped countries with the intention of
helping them reduce emissions.
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Pope Francis warns
against becoming Pagan Christians
Not all those who claim
to be Christians really are, said Pope Francis Friday morning. Some
are Christians “in name only,” he said. “They bear the name of
Christians but live a life of pagans.”
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From Brian's Mexican
Connection
Mexico City, November 7
(HOWEVER) .- Residents of the mountain town of Linda Vista, belonging
the municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, took up arms to
protest unsafe conditions with which, say, day face day and demanded
that the government guarantees that no similar case happen to Iguala.
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Man chooses to be eaten
alive by Anaconda
Naturalist Paul Rosolie
believes "you have to go head first." What he's referring
to is shoving his head into the mouth of an anaconda, letting it
swallow him, and filming the experience for a Discovery Channel
special called Eaten Alive, News.com.au reports.
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PETA
CONDEMNS DISCOVERY CHANNEL FOR 'EATEN ALIVE' ANACONDA SPECIAL
In
response to Discovery Channel's upcoming special, Eaten Alive, which
will feature author and naturist Paul Rosolie in a "snake-proof"
suit while being eaten by a massive anaconda, People For the Ethical
Treatment of Animals had something to say:
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GOP
civil war
As
most Republicans were taking a victory lap the morning after the
elections, a group of conservatives huddled anxiously in a conference
room not far from Capitol Hill and agreed that now is the time for
confrontation, not compromise and conciliation.
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Fema
asking disabled elderly residents to repay aid from Superstorm Sandy
The
residents of Belle Harbor Manor spent four miserable months in
emergency shelters after Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters surged
through their assisted-living center on New York City's Rockaway
peninsula.
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Giant
sunspot mystifies scientists
The
biggest sunspot to grace the face of the sun in more than two decades
just rotated out of Earth's view, but it was responsible for kicking
up some truly amazing solar activity this week.
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NASA's
Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Match
Reddish
rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by
NASA's Curiosity rover has yielded the mission's first confirmation
of a mineral mapped from orbit.
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Korean
war POW laid to rest 60 years after capture and death
A
Korean War POW has been laid to rest near his mother's grave in
California with full military honors more than 60 years after he died
of untreated wounds in enemy hands.
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Army
Vet killed at Los Angeles party celebrating recent return from
Afghanistan
An
Army veteran who survived the treacherous battlefields of Afghanistan
was gunned down Sunday in his old neighborhood in Los Angeles while
celebrating his homecoming from the wartorn land.
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