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Overnight Open Thread - Paul Harvey EditionIn 1959, Marine Corps pilot William Rankin was cruising at nine miles above the earth in an F-8 Crusader combat jet when his engine failed and he was forced to eject. At approximately 6:00 pm, Lt Col Rankin concluded that his aircraft was unrecoverable and pulled hard on his eject handles. An explosive charge propelled him from the cockpit into the atmosphere with sufficient force to rip his left glove from his hand, scattering his canopy, pilot seat, and other plane-related debris into the sky. Bill Rankin had spent a fair amount of time skydiving in his career—both premeditated and otherwise—but this particular dive would be unlike any that he or any living person had experienced before.Between him and the ground was a large, black storm and as he fell he was caught and trapped within the storm's powerful up and down-drafts. He would become the only human being to ever parachute through a full cumulonimbus “anvil” cloud and live: At the apex Rankin caught up with his parachute, causing it to drape over him like a wet blanket and stir worries that he would become entangled with it and drop from the sky at a truly terminal velocity. Again he fell, and again the updrafts yanked him skyward in the darkness. He lost count of how many times this up-and-down cycle repeated. “At one point I got seasick and heaved,” he once retold.Read the rest of the story here to find out what happened to him. Did the Marine Corps Embellish The Story of Medal of Honor Awardee, Dakota Meyer? Asked to explain the individual discrepancies and embellishments, the Marines drew a distinction between the citation and the account of Meyer’s deeds that the Marines constructed to help tell his story to the nation. They described that account as “Meyer’s narrative of the sequence of events,” which Marine officials said they didn’t vet…Note that no one is disputing that Meyers completely deserved the MOH for his actions on Sept. 8, 2009 in the Ganjgal Valley. What's most striking is that all this probably was unnecessary. Meyer, the 296th Marine to earn the medal, by all accounts deserved his nomination. At least seven witnesses attested to him performing heroic deeds “in the face of almost certain death.”But as the citation moved up through the command some apparently felt that it needed to be 'improved'. So how’d the Corps’ narrative of what happened end up being “enhanced” between July and September? McClatchy says USMC brass were irate after Cpl. Rafael Peralta’s MOH candidacy was downgraded in 2004 to a Navy Cross and that they were intent on a Marine being awarded the Medal before Commandant James Conway retired last year. Once they finally had an awardee and a national stage for him at the White House, maybe the temptation to make him more of a superhero than he already is proved too great. New Fatwa Permits Kidnapping, Imprisonment & Rape of “Infidel Women” On October 28, 2011, the jihadi forum Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad published a fatwa by Sheikh Abu Humam Al-Athari, a member of its shari’a council, in which he unequivocally permits mujahideen to capture the infidels’ women and have sexual intercourse with them, even those who are married, on the claim that their marriage bonds to infidels are dissolved as soon as they are taken captive.So why hasn't there been a sudden outbreak of lady infidel jihad rapes around the world? Well you see the fatwa only applies when you think you can get away with it: Al-Athari emphasizes that before deciding to take infidel women captive, “one must consider the gains and losses that will result from this deed, which is to say that if the imam of the Muslims in a given country believes that taking the infidels’ women captive will lead the infidels to band together and rape the Muslims’ women, and that the Muslims are in too weak a state to prevent this, he should forbid taking [infidel women] captive…”Ah such fine decent human beings. Companies “For” And “Against” Christmas What's the Most Dangerous Over-the-Counter Drug? More people actually die from aspirin overdoses but they're almost all suicides whereas acetaminophen deaths are mostly accidental. Compared to other over-the-counter drugs, acetaminophen has a relatively narrow safety margin—that is, the difference between a safe-but-effective dose and an overdose is relatively small. 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