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break since there's only "circumstantial
evidence to prove such an accusation."
    How long have I been saying you can almost
never trust the mainstream media? They honestly believe we're idiots.
    And of course, through a short bout of internet
journalism, I've discovered that today’s announcement comes fresh on the heel
of three similar reports from yesterday in Texas,
California, and Colorado, stating similar
"disappearances." But it's in no way suspicious those never got any
media cover, is it?
    Are we witnessing a streak of perfectly
executed jail-breaks, or something beyond coincidental timings? Any possibility
of a relation to Japan's
flying man? Maybe.
    The head of security says that, "While the
disappearances do cause us to re-examine our security structure, we've been
operating under the same regimen for the past couple of years. It's highly
unlikely such a flaw would be exploited for the first time this far into a
program." He later added, "We will, however, take no options off the
table."
    So authorities are probing surveillance footage
around the time of the disappearances, and the manhunt for these convicts
outside the facilities is already underway.
    Visitations have been suspended for the
remainder of the week while the FBI investigates. Sounds logical, but is it
legal?
    We're likely to never know. The federal
government recently issued a moratorium on any information, which is odd
considering that most facilities are owned by private companies.
    And to make things stranger still is the
announcement from the department of homeland security warning of a possible
terrorist attack within the next few days, citing new evidence in an ongoing
investigation. No further evidence was given, not the type of threat, or even
possible targets.
    Really, how vague can our government be? Have
terrorists escaped, and if that's the case why were they in our penal system
and not being held by the military? Sounds like the FBI is intervening to cover
their ass. Whatever the case may be, it sure has given news channels some fresh
meat for the next few days.
    Gotta love our alphabet agencies though,
somehow, they don't make me feel as secure as I feel they should. But what do I
know, I'm only human. And besides, with all this juicy media flying around (no
pun intended Japan)
it seems everyone's forgotten about last weeks "solar event."
    Which is odd considering world-ending events
still place higher than terrorist attacks on my list of shit to care about,
right? And considering our global short term memory epidemic: Sandy,
Haiti, Japan, the Norway Spiral
anyone? I could go on, and that last one is just the conspiracy theorist in me
coming out, but I can't be the only one not buying the official story, am I?
    But that's it for me, as much as I love
punching holes in shoddy journalism it's not enough to keep me from an evening
with my leading lady. Sweet dreams America.

 
    Bryan Cox -
    A gas mane explosion in the middle of the
night? I can kind of buy it... if I were twelve. Seriously, I moved out to the
suburbs so my family could feel safe. I don't feel safe anymore. The lights go
dark and suddenly I'm hearing the rattle of gunfire. Not the crackle and pop of
live power lines dancing around, actual gunfire. Then the explosion, one hell
of one at that, two windows on the south side of my house got cracked. Sure, a
gas mane could do that but since hearing about that flying man in Japan and
that bus in India, well, I'm not foolish enough to just blindly jump onto the
official story.

 
    Amanda Noel Kennedy -
    OMG Facebook fam! You know that news story
about the gas mane explosion, it happened right down the road from where I
live! How cool is that?! Sure as hell got our attention, cracked half the
windows around my house, completely ruined two. Half the neighborhood was out
there at some point, gossiping, looking at the flames. They said a bunch of
weirdoes lived there, God rest their souls. Also said they heard some sort of
popping