Beyonce’s new baby Blue Ivy Carter is the devil incarnate — this according to some heartless vandal who defaced the sign in front of a North Carolina church yesterday … writing, “Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth.”

The pastor at Beulah Hill Baptist Church in West End, NC tells TMZ, he discovered the vandalism yesterday after receiving numerous complaints from locals — and removed it immediately.

The pastor insists, the church had nothing to do with the apocalyptic message … it was simply the victim in a random act of mischief.

Blue — Satan? No. Illuminati? ALMOST DEFINITELY.

Looks like legendary Wu-Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard, who died in 2004, had a pretty thick FBI file. Rich Jones of hacker-friendly site Gun.io has unearthed the entire 90-plus-page (heavily redacted) thing and posted it for your perusal here.

Jones obtained the document by filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the government. He also listed some of the file’s more notable information, annotated with the pages of the file that said information appears on. That list is below (along with the video for Return to the 36 Chambers‘ “Brooklyn Zoo”).

Highlights from Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI File:

– “The WTC is heavily involved in the sale of drugs, illegal guns, weapons possession, murder, carjacking and other types of violent crime.” [p5]

– Connections to the murder of Robert “Pooh” Johnson and Jerome “Boo Boo” Estrella. [p6]

– Connection to murder of Ishamael “Hoody” Kourma. [p13]

– A shoot-out with the NYPD. [p15]

– Arrest for felony possession of body armour. [p16]

– Connections to the Bloods Gang. [p17]

– Found in possession of large bags full of paper currency. [p40]

– Details of his being robbed and shot while staying in the Kingston projects. [p45]

 

http://pitchfork.com/news/45043-read-ol-dirty-bastards-fbi-file/

Occasional marijuana use doesn’t affect lung health, according to a 20-year study released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham analyzed lung function tests from more than 5,000 men and women in four U.S. cities who said they smoked marijuana or tobacco or both. They measured lung volume and airflow — the amount of air a person can blow out in one second.

They found what they expected with tobacco use — consistent loss of lung function with increasing exposure. However, they were surprised to find a different result for marijuana.

“With up to seven joint-years of life-time exposure (e.g., one joint/day for seven years or one joint/week for 49 years), we found no evidence that increasing exposure to marijuana adversely affects pulmonary function,” the researchers write.

Low lifetime exposure to marijuana was associated with a slight improvement in lung function. However, the amount of gain was minimal, co-author Stefan Kertesz said in a story in The Atlantic.

“Healthy adults can blow out three to four liters of air in one second. The amount of gain, on average, from marijuana is small, 50 ccs or roughly a fifth of a can of coke. So it’s not something that would be noticeable,” he said.

The researchers said one factor behind the different effects on the lungs is the difference in consumption of marijuana and tobacco.

“Tobacco users typically smoke 10 to 20 cigarettes/day, and some smoke much more than that,” lead author Mark Pletcher said in a statement. ”Marijuana users, on average, smoke only two to three times a month, so the typical exposure to marijuana is much lower than for tobacco.”

“And marijuana is one where a lot of people dabble with it in their late teens and 20s, and some people continue with relatively low levels for a long period of time,” Kertesz added.

The study’s finding suggested that heavy use of marijuana harmed the lungs, but the researchers said there too few heavy users in the study to make a reliable estimate.

http://www.mlive.com/health/index.ssf/2012/01/occasional_marijuana_use_doesn.html