The object didn’t show up on radar..
Maybe it was a bird.
A drone?
And it brings up the question in my mind: In the future, how many people are going to believe that the drones that are about to fill the sky are actually extra terrestrial craft? And in the past, how many people already thought it…
My wife and I looked back through old photos tonight.. Way back to those retro days of *gasp* 2005. Yes, it doesn’t seem like a long time ago.. but wrinkles add to the days and stress and weight add to our ways.
It is just strange when you stop for a brief moment and look back at yourself.
Sometimes the events captured in pictures isn’t even fresh in the mind anymore..
Time sure can be fleeting.
I think a new goal, as of now, is to live a little more like every day is the last. Strolling through photos illustrates just how rapidly it all goes.. but where does it go?
I picture Langoliers happily eating the past.
Perhaps NATURAL NEWS titles it best:
Mindless pedestrians walk right into traffic while texting, talking on cell phones
What is happening in this nation, and world? …and street corner. People increasingly unaware of what goes on around them.
We are tuned in to Twitter and Facebook. We are streaming live.. we are Netflixing up life and Skyping until the sun sets.. we are setting up our iPads and iPods and iEverythings at the side of our bed.. ready to search and lurk at a moment’s notice. And yes, even some are putting iPods into their skin so they will vibrate with every alert.
This is our society.. Tuned in but tuned out at the same time.
A similar note, perhaps: The IQ level of the world is a fascinating thing. The listing can be found here .. Highest: Hong Kong. Where is the United States? 19th.
Find that on your Twitterfeed. Just don’t walk into traffic if you decide to click the link…
Texting.
Sexting.
Wexting (Walking while texting.)
What will be next?
Seriously. Summer can be great. Weather often beautiful.. long days.. warmth. Sunshine. All that romantic stuff of summer nights. Fourth of July.. Barbeques.
Oh..
And blood sucking ticks.
Yes, ticks.
For all of its beauty and wonder, there are times I despise the summer season. A few reminders occurred in the past few days: My niece unplugged a tick from her neck. My wife got one off her stomach, one we subsequently found crawling in our laundry. My dad had one on his hand. And today while driving my son home from his doctor’s appointment, one little disgusting vile creature was crawling on my arm.
I know the tick season will be worse this year because of the warm winter. Which is another reason I actually LOVE COLD AND SNOWY winters. Get the logic now?
How is tick season where you are?
Knapp has been ferociously working missing persons stories lately.. his Coast to Coast AM show about strange disappearances in National Parks around America still resonates with many who heard it.
Great story from Knapp..
A whole new way of looking at a desert: A vast graveyard topped with sand.
Merkel warns.
Greece scorns.
Euro splits…
Call it quits?
Stocks dash.
Hope no crash.
Be aware.
The Euro’s square.
As though we needed another reason to understand that the autism generation is growing up.. and when they do, will they have the chance that others did? Or will they be tossed aside by a society that doesn’t value the gifts they have?
This is a big story.. 1 in 3 is a lot. Just as 1 in 88 is, too.
Bunk.Unreal.We have 9 planets.All that they say.
It can block free will.
Wipe memory.
Create ‘zombies’ out of victims.
It can kill.
It is being dealt on the streets of Columbia and … well, as most drugs do, will most likely make its way around the world.
But no fear, governments are no strangers to the ramifications of the drug:
In modern times, the CIA used the drug as part of Cold War interrogations, with the hope of using it like a truth serum.
However, because of the drug’s chemical makeup, it also induces powerful hallucinations.
The tree common around Colombia, and is called the ‘borrachero’ tree – loosely translated as the ‘get-you-drunk’ tree.
Some news stories are cautionary tales to remember youthfulness doesn’t equal invincibility. But it would be very unfair to label George student’s Aimee Copeland ordeal that. After all, she wasn’t really doing anything dangerous.. but still ended up through the freak laws of nature contracting a rare form of a flesh eating disease..
The story has received a lot of worldwide attention. It’s scary to think.. zip lining with friends one minute, in a hospital after the water had germs that got into a cut and gave her a flesh eating virus. She lost a leg already.. She may lose her fingers. And her family has yet to tell her about her condition…
Something seems so wrong about this in the grand scheme of things. She is on a hospital bed going through an intense ordeal of human suffering, she has not a clue as to the ramifications of what happened to her, and yet the rest of the world reads about her situation.. The rest of the world is only connected to her by words and brief seconds on nightly news shows.
Yes, indeed, something just seems unfair about life sometimes.
The section from the ABC story that hit me the most:
"Aimee appears to have normal brain function at this time, which is something I’m celebrating because within Aimee we have a very compassionate heart and an incredible mind of intellect," said Copeland’s father, Andy Copeland.
Aimee Copeland was riding a homemade zip line near the Little Tallapoosa River May 1 when the line snapped, causing a fall that cut open her left calf.
Doctors at a nearby hospital cleaned and closed the gash with 22 staples, but bacteria that burrowed deep into the wound caused necrotizing fasciitis, a rare but deadly infection that claimed her leg one week ago.
Copeland’s family said she’s coherent and able to nod and shake her head, a gesture she used to pick the Grateful Dead over the Rolling Stones Thursday, according to her sister Paige.
"I just told her if she keeps improving like this, she’ll be out of here in no time," said Paige Copeland.
I just cannot fathom going through this. But even more cannot fathom watching someone else..
Thoughts are with this person. I hope to hell that the universe gives her as good of a spell of luck as it did give her bad luck. How unfortunate..
If you pray do it. If not, do it anything. She needs something.
"I thought they were Jehovah’s Witnesses, but I joked with people on the call that it was the FBI," he said. Moments later, it was no joke.
Here’s our cover this week, featuring a rainbow-haloed Barack Obama—America’s first gay president!
I’m surprised NEWSWEEK couldn’t find someone who would offer to breast feed the President to combat TIME’s Playboyish cover shot..
And in seriousness, it really should be Joe Biden on the cover as he forced the issue. Just saying.
Human rights organizations blame South Korean gangs for some of the suffering. Working in cahoots with Chinese Koreans, investing in karaoke bars in China, they are said to hold women against their will while paying them just enough to survive."South Korean businessmen are their best customers,” says Tim Peters, director of Helping Hands Korea, dedicated to aiding North Korean children in China. “It’s a blot on South Korean society,” he says blaming the Chinese for "doing nothing about a criminal system in violation of the rights of women.”
There is always something about news accounts of animals beaching themselves or thousands of dead birds being found in a single week that freak me out a bit.
Animals many times are harbingers.. They are sometimes more clued in to earth and how things work than humans.
We can learn a thing or two perhaps if we stopped and thought about these profound numbers of dead birds along Chilean beaches. If we care.
…I know, I know. You were hoping for destruction and mayhem on December 21, 2012.
Well.. being earth, that is entirely possible. But surely not the end …. Mayhem and destruction never has an end.
The agency says that Dimock, PA water is safe… so anyone in the mood for bottled Dimock water ?!?
DARK SHADOWS is being released this week. No way it will outdo what AVENGERS did last weekend.. and maybe it should not. I like Tim Burton, or at least liked him. His films are creative.. interesting. The whole Johnny Depp/Burton constant connection is nice in a way, but also.. unsettling. I don’t necessarily think that every film Burton makes needs to have Depp in the main role.
Even more, the true question I have about this is whether DARK SHADOWS was meant to be a dark comedy or more of a true horror. A lot of good horror and creative scares could have been done. Instead, as Burton would predictably do, he turned it seemingly into a 21st century BEETLEJUICE. Which in itself isn’t bad.. but is it what should be?
I am interested in reactions of you all care to share any. Did you see the film, and what did you think?
Now this is cool.
Why look for UFOs when there are UWOs (underwater weird objects) right beneath us!?
This video was taken by cameras looking at an underwater drill recently near England. It shows a massive blob of a brown creature.
The brown blob has a name: A Deepstaria enigmatica jellyfish.
While the entire video is fascinating, I really started getting amazed around 3:15 seconds into it..
This video clearly defines the reasons I am frightened of the deep, dark ocean. I don’t even have to add words to explain..
Tough night last night .. Little Ayden sprained his foot trying to play soccer in the house. He may be a sports star one day. But not at age 1.5..
The little person is doing ok, though. Getting a good sleep now after a very long day at the emergency room and eating Wendy’s French Fries last night … Yes, we let him splurge, Michelle Obama would not be fond of his post-sprain diet.
In the old days you got a recovering child a toy. Now toy stores are closed.. so we just add to childhood obesity. I guess. Or something like that.
I knew parenthood was stressful.. But I guess I just never understood that stressful meant….it’s stressful !!
Earth looks to the sky: Monster solar event may soon occur..(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2141488/Monster-sunspot-Earth-crosshairs-powerful-solar-storms.html?ITO=1490) Big sunspot dramatically developing..
Heard someone say .. a solar flare would do us good. But think of how much reliance we have on .. technology. No hands. Just keys.
The just in time life we have lived for a half century would potentially end with a burst of the sun
So no.. I don’t hope for a flare to end all satellites. Instead I pray it won’t happen. But as we know, everything is eventual..
So is monster sunspot1476 the one? The killshot? Cue Dr. Doom Ed Dames. Somewhere on some mountain, he must be ready, right?
Besides impending solar doom, everything else here on the pale blue dot seems to be .. as erratic and insane as ever..
Russians protest Putin’s return to power, and police are out in force.
An amazing photo from Julia Ioffe.
A boy on a bike vs. the military.. This is an amazing photo. Putin takes office *again*…
Earthquakes.. tsunamis.. nuclear disaster.. and now this!? Tornado rips through area near Tokyo..
The world is just getting .. scary.
If the light from the supermoon keeps you awake throughout the early hours of Sunday morning, take a few moments or an hour or two and listen in to John B. Wells host Leonard Mlodinow on Coast to Coast AM about how we may be shaped more by the unconscious mind than the one that’s conscious.
The supermoon rises.
Hopefully not a bad moon rising.
A beautiful scene from my window. Hopefully the view of the moon is just as wonderful where you are.. Moments like this make me just focus my eyes on the sky and wonder just what else is out there millions of billions of light years away that we will never know..
Not ready at all!
A few people have said over the years I’ve don’t this site that there have been too many solar updates.. so many sunspots, so little time. And I have stood by my fascination and fear of the sun since day one.
Mike Hapgood’s conclusion makes me continue to fear the blast that do harm. Hope it never happens.. but people who stare at the sun long enough know it will.
Matt Drudge has a headline running tonight about the Obama campaign kickoff:
I’d like to say maybe we just should call it half full?
Depends on your party affiliation I suppose.
Independents will just stay neutral.
Oh, by the way, Sunday marks 6 months until the election. And six months until your television, radio, newspapers, and internet will not be under a hostile takeover of campaign donors, big corporations, and politicians. Good luck. Clear the cache on November 7.
And here I have always thought Andre Linoge did it!?
New clues are being revealed in the lost colony of Roanoke Island.. Maps are helping.
The mystery isn’t solved yet. But researchers seem hopeful that they are close.
CROATAN
Sad day ..
And one that is making me feel a bit old to be honest.
With the death of Adam Yauch and the sudden “flashbacks” to Beastie Boy days of the 80s.
Indeed old time is a flyin’..
That same Boy that’s Beastie today tomorrow will be dyin’.
RIP Adam Yauch
..and autism.
Here’s a hint to those who laugh at the Amish: Maybe we should figure just what it is that they are doing right.
The heat is on..
Welcome to the summer!
Box office blasts ready.. First up.. AVENGERS..
Already the film has scored the highest midnight opening of all time.. Record setting weekend coming? The full moon will be bright over crowds heading to see the first box smash of summer ‘12.. Feeling like a good year for movies? Maybe.. Insiders predict $172 mil for AVENGERS is possible.
The film opening this weekend in 4,349 theaters strong..
Next week the box office mania continues with DARK SHADOWS opening in 3,700 theaters.. Can Johnny Depp and Tim Burton NOT freak out America enough to create a decently sized opening weekend? Time will tell.
So who is going to AVENGERS this weekend?
Yes indeed.. the supermoon is coming.
Can’t wait to see photos stream all over the net..
Dr. Mary Neal from last year on Dr. Oz..
I just heard her the other night on Coast to Coast AM. Her story sounds profound.
But profound why? Because as a skeptic she now believes in near death experiences and God? Or because the brain convinces dying people that God exists…? I wish we knew.. ?
I’m an enormous BATMAN fan.. even more of a fan of the Nolan films than any other. The latest trailer was released…
All I can say is this: If a movie trailer can raise the hairs on my arms and cause my eyes to swell with tears, I cannot even imagine what the whole movie will do.
Yes I’m not ashamed to admit it. DARK KNIGHT RISES may make me, a 31-year-old grown man, weep.
We’re here to take your liver: Facebook begins new organ donor ‘share status’..
No really.. Facebook users can now share as their status whether they are an organ donor or not. I don’t want to debate the pros and cons of organ donation or broadcasting it to the world on Facebook. But I did want an excuse to post a photo from one of my favorite movies, THE MEANING OF LIFE.. The scene with organ donations cannot be forgotten. Hope the folks who show up at your door for your liver don’t exist. If they do, they will be busy checking Facebook for their next patient.
Once in (our) lifetime event: Last chance to see Venus transit for over 100 years.. Pretty cool stuff. Hope the skies are clear.. and speaking of Venus 100 years ago when people saw it last time: History: A Historican weaves thrilling tale of 18th century expeditions to see Venus transit..
It makes me slightly sad that we don’t have edge of the seat expiditions anymore. Things are too easy. Let’s make space exploration dangerous again!
The Earth may be making strange sounds.. but Canada seems to be thinking the noises it is hearing are coming from the United States!
The Wall Street JOURNAL reports that residents in Ontario are blaming the noises for illnesses, whipping dogs into frenzies, and keeping cats housebound..
Americans cannot seem to hear it.
Only people in the “Windsor Hum” area..
Is it Detroit?
Is America itself groaning?
There sure is lots to groan about, right?
Some might say.. indeed.
Travel with me back to the the mid 90s.. peace and prosperity, minus the brewing crises of war and economic peril.. It was fun.
And Oasis was fun to.
This song, SOME MIGHT SAY, brought to you by SoundCloud and Tumblr. Turn up the volume, crack open whatever cold beverage or brew whatever hot one..
I think this song feature the best line in any song ever written,
Some might say they don’t believe in heaven
Go and tell that to the man who lives in hell
I will be honest. I hate email forwards. Really despise the long joke format emails, too.. If you are going to send a forward, I contend the best of them are just the quick one liners or just a quick photo. And do a favor to the receiver, delete all the nonsense email addresses and other names of people who got it for the previous year.
That all being said.. I really really despite People of Walmart forwards.
The website is hugely popular. I’ve been to it. I walk away from it being lightly amused and first and then … well.. disturbed. Not disturbed by the “people” of Walmart but by the whole concept that, regardless of how much of fool you may look like in our yellow thong or high boots, someone is ready to snap a photo of you and post it online. Your face isn’t blurred.. your image captured for the amusement of others who now get it in email—people who probably pick their noses and rear ends and look just a foolish at times as the people they are laughing at.
Instead I’d opt for the app to tell me if someone is ugly deep down in their soul.
I love a good laugh. But constantly laughing at the expense of other? ..that I am not fond of.
Some history just got made today. From the ruins of Ground Zero over a decade ago to this, today: The Freedom Tower, 1 World Trade Center, is not taller than the Empire State Building.
Not bad for a project that seemed to almost never get off the ground, excuse the pun.
From those tragic days in the post 9/11 world, cleaning up dust and debris, bodies and souls.. to this.
History made today.
And you thought the human race was lazy today! Just imagine the our species when they can sit back in a space age style couch and zoom across the land. That’s right, Toyota unveils the couch of the future…
Just hopefully they account for the average weight of humanity soaring over the 300 pound mark. Big seats?
What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious
President Obama last night at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
I guess it was funny.
Humor has changed in the past few years.. Presidents stopped “looking for weapons of mass destruction” during the comedy hour in favor of jokes about eating canines.
Missed this notable story from yesterday.. a 4.1 quake was downgraded to a 3.8 but the real story is that it was near the San Andreas fault and it was felt in Los Angeles..
More from CNN on the quake. No major damages..
It was not on the San Andreas fault. But close. Too close for comfort?
If you have been watching lately the ring of fire in the Pacific is .. well… on fire. Is it only a matter of time? Well of course the answer is yes. It is only a matter of time for virtually anything on this planet. Hopefully a big one won’t hit like it did in the past.. But with how active the ring has been as of late, this latest “near” Andreas quake is a little too close for comfort…
He underwent surgery on his cheekbones. He’s 14. A boy punched him repeatedly in the face after he was “bumped,” according to cops. The photo now of Preston Hodge was posted by a family friend. He told CBS news that he wanted to illustrate bullying in the once great American school system..
Interestingly, the comments on the story from CBS in Houston seem to be revolving around the race of the victim and the race of the beater…
The world is going mad. We are divided we stand? For now.
Hope justice prevails. Hope the 14-year-old victim recovers.. And here’s hoping the future is a little brighter than the dark times this current generation is seeing.
Sometimes I think this nation has gone to hell. Not even in a hand basket. It would be too comfortable in one.
From Live Science, here is an interesting listing of nations that are the most religious and the most atheist..
Interestingly, only a little more than 4% of people from Japan are certain of the existence of God. After the year that they have had, who can really blame them?
Sky roars, bird choruses, and all those sounds. People who follow me or read this occasion may be aware that I am a close follower and interested person in the alleged “strange noises” and sounds being heard around the world. From trumpets and horns to metallic train like jolts to megawhirls that sound like jets. It runs the field.
I say alleged noises because, besides YouTube, I have not heard these noises first hand. But I did receive a message from someone who said she has heard the noises and what she reports made my skin get some chills:
I don’t believe this is a hoax. It may be on youtube, but I have heard these strange noises myself along with several others. Although unexplainable to ourselves, I heard every explanation available. Jet engines echoing off the mountains, wind, mountain goat groaning, electromagnetic anomaly, etc. Good thing it wasn’t interfering with our communications, huh? I think this is something you will have to hear for yourselves.
I think people from Clintonville, Kiev, the UK, Russia, China, and other towns, counties, and nations that have been hearing the booms and noises, would all say the same thing. The USGS explained away the booms in Clintonville with a 1.5 quake.. but many residents, some who messaged me, were not convinced and not secure in the explanation. I don’t think I’d be either, quite frankly.
So what is it?
Gas extraction?
Fracking?
Earth changing?
The core moving.. ? so many questions. So few answers. So many rumbles …
It has been a rough time for the Greeks.. Turmoil and protests in the streets.. austerity measures.. massive layoffs and hikes in fees and taxes. Economy constantly teetering on the brink of complete mayhem.. And for some, apparently, mayhem took hold and they ended it all: Suic
ides are putting Greeks on edge just before an election..
More from Reuters on the official accounting of this story.. The Reuters report begins,
On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northern Greece. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old student shot himself in the head
Reuters points out that Greece had the lowest suicide rate in the world. Things seem to be changing as the economy falters. And people are taking notice in the nation ..
Reuters continues,
Before shooting himself during morning rush hour on April 4 on Syntagma Square across from the Greek parliament building, the 77-year-old pensioner took a moment to jot down a note.
"I see no other solution than this dignified end to my life so I don’t find myself fishing through garbage cans for sustenance," wrote Christoulas, who has since become a national symbol of the austerity-induced pain that is squeezing millions.
Greek media have since reported similar suicides almost daily, worsening a sense of gloom going into next week’s election, called after Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’s interim government completed its mandate to secure a new rescue deal from foreign creditors by cutting spending further.
The tragic and dire situation that Greece finds itself in has this very real and human element. People are ending it all, people who had decent careers and decent families.. and once decent middle class lives.
There seems to be a rise in mental health issues.
And family issues.
Oh, yes, and money issues too.
Greece, the once great powerful nation. Perhaps the troubles and tribulations that now befall on the good people of Greece are just cautionary tales about how, despite our wealth, we too can lose it all.. And maybe if the richest men are only wealthy in material and now spirit, this cautionary tale becomes a freight train of horror blasting down the tracks for the rest of the modern world…
..so say scientists who ponder if life on earth is a fluke..
And I wonder this based on the pondering of the highly educated: If life on earth is a fluke then it makes me almost have to ask whether the human species is a parasite? Did earth develop a disease named life? Or is it instead a message that somewhere the old debated book we call the Bible is on to something that science is finally realizing: Human are special and in the image of God?
Weighty questions, I guess, for a weekend..?
For me it’s only three:
DARK SHADOWS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER
DARK KNIGHT
That’s about it. How about you?
Good luck to the folks at Knoebels today as their spring/summer 2012 season begins. If you’re ever near the coal veins of Pennsylvania, you may want to consider a voyage to the little amusement park nestled in the woods. It’s clean and reasonable.. It’s not huge but what is the need.. and while I get no money for this little text advertisement, I will be spending money there this season accordingly. My son won’t be tall enough for most rides but .. he can watch.
We’ve been hearing about potentially millions of billions of trillions of planets existing in the galaxy for months now with the discoveries that Kepler has given us. Finally, it appears that astronomers have found a planet that people could maybe live on. But… Scientists found the planet, Gliese 667Cc, orbiting around a red dwarf star, 22 light years away from the earth. Which is really far away.. So don’t pack your bags yet. You’re confined to the little blue dot for the time being. Future generations though may make it more important to get off this dot depending on how many resources have been depleted by the time we master the art of light year travel..
He said it was a nightmare. I can only imagine. And hope I never experience it. This is a deep fear in me.. and if you think about it long enough it will be a fear for you too.
Just when UFO enthusiasts thought they got proof.. in comes the skeptics with facts. Some thought this image showed a space ship near the sun. Others with degrees and most likely huge school loan bills say is a collection of cosmic rays.
So who do you trust.. hubba hubba hubba.. who do you trust?
Sure, my pudding expires December 21 2012 and lots of other people think people in general will, too. But we can’t lose hope. Fukushima may have blasted the planet with extreme radiation.. others worry about our online rights being suddenly stripped with the next bill that has too long of an acronym to even understand anymore. And the weather is crazy, isn’t it? Slightly maddening cows hopefully didn’t get into our meat supply, even though South Korea banned our imports. We will still eat them. Beef, it’s what for dinner. 20 years later you may go mad, too.
But all that aside, life isn’t that bad, right?
Enter this study: The planet Earth is ready to face a century of disasters.
That’s right.. not just a few weeks, or a month.. or a year or two. No, this report goes all the way: A whole century. But the time humans make it to the 22nd, if we should be so lucky as a species, generations may look back on us in 2012 and say ‘these poor schmucks didn’t know what was about to hit them!’
The Royal Society seems to know. They say world population needs to be ‘stabalised’ (British spelling) in order to take awayeth from the rich nations and giveth to the poor nations. Yes, indeed. Agenda 21 anyone? Perhaps conspiracy theories of population control are right after all?
What surprised me was that this report didn’t talk much about the most pressing issue set to face our world in the next 20 or so years: Water. Just peruse your local video rental store…..oh wait they are all shut down… Go to Netflix, you won’t find these in the local RedBox: 5 documentaries that you must see to understand the water crisis that we face—in our lifetime..
But instead of worrying about clean water and air… let’s frack. Seriously.. Fracking make it all go away.
But it does seem to cause an increase in manmade earthquakes, doesn’t it? If you care. Most of the fracking in rural areas anyway. And what person REALLY cares about the rural area anyway.
Besides the Obama administration, which wants to limit what farmhands can do.
Little House on the Prairie. Now regulated!?
Get me Bill Gates! I need a vaccine.
My rambling Thursday morning whatever. Over and out.
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