Thursday, May 23, 2013
I debated going there, but I'm going to go there
If anyone saw the news yesterday you most likely witnessed at least snippets of the video of the machete/hatchet attack in London.. It was considered to be a terrorist attack, two men hit a young British soldier with the car and began to hack and attack him, almost behead him and let him die in the street..
The entire affair was bizarre including the fact that it’s a police 30 minutes to get to the scene, the gun of the attacker supposedly blowing up in his hand, and throngs of people simply standing around aimlessly watching the entire thing happen.. It even appeared that some of the people in the background were doing nothing to stop an attacker stop the perpetrator but instead simply filming the entire event and watching as the body lay bleeding in the street..
I don’t know what to make of the crowd’s reaction to this event.. Obviously the video did not show the actual attack and we only see the aftermath, but there appeared to be no one ready to challenge the two attackers.. I just don’t know what to make of this..
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF
Steve Wilhite, who invented the enduring GIF file format in 1987, will receive a lifetime achievement Webby Award.He is proud of the GIF, but remains annoyed that there is still any debate over the pronunciation of the format.
“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Mr. Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”
Gif guff? Or respect to the ‘jif’?
So this is the guy that did it?
Thanks for all those cats, spinning sirens, and exploding bombs. Thank you.
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF
German based company SAP promises to hire people with autism
This is actually some pretty cool stuff.. Good work SAP
German based company SAP promises to hire people with autism
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Video: Elderly lady reunited with her dog after Oklahoma tornado
Among so much devastation from the horrendous mile-wide tornado that has ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, there is, at least, some good news as an elderly lady and her dog have survived the storm.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350539
Finally good news
The Moore OK update
So much heartache.. so much disaster. The latest is in Oklahoma, as you may have been seeing if you followed Earth Informer yesterday and other sources as well. Thelatest reports lament 91 dead so far—so many were children from elementary schools that were flattened by this tornado. Winds were 200 miles or more. The spread was over a mile.. And it was one of the biggest tornadoes in history.. The massive path of destruction is now evident..
KFOR is reporting the latest from the ground..
At least 91 counted dead at this point..
A desperate search for survivors ongoing.. But time is running out fast.
Rubble..
A school destroyed..
Chaos..
Life in tornado alley..
When comedy is too quick. Ever hear the comment ‘too soon’ after someone tells a joke? Comedian Lizz Winstead tweeted something yesterday after the tornado saying'This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives'.. this was before the bodies of dead children were taken from the elementary school.. this was before the death toll rose to at least 91.. She was forced to Tweet an apology three hours later..
Monday, May 20, 2013
This is horrendous
The AP is now broadcasting this to the world: KFOR-TV reports that up to 24 children are believed dead at the Plaza Towers Elementary School and that it has turned into a search and recovery effort
This is a worst case scenario ..
This brutal tornado has now etched itself into the annals of weather history… And with its short presence in Moore Oklahoma it also stole the lives of so many..
Block after block is only debris. Winds cracked and demolished all in its path.. So many lives tonight now undone. So many people hurt. So many killed.
This is terrible and heartbreaking news… May God ease their suffering immediately and keep them.. If he’s there..
A Conversation about poop with my two-year-old son
Me: I smell poop!
Ayden: I didn't poop
Me: But I smell poop!
Ayden: I smell poop too Daddy
Ayden: I didn't poop
Me: But I smell poop!
Ayden: I smell poop too Daddy
Today's main event: The Rumblr on Tumblr
There’s a rumblr on Tumblr..the new billion dollar man is coming to us from the tech world. Yahoo! is shelling out over $1 bil for the blogging service Tumblr.
Some users are concerned.. After all, it seems anything corporate Yahoo! gets its hands on fails or gets forgotten..
Also interesting, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr who dropped out of high school and made the blog service in his mom’s New York City apartment, said he wouldn’t sell as recent as a month ago. But money talked. Apparently talked very loud..
Get out while the gettin’s good, perhaps?
Either way, Karp is about to become the tycoon of the age.
The first of only a few since last century. Oh, and by the way, it was last century that Yahoo! bought another blogging service: Geocities. That failed too. And about two years ago, Yahoo! completely deleted all Geocities sites from its archives and database… leaving users to frantically try to save years of infancy of the internet.
So if Tumblr users think Yahoo! will care about providing a platform for independent thought to flourish and creative activity to occur, doubt that one..Big time.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Magic eye Sunday made me eyes hurt
And I discovered that Magic Eyes does always translate well onto a computer screen.
Ok everyone!! It's Magic Eye day
Get ready to take a blast into the past, unfocused your eyes, and find the hidden photo in the blurry picture.
Caution: Don’t adjust your screen, this is NOT 1997.
22, 10,13,14, 52 and the Powerball number is 11
One winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, according to David Bishop, deputy secretary of Florida lottery.
You bastard.
Unless my Uncle Mike won, in which case congratulations and can I have a cool mil?
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling
Anyone else a little uneasy about this? It’s like your parents planning to give you up for adoption.
In Obama style, maybe David Karp will announce that he found out about this in the newspapers when we did.
Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling
An update
An update on my previous post.. While channel surfing during a Jerry Springer commercial break, I discovered that there are two hours of BRIDEZILLAS airing on WeTV.
Sorry Jerry, I have priorities ..
The Price is Wrong, Drew
I wrote a few days back that I inherited a stomach virus from my son.. It’s beginning to wane a bit, but not without a week of fever, and all the rest of the gunk and junk that goes with a stomach bug. Today was a recovery day.. took a day off to sleep. But sadly, I’m sleepless.
So I figured.. let’s flip some channels on the boob tube.
How sorry I was.
Jodi Arias reigned supreme on some channels. The other news networks had lots of information about the IRS.
I was able to catch the last hour of the 1990s movie MAFIA!, which I recommend for those who either don’t remember it or never saw it.
But.. the most horrendous part of TV, in my humble opinion, comes to us from the Drew Carey hosted PRICE IS RIGHT.
A little back story.. from an early child, way back in the early days of the Reagan Administration, I fondly recall watching Bob Barker’s PRICE IS RIGHT.. It was a summer staple in my life for years.
And I rarely watched it since having a day job for over a decade..
I did today. And regretted it.
First off, no one ever wins. The games are almost impossible to win, and even worse for Drew Carey to try to explain to contestants how to play.. at one point, there appeared to be a malfunction with a game in which little ‘rats’ race .. the yellow rat didn’t move until after the game had completed. And of course the unlucky contestant lost his new car. The game seems stale now. Bob Barkerless.. it should have been canceled with Barker’s retirement.
And why is Drew Carey skinny now? That doesn’t seem right, either. What has happened to this world!?
Luckily for my viewing pleasure now, though, two hours of Jerry Springer is airing on my local FOX affiliate. Some scorned woman just pushed green jello into her ex girlfriend’s face. Now they are crying.
Which reminds me: Have your pets spayed and neutered.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
NJ Governor Christie announces plan to buyout Sandy-damaged homes in flood-prone areas
Which is better than his original plan of eating the properties.
Buckets Of KFC Chicken Smuggled Through Tunnel In Gaza Strip For $30
It’s desperate times for desperate situations I suppose.. But even smuggled KFC doesn’t seem worth it.
Inquiring minds want to know: crispy or original?
Buckets Of KFC Chicken Smuggled Through Tunnel In Gaza Strip For $30
Gawker: Police Seize Woman's Camera After She Films Them Fatally Beating a Man
Last Tuesday, Maria Melendez witnessed a half-dozen sheriff’s deputies fatally beating 33-year-old David Sal Silva—hitting him with clubs and kicking him— in Bakersfield, California outside Kern Medical Center. She began to film the scene on her phone, yelling to the cops that she was filming them.
Melendez, who had been visiting her son at the hospital, reported that the deputies beat Silva for eight minutes as he screamed and cried for help. He was “basically pleading for his life,” said Laura Vasquez, another witness with Melendez. “Then we couldn’t see him anymore. That’s how many cops were on top of him.”
A spokesperson for the Kern County Sheriff’s Department says that Bakersfield Police Department officers had a warrant for both phones they confiscated last week. Law enforcement officials apparently plan to continue holding the phones, as part of the investigation into Silva’s death, and all of the officers involved have returned to full duty.
Are things just seemingly getting out of hand everywhere or can we blame this on the Internet that we now know so much..?
Gawker: Police Seize Woman's Camera After She Films Them Fatally Beating a Man
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Brain scans reveal marijuana-like medicine could effectively treat PTSD
But yet we are a nation of alcohol and antidepressants. And people serve life sentences for something that grows naturally.
Explain that one to the aliens when they come back.
Brain scans reveal marijuana-like medicine could effectively treat PTSD
Being a sick dad
My son was sick. Now he’s drinking juice and eating. Just in time for the sickness to spread to me. Fever.. Sore …
Ugh.
Acting commissioner of IRS resigns
CNN Political Ticker: US President Barack Obama has announced that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has requested and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in the wake of its handling of requests by conservative groups for tax-exempt status.
Obama called the “misconduct” detailed in a report about the IRS response to those requests “inexcusable.”
The IRS wants YOU — to share everything - David Nather and Tarini Parti and Byron Tau
This is a must read… As all of these IRS related stories are in my opinion
The IRS wants YOU — to share everything - David Nather and Tarini Parti and Byron Tau
White House responds to Justice Dept. secretly obtaining AP phone records: "We are not involved"
The White House has responded to accusations that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records for some of the associated press’ reporters and editors.
More must read information from CNN
White House responds to Justice Dept. secretly obtaining AP phone records: "We are not involved"
In the time of current scandal, I’ve been trolling through old videos of how past presidents dealt with issues engulfing their respective Administrations.
Interestingly, I find Richard Nixon to be the most convincing.. Seriously. What a good actor.. what a terrible president.
Watch and decide if I’m write.. His ‘defense’ of his White House was far better than Reagan’s during Iran Contra, Bush during the leak scandal, and Clinton during Lewinsky.. Far better with worse results..
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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Ok, I liked STARMAN when I was young.. but I LOVED SUPERFUZZ. The best worst movie, perhaps of all time.
I remember when I first started dating my wife, I made her watch it. Surprisingly she stayed with me and later went on to marry me.
But she never watched it again.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Wow, POLITICO
The town is turning on President Obama – and this is very bad news for this White House.
Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama – and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment Democrats, never big fans of this president to begin with, are starting to speak out. And reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration.
Wow, POLITICO
Inside the AP: Fear, determination - Dylan Byers and Katie Glueck
Reporters across The Associated Press are outraged over the Justice Department’s sweeping seizure of staff phone records — and they say such an intrusion could chill their relationships with confidential sources. In conversations with POLITICO on Tuesday, several AP staffers in Washington, D.C., described feelings of anger and frustration…
Fear and loathing inside the Associated Press…
Just imagine how those pro-Israeli Jewish groups feel, or those people daring to put ‘Patriot’ in their name.. Just imagine how PRO PUBLICA now feels having to admit they were given information that they never should have…
Inside the AP: Fear, determination - Dylan Byers and Katie Glueck
Pottsville, PA, neighbors mourn loss of life after Mother's Day Fire
This story hits me hard—and lots of other people in my area. Fires happen every day. But on Mother’s Day, when a mom loses her husband and all of her children, and her sister?? That just does not seem right, or just.. or possible.
But as I reported yesterday on here, it did occur this past Sunday in Pottsville, PA.
Last night on WBRE news, my local NBC affiliate, reporter Joe Holden relayed horrendous information. He reported that the Kelly Brown, the mom who survived the fire because she was simply catching up on laundry, asked firefighters to re-enter the burnt structure in order to find a bracelet that was given to her for Mother’s Day by her children. The volunteer firefighter did just that.. It’s one of those few moments that I cried at local news…
This is a depressing day in Pottsville, PA. Some would call the town depressed already.. anyone who takes a drive through will see a history that once was and a reality of the current that is now there. Economic changes have caused vacancies to be produced everywhere.. a bus station that was meant to be a local attraction is rarely occupied by travelers.. But there are gems and jewels amid the streets there. There are good people, great people.. moral and honest people. And they are coming together in the little city, the home of Yuengling beer.. they are crying together and trying to figure out why together.
I heard a story of a neighbor that heard screaming during the fire, screaming that the person assumes came from the children inside begging for help.
It’s these moments that make me wonder why God didn’t hear those cries.. It’s these moments we all… well.. You can contemplate the rest.
Pottsville, PA, neighbors mourn loss of life after Mother's Day Fire
Why is it, that every time we see a story online about overweight people, we are treated to this SAME stock photo of an massive person trying to wedge themselves into a metal chair?
I think I recall seeing this image now for years.
And every time the media gives us a new article or study result on fat people, we get this same picture shoved in our eyes …
If only we could meet this person. And maybe ask how this picture changed their lives, now that everyone on the planet with the internet has been offended by it in some way..
Scandals evolve.
Administrations devolve.
It’s raining over Obama now. And when it rains it pours.
But things can turn quickly.. that’s an is.
And it all matters what ‘is’ means anyway..
But there are important questions waiting to be answered. How many IRS officials knew of the political targeting? Did anyone in the White House?
How did such a huge confiscation and spying on AP reporters occur? This is unprecedented.
Why can’t the Administration simply stop making any references to that video, as we know now it had nothing to do with Benghazi.
If bad things come in threes, I guess the President is at his limit. But in politics, bad things come in multiples of threes. A long hot summer may be starting..
All the news I read this morning..
TUESDAY MAY 14 2013
SCANDAL CONSUMES THE WHITE HOUSE
When it rains it pours on Obama..
The IRS scandal.. the AP was raided by the Department of Justice.. and the Benghazi story just continues to drip..
The DOJ tracked 20 phone lines at the AP..
Matt Drudge: Assume all communications are being monitored..
TOP IRS OFFICIAL DIDN’T REVEAL TEA PARTY TRACKING..
Media call AP phone records seizure a ‘breach of trust’
Allentown, PA, amusement park turned into a scene of massive casulties and death. It was all fake. FEMA did it to see how people would handle it..
Angelina Jolie receives preventive double mastectomy.. Writes in the NEW YORK TIMES why..
Massive solar flares continue to be unleashed from the sun..
From SpaceWeather: A sunspot on the sun’s eastern limb is crackling with powerful X-class solar flares. Just-numbered AR1748 announced itself during the early hours of May 13th with an X1.7-class eruption (0217 UT), quickly followed by an X2.8-class flare (1609 UT) and an X3.2-class flare (0117 UT on May 14). These are the strongest flares of the year so far, and they signal a significant increase in solar activity
24 returns to Fox..
Governator back to movies? Arnold in talks for reboot of TOXIC AVENGER..
Breaking News: Angelina Jolie reveals double mastectomy in op-ed
Actress Angelina Jolie has written about her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy in a New York Times piece.
In the piece, Jolie writes:
My mother fought for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold…
Breaking News: Angelina Jolie reveals double mastectomy in op-ed
Monday, May 13, 2013
Cable news topping their broadcasts tonight with the AP Justice Department story tonight
This could be a turning point in this Administration and its relationship with the press.
It was the longest honeymoon of all time.. But every page must turn..
The government seizes months of phone records from the Associated Press
And crickets online.. unbelievable…
Prosecutors have sought phone records from reporters before, but the seizure of records from such a wide array of AP offices, including general AP switchboards numbers and an office-wide shared fax line, is unusual.
In the letter notifying the AP received Friday, the Justice Department offered no explanation for the seizure, according to Pruitt’s letter and attorneys for the AP. The records were presumably obtained from phone companies earlier this year although the government letter did not explain that. None of the information provided by the government to the AP suggested the actual phone conversations were monitored.
Holy hell. I just can’t stop reading this damning AP report on how many records the government simply seized
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
Wow.. This is a scathing AP article
A jury has found Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell guilty on three counts of first-degree murder…
The jury also found Gosnell guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a former patient of his.
The ‘local crime’ story comes to an end (sarcasm)
Justice truly served … Well done, jury, well done.
A report claims that the IRS audit scandal goes deeper: The Wall Street Journal and Reuters both reported that the IRS moved beyond giving a skeptical eye to “tea party” and “patriot” groups. It was also targeting groups focusing on specific issues including “government spending,” “government debt,” “Education of the public via advocacy/lobbying to ‘make America a better place to live,’” and all groups that “criticize[d] how the country is being run.”
Headlines greeting millions of Americans today. Red states, blue states, and purple states.
Sounds like we have a serious issue on our hands, regardless of party or pride.
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The description of this video: Ice Heaves pushed up from Mille Lacs Lake onto the Resort grounds and damaged homes within 15 minutes. Date Taken: 05/11/2013 around 9:30 am
And then the story:
Lake Mille Lacs Ice Sheets Pushed Ashore At Minnesota’s Izatys Resort
Amazing, unbelievable video. You have got to see it to believe it..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
4 Children, 2 Adults Die in Eastern Pa. House Fire
A dispatcher says four children and two adults have died in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania. Schuylkill (SKOO’-kul) County emergency dispatch supervisor Bill Lindenmuth says the fire broke out around 11:55 p.m. Sunday at a home in Pottsville and that firefighters later found the bodies…
The AP has picked up the sad news this site and others reported early this morning.. A tragic fire here in my area.
However, I am humored that national news has to explain how to pronounce Schuylkill..
4 Children, 2 Adults Die in Eastern Pa. House Fire
Sad news from the Schuylkill County home front
A fatal fire… Perhaps an entire family killed in Pottsville, PA last night.
I saw images of the fire on Facebook. Sadly the people in this house didn’t stand a chance judging from what I saw..
I hate these events no matter where they are. This one is too close to home, however..
Sad news from the Schuylkill County home front
Sunday, May 12, 2013
A Mother's Day chill
It is Mother’s Day, May is halfway over, and right now the temperature outside my Pennsylvania home hovers around 40°..
This spring has thus far been quite questionable, I can only imagine it will continue like this or a surge of people start and never end..
Cicadas: "The Shrimp of The Land"
The cicada invasion gives you the opportunity to feast on what scientists call a phenomenon.
So will you be eating them?
Cicadas: "The Shrimp of The Land"
Someone Actually Made a Horror Movie About Student Debt
Now this is scary. And sadly accurate.
A horror movie based on true events….
Someone Actually Made a Horror Movie About Student Debt
Mike Tyson, with pigeon sidekick, to star as TV cartoon detective
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will star as a cartoon detective, with a pigeon as a sidekick, in a new animated series, U.S. cable network Adult Swim said
That sounds about right.
Mike Tyson, with pigeon sidekick, to star as TV cartoon detective
This video made me think back to high school… so on one hand, this kid is 100% right. On the other hand, 100% disrespectful. However, the thing I think more than anything is that he was sincere in his outburst. So in that regard, I support him. The only thing lacking was a standing round of applause from the other kids in class, which makes me wonder what THEY were thinking..
IN YO FACE AMERICAN 19-YEAR-OLDS:
19-YEAR-OLD Beeb Instagrams photo of himself drinking beer—IN SOUTH AFRICA ..
And.. coincidentally, this story comes on the heels of another one: New poll suggests Americans reallly don’t like Justin Bieber..
I guess she’s being Miley.
MILEY CYRUS claims she was stalked by ghosts when she was in London..
And sadly, the ghost continued to follow her and live in her hair.
Investigative journalist and radio host, Josh Reeves, joins John B. Wells for a discussion on America’s forgotten ancient history including the mysterious Rock Wall in Texas, the mound builders, and giants, as well as cultures and technology that existed farther back in antiquity than we are told.
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