More than 200,000 people displaced and five airports have been closed as volcano erupts on Indonesian island.. Interesting to see how active the volcanoes have been on earth lately.. Any sign of anything or just a global belch?
It really gives me pause to see the images from Indonesia where this volcano has blown.. This is the most populous island, according to the AP. There are innocent people stuck in the cross hairs of a truly mean planet earth..
THIS is an amazing image..It comes from NASA and you care see, if you squint, Great Britain underneath a giant comma shaped Atlantic cyclone.
It was taken February 12.. and it’s one of those many storms bringing hell on earth to Great Britain, including massive winds and flooding rains.. Read more here..
And more on the weather striking: It has become the biggest rescue mission since the Blitz! 80MPH winds, heavy snow, and flooding rains.. And now pile line failures are igniting fires! This is the ongoing disaster facing the United Kingdom.. What amazes me most about this DAILY MAIL article is the variety of disaster photos.. whether it’s flooding or snow, fire or wind.. all are happening now across the pond as David Cameron tries to stay in charge of a fleeting moment in climate time.
Is the mainstream news getting exorcism crazed—or have demons started to run amuck!?
First the Latoya Ammons story was picked up by world media.. and now this: An ex-county commissioner in Brentwood Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, is now speaking out about demons possessing his home!
KDKA reports that Bob Cranmer says he waged a two year battle of good vs evil.
Cranmer says the evil entity in his home attacked his family—bites and scratches.. he said black shadows would slide on his walls.
As usual, you need to use your own discernment when reading these accounts..
And your faith, or non-faith, will sway you ..
But Bob Cranmer seems convinced..
I may not have been a blizzard, but my God there is a lot of snow.. And even the lack of the ‘term’ blizzard being given to a storm does not take severity away—especially those special moments, around midnight, when you are trying to shovel to prepare for the next today. And while you shovel, the wind whips your face with new fallen snow and the drifting begins on the paths you tried to clear.. Yes, that is really what winter is all about. It makes me chuckle to see the Sochi Olympics are experiencing record warmth this year. They should have picked somewhere in the Northeast and they would have been fine..
The snow is ending just in time for millions of spectators in life to celebrate commercialism at its best: Valentine’s Day. No modern holiday comes without its share of mystery and occult, though. Including this lover’s day.. It all goes back to love and fertility, and sacrifices to the gods.. There is a good wrap up of what the ancient meaning of the holiday is.. As for now? It’s to buy as many awful gifts for your loved one as you can at extremely high prices..
How about this: Express true love with honesty, goodness, and reality. Be real. Be you. Get a gift on days that don’t require it…
And that’s my speech.
This is the scene right now along the Pennsylvania turnpike, where up to 100 vehicles, or more, are piled up in a chain-reaction accident.. Follow it here..
There was a decision to LIFT speed restrictions along the highway—though it wasn’t even clear of ice and snow in portions!
For your reading pleasure and discernment, offered with no comments.
This is video of an amazing fireball streaking across the sky a few days ago in Maine.
It happened in broad daylight..
It could have been space junk. Or a meteor..
AP: Facebook is rolling out a change to its 159 million US users that will give them more options than ever before when it comes to choosing their gender.
A new, customizable option gives users about 50 different terms to identify their gender, including androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
Missing is trisexual.
Is the trisexual lobby this weak!?
Think the view outside your snowy window is frightening, check this.. A massive snowstorm hit Stavropol Russia with blinding winds and subzero temperatures, as this REUTERS image shows…
Spring will be here before you know it though..
And I predict by May and June we’ll be wishing the 90s and 100s would go away..
COSTAS OUT THIRD DAY…
AND…
USA RANKED #5 FOR MEDALS AT GAMES….
Come on Costas. Get some eye drops.
New Years eve has never been the same since Dick Clark died. And now we suck at the Olympics. Thanks to you.
Hope you’re happy.
But this goes to the overall question of assisted suicide in general.. not only for children, but for adults.
Medicine seems to have two functions right now. On one hand it’s trying to help relieve pain and help people survive (which is why opposition to medicinal pot is inane) and on the other hand it is trying to enforce a culture in which we need to decide when people die. When their time is up.. when no more miracles can happen.
I don’t know what to say about children in immense pain and suffering, nor about adults. It is a sad fact that happens every day—and yes, many of them want to die and I don’t doubt that many of them purposely die at their own hands. As I understand it, we would have people able to assist them in killing themselves.
I don’t know, also, what safeguards would put in effect that we don’t start killing off those who are, perhaps, societal rejects. Not that we ever did that before, humans have always been extremely kind to each other without violence or eugenics. Sarcasm bolded..
This is a tough subject for me, to be honest.. It’s a deep and difficult question: When should a suffering person be permitted, legally, to have help in ending their lives? When should their terminal illnesses be over.
And really, it goes far beyond medical and religious.. it delves into the spiritual. I read an interesting article by someone who said that suffering in the here and now is just a part of the never-ending reincarnated spirit that needs endure physical and emotional pain. I don’t know if I agree with that statement, but it shows that there are more than enough different opinions which can be expressed in this issue.
I also wonder this: What if a medical advancement occurs but since it’s cheaper to allow a child to die, we opt for the death over the procedure? I know, I know, a little less likely but .. a question I ponder.
Read this section from a report on the Belgium issue:
Foes of the law in the House said the proposal was full of holes.
"Can you tell me what a ‘state of discernment’ means?" asked Becq.
Does near death mean “three days, three weeks, six months?” asked Steven Vanackere, another Christian Democrat.
I am undecided over the morality .. I am also unprepared as a human to see human suffering at such unfair levels—especially when suffering children bring so much doubt that a God even exists..
But I say this: Is it a medical advancement to find cures and new treatment for disease to relieve suffering, or is it in fact advancing society to just ‘end it’ and give up? That’s a big, big question. And when you boil it down to an individual suffering, it may not matter a hill of beans. For the long term, though, it’s a truly moral issue that society will be grappling with.
Feel free to keep the conversation on this issue going.. Email me if you want too at Bryan@horrorreport.com
Thanks for the comment and sincere question. It caused me to think..
Here’s something controversial to ponder while you sit indoors during a snowstorm.. allowing sick children to opt to kill themselves.
I’d add in the ole ‘slippery slope’ argument..
I’d also say, if you’re for assisted suicide for adults, how do you make a distinction based on age?
There are so many moral implications and question.. so many reasons to argue.. And so many sick children …
On that note, if you’re for assisted suicide for children, what limit would you impose.. only sick? or sick and tired..
So many issues and so many problems with this.
Sounding the alarm to my Catholic and atheist readers alike: What say you all!?
These are three telling headlines in today’s POTTSVILLE REPUBLICAN AND HERALD.. A factory closing, a school having issues, and yet another store in the Frackville Schuylkill Mall shutting doors..
There was an old adage about the coal region of Pennsylvania: There’s a church and bar on every street corner. These days the churches have shuddered and even some bars too—it’s the bars closing that may bring pause…
A major hospital with 100+ years of history in Ashland Pennsylvania is now an empty vessel. The silhouette at night of the empty structure is a frightening sight..
Schools have closed and merged, leaving buildings to become dilapidated. This year, an old Catholic School Immaculate Heart in Girardville was taken down after days of heavy machinery chipping away at the heart of the building..
The people of the coal region, though often mocked for poor grammar, are good people. This was a good area.. But it’s fast becoming a land of no return, a place where no industry thrives.. A place where malls teeter on the brink of closure, where schools struggle not with grades but with meth and bath salts.. Where police dismantle their oath to protect and serve and instead sever ties with morality. This is an area where coal mines are abandoned, housing histories of millionaires.. but those millionaires’ homes just waste away into desolation.
There was once a close knit society in the region. When I grew up, things weren’t perfect, but they were fine. There were businesses, factories, churches, restaurants. Now there’s not. There’s little here.. There’s so little.
Are there still good people? Amazingly people.
Does the area still have a chance? That is a tougher question.
I have long believed that every town in the coal region could be the next Jim Thorpe. It could happen.. but it would take a lot.
And with industry constantly leaving, and more ‘things’ constantly closing, that is becoming a much harder prospect to fathom..
Right now, February 13, 2014, there’s a monster snowstorm hitting the coal region and other states along the East Coast.. The snow is covering the pollution and litter, the pothole filled roads, and the empty buildings. But when it melts, it will all be there again.
I am beginning to feel, strongly, that the coal region is not the place to raise my three-year-old son. He will not be growing up in the same place I was ..
That close knit society is losing thread.
The empty buildings have nothing to offer.
A vacant hospital two miles away can’t help.
And a mall without stores is the loneliest place in the world.
What is best.. trying to create a better place to live, or realizing that things are far beyond repair and going somewhere that is already a decent place to be?
That is the question..
And over the next year or two my wife and I will be debating that question..
Snippets from the chat conducted Tuesday February 11, 2014:
Comment From dave in tucson We miss John B. Wells. I understand this is business, but will he ever be back? Maybe even as a guest. Tuesday February 11, 2014
8:06
george noory: No…I’m disappointed too, but without getting INTO it…He wanted his own thing…and we amicably parted ways. Some say he was fired. He wasn’t. He’s a freelancer, not an employee…we simply have decided to move on…as he has as well.
Comment From Nightshade George, are you now afraid to do Politcal shows like John B Wells? Tuesday February 11, 2014
8:18
george noory: Afraid to do political shows…not at all. We did shows on 9/11, Bilderbergs, NW order, Federal Reserve…BEFORE anyone on mainstream media…but we don’t call them political.
Comment From Lenny Thomas How long to you plan on doing Coast to Coast? Who would be someone you would want to take over after you? Tuesday February 11, 2014
8:22
george noory: Lenny, I just signed a LONG tern contract. So ask me that question in 2021.
Comment From dee do you listen to Clyde GROUND ZERO? Tuesday February 11, 2014
8:27
george noory: No…way too busy getting ready for c2c. He’s very capable and that’s why we brought him in.
Comment From Izzy Will you ever have some of the guests that John Wells used to have on your shows? Tuesday February 11, 2014
8:33
george noory: Some, most likely…all, no
Comment From qqd769 Is it true that C2C is now filling the slot once held by Art Bell on Sirius 104? Tuesday February 11, 2014
8:51
george noory: Let me explain the Sirius story:Tuesday February 11, 2014
8:53
george noory: Art thinks there’s something sinister. Not true. We were on XM LONG before he was was. The channel went away and we began negotiations with Sirius/XM to come back on a different channel. Art then popped up..and as you know…quit within a blink of an eye. Our negotiations with Sirius/XM settled with them offering 104 to us and they even paid US to be on. We of course grabbed the offer.
Nothing sinister.. Wells parted ways amicably. And George Noory will be chatting monthly until 2021.
For a fee..
Now why in the world would Microsoft want to censor content. That’s just not like them.
A simply (MAYBE) amazing possibility: Just imagine free flowing water on Mars. That would be a discovery that would change so much.. And now the NASA Mars orbiter has sent back photos showing a possibility that Mars does IN FACT have free flowing water. NASA has yet to comment that there in fact is water moving.. Some have long believed that water is moving freely on the red planet.. They may have been right.
But one thing Mars does not have: 12+ inches of snow coming ..
So get ready for that.
TAKE THAT MARS!
Models sport STAR WARS collection for show..
Though the dresses are nice, the models are so unhealthy looking that they would have better homes in the STAR WARS Catina..
Don’t stop Beliebing:
Justin Bieber’s wax figure has been removed from Madame Tussaud’s museum because fans would not stop groping it.. Seriously people?? Seriously?
Bieber streamer: Justin fighting to stop release of video of him urinating in jail cell.. Reports indicate that the video shows Justin’s private parts. The gropers at the wax museum won’t know what hit them..
You can now call Biber “Bizzle”
Sinkhole swallows cars at National Corvette Museum
WBKO News: A sinkhole about 25 feet deep damaged several cars at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., early today. Authorities say that no one was in the building when the hole emerged.
Follow updates on this story at BreakingNews.com
Photos via The National Corvette Museum
I first admit this: I did not know there was a Corvette Museum.
They may not accept all sexual lifestyles but by God their chicken is amazing.. and now this: Chick-fil-A Inc. announced plans Tuesday to use chicken raised without antibiotics in all of its restaurants within five years..
Disgusting and horrifying: Two teenage boys were hoping to make a deal with the devil when they sexually assaulted and killed a 15-year-old suburban Houston girl in a satanic ritual, a prosecutor said Tuesday.. The boys are also accused of carving upside down crosses on the girl’s stomach.. They stabbed her in the face with a screwdriver.. they hit her with an ashtray, a toilet lid, and a window blind rod. They strangled her, too.. This is beyond imagination.. I cannot even fathom the grief the victim’s family is now facing.. and I wonder if these two sealed their deal with Satan..
The other day I asked why viruses always hit young children at 3am. After last night, you can add me to that list too.
So far the only immune one seems to be Mutley the dog… Let’s hope this 24 ends quickly…
This ad from ‘Jeremy and Shauna’ is absolutely offensive..
Then again..
Thousands of under-10s are treated for mental health problems
So what you do is what you do…..
New York City appears to be ground zero for horror movie or TV promotions.. the CARRIE promo where a coffee shop got attacked by a possessed soul.. the demon baby scaring passersby.. and now this: “Zombies” terrifying New Yorkers.
Is nothing real?
You were real Truman..
The real Zak Bagans of GHOST ADVENTURES fame tweeted an interesting sneak peak concerning the opening episode for the new season of his ghost hunting show: He said:
What happens when a world-renowned parapsychologist refuses to ever enter a haunted house? Watch this Saturday’s #GhostAdventures PREMIERE!
For those under a rock or people who ignore the paranormal affairs of the planet earth, Zak Bagans purchased the ‘demon house’ of Latoya Ammons in Indiana.. The house in the city of Gary was supposedly the location where a flare up of evil activity took place, along with a series of exorcisms..
Bagans purchased the house last month, and obvious from his tweet concerning the upcoming episode, has made it the subject of the first show.
Last week, the HORROR REPORT reported that the priest involved with the alleged exorcisms, Michael Maginot, signed a movie deal to bring the story to the big screen .. It helped bring my first doubts of the Ammons story. While she has yet to receive any payments for her story—that we are aware of—the fact others involved are gaining access to fame and fortune gives me pause…
I’ll be watching.. And wondering if the demonic activity will be present in the initial episode …
There are constantly earthquakes in California. Under the feet of Californians. And Hollywood.
But what secured my attention in this article was the statement by Anthony Guarino, a seismologist at Caltech. The LA TIMES reports on the obvious, but yet eye opening nonetheless:
The region remains overdue for a massive quake. The southern section of the San Andreas Fault, which starts near the Salton Sea and runs north to Palmdale, has historically caused a large earthquake every 150 years on average. It has not ruptured since 1680.
“There is a very high probability that it will rupture in our lifetime or our children’s lifetime,” Guarino said.
“We use these small quakes as a reminder: You need to be prepared with a week’s worth of food and water and have a plan of action,” he said. “Don’t run outside, don’t get in the doorway. Drop, cover and hold on to something.”
There are so many things we are never prepared for.
The grid going down..
The New Madrid shaking..
Yellowstone blowing..
2 inches of snow in Atlanta..
And the prospects that one day, during our lifetime or that of our kids, the Hollywood sign may fall down a mountain due to a seismic shift, is pretty downright scary.
There’s little we can do to prepare for such an event when we have built our lives, and nuclear plants, on the fault lines of the planet.
It’s just bound to occur.
We hope not during our lifetimes.. But by hoping that, we curse our children to have to deal with the catastrophic nightmare themselves…
If you’re not sick of the winter yet in the Northeast, you may just about to grab some plane tickets and quickly leave your state..
A few weather sites, including The Weather Space, seem to be talking about a March 1993-like super storm set to ravage the East Coast..
The storm is set to bring dangerous ice.. Major weather website have yet to predict such a disastrous monster blizzard, but the chances seem to be increasing for a snowstorm for lots of people. Like millions of them.
Ever make Alabama White Sauce? I have had it at a few places, the best was Mo Mo’s in Harrisburg.. So, give me some recipes should you know how to make it.. I have a desire to try it.. eat it.. And perhaps one day sell it in my future food business…
When you know your child is sick, it’s a tough time to sleep. When you don’t know you’re child is about to have food not agree with him and , at 3am when he asks to come in your bed, vomit all over your face and pillow? That’s a Pearl Harbor type attack.. One mothers and fathers cannot prepare for. No advanced warning.. no gurgles.. no hiccups. Just all out warfare on your bed sheets deep in the night.
But riddle me this, fellow parents or parents to be: Why do these things—and so many other occurrences—always seem to take place at the witching hour of 3am?
Call it the death of flappy bird..
For weeks now, Facebook and Twitter posts have been inundated with text about Flappy Bird. People lamenting their latest death, those excelling and celebrating their success at the 1980s style phone game..
But now millions who have been struggling will be finding no more help from the flappy bird maker..
In some bit of irony, as I type this post, my son is actually using his mother’s iPad to play Flappy Bird.
He is not doing very good ..
Wonder if we agreed to this in that latest nuclear deal…?
You do what you got to do: A bobsledder from team USA, locked in a bathroom, does what he can to break out.. And then he tweeted the damages he made to the world..
AOL is slashing 401K benefits—because of two young women who gave birth to sick babies!
If you don’t believe that headline, read some more in depth: AOL’s chief executive Tim Armstrong made the call on the benefits after the sick kids issue.. Armstrong, who now may have secured his one way ticket to hell, said this:
"We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general. And those are the things that add up into our benefits cost. So when we had the final decision about what benefits to cut because of the increased healthcare costs, we made the decision, and I made the decision, to basically change the 401(k) plan"
Sochi (Russia) (AFP) - 17:28 GMT - “Hijack attempt” - Some more serious news coming in away from Sochi now — a Ukrainian man has attempted to hijack an airliner en route from Ukraine to Turkey and divert it to Sochi, Turkish media reports say.
Hundreds of thousands of electricity customers in parts of Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania waited for power to be turned back on as states fought to clean up Thursday from the second major storm this week.
Thank GOD my power stayed on this time..
The people suffering outages during this cold .. just horrible..
My wife and I have talked about making this the first movie Ayden sees in a theater.. Now I’m not so sure. I certainly am not prudish and saw my scenes of violent-lite movies as a kid… But Legos being tortured while strapped in chars ? That’s sort of rough..
Even tougher is the ‘penny beheading scene’..
Maybe we’ll wait until DVD..
That’s nice. I am not impressed with much of any food-lite from the sandwich shop.. I have written about SUBWAY before, you can search my annals for text.
I do wonder though, now that SUBWAY has taken this magic chemical from its bread, will Jared look like this again:
??
He told CNBC:
"I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I’m off the grid. I’ve tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody’s listening"
And just when you’re about to roll your eyes at Jesse Ventura, and anyone else who worries of a police state building in the United States, read this WASHINGTON POST article about scenes from a police state in Iowa.. And it’s from the WASHINGTON POST..
I will quote the first paragraph:
“Watch this video, taken from a police raid in Des Moines, Iowa. Send it to some people. When critics (like me) warn about the dangers of police militarization, this is what we’re talking about. You’ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress uniforms, helmets and face-covering balaclava hoods take down the family’s door with a battering ram. You’ll see them storm the home with ballistics shields, guns at the ready. More troubling still, you’ll see not one but two officers attempt to prevent the family from having an independent record of the raid, one by destroying a surveillance camera, another by blocking another camera’s lens.”..
This ruling from a federal judge is a big deal that affects everyone: Federal judge rules drivers allowed to flash headlights to warn of speed traps…
(And don’t tell me you never did it, although sometimes here in the woods and coal mines of Pennsylvania, you get flashed by others to warn you of a deer, or some sort of other animal or creature..)
The ACLU is commending the court and a victory for motorists..
Now.. we should address flashing lights in cars as a gang initiation. That was true, wasn’t it?
Dave Hodges from the ‘Common sense show’ also interviewed Wells..
I get that Noory is probably the worst host of Coast that could have been chosen after Art Bell relinquished the throne of AM talk show phenom.. But Wells was particularly divisive, especially after Ian Punnett left Saturday nights with a history of weird topics as opposed to controversial.
I received lots of emails, especially on my other site HORROR REPORT, concerning Wells’ departure.. most were praising him and angry at Premiere Radio.
Interestingly enough, many Wells fans suddenly seem to have lots in common with Art Bell fans—maybe not politics but hatred of Premiere Radio over how they treated their favorite voice of the late night air waves..
My take on Wells: When he was good, he was ok.. when he was bad, he was horrible. However, he showed much improvement over the years since he began, and even began to accept some Coast to Coast AM subjects with open arms, such as aliens.. he even did the voiceovers for UNSEALED ALIEN FILES, the weird show you can find on your local TV networks late at night when you can’t sleep..
According to the COMMON SENSE report, and other numbers I saw, Coast on Saturdays with Wells was pulling in over a million people. And sometimes, even as Wells himself bragged, he was getting more listeners on a Saturday night than Noory would get all week put together.
And the most telling perhaps was an interview Wells gave immediately after he was notified of his termination. He admitted that he only talked to George Noory one time, and that it was for one minute. Nothing else since then..
Humility is not on display with L.A. Noory.
Perhaps instead, Noory wanted to displace any competition from within..
The chances of Wells’ success leading to him as a full time host may have been less than possible, especially with Wells’ propelling some away with his Alex Jones lite beliefs, such as wondering aloud of the Sandy Hook massacre was a conspiracy to take guns..But nonetheless, Coast to Coast with George Noory does not want to be known as the same show with John Wells. And that is exactly what it was becoming…
One interesting thing Wells has said..despite his apparent lack of in depth understanding of the paranormal, he has stated hinted that Premiere Radio wants to “own” the paranormal.. and in that sense water it down and present it in their terms, and not the terms that a once great Art Bell would have.. It’s an interesting concept. Wells may have picked up on the big picture..
He is now going on in life to host his own internet show called the CARAVAN TO MIDNIGHT. Sadly it will be on during the midday—and also sadly for him, his show has been marred with technical difficulties that has stopped him from broadcasting when he said he would. Some say Premiere conspired against him.. Some said the same for Art Bell when suddenly, out of no where, Sirius radio announced that Coast would take over Bell’s spot after his short stint on satellite..
Premiere and conservative radio is a big Juggernaut. Premiere may be happy with the lunatics and drunks that listen to Noory.. and maybe they were getting a little unsettled with the knowledgeable and questioning souls that tuned into Wells..
And Art Bell? Well..he plans on coming back in 2015 with his own online show. Maybe it won’t be a Caravan to Midnight.. but it’s always midnight in the desert…
United Nations issues scathing report about the Vatican and Catholic Church..
While the report should be judged on the merits, it’s worth noting in my little black book that the United Nations never had to answer for their own issues, including children being subjected to rape and prostitution by United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti and Liberia..
Biggest loser to smallest twig…
Some now wondering if the biggest loser, Rachel Frederickson, lost too much weight
This post is a little rough to read, perhaps for some..
Have you heard that “free bleeding” is a new feminist trend sweeping the nation, with blood covered legs?
Websites, including the Modern Woman Digest,have written about the ‘new trend’ that started because of feminist bloggers. It seems people have a lack of understanding of the Internets, especially the power of 4Chan..
The fake ‘trend’ started on the 4Chan board, and become “news” somehow in the past few days..
SO how long before a talk show host mentions it? How long before it’s a top story on FOX NEWS?
How long before 4Chan celebrates victory?
The Pope has met his arch nemesis: Anti Pope Frank. He’s made of Chocolate and he’s delicious.
As for Pope Francis, perhaps he’s delicious too, but he’s more of a doughy sort of build..
Nonetheless, read all about it here: The Pope meets himself as a chocolate statute.
This was the most bizarre quote from the report on the Brazil sleep disorders:
“Hope Yakimova, residing in the village said: People are falling sleeping suddenly, anywhere. Sometimes, some of them, in the same moment, near one of other, standing or sitting. "
It sounds like a creepy scene from a Stephen King book.. I agree with the DISINFO report, this could be mass hysteria..
Hey world.. you’re on Vladimir Putin’s terms now…
There are reports that Vlad the Implaler’s girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva, may light the torch..
And perhaps later light the fire..
Apparently no one except Russians are at the Olympics.. So reports the AP:
So far, though, it seems like the only spectators milling about are Russian.
Dina Kobolenko is waiting for you at her tourist information stand near the Sochi train station, armed with maps of this subtropical resort on the Black Sea. She says that as of two days before the Games, she’d seen only a single foreigner - a South Korean. They couldn’t understand each other, though, so had to communicate in sign language.
Another part of the AP dispatch:
A train traveling between Olympic sites and downtown Sochi cheerily announces to visitors in English: “We wish you a pleasant journey!” But on a recent ride, its seats were half empty. And a sweep through four train cars found … not a single foreign fan.
This is a very interesting article. During the last few months, I have personally seen many more weather sites popping up on Facebook, many local people trying to be the expert in the area..
I still think however that many of them simply read the top sites, or read what other forecasters are saying about other models, and presented as their own information..
And many of them, therefore, have been wrong.
Rooms are missing things. Like light bulbs and shower curtains.
Water is yellow.
But condoms have been handed out.
Only the important things..
Also something about Sochi: Extreme poverty and horrid conditions. What troubles me is how so many are mocking the blight and plight in Sochi.. While it may be ‘beneath them’ it is a reality for the residents of Sochi…
A worthwhile debate to watch.. Bill Nye wins. Obviously.
Some more weird stuff going on in Sochi.. First the toilets, then the warnings over water, and now this: Olympic village may have enough condoms but reports indicate they don’t have enough pillows.. .. It is so bad, residents have been told to surrender theirs..
Just think, a random person walking down the sidewalk wearing Google glass look at you and completely ID you, know all there is to know, thus ending privacy once and for all. It’s not science fiction it’s now.
This may look like a woman from Port Carbon, PA, but it’s not. It’s Penn Jilette, and he has revealed details of his crowd-funded horror movie DIRECTOR’S CUT..
A mystery virus being referred to as ‘the plague’ continues to sweep through a Texas high school, having already infected over 700 students and staff members and causing them to become violently ill.
Officials are trying to figure out where the ‘plague’ came from.. Some are actually making a few jokes of saying, saying More Plague equals More Parking.. Others, according to the story, are wondering if it has something to do with the school cafeteria..
But one thing that, for me at least, is unsettling.
As soon as I read the initial reports from RSOE EDIS about the Texas plague infecting almost 1000 people immediately, I remembered something from 2013. At that time, a number of media sources reported that the actual ‘plague’—the Bubonic Plague—was stolen from Texas tech.. I cannot seem to recall a wrap up on the story. I had sort of taken it off my radar of news gathering, simply because there’s too much to worry about already.
When the newest news broke in Texas, my mind immediately went back to it..
While I am certainly and sure that the sickness rolling through that school isn’t the deadly plague of a Bubonic nature, it’s just amazing to see the word ‘plague’ used to describe the illness. Could it be the media attempting to over-dramatize the situation?
I’m sure if you were one of the 700+ that got sick within seconds you’d say it’s not overly dramatic at all…
Meanwhile…
Is there anyone out there who can tell me if the Bubonic plague was ever recovered?
Life is pretty much at a standstill at my home base and many others across the Midwest and Northeast… We had a major snow storm and it turned into a major ice storm as temperatures warmed up.
While Armageddon has yet to occur, several forecasters were calling for it. Grocery stores were filled with rude and ignorant humans.. And an occasional bike purchase was made, for some strange reason.
Being prepared is fine. But being prepared by buying every gallon of milk in nonsensical.
People need to watch more PREPPERS
700+ sick.. An intense investigation is ongoing to figure out what is happening
So far Captian Tripps does not exist. We hope..
This is a dry graphic article but also eye opening . While I’m not a proponent of banning anything I still think that it’s worth debating for the societal aspect of what porn is doing to men, women, and relationships.
And also, the UK GUARDIAN referring to ‘seagulling’ in the report is pretty darn British. I don’t think you’d see that in USA today.
Their guitars weren’t even plugged on.
They didn’t even pretend.
Just fake.
The best thrill of the super bowl was watching Bruno Mars’ hair stand still for 10 solid minutes.
The tweets sound pretty gross .. There was also a warning to some in a hotel not to wash faces with water.
Boy it sure sounds like people covering his year’s winter games got the short end of the reporting stick in Sochi..
Imagine that perception of time..
The planet discovered by Kepler actually changes seasons BY THE DAY…
Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.
I know, there are politically charged arguments concerning Scalia’s comments.. and lots of left leaning folks are slamming him. *(Just as right leaning ones would if Ginsberg or Sotomayor said it)* .. but I agree with him in principle. And certainly, looking at the way human beings act during difficult situations, the way they panic, and the way they haphazardly pass PATRIOT ACTS, it can happen again.
Mila Kunis is the new face of Jim Beam. And no matter what you think, if you drink a lot of it, you will not get women who look like Mila Kunis. But you certainly may get those who look like Meg..
Second thought.. maybe you will get Mila, too?
Correlations/ causation/ instigations/ I know nothing more than the facts reported in the following set of news links. Your job is to figure out what is related or not related when it comes to a global view of news:
Bank gives warning: A disaster preparedness drill may disrupt real banking..
TOP LEVEL BANKERS COMMIT SUICIDE IN LONDON..
London rocked by events..
Russell Investments Chief Economist Dueker Found Dead
