If you feel down on Facebook, it could have a lot to do with what your friends are posting
I linked up a story about this a few hours ago.. I still am not shocked by this .. not at all.
Mark Zuckerberg used to sweat when Facebook controversies brewed.. now they just don’t comment and no one cares.
I miss the old days.
A stroll down memory lane. The Battle for Los Angeles. Still a mystery after all these decades.. a weather balloon? Or UFO.. No one knows but yet all say they do.
Interesting that I read this article today—I watched THE POSSESSION last night for the first time (yes it is old now, but I am slow and behind my times. Thanks to NETFLIX I get caught up years later) ..
The POSSESSION was actually a nicely done horror film. It was filled with some unexpected scares and unpredictable turns of events. But when I saw the tag line that it was based on true events, I didn’t buy it for a second. I frankly never do.
Unless I’m watching a documentary, I realize that it’s still Hollywood. And hooray for them, but they change everything.
That doesn’t mean it is a bad movie. It’s a movie. A movie.
Though reality is often scarier than fiction..
Services will be held today for Cooper Harris, the 22-month-old Georgia boy who died after his father left him in a hot car while he went to work.
There is innocence until proof is presented of guilt in court.. but it sounds like there may be some proof that at least presents a very bad picture about the father of this poor boy.
I am disgusted by this story.. I am even more disgusted now that more information is coming out..
BUT..
CNN is reporting this tidbit:
The mother of a Georgia toddler who died in a sweltering SUV emphatically told a crowd at her son’s funeral she loves and stands by her husband, even though he was charged with murder in the child’s death.
AS said before.. innocent until proven guilty. But I have always found it incredibly tough to be able to forgive someone who forgets their toddler (visible in a rearview mirror at 22 months) is in the car..
'May' means they did.
I ‘may’ not have been angry then.
But I am now.
Matt Drudge gave a very rare interview this week..
Among some money quotes:
I will go where the action is, sometimes before it’s cool to do it, that’s why I get in trouble. I make waves, I don’t surf them as I used to say. That’s not that easy in this atmosphere with so many news outlets
And:
All of these polls are always divided. Capitol Hill is divided. How can you say the airwaves or the website should not be divided. We are
Plus:
These are very hot spicy issues here. We’re into an interesting summer here. We’re only about a week into it, I’m sensing some heat. And not just from the temperature outside, I think things are heating up in many respects
Interesting to hear how the trailblazer of internet success is now riding the same highway he paved, noticing all of the bumps and intersections filled with traffic due to his own creativity and success.
A lot of people hate Matt Drudge. But he was the first blog before anyone knew what one was.. he Tweeted before Twitter.. and he was 24/7 while everyone else was just dialing up. He changed the internet at the very beginning and everyone else tried to mock his success..
And it all started with a siren that will live in infamy.
But his sentence is ONLY FOUR YEARS.. Maybe less.
He can be free to eat another die.. My god.. Four years
It’s the nanny from hell.. And a really bizarre story of a fire housekeeper who refuses to leave..
There is some NEW and as always repulsive information on the disgusting Jimmy Savile. We now know this: He claimed to have performed lots of sex acts of dead people.. (On top of his horrendous crimes on the living) ..
You can read more about it if you wish to..
If there is a hell, Jimmy Savile is a door greeter when you get there..
I always find it funny to think how people are so accepting of the premise that cigarette companies put in chemicals to get people hooked, but yet dismiss “conspiracy theorists” for asserting (often correctly) that food companies do the same thing.
The Greenland ice sheet collapsed 400,000 years ago causing worldwide sea levels to rise between 13 and 20 feet.
It’s happened before. And before that.
It will happen again. And after that.
Humans weren’t here last time it did.. maybe we won’t be the next time, either.
But if we are… we better work on finding some new land to live on for future generations of our families, who now inhabit the coastline of everywhere USA.
Creepy stuff if real (But is anything real these days?)
A tourist in China claims to have snapped this photo of a weird “Gollum” type creature among the rocks North of Beijing.. It’s not determined if he was searching for his precious, but we know the tourist came close to the ”monster” when he went to find a spot to urinate. There are rumors of the rumors, though: One online comment apparently professed to have inside knowledge.. someone wrote that he and his friends went to the woods to make a sci-fi film. While doing so, someone who was urinating snapped his photo.
This is just completely, all around, weird.
The World Health Organization says “drastic action is needed” to stop the Ebola virus outbreak.
Hey Earth.. maybe we need to start paying attention to this…??
The number of people dying from heroin overdoses in Ohio has increased exponentially. State lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow an addict’s family or friends to give a drug that can halt an overdose. Some medical experts worry expanding the drug’s availability could cause other problems.
I recently found myself in a pretty heated debate with family over this drug.. I was doing my typical act of playing devil’s advocate.. I am slightly still torn as to what the right answer should be.. Should someone be permitted to bring back a person who overdosed on drugs?
I was told be the naysayers who said nay: “No, we cannot play God.”
"No, the drug addict made the choice."
"No, they will live to do drugs again."
All valid points, I suppose.. but I expanded on it all perhaps too much for a family meal. I guess you should never talk politics or religion at the dinner table. Add to that, thanks to me, Narcan.
Before moving on, let’s first explain this:
Narcan is the brand name for naloxone. It sends someone overdosing on heroin or synthetic opioids into immediate withdrawals and restores breathing.
On the point of playing God. We do anyway.. each and every day. Doctors and family members decides who dies—hell they just decided, in a sense, to allow Casey Kasem to meet his earthly demise.. And isn’t medical advancements ensuring we play God on a more regular basis? At one time in history, we’d put a feather over someone’s face to see if they were dead. These days we can restart the heart up to hours after it stops.. we can make a body live again. We can keep the soldiers in war alive to get prosthetic limbs. And while we cannot restart the brain—yet—Obama is working on that.
So if we play God already with people who get ailments, why not do the same with those who OD? Are they less than people? Did their choices compel others to say they are not worthy of living? Dig deep into your soul for the answers to that.. and while you’re in there, come up with a a concise and totally appropriate paragraph on why doing drugs is ”wrong” to begin with—but minus our the PSAs from Nancy Reagan and Mr. T that are undoubtedly ingrained in your psyche from childhood, if you’re a baby from the 80s that is.
These are deeply troubling questions for me..
I find myself agreeable to the premise that some addicts will live to die another day, do another snort, and take another needle. Yes, they will take a hit and keep on hitting, with Narcan to possibly blame for their furthering of their habit. I also think, however, that this near death experience will enlighten them to the possibility of kicking that deadly habit and choosing an alternate and more healthy way to die: Old age. Maybe that is just the dreamer in me..
America and the world is filled with deadbeats and junkies, whores and heathens. Sinners and saints are hard to find, the murky middle is where too many human beings belong.
But in a society where we regularly play God, it’s perhaps a decent and timely question to start deciding if we should pick and choose who lives and dies.. or if we should just play God in a more universal (*or Catholic!) way.
Yes… the medical team can try to revive a person who ODs.. but should the family? Is it wrong? …riddle me this: Is wrong to revive someone with CPR, or as Mrs. Doubtfire did, relieve someone of choking at a restaurant? Imagine that scene.. Mrs. Doubtfire Part 2, with Piece Bronson injecting himself with heroin.. and Doubtfire has to administer the Narcan.. Now THAT would be a modern take for a sequel, perhaps.
I am going to continue to debate this question internally..
I will also continue to argue both points with anyone willing to have a discussion. I have not yet decided..
But I know this final thing: We are moving towards a society where humans and machines merge.. I think Narcan is a nice fit on that highway. Good or bad.. God or devil. The devil’s always in the details..
A part of me thinks that Shia LaBeouf is a whore for attention.. the other part of me thinks his behavior has gone beyond the ‘act’ and is becoming real..
Nonetheless, his latest stint in the public eye involves his arrest at the Broadway musical Cabaret last night.. According to witnesses, reports, and all that: He was smoking and being very loud and disruptive..
And yes, this may not be the most important event in the news today, but it’s interesting to me. Either we are watching a new modern version of Andy Kauffman in action, or we are seeing the default behavior of a flailing and failing celebrity.
Act or not, the Shia has fallen.
A veteran could lose his home because of a small flag he has placed in a flower pot in front of his home.
The headline speaks a million more words.. It’s all true, too. The ‘home’ rules dictate that this veteran may actually lose his entire abode simply for the sin of displaying the flag of the nation he could have died for..
And to anyone who thinks that these Nazi-ish weirdo draconian home rules are normal, it’s situations like this which command discernment and common sense. . Ok, we get it, you don’t want Christmas lights of more than one color.. but no gardens? No play sets? No American flags?
No flags…
And others just recorded on iPhones while the toddler tried to help..
Guess what humans: you’re disgusting sometimes
The big match is Germany vs the USA today at noon EDT..
And NBC is telling workers across America to stop working and watch soccer..
Don’t think this will go over well ..
Records of dead vets were changed to hide how many people died while waiting for care at the Phoenix VA hospital, whistle-blower tells CNN.
We aren’t just talking about ‘numbers’ and stats here.. we are talking about lives. Lives now ended .. This is deeply troubling. And the iceberg’s tip will only lead to bigger things..
Women who live near sites where commercial pesticides are used may be more likely to have child with autism, study finds
Yes there are studies all of the time which indicate strange things are associated with autism and other developmental disorders.. But this is not the first time I have seen the link between pesticides and the impact on brain neurons..
Give the story a full read.
And no, it won’t settle anything.. but it certainly may make some of our daily lives unsettling.
With massive quakes striking off the Alaskan and New Zealand coast Monday, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey said he is weighing the possibilities that the two might be connected.
I don’t know if this is a first or not, but quite some time many ‘experts’ have said that earthquakes do not have a rhyme or reason and are not connected.. others like Stan Deyo have been able to successfully predict earthquakes for years.. Those ‘tin foil’ hat wearers have been criticized by the science community at large for some time..
But now someone from the USGS is agreeable to the premise that two quakes on the same day may be connected—and when tension starts on one side of the ring of fire, a burst may occur on the other.
The report of a Jackson KFC accused of asking a 3-year-old girl to leave because of facial scars was a hoax, according to the Laurel Leader-Call.
And the entire world fell for this.. hook, line, and sinker..
I’ll admit it, even me. I have a sore spot for stories about kids..
I had my first lucid dream the other night, after weeks of meditation before bed.. I was taking a walk with my son, and we stole a baseball bat. I was worried about being captured, but during the dream told myself it was a dream and I can control it now.. I woke up soon after ..
There is a reason people say never to mess ith a Quiji board.. And now video that may prove it.. Believe it or not, a video portends to show signs of a woman being possessed after playing with the board.. Alexandra Huerta, 22, was playing with the ‘other world’ when she was by her brother Sergio, 23, and 18-year-old cousin Fernando Cuevas.. Then came the ‘growling’ and hallucinations.. They were taken the hospital soon after..
A local tsunami warning was issued after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean west of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Tsunami Warning Center said.
The warning covered coastal areas of Alaska from Nikolski to Attu, the center said, adding the level of tsunami danger was being evaluated for other U.S. and Canadian Pacific coasts.
The quake struck about 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska, at a depth of about 71 miles (114 km), USGS said.
There was other earth movement today with a really strong shake in new Zealand.. appears that the earth is moving quite a bit lately..
There are dozens of aftershocks now taking place after the big 8.0 movement..
The sounds continue..
What looks to be a pretty amazing movie is going to be released into theaters on July 2.. the film is called DELIVER US FROM EVIL and is based on a book by a policeman-demonologist..The New York TIMES details the story of how the book became the movie–and why it may do exceptionally well at box offices..
Here’s a list of weird/strange articles on wikipedia in no particular order for you to read and just add more useless knowledge in your puny human brain. General murder/death trigger warning for most.
Bloody Mary || Kennedy curse || Taman Shud Case || La Voisin || Greyfriars Bobby || Pripyat || Albert Fish || Mary Toft || The Cure for Insomnia || Roanoke Colony || John Murray Spear || Arecibo message || Nuckelavee || Phaistos Disc || Tanganyika laughter epidemic || Mad Gasser of Mattoon || Murder of Junko Furuta || Peoples Temple || Ed Gein || Stargate Project || Jackalope || Numbers station || UVB-76 || Bélmez Faces || Donner Party || Adam || Mariana UFO incident || Valentich disappearance || Cleveland Torso Murderer || Trepanning || Dyatlov Pass incident || Grey goo || Overtoun House || The Garden of Earthly Delights || Wilhelm Reich || Starchild skull || Original Night Stalker || Owlman || Ararat anomaly || British big cats || Jack the Ripper || Clapham Wood Mystery || Pope Lick Monster || Shadow person || Out-of-place artifact || Black Dahlia || Jersey Devil || Crawfordsville monster || Koro || Philadelphia Experiment || Glasgow smile || Roswell UFO incident || David Parker Ray || D. B. Cooper || Total Information Awareness || Goatman || Grey alien || Joachim Kroll || Peter Kürten || Gilles de Rais || Alien abduction || Joseph Vacher || Mothman || Polywater || Catacombe dei Cappuccini || Villisca Axe Murders || Grace Sherwood || Loveland frog || The Hermitage || Jatinga || Sankebetsu brown bear incident || Mongolian death worm || Devil’s Footprints || The Sick Child || H. H. Holmes || Dysaesthesia aethiopica || Bloody Benders || Lamia || Black Paintings || The Monster with 21 Faces || Shirime || Lina Medina || Exploding head syndrome || Quantum suicide and immortality || Mokele-mbembe || Spontaneous human combustion || Dulce Base || Chandre Oram || Oscar || Men in Black || Vladimir Demikhov || The Great Red Dragon Paintings || Bloop || Retroactive continuity || Elizabeth Báthory || Delphine LaLaurie || Silverpilen || Polybius || Guided rat || Robert J. White || Chelyabinsk meteor || Armin Meiwes || Big Crunch || Belchen Tunnel || Moberly–Jourdain incident || Boy Scout Lane || Princes in the Tower || Rosenheim Poltergeist || Peter Stumpp || Bermuda Triangle || Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery || Hill of Crosses || Self-immolation || Lycaon || Burke and Hare murders || Pykrete || Kate Morgan || List of unusual deaths || Sawney Bean || Rogue elephant of Aberdare Forest || Yoshio Kodaira || Incorruptibility || Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus || Toynbee tiles || Rat king || Sailing stones || Thalidomide || Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 || Tunguska event || Head transplant || List of cryptids || Borley Rectory || Sedlec Ossuary || Alien hand syndrome || Capgras delusion || Mellified man || Atuk || Monster of Glamis || Spring-heeled Jack || Allagash Abductions || Aokigahara || Raymond Robinson (Green Man) || Premature burial || Brain transplant || Nightmarchers || Decompression illness || Midgetville || Zombie || Mercy Brown vampire incident || Necromancy || Lamkin || Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. || Icelandic Phallological Museum || Neisseria meningitidis || Unit 731 || Bunny Man || Bubbly Creek || Malleus Maleficarum || Moll Dyer || Original Spanish Kitchen || Charles Bonnet syndrome || Voynich manuscript || Black Annis || True name || Dorothy Talbye trial || Black dog || Wandering Jew || Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway || Yara-ma-yha-who || Rod Ferrell || The Juniper Tree
Pope launches strongest papal attack on organised crime since Pope John Paul in 1993 in impromptu comments about southern Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta crime group
A big wow on this story.
Pope Francis says that the mafia adores evil and they are excommunicated..
Will there be a horse head in the Vatican bed?
The New York TIMES is reporting this seemingly wretched news.. It reports this from Brussels:
The top American agriculture official on Tuesday called on the European Union to do more to ease restrictions on gene-altered food and feed crops if it hoped to reach a trans-Atlantic trade pact.
“There can’t be a trade agreement without a serious and significant commitment to agriculture,” the official, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, told reporters on Tuesday, a day after an informal meeting with European farm ministers. European consumers “ought to have a choice” whether to use biotech foods, he said.
Mr. Vilsack has a tough case to make, though. There continues to be deep resistance to bioengineered agricultural products in the European Union — or to easing many other agricultural trade protections, for that matter. The fight over food, in fact, is a big impediment to progress in talks that are already moving more slowly than officials on both sides had wanted when President Obama announced them last year.
Very disappointing..
And in some ironic twist, this is simultaneously happening: Obama is forming a team to study Colony Collapse of bees.
So while the United States is busy defending GMO food as safe and secure, it’s also going to face some rude awakenings as they get deep into the honey bee trench. Many global studies have already hinted as a cause: GMOs and Monsanto’s Roundup..
But….
The American study may very well have a different conclusion. After all, Vilsack is telling the UK to accept more bioengineered food. Maybe some cozy relationships of the past is adding fuel to the cause..
This has been an ongoing story of sinkholes in Palmyra, PA.. the location has been prone to enormous sinkhole recently..
Try to fathom these numbers: 280,000 and 970,000 abandoned oil and gas wells .. and if only a slight amount are leaking methane, that is not at all trivial.
Tensions between Moscow and Kiev continue to mount with Vladimir Putin’s latest show of force as Russia dismisses Petro Poroshenko’s “peace plan” as an ultimatum
The Washington POST reveals: The CIA cooked up an Obama Bin Laden ‘demon toy’.. the theory: An n Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath.. It was meant to scare Afghanistan children and their parents..
A very interesting story is appearing in SLATE today..A former stormchaser now thinks the idea of chasing severe weather is unethical..
I will be upfront: I love watching live storm coverage, especially hurricane and tornado reports. But I equally think news forecasters who are paid by their employer to go into the storm is unethical. If one does it himself or herself, I think it’s based more on a passion.. I always think back to when Vince McMahan made Owen Hart get hoisted over 100 feet above the wrestling ring, and then he fell to his death.It’s a tough call..
Perhaps it could also be said that ‘ghost hunting’ is as unethical if not more so than storm chasers. If you believe in ghosts, that is..
Two leading voices in the world of science and technology are warning robots equipped with artificial intelligence could be leading humanity down a dangerous path.
We should be listening before it’s too late.
Pope Francis speaks out against legalized drugs, citing ‘evil’..
No word on whether he will start using grape juice instead of wine in his chalice..
Really.. And it’s driving people batty.. Here’s the story from MIC.COM, detailing the very real ‘mysterious hum’ that is driving people insane.. And something from very well-written article I never knew: There is a world hum database on Google..
Could this be a ghost of Alcatraz? That or Michael Myers. Or maybe even William Shatner (who’s was the face of the SHAPE)..
This man’s mugshot is heating up the internet and provoking a backlash..
His name is Jeremy Meeks, and he was arrested during a gang sweep in California..but the mugshot is being shared by women across the net who find him attractive..
An interesting debate on the HOT 93.5 Harrisburg radio Facebook page.. The station is asking women if they would date an attractive man WHO IS A FELON.. Most woman are fine with it.
The rolling fat man…
….wait.. what.. huh? say that again?
Saddam’s chemical weapon stockpile…?
MOVE OVER SLENDERMAN!! You’re going to take a back seat to the newest weird net phenom.. Get ready for a new internet meme: The Creepy Paddington bear. .. and any time someone destroys the innocence and beauty of youth, it’s creepy. Just as someone now has, pervading the memories of so many children comforted by Paddington Bear.. Welcome to the net, where nothing is sacred.
A very rare double tornado struck yesterday in Nebraska..And with it came heartbreak: A five-year-old is among the dead.. Others are injured.. According to AP dispatches, more than half of the town of Pilger, Nebraska, is destroyed..
The stranger part of the double tornado strike: Usually one tornado is stronger than the other and energy from ones feeds the other. In this case, both tornadoes appear to have been of the same strength and ferocitiy..
At one point, the twin tornadoes straddled a major highway..
Town all but wiped off the map..
Apartments and a mall will take its place, leaving only a historical plaque to commemorate the location where Mark Felt, a top FBI agent known as “Deep Throat,” would share Watergate secrets with journalist Bob Woodward
TEMPE, Ariz. — Starbucks employees nationwide will be eligible for a free college education through Arizona State University’s online program beginning this fall.
There are some strings attached and limitations within, but it’s quite an adventurous venture. SO now you know..A shame a college degree these days is worth as much as a Starbucks cup of coffee..
At this point, Miley Cyrus should just start her own nude website in which people watch her scratch herself and stick her tongue out all day.. The less than dignified music sensation posted a photograph of herself prior to a shower. Topless. Good thing you can’t smell a person through Instagram—after all this was prior to bathing. Smellagram is a future endeavor, but until then we can only just imagine..
There has been a dramatic escalation of violence in Iraq over the weekend as ISIS—or now ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)—has been accused of mass murder. The accusation makes it easy when they go online to brag about their mass murder.. There are images and grisly videos circulating the world wide web.. the entire planet can now see the barbaric nature with which ISIL/ISIS imposes Sharia Law. And now this: Iran is directly getting involved with the conflict while the United States contemplates what else it will do.. In the meantime all eyes are on the Baghdad Embassy where personnel are still housed and militants take over more areas, closing in on the city..
At this point: 550 (or more?) Marines are on a warship in the Persian Gulf..
And of course there are some websites that argue the images are faked and photoshopped.. DUTCHSINSE paints a good picture that some may be, but not all are.. nor are all videos.. Sometimes “conspiracy” is shouted too often and too loudly..After all, let’s take a quick historical trip down amnesia lane .. Many are pointing out (rightly so) that the Bush adventure in Iraq was a bad move, few are speculating on how the recent movements by ISIS could actually be a product of the Obama Administration.. Lest we forget.. America’s allies are funding ISIS and so is America, too.. recent history tells us that it’s unwise to play our meager chess games in the Middle East. There’s never a victory..
