The immediate effect of drug manufacturer Pfizer’s announcement Friday that it will no longer sell its drugs for use in executions is obvious: States are about to have a tougher time finding the necessary ingredients for a lethal injection cocktail. Pfizer and other drug makers have long expressed concern about products that are designed to be “life-saving” instead used for the opposite purpose, and the New York-based manufacturer has taken a clear stand.
“Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve,” the company said in a statement. “Consistent with these values, Pfizer strongly objects to the use of any of our products in the lethal injection process for capital punishment.”
This is not May weather.. Temperatures cold this morning in the East.. it will be so all day.. the POLAR VORTEX, I suppose? Even in the early parts of when summer heat should be reigning?
BOISE, Idaho - As Idaho’s population grows, there has been an influx of new construction, new restaurants, and oddly enough, and increased amount calls for exorcisms.
“Many times we get calls because people are having activity in their homes or businesses,“ exorcism expert and founder of Apparitions Paranormal Investigations Jeff Mason explained. "We actually had the entity identify itself as a demon attached to a resident of one exorcism.”
Despite the doubt and sometimes laughable portrayals of exorcisms in Hollywood movies, Pastor Mike Freeman said that the issue is a reality for some people – especially those living in Third World countries.
“You step into the Third World and it’s definitely a ‘We’re not in Kansas’ anymore moment,” Freeman explained.
“To assume our way of viewing reality as the only way is to limit ourselves.“
There is an inundation of talk about exorcisms as of late throughout the world. Creepy stories of demon possession, house possession, and Pope Francis calling on more priests to battle evil.
Participants were “smudged,” meaning the smoke from the sweetgrass was wafted over them before they could enter the sacred circle and begin a Wiccan ritual to support Sanders ahead of Oregon’s primary on Tuesday.
“Welcome to the ‘Feeling the Bern ritual,’” Leigha Lafleur, 41, told the gathering as she prepared to lead them in the “amplification of positive energy of Bernie Sanders and the progressive movement.”
CANNES FEAR: FALSE TERROR SCARE FREAKS HOTEL GUESTS!
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Wealthy guests at the exclusive Hotel du Cap in Antibes during the Cannes Film Festival were terrified when men wearing what looked like suicide vests arrived by boat bearing a black, ISIS-like flag.
The men, clad entirely in black, descended on the posh hotel while a helicopter hovered overhead as diners enjoyed a gourmet lunch on the terrace overlooking the Mediterranean on Friday.
Sources said some guests flew into a panic, fearing a terrorist attack, but were later told it was just a “joke.”
One witness said: “A helicopter and men with suicide vests and a fake ISIS flag pulled up by boat on the water in front of the Hotel du Cap’s Grill restaurant. Diners including [Vanity Fair editor in chief] Graydon Carter and his wife Anna, plus [Alice + Olivia designer] Stacey Bendet were sitting in shock. Hotel security got rid of the men but everyone was stunned.
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It was reported that former Israeli General Nitzan Nuriel was brought in to oversee security during the glamorous film festival. Cannes Mayor David Lisnard hired the counter-terrorism expert and former brigadier general to mount a security operation to preempt a “multi-terror event” like the one that left 130 victims dead in Paris. The beefed-up security includes over 200 armed police as well as hundreds of officers brought in from the National Police and Gendarmerie.
Jeff Harp, a KPIX 5 security analyst and former FBI special agent said, “They put microphones under rocks, they put microphones in trees, they plant microphones in equipment. I mean, there’s microphones that are planted in places that people don’t think about, because that’s the intent!”
FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.
Federal authorities are trying to prove real estate investors in San Mateo and Alameda counties are guilty of bid rigging and fraud and used these recordings as evidence.
I have been experiencing some strange jaw pains lately.. stress induced TMJ is the prognosis. The dentist even agreed after a series of X rays were conducted late this evening. I don’t know yet if I will choose the mouth guard for sleep–seems unlikely–but I will surely attempt something. Maybe just yoga for stress relief, I don’t know yet. I would love to hear what YOU do if you have this condition..
Nonetheless, I had a little bit of a panic attack during the appointment.. I guess this is why my stress level is high and grinding of teeth is often. Anyway, while sitting in the chair, I looked over at the X ray of my mouth before the dentist walked in to study it..
Here is A MOUTH, stock image.. Google. It’s not mine, but I guess it looks familiar besides those wisdom teeth. Mine are out.
The reason for the photo freakout: The skeletal view of my face.. I sat there in a motionless stare at the X ray.. thinking to myself: That is how my mouth will look long after I die. After I perish. After my mortal existence has extinguished and flesh and bones become just bones.. And it will happen to me. And you. And all of us.
Mortal thought is so often depressive, especially if you feel you have much more to accomplish. I feel like I do. I want to see more of the world, branch out and enjoy life. Watch my son play and learn and live to an old age with my wife… …but the angel of mortality is lurking. Always. That X ray, for all its miracle science, is a reminder of what lurks beneath the surface. What is under the skin.. what is deep beneath the muscle. The soul may be the final thing that cannot be measured—some say we have them. But the bones are there… within the bag containing them.
A slight reminder, in a dentist chair, of the fleeting moments of time. Enjoy them all and smile often. Your teeth are beautiful as are you.
On a day when news stories pointed to a study showing parts of the southeast were falling into the planet causing tremors, this new article comes out..
I can only picture the response on LA to the TIMESAVER headline quoting an expert who says the first major quake since he 1800s will soon his the San Andreas and it will be big.. Either extreme fear or an over abundance of complacency ..
For a month now, relatively large quakes have taken place across the earth in the ring of fire (more than one thousand alone in Japan).. But few quakes have been striking the west coast. Nothing major.
That has given rise to the worry that when things do start moving, the strings will be wound so tight it’s going to be big.
These words of caution from an expert in the field are not encouraging.
Maybe the Rock doesn’t have to get his helicopter ready for the southeast.. But the San Andreas in real life could eventually be another story..
While the headline from the UK DAILY MAIL sounds alarming, there’s no need to call in the Rock yet. The sky isn’t falling but over a long period of time the ground may fail..
The study concluded by the University of North Carolina suggests that a rash of quakes more than one thousand miles away from the North American plate is because chunks of the mantle are falling back into the earth.. The overall weakening can lead to shaking, explaining with at least one probably theory as to why the unexplained quakes occur..
Of course it’s conjecture at this time, bit if the theory has credibility more weird quakes may take place in the vicinity over coming years…
This should be no surprise to parents who often try to break their children from mindless staring into their smart devices..
Fifty percent of teens feel they are addicted to their mobile devices, according to the poll, which was conducted for Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on helping children, parents, teachers and policymakers negotiate media and technology.
A larger number of parents, 59%, said their teens were addicted. The poll involved 1,240 interviews with parents and their children, ages 12 to 18.
But where I think the study has not gone far enough: The adults who so often more are also addicted.. Maybe even in bigger numbers..
Your love is a drug. Turn it off for a while. Unplug. Addictions however are hard to break..
Nothing conclusive yet.. But the study was undertaken from 2010 to 2015 in central New York, where spraying is voluminous.. And the link, the researchers seem to implicate by the way of data and evidence, is the high degree of pesticide spraying..
Agribusiness and Monsanto PR employees in overdrive at this time. Lots of press to blitz with information to attempt to speak to the contrary of the study..
The entire nation has been filled with vitriolic hate.. should transgender men be permitted to use the lady’s room at Target. It has reached epic proportions.. store debates… politicians parade.. and not hundreds of thousands boycotting the store altogether.
Meanwhile, during the ultimate of diversions that has little consequence over the nation’s future, Target is doing something else which should potentially cause more consternation and debate than anything else..
Men may be using the lady’s room..but employees may soon be out of jobs altogether. The major impact of economic reality hitting Target like a target.
FORTUNE reported just 48 hours ago that the store is doing something to change its future and bottom. And it has nothing to do with culture wars..
Clerks told Fortune that Target is trying to assess how accurate the robot is at scanning shelves during this week-long trial run. One clerk reportedly said that the robot “seemed slow.”
Human nature being what it is is, I’m very worried about this lil’ robot as it traverses Target’s aisles. It looks like a moving target for mischief. One Racked editor wondered how long it would be before someone’s kid breaks it.
Another Racked editor said, “I want to put a hula skirt on that so bad it hurts.”
For as advanced as robotics seems, it is all in the infancy of evolution right now..
And while minimum wage workers across the United States band together in a non organized way to demand $15 per hour, there is something lurking beneath the rotten core of economic politics: The chances that so many of them wanting higher wages may soon have none. Replaced by tech.. done in by bots. And handy bots at that. Never getting an order wrong.. never stocking more on shelves than should be. People … are you buying? ?
The retail giant is conducting a one-week trial at one of its department stores in downtown San Francisco, according to a source familiar with the matter and confirmed by three store clerks.
Simbe Robotics, a Silicon Valley startup, built the robot called Tally that it says can roll autonomously around the store while scanning products to determine if they have been misplaced, mispriced, or are low in stock.
Just a test right now. But a test and threat–a threat of the inferior man. The threat of losing income.. While we argue about where a human should urinate, the carpet is being swept away.. slowly at first.. Quickly after.
And in a glance the future will change. A future that is now.
A Tennessee high school teacher was suspended Thursday after students reported to school officials last week that they were shown an “inappropriate film” in class.
Jackson-Madison Consolidated School District Superintendent Verna Ruffin told The Jackson Sun Wednesday that the film shown in class was “Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence).”
“Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)” is the sequel to the horror picture “Human Centipede.” In this film, a man gets obsessed with the “Human Centipede” movie and tries to create his own centipede.
While some people may choose to not see the film, chances are several of the kids in the high school class already did see it.. those who didn’t will find it themselves now after the uproar..
A press release: “
This investigation is ongoing. At the time the incident was reported, the teacher was immediately suspended and remains suspended pending the outcome of the investigation” …
While it may not have done much with coursework, can we get a reality check? We are still talking about a legally produced and released horror movie, right? We aren’t talking about children being given illegal drugs.. or too much sugar.
One of four suspects arrested received orders from ISIS-controlled territory, investigators say. ..
Italian authorities arrested four people suspected of extremism on Thursday and issued arrest warrants for two more operating in Syria, according to the Milan prosecutor.
Authorities said one of the suspects is a Moroccan-born national living in Italy who had received orders from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) to conduct an attack in Rome during the Holy Year, a period announced by Pope Francis that lasts from December 2015 to November 2016….
All of this talk of CERN eating up the universe, and suddenly a real life weasel actually caused havoc!!
A weasel shut down the world’s most powerful particle smasher when it wandered onto a 66,000-volt transformer and caused a short circuit, Europe’s physics lab CERN said Saturday.
Dispatched to eliminate a compound swarming with Taliban fighters, the AC-130 gunship circled above the Afghan city, its crew struggling to figure out where exactly to direct the aircraft’s frightening array of weaponry. Missile fire had forced it off course, and now the gunship’s targeting systems were pointing it to an empty field, not an enemy base.
About 1,000 feet to the southwest, however, the crew spotted a collection of buildings that roughly matched the description of the Taliban compound provided by American and Afghan forces on the ground. Nine men could be spotted walking between the buildings.
Suicide rates among non-Hispanic American Indians and Alaska Natives were, in 1999, already the highest of any ethnic group, despite being widely underreported. By 2014, roughly 1 in 2,000 men in this ethnic group committed suicide, a 60% increase over the suicide rate among male American Indians and Alaska Natives that prevailed in 1999.
Among all men under 75, suicides surged. In the age group most prone to fatal self-harm – 45 to 64 – almost 30 in 1,000 men committed suicide in 2014, a 43% increase over 1999’s rate. Non-Hispanic black males were the only racial or ethnic group of either gender to have a lower suicide rate in 2014 than in 1999.
All since the class of 99… Since Columbine. 9/11. War. Economic collapse. Suicide and escapism…
As the days tragic events unfold, yet again TMZ is leading the charge with salacious details of the pop star’s death.. Some already labeling it a ‘purple haze.’ .
The body hasn’t even gone cold yet! But the tumors are flying! Chemtrails coughs.. Overdoses..
All this On a day of death. April is cruel.. It started with the 9th wonder of wrestling, Chyna, meeting an early date.. And the Prince of music also leaving he earthly realm.
Guitars gently weep this eve’.. Doves cry. Rains fall.. And a clamor arises from the stammer of masses: How did our pop star die?
Now it’s official.. Elections CAN BE canceled.. No more conspiracy theory but conspiracy fact..
Colorado just did a wink and nod to Ted Cruz. The former anti establishment candidate picked up all the delegates .. But due to a ‘rule change,’ the party decided that there would be no election or caucus and awarded all of the delegates to Cruz over Trump. Trump erupted in anger. As you’d expect, on Twitter.
Oh, this weekend, Bernie Sanders handedly won another state but regardless a whole bunch of the Democratic delegates went to Hillary anyway..
It would appear now, in the strangest election of modern history, that the Empire on both sides is Striking back. But will the Jedis return? Or are they going to be grounded by the Emperors of Donkey and Elephant attire?
Why is trusting your gut so powerful? Because your gut has been cataloging a whole lot of information for as long as you’ve been alive. “Trusting your gut is trusting the collection of all your subconscious experiences,” says Melody Wilding, a licensed therapist and professor of human behavior at Hunter College.
Ask most successful people who actually took a chance .. and made it..? It was their gut. And yes some luck–but luck comes when the universe comes together for you.
Now as for me? Time to start learning how to trust my gut more than second and third and fourth guessing all of my hunches..
This is the cover of the SUNDAY Boston Globe.. it features some fake news about President Trump deporting people, market chaos, and global turmoil.. It’s all fake and representative of what some may have deemed comical and protest satire against the candidate..
Well thanks TIME magazine.. before this week’s cover story was unleashed into my mailbox, my son actually was beginning to look at it with some interest.. He’s only 5. A tender age.. But now with the new Ted Cruz cover photo, he became resulted and disgusted at the sight. This could have seriously set me back three years in his development..
In case you’re not free at 8pm or just cannot stomach the show.. Winners here:
Movie of the Year Avengers: Age of Ultron Creed Deadpool Jurassic World WINNER: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Straight Outta Compton
Best Female Performance Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2) WINNER: Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road) Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Jennifer Lawrence (Joy) Morena Baccarin (Deadpool)
Best Male Performance Chris Pratt (Jurassic World) WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) Matt Damon (The Martian) Michael B. Jordan (Creed) Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) Will Smith (Concussion)
Breakthrough Performance Amy Schumer (Trainwreck) Brie Larson (Room) WINNER: Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton)
Best Comedic Performance Amy Schumer (Trainwreck) Kevin Hart (Ride Along 2) Melissa McCarthy (Spy) Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect 2) WINNER: Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) Will Ferrell (Get Hard)
Best Action Performance WINNER: Chris Pratt (Jurassic World) Dwayne Johnson (San Andreas) Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2) John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) Vin Diesel (Furious 7)
Best Hero Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road) Chris Evans (Avengers: Age of Ultron) Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Dwayne Johnson (San Andreas) WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2) Paul Rudd (Ant-Man)
Best Villain WINNER: Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Ed Skrein (Deadpool) Hugh Keays-Byrne (Mad Max: Fury Road) James Spader (Avengers: Age of Ultron) Samuel L. Jackson (Kingsman: The Secret Service) Tom Hardy (The Revenant)
Best Virtual Performance WINNER: Amy Poehler (Inside Out) Andy Serkis (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda 3) James Spader (Avengers: Age of Ultron) Lupita Nyong’o (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Seth MacFarlane (Ted 2)
True Story Concussion Joy Steve Jobs WINNER: Straight Outta Compton The Big Short The Revenant
Documentary WINNER: Amy Cartel Land He Named Me Malala The Hunting Ground The Wolfpack What Happened, Miss Simone?
Ensemble Cast Avengers: Age of Ultron Furious 7 WINNER: Pitch Perfect 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 Trainwreck
Best Kiss Amy Schumer & Bill Hader (Trainwreck) Dakota Johnson & Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey) Leslie Mann & Chris Hemsworth (Vacation) Margot Robbie & Will Smith (Focus) Morena Baccarin & Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) WINNER: Rebel Wilson & Adam DeVine (Pitch Perfect 2)
Best Fight WINNER: Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) vs. Ajax (Ed Skrein) — Deadpool Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) vs. The Bear — The Revenant Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) vs. Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) — Mad Max: Fury Road Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) vs. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) — Avengers: Age of Ultron Rey (Daisy Ridley) vs. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) — Star Wars: The Force Awakens Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) vs. Lia (Nargis Fakhri) — Spy
A box on a pole. A camera. Allegations that someone is being watched.. And the company name on the box not showing up on any Google results. Welcome to the age of no privacy.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A link to a website which publishes photos without authorisation of the author does not in itself constitute a copyright infringement, an adviser to Europe’s top court said on Thursday.
A good ruling. Sound.. Hope it extends globally. Drudge should be happy too
A massive methane leak in Southern California was expected to have lasting impacts, but a new announcement by energy officials suggests prolonged blackouts – as long as 14 days – could also be coming as temperatures soar this summer.
State agencies studied the effects of the Aliso Canyon gas storage field’s partial shutdown after a natural gas blowout last year that crippled a major energy supply for the region. These officials proposed a plan to prevent power outages but concluded they "will reduce, but not eliminate, the risk of gas shortages this summer that are large enough to cause electricity interruptions for the region’s residents and businesses.“
I have written countless times about near death experiences.. Even today my main headline is an article about comedian Tracy Morgan claiming he had a near death experience after his near fatal accident on a tour bus..
But I have a fear.. As I am sure you do too.. The fear of nothing.
The fear that maybe the afterlife is a bleak pit of nothing. Just a dark cavern of empty space accompanied by silence. Hellish silence.
Ignore headlines and news articles.. Wait until April 2. The fool may be you for believing something traveling on the news wires that ends up being a global con job..
I never liked April fools day.. The occult mean Aside and ..all of that stuff.
As a matter of fact, I may just got party like it’s 1492 and celebrate New Years today. I’ll be the fool.
Coffee and phantom killers.. All night reading and sleepless filler. What phantoms emerge from the darkened halls? What silent threats will cause your fall?
Sgt. Michael Woody said the shooting happened around 2:10 a.m. in the 16800 block of Riverview Street, near W. McNichols Road and Telegraph. Woody said officers believe a man, possibly armed with a 40 caliber handgun, entered the home and began shooting.
Stories like this any day are rotten. On Easter Sunday they become even more tragic.. A nation of warring people.. A nation of crime. ‘Twas always thus and always thus will be.
A great story.. The horror movies of this time period were really good. The nation was a mess.. There was chaos and strangeness .. And ABBA. But the collection of horror movies mentioned in this article are timeless.
Sometimes periods of time and creativity just ..click.
A great story.. The horror movies of this time period were really good. The nation was a mess.. There was chaos and strangeness .. And ABBA. But the collection of horror movies mentioned in this article are timeless.
Sometimes periods of time and creativity just ..click.
The White House lawn. Easter 1921 on the first picture, 1929 on the second.
The famed White House Easter Egg roll..
The annual White House Easter Egg Roll goes back a very long time. The playful game, which involves pushing an egg through the grass with a spoon, officially started on the White House grounds in 1878 when President Hayes moved the event from the Capitol and hosted all of Washington for the occasion.
Through the years, there were different variations on the original activity like egg croquet and egg picking. In fact, the actual egg race wasn’t instituted until the Nixon administration in 1974.
Since then, it’s become the largest annual public White House event of the year. Regardless of party affiliation, presidents have it. We assume Trump would still?
An Easter egg hunt descended into chaos on Saturday after parents in Orange, Connecticut, stormed the field.
Children as young as four were trampled by adults in a rampage to steal buckets and grab as many of the 9,000 hidden eggs as possible from the third annual free event at the PEZ headquarters.
One four-year-old son was left ‘bloody’ on the sports field and a two-year-old girl was shoved into the mud, witnesses claimed.
Evidence mounts that the intense pesticide use required to cultivate the delicate bulbs is causing health problems for residents and harming populations of endangered species. ..
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When the wind is right, the Camerons can smell what Tim calls a “garlicky” odor blowing across the neighborhood. The first time it happened, they jumped in the car and followed the odor to a tractor spraying in a nearby field. After witnessing this several times, they went to a government agricultural office in town and were told a pesticide, fungicide, or nematicide was being applied.
The Camerons both soon developed severe allergies. When Cindy went to a doctor to get a prescription-strength remedy, Tim says, “the doctor mentioned to her, ‘Do you live out in Smith River, where all those lily fields are?’ ” After a talk with the doctor about pesticide exposure, the couple began to worry. They shared their concern with neighbors, who told the Camerons bluntly that the spraying didn’t bother them.
The Camerons are “not activists,” Tim says, and he doesn’t want to raise any fuss. They don’t necessarily attribute the miscarriages to the pesticides, but now his wife wants to move away from Smith River, and he’ll say only, “At this point, I am concerned,” particularly for their young children. Tim feels authorities are not doing enough. He went and talked to the farmer, who apologized. But the spraying continues.
But the unusual event is thought to have been caused by heavy fog obscuring the lower half of the buildings, or a phenomena known as Fata Morgana, which is a natural mirage that causes visions of cities or moutons in the sky or ships floating above the sea.
CCTV News said of the video: “A stunning mirage depicting a group of buildings was seen above the sea along the port of Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning Province on Friday.
"Seen from the land, it appeared as though the buildings were looming in the fog, resembling a fairy city on the sea. Take a look at this splendid scene.”
I watched this a few times today.. The bird landing came before his victories in tonight’s caucuses …
If it’s a sparrow it’s a good sign. If it’s a finch it’s even better..
And when things like this happen–these seemingly strange coincidences surrounding seemingly mundane events–it reminds me of how the bigger picture exists.. How there seems to be a dramatically bigger affair that takes place around us..
How maybe… No coincidences really do exist and a higher order is in power.
Or…. It was just a bird. Just a moment. Just a strange event that will be forgotten by tomorrow.
The LGBT community went mad when a main character–a gay character at that–on the show was killed off in dramatic fashion.
The part that was perhaps most unbelievable was how Jason Rothenberg and others billed the show as a must watch on social media, persuading people to halt their plans and tune into the program for a special episode. When they did, they saw Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey), the lesbian commander of the Grounders and the love interest of main character Clarke (Eliza Taylor), was killed by a stray bullet meant for Clarke..
Rothenberg retreated into silence on social media in the days and weeks following the episode, while a large sector of the show’s LGBT fanbase channeled their anger and social media power into collecting more than $45,000 — and counting — for the anti-discrimination Trevor Project. Rothenberg also defended his story choices, saying, “The things that divide us as global citizens today don’t matter in this show. And that’s the beauty of science-fiction. We can make a point without preaching. We can say that race, sexuality, gender and disability should not divide us. We can elevate our thinking and take you on a helluva ride at the same time.”
If nothing else, this displays the risks for people using social media to advance something.. especially if that something is going to make a lot of people very very angry..
Two days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear plant was murdered and his pass was stolen, Belgian media reported on Saturday.
There were fears the day Belgium occurred–a nuke plant was evacuated and there were threats since.. This news will cause more fear and loathing in Brussels and other locations..
The verdicts are coming in.. those of the people I now who saw BATMAN VS SUPERMAN are highly upset.. one person’s reaction was shock when she learned that the film cost almost a billion bucks *($800 mil to be exact)* to create.. a monstrosity of a borefest..
BUT BUT BUT.. stop the presses, here’s the latest bat news: Easter weekend take moneywise for the flick is going to be wide and big. $171 predicted for BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, despite the bad reviews. Despite the bad reactions. Despite Ben Affleck. The $171 mil will be minus Affleck’s children, as well..
The movie’s release is pre-summer. The spring Cherry Blossoms are not even done blooming. The genius of Warner Bros was to release a film like this – comic book, bombs, fights, explosions, Wonder Woman in a skimpy outfit – when kids were home from school. During a three day weekend when teens had nothing to do but go to the movies.. The marketing was also amazing with product placement everywhere, including in the cereal aisle for my five year old to have the choice of BATMAN or SUPERMAN flavor..
And finally, despite the misgivings and criticism, Affleck is scoring some points for his role as Wayne. Maybe not from me. But from enough people.
All that said, the movie is getting 30% at Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is also most likely going to drop next week after this initial trial run in over 4000 theaters as the Easter Bunny hops along..
Oh…..second place this weekend? Take a guess. The mighty ZOOTOPIA…
The four-minute video clip, titled “Last Chance,” uses computer animation to show what looks like an intercontinental ballistic missile flying through the earth’s atmosphere before slamming into Washington, near what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial. A nuclear explosion follows
The video is titled “A message to the Western Kafir [Disbelievers] from the Supporters of the Caliphate.” It’s narrated in English and subtitled in Arabic, and was posted on YouTube and other file-sharing sites.
A North Carolina man says he was arrested for failing to return a VHS tape that he rented in 2002.
James Meyers says he was driving his daughter to school Tuesday when a police officer pulled him over for a defective tail light.
He says the officer told him there was a warrant out for his arrest from 2002, because Meyers had rented the movie “Freddy Got Fingered” starring Tom Green and never returned it.
Meyers says the officer let him take his daughter to school and go to work, as long as he promised to turn himself in to the police department later that day.
Garry Shandling, the writer, actor, producer and comedian best known for his long-running and influential HBO series The Larry Sanders Show and his groundbreaking sitcom It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 66
The cause of death was not released..
The NET is buzzing with tributes and sadness over the death of an iconic comedian too early..
The missing link has been found?! A remarkable story..
But now a team of researchers has found a remarkable parallel to one of evolution’s signature events. In a cave in Thailand, they’ve discovered that a blind fish walks the way land vertebrates do.
The waterfall-climbing cave fish, Cryptotora thamicola, has even evolved many of the skeletal features that our ancestors did for walking, including a full-blown pelvis.
“It’s really weird,” said John R. Hutchinson, a biologist at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London who was not involved in the new study. “It’s a good example of how much fish diversity there’s left to be discovered.”
Terrorists were preparing an attack on a nuclear power plant and had recorded 12 hours of reconnaissance footage, it has been reported.
The ISIS cell were spying on Belgium’s nuclear power chief, possibly as part of a kidnap plan to force him to let them into an atomic facility, according to newspaper Derniere Heure.
Hours of film of the home of the Research and Development Director of the Belgian Nuclear Programme were discovered in an apartment in Brussels raided by anti-terrorist police following the attack in Paris.
Newly released images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reveal a close-up look at Ceres’ odd bright spots and giant mountain, and hint at the existence of ice sheets at the dwarf planet’s poles.
It’s a body that had s body of water that froze.. And entire ocean of ice..amazing.. But this bright spot? That’s the perplexing thing.
UPPER DARBY >> A day after police broke up an underage drinking party involving several hundreds of teens at his Mary Street residence, a 54-year-old father was arrested Sunday on charges including corruption of minors, furnishing alcohol to minors and disorderly conduct.
When Abdul Ahmaddiya’s wife, 45-year-old Nichelle Davis-Ahmaddiya, arrived at police headquarters Monday to post his 10 percent of $1,500 bail, she also was arrested on similar offenses, Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. Their 17-year-old daughter, who apparently promoted the Saturday night soiree on social media, was cited for alleged consumption and possession of alcohol.
A government document obtained by NBC News shows that just four months before Tuesday’s Brussels attacks, Belgian officials believed they were making progress in defusing the threat posed by ISIS terrorists in Belgium.
A confidential U.S. cable describes how the Belgian officials outlined the nuts and bolts of their aggressive new counter-terrorism program in meetings with U.S. counterparts.
“I saw blood everywhere where was a man whose chest was completely open. He had no more legs. Next to him a second man with no head whose body was shaking. Glass everywhere.”
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Kallouchi Mohammed, 28, works at cafe inside the Brussels airport
A wild day in newsrooms across the world.. This image is being shown on various agencies of the purported terrorists from the vantage point of leaked CCTV..
Most news agencies thus far have hidden this boy’s face in the photo above.. CNN chose to display the image without disguising the clearly underage child involved in the carnage in Brussels.. A journalistic decision
‘I heard a man shout some Arabic words then an explosion… then a second explosion, a massive explosion, much bigger.’
Speaking with blood on his hands and struggling to hold back tears, he added: 'It was a horror. I saw at least seven people dead. There was blood. People had lost legs. You could see there bodies but no legs.’
He added: 'I saw two men face down with blood pouring out of their heads. The injuries were so awful. You cannot imagine. People were so injured.
'I did not see the man who shouted in Arabic as he was behind me. I just heard the words. I don’t speak Arabic so I don’t know what he said.'
In the aftermath, thousands of people waiting for flights this morning were penned inside the terminal as police sealed off the shattered arrivals hall.
People already checked in were then slowly evacuated through emergency exits – but were told to leave all their hand luggage as police checked bags for more explosives.
The images from Belgium are harrowing.. The nation feared terror for since and especially since Paris.. The arrest of the Paris attack mastermind didn’t help alleviate anything. And now today’s 8am morning rush hour double bombings of a subway system and airport in Brussels is being viewed by some as a response to the Friday arrest..
Clear at this point: Belgium and other European cities and nations are on lockdown.. People are being warned to avoid public gatherings.. The train connecting nation shut down..
The story and situation is developing.. With every passing moment more complications on the geo political sphere and in the world of open borders..
Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the EARTHFILES page about this:
A Pedricktown resident sent the following email with his image of a mysterious, pulsing pink beam that lasted for at least ten minutes before the strange beam kept contracting on itself half a dozen times getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
The light is bizarre to say the least.. in the description Linda received, the tipster wrote,
At 6:45 am, the beam disappeared. The way it disappeared was it contracted to about 2/3 of the size that was visible towards its center, disappeared,reappeared at its original size and repeated the contraction and disappearance-reappearance about five or six times.
This was not a spotlight, as the brightest spot was in the middle of the beam. Spotlights would be brighter at the power source. It wasn’t a laser pointer as known laser pointers are handheld and couldn’t produce a beam that strong.
There may be a very normal (?) explanation for this light.. but I certainly cannot think of something that would make it seem that way..
Is it possible that Lexa’s death on The 100 could actually be viewed in a positive way by the LGBT community? At the moment, there are thousands of people angry and frustrated at the removal of a lesbian character, but there could be another way to look at this.
There were valid points when The 100 decided to suddenly kill off Lexa. It showed that Jason Rothenberg was going in the same direction as so many other shows: bringing in gay characters just to get rid of them. There are very few shows on TV that support gay and lesbian characters, and most of them will kill them off in some way. Supernatural faced backlash for killing off Charlie during Season 10 for no reason.
As for her own reaction when she heard how Lexa’s story would go in Season 3, Debnam-Carey said, “I was just like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to do this really well! I’ve got to make sure I work really hard and do the character justice.’ Which is hard because that show, we run so quickly and we work really fast, so you’re never quite able to perfect anything, I think. But which also makes it so alive, because it’s constantly moving and developing as you’re filming.”
Spoiler warning for future events of The 100 follow…
Debnam-Carey was seen on the set of the Season 3 finale of The 100, but when I asked her what she could say about that appearance, she laughed and coyly replied, “What was the question? Can I talk about it? No.”
Madonna invited a 17-year-old fan onstage during her concert Thursday night in Brisbane, Australia, and then pulled down the teen’s corset top to briefly reveal her left breast…
The Material Girl ended up in a bit of hot water when she – seemingly accidentally – exposed a 17-year-old fan’s breast during her Rebel Heart Tour in Brisbane, Australia on Thursday.
“She’s the kind of girl you just want to slap…on the a**. And pull–” Madge said as she yanked the teen’s corset down and flashed her boob. “Oh, sh*t! I’m sorry. Sexual harassment. You can do the same to me.”
I am hesitant linking to the video.. there are some YOUTUBE accounts permitting the underage nudity.. even some showing it in SLO MO.
Every now and then if I find a gem online that is worth noting and re-posting I do so.. found such today. This one is called ONCE UPON A TOWN, and showcases old photographs of some famous and not so famous places prior to urban sprawl.. Amazing site. Great work. Check it out..
In a city defined by celebrity, Jones has a unique kind of fame. She’s been called the Beyoncé of earthquakes, the Meryl Streep of government service, a woman breaking barriers in a man’s world.
Her son, now 25, recently texted her: “You’re on Jeopardy!” with a photo of the clue.
Authoritative yet nurturing, the “earthquake lady” has a knack for making a complicated point so simple it seems obvious. Along the way, she has dramatically changed the way the Southland prepares for earthquakes. Buildings are safer, first responders are better equipped and millions of residents have learned that the worst thing to do in an earthquake is to run outside.
“When the big one hits, people will be living because of the work that she has done,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
Now Jones hopes to leverage her earthquake credentials to tackle even more ambitious projects. She’s retiring from the USGS this month to help officials develop science-based policies related to climate change, tsunamis and other kinds of natural disasters.
