“It simply did not stop,” WFAN anchor John MinKo, who witnessed the crash, told 1010 WINS. “It went right through the barriers and into the reception area.”
I think I read this article last year. And the year before that.. as a matter of fact, I think I read the same exact article just about every year at this time. I get it.. Halloween spending is high… and the highest of all time. Sexy outfits.. party attire.. all in a year’s life. It is going to be the biggest Halloween since ………last year….
Action/Superhero Princess Animal (Cat, Dog, Lion, Monkey, etc.) Batman Character Star Wars Character Tie: Witch AND DC Superhero (excl. Batman) Frozen Character (Anna, Elsa, Olaf) Marvel Superhero (excl. Spiderman) Zombie Spiderman
And the big choices for adults: Every costume listed above in a semi-nude state.
I disliked the Rob Zombie HALLOWEEN remake. It sounds like John Carpenter did too.. Carpenter called Zombie a piece of excrement.. he said he lied. And he really did not seem to like the retake or remake or whatever you’d call the piece of refuse that Zombie offered up a few years ago..
Halloween. The original. By John Carpenter. The only real Halloween.
This is the big announcement that was planned by NASA for about a week or longer.. And it could mean that we would find out more about the water on Europa without drilling..
Last night, I took some time to connect with readers on Tumblr who have followed me since the beginning of this little invention called Coal Speaker .. (Thanks to those of you around for 6 plus years) .. I lamented the fact that so often I vanish from here for days only to return again with a fervor.. There are moments in life when I come to need mind clearing events.. Whether it’s a long walk in the woods or even a long kneeling in an empty Cathedral in the city I work in during noon devotions. Whatever floats a boat .. Whatever gets to the point of connecting with a higher realm, if that is at all possible…
As things change, I realize I often don’t. As I age, I still seem to think that ten years ago was yesterday and that dial up wasn’t so long ago–neglecting to realize that so many now getting into the work world never knew what dial up was! Never knew with an AOL chat room was! Never heard of Geocities.. Yes indeed so much has changed..
And so much on this website has changed as well.
When I go back and look at some archived material, I realize how immature I was at times.. I realize how I have grown over time (but yet have so much more to go ) …
So thanks for reading. Thanks for being here. My hope is you continue to lend an ear and keyboard to my quivering verbose at times verbal diarrhea … It just would not be the same without you.
Priest César Truqui said he had encountered a demon called ‘Asmodeus’ – the same demon according to Truqui who was present in the Old Testament story of Tobias..
Truqui claims that this demon 'targets families’ as an evil calling..
He said it was 'present’ in an exorcism he held with Gabriele Amorth – he was the priest famous for exorcisms who recently died..
Officials told the newspaper they responded to reports of a person lying on a front porch of a home, and that there was a large crowd in the street. The Reading Eagle identified the victim as Christian Torres, 16, who was a 10th-grader at Reading High School. Reading Police Chief Andres Dominguez Jr. told the newspaper that investigators believe there are several suspects.
I know this may not be the popular opinion.. But I really don’t think much changed last night. I think those who liked Hillary Clinton will like her more.. This who like Donald Trump will do the same..
In my humble thought, if you only watched the first half hour of the rumble in Long Island, you’d walk away thinking that Trump soared–Hillary did not seemed prepared for the kinder and gentler Donald, despite his sniffling.. If you watched the last half, you’d think that Hillary cleaned Donald’s clock. The middle hour was a murky tale of nasty one liners and lipstick on teeth..
The debate to end all debates actually was not as good as some may have hoped it would be. Camp Clinton is claiming the crown and the media is piling on with articles about the best quips back to Trump and Howard Dean publicly pondering if the Republican candidates snorted crack before the debate.. But the conservative media is piling on the same..
The partisan divide is only more evident. After the debate, a Drudge poll had Trump leading 90% to Hillary’s 10%.. I thought how ridiculous. When I saw the CNN poll showing about 70% thought Hillary won I thought it was equally ridiculous..
Everyone is playing to their own crowd. There is no unbiased reporting anymore, and when there is it’s comes with low ratings and little to no concern from the public.
Instead we picked our corners already. The only thing left to do now is cheer on the candidate we most want to see bloody the other.
This may be the most partisan election since 2000 … And God help us if a repeat of disputed chads happens this year.
Not the sort of attention that the Bloomsburg fair needed.. nonetheless, the world now knows.. There were NAZI flags being sold at the annual event.. The vendor not only was selling Nazi flags, but was removed from the grounds for being a REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER..
And as far as offense? He told WBRE that he did not care if people were offended. It was his right to sell them, he said.. Along with that, he mentioned he was at the fair for 45 years now..
Arnold Palmer died on Sunday. The golf legend passed away at the age of 87 near Pittsburgh. He was a legend… squeaky clean, famous, admired, even had a drink named after him. In the latter half of the 20th century, the Republican party even courted him to run for national office. He never did.
Another death occurred this weekend of a sports star–and it was certainly more shocking than an elderly golfer.. Florida Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died in a very tragic boating incident.. The irony is there. Fernandez fled Cuba almost a decade ago on a speed boat.. He died Sunday off of South Beach in a violent boat crash at the age of 24.. Two others were killed in the accident…
There are really no similarites between Palmer and Fernandez, with the exception of sports and fame.. they both played what they loved and were monumentally good at it. Both were known far and wide..
The major difference: Palmer lived a full life while Fernandez died in the beginning part of his prime. The riches and glory and fame and fortune, for both, didn’t matter in the end.. for both, the angel of death circled the wagon and struck.. For both, we lost legends and are reminded that sooner or later God’s gonna cut you down..
The late Johnny Cash performed a good rendition of that God’s gonna cut you down song.. but in moments of majorly famous people dying, I get more reminded of his version of HURT by NIN.. Cash’s video of the song is poignant and haunting–there are scenes where his earthly treasures are highlighted in his mansion.. all the while he sings the words ‘And you could have it all, my empire of dirt.’
We don’t have much time on this planet. For Palmer, he led a good life and make his mark. For Fernandez, his youthful vigor was evident but now, in death, painful.
Make haste.. No waste.. Time is ending fast. And you’ll one get get your taste, of moments that will be your last.
This is an image from the 2016 Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg PA ..
A friend first alerted to me about this here on Tumblr.. she is also from the area and noticed it was making the viral social rounds in the coal region on Facebook and Twitter.
The image was taken by someone who visited the fair and was moved enough to publish her photo of the Nazi flag (next to the make America great again Trump banner) on the truck.. The vendor is selling items that include derogotive bumper stickers and other apparrel of controversial appeal..
I have been attending the fair since childhood .. I have great memories. Yes, there are places that you’d conclude it’s Pennsyltucky. But this flag being showcased at the fair goes well beyond accepted social norms of the area..
I would hope now that the original Facebook posting with the picture has been shared thousands of times online, someone from the management of the local week long fair will get with this vendor and act accordingly..
One other aspect of this year’s fair that floored me a bit: The political nature of it all! Yes, the Bloomsburg fair has always been a home for Republicans and Democrats from the local area selling banners and yard signs. Presidential elections have been intense. But this year? I don’t think I recall a political year like this since after 9/11 .. There are gigantic–and I mean GIGANTIC–cutouts of Donald Trump (one was a 20 or so foot replica of him advertising a donut stand)… Cardboard cutouts of Hillary and Donald.. political shirts being sold on every corner.. and people wearing Alex Jones’ INFOWARS Hillary for prison shirts just about in every portion of the fair …
2016 is a political year. But I would certainly say that politics and controversy aside, a Nazi flag at an American county fair is beyond tasteless and out of place.
There will be 100 million Americans (and more people around the globe) who watch the Monday night debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.. It will be a record audience and shatter any previous for a political event.
This will be history in the making .. 90 minutes without a break. Without a commercial…
Debate parties will be taking place across the nation .. I bet money that even bar rooms will be fixated for a bit on the debate, perhaps developing drinking games while watching..
And the result? Maybe a decision
I predict that most people watching will make an immediate decision of who they want to vote for within the first 15 minutes of the televised debate.. and I also think people will determine the candidate of their choice Monday as opposed to any other of the 40 or so days before the November election..
This is an image of the Washington mall shooter.. he has been arrested.. early reports indicated he was ‘Hispanic.’ He is not. Instead he is a Turkish born immigrant to the United States.. Officials are not releasing any statements that the shooting was connected to terrorism.. This from USA TODAY on the ‘zombie’
A day after five people were shot dead in a Burlington, Wash., mall, authorities arrested a man they say was behind the rampage.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor, Wash., was taken into custody around 7 p.m. PT Saturday in Oak Harbor, roughly 29 miles southwest of Burlington.
Lt. Mike Hawley, Island County Sheriff’s Office, said deputies spotted the car near their office in Oak Harbor Saturday night, but no one was inside.
“I saw an individual walking northbound on the sidewalk and I instantly recognized that this is the person that I just viewed on my computer,” Hawley said.
“He said nothing,” Hawley added. “He was kind of zombie-like.”
This was reported on Drudge yesterday .. the debate coming Monday is set to be epic. Must see TV … And 90 minutes commercial free!? Break free!? I don’t think 90% of the 100 million people watching the debate could go that long without a couch break to bathroom trip. We will see how two candidates near or exceeding the age of 70 will deal with this..
Reports of creepy clowns first emerged in Greenville, South Carolina, where a red-nosed creepo was reportedly trying to lure kids to a house in the woods by flashing wads of cash. Police looked into the claims and found nothing.
In Alabama, schools across the state ramped up security after reports emerged on social media that clowns were going to attack local high schools with guns. In Ohio, a sheriff’s office is looking for two clowns and advising citizens to contact the department because “we are unsure what their intentions are at this point.” And in Florida, a state where you might think clowns would be among the most normal roadside sightings, police keep getting calls about clowns but are having a hell of time finding them.
I have written before that a clown under a street light at midnight holding a balloon could very well be one of the most frightening images one’s mind can endure.. But are these sightings really sightings?
I have come to a conclusion that some of these local sightings are just psychosis.. I don’t think people are seeing nearly as many clowns as they 1) report they are and 2) think they are..
The whole fad is also being driven by the media–a media that decides to use stock images of ghoulish clowns or Pennywise from IT in their news articles..
This past week, the Frackville police here in my local area thought it would be wise to post an image of clowns with a report that they are in the neighborhood.. the story took off like a rocket, to the point where kids on school buses were scaring little kids about deadly clowns behind woods. It is the stuff urban legends are made of.. or even local yokel legends.. Nonetheless, I have it from a good source that some of the local police departments professing word of clown sightings are now regretting their early decisions. Almost annoyed with the number of sightings that are being reported through social media..
Last night, under the Friday night lights of coal region football, the plays on the field were the second topic. Up first: Who is dressing up like clowns and terrorizing a region. I bet that topic was also being discussed around America from coast to coast.. and beyond to the rest of the planet where the phenomenon is popping up.
My prediction stands: We will face a clown deluge from now until Halloween night. When it gets cold, the masks were come off and attention will be turned to the next fad. But until then clowns will abound.
The capture of the Handarat camp a few kilometres north of Aleppo marked the first major ground advance of the offensive, which the government announced on Thursday. Residents of the rebel-held half of the city say warplanes have unleashed unprecedented firepower…
A man carrying a rifle entered a Macy’s store at a mall in Washington state, shot dead four women and a man, and vanished into the night, police said.
Authorities believe only one person fired the shots Friday night at Cascade Mall in Burlington, about an hour north of Seattle. A search is underway for an armed man who headed toward Interstate 5 after the attack, said Sgt. Mark Francis, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol. Francis released a blurry surveillance photo of a man described as the suspect. His motive or relationship to the victims, if any, are unclear, he said. The names of the victims were not immediately released.
MORE..
An employee at a restaurant near a deadly mall shooting in Washington state said they “immediately locked the doors” when they heard of the mayhem Friday night. Stephanie Bose, an assistant general manager at Johnny Carino’s Italian restaurant near Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, told The Associated Press the shooting happened inside the Macy’s department store. Her restaurant is just outside the Macy’s.
People fled, customers hid in dressing rooms and employees locked the doors of nearby stores after gunshots rang out just after 7 p.m. Friday at the Cascade Mall. A helicopter, search teams and K-9 units scoured the area for a rifle-carrying man.
“We are still actively looking for the shooter,” Washington State Patrol spokesman Sgt. Mark Francis said at a news conference. “Stay indoors, stay secure.”
The entertainment media is piling on top of the misery that has become Jim Carrey’s life..
The text messages reveal this to me: Carrey ended up being THE MASK in real life, hiding away the obvious issues the comedian had behind the scenes..
This reporting from the UK MIRROR:
Now, Cathriona’s ex husband, who is suing Carrey over his estranged wife’s death, has released text messages between the pair, which appear to show Carrey ditching her after she reveals her STD fears.
Carrey’s lawyer has blasted the accusation that the actor gave his ex-girlfriend STDs before she committed suicide.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Mark was amended on Thursday to include the allegation that White was allegedly suicidal because she had sexually transmitted diseases she believed that the actor gave her.
Carrey’s laywer allege she married Mark, a Hollywood camera man, to secure a legal immigration status after her father died.
They allege that White only married Burton for a green card, and he has multiple witnesses who will confirm this to the court.
White married Burton on January 15, 2013 at the Heavenly Bliss Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
And more
In one message, Carrey appears to reply to his girlfriend’s worries about unusual lumps, brushing her worries aside: “Aggravated folacles [sic] or bumps are normal when you shave or have vigorous sex.
He adds: "I hope your [sic] ok hun. It could be from someone before me. Doesn’t show up until you’re really stressed.”
Carrey, who has denied any wrong doing, blasted Turner in a statement: Is this the way a “husband” honors the memory of his “wife?” The real disease here is greed, shameful greed!“
All of this feels creepy reading.. and a little too much for public consumption. I feel almost guilty about even re-publishing some of the content that is in the once private text messages.
Lifestyles of the rich and famous… Wish I was rich. But sure glad I am not famous.
startling breach disclosed Thursday is believed to be the largest to hit a single email provider. The security breakdown risks magnifying Yahoo’s preexisting problems — specifically, that it is losing users, traffic and the advertising revenue that follows both, to rivals such as Google and Facebook.
And some have joked that the hack would have been awful of people still used yahoo email.. But they do.. Enough to cause a major problem.. And probably enough now that those same people who use yahoo email will be quitting yahoo email..
This report on shopping malls struggling to survive was from two years ago now, 2014.. Since 2014, about 15 more stores in my local mall have closed leaving about only 10 or so remaining–in a massive mall that used to house over 100.
The entire culture has changed in only a short time.. Online shopping.. No more brick and mortar.. It is all different.
The team, which included of physicists, linguists and computer scientists from the US, Argentina, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland analysed 40-100 basic vocabulary words in around 3,700 languages – approximately 62 percent of the world’s current languages.
NBC NEWS reports the ‘facts’ they claim are true about the Clinton health issue.. I saw a tweet from Michael Moore this weekend joking that the DNC knows how to lose elections..
The company spearheading the effort, VoteCastr, plans real-time projections of presidential and Senate races in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It plans to publish a map and tables of its projected results on Slate, the online newsmagazine.
The company will make its projections by looking at who is actually turning out to vote, and then processing that data through a method known as predictive turnout modeling. The process is similar to how presidential campaign war rooms operate on Election Day, when they track turnout by likely supporters so they can adjust get-out-the-vote efforts accordingly.
“It’s what campaigns do,” said Ken Smukler, the founder of VoteCastr. “We’re flipping up the kimono and letting people see what campaigns do on Election Day.”
Looks like SLATE will be my go-to site this November..
The Clinton campaign is calling this a heat stroke – on a very cool September 11 morning in New York City.. Others are calling it extra suspicious .. and even if this amounts to much ado about nothing, the surreal video of Hillary Clinton shaking uncontrollably before her knees buckle under her will not sooth those who have worried about the candidate’s health for months..
This is going to be the roughest two months of any general election in recent memory.. Both candidates are beginning the final push with very high negatives in polls.. Those who already doubt Trump will not be swayed.. but those who doubt Hillary may be more so.. especially after videos like this make the rounds online..
NBC news including these tidbits of information with its 15 year anniversary 911 coverage:
Three dozen live nuclear weapons were aboard U.S. Air Force bombers at three airbases when al Qaeda struck New York and Washington.
Because of inadequate communications equipment and procedures, top U.S. officials couldn’t talk to each other or to anyone else. Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to speak to Bush to know why the U.S. was preparing to go to DEFCON 3 — but the White House couldn’t put him through to Air Force One. Bush had no way to receive phone calls.
After Bush left Florida, where he had been reading a book to schoolkids, his plane was low on fuel but for hours had nowhere to land.
Most of the top 10 people in the president’s line of succession, including Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, either refused to follow the protocol and go to their designated secure sites, or were out of the country, or were never contacted.
Now-disgraced Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, third in line, observed protocol and was taken to an underground bunker in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But that left him out of touch with all other top government leaders.
Attorney General John Ashcroft was in a government plane and tried to return to Washington, but was turned away by the FAA.
Education Secretary Rod Paige, 16th in line to the White House, was left on the tarmac in Sarasota, Florida. He rented a car and drove back to Washington.
We knew things were chaotic in the aftermath.. we did not know everything. And that is probably a good thing.. By the 20th and 25th and 50th anniversary of 9/11, we will know even more secrets that have yet to be revealed for security purposes.. We will paint a full picture of the day.
Some more reporting from NBC:
Perhaps the biggest newly uncovered secret is that on the morning of 9/11, when Al Qaeda struck New York and Washington, the Pentagon’s annual “Global Guardian” war game was in full swing. Three dozen real nuclear weapons had been loaded onboard intercontinental bombers in North Dakota, Missouri, and Louisiana.
When Bush left Florida on Air Force One amid fears that terrorists would try take down the presidential plane, he flew right into the middle of the war game.
Air Force One had climbed out of Sarasota airport 51 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 plowed into the North tower of the World Trade Center and 12 minutes after the Pentagon was struck. The fourth and final hijacked passenger plane, United Flight 93, was still aloft over Pennsylvania.
We knew that war games were occurring the same day of 9/11.. but we only knew of Vigilant Guardian. I wonder what other war games we will find out about on the 20th…?
And it is these war games that have given fodder to those who suspect some sort of conspiracy..
What we did find out since 9/11: The Saudis were more heavily involved than anyone in 2001 admitted. People that day who would have blamed the Saudis would have been called kooks and conspiracy theorists..
The children of 9/11, those who were either too young to remember or just too young to understand, have never known a world prior to the day of infamy. They were not aware of pop culture prior to terrorism.. not inclined to understand a world before World War .. The children of September 11 have grown up. And the adults have aged older.
The newest generation to come of age has grown up online post dial up and post buildings coming down. They watched footage of the terror attacks fifteen years ago but did not watch it on live TV…
Others who did remember what it felt like.. all day.. all night.. all week.. and for the rest of 2001. The swift unkind gusty gale of change took an entire nation and forced it into places it never wanted to go or never thought it would ..
People falling from buildings live for the planet to watch.. the demise of buildings..
And a peaceful field in Pennsylvania scarred and charred by a passenger airplane..
We lived through this 15 years ago. Even though now it does not seem a bit like we did.. the freight train speed passage of time is as surreal as the moment we watched airplanes flying into buildings right after Al Roker talked about weather. From quaint to horror. From normal to a new normal.
In 1814, while the British red coats were in the midst of burning down the White House, the Library of Congress, and other governmental institutions, President James Madison had to evacuate. His wife, Dolly, the first lady of the United States, stood in the White House until she knew for sure that a painting of General Washington was safe. The nation was in a standstill. President Madison in a panic about how he would reconvene the government and make the central system work again. On August 25 of 1814, with a glowing red flame in the sky above D.C., nature’s wrath stepped in. The ‘storm of providence,’ as it was dubbed, hit the nation’s Capitol. A fierce wind, perhaps even a small hurricane as some speculate, moved inland. British soldiers reportedly had to lay down in order not to be blown away. A tornado—yes, and maybe more than one twister—formed and moved directly through the city. The blinding rains put out the fires the Brits had set. Legend has it that when British soldiers, while retreating, asked what kind of storms are in this country, someone replied that it was Providence to drive the enemies from the young nation.
If the war of 1812’s conclusion was settled in part by the hand of God, then where was providence on September 11, 2001?
The longest living storm to ever have formed did so in the Atlantic Ocean on September 1, 2001. The hurricane was named Erin. It was weak, and continued to strengthen and weaken during its lifespan in the open waters. At one point, Erin fell apart and dissipated on September 5 of that year, only to reform again and whirl back into a sizable wave.
On September 9, 2001, Erin strengthened itself into a major hurricane. It passed by Bermuda 105 miles east.. It turned. It began to barrel itself directly for the city that never sleeps.. Satellite of the storm is chilling. Erin is massive and swirls right off the East Coast of the United States.
Three hours before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 began, Hurricane Erin took an immediate and obvious U-Turn away from New York City.
Repeating myself on purpose, where was Providence the way it was there in 1814 during the attack on D.C.?
There are abundant conspiracy theories as to why the hurricane took a quick turn. Some speculate it was HAARP, weather malfeasance. Theories are fun.
But the simple truth: A very strong cold front moved through the Eastern part of the United States, including New York City, and literally forced the storm to bounce away from the United States like it was on a pool table.
Those who were alive and recall what happened 15 years ago –my God, 15 years already—may also recall the beautiful weather across the nation. I live in the same location I did then, Eastern Pennsylvania. I remember the autumnal feel in the air that morning. The sun was brilliant and the skies were deep blue. It was a picture perfect day. It was actually quite possibly one of the most beautiful weather days I recall in my entire life.
It was completely ruined and disjointed forever, however, by the acts of cruelty and terror as mostly Saudi hijackers boarded planes in the United States and crashed them into buildings.
If a chain of events did not occur, history may have been altered. It is really strange to contemplate that. But picture a slower cold front.. picture a hurricane that, suddenly, moves into New York City with whipping winds and flooding rains. Truth be told, there was not much preparation for Erin or even news coverage. I challenge you to go back and find any information of the city preparing for evacuation. Every prediction was clear: The strong Canadian cold front was going to ruin the chances of peril due to a storm.
Nature’s wrath never occurred that day. Instead, God’s brilliant sun beamed down from blue skies over burning buildings and people committing suicide by jumping as opposed to burning to death.
If Erin would have come closer … or even struck .. planes would have been grounded. People would have been moved out from their homes. 9/11 would have become famous for an entirely different reason.
Providence, perhaps, would have prevented something that we never even would have known was going to occur.
But none of that happened. Erin did not slam land, but instead rolled away and paved the way for one of the most disastrous days in history since Pearl Harbor. Or even since 1814..
While researching and thinking about what I would write about on this anniversary of 9/11, I went to the famed archive.org Wayback Machine.
To my surprise, very little captures of famed weather sites exist from September of 2001. It is now nearly impossible for me to even recall my own mindset at the time. I was a Weather Channel addicted nerd since 10 years old. And for some reason I don’t recall knowing a thing about Hurricane Erin at the time the storm was poised to do something off the coastline of the United States.
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The other day I tuned into the YouTube channel of Mark Dice. He was doing his man on the street interviews and found just about no one in Southern California that knew much of anything about 9/11. Some people saying a “Hussein” perpetrated the attacks, others claiming it was Iraq and Syria behind them.. 15 years of life takes its toll. And yes, history moves fast. But we are obviously doomed to repeat it without proper knowledge of where we have come from or what we have been through..
Fifteen years ago this September I was working full time as a waiter, staying up very late every night listening to Art Bell until sunrise, and having the time of my life. I just turned 21. I was invincible, as other 21 years olds are when they hit that age. Life doesn’t really happen yet.
My father woke me up that morning and told me we were attacked.. early on, he blamed the Chinese! He was from a time when nations struck, not group of extremists or those aligned with others in the darkness of terror. We watched live on TV as more buildings were attacked, the Pentagon was hit, and as a plane fell from the sky about three hours from my house. If you look at the flight path records for the hijacked planes on 9/11, at least 1 would have flown above the county I live in as it did a U-turn back to New York City.
We filled our car tanks with gas due to fear of price gouging. There was a lot of fear that day. The entire nation had a sense of shellshock, an immediate and confusing reaction that, while knowing things changed, not really knowing yet how they did.
That night I watched George W. Bush, updated my website via FTP on dial up, and never went to sleep. The coverage took over every channel. Every bit of life. Every thing. A few days later, Bush stepped on a heap of carnage in New York with a megaphone. The nation rallied behind war. And today we wonder how we stepped into the nightmare scenario of ISIS and Middle Eastern chess match madness.
It all began there.
It all happened when weather did NOT strike.
There is some strange coincidence in a way… as Hurricane Erin u-turned and paved the way for terror, the hijacked flights away from New York and Boston were also in the middle of u-turning as well.
The stage was set as Erin’s path towards the United States was halted because of a cold front…
Here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it has been near 100 all week. Ankles are sweating and forming kankles in the heat.
Good thing is, a cold front is sweeping through.. I can feel the changes coming. By Thursday next week low temperatures in the 40s… Football Fridays will start to feel like it.
And we will enjoy the cool breeze and pumpkin flavored life. And in about two weeks miss the summer.
I feel ‘oxy cuted’ .. you know that product, right? No, not the pimple meditation.. the other stuff that Billy Mays sold before his death. Ocyclean? There is a problem, of course.. the product, despite what I always thought, is not called Oxyclean. It is OXICLEAN. With an I not a Y. Really..
Don’t believe me? Look it up.. I know, I know.. impossible! You recall the ads that said ‘oxycute’ dirt..Or pimples.. you know that the “oxy” was a reference to oxygen somehow being used in conjunction with the cleaner..? Am I way off base here? But that is not what this timeline is serving up to you. I have not written about the now famed ‘Mandela Effect’ lately. Which is actually too bad. I have had and led several conversation with friends and family over the past few months regarding the topic. Recently Heather Wade had a very listenable program on the September 1 edition of MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT regarding the topic, should you want to go back and have a look-see. But this Oxy….I mean Oxiclean issue is the most recent type of time slip I have experienced that actually, well, angered me. Anger because it just stopped making sense. Angry because my sanity feels in jeopardy so often when I delve into this whole time slip notion.
You and I have heard the scientists and experts pooh pooh the Mandela Effect theory.. mass hallucination! Sure, tens of thousands of people remember the BerenSTEIN Bears.. and yes, so many—including me—recall King Henry VIII holding a giant turkey leg in a painting that was pictured in history books in the 1980s.. The list goes on and it is being added to daily. Check Mandelaeffect.com for the complete annals of alternative history. It is an amazing site that no one can replicate.. Add your own commentary and voice to it as well.
With the latest Oxyclean or Oxiclean conundrum I experienced, it reminded me of another recent topic that I did not write about: The movie DAZED AND CONFUSED. No, it was not a good film. It was that typical early 90s teen angst not so funny type of movie.. But it also has created a chapter in the history books of Mandela Effect lure. Did you ever hear of the theory that there was a land mass off of the coast of Australia? It was a large mass and many thousands of people recall it—oddly they all recall it in around the same vicinity. There is no recorded evidence of this mass, or as some have dubbed it, Taured, existing. (also Google the MAN FROM TAURED for some creepy late night reading) .. However, a brief classroom scene from the film DAZED AND CONFUSED may add to the mystery. During the short snipped, there is actually a globe spinning that seemingly has that creepy now vanished land mass! I went through the normal notion that it was a mistake. Just a misprinted map used in the film. Heck maybe even intentionally done. But this was in 93, long before the Mandela Effect theory. Then I thought, perhaps, the island shaped something was just a map legend. Or a logo of the company who printed it.. But it looks to island-shaped to be such. Or maybe so many people remember the map from DAZED AND CONFUSED that they became dazed and confused and recall this map as real history?
Frankly, none of it makes sense.
So why would a little dumb movie be the key to the Mandela Effect? I have no clue. Perhaps the giant computer programmer in the sky forgot this movie even existed, so much so that the computer code erasing history never was updated the correct way?!
And why would Oxyclean now have an I…? What if this…super computer popping into parallel dimdimensionsd messing with the timeline not only there, but also here? Sounds like fiction. But get this. (link) The website HACKED reported a year ago that a venture capitalist for the D-Wave computer system announced it had broke the 1000 qubit barrier and that some weird things are now happening.. The managing director of the company, Steve Jurveston, said that now super computers have become so powerful that they actually harness the computing power of huge numbers of parallel universes! Pretty quantum and crazy… Can we blame D-Wave? Can you blame CERN?
And …why .. And why.. And you know what is coming up? September 22. Or the 23rd. That is the date when some weird stuff happens. At least some speculate such.
So in moments like this, during times of frustrating no-answer question sessions, the best thing to do is sit back, pop in Forest Gump and realize you misquoted it your entire life (or did you) and eat a big giant turkey leg.
Here is the synopsis of the film KUBO AND THE TWO STRING:
Living with his mother in peace, Kubo’s life is changed when he is tasked with finding the sword unbreakable, armor and helmet to defeat his sinister aunts and destructive grandfather. To assist, a monkey and beetle are on hand to help him.
But it goes from there to become one of the greatest and most powerful movies I have ever seen..
My son Ayden took note of the ads on TV for it, we decided as a family to make a movie day. None of us were ready for the wild ride of emotions that hit us.. From laughter and sadness to complete tears and enormous joy and pride of the hero of our film..
Kubo starts with a story that we should not blink.. that the story about to be told is very important.. It is not a lie.
By the time the final act arrives, and the remake of MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS begins to play, Mom and Dad were tearful wrecks while Ayden was asking to see the movie again.
It was deep and meaningful.. it had moments for children and adults.. very strong, strong moments.
I am going to start a tag here on my site.. the ‘strange places I see Donald Trump signs.’ I see them everywhere.. in weird places, too. On trucks, on rocks. Farms.. on dilapidated houses..
Photos posted in no way shows an endorsement.. just a strange piece of pop culture activity taking place before out eyes..
Everyone is making a big to-do about the Hillary Clinton Labor Day coughing spurts .. one during a speech that went on exceptionally too long and the other on a plane ride afterwards..
While there are talking heads and pundits on the big TEE VEE pondering the health of the potential president, I am pondering the tenacity of the potential future VP. Seriously Kaine, you just allowed her to sputter around on the stage for a long time while you sat behind her smirking and clapping? You couldn’t fetch her a mint? Glass of water? Anything? …
Russia is not going to allow much advertising of BAD MOMS.. it would appear that Mila Kunis’ name has a pretty similar spelling to the Russian word for ..well.. this is a kid friendly page. You can read it yourself.
Winston-Salem police say someone in a clown costume tried to lure kids into the woods Sunday night.
The incident happened in the 1200 block of East 29th Street off Hwy. 52 about 8:30 p.m.
The “clown” was described as wearing white overalls, white gloves, red shoes with red bushy hair, a white face and a red nose.
The suspect allegedly tried to lure the kids with treats. The suspect was reportedly seen by two children and heard, but not seen, by one adult. The suspect fled the area when officers arrived.
This ACTUAL picture pops up every now and then in pop culture and has done so for decades.. An actual scene of workers eating lunch above a still being built city.. on a beam.. inches from death but not scared of anything, just devouring their food in order to have energy to work more..
Labor Day is something special.. something very important. It is not MAY DAY, America was sure to separate its reflection of workers from the Communist inspired day across the rest of the world. No, here in America, we have long prided ourselves on having workers rights alongside of capitalism. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not. Every now and then someone like Teddy Roosevelt or Franklin have to come around and give workers more rights.. or Richard Nixon and give the government more power to protect.
And even today, in the Old Jail in Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania, it is said that a handprint of one Molly still exists as a sign for all future generations of their universal power and strength.
Labor Day comes every year with picnics and beach trips.. and just like every other holiday here in the United States, over time it seemingly loses meaning for some people. Labor Day should not at all.. the very fact you have a day off or are able to have a wage and overtime after forty hours is because of the sacrifices often in blood that so many had generations before us..
The sun is shining bright today.. this is a fine Sunday, the kind that I feel like I will remember in my ripe old age.
LABOR DAY 2016 is upon us.. my birthday just took place two days previous, and as I age, I really have come to love this month. From September 1 through about October 31, I believe is the best time of the year.. The most remarkable weather here in the eastern part of the former once great Coal Region of Pennsylvania.. The late summer grass begins to fade from green to yellow, leaves start to turn vibrant.. The festivals and fairs of fall usher in a new feeling.. a crisper feel to the air and a rash of hurry in the atmosphere..
The nights get longer. That part isn’t my favorite..
The days grow weary.. But until November, there is still abundant sun and warmth..
