AP reports:

'Japan quake hit 25 miles underwater off coast of Miyagi prefecture; buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute'

Again?!? 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Miyagi, Japan, Japan's meteorological agency says.

Reuters reports: No budget deal reached after all-night negotiations, Republican aide says

But there are renewed calls for (and rumor of) a last minute (AGAIN) one week extension to keep the government from being shut down.

Temperatures INSIDE Japan evacuation center plummet to the 30s

I can’t even imagine the toll these events are having on the people of Japan.. Nonstop unbelievable and frightening news continues..

Temperatures INSIDE Japan evacuation center plummet to the 30s

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I’m trying to be a good father but I’m certainly no magic man.. though I can still listen to the song. Goodnight. And here’s hoping if you have a child your baby isn’t keeping you awake throughout the long night..

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

News from the coal mine.. Deep and dark tidbits of tenacity from the world at large

While it’s not a full collection of the horrors that took place on earth today, it’s what I found most interesting..

Perhaps the MOST interesting of all is the HANGOVER 2 trailer being pulled for a monkey sex scene…

No more HANGOVER? HANGOVER 2 trailer pulled from theaters by the

MPAA..Slashfilm gets document..

So what got it pulled? A monkey sex scene..

And here are the rest of the pieces of newsbytes from around the world:

If Donald Trump ran for president, could he win? A new poll suggests he is pulling second place in the GOP race..

Broke: New York City to close 20 fire companeis..

Glenn Beck OUT at Fox News..
Government shut down looms on Friday..
What a government shut down would mean for you..

A honeymooning couple with miracle luck: They survived 6 natural disasters!

Scottish school hit by storm—of worms!

President Obama remembers what it was like to pump gas.. That’s great.

REAL RETINAS grown in a lab hold promise..

Armenia loses the net by accident

And guess why. An elderly woman cut wires and it ended up cutting off the Internet!

Forced vacation time? The deadline is Friday for a federal government potential shut down.. Appears to be inevitable as neither side can come to an agreement for this beleaguered and broke nation…

News about the Hadron Collider never ceases to amaze me and scare me' a little bit too

Here’s the info

US physicists are to announce Wednesday that data from a major atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature, the New York Times reported.

With timing like this, who needs conspiracy theories?! The EU and US plan on raising allowable radiation levels for food.

Man gets arrested... For blowing his nose...

Man gets arrested... For blowing his nose...

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The year of the cat? I’d rather a year of the dog.. But that’s just me. Goodnight all..

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

I long promised that I wouldn’t blast photos of my son all over my site.. But by God with an image like this, how could I possibly resist?!

Anyone watching the price of oil and gold today?

Holy spike.. Holy scary.

I just don’t think spring should look like this

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Johnny Cash sings the City of New Orleans.

Good morning and ..America, I’m still waiting.. how are you?

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Bath salts that don't clean

So… as usual, my local news just opened up, yet again, with another cautionary tale of mindless zombie teenagers getting high, and dying, on bath salts. Yes, indeed, this  new phase of drug addiction is interesting—but particularly bothersome at the same time. It shows that, without question, the kids aren’t alright. No one just wants to be happy being alive these days, I guess. Instead of seeing earth as it is, people would rather seduce their brains with mind altering drugs. And even though the idea of drug and alcohol use among the puberty-wrought teen crowd as been around for ages, the latest bout of the human body with bath salts shows the unintellectual ability that kids have to come up with strange ways to destroy brain cells without inhibition. 

And at the same time, I’d somewhat tired of hearing of bath salts. 

The top story every night? … Along with the latest fire to burn a barn, or the latest accident to destroy a family. Weather 15 after, sports at 20. Followed up, at the end, with the fun little story of a goat with three legs or a potato sack race for cancer patients.

Local news is so predictable—and often boring.

I will argue that bath salt deaths are the best thing to happen to local news since rumors of knives in apples on Halloween. Unfortunately, unlike the Halloween scare, bath salts are real along with killing kids.

But state Legislatures will soon ban them. And …. that will … solve the problem………….. [inject sarcastic face.]

Goodnight Monday. You were less than memorable anyway.

Human hormones being mixed with cow's milk. (This is NOT fiction)

The LONDON TELEGRAPH reports:

The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk.

Anyone out there have as much as a problem with this as I do?

Human hormones being mixed with cow's milk. (This is NOT fiction)

Bodies of 2009 Air France crash victims will be brought to surface and identified, French official says.

Eerie news alert from CNN