People are very scared. It’s been shaking non-stop for the past week

Journalist Andrea Vogt, who was near the epicenter of another strong earthquake in Italy today, this one deadlier than the one a week ago

Justin Bieber gets the fever: Goes crazy on a photographer, ‘roughs him up’ .. sends him to the hospital.. 

So what grown man wants to be labeled as the one who got roughed up by Bieber..?

The United Nations wants to regulate the internet (as does a lot of people) .. but the U.S. Congress may give them the chance!

The United Nations wants to regulate the internet (as does a lot of people) .. but the U.S. Congress may give them the chance!

Video from the past few days of some wild storms in Canada.. 

GOOGLE PURPOSELY STOLE PRIVATE INFORMATION FOR YEARS AND COVERED IT UP

This news comes from across the pond—but if it is happening in the UK why would it not be happening in the US of A?

According to the reports circulating, Google purposely used Street View cars to steal personal information from people in Britain for years, and then they covered it up for years.

The accusations are that Google deliberately harvested private data on British citizens for years. According to the report, they downloaded photographs and emails, documents, and messages. The Street View cars collected as they drove.

A private company spying. Interesting. Because if you paint the picture just a little differently, it could mean even war! Think if foreign spies for another nation were driving around America stealing your data? Imagine if, say, North Korea had cars to do it. Or maybe a Chinese car.. with the Chinese flag. Driving around and spying on you!

It would mean war. The government would condemn. The media would go headline-crazy. 

But in this situation, when a private company did it, everyone is silent.

The noise of crickets in the vast wilderness of the online world.. well, that noise today is deafening. The international media is the only place to turn to find out just what exactly Google has been doing.

Just Google it.

The real meaning of Memorial Day: Those who do not return alive.

Do not lose the meaning of this day..

A tale of many Syria headlines

• CNN: What can the world do about Syria?


• Alex Jones’ Infowars: Phony ‘Houla Massacre’: How Media Manipulates Public Opinion For Regime Change in Syria


• Russia blames ‘both sides’ for massacre


• Wall Street JOURNAL: Syria’s Srebrenica‎ 


• Syria plunges towards civil war after massacre


• Children shot, knifed, axed to death in Syria’s Houla massacre …


• Who did it? Some local activists and eyewitnesses say they were from the Syrian army. Others say they were members of the shabiha, the pro-Assad militia that entered Houla from the Alawite villages that ring the township. (The shabiha is predominantly Alawite, the sect of Shia Islam that Assad belongs to.)The Syrian government says the men were terrorists.

You know what it all comes down to? This world is insane.. messed up.. unbelievable in the amount of atrocities that have killed. And for what? Nothing. In the end, absolutely nothing.

A member of the U.S. Army Old Guard places a flag at one of the over 220,000 graves of fallen U.S. military service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, May 24, 2012. 

Flashback: Dead American soldiers dumped into landfills like trash

We should be more aware of these types of events.. We should be fully aware of attempts to not give veterans the care they deserve. 

For those who don’t make it home, the most they deserve from everywhere still here is respect, dignity, and at the very least, a salute. Not to be dumped into a landfill with trash …

Flashback: Dead American soldiers dumped into landfills like trash

This is a truth that your blinds can't cover: 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets file for disability

This is a truth that your blinds can't cover: 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets file for disability

Respect.. 

Duty.

Matthew Russell, 11, from Memphis prepares to place American flags at the headstones of veterans during the Memorial Day observance ceremony at the Memphis National Cemetery in Memphis

Madeline Grace Wallace, 4, carries flags at the National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. The girl and her mother visited the cemetery to place flags on graves for Memorial Day. 

A child doesn’t know the horror of war. At least most children. 

We should want to keep it that way.

In the middle if your beer, or barbecue, or party, remember that Memorial Day is perhaps the most solemn of national holidays. It is one to contemplate the decorations of the post-Civil War days and recall the casualties of the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers that died during battle. We should also give pause to one thought: If you do end up going to a 21 gun salute somewhere in America, how do we strive to be slow to go to war and quick to try peace? How can we in such a turbulent world? Syria kills children with pacifiers in their mouths.. Drones strike in Pakistan.. Oh, and drones will patrol America, too. 

But I digress.

Memorial Day 2012. Do not let this holiday lose the meaning it is intended to have. Do now cheapen it with a useless day of nothingness. Do not..

But here is the sneaking fear that scares me.. in 1945, the big picture was clear: We stopped a tyrant who was killing millions. Ever since then things got murky. And in Iraq and Afghanistan…? Well do we even know who we’re fighting now? Do we have a clue who the tyrants are? And how can you fight the tyrants when they litter this planet like plastic in an ocean?

All thoughts I for one am having this Memorial Day..

The world watches in shock at the horror developing in Houla, a suburb of Homs..

CNN reported this disturbing quote:

"By God, I washed the dead bodies of nine children. One was less than nine months old!" a man screamed to a U.N. observer. "Why are they treating us like animals? We are humans. Did the infant carry an RPG? Was he a fighter? It was a baby, he had a pacifier in his mouth."

Food for thought: Beryl hits Florida as strongest May tropical cyclone in more than a century

This is going to a wild year

Food for thought: Beryl hits Florida as strongest May tropical cyclone in more than a century

Beryl hitting Southest US

Radar rainfall estimates are already 3-4 inches in some areas across northern Florida.. Hopefully all will be safe.. Holidays and hurricanes are not a good mix

Truly disturbing details being revealed about the Miami muncher

A fatal police shooting involving a naked man and cannibalism. Stuff of movies? No. Stuff of Memorial Day weekends in Miami? Yes, this year at least..

Details are starting to be revealed about the disturbing event today in Miami in which a naked man was chewing the face off of another  naked man on a busy highway .. A bicycle rider, Larry Vega, flagged down cops.. the rest is documented by NEWS 7 in Miami:

When the attack continued, Vega says the officer fired but the man continued to chew flesh off the victim. The officer fired several more times, eventually killing the attacker.

A Miami Herald surveillance camera caught the aftermath as the two men laid side by side on the ground. “It was just a blob of blood,” said Vega. “You couldn’t really see, it was just blood all over the place.”

Rescue crews rushed the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital with missing flesh. According to a 7News source, the victim was not recognizable.

Vega says both the men, who have not been identified, appeared to be homeless and he believes the attacker may have been on drugs. “He looked like he was on something,” he said. “Either he was really psychotic or he was on crack.”

Not something you’d expect to see everyday.. or any day.

Horrible beyond belief.. 

Is it me or is the world going absolutely insane?

A poisonous Pentecost Sunday for Benedict: New allegations of a conspiracy among cardinals dismissed, questions over the Vatican bank, and a unholy web of corruption

But here’s the best:

Martini, writing in an Italian newspaper, said the pope had been “betrayed” just as Jesus was betrayed 2,000 years ago, and that the Church would have to emerge from the latest scandal cleaner and stronger.

Just as Jesus was betrayed…?

So I just want to know which Cardinal is going to give the butler the noose so he can, say.. “end it himself”…?

A poisonous Pentecost Sunday for Benedict: New allegations of a conspiracy among cardinals dismissed, questions over the Vatican bank, and a unholy web of corruption

Mom and ‘cool’ Ayden. At least there is one cool man in our family…

I met a new friend today at a family party. His name is Vader. And he’s the size of a small dinosaur. Ayden loved him, he’s great with kids. Though my initial impression was one of partial fear.

I think he can ride most rides at amusement parks…