A meteor lights up the sky over California.. The meteor created a boom, shook houses, and now debris is scattered from the meteor..
The meteor blazing through the sky was visible and caused mouths to open in awe throughout California..
A few days ago a rare earthquake hit Maine.. and now another rare earthquake has rattled another odd state: This time Nebraska.. It wasn’t overly strong but it shook nerves. Lots of ‘rare’ places are suddenly getting extraordinary events..
Now a number of states are preparing for earthquakes.. the proof is a multi-state earthquake drill.. With ‘rare’ events in Maine and Nebraksa, plus the New Madrid fault worries and nuclear plants in numerous states, can we really prepare for something big?
A major problem occurred throughout the Midwest Thursday as ferociously high winds hit the Plains, causing the drought-scourged landscape to whip up with dust.. several multi-vehicle pile ups took place on roadways covered in dust and dirt..
If it is not the high winds ruining your day, it’s a late night tornado outbreak.. This one kept people up all night long as people from Illinois to Mississippi were rattled by a late October severe weather outbreak..
Like a horror movie, bugs have invaded a Utah town and are covering everything, from food to children to animals and homes. Residents of Portage Utah cannot seem to get rid of the boxelder bugs as they are swarming just about everywhere..
The ‘Perversion Files’ revealed.. new information shows that local Boy Scout leaders, police, mayors, and other local officials may have helped cover up a major pedophilia within the Scouts.. it documents the Boy Scouts from the 1950s through the mid 1980s..
Big solar flare erupts from the sun..
Imagine a world where it is criminal to save seeds—and now realize that that is exactly the world we may be living in soon..
The UK GUARDIAN asks, who controls the internet? Tech giants are fighting for supremacy along the information superhighway..
Obama and Romney roast themselves and each other at Al Smith dinner..
In the past, a ‘lethally hot’ planet earth was absent of life, say scientists. And they ponder when it will happen again..
Mars Curiosity Rover finding more strange and bright objects on the Martian soil..
Rapper Flavor Flav arrested in domestic assault..
WARNER BROS retains the rights for SUPERMAN.. .. They won a legal battle to keep all rights to the man of steel..
MTV: How PARANORMAL ACTIVITY stays fresh..
Box office predictions: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 will be the top weekend movie..
Latino moviegoers expected to come out for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 in big numbers..
No offense to the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY fans out there—I was once one, too—but the films are drying up in fun and creativity.. maybe it’s playing now simply on the fact people want ‘a scary movie’ this time of year and they know one devoid of a plot and story will be eaten up like candy on Halloween night. I cannot imagine the same scares and the same pranks being anywhere near as fun as they were the first time we saw them in PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 1. However, if I had to choose between this aging franchise or the sordid tales from the SAW films, I’d pick ghosts and goblins over torture porn any day..
NEW YORK TIMES reviews HBO movie ‘THE GIRL,’ a film about Alfred Hitchcock’s films and how blondes made ‘the best victims’.. The TIMES writes, “The trouble with “The Girl” is that it tries to psychoanalyze Hitchcock but fails by trying to know the man too much. It’s a movie about Hitchcock that ignores his best advice: “Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.”“
Friday, October 19, 2012
All the news unfit to print..
Thursday, October 18, 2012
A campaign can require a lot of wardrobe changes. Blue jeans in the morning, perhaps. Suit for a lunch fundraiser. Sport coat for dinner. But it’s nice to finally relax and to wear what Ann and I wear around the house
...that odd moment..
..when a severe thunderstorm brews and hits near the end of October. Thunder is rolling across the sky tonight. Creepy feeling as heavy rain falls and lightning lights the sky .. autumn? I don’t know.. strange feeling with this storm.
It's over: NEWSWEEK goes digital
After 80 years NEWSWEEK as a printed magazine will cease to exist.. December 31 is the final issue. After that all digital is the new NEWSEEEK norm.
Whether people know it or not the more old fashioned print dies away the more we will lose out in the end.. The idea of sitting back and relaxing each week with a magazine or newspaper is going to be something gone and mourned when it is..
Has anyone thought about the crisis doctors and dentists face? No print? What will they put in their waiting rooms?! Maybe they’ll just leave what they have their now: HIGHLIGHTS for kids from 1989 and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED with the victory of the Boston Red Sox on the cover…
Who killed print? The readers or the printers?
Who will miss it? Maybe everyone more than we know..
It's over: NEWSWEEK goes digital
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Earthquake in Maine..?
You read that right.. tonight the East Coast was rocked Maine. A 4.0 earthquake centered near Hollis Center, Maine, west of Portland, was felt throughout the New England area when it hit Tuesday night around 7:12 p.m.. The quake initially registered at a 4.6 but was downgraded soon after.
More reports coming in on the quake indicate that the quake was felt in Connecticut and Boston.. One report on WHDH in Boston reports that pizza workers left their building when they heard a loud bang ten miles outside of Waterboro.. WHDH also reports two interesting facts: One about dogs barking before the quake hit and another about the Seabrook Station nuclear plant in New Hampshire declaring an ‘unusual’ event:
Lynette Miller, a spokeswoman for the Maine Emergency Management Agency, said her dogs started barking several seconds before the quake. “It was several seconds of good shaking but nothing falling down,” Miller said from her home in Readfield, about 60 miles north of Portland.The Seabrook Station nuclear plant, about 63 miles away in New Hampshire, declared an unusual event — the lowest of four emergency classifications, but said it was not affected. The plant has been offline for refueling."There has been no impact at all to the plant from the earthquake and our refueling maintenance activities have not been affected," said Alan Griffith, spokesman for Next EnergyEra Seabrook Station.
Developing story..
Monday, October 15, 2012
It’s a creepy October night.. someone out there is looking for sympathy.. Got any for him?
I don't want to get into this issue too much except to link this...
Yuengling Brewery is thinking about leaving Pennsylvania..
Again, I don’t want to get into it much, nor do I want to give a personal opinion, besides this: I want Yuengling to stay in Pennsylvania and don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t. The coal region is filled with hard working folks that will do what it takes to make Yuengling a success.
No further comment besides that.
Yea, because God wants someone like this to tell us how to live!?
Headlines today on an Iowa pastor who wants an Iowa judge removed for support of same sex marriage. Also, the pastor, Steve Youngblood, wants to slap women and ‘correct’ them for non-Christian behavior…
Thanks Rev. Youngblood. Because of you lots of people with common sense will wholeheartedly support gay marriage.
As far me? I’m libertarian on the issue. I could care less. Gay marriage, straight marriage.. all the same. Gay divorce and straight divorce? All the same.
This issue is a red herring during election years…This one not excluded. 100 years from now we will laugh at this, and look at someone like Rev. Youngblood with laughter.
You know how you can tell that Candy Crowley is a good moderator of tomorrow's debate?
This: Both campaigns aren’t happy with her and want her to play a limited role, even not wanting her to follow up with questions if she asks things that the spin doctors and talking points don’t cover during the debate.
Good luck Candy. We will be watching.
People can be disgusting: A 21-year-old in Utah is charged with stabbing his 84-year-old grandmother and removing her organs.. Cops say they found him holding a knife and admitting he stabbed her heart 111 times...
How disgusting.. A woman can live a life for 84 years old to have it ended by a monster at the age of 21…
People can be disgusting: A 21-year-old in Utah is charged with stabbing his 84-year-old grandmother and removing her organs.. Cops say they found him holding a knife and admitting he stabbed her heart 111 times...
Hulk Hogan is now turning to the FBI for help with his sex tape scandal.
I know America loves watching famous people have sexual relations on grainy black and white cameras .. I get that. America likes to hide behind a computer screen and safely watch through peep holes in gas station bathrooms along the information superhighway. But Hulk Hogan? I can’t even entertain the thought of looking at a still image of the scene! I get physically sick when I think of it.
But I’d bet money that when he does find a ‘mate’ to exchange fluids with, the Hulkster plays his Real American theme song, rushes into the bedroom, rips off his yellow shirt, and dances around with his lathered up oily body dripping all over the sheets.
No wonder pandas evolved to know kung fu!
New information suggests that ancient people ate panda bears..
The study comes to us from Chinese scientists. The panda may be a beloved symbol of the nation, but the researchers claim that their study of the past shows ancient folks sure liked the taste of panda meat.
But… I am a little dubious of the study. In part, the AP reports:
Scientist Wei Guangbiao says prehistoric man ate pandas in an area that is now part of the city of Chongqing in southwest China.
Wei, head of the Institute of Three Gorges Paleoanthropology at a Chongqing museum, says many excavated panda fossils “showed that pandas were once slashed to death by man.”
The Chongqing Morning Post quoted him Friday as saying: “In primitive times, people wouldn’t kill animals that were useless to them” and therefore the pandas must have been used as food.
But he says pandas were much smaller then.
I assume that the study just doesn’t ASSUME since pandas were slashed they must have been food? Are there any other pieces of relevant information to support the theory? I imagine someone with a scientific background will help me here.. I just don’t know if I can trust a study’s conclusion simply because of an assumption about why pandas were slashed to death by men..