This is when science annoys me.. seriously guys, you are still going to create highly infectious bird flu?

Obama! Come on! have some more sense.

Captain Trips SHOULD NOT exist..

This is when science annoys me.. seriously guys, you are still going to create highly infectious bird flu?

US Navy shifts destroyer in wake of North Korea missile threats

The chess pieces in place.

US Navy shifts destroyer in wake of North Korea missile threats

Everything seems to be strangely falling into place: China mobilizing troops on North Korean border

Everything seems to be strangely falling into place: China mobilizing troops on North Korean border

thesmithian:

[meaningful glance]

Looks like the poster for a horror movie.. EGG ROLL HELL

Questions in China: How did H7N9 kill two people?

…and I’m sure China will be completely honest with the world. Right?

Questions in China: How did H7N9 kill two people?

For a time last week, a storm that hit the United States actually spanned the entire Atlantic Ocean.. that’s incredible.

More here

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Good evening everyone. Here’s the Toxic Airborne Event with HAPPINESS IS OVERRATED. Truly a shame this band broke up.

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Yes they happened.. The "best" internet April Fools jokes of 2013

I say “best” in quotes because I truly hate this yearly tradition.. 

Yes they happened.. The "best" internet April Fools jokes of 2013

PETER THE ROMAN? FRANCIS VISITS THE TOMB
Seriously, why does this Pope have to keep reminding us he’s probably the last one!?

Clyde Lewis continues to humor me with incredibly great headlines for his nightly radio show.. Tonight "Olympus has fallen and it won't wake up!"

And if you still think Noory is the king of paranormal radio, you haven’t listened to Ground Zero 

(Though I still wish Art Bell would come back)

Clyde Lewis continues to humor me with incredibly great headlines for his nightly radio show.. Tonight "Olympus has fallen and it won't wake up!"

Good evening.

Ashland PA, 4/1/13

The top ten stories that sound like April Fools jokes. But they aren't

1. Until 2012, Pepsi used aborted fetal-cells to flavor soft drinks


2. There have been so many suicides in China among workers making our iPhones that factories had to put up suicide nets


3. Wikileaks helped bring out information that DynCorp contractors were involved with a child sex ring..


4. There is a brewing water crisis—one so bad that rivers and lakes are drying up across the planet


5. Very recently, the mega rich withdrew their money from Cyprus banks—right before looting..


6. Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act, and the NDAA. He often signed bills despite his ‘reservations’


7. There are black sites across the world where children are tortured in front of their parents


8. Fear of Chinese censors is so intense that video game makers change their games


9. North Koreans are eating their own children because of extreme hunger


10. Each year, up to 800,000 children go missing in the United States

So sorry to be such a downer on such a ‘funny’ day.. But that’s just what I do.

My God Charley Sheen gained weight

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Good to see that media is all on the same page. If you watched your local diatribe of fires, plagues, crime, and pestilence, you’ve most certainly heard that ‘economic factors may take some spring out of the Easter Bunny’s step this year.’

It was so noticeable that Conan O’Brien put a montage together of local boobs on the tube telling us the same statement from their teleprompter.

While the video is hilarious for obvious reasons, it begs the bigger question: Who writes it.. and how it is dispensed to all the stations? And just once sentence, quite frankly, could be proof that we are hit with misinformation all at the same time.

Remember, while some may have abandoned the big network news and papers, we still turn to the locals for the information close to home. And if the big conglomerates could get to them, well… the mis and disinformation could survive.

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

By now you’ve seen or heard about the horrible event last night involving Louisville player Kevin Ware. (Video here, watch at your own risk) 

It was so graphic that CBS even halted replays of the leg break.. It’s most obviously the water cooler talk this morning and will be rehashed over and over again throughout the day.

When it happened, however, something else struck me about the affair. Immediately Twitter lit up with people’s thoughts, and my Facebook friends’ collective chatter was all about Ware. I get it.. It was a sports injury live on TEE VEE, it was enough to make you queasy.. and we all celebrate March Madness like it’s a religious event. So it makes sense..

But what is absent from Twitter and my Facebook friends’ profiles? Any or all words about innocent children killed in drone attacks in Pakistan. Any and all stories about the civilians’ lives we left in shambles in Iraq after ten years of war (those who survived).. And and all knowledge of North Korean death camps.. Any and all information about, well, pretty much anything to do with the African continent.

I guess I reluctantly understand this. I come from the coal region, where football and sports is worshiped.  Often, high school players get a VIP treatment.. And nationally, as the economic crumbling still happens and the moral decay is evident, we turn more and more to sports .. it’s a vacuum that sucks up the depression. We cheer on our high-paid professionals as though they know we are doing it.. we cry and wine about the other team that simply wears a different uniform color. We get angry and argue about college kids on a court.. and yes, when one falls by the wayside, we gather around the young hero and honor him with glory—of course while we voyeuristically gratify ourselves by watching the hero’s injury take place over and over again. 

Not to take anything away form Kevin Ware, but it’s certainly amazing how little we know about a worldwide network of pedophiles.. How little we know about the amount of drone attacks in Pakistan.. how little we are aware of the Monsanto Protection Act..

But we know batting averages.
Football facts.
Boxing bouts…
And hell, even professional wrestling stars’ real names.

But did you know that, once again, America is getting ready to prop up another leader in the Middle East? This time in Syria? That’s not an April fools joke.

A few days ago I posted something on my Facebook page about the concerns I have with the Monsanto Protection Act, as signed into law by President Obama. My sister commented in a straight-shooting fashion:

Nobody cares about genetically modified corn until there is a crop failure like there was in South Africa in 2009. If fuel and veggie prices skyrocket…then they’ll care. Until then…this is tin foil hat stuff to most, Bryan.

And I bet no one knows much  about that crop failure in 2009, now do we?

Hey, there was a earthquake in Haiti .. we had a telethon. Oh and a tsunami and meltdown  in Japan.. we had a telethon. And Sandy .. we had a telethon.

All events of true importance somehow slip away like they never even existed in the first place. We are left in the end with sports…

Those football stars of the coal region often have something in common with heroes of Friday night lights from across America: Many don’t follow their dreams and make it big. Instead, they end up at the local watering hall, sometimes wearing old sports jerseys from their heyday, but always reliving the past and wishing it was still the present.

They now have Kevin Ware’s leg to speak about for a while..

In the mean time, other events that shape our lives will occur. But we’ll turn that off. It’s too inconvenient for us..

April fool.

April Fools day.. when we somehow keep up the tradition of mocking those who don’t follow the Gregorian Calender. 

But the one tradition I have come to despise about today: Fake news stories that get plastered all over the web are get believed by people who forget it’s April Fools Day.

Seriously, reality is so mind-bending that I don’t want to be barraged by fiction.. Reality is much worse. However, today it will occur, because that is just how it goes.. 

I bet there will be some ridiculous headline and news story that makes the big time .. and it will prove fake. I almost don’t want to read a shred of information today for fear that it will be untrue.

I don’t find any of this funny, or amusing.. It’s rather annoying, to be perfectly frank. 

But here we go.

Be a fool on April fools..

Rainy days and Easters always get me down

We keep sinking more and more as a human race.. FDNY EMS workers violating city rules and common decency by posting gory and macabre images online of people they are supposed to be helping..

I guess they..just can’t help themselves…..

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

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Good morning. It’s Easter Sunday.

This is Keith Green singing an Easter Song. After all, if you’re going to have an Easter song, you may as well get all Jesusy in someone’e face with it, right?

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