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Where’s Waldo!? And Fred.. And gene.. And me..
And you..
Lots of faces.

Hope the NSA has a nice one of me.

The Democratic-led Senate on Monday again rejected a proposal by the Republican-led House to derail Obamacare in must-pass spending legislation.

This from CNN.. Shutdown looms.

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So… tomorrow is October 1 and all those FEMA Region 3 preps should be finalized, right?

There was a NARROW miss by the an asteroid this weekend, according to Russian scientists.. while we are being told it was not detected, maybe we should ask if it was…? Maybe this is why the regional preparations have been occurring? Maybe my tin foil hat is wound too tight?

Either way, we know this: Ohio saw a big fireball, as did about twelve other states and Canada. Clyde Lewis went nuts during his live broadcast Friday night attempting to comprehend this issue.. and then on Saturday, Alabama saw a big fireball. Last night, Zimbabwe saw a ‘moon like’ object.. 

There was no warning of this asteroid.. there was no major scientist who saw this.. and we have to now rely on the world’s new superpower, Russia, to tell us when we almost had a life-destroying asteroid hit.

This one was too close for comfort..

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

September is ending..
It was a spectacularly beautiful month..

This image was taken in Pottsville, PA, on September 29, 2013..

Moaning about drones!? What were you doing in 2006

WASHINGTON – Operating with almost no public notice, the FBI has spent more than $3 million to operate a fleet of small drone aircraft in domestic investigations, according to a report released Thursday by a federal watchdog agency.

Me-sa thinks the only person who ranted and raved about drones around 2006 was Alex Jones. It was nice when everyone thought he was crazy.

In 2013, we are fully aware that Jones, at least on the existence of a secret drone program, was not tuning his looney.

Moaning about drones!? What were you doing in 2006

It was Sunday.. And it was CALL OF THE WILDMAN.. My son Ayden now is perfecting his “turkeyman call” .. It’s the first real non-cartoon show he liked, besides the 1966 version of BATMAN —though I just don’t seem like that show should realistically count..

Miley Virus.. We’re sick of her being Miley: Cyrus doesn’t like coke, but she likes weed and molly. Snort it up Miley! You’re career highs are numbered.. 

HOW HAS EVERYONE BEEN?

Chick, don’t stick out your tongue if it’s coated

That’s what Cher says about Miley

Find the giant hairy spider and win a prize

It was the best of fall, and the worst of fall

The worst part of the fall now begins

Football season is here. I will not speak to whether the art of being drunk on Sundays and watching football itself is an evil that robs the testosterone of men but still make them feel like tough guys, but I will say this: People need to take a break from being armchair pundits on YouTube.
This fad of football fans tweeting or Facebook statusing every play that their ‘team’ makes during a game started a few SuperBowls ago.. and now it’s taking place every Sunday (*Saturdays for college fans*) …most posts are not ‘liked’ or commented on.. but they litter the dashboards of any platform you blog or socially speak on.. It’s gone from fad to bad.. with an over-abundance of people without any football skills whatsoever constantly complaining for three hours about how bad the ref’s calls were or how awful their team is doing. “Gonna be a long season,” one of my Facebook friends just posted after his particular team, the Steelers, didn’t do so hot …

I am all for free expression.. and I believe that opinions should be expressed. And yes Twitter and Facebook makes it easier.. But I am reminded of the not-so-old adage: “Think before you post.” In this case, “Think before you post 25 times per minute on each and every mundane occurrence that happened during the game you’re watching on TEE VEEE…

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There is something about the darkness of the night that brings out primal fears and forces your mind to delve deep into the most frightening aspects of life itself..

News headlines of the day do not help, with events in Syria heating up and allegations that intelligence has been manipulated to favor war, reminiscent of those same allegations a decade ago during a different administration and before a different war began..

Times always seems strange before a war begins. The debate, the water cooler arguments in the workplace, and the divisive family dinners with both sides or more than three sides arguing about what the best course of action is in whatever current world crisis is taking place.. IT can all get so mean..

The New York Times today ran a story about the rebels from hell, those that the United States is poised to help against the Assad regime in Syria.. They behead innocent Christians on their knees, they eat the hearts of their opponents— literally— and who knows, maybe even they are responsible for the chemical attack instead of the government that we say that did it.. But that should be no bother to Secretary of State Serpentface, with his reptilian tongue flailing against his dry lips as he testified before the Congress..

But there seems to be something more occurring across this planet.. The great noises heard in the sky, those trumpet sounds that have been sounding for more than 24 months continue.. A constant slide into pop-culture oblivion happens before our eyes during every generation, but this go around it seems too much to come back from.. And the weather sure is weird, not because of the amount of storms this year but just because of the lack of them. It seems too quiet for this planet, as we’ve been getting used to wild weather and now suddenly silence. Is it a calm before the storm?

Any parent reading this will know that the ultimate fear is what the world will be like for a child.. The innocent minded children cannot typically fathom the guilty brains of adults. And the same child living today tomorrow will be crying if we don’t get this right..

But it does not seem that leadership ever wants to get it right, instead they just want to give it to the enemy..

But do they know their enemy? Do we?

This statement may risk sounding passé but it does not get written without proof: There are so many people on this planet, those who I speak to and others who I listen to, that seem to agree ‘Something seems ready to happen’.. That something seems ready to break, or that we are in for a wild time of history.

I don’t know how true or false the idea of collective consciousness could be, and I certainly do not know or have any proof that could state for sure that people have knowledge of an event before said the event takes place. But I could tell you this without any doubt: Many people have a certain feeling of unease about the present, and even more of a worry about the future..

And as I said above, every generation has its worries and it’s wars and it’s pestilence and it’s crimes, and every generation sees horror that the previous could not fathom.. And maybe we are all just had a breaking point, perhaps we are fed up and maybe we have just seen too much. Or maybe we haven’t seen anything yet. And that is the truth here, the idea that something worse is about to occur..

Over the past several months and especially weeks I’ve seen a number of stories concerning solar flares and the grid.. People seem to be very worried lately about the grid. We know the grid is very old, and we sure as hell know that no one has seriously put time or effort into improving the grid in a generation. Maybe that is why we’re worried, the collective feeling that are dumb luck may run out. Or perhaps is that deep fear yet again sitting in about the solar maximum, or even the quarter of the sun that exploded from itself this past summer..

I don’t know what it is, but I know many people share the sentiment that we are in for turbulent times..

Last night on Coast to Coast a.m., John Hogue prophesies about the coming events in the near future.. From Syria to climate change, the future is not so bright, at least according to him.. Maybe he is right and maybe he is wrong, but these days most people would buy into the doom and gloom that people like him and others are sharing..

So what is the answer? Hell if I know..

These thoughts are just thoughts being shared out loud for you to see and ponder, late into the night and deep into the darkness, as deep and dark is your mind will permit..

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Looking like a toddler with your puke on the ground

I would be remiss as a father to not explain something funny, odd, and quite disgusting that occurred yesterday.. Around 9am, when I was mentally pondering the fact I just turned 33, my son did something.. The little 2 and a half year old chugged a cup of grape juice as soon as he woke up and, right after, had an episode of projectile EXORCIST style vomiting. Right as he did it, he was sitting on my lap…so as any dad would do, I panicked and picked him up, thereby forcing his contained vomited to sprawl across the room like a lawn sprinkler.

It all happened so fast.. I still recall the  noise of SCOOBY DOO playing in the background, and the sudden force of purple liquid coming from his little toddler stomach.

(Ironically, it happened after he drank his juice too fast, but he was actually eating a immunity boosting vitamin at the time)

I placed him on the floor as my wife tried to calmly tell me to get a towel or something to clean the now soaked area..  Funny enough, little Ayden Morris remained the calmest of all. He actually told me, and my wife, “I’m ok, I’m fine.” He repeated it over and over again.. while it was a big haze of memories of vomit, I think he even put his hand up in the air while he was telling us he was OK…

As we began cleaning him, he started to laugh and said, “That looked like rain, Daddy! It was like rain, Mommy!”  

And with that he was fine…………

A lesson learned.

I don’t think he’ll drink grape juice for a while.

I do not think mommy or daddy will give it to him for a while either………… 

It’s Labor Day. Take a break. You earned it.

2013?

2013!!

Yes… 2013. Period. And Labor Day along with it.

This Billy Joel song, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, is the ballad of my labor days of years past, present, and probably future..

I still recall getting this CD for my birthday from my brother in 1993, and I listened to it over and over, and over again after the Ashland PA ABA Parade that year..

Every song was amazing..But especially this final song, with its lyrics of cleaning of streamers after the Labor Day parade and enjoying coffee and apples in the early autumn.

I still remember when Billy Joel appeared on David Letterman during his first week on CBS back in ‘93… My God I am aging. We are all though—I am not alone but maybe more melancholy in my approach to the passage of time.

Years gone by… Age 13 in ‘93…..age 23 in ‘03… and this year, this month, this day… age 33… Add that together and start your numerology. I’ll just grin and bear it. Or something.

The wedding cake still tastes great after all these years…

And somewhere, somehow, my memory still walks the streets of Ashland, Pennsylvania, during a Labor Day ABA parade……with streamers and horns, balloons and the sweet smell of fried food and Devitos Pizza in the air above my head. Those were the days.

These are the days, too.

They’ve changed.. and gone by.

And as time goes by so do the years.

33 years ??! I just was 21, wasn’t I!? I was just 13… in ‘93. Back during that blizzard….back during that point in time. Brendan! Joe! Johnny! Where are you? Where is the poetry!?

I think it’s still being read in a deep and dark basement, under the strained lights of the 3am hour. The dead poet society still preaches, I hope, at 21..I hope. 

Where the hell does it all go? 

To the Langoliers, I say! Eating away as Stephen King wrote. UNDER HIS DOME. With Billy Joel endlessly playing on David Letterman’s opening night on CBS..

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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS OUT

There’s a lot of parents who worry about their children playing football and getting head injuries.

But apparently they are not worried enough to actually stop sending their golden children into battle on fields across the United States, as this report shows with facts..

Bad pop culture colliding

Did You Know MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech is Copyrighted?

Never knew this..

Did You Know MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech is Copyrighted?

The good old days weren't all that good but war's still as bad as it seems

I was 23 years young and dumb, fighting for my rights to party somewhere in a smoky bar room—you could smoke back then.. And on the cover of TIME MAGAZINE: George W. Bush with a big headline “Do you want this war?”

Americans were torn..
And now in 2013, after a decade of war and then some, only about 9% of Americans surveyed support military action in Syria. So much for the rest of the nation..

But absent this night: Media asking Americans if they want this war? No magazine covers—there’s apps for that now.. And hell, NEWSWEEK isn’t even printing anymore..right Tina?

Are we rushing into another one? And could this one be much worse?
After all, what would be he result of “tactical” strikes on Assad? We assume no one would retaliate — maybe not against us, but what about Israel? China’s red faced anger could show itself.. would they call in the debt!? And Russia? They’ll sick Snowden back on us..
 Meanwhile a Shah sleeps in Iran, and does he have a plan?

It ain’t no end times. But Armageddon sure can come on quick. And these summer Armageddons are the worst.

Yes, indeed, this whole event already seems murky and messy. But ain’t that America.
…so, 89% that didn’t want the war a few days ago..do you want it now?

My wife's reaction to me doing something dumb

Tara: Stop doing that or I'll smack in you in the head with my iPad
Me: What if I told you, in 2007 when we got married, that one day you'd tell me you'd smack me in the head with your iPad?
Tara: ...silence..