Oh boy.
Obamacare Consultants Warned of Health Website Failure in March
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Are there any public relations firms in Canada? Moreover..any that would want to help Rob Ford?
More insanity in Canada as the Toronto mayor could lose more council votes..
Ford says he is quitting drinking and turning to Jesus. But before he did that, he also pushed over an elderly council member..
This guy is worse than the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE impersonation of him..He has become a parody of himself..
Selfie tops twerk as Oxford's word of the year
The pop of pop culture.
Pop goes the world.
Selfie Pope style.
At least the Pope did not twerk in ‘13.
Selfie tops twerk as Oxford's word of the year
The amazing failure: SPIDERMAN the Broadway musical to conclude this year.
It never could have worked, in my opinion..
Fan boys aren’t going to go to a Broadway musical—and not everything should be a musical.
Of course BUFFY fans may still say the musical episode was the best of the show, but I will say that the same fans who liked BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER are not the fans who like Spiderman.. This musical was simply doomed by the onset.
And what made the likelihood of it failing even more clear: Regardless of the risky gamble that that Jeremiah Harris took, it still ended up being the most expensive musical to produce.
People go to Broadway for RENT, and CATS. Not spiders.
Rumors continue to persist that Brittany Murphy was poisoned..
Father of Murphy claims that spies took revenge..
I don’t know why she died, or how she died, but every time I see a movie from the past in which she appeared or starred, I am reminded of how much the acting world lost with her untimely passing.. Her talent was always present..
Monday, November 18, 2013
I am really behind the times on the bagel in the head surgery
My sister and I discuss world events on a regular basis.. Tonight she referenced the ‘bagel in the head’ operation that people in Japan are getting. I was stunned, aghast..confused. Amazed.
Yes, and I realized, I am about a year behind the times. Hell, even Anderson Cooper put this on his Ridiculist in 2012.. I missed it all.
Here is the predication: A new trend in Japan is to have a bagel head surgery. And people are so dedicated to the trend that they get a two-hour saline drip to implant the bagel-shaped welts on their foreheads.. It was pioneered in Canada but made popular in Japan—at least that is what Wikipedia taught me tonight.
But it’s not a permanent wheat-like appearance. A day after the process, your head does in fact go back to normal.
Some people get one bagel. Some get two.
I have been perusing Google images for a bit this evening and I realize that I completely missed this inane trend.
But it did slightly make me hungry for Panera Bread.
So is this still a trend? Or have the bagels soured?
Inquiring bagel heads want to know.
If you can walk 3000 miles, Karl Bushby could walk 36,000 more.
Karl Bushby is not an ordinary hiker..
He is an ex-British paratrooper..he’s an adventurer.
He’s an explorer. That is everything his Twitter description says — but follow him for a few minutes and you’ll see he is much, much more than just those brief words.
Karl Bushby began walking at age 29—that was in 1998. His hike began in Chile, and as his own website describes, he only had $300 in his pocket..He continued his trek to North America.. he also completed the first ever recording crossing on foot of the Bering Strait. It was then on to Siberia.. And Asia. And Europe.
20,000 miles strong so far— and his goal for the 15-stretch is 36,000.
He’s almost there..At least more than halfway home, in a sense..
As all things go in modern times, social media is the way to find information about Bushby.. He is followed by almost 2,000 people at this time on Twitter.. he is updating in real time—an amazing thing if you compare his first journey in 1998 to now. Just a little over a decade later, there is so much that has changed in the world—and for Bushby, who can now stay in contact with the world even though he is meeting just one person at a time..
Bushby’s website says he has met lots of people—and stated “99.9%” of them are good.
At this point in the walk, Karl Bushby is making a 3,000 mile hike from Los Angeles to the Russian embassy in Washington D.C. He has a plan—and a hope—to get a visa and be permitted to complete the longest continuous walk in modern history..
I was alerted to this journey by a faithful reader—hat tip to JoyL for alerting me to something I wish I would have been following prior to this..
This week, Las Vegas WEEKLY featured a good write-up about Bushby’s journey, reporting that he has defied odds and had an ‘unbroken path that would make history’.. Just today, MOTHER NATURE NETWORK repotrted on his walk..
You can contact Bushby or just, like I am now, follow him on Twitter..
There is something very amazing about this man’s voyage..
It began last century.
Since then we have sped up in our lives ..
We zoom through our earthly vessel like a fireball in the sky.
But not Bushby.. He takes his time.
He walk.
He discovers.
He takes the time to see his surroundings—become salt of the earth and at the same time depend on it..
It’s very poetic what he is doing..
Your attention to his passage on earth is truly recommended.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
An AP photo taken today by Alex Kareotes shows the extent of damages from a tornado outbreak in Washington, ILL.
This may be one of the strongest (if not the strongest) severe weather systems ever for November.
The night is not over yet.. the storms are moving through Pennsylvania now and strong winds are coming.
In COALSPEAKER land, I imagine a 3am power outage may be in store .. if not that, high winds may wake the household.
But it is nothing even close to the disaster and destruction that the Midwest saw today..
There are so many towns that have been destroyed.. at least partially, if not in full.
Something slaughtered Russian hikers in 1959...
But to this, no one is quite sure what did. Tonight, George Knapp takes us back in time to try to find out..
Some background may be in order..
The event is termed the Dyatlov Pass incident. It’s been a famed target of paranormal and UFO investigators for some time. The entire affair is shrouded with mystery.
Nine hikers, who were experienced in their craft, died in some pretty bizarre ways in 1959. Human tracks were found heading downhill. The temperature was minus 24 at the time the hikers were on the Russia Ural Mountains—the local language named the mountain “Do not Go There.” The tracks that were found were strange mainly because, in the conditions, they were barefoot. Barefoot—minus 24 and barefoot tracks were found.. Think about that one for a minute.
Thinks get even weirder, though.
Seven men and two women were said to be experienced hikers.. history tells us that they were in the snow-capped Ural Mountains. Cold.. beautiful.. and deadly for all nine of them, as they never lived to tell the tale of their venture. Instead, their bodies were found in various locations, frozen in the conditions.. Some of them also had horrid internal injuries, but yet their outside physical appearance showed no wounds or scratches. They also had high levels of radiation present ion some of their clothes. One person found dead was missing a tongue. They were prematurely aged—their hair was gray…
If you should want to learn some more, you can easily find information and theories online..
Typically, as things go, people claim UFOs are behind it. They also say Soviet weapons did it. Some claim Bigfoot. A plethora of explanations of the strange—but the real strange thing of this whole affair is that we don’t know what did it..
Tonight on Coast to Coast AM, George Knapp will attempt to find out. I am eagerly looking forward to this program.. I think Knapp will do it justice, and I can’t wait to hear some theories proposed by Keith McCloskey, who wrote a book on the incident called MOUNTAIN OF THE DEAD.
Listen in should you have the chance..
Unless the story is just too creepy to handle.
Today has been a day of weather hell and devastation from tornadoes..
And as these things usually are, living through weather history is not an enjoyable experience, stay safe and be aware that more weather tonight is likely..
Some NFL games in direct path of tornado potential
AP reporting:
The National Weather Service confirmed tornados have touched down in several Illinois communities by early afternoon. Meanwhile in Chicago, fans at Soldier Field watching the Chicago Bears host the Baltimore Ravens were cleared from the stands and players and coaches left the field around 12:30 p.m. as wind and rain moved in.
Some NFL games in direct path of tornado potential
Murder trial in Florida: Joke about actress Megan Fox led to son’s murder of father
Jason Beckman talked about killing his father for some time. But in 2009, when he dad made a joke that his son would not ‘know what to do with taht [Megan Fox]’, he killed him.
The MIAMI HERALD money quote:
Jason Beckman, on trial for killing his politician father in April 2009, confided to fellow jail inmates that just before the shooting, the young man had asked his father about the raven-hairedTransformers star.
“His father told him he wouldn’t know what to do with that,” the inmate, Michael Nistal, told Miami-Dade jurors.
Beckman, who prosecutors say talked openly for years about hating his father, grew enraged. “So he went and got a shotgun and blew his head off. He missed his head and shot his face and part of his neck,” the inmate said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/12/3748899/testimony-joke-about-actress-megan.html#storylink=cpy
Murder trial in Florida: Joke about actress Megan Fox led to son’s murder of father
Heads up for the Mid-Mississippi & Ohio Valleys and southern Great Lakes Region: Today may be filled with violent, severe weather
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center has issued an extremely serious “Particularly Dangerous Situation” alert for an extremely violent…
It’s mid November. It will feel like mid-spring—and the skies above will be just as confused.. it’s not severe weather season but today will be severe in some places.
The threats in this area today include:
-Several intense tornadoes likely
-Several large hail events likely with a few very large hail events to 2” in diameter possible
-Several damaging wind gusts with a few significant gusts to 80mph possible.
That is strong wind.. and that severe weather.. And it is a dangerous situation brewing—hopefully one that will not happen as the NOAA predicts.
Here are the latest warnings nationwide.
And keep in mind that major areas like Chicago and Indianapolis are facing tornado threats today.
Accuweather is running an up to the minute live blog on the weather conditions.
Stay tuned. Be safe.
Be alert.
And as always, be prepared as best you can..
Heads up for the Mid-Mississippi & Ohio Valleys and southern Great Lakes Region: Today may be filled with violent, severe weather
Harrisburg PA PATRIOT NEWS retracts an 1863 review of the Gettysburg Address, which called Lincoln's speech 'silly'
And now SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE took notice.
National attention for the small city paper.
Congrats, in some sort of sense, are in order?
Harrisburg PA PATRIOT NEWS retracts an 1863 review of the Gettysburg Address, which called Lincoln's speech 'silly'
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