US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

It all happened in 2007—Bush was president. 

I have often said no supporters of Bush that the Patriot Act and other surveillance policies would end up coming back to hurt someone or harm something. It did.

George W. Bush was on Jay Leno last night. He made lots of people miss him. But regardless of his personal or Africa policies, it did much to change the nation forever.

An example is this, a 2007 agreement to not only continue the surveillance of Americans, but also British citizens who also committed no crimes.

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

Teen 'knockout game' continues to harm innocent people

There have been lots of weird trends over the years. I actually remember a few years back, videos surfaced showing people randomly beating up homeless people. There was sadly little outrage because—no matter how many people profess to love all no matter their conditions—may don’t want to have anything to do with the homeless, impoverished, sick, or downtrodden.

But the new weird fetish that some teens have now developed involves ganging up on innocent people and just, well, knocking them down to cause harm.

Today the DRUDGE REPORT linked to a story about it, and I noticed immediately afterwards, several other news sources wrote their own stories on it. So expect it to spread in popularity…

The purpose of the game, at least to be victorious, is to have the ONE HITTER QUITTER. That’s right. A solid hit that will take down an unsuspecting person.

A human being.

Call me a romantic, but say what you want about war, and battles, and fights, at least in the ‘old days’ you can argue that a good street fight carried a purpose. Misguided purpose maybe.. But a random hit to an innocent report? That is not a purpose..

That’s a mental sickness. It’s a worm of evil crawling in the collective consciousness of humanity.

The kids may be bored, but they sure aren’t alright. 

Watch you back, everyone..

Teen 'knockout game' continues to harm innocent people

Police: Man high on Molly raped, sodomized girlfriend

He put his fist into her anus and pulled out her stomach..

This is real news from Hazleton PA…

This is shocking, sickening, and disturbing..

This truly gruesome assault did not stop until one of the woman’s minor children walked in, the child heard her screaming in agony.

There are moments in time when I realize there are shining examples of why, for the most part, I have lost all faith in the goodness of humanity.
Police: Man high on Molly raped, sodomized girlfriend

Ain't that Merica: A dad's crime was picking up his kids on foot

And he didn’t wait in line with the cars. He was taken away in cuffs for his crime.

Ain't that Merica: A dad's crime was picking up his kids on foot

Big Turkeys Are Harder To Come By This Thanksgiving - CBS Minnesota

Your bird may be smaller this year. If you eat less, think of the bright side: You won’t be as tired.

Right?

Big Turkeys Are Harder To Come By This Thanksgiving - CBS Minnesota

IT HAS ARRIVED: COMPUTERS NOW CAN THINK ON THEIR OWN

'Deep learning' clusters crack coding problems their top engineers can't

For real.. Google’s computers are outwitting their coders.

Machines are alive!

IT HAS ARRIVED: COMPUTERS NOW CAN THINK ON THEIR OWN

Sun fires off powerful solar flare, triggering radio blackout

While the powerful solar flare was not aimed directly at Earth when it erupted, it did trigger a radio blackout at 5:26 a.m. EST

Sun fires off powerful solar flare, triggering radio blackout

The Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste

The Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste

ARTBELL.COM is live streaming a test show right now

It’s called the SPEC SHEET, a show hosted by Michael Vandeven—the man who also runs the fan site BELLGAB.COM .. The audio quality is loud and clear.. Some on the FACEBOOK page are confused as to why Art Bell is not on the DARK MATTER network .. but there’s a pesky non compete clause that I assume he’s working to get out of first.

In the mean time if you’re free right now, tune into the SPEC SHEET on the live stream. It’s a pretty good show, and a truly great achievement for Vandeven .. congrats to him.

ARTBELL.COM is live streaming a test show right now

Sun will 'flip upside down' within weeks, says Nasa

Sun will 'flip upside down' within weeks, says Nasa

Obamacare Consultants Warned of Health Website Failure in March

Oh boy.

Obamacare Consultants Warned of Health Website Failure in March

COULD THIS BE THE GIF OF THE YEAR?

…it will be, unless Rob Ford decides to do something even crazier than knocking down an elderly woman at a Toronto council meeting.

And he just may.

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..

HEADS UP!

This model represents a possible scenario for Thanksgiving/Black Friday next week…

Turkey topped with snow? Maybe.

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.. 

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.

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.

The newest addition of the family, and my sons new best friend, Lord Muttley