Case of the Blue Mondays: Are you sad? Are you mad? You're not alone.. it's BLUE MONDAY and everyone is in the same depressing boat

If you didn’t already know it, people are calling today Blue Monday. Collectively, we are told, it’s the worst day of the year. Bills are coming in.. Christmas is over..lights coming down. Relationships over.. resolutions being broken.

Pretty sad. Depressing. Blue.

And if you’re like me, you’re probably confused. I remember Blue Monday being much later in January—I even searched Coal Speaker archives and found it to be the final Monday of the month. But alas, experts have changed the day!

Blue Monday,” which is said to be the most miserable day of the year, was originally calculated to be at the end of the month.

But researchers analyzed tweets over the past few years and found that Monday, January 6, 2014 is the day the most people feel sad and guilty.

Everything is instant these days. 

Even depression. 

Case of the Blue Mondays: Are you sad? Are you mad? You're not alone.. it's BLUE MONDAY and everyone is in the same depressing boat

An update on those horrors in the Central African Republic

Nearly a million flee violence in Central African Republic

FROM CNN:

The nearly 935,000 displaced people are hiding in bushes and seeking refuge with host families, and churches and schools have been turned in to makeshift shelters. More than half the population of the capital city of Bangui has been displaced, and nearly 60% of them are displaced children, according to the latest report from UNHCR, the United Nations’ refugee agency.

Since March, violence has gripped the Central African Republic, or CAR.

Welcome to America in winter.. the dead of winter.. where the average temperature for the entire United States is current 14 degrees….

If this was happening anywhere except Africa, it would be front page news..

….but.. It’s in Africa.

LINK: Mutilated by a machete: The violence in the Central African Republic is getting worse.. and children are especially those feeling the horrors of war..

The story is very difficult to read.

On Saturday night, I posted a link to a story regarding children being beheaded in the CAR on my personal Facebook page with the subtext: “While you were watching football.” I got one comment and that was it. Zippo. We need to stop ignoring Africa.. Especially when tiny innocent children are being hunted like dogs .. 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

The risk of a global super volcano eruption is greater than previously thought.. Yellowstone studied in depth..

60 MINUTES goes in depth on nature’s ticking time bombs: Volcanoes..

Brain dead girl Jahi McMath released from California hospital

Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old girl on a ventilator who was declared brain dead by doctors in California after tonsil surgery, was released from a hospital.

This is just an emotional draining and horrific story. I cannot even imagine what he family of this beautiful girl, Jahi, is experiencing.  There are so many things I think about when  I read updates on this matter.

One thing I don’t like seeing over and over again: the media uses “brain dead” to describe Jahi in almost every headline. I understand why they would.. but can’t we give this 13-year-old girl more respect? Can’t we describe her as “loving Jahi” or “beautiful Jahi”? Oh, better yet, just “Jahi McMath!” Maybe that would work!

While I am not an expert on the brain, I am not quite sure if anyone is.. We are going into uncharted territories as we explore more about the brain, its functions, and what it does every single day when we wake up.I listened to a pretty interesting Coast to Coast AM show Saturday night about the science of reviving people in comas. 

We can say brain dead until we are blue in the face.. sometimes miracles happen.

I think we know that Jahi’s family is praying for a miracle.. As should we all..

Pray to whatever or whoever you believe in.. if no beliefs are within you, simply send some good will and feelings their way. There’s a butterfly effect of good that can result..

Brain dead girl Jahi McMath released from California hospital

The other surge: Violence against women surges in Afghanistan

The other surge: Violence against women surges in Afghanistan

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The bastard makes pan frying a steak look so easy. How I loathe your skills, Gordon Ramsay..

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

Wow… Happy winter I guess…

My childhood locked away in a cabinet in antique store..

Colts punter tweets half-naked picture of Andrew Luck

A word of caution: Always check your photos before posting. And maybe …well… Don’t take photos of people in locker rooms.
Bad form…

Colts punter tweets half-naked picture of Andrew Luck

Great.. My local mall has succumbed to the monarch mind controllers. It’d be ok if they at least had a Texas Roadhouse..

That’s right.. Because when I hear the word bravery the first thing I think about is rabbits ..

Children Beheaded as Violence Engulfs the Central African Republic

This is horrific and brutal.. And not being reported by any major American news organization ..

Children Beheaded as Violence Engulfs the Central African Republic

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My shoddy camera work does no justice to this beautiful sunset seen over Interstate 81 outside of Hazleton PA tonight.. It was breathtaking

Oh Art Bell… You have such mysterious and reassuring messages ..
You mean the real sun? The UK SUN?
The Chinese restaurant with the world sun in it??? Details, Art, details!

The search for time travelers on Twitter begins!

Scientists are searching Twitter feeds from the past to see if there is any mention of news before it actually happened. So far, they have come up with zilch.

Where’s John Titor when you need him… And would Titor tweet?

The search for time travelers on Twitter begins!

Remember last month we were told that Kim Jong Un's uncle was assassinated in North Korea?

It was a big to-do. Even Dennis Rodman was called in for his covert mission back to the nation.

But now we find out some more horrid details.. apparently Un’s Unc was eaten alive by 120 dogs for his ‘treachery’..this according to Chinese media tonight.

This is the first time public accounts have been rendered a to how Un did his deed…

What a way to start a new year..

Now this is amazing and beyond cool: The World Cup will begin with a mind controlled exoskeleton kick! Wearing a state-of-the-art exoskeleton, a paralyzed teenager will make the ceremonial first kick at the World Cup in Brazil this summer.