Boy, 8, Killed Defending Sister From Rapist: Cops - NBC News

This headline gives us a glimpse into how heartless and disturbing the heart of man can be—but how amazing and innocent children are..

To set the scene: A man approached this 8-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister.. He began to brutally rape the girl. The boy attempted to defend his sister. And for that he was brutally beaten until he was lifeless—an innocent and heroic young man’s light was extinguished by a disgusting coward hell bent on stealing the goodness of a child..

From NBC NEWS:

Police hunted for the suspect Thursday night. Initially, he was described as a white male with scraggly facial hair. But Dionne Waugh, a spokeswoman for the Richmond police, told NBC News the description was false because the victim was told her family would be harmed if she gave a true description.

With the help of outraged neighbors, police identified a male teenage suspect. He was being medically evaluated Friday with a warrant for his arrest pending.

"The community’s response has been tremendous," Waugh told NBC News. "They played a very important role in gathering information to lead us to this point."

Waugh called the assault and killing grisly and heartbreaking — “probably one of the most tragic cases” she’s ever encountered.

"Every loss of life here is tragic, [but] whenever it’s a case involving juveniles, it’s especially hard for everyone involved, from our detectives to our fire and ambulance personnel, who are often first on scene," she said. "So it’s been a challenge, I think, for a lot of people here."

Some of my readers and friends tell me that I overwhelm them with bad news.. So often that bad news is about children.. Maybe that’s the case. But I get emotional about crimes against children .. I get truly grief stricken often when reading these types of headlines. And they are very real.

For those who would tell me to ignore them.. for those who say to stop reporting on them or talking about them: No. 

Because letting your guard down involves ignoring the demons and black hearted heals that walk the crust of this planet.

The man who did this to this girl and boy, even if he repents, would deserve nothing but hatred .. I find his actions beyond loathsome.

And now a family is going to have to come to grips with this crime—no doubt the horror of it will forever live with them ..

An update: POLICE ARE CHARGING A TEEN IN THE DEATH OF THE INNOCENT YOUNG 8-YEAR-OLD..

Boy, 8, Killed Defending Sister From Rapist: Cops - NBC News

With weird disasters and weather calamities making headlines around the world, it should be notable that past events were often even weirder—one such event occurred in 1919.

The ‘Great Molasses Disaster’ in Boston killed 21 people and injured 150.. It was exactly what it sounds like: A molasses flood.

A large molasses storage tank in the city burst on January 15, 1919.. The wave ran through streets at 35 miles per hour.. 

The aftermath was sticky .. 

Men, women, and horses all perished in this bizarre accident. 

The cleanup took two weeks.. 300 people.. and 87,000 man hours.

For years after, historical accounts say, hot summer days also featured the smell of molasses.. 

The youngest death was a ten-year-old and the oldest was 76.. The people ranged from teamsters to the unemployed to homemakers..

More proof that real news is stranger than fiction—and that events of yesteryear are often weirder than those of today.

Over 2,100 dead in Afghan landslide

This is tragic.. The death toll from this landslide is still climbing higher.. I last knew it to be over 300 .. today it steamed upwards in dramatic numbers to 2,100 *as of now* ..

But the other number that is noteworthy besides the rising death toll: Over 4,000 are now homeless.

This story is the second ‘landslide’ story making headlines this week. In the city of Baltimore, a landslide took out an entire street along with very expensive cars. But in the scheme of things, that seems to be child’s play compared to 2000+ people perishing from the natural disaster.. 

Numbers set to increase .. an obvious story still developing.

Over 2,100 dead in Afghan landslide

Paul Simon dialed 911 during fight--a call that led to the arrest last week of him and his wife, singer Edie Brickell, on disorderly conduct charges

This is a pretty sad story in all ways, don’t you think?

Paul Simon dialed 911 during fight--a call that led to the arrest last week of him and his wife, singer Edie Brickell, on disorderly conduct charges

A story of local note

Here in Schuylkill County, where the trees even look sad lately, there is an aura of depression.. an aura of sadness, perhaps the raping of the land by coal barons has finally hit, now that the generations are changing .. 

The Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, PA, is a symbol of this.. It stands nearly vacant, a few stores peppered about and maybe a handful of people shopping. A new movie theater with an awesome bar has livened things up. And just when you thought there was hope that the giant mall could survive to die another day, this news comes: A SUBWAY is coming to the mall.

How I loathe Subway and its processed meat.. how I despise that smell of the restaurant, which somehow can stick on your clothing for days.. How i disdain their bread—though they removed the rubber, I suppose.

Subway?

Seriously? This is the best that a dying mall can do? 

My idea for this mall—and any other mall across this nation where shopping is going down hill in favor of online retail: Let the people have their malls back. 

Rent is too damn high—yes a candidate for office in New York said that, but when it comes to malls, he was right. The rent in malls in too high.. it’s impossible to sustain your dream of having your own business when you get little traffic in a dying mall but still pay through the roof to have it. 

So why not this: Lower rent for a year—maybe even do rent-free for six months. Advertise to ANY PERSON IN THE AREA who has a dream about owning their own store and their own business. How about getting a farmer’s market of fresh food once a week? A grand experiment to buy local—imagine the idea of NO BIG CHAIN STORES, and no big chain restaurants ?? Instead fresh and locally made, locally sold, and locally grown.. It would be amazing and cool.

And perhaps reinvigorate malls.. Not only in Frackville PA but everywhere else a dying mall threatens to blight the landscape with a giant vacant shell.. 

What made Bubba bubble?

Bill Clinton was on Jimmy Kimmel in April. By now, unless you have been living with the grays in a underground alien base, you know that the former President opined about aliens. Kimmel asked specific questions, and Clinton answered that life may be out there..

But what else, besides the chipper back and forth, exists..? What other secrets lurk in Clinton’s brain—those not of the sexual nature, but of the other worldly?

Ben Hansen is the host of TV’s FACT OR FAKED: PARANORMAL FILES on SYFY.. He is adding his voice to the mix of opinions concerning Clinton’s UFO talk.. And he says something else is going on.

Hansen said that Clinton became defensive, locked his jaw, and looked away from Kimmel during his answer..  Hansen claims these are signs of evasiveness.. Signs that perhaps there is more than meets the eye?

But remember this: Kimmel’s program would have supplied Clinton’s team with the questions prior to the appearance. Bill knew that Roswell was going to be discussed.. So be caught off guard by a truly scripted question is no excuse. Perhaps the limelight of talking about such issues to a giant audience made him apprehensive? Though he lied before to America, this time around the issue wasn’t whether oral sex was infidelity, but something that actually mattered: Is there life, and does the government know anymore about it than they say.

Does Bill Clinton know more..?
Lest we forget, the aliens did back Bill in the 90s..

The cover of the UK SUN.. and the hunt for the heroin pusher that is now being blamed with killing Peaches Geldof. 

CDC confirms first U.S. case of MERS virus in Indiana man who traveled to Saudi Arabia

Male health-care worker traveled from Saudi capital to London, Chicago, then Indiana.

MERS is here.

The camel didn’t come.. but it is probably where this Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome came from.

From Saudi Arabia, with a problem..

Health officials are closely watching this story, obviously.. The man who has MERS —the first case in the US of A— is in isolation receiving oxygen in a hospital.

The hospital is in Munster, Indiana.

Munster.. Couldn’t think of a better town to house the first US patient with this troubling disease..

CDC confirms first U.S. case of MERS virus in Indiana man who traveled to Saudi Arabia

Unfit for Human Consumption: How nearly 9 million pounds of bad meat escaped into the food supply

To say the CNN report is troubling is an understatement..
Here’s the basic information as reported:

CNN exclusive: A meat processing plant in California was buying diseased dairy cows and processing them when government inspectors weren’t there, federal officials tell CNN.

After the cows were killed, employees at Rancho Feeding Corp., based in Petaluma, California, would hide the warning signs of cancer by trimming off diseased parts, using a fake stamp of approval or even replacing the heads of sick cows with ones from healthy animals, the officials say

In case that didn’t settle in, they’d REPLACE THE HEADS OF SICK COWS WITH HEALTHY ONES… read that?

And things like this don’t help either: We also learn that one of the government inspectors – someone responsible for protecting consumers from bad meat – was having a romantic relationship with a plant foreman..
Unfit for Human Consumption: How nearly 9 million pounds of bad meat escaped into the food supply

Twitter Blows Up With Racist Reactions After P.K. Subban Scores Game Winner In 2nd OT

Boston Bruins fans blew up Twitter Thursday night following the team’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens.

Boston ‘strong’ right?
Shame..
Shame..
And we know your screen name.

Twitter Blows Up With Racist Reactions After P.K. Subban Scores Game Winner In 2nd OT

Chaos grips Odessa, Ukraine’s third-largest city

The spiraling crisis in Ukraine spread to the Black Sea city of Odessa

Things are getting real..

Chaos grips Odessa, Ukraine’s third-largest city

Chilling: Inside a Demon House

PITTSBURGH— It’s called “The Demon of Brownsville Road,” and a Pittsburgh family claims this creature terrorized them for years, until exorcists forced it to leave. 

We already talked about this story on this website previously..

I am skeptical by nature—it’s a must when dealing with anything of paranormal lure. But regardless of the truth of the Cranmer family claims, I find it pretty amazing that so much ‘demon’ talk has made it in mainstream news lately. 

It was not long ago that we heard about Latoya Ammons and the story of her demon possessed children.

As for Cranmer, he made the rounds on various radio programs like DARKNESS RADIO and COAST TO COAST AM.. 

This new story presented by FOX 8 goes in depth with Adam Blai, who has a Master’s of Science Degree in Clinical Psychology and is a former skeptic turned expert demonologist and advisor to the Roman Catholic Church; performing and training priests in exorcism. You don’t see that sort of description every day.

The money quote that stood out to me was an answer from Blai on an increased amount of interest by people in demonology:

There must be some calling. But the great danger in that, is that anything that leads to pride, like, ‘oh I’m special,’ or ‘oh look I helped cast out this demon,’ or ‘met this thing from the Old Testament,’ or ‘met Judas Iscariot or Satan,’ or whatever and you can get puffed up by that, and think that’s exciting, but the moment you allow yourself to go there, the next case you’re going to get smacked back down really hard. One thing they’re really good at is providing corrective experiences

As for the house itself: It has six fireplaces. And a supposedly haunted past.

Believe it?

Cranmer’s book is for sale on AMAZON and other places now..

Chilling: Inside a Demon House

Airman dies saving his 5-year-old daughter's life

Master Sgt. Dan ‘Bud’ Wassom II’s last action in this life was using his body to shield his 5-year-old daughter Lorelai as a tornado demolished his house on Sunday, said his mother, Pamela Wassom.

Stories like this always get me emotional.
This man was a Master Sgt. but the true bravery he showcased in life was not in the air or in battle, it was against a weather system  that had no sympathy for human life.

His daughter is alive because of his actions.. He is not.

The money quote:

“Lorelai kept telling the emergency room people, she said, ‘My daddy saved me; the house exploded and my daddy saved me; he’s a hero,’” Pamela said. “And he is. He’s a true hero.”

Maybe this Friday night, take a second to appreciate your own life just more.. 

And pray or hope there’s a better place after this planet takes us—if so Dan Wassom is in it.

Airman dies saving his 5-year-old daughter's life

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Chances are you already saw this video, but if not take a look—or a second in the case it’s a rerun.. It is from that street in Baltimore that fell victim to a landslide after the monster rain this past week. The last 15 seconds of the video is the most notable—and obviously life threatening .. thankfully no one was on the cliff of the street as it collapsed..

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Welcome to Mars.
From Earth.

This image is what NASA imagines human will look like on Mars. The shiny space suit appears to be more from a TWILIGHT ZONE episode than a cutting edge future.. NASA is calling it the Z-2 Spacesuit. It’s only a prototype. So maybe there is still time for more color to be added to the drabby appearance that human beings would have on the red planet..

The new gray outfit comes after a 2012 release of a BUZZ LIGHTYEAR type prototype. 

The new improved design is vacant flags but has a fortress of protection for the astronauts who will wear the attire.

Maybe now NASA could work on getting some additional funding to actually get us to Mars. OR we can just rely on the private industry. And if we do, perhaps Versace can come up with the wardrobe.

MARS. By Calvin Klein.

Study finds eating chicken on the bone makes children more aggressive

A new Cornell University study has found that children who eat chicken on the bone are more likely to disobey adults and be aggressive towards other kids.

No comment.

Except they never met my son. He had yet to meet a pop tart he doesn’t like. He has yet to eat meat. On or off the bone.

The only question I am left with: Who thought about this as a study? Did some scientist realize his kid was eating lots of wings and cussing him out? 

Study finds eating chicken on the bone makes children more aggressive

Kiss and ghoul.
When the hauntin’s a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’

A whole new meaning to ‘boning’ perhaps?

Natasha Blasick is making some paranormal headlines—and raising suspicious eyebrows—after she made the claim that she had sex with a ghost. Not once, though—twice.

The star, who appeared in the horror movie PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, told the British show THE MORNING that she had her first encounter when she was alone in her room.. MORE:

"I couldn’t see anybody, and suddenly I could feel that somebody was touching me. The hands were pushing me against my will, and I could feel the weight of a body on top of me."

Despite her initial discomfort, Blasick said she decided to “relax” and the experience became “really, really pleasureable”.

It’s good to see things worked out for them.

She went no to say:

"It was fun. I think ever since I was a child I always wanted to know if there is anything more to this world, I was always asking the questions, and I think this made me feel kind of reassured that there is something more than what we can see with the naked eye," she continues. "It gave me comfort and support and love, and it did answer questions for me that there is something else out there."

Blasick is not the first to claim an encounter with a spirit from beyond.. There are stories circling in the paranormal world of people claiming to have such relationships with the dead. It’s noted though the paranormal ‘mainstream’—if there is such a thing—gives little credence to the stories of sexual lust from ghosts..

As for Blasick: There is video of the interview--but to our knowledge no ‘sex tape’ exists capturing the event ..

High Doses of Antidepressants Linked To Self-Harm In Children, Young Adults

High doses of antidepressants — selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac or Zoloft — may raise the risk of suicidal behavior in children and young adults, according to a recent study CBS News reported.

The kids aren’t alright..

But the logic of this story was already in our brains. We are a highly medicated society—adults and children. Not a moment on TV goes by that there’s not an advertisement for adult over the counter drugs to help moods or improve sex lives. Often those ads show an elderly couple in a bathtub together—all the while quickly talking voices are telling how men can have heart attacks. So try it today.

I actually would not be surprised if morning cartoon shows will soon feature ads for antidepressants.. 

The money quote:

For the study, researchers analyzed data  from 162,625 people - between the ages of 10 and 64 years - with depression who started antidepressant treatment with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor at modal (the most prescribed doses on average) or at higher than modal doses from 1998 through 2010.

In all seriousness, how many times does it come out that active shooters are hooked on medicine?

Perhaps there’s no 100% rule on the matter, but it sure is interesting that the kids who smoke pot or go to parties in the woods to drink beer seemingly aren’t the villains of these heinous acts.  Instead, it seems to always be the ones who are seeing doctors, legit doctors, who are prescribing drugs that a child would never be able to spell, let alone pronounce, during a spelling bee.

1 in 25 kids in the United States (that’s 2011 numbers, too) are on some form of mood changing drug. Many of them are under the age of 12—and many more are under the age of 5.

Are antidepressants always bad? No.
Are they overused?

The numbers tell the story more than any opinionated author on a website.

High Doses of Antidepressants Linked To Self-Harm In Children, Young Adults

Magma rising in Washington state's Mount St. Helens volcano: USGS

Magma rising in Washington state's Mount St. Helens volcano: USGS

A handwritten note found in Kurt Cobain’s wallet by police isn’t very kind to Courtney Love.. 

Though Cobain has been dead for 20 years, we are just hearing about this..

Cobain calls Love his ‘lawful shredded wife’ and says she will be ‘siphoning’ off his money for drugs.. 

CBS reports this:

The release of the note by Seattle police follows a recent revelation that the police decided to review internal files regarding the rock star’s death in anticipation of media and fan attention to the 20-year-anniversary which occurred at the beginning of the month. As part of that process, the SPD released dozens of never-before-seen police photosfrom the scene where Cobain’s body was found, and then on Monday, a detective’s full report on the re-examination of the suicide file

And this:

The note, which is not dated, begins as a seemingly direct parody of standard Christian marriage vows, starting with the words, “Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife…” It goes on to say, “even when she’s a bitch with zits and siphoning all (your) money for doping and whoring…” 

No word on when the note was written.

CBS notes that those who feel a conspiracy of justice took place and that Cobain was murdered should check the hand writing on this newfound note. CBS reports that the note about Courtney Love is very similar to the handwriting on the suicide note.

Cobain 20 years later.. and new information still coming out.

What’s love got to do with it?