Los Angeles hospital warns 179 patients possibly exposed to 'superbug'

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A large Los Angeles teaching hospital has told scores of patients they may have been exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial superbug during endoscopy procedures that infected seven patients and contributed to two deaths

It seems high time for a new fear.. Ebola never quite hit home. Measles didn’t much more to shake the nation to the core.. and the Polar Vortex  was replaced with a ‘Siberian Express’ to remind us of how awful weather is and how it’s our enemy. Plus don’t think for a second that news directors aren’t getting a kick out of a slight percentage of Americans believing that Vladimir Putin is somehow creating polar surges into the United States to destroy our Western Civilization..

But all mocking aside, perhaps the new fear of the SUPERBUG is warranted? 

More from the REUTERS report:

The possible exposures occurred at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center between Oct. 3 and Jan. 28 during procedures in which a specialized endoscope is inserted down the throat to diagnose and treat pancreatic and bile duct diseases.

One thing to note: Many of those who may be infected are in the predicament after a ‘routine’ procedure. And now there is nothing routine about the possibility that they have a life-altering bacteria that may kill up to half of the people who get it..

And while we are not calling this one Captain Tripps just yet, public statements being made now will either be looked on as prudent caution or blatant disguises sometime soon in the future..

"It’s important to emphasize: This particular outbreak of CRE is not a threat to the health of the public in Los Angeles County," said Benjamin Schwartz, deputy chief of the acute communicable disease control program at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Los Angeles hospital warns 179 patients possibly exposed to 'superbug'

No good things come from a Year of the Sheep

Or goat—or ram.

No good things come from a Year of the Sheep

Perhaps the title speaks for itself..

Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches

Since the 80s the entire program was turned to waste. Nothing improved even with newer guidelines. The sugar industry had too much say… sick examples are presented here when the Daily Mail compares the US school lunches to cash strapped nation…

Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches

This image is sure to stir up controversy (and sell some fish wrappers).. the NEW YORK POST pictures President Obama with a blindfold around his head as a message that he is ignoring Islamic terror threats…

You can read the article in full here: http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/obama-refuses-to-acknowledge-muslim-terrorists-at-summit/

Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Net Neutrality Will 'F%$k Everything Up'

Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Net Neutrality Will 'F%$k Everything Up'

Maybe next year I’ll try to do a ‘somewhat famous people with big Ashes’ on Ash Wednesday.. here is one: Bill Donohue on Fox News

Tonight you get a two for one.. Not only is there a snapshot of my dinner, baked squash, red onions, peppers, and mushrooms, over pasta. But you also get a little hint of my feet. 

Thank me later.

I really bungled this one up. Here it is Ash Wednesday and not one thing posted about it, despite my Catholic education as a younger lad.

I hope all reading had a fine and hot Ash Wednesday.

The 500 pound meteor in the room

AAn amazing—and scary—piece of news is being reported ..

Americans in New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania reported seeing a fiery, 500-pound meteor soar through the sky this week before the space rock apparently broke up somewhere over the Keystone State, according to scientists.
NASA said on Tuesday this week that the meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere in the sky above western Pennsylvania earlier that morning and was reportedly witnessed by spectators stretching for hundreds of miles across the United States from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest.

The meteor burst into flames above PITTSBURGH..

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Remnants of the meteor ended up on the ground in Pennsylvania—my home state as well. I didn’t see this, however, it seemed more confined to the Western part of the state.. 

It was traveling at 45,000 miles per hour..

The video and the story are both equally amazing.. 

There were reports of sonic booms.. Lots of calls to the AMA..

And also this piece of interesting news: A meteor exploded over New Zealand yesterday.. 

The pink stars are falling all too often lately, don’t you think?

The 500 pound meteor in the room

I went back and found this Microsoft PAINT creation I made in the year almost ten years ago—already! It seems like yesterday.  What was obvious then is that TV mattered—certainly more so than it does NOW as proven by the TIME magazine article I posted tonight on the death of television..

Pop culture was once dictated to us.. It was once forced down our digestive tracts.. 

Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.

There is a revolution in what people want and how they want it.. The talking heads who gave us what they wanted us to digest are almost no more—the power is in the people’s hands.. is this why regulation is being discussed? Why the Internet will be branded as a public utility and the government will act accordingly?

Since 1998 the NET was a wild west, tamed a bit by modernization and maturity.. but we are living in unparalleled times.

Anything is possible.
Good.
And bad.
It is our choice .. and cutting out the norm of how we once acted is a good choice.

Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever

This is important and game changing.. A cultural switch is going on. And this backs up my point the other night that Saturday Nighy Live and other live programs are becoming increasingly irrelevant ..

Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.

Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever

This being reported by ROLLING STONE and various other sources

Mystery Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet

So many things in the universe we don’t know yet.. so many mysteries we have yet to discover.. we are left to ponder the strange things we have yet to find a d these little lights on a tiny planet showcase the infancy of our universal lives. .

Mystery Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet

Alarming isn’t the word for this.. at this point let’s not be surprised though

Tom Delonge says he knows people 'in the know' who KNOW UFOs are real..

I miss his STRANGE TIMES website..

Tom Delonge says he knows people 'in the know' who KNOW UFOs are real..

Jumpin Joe!

This is what a real woman looks like when she is near 50.. CNN reports this:
《 The image comes from a cover shoot for the December 2013 issue of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America, representatives for the Mexico-based publication said. The photo in question was not published, and spokespeople did not provide an explanation for how it surfaced last week.》

The ultimate response to the photo has been applause.. I’m OK with the picture too..

Clearly we have been overwmeled by popular media and lied to about what real beauty is…

Another one bites the dust

The Schuylkill Mall is being hit with another store closing.. Kmart liquidation will be this year..

80 employees out of a job..another anchor store shuddred.. another day closer to the now very likely demise of the once great mall on the hill..

Another one bites the dust

Thundesnow. 90 inches of snow in Boston.. the coldest air for 100 million people since 1994. What more could go wrong?

SINKHOLES!