A much needed read for anyone on the East Coast can be found Weatherboy Weather.. Just about the entire coast line still needs to be on alert ..
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
The horror of drug use ...
This is an AP dispatch from yesterday … dateline McKeesport Pennsylvania. Small town and rural America is being ravaged by heroin.. Pennsylvania is one of the hardest hit states.. (My local area, well East of McKeesport, is exceptionally awful)…
The AP news alert for your reading:
MCKEESPORT, Pa. — Two adults have been found dead of suspected drug overdoses after their 7-year-old daughter told school officials in Pennsylvania she couldn’t wake them up.
The Allegheny County medical examiner says the bodies of 26-year-old Christopher Dilly and 25-year-old Jessica Lally were found Monday evening in their McKeesport apartment.
Authorities say a 9-month-old girl, 3-year-old boy and 5-year-old boy who were inside the home were taken to a hospital to be evaluated.
HURRICANE MATTHEW POISED FOR AMERICAN VISIT -- GOVERNORS OF MULTIPLE STATES BEGIN PREPPING CITIZENS FOR DANEROUS STORM
It struck Haiti as a Cat 4… it was briefly a category 5.. there is a chance that when it dances with the East Coast of the United States it will still be a strong 3 .. I fear the ocean waters are warm enough that–if the eyewall stays off shore–it could even tick back to a category 4 or stronger..
From the AP:
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said state officials would reverse lanes on major evacuation routes in South Carolina. It would be the first major evacuation since Hurricane Floyd in 1999, when the governor at the time didn’t reverse the lanes and Interstate 26 became a parking lot. A typically two-hour drive from Charleston to Columbia turned into a 24-hour nightmare…
Exclusive - Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence according to sources
Reuters was unable to determine what data Yahoo may have handed over, if any, and if intelligence officials had approached other email providers besides Yahoo with this kind of request.
According to two of the former employees, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer’s decision to obey the directive roiled some senior executives and led to the June 2015 departure of Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, who now holds the top security job at Facebook Inc .
Mayer bought Tumblr too.. I would suppose messages on Tumblr would eventually be known to be in the same boat?
Hurricane Matthew: US evacuations begin ahead of storm
Forecasters predict a Category 4 hurricane will brush up against the East Coast – including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina – sometime between Thursday evening and Saturday.
Gridlock is massive in South Carolina .. North Carolina tourists have been sent home .. Florida is worried about a direct hit .. And forecasters are warning that their models may not be precise and longer range outlooks could change..
All up on the air. Including a massive and deadline hurricane that undoubtedly just destroyed structures and lives in Haiti and the Bahamas ..
Chris Cillizza from the Washington Post names the winners and...
And while I didn’t watch it, the common denominator I’m hearing from friends and pundits was that Kaine seemed edgy and weird and the entire spectacle became unwatchable quickly ..
Cillizza seems to also concur with that assessment ..
Thunderstorms on the edge of space may be causing loss of GPS signals!
Scientists were left puzzled about why the three satellites launched by the European Space Agency have regularly lost their navigation signal when passing over the equator above the Atlantic Ocean.
Now they believe they may have uncovered the underlying cause of the strange loss in the GPS signal that helps control the satellites – thunderstorms high in the ionosphere.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Computer models beginning to converge on a Southeast United...
Computer models beginning to converge on a Southeast United States hit after Matthew gets done rampaging Haiti and other areas south of Florida ..
Small town clown mania!!!
More local news from my personal Homefront of Pennsylvania .. The clown phenomenon (that probably isn’t even happening besides in imaginations) is causing the PA state police to issue w warning!
::. But they also admit none of the widespread reports of clowns in the state have been validated..
A number of clown related social media posts were displayed this past weekend regarding threats towards school districts in Pennsylvania and throughout the country. Some threats stated that a clown would arrive at the school and “shoot all students and teachers,” while another threat stated they “weren’t clowning around.” Most of the social media posts were attributed to a “clown joke,” possibly linked to numerous clown sightings throughout the nation and the world.
These sightings have not been validated and there are no known threats to schools in Pennsylvania. Residents are encouraged to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to their closest police department.
Over the last few months, “creepy clowns” have been reported throughout the United States and the world. The media has reported incidents where clowns have stood on the street not moving or speaking, to incidents where creepy clowns attempted to lure children into wooded areas. These sightings have occurred in Wisconsin, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, Colorado, Oregon, and Texas.
They go on to give information on how to contact the police should clowns attack..
Hurricane hell on earth
This is a monster .. It struck Haiti dead on.. The disaster is slowly churning with 145 mile per hour winds..
The east coast of the United States could be in the crosshairs..
May god bless those already dealing with hurricane Matthew and those will have yet to experience him..
The name could be retired of the storm continues at this pace ..
Hurricane Matthew hammers Haiti, moves out to sea toward ...
Haiti has taken a direct hit… May god have mercy on them..
Worthwhile warning on Hurricane Matthew from Weatherboy weather
Worthwhile warning on Hurricane Matthew from Weatherboy weather
Cook knife set for auction at Blums in Frackville PA
Cook knife set for auction at Blums in Frackville PA
Monday, October 3, 2016
LOVE IS BEING LOST: Poll: 7 Percent Of Voters Have Lost Friends Over 2016 Presidential Race
37 percent said the harsh language is coming from Trump’s campaign, while 11 percent thought it was coming from Clinton’s.
The poll surveyed 802 registered voters between Sept. 22 and 25 with a 3.5 percentage point margin of error..
It is not a shock poll to me.. I have actually seen friendships changed this year with this election – people who were cordial and friendly have gone into a friendship hibernation. Hopefully after the November election (when presumably SOMEONE wins?) will this all will subside.. and friendships will blossom again. Unless the election itself becomes even more divisive by then. And maybe if a repeat of 2000 happens–My God just imagine that ..
So I am curious.. did you lose friends because of this election..? Did YOU break friendships off?
This is the latest model ensemble for Hurricane Matthew.. the...
This is the latest model ensemble for Hurricane Matthew.. the storm is already getting wild .. it is a major threat to life and limb. Haiti may get localized 40 inches of rain, with an average of 15-25.. Other areas in the region are bracing for what could be one of the deadliest storms in history..
And from there? A threat to the United States.. Just as the US is bracing for an election, it may have its attention quickly turned by the force of nature to Matthew.. people should pray to Matthew Mark Luke and John for a reprieve from the hell that this may unleash along the east coast of the United States..
Watching it closely.. scenarios unfolding..
There is a clown in the woods.. Even if you can't see it
I read with great interest a ROLLING STONE article about All of these clown sightings taking place throughout the United States, especially the Eastern seaboard states… Great interest because for two reasons:
1) I have been blogging about this clown phenomenon for years now, it occurs every autumn and starts in the late days of August. Just as it did this year.
And
2) Because it mentioned my home state, and towns near me.. Pretty exciting to see the little city of ‘Pottsville,’ the home of Yuengling brewery..
The article reports,
Pennsylvania, too, is rife with creepy clown reports. In Pottsville, there were reports of two people wearing “clown-like clothes,” driving around in a pickup truck scaring teens and children. In Ebensburg, a woman caught a peeping-Tom clown peering through her window. Most recently, York College sent a safety alert out to the campus – a reaction deemed necessary after receiving eight different clown reports since September 24th. More sightings have been reported in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and, most recently, New York State.
I was at a party this weekend.. The small town clown phenom was the talk of the event! People claiming they saw clowns outside their windows…in parks…in parking lots… Under street lights.
The trouble in.. There is no proof of these clown sightings. And really, this year, with all the hubbub about small town clowns, very few have been proven. It is mostly an urban legend tale of kids on school buses passing along frightful information of clowns with knives..
Speaking of clowns with knives, there was another story of clowns this weekend.. According to reports in Florida, a young girl claims men in clowns masks and a knife scaled the fence of the house and scared her.. No proof of it and no other witnesses as well..
There is a fear deep within out soul of clowns. The makeup and style is similar to that of a dying patient of the plague.. The clown mocks death. There have been countless pop culture references to clowns in horror. The Joker has been one of the most known fictional criminals in all of entertainment history.. And Stephen King’s Pennywise the dancing clown was so frightening that it has had an enduring legacy since the made for TV movie debuted in the early 1990s–so much so that now the film is being remade into a whole new scary clown film!
Clowns abound.
But there’s really no proof they even exist.
That is what the ROLLING STONE article sets to show.. There have been no photographs besides a few … And despite police warnings of crackdowns on clowns, only a few have been apprehended and arrested.
A lot of this is cyclical. I recall last year and the year before, clowns showing up on porches and smashing pumpkins around Halloween. I recall bad clowns in France rioting.. And as the STONE article reports, this clown situation has dated back to at least the Reagan era:
Since the 1980s, clowns have made appearances across the country, usually in the weeks and months leading up to Halloween.
Coleman’s phantom clown theory is rooted in the “primal dread that so many children experience in their presence.” The first notable instance of a creepy clown is when serial killer John Wayne Gacy was captured in 1979. His alter ego Pogo the Clown frequented children’s parties, so his capture drew a connection between a killer and a clown. Three years later came Poltergeist, in which a sinister clown doll lives underneath the bed. Stephen King doubled down and only increased the public’s fear of clowns – his 1987 novel It, featuring Pennywise the clown, was made into a horrifying film in 1990. (People still love to fear clowns – Poltergeist was rebooted last year, and a remake of It is set to arrive next fall.)
And with that… The clown crisis will continue. I have no doubts that more will be reported before Samhain… And with each passing day, we will be one day closer to the darkness of winter…when the clown makeup comes off.. And the real scary time of year begins.
Stay peaceful everyone.
Keep the clowns abated.
War machine stars
People who make terror videos .. People who watch terror videos .. People who fake terror videos ..
In war, propaganda seems inevitable .. But it also makes me constantly pause and question the photos, videos, and stories coming from deep in the Middle East.. Forgive me for what may be considered a sin in the pop culture world of online rage 24/7, but when when the Aleppo boy’s image was broadcast around the world, I paused and felt uneasy about it all.. Wondering if some propaganda force behind the scenes is portraying this young boy’s image for their own social control in the Syrian civil war – one that was potentially influenced by the CIA and other worldly groups anyway..
But enter this information: The DAILY BEAST is reporting in a very good article about how the United States (CIA) and the U.K. Worked together to fund the creation of fake terror videos..
The purpose of such was to see who watched them, we are told. That sound quaint.. Make a fake video of mass genocide, a beheading, or some other horror and see who downloaded and shared..
Isn’t it also a potential victory if Western societies begin to share those same videos, too? Believe them?
Audio from years ago was released this weekend of John Kerry lamenting that he lost the battle for President Obama’s ear and that the United States did not send forces into the Syrian war. Others are grateful he lost.. The ‘red line’ speech the President gave in an address to the nation so many years ago fell flat with critics and even friends.. And a civil war in Syria raged since. It is a very difficult story and one that has about as many facets as can be imagined..
….but could you imagine, during a run up to war, faked videos being used to find the enemy .. And perhaps rattle the friends into action?
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Well the STAR WARS cast enjoyed Grafitti Highway in Centralia ..
Well the STAR WARS cast enjoyed Grafitti Highway in Centralia ..