What you see is not what you get. Ayden was Chewbacca for Halloween. I was just dad. We swapped faces and it’s entirely too creepy to stare at. Hope your Halloween was filled with cool ghouls and frightening escapes into the netherworld. And candy as well. Happy Movember. Gobble early and often.
The number of young children and teens hospitalized for overdosing on opioid painkillers have spiked nearly threefold in recent years, a new study finds.
Among children under 10, most of the painkiller poisonings were accidental, with children “eating them like candy,” said lead researcher Julie Gaither, a postdoctoral fellow in biostatistics at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. Among teens, most were accidental overdoses, although some were suicide attempts.
In both age groups, the increase in cases involving painkillers like OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin was dramatic.
Among children aged 1 to 4 years, the number of poisonings went up 205 percent from 1997 to 2012. For teens 15 to 19, the increase was 176 percent. Overall, the study showed a 165 percent increase in poisonings from opioid painkillers among those 19 and younger.
In addition, poisonings involving the use of heroin among teens increased 161 percent, while poisonings involving methadone went up 950 percent.
Among children aged 10 to 14, the incidence of poisonings from suicide or self-inflicted injury rose 37 percent, while the incidence of accidental poisoning increased 82 percent.
Among teens 15 to 19, poisonings from suicide or self-inflicted injury increased 140 percent, while accidental poisoning increased 300 percent, the researchers found.
In South Florida, Broward County schools prohibited clown costumes for Halloween activities, according to a Sun Sentinel reporter.
Parents received phone messages this week that said: “While many of the clown threats in our community and across the nation have proven to be hoaxes, it is still best for us to continue to operate in an abundance of caution.”
Ridiculous, as I have written before and will again next year when the August through fall small town clown romp begins anew..
But for tonight, don’t ARM YOURSELF to deal with clowns.. And …. as the message from the schools in Florida have even admitted, most of these clown ‘threats’ have been hoaxes and fake anyway.
If you want the unbiased unabashed truth on the US economy as we head into the November election, don’t expect to find it..
Just look at these series of stories from Google News just this morning, a collection of links controlled by robots by the way .. The common theory is that the US economy is roaring back. Or … it’s slow. Or it’s anemic. But it’s the best in years. But it’s awful.
More quake madness in central Italy–a location hit hard by tremors over the past six months..
A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy on Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey, in the strongest tremor to hit the country in 36 years.
From the CNN report..
A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy on Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey, in the strongest tremor to hit the country in 36 years.
Residents ran onto the streets in a panic as the quake struck at 7:40 a.m. local time (2:40 am ET), and rescuers were seen in the area around crumbling historical buildings soon after the tremor hit, helping evacuate a group of nuns. They worked through aftershocks that hit every 20 minutes or so.
Recall earlier this week that there was a 5.5 and 6.1 .. and in August a major quake that hit and killed 300 people..
This is the latest cover of the NEW YORK POST.. The bombshell of October surprises occurred just as the waning days off the 2016 presidential campaign began.. Hillary Clinton’s email server investigation was closed by James Comey and the FBI back in the summer. Safely paving the way for the nomination of HILL.. it was reopened yesterday .. Anthony Weiner’s computer apparently had emails that would have had, as the POST claimed, enough ‘dirt’ to compel the FBI into reopening the investigation. Reigniting the issue. Restoking the flames. And invigorating the Donald Trump campaign to use it as an issue as the last days of this election cycle now begin…
I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT GETTING BEHEADED..
Guillotines made the act of decapitating someone relatively quick (but not painless), but before the guillotine was invented, using a sword or axe often meant multiple strokes were required. Mary, Queen of Scots, for example, required three strokes when she was executed in 1587. Think that’s bad? According to Tudor History, Margaret Pole, the Eighth Countess of Salisbury, was beheaded by an inexperienced executioner who botched the job and practically shredded her head and neck. made the act of decapitating someone relatively quick (but not painless), but before the guillotine was invented, using a sword or axe often meant multiple strokes were required. Mary, Queen of Scots, for example, required three strokes when she was executed in 1587. Think that’s bad? According to Tudor History, Margaret Pole, the Eighth Countess of Salisbury, was beheaded by an inexperienced executioner who botched the job and practically shredded her head and neck.
This is an image from Seph Lawless–one of my all time favorite photographers and one of the coolest people online today .. he takes footage inside abandoned places. He is best known for his work with malls that are closing or have closed, sneaking in and taking video and footage from inside of malls that once were amazingly busy and popular. He also has been in some very emotionally heavy places..
It is true that I’ve been inside and photographed some of the same abandoned houses that were used by serial killers Anthony Sowell and Michael Madison over the years. Both serial killers acted independently and used abandoned homes to torture, murder and hide the victims bodies in and/or on the property of these abandoned homes. Both men are currently on death row. That being said I’ve seen crazy things inside abandoned places that make no sense at all and at times are truly frightening like a sex chamber set up at an abandoned building in Detroit that I reported to the Detroit PD years ago and never released those images and some that are just creepy like this abandoned home that had a room full of mannequin heads along with old lab equipment and intricate surgery tools oddly out of place.
People ask me all the time if I get scared in locations like this and the answer is undoubtedly yes but not because of ghosts…I’m petrified of humanity.
The WALKING DEAD gone too far!? Fans revolted and repelled at Sunday night’s Torture Porn hour?
Fans are in a nightmare scenario: The Walking Dead may have lost its edge last season, but this year may have actually stooped lower and began the trend of being unwatchable..
The DAILY BEAST’s Melissa Leon writes this"
zombie drama aired its all-time most unwatchable hour Sunday night in a mind-numbingly brutal Season 7 opener that finally, after some ballsy meandering, revealed the identity of Negan’s victim, who was clubbed to death with a barbed-wire baseball bat in last season’s much-maligned cliffhanger.
And one of the biggest deals of all, AT&T is taking over the universe so much so that is will NOW OWN BATMAN..
That is a pretty big deal.
This is a mega merger.. Mega mergers as such often frighten me a bit.. And the thought of BATMAN characters and other DC Comics personalities being used for awful phone commercials is equally horrifying … And you know if they can do it they will..
Donald Trump expressed that he would not approve the AT&T and Time Warner merger if elected president. “Deals like this destroy democracy,” said Trump during a rally in Gettysburg, Pa., on Saturday, where he discussed what he would do in the first 100 days of his presidency.
Trump also said he would like to break up the Comcast-NBCUniversal merger. He opened up his speech, claiming the election is “rigged” against him and expressed that members of the media “lie and fabricate stories to make a candidate they don’t like look as bad and dangerous as possible.”
The real problem so often seems to be the consolidation of media power.. the powerless small guys have no shot at making it big. Thankfully the Internet came along and changed things, but with the NET being ceded over to the world government powers instead of the United States, I worry about the consequences of nations who could care less about the freedom of press saying what websites the press can have.. And even if you hate the Trump movement, you need to be aware that it is based off of a frustration deep within the United States over big trade deals, big mergers, factories closing, and bills for utilities going up despite the corporate executives making massive Christmas bonus dollars on top of already highly inflated salaries..
I recall after 9/11, that particular Halloween, how ultra-sensitive and weird things were.. I remember the political ramifications of what you wore–the outfit could put you in the wrong category.. Are you with ‘us’ or against us..?
This year may be about the same. It was strange to watch the Al Smith dinner the other night and see Donald Trump being jeered by the crowd of media elites for his commentary about Hillary–it was not really as much funny as it was biting. Hillary was more routine, more common.. more traditional. But this year the election is not traditional at all. There are friendships dying and marriages drying, all because the people within relationships are choosing different candidates. Facebook has become a hostile battleground of red vs blue acquaintances.. It is all really too much .. over the top.
And this year, at your door step, the next fight might occur .. . Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are going to be there.. not in the forms of ADs or flyers in the mail, but in plastic form. Halloween masks.
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I have been reading my Twitterverse feed as of late about this very topic. There are indications, we are told by prognosticators of all that is political, that the mask sales are indicators of who will WIN the election. Some put about as much stock in that as people who say they see wooly little insects and that means a record setting year for snowfall was going to occur.
According to various reports from around the Halloween stores across America, people are buying up Trump masks over Hillary likenesses about 2 to 1.. Some locations even report a 3 to 1 advantage for the billionaire.. Clinton fans opine that it is not necessarily because the purchasers like Donald Trump .. but instead because recipients of the mask intend on mocking the Republican candidate for president across the fruited plain..
The HUFFINGTON POST just wrote up an article about very scary looking Trump mask production processes in mainland China.. –Maybe an import Trump would stop if he becomes president?
There are so many versions of his profile. And they are being bought up everywhere.
So … the polls. Polls that show Hillary pulling ahead of Trump. Polls that indicate she is going to win the election, maybe not by a landslide but instead a razor close margin with the help of some swing states.
But a cautionary tale for Trump fans who think his mask sales indicate a victory on November 8: Richard Nixon. His face is still a top seller. He is one of the most highly disregarded presidents because of his criminal activity and mental illnesses.. But people wear his face–often even during bank robberies.
Either way get ready. Get the candy warmed up. Donald Trump is about to ask for a hand in a town near you.
