A tragic example of life imitating reality..
'Fast and Furious' actor Paul Walker dies in car crash
Saturday, November 30, 2013
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This is a full video of Comet ISON starting November 26 through today, November 30. Clearly, the comet vanished.. Reappeared. And now, maybe, is vanishing again.
Ison may have been like a cat coming back, but in the last few frames, it does not appear to be much of anything.
So.. who will pronounce Ison dead and when..?
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Grim Website Tallies Black Friday Deaths
This death count website serves as a grim reminder of the lengths people go to for a black friday deal.
The Black Friday death count.
Now that you’re all done shopping, presuming you were in the capitalist druglike euphoria on Black Friday and THANKSGIVING NIGHT was it worth it?
And if you saw one of the 7 deaths and 88 injuries (known so far), would you still do it all over again…?
I fear your answer is yes.
Grim Website Tallies Black Friday Deaths
Elderly Woman Killed, Authorities Searching for the Killer
This Nanticoke PA crime is a bit shocking, given the circumstances.. The elderly woman was 97 years old and was beaten to death.
The timing was equally offensive: It happened on Thanksgiving night.
Trouble has come to your little town, sheriff..
Elderly Woman Killed, Authorities Searching for the Killer
Friday, November 29, 2013
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For anyone not from the coal region of Pennsylvania, the notion that a hospital being auctioned off and an old school being knocked down may not mean much..
But it meant a lot for me today.
It just so happened that Black Friday this year was filled with the voyage back in time, to the deepest and darkest pits of my memory.
I was born in the Ashland Regional Medical Center in September 1980. Today, that building, most recently known as St. Catherine’s Medical Center, was auctioned off and all of the possessions within it were liquidated— bankruptcy occurred last year that caused the closure of St. Catherine’s and the unemployment of almost 200 workers
Then came the other vision, I knew that Immaculate Heart Elementary School in Girardville PA would be knocked down but was still shocked to see have you equipment demolishing the school today as I drove by. I went to that school starting in the sixth grade, in those mid-1990s when everything seemed great.
So much of my memories are now gone.
The town I was born in, Centralia, is empty. Every school prior to the university I attended are all closed. The hospital I was born in.. gone.
It would be selfish to make this situation about myself, there were many people born in the hospital over the past 100 years and with its rich history, many people died there to. And as for the school, there are thousands of people who have memories of that building, the one ripped down today.
There seems to be a deeper meaning to these two these events taking place on Black Friday, while everyone was out shopping until they were dropping, old memories, and laughter and sadness, were wiped clean.
It is also a signal sign that the once great cold region of eastern Pennsylvania is releasing a deep sigh of death. You cannot drive through the towns of Schuylkill County and escape it. There is no growth, there is no exceptionalism, and there is only a melancholy sadness for the past and constant attempt to keep a spirit of something from the late 1930s alive—a time when the area boomed with wealth and culture. There are few signs of those times now..
That of course does not mean there is not hope, nor does not mean that changes will not come to benefit the area eventually. But right now on this day, this year, buildings are dilapidated, structures are unsound, and beacons of things that once were are being demolished or sold off to the lowest bidder.
And yes, childhood memories from birth through Catholic grade school are being quickly extinguished because of either profiteering hospital owners or legal liabilities of the Catholic Church
There is no escaping that truth, no matter what coal mine you try to use as shelter..
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Mark Dice makes me laugh again.. shouting people down for shopping too early.
Classic..
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Seriously America, are TVs worth this!?
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For the record.. this is the moment that the former St. Catherine hospital, and Ashland hospital, in Ashland Pennsylvania did NOT sell.
Black Friday was a bust for the bankruptcy sale.
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This is the former Ashland hospital, it is in Pennsylvania and it is filled with history of coal miners, baby births, life and death.
It has been closed for over a year due to a series of financially catastrophic events and it has gone bankrupt. Now today there is a public auction of everything in it along with the building and real estate itself.
I was born here, but I will not die here.
It will most likely never be a hospital again, that is a shame.
I can say much much more, but I will refrain from that on such a public forum as this website.
Maybe one day.
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Be proud America. This is you.
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It's chaos and hell already
Some images and videos of Black Friday madness. Humanity at its worst over material garbage.
It's chaos and hell already
Black Friday nonsense
My least favorite term being said by everyone today is ‘doorbuster prices’ I always hated that term.
I think it’s more offensive this year since shopping started thanksgiving night and the term was used much earlier than normal.
I think on 2014, we should start the door buster Black Friday sales on Halloween night. Why not.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Don’t get bruised. Don’t get battered.
Chances are, you were already.
When I was driving home with my wife and child from our Thanksgiving family affair, we passed by a Walmart. The place was mobbed with people and cars—so many that people started parking in a dirt and muddy lot that separates the store from the town of St. Clair, PA. God bless the workers tonight who will be faced with bruising and battering that was mentioned above.
People in pajamas flocking to the aisle with the cheap TV. People donning their finest spandex while they flea for iPhones and pads. Maybe iPads.
It was a little horrifying to see so many people out and about in Thanksgiving taking part in such rampant materialism. Couldn’t they wait until 3am for those ‘doorbusters.’…?
And speaking of doorbusters. I have come to despise that word over the past 36 hours.
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This is where we are with Comet Ison tonight: We have never seen a comet behave like this
It’s still possible that the initial reports of ISON’s demise were exaggerated. “It is now clear that Comet ISON either survived or did not survive, or… maybe both,” Bruce Betts, director of projects for the Planetary Society, said in a Twitter update. “Hope that clarifies things.”
What we know: Not much yet.
We can guess, and some shots would appear that ISON is alive and well..or at least half alive and still moving.
Earlier today everyone, including NASA, pronounced this potentially historic comet dead. That does not seem to be the case as more analysis is done. Joshua Filmer of the site FROM QUAKES TO QUASARS wrote this tonight:
As I stated before, as the comet approached the Sun, something happened and ISON started to smear. It looked like the comet fizzed out before it even got started. Even if ISON disintegrated, scientists were suppose to see debris left over (which would be better for professional study, though not so good for amateur astronomy), but everything, the comet, the tail, everything, just vanished. Dean Pesnell, a project scientist with SDO summarized it most eloquently by saying “I’d like to know what happened to our half a mile of material that was going around the sun. Now’ it’s broken up and I didn’t see anything.”
Currently, material has reemerged from the other side of the Sun’s Corona. This is either a continuation of the tail that ISON left behind, or the comet itself. Current speculation is the dust that we see is simply dust, orbiting exactly as it should. The nucleus is probably lost.
It is pretty fascinating stuff—especially amazing to see so much disagreement still on what we are seeing having emerged from ISON’s encounter with the sun..
This tonight is, as as Phil Plait writes, a comet eager to confuse.
Hopefully definite answers are forthcoming..
Eyes on the sky. We may see a century event after all..
This is where we are with Comet Ison tonight: We have never seen a comet behave like this
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