Blast from a comedic past.. I still fondly recall watching this segment the first time it appeared on David Letterman’s show in 1996..
Watching this skit again reminded me that I need to transfer all of my 50+ video tapes of old David Letterman shows to DVD before they dry rot..
How fast time goes.
I was 16 when I saw this for the first time.. So many years later, Letterman leaving CBS .. and I am feeling old.
But it’s still as funny to me as the first time..
“I think the most horrifying was how they got in and the mess that they were making while they were here because birds are scared and they are pooping.”
But this new bird story seems to be just a little more intense..
Maybe the next time you want to laugh at someone who says creepy black ops helicopters are flying above their town, take heed. And read about the town of Florence Kentucky, where officials admitted helicopters zooming through were indeed ‘black ops’ …
For people who love goodness —and dogs— here is a little story about a dying boy and his special bond with a dog named Juno.
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..
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.
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.
This is a pretty sad story in all ways, don’t you think?
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?
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..
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..
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
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.
The spiraling crisis in Ukraine spread to the Black Sea city of Odessa
Things are getting real..
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..
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.
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..
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.
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.
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?
