All in all, a pretty good little mini vacation. Ayden only tried to escape one time. The cast on his leg slowed him down.. and the fact he couldn’t reach the elevator button helped adults secure him.

They say New York is the city that never sleeps.. but Baltimore is pretty sleepless itself for a Saturday night.

Had great good, homemade pizza, crab soup.. all that .. and oh, Ayden slept through 4 of 5 floors of the aquarium. NO worries, there is always next time.

Pretty crowded in Baltimore.. just saw a man juggling knives and flames on a unicycle. Only here.

The city of Baltimore, Inner Harbor.. on a beautiful early June 2012 night.

We ate at Dick’s Last Resort, the waiter obviously didn’t know I’m a Celtics fan

Goodbye Botox hello Brotox

Goodbye Botox hello Brotox

Cops were busy running on foot in the rain last night in Baltimore..

Good evening from the lovely city of Baltimore

Night time at Inner Harbor.. Maryland

I guess life is getting weird if the CDC has to officially make a statement flesh eating zombies really don't exist, despite incidents of cannibalism all over

Captain Trips does not exist

I guess life is getting weird if the CDC has to officially make a statement flesh eating zombies really don't exist, despite incidents of cannibalism all over

Breaking news right now along the East Coast: Tornado risk D.C., Lancaster, Raleigh, Roanoke

Breaking news right now along the East Coast: Tornado risk D.C., Lancaster, Raleigh, Roanoke

So this is how it will end?

Milky Way Galaxy Doomed to Head-On Crash with Andromeda

Luckily it will happen 4 billion years from now……….

Science now proves.. old people smell.

Really

Old People Do Smell, But Not That Badly

But is this any reason to make them subject to death panels!?

It is feeling like 2008 all over again

I am about to turn 32.. but I was about to turn 29 in 2008. So that’s good. But what is bad was ….well, an economic collapse. Today a bad jobs report was released, the market crashed, and more dire warning crept into headlines from around the world. Yes, indeed, it’s beginning to feel like and economic collapse is upon us again..

It is feeling like 2008 all over again

Gay porn star Luka Magnotta turned cannibal.. and he's on the run-- the UK SUN reports some disturbing details..

Is it me or is there just too many cannibal stories popping up all over the world recently.

Maryland.
Florida.

And now this, Luka Magnotta on the run..

Gay porn star Luka Magnotta turned cannibal.. and he's on the run-- the UK SUN reports some disturbing details..

Attention East Coast readers

Everyone alright in stormageddon ‘12?

Family outing for a few days to the Baltimore aquarium

And just in time for severe weather and potential tornadoes later today.. Hope it passes .. Tomorrow should be great though. Stay tuned for an array of photos of hopefully enormous and dangerous fish safely behind thick glass..

Interesting story on what happens, and doesn't happen, to Facebook accounts when we die

Interesting story on what happens, and doesn't happen, to Facebook accounts when we die

The economy in trouble

Economy added only 69,000 jobs in May, far less than economists expected. Unemployment rate rises from 8.1% to 8.2%.

While the Miami cannibal munched... bikes drove by

This is the state of our nation, 2012: Surely by now you have heard of the Miami Muncher, the man who was turned into a cannibal and killed after taking bath salts and mauling another man’s face. .Here’s the latest and not so greatest: 

New surveillance video shows that bikes were riding past the scene of the crime .. while the face attack was taking place.. 

Here we go again! Strange booms rock Michigan

The earth is moaning and groaning.. and booming loud, as well.. The latest in Michigan, where loud booms have caused ‘violent’ shaking.. no official word of what it may be, but lots of officials on what it is not. And what it is not: Anything likely to cause loud booms. The mystery begins.. Maybe booming soon in a town near you..

MICHIGAN: LOUD BOOMS AND ‘VIOLENT’ SHAKING
The booms in Michigan: not from earthquakes or jets..

Occultist: Violent shaking in Michigan.. no storms, no quakes.. no traffic..  hat tip to you for informing me first of this one..

My inspirational message of the day (you can sure tell I think more like a dad anymore)

This picture used to hang on the wall of my bedroom when I was a child.. I would stare at is as I fell asleep. Life is short. Honor your parents, love your family, cherish your spouse, adore you children.. and be proud when you look in the mirror. Time is fleeting..

Whoops: Obama causes some outrage with reference to "Polish death camp" -- it was actually a Nazi death camp in Poland

But it just must be a day of apologies, because here come some more:

Chris Hayes from MSNBC
Barney Frank
 A PA monsignor 
Rutgers student
And Lady Gaga

All for different reasons. But it’s a pity party of a Wednesday for all, isn’t it.

Whoops: Obama causes some outrage with reference to "Polish death camp" -- it was actually a Nazi death camp in Poland

Did a bit of thinking on Obama's kill list and the new story today on how 'civilian' has been redefined

There are big questions that come with these two stories, one from the NEW YORK TIMES and the other from an upcoming book KILL OR CAPTURE.

Drones. Warfare. Security. All big issues. But how we deal with those issues? That may be the bigger issue.

How we handle these big issues will tell a lot of us: It is how we, as a people, now fight our wars and define our enemies. It showcases what we are able to ‘live with’ in order to get the bad guy of the day. It also has implications on the homefront. If you haven’t noticed recently, news organizations en masse have finally been reporting on how drones are going to be used by police in the skies above you, and me, and all of us, here in the United States.

If the term of civilian could be broadened by a chief executive, could civilian also eventually be broadened by a police chief? By an FBI head.. by a CIA diretor…?

The drones will be watching. Cameras on and glaring down below.. if you have a fence that protects you from your neighbor because you like to sunbath nude, the drone will enjoy the view. 

The future of the drones may be that they are armed. And if they are armed they can strike just as they do in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And if a few civilians die to get a target… will a future generation care?

Moral questions…

The type that no one is comfortable asking.

The ever evolving drone wars: How Obama changed the definition of 'civilian'

And as drones come to America, what impact may this have on the homefront..

The ever evolving drone wars: How Obama changed the definition of 'civilian'

This is your brown on bath salts.

The disturbing story of the cannibal attack, the Miami muncher, or whatever else you want to label it as, only gets weirder.

We know now that police say bath salts may be to blame—bath salts are banned here in the Keystone State of Pennsylvania, and not a day goes by in my area or on my local news without a story of someone going insane on bath salts.

But the notion of a nude man eating another nude man’s face right off this this story a little more a creepy vibe..

Even more information coming out: For example, the Miami muncher not only refused to stop eating the other man’s face, but when prompted to stop, he growled at cops.

Tales of abnormal behavior.. super human strength. People becoming filled with rage.. jumping on top of buildings .. all sad stories about a frightening drug. And seemingly more and more common.

Spammers hitting social web: 40% of social media accounts said to be spam

And here I thought the forty or so people a day I block on Twitter were real.

Spammers hitting social web: 40% of social media accounts said to be spam

A must read from the New York TIMES on Obama's kill list

President Richard Nixon was heavily criticized in media and pop culture in the 1970s when news broke that he had a secret enemy’s list. Who was on it? Journalists.. religious leaders.. maybe sometimes even his own staff and people within his own Administration.

Fast forward to the challenging post-9/11 world: President Obama scrapped the enemy’s list and replaced it with a secret “kill list.” 

The New York TIMES reports on the list, and the “test of Obama’s principles and will” ..

There is a fascinating glimpse from the TIMES on President Obama and how evolution: From the chatter of anti-Patriot Act and anti-war in the Senate, to a hawk in office, a killer of Osama Bin Laden, and the man who approves lethal action and doesn’t look back. The money quote:

In interviews with The New York Times, three dozen of his current and former advisers described Mr. Obama’s evolution since taking on the role, without precedent in presidential history, of personally overseeing the shadow war with Al Qaeda.

They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing. While he was adamant about narrowing the fight and improving relations with the Muslim world, he has followed the metastasizing enemy into new and dangerous lands. When he applies his lawyering skills to counterterrorism, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al Qaeda — even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was “an easy one.”

And as Alex Jones’ PRISON PLANET reports, the NY TIMES also mentioned that a girl, about age 17, and other Americans are on the kill list.

Sensing another irony: Those who favored Obama’s 2008 campaign for the presidency because his language put him in stark opposition to eight years of Bush also have a test of their principles and will: Will they vote to reelect a man who campaigned against most things he ended up doing on the terror and homeland security front?

Sure, the political question is fun to ask.

But the more important question may be this: What role should the United States have, should there be a kill list, and should one chief executive single handedly get to decide who goes on that list and who gets rubbed out? Those are big questions. It would be fun to hear Candidate Obama debate President Obama on those points.

Are you glowing or is your tuna just happy to see me?

Finally confirmation of what alternative media has been reporting for a year.. sadly the alternative media was right all along.

And you thought wind and fire were the strongest elements of Earth!

Think again.

It may simply be FISH!

According to new research (research conducted of course in August of last year, but officially we are just hearing about it this year) “low levels” of radiation from Fukushima have turned up in bluefin tuna along the California coast. Remember, these levels were higher than normal and they were in schools of swimming tuna just months after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear nightmare—fish swimming fast and bringing radiation to San Diego faster than water .. faster than the debris from the tsunami.

The Reuters story goes on to describe whether there is danger.. even describing how cesium levels decrease after two years.

But food for thought: Radioactive tuna (low levels!!) were swimming near California four months after the Fukushima nuclear plant went haywire. 

We have been told for some time there are no worries.

No one told that to the tuna.

The Miami Muncher: He may have been on bath salts

The Miami Muncher: He may have been on bath salts

People are very scared. It’s been shaking non-stop for the past week

Journalist Andrea Vogt, who was near the epicenter of another strong earthquake in Italy today, this one deadlier than the one a week ago

Justin Bieber gets the fever: Goes crazy on a photographer, ‘roughs him up’ .. sends him to the hospital.. 

So what grown man wants to be labeled as the one who got roughed up by Bieber..?

The United Nations wants to regulate the internet (as does a lot of people) .. but the U.S. Congress may give them the chance!

The United Nations wants to regulate the internet (as does a lot of people) .. but the U.S. Congress may give them the chance!

Video from the past few days of some wild storms in Canada.. 

GOOGLE PURPOSELY STOLE PRIVATE INFORMATION FOR YEARS AND COVERED IT UP

This news comes from across the pond—but if it is happening in the UK why would it not be happening in the US of A?

According to the reports circulating, Google purposely used Street View cars to steal personal information from people in Britain for years, and then they covered it up for years.

The accusations are that Google deliberately harvested private data on British citizens for years. According to the report, they downloaded photographs and emails, documents, and messages. The Street View cars collected as they drove.

A private company spying. Interesting. Because if you paint the picture just a little differently, it could mean even war! Think if foreign spies for another nation were driving around America stealing your data? Imagine if, say, North Korea had cars to do it. Or maybe a Chinese car.. with the Chinese flag. Driving around and spying on you!

It would mean war. The government would condemn. The media would go headline-crazy. 

But in this situation, when a private company did it, everyone is silent.

The noise of crickets in the vast wilderness of the online world.. well, that noise today is deafening. The international media is the only place to turn to find out just what exactly Google has been doing.

Just Google it.

The real meaning of Memorial Day: Those who do not return alive.

Do not lose the meaning of this day..

A tale of many Syria headlines

• CNN: What can the world do about Syria?


• Alex Jones’ Infowars: Phony ‘Houla Massacre’: How Media Manipulates Public Opinion For Regime Change in Syria


• Russia blames ‘both sides’ for massacre


• Wall Street JOURNAL: Syria’s Srebrenica‎ 


• Syria plunges towards civil war after massacre


• Children shot, knifed, axed to death in Syria’s Houla massacre …


• Who did it? Some local activists and eyewitnesses say they were from the Syrian army. Others say they were members of the shabiha, the pro-Assad militia that entered Houla from the Alawite villages that ring the township. (The shabiha is predominantly Alawite, the sect of Shia Islam that Assad belongs to.)The Syrian government says the men were terrorists.

You know what it all comes down to? This world is insane.. messed up.. unbelievable in the amount of atrocities that have killed. And for what? Nothing. In the end, absolutely nothing.

A member of the U.S. Army Old Guard places a flag at one of the over 220,000 graves of fallen U.S. military service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, May 24, 2012. 

Flashback: Dead American soldiers dumped into landfills like trash

We should be more aware of these types of events.. We should be fully aware of attempts to not give veterans the care they deserve. 

For those who don’t make it home, the most they deserve from everywhere still here is respect, dignity, and at the very least, a salute. Not to be dumped into a landfill with trash …

Flashback: Dead American soldiers dumped into landfills like trash

This is a truth that your blinds can't cover: 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets file for disability

This is a truth that your blinds can't cover: 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets file for disability

Respect.. 

Duty.

Matthew Russell, 11, from Memphis prepares to place American flags at the headstones of veterans during the Memorial Day observance ceremony at the Memphis National Cemetery in Memphis

Madeline Grace Wallace, 4, carries flags at the National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. The girl and her mother visited the cemetery to place flags on graves for Memorial Day. 

A child doesn’t know the horror of war. At least most children. 

We should want to keep it that way.

In the middle if your beer, or barbecue, or party, remember that Memorial Day is perhaps the most solemn of national holidays. It is one to contemplate the decorations of the post-Civil War days and recall the casualties of the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers that died during battle. We should also give pause to one thought: If you do end up going to a 21 gun salute somewhere in America, how do we strive to be slow to go to war and quick to try peace? How can we in such a turbulent world? Syria kills children with pacifiers in their mouths.. Drones strike in Pakistan.. Oh, and drones will patrol America, too. 

But I digress.

Memorial Day 2012. Do not let this holiday lose the meaning it is intended to have. Do now cheapen it with a useless day of nothingness. Do not..

But here is the sneaking fear that scares me.. in 1945, the big picture was clear: We stopped a tyrant who was killing millions. Ever since then things got murky. And in Iraq and Afghanistan…? Well do we even know who we’re fighting now? Do we have a clue who the tyrants are? And how can you fight the tyrants when they litter this planet like plastic in an ocean?

All thoughts I for one am having this Memorial Day..

The world watches in shock at the horror developing in Houla, a suburb of Homs..

CNN reported this disturbing quote:

"By God, I washed the dead bodies of nine children. One was less than nine months old!" a man screamed to a U.N. observer. "Why are they treating us like animals? We are humans. Did the infant carry an RPG? Was he a fighter? It was a baby, he had a pacifier in his mouth."

Food for thought: Beryl hits Florida as strongest May tropical cyclone in more than a century

This is going to a wild year

Food for thought: Beryl hits Florida as strongest May tropical cyclone in more than a century

Beryl hitting Southest US

Radar rainfall estimates are already 3-4 inches in some areas across northern Florida.. Hopefully all will be safe.. Holidays and hurricanes are not a good mix

Truly disturbing details being revealed about the Miami muncher

A fatal police shooting involving a naked man and cannibalism. Stuff of movies? No. Stuff of Memorial Day weekends in Miami? Yes, this year at least..

Details are starting to be revealed about the disturbing event today in Miami in which a naked man was chewing the face off of another  naked man on a busy highway .. A bicycle rider, Larry Vega, flagged down cops.. the rest is documented by NEWS 7 in Miami:

When the attack continued, Vega says the officer fired but the man continued to chew flesh off the victim. The officer fired several more times, eventually killing the attacker.

A Miami Herald surveillance camera caught the aftermath as the two men laid side by side on the ground. “It was just a blob of blood,” said Vega. “You couldn’t really see, it was just blood all over the place.”

Rescue crews rushed the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital with missing flesh. According to a 7News source, the victim was not recognizable.

Vega says both the men, who have not been identified, appeared to be homeless and he believes the attacker may have been on drugs. “He looked like he was on something,” he said. “Either he was really psychotic or he was on crack.”

Not something you’d expect to see everyday.. or any day.

Horrible beyond belief.. 

Is it me or is the world going absolutely insane?

A poisonous Pentecost Sunday for Benedict: New allegations of a conspiracy among cardinals dismissed, questions over the Vatican bank, and a unholy web of corruption

But here’s the best:

Martini, writing in an Italian newspaper, said the pope had been “betrayed” just as Jesus was betrayed 2,000 years ago, and that the Church would have to emerge from the latest scandal cleaner and stronger.

Just as Jesus was betrayed…?

So I just want to know which Cardinal is going to give the butler the noose so he can, say.. “end it himself”…?

A poisonous Pentecost Sunday for Benedict: New allegations of a conspiracy among cardinals dismissed, questions over the Vatican bank, and a unholy web of corruption

Mom and ‘cool’ Ayden. At least there is one cool man in our family…

I met a new friend today at a family party. His name is Vader. And he’s the size of a small dinosaur. Ayden loved him, he’s great with kids. Though my initial impression was one of partial fear.

I think he can ride most rides at amusement parks…

Hello Philly.. Just passing through.

Memorial Day cannibalism mayhem.. Now this is sick..One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked, and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp Saturday, police said.

There's rain and hail on the highways where I'm driving today

Thank God for rest stops (Few people of much sense are Ever appreciative of rest stops…but bad weather suddenly changes that)

Hope your Memorial Day travels are filled with sun and fun.. And if not be careful out there…

Spent fuel rods ignite newest fears over Fukushima

Spent fuel rods ignite newest fears over Fukushima