Friday, April 5, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
We accused the North Koreans of amping things up, now we are worried we did the same thing
A Defense Department official, as reported by CNN
The Washington POST details how far North Korean missiles can actually reach here.
The conclusion:
Fortunately, neither is particularly scary for the United States.
Meanwhile the Pentagon has activated a missile shield… I wonder if they have the same map of missile strength that the POST does…
I received this message earlier today
It was in response to my posts all day regarding North Korea.. Valid points are asserted, however. Read along:
Well the US has to treat the threats with some sort of seriousness. A threat is a threat, but it is really not one they should have children hearing about and scared of because as of right now nothing is going to come out of this.The fact that there are US military on the 38th parallel is no new thing, they have been there ready for attack since the seize fire with the Korean War. Actually, we are technically still in the Korean war since no peace treaty was signed, it’s just a seize fire. Plus I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the North Korean troops started surrendering as soon as we would start an attack. Lots of North Koreans are scared to speak out against their country since it means an immediate sentence for them and their whole family to prison camps. In previous wars, like the Iraq war, the conditions in the country are full of so much suck that the soldier surrender immediately hoping that if they aren’t immediately killed, that they will be given asylum in America. It can be expected that much of the same would happen in Korea since even their Army is starving and the wealthiest in the capital still have to abide to food rations. It’s just a terrible situation for the North Koreans. They really have no chance, I just hope if and when something breaks out we do something for the innocent victims living in North Korea, it is so sad. Watch some of the Korean documentaries on Netflix if you have it like Camp 14.
Time Magazine in 1994 said that Kim Jong Il ‘may be more dangerous than Saddam.’
That certainly turned out to be true..
By the way, in 1994, Kim Jong Un was probably about 8 or 9 years old. And his dad was on TIME.
you are really some form of idiot if you think america should be preparing for world war 3 with Korea, NO ONE will back North Korea in a war, not even China, their kind of friend. Do your research on Korea's current state, their nuclear capability, and the history of bomb threats from them in the past and you will feel silly that you ever worried. It seriously isn't that big of a deal. This isn't supposed to be an aggressive message, btw. Just don't worry about north korea
Thanks for ‘calming’ me down I suppose.
While I am not worried, it’s certainly interesting to think that back in 1991, children were being told in classrooms that there is no concern of Iraqi missiles hitting the United States mainland. Children were fearful of it then.. But in 2013, we don’t really talk about how North Korean missiles will not reach the United States. Should we not be telling our kids the same thing today that we did then?
While I am certainly a ‘form of an idiot’ I don’t know what form I take. And you may turn out to be 110% correct that North Korea cannot do anything right. While they cannot feed their population they can now launch some missiles and tests that surprised experts in 2012. (While their famines have not helped, the United States and UN embargoes on them certainly have aided in them not being able to eat)
And finally, this is not meant to be an aggressive response, I certainly appreciate your message. But I ask this.. if the United States should not be preparing for war, why does it somehow seem we are? Missiles to Guam? Chinese troops on the border .. American troops on the 38th parallel. All getting ready. For what?
Maybe for nothing. Maybe it’s all a game. A chess match.
But somehow a chess match has to end, right? Either with blink.. or brink.
I often feel silly worrying about the things I do. In this circumstance, I certainly hope I’ll feel silly about Lil Kim .. So far I only feel silly about Dennis Rodman being in North Korea.
But if someone like Peter King gets his way, we could be at war due to our own actions and not Pyongyang. That worries me, too.
Amazing how we are prepping for war.. but no one is talking about any possibility of war. Are schools ready telling children not to worry? Are we getting cash out of banks? Are we stocking up with water? It’s amazing that such threats are being hurled by North Korea, and how the United States military is beefing up personnel and the machinery of war.. yet on the homeland from coast to coast we are talking about a college basketball player’s broken leg, another Carnival Cruise ship story, and gun control.. spattered in there is gay marriage. We are not mentally being prepped for anything.. so if something actually occurs, if a strike actually happens, Americans will be surprised and shocked. Is this any way to conduct a build up to a potential world war 3?? Again.. no on ever said that living through history meant you’d enjoy it..
Stay tuned for more.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Is David Letterman's time coming to an end on CBS!?
The late night wars indeed.
And you thought Korea was getting tense..
Is David Letterman's time coming to an end on CBS!?
Stroll down amnesia lane
So I looked at yearbooks from my past last night. Amazing how much changes, isn’t it? I read some of the words people wrote in my yearbook.. Pages aren’t yellowing yet but they sure feel older than ever..
From yearbooks to Facebook.
The old days to the modern age.
I’d love a chance to relive a few events.. but maybe not all.
There have been lots of quakes in the Canary Islands lately.. and over the weekend, parts of the islands have reportedly been pushed up 4 inches..
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
For those drinking alone tonight, here's a list of the bar webcams being offered around the world
http://www.schooners.com/multimedia/hillbarcam.htm is my favorite.
Unfortunately the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in NYC is closed. Which is a shame. Such fun was had there..
For those drinking alone tonight, here's a list of the bar webcams being offered around the world
Easter Egg Hunt At Seattle Zoo Turns Violent
This is pretty shameful stuff, and here I thought only my local Easter egg hunt got vicious..
Easter Egg Hunt At Seattle Zoo Turns Violent
This is when science annoys me.. seriously guys, you are still going to create highly infectious bird flu?
Obama! Come on! have some more sense.
Captain Trips SHOULD NOT exist..
This is when science annoys me.. seriously guys, you are still going to create highly infectious bird flu?
Questions in China: How did H7N9 kill two people?
…and I’m sure China will be completely honest with the world. Right?
Questions in China: How did H7N9 kill two people?
Monday, April 1, 2013
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Good evening everyone. Here’s the Toxic Airborne Event with HAPPINESS IS OVERRATED. Truly a shame this band broke up.
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Yes they happened.. The "best" internet April Fools jokes of 2013
I say “best” in quotes because I truly hate this yearly tradition..
Yes they happened.. The "best" internet April Fools jokes of 2013
PETER THE ROMAN? FRANCIS VISITS THE TOMB
Seriously, why does this Pope have to keep reminding us he’s probably the last one!?
Clyde Lewis continues to humor me with incredibly great headlines for his nightly radio show.. Tonight "Olympus has fallen and it won't wake up!"
And if you still think Noory is the king of paranormal radio, you haven’t listened to Ground Zero
(Though I still wish Art Bell would come back)
Clyde Lewis continues to humor me with incredibly great headlines for his nightly radio show.. Tonight "Olympus has fallen and it won't wake up!"
The top ten stories that sound like April Fools jokes. But they aren't
- Until 2012, Pepsi used aborted fetal-cells to flavor soft drinks
- There have been so many suicides in China among workers making our iPhones that factories had to put up suicide nets
- Wikileaks helped bring out information that DynCorp contractors were involved with a child sex ring..
- There is a brewing water crisis—one so bad that rivers and lakes are drying up across the planet
- Very recently, the mega rich withdrew their money from Cyprus banks—right before looting..
- Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act, and the NDAA. He often signed bills despite his ‘reservations’
- There are black sites across the world where children are tortured in front of their parents
- Fear of Chinese censors is so intense that video game makers change their games
- North Koreans are eating their own children because of extreme hunger
- Each year, up to 800,000 children go missing in the United States
So sorry to be such a downer on such a ‘funny’ day.. But that’s just what I do.
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Good to see that media is all on the same page. If you watched your local diatribe of fires, plagues, crime, and pestilence, you’ve most certainly heard that ‘economic factors may take some spring out of the Easter Bunny’s step this year.’
It was so noticeable that Conan O’Brien put a montage together of local boobs on the tube telling us the same statement from their teleprompter.
While the video is hilarious for obvious reasons, it begs the bigger question: Who writes it.. and how it is dispensed to all the stations? And just once sentence, quite frankly, could be proof that we are hit with misinformation all at the same time.
Remember, while some may have abandoned the big network news and papers, we still turn to the locals for the information close to home. And if the big conglomerates could get to them, well… the mis and disinformation could survive.
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By now you’ve seen or heard about the horrible event last night involving Louisville player Kevin Ware. (Video here, watch at your own risk)
It was so graphic that CBS even halted replays of the leg break.. It’s most obviously the water cooler talk this morning and will be rehashed over and over again throughout the day.
When it happened, however, something else struck me about the affair. Immediately Twitter lit up with people’s thoughts, and my Facebook friends’ collective chatter was all about Ware. I get it.. It was a sports injury live on TEE VEE, it was enough to make you queasy.. and we all celebrate March Madness like it’s a religious event. So it makes sense..
But what is absent from Twitter and my Facebook friends’ profiles? Any or all words about innocent children killed in drone attacks in Pakistan. Any and all stories about the civilians’ lives we left in shambles in Iraq after ten years of war (those who survived).. And and all knowledge of North Korean death camps.. Any and all information about, well, pretty much anything to do with the African continent.
I guess I reluctantly understand this. I come from the coal region, where football and sports is worshiped. Often, high school players get a VIP treatment.. And nationally, as the economic crumbling still happens and the moral decay is evident, we turn more and more to sports .. it’s a vacuum that sucks up the depression. We cheer on our high-paid professionals as though they know we are doing it.. we cry and wine about the other team that simply wears a different uniform color. We get angry and argue about college kids on a court.. and yes, when one falls by the wayside, we gather around the young hero and honor him with glory—of course while we voyeuristically gratify ourselves by watching the hero’s injury take place over and over again.
Not to take anything away form Kevin Ware, but it’s certainly amazing how little we know about a worldwide network of pedophiles.. How little we know about the amount of drone attacks in Pakistan.. how little we are aware of the Monsanto Protection Act..
But we know batting averages.
Football facts.
Boxing bouts…
And hell, even professional wrestling stars’ real names.
But did you know that, once again, America is getting ready to prop up another leader in the Middle East? This time in Syria? That’s not an April fools joke.
A few days ago I posted something on my Facebook page about the concerns I have with the Monsanto Protection Act, as signed into law by President Obama. My sister commented in a straight-shooting fashion:
Nobody cares about genetically modified corn until there is a crop failure like there was in South Africa in 2009. If fuel and veggie prices skyrocket…then they’ll care. Until then…this is tin foil hat stuff to most, Bryan.
And I bet no one knows much about that crop failure in 2009, now do we?
Hey, there was a earthquake in Haiti .. we had a telethon. Oh and a tsunami and meltdown in Japan.. we had a telethon. And Sandy .. we had a telethon.
All events of true importance somehow slip away like they never even existed in the first place. We are left in the end with sports…
Those football stars of the coal region often have something in common with heroes of Friday night lights from across America: Many don’t follow their dreams and make it big. Instead, they end up at the local watering hall, sometimes wearing old sports jerseys from their heyday, but always reliving the past and wishing it was still the present.
They now have Kevin Ware’s leg to speak about for a while..
In the mean time, other events that shape our lives will occur. But we’ll turn that off. It’s too inconvenient for us..
April fool.
But the one tradition I have come to despise about today: Fake news stories that get plastered all over the web are get believed by people who forget it’s April Fools Day.
Seriously, reality is so mind-bending that I don’t want to be barraged by fiction.. Reality is much worse. However, today it will occur, because that is just how it goes..
I bet there will be some ridiculous headline and news story that makes the big time .. and it will prove fake. I almost don’t want to read a shred of information today for fear that it will be untrue.
I don’t find any of this funny, or amusing.. It’s rather annoying, to be perfectly frank.
But here we go.
Be a fool on April fools..
Sunday, March 31, 2013
We keep sinking more and more as a human race.. FDNY EMS workers violating city rules and common decency by posting gory and macabre images online of people they are supposed to be helping..
I guess they..just can’t help themselves…..
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
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Good morning. It’s Easter Sunday.
This is Keith Green singing an Easter Song. After all, if you’re going to have an Easter song, you may as well get all Jesusy in someone’e face with it, right?
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