Saturday, February 22, 2014

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I am having some youthful flashbacks to my childhood in Centralia. The best images of the town as it was as I was growing up actually come from a mediocre movie called MADE IN USA. 


This is the town I was born and raised in.. and the ruins I grew up in..

The dreadful heartbreak

It has been about a year and a month since I lost a friend to cancer. She was a brave soul who endured agony before she passed away.. She was young—at least I look at her that way since she graduated the same year as me from high school, and I’m not old, right? 


It is somewhat weird that Facebook pages never die .. We can pass from this existence, but the words and ‘likes’ we had will remain so as long as Mark Zuckerberg and the NSA permit it.. 


My friend’s name was Lori.. I visited her Facebook page the other night and realized that people were still actively posting messages to her.. sending love .. actively asking for her to help them. Grieving never stops, perhaps.. And maybe with technology it is evolving. Does it help or hurt to be able to constantly go back to someone’s Facebook, or Twitter, or blog? After all, a visit to the page could make it seem like they’re still here, somewhere.


And maybe they are.


Alexander Graham Bell often visited seances. Some think his invention of the telephone was meant to help the deaf.. others wonder if Bell, like all of us, were searching for a way to speak to the dead and ponder an afterlife. The mystery of EVPs has been around for centuries.. are they recordings of ghostly apparitions, wandering the earth? Or are they just a recording of the endless loop of life—a recording of what we say that replays over and over again? We are told by paranormal ‘experts’ that Bell had those questions. He didn’t find an answer—but his invention led us to years of creepy stories of the dead calling their loved ones after they left the earth.


I wonder how long until we hear from people who claim that the dead updated their Facebook accounts.. I wonder how long until the dead do it—if the dead are powerful enough to do such things.. And that takes into consideration the fact that an afterlife would be existent. And if there was one, it would have to have a few dull moments that people would rather update a Facebook status as opposed to playing musical instruments with angelic figures…


I don’t say this in mocking. As a matter of fact, I am quite surprised that there are no movies or scary stories to tell in the dark regarding Facebook, or Twitter. 


It is a little eerie to me to visit Lori’s Facebook page a year and some time later after she lost her battle to cancer.. The photos of her struggles remain.. her hometown remains, as though she’s still there. Her profile picture remains.. as though it’s still current. And the messages to her are continuous, as though she is still alive. 


It’s the new way we deal with grief and pain. And there is nothing wrong with it. Any way we try to cope is healthy—it shows we are actively trying to get a hold on our emotions and become mentally stable with the tragedy that life can be..


Alexander Graham Bell was quoted once as saying this, 



I have been thinking for some time of a machine or apparatus which could be operated by personalities who have passed on to another existence or sphere. I believe that if we are to make any real progress in psychic investigation, we must do it with scientific apparatus and in a scientific manner.



Maybe one day that apparatus will be Facebook….when a lost soul responds to friends who miss them. Just imagine that premise next time you post a message on a deceased friend’s wall…


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Note to reporters reading their cue cards: Watch for the period in a sentence. The lack of one certainly changes things..

Flu hitting young and middle-age adults unusually hard

Lots of news articles are touting the benefits of getting the flu shot. We are being told it’s not too late to get it now. 


I don’t want to get in a debate about that, I have my opinions, I think it’s worth asking what else may be causing this.


I argue that there could be an overall lifestyle change which is helping disease and sickness spread. A lack of good food.. a lack of wholesome food—a population getting too poor to afford good medical care and GMO free meals.. 


Just my thoughts.


Flu shotters may disagree.. But health isn’t a one fix problem..


Flu hitting young and middle-age adults unusually hard

Things are moving fast in Ukraine..

The BBC is reporting this at the hour:



Ukraine’s opposition has asserted its authority over Kiev and parliament in a day of fast-paced events.


MPs have replace the parliamentary speaker and attorney general, appointed a new pro-opposition interior minister and voted to free jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.


Police appear to have abandoned their posts across the capital.


Protesters in Kiev have walked unchallenged into the president’s official and residential buildings.



An obvious developing story.. and fast moving..

Study: Nearly Half Of Water Taps May Contain Bacteria That Causes Legionnaires’ Disease

The grid.. the infrastructure.. everything crumbling. And now this.


We could have used modernization years ago.. we’re beyond being not modern now.


I often wonder if the flu is hitting professionals worse this year because professionals (and lots of others) don’t have the money they once did to buy good, wholesome food. Overall diets are awful.. getting worse as prices go high. Flu shots are no match for lifestyle..


Study: Nearly Half Of Water Taps May Contain Bacteria That Causes Legionnaires’ Disease

I drove by a mobile taxidermy van today and remembered my childhood when I first learned, to my surprise, that taxidermy had absolutely nothing to do with taxes ..

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I don’t know which is funnier.. the video of this skater ‘falling through the ice’ at the Olympics or the endless thread of commenters debating whether it’s real or not..


Enjoy..

Mapping the long and short of sex

This study seems to have no value or goodness.. But it’s worth mentioning only because people in Washington DC have sex that lasts for 2 minutes and 8 seconds.. 


Now you know.


Mapping the long and short of sex

The changed politics of late-night 'comedy' TV--FOR THE WORST

How disappointing.. So basically, late night comedy shows have gone from lampooning politicians to a world where they will allow them to ‘soften their image’ and be even faker than they were before.


Goodbye Carson…1980-1995 Letterman.. and all the others.. Hello Jimmy Fallon. 


Good luck being everyone’s friend.



The changed politics of late-night 'comedy' TV--FOR THE WORST

The year of the horse.. and the Katy Perry Dark Horse video is now revealed.. 


If you’re into that sort of thing, I am sure you can spot all of the occult and Illuminati symbolism present in the music video (even amateurs can pick up on them)—and if you’re not check with Alex Jones or Mark Dice later..

Hulk Hogan returning to WWE to host 'WrestleMania 30'

30 years of Wrestlemania.. amazing.. 


As for me? I always liked Andre the Giant more.. but that’s just me.



Hulk Hogan returning to WWE to host 'WrestleMania 30'

Friday, February 21, 2014

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Video going viral tonight of a woman in Austin Texas who was arrested for crossing the street.


ARRESTED,


Hauled away,


cuffed…


Arrested.


Ain’t that America………

Another reject on the way? 


Rob Zombie is working on another horror movie that he compares to the DEVIL’S REJECTS.. apparently BROAD STREET BULLIES is second a side street in Zombie’s plans..


In an interview,Rob Zombie said that he was working on the hockey film but ‘something else’ popped up.. 


Interestingly, Zombie also says his movie he liked the least was HOUSE OF A 1000 CORPSES because it was a ‘mess.’ I agree with him.


But I would have to say his HALLOWEEN remakes were much more deplorable in nature than others..

Sometimes the news is bad.. Sometimes a miracle happen. Tears of joy finally escape my eyes tonight instead of yet another tragedy about a child..


Sebastian de la Cruz stopped breathing while his aunt Pamela Rauseo was driving in bumper to bumper Miami traffic.. She screamed for help as the baby went purple without air..


She frantically performed CPR on the baby.


And suddenly…she got help. NBC NEWS reports this:



The female good Samaritan who came to her aid was Lucila Godoy, who was driving with her own child when she spotted Rauseo in distress.


"I wasn’t thinking. I just got out of the car and saw the baby and heard her calling him Sebastian, which is my baby’s name, and I just freaked out," Godoy said.


"I couldn’t think. I was like, ‘Please don’t die on me.’"


Flagged down by the Miami Herald photographer who took the gripping photos, Sweetwater Police Officer Amauris Bastidas also rushed to help.


The three did CPR on Sebastian, who started breathing — and then suddenly stopped again. More rounds of chest compressions and rescue breathing followed until the baby started breathing on his own again.


"That’s when I broke down crying out of relief, knowing that he was OK," Rauseo said.



And this…



Rauseo said that she learned how to to CPR seven years ago but had forgotten the basics. Now she plans to take a refresher course to get certified.









"I would suggest that anyone with a baby or a baby in their family do so," she said.



I told my wife for several years now that this is something I want to learn. She already knows it. It’s time for me to act..


Miracles do happen.


And there’s good people still around.

Chris Christie to skip dinner with President Obama

And seriously.. any time Chris Christie skips dinner, that’s a headline..



Chris Christie to skip dinner with President Obama

Cats and dogs can see things that human can't

Dog owners—and yes cat owners—knew that already.


Cats and dogs can see things that human can't

My Daily Doodle


Jim Ross set to announce a live match: The Polar Vortex ready to pounce and puke all over the United States again..

Cops gone wrong

Police shoot and kill teenager who answered the door holding video game controller..

Cop assaults man for videoing him..


.. and a woman was thrown into jail for recording traffic stop..

I don’t comprehend someone wanting to drive a car small enough that snow piles can crush it..

The deep dark web.. And the darkness of the human condition

The internet can be filled with goodness and important websites reporting on news from around the world. 


Or it could be the dark web, which vandalizes the youth of the world and makes children into props for sexual pleasure.. 


There seems to be an increasingly number of horrible websites involving child porn.. As a matter of fact, right now there are 50,000 Americans believed to be actively trading images and videos of children being abused.


One message board comment on a ‘dark web’ site said this, with a photo of an unborn child: ”I have a new baby about to be added to the game.”  I challenge you to read the USA TODAY article about this and still try to argue there is not evil in this world—children being damned before they are born to such conditions is wrong and dreadfully depressing..


Why do such horrible and disgusting things happen to children? Why do so many evil so called humans want to rob the goodness and innocence of childhood? A story from Missouri is shocking: A ten year old girl, Hailey Owens, was abducted and murdered .. and a 45-year-old longtime employee of the Springfield Missouri public school system has been charged with first degree murder..  


And the story of the beautiful young girl has resonated across the United States..


No child, no human—but goddamnit no child—should ever have to be subjected to pedophiles and creeps, inhuman scum and despicable evil people..


Ever. If I had superpowers, I know the scum I’d round up first..

I am sure you’ve come across people who dress like Barbie and try to emulate her entire plastic existence? Hell, there was even a hit song in the 90s celebrating such stupidity. 


And now, Blondie Bennett, a Barbie-obsessed woman, says she is taking steps to become brainless.


The ultimate Barbie—and sign of mental illness.. The step being taken: Hypnotherapy.. Good luck Barbie. Let’s hope your IQ substantially drops.

Scenes like this look like the end of the world. But they are just how things go in Sarajevo these days.


You may have seen these images going viral over the past few days.. 


Dado Ruvic, a photographer from Reuters, snapped and published over a dozen photos of how the 1984 Olympics site looks now. 


It was Sarajevo.. 1984—before the heartbreaking war that killed so many.. The war took a toll on the site of the Olympics.. And now, remnants of a time that was stand. The photos look spooky, strange, and creepy.. There are abandoned structures and reminders of the beauty that once was.


There are so many things that come to mind when I looked at the photos. First off, the power of earth to take over what man creates.. but more importantly, the power of hate, which is able to destroy and bring to rubble vestiges of goodness and sport rivalry.


Normally when people visit a website, the bounce rate is about 80%. Do yourself a favor and stay on this page with photos a little longer.. and contemplate what their haunting message really is..

SCENES FROM THE END OF THE WORLD


Scenes like this look like the end of the world. But they are just how things go in Kiev these days.. The violent Ukraine protests continue.. and now the President has made concessions .. There are also panic-stricken Ukrainians storming shops, banks, and gas stations..  and lots of images of empty store shelves..



Scenes like this look like the end of the world. But they are just how things go in Venezuela these days. As the economy crashes, state-sponsored paramilitaries are roaming middle class neighborhoods and shooting whoever looks like they are protesting. There is a major government crackdown on all dissidents.. And most of the international news media is completely oblivious to it all.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Hot Pockets Recalled Over ‘Diseased And Unsound Animal’ Contents


Nestle is voluntarily recalling an unspecified number of “Philly Steak” and “Croissant Crust Philly Steak and Cheese” Hot Pockets because they could contain meat that is unfit for human consumption, according to the USDA



That sounds pretty disgusting. Like sickening.


I eat the four cheese pizza lean pockets from time to time. I typically avoid any mass produced frozen meat products. Things like Bubba burgers etc. get me sick just to think of thousands of cows being simultaneously killed and mushed together .. but meat that is ‘unfit for human consumption’? Oh my..




Hot Pockets Recalled Over ‘Diseased And Unsound Animal’ Contents

Senator John McCain is now working to get the United States more invovled with the crisis in the Ukraine.. 


Ukraine’s military may be called in..


And at this time.. the truce is over and bloodshed is winning..

My Daily Doodle for February 20, 2014.. Tara, otherwise known as Mommy formerly known as Tara, is getting a homemade birthday card with Mario on it.. Ayden asked for it. 


I made Mario look more like a crooked-faced Jay Leno than the plumbing superhero.. And that little blue star.. It was a botched yellow one.


One reason I dedicated 2014 to be the year of the daily doodle—the year I begin drawing again—was because of how long since I drew anything.


From daily drawings to … zippo.


I knew I needed practice after not drawing in 10 years. I didn’t realize how bad I got until I saw my star.. Oh that’s a horrible star.


But Tara, it’s from the heart.

The FCC Wades Into the Newsroom

Regardless of political persuasion, this is just a bad idea. No one, really, logically has yet explained to me why it is needed.


I know what really is needed.. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other sources.. And a strong and fearless media .. one that doesn’t pay attention only to celebrity and bypass the real news.


Thankfully we have Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.


For now.


Until the newsroom police ….


The FCC Wades Into the Newsroom

This is what the map of the United States may look like next week.. the polar vortex makes a return.. Late in the game, but it’s looking strong and cold..


Ready?

FCC Commissioner Warns of Agency’s Plan to Monitor Newsrooms

Oh … I’m sure there’s some very ‘innocent’ reason the government would want to place censors….errrr….monitors in newsrooms and forget that whole freedom of the press thing. Right? I mean…. Authority never wants to censor right?



The FCC won’t let me be.


FCC Commissioner Warns of Agency’s Plan to Monitor Newsrooms

New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant

It never ends.. And won’t for a few hundred thousand (or more) years ..


New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant

FRACKED: What’s Causing the Huge Spike in Earthquakes in Oklahoma? | The Nation


Looks like more pizza may be in order for affected customers in the future..


FRACKED: What’s Causing the Huge Spike in Earthquakes in Oklahoma? | The Nation

The return of the Polar Vortex:: Frigid Air to Clutch Midwest, Northeast Again Next Week

THIS IS THE WINTER THAT NEVER ENDS..
YES IT GOES ON AND ON MY FRIENDS…


The return of the Polar Vortex:: Frigid Air to Clutch Midwest, Northeast Again Next Week

101-Year-Old Man Announces Campaign For Congress

Out with the old!


In the with older!


At least you know he’d protect Social Security ..


101-Year-Old Man Announces Campaign For Congress

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Amazing, horrible, and breathtaking images of the violence in the Ukraine..

Potential Record Ice on Lake Superior May Mean a Cooler Summer

So there you go… get ready for that.


The winter of 2013-14.. the winter that never ends..


Will it be the summer that never begins?


I’ll revisit this post in a few months to see what impact the freeze over had…


Potential Record Ice on Lake Superior May Mean a Cooler Summer

Report: Southern Invasion Of Arctic-Dwelling Snowy Owls Spreads To 25 States


Pretty impressive stats, I’d say.


The times they are a freezin’..


Report: Southern Invasion Of Arctic-Dwelling Snowy Owls Spreads To 25 States

The Official Forecast of the U.S. Government Never Saw This Winter Coming

…..but for what it’s worth, the Farmer’s Almanac and the large furry critters that cross the road did.


And so did Accuweather—which seems to be so far ahead of the game on the NOAA all the time…


This is just how WRONG the government was. (Maybe they were too busy writing the code to HEALTHCARE.GOV?)



The Official Forecast of the U.S. Government Never Saw This Winter Coming

Peggy the Revolutionary?

I read with some surprise the Wall Street JOURNAL editorial written this week by former Reagon speechwriter and conservative Peggy Noonan.. It’s titled “Our Decadent Elites.” 


There may be many Peggy Noonan haters in my following crowd, but consider some of her salient points.. She starts her article like this:



America sees Washington as the capital of vacant, empty souls, chattering among the pillars. Suggesting this perception is valid is helpful in what way?



…she goes on to say this…



We’re at a funny point in our political culture. To have judgment is to be an elitist. To have dignity is to be yesterday. To have standards is to be a hypocrite—you won’t always meet standards even when they’re your own, so why have them?



…and she mentioned this:



And it is all about the behavior of our elites, our upper classes, which we define now in a practical sense as those who are successful, affluent and powerful. This group not only includes but is almost limited to our political class, Wall Street, and the media, from Hollywood to the news divisions.


They’re all kind of running America.



Some may raise eyebrows that Peggy Noonan is talking about the elites.. The wealthy.. the upper class. And doing so not in a favorable fashion.


It seems a sea change of sorts has taken place in this country. Maybe things have gotten so bad, so rich vs poor without a middle class to adsorb anything anymore, that even Peggy Noonan is decrying the unhealthy economic battle field that exists in this new, two Americas. 


And the biggest shock, of sorts, is how she ends her editorial. Like this:



They’re making their videos, holding their parties and having a ball. OK. But imagine you’re a Citizen at Home just grinding through—trying to do it all, the job, the parenthood, the mowing the lawn and paying the taxes. No glamour, all responsibility and effort. And you see these little clips on the Net where the wealthy sing about how great taxpayer bailouts are and you feel like … they’re laughing at you.


What happens to a nation whose elites laugh at its citizens?


What happens to its elites?



What does happen, indeed…


The piles are high but early signs of spring abound..

My Daily Doodle for February 19, 2014



When a cloud of ‘bla bla’ surrounds you at work..



It’s suffocating ..

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

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This is a little creepy. . imagine FULL HOUSE without Michelle, the basis of this YouTube video a friend sent me.


But it sort of goes along with the ‘mind bending implications’ of the many worlds theory.. including the really mind bending notion that ‘nothing is real.’ Not even Truman Burbank.


Or in the case of this video… Michelle Tanner.



And you really, really should read about the mind bending many worlds theories..

Barbara Walters talks about her vibrator

Ugh..



Barbara Walters talks about her vibrator

My Daily Doodle for February 18, 2014..


It was a messy scene.. Valentine’s Day party for Ayden at school meant that mom and dad had to write out all the cards, put the candy in the bags, and desperately try to maneuver the lollipops into the designated holes on the Scooby Doo valentines.. All the while, food boiled and dishes were dirty.. and Ayden played SONIC THE HEDGE HOG on the iPad. 


By 11pm it was done.. finished.. Ready.


Hope we didn’t forget any kids in the process..

I am SHOCKED to see how much Janet Yellen has already changed the Federal Reserve.. She is currently on her Bangerz tour of all banks, ready to pump them full of much needed equity.. 

Booms .. bangs.. mystery.

The booms don’t stop! The bangs won’t end.. the earth noises continue..


Now residents in Oklahoma are freaked out and baffled by loud booms that are going bump in the night..  


I am beginning to believe that either gas drilling is substantially changing the layers below the crust of the earth, or the core of the earth has dramatically shifted and now the earth’s magnetic field is being affected.


There are, at this point, no other logical explanations that would make sense of two plus years of earth booms from all over this planet..

Chevron offers coupons for pizza combo after fracking well explodes in Pennsylvania

Seems fair.



Chevron offers coupons for pizza combo after fracking well explodes in Pennsylvania

Tsunami Ghost Stories Haunt Japan

If there’d be a place where hauntings would happen and ghosts would float, it would be in the ravaged coast of Japan where so many lives were slept to sea without warning..


Tsunami Ghost Stories Haunt Japan

South Carolina woman jailed for failing to return VHS tape

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. I guess.


But I wonder if Kayla Michelle Finley enjoyed 2005’s not-a-hit movie MONSTER IN LAW enough to warrant her going to prison for failing to return the movie — to a NOW DEFUNCT VIDEO RENTAL STORE, AS WELL!


The true crime: MONSTER-IN-LAW was made. There’s some folks that should go to jail..



South Carolina woman jailed for failing to return VHS tape

Devils and demons..


Remember this man? It’s Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni, the actor who played the devil in THE BIBLE.. well…
What’s a Bible without a devil? In Hollywood, a reality … the producers of THE BIBLE have cut the ‘devil’ from an upcoming film based on the show because, reports say, he looked too much like President Obama..
And he did look JUST like the President..

Some major problems may be rising for NOAH.. The movie that Hollywood has highly advertised and screened for Bible fearing men and women is getting some bad marks from that crowd.. According to VARIETY, almost 100% of faith driven moviegoers are dissatisfied with NOAH.. Bad numbers for the exact fan base that Hollywood banked on..

GIVE EM WHAT YOU GOT: Teachers could spank harder under bill pending in Kansas Legislature

So hard they would be permitted to leave marks.


You ARE in Kansas, Dorothy..





GIVE EM WHAT YOU GOT: Teachers could spank harder under bill pending in Kansas Legislature

Earth 2014: Animals get revenge


There seems to be a shift happening everywhere.. Art Bell coined the term the ‘quickening’ in the 1990s. I think we are living through it.. Humans are evolving to become zombies thanks to meth and Krokodil.. businesses are rapidly closing due to an evolving economy .. visit a mall lately?


And now this: Animals very well be becoming more aggressive towards human beings. Everything evolves..


Maybe animals are just getting sick of the ‘masters’ of the planet..? How long before Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS actually happens?

Yesterday we linked up news that the UN was going to condemn Lil Kim Jong Un in North Korea for crimes against humanity. 


They did. And I read the report almost in full.. it reads like Nazi Germany.


I really get angry at people who say the atrocities committed during World War II are limited to the 20th Century.


Clearly they are not—they are happening now and Kim Jong Un is just one of the global players destroying goodness on this planet with his evil acts.


China has now rejected ‘unreasonable’ criticism of North Korea—obvious global political games still being played even though babies and innocent people are being slaughtered by Kim..


The UN report says that the crimes in North Korea has no parallel un the contemporary world. I fear they are wrong on that..


Perhaps the worst of the worst is Kim Jong UN forced mothers to drown their newborn children..

Brutality in Syria: CNN gets footage of mass graves and mass murder in the nation.. Some of the men appear to be teenagers..


At this point who in the hell cares which side is doing it, as we know both are. In 2014, humanity everywhere is beginning to act like it’s just 14AD all over again.. Inhumanity and horror abounds..

Bad form POTUS


The drought in the West continues.


President Obama has used the subject in speeches about climate change. 


And when he’s not working, he goes to the West Coast to play golf at a water guzzling desert golf course ..


Amid the wreckage that the drought is causing.


Bad form POTUS..

Bankers gone mad..  various sources across the Internets have been telling you about the dead banker count now being 6. They are all considered suicides—jumping off buildings in London and even shooting themselves in the head with nail guns were among the choices to self-expire. And now we add number 7: A JP Morgan banker leaps to his death in Hong Kong.. Of the information we know now:  The man went to the 30-floor Charter House in Hong Kong.. police failed to convince him not to jump. JP says he was a junior level banker who played a role on several projects. Infowars has a wrap no the previous 6 suicides.. Anyone else besides me becoming very alarmed at this suicide rate lately? What else is happening that we don’t know..?

BUT…..do the dead bankers know something we don’t? Zero Hedge is reporting that George Soros is putting a ‘put’ on a big market crash..

DING DONG THE BANK IS HERE! Other banker news that may hit closer to home than some distant suicides—so close to home it could be on your own front door.. According to Capital One, they now have the ability to show up at your door and also your workplace.. They have told their customers that they could show up just about any time, and any place, that they please.. One person observed that not even the IRS has these powers without specific warrants..

And this: Venezuela is on the brink of some mighty bad financial times..

What you should do is keep your mouth shut


Pennywise the missing clown

I don’t know what to say. . it’s a terrible day. America is suffering a clown shortage. 


Really. We are.


Trade organizations fear that people just don’t want to be clowns anymore..


Here’s the clowndown: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are pretty worried over a lack of interest in people being clowns.. Interest in becoming one has declined…


So there you go unemployed college grads.. a new profession awaits.


Do you have what it takes?


Look how much Jaromir Jagr enjoys this sports massage..

Monday, February 17, 2014

So awful..

When I read stories like this, I literally weep—and I mean that.. 


A father watched his entire family die in a burning car and could not save them.. The family had just left a birthday party and was going back home..


I link this story not to bring more added pain and misery to the man who now must face a life after this grim event, but because I hope you, reading this, can pray or ask God or ask Allah or ask the collective consciousness to bring some type of goodness or love to this man’s life..


I cannot even imagine the suffering endured by his family, and now by him..

If there is anything cool about Jimmy Fallon's TONIGHT show it's this..

…it is returning to New York City after 42 years.


Now that is cool.


Him as a host? Not sure about that.. time will tell.


But glad it’s back in New York City…there ‘TONIGHT’ begins.


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1000 bodies unearthed believing to have been corpses from the Mississippi state ‘Lunatic Asylum” from the 19th century.. The bodies were found during excavation for a parking lot..


I am amazed that no one is talking about doing an autopsy to even see how some of the 1,000 bodies died. No one..


I guess the suffering continues for the ‘lunatics’ of yesterday..


First record warmth.. and now this: Fog envelops Sochi..

The pink stars thankfully are not falling. Or are they?

A massive asteroid, the size of three football fields, is flying by earth today.


And thankfully: Safely.


The asteroid is 2000 EM26. You can watch the Slooh webcast starting at 9pm EDT on February 17 2014 ...


It will be 2.1million miles away (pretty close in space terms, right?) The GUARDIAN reports this:



But it is defined as a potentially hazardous near-Earth object (NEO) large enough to cause significant damage in the event of an impact. Scientists estimate the asteroid, travelling at 27,000mph, is 270 metres (885ft) wide.


At its closest approach at 2am UK time, the rock will be 2.1m miles from Earth, or 8.8 lunar distances.



It is happening almost exactly a year after the Chelyabinsk, Russia, hit. (Remember that night? We were watching one asteroid ‘safely’ fly by earth as another one almost hit!!?) 


At least we knew about this one.. it was discovered back in the glory days of the post Clinton 90s on March 5, 2000. And now here we are.. 14 years later.. the fly by is on. Let’s hope no ‘junk’ comes with it… 



Exorcisms that make you go 'hmmmm'

We have been following the Latoya Ammons exorcism case (and subsequent movie deal that Father Maginot made with the makers of the CONJURING) .. 


Now this: A Catholic columnist reported that he got a statement from the Diocese of Gary. The spokeswoman called the event a “media fiasco.” Read the full statement here..


I think there is something else behind the scenes here.. Zak Bagans bought the case.. the priest is getting a stash of cash for selling the story.. Forgive me for doubt, but I just doubt at this point. Right now, the only credible ones appear to be the police.


And I want to hear FROM the hospital workers who saw the boy walk on the walls, now about HOW hospital workers saw a boy walk on walls…


Why have the most important eye witnesses been silent so far?


Bless you father, for you have profited.

Which is Worse: A Bath Salt Epidemic or a Zombie Outbreak?

This Florida online paper perfectly sums up the horror that is drugs, particularly bath salts, in the once great coal region of Pennsylvania ..This is a great article, written from looking in from the outside. Dennis Maley, the author,  grew up in Schuylkill County PA, or as residents term it the “skook” .. He penned this article about a trip back and a sad view of how bath salts and other hardcore drugs have destroyed the last remaining goodness that was the county.


A few points from Maley:



I grew up in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, or the Skook as it’s affectionately known. It is an area that has suffered through a long history of problems with pervasive drug addiction. In that way, it’s no different than a lot of small, economically-depressed places that have fared poorly in the post-industrial economy. The stories are the same, but for some reason, the drugs are often different, perhaps reflecting the particular brand of desperation most prevalent in any particular geographical region.



He goes on..



I’d been hearing the tales for a long time, but by that last trip home the scope had become unthinkable. One after another, I heard dozens of stories about the ranks of friends and acquaintances who’d jumped to the dark side and become a “salter.” It wasn’t just the usual suspects either. Smart people with good jobs and intact families saw their lives quickly circle the drain before nose-diving down the pipe and into oblivion. 



I myself have known people, or known of people, who suddenly lost their way and changed their entire personality due to drugs.. It’s a horrible thing, too. The zombie look that the face gets is frightening.. 


Another point from the author:



All of it felt surreal. I was without a frame of reference. This many people couldn’t be off the grid, living some underground life as fiends with an insatiable craving for some drug you bought in a head shop with cartoon pictures on the box. Then it happened … I saw one.

She was a formerly gorgeous girl, five years my junior and daughter of a family friend. Her face was hollowed out so deep that it called to mind the Skeletor character from the horrible live-action movie, based on the He-Man cartoon. Her once full lips were now pencil thin and scabbed over on at least half of their surface area. The doe-eyed baby blues I remembered as her most striking feature had narrowed into slits, leaving her with only a permanent expression that seemed to drip with cynicism. Then there was the assortment of scabs and open cuts dotting her face. Her teeth looked like they’d begun rotting in place and her once-curvy body had thinned to the point that I might have missed her, had she been standing sideways rather than facing me straight on. 



I have seen the people he is describing.. I have seen beautiful young and hopeful people become destroyed because they made a choice to do some hardcore horrid things.  


While you see the coal region close up every day, looking at it from a new perspective always gives you a fresh look.. Reading an account from someone who left before the bath salt and meth fad began here is striking.. Everything that was is gone. Things that were stable are not..


As the Coal Speaker has followed for years, you never know where you’ll find a meth lab in the area..  The Coal Speaker has also began documenting what I feel will be the ultimate demise of the area: Closed malls, schools, hospitals, and hope. Deep down, beyond all the facts and headlines, there is something else happening.


When I was a high schooler at the now defunct Cardinal Brennan High School in the roaring 90s, life was fine. Kids did bush parties—late night beer fests in the middle of corn fields or in hideouts in the woods. That was the test of a teenager… beer. Miller or Coors.. toxic sure… but things changed.


These days drugs are rampant.. And if you think the cops are immune you’re pretty naive to how things work.


There seems to be a disconnect—county leaders don’t realize just how fast and how much the area changed.. They don’t get the immense change that happened. And most don’t realize how much bath salts, meth, and other hard core drugs are responsible.  War has come to our towns.. The drug war. And sobriety is losing.


Don’t get me wrong. The drug was has failed. But let’s not forget how it was meant to fail—the CIA has been busy beavers.. 


I feel like I am digressing.
Back to this article..


Despite your belief about drugs and whether we should jail people for them…there is something very rotten at the core of Schuylkill County. 


And I fear the when Krocodil makes its debut in the region.. Then the real zombie look will be en vogue.. 



Which is Worse: A Bath Salt Epidemic or a Zombie Outbreak?
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