I guess it’s green beer night across America.
Let your shamrocks be safe and your blarney stay down.
Don’t overdo it.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
David Brenner just lost a battle with cancer.. he is dead tonight at the age of 78.
He died on a Saturday.. I think of all the Saturday nights he entertained throughout the years of his career, to half empty rooms of half drunk people to the audiences of the TONIGHT SHOW with Johnny Carson..
His humor became an inspiration for others such as Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser..
He was a star of the 20th century and a trend setter for years to come..
And he never abandoned his craft.
As FOX news points out in their story tonight on his passing,
Brenner worked steadily through 2013 doing standup. A four-day gig last December included a New Year’s Eve show at a King of Prussia, Pa., casino-resort in which he showcased young comedians.
Hijacked MH370 was last seen flying towards Pakistan OR Indian Ocean
Investigators have concluded that one or more people with significant flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, switched off communication devices and steered it off-course, a Malaysian government official involved in the investigation said Saturday.
Things seem to be getting mighty creepy..
Hijacked MH370 was last seen flying towards Pakistan OR Indian Ocean
Asteroid to dim a bright star for some in Northeast
Weather permitting, millions of people in the northeastern USA could witness a rare and eerie sight next week: a space rock blotting out one of the brightest stars in the sky.
The year the sky takes over..
Asteroid to dim a bright star for some in Northeast
Officials now saying it is 'conclusive' that Flight 370 was hijacked
Seven days after the vanishing act of MH370, we are now seeing reports that the airliner was hijacked by someone with ‘experience’ and that authorities are zeroing in on two possible routes that the flight took.. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib said Saturday that this was a ‘deliberate action.’
Najib also said investigators are now trying to trace the airplane across two possible “corridors” — a northern corridor from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
That surprisingly conclusive information comes after days of mystery—searches in vast portions of oceans and spy satellites searching land masses for wreckage. Now the Indian Ocean is in play..
This has been the most bizarre and surreal series of events that I have ever witnessed in connection with a plane crash.. And to call it a plane crash at this is not even accurate. We frankly don’t.. Even if the hijacking story works out, the fact remains: We don’t know where Flight 370 is.
Officials now saying it is 'conclusive' that Flight 370 was hijacked
Friday, March 14, 2014
This may seem like a delusional Friday night thought—and with hours of travel today and three days away my mind may be in a bizarre state of mind. But here goes anyway..
As I sat in a very lonely hotel bar room, sipping a club soda and lime (after a beer or two of course) I got into a conversation with someone who slipped into a stupor long before I ended up with my non alcoholic beverage. There was a muted TV playing coverage of the news, that night, that they thought they found wreckage from Flight 370. That turned out to be untrue of course, but during our short bar talk, he told me that he thought aliens abducted the passengers and threw the plane into the ocean.
I laughed at that thought but immediately remembered reading the Langoliers by Stephen King. I also recall, quite well, seeing the made for TV movie starring Baulky from PERFECT STRANGERS. The movie was just awful as far as graphics and acting.. but the concept from King was marvelous: The Langoliers are creatures that eat time. And a red eye flight gets caught up in a time slip .. the passengers have to figure it out. And before you know it, they encounter 20th century computer graphics that eat their time out from under them, and around them.
Interesting concept.
And some have compared the Langoliers to today’s new mystery.
You’d need to suspend logic for a while.. what better time to do it than at a lonely cold bar room in the central part of Pennsylvania. I did.. and I wondered if these passengers were battling time demons in a galaxy close by..
Of course, reality may end up with a tragic result in this matter. A crash site.. or something worse..
The Langoliers would be bad, too. Especially if they are as graphically challenged as the 1995 version of creatures that eat time..
Report: Radar Shows Plane Deliberately Flew Toward Indian Ocean
It’s been one week since this mess started. And we are no closer to solving the mystery that is Flight 370.
But it captivated my attention all week and continue to do so.
Report: Radar Shows Plane Deliberately Flew Toward Indian Ocean
U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
This may not seem it.. but it’s a pretty big issue
U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
A new 'time distortion' pill can make a prisoner feel like 8 hours is 1,000 years
So.. I ask: is it ethical, moral, and just to use punishment in pills like that?
It’s the future. Actually the present.. And science fiction is fast becoming reality..
A new 'time distortion' pill can make a prisoner feel like 8 hours is 1,000 years
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Signals on Radar Puzzle Officials in Hunt for Malaysian Jet
Take this information for what it’s worth:
NYT: After four days of reticence and evasive answers, the Malaysian military acknowledged on Wednesday that it had recorded, but initially ignored, radar signals that could have prompted a mission to intercept and track a missing jetliner — data that vastly expands the area where the plane might have traveled.
Signals on Radar Puzzle Officials in Hunt for Malaysian Jet
Meteors and mysteries
Read this 1997 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article on what would happen if meteors struck passenger airliners ..
I offer it up to argue the case that this could have been what happened to flight 370—could have.
So far, anyone I spoke of this theory to laughed at me to my face..
I don’t think it’s a tin foil hat concept like others think..
And with the lack of any answers, shouldn’t we consider any possibility ?
Hijacked and hidden? US counter-terror officials fear plane could have been captured after debris spotted by Chinese is ruled out and new data reveals it was airborne FOUR hours after vanishing
This report is being downplayed to some degree by officials in Malaysia.. However it certainly adds yet more mystery and intrigue to the missing flight..
Regardless, families must be emotionally wrecked at this point, and I cannot fathom what that feels like..
Hijacked and hidden? US counter-terror officials fear plane could have been captured after debris spotted by Chinese is ruled out and new data reveals it was airborne FOUR hours after vanishing
The night the lights went out in DC..
A late winter wind storm caused the blackout in Washington, D.C. And lots of other places..
NSA Impersonated Facebook to Spread Malware, Snowden Docs Show
Interesting.
Really Facebook is the ultimate reservoir of gossip and relationship issues. I frankly would highly doubt most people would express interest in their crimes through public or private posts.. Although I’m sure the NSA got good tracking services out of their sneaky plan..
Snowden documents are the gift that keep in given like the jelly of the month club from Christmas Vacation..
NSA Impersonated Facebook to Spread Malware, Snowden Docs Show
Officials Deny Engine Data Report From Missing MH370
Very odd news yet again.. More reports of reports of reports being denied .. Was the plane in the air? Not?
The meteor theory continues to look better and better to me as days go by without any evidence of a plane..
Officials Deny Engine Data Report From Missing MH370
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Major quake may happen in California
And while that seems like a given, scientists are being to coalesce around the notion that it could be soon and it could be big..
Things seem to be waking up around Oregon and Washington too… And if a big one occurred, that would be horrible for the Hanford nuclear site and leaking dams.
Major quake may happen in California
It may turn out to be nothing, but..
A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “observed a suspected crash area at sea,” a Chinese agency says.
Was flight MH370 lost in an aeronautical black hole?
Some theories are crazy. Or are they?
I thought about the show LOST almost immediately when flight 370 couldn’t be found.. Now others are too.
There are some wild theories for sure.
But reality is stranger than fiction, so how crazy is it really?
Was flight MH370 lost in an aeronautical black hole?
God sure is funny
If there is a God he has a perverse sense of what’s funny. But if you look at the glass half-full perhaps he’s always a few steps ahead of the game
A work related conference has forced me to have to travel for two nights to an undesirable location somewhere in Pennsylvania, I’ll keep that location private for the sake of embarrassing the city.
Last night my car had to go into the shop for a smell coming from the tires, it turned out to be all four brakes and rotors. The car was unsafe to drive.
So my wife and I had a chaotic moment of trying to work out things, and we came to a conclusion that I would take her car and she would work her schedule to get mine from the shop.
On my way to the undisclosed location for my conference, the low tire pressure light came on indicating a malfunction in my wife’s Jeep.
An hour later, a Fornea half-inch nail was taken from the tire, it was patched, and I was on my merry way to 60 hours of boredom.
I thought to myself, God is just like George Carlin. But then I remember the George Carlin didn’t believe in God, making my comparison incorrect.
But I thought to myself, for all the chaos and heartache vehicles cause, especially when you rely on them to get you somewhere that you’re mandated to go, it’s like God has a sick and twisted mentality and tries to mess with us. Or if you look at the glass half full concept, the car breaks down before you drive it to your location thus saving you much more misery and potentially dangerous suffering if something dramatic happened to the car while you try.
And that is the story of my morning glory.
Living in a Box, Eating Weeds: Syria's Children on the Edge
A pretty intense article on the latest situation in Syria.
I don’t offer this as a way of arguing for or against American intervention—that’s complicated—but at a testament to how horrid humans can be to each other .. Children seem to be particularly hard hit in Syria.
And that’s emotionally disturbing for me personally ..
Living in a Box, Eating Weeds: Syria's Children on the Edge
Missing Jet Search Now Covers Area Almost the Size of Indiana
This is weird.
Clyde Lewis last night presented the topic of the missing airliner on his radio program. He is open to the possibility of a near earth object slamming and destroying the jet. He even has a pilot call him last night telling him how many more pilots are seeing meteors high in the sky near flight paths.
It is interesting that no major media source offers up this idea as a possibility .. Instead everyone jumped on the terrorism angle and played up the Iranians who boarded ..
Maybe we need to change our mentality .. If you haven’t noticed lately, there’s been a ton more fireballs in the sky and meteors coming within the distance of the earth to the moon..
As this jet continues to be missing.
I wonder too, did anyone geotrack to supposed still working cell phones yet?
Missing Jet Search Now Covers Area Almost the Size of Indiana
Removing 9/11 Artifacts From New Jersey’s Nest of Political Patronage
This is the New York Times article that got the story public about Chris Christie giving away debris from 9/11
So sick
Funny.. Wasn’t this Kennedy Hangar the place they refused entry to Jesse Vetura?
Why I think it was.
Removing 9/11 Artifacts From New Jersey’s Nest of Political Patronage
Rachel Maddow: Christie cronies’ 9/11 ‘political goodie bag’ makes bridge scandal even weirder
This is a ghoulish way to start your day.
And to think… People thought a mosque blocks away from Ground Zero was offensive.. I glues they didn’t see bathing yet.
Rachel Maddow: Christie cronies’ 9/11 ‘political goodie bag’ makes bridge scandal even weirder
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Drug company will give ailing 7-year-old medicine that could save him
After days of pleading, Josh Hardy’s parents got what they’d been praying for: a chance to get medicine that could help their son survive.
Win one for morality…Thank God common sense prevailed over the mighty dollar. Enough of an outcry showed the company the negative side of worshiping profit..
Drug company will give ailing 7-year-old medicine that could save him
Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course
Missing Malaysia Airlines flight way off course, not sending ID code when it vanished, Malaysian Air Force official tells CNN
And with that, we appear to be heading back towards the terrorism angle again..
CNN goes on to report this in its latest dispatch:
If correct, these are ominous signs that could call into question whether someone in the cockpit might have deliberately steered the plane away from its intended destination, a former U.S. aviation investigator said.
"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Paul Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board.
However, veteran pilot Kit Darby, president of Aviation Information Resources, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that mechanical problems could still explain everything: A power failure would have turned off the main transponder and its backup, and the plane could have flown for more than an hour, he said.
According to the Malaysian Air Force official, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media, the plane’s transponder apparently stopped working at about the time flight controllers lost contact with it, near the coast of Vietnam.
Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course
Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers, violating Constitution and breaking the law
Head of intelligence panel said agency appears to have violated Constitution and federal laws.
Dianne Feinstein didn’t make much of a stink about the AP being spied on.. or innocent people’s cell phones.. or other nations.. or anyone.
But …. THE SENATE COMMITTEE?
Now they went too far, eh?
Let’s not forget Senator Dianne said in October: Spying on Americans was acceptable.
That was then. This is now…
Maybe the Senate Intelligence Committee had a ‘come to God’ moment on intelligence issues.
Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers, violating Constitution and breaking the law
http://www.funnyordie.com/embed/18e820ec3f
This may one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time..
And say what you will about health care and the President, but this was pretty good advertising to use comedy and a video watched by young people to drop serious hints about health care..
Great marketing. And a few good laughs.
(Source: http://www.funnyordie.com/)
Phantom of the cell phone
These phantom cell calls people are making to the passengers aboard Flight 370 are creepy. The phones ring—no one answers of course. But even weirder, as I write on my other site HORROR REPORT today, now apparently smart phones are ONLINE on a Chinese network QQ..
So odd..
Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s military believes it tracked a missing jetliner by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country’s
As if things weren’t weird already.
Ten nations are looking in vast waters for wreckage. Maybe they shouldn’t be…
Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
The children of Japan's Fukushima battle an invisible enemy - Breaking Deception
Three years after Fukushima..
We’re Fuk-ed.. Radiation begins to hit the West Coast of the Untied States—despite all those experts who said no fear .. radiation is here. Of course it’s also being called ‘low level.’ Low level radiation.. It’s nice to put some happy adjectives before a dreadfully serious word, isn’t it??
The children of Japan's Fukushima battle an invisible enemy - Breaking Deception
If you’ve ever driven to the Bloomsburg fair in Pennsylvania, you may know where this photo was taken. It is from 1901—long before a highway was in the location that a train was then..
I love looking at old photos, such as these.. I can stare for hours and try to figure out what was going through the minds of the cloak-laden men and women of yesterday..
In our modern times, America is filled with dilapidated structures, broken down bridges, and pothole infested highways. Trains are dead.. Malls are dying. The nation is shifting into a lower standard of living. But at one time this nation was thriving.. But here’s some images of the past. It wasn’t great for all, and sometimes for no one.. But these photos of yesterday showcase perfectly that the nation was in its youth and alive with energy and vibrancy. ..
Wink at the tallywhacker
I love the Brits!
And damn, they know how to write a great celebrity gossip column..
Monday, March 10, 2014
Frack me..
Lots of earthquakes are rattling earth just in time for the anniversary of the big Japan quake.. in just the past day a strong 6.9 hit Northern California, a 5.8 rattled Southern Mexico
..and this: Three earthquakes shook Ohio and were felt in Pennsylvania Monday.. .. Some in Ohio called 911 fearing that the earthquake was actually an intruder in their homes.. Marcellus Shale territory .. One result of the earthquakes: Ohio has halted gas drilling near Youngstown. Not that there’s any connection…………….
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Love the message of this video.
Poignant.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Someone's calling.. and no one answers
I am perplexed .. so many rumors abound about Flight 370. But the weirdest one of all: People are apparently calling the cell phones of the passengers from the apparently doomed plane. The phones are ringing.. no one is answering..
Why can’t we get a geo location on these before they go dead? The NSA can find anyone, right?
None of this makes any sense..
Out with the old
It’s dinosaur week at my son’s day care this week..
At my job, it’s dinosaur week every week..
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Big Gym Fight Has Police Hoping LA Fitness Beefs Up Security
10 to 15 people were involved..
People were actually throwing weights at each other..
Big Gym Fight Has Police Hoping LA Fitness Beefs Up Security
Reuters: Malaysia plane probe narrows on mid-air disintegration - source
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner with 239 people on board are narrowing the focus of their inquiries on the possibility that it disintegrated mid-flight
That would explain a few things—such as the lack of any contact informing control that there were problems with flight MH370..
This would also account for the fact that the plane appears to have gone missing..
The unnamed source told Reuters that it appears the plane disintegrated at around 35,000 feet.
A few scenarios now will be explored, surely.. such as a mechanical issue.. terrorism. Or try this: A meteor. Don’t laugh.
This morning, Clyde Lewis posted an old link of someone claiming that flight 800 was a victim of a meteor. Lately we’ve had quite a few meteors and near-earth asteroids.. What if…?
At this point anything is possible.
Another angle being investigated: Interpol probing MORE suspect passports from the missing flight..
Reuters: Malaysia plane probe narrows on mid-air disintegration - source
Bus-sized asteroid third to miss hitting Earth in 48 hours
Keep this in mind Asteroid 2014 EC flew by Earth Wednesday. It was only discovered Tuesday—which would have given this planet little to no chance to do anything at all about it if it was going to hit.
I cannot understand this.. Asteroids seem to be the biggest story that should be focused on by any politician running for office. If a big one hit, it would have a massive impact without regard to national origin, religion, color, or creed.
But instead, stories of asteroids—and all of science—are regulated to the last bit on the local news. Right after sports. A “fun little story to end the night” accompanied by a joke about how the Earth had a ‘close shave’ .. I hate the term close shave.
How about this: News casters should lose the ‘close shave’ analogy and instead report it this way: “The world almost had a major city obliterated today” or “a world coastline almost was destroyed by a tsunami wave today.” Maybe that will get the attention necessary for this to matter.
Three in one week, and one discovered the day before the potential hit.
That’s not good..
Bus-sized asteroid third to miss hitting Earth in 48 hours
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