There is something very creepy to me about abandoned amusement parks.. something odd, and weird. Here’s a website that put together 16 images of abandoned amusement parks from around the world.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Guinean Ebola survivor tells of being 'reborn'
She’s 27, and she is known as “Fanta.”
She thanks God for her survival.
I’d imagine the doctors are going to try to figure out why Fanta was so different than many others after contracting this awful disease..
Guinean Ebola survivor tells of being 'reborn'
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Some of the best comedy on YOUTUBE is when comedy films are re-cut into horror movie trailers. Such is the case with “CLARK” .. I love this one.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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You may not have seen this 11-second video before.. But it’s been around for some time in the paranormal world.
What you are reportedly, supposedly, maybe, possibly Hanna Buschbeck..
Buschbeck was a German personality who began to delve into the world of ‘talking to the dead’ in the 1960s..
I as persuing some of my favorite other-worldly sites (besides my own) when I came across a Stranger Dimensions post about Bluschbeck...
So in essence, we know this, or at least think we do: She was so interested in the dead that her face, as a young woman, supposedly appeared on a VHS tape in the 1980s smiling..
This is one of those fascinating issues for me—the prospect that any means of communication can elicit some interesting things, such as calls from beyond the grave.. visitations from the dead.. People from other realms.
And it’s one of the reasons that I wrote an article, “The Dreadful Heartbreak,” back in February. I sort of wondered aloud: Why aren’t spirits talking to us through newer means of communication? Didn’t they master it yet? With the amount of Facebook pages that exist for the dead, still, after they leave this planet, you’d sure think they’d figure out how to log in from beyond the grave and answer a post…
The biggest mystery of life seems to be: What happens next?
Perhaps that is the most important question, too..
Heaven? Hell? Nothing?
Or maybe you’re trapped in a long distance gap between ‘here and there.’ And what separates you? Technology.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Devil with the strap on
I used to think these things happened only in crazy Romania: Brenda Kadere was a prostitute working the streets of South Africa.. she has now come forward to explain that her obvious questionable career choices earned her a penis.. by actually growing one! She claims.
She also said it was the worst of the beast.. the devil himself attacked her by causing the male sex organ to grow on her private parts..
According to her hellish account, the organ grew to a point where she had to seek the help of anointing oil.
Eventually, Kadere says, the organ “burst out” in a discharge.. She thanks God for the power to remove the penis.
Without it, though, I feel she’s missing out on a large audience that would sure enjoy the best of both worlds..
The devil made her grow it, though..
Friday, April 11, 2014
HOLY CHRIST! Here’s a game changer..
A papyrus referring to Jesus’ wife is likely ancient—more like ancient than it being a fake.. The son of man a mover and shaker? This tiny piece of ancient Scripture contained “My wife she will be able to be my disciple.” Stop the presses … stop the presses. Word to the Vatican: You can’t hide it all!
Sound off!
People speeding in Missouri are about to have a sound cannon blast through their windshield.. (not an ONION article) ..
KMBC NEWS says it’s an ‘attention gabbing way’ to get drivers to slow down (and maybe scare the hell out of a few who think an alien will be landing on roof of the car..)
A really weird ghost..
Ghost hunters have descended no a hotel in New Jersey to hunt a serial foot fetish enthused ghost.. According to Jersey papers, the Hotel Somerset has a ghostly culprit messing with shoes and tickling the feet of residents.. One of the people complaining about the spirit with the weird habits is a 67-year-old Vietnam vet who suffers from PTSD..
A really weird ghost..
A girlfriend of a passenger, Sarah Bajc, on board the missing Flight 370 believes that the passengers are still alive.. The video was from about 5 days back on CNN.. it’s compelling.
There’s a newer video: Bacj continues to say that she believes Flight 370 was taken.. Bajc says the families still have the general perception that this plane did not crash.
Either it’s dramatically awful sadness and grief, and an unrealistic false positive view about the death of 200+ passengers.. or this: The reason why a plane or wreckage or pings have not been found is because there is nothing to find.. Nothing crashed.
We also know this: No major breakthroughs at this time in the search.. And those pings??? Get this: We are being told in newest reports that the signals being picked up are not related to the missing flight 370..
So… what are those pings from then?
But at the same time there are news reports saying the latest pings have nothing to do with the missing plane, we have this: Australia’s Prime Minister is ‘confident’ that the signals are from the black box!
If you’re not confused yet, you should be.. from the minutes after the flight ‘vanished’ until now, the stories have changed and almost 0% of what governments in Asia revealed was true.. even the last words of the pilot were not what we were originally told.
I still distinctly recall those stories immediately after from FAMILIES (not governments) that cell phones of the presumed dead were still ringing and some were still showing up on Chinese social networks..
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Mars light Mars bright where’s that shiny rock tonight?
The light of the world! The other world. Mars.
Lots of people, including me, were amazed and curious over that strange light on Mars caught on an image by a rover.. an anomaly? A lens flare?
An underground civilization lighting a camp fire roasting Martian Marshmallows?
The endless treasure trove of conspiracy theories have flourished online.
But now NASA is weighing in with a scientific possibility: It’s light reflecting off of the sun. Maybe. Just maybe. A very shiny rock..
I would hope someone curious enough would send that rover over there and take a peak and what we’re seeing.. right? NASA would do that, right? They’re pretty curious folks who want to believe.. Right…? SEND THE ROVER AND IT WILL BE OVER..
Mars rumors always take me back to 2012 when I first saw this video of real “life on Mars.”
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This girl needs an intervention!
Please, someone tell her what to do with the glass!!
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Waking to quaking..
There is fear over a Washington style landslide in Wyoming (just South of Yellowstone no less) .. Jackson Wyoming Council has declared a state of emergency and adopted a disaster declaration due to concerns that a hill could collapse into the city.. According to an incident command official: The ground is moving, not on the surface, but 40 to 50 feet down.. And don’t forget this: Yellowstone is still a little shaky, as the reported yesterday..
Some weird booms and noises were heard along the West Coast, sparking fears of a quake. Experts are now saying, though, that the mysterious rumbling in Orange County California was not a quake. Instead it was a supersonic Navy flight.. They say. But what is unsaid: There is a huge amount of fear right now in California that a long overdue quake can happen soon..
Thursday, April 10, 2014
My Daily Doodle.. Another weird oddity from the fictitious town of Bellicose Junction: Slender Scissorfeet and his comb over lawns.
Shoe Thrown At Hillary During Vegas Speech
What happens in Vegas doesn’t just stay in Vegas.. Normally people only throw shows at bad comedians or Elvis acts.. This go around it was Hillary Clinton..
The video is actually a little scary to see …
I actually think she handled this with humor and class—it had to be frightening but it also was amazing to see her calm and cool reaction.
I know it’s lame to compare everything to something that may lead to political gain, but this is an incident that may help her..
BUT..it may also force her to ask the question: Do I really want to be president this much that I will now have shoes thrown at me?
It reminded me of the Bush shoe incident. He, too, dodged the shoes with the skill of a high school dodge ball player.
Maybe political science classes should start including the artful dodge as a course study..
Shoe Thrown At Hillary During Vegas Speech
In Medical First, Scientists Implant Lab-Grown Vaginas in Human Patients
Science suddenly turns into a kinky sex party
In Medical First, Scientists Implant Lab-Grown Vaginas in Human Patients
‘Obsessed with sex’: French priest charged with rape, torture during exorcisms
We have been hearing a lot about exorcisms this year, priests who do them and people who need them have been in the news all across this world..
But we’re now hearing about a disgusting priest who seemingly only perform them in order to rape and torture people possessed by either some sort of an affliction, mental disease, for personal demon..
‘Obsessed with sex’: French priest charged with rape, torture during exorcisms
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
24 injured in knife attack at Franklin Regional High School
The final update today on this exhausting and depressing story..
24 now have been hurt.. No one is dead—no one is dead!
There are even selfies making news tonight as one survivor took a snapshot of himself in the aftermath in the hospital..
We also know this: The suspect, Alex Hribal, a 16-year-old sophomore, was taken into custody after being wrestled to the floor of a school hallway and disarmed by a security guard and a school administrator.. And he is being charged as an adult.
We are being told by some tonight that Hribal was ‘not well liked.’
More heroism.. more acts of bravery..
There are also stories of students helping other students pressing down on wounds to cut the bleeding, begging others who were stabbed to hold on to life..
Again.. bravery.
And finally.. A Wikipedia page has already been created..
Selfies and Wikipedia.. the modern age.
24 injured in knife attack at Franklin Regional High School
Comb me over and spit me out
I had a remarkably thought provoking conversation today with a very nice young girl who cut my hair—at 33 I can call people in their 20s nice and young now. Precious..
Nonetheless, we talked about empty malls and how to improve them.. we talked about customer service and how difficult it is these days to have it.
And finally.. I brought up a question that has been eating away at me for years: What does a stylist do when they are cutting a man’s hair—a man who uses the famed combover.
I was surprised with the interesting answer..
First off, she said, they really don’t teach how to perform a combover cut in school.. as matter of fact, she told me that the worst hair to cut is a man in my bracket.. someone who is slightly balding and yet has enough to not shave it.. someone who still is young enough to style it.. and someone who has short hair already. She said cutting a full-length haired woman is easier because there’s more to work with if you mess it …
So already a man is more difficult.
But the comb over? How can anything be harder..
She said the first thing she does is analyze the situation. If the comb over is applied to the hair, it means he wants to keep it. So she works around it, cutting some layers and trimming the side, but leaving the foot long piece in tact in order for the gent to comb his hair over his bald head again.
Even more: The man doesn’t say anything of the comb over. He allows the stylist to see it for herself.. to know it.. to love it, caress it, or whatever one would do with an awful comb over.
And finally, my friendly stylist told me that she always has the urge to cut the comb over altogether …of course there’d be awful repercussions should such a travesty occur to the already cursed man’s head.
Although he may look instantly better…But he’s damned to shame forever as long as he combs hair across his scalp..
And now some famous comb overs in history!
CONFESSIONS OF A FUNERAL DIRECTOR » Why You May Never Heal
Pop psychology has implied that our grief can one day “heal.” That one day, we’ll come to a place — after going through an extensive emotional process — where we’re back to normal, as if the brokenness we feel has been mended.
This is an amazing article about what happens to people after they lose someone.
I have been following http://www.calebwilde.com for a bit now.. it’s written by a real funeral director from Pennsylvania, his name is Caleb Wilde. His blof is addictive—and honest, brutally and painfully honest.
I suggest you give this linked article a read.. you may get hooked on his site like I did and follow him..
CONFESSIONS OF A FUNERAL DIRECTOR » Why You May Never Heal
Expert: Selfie Addiction May Cause Mental Illness
There does seem to be something awry in the human mind as of late.. maybe it’s all the selfies we’ve been selfin?
Expert: Selfie Addiction May Cause Mental Illness
There is probably no statement because the story is just breaking and there is not even that much concrete information yet. It takes some effort to pull a press conference together. Stop being so fucking critical.
The facts you mention are worthwhile and correct. But I said what I said only because those facts never stopped people previously from making immediate statements..
So an update to the angry question and my calm response.. a full 10 hours have passed by without any significant response from anyone in national government. The Governor of Pennsylvania issued a statement, but crickets can still be heard from on high.
Of course Jay Carney did say that Barack and Michelle are “sending prayers.” To me that seems as meaningless as the people on Facebook who ‘send prayers’ in comments on a post..
If this was gun violence, a bigger response would have been heard.
I think it’s time to stop judging crime based on the weapon picked.. I think it’s time to figure out why the kids aren’t alright…
Let’s see what prescriptions our still unnamed sophomore from the Franklin Regional high school was taking..
'There's a kid with a knife,' teen says of school stabbings
CNN story also describes how some students react to the chaos, stabbings. One student said that she heard a commotion the longer, and thought it was a fight. And she saw blood spurting and stabber run..
It sounds like true Scenicpark, worse most likely than even harder movie that has plagued theaters.
'There's a kid with a knife,' teen says of school stabbings
News now that the Franklin regional high school stabber was a sophomore boy
Emergency management officials have also said the principal had an altercation of some sort the boy, that the stabbings took place in the classroom and hallway, and that the school resource officer was the one who eventually handcuffed the sophomore after he stabbed at least 20 people ages 14 through 60..
There is probably no statement because the story is just breaking and there is not even that much concrete information yet. It takes some effort to pull a press conference together. Stop being so fucking critical.
The facts you mention are worthwhile and correct. But I said what I said only because those facts never stopped people previously from making immediate statements..
Some more information being reported on the Franklin Regional massacre
Rumors at this point.. no information is verified, but there are some interesting tweets and pieces of information now coming to light:
The suspect has been taken into custody..
The FBI is on the scene..
One report: Assistant Principal wrestled 2 knives away from suspect..
No metal detectors at HS; student had 2 knives..
MORE COMING
Why no statement from the White House or any officials on this Pittsburgh stabbing??
Silence is deafening so far..
I suspect if it was a school shooting, there’d be a stronger reaction from D.C.
Seven teenagers and an adult were taken to Forbes Regional Hospital, Dr. Chris Kauffman, the trauma director there, told CNN. The seven were stabbed in the chest, back and abdomen, he said. He characterized some of the injuries as life-threatening.
Some of the students were in the operating room, others undergoing CT scans, he said.
“These are quite serious injuries,” he said. “These are not superficial in nature.”
One hospital reported that it had a patient as old as 60.
Latest NBC report on this emotionally overwhelming story..
Multiple students stabbed in Pittsburgh are in surgery..
CNN is reporting that several of the children have ‘deep stab wounds’ and that multiple hospitals have some in surgery—life threatening wounds are being tended to.
DEVELOPING..
A student reported that someone came into the school with a knife and started slashing people, including some of his friends. That information has not been confirmed by police.
Pittsburgh station WTAE • On the mass stabbing that took place at a Pennsylvania high school. The suspect is reportedly in custody. (via shortformblog)
As with any school shooting, in this case a mass stabbing, rumors are running wild. this one included.. lots of information yet to be sorted out..
School Stabbing Spree: 20 Hurt in Pittsburgh-Area Attack
NBC NEWS: As many as 20 students were hurt when a classmate went on a stabbing rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a high school outside Pittsburgh on Wednesday …
The numbers keep increasing.. no word on deaths. Only injuries.. true thoughts and prayers going out to this part of the state—collective consciousnesses is required or prayers if you believe.. Send as much positive energy as you can.
School Stabbing Spree: 20 Hurt in Pittsburgh-Area Attack
A multiple stabbing situation is developing at a Pittsburgh PA area high school
Multiple people stabbed at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa.; conditions unknown; suspect in custody, police say.. not a school shooting—a school stabbing.. It happened at 7:15 am, about 15 minutes after the high school opened. Middle school is secure. Knives don’t stab people, people stab people.
Emergency crews raced to a high school outside Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning after a report of multiple stabbings. A county official said that as many as six people were reported injured.
A suspect was in custody, Dan Stevens, a Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman, told NBC News.
The stabbings were reported at Franklin Regional High School, in the suburb of Murrysville.
WPXI, the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh, reported that hospitals had been told to expect patients. The first injury calls came in about 7:15 a.m., about 15 minutes after the school doors opened for the day, the station reported.
The school district website said that high school students and middle school students nearby were “secure,” and that elementary school had been canceled for the day. The cited “a critical incident” at the high school.
Streets around the school were sealed off.
Peaches Geldof post mortem 'inconclusive' pending drink and drugs tests results: Examination carried out this morning still leaves mystery surrounding death
The death of the daughter of musician and campaigner Bob Geldof and late presenter Paula Yates, has so far been described by police as ‘sudden and unexplained’.
I didn’t post anything concerning this yesterday when news broke, but I have been reading as much as I could about it.. The demise of this girl, only 25 years of age and a mother of two beautiful children, is dead.. The death is being said to be “unexplained.” Inconclusive .. all of those mystery words that are somewhat reminiscent of the death of Brittany Murphy.. Drug and alcohol tests are still coming in Geldof’s passing.
The last time I heard any news about Peaches was in November 2013.. She became the subject of an investigation after she Tweeted the names of two mothers in the Ian Watkins case.. The Watkins matter is disturbing.. Lostprophets’ Ian Watkins was sentenced to 35 years for a series of child sex crimes including the rape of a baby.. Watkins said he did not successfully rape the 11-month-old but did admit to attempted rape. That sentencing was in December 2013.
But let’s flash back to November.. Peaches published the names of the mothers involved with Ian Watkins—the mothers who gave their babies to him to be raped. On Twitter, Peaches said that newspapers knowing the names of the women should print them—she then published the names herself but quickly deleted the Tweets .. One Tweet she posted prior to the release of names said that Watkins was a talentless musical hero and that the mothers were “equal in monstrosity.” The release of the names set off a bitter debate online, and people took to defending Geldof for her right to tell. The amazing part—you know how they say ‘nothing ever vanishes from the internet once it’s printed? The tweet naming the two women vanished. Scrubbed.. like a bad page from 1984, there’s really no mention of it.. Nor is there a mention in the post-mortem summaries anything of Geldof’s insistence on naming the women who helped Watkins rape babies..
We fast forward to April 2014: Geldof is dead at 25.
In one her Gelfof’s final tweets before being found dead, she posted a photograph of her as a child being held closely by her mother… It read “me and my mum.”
I find it strange—maybe purely coincidental—that just a few months after this awful story of Tweets and sentencing occurred, with Peaches being directly at the center of the firestorm, she’s not dead.. And dead at 25. And leaving two children behind—something I doubt she would have wanted to do given her love of her own mother and how much she missed her..
But strange things happen. As do coincidences..
Peaches is gone too soon. Judging from the honest and fiery tweets I read, she seemed to be a grounded and good person.
And it’s those honest and grounded people who so often don’t live a full life these days.
Peaches Geldof post mortem 'inconclusive' pending drink and drugs tests results: Examination carried out this morning still leaves mystery surrounding death
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Meteors blood moons and planetary alignments.. This is the song stuck in my head tonight.. Make it stop!
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The God of War aligns with Earth
I was talking my dog late this evening .. there was a beautiful deep orange and red sunset dimming in the West.. I looked to the East while Mutley the dog was using his radar love to find ‘the spot’ to do his deed.. I saw Mars high in the sky—brighter than a typical planet and redder than anything else in the night twilight..It was a beautiful scene.
Immediately I thought about the photograph I saw this morning of the ‘light on Mars’—though it may turn out to be a simple camera anomaly, it’s deeply wondrous to conjecture up a civilization living on Mars, dodging out of camera sight when the Rovers snap away.. maybe they live underground? Maybe they are in those rocky red mountains.. Maybe it’s all just the mindless ramblings of an imagination while a dog owner patiently waits for his animal to use the gravitational force to find a spot to let loose.
And just then…
I saw the brightest, whitest, and most beautiful light slowly glaze across the night sky. It was huge… it was quiet.. and it was streaming through the air just below the sight of Mars in my vision.
Though anything with space is deceptive, the fireball streaking through my sky this evening was as bright and big as what a full moon would look like to the naked eye.. I do believe a tail was following it.. Most likely some sort of meteor or ….well, maybe even a space craft??
Nah… those little green men don’t exist.
But the brilliant light was shocking—so much so that the last thing I wanted to do was take my eyes off of it.. I didn’t even care to take out my phone and snap a photo—and really, it would not have been good enough to brag about anyway with an iPhone’s nighttime inabilities..
After I sat down for the evening with a warm cup of tea and cold slice of pizza, I remembered that tonight was the night when the Earth, Mars and the Sun will align tonight.. And this alignment is coming exactly a week prior to the Earth seeing the first in a series of ‘blood moons’—a type of astrological event that some paranoid folk would say portends some good ole’ end times. Just an simple internet search will showcase the oodles upon noodles of people from around the planet who fret the end of the world with the heavenly signs in the sky—John Hagee is one of those folks who said that tonight’s alignment begins a ‘hugely significant event’ for the world.
So he says..
And so lots of people say.
I just know this..
During a quiet moment of pondering my own insignificance and possibly the meaningless or meaningful nature of life—it really can go either way—I saw a big fireball streak across my eyes and vanish overtop of trees near my house.. I don’t equate my vision with anything except this: We are small here on earth.. it’s a dangerous universe out there and we don’t ever really know what will happen or where it will ..
We do know though that lots of prophets and parasites have come and gone, and they have done their damnedest to damn us.
As for John Hagee?
He always reminded me of someone..
Remember that scene from Stephen King’s STORM OF THE CENTURY where the entire town of people have the same dream of a minister preaching a fiery end times gospel and all of the townsfolk committing mass suicide by jumping into icy Atlantic ocean waters? That’s who John Hagee reminds me of..
Maybe the blood moons will be something big. Or maybe they won’t.
But remember this: Every day is the end of the world for about 150,000 or so people. Every day. And it’s the first day for thousands, too.
Born into a world of sin.
They come on in.
You can read this story of a nursing home hiring strippers.. and then talk amongst yourselves.. I’m verklempt..
Seriously.. strippers!?
I wonder if they were told something exciting was coming their way? Were they warned? Maybe they thought something puréed.. a new applesauce..
But they got strippers.
The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood
A great article.. Anghus Houvouras on the zombiefication of Hollywood.
I have known Anghus for years and have followed him.. he used to write a column for my other site, HORRORREPORT.COM, and he continues to be a great and outspoken commentator on the current times of Hollywood.
He writes this;
The entertainment landscape is starting to look like an episode of The Walking Dead. Originality is a dwindling number of survivors making their way through an unforgiving apocalyptic landscape where the threat of being devoured by rapidly multiplying zombie franchises seems inevitable.
How true that is..
The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood
When a selfie with Obama is not just a selfie: WHEN IT’S BIG PAPI DAVID ORTIZ SNAPPING THE PHOTO ON HIS CAMERA AS A PUBLICITY STUNT FOR SAMSUNG!!!
Bad form!
This photo is exciting UFO and Mars enthusiasts all around the planet earth.. It shows what looks to be an artificial source of life coming from Mars beamed back to NASA from a rover..
NASA hasn’t commented on the photo yet..
Some say it’s an artificial source of light or perhaps evidence of the famed underground civilization that some think exists on the red planet..
Others are chalky not up to a typical camera anomaly ..
And finally others, including me, are wondering if this is a part of a grand disclosure—Bill Clinton appearing on Jimmy Kimmel talking about aliens and Roswell.. Maybe it’s a plan to accustom us to what will soon vs revealed.
The truth is out there after all.. We just have to know how to discern what is truth and not..
NH Teacher Fired For Refusing To ‘Unfriend’ Students On Facebook
Good ole Mrs T… Fired for having too many friends..
NH Teacher Fired For Refusing To ‘Unfriend’ Students On Facebook
Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say
Yea yea yea.. and TV made us dumb, too.
I think someone is trying to come up with a reason why their website has a really bad bounce rate.
Get some better content! You’ll keep the readers longer!
And anyway, news happens too fast to read it ..right?
Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say
Botanists baffled by rapid growth of 'space cherry' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
GIFU—A tree grown from a cherry pit that traveled in space five years ago with astronaut Koichi Wakata, now commander of the International Space Station, has bloomed far ahead of what is normal—to the astonishment of botanists.
This is a pretty freaky story—almost like the beginnings of an eerie science fiction story in which trees from space grow so fast that they take over the planet!
Okay.. that’s a big wild.. But really, the idea that a tree that should grow this big in years only took a few..
And even more: The ‘space’ tree only has 5 pedals as opposed to the normal 30..
This from The ASASHI SHIMBUM:
Botanist Takao Yoshimura, 78, successfully sprouted one of the pits that traveled to the ISS using a method in which he covered the soil with sphagnum moss.
In four years, the young plant has grown to a height of about 4 meters. This spring, it produced about 10 buds, which all were in bloom by April 4.
Yoshimura said it takes 10 years or more for cherry trees to grow flowers, but the young trees produced from cherry pits taken into space have flowered unusually early. Some of the 265 space-traveling cherry pits were planted in Kochi and Yamanashi prefectures after they returned to Earth and they have already come into bloom as well.
Botanist Kaori Tomita, a 56-year-old lecturer at University of Tsukuba who participated in the space cherry project, said that current science can offer no answer for the unusually fast growth of the space cherries.
Killer cherry trees from outer space.. coming soon to a garden near you.. Seeds that have been altered by the space/time continuum..
Botanists baffled by rapid growth of 'space cherry' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
If the G-d wants your little ass in check … He’ll send a whale to fetch you. or a problem to remind you, or some devil to chase you home.
I love this quote .. it’s from the blob http://soredemonao.tumblr.com
The site re-blogged my “I don’t know” post this morning.. I think him/her .. the response I got was great..
"Or some devil to chase you home."
Love it..
Monday, April 7, 2014
The other day I wrote about Tommy Lynn Sells' execution..
…and I was not too forgiving of the killer—I suspended by disagreement with the death penalty because of Sells’ crimes and didn’t introduce the notion to my mind to feel bad for him,
It brings up the bigger question: What should we do with people on death row or any criminal who has exhausted the forgiveness of society?
In America, we seem to become agitated any time we hear that prisoners get basic rights such as food, water, and books.. We get infuriated when we think about how they drain the tax dollars of money.. (of course we seldom care that pot offenders get hard time and that death row inmates often languish for years even though DNA evidence now may prove them innocent of the crimes)..
How should a dignified nation treat its criminals? With dignity.. I am good with that.
Maybe except with Sells…
Ebola breaks out on a scale never seen before
I think we all need to be paying attention to this story.. Not only is humanity having a terrible time in Africa where Ebola has resumed killing, but it’s now a burdensome mission for all nations to stop the spread.
We are more connected than ever.. we travel more than any time in history. And Ebola is as deadly as it has ever been—it appears that it’s newfound mission is to spread beyond the borders of the nations where it dwells..
Maybe go back and watch that deplorably bad 1995 movie OUTBREAK. Graphics are bad and shoulder pads were big.. but it’s a lesson on what we do not want to have happen on this planet.
Ebola breaks out on a scale never seen before
Watching those quakes with a few shakes
Past 24 hours..There have been two 4.0+ earthquakes in Oklahoma…… and a 3.1 earthquake along the New Madrid..
This after a weekend series of quakes in Oklahoma..
Something below is moving..
Washington POST reports" The recovery puzzle: Matching jobs to job-seekers
Post the want ad and wait for people to line up? In places such as this town in rural Ohio, it’s not that easy.
This is an interesting story..
And a lesson on why the American economy is not steamrolling back to life.. (no matter what any politician or President says)
The skills of Americans are becoming obsolete.. We are the service economy.
So why happens with robotics replace the waiter? What happens when the service is performed by a mindless patented creature?
I don’t know.
And no one seems to be trying to answer that dangerously close question..
Washington POST reports" The recovery puzzle: Matching jobs to job-seekers
A Smoking Gun bombshell: Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant
The SMOKING GUN reports it, I can add no more:
When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant.
That same man attended February’s state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande. He was seated with his girlfriend at a table adjacent to President Barack Obama, who is likely unaware that, according to federal agents, his guest once interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families. He even secretly taped some of those wiseguys using a briefcase that FBI technicians outfitted with a recording device.
AND MORE:
The high-profile Obama supporter was also on the dais atop the U.S. Capitol steps last year when the president was sworn in for a second term. He was seated in front of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two rows behind Beyonce and Jay Z, and about 20 feet from Eric Holder, the country’s top law enforcement officer. As head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Holder leads an agency that once reported that Obama’s inauguration guest also had La Cosa Nostra contacts beyond Gotham, and engaged in “conversations with LCN members from other parts of the United States.”
There is a ton more to the story at the SMOKING GUN
A Smoking Gun bombshell: Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant
Jay-Z Embraces Five-Percent Nation, Addresses Illuminati and Questions Other Religions
If Jay-Z wanted to rid himself of the burden of being a member of the Illuminati, his latest actions will do nothing for him..
News was made this weekend when it was released that Jay-Z is a bling wearing member of the Five Percent Nation. The New York POST story was pretty sensational regarding the whole event.. so I went to a less sensational source. NPR reported about the Five Percent Nation in 2006. This is what NPR reported are the tenets of the belief structure:
Tenets of the Five Percent Nation
(1.) That black people are the original people of the planet Earth.
(2.) That black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization.
(3.) That the science of Supreme Mathematics is the key to understanding man’s relationship to the universe.
(4.) Islam is a natural way of life, not a religion.
(5.) That education should be fashioned to enable us to be self-sufficient as a people.
(6.) That each one should teach one according to their knowledge.
(7.) That the black man is God and his proper name is ALLAH — Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head.
(8.) That our children are our link to the future and they must be nurtured, respected, loved, protected and educated.
(9.) That the unified black family is the vital building block of the nation.
You can read more from NPR here..
But back to the other train wreck of thought: The Illuminati. We have been hearing this rumor for years that Jay-Z is a proud member of the illuminated. The rumors have gone as far as saying that Mr. Z spread the belief to Beyonce.. And as a result, she became Sasha Fierce on stage—in interviews she seems to truly believe that this devilish personality exists within her.
This is a judge for yourself kind of story—I think you need to do your own digging and figure out the reality or fiction of 1) the Illuminati and 2) Jay-Z’s seemingly real knowledge about the occult and secret societies..
I just know this: Jay-Z and Beyonce are really rich. Sasha Fierce is too.
And they are both plain weird and creepy…
Jay-Z Embraces Five-Percent Nation, Addresses Illuminati and Questions Other Religions
Discussions over grilled food
I had a wonderful free flowing discussion with friends yesterday .. we were invited to a very early spring barbecue.. great food. And even better conversation.. We spoke about the missing flight 370, we talked about conspiracy theories, 9/11, God or the lack of one, and the meaning of life and whether mediums have the ability to talk to the dead. It was all of my interests spiraled into one great chat with good people—add to that chicken and homemade macaroni and cheese.
I did come to a realization, though.. During the conversation, others gave adamant opinions about their personal beliefs—their thoughts on what God is and if there is one, along with any other theory of mythological or paranormal subject matter. As for me? I just don’t know.
I don’t really know anything.
I read the theories, I see the information presented by experts, I know of the books, the Bibles, the Korans, the priests, and the ghostly tales.. I am aware of the Planet Nibiru.. I know that aliens met Dwight Eisenhower and told him there’s no God.. I know that George Noory has the worst toupee on earth.
But I just don’t know what my own opinion is.. I look at others who often say that they have the answers as closed-minded.. I often categorize Christian zealots in the same bin as atheists—neither allows much thought opposed to their own..
But as for me? I just don’t know..
Opinions are so often existent only to be proven wrong.. If I say that Flight 370 landed safely there’s the chance it didn’t.. and really, I just don’t know!
I don’t know!
We don’t know!
And though we don’t know, we will endlessly fall victim to the parade of opinionmakers, and haphazardly jump on the blowhard bandwagon of hot air. No one on that train knows, really. They just don’t admit it.
Is there a God? I really don’t know.
Are there aliens? I don’t know.
Is anything real?
Is anything real…That is the question Truman Burbank asked in one of my favorite movies, THE TRUMAN SHOW. The answer he got was that he was real.
Maybe that’s it.. nothing is really real.. except us. And we waste too much time debating and creating wars about Gods we have never seen and beliefs we cannot defend with fact.
I want there to be a God.
And aliens. I’d rather there be no planet X, though.
But Truman Burbank? I just know he’s real..
Toddlerus maxiumus
While the family was getting ready for work and day care today, I overheard my son Ayden tell my wife Tara, “Mommy, get daddy I want to tell him something.” I melted with joy at his innocent little voice, almost whispering to my wife.. I was sure of it: He was proud of something. Maybe he built something, stacked pillows the right way, or had a profound thought about the meaning of TOM AND JERRY KIDS..
I walked back, smiling with anticipation..
My son Ayden was set for school…coat on, hat on..one hand in his pocket and juice in the other. He laughed when he saw me.. I said, “Yes Ayden?”
Ayden replied,
"Daddy, you have a big ass."
Shock and awe.. I wanted to laugh out loud.. But Tara and I just looked at him, half smiling, and said, “where did you learn that?” He said, “I don’t know, but it’s a funny word.”
He is right.. it is a funny word.
I guess in his defense, it is in the Bible, right?
Sunday, April 6, 2014
You might be seeing this on a 15-second delay
The 10 to 15 second delay theory comes as a result of a new study, which says that instead of seeing things as they are right now our brain captures an average of the past 10 seconds to create a more calm state…
Maybe people who say that they have a different frequency of existence actually see things as they are right now, or maybe people who are schizophrenic actually don’t have this delay mechanism?
Fascinating stuff…
You might be seeing this on a 15-second delay
This photo is making its way around the internet and into an inbox near you.. It’s from February .. The image you see if of a deer with strange lights hovering behind it.. it is from by Rainer and Edith Shattles at their Jackson County, Mississippi home..There is also video .. the video has gone viral after WLOX did a profile on the couple’s trail cams.. And it’s a series of them, over an hour of time in which the deer were lit up by bright lights ..
Very creepy stuff.. a deer in the headlights.. But the headlights not from a car.. but maybe a galaxy far far away?
Six-year-old child left brain dead from Pennsylvania mom’s drowning attempt dies
Just a horrible, rotten story..
Laurel Michelle Schlemmer said she was hearing voices before drowning her two children and that they’d be better off in heaven. So she killed them…
Their voices are forever gone now due to her crimes..
Six-year-old child left brain dead from Pennsylvania mom’s drowning attempt dies
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