It really couldn’t be a more perfect August day..
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Revel casino to close 8 days earlier than planned
3000+ out of work…
The show is over for Atlantic City..
Revel casino to close 8 days earlier than planned
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RAW COVERAGE OF FERGUSON FRIDAY NIGHT FROM VICE.COM
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Friday, August 15, 2014
ISIS massacres 80 Yazidis in northern Iraq town, say Iraqi officials
Islamic militants killed 80 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority in a northern village, sources told Fox News on Friday.
ISIS massacres 80 Yazidis in northern Iraq town, say Iraqi officials
THE UFOS NOT AMONG US
The tale goes like this: For years, gullible Ufologists have fallen for a great hoax.. They have believed that some other civilization is coming to the planet, flying saucers around the globe, and abducting people in the deep south only to probe the portion portions of them deeply..
Apparently, the theory goes, the government has put out the false UFO stories for years.. they have given the fake stories to UFO experts who happily ate up all of the available disinformation.
A new documentary is exposing how the government case over fake evidence of ET life for decades.. The documentary is called MIRAGE MEN, and it is gaining a number of awards and lots of attention in various UFO and skeptic circles..
Steve Rose of the UK GUARDIAN writes this in his piece on this potential interstellar false flag:
The place of movies in the grand UFO conspiracy is a tricky area. Depending on which theory you subscribe to, Hollywood’s steady stream of sci-fi is either a deliberate exaggeration, designed to make the “truth” look unbelievable (the “you’ve been watching too many movies” defence), or it’s a way of psychologically preparing the populace for staggering alien secrets yet to be revealed. There are at least grounds for suspicion in the latter camp. Pilkington points to the CIA’s Psychological Strategy Board, founded after the second world war to promote US propaganda. Associated with the board was veteran film producer Darryl Zanuck. In 1951, Zanuck executive-produced seminal alien-visitation sci-fi The Day the Earth Stood Still, often cited as a government-sanctioned testing of the waters for alien contact. Like Zanuck, the film’s writer, Edmund North, was ex-military, while director Robert Wise apparently became a UFO believer on account of discussions he had with Washington figures during the making of the movie.
Steven Spielberg is a less likely government stooge, though he has been obsessed by aliens his entire career, from Close Encounters and ET up to War of the Worlds and the last Indiana Jones film (not forgetting his producer role in Falling Skies, Transformers and, er, Men in Black). If anyone’s paving the way for the big reveal, it’s Spielberg, but, after 30 years of paving, we’re still waiting.
How true that is.. not only Spielberg, but lots of others too like George Lucas ..
And who can’t listen to Whitley Strieber’s detailed description of his abduction without wincing in pain..?
The tin foil hat wearing club I subscribe —there are different sects of us—does not simply buy into every and all conspiracy theories.. we discern. we analyze.. we report.. we often don’t decide. The jury is still out amongst my brand of believers as to whether aliens, God, or even US are real.. Maybe this imaginary world is a fairy tale, or a dream.. maybe a nightmare..
Nonetheless, it’s certainly believable that government spooks can have some fun with the UFO crazed people of the planet.. And plant false information—perhaps false memories—in the world..
How widespread, though?
Why did Ronald Reagan constantly talk about alien threats.. did Dick Nixon show a dead alien to Jackie Gleason? and did IKE, the one we liked, put ‘In God we trust’ on change because aliens told him there is no God?
Or was it all a hoax..?
IS anything real?
…maybe not.
The truth is out there.
Or within.
Experts: Record Cold Summer Leads To Changing Leaves In August
Friday morning, Pittsburgh is waking up to temperatures in the 40s.
And the 40sa near me in the Eastern part of the state.
And I concur with the expert quoted: I am seeing yellow and red colors already showing up, a week prior to school evening beginning.. I truly hope this is not a harbinger of a winter of discontent to come..?
We have this from Accuweather: Summer is going to make ‘one last gasp’ late August.. that may upset those who felt summer was just a soft breath of air to begin with.
Experts: Record Cold Summer Leads To Changing Leaves In August
If anyone wants a real scare, look no further than reality
Namely this documentary on Netflix: FORGOTTEN PLANET: ABANDONED AMERICA. It’s another example of why reality scares me much more profoundly than any work of fiction.
The documentary isn’t new.. But as a busy adult, I only watch things when I get the chance.. It was produced in 2011, and is a graphic account of how once booming towns in the United States often become abandoned ghost towns.
There is something brutally frightening to me about decaying structures and silent facilities.. I have near me a hospital that was active for over one hundred years, and now sits idle as bankruptcy took the legs out from under the workers .. the building, in only two years, has become overgrown with the earth and is already appearing as though it was forsaken over a decade ago.. It’s so amazing to see how quickly our planet makes us forget people ever lived in certain spots. Abandoned buildings serve as a reminder: We are dust and so are the places we inhabit.. They’ll be gone just as we will.
Also near me: Centralia, the town I grew up in and have written about extensively on my site. Anyone visiting that town wouldn’t even know that it was once filled with homes stacked on top of each other, taverns on every corner, and churches active every Sunday.. A mine fire swept away life and the earth, again, took over.
So give this 40 some minute documentary a chance—if you’re like me and chilled to the core by abandoned structures, try out FORGOTTEN PLANET: ABANDONED AMERICA.. turn off the lights.. lock the doors. The zombie is time. And it eats.
THIS from ABC NEWS:
"We have an intelligence division whose mission is to assess information that we receive every day for dangerousness or potential threat level," Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told ABC News. "We are aware of the image and will take the necessary and appropriate follow up steps."
The Secret Service did not respond to an additional question about whether the tweet was believed to be authentic. The FBI has not yet responded to ABC News’ request for comment on the tweet, its suspected origin, or whether it signifies a serious threat to the U.S.
I am not a proponent of censorship, but an observer of the strange. The strange being this: The amount of Twitter, Tumblr, and Blogger sites that get shut down with regularity every day.. but so many threatening Twitter accounts are permitted to keep on tweetin’ like there’s no tomorrow ..
Two More Stores Leaving The Schuylkill Mall
I have written many stories on this site about my local mall.. (HERE) (HERE) (HERE) (And more here)… Well, two more stores are now leaving it..
This place is about ready to become more than a dead mall, but a really dead mall.
No more bustle.. no more shopping..
Without massive change in leadership or ownership, the days for the once great Schuylkill Mall are ending..
Two More Stores Leaving The Schuylkill Mall
We had our family dog, Mutley, for less than a year, but we have gotten to know him..
He is tremendously nervous, all of the time. He is constantly ready to play like a puppy, but worry like an old aged animal.. He paces around the house when he is alone, does no damage, but anxiously anticipates the master or masterette to be back.. And he only seems to be at ease during the night, when the entire family is asleep. Many nights end with my son Ayden and my dog Mutley crowded in the ‘big bed’ of mom and dad, scrunched into odd contortions as my wife and I attempt to not fall to the floor due to the lack of space.
I’m not complaining.. secretly, I love it and will miss it one day when my son wants nothing to do with mom and dad, and when Mutley is too old to jump up anymore..
I love these days.
There is also something about Mutley that amazes me.. he is a harbinger.. When the air pressure changes—before rain or thunderstorms begin—Mutley begins to shake uncontrollably. He frantically attempts to find some hidden portion of the house to hide .. He gets under desks, legs, beds.. Jumps into corners of closets, and tries his best to shield his little dog body the best he can..
And there’s nothing I can do for him.. he handles it himself, but I wish I could help.
Instead, once the air pressure changes and the storm lifts, he goes back to his old semi-nervous self again.
Mutley is a good little man.. he has some more growing pains to go through, and he bites a little too much when he plays, but he respects my son Ayden and hasn’t yet done a nasty thing to him. As a matter of fact, they get along like brothers.. stealing food and playing ball. It’s good to see..
But when the rain begins—or snow in the wintertime—leave Mutley be. Until the air pressure rises again..
Beebs.. you think you’re cool and all that and an unsalted bag of chips. But you’re also guilty and being subjected to an anger management class..
And I just thought.. for all the fame and fortune, yachts and models, does Beebs even perform anymore?
The fumbling mumblings of George Noory
There is a chance—some may disagree—but there’s a chance that George Noory is a nice guy. He may also be the luckiest guy on the planet..
Noory took over Coast to Coast AM several years ago from then host Art Bell.. I have posted quite a bit about Bell and Noory over the past several years. But Noory, regardless of ‘niceness,’ is also strange. And lucky.. Very lucky.
If you’re a newcomer listening to his show for the first time, your takeaway may be confusion.. head scratching that a man who mumbles so much, goofs up so many words, uses the wrong tenses, mispronounces everything, and so often seems to be aloof if not plain asleep during his interviews, still has a radio program. Premiere Radio still employs. And even more, he has 600+ affiliates.
Sure there’s some form of technicality that states if a station gets Rush, they get the other PremRat shows, too..
But Noory? Oh .. George.. A host with thousands of pages on a message board to documenting his every mispronunciation and incorrectly worded statement.. But the message boarders don’t have a radio show. George Noory does..
But then something happens, like what happened today.. George Noory appeared on the Alex Jones radio program to plug his ‘Insulate the Grid’ initiative, an attempt to help the grid maintain an EMP attack or massive life-altering solar flare. While guesting on the program, Jones attempted to swerve Noory into uncharted territory: Ferguson, Missouri. Noory maintained composure, spoke with confidence about how both the protesters should go home and the police should stop employing hardcore military tactics.. He blamed both sides, something Jones couldn’t counter completely live on air.. Further, Noory spoke with a certain bit of eloquence about why insulating the grid from outside attacks makes sense, and is the moral necessity of this generation..
(Speaking of Noory’s involvement with maintaining the grid’s security.. one eloquent observer notes some of the oddities surrounding Noory endorsing something of this nature in the comments thread on WORLD NET DAILY.. it’s a must read.)
The Noory that appeared on Jones’ program is not the same that hosts his own show nightly..
This Noory, the day time version, didn’t botch words or forget what he was talking about.. he didn’t zone out during the interview, but instead was very much engaged .. he didn’t mumble words or jumble sentences together sounding like a mindless bot..
I frankly don’t understand..
Is it possible—just possible—that George Noory is tired by the time his own program begins? Maybe he just…isn’t awake anymore. Perhaps he’s not the Night Owl he once was.. his metabolism is shifting as he ages in life..
Noory has often commented that he’s no Art Bell—the obvious master of the macabre of late night radio. But sometimes George Noory is no George Noory either.. The Noory of day time radio or interviews while the sun shines is a coherent human who makes statements that make sense.. the night time version seems more to be a confused old man grasping in the dark for the right word to say..
I don’t host my own radio show. And I probably could not, though I have often pretended I could. So maybe Noory is just nervous on his own show.. perhaps constantly trying to play it safe as to not annoy or anger the hierarchy at Premiere Radio.
Or after 10pm on the Left Coast, when the CHASE begins to play, Noory gets tired.. very, very tired..
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A long hot summer.. The world is on fire..
As summer begins to wane, and the chills of autumn set in, what will the world look like?
Same as it ever was..
The President will return to Washington DC this weekend for… Undetermined.
Maybe he’ll talk about what Chuck Hagel said.. that the “world is exploding all over.” The same world that, as summer began, was called less violent than it has ever been” before .. According to President Obama. Perhaps it is due to the immigration conundrum facing the nation.. or perhaps the deteriorating race relations through the country… So many things.. so little time.
The news of the day, the ‘gates of hell’ opening, all remind me of something from Alicia Keys at the 2013 Obama Inauguration. Keys sang that “OBAMA’S ON FIRE” in a strange and creepy tribute.. she said Obama’s going to let it “burn baby burn baby” in a odd change of lyrics from her hit song.. And yes.. since that moment, the world caught a blaze of war and turbulence..
‘HE’S LIVING IN A WORLD AND IT’S ON FIRE>
FILLED WITH CATASTROPHE, BUT HE KNOWS HE CAN FIND A WAY
HE’S GOT BOTH FEET ON THE GROUND, AND HE’S BURNING IT DOWN”
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Police Concerned About Flash Mob Violence Based On Horror Movie
Social media posts promise violence in Florida, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
The story linked here serves as a collection of headlines from various states—states where people have been posting social media announcements about “purges” to take place in the respective cities where the Tweets and messages are coming from.. AS notes, Florida, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania are among the states where police are monitoring the situation …
The horror movie where the ‘purge’ is stemming from is, none other than THE PURGE.. the sequel to the original film was released this summer and had respectable box office numbers.. The movie was less gruesome horror and more social commentary—rich vs poor and the government suspending all police protection to allow for a ‘purge’ is the plot..
While this new social media purge scare may be more hype than upcoming horror, it’s noteworthy that so many places and police forces are monitoring the situation. And just a brief stroll through morning headlines each day may showcase the reason why it should be a concern of law enforcement—times like these, there aren’t many reasons to take things for granted..
In the areas where the social media purge is being spoken of, police are announcing that they have contingency plans to deal with any issues.. I know there are lots of ill will feelings towards police after watching the mess they made in Ferguson, but we need to support social justice, law enforcement, and order.. It’s why America works.. It’s what made us work to begin with…
It feels like a long hot summer.. the tensions within this nation is palpable.. The rhetoric across this country is emotional and cruel..
A cruel summer.
The fabric of this nation is tearing.. I fear that there aren’t any seamstresses left to fix it.
Police Concerned About Flash Mob Violence Based On Horror Movie
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GOOD EVENING WORLD…
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Burger King wanted to attract people with low cal less fat ‘Satisfries’.. Apparently people who eat at Burger King want nothing of the kind, as the fries are now discontinued.. Lack of interesting, lack of sales..
Maybe that’s because people knew, deep down, that they were still getting french fries THAT COST THEM MORE MONEY..?
What Do Blind People Actually See?
A fascinating story–and something to ponder: Why do blind people actually see?The answer is tough to contend with for those with sight.. Blind people see nothing.. we assume black. But they don’t, as black is a color. They just don’t see at all..
What Do Blind People Actually See?
Are We in Control of Our Brains? Probably Not
Accept the fact that we don’t control our brains as much as we like and move on with our day, or simply chuck your computer into the toilet and go outside.
Good read.
Unless your brain tells you not to..
Are We in Control of Our Brains? Probably Not
Amber Alert issued for Amish girls in upstate NY.. but there is a problem
An Amber Alert was issued late Wednesday in Oswegatchie for Delila Miller, 6, and her sister, Fannie, 12. They had been selling vegetables near their family farm, located about 50 miles southeast of the Canadian border.
The issue at hand is this: The Amish Amber Alert is not accompanied by photographs of the girls..This:
Pictures of the girls were not available because members of the Amish community forbid photos of themselves, which they see as a violation of their religious beliefs.
The window of time is closing to get these girls.. It’s a difficult situation to begin with, but lacking photographic evidence to show people in the surrounding area what they look like is even more disconcerting..
Amber Alert issued for Amish girls in upstate NY.. but there is a problem
FBI to oversee Ferguson protests, operations
Let’s hope things begin to calm down.. I am worried about what may happen tonight..
FBI to oversee Ferguson protests, operations
Kissing the Corpses in Ebola Country
Ebola victims are most infectious right after death—which means that West African burial practices, where families touch the bodies, are spreading the disease
Hence more dead bodies are infecting more live humans with the disease.. this also begins to answer a question I posed weeks ago about how a burial process for dead Ebola patients should go. The answer: No burial.. just burning.. the bodies need to be gone to destroy the virulent nature of the beastly Ebola disease..
Kissing the Corpses in Ebola Country
The shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown is an awful tragedy that continues to send shockwaves through the community of Ferguson, Missouri and across the nation.
If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.
The outrage in Ferguson is understandable—though there is never an excuse for rioting or looting. There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
The images and scenes we continue to see in Ferguson resemble war more than traditional police action.
RYAN COOPER WRITES: The fiasco in Ferguson shows why you don't give military equipment to cops
The police in Ferguson are bristling with military gear. Too bad they have no clue how to use it.
RYAN COOPER WRITES: The fiasco in Ferguson shows why you don't give military equipment to cops
The awkward nature of social media.. While Ferguson MO erupted in violence and the entire social media report erupted in virtual reality, the Obamas wined and dined with surf and turf–and danced nearly every song. A good time, we were told in a tweet, was had by all..
Ferguson’s population is more than two-thirds black, but its police force only has three black officers. The town of 21,000 was not previously known for racial tension, but some say it has been bubbling beneath the surface. Young black men feel targeted by police and resent it. Gun sales have spiked locally.
This and more valuable information from THE ECONOMIST..
And more:
The number of people shot and killed by the police is hard to track. Nationwide, it has probably fallen since violent crime peaked in the 1990s. In New York, for example, police bullets killed 39 people in 1990 but eight in 2010. But since local police departments are not obliged to keep detailed statistics, it is hard to discern the national picture, says David Klinger of the University of Missouri, St Louis. A 2011 Department of Justice study found that the police kill roughly one person every day. The FBI deemed nearly all of these killings justifiable, but still too many were not. If the police wore body cameras, that might help. Complaints dropped nearly 90% and the use of force fell 60% when officers started wearing them in Rialto, California.
A striking photo.. a chilling TWEET
Everyone: This is America, 2014..
What is the big story? Race relations on one hand.. and a military police in the free US on the other.
Welcome to your life.
Police clash with protesters in Ferguson for another night.. two journalists were detained..
Heavy militarized police response..
THIS IS HOW AMERICA NOW IS, EVERYONE: NBC NEWS REPORTS: “A Washington Post reporter and another journalist were arrested by police earlier in the day by officers who ordered everyone out of a McDonald’s restaurant, an arrest the newspaper’s executive editor called illegal and unjustified. Wesley Lowery said he was slammed into a soda machine and arrested after recording officers. Also arrested was Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly” … the reporters were released without explanation as to why they were arrested or treated the way they were .. ALEX JONES’ INFOWARS writes that police were AWOL during looting but are now actively engaging in military tactics against American protesters.. A quick glance at photos and videos reveals nothing but that. A dramatic and heavy show of force, arsenal, making the scene look more like video from Baghdad after the United States invasion than a town of 21,000 people in the United States..
Here is a photo of Ryan Reilly of the HUFFINGTON POST being arrested..
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
How America’s Police Became an Army: The 1033 Program
As many have noted, Ferguson, Missouri, currently looks like a war zone. And its police—kitted out with Marine-issue camouflage and military-grade body armor, toting short-barreled assault rifles, and rolling around in armored vehicles—are indistinguishable from soldiers.
America has been quietly arming its police for battle since the early 1990s.
Faced with a bloated military and what it perceived as a worsening drug crisis, the 101st Congress in 1990 enacted the National Defense Authorization Act. Section 1208 of the NDAA allowed the Secretary of Defense to “transfer to Federal and State agencies personal property of the Department of Defense, including small arms and ammunition, that the Secretary determines is— (A) suitable for use by such agencies in counter-drug activities; and (B) excess to the needs of the Department of Defense.” It was called the 1208 Program. In 1996, Congress replaced Section 1208 with Section 1033.
A NOTE TO NEWSWEEK: If you had the proper tin foil hat you would have seen it coming like all the rest of the informed citizens that knew it was coming.
IMAGINE NO RELIGION. IT'S NOT EASY EVEN IF YOU TRY
As so often happens during free-flowing conversation with me, I got into a somewhat intense chat yesterday with a few friends and co-workers..Typically, my ‘devil’s advocate’ style of arguing enrages some who don’t quite understand I am always attempting to trick them into disagreeing with their own point of view..
The topic at hand yesterday was actually something that reared its ugly head from my colloquial area. A gay couple was denied a cake from a popular bakery in Schuylkill Haven, PA.. the CAKE PROS was actually a business my wife and I entertained in 2007 when we got married, but we found a better deal.. Now, in the modern age of quick news online, their name is being besmirched throughout the nation due to their ‘Christian’ moral of denying same sex couples baked goods..
And this is where we are in the world..
There is something amazing to me about what wars Christians choose to fight and what banners of zeal they decide to wear on their sleeves..
For a little bit of full disclosure, I was born and raised Catholic. I don’t regret it, as it actually gave me a sound foundation in grade school and let me fight religious professors in high school with knowledge.. But as any Catholic does after years of education, I grew doubtful in my 20s and now, in my 30s, completely and utterly confused as to the purpose of life and whether, big question time, a personal God even exists to begin with.. maybe I’m not in the Stephen Hawking camp yet, but more in the Michio Kaku corner: that a personal god is illogical but a god of order is more true. Math always seems to add up. Electricity makes sense.. perhaps the God I choose to try to understand is a God of those two subject matters.. Or maybe the real God will be wagging his finger at me on a high throne when my demise occurs, as my lifelong doubting Thomas type mindset never seemed to go away..
But that is me.. Confused and pondering the meaning of all of it.. not a believer or disbeliever.. just someone searching for answers. Clues.. Any signs that aren’t just by chance mistakes on the grand scale of life..
While it seems I am digressing, I’m not. I am attempting to paint a somewhat vivid picture of my mindset vs others..
Back to cakes..
Yesterday, there was one particular hard core Christian, whom I know and love and think is a great person, that expressed a sentiment that the Cake Pros thought process is not abhorrent but instead quite fine. I posed the question: If the pastor of the church you go to suddenly says he will allow gay marriages in her church, will you quit? The question caused her to become flustered.. she was torn. On one hand, as a literal believer in the Bible and someone who endorses the 6000 year (flawed) theory of the age of the planet, she is right at home in the church she attends. The Bible is an historic account, she says.. It’s all true. And even those parts of the excoriation of women or the killing of innocent as a punishment from God? Well they happened but they’re glossed over as ‘events of a time we don’t understand.’ While everyone has the right to believe what they do, this person I speak of denies science and disregards any evidence presented through carbon dating or other scientific method as a parallel to truth, and quite possibly of Satan himself attempting to trick the faithful into doubt.. She also thinks Satan has done the same for me–no matter how many times I tell her I am investigating all of life and trying to find answers without simple blind faith.. Nonetheless, the question on whether she would quit this church, one that espouses all of her own convictions, due to gay marriage taking place, was difficult.. Finally, after obvious blood pressure hit her forehead and confusion hit her brain, she answered: “Yes.” She would quit..
And this is the battle Christians in the United States are attempting to fight, at this time.. right now.
Gay marriage.
Same sex love..
To make matters worse, during my chat with this person, she said that gay people still have a choice whether they want to sin or not.. So I asked her back: “Why did you choose to be straight?” That question irritated her to high heaven, much more than I expected it to..
There were no answers..Instead the conversation ended quickly and we agreed to disagree..
I find the entire premise of fighting over gay marriage to be contrary to any common sense..
I am 33, and I think I am apart of a generation that began not caring. I grew up with the ‘not that there’s anything wrong with that’ joke from Seinfeld.. Characters on television programs were quietly incorporating same sex love long before adults noticed. While my high school years still were filled with gay hate in some circles, the rest of us knew that fawning the most hate were probably simply hating their own impulses anyway..
Things have changed. More and more states are going to allow gay marriage.
But hard core religious believers will still pump up their iron of anger and quote scripture to condemn those in love…All the while ignoring most of anything important actually happening on this planet..
There is a great divide of common sense in Christian quarters, in my thought..
In Iraq, ISIS, or IS, is busy slaughtering Christians in big numbers.. sure, fellow Muslims who believe in a slightly different timeline are getting cruel punishments, too, but the big target seems to be the infidels. Men, women anad children–kids–are being sliced in half .. Beheaded.. pressed.. stoned.. They are being deprived of food and water and forced to perish in horrible and long drawn out deaths.. They are being burned. Buried alive. Tortured. And some families are being forced to throw their own children off of cliffs to kill them –a better option when compared to the inevitable treatment when ISIS comes to town..
But Christians here? Worried about gay marriage..
There is something very dangerous about religion–something that we as a civilization should have dealt with long ago..
The logic escapes me, as well.. While this is not an endorsement of atheism–I am not that but instead searching for answers as mentioned prior–but perhaps the line from John Lennon’s song IMAGINE about thinking of a planet that had no religion is in order.. If there’s no religion, no belief system to divide us, perhaps we will become a united people ready to achieve our destiny: Inhabiting the stars and populating our galaxy with life.. Maybe we will not be cutting children in half because Mohammed said so. And perhaps the Christian crusades in which the same behavior occurred would not have taken place, either..
Maybe the light of life that is in every child’s eyes will not be indoctrinated by hate disguised and love, or judgement pretending to be discernment.
If there was no religion, perhaps we would start getting closer to actually finding who or what created us.. Maybe without ancient texts to get in the way, we would be able to scientifically trace back the origins of man and find the missing link.. Hell, maybe we’d even find out the grays did make us as a science experiment but that they are confused we have souls..
I look at my own son before bed each night. He sleeps in peace, most times and sugar-depending.. He is inquisitive about what his world, so far, is.. But I still weep for those children who don’t have have a peaceful sleep.. Those awakened by bombs overhead or the cries of suffering mothers at the hands of hateful and dreadful human beings hellbent on opening the gates of Hades on this planet. I contemplate the mothers of the children of the disappeared.. I loathe those who profess faith while driving BMWs to their giant Sunday services in convention centers.. I disdain religions that set rules contrary to human emotion.. And I get infuriated when people quote God to justify their heartless and ungodly acts.
But ain’t that Earth?
The truth will set us free.. what if that truth is that all religions are frauds and that the issues we have been told are important are nothing more than divisive ways to control population? I think that’s exactly what religion so often is..
Pope Francis has lots of impromptu photo ops. But there’s always a photographer at the ready, isn’t there?
Is anything real? Is nothing real?
Gay marriage is real to some.
The world is real to others–especially those suffering in it..
The quicker we move on from old antiquated belief systems the better..
There’s a world of trouble out there. It’s time to move on from the world.
Monday, August 11, 2014
When the laughs die down..
When the laughs die.. what are we left with? When cameras turn off, the lights go out.. the darkness enters..
When the laughs die down..
Horrible and sad news tonight.. Robin Williams dead..
It is being ruled a suicide..
But that doesn’t matter..
What matters is what this man did to cheer up the world—all the while he battled the sadness and depression of inner demons..
May God, if he exists, take Mr. Williams to an amazing place..
His time on this planet certainly amazed us, and made us smile when we were most down..
Mr. Keating, oh captain.. rest in peace.
Calling Dick Tracey…
What was science fiction then is reality now.
This is how people are going to be reading news.. they won’t be checking the time, they will be fixated on their arms to get the latest headlines and sports scores..
I believe it’s just a matter of time before the devices get implanted.. we are as close to it as we can be..
Sunday, August 10, 2014
What does it rise over..?
A nation rattled by violence .. one where women and children are buried alive by extremists..?
Maybe another where a disease has ravaged all that dwell within rural towns and communities..
Maybe another filled with hated..
Sorrow..
horror..
Or perhaps one of peace, where street lights grace the late summer night sky.. and an aura of moonlight dances overtop of the darkened trees as the clock strikes midnight..
There are too many places where tonight’s supermoon is seeing terror on the planet earth.. Not enough smiles, not enough laughs..
Try to be at peace, earth..
The supermoon weeps tonight..
NY TIMES: Print Is Down, and Now Out
A whole bunch of newspapers—and magazines—are collapsing under the weight of print..
Though I think we’ll still miss some of them when they’re gone, it’s looking like they are about to be G O N E..
NY TIMES: Print Is Down, and Now Out
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