I watched this a few times today.. The bird landing came before his victories in tonight’s caucuses …
If it’s a sparrow it’s a good sign. If it’s a finch it’s even better..
And when things like this happen–these seemingly strange coincidences surrounding seemingly mundane events–it reminds me of how the bigger picture exists.. How there seems to be a dramatically bigger affair that takes place around us..
How maybe… No coincidences really do exist and a higher order is in power.
Or…. It was just a bird. Just a moment. Just a strange event that will be forgotten by tomorrow.
The LGBT community went mad when a main character–a gay character at that–on the show was killed off in dramatic fashion.
The part that was perhaps most unbelievable was how Jason Rothenberg and others billed the show as a must watch on social media, persuading people to halt their plans and tune into the program for a special episode. When they did, they saw Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey), the lesbian commander of the Grounders and the love interest of main character Clarke (Eliza Taylor), was killed by a stray bullet meant for Clarke..
Rothenberg retreated into silence on social media in the days and weeks following the episode, while a large sector of the show’s LGBT fanbase channeled their anger and social media power into collecting more than $45,000 — and counting — for the anti-discrimination Trevor Project. Rothenberg also defended his story choices, saying, “The things that divide us as global citizens today don’t matter in this show. And that’s the beauty of science-fiction. We can make a point without preaching. We can say that race, sexuality, gender and disability should not divide us. We can elevate our thinking and take you on a helluva ride at the same time.”
If nothing else, this displays the risks for people using social media to advance something.. especially if that something is going to make a lot of people very very angry..
Two days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear plant was murdered and his pass was stolen, Belgian media reported on Saturday.
There were fears the day Belgium occurred–a nuke plant was evacuated and there were threats since.. This news will cause more fear and loathing in Brussels and other locations..
The verdicts are coming in.. those of the people I now who saw BATMAN VS SUPERMAN are highly upset.. one person’s reaction was shock when she learned that the film cost almost a billion bucks *($800 mil to be exact)* to create.. a monstrosity of a borefest..
BUT BUT BUT.. stop the presses, here’s the latest bat news: Easter weekend take moneywise for the flick is going to be wide and big. $171 predicted for BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, despite the bad reviews. Despite the bad reactions. Despite Ben Affleck. The $171 mil will be minus Affleck’s children, as well..
The movie’s release is pre-summer. The spring Cherry Blossoms are not even done blooming. The genius of Warner Bros was to release a film like this – comic book, bombs, fights, explosions, Wonder Woman in a skimpy outfit – when kids were home from school. During a three day weekend when teens had nothing to do but go to the movies.. The marketing was also amazing with product placement everywhere, including in the cereal aisle for my five year old to have the choice of BATMAN or SUPERMAN flavor..
And finally, despite the misgivings and criticism, Affleck is scoring some points for his role as Wayne. Maybe not from me. But from enough people.
All that said, the movie is getting 30% at Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is also most likely going to drop next week after this initial trial run in over 4000 theaters as the Easter Bunny hops along..
Oh…..second place this weekend? Take a guess. The mighty ZOOTOPIA…
The four-minute video clip, titled “Last Chance,” uses computer animation to show what looks like an intercontinental ballistic missile flying through the earth’s atmosphere before slamming into Washington, near what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial. A nuclear explosion follows
The video is titled “A message to the Western Kafir [Disbelievers] from the Supporters of the Caliphate.” It’s narrated in English and subtitled in Arabic, and was posted on YouTube and other file-sharing sites.
A North Carolina man says he was arrested for failing to return a VHS tape that he rented in 2002.
James Meyers says he was driving his daughter to school Tuesday when a police officer pulled him over for a defective tail light.
He says the officer told him there was a warrant out for his arrest from 2002, because Meyers had rented the movie “Freddy Got Fingered” starring Tom Green and never returned it.
Meyers says the officer let him take his daughter to school and go to work, as long as he promised to turn himself in to the police department later that day.
Garry Shandling, the writer, actor, producer and comedian best known for his long-running and influential HBO series The Larry Sanders Show and his groundbreaking sitcom It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 66
The cause of death was not released..
The NET is buzzing with tributes and sadness over the death of an iconic comedian too early..
The missing link has been found?! A remarkable story..
But now a team of researchers has found a remarkable parallel to one of evolution’s signature events. In a cave in Thailand, they’ve discovered that a blind fish walks the way land vertebrates do.
The waterfall-climbing cave fish, Cryptotora thamicola, has even evolved many of the skeletal features that our ancestors did for walking, including a full-blown pelvis.
“It’s really weird,” said John R. Hutchinson, a biologist at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London who was not involved in the new study. “It’s a good example of how much fish diversity there’s left to be discovered.”
Terrorists were preparing an attack on a nuclear power plant and had recorded 12 hours of reconnaissance footage, it has been reported.
The ISIS cell were spying on Belgium’s nuclear power chief, possibly as part of a kidnap plan to force him to let them into an atomic facility, according to newspaper Derniere Heure.
Hours of film of the home of the Research and Development Director of the Belgian Nuclear Programme were discovered in an apartment in Brussels raided by anti-terrorist police following the attack in Paris.
Newly released images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reveal a close-up look at Ceres’ odd bright spots and giant mountain, and hint at the existence of ice sheets at the dwarf planet’s poles.
It’s a body that had s body of water that froze.. And entire ocean of ice..amazing.. But this bright spot? That’s the perplexing thing.
UPPER DARBY >> A day after police broke up an underage drinking party involving several hundreds of teens at his Mary Street residence, a 54-year-old father was arrested Sunday on charges including corruption of minors, furnishing alcohol to minors and disorderly conduct.
When Abdul Ahmaddiya’s wife, 45-year-old Nichelle Davis-Ahmaddiya, arrived at police headquarters Monday to post his 10 percent of $1,500 bail, she also was arrested on similar offenses, Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. Their 17-year-old daughter, who apparently promoted the Saturday night soiree on social media, was cited for alleged consumption and possession of alcohol.
A government document obtained by NBC News shows that just four months before Tuesday’s Brussels attacks, Belgian officials believed they were making progress in defusing the threat posed by ISIS terrorists in Belgium.
A confidential U.S. cable describes how the Belgian officials outlined the nuts and bolts of their aggressive new counter-terrorism program in meetings with U.S. counterparts.
“I saw blood everywhere where was a man whose chest was completely open. He had no more legs. Next to him a second man with no head whose body was shaking. Glass everywhere.”
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Kallouchi Mohammed, 28, works at cafe inside the Brussels airport
A wild day in newsrooms across the world.. This image is being shown on various agencies of the purported terrorists from the vantage point of leaked CCTV..
Most news agencies thus far have hidden this boy’s face in the photo above.. CNN chose to display the image without disguising the clearly underage child involved in the carnage in Brussels.. A journalistic decision
‘I heard a man shout some Arabic words then an explosion… then a second explosion, a massive explosion, much bigger.’
Speaking with blood on his hands and struggling to hold back tears, he added: 'It was a horror. I saw at least seven people dead. There was blood. People had lost legs. You could see there bodies but no legs.’
He added: 'I saw two men face down with blood pouring out of their heads. The injuries were so awful. You cannot imagine. People were so injured.
'I did not see the man who shouted in Arabic as he was behind me. I just heard the words. I don’t speak Arabic so I don’t know what he said.'
In the aftermath, thousands of people waiting for flights this morning were penned inside the terminal as police sealed off the shattered arrivals hall.
People already checked in were then slowly evacuated through emergency exits – but were told to leave all their hand luggage as police checked bags for more explosives.
The images from Belgium are harrowing.. The nation feared terror for since and especially since Paris.. The arrest of the Paris attack mastermind didn’t help alleviate anything. And now today’s 8am morning rush hour double bombings of a subway system and airport in Brussels is being viewed by some as a response to the Friday arrest..
Clear at this point: Belgium and other European cities and nations are on lockdown.. People are being warned to avoid public gatherings.. The train connecting nation shut down..
The story and situation is developing.. With every passing moment more complications on the geo political sphere and in the world of open borders..
Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the EARTHFILES page about this:
A Pedricktown resident sent the following email with his image of a mysterious, pulsing pink beam that lasted for at least ten minutes before the strange beam kept contracting on itself half a dozen times getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
The light is bizarre to say the least.. in the description Linda received, the tipster wrote,
At 6:45 am, the beam disappeared. The way it disappeared was it contracted to about 2/3 of the size that was visible towards its center, disappeared,reappeared at its original size and repeated the contraction and disappearance-reappearance about five or six times.
This was not a spotlight, as the brightest spot was in the middle of the beam. Spotlights would be brighter at the power source. It wasn’t a laser pointer as known laser pointers are handheld and couldn’t produce a beam that strong.
There may be a very normal (?) explanation for this light.. but I certainly cannot think of something that would make it seem that way..
Is it possible that Lexa’s death on The 100 could actually be viewed in a positive way by the LGBT community? At the moment, there are thousands of people angry and frustrated at the removal of a lesbian character, but there could be another way to look at this.
There were valid points when The 100 decided to suddenly kill off Lexa. It showed that Jason Rothenberg was going in the same direction as so many other shows: bringing in gay characters just to get rid of them. There are very few shows on TV that support gay and lesbian characters, and most of them will kill them off in some way. Supernatural faced backlash for killing off Charlie during Season 10 for no reason.
As for her own reaction when she heard how Lexa’s story would go in Season 3, Debnam-Carey said, “I was just like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to do this really well! I’ve got to make sure I work really hard and do the character justice.’ Which is hard because that show, we run so quickly and we work really fast, so you’re never quite able to perfect anything, I think. But which also makes it so alive, because it’s constantly moving and developing as you’re filming.”
Spoiler warning for future events of The 100 follow…
Debnam-Carey was seen on the set of the Season 3 finale of The 100, but when I asked her what she could say about that appearance, she laughed and coyly replied, “What was the question? Can I talk about it? No.”
Madonna invited a 17-year-old fan onstage during her concert Thursday night in Brisbane, Australia, and then pulled down the teen’s corset top to briefly reveal her left breast…
The Material Girl ended up in a bit of hot water when she – seemingly accidentally – exposed a 17-year-old fan’s breast during her Rebel Heart Tour in Brisbane, Australia on Thursday.
“She’s the kind of girl you just want to slap…on the a**. And pull–” Madge said as she yanked the teen’s corset down and flashed her boob. “Oh, sh*t! I’m sorry. Sexual harassment. You can do the same to me.”
I am hesitant linking to the video.. there are some YOUTUBE accounts permitting the underage nudity.. even some showing it in SLO MO.
Every now and then if I find a gem online that is worth noting and re-posting I do so.. found such today. This one is called ONCE UPON A TOWN, and showcases old photographs of some famous and not so famous places prior to urban sprawl.. Amazing site. Great work. Check it out..
In a city defined by celebrity, Jones has a unique kind of fame. She’s been called the Beyoncé of earthquakes, the Meryl Streep of government service, a woman breaking barriers in a man’s world.
Her son, now 25, recently texted her: “You’re on Jeopardy!” with a photo of the clue.
Authoritative yet nurturing, the “earthquake lady” has a knack for making a complicated point so simple it seems obvious. Along the way, she has dramatically changed the way the Southland prepares for earthquakes. Buildings are safer, first responders are better equipped and millions of residents have learned that the worst thing to do in an earthquake is to run outside.
“When the big one hits, people will be living because of the work that she has done,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
Now Jones hopes to leverage her earthquake credentials to tackle even more ambitious projects. She’s retiring from the USGS this month to help officials develop science-based policies related to climate change, tsunamis and other kinds of natural disasters.
