Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured a hill on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo under the cover of airstrikes.
Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying that a U.S. intervention against the Syrian army “will lead to terrible, tectonic consequences not only on the territory of this country but also in the region on the whole.”
She said regime change in Syria would create a vacuum that would be “quickly filled” by “terrorists of all stripes.”
U.S.-Russian tensions over Syria have escalated since the breakdown of a cease-fire last month, with each side blaming the other for its failure. Syrian government forces backed by Russian warplanes have launched a major onslaught on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo.
The US government on Saturday ended its formal oversight role over the internet, handing over management of the online address system to a global non-profit entity. US and ICANN officials have said the contract had given Washington a symbolic role as overseer or the internet’s “root zone”
Jamaicans were bracing on Saturday for the arrival of Hurricane Matthew, as it approached that island as well as Haiti and Cuba, bringing winds reaching 140 miles per hour (220 kph), powerful enough to wreck homes.
Matthew, the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean since Felix in 2007, was forecast to make landfall as a major storm on Monday on Jamaica’s southern coast, home to the country’s capital, Kingston, and its only oil refinery. It could also affect tourist destinations such as Montego Bay in the north.
With Matthew about 400 miles (645 km) southeast of Kingston, the U.S. National Hurricane Center ranked it at Category 4 of the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. Earlier it had been ranked at the top Category 5.
I have a hunch it will get back to a Cat 5 again.. Either way, categories aside, this is going to be potent and deadly..
The latest spaghetti plot for Hurricane Matthew.. the storm system seems to now be converging into one possible track.. From Cuba and Haiti, storming by Florida, and then up the East Coast..
The purple line that is next to the East Coast is still a little too close for comfort .. The month of October is also known in modern weather history as the time frame when Superstorm Sandy formed and struck the Northeast.
“It simply did not stop,” WFAN anchor John MinKo, who witnessed the crash, told 1010 WINS. “It went right through the barriers and into the reception area.”
I think I read this article last year. And the year before that.. as a matter of fact, I think I read the same exact article just about every year at this time. I get it.. Halloween spending is high… and the highest of all time. Sexy outfits.. party attire.. all in a year’s life. It is going to be the biggest Halloween since ………last year….
Action/Superhero Princess Animal (Cat, Dog, Lion, Monkey, etc.) Batman Character Star Wars Character Tie: Witch AND DC Superhero (excl. Batman) Frozen Character (Anna, Elsa, Olaf) Marvel Superhero (excl. Spiderman) Zombie Spiderman
And the big choices for adults: Every costume listed above in a semi-nude state.
I disliked the Rob Zombie HALLOWEEN remake. It sounds like John Carpenter did too.. Carpenter called Zombie a piece of excrement.. he said he lied. And he really did not seem to like the retake or remake or whatever you’d call the piece of refuse that Zombie offered up a few years ago..
Halloween. The original. By John Carpenter. The only real Halloween.
This is the big announcement that was planned by NASA for about a week or longer.. And it could mean that we would find out more about the water on Europa without drilling..
Last night, I took some time to connect with readers on Tumblr who have followed me since the beginning of this little invention called Coal Speaker .. (Thanks to those of you around for 6 plus years) .. I lamented the fact that so often I vanish from here for days only to return again with a fervor.. There are moments in life when I come to need mind clearing events.. Whether it’s a long walk in the woods or even a long kneeling in an empty Cathedral in the city I work in during noon devotions. Whatever floats a boat .. Whatever gets to the point of connecting with a higher realm, if that is at all possible…
As things change, I realize I often don’t. As I age, I still seem to think that ten years ago was yesterday and that dial up wasn’t so long ago–neglecting to realize that so many now getting into the work world never knew what dial up was! Never knew with an AOL chat room was! Never heard of Geocities.. Yes indeed so much has changed..
And so much on this website has changed as well.
When I go back and look at some archived material, I realize how immature I was at times.. I realize how I have grown over time (but yet have so much more to go ) …
So thanks for reading. Thanks for being here. My hope is you continue to lend an ear and keyboard to my quivering verbose at times verbal diarrhea … It just would not be the same without you.
Priest César Truqui said he had encountered a demon called ‘Asmodeus’ – the same demon according to Truqui who was present in the Old Testament story of Tobias..
Truqui claims that this demon 'targets families’ as an evil calling..
He said it was 'present’ in an exorcism he held with Gabriele Amorth – he was the priest famous for exorcisms who recently died..
Officials told the newspaper they responded to reports of a person lying on a front porch of a home, and that there was a large crowd in the street. The Reading Eagle identified the victim as Christian Torres, 16, who was a 10th-grader at Reading High School. Reading Police Chief Andres Dominguez Jr. told the newspaper that investigators believe there are several suspects.
I know this may not be the popular opinion.. But I really don’t think much changed last night. I think those who liked Hillary Clinton will like her more.. This who like Donald Trump will do the same..
In my humble thought, if you only watched the first half hour of the rumble in Long Island, you’d walk away thinking that Trump soared–Hillary did not seemed prepared for the kinder and gentler Donald, despite his sniffling.. If you watched the last half, you’d think that Hillary cleaned Donald’s clock. The middle hour was a murky tale of nasty one liners and lipstick on teeth..
The debate to end all debates actually was not as good as some may have hoped it would be. Camp Clinton is claiming the crown and the media is piling on with articles about the best quips back to Trump and Howard Dean publicly pondering if the Republican candidates snorted crack before the debate.. But the conservative media is piling on the same..
The partisan divide is only more evident. After the debate, a Drudge poll had Trump leading 90% to Hillary’s 10%.. I thought how ridiculous. When I saw the CNN poll showing about 70% thought Hillary won I thought it was equally ridiculous..
Everyone is playing to their own crowd. There is no unbiased reporting anymore, and when there is it’s comes with low ratings and little to no concern from the public.
Instead we picked our corners already. The only thing left to do now is cheer on the candidate we most want to see bloody the other.
This may be the most partisan election since 2000 … And God help us if a repeat of disputed chads happens this year.
Not the sort of attention that the Bloomsburg fair needed.. nonetheless, the world now knows.. There were NAZI flags being sold at the annual event.. The vendor not only was selling Nazi flags, but was removed from the grounds for being a REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER..
And as far as offense? He told WBRE that he did not care if people were offended. It was his right to sell them, he said.. Along with that, he mentioned he was at the fair for 45 years now..
Arnold Palmer died on Sunday. The golf legend passed away at the age of 87 near Pittsburgh. He was a legend… squeaky clean, famous, admired, even had a drink named after him. In the latter half of the 20th century, the Republican party even courted him to run for national office. He never did.
Another death occurred this weekend of a sports star–and it was certainly more shocking than an elderly golfer.. Florida Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died in a very tragic boating incident.. The irony is there. Fernandez fled Cuba almost a decade ago on a speed boat.. He died Sunday off of South Beach in a violent boat crash at the age of 24.. Two others were killed in the accident…
There are really no similarites between Palmer and Fernandez, with the exception of sports and fame.. they both played what they loved and were monumentally good at it. Both were known far and wide..
The major difference: Palmer lived a full life while Fernandez died in the beginning part of his prime. The riches and glory and fame and fortune, for both, didn’t matter in the end.. for both, the angel of death circled the wagon and struck.. For both, we lost legends and are reminded that sooner or later God’s gonna cut you down..
The late Johnny Cash performed a good rendition of that God’s gonna cut you down song.. but in moments of majorly famous people dying, I get more reminded of his version of HURT by NIN.. Cash’s video of the song is poignant and haunting–there are scenes where his earthly treasures are highlighted in his mansion.. all the while he sings the words ‘And you could have it all, my empire of dirt.’
We don’t have much time on this planet. For Palmer, he led a good life and make his mark. For Fernandez, his youthful vigor was evident but now, in death, painful.
Make haste.. No waste.. Time is ending fast. And you’ll one get get your taste, of moments that will be your last.
This is an image from the 2016 Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg PA ..
A friend first alerted to me about this here on Tumblr.. she is also from the area and noticed it was making the viral social rounds in the coal region on Facebook and Twitter.
The image was taken by someone who visited the fair and was moved enough to publish her photo of the Nazi flag (next to the make America great again Trump banner) on the truck.. The vendor is selling items that include derogotive bumper stickers and other apparrel of controversial appeal..
I have been attending the fair since childhood .. I have great memories. Yes, there are places that you’d conclude it’s Pennsyltucky. But this flag being showcased at the fair goes well beyond accepted social norms of the area..
I would hope now that the original Facebook posting with the picture has been shared thousands of times online, someone from the management of the local week long fair will get with this vendor and act accordingly..
One other aspect of this year’s fair that floored me a bit: The political nature of it all! Yes, the Bloomsburg fair has always been a home for Republicans and Democrats from the local area selling banners and yard signs. Presidential elections have been intense. But this year? I don’t think I recall a political year like this since after 9/11 .. There are gigantic–and I mean GIGANTIC–cutouts of Donald Trump (one was a 20 or so foot replica of him advertising a donut stand)… Cardboard cutouts of Hillary and Donald.. political shirts being sold on every corner.. and people wearing Alex Jones’ INFOWARS Hillary for prison shirts just about in every portion of the fair …
2016 is a political year. But I would certainly say that politics and controversy aside, a Nazi flag at an American county fair is beyond tasteless and out of place.
There will be 100 million Americans (and more people around the globe) who watch the Monday night debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.. It will be a record audience and shatter any previous for a political event.
This will be history in the making .. 90 minutes without a break. Without a commercial…
Debate parties will be taking place across the nation .. I bet money that even bar rooms will be fixated for a bit on the debate, perhaps developing drinking games while watching..
And the result? Maybe a decision
I predict that most people watching will make an immediate decision of who they want to vote for within the first 15 minutes of the televised debate.. and I also think people will determine the candidate of their choice Monday as opposed to any other of the 40 or so days before the November election..
This is an image of the Washington mall shooter.. he has been arrested.. early reports indicated he was ‘Hispanic.’ He is not. Instead he is a Turkish born immigrant to the United States.. Officials are not releasing any statements that the shooting was connected to terrorism.. This from USA TODAY on the ‘zombie’
A day after five people were shot dead in a Burlington, Wash., mall, authorities arrested a man they say was behind the rampage.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor, Wash., was taken into custody around 7 p.m. PT Saturday in Oak Harbor, roughly 29 miles southwest of Burlington.
Lt. Mike Hawley, Island County Sheriff’s Office, said deputies spotted the car near their office in Oak Harbor Saturday night, but no one was inside.
“I saw an individual walking northbound on the sidewalk and I instantly recognized that this is the person that I just viewed on my computer,” Hawley said.
“He said nothing,” Hawley added. “He was kind of zombie-like.”
