Yes indeed.. the supermoon is coming.
Can’t wait to see photos stream all over the net..
Yes indeed.. the supermoon is coming.
Can’t wait to see photos stream all over the net..
Dr. Mary Neal from last year on Dr. Oz..
I just heard her the other night on Coast to Coast AM. Her story sounds profound.
But profound why? Because as a skeptic she now believes in near death experiences and God? Or because the brain convinces dying people that God exists…? I wish we knew.. ?
I’m an enormous BATMAN fan.. even more of a fan of the Nolan films than any other. The latest trailer was released…
All I can say is this: If a movie trailer can raise the hairs on my arms and cause my eyes to swell with tears, I cannot even imagine what the whole movie will do.
Yes I’m not ashamed to admit it. DARK KNIGHT RISES may make me, a 31-year-old grown man, weep.
We’re here to take your liver: Facebook begins new organ donor ‘share status’..
No really.. Facebook users can now share as their status whether they are an organ donor or not. I don’t want to debate the pros and cons of organ donation or broadcasting it to the world on Facebook. But I did want an excuse to post a photo from one of my favorite movies, THE MEANING OF LIFE.. The scene with organ donations cannot be forgotten. Hope the folks who show up at your door for your liver don’t exist. If they do, they will be busy checking Facebook for their next patient.
Once in (our) lifetime event: Last chance to see Venus transit for over 100 years.. Pretty cool stuff. Hope the skies are clear.. and speaking of Venus 100 years ago when people saw it last time: History: A Historican weaves thrilling tale of 18th century expeditions to see Venus transit..
It makes me slightly sad that we don’t have edge of the seat expiditions anymore. Things are too easy. Let’s make space exploration dangerous again!
The Earth may be making strange sounds.. but Canada seems to be thinking the noises it is hearing are coming from the United States!
The Wall Street JOURNAL reports that residents in Ontario are blaming the noises for illnesses, whipping dogs into frenzies, and keeping cats housebound..
Americans cannot seem to hear it.
Only people in the “Windsor Hum” area..
Is it Detroit?
Is America itself groaning?
There sure is lots to groan about, right?
Some might say.. indeed.
Travel with me back to the the mid 90s.. peace and prosperity, minus the brewing crises of war and economic peril.. It was fun.
And Oasis was fun to.
This song, SOME MIGHT SAY, brought to you by SoundCloud and Tumblr. Turn up the volume, crack open whatever cold beverage or brew whatever hot one..
I think this song feature the best line in any song ever written,
Some might say they don’t believe in heaven
Go and tell that to the man who lives in hell
I will be honest. I hate email forwards. Really despise the long joke format emails, too.. If you are going to send a forward, I contend the best of them are just the quick one liners or just a quick photo. And do a favor to the receiver, delete all the nonsense email addresses and other names of people who got it for the previous year.
That all being said.. I really really despite People of Walmart forwards.
The website is hugely popular. I’ve been to it. I walk away from it being lightly amused and first and then … well.. disturbed. Not disturbed by the “people” of Walmart but by the whole concept that, regardless of how much of fool you may look like in our yellow thong or high boots, someone is ready to snap a photo of you and post it online. Your face isn’t blurred.. your image captured for the amusement of others who now get it in email—people who probably pick their noses and rear ends and look just a foolish at times as the people they are laughing at.
Instead I’d opt for the app to tell me if someone is ugly deep down in their soul.
I love a good laugh. But constantly laughing at the expense of other? ..that I am not fond of.
Some history just got made today. From the ruins of Ground Zero over a decade ago to this, today: The Freedom Tower, 1 World Trade Center, is not taller than the Empire State Building.
Not bad for a project that seemed to almost never get off the ground, excuse the pun.
From those tragic days in the post 9/11 world, cleaning up dust and debris, bodies and souls.. to this.
History made today.
And you thought the human race was lazy today! Just imagine the our species when they can sit back in a space age style couch and zoom across the land. That’s right, Toyota unveils the couch of the future…
Just hopefully they account for the average weight of humanity soaring over the 300 pound mark. Big seats?
What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious
President Obama last night at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
I guess it was funny.
Humor has changed in the past few years.. Presidents stopped “looking for weapons of mass destruction” during the comedy hour in favor of jokes about eating canines.
Missed this notable story from yesterday.. a 4.1 quake was downgraded to a 3.8 but the real story is that it was near the San Andreas fault and it was felt in Los Angeles..
More from CNN on the quake. No major damages..
It was not on the San Andreas fault. But close. Too close for comfort?
If you have been watching lately the ring of fire in the Pacific is .. well… on fire. Is it only a matter of time? Well of course the answer is yes. It is only a matter of time for virtually anything on this planet. Hopefully a big one won’t hit like it did in the past.. But with how active the ring has been as of late, this latest “near” Andreas quake is a little too close for comfort…
He underwent surgery on his cheekbones. He’s 14. A boy punched him repeatedly in the face after he was “bumped,” according to cops. The photo now of Preston Hodge was posted by a family friend. He told CBS news that he wanted to illustrate bullying in the once great American school system..
Interestingly, the comments on the story from CBS in Houston seem to be revolving around the race of the victim and the race of the beater…
The world is going mad. We are divided we stand? For now.
Hope justice prevails. Hope the 14-year-old victim recovers.. And here’s hoping the future is a little brighter than the dark times this current generation is seeing.
Sometimes I think this nation has gone to hell. Not even in a hand basket. It would be too comfortable in one.
From Live Science, here is an interesting listing of nations that are the most religious and the most atheist..
Interestingly, only a little more than 4% of people from Japan are certain of the existence of God. After the year that they have had, who can really blame them?
Sky roars, bird choruses, and all those sounds. People who follow me or read this occasion may be aware that I am a close follower and interested person in the alleged “strange noises” and sounds being heard around the world. From trumpets and horns to metallic train like jolts to megawhirls that sound like jets. It runs the field.
I say alleged noises because, besides YouTube, I have not heard these noises first hand. But I did receive a message from someone who said she has heard the noises and what she reports made my skin get some chills:
I don’t believe this is a hoax. It may be on youtube, but I have heard these strange noises myself along with several others. Although unexplainable to ourselves, I heard every explanation available. Jet engines echoing off the mountains, wind, mountain goat groaning, electromagnetic anomaly, etc. Good thing it wasn’t interfering with our communications, huh? I think this is something you will have to hear for yourselves.
I think people from Clintonville, Kiev, the UK, Russia, China, and other towns, counties, and nations that have been hearing the booms and noises, would all say the same thing. The USGS explained away the booms in Clintonville with a 1.5 quake.. but many residents, some who messaged me, were not convinced and not secure in the explanation. I don’t think I’d be either, quite frankly.
So what is it?
Gas extraction?
Fracking?
Earth changing?
The core moving.. ? so many questions. So few answers. So many rumbles …
It has been a rough time for the Greeks.. Turmoil and protests in the streets.. austerity measures.. massive layoffs and hikes in fees and taxes. Economy constantly teetering on the brink of complete mayhem.. And for some, apparently, mayhem took hold and they ended it all: Suic
ides are putting Greeks on edge just before an election..
More from Reuters on the official accounting of this story.. The Reuters report begins,
On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northern Greece. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old student shot himself in the head
Reuters points out that Greece had the lowest suicide rate in the world. Things seem to be changing as the economy falters. And people are taking notice in the nation ..
Reuters continues,
Before shooting himself during morning rush hour on April 4 on Syntagma Square across from the Greek parliament building, the 77-year-old pensioner took a moment to jot down a note.
"I see no other solution than this dignified end to my life so I don’t find myself fishing through garbage cans for sustenance," wrote Christoulas, who has since become a national symbol of the austerity-induced pain that is squeezing millions.
Greek media have since reported similar suicides almost daily, worsening a sense of gloom going into next week’s election, called after Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’s interim government completed its mandate to secure a new rescue deal from foreign creditors by cutting spending further.
The tragic and dire situation that Greece finds itself in has this very real and human element. People are ending it all, people who had decent careers and decent families.. and once decent middle class lives.
There seems to be a rise in mental health issues.
And family issues.
Oh, yes, and money issues too.
Greece, the once great powerful nation. Perhaps the troubles and tribulations that now befall on the good people of Greece are just cautionary tales about how, despite our wealth, we too can lose it all.. And maybe if the richest men are only wealthy in material and now spirit, this cautionary tale becomes a freight train of horror blasting down the tracks for the rest of the modern world…
..so say scientists who ponder if life on earth is a fluke..
And I wonder this based on the pondering of the highly educated: If life on earth is a fluke then it makes me almost have to ask whether the human species is a parasite? Did earth develop a disease named life? Or is it instead a message that somewhere the old debated book we call the Bible is on to something that science is finally realizing: Human are special and in the image of God?
Weighty questions, I guess, for a weekend..?
For me it’s only three:
DARK SHADOWS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER
DARK KNIGHT
That’s about it. How about you?
Good luck to the folks at Knoebels today as their spring/summer 2012 season begins. If you’re ever near the coal veins of Pennsylvania, you may want to consider a voyage to the little amusement park nestled in the woods. It’s clean and reasonable.. It’s not huge but what is the need.. and while I get no money for this little text advertisement, I will be spending money there this season accordingly. My son won’t be tall enough for most rides but .. he can watch.
We’ve been hearing about potentially millions of billions of trillions of planets existing in the galaxy for months now with the discoveries that Kepler has given us. Finally, it appears that astronomers have found a planet that people could maybe live on. But… Scientists found the planet, Gliese 667Cc, orbiting around a red dwarf star, 22 light years away from the earth. Which is really far away.. So don’t pack your bags yet. You’re confined to the little blue dot for the time being. Future generations though may make it more important to get off this dot depending on how many resources have been depleted by the time we master the art of light year travel..
He said it was a nightmare. I can only imagine. And hope I never experience it. This is a deep fear in me.. and if you think about it long enough it will be a fear for you too.
Just when UFO enthusiasts thought they got proof.. in comes the skeptics with facts. Some thought this image showed a space ship near the sun. Others with degrees and most likely huge school loan bills say is a collection of cosmic rays.
So who do you trust.. hubba hubba hubba.. who do you trust?
Sure, my pudding expires December 21 2012 and lots of other people think people in general will, too. But we can’t lose hope. Fukushima may have blasted the planet with extreme radiation.. others worry about our online rights being suddenly stripped with the next bill that has too long of an acronym to even understand anymore. And the weather is crazy, isn’t it? Slightly maddening cows hopefully didn’t get into our meat supply, even though South Korea banned our imports. We will still eat them. Beef, it’s what for dinner. 20 years later you may go mad, too.
But all that aside, life isn’t that bad, right?
Enter this study: The planet Earth is ready to face a century of disasters.
That’s right.. not just a few weeks, or a month.. or a year or two. No, this report goes all the way: A whole century. But the time humans make it to the 22nd, if we should be so lucky as a species, generations may look back on us in 2012 and say ‘these poor schmucks didn’t know what was about to hit them!’
The Royal Society seems to know. They say world population needs to be ‘stabalised’ (British spelling) in order to take awayeth from the rich nations and giveth to the poor nations. Yes, indeed. Agenda 21 anyone? Perhaps conspiracy theories of population control are right after all?
What surprised me was that this report didn’t talk much about the most pressing issue set to face our world in the next 20 or so years: Water. Just peruse your local video rental store…..oh wait they are all shut down… Go to Netflix, you won’t find these in the local RedBox: 5 documentaries that you must see to understand the water crisis that we face—in our lifetime..
But instead of worrying about clean water and air… let’s frack. Seriously.. Fracking make it all go away.
But it does seem to cause an increase in manmade earthquakes, doesn’t it? If you care. Most of the fracking in rural areas anyway. And what person REALLY cares about the rural area anyway.
Besides the Obama administration, which wants to limit what farmhands can do.
Little House on the Prairie. Now regulated!?
Get me Bill Gates! I need a vaccine.
My rambling Thursday morning whatever. Over and out.
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So what is he thinking.. the knowing eyes… will he return? Will he stick to shortwave.. Ham is his handle and Coast is the past? Interesting new photo of Art Bell posted tonight by Mr. Bell himself on his Facebook page. Radio equipment in the back, apparently not getting dusty and actually quite clean after the 2011 fire extinguisher incident.
So now what?
Until we know, you can find him hamming it up on Echolink, if you have the technological knowledge to do so.
The diseased animal “at no time presented a risk to the food supply or human health,” the USDA says. Officials discovered the animal at a rendering facility in central California, which they have not chosen to name. During a briefing in Washington, USDA chief veterinarian John Clifford assured…
At no time.. At no time.. at no time.
No risk at all to food?… No risk.
No risk.
Saying it over and over again makes it all more true, right?
I am following this story.. you should too: Suspicious stain found in basement search for Etan Patz..
I don’t know where the case is going, but I can only imagine how emotional it is for the family.. the family that probably never got over the day that Etan Patz vanished.
How do you deal with this type of tragedy? Some may say just end your own life.. but what about the chances that your child may return.. and you’d miss it. Or the chances your child’s abductor may soon be found, decades later?
The cycle of destruction? Could it be that there is a common denominator between colony collapse and autism? Birds and the bees and the kids and the trees.. we are all connected after all.. So why wouldn’t chemicals hit us all, too..?
Sad news tonight.. Jonathan Frid, the actor who played Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows has died.. too bad he couldn’t make it to the Johnny Depp movie premiere, or maybe good he couldn’t.. I have odd feelings about the Depp DARK SHADOWS..Tim Burton and Co. may have outdone themselves.Or just worked to freak us all out yet again.. HorrorReportCOM But as for Barnabas, no was better than Jonathon Frid.. Good show, Mr. Frid. You were the best soap opera vampire of all time.
Parody photo. Real headline and news story: The Vatican is ordering a “crackdown” on “radical” nuns in the United States, you know, the type that have the audacity to not wear habits or challenge bishops.
Wonder how the crackdown will go. And what exactly occurs during a 21st Century Catholic crackdown is anyone’s guess.. most likely won’t be the same as one that occurred to women in the 1st. Just a hunch.
AFP reporting: “Agricultural authorities in northwest China have culled about 95,000 chickens after an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus, state press reported Wednesday”.. Chinese government says “epidemic is now under control”..
Bishop implicated in sex scandal.. Philadelphia man told a jury Wednesday that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia priest who allegedly sexually abused him for years starting in the late 1970s had said a colleague who is now a bishop in West Virginia also had sex with teenage boys..
The hottest March in decades for the United States.. the coldest May coming for the UK? According to forecasters, the coldest in 100 years is coming to the UK, putting summer on hold, and introducing the possibility of biting winds, snow, and cold..
Cops take students’ DNA for murder case—without parental consent..
Neolithic acoustics of Stonehenge revealed by academics..
Marketing early: Kids grow up addicted to online porn sites..
Extreme Universe puzzle deepens..
Space Shuttle Discovery will have a new home: A museum..
Update: Volcanic activity recorded at mountain near Mexico City..
Giving credit where credit is due: Ryan Seacrest says AMERICAN IDOL would never have existed if it was not for Dick Clark..
Reaction from the entertainment world to “world’s oldest teenager’s” death..
Dick Clark: Smooth and unstoppable..
Clark’s fortune was worth millions..
Nurse who is accused of killing mother and kidnapping baby will begin court life..
The Secret Service scandal continues to emerge.. Now news that the prostitution party was pre-planned.. one of the women invovled with the scandal in Columbia speaks.. ABC reporting reports that the Presidential Advance Team did their own advance work for their own personal sexual needs.. They reserved a space large enough for 30 people before traveling to a club.. The woman involved said she has ‘nervous attacks’ and ‘this is really big’..
Indeed it is.
I wish there was a return to DEAL OR NO DEAL .. where are they now type of show. Where exactly did they spend that $5 grand that the banker gave them…
HOW UPSETTING. A VERY SERIOUS STORY ABOUT A POTENTIALLY DEADLY VOLCANO NEAR MEXICO CITY, AND ALL THE WASHINGTON POST CAN DO IS MOCK THE SITUATION..
The POST story seems to me aiming to attempt journalism when they write about the Popocatepetl volcano.. until the second sentence when the author writes, “not a good thing”..
The ‘reporting’ continues when the POST says, “It is also a little bit freaky, in a Krakatoa kind of way”.. It also said the “lava dome was growing in the volcano crater like a teenager’s pimple on the eve of prom night”..
Regarding how dangerous of a situation it is, the POST doesn’t let us down with yet another bad pun and reference to pop culture: “Authorities raised the alert level to high yellow, or 5 on a scale of 7 (with 7 presumably being something out of a Michael Bay film).”
And you say hardnose journalism is dead! You claim real news is a thing of the past.
And you know what? You’re right. Apparently real reporting about very serious things is dead.
I noticed something tonight.. My area, for those who don’t know, really doesn’t change much. If you travel away for a while and come back you’ll feel like you are stuck in the same age.. which has benefits and negatives all in the same. You know what ground you stand on. But you also don’t reap in the glory that changing of scenery can offer.
Tonight, as the typical early spring breeze blew and the sun set, I noticed something. Maybe it was a revelation—one that I will botch up and not do justice by even typing it out in rambling thought. But the breeze blew, birds’ chirps resounded around me like a chorus of warmth, and the sun finally gave way to the night sky. And I thought: Is earth just a classroom in which people roll through now and then for a lesson? Or instead, are we constantly rolling through the same planet? Are we recycling over and over again on earth, trying to get this right? I don’t know. I don’t even know where my thoughts took me..
I think it was one of those moment in time split second glimpse of the thin veil that divides this realm and another.
I mean, I looked at this sunset with birds singing and wondered if it is the first time this generation of birds were here? Maybe they were just recycled and came back again since they were so good at filling a spring evening with refreshing music. Maybe. And maybe I was here before. And saw that same sunset for centuries. Maybe? Getting a little weird yet?
Think of it.. if your each down into the water and grab a fish, what do you do the fish, besides let it gag and garble to death? You make it see a vision of a whole new world .. even if it is only for seconds.
I think from time to time, when we have momentary lapses of reason, we chip away at the shroud that keeps us from understanding a higher purpose. Or power. Or … nothing?
Maybe there is nothing.
And maybe there is something.
And maybe there is reincarnation.
And maybe there is everything.
I just don’t know.
I bet you don’t either. Which makes my abhorrently un-understandable diatribe I just typed all the more ‘out there’..
Wanna take a ride!!!??
The voice of Coast to Coast AM since Art Bell in the 1990s through this year has been Ross Mitchell. His deep voice and sometimes frightening delivery during some of the best shows in the past made those best shows even better. But now, he isn’t working for Coast to Coast AM anymore. He now announces for competitor RED EYE RADIO..
The end of an era?
Some already thought George Noory has taken the show to new lows over the past several years since Art Bell left full time and now altogether. And with the absence of Ross Mitchell, those voices have only become louder.
Google’s Sergey Brin says the threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’.. Excellent must read GUARDIAN article..
This story should be untrue..it should be fake. But the tortuous treatment occurred while teachers chuckled at it all. But get this: The school uses shock therapy to “help” the kids..
These stories are not confined to the distant past .. there are now.
Girls just wanna have fun.
A website gets a hold of some photos of Hillary Clinton downing a brew and rocking the dance floor.
This can’t do anything but make you like her.
And it is not at all like the embarrassing situation that the Secret Service agents caused the nation..
Hence: The reason I love cold and snow when it should snow with cold.
STDs among senior citizens is skyrocketing (you heard that right) .. so a new ad campaign trying to convince seniors to use condoms features senior citizens simulating sex acts. Seriously.. I don’t know what disturbs me more.. the idea of the spike in STDs or the commercial itself..
Yep. This is where it happened.
Big embarrassment for United States as Secret Service agents charged with protecting President in Columbia end up in prostitution scandal.. the scandal this weekend has also spread to the military.. government in damage control.. More on the Secret Service sex bust and more on the military involvement with the matter.. Officials admitting it is an embarassment to the United States..
Obligatory question: What the hell were they thinking!?
A new study shows they can learn the shape of letters.
Interesting stuff, to say the least..
Sarah Silverman never is unable to think of a new way to shake up the world of shock comedy. She works it blue all the time…
The latest: She tweeted photos of a before and after abortion photos—of course the joke was on people who believed it, since the actual photo of her “pregnant” was her bloated after eating a burrito..
Weather fans or watchers out there, you already probably know that yesterday was quite tragic for lots of people, including a hospital in Iowa where a tornado struck.. But what amazed me about this day is the number of storm chasers that were live streaming online and for big networks covering the matter. In one instance, the networks said “don’t risk your life,” bla bla bla.. and then in another instance they gave 15 minutes or so of fame to the said weather chaser who caught a glimpse of the massive storm of death. So what are you thoughts? Are we encouraging this activity to a detriment, or is it just the next phase of how events weatherwise will get covered?
No tsunami at least but that was some massive plate movement in Indonesia.. Here’s hoping it’s over
Dubbed the suicide forest, Aokigahara Forest, there are 100 bodies or so a year found by officials .. bodies victims of suicides. Many other souls that perish there go unnoticed for years…
A little bravado from Alex Jones perhaps, or maybe it’s true: We have given up our liberty in exchange for technology. Technology absent morality, common sense, and decency?
This photo has been making the rounds on Facebook and other social networking sites over the past several weeks.. We’d be remiss not to address it on Earth Informer.
The image is a model of that appeared in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity *something you don’t find on many newstands* shows just how vast and widespread the radiation after the Fukushima disaster has been. The world covered with red and blue.. Shades of red indicate particles at the bottom layer, blue is the upper layer. And all the world is a sea of those two hazy shades of radiation.
More here on the science behind it.
And if you’re interested in reading more real research, here is the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.
Meanwhile….stay in.
Bubba Watson won the Masters Tournament on Sunday in sudden death playoff against Louis Oosthuizen…
But he buttons his golf shirt up to the top of his neck. So I don’t think he looks like a Bubba
Question of the day.. who knows what tye of remedy may exist for a very painful sebaceous cyst? It’s not for me.. but for someone else. My mom recommended Vicks and my dad said to tape garlic on it. I have to think some other solution exists for the person afflicted?
When my wife and I would see parents buying gifts for their child for Easter. How foolish we’d think. And chuckle.. and go home and continue to be proud of the fact the WE don’t buy gifts for holidays in which gifts were never intended to be the theme.
But tomorrow Ayden will be as proud as a peacock on his brand new Thomas the Train *almost* life size toy and a $10 yard sale iMac computer, along with a $.50 chair to sit at…… Is there a help group out there for hypocritical parents?
So it begins.. Easter weekend ‘12
….Friday night lights. All across America. Gun shots ring out.. from the highest rooftops to the lowest most garbage filled alleyways.. This isn’t how life is supposed to be. We are not supposed to regress. We are not supposed to devolve. Life is supposed to get better, right? Flying cars? …try high gas prices. Peace on earth? try let’s look for a new planet………
Is this the fall of Rome all over again? A society so into itself that it misses the big picture.. forgets morality.. ceases the high road in exchange for a path into desolation? .. Society seems to be in ruins. But the TV is still on and housewives are still DESPERATE. So who cares.. right?
If you are on the great North American continent, and the sky is clear, peak outside the window and stare at the moon.. the bright light up above is beautiful this evening. Stars are shining in my little town. Hope they are for you, too.
Cue the STARGAZER theme song from PBS.
Either God decided to cut some Wisconsin cheese or the mighty earth below our feet is just choosing to grunt, groan, and flash its might.
For weeks we have heard about mysterious booms in Clintonville. Now this: Booms and flashes of light in Barbaroo, Wisconsin.
One person who called 911 said it sounded like a meteorite blowing up over his head.
Indeed, this story keeps getting weirder.
I just asked a question last night about something.. sometimes I ask questions on here and like the responses.. but to be accused of child abuse for simply asking a question on vaccines took me by surprise..
Nonetheless, great responses. 100% solid pro vaccine crowd responded. I wanted some controversy and disagreement but didn’t think so many private messages would have been sent to me telling me how bad of a dad I was.. for asking a question.
A question.
A question…