Mitt Romney panic mode: Finger pointing begins weeks before the election.. A sore loser already?
Keep in mind that in 2008, then candidate Obama made disparaging remarks about Americans who ‘cling to God and guns’ .. he didn’t seem to want their votes either. It’s amazing how often candidates running for the highest office in the land really don’t want the votes of people that will put them there..
Also on the political/entertainment front: Networks are being asked and persuaded to help boost Obama’s health care policy by positive portrayals on TV. Don’t believe me? Here is the proof, if you believe NEWSBUSTERS..
Now on to the real news!
A terrifying typhoon hits into South Korea.. rocks are sent flying into the air as the 100mph storm slammed..
More seismic unrest is taking place on the Canary Islands—watch this one..
Nerves are rattled as two Indonesian volanoes wake from a dormant slumber..
With all of these earthquake swarms and volcanoes coming back alive after decades if not centuries of no activity, could we look back and say we should have known? Since strange noises in Kiev were posted online, most of the world has smelled sulfur, seen fish and animal deaths, and heard odd noises coming from the ground. Quite possibilty the new activity across the planet is a byproduct or a result of the groans from the planet. Maybe something, deep down has occurred and now the crust is simply letting out the steam, so to speak, from the inside movements…? Just a thought.. A very niave and uneducated guess, perhaps. But a thought.
There is an increased use of antidepressants in a depressed Japan.. Could it be the result of just hardcore awful news for the past several months? A nuclear reactor gone wrong and a tsunami that took so many? Perhaps people are just trying to escape. Sadly medication will never, ever, help them.. And on that note of nuclear instability: A pink grasshopper has been found near Fukushima..
Is whooping cough linked to pesticide spraying? One website points to what it calls evidence that it is..
Cancer is now the number 1 cause of death for US Latinos..
A UFO photographed over Vancouver in the daylight hours.. A drone/ A plane/ SUPERMAN?.. a UFO for sure, as no one quite knows what the bright lights were off of Dallas Road in Victoria, B.C…
Fear: Arctic Sea ice melt may trigger extreme European winter..
Fear: One scientist says Arctic sea ice may completely vanish in four years..
Fear: Many people are not ready for Doomsday.. food is being stocked.. And when doomsday does not occur, hope the food won’t go bad..
Fear: Bad things happen ever 7 years! Though good things happen daily..
Court orders French magazine hand over all images of Kate Middleton nude..
Author speaks about ghostly encounters at battlefield..
Ghost hunting classes now being offered at tech school..
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
All the news unfit to print. Stained with coal.. all that stuff. Happy Tuesday. It's the 18th ALREADY!? Where is September going!?
New election controversy brews after Mitt Romney is secretly recorded disparaging 47% of Americans as people who don’t pay taxes or take responsibility for their lives.. Romeny says he will not get their votes. With comments like this, he may not get anyone’s vote.. Romney is responding, however, the best he can with the circumstances.. He said his words were not ‘elegant’.. Elegant like his life. His wealthy life. Lots of commentators are saying that the Romney campaign is beginning to look a lot like a campaign that Thurston Howell from Gilligan’s Island would run. I say, and have said, no: He is just like Max Schreck from BATMAN RETURNS.. I just hope not as crazy..
Sunday, September 16, 2012
I understand film as art and I understand showing the unpleasant side of life. But I don’t understand, nor do I want to understand, the desire to make a dark twisted film like this. If anything like what really happened in this film really did happen to Getsic then I’m really sorry for her, but I don’t see why she had to reenact it on film. Some may call The Bunny Game an art film, others will want to call it a snuff film.
Ok. Life sometimes has a way of punching you in the face. And the most mundane of circumstances can set up a day of panic. Bumps on a baby’s legs from heat rash turn into something much worse in the mind of a 21st century paranoid dad. I think it’s time to brew a hot cup of tea relaxation tea. Avoid the colon cleansing kind. That’s a whole different story.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
A 70-foot deep sinkhole is causing a massive stench in NYC
The smell is so bad that it is reportedly even making residents sick, though officials in NYC are not ready at all to admit that.
As a Coal Regioner, I have smelled bad smells. Centralia. Sulfer. All that. I cannot even imagine what a 70-foot-deep sinkhole in a sewer may smell like.
A 70-foot deep sinkhole is causing a massive stench in NYC
Maybe the crowned jewels are so miraculous that they find them necessary to be shown to the world. But does that explain the Dutchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, buffing it up as well.. She was photographed by a French magazine topless. Much to the chagrin of the Royal Family, those pictures were published.. she isn’t getting the star treatment that Prince Harry got for his wild sex romped weekend in Vegas. Middleton was more demure in her attempt to be wild. She was topless but there is no other evidence of orgies or all night pool parties with stars.
And this time, the Royal family is going to take action. They are going to sue the French Magazine closer FOR PUBLISHING THE PHOTOS.
Unfortunately if the Royal Family doesn’t think hundreds of other publications are already publishing the photo they are wrong. Forever now, Middleton’s bare-breasted day in the beach will be fully able to be seen, so as long as there is a free net and free speech.
Despite doom and gloom and news of fiction and non, this blog is a little bit family friendly. So you’ll only get a censored image from me. You can do the rest of the world yourself should you be desperate to see Kate Middleton’s breasts. Here’s a secret, though: They look like everyone else’s. Nothing Royal about body parts in the end…
The world at war: Darkness prevails. Even though love abounds.
I have been doing some thinking lately about all this violence, chaos, and nonsense surrounding us on this planet. I haven’t posted anything overly meaningful here in quite some time, so no better time than the present, I suppose.
I look at most things now through vision of a father. I became a proud dad almost two years ago. The world hasn’t changed much since my son was born. Sadly it’s degenerating quickly now. Talk of war, acts of violence.. machines taking over.. a mechanical and technological future of dictatorships and mobile devices that will track you and track everything. Jobs are scarce.. But people are abundant. There is a disconnect there and I don’t know how that will turn out. Do you?
But the most immediate concern seems to be, as usual, the Middle East. Talk of war between Iran and Israel at an all time high. Even China and Japan are in the midst of newfound tensions. And as we know, Libya is .. well, Libya. Lots of other embassies look like our embassy in Libya, too, as violence spreads.
All due to a movie? A MOVIE?
Somehow I don’t buy into that theory.
Nonetheless, it’s happening, and it’s the current theory offered by the powers that be. So for the sake of argument we’ll just go with that..
But as a dad, I think: How do you explain a world of senseless violence and cruelty to a child—a child who just wants to live, learn, and love?
Sadly lots of people ask themselves that daily.
No one to date has found an answer. From the Crusades.. to the Jonestown Massacre.. to our current day insanity of war and needless violence, how can it all keep going like this? Humanity has learned nothing since day 1.
Think about the basic invention that catapulted technology and travel: The wheel. Man created a wheel and from that point we decided to put weapons on it to make them move faster.. and that is about it.
Weapons and war and battle and death. A long trail of tears is dragging behind the human race.
I think during trying moments in history, the bad always got worse and the good always got better. So hug your kids and love your family, laugh with friends and just smile at a sunset. Because it’s quite frankly all we have to grasp.. Madness is taking place outside our homes. We can lock ourselves in and fear it.. or simply open the window, hear it.. and live our lives anyway.
Monday, September 10, 2012
I bet Tumblr is feeling pretty proud today
Any site registered with GoDaddy.com is down. GoDaddy.com is down. Oh, and their phone isn’t working either.
Congrats Tumblr, it’s not you.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
It's been a while since I opined on politics.But I will now
If you want to know why the GOP is bound to lose in 2012??? just watch their convention!
They can’t dance. They have awful elevator bumper music. Their outfits are atrocious.. they … just … are… lame!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
This is America, 2012: Honey Boo Boo ratings rise as more and more people choose to laugh at others than better themselves
Apparently Americans like watching seemingly kind hearted people make fools of themselves on TV. After all, that somehow seems to be the real secret of reality television, doesn’t it? You can safely sit on a couch behind curtains, close off the world, and flip on the boob tube and watch someone else be the fool.. watchsomeone else get laughed at.. watch someone else’s life from a distance.
Just when I felt better, increased by vitamin intake, and began to exercise again, enter this scenario: My wife and I took Ayden to eat some pizza at PIZZA HUT today for lunch and we casually brought up to the younger waitress how we used to love the ‘book it program.’ She gave us a strange blank stare, smiling saying, “I never heard of that.” She seemed stunned of the knowledge we had on the past! It was like we told her we saw the ‘wheel’ get created.
She went on to tell us that her “older” manager “always talks about old days” of Pizza Hut.
I began to get stunned. And feel really old.
The waitress was only, say, ten years younger.. and I thought to myself in horror, when did “book it” end!?
I even told the server how, back in ‘the day,’ there would be a grand pizza party during the last week of school. I didn’t tell her, but I even have a newspaper clipping somewhere in my possession showing me and my friend Kevin in third grade waiting in line for pizza. Third grade for me was … the late 1980s. So the age begins to show, I suppose..
Soooo.. I did some research! AND feel a whole hell of a lot better!
BOOK IT STILL EXISTS! That’s right, server! Young punk! take your no-knowledge of anything and shove it! I have proof that YOU don’t know your own trade! ha!
I still feel old, though.
After all, perhaps BOOK IT would work better if Pizza Hut changes it to “Kindle it.” Just saying.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Greetings earthlings across the pale blue dot.It’s the weekend. Are you ready? Summer seriously winding down.
The crickets are chirping loud.. I see some yellow tint to some leaves. I just can’t believe that the long hot summer was so short..
This time of year may be the best. Now until October. Beautiful nights.. amazing mornings.. Sunny and warm but not oppressive.
But this time of year goes by rather fast, too.. Gone soon will be the noise of leaves rustling in a summer breeze. Soon a howl of cold wind
But we cannot be depressed. The midsummer night’s dream turns into an autumnal depression.. followed by winter suppression.
But at least we have Christmas……. And the Mayan calender excitement on 12/22.. if we make it through December we’ll be fine.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The other thing that happens when Mitt Romney comes to town
There is a lot of fanfare this year about the chances that we could have the first Mormon president.. beyond that, the GOP platform is anti-gay marriage and pro-life.. But when Republicans party, they let their hair down and unfasten those striped ties.
The proof? Strip clubs in Tampa are prepping for the Republican presence.
CNN is reporting this evening that while GOP officials are closely watching the track of Tropical Storm Isaac, strip clubs are getting their poles shined. The strippers want the GOP to ‘make it rain,’ CNN says. CNN’s profile also speaks about a roof view where you can get a ‘quick launch’ lap dance. Or one called a ‘death lay.’
CNN is also reporting in the same dispatch that strip clubs are playing on thought that conservatives are stuffy. Clubs offering the chance to 'party like a liberal' are popping up around the city..One place called Thee DollHouse is even offering a VIP entry with a government ID, according to their sign outside. Republicans believe in voter ID. Perhaps it will translate into strip club ID as well..
How many clubs will paint the pole red, white, and blue for the week? How many strippers will come dressed or undressed in patriotic pride? G-strings with a small elephant.. lots of aspiring women working night jobs to support a day life, hoping the wealth of the Republican party will translate into dollars down the pants and lap dances behind the plants. Interesting, though.. we will see how much play this strip club story gets.
Some comments on the CNN article are speaking of the potential hypocritical nature of this story. After all, will CNN have a similar report about the Democrats…? Or is just expected that strip clubs will be busy when Donkeys act like asses?
What CNN failed to talk about in their piece was just how many MALE STRIP CLUBS were going to try to get the same attention that the female folks do… and how many Republicans may sneak a show into one..? All the while cheering on the floor of the convention to have a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage…
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Caillou.. the kid all parents hate, but love.
Attention parents out there.. what is the deal with Caillou? My son loves him.. but I don’t get him. Is he real? an illusion?
Perhaps he is just an enigma. The imagination of an insane older grandmother who is intent on believing he exists.
I cannot imagine a father in reality like Caillou’s. Or a mom. Or even a sister. No fighting!? No drugs!? No alcohol at an early age!
No, Caillou must be fake. He carries no knives, no weapons. Not like the reality of kids today.
But the fact he likes making crafts and enjoys doing laundry makes me happy my son watches him.. after all, Caillou is a boy of peace. I think. OR a villain waiting to rear his ugly head..
Monday, August 20, 2012
Nude Congressmen!! "Legitimate rapes!" This is why Republicans will lose in November.
Just the facts first: A Republican named Todd Akin in Missouri was a favorite to win this fall in a Senate race against incumbent Claire McCaskill. Then he said this: It seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare, If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” .. Enter the firestorm. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have distanced themselves already, Akin has Tweeted constant sorrys from his account.. and he has vanished from the media glare as the firestorm continues across the political landscape. Now a woman who was set to lose in the fall, McCaskill, may have an issue, a new fire to hit back, and a chance to win and keep the Senate for the Democrats in November.
Second, this one more obscene than the ‘legitimate rape’ stupidity: A Republican Congressman named Kevin Yoder from Kansas went to the Sea of Galilee last year with lots of other Republicans. They decided to get really drunk and party, and in a sign of stupidity, immaturity, and absolute disrespect for where he was, took his clothes off and went skinny dipping into the sea. And now the FBI is looking into it! Other Republicans were there, too—including former Vice President Dan Quayle’s son Ben.. OH, and one Congressman’s daughter swim with all of the others.. Hmm.. Yoder, thus far, is the only one making ‘waves’ for being completely in the buff in the historic sea of Galilee. He also Tweeted a sorry, too.
These two stories have intense political significant, and pop culture repercussions, too. Legitimate rape? Swimming nude in the Sea of Galilee? If this is how Republicans are without the media spotlight, just imagine how they’ll act next week at their own convention!?
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Some new sick news in the Penn State scandal
Now how cool is this! Get from the US to London in just 1 hour!?
It’s about time we have a super sonic jet for public use. If aliens can use them why not us.. Or maybe the fact the military is ‘designing one’ means they have had one, and those little green men have never been little green anythings but instead fat earthlings testing new equipment.
Nonetheless here is the DAILY MAIL article about a potential future in which a supersonic jet will be able to transport you at 4500 mph. That’s pretty darn fast.
Funny enough, I am a little scared about air travel. But if a flight could last only that long I’d be much more inclined and quite excited about going around the one in just an hour or two.
Some air travel lovers may argue that it would eliminate those beautiful and breathtaking images you can see our of a window. But if you’re afraid of heights you’ll go so fast it wouldn’t matter. And in the event of a crash you’ll never know what hit you.
Would love to hear from people from London: Is life after the Olympics a huge let down or is it just good to have your city back?
And how much trash did the world leave behind..?
Sunday, August 12, 2012
I was just thinking earlier today: Is George Michael in jail?
And bam, or should I say Wham! He appears at the Olympics singing freedom. The irony..
Did the athletes use all their condoms?
Thanks to news organizations reporting that it is a sexual fiesta behind the scenes at the Olympics, now I’m watching the closing ceremonies wondering who used all their gold medal protection. Thanks CNN. Thanks…
Saturday, August 11, 2012
No way!! Butter popcorn linked to Alzheimer's??!
The next time you’re in the movie theater, you may think twice about popcorn, now that a new study has linked butter popcorn to Alzheimer’s..
The chemical linked to Alzheimer’s in the new study is diacetyl .. That same ingredient has been linked to lung disease..
Even more, diacetyl is in more than just popcorn, including eggs in greasy spoon restaurants, and often used as the spray on skillets for foods in restaurants such as shrimp, steak, chicken, and fresh vegetables..
You are what you eat. So watch what you eat. And know what you eat—sometimes it’s painful to do research on your ingredients but it may just pay off in the end..
No way!! Butter popcorn linked to Alzheimer's??!
Whoops
Mitt Romney got so excited, that he introduced Paul Ryan as the next president of United States
Here is six minutes of a video becoming famous now that Drudge linked it.. Paul Ryan on health care. I expect this will be a preview of what we are going to expect from now through November.
The great debate begins.
Strap in.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Yes, Drudge, we get it. Sexual innuendo. Clever.
But the story is strange to say the least.. Janet Napolitano is being sued by males for filling top positions with females who were hell-bent, the lawsuit says, on treating male staffers like dogs…
According to the suit, male staffers were ‘banished to bathrooms’ and humiliated.
I’m guessing we will be hearing about this for a while—which gives many more opportunities for Matt Drudge to place photos with hidden meanings on the top of his site.
I'm only in my early 30s but this is an example of how the mind is the first thing to do
I had to Google the term “oops I crapped my pants” this morning. Why? Because I actually could not remember if it was a joke on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE or a real company advertising slogan for adult diapers. I got my answer.
I bet I forget again when I’m in my early 40s.
This is the world we live in: All within a week of news
The conversation changes rapidly these days.
Here were the topics—and they all took place within a week.
We started by complaining that NBC was failing at its obligation to provide good Olympics coverage. We briefly cared about Syrian refugees, even though their plight is horribly more important than Bob Costas bantering about athletes and how firm their muscles are.
We moved on quickly to the Mars Curiosity Rover. How amazing. And yes, it is amazing. But in the shuffle we ignored Russia’s Pussy Riot being put in jail by Vlad the impaler in Russia—even though Madonna cared.
Back to the Olympics for a while! Everyone got excited at water polo even though few understood what it was. I like soccer, so I ignored water polo. Bob Costas did not.
And finally, with all the mayhem in the world and juvenile leadership from the elite controllers, what are we left with this Friday? What is the conversation? You guessed it: Honey Boo Boo.
Sadly, Hillbilly child Honey Boo Boo will be around in the news and conversation a lot longer than Syrian refugees, too..
Happy Friday.
Prosecutors accidentally send out images of a dead Trayvon Martin.
This seems to be a pretty horrible error made by Florida prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin murder case. Among the confidential documents that were ‘accidentally’ released was a photograph of Martin’s dead corpse. Prosecutors quickly emailed reporters requesting that they do not use the picture of Trayvon Martin’s lifeless body, as they were not meant for public consumption.
I actually hope the photos don’t get ‘out’ there.. we have enough morbid and grotesque websites showcasing famous peoples’ dead bodies. I would be sick to think that a teenage kid’s body would appear on one of those sites.
Nonetheless, we are living in an age where mistakes happen quickly, and when they do there is little time to re-do the action you did wrong the first time. Click and save these days means upload and publish—long before you get the chance to run the document or blog post by anyone who would say, “are you sure you want to publish photographs of the dead victim before this trial begins??”
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Listen, I love a good conspiracy. The bigger the alien, the more I like it. The bigger then disaster awaiting mankind, the more it gets my attention. But on this matter, I just ain’t seein’ it bro.
A wave of net conspiracy theories have turned up after a photo from the Curiosity Mars rover was delivered back to earth. It appears to show a blotch in the horizon. Could it be a monolith!? A Martian!? Oh wait.. maybe it’s dust. After all, Mars is quite a dusty planet. A color photo coming from NASA tomorrow or so that Curiosity will beam back will show just how red and dusty it is.
Here is my bottom line on this:
And I know lots of conspiracy folks may say NASA would hide signs of life on Mars. I say no. First of all, think of the monetary situation they currently find themselves in. They are broke, and the budget money they actually get is cut with every budget cycle. If they announced life is out there, I imagine a huge push would occur to give them more cash to find more life. Cash for cells ..
And even more, if they truly found signs of life past or present, I don’t think something that major could stay hidden. Who would it benefit?
Of course if aliens were mounting ships in space to attack the planet, I can see that being a national security secret. But microbes on Mars? Nah. That is public information.
A caveat: If alien walks in front of the Rover, bends down, and looks into the lens? I think President Obama may have to decide if that image gets out.
But who really thinks THAT kind of life exists on Mars, anyway…
Really not sure if this is the type of logic that will gather more votes for Obama, but hey, he said it: He wants to repeat the auto bailout for ... every.. industry... Huh?
The POLITICO reported today, and Drudge put up a siren about it too, that President Obama campaigned today in Colorado and seemed to suggest that he wants to bail out, well, everyone. Everywhere. Everything!
The POLITICO dispatches this:
“I said, I believe in American workers, I believe in this this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back,” he said. “Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.
“I don’t want those jobs taking root in places like China, I want those jobs taking root in places like Pueblo,” Obama told a crowd gathered for a campaign rally at the Palace of Agriculture at the Colorado State Fairgrounds here.
It’s quite clear that the cost to taxpayers of government bailouts is quite high. What was the bang for the buck of the GM bailout? Some would argue it saved American cars, but others would point out that MORE TOYOTAS ARE BUILT IN AMERICA AND GENERAL MOTORS cars..
Not sure if this logic will help his gather independents into the fold. And I wonder if someone forget to give him the teleprompter at this event..
Really not sure if this is the type of logic that will gather more votes for Obama, but hey, he said it: He wants to repeat the auto bailout for ... every.. industry... Huh?
Stars and stripes waving in London
The USA women’s soccer team, together, waving the flag of the United States in London as they beat Japan 2-1.. I’m actually tearing up in all out pride .. Amazing game. Hope my VHS tape worked..
USA DEFEATS JAPAN IN SOCCER!!!
Gold medal in London!! USA beat Japan.. Japan denied the gold by the amazing women’s soccer team from the United States!!!
My own 20th century technology meets the London Olympics
The USA vs Japan in women’s soccer today .. I am desperately trying to find a tape to tape the game—and it hit me! It’s not the 2000 Olympics. This is the modern era, baby! I don’t T-vo it? I don’t digitally record it!? No! I have the old tape style.. and a VCR that kind of works. And while I’m getting myself completely stuck in the 20th century, I came to look into my closet just the other day and see that I have a life’s worth of tapes collected. Home videos, movies.. TV shows.. old Late Night with David Letterman recordings. All on VHS. I guess it’s time to stop being kind, I should not rewind, and I should work on converting these to the new world order of movie watching.
Hot and heavy Olympic flame burning
The television version of the Olympics is tame. The most risky of things broadcast so far during Olympics coverage on NBC was probably Al Roker’s awful red pants that he sported on the TODAY show. But what really goes on behind the scenes?
You know.
Come on, you know.
Sex. And a lot of it.
Olympics athletes all seem to agree on what is happening when the bright glare of cameras fades: Parties and sexual intercourse. Hope Solo even said the down and dirty athletes often take part in intercourse right out in the open. 150,000 condoms later, the Olympics teams from around the world get to know each other better than perhaps they ever thought they would.
CNN’s report featured a quote from a former gold medalist, not named:
"They know, the officials know, even the media. It’s not a secret, everyone knows!"(Sex) is all part of the Olympic spirit. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) wouldn’t say that, but it is, you can’t shy away from it. Why do you think they give away so many condoms?"
Smile! Or you can be arrested
More Olympics insanity.
A spectator was arrested for not smiling at the games. Really.
And a a swarm of bugs invaded Olympics stadium.
Who would smile at that?
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
It's the end of the world as we know it.. and I feel.... like it's not true!
Anyone in the Nibiru camp knows who John Moore is. Moore has been talking about Navy maps and all the like for decades. Planet X, or as I like to call it, Planet X-y Sexy, is coming in for a landing soon, so says The Liberty Man Moore.
In recent weeks, the internet has lit up into a frenzy of activity yet again, as now Moore has predicted DATES of x-y Sexy’s arrival: It may be as soon as August 17, he said. This year! Like in a few days!
Here is a link if you’d like to read more of the theory.. And it’s interesting that even the conspiracy-minded folks over at Godlike Productions are questioning the doom and gloom logic of the Liberty Man.
But tonight, George Noory’s Coast to Coast AM (don’t you wish Art Bell was still the voice of late night???) is going to take us for a wild ride into the land of Nibiru as well. Not sure if he will mention John Moore’s latest predictions of doom, but he will host a show with ”archeo-astronomers” and “researchers” about planet X.
I just sigh at the thoughts of this one. I love conspiracies. And yes, I even love hearing things about the famed planet x. Not that I believe it.
But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the 200 MPH winds will tear me to shreds—if of course the 200 foot tidal wave doesn’t get me first. Or maybe the pole shift will melt my brain.. or maybe the comets will cause nuclear explosions across the planet when the New Madrid fault blows.. or Yellowstone goes.. or…
I’m just tired.
Goodnight.
Maybe I’ll wake up at 1AM EDT to hear if George Noory’s blabbering about planet X and Nibiru.
Though I still miss Art Bell.
Congrats to my nephew Shawn Jr. You were sworn into the USMC today. The world will rely on you and your fellow comrades in the future.
It wasn’t too long ago that you painted Easter Eggs with your sister and was excited by ‘Ho ho’ on Christmas.. Or when you were learning to ride a bike.. I recall it all. I think you may too.And you may have been late for school, forgot your homework, and forgot to tuck your shirt in. Those days have quickly passed by. You’re an adult now. And with it comes great responsibilities.
You enter a world of war—but one of skies of blue and clouds of white, bright blessed days, and dark sacred nights.. And you’ll see heartache below those bright skies .. you’ll see tears and warfare within the dark of night.
You may be called to protect a nation. And I have confidence you’ll be a force to reckon with, and one to rely on.
Congrats on fulfilling a dream —and now good luck with the rest of it.
The prayers of your Uncle Bryan are with you.
AND IF THE BIG FLARE HITS, THERE WOULD BE NO PLACE TO RUN
Ask anyone who knows me. I get paranoid about solar activity. Really, I monitor SpaceWeather.com like it’s my son’s baby monitor while he sleeps.
And when that big flare hits?? Yes, like you I won’t be ready. And just like you I’ll hope for the best. Although from all the doomsayers that I read on a regular basis, the best may not occur should a massive flare actually hit this planet head on.
And here is the latest example: A scientist is warning of dangers to the power grid over the next year as the solar cycle hits its ten year max. Mike Hapgood is the scientist quoted. And he has credentials, as he specializes is Spaceweather amongst other prestigious things.. Then again, all these folks who say doom is only a flare away have credentials. According to most, we are overdue.
And we are overdue for a major quake in the New Madrid and Yellowstone.
And the Canary Islands.
And while we’re at it, John Moore is on his radio show predicting doom and gloom with a planet X Nibiru on August 17 or so.. Coast to Coast AM will tackle the planet X subject later this week, wonder if Noory will allow dates to be mentioned on his show as much as Moore has allowed on his from the Missouri Ozarks?
Doomsayers have always existed, though. And doom never seems to come.
But solar storms have.
In South Africa. Russia. And probably many other places before we had the benefit of power grids and electricity.
I picture a sky somewhere in caveman lure, lit up with Northern Lights all the way to the Southern reaches of the Northern Hemisphere.
Northern Lights are beautiful. Power outages on a widespread scale may not be.
Of course we will take what we get, as really when talk about the sun, there is no choice BUT to take what you get. Solar storms burst out like big burps from our star.
Would we be back to the stone age? I don’t know.
But for a while a while we’d learn how modern life can be crippled by something that is much too much beyond the control of all of our combined egos in this egocentric world
Print is dead. Here is proof.
I recall when I was a young teenage kid. I had subscriptions to US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, TIME MAGAZINE, AND NEWSWEEK. It was exciting to get them in the mail.. Read them.. know the news.
And yes, I repeat, when I was a teenage kid.
There are two points of curiosity, perhaps, for you. First off, it may be strange for a teenage kid to enjoy getting news magazines in the mail, and secondly, based on today’s news, it’s strange to get news magazines in the mail at all!
As a matter of fact, magazine sales at US newsstands are stale.
SNOOZEWEEK. LIME MAG. US SNOOZE (already gone).. and lots more leaving us by the day.
Magazine was once the king. Print was in. And now it’s thin.. going by the wayside in the age of the digital culture, where nothing is on paper but.. most people still print it anyway!
So what magazines are doing worst? Well, pretty much every one of them.
Here is the full list. If you’re in the print biz you’ll read and weep—and maybe tweet ..
COSMO is doing pretty awful.. Almost 16% drop since ‘11.
WOMAN’S WORLD.. not read..
People? No people read it..
FAMILY CIRCLE? A circle jerk ..
Even the NATIONAL ENQUIRER down.. maybe people are shopping less?
MEN’S HEALTH.. WEIGHT WATCHERS.. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Read it and sleep.
VOGUE, VANITY FAIR.. And SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE—you know, the magazine that kids used to pick up for some raunchy sex tips for teens. Now kids can see it all online, no holds barred. All bare skin from screen to screen. And touchscreen to WIFI and back again.
Yes, I was certainly a boring kid, reading those old print magazine. Relics of the past. The 20th century is dead. Print is dead.
But what else dies with it?
Covers like this, from 1999:
Where is James Vanderbeek now!?Some doctor’s office or dentist office in Des Moines, collecting dust as time passes by ever so quickly.
And the US wins the Dust Bowl!
A victory so hot you can taste it.. cut it with a knife, serve it with corn, drizzle it was sweat.
Yes, indeed, the NOAA is telling us now that July, 2012, was the hottest month ever. On record. Period.
Now, ‘ever’ a long time, and certainly since the NOAA didn’t exist forever, the ‘ever’ is a little limited by ‘in recorded history’ of the NOAA. But it’s worth noting, as the NOAA did, that this year has now surpassed the hottest period of time during the famed 1936 Dust Bowl. It goes without saying that this year, the dust bowl has returned. Corn crops and other farmland is drying up, becoming brittle. Rivers are drying and fish are dying. Riverbeds are just muddy as water levels drop to new lows. And the great and mighty Mississippi is ever-so-quickly becoming wimpy and weak.
So what does the hottest month on record mean to you? If you’re like me, it meant lots of air conditioner use, light headed feelings during noontime walks, damp clothing after a day of sweating. It was almost unbearable. And at times it was unbearable for many. People have died during this heat wave, along with those crops and animals. Also dead are the hopes of a nice yield during the harvest time. It was supposed to be a great crop this year. Those hopes quickly dried as quickly as rivers and streams. The harvest moon coming later this year may be a bad moon rising.
The other quotable notable from the NOAA report is this point from Jake Crouch, a scientist at NOAA’s National Climate Data Center:
Dry soils in the summer tend to drive up daytime temperatures, and because dry soils prevailed over so much of the United States, that helped make things hotter over a wide area, Crouch said by telephone."The hotter it gets, the drier it gets, the hotter it gets," Crouch said.What made this year different from the Dust Bowl summer of 1936 was nighttime temperatures, he said. In the Dust Bowl years, the warmth was largely driven by daytime highs. This July, the record heat was also pushed by warm nighttime temperatures — the overnight lows weren’t that low.
Lots of people may have let out an extended sigh of relief when Hollywood Video closed.
Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t good at all to see that part of our modern American life turn into a scrap heap of shredded videotape—we will probably look back in years and lament the death of video stores just like generations grew melancholy over the lack of drive ins. And it sure wasn’t nice at all to see the thousands of people who lost jobs as stores all over closed down.
But regular customers of Hollywood would ‘bring home the entertainment’—and have the late fees to prove it. Remember those days when people rented videos fromstores!? Remind the fees if you didn’t rewind, you were not kind—and got socked with a couple bucks extra of money?
When Hollywood closed, it was clearly apparent that the Netflix, internet, and RedBox era had finally taken over. By this point my own personal late fees had been paid (something I maybe would not have done were I to know the store would be closing!) But lots of other folks who didn’t pay late fees thought, ‘Phew! don’t have to worry about those now!’
Not so fast, skippy.
Today, you can read the RED TAPE CHRONICLES ON NBCNEWS.COM, and be alarmed like I was: Hollywood Video debt collectors are harraassing past customers of Hollywood Video, assessing fees that maybe aren’t true, threatening to ruin peoples’ credit scores, and plain out bullying consumers who answer the phone.
The NBC report named Universal Fidelity as one of the debt firms trying to rake in late fees that were never paid to Hollywood Video when it was alive. NBC reports this:
The drumbeat became so loud that Hollywood Video’s bankruptcy trustee,First Lien Term Lenders Liquidating Trust, reached a settlement with all 50 states’ attorneys general under which it would drastically alter its collection tactics. It promised to remove any credit blemishes it had placed on consumers’ reports and never to threaten consumers’ credit reports in the future. It also turned to a set of new collection agencies, including Houston-based Universal Fidelity, which promised to clean up the process.But within the past two months, a pile of fresh complaints has arrived from around the country, raising new questions about the collections process. In Houston, 430 of the roughly 1,000 complaints filed against Universal in the last 12 months have arrived since June 1.
In some instances, when former customers of Hollywood say they paid their bills before the store closed, the debt collector is insisting that unless a receipt is produced, the bill is still owed.
Really, a receipt?
So if you were not kind, did not rewind, you’re credit score can be ruined unless you produce a receipt that the $2 fee was paid?
Of course you can also reach out to governmental agencies and lawyers that may be able to assist you in fighting off the threats of intimidation.
All for late fees.
Interesting stuff.
And with one statement, a new conspiracy theory may be born
NASA’s Curiosity is rolling across the red planet and snapping photos as it goes, all for us to enjoy. But one comment from a project scientist may create a whole new batch of conspiracy theories:
"You would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture,” project scientist John Grotzinger said.
The images are amazing. The red planet looks like the pale blue dot.
A full color high resolution photo is expected by the end of the week.
Can’t wait.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
By now you know.. But the weekend ended bloody in Wisconsin
But yet again, another violent weekend bloodbath, this time at a Sikh temple, another shooter’s neighborhood in lockdown, and more debate coming up this week about violence, guns, conspiracies, and all that. Yes indeed, the times are never good, especially the ones we live in.. Thoughts go out tonight for those dead. Questions fill my mind about the shooter, who is reportedly a white male in his 30s..
Heads in the cloud
You may have heard a lot of cloud computing recently. And if you did, your opinion may have been formed depending on which computer geek you spoke to. I myself like to arm myself with opposing geek positions and then I form my conclusion based on the geekiest and scariest of arguments.
And concerning the Cloud: It freaks me out.
You trust your data to be there when you want it and need it. You trust that no one will hack it. And you trust it all so much that you don’t retain a copy for yourself but just store it on the ‘Cloud,’ reaching up from time to time when you want to grab a hold of something important.
In theory it sounds in part like it could work. Why worry about storing your data on your own hard drive, which when corrupted, can’t operate. You may lose everything. All those photos.. songs.. everything.
That is when the cloud get tempting.
But …. and here is the big big but, you really can’t say you own it anymore. You sign away things through legal terms of agreements that you don’t understand. And just in case you believe me to be a prognosticator of doom, here is a story from Agence France-Presse about Steve Wozniak, the man who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs. The quote:
“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”He added: “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away” through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to.“I want to feel that I own things,” Wozniak said. “A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”
There are some computer nerds that are friends of mine whom I trust. And they have a problem with the cloud..
But I think all nerds, geeks, experts, and coders will agree: If Steve Wozniak is worried about the cloud and who owns the data, I think all of should be.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
An idea to get more stuff done around the house
Let NBC’S Olympics coverage play in the background. The majestic music they use as bumpers will lead to you think even the most mundane of house chores have suddenly become heroic feats of valor victory.
If anyone is interested in getting me an early birthday present, here is a thought: Ice Cream Chews.
I loved these candies as a kid, until one tragic event occurred when I was about 12 or 13: I ate so many of them in one night that I vomited everything inside of my body out onto myself in bed when I was trying to sleep. I guess that’s one of those horrible things that all kids have to get through.
But now, over 15 years later, and I think I’d ready to get them again.. maybe
Friday, August 3, 2012
Friday night freak out
Captain Trips does not exist. But Ebola does. And the World Health Organization is assuring the planet that the Ebola breakout on the African continent is under control..
While the WHO attempts to calm worldly nerves, this news broke today: A prisoner with Ebola symptoms has escaped and is on the loose in Uganda..
It may sound like the plot of THE STAND so far but I sure don’t hope it ends that way..
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
OLYMPICS 2012: LONDON A 'GHOST TOWN'
This is interesting news given officials’ hopes and prayers that the London games would create a mini economic boom during a period of Euro fizzle. So far it’s not what it was all cracked up to be.
OLYMPICS 2012: LONDON A 'GHOST TOWN'
A troubling story from India as the infrastructure has been crippled.. a major blackout occurring has left 370 million without electricity ..
And coupled with the lack of power: The lack of air conditioning or fans during a tremendously hot period of time..
A troubling story from India as the infrastructure has been crippled.. a major blackout occurring has left 370 million without electricity ..
It's garbage night in my humble abode, but it begs the question ..
I had chicken wings last week. Wednesday night. There are still some left and I am throwing them out. How long have YOU kept chicken wings?
Truly horrible story as this man, David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, may have infected thousands with Hepatitis C..
A tale of two Americas
This is the world we live in..
On one side: Progress, on the other… the 1800s.
The Democratic Party had added support of gay marriage to its draft convention platform.. Keep in mind, it’s just a draft. We’ll see if they ‘go there.’
On the other hand, in Mississippi, a church has refused to marry a black couple..
This is outrageous: A writer for THE INDEPENDENT has been silenced by Twitter after NBC complained about critical tweets concerning the Olympics
There is a chilling effect here..
The death of the free net, perhaps?
And remember this: Twitter and NBC formed a partnership for these Olympics.
Think about this.. this deep about this..,
This is outrageous: A writer for THE INDEPENDENT has been silenced by Twitter after NBC complained about critical tweets concerning the Olympics
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Another worthy night for Coast to Coast AM
George Knapp at the mic tonight. His topics: Possessions and exorcisms. Demons will take over late night radio. If you’re awake from 1am to 5am EDT tonight perhaps the show will be worth the scare..
If the seat problem won't dampen your spirit, maybe rain will? Olympics drenched
But damnit.. it’s London! Rain happens.
It actually makes things more interesting..
If the seat problem won't dampen your spirit, maybe rain will? Olympics drenched
Romney visits the Western Wall in Israel, declares imminent domain, knocks it down, and builds a Best Buy. Just kidding.
This empty seat problem at the Olympics is getting weirder by the match..Now the MILITARY has been drafted to fill the seats and watch the games! No word of a lie.. the military ..
At this point, let people in for free!
The images on TV look awful: Empty seats abundant at the biggest games ever in London? Big TV ratings but no one in the stands. This presents a confusing picture of the 2012 Olympics.
Americans may run on Dunkin, but do toddlers?
Is it weird that my son, age 18 months, sees a cup of coffee and literally begs for it like an animal? We gave him a taste a month ago. He went crazy for it, laughed like a giddy school girl, and moved his feet like he was in LORD OF THE DANCE.
At one point months ago, we gave Ayden an empty coffee can for him to bang his toys on.. We thought: A noisemaker! Kids love noisemakers, and it’s a cheap toy! Ayden had other plans. He turned the can around, and stuck his fingers in where coffee grinds once were. And he began licking his fingers like some type of an addict who fell off the wagon.
Mind you this was when he was about 12 months..
This morning he saw my Dunkin Donuts cup, which I was trying to hide in back of my laptop, and kindly said “peeeaase” … His other word was ‘dunt’..
So Ayden declares: America runs on Duntin.
That or he is the reincarnated soul of Juan Valdez.
I figured, what better way to start a Sunday.. right?
China dominating the Olympics in London
This may truly be their century. Or at least half of us.. We will see.
How would the world respond if it turned out at least to be China’s games?
China dominating the Olympics in London
Thanks for following, new followers. Hope you're not just expecting nudity.
I was quite surprised that I actually gained followers after recycling the Tweeted photo of Lady Gaga virtually nude. I was sure some would drop me like 50 pound high heel shaped like the male genitalia—such as one Lady Gaga most likely has in her arsenal of wardrobe malfunctions. Nonetheless, the photo shows how popular Lady Gaga is. I think the same thing happened to me when I showed the image of Madonna poking her breast out from behind her shirt somewhere in the world during her tour.
This may be the end for me posting photos of folks in the buff. Unless of course that magic picture gets released somehow of Chris Christie. Gag now..