During the shutdown, we made every effort to water accessible plants. And of necessity, the refrigerators were emptied of all perishable foodstuffs last week. The oldest food found? A can of Campbell’s soup dated 1997! So, please remember it is everyone’s responsibility to keep the refrigerators clean
That’s pretty old soup—and actually may date back to the previous government shutdown.
….so how many federal workers you think were found still asleep at their desks when offices reopened today???
Not sure what category to put this in.
I guess you can at least say that the reporter knew the subject matter.. But .. maybe just didn’t have a grasp on fiction..? I don’t know. I just don’t know.
But! Right now MSNBC and FOX NEWS is debating which one will hire him first!
…here’s a sick little one from the big apple.. New York City cops are looking into 17-year-old girls who, when leaving a Victoria’s Secret in Manhattan, had a baby fetus n their bag..
They were stopped by the store’s loss prevention security.. one girl admitted having a baby in the bag..
Times like this.. I’m at a loss for words..
Any thing can help!
These spiders are atrocious.. I, just like you, have never seen the colors on these eight legged freaks that I am seeing this year.. I think Pennsylvania must have received a strange shipment of bananas from Peru or something..
The strangest I saw was a spider, about the size of a half dollar, with hairy legs and a yellowish tint. I thought I was going to have to shoot it in the head..
Stay safe out there.
And always check your shoes before you put them on.
*Google image search spider bite on foot and you’ll see why*
As though you needed proof of how sick humans can often be..
This video will tear you to pieces .. First you’ll have tears. Then anger.
Wow.
Red alert!
Hyperinflation!
Smellen Yellen!
And no United States media outlets are yet reporting this bank control..
This is an urgent economic story..
The United States did not default. Once again, politicians took the nation to the brink of destruction and, at the last moment, turned back and agreed on a deal—one that will only be temporary of course.. So the brink of disaster will happen again. And again. And again. But if we make it through November and December we’ll be fine..
If only elections were this year….
But the passage of the budget was not without incident—and a strange one, as well.. The HORROR REPORT reported last night about the strange Freeman rant that a House stenographer had on the floor of Congress last night… she shouted “You are all sons of the devil” as she was taken from the floor by security..
Her name is Diane Reidy, and she approached the mic in Congress like a zombie in a trance-like state.. She began to shout, saying “The greatest deception here is this is not one nation under God, it never was!”
There is video of the affair.. While some are laughing at Reidy’s predicament, this was somewhat alarming to me. There is always something strange to me about people in zombie-like appearances shouting about God, Freemasons, or anything else. It also reminded me of something I heard on Clyde Lewis just the other evening, when he spoke about the woman on an airplane shouting “God you’re my savior” in a repetitive fashion.. Are people over the edge? Has the borderline of sanity been reached and ..well, passed by? I don’t know.. I, for one, will not laugh at Reidy and her outburst..The Washington POST reported that House staffers are visibly shaken by the incident.She has been sent to the hospital for a mental ‘evaluation’.. ..
Let’s hope someone finds out just why she snapped and what took place to put her over the edge.
Imagine.. someone saying Congress is absent God. How dare she. ..
On to the news, even scarier than the Congressman who inhabit D.C. .. well, maybe..
Today at 10:17 AM, a magnitude 8 quake will strike.
Follow it live onTWITTER..
This is just a drill… For now.
This is beyond disgusting..
Human beings often repel me.. Especially those in teenage years..
And a very interesting article…
I am raising a son myself.. My wife and I are attempting to ensure he lives his life with values and goodness, with kindness and manners. But we know, from experience and common sense, that there will be an endless amounts of paths he can take, and some we want him to take that he won’t.. Innocent little Ayden, now just under the age of three, is going to be faced with an abrasive world. We know that, too..
And even more troubling to me, the people he surrounds himself with will often lead him into barren and endless abysses, just because they can.
We may give him the every bit of knowledge to be wholesome and pure, but he will be up against so many who are not.
Parenting is difficult. I never expected some of the most difficult things about it, though, would be the unknown—those future times when we may get disappointed in a child we love so much. But it’s all apart of growing up and growing old.
My only prayer is that when my wife and I grow to a ripe old age, if God allows us to, we see our son grow to make us proud.
Isn’t that the dream of any parent?
The couple, described as being in their early 20s, is seen in several shots leaning against a Chase Bank window on Court Street - just a block from the Athens police station - as the man has oral sex with her.
In our Internet age I predict stories like this will become sadly more numerous…
Speaker John Boehner is considering letting the House take the initial vote Wednesday on a Senate-prepared bill to lift the debt ceiling and restart funding for the shuttered federal government—apparently even if House conservatives object.
Bill House of the NATIONAL JOURNAL reporting at this moment..
But today, the news will change by the moment.
Chaos in the halls of Congress.
Politics is weird and strange.. And on days like today potentially disastrous of the wrong choices get made..
Tacky.
But that’s what you can do when you own a nation I guess.
So many said, ‘they’ll never do it.’
Tonight, there’s still no deal in DC..
Unbelievable.
But even more interesting to me…Jobs also thought he had a past life and a World War II pilot. Fascinating—and much more so than the sordid sex ..
I feel I have done a great disservice to readers.. I had a wonderful experience this weekend at a ‘haunted’ attraction and failed to do any in depth posting about it.. My apologies..
I am relatively close to the beautiful town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. If you are too, or willing to take a drive to get there, it’s worth the travels over the next few weeks until the end of the Halloween season.
The town itself is filled with culture, classy restaurants, cool stores, and one of the most interesting court houses you’ll ever be in: The Old Jail.
If you have a lack of knowledge of the coal region of Pennsylvania, know only this: Coal barons were in charge at one time. There were company stores.. there was slave labor.. child labor .. any kind of labor. Deaths in coal minds occurred regularly. Even the town of Ashland, PA, in Schuylkill County, had a hospital established that, at that time, served only the miners who succumbed to often life threatening injuries in their daily work. I have miners who were in my family.. A great grandfather that I sadly never met had a career in mining before his untimely death prior to my birth in 1980..
And also know this: Molly MaGuires became the first true labor union that organized and often fought their way to social justice. It’s worth your research or simple Google searches if you wanted to read anything further about the Mollys and their brand of unionization..
The ‘old jail’, then the Carbon County Prison, Molly Maguires who were convicted of murder (that they perhaps never committed) and met their fate: Public hangings.
The Old Jail Museum website explains the story of why their prison this way with emphasis added by me in bold:
"The building is best known as the site of the hanging of seven Irish coal miners known as Molly Maguires in the 1800s. On June 21, 1877, today known as the Day of the Rope, Alexander Campbell, Edward Kelly, Michael Doyle and John Donohue were hanged at the same time on gallows erected inside the Old Jail Museum cell block. On March 28, 1878, Thomas P. Fisher was hanged here, and on January 14, 1879, James McDonnell and Charles Sharp were hanged on the same gallows. Historians today feel the Molly Maguire trials were a surrender of state sovereignty. A private corporation (a coal/railroad company) initiated an investigation through a private detective agency (Pinkerton Detectives), a private police force (the Coal & Iron Police) arrested the alleged offenders, and private attorneys (employees of the coal companies) prosecuted these men. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided only the courtroom and the gallows. “
The site goes on to explain this, bringing in that strange paranormal element:
"Before their hanging, the men proclaimed their innocence and today historians believe many of the condemned men were falsely accused of murder. Before his hanging one of the man, thought to be Alexander Campbell, put his hand on the dirty floor of his cell and then placed it firmly on the wall proclaiming, " This handprint will remain as proof of my innocence." That handprint is visible today for everyone to view even though past wardens tried to eradicate it by washing it, painting it, and even taking down part of the wall and replastering it.”
Not mentioned in the description: Children of the rich, powerful, and important in then Mauch Chunk, were playing on the gallows the night before the hangings. The privileged few were reportedly mocking the men who would die the next day at the hands of injustice and wealthy coal barons being in charge of law..
I did see the hand print in cell block 17 when I was there.. You are not permitted to photograph the hand or touch it. No photos because, money talked and the current owners copyrighted the print.. Smart move, I suppose. So while you may not be able to have a photo proving you saw the hand, you can buy some sweat pants to prove it!
The overall atmosphere wasn’t filled with actors jumping from behind curtains, or groans in the dark with speakers.. No, this ambiance of the Old Jail Museum is just plain, maybe low key to some, and filled with dark history for others. The real paranormal story is the hand print—and a couple other little tales, probably tall, of whispers and pats on the back.. One of the tour guides told me after the show that he is aware of a female tour guide that, during one particular evening, had her hair not only touched but moved up into the air while she was conducting her presentation.. The website has a few photos of ‘ghosts’.. I personally did not see any this weekend when I was there, though I really didn’t want to. There is a certain amount of ‘ghost hunting’ that I find a little disingenuous. If there are truly spirits, I don’t think we should talk to them.. I am sure they’ll talk to us if they need something. Sometimes it’s better to let things be….without the EVPs …(A few folks did have recorders on my experience)..
The aspect of the Old Jail Museum that amazed me more was the history of it all: This old jail, filled with concrete windowless solitary confinement cells and a history of wrongful public hangings, was still used until 1995 after an inmate sued the county for'wretched housing' at the prison.. imagine! A cell in which prisoners were being injured on a regular basis just under 20 years ago.. My friend remarked to me, ‘imagine a guy being picked up for drunk driving, being put into a cell with a freaky hand print that never goes away?’ …too true.
Some researchers have tried their best to debunk the hand.. The very idea of the hand has been the talk of the town for decades.. Some still think it’s a fraud.. others think it’s a sign of innocence..
Other legends of the area are as profound.. For example, Molly Maguires were being called out during church services at Saint Ignatius in Centralia Pennsylvania (maybe you’ve heard of this town, the ‘hottest place on earth’?) .. a priest was reportedly taken to the back of the cemetery where he was beaten by activist Mollys.. The priest then, legend would say, condemned the town to misery. A mine fire later consumed it and now only a few people remain under imminent domain..
Tales like that are fun.. curses, hexes, and stories of mystery and intrigue.
And while the Old Jail Museum may not scare you as other attractions, it will allow you to get a glimpse into the past, examine your present, and wonder about your future. Did Alexander Campbell leave his mark for generations to come? …and the deeper question… did the Molly Maguires win the battle against unfair corporations, or are they still in charge?
Call me a prude.. but am I the only one who doesn’t really like what’s happening to network TV?
Saturday night chaos.
And you think that a post debt default world would be good? Take a peek at the human being with this story from KSLA..
A snippet:
Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.
The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.
Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd confirms they were called in to help the employees at Walmart because there were so many people clearing off the shelves. He says Walmart was so packed, “It was worse than any black Friday” that he’s ever seen.
Lynd explained the cards weren’t showing limits and they called corporate Walmart, whose spokesman said to let the people use the cards anyway. From 7 to 9 p.m., people were loading up their carts, but when the cards began showing limits again around 9, one woman was detained because she rang up a bill of $700.00 and only had .49 on her card. She was held by police until corporate Walmart said they wouldn’t press charges if she left the food.
Lynd says at 9 p.m., when the cards came back online and it was announced over the loud speaker, people just left their carts full of food in the aisles and left."Just about everything is gone, I’ve never seen it in that condition," said Mansfield Walmart customer Anthony Fuller.
HAPPY VISIONS THAT NEVER WERE
Every year I am approached by a friend who tells me they yearn to go to Pennhurst State hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania.. and it seems, in turn, that I have to tell someone yearly of the true horror that happened at that location in the late 20th century, during our lifetime, and in modern history..
It’s a place where misery occurred. True horror happened.
And yes, it’s the site of a modern day ‘haunted house’.. and that truly upsets me beyond compare.
Here is my opinion, should you wish to read on…
Pennhurst is one of those places that maybe should just get demolished….burned to the ground..destroyed beyond repair. Actual events that took place nightly at that damned place are a hell of a lot more frightening than anything the current owners can create to scare paying customers.
Children were left to fend for themselves.. they fought for their own lives. The “mentally retarded” and “misfits” were often malnourished..beaten.. treated worse than a sick dog.. And the ratio of patient to staff was so undercut that it created a nightmare for patients who lived to remember it.
And that is why articles, like this appearing in the Tri-County RECORD, anger and repel me.. The author of the story, titled ‘PENNHURST ASYLUM IS ONE SCARY PLACE’ writes this gem:
Can you imagine being a child left in such a place? It must have been terrible to be taken away from your family (if you had the benefit of having one that cared) and basically dumped off at an institution that labeled and discarded you into one of their many buildings or cottages. Understaffed the ratio of care taker to residents was absurd and the institute was severely underfunded, having little ability to change anything. Children were basically left to fend for themselves or tied into beds, becoming often the victims of neglect, beatings and even rape. Children drew into themselves, failed to progress – some became silent. Thankfully, Pennhurst was closed down in 1987. New laws emerged.
"New laws emerged." That is the most that can be said? All of the years of misery and torture, pain and misguided government policy in the state of Pennsylvania, and that is all we can say?
AND NOW, folks, it’s a ‘haunted attraction.’ You can pay someone loads of cash to enter a facility that one facilitated abuse and mistreatment, heard the screams of innocent children on a daily basis, and became a living nightmare for countless people who were forced to experience the trauma of it all…
And not it’s a haunted house.
There may be no respect for the dead, but I don’t think there’s respect for the living either.
1987 isn’t that long ago.. Patients and employees are undoubtedly still living.
But now it’s a haunted house………….?
During this season of the witch, everyone is entitled to ‘one good scare.’ But raking in loads of money off of true suffering—suffering that happened during many of our lifetimes? Nah.. I find that tacky…disgusting.. maybe even reprehensible.
So get your tickets here and be a part of the agony that the children suffered.. laugh at their mistreatment.. Shriek at the fake horror..
And suffer the children,
Always the children.
..always the children..
I received a message today from a reader who inhabits a home somewhere in my neck of the coal region woods.. Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.. I was asked if I am seeing orange spiders. I am..
I have seen spiders this year that I quite honestly have never seen before.. White bodies with black legs.. hairy legs with yellow bodies.. And yes, now that it got warm this autumn, these giant orange ones.. They are all over. It’s bizarre.. and quite frankly I am a little scared of them..
I get snakes in my house about once a year. This year they were in the house four times—that I know of! But that’s no big deal to me.. Compare that to the little eight legged freaks? I’d rather the snake.. At least the snake would eat the spider.
Anyone out there seeing bugs and spiders you’ve never seen before??
Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are cutting thousands jobs amid falling insurance payments and in-patient visits.
BOOM!
Another great week.
Los Angeles-based performer Hollis Jane revealed on her blog: ‘I was a bear in Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance and for the first time I felt ashamed of being a little person.’
I don’t know what to think of this.. everything lately associated with Miley Cyrus is a big giant freak show. This latest story only amplifies that fact..
Not to be TwerkJerk, but I’d still venture to say this Hollis Jane knew what she was getting into before …right?
The photo you’re looking at is an example of Victorian post-mortem photography.
Our modern world may call this creepy and weird. But think of the times it happened in.. kids weren’t living very long due to disease and other issues. A big family of 10 could be taken down to much less due to some type of medical ailment. The photos, though taken so long ago, still reverberate with some bit of ‘strange’ quality.. but I find it to be just an example of how we, the living, deal with death. Maybe this does not happen now, but for it’s time, it was a touching tradition that was meant to honor the people taken too soon from life. Perhaps these photos are not for the squeamish..
….but how long would it take before social unrest if they never did?
I asked this question of myself a number of times yesterday. If you didn’t know, the EBT system was down in much of the United States. The technological glitch stopped people from using their food stamps to purchase items at grocery stories across the nation.
I heard one person asking, “Is this just a dry run?”
And that is a fascinating question, given the possibility that if our government can’t agree on anything, October 17 may be a very bad day in the markets, and the global economy. That’s the date we default.. on debt.. owned by lots of other nations.
China will be seeing red!
Nonetheless, the prospects of permanent inactive EBT cards—and social security checks that stop being sent—are possible Armageddon-like scenarios that the United States faces. About 49% of people live in a household that receives some type of government assistance. that can be minor, to major.
I have long held a belief that the people on welfare and other programs, though maligned and used as political fodder during election campaigns to divide voters, don’t pose much of a threat to anyone.. As a matter of fact, numbers back up my way of thinking: The government spends MORE on corporate welfare and programs than it does on the social end of it.. fat cats stay fat while stray cats pick at the garbage .. The same goes for humans, where big companies can achieve greatness with the held of a long arm of Uncle Sam, while social programs seem to simply keep people in the darkness of a permanent lower class ..
But all of that aside, the prospects of the food stamp program going down …right now.. are interesting.
That comment, ‘was it a dry run,’ keeps sticking in my mind like glue.
I don’t propose any form of conspiracy theory that the government would use some sort of weird experiment to see how people would react (now they’d never do such things, right?), but it’s surely interesting timing. The week coming up when the system may actually halt, and this weekend a little 17-state issue for people trying to use their cards..
Corporations that rely on government have their safety net already. They bought it—often with money from the government.. but those relying on a weekly check or a pittance of money to live? They don’t have a safety net.. Their net is tattered and filled with holes.. filled with pitfalls. What would happen if the social security checks stopped? The EBT cards? The rest of it that 49% of Americans rely on? Some others have speculated on what would happen.. I will let them do the speculation. I am just asking questions—questions based on what we saw yesterday with the system crash.
So was it a dry run?
Probably not.
But I sure bet the powers that be, whomever they be, are studying the outcome of just a few hours of a system crash to see what would happen if one of those seven disasters played out in a post October 17 world…
I went to Jim Thorpe, PA, with a friend last night.. Coming up next week: I will be going there with my wife for our 6th wedding anniversary..
It’s a great place. Worthwhile if your visit, should you be inclined. This time of year, especially, is perfect for a visit to the OLD JAIL MUSEUM where Molly MaGuires were wrongfully hung in public for a murder they did not commit. The town is loaded with history, mystery, culture, great food, great spirits, and maybe some real ‘spirits’ too..
I feel lucky to be so close in proximity to the gem in the refuse pile.. Jim Thorpe is a downright cool place.
I envision other towns in the coal region to be future great places.. I really do. Maybe that’s the hope in me..there is so much history in other locations—but the changing area and diminishing importance of it solidifies the role of backwards nothing, unless someone comes along and wants to make the town they live in the next historically preserved JIm Thorpe.
In the good old days they chanted ‘yes we can’..
Now they can’t.
And I am.
It could be the worst part of having all this information at my fingertips.. And lots of incorrect diagnoses to prove it..
This should not come as a shock to anyone who has any inkling of knowledge of the Miriam Carey killing in Washington DC, but it’s finally official revealed that she possessed no weapons and had “no motive” to do what she did.. Of course, her action and the lack of a weapon didn’t help stop her demise. Police shot her and killed her in front of her one-year-old child after a wild day of varied news reports ..
I ask you this, though.. Why the silence? An innocent African American woman gunned down at close range by an army of police officers in the Nation’s Capitol.. and what occurs? Congress gives a standing ovation … no civil rights leaders speak up.. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton don’t say a word any of this.. Who will weep for Miriam Carey? Her family, for one… perhaps one day her young child, a child who will luckily not remember seeing her mother be shot dead as the nation’s media happily cheered on the state’s actions in making sure she didn’t live any more seconds to tell why she was acting the way she was the day she died. enough, the family of Carey has not been permitted to view her body.. They haven’t seen the child.. few are asking how her car slammed security gates, but didn’t have air bags deploy, and didn’t have any hardcore visible damage when cops finally cornered her. And finally, the big one, why are no media organizations concerned with the reality of events and why she actually died that fateful day in Washington D.C. ??
Hart Island is 131 acres and has been uninhabited for years..
It’s on the Western Part of Long Island.
And since 1869, the location has been used as a burial grounds for those who could not afford the luxuries of higher priced funerals and caskets..
According to the eerie report from SMITHSONIAN, 2,000 people a year are buried there, with about 850,000 in all over the past 100+ years..Even more: Dismembered body parts constitute a small minority of the burials. SMITHSONIAN REPORTS:
An estimated one-third of the burials are of very young children. With one exception—“special child baby 1 1985,” the first child to die of AIDS in New York City—the bodies are buried in mass graves..
You are reading that headline right. She was arrested—not told to stop, not removed—but arrested at the public event for heckling the President of McDonalds.
Even people who heckle the president don’t get arrested..that’s president of the United States.
Famous paintings are turning black.. and it’s being blamed on mercury..Apparently elemental mercury, which forms under exposure to light and chlorine ions in the air, degrades paintings.. and some famous images painted by famed men of the past, are turning black..
There are no physical signs you’ve entered the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000-square-mile area that covers the eastern half of West Virginia.
Interesting..
There is a lot of ‘noise’ .. but real and white noise. Sometimes you can almost feel the electronic bursts of WIFI and cell towers flowing through your body like a cancerous disease.
But not in this location in West Virginia..
….though maybe some other things lurk in this same quiet zone..?
Thanks for the message. I know what you mean..
Everything in education seems to be just “processed” anymore, like McDonalds food. The same education everywhere.. no matter the class size or background of the student. I cannot even imagine many schools teaching local history anymore.. nothing relating to things that matter to the area a child is growing up in..
I am not an education expert—though I have debated as of late whether I should go back to school for a certificate to teach—so until then I cannot really exclaim I know the problems and errors within our system.
But I can say this.. what we are doing is not working. We are raising a generation shaky on basics, and almost absent many fundamentals that other nations have—and our collective hind end is being handed to us with a big giant bow on it..
Again.. something needs to be done to alleviate the masses of the asses, and bring the herd up to speed on what really matters.
A 21st century style of teaching … something else needs to be done in the modern era..
And maybe it already started and I missed the beginning—perhaps others out there with a subject matter expertise on such things can enlighten me and give me hope. Until then… adults in the US of A will just be plain out dumber than the rest of the world..
It’s a melancholy type of day..
This song is about John Lennon. But for some reason, especially this time of year, it reminds me of some very important people in my own personal life that passed away.. There are lots of empty gardens out there.. I know you know of some, too
WASHINGTON — It’s long been known that America’s school kids haven’t measured well compared with international peers. Now, there’s a new twist: Adults don’t either.
And now the ACLU has called on the Justice Department to disallow the punishment
(MORE HERE)
Human Rights watch called for a ban a while back..
And really, there does not seem to be any overall public benefit to providing solitary torture for teenagers ..
In a nation that seems fine with disappearing people, giving drones the ability to decide who to kill, and using weapons to stop tourists from looking at Yellowstone, I don’t think this noble goal has much immediate traction..
But it should..
Again.. I never knew it was as prevalent as it is.
You’re looking at a very close image of a Chicken McNugget.
Not lovin’ it: McDonalds “Chicken” McNuggets contain 60% fat, bone, and cartilage.. It’s not big shock, if you have ever had to eat the so-called food product before, you’ll know that it goes far beyond mystery meat.. it’s a meatless mystery—and now we see it’s filled with bones, veins, and all the tissue that couldn’t be served up in a better place.
Dennis Rodman maybe did not do so well this time around..? North Korea weighs in again on the foreign policy map: They have put their army on alert and warned the United States of ‘a horrible disaster’
South Korea says that the North has restarted nuclear reactor..
Military on ‘emergency posture’
And.. just curious, has anyone heard from Rodman since his last North Korean visit to Lil Kim??
If the government shutdown continues, the United States nuclear Regulatory Commission will stop operating.. They will run out of funds this week.. One scientist is now on record saying “Yes, I’m worried.”
After lots of ‘bad press’ and even more confusion, the Justice Department has restored AMBER ALERT .. It was never ‘down’ to begin with.. a simple redirect occurred that took you away from the still live page.. clearly a staged takedown to cause an effect—which it, but it backfired ..
This land is your land.. but no one ever said the water was! The FEDs now trying to shut down the OCEAN due to shutdown!
China warns that the clock is ticking on the debt ceiling and default date.. If China calls, will we listen? They own much of what will default.. They don’t want their neighborhood to devolve.. Their investment needs to keep some net value. With Red China weighing in, let’s see how fast they pass..
Five things about the killing of Miriam Carey that no one is talking about..
Your digital trail can be used against you.
The man who set himself on fire on the National Mall last week has been identified as Mount Laurel resident. D.C. police said 64-year-old John Constantino was the person who died last Friday during this strange event..
Three arrested in stabbing of soldiers..
Announced today: François Englert, left, spoke with Peter Higgs win Nobel Peace prize in physics.. Not a shock—but certainly a fair choice..
Judge Scalia says that Satan is real..
Former US West CEO Joseph Nacchio was released from prison last week after completing a four year insider trading sentence. He still claims the NSA framed him on the insider trading charges – after he refused to participate in their illegal phone surveillance program in 2001..
Congratulations to Clyde Lewis, who earned the title of best on air personality from KXL-FM radio in Portland Oregon.. His show obviously stretches far from just the rocky shores of Oregon—his program is a must listen to for millions each night. Often including me..
Does evil exist or do bad things just happen?
Did you know your dog in another life?
Must read: How parents can literally break childrens’ hearts..
MUST READ: Why are so many kids cutters?
Miley and Beebs find a common interest..
Justin Bieber appears to be smoking pot in a new photo..
These aliens are on fireeeee!!!! Alicia Keys thinks ETs are among us..
Scarlett Johansson the ‘sexiest woman of the year’
CURSE OF CHUCKY director talks about sequel..
How GRAVITY filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron created weightlessness..
Vietnam vets arrested in NYC.. Out past their curfew.
Shame shame.
Cops arrest Vietnam vets at memorial in New York City..
The crime? They did not adhere to the 10pm curfew..
Video..
Just think of their investments! Imagine the downgrade if we default.. They want their property to keep its worth. And golly we must be the property..
Even cartwheels have been banned.. Not sure really what’s left for kids to do. Maybe bring a tin can in and kick it around—only on tin can zones of course..
What types of zany things were these kids doing to cause a ban on all such things?
I don’t care.
He was still the best that ever was..
You’re one of many people who have advised me it’s time to shed my fear and tune into UNCLE GRANDPA.
I will, I promise..
I never knew there was such a following—and these folks are dedicated to the cause.
I hate Malware.
But this toolbar was one of the most annoying I have ever dealt with..
What can I say.. tropical systems in fall? Wind and rain? All that with leaves changing bright shades of yellow and red? I just love this time of year. I could do without the 80 degree days, of course—something very weird for this part of Northeastern Pennsylvania at this time of year. But I see an extended forecast of glory later this week, after the rainy weather today.. beauty will shine. And even if the weather is not ‘beautiful,’ that’s all in the eye of the beholder anyway.
The world?
Maybe that’s not as beautiful as it once was.
Here’s the rest of the stories..
Shutdown: Now the debt ceiling lingers larger..
MOODY’s CEO says default won’t happen..
Many Pentagon employees recalled..
Government shutdown may lead to some PRIESTS getting arrested!
Stink bug count stops due to shutdown..
Timing is everything—coincidences? Planned? …I don’t know. But the debt ceiling battle will come to a head on October 17—that’s the date the United States will default and will lose the ability to borrow, unless Congress increases the limit and passes a continuing resolution to fund government services. It’s also the date when 37 states will practice an end of the world (at least their world) scenario with the GREAT U.S. SHAKEOUT ..
More Americans are interested in football and Miley Cyrus than they are the government shutdown.. And that may continue until the SOCIAL SECURITY AND DISABILITY checks stop, as Jack Lew has hinted .. if that occurs, I expect search engine results to change rapidly.. What about you? A shutdown at that point would truly come in like a wrecking ball..
A big scientific study conducted on NDEs.. finding that most of them are pleasant..
Monsanto buys climate corporation..
The White House and D.C. police are very tight lipped about the killing of Miriam Carey .. we watched her demise live on TV, Congress cheered, and then we found out she had no weapons and had a one-year-old child in the car.. what is the true story of Carey? What did happen to her car? The Obama Administration refuses to tell, and few reporters are actually even asking..
REASON magazine: Beware the NSA’s ongoing witch hunt..
Giant hornets kills many in China..
Bizarre cloud formations as storms hit Houston..
Japan is going to get slammed by Danas..
Typhoon Fitow creating walls of water in China..
Quiet sun.. with a few bubbles: A minor solar flare measuring C6.3 was observed around region 1856 at 04:13 UTC Monday morning. This happens to be the largest detected X-Ray event since August 30th..
Big fire at Marine base in California expected to be fully contained by Tuesday..
A wildfire forced Marines to evacuate Camp Pendleton..
ANDERSON COOPER reported a special report for CBS’ 60 MINUTES on the dangers in the sky.. Among the items reported: NASA only found out an asteroid hit Russia in February by looking at Twitter.. There are 100 times more asteroids than what has been located so far.. This is interesting that, yet again, the media is focusing on the calamity that could hit earth if a big object strikes.. There have been way too many ‘close for comfort’ events lately.. and also alarmingly too many news reports telling us about our impending demise if an impending rock slams us..
RUMORS: Why is FEMA prepping for the worst? Could it be all those asteroids?
What does Katy Perry think? Russell Brand talks to Alex Jones..
Amazing! There are huge and vast streams that have been found beneath Antarctic ice.
Ice channels are as high as the Eiffel Tower!
…and now it has been theorized that these are actually melting parts of the Antarctic ice shelf..
Madonna said she was raped at knifepoint years ago when she first came to New York City.. Her other comments were interesting, saying she was scared at first in NYC by the vomit and urine smell that dominated the streets..
People went back to the movies this weekend.. GRAVITY makes $55.6 mil in debut.. Tom Jones cheered it, reviews were great, and it became the biggest October debut ever..
Days ago, ‘experts’ said Halloween sales would decline. Retailers disagree..
"We’ve never gotten to the point where the United States government has operated without the ability to borrow," Lew said. "It’s very dangerous. It’s reckless, because the reality is, there are no good choices if we run out of borrowing capacity and we run out of cash."
Lew said the government has been managing to make payments since May by shifting money around, but it will run out of those options on October 17. Unless Congress votes to raise the debt ceiling, the federal government will be left with “a very, very short window of time” before it would have to stop cutting checks for Social Security recipients or disabled veterans and would undermine the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, he said.
Clearly the AMBER ALERT and Let’s Move websites aforementioned on this and other sites are the least of concerns when the social security and disability checks stop..
I have been getting messages on here, along with private messages, which make me think my criticism of UNCLE GRANDPA (without really watching it) is not in order.. As a matter of fact, lots of people are telling me the show is great, and has a good message.
I will attempt to get passed his voice.. maybe I’ll give the show a whirl. We’ll see.
There are some shows I don’t let me son watch.. there are some shows he watches and does not like (thankfully) .. and one of those shows is UNCLE GRANDPA. He’s not interested yet, but I assume as he ages, he will become so. Which frightens me.. UNCLE GRANDPA may be the single worst cartoon, ever. And quite possibly WORSE in the annoyance level than even CAILLOU.
Who agrees?
GASOLINE. AIRBOURNE TOXIC EVENT..
Good evening.
Proving that anyone is funnier with Miley Cyrus’ tongue.. here we have a series of stars proving it, including House Speaker John Boehner, celebrated star Robert Goulet, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.
Rounding out the photos.. Miley Cyrus proving anyone is funnier with hog dog eating contest hands in their mouths..
Good evening.
Enjoy SNL.
Got to say I’m a not surprised by this.. I think the show is stale now, I can’t even imagine what Letterman circa 2015 will be like..
But he really can’t go out on top. He hasn’t been on top since Hugh Grant was on top of a hooker and Leno got the first interview—and began his 23 years of high ratings..
But maybe CBS sees a chance with Dave up against Jimmy Fallon?
Remember yesterday when we were told that Miram Carey was an active shooter? And then we were told she was crazy? And then we were told she slammed through barricades in D.C.? And then police shot her as her 1-year-old was in the car? ….AND then we saw her car and it was not even damaged?
Interesting considering this video that surfaced today showing POLICE slamming through a barrier in Washington D.C.
How weird this story is…And how much sense it does not make.
A man has apparently set himself on fire at the National Mall in D.C., another strange occurrence after yesterday’s chase and killing of a mother by police.
This is how initial AP dispatches are reporting this still developing story..
A fire official says a man has been flown to the hospital after setting himself on fire on the National Mall.
Fire crews responded Friday afternoon to a report of a man on fire at 7th and Madison streets. A witness says she saw a man dump a red canister of gasoline on his head and then set himself on fire.
D.C. Fire Department spokesman Tim Wilson says the man has life-threatening injuries.
Anyone in New Orleans, and anyone else in the path of Karen, needs to prepare now..
Things are set to go Pahrump in the night this evening. Tonight on Art Bell’s DARK MATTER: The first interview with Linda Howe.. Looking forward to it. I bet she is too.. Just think, a host who appreciates her intelligence and can carry on a meaningful conversation.. she hasn’t had that in years..
Is this an only in Pennsylvania type of thing?
In Wilkes-Barre, DUCT TAPE is being used to repair a building.
WNEP is reporting that permanent repairs are coming. Until then, the old duct tape route is being taken.
And if I had to make a prediction, I’d say the DUCT TAPE would hold longer than future construction anyway..
But still.. really..?
Woman was unarmed with a child. Shot and killed.. was that necessary? Once again No due process. But what do I know? This all seems to be a quick and easy distraction all alerts are off — the President has been briefed— and others like this woman won’t get their paychecks
A ship reported 23-foot waves & 53 mph sustained winds west of Tropical Storm Karen at 2 PM.. according to forecasters, this could be associated with the large outflow boundary moving out from the storm though..
We are told it will weaken as it approaches land..
we are told..
The government may be shut down, but there are still observations being reported here: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php?storm=at2
And this is the map of where the wave was reported:
This is a tweet written by the New York Times. The headline attaches Thursday’s shooting as part of the unfurling government shutdown. The New York Times did not know this when they wrote the tweet, and an hour later we still know nothing about why the incident occurred.
A big sigh..
Everyone needs to eat some fruit.
The U.S. Capitol building has been placed on lockdown following reports of gunfire.
There are LOTS of reports that are contradicting each other..
Everyone needs to take a deep breath and let this story develop..
Sirens are going off in the Capitol, and people on the Hill are being told to “shelter in place.”
Senior congressional staffers and one eyewitness told Fox News the incident began with a car chase, which came to a stop near the Capitol building. Sources said several police cars were in pursuit. When they boxed in the other vehicle, the driver got out and five or six shots were fired, sources said.
Witnesses saw a baby being taken from the car.
