A beautiful evening to go shopping, or to drive past the mall and see people doing it. This one is taken at the Schuylkill mall in Frackville Pennsylvania, ice glistening on the trees from the storm last night and a vibrant sunset taking place
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Friday, December 6, 2013
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December air is clean, pure, cold, and lifeless.
It’s in the air tonight.
Good evening, all.
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The boy in the hospital room: A story that challenges my skepticism
Before you read this, it should be noted that I am a truly skeptical person, but not skeptical to the point where I do not believe there are numerous possibilities.. Skepticism aside, I was talking to a friend last night when I encountered a very chilling moment.
Let me first set the stage. Stay with me ..
St. Catherine’s Hospital in Ashland Pennsylvania closed last year, the owners declared bankruptcy, all the workers were then fired and there is an ongoing attempt to sell the building and the property.. The hospital has a great value to the region, and a very big historical significance. Before being named St. Catherine’s, it was the Ashland Regional Medical Center… The location dates back well over 100 years, and it was originally a medical facility for coal miners who were suffering injury and often death due to the dangerous job they were performing. The name then was the State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Anthracite Coal Region at Fountain Springs. The construction of the building concluded in 1882.. The original building was demolished and a new one took its place in 1967—this is what still exists on the property, though it’s obviously inactive, closed, and bankrupt.. When it first was established, the rule existed that the order of patients being accepted would be 1) Miners, railroad workers, and textile workers. In the early 1900s women and children began to receive care..
In a setting like this, with a rich history of life and death, it would be without question to contain strange tales of paranormal activity, ghosts walking the hallways, and weird noises and creeks from the building and the walls around it..
I myself was born in this facility, my grandfather died in this facility—so the history of the building hits very close to home.
During the period of time when the hospital was closed since 2012, I had the opportunity to speak to many people who worked there, and those who were still working there tying up loose ends until the middle of 2013.. those people consisted of nurses, administrative support, and custodial employees. None of them are employed there at this time. After the hospital was shuttered and all of the patients transferred out, there were reports given to me of some odd things. For one, there were buzzing noises being hard at the nurses station — no patients were in any rooms, but yet the call buttons were still sounding… Mini blinds were moving without any windows being open… And (this always seems to be a tale told in various locations) there was mysterious woman dressed in all white, appearing ghostly and walking the halls of an old closed down maternity ward on the fifth floor.
Without going into detail due to a promise made, I can only tell you that I also witnessed some of these things first hand.. that is the only thing I am at liberty to say at this time.
But the most chilling in strange tale I have heard was told to me by more than one person.
A story was relayed of a young boy in coal mining type clothing wandering the floors of the hospital, often the boy would show up in the room with someone who was seriously ill or undergoing an intensive procedure.. So says the tale told.
Stories like this, the so-called crouching boy as someone named him, could be chalked up to just old wives tales, superstitious workers, or patients who are highly medicated and literally seeing things that did not exist. A little pain reliever can do that to you. To be perfectly honest with you, though I heard it from two different people, I myself became extremely skeptical of the crouching boy story and dismissed it entirely.
Until a conversation I had last night, I was willing to say the crouching boy never existed.
I was speaking to a friend who, back in 2006, was in the hospital for an extremely life-threatening ailment. I had forgotten that he spent time in the hospital recovering, seven years ago seems like an eternity these days..
I jokingly asked him during our conversation “did you see anything strange?” He became serious and said, “yes”..
My friend went on to describe how he saw shadows of people walking around him, whispers in the darkness.. but most important: A young boy in ‘weird’ clothing, vacantly staring at him from the corner of the room. As matter fact, he said he saw the boy two times. The first time when he was highly medicated on pain medicine, and the second time when he was fully recovered and leaving the hospital. He said he turned and looked in a room holding the bed of someone very sick and saw the same boy staring at that man. According to my friend, the boys stopped showing up in his room when a local priest came and performed a blessing on him.
The story hit me very hard. It was like a giant 50 pound bag of potatoes falling down onto my stomach.
The profound part of this was that I spoke nothing of this boy or stories of him to my friend. He was not aware that I knew of this boy, and when I told him that I was skeptical of stories of him, my friend told me with 100% honesty that, the boy was there and he did not see him only when he was on pain medicine..
I was creeped out by this at initially… But then made me very sad.. If there are these souls that inhabit this old vacant hospital, what are they doing now? The electricity is cut off, there is no life within the building, and during the nighttime, the building appears as a large shadow with no light emitting from. It’s like a black hole on a hill, or a monster breathing darkness and it lurks in inactivity. If there are troubled souls who roam that hospital, they must be confused as to where all the other life is gone..
It is amazing to me that my friend told me about this boy, and the fact that he was adamant that when he was recovered completely and walking out of the hospital, he saw the boy staring at a man who is about to die.. It would seem to confirm what other staff people told me.
My friend did not say much when I told him that often patients see the children before death..
I asked him if he told the priest but he saw the boy. My friend said he did not. But he did ask the priest for an intense blessing..
I suppose it is something that one may keep to himself.. It’s between the patient. And the crouching boy in the corner of the hospital room…
Let’s keep the Krampus in Christmas!
Christmas in Germany: Is the “Krampus Christmas Demon becoming too commercial? ..Krampus is a demon with devil horns who is hell bent on scaring children. St. Nicholas allows him to go house to house in order to scare children straight. And now those who celebrate the old traditions of Krampus are angry that it’s becoming too commercial.. Just like Charlie Brown worried about in 1966 during his CHRISTMAS special.
The Japanese 'reign of terror' begins?
This seems to be an urgently important story from Japan that is getting hardly any play in world media..
There is a bill that will have whistleblowers and journalists in Japan finding themselves in prison for divulging state secrets or even reporting and talking freely about the horrible effects of FUKUSHIMA!
It was so bad that a lawmaker shouted “This is the way the reign of terror begins!” during the vote.. Even VARIETY is reporting that the bill can extend and hurt filmmakers who are trying to expose information about the Fukushima meltdown.
Why is the entire world just ‘ok’ with a meltdown of epic proportions.. why is the entire world comfortable with hardcore radiation swinging throughout the Northern Hemisphere. And why, why the hell, doesn’t more more (at least in America) report on the beginning of the ‘reign of terror’ in Japan? I don’t know..
Mystery alien-like creature appears to be glowing and swimming in Britol in the UK.. Or could it just be a hoax?
The death of Nelson Mandella is a big deal. And maybe it was the first time, too..?
Nelson Mandella, the endless time traveler on earth, is dead. He had a life of struggle and triumph.. His prison time did not stop from from history in 1994 when he became the president of South Africa. His recent battle with ailments left him on his death bed repeatedly, but his strength and ferocity kept him fighting until his last breaths were inhaled yesterday at the age of 95..
Mandella made history—and forged progress in a place that had little.
But what else is he known for? Well.. for many, they knew him as someone who previously died..
Some people think they already witnessed Mandella’s funeral. There is paranormal lure that he was dead before—and somehow we were all no that timeline at one time, but he came back. A time slip. Like when a building shows up and you never saw it there before.. I think our minds play lots of tricks on us. What we see is not always what’s in front of us. We have a way of zooming so fast that we often neglect to even comprehend the tangible objects that are before us. And maybe Mandella was one of those—he moved so fast in life, and no one will ever be able to do what he did and how he did it.
But was he a time traveler? Did he die before? My advice from my father this morning:
Cut the headline off the newspaper of his demise and tack it to the wall. That way when he is alive again there will be proof of his past perish..
Now onto the rest of the story.
- His impact on pop culture and the world..
- Front pages mourn his death..
- HIStory: His LA visit..
- Mandella was once a ‘terrorist’ according to the US..
- Now life without Nelson..
TIME SLIP: Many people thought Mandella died in prison.. People even remembered news clips of people mourning and a speech from his widow.
Time slips and Nelson Mandella.. it’s called the Mandella Effect..
Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Only a few days in.. and it’s already been a long December.
Good evening, all.
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CNN asks the hardcore question: Does smoking pot cause man boobs?
Three points.
1) This really isn’t journalism. No matter how many times DARTH VADER tells me that this is CNN.
2) I knew who smoked lots and lots of pot. They are typically really thin. Three of them now own their own successful companies.
3) Most kids I knew in high school who drank too much beer still do, and often wear their varsity high school jackets on weekends in the fall to local bars.
CNN asks the hardcore question: Does smoking pot cause man boobs?
Meet WONDER WOMAN.
Gal Gadot cast as WONDER WOMAN in MAN OF STEEL 2
Casting bombshell..
I think most people will be ok with it.. Although I did find some fan sites that were angered that Gadot did not have large enough hips to factually be of what WONDER WOMAN should truly be in 2014?
Maybe this would have been a more realistic portrayal?
'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig'
The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, who is one of the world’s leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.
I suppose this is why it may be said that all men are pigs.
'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig'
Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement May Be Linked
I love stories like this. No matter how little of them I actually comprehend.
Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement May Be Linked
Signs of Water Found on 5 Alien Planets by Hubble Telescope
The five exoplanets are all scorching-hot, Jupiter-size worlds that are unlikely to host life as we know it. But finding water in their air still marks a step forward in the search for planets that may be capable of supporting alien life.
Signs of Water Found on 5 Alien Planets by Hubble Telescope
I found this epic video of the best of the worst of Black Friday shopping. The meanest, cruelest, and most insane of the Americans who stepped out of the comfort of their homes on Thanksgiving to go fight with their fellow human being for garbage made in China by slaves ..
The life of a sheeple must be a sad state of existence. Working everyday, sometimes not working at all, accomplishing nothing, never thinking deeply, and relying on the faint scent of material possessions to justify their pitiful place on earth.
Their collective lives have no meaning to the masses.. their hurdles through space and time are just knocking over store property to grab hold of a cheap piece of junk and take it home..
They think their winnings will impress others.
There are no brain waves operating soundly.
They have a vain state of mind, and their ‘selfie’ photos litter their phones.
They are the new people. They are the sheeple. Hear them roar.
(Source: http://investorplace.com/)
This is going to be a problem.. But our choices about how to handle it may be worse
I often feel guilty for not giving much attention to dementia on this website… My grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s for 12 years (perhaps longer) until she died.. I was robbed of her love for much of my life.. I hate Alzheimer’s and all of its effects. The notion of the brain deteriorating and turning to mush is sickening.. it takes life without taking breath, and it becomes a long battle.
And what will we do about it? Will we ‘pull the plug on granny’ as NEWSWEEK advised us to do? Will health care officials start to purge us of the ‘lesser’ of the people? Will eugenics come back?
I fear that.
Autism is rising.
Alzheimer’s is too.
And if we do not treat people who have these afflictions with respect and love, we will do no justice to their souls .. if we make the wrong choices with the increased number of people who suffer from the breakdown of the mind, we will be Godless and immoral.
And if we choose to ignore their plight? Well shame on us. Suffer the children, and suffer the parents.
It’s easy to pull the plug on GRANNY.
But it sure as hell ain’t right.
2 Million More Passwords for Facebook, Google, Twitter, Other Sites Were Stolen and Posted to the Net
And clearly, people have no had adequate training on how to create a password. Here are examples of leaked ‘secret’ codes..
123456
123456789
password
admin
12345678
qwerty
1234567
111111
photoshop
123123
1234567890
000000
abc123
1234
adobe1
macromedia
azerty
iloveyou
aaaaaa
654321
This is the best you can do, citizens of the planet? !
2 Million More Passwords for Facebook, Google, Twitter, Other Sites Were Stolen and Posted to the Net
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There has been quite a bit of attention lately on the newly built 1 World Trade Center. There are strange noises being heard from it—haunting sounds that seem to be ghosts screaming in the dead of the night, as illustrated by this YOUTUBE video..
Scientifically speaking.. it’s wind blowing through the top of the unfinished tower. But does science matter? Nah.. Ghosts, spirits, and the souls of the deceased are screaming. I’d rather believe that, to be honest.
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Graves in Philly
I loved the movie THE SIXTH SENSE. There was one scene in particular that has stayed with me since I first saw it.. there was a moment in which the character played by Haley Joel Osment was frightened when he saw ghosts hanging in a Philadelphia school .. Something occurred today that may be the realistic version of that fictitious scene.
Workers at a Philadelphia school unearthed coffins while they were digging a ditch for new drainage.. According to the report, the coffins were in a row and evenly spaced. An investigation is ongoing.. School is still in session.
Creepy stuff in Philly tonight..
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One more for you, John G.
Hope this brings back some memories.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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Good evening.. this music is fitting to my mood and soul tonight. Hope you’re in a good place, people of earth.
The world’s not.
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Epic Ice Storm Possible; Millions Could Lose Power
A major ice storm will plague Arkansas over the next week, causing major power outages. I look at the possibilities and past ice storms.
Get ready. Get set. It’s winter.. Wait! It’s not winter!
This may be the WORST of winter before it even begins!
Epic Ice Storm Possible; Millions Could Lose Power
A big Merry Freaking Philly Christmas.
Only in the city of brotherly love can a massive fight break out at the Christmas Tree lighting.
I am starting to think Mayor Nutter better get busy finding someone to play BATMAN, because Philthy is turning into Gotham City from the DARK KNIGHT RISES.
The chaos happened in front of the Mayor and other special dignitaries..
Perhaps there was confusion and the onlookers thought they were about to celebrate FESTIVUS, so they participated in a feat of strength.
A very strange story of missing radioactive material got stranger tonight in Mexico:
The truck vanished.. All eyes were on the lookout.
Then the AP reported this:
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A missing shipment of radioactive cobalt-60 was found Wednesday near where the stolen truck transporting the material was abandoned in central Mexico state, the country’s nuclear safety director said.
The highly radioactive material had been removed from its shipping container, officials said, and one predicted that anyone involved in opening the box would be dead within three days.
Obviously a developing story..
A very strange story of missing radioactive material got stranger tonight in Mexico:
History Eyes Jesus TV Drama Series -- With Eli Roth And Exorcism?
Nicki Finke reports..
I call it the Pope Francis effect. A cool pope will always lead to cooler television I suppose.
History Eyes Jesus TV Drama Series -- With Eli Roth And Exorcism?
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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We all need a bridge over troubled water now and then.
Thanks John G.
Good evening all..
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It’s sundown…
Somewhere. Here.. there. Always.
Good winter evening everyone..
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Pennsylvania: Expert Warns of Underage Drinkers Consuming Cooking Wine
I am from Pennsylvania.
I use cooking wine.
But I buy it only in the state store (we are one of the last two states with state run liquor here in the Keystone State.)
I would never imagine using cooking wine for a cheep drunk.
But then again, kids are also using CROCYDIL.
So they aren’t alright.
Pennsylvania: Expert Warns of Underage Drinkers Consuming Cooking Wine
Well at least he’s not naked with a horse.
First look at Daniel Radcliffe in FRANKENSTEIN..
You know, he looks a lot like a woman I saw yesterday in Pottsville.
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS?
CNN is about to make a major change and have LESS news.. Well, the Weather Channel stopped airing weather..
The Central New Network may as well fire all their newscasters..
Call me crazy, but I miss the days of CNN’S HEADLINE NEWS back in the early days when they’d have a live broadcast, every half hour, of the news of the moment. Am I dating myself with that one?
But it was CNN HEADLINE NEWS—-real news—like NEWS. And not just blips and beeps coming from talking heads. I am tired of politics.. I am tired of the ‘right wing and left wing’ arguments, arguments that go no where and are tired out from their own weight of hair air. And now CNN will air less news..
I am releasing a big ‘sigh.’
I suppose this is only more evidence to show why millions of people go immediately to the INTERNET and Twitter for news—news you cannot find, or ever will, on any news network on the TEE VEE..
Life-Threatening Cold to Plunge Into Rockies, Plains
Heads up United States—it’s going to be so cold your spit will freeze. Even more, it could kill. Not a situation to be ignored—this is the coldest air in the United States in 20 years (And it’s early for it, too) ..
Life-Threatening Cold to Plunge Into Rockies, Plains
This is so cool.. Beautiful sight! Rare weather event fills the Grand Canyon with fog..
I envy anyone who saw this firsthand..
Monday, December 2, 2013
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Good evening all!!!
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Power outage plunges most of Venezuela in darkness
THIS IS THE REUTERS DISPATCH:
Venezuela’s second massive power outage of the year plunged much of the nation into darkness on Monday night, prompting renewed talk of sabotage from President Nicolas Maduro’s government and cries of incompetence from its foes.
Power went off in Caracas and other cities around the country soon after 8 p.m. local time (0030 GMT), to the intense annoyance of residents and commuters.
Intense anger is being expressed by citizens who are without electricity …
Power outage plunges most of Venezuela in darkness
No security ever built into Obamacare site: Hacker
Can this get any worse?
I know we are going with the word of a hacker—but I’d take the word of a hacker over other experts..
This may be worse than the website not working.
No security ever built into Obamacare site: Hacker
It's a pretty big deal in the house tonight!
The Charlie Brown Christmas special airs tonight!
Ayden is excited. His own words, ‘daddy I love this one.’
Mommy says ‘it’s the only one that makes mommy not want to hurt herself.’
The dog has a bone.
Christmas has begun..
Cats suffering from 'Tom and Jerry' syndrome
Vets warn of a new phenomenon whereby cats suffer seizures triggered by everyday sounds around the house, like the clicking of a computer mouse or the tapping of a boiled egg
I blame GIFs
Cats suffering from 'Tom and Jerry' syndrome
Blame it on the bot!
More scary Google patent news: Google files patent for robot that writes your Facebook posts, emails and tweets - but will need FULL access to scan your accounts It would study you, be you, and mimic you.
When someone posts a message, your robot you would reply just as you would. But what if the other person is a bot, too?
What if we are all bots?
This is a ride down to the abyss, where your mind will be dead to ‘them’ and your body will simply be a cavern of organs, blood, and a semi-beating heart.
Nothing stopping them now.
NO rest for the weary
"Comfort station" in old coal city Pottsville PA is a thing of the past.. The economic downtown and a city in distress—as many cities are these days..
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Well here in the coal region, the Monday after Thanksgiving means only one thing: Deer season.
I’m grateful because there is a less chance through the winter that Bambi and children will smash into my window..
However, as this horrendous song (but overly played today in Pennsylvania) proves, not all hunters are on the march for a deer.. maybe instead they are just getting drunk and wearing dirty underwear.
Oh the coal region.
I have fond memories years ago of my father telling me to either ‘wear orange’ when I leave the house or just stay in the basement all day, because drunk hunters have terrible shots.
Maybe my dad was right about these precautionary actions. I am still alive today.
And one day I will express the same warnings to my own son…
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
This is an absolutely *(to me)* amazing story appearing in NATURE.. Apparently dinosaurs used a community bathroom back in their day.. A latrine used by all! Dinos included.
And now we know where it is..
Sunday, December 1, 2013
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Good evening all…
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I applaud the makers of the Travel Channel's AMERICA DECLASSIFIED on tonight's Centralia episode. Somehow they were able to edit out all of the images of male and female genitalia from America's only 'graffiti highway'.
Plus an infared drone proved that the 50 year old mine fire was still glowing strong deep in the coal mines of Centralia.
Cool stuff.
I knew a few former residents (maybe family included) that refused to watch this show tonight because it included David Dekok. I never blamed him for anything, instead he did his job as a good reporter.
Nonetheless, science proves what some residents deny: The mine fire is a problem and remains one, even though those remaining few say there are no dangers.
Now my only question: What other towns will it spread to?
Moon grown and good.
Would you eat a carrot grown no the moon? The question is, at this time, would a carrot even grow on the moon?
NASA is exploring the notion that we will one day, in the distant future perhaps, live on our satellite. And in doing so, they are also set to experiment with the possibility of growing food on it.
And the DAILY MAIL reports that experts think if plants can survive there, humans can too.
It all takes place in 2015.
The real question humans should ask themselves: Where are we going to start putting all of our garbage? Our cans, our boxes.. our plastic.. and our dreaded Styrofoam? I think it’s high time, with all these planets KEPLER has been finding, to get a big rocket ship and do daily deliveries of our trash to foreign lands. Perhaps that planet made of glass! Or maybe the one that is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit! I know, we can send them into the black hole that is glowing with bright light!
Come on humans.. aren’t we tired of ruining our own planet with trinkets and useless trash?! Is it not time to branch out and ruin foreign and distant planets? It’s the human way! Reach out and touch the stars, and secretly throw your old McDonalds bag of rubbish out the window when no one’s looking.
But in the mean time, we’ll take it slow. First up: GROW FOOD ON THE MOON!
It’s a small step for plants, a giant leap for plant kind.
Good luck with that.
Who says drones can't be used for the good, too?
AMAZON is going to deliver your package with drones—not armed, I imagine, unless you consider a piece of junk made in China to be a weapon..
Seriously, Jeff Beezos showed CHARLIE ROSE all of the gadgets and contraptions that will make drone delivery possible tonight on 60 MINUTES.
Goodbye post office. So long UPS. FEDEX is not even a match.
No, not at all.
Not when you have drones…
At least if this happens, innocent Pakistani school kids won’t be killed in ‘collateral damage’ for no reason.
But what if the people of Pakistan order from Amazon? Drones to the rescue while others bomb?
Oh the future prospects of this are … startling. AND COMING SOON TO A SKY NEAR YOU.
Who says drones can't be used for the good, too?
Centralia will be featured tonight on AMERICA DECLASSIFIED
If you’re slightly or really interested in the story of the town that was, tune in tonight, Sunday December 1, to the Travel Channel at 10pm tonight
I’ll be curious to see how much justice is done to the Centralia memory. I never expect much, that way I’m not agitated by a less than fair portrayal ..
Child taken from womb by social services
It was for ‘the best’ they say…
So they drugged her and performed a C section to remove her child.
Her apparent crime was ‘suffering a mental breakdown’..
Oh, and she’s not getting her baby back.
Child taken from womb by social services
I had a brief conversation with my wife yesterday.. we pondered our existence, and wondered if ‘time’ is really going as fast as we perceive it.
My only argument was that the major earthquakes on this planet over the past decade did speed us up fractions of a millisecond—that was scientifically proven. Maybe that slight alteration in time does something to us over time.. maybe it in fact does make us feel that the passage of time—and in essence our trek around the sun—is changed.
Or..
It’s because we have a child, and now a dog, and a rush of life with work and few pleasure. Could it be the plague of parents—the idea that you’re watching your child grow too fast and also facing your own eventual ‘ending’? It’s already December.
So it’s true that life has accelerated. Or that the parental brain drain has set in..
I don’t know.
But things seem to be rushing by lately.
Any takers on telling me why?
Saturday, November 30, 2013
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This is a full video of Comet ISON starting November 26 through today, November 30. Clearly, the comet vanished.. Reappeared. And now, maybe, is vanishing again.
Ison may have been like a cat coming back, but in the last few frames, it does not appear to be much of anything.
So.. who will pronounce Ison dead and when..?
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Grim Website Tallies Black Friday Deaths
This death count website serves as a grim reminder of the lengths people go to for a black friday deal.
The Black Friday death count.
Now that you’re all done shopping, presuming you were in the capitalist druglike euphoria on Black Friday and THANKSGIVING NIGHT was it worth it?
And if you saw one of the 7 deaths and 88 injuries (known so far), would you still do it all over again…?
I fear your answer is yes.
Grim Website Tallies Black Friday Deaths
Elderly Woman Killed, Authorities Searching for the Killer
This Nanticoke PA crime is a bit shocking, given the circumstances.. The elderly woman was 97 years old and was beaten to death.
The timing was equally offensive: It happened on Thanksgiving night.
Trouble has come to your little town, sheriff..
Elderly Woman Killed, Authorities Searching for the Killer
Friday, November 29, 2013
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For anyone not from the coal region of Pennsylvania, the notion that a hospital being auctioned off and an old school being knocked down may not mean much..
But it meant a lot for me today.
It just so happened that Black Friday this year was filled with the voyage back in time, to the deepest and darkest pits of my memory.
I was born in the Ashland Regional Medical Center in September 1980. Today, that building, most recently known as St. Catherine’s Medical Center, was auctioned off and all of the possessions within it were liquidated— bankruptcy occurred last year that caused the closure of St. Catherine’s and the unemployment of almost 200 workers
Then came the other vision, I knew that Immaculate Heart Elementary School in Girardville PA would be knocked down but was still shocked to see have you equipment demolishing the school today as I drove by. I went to that school starting in the sixth grade, in those mid-1990s when everything seemed great.
So much of my memories are now gone.
The town I was born in, Centralia, is empty. Every school prior to the university I attended are all closed. The hospital I was born in.. gone.
It would be selfish to make this situation about myself, there were many people born in the hospital over the past 100 years and with its rich history, many people died there to. And as for the school, there are thousands of people who have memories of that building, the one ripped down today.
There seems to be a deeper meaning to these two these events taking place on Black Friday, while everyone was out shopping until they were dropping, old memories, and laughter and sadness, were wiped clean.
It is also a signal sign that the once great cold region of eastern Pennsylvania is releasing a deep sigh of death. You cannot drive through the towns of Schuylkill County and escape it. There is no growth, there is no exceptionalism, and there is only a melancholy sadness for the past and constant attempt to keep a spirit of something from the late 1930s alive—a time when the area boomed with wealth and culture. There are few signs of those times now..
That of course does not mean there is not hope, nor does not mean that changes will not come to benefit the area eventually. But right now on this day, this year, buildings are dilapidated, structures are unsound, and beacons of things that once were are being demolished or sold off to the lowest bidder.
And yes, childhood memories from birth through Catholic grade school are being quickly extinguished because of either profiteering hospital owners or legal liabilities of the Catholic Church
There is no escaping that truth, no matter what coal mine you try to use as shelter..
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Mark Dice makes me laugh again.. shouting people down for shopping too early.
Classic..
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Seriously America, are TVs worth this!?
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For the record.. this is the moment that the former St. Catherine hospital, and Ashland hospital, in Ashland Pennsylvania did NOT sell.
Black Friday was a bust for the bankruptcy sale.
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This is the former Ashland hospital, it is in Pennsylvania and it is filled with history of coal miners, baby births, life and death.
It has been closed for over a year due to a series of financially catastrophic events and it has gone bankrupt. Now today there is a public auction of everything in it along with the building and real estate itself.
I was born here, but I will not die here.
It will most likely never be a hospital again, that is a shame.
I can say much much more, but I will refrain from that on such a public forum as this website.
Maybe one day.
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Be proud America. This is you.
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It's chaos and hell already
Some images and videos of Black Friday madness. Humanity at its worst over material garbage.
It's chaos and hell already
Black Friday nonsense
My least favorite term being said by everyone today is ‘doorbuster prices’ I always hated that term.
I think it’s more offensive this year since shopping started thanksgiving night and the term was used much earlier than normal.
I think on 2014, we should start the door buster Black Friday sales on Halloween night. Why not.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Don’t get bruised. Don’t get battered.
Chances are, you were already.
When I was driving home with my wife and child from our Thanksgiving family affair, we passed by a Walmart. The place was mobbed with people and cars—so many that people started parking in a dirt and muddy lot that separates the store from the town of St. Clair, PA. God bless the workers tonight who will be faced with bruising and battering that was mentioned above.
People in pajamas flocking to the aisle with the cheap TV. People donning their finest spandex while they flea for iPhones and pads. Maybe iPads.
It was a little horrifying to see so many people out and about in Thanksgiving taking part in such rampant materialism. Couldn’t they wait until 3am for those ‘doorbusters.’…?
And speaking of doorbusters. I have come to despise that word over the past 36 hours.
PHOTO CREDIT:
This is where we are with Comet Ison tonight: We have never seen a comet behave like this
It’s still possible that the initial reports of ISON’s demise were exaggerated. “It is now clear that Comet ISON either survived or did not survive, or… maybe both,” Bruce Betts, director of projects for the Planetary Society, said in a Twitter update. “Hope that clarifies things.”
What we know: Not much yet.
We can guess, and some shots would appear that ISON is alive and well..or at least half alive and still moving.
Earlier today everyone, including NASA, pronounced this potentially historic comet dead. That does not seem to be the case as more analysis is done. Joshua Filmer of the site FROM QUAKES TO QUASARS wrote this tonight:
As I stated before, as the comet approached the Sun, something happened and ISON started to smear. It looked like the comet fizzed out before it even got started. Even if ISON disintegrated, scientists were suppose to see debris left over (which would be better for professional study, though not so good for amateur astronomy), but everything, the comet, the tail, everything, just vanished. Dean Pesnell, a project scientist with SDO summarized it most eloquently by saying “I’d like to know what happened to our half a mile of material that was going around the sun. Now’ it’s broken up and I didn’t see anything.”
Currently, material has reemerged from the other side of the Sun’s Corona. This is either a continuation of the tail that ISON left behind, or the comet itself. Current speculation is the dust that we see is simply dust, orbiting exactly as it should. The nucleus is probably lost.
It is pretty fascinating stuff—especially amazing to see so much disagreement still on what we are seeing having emerged from ISON’s encounter with the sun..
This tonight is, as as Phil Plait writes, a comet eager to confuse.
Hopefully definite answers are forthcoming..
Eyes on the sky. We may see a century event after all..
This is where we are with Comet Ison tonight: We have never seen a comet behave like this
Comet ISON vanishes in a puff of dust as it goes around the sun
The dud of the century. It appears Ison has not survived its trip to the sun…
Comet ISON vanishes in a puff of dust as it goes around the sun
What does thanksgiving mean to you?
Does it mean turkey?
Does it mean you’re going to have to work retail for sub-par wages?
Does it mean football?
Does it mean family?
Does it mean Christmas is coming?
Does it mean the winter is here, that the year is winding down?
Does it mean tales of Pilgrims and Native Americans?
Does it mean the stories of Thanksgiving massacres not told in history books?
Or none of the above.
Or something else.
What does it mean to you?
VIA soupsoup:
The 87th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was feared to have to ground it’s balloons due to high winds. Macy’s made the final determination to let the balloons fly early Thursday morning before the event.
IT’S ON!
THANKSGIVING 2013, WITH BALLOONS FILLING THE STREETS
Charlie Brown is my favorite
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
As you un-can your yams: The fire in the sky. And below.
Twas the night before Thanksgiving,
And all across Earth,
Eyes were staring at the heavens,
What’s Ison worth?
It may be a big show. Or a big dud.
We will not really know until Comet Ison makes its way around the sun—if it makes it, we will have a wonderful light show and a potential ‘Comet of the Century’ until Christmas.
We reported last night that Ison was looking like it would die a slow and icy death. Today there are mixed signals and a renewed chance that we will witness this potentially historic comet.
While you spice your turkey and un-can your yams, tonight may be a great night to tune into Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis. He’s on right now live as I write this, affiliates can be found here. Among his topics will be Ison and, as he reported tonight, fireballs being seen across Greece—and also apparently San Diego.
We will not really know until Comet Ison makes its way around the sun—if it makes it, we will have a wonderful light show and a potential ‘Comet of the Century’ until Christmas.
We reported last night that Ison was looking like it would die a slow and icy death. Today there are mixed signals and a renewed chance that we will witness this potentially historic comet.
While you spice your turkey and un-can your yams, tonight may be a great night to tune into Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis. He’s on right now live as I write this, affiliates can be found here. Among his topics will be Ison and, as he reported tonight, fireballs being seen across Greece—and also apparently San Diego.
ALSO THIS:
CNN: NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign website says the comet is “brightening dramatically” ahead of its close encounter with the sun on Thursday.
The glare of the sun has blocked most ground-based observations for now, but NASA has a fleet of spacecraft watching as ISON plunges toward the sun. Two space telescopes recorded images of the comet after it started acting like it was falling apart. NASA’s STEREO satellite and later the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft both spotted ISON.The images indicate that ISON is on course and “is seen to brighten … a reasonably bright tail might develop as the comet reappears,” said Padma Yanamandra-Fisher with observing campaign.
Big news from the New York TIMES. They published a nipple on their front page today. Twitter quickly called it a “nip slip” and other media publications reacted in kind.
It brings a few things up in my mind. First off, have they gone ‘unfit to print’ with this? Nah.. Really.. they only show a slight portion of the nipple, in all honesty.
Why are we see infatuated with the nipple? On TV, you can see an entire breast as long as there is a pasty overtop of the areola? And really, this whole prudish indignation we have about nipples is only made more ridiculous when you realize that 80% of the people ‘offended’ by the public display of a crescent nipple are probably involved with some nefarious sexual proclivities themselves.
And would a nipple be as offensive as, say, it was on a foot?
This is also a little reminiscent of the TIME magazine cover story on breasfeeding in 2012.
Let’s be perfectly honest. Sex sells. If a nipple gets a little attention to someone, and forces a story about breast cancer screening to get some more traction, so be it. Newspapers and magazine are left with few ideas to sell their paper.
If someone is reading the NY TIMES online, chances are they are doing it either before or after looking at porn. Real porn with full nipples uncovered.
Finally, America, we can be thankful of one thing: At least the TIMES chose not to put the old gray lady’s nipple front and center.
Memories.. from the corner of my mind
This is going down a road that we may not want to..
Scientists are learning how to shape our memory by testing chemicals that can DELETE THEM!
Some memories are bad, and some who have went through awful stuff, well, they just want to forget it.
But when power as this rests in the hands of an elite few, to what end does that justify? Deleting memories, forever?
Shaping the reality we have lived? I find this scientific endeavor to be dangerous..
Holiday hell: The 2013 holiday shopping season may end up being remembered for its ugly sweaters and, for many retailers, even uglier discounts… A growing weak economy, no fashion trends, and no must haves.. it’s a year of jitters and sputtering.. a holiday season without guidance, or fun. Instead people are just going to try to make it through December and be fine..
But this will still be the Thanksgiving choice: Have dessert, or go shopping?
The UK GUARDIAN published a great story on he holiday shopping world we are about to enter.. The paper writes that Christmas is just an excuse to sell more useless crap. George Monbiot penned an article that would never have made it by editors in the United States starting with this sentence: “A global bullshit industry recruits the values with which we’d like the festival to be invested – to sell things no one wants”
This is a fascinating story: Welcome to Cicada 3301, the internet mystery that has the world baffled..
I’ll admit I had to read it about three times to fully grasp it, telling me that I will never be a cracked code breaker or CIA employee..
If you like liberty, personal freedom, and privacy, avoid any black Friday deals with the XBOX Kinect. It listens to you, it actually loves to listen to you. And as GIZMODO reports, it will also run you into future trouble if you use cuss words.
But does it go even deeper? Is Microsoft monitoring your Skype calls for swear words?
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May your holiday homecoming be safe and sound. And without a mess around.
Travel safe. And wise.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
The great comet.. the weird booms. In the 1800s.
Weird booms were heard a few years prior to big quakes along the New Madrid fault line in the 1800s.
Also a great comet appeared in the sky.
Booms are heard today.. we’re told a comet may appear—if Ison breaks up there are three more ‘horsemen’ on the way.. way too weird, don’t you think?
READ MORE HERE: http://www.horrorreport.com/2013/11/new-madrid-shaking-booms-may-hold-answer.html
A tale of two Isons
There is conflicting information circulating today regarding the Comet of the Century, Ison.
On one hand, an expert named Stephen Lowry was quoted in the IB TIMES today saying that Ison is breaking up and may not survive its trip around the sun.. Lowry is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science School of Physical Sciences at the University of Kent Canterbury.. He told the publication that he does not think the comet will survive, commenting, “New reports show rapid decrease in gas emissions from the comet and a rapid increase in dust. Now these are early reports so we could be wrong. But for me personally I don’t think it’s likely to survive.”
And on the other hand…
A video update of Ison seems to paint a different picture..
Here it is for your enjoyment and knowledge:
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We will see what occurs with this comet in a matter of days.
Tonight, CNN is reporting that the comet may be falling apart as it nears the sun..
The moment of truth comes on Thanksgiving.
A great ONION article from 2008: 26-Year-Old To See Every Asshole He Ever Went To High School With On Night Before Thanksgiving
It’s fiction.
Right?
How true is this ONION article for you?
A great ONION article from 2008: 26-Year-Old To See Every Asshole He Ever Went To High School With On Night Before Thanksgiving
The comet of the century!!!
So that big light show? Gone.
So now we are only left with three other comets if this occurs. The four horsemen of the apocalypse will potentially lose a rider
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