This is an amazing shot.. a ‘red rainbow’ appeared over Atlanta last week after a storm.. Beautiful.
It looks eerily like the cover of UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King..
Monday, June 9, 2014
MORE Slenderman related crimes!?
Yet ANOTHER story that has a Slenderman tie in is making news today.. it was reported hours ago that a girl in Ohio who was fascinated by ‘Slenderman’ tried to stab her mother.. this after a Wisconsin stabbing a week ago by two 12-year-olds who wanted to visit Slenderman at his forest mansion.. And now this: A shooting occurred Sunday in Las Vegas.. Two right wing extremists yelled “this is a revolution” before they killed two police officers. Then they ran into a Walmart and a killed a shopper before the wife killed her husband and then herself.. IT seems to have been political in nature, but there is a weird tie-in to Slenderman.
The couple reportedly named: Jerad and Amanda Miller (no official confirmation on the names yet). A neighbor told media that they dressed as the JOKER and Harley Quinn… and the Jerald reportedly dressed as Slenderman…..
This is getting bizarre.. for a few reasons.
First off, this is not the first time the JOKER has been a meme involved in a crime.. nor, obviously, is it the first time that Slenderman has been, either..
In a random world of chaos.. this happens
I am always perplexed by the ‘coincidences’ that fill our headlines and litter our histories.. Things that should not happen simply because the rare occasion of them occurring would need stars to line up and miracles (or the opposite) to occur.
One such event made news in Texas.. A head-on collision took place on Road 87 North and FM 2379. Both drivers were pronounced dead.. both drivers, in separate cars, were married.. the husband and wife had their respective lives extinguished at the hands of each other..
There are three children that survive without a mother and father now. A tragic accident.. a strange series of events that caused both to be at the wrong place at the right time.. both now dead at the hands of some force or fate that often destroys people and ruins lives. With is this yin and yang we call life? What is this series of unfortunate events we call coincidence?
Hearts out to the grieving relatives and friends.. But I am still amazed and confused of the chances of this occurring and the fact that it did..
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Be careful if you re-tweet
The CIA is now on Twitter.. Their first tweet saying they could neither confirm nor deny its their first tweet exploded in popularity.
Don’t tell me for a second you wouldn’t excrete a brick if they followed you.
HUSTLER BUST
A few months ago HUSTLER magazine was trying to court Justin Bieber. Now, because of the boy no-wonder’s 15-year-old racist rants, Larry Flynt is turning away.. The man child star may have lost his chance for HUSTLER fame.
We missed the beast from the east.. Hopefully there's none in the west
Yet another massive asteroid—this was called ‘the beast’— sailed its way past the earth without fanfare or incident.. Thankfully.. if HQ124 hit, it could have been monstrous. The troubling part about the Beast—along with many other asteroids lately—is how they get discovered just before they may potentially strike. This was in April.. The size of this one has many scratching their heads as to why it took so long to see..
More on the Tracy Morgan tour bus wreck..
Not all facts known at this time.. but here is what has been made public and collective through various sources:
One person is dead in the accident..
Six were injured when the tour bus carrying Tracy Morgan overturned.. While alcohol was not said to have played a role in it, there is still an investigation into that ..
The wreck involved two tractor trailers and an SUV..
Not much information has been revealed by the hospital where Morgan is at due to medical privacy issues, but various news organizations have confirmed that Morgan was involved and is in critical condition.
NBC 10 in Philadelphia has reported that Morgan is in ICU at this hour.. This strange and tragic turn of events came hour after Morgan had a large audience for a stand up comedy show in Delaware..
Perhaps one of the scariest Clyde Lewis programs *and radio shows in general* took place last night.. Lewis took GROUND ZERO deep into the paranormal with a show about why we fear clowns. But things got a bit weirder.. during the program, Lewis also had a live online broadcast of a clown.. A camera was fixated on a lone clown doll locked in a room in the radio studio. And yes.. the clown did move. Certainly worth the listen on Soundcloud if you have the time..
Comedian Tracy Morgan Injured in Car Crash, Say Police
Preliminary information indicates actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was injured in a car crash early this morning, a N.J. State Police spokesperson told ABC News.
An obvious developing story..
Comedian Tracy Morgan Injured in Car Crash, Say Police
Friday, June 6, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Spooky ‘Scooby-Doo’ Television Show Background Paintings Shown Without the Characters
As an avid SCOOBY DOO watcher (at my son’s request) I really love these paintings.. And I never considered the amazing and horrific artwork presented in the show until now, when I see the sights without SHAG and SCOOBY lurking someone in the scene..
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Here is an update on that mass grave in Ireland—the one at the hands of the sisters from hell of the Catholic Church..
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Multiple casualties following shooting at Seattle Pacific University
For dead at this point, two suspects supposedly did it, and obvious developing scenario sure to change as the next few moments progress
Multiple casualties following shooting at Seattle Pacific University
D-Day: Exploding the myths of the Normandy landings
On the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, northern France, historian James Holland separates truth from myth.
Some fascinating stuff..
But riddle me thing: What does D-Day mean!?
D-Day: Exploding the myths of the Normandy landings
I don't want to remember when this serum is released
Is this where we want to go with science? The erasing of memories? Scientists have proclaimed to have done it with rats! Would humans be next? Are we already? It would almost make me wonder if Alzheimer’s is a manmade disease!? Certainly that sound far-fetched, but so does the actual news of science erasing the memories in the brain of a rat.. So there you go: erase your painful memories. Also.. the good ones.. also all of them. Just be a vacant vessel of nothing, where human emotion is meaningless and the purpose of life is lost. That’s the future if we erase memories.. Memories are meant to be shared, had.. and often lamented. And yes, painful memories should serve a purpose, too. A witness who sees a murder and then can’t remember it in court is pointless.. or even scarier, a woman who is given a date rate drug that erases the memory of the rape.. don’t tell me rapists wouldn’t want to get their disgusting hands on that serum..
Indian Minister: Rape is 'Sometimes' Wrong, and Sometimes 'Right'
Reprehensible.. horrid.. try that. Not ‘sometimes right.’
Here is more from NBC NEWS on the story:
Modi has so far been silent about the May 26 gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in the north of the country. Three men later confessed to the attacks, which ended with the girls being hung from a mango tree.
The 14- and 15-year-old cousins were from a poor family without operating toilets in their home and disappeared after going into fields to relieve themselves.
There is just so much to comprehend within those two short paragraphs.. Words cannot describe the horrific fate they were forced to endure simply for the sexual pleasure of men.. and then be hung to die on a tree..?
….and then a politician comes out and says sometimes rape is wrong but sometimes it is right?
So at this point, the official ruling part in India is sanctioning atrocity..
IS anyone in the world paying attention to this nightmare!?
Indian Minister: Rape is 'Sometimes' Wrong, and Sometimes 'Right'
The B word and the N word
Justin Bieber is finding himself embroiled in a new career challenge: His over-abundant use of the N word during his mid-teenage years.
Back when everyone thought he was cute and Christian, the soon to be star was yuck yucking it up making jokes at the expense of black people ..
His latest embarrassment is singing ‘one less lonely N——’ .. Beeb’s team actually released this one. TMZ reports that Bieber showed these videos to Will Smith and Usher a year ago.
Apparently a lot of these videos exist and someone has been trying to extort the boy wonder ..
Now Beeb is fighting back: He will release his racist rants himself, I suppose.
The GMO empire strikes back
Someone is nervous about something.. Monsanto is threatening to sue VERMONT for its crime against corporations. The fine people of the state may actually have the nerve to label GMO foods! They may actually commit the atrocity of giving consumers knowledge about what they are buying. And for that, Monsanto will become the empire that strikes back..
Your childhood could have been forever changed if this is what ET would have looked like.
And he almost did.
I am sure by now in life you’ve heard of that old tale that ET was originally going to be a horror flick. It’s true.. The movie was going to be called NIGHT SKIES and was going to feature aliens that could kill each other with the tips of their fingers.. And now images of how ET was going to look proves that NIGHT SKIES would have been a pretty freaky story..
'Rat girl' bred thousands of rodents and then released them onto city streets
The 43-year-old is being blamed for a hike in the number of pests now plaguing the streets of San Francisco
This sounds like the plot of a horror movie or even the perfect blind date for Willard.
'Rat girl' bred thousands of rodents and then released them onto city streets
A camp where boys can be girls. A future where humans will be machines. It's all eventual
Here goes nothing..I will try to explain the best I can..
A camp for boys that allows them to be girls has been photo documented by SLATE.. Three year olds wearing heals and wearing makeup.. The camp does not define itself as gay or transgender, but is being proclaimed as a sign of the future.. the evolution of sexual identity and the merging together of both genders into one..
What I say: the makers of the world actually want transhumanism. Anything they can get to accomplish that goal will work for them. I believe all people regardless of size shape sex or secrets should be given basic forms of respect.. I frankly could care less who wants to get married or who wants a sex change.
But a three-year-old knowing they were born the wrong gender? I question the parents more than the ethics of allowing a child to decide.. did the parents coerce, or decide for them?
I also say: The death of a civilization is upon us. No, not because of dying morals—you can’t look at the Christian crusades and tell me they were anything less than satanic—but because of dying birth rates.
Really. For all the conservative hatred of unwed mothers and teenagers walking around pushing baby carriages, their anger is in vain. It’s not the nonsense they spout.. US birth rates are a record low.. Hell, even teen birth rates are, too..
Look to Japan to see how cultures can evolve: Younger people there have stopped having sex and the adult population has decided to wear diapers everywhere. In Russia, Vlad the Impaler Putin was telling people to say home for a national day of sex. It’s not the moral collapse.. there never were really morals anyway.. it’s the changing scientific reality ..
Transhumanism is coming..
The merging of genders is first.
The merging of human with machine is eventual..
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Swarm of earthquakes in Yellowstone Park
Seismographs recorded 31 quakes in the same area south of Gardiner on Saturday, while another 23 were reported last Wednesday and Thursday in an area between 18 and 19 miles east-southeast of West Yellowstone.
This website has been monitoring this for some time—a few swarms ago we also showed you the bison supposedly running from Yellowstone.
While some have said ‘no worries’ and nothing to see here, others have been watching the earth movements closely…
And the earth is moving.
It would almost seem that the North American Craton is moving, as well..
Swarm of earthquakes in Yellowstone Park
The slick world of Slenderman
I read a reaction to my story yesterday on the “Slenderman” attempted slaying.. the author of another site had some valid points I wanted to mention.. Here is the site and here is what was said:
1) “Slenderman Slaying” implies someone was actually slain, which they weren’t.
2) Two idiots do not make up for the rest of the mature world. Parents who think their little monsters are stupid enough to pull something like that need to start doing their own jobs, not blaming the horror genre.
3) Horror has been around since the dawn of time. Horror did not drive a pair of stupid children to try to commit a murder, peer pressure and utter idiocy did. Give these dolts a Stephen King book and the dictionary and they might’ve just grown up weird like everyone else.
Valid points to all three..
I think it somehow also misses the point of what I was trying to say about Slenderman..
Slenderman is a fictitious character created on SOMETHING AWFUL in 2009. The website CREEPY PASTA is getting the majority of the attention since the stabbings in Wisconsin by two pre teen girls.. Today the creator of SLENDERMAN, Eric Knudsen, released a public statement expressing his sadness over the attempted murder..
What I am trying to say is this: Slenderman entered into the internet world as a meme. It has not become a part of our culture, our horror, and our paranormal tales. The fiction aside, people actually claim they see Slenderman. They think they saw him when they were children.. some claim that Slenderman is a symbol of creatures already created—memes of the past or tulpas from history, such as the men in black, or Jack from THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, or the gentlemen from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. In a sense, Slenderman does actually appear similar to mythological creatures that have been around for some time….
And enter this weird part: The attempted Slenderman slaying took place in a town called Waukesha Wisconsin. And there’s an interesting little factoid about what Waukesha means.. from the Loren Coleman blog COPY CAT EFFECT, this:
Waukesha: Over the years, many believed, incorrectly, that the origin of the name of the city was an Algonquian word meaning “fox” or “little foxes,” though it is actually an Anglicization of the Ojibwe proper name Waagoshag or the Potawatomi name Wau-tsha. Wau-tsha (sometimes written asWauk-tsha or Wauke-tsha) was the leader of the local tribe at the time of the first European settlement of the area. This is confirmed by accounts of Increase A. Lapham, an early settler and historian of the region. According to Lapham, the word for “fox” was pishtaka. Cutler also told visitors about Wau-tsha, who was described as “tall and athletic, proud in his bearing, dignified and friendly.”
(In appearance, Wau-tsha - without tentacles - sounds like Slender Man.)
Waukesha, Wisconsin has a long history of poltergeist, hauntings, and related stories. Also, the town was the epicenter for “phantom kangaroo” sightings in 1978, in Wisconsin.)
Yes, people who are experts in the occult or paranormal always have 20/20 hindsight.. they are able to put 2 and 2 together to equal 5, often ignoring logic and instead cutting through the veil that separates our reality from the esoteric reality around us.. But this strange paranormal history in this town gave me a bit of the creeps..
I also think back to Wes Craven’s NEW NIGHTMARE.. the plot being that Craven was nervous Freddy Kreuger was actually coming alive and entering into reality. While some may scoff at that idea, the notion is frightening to consider.
And now Slenderman has somehow come alive.
Yes, many are proclaiming that these two girls are using the Slenderman as an excuse for attempted murder..
But even if they are —or aren’t—what matters is that CNN, NBC, and other major news networks had Slenderman WITH HIS IMAGE as the top story for at least 12 hours yesterday.. The broadcast of Slenderman into the national conversation was done. He has entered the lexicon of our national conversation.
Monsters are just people.
Behaviors of monsters become known every day..
Even if Slenderman is fake, created, and a meme from 2009, the game seems to have changed. After all, Slenderman is now alive and darker than before—as the darkness gathers and we claim it is from the devil or evil, maybe the real fright is that we are just seeing humans for what they are. Dark and evil.. at the core diseased in moral, lacking faith..
Nietzsche claimed that GOD was dead. TIME magazine did, too.
Maybe someone needs to claim SLENDERMAN is alive.
Slenderman.. and every single evil bit of darkness that his tentacles represent.
The inner core of human beings exposed.. what are we? …slender in nature.. Dark in character.
Reality.
That is what scares me.
Newly freed soldier's Idaho hometown cancels rally amid backlash
The going is obviously getting rough .. Bowe is not having a good time being back home, it would seem.
Reuters reports the news this way:
In calling off the June 28 event, the officials cited concerns that they lacked the resources to safely manage the thousands of supporters and protesters who were expected to converge on the small mountain community of 8,000 residents.
The decision came as pressure mounted to cancel the rally in the face of rising hostility, expressed in a torrent of emails and phone calls directed at city officials and businesses, over claims by Bergdahl’s onetime Army comrades that he deliberately abandoned his post in Afghanistan.
The backlash to him and the Obama hostage for Bowe trade is now becoming an even larger controversy. So much so that even Chris Matthews seems to be abandoning the Obama Administration and the decision to trade five Taliban prisoners for Bergdahl..
Clocks are right twice a day.
And tingles going up legs turn into chills..
Newly freed soldier's Idaho hometown cancels rally amid backlash
My Kitchen Rules judge Pete Evans flees haunted hotel in Chicago
Has the veil finally thinned enough that hauntings, conjurings, and possessions are this commonplace that legitimate news sources are reporting them? Or is it just a twisted journalistic endeavor to get readers?
Either way, Pete Evans seems pretty sure of the haunted experience he endured.. So I am in no position to doubt him..
My Kitchen Rules judge Pete Evans flees haunted hotel in Chicago
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers
Few fates were worse than that of children at a place called the Home.
A place of God..
More like a place for hell on earth..
Here is how the WASHINGTON POST reports this truly horrific story:
In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there’s a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Home, run by the Bon Secours nuns in Tuam.
Many of the women, after paying a penance of indentured servitude for their out-of-wedlock pregnancy, left the Home for work and lives in other parts of Ireland and beyond. Some of their children were not so fortunate.
More than five decades after the Home was closed and destroyed — where a housing development and children’s playground now stands — what happened to nearly 800 of those abandoned children has now emerged: Their bodies were piled into a massive septic tank sitting in the back of the structure and forgotten, with neither gravestones nor coffins.
This is disturbing and emotionally terrible..
I cannot imagine or fathom the thoughts of children being put through the living hell that this place must have created .. 800 bodies of people, human beings.. Catholic Church should be shamed by the skeletons on its closet..
Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers
The complete, terrifying history of ‘Slender Man,’ the Internet meme that compelled two 12-year-olds to stab their friend
Slender Man was invented on a forum in 2009. But since then, he’s taken on a mythology all his own.
Ahhh yes.. Slenderman. People now believe in him, to the point where they actually think they can summons him if they kill someone else, as shown from this real news story from Wisconsin.
But I ask this: Could Slenderman actually be created by massive cultural consciousness? Did Slenderman made the jump from fiction to reality?
The complete, terrifying history of ‘Slender Man,’ the Internet meme that compelled two 12-year-olds to stab their friend
FRONTLINE: How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
A must read and watch epic website devoted to the important question
FRONTLINE: How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
Life imitates fiction. Or reality. Or the collective reality that was created by fiction
Horror is not confined to movies and television shows anymore.. Lately, headlines of real events have been shaping up to be more frightening and disgusting than the tales of fiction.. One such headline comes from Wisconsin..
From what we know, a 12-year-old girl was stabbed 19 times in a wooded area of Milwaukee this weekend. Two other girls apparently lured her there.. after the stabbing, the 12-year-old crawled her bleeding body to her own rescue..
Someone riding a bike miraculously found her laying on the ground.
She is not dead. She is actually, again by a miracle of some sort, in stable condition.
But here is where things get a little creepy.
According to the police report, the girls who stabbed the other girl were compelled to do it after reading up on SLENDERMAN—the fictitious character that was created online as an experiment but somehow took on a life of its own.. people claim they see SLENDERMAN, hear him.. are haunted by him. But he only existed in contemporary paranormal circles. He was a creation. Some with an imagination think we created SLENDERMAN from nothing, an experiment gone haywire to the point that now he manifested like Freddy Kreuger..
But these girls took things further than others I have heard of.. According to the police, they were on CREEPYPASTA.. They said they were trying to get SLENDERMAN appear in their reality but that they had to kill someone first in order to summons him. Creepypasta has even been forced to respond to accusations that it fosters violence.. It most certainly does not. If you’ve never seen the site before, it’s primarily fiction literature.. it’s not meant to conjure up evil.. get a grip and understand reality before you point fingers at a website for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
Meanwhile…
Even more information is being revealed about their relationship to the would-be victim.. They had a sleepover with her Friday night. They attended the same school.. CNN is reporting this:
According to the criminal complaint, the suspects had been planning the attack since February.
They first thought to kill the victim by placing duct tape over her mouth while she was sleeping and stabbing her in the neck, the complaint read.
Next, the plan was to kill her in a bathroom where there was floor drain that could make cleanup easier, it continued.
But, finally, the girls decided to do it in a park while playing a game of hide-and-seek, the complaint read.
It states: “As they left for the park … (the victim) was walking in front of them and Geyser lifted up the left side of her white jacket and displayed the knife tucked in her waistband. Weier stated she gave Geyser a look with wide eyes and, when asked what that meant Weier stated, ‘I thought, dear god, this was really happening.’”
The girl was a ‘millimeter’ away from death as one stab wound was near her heart..
With this crime, I have read some parents and non parents clamoring for a ban on horror-related websites. You know, China and Australia style.. That would be difficult here in the free US of A with that pesky first amendment blocking censorship..
But with every passing day, each new website, and now the SLENDERMAN crime these two girls committed, SLENDERMAN is coming alive more and more.. he’s in the collective consciousness. He’s alive and well online. The paranormal entity took on a life of his own—and apparently is now inspiring crimes in his name..
This is disturbing and hopefully not a trend-setting moment..
12-year-olds need to be taught the separation of fact from fiction. A generation lost in space.. the kids aren’t alright.
Did Government Experiment on Preemie Babies Hide Risks?
A government-funded experiment put the lives of premature babies at risk, and some parents say they didn’t know the shocking details.
Parents were told that the ‘SUPPORT’ study was to measure the growth of their premature babies. They were not told the truth: It was meant to experiment with the oxygen levels of their children.. Doctors were in on it, too..instead of creating a healthy atmosphere in which premature babies could persevere through their toughest moments, the nature of the study would only implicate doctors in their complicity regarding not adjusting oxygen levels to foster growth.
The study took place 8 years ago.. just now parents are learning the true nature of the government experiment.
And now parents are left with the important question: Did the experimentation of humans lead to further developmental issues that babies are experiencing as they enter into their school years?
x x x
For all of those who cannot fathom the thought of modern government experiment on its own citizens—even the most innocent of them—this story should be a reminder. The past is never dead.. It comes back to haunt now and then..
Just for some reading enjoyment, here’s a few recent flashbacks that somehow correlate to this new story:
- Government purposely giving people the flu in experiment.
- The government recently performed experimentation of deadly fumes on humans
- The EPA conducted tests on children
- Are there US government microwave tests?
- Government has had a series of strange medical tests on human beings during history
IT’s all true, baby. Tin foil hats securely fastened .. no need to adjust.
Did Government Experiment on Preemie Babies Hide Risks?
Monday, June 2, 2014
WNEP: "Mystery in Centralia"
I saw some rumblings about this on my Facebook timeline last week. Now it made the big time—WNEP in Northeastern PA..
Someone has tampered with the Centralia time capsule. They also may have stolen it..
My only suggestion would be—if the time capsule is still within—move it somewhere else secure until 2016.. now that this made news it will happen over and over again.
WNEP: "Mystery in Centralia"
Are hurricanes with female names really deadlier?
(Photo: NOAA via Reuters)
Researchers find that hurricanes with female names are more lethal than the ones named after males — but the reason for that is partly cloudy.
The well oiled Obama machine turns into this..
A sputtering and clumsy news event.
It seemingly all started fine.. Everyone was thrilled and enthralled when the United States announced that hostage Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was freed from Taliban control..
Then news trickled out slowly from there..
Initially Republicans voiced concern that the Obama Administration didn’t notify Congress about the hostage exchange before the release—a law signed by the President last year ordered the executive branch to do just that, 30 days of a warning before anyone is released from Gitmo. Then things got worse.. Bergdahl’s own former platoon members say that he abandoned his post and deserted the United States army. Emails from Bowe to his father don’t help. They imply that he came to dislike the United States the mission in Afghanistan..
And then a strange tweet..
And then a White House surprised by how controversial the hostage for prisoners trade had become.. And then the news of who actually was released. We already had a trendy name for them: The Taliban Dream Team.
It has become shocking to see how great campaigners the Obama team was… but how awful they are at having any foresight into the ramifications of this trade..
We apparently do negotiate with terrorists, at least in a sense. We would not be releasing them would we not have been listening to their requests..
And while it’s testament to the Untied States that we strive to never leave anyone behind, this particular soldier’s ‘desertion’ of the United States makes one wonder if he wanted to be left behind in the first place..
Strange times we live in.
Strange circumstances we are in..
Fellow soldiers call Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, not a hero
This story is getting bizarre..
Obama released 5 potential high profile terrorists in order for an American to be freed—someone being labeled a deserter by fellow soldiers .. He may have also lost his ability to speak English.. Even more, if he deserted it would have actually been a crime punishable in the military.
And with all that said, the White House didn’t even follow the law and consult Congress..
This is yet another weird tale of political intrigue.
Following it closely..
Fellow soldiers call Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, not a hero
Ex-Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell passed on doomed jet
A series of fortunate events kept Rendell off the plane that killed seven others.. A little creepy ..
Ex-Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell passed on doomed jet
No damage reported after 4.2 quake near the Getty Center in Brentwood
It was shallow and widely felt..
Things seem to be getting ever so close to the bigger event we know is on the way..
No damage reported after 4.2 quake near the Getty Center in Brentwood
Sunday, June 1, 2014
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
We already knew the database was extensive.. we already knew they were collecting information. And we already assumed they had our faces.
Our selfies..
Our couplies..
And doublies..
Or whatever elseies we will be coming up withie..
Have we surrendered our privacy for the fleeting moment of vain attention? Or is this just a product of the future being now?
It’s a big big world in a biometric land..
We are strangers in it.
I hope you smile!
You’re on camera.
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
Brazil's sex trade: How the country's one million prostitutes are preparing for the World Cup
Only a small part of the preps: Prostitutes are taking English lessons.. Limo services being offered.. Apparently one dental student will earn $5000 for giving ‘exclusive attention’ to a German businessman for two weeks.
The INDEPENDENT reports further:
In one zona, Santo stops continually to chat with the younger girls who stand at the doors of their rooms. “Those girls when they start, they are too crazy, they start making too much money. They have sex without condoms and sometimes they get boyfriends inside of here and that’s when they get pregnant. Loads work until just before they have babies. As I say, they get crazy. They also fall in love, but with the wrong guys. They could have all the businessmen and they end up marrying a builder. I’m not discriminating but they should see the prostitutes that marry a rich guy. One married a judge and lives in luxury. Another got pregnant by a guy, married him and now has eight maids in her house.” How many actually attain this particular fantasy is unclear.
What’s love got to do with it?
Money to be made.
The World Cup is there..
Brazil's sex trade: How the country's one million prostitutes are preparing for the World Cup
Saturday, May 31, 2014
The cast of the WONDER YEARS together again—20 years since the show.
Finally.. proof that Paul Pfieffer is NOT Marilyn Manson..
The MPAA squashed this SIN CITY poster because of the semi-visible breast.
Thanks to the Internet we can still see it.
Friday, May 30, 2014
It's a dog eat dog afterlife
I read a somewhat moving article on HUFF PARANORMAL about a man who lost his pet dog.. In death, he sought to find the animal’s spirit.. His method was to use a smoke bomb and camera.. The author of the article is sure that he saw the face of his beloved deceased pet on the foggy image..
Before you laugh and mock, there’s two things to note.. First off, science can explain so much. But there’s a cutoff when science stops.. At least at this point. Logic may say that this image is just smoke within smoke.. For for the believer when faith, it’s something more. And science by no means can explain even a morsel of faith.,
And secondly– perhaps this would be more for pet owners– who didn’t lose an animal and feel the presence of that same beloved pet after death? And even more, I have known a handful of people that claimed per visitation from an afterlife..
In my own circumstance, I fondly remember seeing my dog Newt walk by my door. It was after he died. I had a witness– he saw it but years later now claims he didn’t. And my dog Bailey loudly walked down the stairs in my house. After death. My wife heard that one and I think would still testify that it happened..
Death of a mystery. One that I have made myself willing and ready to investigate .. I crave answers on what happens to our soul when we perish..
In the case of Steve on Huff Paranormal, he thinks his dog is still with him. Or at least visited.
And that’s a nice thing to think…comforting in a sense , even when coupled with the dark mystery that death is..
Thursday, May 29, 2014
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This pitch and a 50 Cent can buy me a cup of coffee..
My God that was a bad pitch.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Expect to see this cover of TIME magazine everywhere.. it may sell as good as their mother breastfeeding from a bit ago.
I credit TIME with one thing: They are able to still give us some provocative covers to keep themselves relevant. It’s journalism, sure, but it’s also about the bottom line. They are trying to make a profit in print during the age of Internet.
This is the type of cover that may help them..
The actual text and subject aside, this magazine will sell. Maybe not like hot cakes, but lukewarm pouches.. Or something.
And the real question: How many tough men will take a second or even third glance before they realize what they’re seeing?
All in all we're just another crack in the floor
I am already scared of heights.. but the thought of the floor cracking under me–while I’m on the 103rd floor!? No way..
Even worse.. apparently after the family joked about how the stability is safe and glass floor is unbreakable, they began to hear cracking.. and saw it happening.
Never again.
I don’t think I’d be a person yearning to stand on a glass floor that high up to begin with, but hearing this I never will..
Study claims: Possible cynicism link to dementia
I better get positive quick..
Though I think this study is a little quackery..
Study claims: Possible cynicism link to dementia
OOOH SNAP
Snapchat founder is ‘mortified’ over leaked emails that he wrote.. Even Spiegel wrote emails referencing cocaine, binge drinking, and urinating on women. Snap. They were the frat days..
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Just for fun, I logged into AOL IM tonight..
It was like an immediate blast from the past! The noises.. the messages.. the away messages. Just brought my back to a simpler time.
Remember those days? You’d post the away messages featuring some song lyric that symbolized your mood.. others would ponder its meaning.. you’d slam that ‘door shut’ noise when you offline.. how many fights between couples ended with that AOL noise? And the AOL chatrooms? My God.. those bizarre and weird chat rooms, making friends with people who you’d never see..
I actually made a few real friends on AOL believe it or not.. some are actually now “Facebook” friends.. So that’s the real internet now, right?
One shocking thing I noticed tonight: People are still on AOL, including MDrudge, who I think is the actual Matt Drudge. He messaged me once on there years ago a night before he was going to appear on CSPAN. He confirmed the air date .. I think I may have framed the conversation screen shot.
I also thought back to my original internet exploration.. besides that ridiculous ICQ program, I frequented the world of CHAT1.COM .. check that website, it still exists.. but the chat portion has some error that forever will stricken it from the net..
The good old days. Dial up—you could unplug yourself for a while when you were done online..
Now we are always connected everywhere. Then we chose when to be, and decided what others would hear.
Which time was easier? Which would you prefer?
The world of the net has changed.
I just wish those old AOL sound files would still be used somewhere ..
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This is music from the TRUMAN SHOW by Phillip Glass.. It’s the sort of mood I’m tonight. Slightly Beethoven-ish but with more of a modern edge. It gives me the feeling of peace and security.. it’s as though you’re sleeping in safe quarters while fires of hell and scourge of war rages outside your window. And when you wake up, in the pile of your nightly drool, trying to remember what your last few seconds of your dream excursion was, you’ll have to face the day again. And you won’t like it at all..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Pay-to-potty: Teacher's bathroom policy causes accidents, outrages parents
A “pay to potty” policy at a Vancouver elementary school is being called “inhumane” by outraged parents.
How disgusting and humiliating for a child..
How horrid of a teacher.
I am not in favor of torture, but I would be fine with forcing this woman to stand in a classroom and not use the bathroom unless she pays for every child’s lunch for the next year..
Sick..
Pay-to-potty: Teacher's bathroom policy causes accidents, outrages parents
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You heard this right.. a CNN anchorwoman thinks that Michelle Obama can sign bills into law. Her the script writer does..
CNN needs to go back and try to find that airplane.. it obviously cannot grasp the basic concepts of the three branches of government..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
DAILY BEAST gets an exclusive: Texas VA Run Like a 'Crime Syndicate,' Whistleblower Says
It would seem that state by state this scandal is only intensifying.
But we knew this—people have known this for years.. And people inside have known even longer.
Promises broken..
And the bottom is falling out..
What else will we learn?
DAILY BEAST gets an exclusive: Texas VA Run Like a 'Crime Syndicate,' Whistleblower Says
For those in the service industry (as I once was) .. here is a handy list if you’re a bar going drunkard: These are the things NOT to do or say at a bar .. and certainly a list of comments NOT to say to your bartender.. My personal favorite: Don’t hold your dollar up ..others have it too.
I never liked the bartender gig as much as I enjoyed serving tables in restaurants..
Male bartenders are treated differently than female.. I frankly think that bartenders are expected to be women, and when men see other males serving their drinks to them, the tips are much worse and the patrons leave much sooner. But on the flipside..
Grief: Maybe you should just avoid your pastor
I am not certain if I published this before, but I have become addicted over the past few months to a website written by Caleb Wilde, a Philadelphia-based mortician who mocks death and ads humor to the dying process..
He has written a new blog post about dealing with death and grief.. He argues that if you are going through rough straits, seeing your pastor should be secondary to seeing a therapist.
A good read. And something sadly that every human on this planet will face or has faced already: Grief about death and losing someone close..
A true icon is gone.. Maya Angelou has met her final fate in his lifetime on earth.. Thanks to her, we will always know why the caged bird sings..
The poet was 86..
She posted one final tweet (amazing, think her life.. from the old days of racism to being able to freely speak to millions of people on Twitter) said this:
Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
Regardless of our religious beliefs, it should be our collective hope that Ms. Angelou has met God.. and that he welcomed her gracefully into Maya
Snoopin' Snowden: He was a spy before he was a leaker.
NBC News’ Brian Williams scored a major interview when he landed Edward Snowden.. the ads have been nonstop on all of the NBC stations for the event—it is an event and truly important that Americans get to see and hear what Snowden is about, and why he says he did what he did in revealing some of the deepest secrets from the spy underbelly ..
On that same note, he apparently also told Brian Williams that he was not just a low-level contractor as the American media (and government) has previously said..
The wide-ranging interview will air on NBC Wednesday at 10pm.
It should be something watched by the entire nation..
GlaxoSmithDecline: Some interesting headlines about the big drug company
GlaxoSmithKline is under investigation in the UK by the Serious Fraud Office (real name, seriously) ..
The criminal investigation is into the drug maker’s commercial practices, according to reports..
The New York TIMES details some more in its reporting on the matter, but neither the drug company nor the Fraud office are providing any more background on what the fraud accusations may be.. but we do know this from REUTERS: The drug company already is facing claims of bribery in China and four other countries.
Shares are falling in the stock market..
But across the world today, vaccines are still being administered to crying children in pediatricians’ offices en masse.
So Glaxo still has that going for it. Bribery or not.
Marshall Fine Journalist, Movie Critic, writes: Farewell to horror films
He is done with them.. He makes a few points I can agree with.. for example, this:
Vampires? Werewolves? Zombies? Again, sorry — it’s less that I don’t believe in them (I don’t) than that they have become such tired concepts or conceits, full of familiar tropes. I simply can’t summon the energy to care about them.
Even those, however, are preferable to the kind of torture-porn that seems to dominate the genre. Special effects have evolved so far that you can find a way to graphically depict any sadistic act you can imagine, from disembowelment to decapitation, and worse.
I have found a few gems that actually are good stories mentally scary.. One movie recently I saw was HAUNTER.. I am not in favor of the sadistic torture porn, and have written a number of articles against it over the years..
Fine also writes that age itself may have done in his horror experience.. he opines:
When you’re young — which I’m defining as under 30 — you crave sensation. It can come from thrill rides or extreme sports (participating or watching) or horror movies. The more exaggerated the sensation, the better — it’s a way of expanding your boundaries, testing yourself against extremes, figuring out your own limits.
After 30, however, there’s an increasing awareness of just how brutal, random and arbitrary life can be. Bad things do happen to good people; there are people out there who do commit these acts and you simply hope you never cross paths with them.
I fondly recall long summer nights with my friends all together mocking and jesting about badly made B horror films.. we laughed way past midnight and often saw the sunrise after a night of movie watching.. And in a sense, I’d like to do that again.
I don’t quite think I ever watched horror movies for the storyline.. There have been a few ‘paranormal’ entries into the genre that have thrilled me for other reasons—SIXTH SENSE, SIGNS, THE RING, JEEPERS CREEPERS (1) and even the CONJURING were all good for the right reasons.. other films were good only because they were fodder for the teenage sense of humor..
Now, as I crossed into the my 30s three years ago, I can attest to with Marshall Fine is saying. Horror sort of comes and goes.. I am more afraid of reality than fiction—bloodbaths in real life happen every day..
Fine writes in his conclusion:
Yes, yes – I can hear the arguments already. Horror films allow us to confront our fears and, perhaps, deal with them in a non-threatening way. Or: Horror films serve as metaphors for (A) our lack of control over the world at large or (B) specific real-life horrors like nuclear holocaust, racism, environmental catastrophe, etc. Or they’re a harmless diversion, a catharsis in which the powerless ultimately overcome the powerful.
I get that. But I don’t need horror movies to make me think about those things. And really, only critics parse horror films in that way. Most of the mass audience is simply looking for a cheap thrill.
I suppose that’s all true.
But ‘horror movies’ aren’t the only torture porns out there.. PASSION OF THE CHRIST was almost as bad as HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. Which is why I have long thought the new breed of sadism in some films need their own genre—and I don’t think fans of that sort of movie would disagree. I argue that they’d be much happier going to a Rob Zombie section of Netflix and finding all of the blood and gore that they yearn to consume..
Horror movies can still be new and fresh, inventive and scary.
Where Mr. Fine is right is in his broad perception that most horror movies are not good and fresh.. instead sadistic and without merit.
Thoughts anyone?
Marshall Fine Journalist, Movie Critic, writes: Farewell to horror films
The Gamma Ray burst that may be. Or may not be.
Amazing news from beyond the Milky Way galaxy today.. There may have been (and may NOT have been) a Gamma Ray burst in the Andromeda Galaxy..
Scientists say that if one did actually occur, it’s far away and will not destroy the planet earth. Data is still coming in—scarce at this point, reports say..
It was apparently either a Gamma Ray burst or an Ultraluminous X-ray object. Either way the idea of both are complicated to contemplate and require brain power.. Either save it for something else or try to manage a way to think about what this is or means.. So amazing, isn’t it?
It may be worth remembering during Art Bell’s brief Sirius stint, he interviewed Michio Kaku on his first program. Among the many topics discussed: What a Gamma Ray burst would do the planet earth should one occur close enough to hit..
Looking good after all these years.
This is the GERBER BABY at 87 .. her name is Ann Turner Cook.
And I am not being sarcastic about her appearance at all.. She looks fantastic! As adorable as the image which first appeared in 1931.
One baby’s image became the timeless symbol of infancy and innocence.. Amazing.
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