CNN ASKS:
With word of the experimental serum, there were more questions than answers: What is it? Why was there only one dose? And why was it only made available to the American charity workers?
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta said Thursday it was preparing a special isolation unit to receive a patient with Ebola disease “within the next several…
Whoa…
There were two portions that will stick with me.. they are amazingly poignant:
Love and tolerance is the way – the antithesis of teenage culture. As adults, we preach love and tolerance at school, then fail to lead by example. In business, in sports, in entertainment, in personal relationships and in the media … how often do adults place people before profit, a helping hand before blame, caring ahead of winning, others ahead of self?
and
Kids drink this way because they need to escape their own false personalities. They strive to be the best, to be cool, to be popular and successful. Underneath, it’s all about the same old human needs: to feel valued, to feel important and special, to belong, to be loved.
Lectures and platitudes to the young will never change their society. We must all be the agents of change. Our society, as it gets bigger and more global, must evolve just as our species has evolved. Each of us, at work in the office, at home, in the post office, at the grocery store and in the government, must honor and value each person we encounter. How would your day be if, instead of trying to be right, you were trying to help?
A 15-year-old in Kentucky suffered second-degree burns after rubbing alcohol on his chest and lighting himself on fire in imitation of popular Facebook and YouTube “Fire Challenge” videos.
Darwin award time
Seriously OK CUPID? How cruel.
People! Get back to bars and meet each other the old fashioned way..
Around 2am my wife woke me to tell me the toilet wouldn’t flush.. as any man (who could always go outside if he wanted) would do, I fell back to sleep and somehow convinced myself that it was a part of a strange dream.
This morning it was real. The toilet was clogged… I tried everything. I made it look, a lot, like I knew what I was doing. In reality, besides the basics, I know very little about plumbing. I assume my fluids and remains will go down the hole in the bathroom without incident. Normally it does..
SO I plunged and plunged and plunged. My arms were sore.. I tried to flush… and hush.. and NO GO. No flow. The toilet was jammed, I felt damned.
So I left the bathroom to regroup.. and I was tinkering with the idea of Googling or YouTubing strange toilet problems so see how mine fit in.. perhaps I’d find an answer. Maybe I’d even go back to the past and Ask Jeeves!
At that moment, I heard the toilet suck down the remaining water and push it through the pipes.. I ran in. What happened!? I saw my wife with the plunger in her hand, looking at me and saying simply, “I plunged it, didn’t you even try that?”
I did try!
I did plunge!
I felt like one of the Mario Brothers!
But I did not have the magic touch ..or even the magic flush. And regardless of the use of force, sometimes it takes a special maneuver to make the water flow again. Sometimes, I suppose, it takes a woman’s touch.
That or .. my ferocious plumbing did the work and on last gentle push was all it needed.
Hell, I need some find some manly way out, right?
A creepy scene in China.. A river has mysteriously turned blood red. While some may scream ‘end of the world’ at the sight of the bloody river, let’s also note: There is a strange smell reportedly wafting through the air as well, hinting to me that something extremely dangerous has entered the water.. Pollution? Chemicals? Or just food coloring?
This from ABC NEWS:
“We suspect that somebody dumped artificial coloring in the water because he thought the typhoon yesterday would cause heavy rain, and nobody would notice [the color],” Jianfeng Xiao, Chief of the bureau told China News.
“It turned out there wasn’t heavy rainfall yesterday, so the evidence is left behind,” Xiao said.
Xiao said there is a paper manufacturer, a food coloring company and clothing-maker a long the river. The bureau is still investigating the incident.
Either way, now’s the perfect time to film a horror movie scene if you’re in the Zhejiang province..
There is undoubtedly a very disturbing creepy factor to the idea of someone leaving dolls in front of people’s homes.. even more unnerving: Whoever is doing it is leaving dolls that resemble the girls who live in the homes..
This is taking place in the Talega Community of San Clemente, California. Police are investigating..
Families began reporting the dolls in the middle of June. But now, according to police statements to NBC News, the situation has spun out of control.
This from ABC NEWS:
“The dolls were being left at these homes, but everybody thought they were the only one,” said Hallock. “When the families started communicating and put it together, they became concerned.”
Police are trying to figure out if the dolls were homemade or bought at a local retailer.
Though the situation may seem eerie, the police see no foul play.
“At this point we don’t have a specific crime,” Hallock said. “It’s very suspicious activity and we’re following up on it. We’re trying to find answers as we speak.”
Perhaps no ‘threat’ of any overt nature.. But maybe the work of a pervert..
Regardless of why the dolls are being left at homes, it’s clear: Any parent would find this as a clear and present danger. And a threat. No matter what police say..
It actually makes perfect sense.. unless the alien civilization is beyond reproach and has learned to effectively deal with trash and doesn’t trash its stash..
But if they are anything like humans, evidence will surely abound..
He was reacting to Snoop Dogg’s bragging rights that he did dope in the first family’s not so humble abode.. Beckel, one of the few Democrats permitted air time on FOX NEWS, said:
“I can’t criticize this guy (Snoop) because I’ve done dope in the White House myself”
That..
And to put this in perspective: Obvious shenanigans are taking place in the White House—I would venture to say that pot was the least of the sins in the past 200 + years—but a teenager is facing life in prison in Texas over pot brownies. You’re half baked if you don’t see something wrong with that picture..
Called Baseline Study, Google’s project will gather anonymous genetic and molecular information to create a full picture of what a healthy human is.
The future is always now.. this was eventual, as anything technological really is at this point.
Google is trying to go deep inside the human body.. it’s going to give guidance on what a ‘healthy’ human is..
This:
The study may, for instance, reveal a biomarker that helps some people break down fatty foods efficiently, helping them live a long time without high cholesterol and heart disease. Others may lack this trait and succumb to early heart attacks. Once Baseline has identified the biomarker, researchers could check if other people lack it and help them modify their behavior or develop a new treatment to help them break down fatty foods better, Dr. Conrad said.
Sounds fine, dandy, healthy, and Googly. But what else is there behind that scene..
Imagine a future, where transhumanism is in full supply, and you get the sniffles.. then a sore throat.. then.. Google it! Search your body deep to get an answer.. let a computer scan through your organs, get your vitals, and spit back to what of the 1000s of named diseases you actually have. That would be an amazing future.
But of course with each passage of wonderful technology comes the ability to use it for awful things.
But Google won’t be evil. Right?
July 23 2012… The day the world almost ended—at least as we knew it..
A bad year for air travel..
Anyone like me wondering if this uptick in accidents may have something to do with a poke shift?? The magnetosphere is where—could earthly instruments now be getting affected?
The strange woman in black.. Spotted in Kentucky and Tennessee ..she caused a buzz on social media..
There are conflicting tales at this point.. She may be on a bible mission waking down south.. She has been said to be a former Pentagon employee .. Also a tale told: She’s Muslim and in traditional garb..
Either way her appearance has startled some and she’s become a cross-state phenomenon as of late..
WATE filed this report with video..
There has also been a Facebook page created to track her multi state voyage..
Expect to hear more of this woman.. Maybe you’ll see her, too..
Missing Air Algerie flight is thought to have crashed in Mali, the flight operator says on Twitter.
The body of a child landing on a playground where children are laughing is horrifying but so real.. So awful..
These are the reports now…. We will see how many times this story changes
"We hold that a murder-suicide does not constitute an actionable material defect," Justice J. Michael Eakin wrote.
Interesting..
I asked several people today with varied background for opinions on this story. I live in Pennsylvania.. so the ruling has a direct affect..
The reaction seemed to fall within the normal boundaries of religious belief.. Two atheists I knew didn’t care one bit if a murder/etc took place in their abode. I even asked them if a pedophile perpetrated horrible actions in a house, would they still consider buying it? They said sure..
On flipside, three Christians and one Jehovah Witness all had issues with the Supreme Court ruling, stating that they believed in a good and and that houses could have spirits and feelings trapped within them.
My wife and I saw a house several years back.. the real estate agent secretly and silently disclosed to us that a suicide took place within the confines of the property.. even pointing out the section of the basement a hung body was found in. While it was a gesture of “get out now” she loudly commented to us about how beautiful the house was. And it was. We didn’t purchase it for other reasons —the suicide factored in for me.
I think I would do my due diligence regardless of a real estate agent’s words.. The internet, public property searches, and court house papers are all at our fingertips these days…
I laugh when I see the movie THE CONJURING or AMITYVILLE HORROR where people simply fall in ‘love’ with a house and rarely ask anything about it..
Do research.. do your own due diligence. Ask about the material defects.. but also, should you be inclined to think a paranormal realm could exist on the planet earth, investigate it for yourself and learn all you can learn about a property you’ll want to call home.
…but proceed with caution. He’s a funeral director who is very honest, brutally so, about his profession..
I read this article today titled ‘when embalming is beautiful’ ..
It’s not an easy read, but an important one. In essence, Wilde talks about the death process—post death really—and how he hates embalming children. What results is a horrendous but yet beautiful description of a family’s reaction to a three-year-old’s corpse laid to rest..
Again, it’s brutal .. and quite honestly brought my to immediate tears that flowed for several minutes.
But it’s just so honest..
I have fond memories of my local mall.
The Schuylkill Mall in Frackville has been around since two years prior to my birth. It was once a location for endless supplies of elderly smoking cigars–amazing to think of how popular the fateful choice of indoor smoking was before it was outlawed across the land.
For those who have never been there, it’s like a giant vast kingdom on top of an enormous mountain.. roads circle around it like you’re entire a palace. The facade, when you finally reach the pinnacle of the moutain, is brown in color .. It looks a bit like a prison. Or a big school. But the signs for SEARS and KMART illustrate you’re about to enter a shopping paradise..
Well… it was a shopping paradise.
Those fond memories of my mall have vanished over the years.
The place where I’d go to get HE-MAN action figures at a toy store are no more.. the book store is gone.. the restaurants are gone, all that remains is a pizza place–with amazing pizza by the way– and a new SUBWAY—seriously, like any human being needs another SUBWAY ..
The Schuylkill Mall seems to be teetering on the brink of something. Logic would dictate the obvious: A building so large in stature cannot sustain the lack of stores to pay it rent. And stores cannot continue operating without patrons. And patrons aren’t there–neither are kids on weekends, they are probably busy living their virtual teenager years cyber bullying someone on Twitter. But then again, the mall is still operating–years after DEADMALLS.COM declared the Frackville mall ‘dead’ .. That’s saying something, at least, right?
I have a few notions of what could succeed–maybe drop rent prices for a year and tell anyone who wants to open a store to try it.. now’s the time, real estate abounds. Or maybe a giant organic farm market would work. However, things seem to be too far gone to try such new and often costly things–I hope I am wrong. I want my son to enjoy the sound of retail at Christmas at a local mall.. but it just looks bleak.
Especially when anchor stores that remain are SEARS and BON TON–stores that nationally are desperate for any light at the end of their very financially dark tunnels, respectively.
So what will happen at the Frackville mall should something dire take place. A book from a photographer Seph Lawless called BLACK FRIDAY-THE COLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN MALL may give hints. Lawless traveled the country for years to find forgotten treasures and the ghost of retail past. He documented decay in buildings that used to house the sounds of laughter, talking, and cash registers printing. There’s pictures with broken glass.. crumbling walls..
Most of the pictures were taken in Michigan and Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.. These seem to be the locations where most of the malls are dying–and it could be a symptom of the bigger problem.. the fever from the flu of an economic failure on the rust belt and other locations where populations relied on manufacturing. Jobs were sent away.. they ain’t comin’ back. And neither are the malls where Lawless traveled to.
According to Lawless, he cannot easily gain access to closed malls. So instead, he breaks in–and has had arrest warrants issued for him for that very action. Imagine–breaking and entering into dilapidated structures.. I can only imagine the immense feeling of loss within them.
I have been busy reading up on this book and checking out some of the photos that actually have been published online. It’s a tempting book to purchase if ever get an extra infusion of cash to do so.. But I think it may be a monumentally upsetting book, too.
Malls were built on the dreams and aspirations of a generation. The Wikipedia page for the Schuylkill Mall is actually filled with some good history ..
But memories aside, realities prevail.
I fear that as malls die, it will also take the Schuylkill Mall.
Vacant stores are eating up the inside.. Lots of very bored employees flip through their iPhones or laptops looking for something to do, as customers aren’t there busting down doors..
While this article has focused on my own personal surroundings, it’s not just the Steamtown Mall in Scranton, or the Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, and everywhere in between, suffering. Atlantic City is going bust, too, as casinos are shuttered and thousands are losing jobs. Ironically, the Jersey Shore was the prime vacation spot for coal regioners for generations.. Maybe we cursed it.
There is a bigger picture to why malls are declining. It’s not just malls. And it’s not just that people are buying online (though the online purchases are a major factor) .. there’s something else at play, I fear. At least for my own area. Since I have been a kid, I have seen every school with the exception of my college close down. I have seen my local hospital shut down only two years ago.. Car dealerships, grocery stores, local stores, restaurants.. closed. And when that property goes vacant, it gets lifeless. Almost immediately and overgrowth of vines and shrubs take over.. What was once a center of life is now one of decline. The coal region of Pennsylvania is finished. Over. Sadly there is so much potential for it to be amazing–look no further than Jim Thorpe, PA, to see how it should be done. Every little town in this area would have the potential to be the next Jim Thorpe. Missing from the equation: People to make it happen. This area has a lack of positive feelings, and instead, an underbelly of poverty and grief.. The youth move out and the elderly are dying out.. A new population has moved in that never saw the area when it was amazing. There’s no connection to the past, or to history. And quite frankly, there’s no one who has taken up the mantle of creating something amazing again.
And that is why I fear the Seth Lawless photos will soon be taken at a mall near me..
Jobs aren’t coming back.
Neither are stores.
Neither are malls.
Unless there’s an American miracle, this same story and song and dance will play out not only in a town near me, but one near you, too..
It is bad.
And going from bad to worse…
The death of an entire region continues.. the area spiraling out of control.. to the point of no return—and to an unrecognizable place. Death has found the little towns sprawled across the former amazing Coal Region of Pennsylvania.. …
There is a really interesting documentary on VIMEO I watched called CALLING EARTH.. it’s a rough cut documentary about after death communication with the living.. And it’s worth a watch.
A few takeaway points that I had after seeing it:
And finally…when do we die anyway? We used to do the ole’ feather trick. Then we moved on to when the heart stopped.. now we are at a point where when the brain stops we believe someone is dead—believe. But with each modern discovery, it seems more and more likely that death will continue to be kicked further down the road..
Most scientists don’t believe in an afterlife—but some are beginning to wonder.. question.. And study.
Old paranormal fields that were confined to embarrassed circles of people hiding their investigations are now beginning to see the light of day, and the analysis of science.
Sometimes EVPs are simply what you think you’re hearing.. you may be so desperate for a message that you hear a muffled sound and suddenly think it’s your loved one saying hi from the netherworld. However, some EVPs are without a doubt filled with clear-cut audio that is simple and unforgivingly real.
Even if it’s not real.. it’s real to the person who heard what they heard…
Give the documentary a whirl during your spare moments in life. It may answer questions, bring closure, but even better: Make you wonder, ponder, think and quake at the prospects that there’s something far greater than an monumental accident leading to the creation of matter and all that matters.
This is the trailer for ANNEBELLE, the prequel to the CONJURING by James Wan.
It looks highly disappointing. That’s an early judgement, perhaps too early.
Trailers aren’t everything..
This one was not.
The characters Lana and Rusev launched into an anti-American rant in which they made reference to the flight MH17 being shot down and hailed Russian president Vladimir Putin for ‘making fools’ out of the U.S..
People are quite angry about this, so the mainstream media says, on Twitter and all of the other antisocial networks that exist out there on the information beltway.
While it may be the old ‘too soon’ cliche that is best used in this situation, I am not at all surprised at what the WWE is doing.
Back when when the WWE was the WWF, they capitalized on Iranian hatred by making Hulk Hogan win the 1984 title belt against the Iron Sheik..
In 1990, Sgt Slaughter turned his back on the United States and joined with Iraq ..
Hulkster had to ave the say the day and rid the WWF of anti-American sentiment.
So now wrestling has LUNA..
But there’s no Hulk Hogan to save the day this time. I think John Cena is right for the job..
Listen.. We all know, at this point in life, that wrestling is fake. It’s an act.. but so often it’s on the cutting edge of pop culture—it’s how it stayed in fashion for so many decades. Vince McMahan is obviously no stranger to controversy and will get through this LUNA lunacy quite fine.
As to whether it’s offensive? Sure.. but that’s the point. It’s an attempt to market the character as someone we will all hate in unison. It’s quite a keen way of doing it.. controversial, too. But … if an organization was free of controversy, people may very well stop paying attention to it.. Don’t think THAT doesn’t run through Vince McMahan’s mind.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa…
THIS:
Data from Flight Radar 24 shows that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH4, an Airbus A380 flying from Kuala Lumpur to London, was diverted from its usual route over Ukraine in favor of passing over a country that is currently under siege by ISIS terrorists, some of whom are armed with U.S.-made Stinger missiles.
Unbelievable. But true..
So .. the airliner choosing to avoid Ukraine is smart. But flying over hostile portions of Syria where another way is baking away the life and limbs of people is not smart..
Here’s the full MH4 flight path: http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/mh4#3dbdafe
I am not an aviation expert.. but someone out there who may be tell me this: Is this all normal?
The local newscaster had a little smirk and smile when she told of the ice cream that did not melt in hot weather.. The WalMart Great Value sandwich hardly melted in 80 degree weather—and a second sandwich didn’t melt either.
…In a comparison, other ice cream melted. Walmart’s did not.
But Walmart says it has all to do with the amount of buttermilk, and then got defensive saying that it meets FDA requirements.
Oh and here’s the gem of the ‘news’ story: The reporter ends saying ‘though there is nothing wrong’ with the Walmart ice cream, the customer misses the ‘old fashioned’ ice cream that actually..
"Old fashioned?"
Have we not gotten to the point of no return? Where frankenfood is the norm? Are we accepting this? Instead of demanding REAL food, are we just going to “miss it” while we eat our chemically enhanced cocktails of poison and death?
Ice cream that does not melt. It’s not ice cream…
Soylent Green didn’t melt either..
WE ARE DONE by the Madden Brothers.. Love this song. The fitting mood for the weekend’s end.
A family remains out of its home after a sinkhole opened up in a Central Florida neighborhood.
But the difference with this one: it’s exploding.
From ABC NEWS:
The 120-foot wide and 30-foot deep sinkhole opened Saturday afternoon in Spring Hill.
"Out of nowhere the earth just went straight up in the air and exploded up in the air," said Margaret Helmick, who lives in the neighborhood.
Police evacuated four homes but later allowed residents to return to three of them. The area was closed off until further notice.
Exploding… think about that.
Sunday Bloody Sunday..
No day of rest in war..
GREAT marketing… The full onslaught of ‘viral buzz’ is in effect..
Whether it works will be seen.. Until then good advertising.. And free as could be.
I still cannot believe it’s been that long since Aaliyah died—2001.. Time went by fast..
Harrisburg PA desperate needs revenue.. as a move to increase it they upped their parking fees and ridded the city of free Saturday parking.
Restaurants are now closing and those which remain open report stunning losses of business…
A dashboard camera in North Carolina captured a fireball blazing through this past Thursday night.
But it was not just NC where the pink stars were falling..
The American Meteor Society confirmed that it has received hundreds o reports from people in North Carolina, as seen on the cam, but also Washington D. C., Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Delaware. The reports came in between 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. on Thursday.
And not only that but the popsqueak’s underage drinking affinity may have landed someone in big trouble.. not Beebs, but instead David Arquette!
David Arquette co-owns and runs Bootsy Bellows, an exclusive celebrity-frequented night club … It’s apparently quite easy for Bieber to get into it and drink.. California Dept. of Alcoholic Beverage Control is aware of an incident.. The club could be fined..
Coverage of both the Malaysia Airlines downed over Ukraine and unrest in the Gaza region helped two Fox News Channel programs reach new total-audience highs, according to data from Nielsen
Kelly is easy on the eyes. Hannity is not. Depending on your political beliefs, their voices are either that of angels or fingernails dragging on chalk boards. Regardless of it all: They won big.
I think one guy and my neighbor watched MSNBC’s coverage.
If you’re living in, or driving through, Northeastern Pennsylvania, don’t expect to get a dried up roast beast sandwich or curly fries.. most of the Arby’s have shut down in a Black Friday bankruptcy, so sudden that employees had no clue.
One of the stores closed was in the Schuylkill Mall, my local diving shopping center. Another retail bail .. biting the dust in Frackville. This one was not in the mall’s control, obviously.. but it’s an example and showcase of the real economic problems that this part of the state is having..
The end may be nigh for the mall up high.
Hard to imagine his already horrible story getting any worse … And then SKY NEWS filed this report about bodies being treated like meaningless objects at the crash site…
A fall from 33,000 altitude can cause cadavers (bodies) to almost instantly freeze, add this to high force of ground impact, it will make bodies (cadavers) appear to be decomposed. ..
This certainly could explain with logic why the Russian separatists are claiming that the bodies are long dead ..
If you believe the Russians to begin with..
Reuters reports some gory details from the flight 17 shoot down.. A snippet from their extended article:
One of the corpses fell through the rickety roof of Irina Tipunova’s house in this sleepy village, just after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 exploded high over eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting government forces.
“There was a howling noise and everything started to rattle. Then objects started falling out of the sky,” the 65-year-old pensioner said in front of her grey-brick home.
“And then I heard a roar and she landed in the kitchen, the roof was broken,” she said, showing the gaping hole made by the body when it came through the ceiling of the kitchen in an extension to the house.
The dead woman’s naked body was still lying inside the house, next to a bed.
Emergency workers tell CNN it’s not their job to collect the bodies. And a local pro-Russian rebel leader has said that officials from the Netherlands and Malaysia asked that the bodies not be moved.
But rescue crews and inspectors from those countries are not on site.
And to get there, they would have to drive about 90 minutes from the city of Donetsk down pot-hole pocked roads. But these lead through a war zone, past checkpoints set up by varying local militias.
There is no central command, virtually no rule of law.
The pro-rebel website Russkaya Vesna on Friday quoted Igor Girkin as saying he was told by people at the crash site that “a significant number of the bodies weren’t fresh,” adding that he was told they were drained of blood and reeked of decomposition.
This certainly muddies up the waters.. Conspiracy theories certainly abound.
The obvious conclusion some have made based off of the Russian claims of bloodless and long dead corpses is that this is flight 370—the missing plane..
Though at this point I don’t know what happened to the 300 that boarded flight 17, maybe they would be put on the next Malaysian flight that goes missing, and a horrible cycle begins..
More than 5,000 Iraqis have died in the violence in the country so far this year, a large proportion of them women and children suffering gruesome deaths at the hands of ISIS extremists and over-zealous security forces, says a detailed new UN report.
Very disturbing..
Legendary radio host died on June 15 but his body remained at a Tacoma funeral home in Washington until July 14, when it was shipped to Montreal, Canada.
This is just awful.. not only did this man have one of the worst last few years on the planet ever, but now his body is having a terrible time, too.. Casey went missing before he died. Now in death his body is missing again..
I don’t know if I have expressed my loathing of these ‘neighborhood’ rules that so many places have before.. but I do now: I hate them. Rules that stop gardening, flags, gnomes, or Santa Clauses at Christmas.. So wrong..
However: This one may be the worst. A couple conserving water is fined for a browning lawn? During a time when the West is going through one of the worst of the worst droughts of all time?
Amazing..
Best I can tell, this is from the 4chan Paranormal board.. tried to ascertain if this is actually an age old paranormal tale, but cannot find much of anything online concerning it.
While I don’t necessarily believe the typed story that accompanies the picture, I can say this: If you look at the woman in the photo long enough, she does start to move.. Back and forth and back and forth—not enough for me to get the chills and believe someone is behind me as the snippet of text proclaims, but it’s still creepy nonetheless.
And I did initially look at it in the dark, which perhaps didn’t help.
While the image works well on a computer screen, it doesn’t translate well onto a phone screen. The bigger it is, the more it moves.
Which does mean, perhaps, a large painting of the girl would indeed really, really creep someone out who is lonely and staring at the image..
If anyone knows where the source of this is from, besides where I think it’s from, drop me at a line on the Open Lines page on my site..
And if you are one of those who experienced some of the worst that the text says you could, I offer my sincere apologies..
Wait.. stop.. LOOK BEHIND YOU!!
MICHELLE OBAMA WANTS YOUR SHOPPING CART TO TALK TO YOU
A little creepy.. Actually I can go for the idea, as long as my shopping cart can be loud and obnoxious. I think a choice of voices would be great.. Imagine if DARTH VADER would congratulate you for your lettuce purchase? Or even better, Don Rickles can randomly make bigoted jokes as you shop the international section..? Maybe Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from the old Conan O’Brien NBC skit could hit on women as you drive by them in a store..
And don’t even let it talk in the cantaloupe section.
There is a overwhelming feeling of grief and fear running through the blood of my veins today. Those safe and sound should shutter.. because life is fading and fragile–fleeting and fearful.
The past 36 hours have been mentally dedicated to events of the realistic nature.
While the world is being torn apart by warfare regardless of continent or country, the ‘it won’t happen to me’ attitude is still something worn as a badge of confidence throughout the planet. The idea that you, me, and whoever reading this, is immune to the horrors of war and the scars of battle. The people flying on that Malaysian airliner, shot down by some group hell-bent on causing fear and bloodshed, did not know they were going to die on that flight. The nun and the AIDS researchers hadn’t the clue that the angel of death was not only knocking but also busting down the door to get in.. the men and women had no connection to the war ravaging parts of Ukraine over Crimea. They don’t know and maybe did not even care of the battle lines. And now, 300 souls become victims. Without notice, without mercy, and without warning. Their bodies vacant souls–now if only we knew where the souls went after life.. There are times world events move me tom tears–lately that’s been happening quite a bit. A NEW YORK TIMES article published today made me eyes swell up with water.. Especially this section of the article, which describes some of the articles of possessions found in the debris of Flight 17:
Dutch belongings were scattered through the grass: a pink children’s book; a parking ticket picked up by a man named Hans van den Hende; a book of stickers. Children’s playing cards were sprinkled near the road.
Anyone with a heart–and especially anyone with children–gets a disburbing feeling in the pit of your stomach when you read that. I did.. and I still do as I re-read it..
I ask myself, and constantly scream out in silent anger to God or whatever else controls this universe: Why always children. Why must they be collateral damage in the sins of men? The drums of war have no beat.. they are just a mix and mess of conflicting thumps and noises of bombs..
With scores of dead children around the planet every hour.
The latest dead child had a pink book, stickers, and playing cards. Little trinkets of goodness and innocence.. now those pieces of peace are shredded by the hounds of war. Gone for good are the beautiful children who played with them..
I pray that this missile hit fast and so furiously that the passengers felt no pain.
But even if they did not feel pain, there will be other innocent men, women, and children who constantly feel pain and suffering in the billowing smoke of the world, on fire, with war.
There is something both fulfilling and scary to hear Ayden shout “let’s kick some Monster Butt!!!” as he plays with his toys.. especially since “monster butt” has been the agreed upon term to define “ass” within the house, ever since Ayden uttered the A word several months ago.
I think I want to get “Let’s kick some Monster Butt” made onto a T-shirt for posterity..
Why are people malnourished in the richest country on Earth?
Ain’t that America…
I recall all those people a few years ago who told me I was crazy for saying drones are the wave of the future..
They are here now.
Those people have shut up.
The black handbag lay on the field turning muddy from the rain. A beige wallet lay next to it, open, near credit cards and photographs carefully lined up next to each other on the wet grass.
Humanity.. oh the inhumanity.
The dangers of Twitter.. Jen Psaki from the State Department is getting more than enough criticsm today .. she posted a meaningless fashion Tweet while the Malaysian airliner was on fire on the ground with body parts scattered for at least 9 miles.. My first inclination: Forgiveness, especially if she auto-tweeted. What some may not realize is that you can schedule your blog/Tumblr/Tweet/Facebook posts to auto publish.. It’s one of my fears, too, auto-posting something which would look abhorently stupid if real events in the world occurred while the auto-tweeting was doing that. If Psaki posted LIVE during this moment? Well that’s pretty shameful.
Also on the same note: British media is lampooning President Obama for his actions post Russian/Ukraine/airliner fiasco: The President gave a 40-second mention of the Malaysian ‘tragedy’ before he launched into an awkward 16 minutes of jokes and scripted teleprompter remarks.. But perhaps teh real problem is not when a DOS official tweets nonsense or a Presidents tells jokes that come up on his teleprompter, but when our intelligence is such that the Kremlim has to tell the President that an Earth-changing event happened..
Touching briefly on the subject of Twitter, another embarassment occurred yesterday.. Not another fashion post from the State Department, but from a CNN reporter. When Israel launched the ground offensive in Gaza yesterday, CNN’s Diana Mgnay called Israelis “scum” She was threatened by cheering Israelis who were watching the bombardment of Gaza.. It should be noted, here is when a cautionary ‘think before your post’ statement should be uttered: Magnay deleted many of the Tweets afterwards..
Ukraine released what it said was audio from phone calls between rebels and Russian officers after the downing of Malaysia Airlines 17. In one call, a rebel says, “We have just shot down a plane.”
A popular restaurant in NYC hires a firm to investigate why customers are complaining about slow service today versus 10 years ago.
Phones.. phones.. GET OFF THE PHONE
NASA predicts that 100 million worlds in our own Milky Way galaxy may host alien life, and space program scientists estimate that humans will be able to find life within two decades.
From as far back as my childhood, I recall UFO enthusiasts and believers in ET life to be kooks and con men, people ‘out there’ in a bizarre neverneverland.
But recently, very important people have taken up the cause of the hunt for life somewhere else out there. The Pope said it may exist—and don’t forget those large Vatican telescopes which hunt for it every moment of the day. Bill Clinton told Jimmy Kimmel that he wanted to see UFO files on Roswell.. Neil Armstrong… and though the Neil Armstrong/UFO encounter was “debunked” as a myth for years, Armstrong recently spoke openly about the UFO he saw while high above the planet Earth.
And now, enter NASA into the equation. But they are going the furthest step mankind has yet taken—at least in public commentary. They say that human beings will come to know life exists—KNOW—within 20 years.. that’s before my slated date of retirement.. that’s when my son would be celebrating his 21st year of life, hopefully not being dumb at some bar ingesting an over abundance of shots.
No matter where we’ll be who what we’ll be, this 20 year date is intersting for a few reasons.
Take for instance that ‘mystery roar’ from deep in space.. Scientists have been baffled by it for years. They are still.. Also, with those high profile folks mentioned here talking openly about their desire to find life out there, I am willing to take a leap of faith: One that tells me logic someone, somewhere, deep in the underbelly of science, religion, or reason, knows what’s coming. And when it does, life as we know it will change. We will all feel very small, don’t you think? Would our wars look petty? Or would we battle more? Would our faith be rocked, or would it prove life is even more abundant?
The news today that scientists are close to finding earth’s twin may also be coming at an interesting point for radio listeners. Last night, Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis had a show about the ‘times of the sign’.. Lewis spoke in depth about the blips, beeps, and outright disturbing noises so often heard coming from somewhat deep in space.
So the truth, as it always is, is out there somewhere.
Maybe in 20 years we’ll see if Ronald Reagan was right..
Found out the hard way today that when my son claims that he “double promises “something, that is when he is triple line
This from a whisteblower..
William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington’s move towards mass surveillance
Disgusted.. and talking.
42% of Millennials claim they are socialists. But only 16% of them know what it means. The ignorance, the arrogance, the stupidity .. America was once great. Now it’s a cheap date for other nations that will look for resources and real estate. The dumbing down is not happening, current time.. it happened.
Unusual law enforcement counsels that operate the SWAT teams say they aren’t public entities.
Great…
For anyone paying any attention to the Atlantic City scene, there’s something very important happening: Casinos are shutting down. The unheard of fact is becoming very commonplace, the elderly are drying up (no pun intended) and the tourism is suffering. Plus casinos in Pennsylvania, right near me, now attract those seniors who once went on three hour bus tours to the Jersey shore.. The latest casino to close looks to be Trump Plaza–and this is the fourth! There’s something inside my that wonders if Atlantic City will become the next Asbury Park.. Towering but vacant buildings, a beach with no one on ..The once fabled Atlantic City is currently in free-fall form .. And summer business is bad. Maybe it’s time for Bruce Springsteen to write a new song.
Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease epidemic that has appeared in Central America, Sri Lanka and India.
Spray away!
Cleveland goes wild after it’s announced LeBron James would be returning to the Cavaliers.. You know, the same fans who burned his jersey years ago? Who hated him? They love him. Meanwhile the world burns, and Americas are busy caring about soon to be washed up basketball players earning millions more a second than most humans.. Here’s a video from CNN asking people on the street what they think about Lebron. I bet most would have not been able to answer one question about Syria, Israel, Ukraine, or the emerging police state in the United States.
Punk is not dead. But someone who was a major figure in punk is..
From the UK GUARDIAN:
Tommy Ramone, the last original member from influential band, has died aged 62.
The band, founded in New York in 1974, had a major influence on punk rock. Tommy Ramone was the last surviving member of its original lineup. He had reportedly been undergoing treatment for cancer.
• RIP Tommy Ramone: your band captured the sound in my head
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Fukushima, Japan, the center of a nuclear crisis following a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.
The agency issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of Tohoku, a region of northern Japan.
Wow….
Hopefully no preview of a coming fall and winter..
David Luiz .. After the 7-1 loss to Germany.
But the photos of fans crying was so much worse .. But my god, those Germans celebrating.. are men in spandex partying on streets the new a World Cup rage?
Funny moment.. Good comedy
