Sorry @Drudge, but I really think you should reverse the ‘real’ and ‘fake’ in your headlines tonight..
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Rare Pacific Typhoon Forms in mid-February
Pretty strange time for a typhoon to form..
During amazing earth changes I suppose anything can happen..
Rare Pacific Typhoon Forms in mid-February
HALLOWEEN is coming back.. and the writers from SAW are going to make it happen… I am going to put myself in the category of not being overly enthused about this yet.. Maybe the SAW folks will bring some form of gore and creativity.. I don’t know. But can we get on with it already? Can we move beyond Michael Myers at some point soon? And quite frankly, if any Halloween movie deserves a remake, it’s SEASON OF THE WITCH–that movie had potential but ended up being a laughable parade of accidental humor.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Careful, Your Samsung Smart TV Might Be Eavesdropping on You
No chance for damage control at SAMSUNG.. the company has been in the news for having actual text in their documents warning consumers of smart TVs not to have personal conversations in front of them.. They will be recorded and sold to third party people.. SAMSUNG shares fell and an outcry has ensued among people who suddenly realize their privacy got sold when they bought their TV.
And a fellow blogging friend musingsinhtx has a great photo along with a message to the sheeple on his site tonight..
Careful, Your Samsung Smart TV Might Be Eavesdropping on You
Major accident on the NJ Turnpike this evening near Cranbury/Monroe by the Molly Pitcher Service Area.
For anyone driving in Pennsylania, New York, Jersey, and Delaware: The roads are completely covered in lots of spots.. Everything is icing over. Stay slow..
I know my Boston readers may roll their eyes at this, but I’d rather their 20 inches of snow as opposed to my one inch of ice..
Neil Armstrong's widow discovers moon camera in cupboard - Telegraph
The astronaut had secretly kept equipment from the moon mission, including the camera used to film footage of the landing, for more than 40 years
He apparently did what any one of us would have done: Slipped out of work one day with interesting mementos of when he made history.
Except our jobs are mundane and the best most of us could probably do is bring home a fancy stapler.
HE was the first man to walk on the moon and tucked away a few interesting things to prove it.
Neil Armstrong's widow discovers moon camera in cupboard - Telegraph
Here are the 1,784 RadioShacks set to close
This map shows how much of the 20th century still existed.. until now.
All of the Rs are about to shut down..
Here are the 1,784 RadioShacks set to close
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Now I see why MSNBC has about 5 viewers left..And four of them are in the control room..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
I’m not the only one who noticed an unsettling image of a sweaty Obama last night.. Matt Drudge did too.. Of course he took it a step further pondering if Obama knows ‘something terrible’ is on the way ..Though I still think the 2009 phase of flies being attracted to Obama was much creepier..
Kanye West on Beck's Grammy: 'He Should've Given His Award to Beyonce'
It was a tense moment..At least Beck and Taylor Swift weren’t together on stage..
Kanye West on Beck's Grammy: 'He Should've Given His Award to Beyonce'
Oh tumblr..
The one post that gets reblogged over a 100 times and you realize you have a dumb misspelling..
Forever reblogged with problems..
Robot vacuum cleaner 'attacks' South Korea housewife's hair
The perils of the robot future.. Sweeper terminators plugged and ready to kill the master human..
Robot vacuum cleaner 'attacks' South Korea housewife's hair
The gigantic blast that rocked Donetsk, Ukraine, apparently was at a chemical plant. Videos showing the gigantic explosion were being shared on social media websites and Internet forums, with some claiming it was small, “tactical nuke.” “This was caused by a dropped cigarette butt,” the Ukraine army’s Anti-Terrorist Operation spokesman, Andrey Lysenko, said, according to Russian state broadcaster RT.com. “Accidents often happen in factories where no one is responsible for fire safety. Well, it’s chaos, and they are barbarians.”
Whoa..
This is quite the swerve in the information department..
The gigantic blast that rocked Donetsk, Ukraine, apparently was at a chemical plant. Videos showing the gigantic explosion were being shared on social media websites and Internet forums, with some claiming it was small, “tactical nuke.” “This was caused by a dropped cigarette butt,” the Ukraine army’s Anti-Terrorist Operation spokesman, Andrey Lysenko, said, according to Russian state broadcaster RT.com. “Accidents often happen in factories where no one is responsible for fire safety. Well, it’s chaos, and they are barbarians.”
Child sex abuse gangs could have assaulted ONE MILLION youngsters in the UK: Rotherham’s Labour MP Sarah Champion describes it as a “national disaster” and is demanding a taskforce to fight the “horror"
The UK MIRROR running this story by Lucy Thornton..
Among the troubling text, this:
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mirror the shaken MP has told how she ‘nearly lost her mind’ after victims turned to her for help - unable to trust the police or local council.
She is currently getting an average of 10 victims a week coming to her for help.
Fighting back tears she told how she feared having a nervous breakdown worried about failing the “amazing women” and her horror after finding out a manual for grooming existed for paedophiles.
This has been ongoing for some time.. Five months ago, I had a post about this when news broke that UK politicians failed to stop the crimes against children in Rotherham that went on for almost two decades..
The UK seems to be the place of perversion as of late.. Not long ago Jimmy Saville’s disgusting image was gracing lots of publications each time a new tidbit of perversion was revealed to the public about his life and ability to molest without much ado..
This new MIRROR article detailed more:
"It feels like the Government is leaving Rotherham to die. It feels like we’re not on their doorstep so it doesn’t matter.”
She welcomed experts coming into Rotherham to help them but said the Government should have stepped in after the Jay Report, six months ago.
“We would have been able to move forward as a town much quicker,” she said.
“There are hundreds of thousands and I think there could be up to a million victims of exploitation nationwide, including right now. Girls in the process of being groomed,” she said.
“I have met people from all over the country.
“If you just think we know at least four big cases each with a couple of thousand each in smallest towns. It’s extraordinary.
“I was talking to sixth formers on Monday and all of the girls there had either personal or direct experience of people trying to manipulate them through sexting. You have online grooming.
There is some more news on the matter.. such as this: Nigel Farage has cancelled a public appearance in Rotherham because of protests outside his party’s office.
Can’t leave out this: Rotherham Abuse Scandal Policeman DiesThe death of PC Hassan Ali, who was reportedly being investigated by the police watchdog, is not being treated as suspicious… Suspicious? how silly..
I think a lot more will be coming out. And being said. And being reported.. rumors and fact will collide in a storm of horror.. But the number of victims will grow. It always does..
Child sex abuse gangs could have assaulted ONE MILLION youngsters in the UK: Rotherham’s Labour MP Sarah Champion describes it as a “national disaster” and is demanding a taskforce to fight the “horror"
Pure speculation.. but that's what I often do best..
Back in September 2007, the LONDON TELEGRAPH reported that Russia had tested the ‘father of all bombs’ .. this is how reporter Adam Blomfield described the new weapon at that time:
Developed in secret, the unchristened bomb, a vacuum device capable of emitting shockwaves as powerful as a nuclear weapon, was unveiled with great theatre on state television’s main evening broadcast.
Boasting that the weapon had “no match in the world,” ORT First Channel television showed a Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber dropping its payload over a testing ground, followed by a massive explosion.
Pictures of what appeared to be crumpled multi-storey apartment blocks were also broadcast.
And the picture of what it looked like:
Things have changed since 2007. Then it was Georgia on Vlad’s mind.. Now Pootie Poot’s focus has changed, of course, to Ukraine..
But last night there was an incident that sent shockwaves over the landscape of Ukraine and across social networks—although the mainstream media thoroughly refused to report anything of it and instead focused heavily on Beyonce’s dress from the Grammy awards.
Oh and ACDC performed..
Did you see Kanye? And Beck? ! Oh the controversy.
Nonetheless, this is what last night’s explosion in Ukraine looked like:
There is also a lot of debate in the comments and reblogs of a post I put up last night showing the video of the blast, which many rumored on Twitter and Facebook to be a nuke..
Could it be that the father has been unleashed? Is it possible we are seeing a chemical weapons blast like some say, or perhaps a larger more battle-ready capable new way of killing?
I don’t know..
Speculation. Speculation..
Speculation.
But it’s worth speculating about..
This Russia Ukraine deal still has a chance of dragging the world down with it in a geo-political quagmire..
UK INDEPENDENT reporting: As the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, prepared to brief Barack Obama in Washington on Monday about the state of the negotiations, a former US ambassador to Ukraine predicted that Estonia and the other Baltic states – all members of Nato – could be Vladimir Putin’s next targets if he is allowed to hold on to territory won by force.
There are two sides to all coins.
ON this matter, there’s about about 20 different sides with coins on the table..
UK INDEPENDENT reporting: As the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, prepared to brief Barack Obama in Washington on Monday about the state of the negotiations, a former US ambassador to Ukraine predicted that Estonia and the other Baltic states – all members of Nato – could be Vladimir Putin’s next targets if he is allowed to hold on to territory won by force.
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Perhaps the dumbest but yet creepiest song I ever heard..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Leaders scramble to avert 'dramatic spiral' in Ukraine
This was a Reuters report filed 5 hours before the big explosion hit the social media feed around the world.. Did the dramatic spiral already start?
Leaders scramble to avert 'dramatic spiral' in Ukraine
I know there are some 'important' things the news is talking about tonight, but there should be some MSN focus on whatever explosion occurred in Ukraine today..
The day when Merkel, Hollande, Putin talk ‘peace’ something big occurs.
In case you missed the GRAMMYS tonight in favor of some more positive activities, you missed Madge trying to out do herself..
Forgive me Madonna, I know you’re trying to show off the remaining sex appeal you possess.. but you left me just thinking that you simply forgot to secure your adult diaper before the night began..
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Another video of whatever that explosion was in Ukraine Sunday..
….the highway to hell.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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I am all in favor of this message, but can someone please get the President a towel!? His entire forehead looks like Richard Nixon’s top lip in the 1960 presidential debate with JFK..
His words were meaningful. But I couldn’t get passed the grease pit that developed on his face..
Isn’t the White House air conditioned anymore?
And this was pre-recorded?
yeeeaaassh…
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The world at war. . possible 'nuke' in Ukraine.. and ACDC appearing live on the GRAMMYS to sing 'highway to hell' while the crowd goes wild and wears light up devil horns
Symbolism is strong with the GRAMMYS…
The timing couldn’t have been weirder. Don’t you say?
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This is video of the purpoerted ‘nuke’ or something bomb going off in Ukraine.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
While the world seems fixated on pagan rituals and Illuminati messages at the Grammy awards, this big news just happened..
This is a photo screen grab from a video making big waves on YouTube tonight.. Some are saying is evidence of a tactical nuclear weapon being used in Ukraine.. Others say it’s evidence if a chemical weapons plant being hit..
Some speculate it’s a nuke . Others say it’s just a big big blast..
All things are sketchy right now and rumors are sort if insane
I keep thinking back to that nuclear clock moving closer to midnight..
This is a developing story worth watching..
You can read the only bit if mainstream link source I found on this so far here: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1243441-did-a-tactical-nuke-just-go-off-in-ukraine-big-explosion-rocks-donetsk/
Will Brian Williams Get Away With 'Misremembering' a War Story? Well, Hillary Clinton Did
Reason.com takes me back..
Because in a nerdy political geek I recall vividly the argument about Hillary and this incident..
But to compare to Williams is not accurate. Journalists are expected to tell the truth. Politicians are known to misremember just about everything..
Will Brian Williams Get Away With 'Misremembering' a War Story? Well, Hillary Clinton Did
Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV
The headline from Techcrunch speaks volumes.. No new to adjust your Teevee.. It hears everything..
Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV
The Bell tolls: July planning taking place for 'DARK MATTER' return
Art Bell continues to detail his plans for a July return.. Free streaming, and now a paid listening function that can help gain revenue..
Sure, it’s pure.
But it’s still business..
And should be as cheap as a STARBUCKS coffee..
The Bell tolls: July planning taking place for 'DARK MATTER' return
Think the U.S Has a Measles Problem? Just Look at Europe
American’s measles numbers pale in comparison to those in Europe..
Think the U.S Has a Measles Problem? Just Look at Europe
Some creative moms across America
MOMS ACROSS AMERICA infiltrate Monsanto by purchasing shares of stock! And now they were able to submit their shareholder proposal to make a plea about the dangers of MONSANTO.. An amazingly interesting and creative form of protest.. For those expecting a suddenly organic and NON-GMO Monsanto, don’t get your hopes up. That is of course unless you eat at the MONSANTO cafeteria.
Horror is dead.
Good article from MOVIEPIOLOT.COM: Why modern horror movies don’t get it right. I agree with the point of this article by Pedro Asdrubal Diaz.. modern horror is not memorable. Last night after many things led me to miss the ANNABELLE release in theaters, we finally found a copy in a REDBOX and watched it .. The group of us who saw it figured it was going to be a modern classic. It was not. It was actually quite forgettable and unmemorable.. Creativity seems to be completely lost.
Will there be some horror hope? Here are 10 movies of the horror genre to look forward to this year. UNFRIENDED looks creepy.. 31 looks avoidable in my opinion.. `KNOCK KNOCK looks ridiculous.. IT FOLLOWS will be great, judging from early reviews..SPRING looks creepy.. And POLTERGEIST? After a good trailer I am suddenly accepting this remake. We will see and time will tell if the film is as good as the two minute preview..
Maureen Dowd: NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.
NBC THE CHIMES OF DOOM PLAY FOR BRIAN WILLIAMS
The NBC NEWS chimes of doom are famous.. when they break into the television norm to tell of breaking news, you know the world has changed in some way, whether small or large.. They sound, quite frankly, frightening. Especially for those who vividly recall things like 9/11, when the chimes were busy for days.. A memory recall for those not familiar with the doom-ish feeling that comes from hearing the NBC breaking news theme:
Those chimes are playing for Brian Williams now.
It seems quite unlikely that Brian Williams will be able to continue news in the current environment. As we now have come to learn, Williams is taking a leave of absence from the NBC NEWS job, writing this:
In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions. “As managing editor of NBC Nightly News, I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days, and Lester Holt has kindly agreed to sit in for me to allow us to adequately deal with this issue. Upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us.”
His statement sounded complex.. It’s difficult to figure out if he’s done for good or just hoping some of the feeding frenzy lessens.
I don’t think it will..
People following Williams on Twitter already know that his entire Twitter feed vanished early on think ‘my helicopter took fire’ scandal.. Even further, Williams became associated with interesting comments about watching bodies float by him after Katrina–trouble was, he wasn’t in a place of New Orleans where that was happening. He also said he got sick from drinking flood waters.. But it does not appear other surrounding him recall that vividly..
I ponder to myself if Williams just wants to fantasize about these tall tales as a way of giving himself more street cred? Drum up the news and include himself in there so he seems more trustworthy. Get into the action, and if the action doesn’t find you, just pretend it did.
Any return to the news, this age, won’t work.. You don’t have to look too far in the past to realize how truth often begins to slowly leak out and then sooner or later floodgates are broken. And the levees fail. In Williams’ case, even with NBC NEWS deleting his entire online history, there’s enough history in other places. Bill Cosby wanted to be ‘memed’ online. Instead he was maimed and his life turned upside down when this generation found out that the previous generation ignored rape claims for various women.
People will scour through every bit of public record for other flaws in Williams’ character. And when that starts to happen, undoubtedly even the cleanest person will become tarnished with some mistruth and consequence..
This is a lesson: Be honest. Be good. Be real.
People love real. And quite frankly, I think human beings are becoming a little better adapted at figuring out who is real and who isn’t..
Except on this one. Brian Williams had me fooled..
Did he commit a crime? No. Did he do something unforgivable? Not really. But did he include himself and brag about things that never occurred? Yes. And in doing so, he may very well have destroyed his career..
Maureen Dowd: NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.
Friday, February 6, 2015
General Mills Starts Pulling Preservatives After Assault From Food Babe Army
"They have tighter regulations in Europe because they operate on a precautionary principle. There, products are guilty until proven innocent. Here’s, it’s the reverse."
There’s another win in the FOOD BABE category.. People hate this lady. I don’t.. anything to add less ingredients to food is a win in my book..
General Mills Starts Pulling Preservatives After Assault From Food Babe Army
This is not good..
I wrote previously of how Brian Williams had the best voice for news. But apparently he also had the ego for it too..
Tall tales from the various places he has been are now becoming subject to quite a bit of investigation. Even Brokaw wants him gone.
Meanwhile Brian Williams’ twitter account is barren…
Child-abuse calls go unanswered as new regulations cause personnel problems for Pa. agency
The state Department of Human Services plans to hire 49 or more people to help with the increased workload caused by the addition of 21 child protection laws that were spurred by the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal.
Read on..
Troubling at the least..
Child-abuse calls go unanswered as new regulations cause personnel problems for Pa. agency
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Anthem, Major Health Insurer, Suffers Hack Attack
This is big..
And as with every other major hack, we are probably not yet hearing the full story
Anthem, Major Health Insurer, Suffers Hack Attack
Islamic State jihadists are killing kidnapped Iraqi children, including by crucifixion or by burying them alive, with others being sold as sex slaves, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said.
There are grisly details of the reign of terror.. ISIS has continued to expand its territory.. and with each new town taken, more death and brutal bloodshed has taken place in its path..
The world, mostly, hasn’t talked much about the crimes against humanity taking place..
While beheadings and now the burning of the Jordanian pilot have dominated headlines and debate, some more horrific things are taking place to the most innocent: Children in Iraq..
Among the ways children are meeting their early demise: Crucifixions.. being buried alive.. being sold as sex slaves and becoming victims of rape and torture.. And those under 18, more and more, are being used as suicide bombers. Not just kids.. mentally challenged kids. One quote from Renate Winter with the UN committee:
We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding
Perhaps you should read that again:
We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding
Let it sink in..
Let the headline escape..
There are stories of children being sold at markets with price tags on them. Sexual enslavement has become commonplace..
The news from this land seems to be that of the middle ages, when darkness ruled the land and no hope was found. The modern age has somehow forgotten about the children of Iraq. We went into the nation over a decade ago and ‘liberated’ a people—now their children are growing up in the constant fear of murder and mayhem. That is a punishment not even worthy of animals..
Several cases of the mass execution of boys.
The murder of the most precious of our people on the planet.
This post, as I write, has brought me to literal tears.
In our world—with all of the simplicities and technologies—should be opposed to violence and abhorrent behavior. But now we should have evolved beyond our old style evils and reached for the stars. We should have high speed travel across the planet and a way to quickly get to other planets. Instead we continue to warp our minds in medieval mayhem and, in the end, kill our planet’s very soul in the process.
I think the gates of hell are open. Sadly, the doors blew off and no one can close them up again..
Islamic State jihadists are killing kidnapped Iraqi children, including by crucifixion or by burying them alive, with others being sold as sex slaves, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said.
NBC’s Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years.
I always liked Brian Williams. He was this generation’s ‘cool guy’ anchor.
But now social media has hit him hard.. he ‘misremembered’ events from years ago.. actually, he has been telling a lie for years about something that never occurred. And he was called out on it.
I am very disappointing.. as many others are.
Of course it has led to a number of humorous memes, like this:
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There is one ominous thing to consider with this: Brian William’s entire TWITTER history has been wiped clean tonight.. his profile is there but there’s no tweets left. Gone..
I suppose we may learn why in coming hours..#BrianWililamsMemories has produced some amazingly funny Tweets tonight..
Is this his downfall, or will he recover?
It’s up to the Twitterverse now I suppose.
NBC’s Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest
Obama Admin Grants Immunity To CDC Scientist That Fudged Vaccine Report…Whistleblower Plans To Testify Before Congress
R The Obama administration has granted whistleblower immunity to a federal government scientist that claimed he intentionally omitted information in a study that could have shown a race-based link between vaccines and childhood diseases including autism
This bit of news is coming at a very interesting time in public health and American politics. The recent measles outbreak has increased an already intense dialogue between pro and anti vaccine groups.. While countless studies conclude that vaccines are safe and don’t have a direct effect leading to autism, others still insist that there has been a overreaching attempting by big drug companies to hide any evidence of vaccine injury cases.
We first detailed the matter of William Thompson five months ago. Then, we attempted to weed through the convoluted and confusing story of his allegations. At that time, mainstream media sources covered Thompson’s accusations but didn’t give them much merit. The Atlanta study at the center of this controversy supposedly showed a link between African American boys and the appearance of autism after the MMR vaccine was administered.. But Thompson alleged CDC attempts to hide that data and fudge numbers to showcase no link between them..
Thompson, since then, has nto ended his fight.. Even more, as we see today with this grant of immunity as a whistleblower, the next phase may give the still-employed-at-the-CDC Thompson a much larger venue to state his case..
Patrick Howley of the DAILY CALLER writes this,
In 2004, Dr. William S. Thompson worked on a report for the CDC’s National Immunization Program. That report, which ran in the “Pediatrics” medical journal, came to the conclusion that there’s no link between vaccines and autism and that no racial group is more likely to be damaged by vaccines.
But Thompson said that he and other CDC scientists intentionally fudged the results, manipulating the pool of children they analyzed and limiting the proper number of African-American children from participating. The authors limited black children from showing up in the results by excluding babies without a state of Georgia birth certificate.
“It was a mutual decision among the five co-authors,” Dr. Brian Hooker told The Daily Caller. An associate professor at California’s Simpson University, Hooker found out about the deception by secretly taping conversations that he had with Thompson last year. After beginning to talk to Thompson in 2013, he ended up getting Thompson’s information on audio record and disseminated the information in the vaccine-skeptic online community.
“I live close to the Oregon border. I taped the conversations in a hotel room,” Hooker said.
“I didn’t want people to run out and delay vaccination because of this, because it was only one piece of data. But it was the one piece of data that CDC chose to cover up,” Hooker said.
In August 2014 this entire issue reared its head after Rob Schneider—yes the actor—publicly stated that he had evidence showing vaccine fraud.
And since then, the debate has only gotten much more intense—often repugnant with illogical fallacies presented and truly mean and nasty insults hurled.. And now, enter the possibility of Thompson testifying? I think things are only going to get more intense.
Obama Admin Grants Immunity To CDC Scientist That Fudged Vaccine Report…Whistleblower Plans To Testify Before Congress
This was the scene as a passenger plane with dozens of people on board plunged into a river in Taiwan’s capital of Taipei on Wednesday..
The latest news is that at least 23 are dead, 20 others are missing, and 15 are injured.. the numbers game only tells one part of this. The human impact is tragic—the thoughts of being on this airplane during its final moments are awful to conjure..
And thanks to dashcam video, we can also now see the final moments of the TransAsia flight as it slammed down and took part of the bridge with it. You can see the video here..
During the scene, you can hear the shriek as people in the car witness the airplane soaring into the view and crashing down to the ground in front of them..
For me, no matter how many times I see the first few seconds of this video, I get the chills deep down..
One comment I saw on a news article concerning this should be repeated here: No matter how good or advanced technology is, an airplane is nothing more than a metal tube filled with human lives. And when these types of accidents occur, they look mighty scary to the human eye..
Why Are Construction Workers The Happiest Employees?
Here’s why the construction industry has the happiest employees and how your industry can replicate it.
Great article.. and it makes perfect sense when you consider the theory behind it all..
And it also reminds me of the final scene of the movie OFFICE SPACE.. where finally we find the protagonist filled with happiness.
Why Are Construction Workers The Happiest Employees?
Watch Those K-Cups You’ve Been Trashing Turn Into a Monstrous Problem
Yes.. this was bound to happen..
Sure, the single-serve coffee containers are convenient, but as this parody shows, the tiny pods that work in Keurig machines have become a Godzilla-like creature.
I always think of those monstrous mounds of plastic in the oceans across the planet. And among those: A disastrous amount of stupid little plastic coffee pods that we have bought up for no other better reason than convenience. And all the while, GOOD TASTING coffee is hard to find since we are so hell-bent on buying cheaply made MSG-infused coffee pods..
Watch Those K-Cups You’ve Been Trashing Turn Into a Monstrous Problem
9 Tips for Picky Eaters
This is a great article. I sure wish my 4-year-old son could read it..
It’s written by Lynn Jaffee and speaks in depth about her picky style of eating when being a child. And how later in life the gift of food became an amazing part of living..
I am having some major troubles in the parenting department.. my son Ayden just won’t try anything new. Dinner time becomes similar to some ancient battle of the Middle Ages, with each us of jousting for the lead.. In the end, my son wins and either doesn’t eat or has some strange dinner of his own..
We even tried to ‘you’re not eating anything’ bit. He holds out. He literally holds out and it doesn’t work..
The worst thing that can happen is when he announces, out of no where, that he suddenly does not want to eat a certain food anymore—obviously he gets tired of the same stuff.. And then the crisis occurs.. we are eliminating more foods off of his diet than gaining.
He is missing a world of tastes.. he has helped me cook, doesn’t mind touching things, but when it comes to actually trying stuff, he throws himself into near convulsions of fear.
Any advice parents among us?
9 Tips for Picky Eaters
Hasbro has secretly released a Monopoly set with $23,000 in real money
Now this is a great way to sell a game.. it reminds me a little of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY…
Go out, now, and buy up ye olde board games like it’s the 19th century.. You may just became a rich person.
Hasbro has secretly released a Monopoly set with $23,000 in real money
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
GET PAID TO EXCRETE
If you live near OpenBiome’s lab in Massachusetts, you can earn up to $13,000 extra a year to donate your fecal matter. Not a bad gig, and with the Seahawks loss in the Superbowl, perhaps the next logical for Doug Baldwin.
14 things that may not exist in 2020
I think the list is a presumptuous. What is missing, though? JOBS.
14 things that may not exist in 2020
SOLD!
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY house quickly snapped off the market for under $800,000// The house is gorgeous and, photos from inside show an even dreamier place to live. And the story is worthy of a flashback.. don’t forget, whoever is the proud owner of the humble abode, Oren Peli claimed he chose the house after real paranormal activity took place prior to making his first film.. At that time, Peli said when he moved into then house, weird things continuously happened there. And that’s what gave him the inspiration to make the movie..
The CBS8 2009 story also quoted a pool cleaner who visits the house saying, “We try to not pay attention. We just do our job and we are in there and we are out. It’s really weird.” The reporter for CBS8 wrote this about the house itself: “Although no one was home, a faint banging was heard coming from the house.”
It is always difficult to tell fact from fiction.. other famous houses from horror exist, like the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET HOUSE that was purchased in 2013 (and it’s a beautiful clean and modern non scary place) .. and the AMITYVILLE HORROR location, which still attracts many and is constantly being sold and resold..
As far as the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY house, new owners can cleanse it of spirits and bring goodness between the four walls. Or… let the oddities occur and let pool cleaners continue to be scared off by ‘weird’ bangs from inside.. So whoever buys it? Maybe you’ll have to clean the pool yourself.. and in the luxurious life of the rich and famous, that’s the truly scary thing..
Who would Jesus have rooted for? A Church in Washington got so into the Superbowl frenzy that it decorated its usually holy altar for the big game this past Sunday. That caused at least one Church blogger to snap out and, in my opinion, fairly so..
Randy Quaid attacks Rupert Murdoch in what may be the strangest YouTube video from a celebrity. Ever.. During the epic rant, his wife is on the bed in a bikini wearing sunglasses.. he refers to CHRISTMAS VACATION and Warner Bros stealing his house and the NEW YORK POST smearing him, and also complains of false arrests..
Sadly YouTube has just removed the video for a violation of their terms of service.. but I saw it before they did.
I don’t think he blinked even once during this video.. But be warned, the video is not safe for work or after dinner.
At the end, Quaid has his wife put on a RUPERT MURDOCH while he either simulates or REALLY has sex with her while speaking about police media corruption.
Our modern world..
Pictures published on ISIS’ official al Furqan media site apparently show Jordanian military pilot Moaz al-Kassasbeh being burned alive while confined in a cage.
How to live in ISIS land
The cost of leaving the Islamic State: Jail. Or death. That is the dark and stark reality of life under the merciless regime.. the AP details the facts in a dispatch from Tunisia about a man who left Syria and now is fearful for his life..
The AP reports:
“Now he chain-smokes as he describes the indiscriminate killing, the abuse of female recruits, the discomfort of a life where meals were little more than bread and cheese or oil. He recounts the knife held to his throat by fellow fighters who demanded he recite a particular Quranic verse on Islamic warfare to prove himself.“
VACCINE SEASON
Vaccines are suddenly becoming a campaign 2016 issue.. Rand Paul and Chris Christie both suggested that parents could choose to vaccinate. Others disagree vehemently.. Hillary Clinton stepped into the fray with a #vaccineswork Tweet.
President Obama has utilized his weekly radio address (yes they still happen) and other appearances, like his beer-swigging pre-superbowl interview, to advise parents to choose vaccines over not. But Rand Paul, the famed anti-establishment eye doctor who is not a Senator and vying for the highest office in the land, says that vaccines have dangers.. Paul said they they can cause profound mental disorders.. the Paul comments raised some eyebrows, and have others in the anti-vaccine world applauding.. you can see his unusually combative interview here on CNBC.. the interview was set to be about financial issues but it took a controversial turn immediately..
Paul says that ultimately vaccines are a good idea but he had his ‘staggered’ over several months.. When the interview turned back to stocks and economics the banter between the host and Paul seemingly went even more downhill..
Monday, February 2, 2015
A New York pastor is making news.. he says that Justin Bieber is transgender and regrets ‘cutting off’ his breasts.. But before you take it seriously, know this: This is the same pastor who claimed Vlad Putin will ‘out’ Obama as gay and that Mr Manning has previously alleged that Vladimir Putin will ‘out’ Barack Obama as gay, and that Starbucks flavors coffees with the semen of sodomites.. Drink up Bieber fans.
Facebook and all its dangers considered
A website argues the case of why you and your loved ones should get off of Facebook now.. it’s a good read.
I am on Facebook, I also have a fan page for my other website on Facebook with over 100 followers at this time.
Am I worried about their terms of service? Always. Am I horrified but how Facebook destroys the humanity of people? yes.. but there are cautious ways to come at the social network.
I think more than anything else: The fact they read private message is alarming. And they do. The argument on the tech site is convincing.. read it and judge for yourself. Act accordingly. If you stay on Facebook, be smart and don’t think just because you have ‘nothing to hide’ and the prying eyes of the technocracy don’t destroy you anyway..
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Debbie downer bowl
I am surprised with how ‘down’ all of these Super bowl commercial are..
The Nationwide child death ad seems to have upset the entire nation.. Along with lots of tearful and somber ads of dads crying and dogs running..
This year we are being hit hard with emotions.. Advertisers a seemingly have abandoned all forms of humor and replaced it down doldrums and a mood slump..
Katy Perry lit up halftime with color and craziness, but the new ad order of sadness was on full display..
Why all the dismay?
Why all of the melancholy blues?
Touchdown..
Field goal.
Smiles you’ll lose..
It’s the way to sell, to tear at your heart..
Advertisers have learned a new way.. Just remind people of how much life can often suck. And they will buy.
And cry..
Tears have filled empty nacho plates this Super Bowl Sunday..
Nationwide is not on our side..
Did Nationwide Insurance Just Air The Darkest Super Bowl Ad Ever
The theme of this year’s ads are dark and depressing, emotional and upsetting.. The Nationwide commercial seemingly hit the biggest nerve..
Did Nationwide Insurance Just Air The Darkest Super Bowl Ad Ever
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Snowstorms and Superbowl nacho purchases..
Avoid all grocery stores from Chicago to New York City today if you can..
Rise of the robots at AOL lead to job cuts
At some point, this is all going to break society and a new way of thinking on economics and business will take shape. Mechatronics will replace four jobs–when few work what will occur to the masses of asses?
Rise of the robots at AOL lead to job cuts
The Eerie Abandoned Neighborhood of Lincoln Way
I love stories of abandoned places.. this one is right in Pennsylvania. But after looking at the comments section on the story, I get the notion that there is controversy about this.. lots of people seem to believe BIGFOOT scared people out. Others know it was much more of a worldly issue like economics and environment..
But what exists is a creepy slew of photos worthy of a late night creep out session in your dark living room.
The story sort of reminds me of Centralia..
And despite the urban legends, there is nothing paranormal about Centralia. I grew up there, and despite a constant stream of ghost hunters, the story of Centralia is about human failure, and not one of the other-worldly.
The Eerie Abandoned Neighborhood of Lincoln Way
Forecasters are NOT playing this up, I sense they don’t want to be named the forecasters who cried wolf after botching up last week’s non blizzard.. but there will be a storm this weekend that is sizable enough to be called a major snowstorm.. The track is clear on this. The Groundhog’s Day storm will extend from Chicago to New York City. Everyone in the path will get between a half foot and a foot of snow or more.. And then after it, REALLY cold air comes down from Canada..
DHS Reveals Super Bowl Surveillance Techniques -- Sort Of
That’s fine and dandy.. BUT.. the real question: Who will be monitoring Katy Perry?
DHS Reveals Super Bowl Surveillance Techniques -- Sort Of
Friday, January 30, 2015
ART BELL MAKES THE CALL: FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS COMING
There has been some recent doubt as to whether ART BELL would return, but a message posted to Facebook tonight seems to make it official: Art Bell will face George Noory..
ART BELL MAKES THE CALL: FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS COMING
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Jon Stewart accurately destroys major news networks over blizzard coverage
Seriously.. A CNN ‘blizzard mobile’… This all was just shameful..
Jon Stewart accurately destroys major news networks over blizzard coverage
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A blast from the past.. midway through the 1900s this Buchanan Brothers song was played under the covers of darkness..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Arizona measles outbreak reaches 'critical point': Health officials believe the Phoenix-area woman recently diagnosed with measles may have exposed as many as 195 children to the disease at the Phoenix Children's East Valley Center on Jan. 20 and 21. Maricopa County officials were in the process of contacting the children's families Tuesday. A hospital official told 12 News that the woman was not an employee and it was not known why she was at the facility.
Andrew Sullivan writes a goodbye to readers!? Enough blogging!?
Andrew Sullivan writes,
I want to spend some real time with my parents, while I still have them, with my husband, who is too often a ‘blog-widow’, my sister and brother, my niece and nephews, and rekindle the friendships that I have simply had to let wither because I’m always tied to the blog. And I want to stay healthy. I’ve had increasing health challenges these past few years. They’re not HIV-related; my doctor tells me they’re simply a result of fifteen years of daily, hourly, always-on-deadline stress. These past few weeks were particularly rough – and finally forced me to get real.
We’ll have more to say – and we’re sure you will as well – in due course. I particularly want to take some time to thank my indispensable, amazing colleagues in a subsequent post. For the time being, auto-renewals have been suspended and the pay-meter has been disabled. While we’re in this strange, animated suspension, I just wanted to take one post to thank you personally, the readers, founding members and subscribers to the Dish.
And this
You were there before I met my husband; you were there when I actually got married; and when I finally got my green card; and when Dusty – who still adorns the masthead – died. I can’t describe this relationship outside the rather crude term of “mass intimacy” but as I write this, believe me, my eyes are swimming with tears.
How do I say goodbye? How do I walk away from the best daily, hourly, readership a writer could ever have? It’s tough. In fact, it’s brutal. But I know you will understand. Because after all these years, I feel I have come to know you, even as you have come to see me, flaws and all. Some things are worth cherishing precisely because they are finite. Things cannot go on for ever. I learned this in my younger days: it isn’t how long you live that matters. What matters is what you do when you’re alive. And, man, is this place alive.
And finally
When I write again, it will be for you, I hope – just in a different form. I need to decompress and get healthy for a while; but I won’t disappear as a writer.
But this much I know: nothing will ever be like this again, which is why it has been so precious; and why it will always be a part of me, wherever I go; and why it is so hard to finish this sentence and publish this post.
This is a majorly big deal in my life. I have loved Andrew Sullivan and hated him.. but each time I wanted depth and perspective on any given issue, I would stop randomly clicking headlines and simply go to his website for that missing piece of the larger puzzle. Sullivan has been wrong on some things.. right on some things. But his blog and opinion was always an evolving work in progress.. he brought with him site intelligence and the highest degree of analysis that could be found online..
His live blogs of the State of the Union speeches each year could not be missed..
And to a degree, his little comic logo even inspired the CoalSpeaker’s emblem that rests atop this page.
Indeed, Andrew Sullivan and his site has meant a lot to me..
I certainly hope he’s not gone for good. And as a fellow blogger, I can say this.. when you do this type of thing, you never go for good. I sense we’ll see and hear from Sullivan soon.
But..go he must.
I will miss him.
Andrew Sullivan writes a goodbye to readers!? Enough blogging!?
England Earthquake: 3.8 'Earth Tremor' Hits Leicester, Midlands
A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck Leicester, England, on Wednesday. (Page 1)
Also Kansas near a frack well..
And a 5.7 in Northern California..
And 6.2M earthquake in the West Pacific occurred exactly at 300 miles depth….
England Earthquake: 3.8 'Earth Tremor' Hits Leicester, Midlands
Facebook click porn
I’m not a firm believer in the humanity of people.. Proof in the pudding comes from the endless supplies of Facebook posts on a daily basis about bad parenting and suffering children.. It getting rough to surf around my least favorite social network these days..
The latest this morning came with a story if a woman from West Virginia putting feces in her child’s IV in a hospital causing his fever to spike and also resulting in children and youth taking him..
I am constantly reminded by commenting friends on these stories..
I’m inundated with links on my news feed of horrible things happening to the most innocent..
And then after comments are made or ‘like’ is clicked people move on to the next heartbreaking tragedy..
This is how click porn is done on Facebook now: Offer up the worst of the worst for people to sink their teeth into ,just for clicks on a news story or website. Leaving the Facebook user with a lack of hope by noon..
I for one am ready to check out..
I already have no hope in my fellow humans, and I really and getting cost ed by all of the evidence that adds to my anger at people..
Maybe a little zoning out from Facebook is necessary.. Perhaps it’s time to click off and tune out. Or just filter things a hit better than I previously have..
Otherwise the constant flow of horrid news stories of children facing awful consequences at he hands of care givers or supposed parental figures will continue to obscure the beauty that exists in life.
At least I think there’s still some beauty and goodness.
If not that at least there’s mystery.
And obviously misery too..
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