Art Bell asked a darn interesting question in a post on BELGAB.COM the other day about travel and who people would send back to the time of Jesus to document events.. My answer is below his, I picked Ben Franklin.
There were lots of other cool answers too, some even suggested Bruce Campbell.
And at this point if you’re an Art Bell excited for his return this coming July and NOT a member of BELLGAB, what are you waiting for?
The new age war of words underway.. In one corner, Mr. Universe Deepak Chopra.. in the other corner, the Atheist Krauss with facts and figures.
There’s no meeting in the middle in this battle of wits.
The thrilla in Bodhisattva
Some awful news for people in the coal region of PA (and some other states that import the product from Shenandoah PA) who enjoy this amazing combination of flavors.. A recall because along with the cheese and tomato and basil, little chunks of plastic may also be within the product.. A new flavor indeed.
It’s all in the timing, isn’t it? Life so often works like that..
The UK DAILY MAIL has the full wrap:
A man was arrested at 11.30pm Sunday after jumping over bike rack near southwest corner of White House. Another person was confronted and apprehended by Secret Service agent at around 7am for trying to enter gate as construction workers were leaving
Being trustworthy and accurate could help a web page rise up Google rankings if the search engine giant starts to measure quality by facts, not just links
Lots of people are quite worked up over this.. As a matter of fact, the grand implication here is that GOOGLE is simply the Orweillian ‘Ministry of Truth” ..
Right now, Google uses a complex algorithm of determining the number of links going TO a site as the way to measure how far up in the search a certain website will be. Of course, people would argue that sites containing lots of misinformation will be too high in results and bad information will be spread.. you know, like the bad information that typically disseminates from MAINSTREAM news outlets during breaking news events..
But now the ‘ministry of truth’ idea comes into play, where Google will tap into a fact vault to compare with search terms. Of course, one man’s facts is another man’s figuring.. facts change. Historical accounts converge to paint very different pictures from those presented in the G-rated history books we have become grown to reading in our formative years..
The ‘fact optimization’ idea will most likely create a brand new multi-billion dollar industry.. I can see it now, people who specialize in advertising ‘facts’ ..
But a long time ago, if Google would have been around, a ‘fact’ would have been a flat earth theory..
And if someone googles “Best sex of 2015” … will there be a fact algorithm to present it? Because let’s not kid ourselves on what people Google—anyone with a website can tell you some of the bizarre terms that land them on their pages..
So for all of those upset by this, I get it. I am uncomfortable, too.
But there’s always STARTPAGE. And for those more old fashioned folk, you can always still ask Jeeves, even though he has been vanquished from the askeeves search page.
Have it it. Go out, Interneters.. and find ‘facts.’
My son did not really want to wake up for daycare today, and on the way there he expressed his disinterest in a Monday morning. I told him things were even worse for adults, and attempted to explain to him what happens during work meetings, the fake talking and the pretentious attitudes. I tried to explain how everyone gathers around the table and sits down, pretends to like each other for the first 35 seconds, and then attempts to outdo each other in ideas or long winded platitudes . This may have been a bit heavy for a 4 year old, but he seemed to grasp the concept.
He said to me, “daddy why don’t you get under the table in bang your head on it.”
When I said that sounds like a good idea, I saw him thinking. Then he said, “actually don’t, that will hurt”
Maybe. . Or maybe less.
That’s (potentially) 800 testicles for those keeping track..
I got some questions this weekend with my 'open lines' but nothing worthy of a mention..Feel free to try to impress me with just another factoid or question that may rock my world.
In the mean time, I have a somewhat selfish question for a reason.. I have this website, COAL SPEAKER, but I also have another one named the HORROR REPORT—something for the more surreal and unreal headlines, it’s coded with Wordpress, and it’s been around for a long time. I made a mirror site and, quite suddenly, the traffic on the secondary location surged higher than the original..
Mind you, either site you choose is probably one you’ve never heard of, of course that is unless you caught the brief millisecond of time the HORROR REPORT appeared on BROAD CITY..
Anyway, to make a not-needed-to-be-wordy post less wordy, I would ask a favor of anyone who has time.. send me a message or email and tell me which is your choice: www.horrorreport.com or www.nightterrornews.com .. at this time, they will be identical in all ways except design..
Thanks for the time, if you have it.
New research says sleeping MORE than 8 hours a day increases a stroke risk.. I should be fine. I’m lucky if I get four hours a night..
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Almost from the moment a converted crabbing boat became a floating strip club off the shore of an Alaska island, it’s been beset by legal tangles over safety rules and liquor laws. Now there are allegations that it’s been dumping human waste into a harbor.
Yes indeed.. that does sound like a problem..
Just when your body thought it was safe, this comes along: Cap’n Crunch and Taco Bell are teaming up for a gooey new dessert. My stomach nearly turned to rot when I read the headline alone..
Vertical farming: The quicker we build these types of locations the better off we will be.. Such as this location in Jackson Wyoming: A vacant lot the size of one tenth an acre is going to be turned into a vertical farm that will produce the food five acres could! Back in December, FAST COMPANY profiled the trend in agriculture with an article about how vertical farming could feed millions. And make millions..
Quite frankly, I don’t care if millions are made, that is what America is all about. What I think is revolutionary is a farm in a controlled environment where pesticides and other big agri killers aren’t needed..
In April 2014, Motley Fool asked if vertical farming could kill Monsanto’s tight grip hold on the industry.. The farms of the future are being built today. Rightfully so.. We need more. I would love to see a vertical farm on every empty lot in the world. Let’s feed this planet healthy food. Real food. Vertically farmed food..
I will get off the soap box now, or else I’ll go off in another wild tangent about the need for a high speed railway across America..
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hyundai Corp is recalling 204,768 Elantras because of a power steering defect that might cause the cars to suddenly revert to manual steering, the company said Saturday in a report
The vaccination debate just got even more wild..
The UK Telegraph reports that this man got a vaccination for yellow fever and immediately began to believe he was the devil
Happy birthday beebs.
And now you can finally, after a long life of sobriety and purity, have a drink.
The Pope is take a voyage into the deep . he’s being critical of the very thing that keeps society going–the reason some, perhaps, even live! MONEY. And he calls it the ‘devil’s dung’.. Francis condemned the “throwaway culture created by the powers that control the economic and financial policies of the globalized world”.. MORE: “When money becomes an idol, it controls man’s choices,” he added. “It makes him a slave.”..
Should the day ever come when the dead do rise from their graves a new disaster preparedness kit could give you an edge in that chaotic first day for the reasonable cost of $1,499.
So get ready for that..
I would say is this a little bit beyond overdue
For any Art Bell fans in the world, there’s a wild ride taking place in BELLGAB..
There may be some puffy clouds forming in the distance…
IT FOLLOWS trailer lays out rules for upcoming horror film.
The movie is highly anticipated.. it’s a modern movie about the dangers of teenage sexual promiscuity. Instead of exchanging bodily fluids that lead to an STD, the couple involved will become victims of a sexually transmitted CURSE.. that follows.
I have read a number of accounts and early spoiler information about this movie–it looks to be one of the freshest and most creative horror movies that we will be getting in 2015.Some have even called it a ‘masterpiece‘!
Reviews like that often don’t happen in the mainstream world for this genre.. The UK INDEPENDENT’s Geoffrey Macnab reviewed the movie with a positive four out of five star conclusion.. Macnab wrote,
“The ingenious new teen horror film It Follows will intrigue, puzzle and trouble audiences by turns.”
And this:
“This may be a horror movie but it has some of the same feel as Larry Clark’s cautionary tales about mixed-up, laidback American kids. It is shot as artfully as Clark’s films and, like them, portrays a self-enclosed teen society in which parents and teachers don’t intrude.”
For many years, any watcher of horror either random or astute would know that films often play on the fears of the youth.. Jason Vorhees killed the immoral, in a sense he was the ultimate champion of religious fervor–slaughtering the promiscuous party animal teens that skipped foreplay and went right to the deed at Camp Crystal Lake.
Perhaps no one saw the irony in his kills, the idea that he was the biblical old testament God reigning judgement down on those who sinned.. This new film seems to keep with that same idea: Sin and sex.
In IT FOLLOWS, the predator and villain can only be seen by those who have been cursed with the sexual relations that spread it.. An keeping with my long held notion that horror movies, in any given time (and professional wrestling), perfectly symbolize the current state of modern pop culture for that generation, Macnab paints a similar picture in his INDEPENDENT review, writing:
“It Follows plays not just on the kids’ ambivalence about their own sexual desires, but also on their disgust at the idea of their parents’ sexual lives. The Freudian elements sit alongside action sequences (a car crashing in a cornfield, an explosive final-reel stand-off at the local swimming pool). This is also a love story of sorts. Paul (Keir Gilchrist) is besotted with Jay. He is just a little too geeky for her to consider as a suitor but he is persistent and loyal. His innocent devotion is in very stark contrast to the depravity that surrounds the teenagers..”
The LAZARUS EFFECT showcases the newfound popularity of reanimation horror.. WIRED’s Jordan Cruccihola examines this premise in an article posted today, saying
“Reanimation horror is not the most populated of sub-genres. We’ve surely had more cabins in the woods, unbeatable super killers, and haunted houses. But reanimation has a special place in our hearts thanks to its scientific roots. Sure, it’s all ridiculous science with little to no connection to reality, but there are still a lot more lab coats than in your standard-issue slasher. And if there’s one thing we wish there were more of in horror flicks, it’s lab coats..”
An the author is dead on right! The LAZARUS EFFECT, being released this weekend for public consumption, has an interesting premise: A group of medical students find a way to bring the dead back to life. It’s a horror classification, but easily travails into the science fiction category as you read more about the idea.. And really, we are living in this world.
This horror encapsulates perfectly our fears about future shock, the advancement of medical technology, and how we are on the verge of some amazing but possibly scary things.. The movie is getting intensely bad reviews, not only from the paid informants in entertainment rags, but also the masses who have already been privileged to see and write about it.
The common thread is that this is a rip-off of FLATLINERS. Maybe that’s true, but it’s also bringing to theaters the concept of the future and how it can be dangerous if in the wrong hands.. there’s a cultural allegory here if you pay attention. A commentary on society..
LAZARUS is not expected to rise to the top of the heap in the movie theaters over the next few days, but it is predicted to do fine for its genre for a winter weekend..
I tend to avoid pop culture.. When the story of ‘the dress’ came up, I figured it was some illumanti ploy to divert our attention from something. But I figured to myself, the pictures of the now famed ‘dress’ are just being manipulated to further cause debate online. I propose this very theory to my wife tonight.. I said, “Tara, the dresses being posted are all different colors.” I figured I was right.. then she asked me, “well what color is the dress,” as she showed me a photo. I said, “Black and blue!” … A fierce debate ensued. Even my four-year-old Ayden got involved—though he said it was purple, I chalked that up to him being much closer than what Tara thought, white and gold..
So 48 hours of trying to avoid this, and now like millions of others in the masses, I am fascinated by the dress debate.
Also even more fascinated that one dress, one little post on a rarely known TUMBLR site, can cause a debate the ENTIRE WORLD gets busy with.. (While the world burns) ..
Coming soon to a future near you: Human head transplants. I don’t think people quite realize the future shock that is about to hit them, the amount of changes that are going to quickly occur, and the medical technology that is going to change the world. Now whether human head transplants go mainstream is anyone’s guess.. I still can’t get the image from the 1990s classic movie (in my mind anyway) MARS ATTACKS out of my head.. It’s coming..
Gary Glitter has received a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s
The singer was arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, the national investigation British police launched in the wake of a child abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile… the Saville hell on earth continues, even after the scumbag’s death..
PORN LOVERS WIN!! the big decision from Google Blogger that was going to block all of the blogspots including porn has been reversed.. An outcry ensued after the initial decision. PORN will now live on, on blogspot. With the ‘nudity’ tag as requested by Google.
But I still ask: Does anyone still use BLOGGER?
More warnings to the shoppers of America: Holder says malls should increase security.. I hate to say this aloud, but have you visited a mall lately? The security at my local nearly bankrupt and empty shopping plaza features security guards that make Paul Blart look like an FBI agent..
After 75 years, Selina Kyle is finally coming out of the closet.In the latest issue of the DC Comics’ Catwoman comic book series — No. 39, released this week — Kyle kisses another woman, ending decades of fan rumors and speculation by stating canonically that the character is, in fact, bisexual.
I am not shocked.
As a matter of fact, being a BATMAN fan since my early years of life, I always sensed something a little edgier about Catwoman when compared to the other villains.. Selina Kyle is not the quaint woman of Tim Burton’s imagination in the early 1990s..
And anyway, I always pictured Catwoman as Ertha Kitt, as she was probably the role model for any Catwoman to come.
This comic book coming out has generated a lot of controversy and attention—
This whole thing started when Genevieve Valentine wrote a blog about this. The explanation for this new role of the arch nemesis of BATMAN:
When I was first plotting out what I expected to be a six-issue arc, there were a few emotional beats I considered indispensable. One was Nick, around whom Selina’s moral axis pivoted and whose death would set up Antonia to be both guilt-trip and threat to Selina – a contestant for the throne, even if neither of them wanted to think of it that way. Another was finding time for a few key moments with Batman, particularly in the first issue to set up their connection even when at odds.
And one was establishing Selina as canon bisexual.
She’s flirted around it – often quite literally – for years now; for me, this wasn’t a revelation so much as a confirmation.
And boom. The Bible versus are now being quoted on news articles and comic book sites, and many people are suddenly condemning someone that doesn’t exist except on paper.
Now the question becomes: Who does the CAT want more? The BATman or the BATgirl?
So don’t fear, BATfans, Catwoman’s sudden burst of sexual creativity is not going to be ruining any childhood imaginations.. her proclivity for both genders is not going to incur the wrath of God on the comic book world.. And quite frankly, we will survive.
I think this is a fine move. Comic books are always and should be on the cutting edge of societal evolution. I think for some male oriented readers, this may challenge and rattle the core of their nerve endings for a bit. But they will grow used to it.. After all, why condemn a woman who is bisexual but be pefectly fine with a wealthy man, Bruce Wayne, who uses his money and influence to get attractive women to sleep with him?
And really, what BATMAN and CATWOMAN do in their bedrooms is nobody’s business. Well, unless it’s on a certain page in a comic book..
What is flashing us from CERES, the dwarf planet we are suddenly hearing a lot about?
MORE:
Ceres continues to baffle astronomers as the Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the dwarf planet.
The latest images, taken nearly 29,000 miles (46,000km) from Ceres, reveal that a bright ‘alien’ spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.
While Nasa has not provided an explanation, scientists suggest these spots may be frozen pools of ice at the bottom of a crater that reflect light.
I don’t think there’s a point
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda, on why she is not questioning her father’s suicide ..
I saw some very mean spirited comments regarding her words.. People need to lay off.
A Reddit AMA allowed a man who claimed to have died twice to entertain questions from the masses about what he felt, what he remembered, and how it felt..
Some of what he said may surprise some.. rattle others.. leave many without hope that anything at all happens after this life is over.
You can read the text of the full AMA here. A few highlights posted:
On what death felt like:
Both times I was just “not there”. It was just all black. I would describe it as when you take a nap. A short nap with no dream, you wake up and it feels like you’ve been sleeping a long time, when in reality it’s only been about 15 minutes
Was it emptiness:
It was definitely not just a gap. Much like a dreamless nap, you don’t just wake up and feel like time just jumped ahead. You know that you’ve been asleep for a while. At the same time, you can’t really remember experiencing anything at all, unless you had a dream
On afterlife beliefs:
I am still an atheist, and now I know that there is no such thing as God or Heaven. At least not for me. My reasoning behind that is no God would ever put a person and family through such a experience
I believe this man’s experience was exactly as he described.. I think that is what scares me the most. The idea that nothing exists after this, that this pitiful planet on earth is the last place we will be. That all the emotion and love, pain and joy, will all just vanish as we perish.
I have Raymond Moody’s stories, the tales of bright white lights that captivated me as a child when I read about his NDE research, is truer than the man on REDDIT who said that, for him, nothing existed in the blackness of death.
A screen shot from CNN is their reporting showing ISIS destroy priceless antiques—items of interest from ancient history that lasted for centuries. And now ruined in mere seconds with a sledgehammer..
This is not the first time such deeds have been reported.
Most likely will not be the last..
Llamas have always fascinated me.
And today they stopped the entire nation in its tracks as a live chase ensued on TV..
llama chase
llamas
Astronomers say they have have discovered a black hole so big that it challenges the theory about how they grow.
We are told that this new amazing discovery comes from a supermassive black hole that formed sometime around 900 million years after the big bang.
While it may seem a strange concept for some to consider, this black hole is not working the way it should. It’s too big ..
NBC NEWS reports,
But with measurements indicating it is 12 billion times the size of the sun, the black hole challenges a widely accepted hypothesis of growth rates. “Based on previous research, this is the largest black hole found for that period of time,” Fuyan Bian, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University (ANU), told Reuters on Wednesday. “Current theory is for a limit to how fast a black hole can grow, but this black hole is too large for that theory.” The discovery was described in a study published Wednesday in Nature.
Is this a black hole so massive that it could actually pre-date the currently accepted time frame of the beginning of everything?
Does this throw everything ever taught out the window?
Does anyone else even somewhat comprehend any of what this could mean?
Space is amazing. Science is too.
But when it comes to the perplexing concept of black holes, I have trouble understanding. Glad I’m not paid to try..
The perfect song for a night when science is rocked by a supermassive black hole that challenges our current thinking about how old this whole thing is anyway.
Climate change.. Earth changes.. global warming.
Say what you will and read what you say.
The facts often get in the way of a good debate, don’t they?
Take for instance a moment of somewhat clownish behavior on the floor of the Senate–the chamber that is supposed to house the ‘adults’ of government..
Then This skit occurred..
The woman behind Senator James Inhoffe looked a little embarrassed for him.. The Senator himself seemed a little shaky as he threw the snowball, perhaps quickly realizing how strange of an attempt it was to disprove manmade global warming..
So word on whether the fellow conspirator ni the snowjob actually caught the cold ball..
But I would sure love to have been a fly on the wall in the room when the decision had to be made: Who was going to go outside and get a snowball and put it into an evidence bag for a Senator to throw on live somewhat-watched TV..?
Jesus Christ almighty George Snoory Noory shaved his mustache..
I’d imagine a hairless top lips helps with pizza roll digestion..
My God..
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/02/ghost-rockets-proof-of-aliens-on-earth/
Happy days are here again for the cheating hearts of South Korea..
There’s something amazing and also creepy about this at the same time…
Big, mysterious booms that filled the sky from south Grand Pairie to Southlake on Tuesday afternoon..
Even more booms have been plaguing a number of other states..
If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday
Warren Buffet, explaining how he stays alive
Don’t think Michelle Obama would appreciate it.
But he could be the new face for the ‘got sugar?’ campaign..
An amazing editorial in the Washington POST..
Some money quotes:
Re-entry after winter break has not been easy for him. The rules and restrictions of school – Sit Still. Be Quiet. Do What You Are Told, Nothing More, Nothing Less. – have been grating on him, and it shows. His teacher recently emailed me; she’d noticed a change in his behavior (more belligerent, less likely to cooperate) and wanted to know if there was anything going on at home.
More:
The lack of movement and rigid restrictions associated with modern schooling are killing my son’s soul.
And
Kids haven’t changed much over the past 150 years; our society has. So while my son still needs movement, still craves real-world learning, physical labor and ways to contribute to his family and his world, he’s expected to spend most of his time in a desk, in a classroom, with 20-some other kids his age. He’s not allowed to go outside at school when it’s too cold or wet; he’s expected to sit quietly in the library or auditorium during recess time. He’s allowed few opportunities for “real” work; today, when you hand an 8-year-old a saw or allow him to start a fire, people look at you askance.
I will be honest.. I really never thought of this until I read this article. And with a 4-year-old getting closer to the magic age of kindergarten, I am a little disturbed now by what me and my wife as parents may face..Especially known the movement and activity my son needs.
Why after all of these years of does a PINK FLOYD song continue in schools.. why does it seem kids are meat for sausage instead of brains for education? Why have we failed not only boys, but girls? Why is America lagging behind? Why is it all just wrong.
And will anyone do anything to fix it..?
This is a must read story from the Washington POST written by Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger..
In honor up the ever so important FCC vote coming, I offer up the only song I can think of that features a line about the FCC.
Thanks Eminem in 2002.
Maybe after their vote they will not let any of us be..
There is lots of information online regarding net neutraility.. lots of truth. Lots of bunk. Lots of reasons to also be a little freaked by what may occur when the FCC decides on this..
There’s one source I trust: The Electronic Frontier Foundation. The site also has a great post that may lead you to understand this entire mess just a little better.
You can read it here. And you should read it here.
The EFF is very worried about the vague ‘general conduct’ .. after reading their description and questions, anyone online should be worried as well.
There is something quite big at stake with the internet..
https://www.eff.org/ .. read all about it.
Until then.. all your bases are belong to us.
Until they belong to them.
The good old days of the internet WERE that good. And tomorrow is as bad as it seems.
Madge is showing her age a little.. the Material Mom fell off a stage onto one of her male dancing goats at the BRIT awards.. The world of gossip and celebrity is abuzz about the Madge Taking a Tumble Video.. the UK DAILY MAIL, without question, has the best coverage: Giant full screen images of the shocking moment when Madonna fell backwards off the stage..
The Drudge Report is leading with this as the top story today—Drudge knocked down the FCC rules for the Madonna fall. He knows how to get hits, still..
Others are looking at the video in a little more curious way. After all, this is the year of the goat on the Chinese calender—and that’s not a good thing for the world. Play with the ram? Get the horns. Madonna did with this mishap.
The DAILY MAIL notes the lyrics of a song she performed:
Sang lyrics including ‘I’m going to carry on’ and ‘Watch me stumble’
Stumble.
Tumble.
Fumble.
This is stuff memes are made of..
My wife and I saw this and showed it to my now four-year-old son. He laughed at gave back the phone.. nothing major, just a lady with a cape falling on top of a goat. Nothing he never saw on Phinneas and Ferb already..
But in the end, things seemed ok.
The 56-year-old looked shocked - and briefly stopped singing - after she fell down a set of stairs, but picked herself back up and continued to the end.No goats were harmed in the making of this GIF that will live in showbiz infamy..
Eclipse to block out 95 per cent of sunlight in parts of Europe
According to the report appearing in the UK TELEGRAPH today, this nearly 100% eclipse on March 20 may actually cause problems..
The eclipse is going to be the biggest one since 1999.
Victoria Ward writes this,
Power supplies could drop suddenly next month when the UK is plunged into darkness with an eclipse of the sun.
Energy experts warned there could be possible blackouts in the biggest solar eclipse since 1999.
Nearly 90 per cent of the sun’s rays will be blocked out in parts of Europe on March 20.
In London and the South East, 85 per cent of the sun will be obscured by the moon whilst in northern Scotland, more than 95 per cent will be covered.
The National Grid has warned that solar power output in Britain will halve during the event.
My first inclination on this was that the story appearing is just an example of fear porn and attempt to get readers and clicks. But it could also be a relevant message about the future. If we rely heavily on solar energy, there very well will be moments where, perhaps, our power source goes black. Or maybe times when that same power source throws a hissy fit and solar storms knock down a grid..
Ward says,
He told the Financial Times: “In a way March 20 is a glimpse into the future of our power systems.”
The eclipse will last around two hours from 8.40am. The next one will not be until 2026.
So .. Eclipsepocalypse 2015 begins in earnest..
Be afraid.
It was beyond important.
The title was “My Name is Metal” and talked about the very real future that is about to hit humanity like a freight train: Babies becoming less inclined to being born from a womb.. instead, futuristic ways of putting stem cells away for later, so women can choose when she has a child, is coming. Along with that, religious implications, societal upheaval, commonplace gay parents, and future shock..
Clyde Lewis opened his show with shock and awe:
Being in a lab or a building where we can grow children is at least two years away according to a report from Russia Today and the child-growing lab is being used in order to allow two men to have children.
Babies of same-sex couples are becoming a future prospect, as scientists have disclosed revolutionary research on making human egg and sperm cells using the skin of two adults.
It means that we might soon see a fully “dish-manufactured” baby in a lab.
The show had a free-flowing only caller driven format .. during the course of the program—and this is not a scientific viewpoint at all—the majority of younger callers seemed to be better apt to having agreeable minds to the future coming. However, older callers—and those who professed more of a Bible bumper belief system—did not.
The amazing part is this: It’s all happening. Not later, but now.
Last week TIME magazine published a cover with an adorable baby’s face: The headline read ‘This baby could live to 142 years old’
There are dangers with this future. But amazing possibilities too.. the idea of knowing genetic defects prior to birth.. the chance for parents who cannot have children being able to in new ways.. And even more, as Clyde Lewis argued, this could end the abortion debate. Imagine no more need for women to consider aborting a fetus… instead putting it all on hold, saving the pregnancy for when she is ready through the use of artificial practices.
The future is now.
And it’s going to scare a lot of people.
It’s going to shred old style beliefs on life and death..
And it’s going to be a totally more revolutionary idea than the test tube baby of last century.
Welcome to the brave new world, earth.
You can—and should—listen to the show here: https://soundcloud.com/groundzeromedia
For a LOT of fun, go about 2 hours and 29 minutes into the broadcast..
And while you’re at it, check out the "the future" tag from Coal Speaker to see all of the years I have been talking and thinking about this very thing.,.
Gas heat is amazing.
But when it’s not working, hissing, or leaking, awful things happen.
This video of a house exploding in New Jersey, is evidence of how powerful a gas explosion can be.
This video was caught by a police dash cam. You can see, quite literally out of the clear blue sky, the gas line ruptures and the entire house blows to bits.
The current thought is that a gas main was ruptured—somehow. This is how the UK TELEGRAPH summed up the event for historical record:
The explosion happened about 90 minutes after police received the first report of a strong gas smell in the area.
"As the gas company was working to localise and mitigate the gas leak there was an explosion that by all accounts totally destroyed the house at 59 Oak Avenue, there’s nothing left there but the basement foundation," said Captain Tom Dellane of the Stafford Police Department.
This is a prime reason that if you are going to excavate the ground, place a call before you dig. Call 811.. It can save a life.. The footage you see is not foreign.. it can happy in any happy and quaint neighborhood near you..
Rapper Azealia Banks brought witchcraft back into the mainstream by tweeting ‘I’m really a witch’. But women in the US have been harnessing its power for decades as a ‘spiritual but not religious’ way to express feminist ambitions
This fascinating story written by Sady Doyle in the UK GUARDIAN explains how a new burst of ‘witches’ is taking place in the modern world..
The GUARDIAN seems to credit modern pop culture and entertainment with the new witchcraft of our age.. Things like AMERICAN HORROR STORY and the COVEN. Doyle even gives a nod to the TUMBLR site http://charmcore.tumblr.com/.. I have visited it, though it seems more that it’s a site of reblogs as opposed to original content.
But there is another angle, one more political: Feminism and the power of the female, symbolized by the strength of a witch..
Doyle writes,
Wicca, with its focus on a goddess (rather than a male god – though it has those too) and its relatively open approach to creating canon, was a natural fit for many feminist women interested in writing their own spiritual script. But women who weren’t explicitly Wiccan were also drawn to “witchy” ways of processing the world: not only did women make feminist tarot cards in the 1970s, author Alice Walker personally endorsed one set – the Motherpeace deck. Feminist psychologists such as Jean Shinoda Bolen and Clarissa Pinkola Estés wrote books on using goddess imagery and myths as means of understanding female subjectivity.
There has been a long and wrong series of centuries in which witches were proclaimed evil.. they were stoned, drowned to death, and ‘pressed’ with heavy objects.
I know several people who practice Wicca. They are fine, amazing people. While they may have one too many ‘coexist’ bumper stickers, they don’t cause harm to me or society.
Suddenly witches are trendy. Get ready for that..
This is a movie poster blast from the past.. it was called THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, and a was loosely based on the ‘Phanton Killer’ or the ‘Texarkana Moonlight Murders' that took place ni 1946..
The other evening, I got the chance to watch the 2014 remake of this 1976 classic.. The redo was interesting. It was like DICK TRACY meets SCREAM, a movie with cartoonish appeal that also featured a ‘we know this is a horror movie’ attitude like Wes Craven’s late 20th century horror series..
However, any time I watch a remake, I typically go back and watch the original. Either for posterity or just because I want to check off the similarities and differences between each incarnation..
The original SUNDOWN film wasn’t exceptional by any stretch of imagination.. But it created a new genre—it may be one of the least known movies that started the slasher flicks of the late 70s and all of the 1980s. The TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN was brutal at times and most likely difficult to view during some moments in theaters during the Carter years..
But there was one thing that THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN got right in 1976: One of the most memorable posters I have ever seen for a movie, especially a horror flick.. There’s something freakish about that sunset image and the town, that lonely town, tucked safely but dangerously between the trees and mountains.. And that foreboding image of the Phantom with his freakish mask that only displays two eye holes..
This poster has stuck in my mind for years.. Since I was younger and first stayed up late without my parents knowing to watch this on Rhonda Shear’s UP ALL NIGHT, I remembered that poster. . and that quaint image of Americana destroyed by a masked villain to stole innocence..
I was born in 1980, years after this original film.. But as a child of the 1980s, a certain spirit of the 70s was bred into my in my early life..
This image presented on the poster haunted me for two distinct reasons: 1) It reminded me of the scene from ET where Halloweeners begin to the roam the streets at sundown, and 2) the image looks amazingly like the town I grew up in the 80s, Centralia PA—a town with an underground mine fire that met its demise because of that crisis..
This post is not a movie review .. I quite frankly disliked the new remake and the original was lackluster. But it was important in the history of horror movies. It gave us the slasher flick.
And it gave me chills each time I thought about that hauntingly beautiful movie poster..
This is going to become quite the epic battle. Not sure how many internet users realize how important this is, if they did their be moving gifs and memes already
UK GUARDIAN: Exclusive: Secret interrogation facility reveals creeping aspects of war on terror in US city as accounts describe shackling and brutality without basic rights
British press dropped a bombshell on the world.. Reporting by Spencer Ackerman of the UK GUARDIAN has created a firestorm of controversy around the globe, even though American news seemingly is ignoring the revelations printed in latest runs of the British paper..
Ackerman writes,
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights.
Among the many points blasted in the story from the GUARDIAN, police do some interesting things.. these salient points are presented:
At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.
One quote from the article was a bit chilling, with one protester telling the reporter, “It’s a domestic black site. When you go in, no one knows what’s happened to you”
The Chicago police department was forced into an awkward position on this matter.. they issued their defense in a statement to the GUARDIAN.. They said, in part:
"The allegations in this instance are not supported by facts. The vast majority of our officers serve the public with honor and integrity, and alleged actions of one individual decades ago are in no way indicative of the hard working men and women who put their lives on the line each day to protect residents."
Is this the night Chicago died? Or the night that constitutional did?
It all started with a quote ‘we are’ tweet. Olbermann responded ‘pitiful’.. The problem is the original post linked a story showing that Penn State raised 13 million dollars for cancer research. Regardless of the controversy, he did not back down ..
The results come amid a measles outbreak in the U.S.
A new study finds that great gerbils in Asia, not rats, helped spread Europe’s black death and kill millions.
This is a bit of a game changer when it comes to history.
I knew there was always something I really didn’t like about gerbils..
Google is banning public pornography on its Blogger site.
Google Blogger bans porn.. The world just remembered that people still use BLOGGER.. There are also some fears that GOOGLE will start to just disappear websites over ten years old–ten years ago was a heyday for GOOGLE BLOGGER users.. In response, the Internet Archive is going to attempt to begin trying to back them all up..
This is interesting for a number of reasons.. First off, one may ask why GOOGLE BLOGGER is suddenly worried about this issue? And secondarily, does anyone still even use GOOGLE blogger?
I am much more worried about fake sites, like gambling and over redirect Blogspots than I am REAL end users who post porn…
I ponder the same as others.. is this just an attempt to clean the servers of some old blogs that don’t get updated anymore?
As for me, I left Blogger about five years ago when they stopped allowing automatic FTP uploads of posts.
Gigantic human eating statues based on the popular ATTACK ON TITAN anime series are part of a new Japanese theme park.. Lots of other interesting things abound in the park, as well..
Four more enormous holes have been found in Siberia.. Newest scientific theory is that they are be being caused by gas underground and the fear is that craters are going to become more commonplace as temperatures globally rise.. Other less popular theories conclude that they are the gates of hell, ajar for the world to see.
Alter the likelihood of him being in Minersville Pennsylvania pumping gas is slim to none.
Horatio: you have a doppelganger in the coal region …
A Facebook study has been conducted on people without them knowing. Again..
There is a major drought in a major city in Brazil. It has big ramifications and perhaps will showcase the beginning of the coming water wars..
Two father babies likely in a few years..
But didn’t anyway ever see MY TWO DADS?
It’s pretty disgusting if you think about it..
But if you think this is bad, just imagine a grave yard in Hollywood.
Just kiddin’.
This is an image showing four separate scenes from the city of Chelyabinsk.. That was the site of the 2013 meteor explosion that rocked that part of Russia and was equal to several Hiroshima bombs..
RT profiles the city where now, as you can see, strange things are brewing..
The image of the three suns was an optical illusion.
But the blue snow wasn’t.. As a matter of fact, the storm giving people the strange colored precipitation made world headlines but no one came by to explain why exactly the weather was as colorful as it was..
There is little we understand about anything.
But three suns and blue snow is probably at the bottom of our human comprehension…
Good article..
Depressing if you were one of the hopeful people who wanted to be on Mars by 2025.. Even sadder for the rest of us who need, for the sake of humanity and existence, to explore the universe..
i’m cruising along, reading my issue of real simple, about to flip the page, when i see this ad. i pause because the photo is adorable and feels really natural. then i’m confused what the image has to do with tylenol, so i stop to read the ad text. then i flip the page.
first thing: i rarely ever stop to read an ad. i typically ignore them. but this photo caught my eye and i stopped. so, success on that front tylenol!
second thing: it wasn’t until after i’d already turned the page that it occurred to me that the ad featured a same sex couple.
i turned back to the ad and felt a sort of weird happiness. thing is, i honestly did not think that this level of national ad representation of same sex couples would occur during my lifetime. yet here it is.
but more importantly, this type of representation is becoming so much more commonplace that i’m no longer hyper-aware that it’s occurring.
it’s just people, doing their thing, in an ad.
the battles are far from over. but this one small thing made me happy.
representation matters.
This is an interesting take from a fellow blogger.. Tylenol is using an interesting image of love to sell it’s product. But if you really look close you’ll notice something that years ago would have been noticed much faster.. Progress indeed. People doing their thing.
This is pretty amazing..
It brings back the memory from just a month to do ago of people claiming the mummified monk found was alive but simply in a very deep meditation.. Of course no one has been yet to claim this 1000 year old monk is the same.
And I haven’t seen even one of the films nominated for best picture.. And quite frankly that doesn’t bother me in the slightest..
the movie should have been nominated. For SOMETHING..
And quite frankly tonight’s live performance was awful.. Sad for them to even be a part of it, and one of those pop culture moments they will probably wince at at some point in their career.
This may be one of the best explications I have ever read that sums up my total anger at the typically ignorant and aristocratic attitudes displayed by people in just about any human resource office I have ever dealt with or spoken to..
There’s an attitude of ignorance.. And yup usually the HR executives are safety sheltered and nestled away from the herd of heathens that are considered ‘resources’ ..
The culture throughout any office or company is failing because of the mentality displayed by human resources..
Anyway. Read this article.. Especially if you work in HR.
Unless insanity prevails and Art Bell changes his mind, DARK MATTER is going to be coming this July. And here, thanks to a fine YOUTUBE user named ḰIḒṔṴJẶ PRODUCTIONS, we have a trailer for the much anticipated return to the airwaves. Via a podcast.
Sometime in July.
From somewhere in a dark room in Pahrump Nevada..
Meanwhile, Art Bell posted a new message on BELLGAB with a bit of an update:
No news yet. The deal is actively being worked on by both sides, I will let you all know the moment we have a deal because until that time THOSE PEOPLE would screw with it. For all I know they have already tried to steal Falkie away for their bumpers.
I love this board, never change.
Art
I love BELLGAB, too. That’s why I am not only a reader but an active member.
This is the weather map for early next week courtesy ACCUWEATHER.
Note the brutal cold.. brutal brutal cold.. Like way below the averages for this time of year.
Also on the way; The end of the warm period for the west. As a matter of fact, come a few days from now, just about the entire nation will be screaming until they are hoarse for winter to just go away!
The John Lennon song still is true.. there are things in life that remind you you’re not in charge. Such an event occurred February 2011 when my wife went into labor after watching a Cosby Show rerun with me around 3am—the witching hour. She had our son, Ayden Morris, near 1pm hours later..
From that moment on my life changed and it continues to do so.
Being a father is amazing. Rewarding.. challenging.. And honestly the best job I’ve ever had. And one I have to do—my wife feels the same way about motherhood. We are called to act each and every day. And even when he goes to bed each night, we still watch from the corner of our eyes to make sure he’s safe and sound.
And today, Ayden is four.
I can’t honestly believe how quick time has passed.
I think it was about two years ago that I wrote on this website that I intended on writing a book about fatherhood. I still want to. I started it.. I suppose it’s never too late. Information about parenting really doesn’t change, does it?
BRITAIN’S nuclear plants are at risk from a terrorist strike by unmanned drone aircraft, writes Caroline Wheeler.
And it’s not just the UK.. It’s anywhere as drones take over our planet.
This is one of those little side effects of the DRONELAND we have become.. the notion that one little tiny specimen of tin and software can land itself in the middle of the ticking time bomb known as a nuclear plant..
On the lighter side, one day drone deliveries will populate your doorstep—the day you order something will be the day you get it.
It’s what else we get with drone wars that make me nervous..
The potential 2016 contender dismissed questions about the president’s faith as insignificant.
So this is the debate for ‘16 now?
This..?
A new map shows America’s quietest spots.. Maybe I am about to hypothesize some junk science.. The vast majority of the West is simply without sound.. I would dare say, without much scientific backing to administer such a claim, that the quietest spots may correlate with the happiest.
His name is Everett Stern. And what he said has so many implications that you can’t count them. This would all go far beyond your typical bankster scandal..
