The children of 9/11, those who were either too young to remember or just too young to understand, have never known a world prior to the day of infamy. They were not aware of pop culture prior to terrorism.. not inclined to understand a world before World War .. The children of September 11 have grown up. And the adults have aged older.
The newest generation to come of age has grown up online post dial up and post buildings coming down. They watched footage of the terror attacks fifteen years ago but did not watch it on live TV…
Others who did remember what it felt like.. all day.. all night.. all week.. and for the rest of 2001. The swift unkind gusty gale of change took an entire nation and forced it into places it never wanted to go or never thought it would ..
People falling from buildings live for the planet to watch.. the demise of buildings..
And a peaceful field in Pennsylvania scarred and charred by a passenger airplane..
We lived through this 15 years ago. Even though now it does not seem a bit like we did.. the freight train speed passage of time is as surreal as the moment we watched airplanes flying into buildings right after Al Roker talked about weather. From quaint to horror. From normal to a new normal.
In 1814, while the British red coats were in the midst of burning down the White House, the Library of Congress, and other governmental institutions, President James Madison had to evacuate. His wife, Dolly, the first lady of the United States, stood in the White House until she knew for sure that a painting of General Washington was safe. The nation was in a standstill. President Madison in a panic about how he would reconvene the government and make the central system work again. On August 25 of 1814, with a glowing red flame in the sky above D.C., nature’s wrath stepped in. The ‘storm of providence,’ as it was dubbed, hit the nation’s Capitol. A fierce wind, perhaps even a small hurricane as some speculate, moved inland. British soldiers reportedly had to lay down in order not to be blown away. A tornado—yes, and maybe more than one twister—formed and moved directly through the city. The blinding rains put out the fires the Brits had set. Legend has it that when British soldiers, while retreating, asked what kind of storms are in this country, someone replied that it was Providence to drive the enemies from the young nation.
If the war of 1812’s conclusion was settled in part by the hand of God, then where was providence on September 11, 2001?
The longest living storm to ever have formed did so in the Atlantic Ocean on September 1, 2001. The hurricane was named Erin. It was weak, and continued to strengthen and weaken during its lifespan in the open waters. At one point, Erin fell apart and dissipated on September 5 of that year, only to reform again and whirl back into a sizable wave.
On September 9, 2001, Erin strengthened itself into a major hurricane. It passed by Bermuda 105 miles east.. It turned. It began to barrel itself directly for the city that never sleeps.. Satellite of the storm is chilling. Erin is massive and swirls right off the East Coast of the United States.
Three hours before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 began, Hurricane Erin took an immediate and obvious U-Turn away from New York City.
Repeating myself on purpose, where was Providence the way it was there in 1814 during the attack on D.C.?
There are abundant conspiracy theories as to why the hurricane took a quick turn. Some speculate it was HAARP, weather malfeasance. Theories are fun.
But the simple truth: A very strong cold front moved through the Eastern part of the United States, including New York City, and literally forced the storm to bounce away from the United States like it was on a pool table.
Those who were alive and recall what happened 15 years ago –my God, 15 years already—may also recall the beautiful weather across the nation. I live in the same location I did then, Eastern Pennsylvania. I remember the autumnal feel in the air that morning. The sun was brilliant and the skies were deep blue. It was a picture perfect day. It was actually quite possibly one of the most beautiful weather days I recall in my entire life.
It was completely ruined and disjointed forever, however, by the acts of cruelty and terror as mostly Saudi hijackers boarded planes in the United States and crashed them into buildings.
If a chain of events did not occur, history may have been altered. It is really strange to contemplate that. But picture a slower cold front.. picture a hurricane that, suddenly, moves into New York City with whipping winds and flooding rains. Truth be told, there was not much preparation for Erin or even news coverage. I challenge you to go back and find any information of the city preparing for evacuation. Every prediction was clear: The strong Canadian cold front was going to ruin the chances of peril due to a storm.
Nature’s wrath never occurred that day. Instead, God’s brilliant sun beamed down from blue skies over burning buildings and people committing suicide by jumping as opposed to burning to death.
If Erin would have come closer … or even struck .. planes would have been grounded. People would have been moved out from their homes. 9/11 would have become famous for an entirely different reason.
Providence, perhaps, would have prevented something that we never even would have known was going to occur.
But none of that happened. Erin did not slam land, but instead rolled away and paved the way for one of the most disastrous days in history since Pearl Harbor. Or even since 1814..
While researching and thinking about what I would write about on this anniversary of 9/11, I went to the famed archive.org Wayback Machine.
To my surprise, very little captures of famed weather sites exist from September of 2001. It is now nearly impossible for me to even recall my own mindset at the time. I was a Weather Channel addicted nerd since 10 years old. And for some reason I don’t recall knowing a thing about Hurricane Erin at the time the storm was poised to do something off the coastline of the United States.
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The other day I tuned into the YouTube channel of Mark Dice. He was doing his man on the street interviews and found just about no one in Southern California that knew much of anything about 9/11. Some people saying a “Hussein” perpetrated the attacks, others claiming it was Iraq and Syria behind them.. 15 years of life takes its toll. And yes, history moves fast. But we are obviously doomed to repeat it without proper knowledge of where we have come from or what we have been through..
Fifteen years ago this September I was working full time as a waiter, staying up very late every night listening to Art Bell until sunrise, and having the time of my life. I just turned 21. I was invincible, as other 21 years olds are when they hit that age. Life doesn’t really happen yet.
My father woke me up that morning and told me we were attacked.. early on, he blamed the Chinese! He was from a time when nations struck, not group of extremists or those aligned with others in the darkness of terror. We watched live on TV as more buildings were attacked, the Pentagon was hit, and as a plane fell from the sky about three hours from my house. If you look at the flight path records for the hijacked planes on 9/11, at least 1 would have flown above the county I live in as it did a U-turn back to New York City.
We filled our car tanks with gas due to fear of price gouging. There was a lot of fear that day. The entire nation had a sense of shellshock, an immediate and confusing reaction that, while knowing things changed, not really knowing yet how they did.
That night I watched George W. Bush, updated my website via FTP on dial up, and never went to sleep. The coverage took over every channel. Every bit of life. Every thing. A few days later, Bush stepped on a heap of carnage in New York with a megaphone. The nation rallied behind war. And today we wonder how we stepped into the nightmare scenario of ISIS and Middle Eastern chess match madness.
It all began there.
It all happened when weather did NOT strike.
There is some strange coincidence in a way… as Hurricane Erin u-turned and paved the way for terror, the hijacked flights away from New York and Boston were also in the middle of u-turning as well.
The stage was set as Erin’s path towards the United States was halted because of a cold front…
Here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it has been near 100 all week. Ankles are sweating and forming kankles in the heat.
Good thing is, a cold front is sweeping through.. I can feel the changes coming. By Thursday next week low temperatures in the 40s… Football Fridays will start to feel like it.
And we will enjoy the cool breeze and pumpkin flavored life. And in about two weeks miss the summer.
I feel ‘oxy cuted’ .. you know that product, right? No, not the pimple meditation.. the other stuff that Billy Mays sold before his death. Ocyclean? There is a problem, of course.. the product, despite what I always thought, is not called Oxyclean. It is OXICLEAN. With an I not a Y. Really..
Don’t believe me? Look it up.. I know, I know.. impossible! You recall the ads that said ‘oxycute’ dirt..Or pimples.. you know that the “oxy” was a reference to oxygen somehow being used in conjunction with the cleaner..? Am I way off base here? But that is not what this timeline is serving up to you. I have not written about the now famed ‘Mandela Effect’ lately. Which is actually too bad. I have had and led several conversation with friends and family over the past few months regarding the topic. Recently Heather Wade had a very listenable program on the September 1 edition of MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT regarding the topic, should you want to go back and have a look-see. But this Oxy….I mean Oxiclean issue is the most recent type of time slip I have experienced that actually, well, angered me. Anger because it just stopped making sense. Angry because my sanity feels in jeopardy so often when I delve into this whole time slip notion.
You and I have heard the scientists and experts pooh pooh the Mandela Effect theory.. mass hallucination! Sure, tens of thousands of people remember the BerenSTEIN Bears.. and yes, so many—including me—recall King Henry VIII holding a giant turkey leg in a painting that was pictured in history books in the 1980s.. The list goes on and it is being added to daily. Check Mandelaeffect.com for the complete annals of alternative history. It is an amazing site that no one can replicate.. Add your own commentary and voice to it as well.
With the latest Oxyclean or Oxiclean conundrum I experienced, it reminded me of another recent topic that I did not write about: The movie DAZED AND CONFUSED. No, it was not a good film. It was that typical early 90s teen angst not so funny type of movie.. But it also has created a chapter in the history books of Mandela Effect lure. Did you ever hear of the theory that there was a land mass off of the coast of Australia? It was a large mass and many thousands of people recall it—oddly they all recall it in around the same vicinity. There is no recorded evidence of this mass, or as some have dubbed it, Taured, existing. (also Google the MAN FROM TAURED for some creepy late night reading) .. However, a brief classroom scene from the film DAZED AND CONFUSED may add to the mystery. During the short snipped, there is actually a globe spinning that seemingly has that creepy now vanished land mass! I went through the normal notion that it was a mistake. Just a misprinted map used in the film. Heck maybe even intentionally done. But this was in 93, long before the Mandela Effect theory. Then I thought, perhaps, the island shaped something was just a map legend. Or a logo of the company who printed it.. But it looks to island-shaped to be such. Or maybe so many people remember the map from DAZED AND CONFUSED that they became dazed and confused and recall this map as real history?
Frankly, none of it makes sense.
So why would a little dumb movie be the key to the Mandela Effect? I have no clue. Perhaps the giant computer programmer in the sky forgot this movie even existed, so much so that the computer code erasing history never was updated the correct way?!
And why would Oxyclean now have an I…? What if this…super computer popping into parallel dimdimensionsd messing with the timeline not only there, but also here? Sounds like fiction. But get this. (link) The website HACKED reported a year ago that a venture capitalist for the D-Wave computer system announced it had broke the 1000 qubit barrier and that some weird things are now happening.. The managing director of the company, Steve Jurveston, said that now super computers have become so powerful that they actually harness the computing power of huge numbers of parallel universes! Pretty quantum and crazy… Can we blame D-Wave? Can you blame CERN?
And …why .. And why.. And you know what is coming up? September 22. Or the 23rd. That is the date when some weird stuff happens. At least some speculate such.
So in moments like this, during times of frustrating no-answer question sessions, the best thing to do is sit back, pop in Forest Gump and realize you misquoted it your entire life (or did you) and eat a big giant turkey leg.
Here is the synopsis of the film KUBO AND THE TWO STRING:
Living with his mother in peace, Kubo’s life is changed when he is tasked with finding the sword unbreakable, armor and helmet to defeat his sinister aunts and destructive grandfather. To assist, a monkey and beetle are on hand to help him.
But it goes from there to become one of the greatest and most powerful movies I have ever seen..
My son Ayden took note of the ads on TV for it, we decided as a family to make a movie day. None of us were ready for the wild ride of emotions that hit us.. From laughter and sadness to complete tears and enormous joy and pride of the hero of our film..
Kubo starts with a story that we should not blink.. that the story about to be told is very important.. It is not a lie.
By the time the final act arrives, and the remake of MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS begins to play, Mom and Dad were tearful wrecks while Ayden was asking to see the movie again.
It was deep and meaningful.. it had moments for children and adults.. very strong, strong moments.
I am going to start a tag here on my site.. the ‘strange places I see Donald Trump signs.’ I see them everywhere.. in weird places, too. On trucks, on rocks. Farms.. on dilapidated houses..
Photos posted in no way shows an endorsement.. just a strange piece of pop culture activity taking place before out eyes..
Everyone is making a big to-do about the Hillary Clinton Labor Day coughing spurts .. one during a speech that went on exceptionally too long and the other on a plane ride afterwards..
While there are talking heads and pundits on the big TEE VEE pondering the health of the potential president, I am pondering the tenacity of the potential future VP. Seriously Kaine, you just allowed her to sputter around on the stage for a long time while you sat behind her smirking and clapping? You couldn’t fetch her a mint? Glass of water? Anything? …
Russia is not going to allow much advertising of BAD MOMS.. it would appear that Mila Kunis’ name has a pretty similar spelling to the Russian word for ..well.. this is a kid friendly page. You can read it yourself.
Winston-Salem police say someone in a clown costume tried to lure kids into the woods Sunday night.
The incident happened in the 1200 block of East 29th Street off Hwy. 52 about 8:30 p.m.
The “clown” was described as wearing white overalls, white gloves, red shoes with red bushy hair, a white face and a red nose.
The suspect allegedly tried to lure the kids with treats. The suspect was reportedly seen by two children and heard, but not seen, by one adult. The suspect fled the area when officers arrived.
This ACTUAL picture pops up every now and then in pop culture and has done so for decades.. An actual scene of workers eating lunch above a still being built city.. on a beam.. inches from death but not scared of anything, just devouring their food in order to have energy to work more..
Labor Day is something special.. something very important. It is not MAY DAY, America was sure to separate its reflection of workers from the Communist inspired day across the rest of the world. No, here in America, we have long prided ourselves on having workers rights alongside of capitalism. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not. Every now and then someone like Teddy Roosevelt or Franklin have to come around and give workers more rights.. or Richard Nixon and give the government more power to protect.
And even today, in the Old Jail in Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania, it is said that a handprint of one Molly still exists as a sign for all future generations of their universal power and strength.
Labor Day comes every year with picnics and beach trips.. and just like every other holiday here in the United States, over time it seemingly loses meaning for some people. Labor Day should not at all.. the very fact you have a day off or are able to have a wage and overtime after forty hours is because of the sacrifices often in blood that so many had generations before us..
The sun is shining bright today.. this is a fine Sunday, the kind that I feel like I will remember in my ripe old age.
LABOR DAY 2016 is upon us.. my birthday just took place two days previous, and as I age, I really have come to love this month. From September 1 through about October 31, I believe is the best time of the year.. The most remarkable weather here in the eastern part of the former once great Coal Region of Pennsylvania.. The late summer grass begins to fade from green to yellow, leaves start to turn vibrant.. The festivals and fairs of fall usher in a new feeling.. a crisper feel to the air and a rash of hurry in the atmosphere..
The nights get longer. That part isn’t my favorite..
The days grow weary.. But until November, there is still abundant sun and warmth..
The American heroin epidemic has become more dangerous, as reports of heroin laced with carfentanil are being reported throughout the country.
Carfentanil is the most potent opioid used commercially, 10,000 times stronger than morphine. It is a version or analogue of fentanyl, the painkiller that most recently made headlines with its role in the death of pop star Prince.
So far, overdoses in Florida, Ohio, and Indiana have been linked to the new mixture..
MORE DEATH COMING TO A STREET NEAR YOU. Or yours..
The linked article goes to the UK GUARDIAN.. which describes how MKULTRA was real.. and how Americans were drugged with LSD without knowing it for secret clandestine experiments on mind control, remote viewing, and other otherworldly things..
…..and of course, it’s not done these days.. Right?
It is called Proxima b.. it is a little over 4 light years away..
And it could harbor life. Or at least running water..
Scientists say this is one of the best places to have one of the best chances where life can be substained..
One astronomer likened it to a flashing neon sign.
“I’m the nearest star, and I have a potentially habitable planet!” said R. Paul Butler, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science and a member of the team that made the discovery.
This is exciting news.. should be top story status. While it’s not, the eventual outcome could very well be–the future when life on another planet is announced with surity..
At this point, it is being called ‘pure speculation’ that life could actually exist here..
The press release from the European Space Agency, however, is exciting with its implications and slightly scary with the ramifications that if life is there, it could be life we don’t want to meet.
U.S. soccer again has suspended goalkeeper Hope Solo from the women’s national team, but unlike last year, she won’t be back in 30 days. Citing Solo’s accusation of cowardice among Sweden’s players after the team beat the U.S. in the Olympic quarterfinals in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. officials booted Solo for six months.
It may an old wives tale that blood moon bring bad news with them. But if I would have seen this last night I would have been a bit shell shocked by the sight..
The move DON’T BREATHE looks amazing, scary, and extremely creative.. I predict it is going to be one of the best horror films of this style in some time, and also one of the biggest movies of the summer .. This has been a wonderful year for horror so far–the summer has been profitable for the genre as well..
First off, movie reviewers are just as meaningful as CNN these days. In CNN’s case, things have gotten so bad for their election all Trump network, ratings have gone down. Tanked so much as a matter of fact that now CNN is being beaten by the once barely alive MSNBC.. In the case of movie reviews? All of those negative reviews for SUICIDE SQUAD did not matter one bit.. Not at all.
Instead, people went to see it anyway. More than once as a matter of fact. (Me included.)
Was SUICIDE SQUAD everything it could be? No .. but for a summer time comic book film, it was successful for DC, which hasn’t been stellar in the comic movie world as of late..
Movies come and go. In the summer, most of the time, they are one week wonders that rise with big numbers and fall by 80% the next week. Every now and then a sleeper comes along. SUICIDE SQUAD was not a sleeper, but it also wasn’t a dud. The movie made good money not only in the United States but also international box offices, too.. Harley Quinn is getting her own spinoff. And Jared Leto as the Joker?Eh.. Ithat point I will be kind and not comment.
SO let the movie pundits jump with glee! Suicide Squad is finally going to be dethroned. They tell us.
They tell us a lot.
And most people stopped listening.
But DON’T BREATHE? I am happy–estatic as a matter of fact–that a horror movie is going to bring down a comic book movie.
This has been a good summer for film . At least the types of films Iike.
The ASSOCIATED PRESS has rocked the 2016 campaign..
Directly from their dispatch filed late last night:
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
Narratives quickly changing. One day offense and pickle jars. The next day defense and email wars ..
Germany’s European Southern Observatory will hold a press conference Wednesday to discuss a new discovery, which a source familiar with the announcement talked about to German media.
“The still nameless planet is believed to be Earth-like and orbits at a distance to Proxima Centauri that could allow it to have liquid water on its surface — an important requirement for the emergence of life,” the source told Der Spiegel. “Never before have scientists discovered a second Earth that is so close by.”
The first thought I had! If pyshics changes ever so slightly and we discover a faster way to move through out solar system and the universe, we can potentially reach this “close” planet during MAYBE my lifetime, but more likely my young son’s.
The second thought.. And the frightening one.. What if this planet is the bizarro world version of us!? What if it’s the upside down of earth, where things are reversed.. or it’s a parrellel us and there’s some alternate ME and YOU reading this now?
Maybe we can observe.. but not contact.
But it sure would be amazing to see what exists on a planet very similar in size to our home. With water. And maybe land. And probably life?
Stunning news coming to rock your normalcy bias VERY VERY SOON.
This is a scene from central Italy where a stong quake has struck.. Both the living and dead are being pulled from rubble with more many suspected as being trapped.. The death toll has quickly risen and will most likely continue to do so throughout the next 24 hours …
There are hamlets destroyed, buildings decimated, and shocks felt as far as Rome..
Initial reports say aftershocks continue and buildings continue to sway with each shake..
As I wrote before, my prayers go out to friends and readers within Italy..
A few days ago I wrote that the current flooding in Louisiana would become even more tragic if a hurricane hit this year as well..
Cue the weather model. Look at this one, which blows up a hurricane big time in the Gulf and brings the storm in over the same locations that both Katrina hit and the latest round of extreme flooding ..
Praying that this does not happen. But it’s something people in the area need to be paying attention too starting immediately..
This is a potential storm and potential track to watch for in Florida, the gulf coast states, and the east coast. The target on this is 240 hours from now..
The track and intensity are both still completely Unknown..
I came across the linked article by searching online whether people think cicadas are louder this year than other years. I think they are ..
What I found however showcases the reasons they scream in terror when the sun goes down..
By joining their voices, male cicadas reach a volume that repels birds on the prowl for their next meal.
But escaping death-by-bird only sets cicadas up for a far worse fate. The bugs are also hunted by the cicada killer wasp, which, frankly, sounds like a sociopath.
If you’ve ever seen a cicada carried off by the Hannibal Lecter of the wasp family, thank your lucky stars you’re human, because what happens next is the stuff of nightmares.
After delivering a paralyzing sting, female cicada-killers drag their immobilized prey to an underground chamber of horrors.
The cicada is placed in a torture cell, where the wasp lays an egg on it. When a larva hatches from the egg, it immediately begins feasting on the cicada.
Horrific to say the least. The Hannibal Lector comparison hit the nail for me..
This is an image of Ground Zero radio host Clyde Lewis at a conerence this weekend.. He looks good. He lost 100 pounds, recently broadcasting that a diet change and infusion of nutrients is helping with weight loss..
That is encouraging. Whatever he is doing hopefully it continues. His radio show is getting bigger by the day and his voice is the best since Art Bell..
Here is to your health Clyde! And decades more as the voice of late night paranormal radio!
This is a photo of Tim Burton in 1967 showcasing a Halloween costume made for him by his mother.. Perhaps we can see the vivid inspiration that eventually would go on to become the NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS..
The photo source is REDDIT, and there is where lots of commentary about the picture was exchanged (http://ift.tt/2bzF4xv)
Bill Clinton is preparing to be “first dude,” and that includes the quadrennial tradition of presidential candidate spouses submitting cookie recipes.
The former president of the United States, along with Melania Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, submitted cookie recipes for Family Circle magazine’s Presidential Cookie Poll, where readers pick between the two cookie recipes.
The poll, which has been held during the fall of every general election year since 1992, is the latest sign in Clinton’s historic candidacy, where the traditional responsibilities of the first lady could fall to a man for the first time.
The script centers on a man (Pena) who is investigating a woman’s death set in the notorious and infamous Cecil Hotel. Brandon and Phillip Murphy wrote the initial script, which landed on the 2014 Black List and 2014 Blood List. Evan Dickson also worked on the project with the most recent draft being written by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, the duo behind the 2014 horror thriller Starry Eyes.
Matt Tolmach is producing as is Daniela Cristina Cretu. David Manpearl is also producing. Matt Milam and Dan Kagan is overseeing for the studio.
This show has been on for as long as I have been alive. When I was young, my mom and dad loved politics. They debated at the dinner table—those old adages of religion and politics not being discussed was certainly not true in my family..
And from an early age in life, I recall the voice of John McLaughlin signing off the weekly Sunday show with a “bye bye”… As I turned 13, this show featuring old farts bantering about presidents and Congress became one of the chief reasons I eventually got interested in politics and current events…
I even vividly recall one hot summer morning when I was out riding bikes with friends. . looking at my watch and realizing it was 11:25 am.. And I burned two-wheeled rubber just to make it home in time for the half hour dedication to the absurdity that is American politics..
The show was a must see every week. As tech roared in and time wore out, I normally caught the show on Monday, after Sunday, online…
But the impact is clear. On my life and so many others.
John McLaughlin was a lighthouse during turblent times. He made sense of nonsense and political intrigue. He wore bow ties on New Years and had one of the quickest and yet most amazing shows I have ever seen.
If you wanted to know anyting about politics, the McLaughlin Group outlived them all. Outlived the Capitol Gang. Outlived Brinkley.. Russert.. it was a perplexing thing to understand for some new to it.. but after a few weeks, it all made perfect sense.
This Sunday will be the last day. The final show.. And without John McLaughlin, no more “bye byes” … or Gobble Gobbles on Thanksgiving..
The surveillance video from Duffy’s Sports Grill in Jupiter has been released Friday, giving new insight into what led up to the deadly cannibal attack near Tequesta.
It’s at that restaurant where investigators say 19-year-old
Austin Harrouff
had dinner with relatives and stormed out following an argument with his father.
This is the second cannibal attack in Florida in just a few years..
There are people blaming this on drugs. But .. what if it’s not..
This is a naked sculpture of Donald Trump. I am saving your eyes and only showcasing the top up. A Google search can provide you with the REST of the story down below. This is a protest sculpture that has been popping up throughout the country..
The reason I show it: It gave me and my computer an interesting twist in life tonight…
While combing through news articles I stumbled across a Huffington Post story about how seeing that can force one to not unsee it.. it’s forever imprinted into your brain.
For me, it froze the computer immediately. The screen actually froze–embarassing I know–on the Full Monty version of the Trump statue. And then to complicate matters further, the computer actually is not even turning on now!
It is the curse of the Trump package, perhaps.
I broadcast this short dispatch with a warning: Avoid looking at the images at all costs! Your computer hardware may depend on it.
Brazil captain Neymar was in tears after he delivered the country’s first Olympic men’s soccer gold medal with the winning penalty in a 5-4 shootout victory over Germany in a thrilling final at the Maracana stadium on Saturday.
They lost a few times before during the games, mostly in the 80s …
You may have to indulge me a bit over the next few weeks.. Or longer.
Tonight my son Ayden began to swim on his own, without fear, at the tender age of 5.. he had his floaties, but still realized the proper way to move his arms and legs. He was confident and sure of himself.. It was a growing moment.
Next week will be the same. He begins kindergarten. Unfortunately I cannot bring myself to realize that truly, just yet. The idea has not reached fruition in my mind.
Kindergarten.. My God.. Five years .. all gone.
The emotions are going to run high. And there will be lows.. Growing pains. For children. And parents all the same.
This is a screen grab from a video that many believe shows an either REAL or staged human sacrifice on the capus of CERN!
Conspiracy theories rage in the night..
The video appeared on August 11th on YouTube and on the Facebook page ofStranger Than Fiction News. It shows what appears to be a staged human sacrifice ritual performed on CERN grounds at night. Most of the people are in black cloaks and a woman appears to be stabbed. The French news agency AFP reports that it contacted CERN about the video and an unnamed official confirms some aspects of it..
The money quote:
“These scenes were filmed on our premises, but without official permission or knowledge,” a CERN spokeswoman told AFP in an email.
“CERN does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work,” she added.
The “investigation” under way was an “internal matter”, she said.
The video has raised questions about security on CERN’s campus.
Asked to detail the security procedures surrounding access to the campus, the CERN spokeswoman said: “CERN IDs are checked systematically at each entry to the CERN site whether it is night or day.”
She further indicated that those responsible for the prank had access badges.
We had a rough one today for the 5 year olds.. Four of our players did not make it.. The three that remained played the entire game without too many breaks. Ayden, my son, had a run in with his child crush.. And her kept allowing her to steal the ball from him without figthing back much. But my team perservered.. the they not give up.. they kept strong and they ended up on the losing end of the goal race but victorious in their ablity to work together and be a team. Loved seeing it, and my wife and I especially had some pride knowing that the weeks of coaching may be paying off..
Metallica released a new song.. and is releasing a brand new album..
The listing:
Disc One Hardwired Atlas, Rise! Now That We’re Dead Moth Into Flame Am I Savage? Halo On Fire
Disc Two Confusion Dream No More ManUNkind Here Comes Revenge Murder One Spit Out The Bone
Metallica always had and always will have a special place in my heart. There were some people from my past who I shared memories with over a song or two.. and even today there are times my son jams out to songs from last century when he hears them..
Pre-orders for Hardwired…To Self Destruct are available through Metallica.com.
This is the GFS model *(run today)* for 276 hours from now.. it shows a pretty substantial tropical system developing along the East Coast of the United States.
If this holds true, get ready.. An early warning for weather watchers along he coast.. There is lots of time for this to change. Or for you to get ready.
There have been a ton of opinions about what should happened to the shuttered and sad former high school Cardinal Brennan (my alma mater in the coal region of the Eastern mines) .. North Schuylkill school district purchased it, auctioned off the internals.. The building is vacant. Some believe it should be knocked down, others say keep it.
Some encouraging news took place recently from the camp keep it..
Substantial optimism was expressed at the latest North Schuylkill School Board meeting for the possibility of saving the main Cardinal Brennan High School building–built in 1926.. an all girl’s school then that eventually become an integrated Catholic high school that closed in the mid 2000s..
During a presentation to the board, a professional expert advised he believed the building is structurally sound and can be rehabilitated much more inexpensively than if it were razed and replaced by a new school building.
A decision is still to come. But this is giving many hope that the building which once houses voices and laughter of children will once again do the same..
A blast from the coal region past.. The “Ashland Daily News” doesn’t exist anymore.. but in 1949 it reported that homes were demolished – homes in the path of proposed stripping.. The road mentioned in the brief snippet is what is now called “Snake road” that ties together Ashland and Mt Carmel..
All the stripping left the landscape vanquished. What exists now? Dirt, rubbish, couches, and just about any piece of garbage people can dump along a highway.
Now that the flood waters ravaging Louisiana are receding, it’s time for President Barack Obama to visit the most anguished state in the union.
Last week, as torrential rains brought death, destruction and misery to Louisiana, the president continued his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, a playground for the posh and well-connected.
We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel. In 2005, a fly-over by a vacationing President George W. Bush became a symbol of official neglect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The current president was among those making political hay out of Bush’s aloofness.
I feel like a certain new chapter in life has just started.. But I can’t yet close the old one. I need the right line to finish this current states before moving on.. But time doesn’t wait for an author to create the perfect word. And if I don’t finish the book, someone else will.. The beat goes on.
Florida: Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters that Austin Harrouff may have been on hallucinogenic drugs when he attacked Michelle Mishcon, 53, and John Stevens III, 59, at their Tequesta, Florida, home.
Militi insists his replies are a cross-section of voters in age, gender and geography. “These are the same results we saw when he (Trump) was in the primaries,” he says. He contends that most media polls are just flat-out wrong and that smartphone answers are the future.
A car burns after violence erupted during a standoff between police and an angry crowd near N. 44th St. and W. Auer Ave.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase.
After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. CT that a gas station was set on fire. Police said firefighters could not get close to the blaze because of gunshots.
The incident started in the afternoon when two officers stopped two people in a car in the city’s north side, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
Shortly after, both occupants fled on foot and officers pursued them, police said. During the chase, one officer shot a 23-year-old man who was armed, according to authorities.“He (officer) ordered that individual to drop his gun, the individual did not drop his gun,” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said. “He had the gun with him and the officer fired several times."The man died at the scene.
Saturday nights are made for fighting.. But this is no way to handle anything..
In a post to his WordPress blog, the vandal–who previously provided nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee e-mails to Wikileaks–uploaded an Excel file that includes the cell phone numbers and private e-mail addresses of nearly every Democratic member of the House of Representatives.
The Excel file also includes similar contact information for hundreds of congressional staff members (chiefs of staff, press secretaries, legislative directors, schedulers) and campaign personnel.
In announcing the leak of the document, “Guccifer 2.0” reported that the spreadsheet was stolen during a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “As you see I wasn’t wasting my time! It was even easier than in the case of the DNC breach,” the hacker wrote.
