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Monday, August 8, 2011

This will undoubtedly become of the more famous photos from the London mayhem: A terrified women jumps from a burning building as the riots continue in one of the most wonderful cities on earth..

Bank of America was hammered today: It plunged 20%

This is not the latest DARK KNIGHT RISES poster. Instead of being fiction, it’s quite real. It’s London, now.. in flames as we speak.

Doesn’t it just seem like violence is flaring everywhere…..?

Image credit: Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images

And now, here’s we why the Drudge Report still matters. He can still come up with amazingly tacky, yet comically witty, headlines about bad news. This one made me crack up..

Speaking of solar flares.. another one just erupted

Spaceweather.com reporting:

Sunspot 1263 produced an impulsive M3-class solar flare on August 8th at 1810 UT.

The latest on today's horrid day in economics

Big Wall Street plunge: 633 points..
Worst since 2008..
World reacts to USA credit downgrade..
Buying while the market buckles..
The market tanked as Obama talked..
Michael Moore: “Show some guts” to Obama.. arrest the S&P head..
…instead of Michael Moore’s suggestion, Obama blames Tea Party..
Republicans, in turn, blame Obama..
Obama says USA is still AAA..
Financial Armageddon? So say some after the Great American Downgrade..

The latest on the solar flares

Amazing NASA images of solar flares..

Multiple flares smash into earth..
Power companies set..
Disruption of earthly gadgets..

Japan tsunami broke off a huge piece of Antarctica shelf!

The latest from the violent streets of London

Unrest spreads in London..
London on fire..
Over 160 arrested in London riots over the weekend..

Nightmare on Wall Street: This was the typical face of someone in finance as the Dow thrashed and crashed 633 points..

The news today .. for the first time in a long time.. alarmed me

Call me paranoid but the news of financial Armageddon doubled with prospects of solar flares… yea… call me paranoid. but THAT!

Great story from mothernaturenetwork:

U.S. pipelines at a crossroads
As the Yellowstone oil spill and other recent disasters reveal the risks of aging pipelines, MNN takes a closer look at the 2.5 million miles of oil and gas lines zigzagging across the U.S.

Even more alarming in my mind: So many of the pipelines and gas lines traveling the underground of the United States are made of wood. Really.. they do. More here

Question for science folks?

What scares you the most:

Solar flares?

Asteroids?

Comets?

The unknown

Just wondering.

For me, it’s probably solar fares… At least there’s the possibility we’d be hit with an asteroid by surprise, but a solar flare? …we got hours of knowledge before it strikes. The ‘knowing’ scares me more than the unknowns…

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The summer is almost over.

Everyone is almost all used up.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Sunday, August 7, 2011

And here is my son Ayden helping me blog… could it be, the first 5-month-old Tumblr? …the subject matter at hand: Teething in the 21st century. Digital diapers. Microchips in the milk! The paranoia could start early…

Just another day of news, sports, and weather.. With crime, murders, child killings, war, famine, hate, and slavery.. Sometimes it disgusts me how wretched and horrible some people in the human race are..

Can you hear them now!?

45,000 Verizon employees on strike..

The hottest trending jobs in a jobless market

It’s all tech. Social media. Marketing… Want to know why we are screwed? WE DON’T MAKE ANYTHING ANYMORE!

Wow…

neighborhoodr-london:

Bus on fire in Tottenham, London riots. More at BBC.

Photo via Sky News TV capped by JonathanHaynes

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