Now tonight is a debate.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
DID BIDEN JUST MOUTH 'YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT' TO RYAN?
Did my eyes deceive me? did I read lips correctly?
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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No matter the president, the decade, or the generation.. we still dream a thousand dreams and get haunted by a million screams. It’s still the land of confusion. And then some.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
This is the world we live in.. The BBC reports that a Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old activist in Pakistan for girls’ education, was attacked on her way home from school and reportedly shot either in her head or her neck/
She is ‘out of danger’ now .. but is she, really?
The next bubble is hissing.. when will it burst? For two decades student debt expanded at a rate above 17 percent per year
Just a few days ago, this website linked up an NBC news article about how punishing debt is weighing down a generation—the generation of people who cannot find jobs in their majors, cannot keep jobs they have in an uncertain economy, and cannot make enough to pay their debt without defaulting on other loans and lines of credit.
If someone asked me today, “Would you go back to school for a degree in business administration?” I would absolutely say NO!
If I was asked for advice on what a major should be, I’d respond: Languages. And not just Spanish. But any language you can get, including Farsi and Chinese. Mandarin wouldn’t hurt either. No matter what your future skill or job may be, most companies will be global and will need multi-languaged (is that a word?) employees. Not business.. not education.. nothing else.
Oh, and apprenticeship and training programs wouldn’t hurt either. There is no shame in being a plumber or craftsman, a pipefitter or sheet metal worker. Not one bit of shame in being an electrician, a baker, or a cook. Don’t limit your true potential just because the ‘mainstream’ tells you that going to get your college degree is a must.
There is a commercial always on the SPROUT TV network *(my son watches it not me)* of a group of couples sitting around a table as their children play in the background, as they discuss college educations. At the end, the dad jokingly tells his child “because you’re going to college” as the rest of the fake parents chuckle. Well… maybe that child isn’t going to college. And maybe there will be no college.
Think about this: With the amount of people defaulting, there may soon be a limit that for profit colleges and schools meet. If their ratio of dropouts to success stories goes awry, they could even lost funding or ratings.
We are seeing an emerging bubble.
When I graduated with my BS (and it was BS) in 2010, I was proud of my achievement. Graduating with a business degree during the Great Recession. Good choice Coal Speaker. Nonetheless, my graduating class also had a few hundred people completing with a degree in education…. Education that is being cut throughout the nation as cyber schooling and home schooling expand in popularity. There are too many teachers now for not enough teaching positions. My state of Pennsylvania has gone through years of budget cuts throughout all counties, forcing districts to slash teaching staff and janitor positions. Somehow those luxury administrators stay put.
There is something quite wrong with this picture. The people ‘in the field’ know it. There is a foreboding sense that this college bubble not only cannot last forever but is soon ready to burst.
Then what?…that is the scary question.
Then what?
The next bubble is hissing.. when will it burst? For two decades student debt expanded at a rate above 17 percent per year
The new America: A women dying of leukemia goes through invasive and embarrassing airport screening at the knowing hands of the TSA
The New York DAILY NEWS reported this about Michelle Dunaj:
Dunaj, 34, was making what she expects will be the last trip of her life on Oct. 2 as she traveled through Seattle en route to Hawaii.
The Roseville, Mich., woman thought she had prepared by calling the airline ahead of time, asking for a wheelchair, carrying documentation for her feeding tubes and making sure she had prescriptions for all her medications, including five bags of saline solution. But Dunaj said she received a full pat-down in the security line at Seattle-Tacoma Airport and had to lift her shirt and pull back bandages so agents could get a good look. She said everyone else in line got a look, too.
‘‘My issue is: It was in front of everyone, and everyone was looking at me like I was a criminal or like I was doing something wrong,’’ Dunaj told The Associated Press on Tuesday. ‘‘It shouldn’t have been in front of everyone.’’
Dunaj said a female agent performed the pat-down and asked her to lift up her shirt after feeling the tubes going into Dunaj’s chest and abdomen. Dunaj said her suggestion for a more private pat-down was dismissed.
‘‘I asked them if they thought that was an appropriate location, and they told me that everything was fine,’’ she said.
She said another agent punctured one of the saline bags she was carrying, ruining it.
The new America: A women dying of leukemia goes through invasive and embarrassing airport screening at the knowing hands of the TSA
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Absolutely hysterical video. The YouTube account BadLipReading uploaded a great parody of the Obama Romney debate. The funniest to me was Jim Lehrer.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
I am feeling exhausted
My son has been a little under the weather for a few days. My wife is in bed early. I am heading there soon, too.
Listen, I love this time of year. Autumn leaves .. the colors.. the cool breeze. But this year something is nagging deep at my spirit. The perpetual onslaught of time isn’t helping. The constant transition from season to season, year to year.. all seems to be speeding up.
And this year, my perhaps more-fragile-than-they-should-be 32 year old bones are feeling the weather change. So is a bear that ate garbage near my house last night. And three snakes stuck on a sticky trap that tried to get in my house last week. Everyone seems to have a sense of dread for this winter..
Maybe because it’s 12/21/12. The end. Or just the beginning.
All that news that may not matter by tomorrow.
Volcano in Indonesia lashes out with ash and lava; And now this: Loud ‘thumping’ noises are being heard there..
Gulf of California hit was 6.0 quake..
Massive Arctic Sea ice collapse leaves Greenland melting..
Sun spits out a CME..
Solar Northern Lights display expected to be great..
Panic in camp Obama: Andrew Sullivan writes a nervous article about how now the President could lose..
Twitter users pile up on African American actress who chose to support Mitt Romney..
Anyone who knows me or who has heard me opine about the future knows that I believe smart phones, or smart somethings, will be implanted in our skin. I always believed by 2020. Now an article on CNN confirms my beliefs (really fears) but has a different timeline: Within 75 years, so sayeth the CNN article..
Want to meet the Fukushima 50? No, you can’t.
John Hogue reports on his Conscious Life Expo appearance..
Sentencing for Jerry Sandusky..
A report forces hard questions about Monsanto’s GMO corn..
Man dies after a live roach eating contest in Florida..
He ate coackroaches.. collapsed..and died.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!! Despite Cassie Slane fainting on live QVC TV, the sales go on..
The steroid linked to Meningitis was given to 13,000 people within the US!
Parenting advice: Stop yelling at your kids.
Man photographs clouds—and gets an FBI visit for it
Wedding brawl in the city of ‘Brotherly Love’ .. The fight was caught on tape in the high end city hotel.. One man dead of a heart attack..
Hackers and 4Chan users target director of SMILEY horror movie.. Why? Because director Michael Gallagher used 4Chan’s famed message board as a subject in the movie.. The FBI is considering investigating..
Variety: “Gallagher has endured a torrent of voicemails, emails, texts, message-board posts and comments laced with death threats, insults and admonitions to spam and harass the filmmaker, his colleagues, his girlfriend and his family. Now the FBI is considering whether to investigate the bizarre, life-imitates-art situation.”
Update on HALLOWEEN showing in Chicago..
Follow up to last week’s report that Amityville horror house is for sale again.. the owners are ‘dramatically’ slashing the asking price on the home in New York state. The blame is on divorce.. Odalys Fragoso, wife, said, “It’s not that the house is haunted or anything. We had wonderful times in that house.”
Annual SIMPSONS TREEHOUSE OF HORROR rundown..
Newly declassified documents reveal the Air Force’s plans for a flying saucer—and it was made by Canadians!
Monday, October 8, 2012
CNN profiles a war child from Sierra Leone, who said killing was like drinking water
True horror in the world existed and still does.. 300,000 children worldwide in some type of conflict fighting. And when the war and killing ends, true peace never comes.
Have we learned nothing in 2000+ years?
CNN profiles a war child from Sierra Leone, who said killing was like drinking water
Here come the jokes.
Now that Lady Gaga has vomited onstage she has a new reason for ‘fame.’ Maybe she ate at her own restaurant? Maybe she saw Justin Bieber vomit? Maybe she is ‘starved’ for attention? …Either way something appears to be going very wrong with Lady Gaga..
Sunday, October 7, 2012
He ain’t nothing but a hound dog..
There may be some who say Elvis still lives, but others admit the truth: The once amazing star of music lore is long gone. But is his spirit?
That is what a paranormal team is looking in to right now.. According to rumor, Elvis Presley’s ghostly spirit may be frequenting the location where the 1960 movie FLAMING STAR was filmed. He was in that film.. It’s not the Buckhorn Motel at 5900 East Main Street in Mesa. This weekend, with this new story, it’s getting a ton of attention…
The Arizona Paranormal Investigations team will conduct a session research at the site.. (What better time of year than October to do that, of course). But this time, the public is invited to attend the 6pm to 9pm ‘investigation’ at the Buckhorn.. persons are being invited by the Mesa Historical Museum—as it is a fundraiser.
Don’t get me wrong. I am sure folks are “all shook up” about the chances that Elvis has not left the building—and I mean absolutely no offense to the Mesa historical group—but the chances of finding anything except a public relations event from this is impossible. It’s meant to be a fundraiser. It’s not meant, in spirit, to find a spirit. That is at least my humble opinion.
As a matter of fact, as the East Valley TRIBUNE reported on this, no one is quite sure when Elvis was EVEN IN THE BUILDING! See this:
“We don’t know exactly when he stayed there, but we’re trying to find out,” said Lisa Anderson, executive director of the Mesa Historical Museum. “But there’s evidence that Elvis likely stayed here at some point; we’re just trying to find out exactly when. We’re going through ledgers to see when he would’ve checked in, but there’s also the possibility that he could’ve checked in under an assumed name.”
So we have a fundraiser, an inability to know when Elvis was even there, and a public ‘investigation’. Ghost hunting can be fun.. but in this situation I can’t help but thinking it’s ALL FUN.
Elvis may be in the building. I doubt we will know after October 20 if he is.
Scary new numbers: Deadly meningitis outbreak increases to 91
On Sunday, US health officials reported 27 new cases of the deadly disease.. Now 91 cases. 7 dead. All from a painkiller—a steroid that has led to crisis within the states where the disease is hitting..
The source of the steroid injection that is causing this outbreak is from a New England company from Farmingham, Massachusetts. The company name is Compounding Center Inc.
The company has now issued a voluntary recall on all products.
VOLUNTARY!? You have got to be kidding.
91 being hit with meningitis linked to a steroid injection from its company and it’s all voluntary? See something amiss? See how pharmaceuticals have been permitted to dominate with greed but no creed?
The hunt for more victims is now underway .. Don’t think for a second this will stop at 91 cases..
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