Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Pottsville, PA, neighbors mourn loss of life after Mother's Day Fire
This story hits me hard—and lots of other people in my area. Fires happen every day. But on Mother’s Day, when a mom loses her husband and all of her children, and her sister?? That just does not seem right, or just.. or possible.
But as I reported yesterday on here, it did occur this past Sunday in Pottsville, PA.
Last night on WBRE news, my local NBC affiliate, reporter Joe Holden relayed horrendous information. He reported that the Kelly Brown, the mom who survived the fire because she was simply catching up on laundry, asked firefighters to re-enter the burnt structure in order to find a bracelet that was given to her for Mother’s Day by her children. The volunteer firefighter did just that.. It’s one of those few moments that I cried at local news…
This is a depressing day in Pottsville, PA. Some would call the town depressed already.. anyone who takes a drive through will see a history that once was and a reality of the current that is now there. Economic changes have caused vacancies to be produced everywhere.. a bus station that was meant to be a local attraction is rarely occupied by travelers.. But there are gems and jewels amid the streets there. There are good people, great people.. moral and honest people. And they are coming together in the little city, the home of Yuengling beer.. they are crying together and trying to figure out why together.
I heard a story of a neighbor that heard screaming during the fire, screaming that the person assumes came from the children inside begging for help.
It’s these moments that make me wonder why God didn’t hear those cries.. It’s these moments we all… well.. You can contemplate the rest.
Pottsville, PA, neighbors mourn loss of life after Mother's Day Fire
Why is it, that every time we see a story online about overweight people, we are treated to this SAME stock photo of an massive person trying to wedge themselves into a metal chair?
I think I recall seeing this image now for years.
And every time the media gives us a new article or study result on fat people, we get this same picture shoved in our eyes …
If only we could meet this person. And maybe ask how this picture changed their lives, now that everyone on the planet with the internet has been offended by it in some way..
Scandals evolve.
Administrations devolve.
It’s raining over Obama now. And when it rains it pours.
But things can turn quickly.. that’s an is.
And it all matters what ‘is’ means anyway..
But there are important questions waiting to be answered. How many IRS officials knew of the political targeting? Did anyone in the White House?
How did such a huge confiscation and spying on AP reporters occur? This is unprecedented.
Why can’t the Administration simply stop making any references to that video, as we know now it had nothing to do with Benghazi.
If bad things come in threes, I guess the President is at his limit. But in politics, bad things come in multiples of threes. A long hot summer may be starting..
All the news I read this morning..
TUESDAY MAY 14 2013
SCANDAL CONSUMES THE WHITE HOUSE
When it rains it pours on Obama..
The IRS scandal.. the AP was raided by the Department of Justice.. and the Benghazi story just continues to drip..
The DOJ tracked 20 phone lines at the AP..
Matt Drudge: Assume all communications are being monitored..
TOP IRS OFFICIAL DIDN’T REVEAL TEA PARTY TRACKING..
Media call AP phone records seizure a ‘breach of trust’
Allentown, PA, amusement park turned into a scene of massive casulties and death. It was all fake. FEMA did it to see how people would handle it..
Angelina Jolie receives preventive double mastectomy.. Writes in the NEW YORK TIMES why..
Massive solar flares continue to be unleashed from the sun..
From SpaceWeather: A sunspot on the sun’s eastern limb is crackling with powerful X-class solar flares. Just-numbered AR1748 announced itself during the early hours of May 13th with an X1.7-class eruption (0217 UT), quickly followed by an X2.8-class flare (1609 UT) and an X3.2-class flare (0117 UT on May 14). These are the strongest flares of the year so far, and they signal a significant increase in solar activity
24 returns to Fox..
Governator back to movies? Arnold in talks for reboot of TOXIC AVENGER..
Breaking News: Angelina Jolie reveals double mastectomy in op-ed
Actress Angelina Jolie has written about her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy in a New York Times piece.
In the piece, Jolie writes:
My mother fought for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold…
Breaking News: Angelina Jolie reveals double mastectomy in op-ed
Monday, May 13, 2013
Cable news topping their broadcasts tonight with the AP Justice Department story tonight
This could be a turning point in this Administration and its relationship with the press.
It was the longest honeymoon of all time.. But every page must turn..
The government seizes months of phone records from the Associated Press
And crickets online.. unbelievable…
Prosecutors have sought phone records from reporters before, but the seizure of records from such a wide array of AP offices, including general AP switchboards numbers and an office-wide shared fax line, is unusual.
In the letter notifying the AP received Friday, the Justice Department offered no explanation for the seizure, according to Pruitt’s letter and attorneys for the AP. The records were presumably obtained from phone companies earlier this year although the government letter did not explain that. None of the information provided by the government to the AP suggested the actual phone conversations were monitored.
Holy hell. I just can’t stop reading this damning AP report on how many records the government simply seized
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
Wow.. This is a scathing AP article
A jury has found Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell guilty on three counts of first-degree murder…
The jury also found Gosnell guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a former patient of his.
The ‘local crime’ story comes to an end (sarcasm)
Justice truly served … Well done, jury, well done.
A report claims that the IRS audit scandal goes deeper: The Wall Street Journal and Reuters both reported that the IRS moved beyond giving a skeptical eye to “tea party” and “patriot” groups. It was also targeting groups focusing on specific issues including “government spending,” “government debt,” “Education of the public via advocacy/lobbying to ‘make America a better place to live,’” and all groups that “criticize[d] how the country is being run.”
Headlines greeting millions of Americans today. Red states, blue states, and purple states.
Sounds like we have a serious issue on our hands, regardless of party or pride.
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The description of this video: Ice Heaves pushed up from Mille Lacs Lake onto the Resort grounds and damaged homes within 15 minutes. Date Taken: 05/11/2013 around 9:30 am
And then the story:
Lake Mille Lacs Ice Sheets Pushed Ashore At Minnesota’s Izatys Resort
Amazing, unbelievable video. You have got to see it to believe it..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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