what's with the obama picture in the background?

Expect to see lots of photos in the background.. Obama in college smoking was my first choice..

The NEW YORK POST asks: Miley Cyrus is fooling everyone? 

…maybe. But not Clyde Lewis..

The government is… still… shut… down.

…hmm…did the United States find a new place to dump its used water bottles? Cassini probe now sees a plastic ingredient on Titan .. It reminds me of how much we don’t know about anything.. such as the planet made of glass.. and now a moon consisting of plastic..

Plastic Man will be renamed to Titan Man..

The Greatest Generation's last stand! A new D-DAY in D.C. as World War II vets defy government shutdown to breach barricades at WWII memorial!

And if Hitler couldn’t stop them, you think American security guards could? Think again, fool!

The Greatest Generation's last stand! A new D-DAY in D.C. as World War II vets defy government shutdown to breach barricades at WWII memorial!

Pressing questions being asked in the midst of a government shutdown: Are White House chefs essential?

Pressing questions being asked in the midst of a government shutdown: Are White House chefs essential?

South Korea shows off new missiles designed to hit North

….to be fair,  if Lil Kim did this we’d be sending Dennis Rodman over there. But the South can get away with flaring up tensions? 

Speaking of Dennis.. has he returned from North Korea yet!? Perhaps Lil Kim got a new bride..?

South Korea shows off new missiles designed to hit North

This is a composite of weather models of a still not formed storm in the Caribbean.. All paths seems to being it to areas that Sandy hit one year ago.

The disturbance is strengthening…

It obviously should be monitored by anyone in the path of those squiggly white lines..

Amazing maps reveal what North America looked like only a few short 550 million years ago.. And truly, 550 million years is a blink in time in the eyes of nature.. What will the continent, and for that matter the earth, look like in another 500 million years? 

OBAMACARE DAY 1: HEALTH EXCHANGE WEBSITES ARE NOT WORKING

"No such user exists."

…my God, did they hire Tumblr to do the coding and network structure for the new health care law!?

OBAMACARE DAY 1: HEALTH EXCHANGE WEBSITES ARE NOT WORKING

Scenes of chaos and violence .. First images emerge from mall massacre in Kenya..

The photos are chilling..

Beware the ides of October.. and you thought today was bad for the government and economy.. We may have seen nothing yet

New federal fiscal year.. and the government has shut down.. a battle in Washington DC between Republicans and Democrats continued into the early morning hours.. by the time the sun rose over the Capitol, the government was still closed for business..

Other news:

• Ways the government shut down could hurt..


• 800,000 without pay..


• Eyes wide open over a cliff..


• National Parks set to close..


• Shutdown fever..


• What’s next?


• The government shut down no one wants..

And…
October 1: Obamacare begins..

BUT..
Beware the ides of October!? The next default deadline that everyone is worried about is October 17.. That is an economic date with destiny—the date when markets could be rattled and the United States could default..

Two friends just insulted my new design for this site.. I like it. For now.. A bit. 

Do you?

Is anyone else finding Star Wars Angry Birds 2 exceptionally difficult to play?!

I think I’m quickly becoming a disappointment for my son, who expects my skill to exceed his at such games.

Do you want to go to Jim Thorpe?

I’d love you!

YOU’RE NOT SO PRIVATE LIFE..

Dig it. The dancing queen.

The world has a new one!

A woman known days ago as the bus stop dancer has been identified as 35-year-old Ellie Cole.

Internet users have spread her around, laughing and mocking her situation, but she lucked out: She is getting a high out of her 15 minutes of fame—plus she just got a new job, landing a role in a local play.

The story is being offered up as a feel-good story with a happy ending, something we don’t get often from the media. But what else is in play here..?

Go down this merry journey with  me and see if you’re still smiling at the end.

Ellie Cole was minding her own business—sure there is no expectation of privacy on a street—but the fact that surveillance video of the bus stop was somehow uploaded to Facebook, seemingly to make a fool out of this person expressing a little happiness—is interesting. I did locate an article explaining that a restaurant owner across the street was doing the filming..  I suppose he or she is the one that put the ABBA music overtop of the dancing..

Media isn’t asking many questions about the moral appropriateness of an innocent person meandering through life and suddenly being made famous by a creepy person a distance away with a camera..

This reminds me of a couple things. First off, I tell anyone who emails me People of Walmart to stop emailing me them.. there may be some humor to watching sad human beings shop,  but it’s creepy that they are watched by others and photos are taken without their knowledge, uploaded to the net, and spread around the world like wildfire. Other sites similar to People of Walmart are popping up.. everyone wants to make a fool of someone else. Few photographs are taken of the cameraman in a mirror. Instead, it has become fashionable to mock unknowing innocent people shopping.. but where is a line drawn? Children? Elderly? MOCK EM ALL!

This also reminds me of something from the late 20th century. Years ago, the Late Show with David Letterman was forced to settle a lawsuit with Jane Bronstein, a then-fifty-five year old woman that Letterman would often show. There was footage of her at a tennis game sloppily eating a peach, and Letterman used that footage often on the show when it first went to CBS. At one point, Letterman put the video on the large Jumbotron in New York City of Bronstein eating the peach.  It turned out that the woman Letterman was mocking had actually become disfigured by childhood polio and a thyroid conditions.

Fast forward to the year 2013, and it’s now the world’s newest game: Shame innocent people for acting themselves in public. The camera is always watching..

People lament the power of Big Brother—with his NSA spying and his FBI fusion centers collecting so much data that they probably don’t even know what to do with it all.. While people fear Big Brother’s power, what about the actions of the sheeple? Happily analyzing through hours of hidden camera footage for that just right person to ridicule… watching Earthcams from the comfort of their dark basements.. Setting up surveillance to watch neighbors. Hell, buying drones to patrol their homes! And yes, forwarding until their tired emails of people shopping at Walmart wearing colostomy bags and walking around with their shorts too low and an enlarged stomach hanging out.

This is what we have become.

The tale of Ellie Cole is being told by newscasters with a smile. It’s the quirky story that they play after sports, a nice way to end the night, they think..

But I don’t.

I think it’s a creepy example of a surveillance state gone too far. And most of the time it’s not the government doing a thing, it’s We the People who apparently think we’re so perfect that mocking others is the only form of entertainment that exists online..

All of these stars pledged to serve the president.

And now a school is sorry they told kids to.

Even cancer is getting political! The federal government wants to redefinethe term “cancer” so that fewer conditions qualify as a true cancer.

From FORBES:

With respect to the definition of “cancer,” downgrading some conditions as no longer being “cancer” can and will used to justify reducing “unnecessary” screening tests (e.g., mammograms for women between ages 40-49). Mammograms can now detect the condition known as “ductal carcinoma in situ” (DCIS), which would no longer be called a cancer under the new proposal

Even cancer? Disease? ….is anything in this land of our land NOT political!?

Even cancer is getting political! The federal government wants to redefinethe term “cancer” so that fewer conditions qualify as a true cancer.

Derek Nance has eaten nothing but raw meat for five years.

He also, as you can see, brushes his teeth with animal fat..

Nance says he’s never been healthier.

And if that’s all not zany enough, his girlfriend is a vegetarian! 

The odd couple indeed. 

Teeth to prove.

God bless Derek Nance.  He looks a little bit like Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden with a little vampire thrown in

The new fad word of the year you’ll hear .. before the end of the year: iPosture.

Apparently people are hunched over so much anymore that their backs are becoming disfigured.

At least one survey conducted concludes that almost 90% of the youthful ignorants are suffering from back issues..

The days of sitting up straight are over. 

Virtually over..

And if you’re in a generation that still remembers your mom telling you to sit up straight, no fear! You’ll have problems, too! Apparently the new iOS 7 is truly making people ill..