Murder trial in Florida: Joke about actress Megan Fox led to son’s murder of father

Jason Beckman talked about killing his father for some time. But in 2009, when he dad made a joke that his son would not ‘know what to do with taht [Megan Fox]’, he killed him.

The MIAMI HERALD money quote:

Jason Beckman, on trial for killing his politician father in April 2009, confided to fellow jail inmates that just before the shooting, the young man had asked his father about the raven-hairedTransformers star.

“His father told him he wouldn’t know what to do with that,” the inmate, Michael Nistal, told Miami-Dade jurors.

Beckman, who prosecutors say talked openly for years about hating his father, grew enraged. “So he went and got a shotgun and blew his head off. He missed his head and shot his face and part of his neck,” the inmate said.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/12/3748899/testimony-joke-about-actress-megan.html#storylink=cpy

Murder trial in Florida: Joke about actress Megan Fox led to son’s murder of father

Heads up for the Mid-Mississippi & Ohio Valleys and southern Great Lakes Region: Today may be filled with violent, severe weather

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center has issued an extremely serious “Particularly Dangerous Situation” alert for an extremely violent…

It’s mid November. It will feel like mid-spring—and the skies above will be just as confused.. it’s not severe weather season but today will be severe in some places. 

The threats in this area today include:

-Several intense tornadoes likely
-Several large hail events likely with a few very large hail events to 2” in diameter possible
-Several damaging wind gusts with a few significant gusts to 80mph possible.

That is strong wind.. and that severe weather.. And it is a dangerous situation brewing—hopefully one that will not happen as the NOAA predicts.

Here are the latest warnings nationwide.

And keep in mind that major areas like Chicago and Indianapolis are facing tornado threats today.

Accuweather is running an up to the minute live blog on the weather conditions.

Stay tuned. Be safe.

Be alert.

And as always, be prepared as best you can..

Heads up for the Mid-Mississippi & Ohio Valleys and southern Great Lakes Region: Today may be filled with violent, severe weather

Harrisburg PA PATRIOT NEWS retracts an 1863 review of the Gettysburg Address, which called Lincoln's speech 'silly'

And now SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE took notice.

National attention for the small city paper. 

Congrats, in some sort of sense, are in order?

Harrisburg PA PATRIOT NEWS retracts an 1863 review of the Gettysburg Address, which called Lincoln's speech 'silly'

Some very rare floods are hitting Saudi Arabia.. the government is telling people to stay indoors.. There are some photos showcasing how bad the flooding is.

One of the funnier clips from Saturday Night Live last night

http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n43354
So funny from the show last night—and so true about the way Blockbuster employers were..

I will miss this store

Pop tarts and breasts: Strange bed time tales.

When my wife and I put my son Ayden to bed, it gets a little dull just reading the same old bed time stories time and time again.. We spice things up. My version of a bed time tale is to take Ayden on a wild ride of bizarre imagination—rainbows and elephants made of pink fish, sometimes ladders made of toothpicks and skies melting with chocolate clouds. 

Tonight I realized how inane my stories can often be. Ayden was taking particularly long to get to sleep.. My rambling bed time chat became, well to put it bluntly, just stupid. I was grasping for straws.. Each time I thought I was done, Ayden asked for another story.

At one point, I recall saying roughly these words:

And then Ayden jumped on his lollipop and flew to pop tart mountain. Before he got there, he told himself, 

'Today was very good,
Today was quite a treat,
But I must increase my bust,
Before I fall asleep.

What!?

Yes.. I’m running dry no child-friendly accounts.. I need some new material.

Maybe I will just start reading him WAR AND PEACE and see how far we get.

Meanwhile it’s time to gas up the lollipop plane and get ready to do some Saturday night bust increases.

Welcome to the Scientology building where members can obtain their super powers

Welcome to the Scientology building where members can obtain their super powers

Chaos ensues after insurance cancellation reversal

Chaos ensues after insurance cancellation reversal

One of the creepiest images I’ve ever seen. It’s George Noory and his producer Tommy at a L.A. ‘parade’ back in the spring of this year.

All credit on the images go to BELLGAB.. with the departure of Art Bell and the return of George Noory on Bell’s Sirius XM channel 104, some Noory anger has built up among fans. They have re-examined these images of $nores and big Tommy.

The ego .. the hairpiece.. the taped “coast to coast” paper on the side of the car. All tacky, and quite creepy. The only thing missing from these images are strange ‘ice cream man’ sounding tunes, or a foreboding piece of music from a horror movie.

George Noory is coming for you. And will steal your soul since he lost his to Premiere executives. 

Former Pink Floyd vocalist Roy Harper charged with sexually abusing 12-year-old girl

Welcome to Operation Yewtree world.. welcome.

Former Pink Floyd vocalist Roy Harper charged with sexually abusing 12-year-old girl

Throwing in the towel? Art Bell wants fans to STOP #FreeArtBell campaign..

So begins the #KeepArtBellinChains campaign

Throwing in the towel? Art Bell wants fans to STOP #FreeArtBell campaign..

The story of 5-year-old Miles Scott deserves another read. 

I just loved this story today.. Just loved it.

This is an artist’s concept of what Mars may have looked like 4 billion years ago..

It sure looked like an amazing place. At least in this artist’s head..

Man arrested for repeatedly firing unloaded Civil War cannon at neighbors, police say

WE NEED MUSKET CONTROL!

At least the canon wasn’t loaded. All’s well that ends well, I guess.

Man arrested for repeatedly firing unloaded Civil War cannon at neighbors, police say

UK INDEPENDENT article: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s new film Don Jon is the story of a man whose porn habit has left him unable to relate to real women. He's not the only one

The article focuses on men.

Here’s a quote:

The question is: does it matter? If we’re all getting our kicks and having a good time, what’s the problem? “It’s a disconnection from what’s really in front of you,” says Gordon-Levitt, who directed, wrote and stars in the film. “Rather than engaging with a unique individual and listening to what the other has to say, right at this moment, we put people in boxes with labels. We objectify each other.”

But statistics also show that 70% of men in America are watching porn regularly (probably about as many as have the internet) and 1 in 3 women are.. 

I am curious if women are having the same re-wiring happening that men seem to be?

The INDEPENDENT article is worth the read. I suppose after you’re done your two minutes on Porn Hub.

UK INDEPENDENT article: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s new film Don Jon is the story of a man whose porn habit has left him unable to relate to real women. He's not the only one

Top of the evening ya’ll.
A
Beautiful Friday night ..

This may be the most uplifting story of the day, but at the same time the saddest one as well..  

Miles, a five-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, wanted to be Batman. The Make-a-Wish Foundation is making that happen today in San Francisco

Get some Kleenex..read and weep. Smile in between.

My children are decomposing

This is a quote from Juvelyn Taniega as reported by CNN today.. She is in the Philippines  and because of the slowness of recovery, she is now forced to watch as the bodies of her children decompose in front of  her..

CNN reports it this way:

Juvelyn Taniega tried to keep busy. She collected old dishes and cleaned them, crouching near where her home once stood and the place where she last saw her husband and six children alive. She’s found the bodies of three of her children, but three of them are still missing. In days, she said, no one has come to help. “My children are decomposing,” she said. There are many like her, looking in disbelief over miles of fields full of crushed wood and stone that once stood as houses, wondering if her missing loved ones are buried in them.

I cannot even fathom the heartbreak and emotion of this.. I cannot even understand or grasp the suffering that so many are going through right now.

Whether there is a god or not, there is certainly reason to doubt the kindness of nature.. and God. We have seen suffering on massive scales before. Hell even the dinosaurs had a miserable existence extinguished by a hellstorm from above. Does the earth itself just hate us? 

There has always been hurt, loss, suffering, and sadness. But through it all there has also been a monstrous amount of love and goodness.

The only hope that people in the Philippines have right now is that there will be enough love to overcome the misery..and the decomposing bodies under their feet.

Fewer than 27,000 people signed up for health care using federal website

Going to the doctor makes me sick.

Ick and uck and uck and ick.

Fewer than 27,000 people signed up for health care using federal website

Remember yesterday that Philippine official who got fired for saying the death toll from Haiyan would end up being 10,000? How dare he? Such radical claims? We are getting ever so much closer to that number now, with almost 4,000 counted as casualties from the storm at this point.. The number of injured stands at 12,165.. With conditions deteriorating, things may be worse for those who actually lived through the storm. Some places are becoming hell no earth, with people fighting and scrambling to survive..