If you like liberty, personal freedom, and privacy, avoid any black Friday deals with the XBOX Kinect. It listens to you, it actually loves to listen to you. And as GIZMODO reports, it will also run you into future trouble if you use cuss words.
But does it go even deeper? Is Microsoft monitoring your Skype calls for swear words?
May your holiday homecoming be safe and sound. And without a mess around.
Travel safe. And wise.
Weird booms were heard a few years prior to big quakes along the New Madrid fault line in the 1800s.
Also a great comet appeared in the sky.
Booms are heard today.. we’re told a comet may appear—if Ison breaks up there are three more ‘horsemen’ on the way.. way too weird, don’t you think?
READ MORE HERE: http://www.horrorreport.com/2013/11/new-madrid-shaking-booms-may-hold-answer.html
There is conflicting information circulating today regarding the Comet of the Century, Ison.
On one hand, an expert named Stephen Lowry was quoted in the IB TIMES today saying that Ison is breaking up and may not survive its trip around the sun.. Lowry is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science School of Physical Sciences at the University of Kent Canterbury.. He told the publication that he does not think the comet will survive, commenting, “New reports show rapid decrease in gas emissions from the comet and a rapid increase in dust. Now these are early reports so we could be wrong. But for me personally I don’t think it’s likely to survive.”
And on the other hand…
A video update of Ison seems to paint a different picture..
Here it is for your enjoyment and knowledge:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7atiCtOHH4]
We will see what occurs with this comet in a matter of days.
Tonight, CNN is reporting that the comet may be falling apart as it nears the sun..
The moment of truth comes on Thanksgiving.
It’s fiction.
Right?
How true is this ONION article for you?
The comet of the century!!!
So that big light show? Gone.
So now we are only left with three other comets if this occurs. The four horsemen of the apocalypse will potentially lose a rider
A massive sinkhole has developed in Bosnia, shocking those who see it, and pervading a seemingly peaceful countryside with a shocking image of how cruel the planet earth can be.
The ASSOCIATED PRESS dispatch reports it this way:
SANICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Just outside the rustic village, children fished in a tranquil pond bobbing with green algae and lined with willow trees, as cattle grazed nearby.
Now, Rezak Motanic gazes in disbelief down a gigantic moonlike crater where the pond used to be. It’s like something from a science fiction movie: a sinkhole swallowed the water, the fish and even nearby trees.
To the weary eyes strained on daily news, this should come as no shock. There seems to be an increased amount of sinkholes across the crust lately. Maybe we can chalk it up to increased attention, or …just maybe there are more of them.
The prospects of having a pond filled with fish and life simply vanish before you eyes is unbelievable.
And as these things go, the AP reports, townsfolk are coming up with paranormal ideas and dismissing scientific ones. The most interesting of thoughts: The owner of the pond just died—and took the pond with him.
While some may scoff at those with superstitious theories, think of this: The amount of hell on earth that Bosnia went through is inescapable. It’s no shock that they believe that evil can be alive and well under their feet—paranormal is what they lived with for thirty years.
The AP story ended like this:
"Only days before Hasan passed away he said: ‘I’ll take everything with me when I die.’ And that’s what he did," Motanic said. "His daughter saw him walk on the lake the night he died."
Husein Nanic said it could be a sign that the end is nigh: “All sort of miracles happen before the doomsday,” he said.
A little stroll through daily headlines may leave us all with the impression that the Mayan calender may have been off about twelve months.
A very bad santa.
The Associated Press reports this:
A man who played Santa Claus at a Massachusetts mall has been barred from the shopping center after he was charged with groping an 18-year-old woman playing an elf.
Herbert Jones was released on $1,000 bail after pleading not guilty Monday to indecent assault and battery. A judge ordered him to stay away from the Hanover Mall and barred him from playing Santa anywhere pending the outcome of his case.
I always find it to be a shame when men who play Santas do these things, especially when they have REAL beards! It takes dedication to look like Santa for 11 months of the year.. only to screw it up because you can’t keep your yuletide joy to yourself.
No word from Mrs. Claus on the event..
I saw some anger about this report—some of the families of those slain by Lanza appeared to be hostile to this report. One analysis I read said that it’s a detailed report and really did not have to be. The report in essence was only to determine if any more suspects should be arrested. It could have been only one page long with one sentence on it, but instead the State’s Attorney’s report is more detailed..
The overall hint is that the gun violence and mental illness of Lanza became a deadly combination.
The good part of this whole horrible event is that maybe something will finally take place to improve mental health in the United States. The WASHINGTON TIMES reports,
Rep. Tim Murphy, Pennsylvania Republican, said last week he intends to introduce legislation next month “to fix the problems that have plagued the nation’s mental health system for decades.”
He said in 1955 there were 550,000 psychiatric beds and today there are fewer than 40,000, that the standard to make sure a mentally ill person gets treatment is unworkable, and that federal privacy laws make information-sharing in such cases difficult.
“We have to advance this so we have a key to unlock the door,” Mr. Murphy said. “I ask my colleagues to join me in working for these mental health reforms so that families can share the joy of recovery, instead of the sadness of loss.”
As far as Lanza and the lack of a motive: Would a motive have really made any more sense to this senseless evil? Would a reason to kill innocent beautiful children given any more help to those grieving, almost one year since the nightmare stole Christmas in 2012?
I say no.
I recall how sad those days were after this shooting.
And now a year later we are reminded of it all over again.
I don’t think a motive would have even made sense … Nothing can make sense of what Adam Lanza did that fateful December morning in 2012..
Two Billy Joel songs unite.. JFK blown away.. and it will give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack ack. You ought to know by now.
The history of history in 2 minutes.
The latest event to raise my conspiracy-tainted eyebrows: The Vatican has Peter the Roman on the display—the first pope—and it’s the first time. It’s happening under the watchful pontificate of Pope Francis.
Reports indicate that the bones of the body supposedly of Peter.
Does this pope knowingly make these allusions to St Peter just to mess with people?
The ATLANTIC article is fascinating.. Mapping how we say certain words tells a story of who we are and shows a picture of how we migrate.
