The snow is melted.. the roads are clear.. but this photograph is evidence of the drama and disaster that developed during a winter storm in the South.. Courtesy of NBC NEWS
As NBC describes:
Hundreds of abandoned vehicles on I-65 in Birmingham, AL makes the interstate look like a parking lot.
Not sure what, if anything, this story proves, does, matters.. but there you go then.
Cold air.
Warm heart.
The story from the South is amazing today.. such goodness and compassion, with such chaos and confusion.
As I wrote in an earlier post, hindsight is 20/20.. But when warnings of a dramatically awful weather system like this are being given, local and state officials should immediately act in the best interest of citizens—and children.
No need to make a scandal of this. But as weather patterns change and get extreme, we all will need to learn how to adapt..
This is a work in progress.
But we better start learning that the old times of ‘normal’ are over.. Extremes are here.
Preparing is key.
Yes the South rarely gets snow, but they do have emergency management agencies—agencies that had a fair amount of warning on how dangerous this event would be. Hindsight is 20/39 but when it comes to the safety of children, overdoing it is forgivable. They should have been better prepared
Flickering Myth: Final designs for TMNT?
Will Megan Fox be all thumbs as April O’Neil?
Ben Affleck wants to redefine BATMAN as ‘older and wiser’
Kevin Smith wants to do a Krampus themed horror film!
THE PURGE sequel loses a long title.. Now it’s just PURGE 2..
Ketchup Entertainment acquires rights to WOLVES..
NURSE 3d clip is ‘titillating’
FINAL: THE RAPTURE, a horror movie that wants to win people to Christ..
Watch for this movie, it looks and sounds like it’s going to be the most cutting edge horror in some time: BABADOOK. IFC MIDNIGHT has acquired the US and Latin rights to the Australian horror flick..
55 bodies found near former Florida reform school. Reuters reports this:
“On a hillside in the rolling, tall-pine forests near the Alabama-Georgia border, a team of more than 50 searchers from nine agencies last year dug up the graves to check out local legends and family tales of boys, mostly black, who died or disappeared without explanation from the Dozier School for Boys early in the last century.The school, infamous for accounts of brutality told by former inmates, was closed by the state in 2011.”
I did more research about this school, and everything I found was so horrendous.. so sad.. so depressing. Humanity at its worst.
Forget Hollywood! A real story today is surfacing from Gary Indiana.. Somewhat credible news sources (I kid the DAILY NEWS, really I do) like the New York daily news have reported on the Latoya Ammons story..
The The Indy STAR first reported on the matter and the incredible instances..
Ammons says that her family has been possessed by demons since moving into their home in Gary Indiana .. According to the STAR report, medical staff have confirmed that the Ammons children were levitating and walking on walls in a hospital!
From the STAR:
Gary police Capt. Charles Austin said it was the strangest story he had ever heard.
Austin, a 36-year veteran of the Gary Police Department, said he initially thought Indianapolis resident Latoya Ammons and her family concocted an elaborate tale as a way to make money. But after several visits to their home and interviews with witnesses, Austin said simply, “I am a believer.”
It all started with flies. It ended with exorcisms. And there a lot of very intense things in between.
Before judging the story as an attempt to get movie makers to find the Ammons, I suggest you read the story in its entirety first..
The most important thing to realize: Very competent and professional people seem to be in agreement that something dark and sinister haunted this family.. I did myself, at this point, to be much less skeptical than I was when I first saw the headlines..amazing story to start a terror Tuesday..
A weird night in Claremore County in Oklahoma.. A loud explosion was heard on January 26 .. Police received calls from people thinking a bomb went off.. The noises were also heard in Rogers County in the same state.. Just more strange noises, loud booms.. bangs.. And oddities from the planet Earth. Something natural, perhaps.. something otherworldly ..? Maybe not. Either way it is creepy to hear on audio, I could not even imagine being a resident and waking to such a haunting, or heavenly, noise..
Obviously Katy Perry heralding Satan was the highlight of the night.
Seriously? Slimy, weird-colored, salty meat? That’s health now? Please..
I need some advice. I am going to throw away all my Teflon pans.. I have cast iron. Anyone recommend anything else? Stainless steel?
I know that Teflon has issues —at least if it chips. My Gordon Ramsay pans are actually scratching and chipping. Time to get RID OF THE CANCER RISK..
But what is best?
I use the cast iron for mostly meats or fish..
I need something else to saute.
Lately I have overused my NUWAVE oven lately and feel it may be on its last wave..
…people will be people.. During CNN coverage of the terrible mall shooting in Maryland this past weekend, a manager from a jewelry shop actually plugged her store! When CNN got her on air, this is what Judy Hoffman said: "I’m a manager at Fire and Ice at the Columbia Mall, near Nordstrom’s. Fire and Ice is a very unique, fascinating store. We sell jewelry, fossils, a number of different unique things from all over the world" Life is all about sales.. product placements are everywhere. But when an active shooting is happening, it may be the worst of the worst times to advertise your
Most of America seemed to just disregard months of information about the Edward Snowden leaks.. Spying? eh.. surveillance? whattava.. Listening through my phone? Figured.
But..
SPYING ON MY THROUGH ANGRY BIRDS!? What the hell, yo!
It’s true!
According to some earth shattering information being revealed now, Edward Snowden’s leaked documents show that the NSA is spying on people through the popular game ANGRY BIRDS.
Damage control now:
Angry Birds maker Rovio said it had no knowledge of any NSA or GCHQ programs or mechanisms for tapping into its users’ data.
"Rovio doesn’t have any previous knowledge of this matter, and have not been aware of such activity in 3rd party advertising networks," said Saara Bergstrom, Rovio’s VP of marketing and communications. "Nor do we have any involvement with the organizations you mentioned [NSA and GCHQ]."
But the damage is already done. The Black Bomb Bird already struck. But will you delete? Or just keep playing until you finish the game?
Quentin Tarantino has filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker Media for allegedly disseminating copies of his script, The Hateful Eight. Last week, the famous director was outraged after details about the Western circulated. He was so irate that he told the media that he wouldn’t be making the picture as his next film.
Even more from the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:
"Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck," says Tarantino’s lawsuit. "This time, they went too far. Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff’s screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally."
When in danger *(if you have money)*: Go to Panama!
BUT..Is he even in trouble now?
Teflon Bieber: DUI and drag racing charges dropped in drastic U-turn
Egg on their faces: Cops come up empty handed in egg raid..
Stephen Hawking: Black holes don’t exist. He actually commented that saying they did exist was his biggest blunder..
I’m done disliking this kid. I may just ignore him now, as I’d do a fly..
Every now and then, mainstream media sources run a story that causes eyebrows to raise.. Today is no different.. The ASSOCIATED PRESS published an article about the New Madrid fault line and how it’s alive and active. The government held a great American ‘shake out’ last year as a practice to what would happen if the New Madrid moved. But regardless of preparations, we are not really quite ready for what would happen. In 1811 and 1812, quakes there actually were felt in New England. Scientists quoted in the AP article now say that a repeat performance of the 1811 and 1812 quakes are possible..
Concerning the report on the USGS now worrying about an active New Madrid fault line, Holly Deyo noted on Standeyo.com:
”This is a 180º turnaround from what USGS scientists stated a decade ago. They said then the New Madrid quake zone was ‘dead’ – no danger. Maybe this explains why FEMA has totally geared up their preps in and around the entire Midwest over the last 2 years.” ..
