Good evening all.
Did everything remain the same today, as it did for me?
Maybe that’s fine.
Just fine…
No surprises.
Just the old tired song and dance..
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Friday, March 28, 2014
This is truly an amazing and disturbing report coming from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC by Alexa Keefe .. It’s about Chernobyl and the horrid aftermath of the nuclear meltdown that took place there last century.
Earlier today I posted a big of a reprise of the 35th anniversary of the Harrisburg PA partial meltdown at Three Mile Island.. I mentioned how Chernobyl came a bit later. But just giving it a mention didn’t do justice as it is deserved.. Chernobyl was horrible, just awful. And some of the before and after photos in the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC report show just how awful it was..
Autism rates now 1 in 68 U.S. children
And it’s not just the 1 in 68 number that is hard hitting, but it’s this too: This new figure is a 30% jump in numbers from just two years ago..
And we know these facts:
This newest estimate is based on the CDC’s evaluation of health and educational records of all 8-year-old children in 11 states: Alabama, Wisconsin, Colorado, Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Arizona, Maryland, North Carolina, Utah and New Jersey.
The incidence of autism ranged from a low of 1 in 175 children in Alabama to a high of 1 in 45 in New Jersey, according to the CDC.
Children with autism continue to be overwhelmingly male. According to the new report, the CDC estimates 1 in 42 boys has autism, 4.5 times as many as girls (1 in 189).
BUT..
and the big BUT…
Maybe autism isn’t on the rise (?)
- The new definitions are more encompassing now.
- Awareness has increased.
- The data only came from 11 areas of the country.
Either way.. it’s seems to be a big deal.
And a mystery transforming the brains of the young and the future of the world..
Autism rates now 1 in 68 U.S. children
Did you ever think you'd be rooting for Newt?
Seriously?
For all of the controversy over the controversial politician, Newt Gingrich has been one of the few people to come forward and address something no one else will: The fact that we need to survive the eventual solar storm or EMP strike that may cripple the infrastructure of the United States..
Newt and his panel of people (maybe a lot of rabid neo-cons, and perhaps I am just blinded by the sunlight on the headline here) are upset that there is little happening to protect the US from the eventual.. the fact that nine out of ten Americans could face sudden death..
I do get it, though.. this group seems to be most concerned about man-made terrorism.. the fear, the fiendishness.. all of that ..and yes, the big ‘uumph’ seems to be planting seeds of Armageddon fear that a EMP or nuclear attack from North Korea will kill us all. But.. maybe it could.
And if those manmade evils aren’t bad enough, what if the sun blurts out the ‘big one’? (The big one from the sun is something I have written about for years on this site, should you have been someone paying any attention) …
We all know this. The grid is riddled with failure-potentials.
And maybe Newt isn’t so far off in his outlandish worries..
Who built the ark? Noah.. Who won the BOX, brother Noah won the box
Get ready.
The box office will be Bible thumping this weekend.. holy times are high, movie theaters will be filled with the faithful, praising Jesus and fearing the almighty, who flooded the world and forever promised not to with a rainbow. And then flooded the world OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Forget the actual ‘story’ of Noah for a second, or anything factual, or anything scientific, or any reality of it at all.. Instead. It’s TIME FOR NOAH. Brother Noah.. And his Ark.
We know this so far: The movie NOAH cost a lot of cold, hard cash to create. It faced a steady stream of criticism from the hardest of hardcore Christians, those hell-bent (no pun intended) on making sure Noah stayed true to the ‘real’ story from the Bible. It’s not in box offices around the world, and America.. And now Darren Aronofsky’s movie is making big inroads with the faithful, doing especially great with Catholic Hispanics and any town USA that has a strong Christian population.. You can read more about those Friday night facts from the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER..
Experts who get paid to run numbers on these types of things figure that NOAH will earn about $40 mil for the week—far less than it cost to make. But then again.. Sunday afternoon sales could be ALMIGHTY higher than expected. Just imagine if Father NamethatPriest rants and raves from the pulpit about this film.. The fervent will be filled with the holy ghost, enough perhaps to go streaming into theaters with friends and families instead of roast beef dinners at the family diner. Most movies have a date night like Friday or Saturday registering that largest numbers.. But just like PASSION OF THE CHRIST, NOAH could be huge on Sunday, bloody Sunday..
But for now, we only know this: NOAH is being released in 3,567 theaters strong. SABOTAGE is next with 2,486. And just judging from early numbers, Arnold Schwarzenegger will not ‘sabotage’ NOAH, but instead bomb huge at the box…
This is how NOT to advertise flying in the post Malaysian flight 370 world—an ad reminding people of how they may meet their doom in the vast Indian Ocean, the place where most think flight 370 ended up crashing and killing all aboard!
It’s a real ad, too..It was done by British Airways.. the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES is featuring it in its latest online runs.. It was first posted by Twitter users fascinated by the stupidity of the advert..
And now the ad is being dropped, taken back.. as though it never existed.
I am sure British Airways most likely wishes it wasn’t..
35 years later: Three Mile Island
It was 35 years ago, around 4am, that the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg PA experienced a partial meltdown .. So many evacuated. So much toxic radiation dumped into the Susquehanna river.. Even Saturday night live at the time spoofed the Carter administration response by showing Dan Akroyd, playing Carter, as turning green.
The world was gripped in nuclear fever—as much as those exposed to the actual radiation..
A few years later, Chernobyl occurred..
And now in 2014, 36”5 years after the Harrisburg disaster, Fukushima continues to unravel like a slow motion train wreck, causing a nightmare in Japan for the generation cursed to love through the horrid aftermath of the 2011 meltdown..
And if you don’t think there’s anything to fear about Fukushima, tell that to the young sailors aboard the USS REAGAN who are suffering tremendous signs of radiation exposure.. Those brave young men and women were among the first responders that the United States sent to Japan on a humanitarian mission after the quake and tsunami..
35 years after Three Mile Island, we are as radiated—and ignorant about the dangers of nuclear power—as ever.
Glow green, world.
The March hurricane: We dodged a big bullet..
Amazing information to contemplate.. if that big blizzard this week would have tracked just a bit closer to the coastline, it would have equaled if not exceeded the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy..
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Nearly a dozen Hanford employees sick from unknown fumes
Nearly a dozen people have received medical care at the Hanford site and at a local hospital in the last week after breaking in toxic vapors at the nuclear facility.
And this story still fails to make national news and get any coverage it deserves.. unbelievable.
This is a nuclear wreck and it should be getting headlines from all sources.
Instead, radiated crickets are all that is heard..
Nearly a dozen Hanford employees sick from unknown fumes
I saw a number of news articles poking ‘fun’ and making humorous quips about Kim Jong UN forcing students to copy his hair style..
Some laughed at how bad the hair looked to begin with.. others were making jokes saying “bad hair days” are coming for North Korean students. BUT.. is it even true!!?
Maybe not.. the most recent AP dispatch from Tokyo says that there are baseless rumors of hair cuts happening, and there is no evidence to point to anything showing that an official UN edict has been issued.
Word to the wise: The hair story probably is not real, but even if it was, it would be a distraction from the real news of North Korea.
You know, like the real news that North Korea has hell-on-earth style death camps that offer up a endless amount of brutal torture and inhumane killing..
Oh, and the fact that Kim Jong UN has an isolated regime and ………drumroll please…nuclear weapons.
His bad hair cut is meaningless compared to his real threat to the world.
A planet named Biden
Meet the planet named BIDEN.. It’s a dwarf and it is from an unlikely region in our own solar system. (Notice how science textbooks pretty much get re-written by the day at this point?) Biden is beyond Pluto—not a planet—and it’s 7 billion miles from earth. And the name?
It’s real name is VP113, hence: A joking name of BIDEN. I am sure the Vice President can use this in his campaign ads should he seek the Democratic nomination in 2016..
Imagine: “Already a planet, why not a president?”
And as ABC news reports, there just HAS to be people jealous that BIDEN got a planet named after him.. (though on those commercials, you can still pay $$$ to have a distant star named after you!)
The insane clown posse
Clowns are scary.
Especially when they show up in weird places. Like under street lights in New York City
The insane clown posse
Just out of prison, man robs Toms River store again, cops say
Christopher Miller robbed Stride Ride in 1999. Shortly after serving 15 years in prison he returned to do it again, police said
Dumb crime
Dumb criminal.
Dumber the second time.
Just out of prison, man robs Toms River store again, cops say
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ANOTHER great video from Action Movie Kid
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Seriously just LOVE this video.. it’s 12 seconds of pure fun.. it’s called TOY LIGHTSABER by Action Movie Kid on YouTube..
There are some other really fun ones too on his YOUTUBE channel.
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As someone from Schuylkill County, PA, I’d be remiss not to at least give a post dedicated to a pretty surprisingly fun song called SKOOK STATE OF MIND.
I personally never liked the term ‘skook’ much but it works well in this song..
Matt Freiler, of Deer Lake, is the young funny talent behind the video. It’s gone ‘viral’ in so much as people from Schuylkill County have been watching it ..
If you are not from this area the video will mean nothing to you…
I think one day it will be interesting to go back and look at the places where scenes were recorded to see what other ‘landmarks’ of this dying area are gone by that point.
Until then though, it’s a fun song and deserves a listen..
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LIGHTS OUT: Is this the scariest short film ever made!? I have two thoughts on it.. first off, it shows our attention spans collectively has shrunk rapidly. Comedy is down to 5 seconds.. horror is down to 2 minutes.
BUT.. it also shows that there is creativity in the ranks of younger horror enthusiasts.. people who are tired of the blood and gore of nothingness and into trying to creature something new and fresh. This 2+ minute video, LIGHTS OUT, actually gave me a few jumps.. It was tense and pretty damn amazing. Congrats to David Sandberg for LIGHTS OUT .. an award well deserved.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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This is a really strange video.. what is in this pond?? Toxic sludge or a portal to hell?
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