There does seem to be something awry in the human mind as of late.. maybe it’s all the selfies we’ve been selfin?
Expert: Selfie Addiction May Cause Mental Illness
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
There is probably no statement because the story is just breaking and there is not even that much concrete information yet. It takes some effort to pull a press conference together. Stop being so fucking critical.
The facts you mention are worthwhile and correct. But I said what I said only because those facts never stopped people previously from making immediate statements..
So an update to the angry question and my calm response.. a full 10 hours have passed by without any significant response from anyone in national government. The Governor of Pennsylvania issued a statement, but crickets can still be heard from on high.
Of course Jay Carney did say that Barack and Michelle are “sending prayers.” To me that seems as meaningless as the people on Facebook who ‘send prayers’ in comments on a post..
If this was gun violence, a bigger response would have been heard.
I think it’s time to stop judging crime based on the weapon picked.. I think it’s time to figure out why the kids aren’t alright…
Let’s see what prescriptions our still unnamed sophomore from the Franklin Regional high school was taking..
'There's a kid with a knife,' teen says of school stabbings
CNN story also describes how some students react to the chaos, stabbings. One student said that she heard a commotion the longer, and thought it was a fight. And she saw blood spurting and stabber run..
It sounds like true Scenicpark, worse most likely than even harder movie that has plagued theaters.
'There's a kid with a knife,' teen says of school stabbings
News now that the Franklin regional high school stabber was a sophomore boy
Emergency management officials have also said the principal had an altercation of some sort the boy, that the stabbings took place in the classroom and hallway, and that the school resource officer was the one who eventually handcuffed the sophomore after he stabbed at least 20 people ages 14 through 60..
There is probably no statement because the story is just breaking and there is not even that much concrete information yet. It takes some effort to pull a press conference together. Stop being so fucking critical.
The facts you mention are worthwhile and correct. But I said what I said only because those facts never stopped people previously from making immediate statements..
Some more information being reported on the Franklin Regional massacre
Rumors at this point.. no information is verified, but there are some interesting tweets and pieces of information now coming to light:
The suspect has been taken into custody..
The FBI is on the scene..
One report: Assistant Principal wrestled 2 knives away from suspect..
No metal detectors at HS; student had 2 knives..
MORE COMING
Why no statement from the White House or any officials on this Pittsburgh stabbing??
Silence is deafening so far..
I suspect if it was a school shooting, there’d be a stronger reaction from D.C.
Seven teenagers and an adult were taken to Forbes Regional Hospital, Dr. Chris Kauffman, the trauma director there, told CNN. The seven were stabbed in the chest, back and abdomen, he said. He characterized some of the injuries as life-threatening.
Some of the students were in the operating room, others undergoing CT scans, he said.
“These are quite serious injuries,” he said. “These are not superficial in nature.”
One hospital reported that it had a patient as old as 60.
Latest NBC report on this emotionally overwhelming story..
Multiple students stabbed in Pittsburgh are in surgery..
CNN is reporting that several of the children have ‘deep stab wounds’ and that multiple hospitals have some in surgery—life threatening wounds are being tended to.
DEVELOPING..
A student reported that someone came into the school with a knife and started slashing people, including some of his friends. That information has not been confirmed by police.
Pittsburgh station WTAE • On the mass stabbing that took place at a Pennsylvania high school. The suspect is reportedly in custody. (via shortformblog)
As with any school shooting, in this case a mass stabbing, rumors are running wild. this one included.. lots of information yet to be sorted out..
School Stabbing Spree: 20 Hurt in Pittsburgh-Area Attack
NBC NEWS: As many as 20 students were hurt when a classmate went on a stabbing rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a high school outside Pittsburgh on Wednesday …
The numbers keep increasing.. no word on deaths. Only injuries.. true thoughts and prayers going out to this part of the state—collective consciousnesses is required or prayers if you believe.. Send as much positive energy as you can.
School Stabbing Spree: 20 Hurt in Pittsburgh-Area Attack
A multiple stabbing situation is developing at a Pittsburgh PA area high school
Multiple people stabbed at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa.; conditions unknown; suspect in custody, police say.. not a school shooting—a school stabbing.. It happened at 7:15 am, about 15 minutes after the high school opened. Middle school is secure. Knives don’t stab people, people stab people.
Emergency crews raced to a high school outside Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning after a report of multiple stabbings. A county official said that as many as six people were reported injured.
A suspect was in custody, Dan Stevens, a Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman, told NBC News.
The stabbings were reported at Franklin Regional High School, in the suburb of Murrysville.
WPXI, the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh, reported that hospitals had been told to expect patients. The first injury calls came in about 7:15 a.m., about 15 minutes after the school doors opened for the day, the station reported.
The school district website said that high school students and middle school students nearby were “secure,” and that elementary school had been canceled for the day. The cited “a critical incident” at the high school.
Streets around the school were sealed off.
Peaches Geldof post mortem 'inconclusive' pending drink and drugs tests results: Examination carried out this morning still leaves mystery surrounding death
The death of the daughter of musician and campaigner Bob Geldof and late presenter Paula Yates, has so far been described by police as ‘sudden and unexplained’.
I didn’t post anything concerning this yesterday when news broke, but I have been reading as much as I could about it.. The demise of this girl, only 25 years of age and a mother of two beautiful children, is dead.. The death is being said to be “unexplained.” Inconclusive .. all of those mystery words that are somewhat reminiscent of the death of Brittany Murphy.. Drug and alcohol tests are still coming in Geldof’s passing.
The last time I heard any news about Peaches was in November 2013.. She became the subject of an investigation after she Tweeted the names of two mothers in the Ian Watkins case.. The Watkins matter is disturbing.. Lostprophets’ Ian Watkins was sentenced to 35 years for a series of child sex crimes including the rape of a baby.. Watkins said he did not successfully rape the 11-month-old but did admit to attempted rape. That sentencing was in December 2013.
But let’s flash back to November.. Peaches published the names of the mothers involved with Ian Watkins—the mothers who gave their babies to him to be raped. On Twitter, Peaches said that newspapers knowing the names of the women should print them—she then published the names herself but quickly deleted the Tweets .. One Tweet she posted prior to the release of names said that Watkins was a talentless musical hero and that the mothers were “equal in monstrosity.” The release of the names set off a bitter debate online, and people took to defending Geldof for her right to tell. The amazing part—you know how they say ‘nothing ever vanishes from the internet once it’s printed? The tweet naming the two women vanished. Scrubbed.. like a bad page from 1984, there’s really no mention of it.. Nor is there a mention in the post-mortem summaries anything of Geldof’s insistence on naming the women who helped Watkins rape babies..
We fast forward to April 2014: Geldof is dead at 25.
In one her Gelfof’s final tweets before being found dead, she posted a photograph of her as a child being held closely by her mother… It read “me and my mum.”
I find it strange—maybe purely coincidental—that just a few months after this awful story of Tweets and sentencing occurred, with Peaches being directly at the center of the firestorm, she’s not dead.. And dead at 25. And leaving two children behind—something I doubt she would have wanted to do given her love of her own mother and how much she missed her..
But strange things happen. As do coincidences..
Peaches is gone too soon. Judging from the honest and fiery tweets I read, she seemed to be a grounded and good person.
And it’s those honest and grounded people who so often don’t live a full life these days.
Peaches Geldof post mortem 'inconclusive' pending drink and drugs tests results: Examination carried out this morning still leaves mystery surrounding death
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Meteors blood moons and planetary alignments.. This is the song stuck in my head tonight.. Make it stop!
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The God of War aligns with Earth
I was talking my dog late this evening .. there was a beautiful deep orange and red sunset dimming in the West.. I looked to the East while Mutley the dog was using his radar love to find ‘the spot’ to do his deed.. I saw Mars high in the sky—brighter than a typical planet and redder than anything else in the night twilight..It was a beautiful scene.
Immediately I thought about the photograph I saw this morning of the ‘light on Mars’—though it may turn out to be a simple camera anomaly, it’s deeply wondrous to conjecture up a civilization living on Mars, dodging out of camera sight when the Rovers snap away.. maybe they live underground? Maybe they are in those rocky red mountains.. Maybe it’s all just the mindless ramblings of an imagination while a dog owner patiently waits for his animal to use the gravitational force to find a spot to let loose.
And just then…
I saw the brightest, whitest, and most beautiful light slowly glaze across the night sky. It was huge… it was quiet.. and it was streaming through the air just below the sight of Mars in my vision.
Though anything with space is deceptive, the fireball streaking through my sky this evening was as bright and big as what a full moon would look like to the naked eye.. I do believe a tail was following it.. Most likely some sort of meteor or ….well, maybe even a space craft??
Nah… those little green men don’t exist.
But the brilliant light was shocking—so much so that the last thing I wanted to do was take my eyes off of it.. I didn’t even care to take out my phone and snap a photo—and really, it would not have been good enough to brag about anyway with an iPhone’s nighttime inabilities..
After I sat down for the evening with a warm cup of tea and cold slice of pizza, I remembered that tonight was the night when the Earth, Mars and the Sun will align tonight.. And this alignment is coming exactly a week prior to the Earth seeing the first in a series of ‘blood moons’—a type of astrological event that some paranoid folk would say portends some good ole’ end times. Just an simple internet search will showcase the oodles upon noodles of people from around the planet who fret the end of the world with the heavenly signs in the sky—John Hagee is one of those folks who said that tonight’s alignment begins a ‘hugely significant event’ for the world.
So he says..
And so lots of people say.
I just know this..
During a quiet moment of pondering my own insignificance and possibly the meaningless or meaningful nature of life—it really can go either way—I saw a big fireball streak across my eyes and vanish overtop of trees near my house.. I don’t equate my vision with anything except this: We are small here on earth.. it’s a dangerous universe out there and we don’t ever really know what will happen or where it will ..
We do know though that lots of prophets and parasites have come and gone, and they have done their damnedest to damn us.
As for John Hagee?
He always reminded me of someone..
Remember that scene from Stephen King’s STORM OF THE CENTURY where the entire town of people have the same dream of a minister preaching a fiery end times gospel and all of the townsfolk committing mass suicide by jumping into icy Atlantic ocean waters? That’s who John Hagee reminds me of..
Maybe the blood moons will be something big. Or maybe they won’t.
But remember this: Every day is the end of the world for about 150,000 or so people. Every day. And it’s the first day for thousands, too.
Born into a world of sin.
They come on in.
You can read this story of a nursing home hiring strippers.. and then talk amongst yourselves.. I’m verklempt..
Seriously.. strippers!?
I wonder if they were told something exciting was coming their way? Were they warned? Maybe they thought something puréed.. a new applesauce..
But they got strippers.
The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood
A great article.. Anghus Houvouras on the zombiefication of Hollywood.
I have known Anghus for years and have followed him.. he used to write a column for my other site, HORRORREPORT.COM, and he continues to be a great and outspoken commentator on the current times of Hollywood.
He writes this;
The entertainment landscape is starting to look like an episode of The Walking Dead. Originality is a dwindling number of survivors making their way through an unforgiving apocalyptic landscape where the threat of being devoured by rapidly multiplying zombie franchises seems inevitable.
How true that is..
The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood
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