Jonathan Laurence in SLATE: Marine Le Pen told a talk show host on Thursday morning she was “still waiting for her phone to ring” with an invitation from the prime minister to participate in Sunday’s national unity march. But Le Pen’s phone has remained silent. Government leaders are gambling that they don’t need her and can keep the National Front at a safe distance from its street-level display of strength and solidarity

The timing of the Paris attacks couldn’t be more interesting.. an election coming and a victory for an insurgent right wing candidate looks like a good chance. 

Jonathan Laurence in SLATE: Marine Le Pen told a talk show host on Thursday morning she was “still waiting for her phone to ring” with an invitation from the prime minister to participate in Sunday’s national unity march. But Le Pen’s phone has remained silent. Government leaders are gambling that they don’t need her and can keep the National Front at a safe distance from its street-level display of strength and solidarity

America about to change

President Barack Obama says he’ll propose making two years of community college “free for everybody who’s willing to work for it.” CNN reporting. And everyone else will soon..

J.C. Penney, Macy's to shut stores, lay off scores

If anyone visited a mall this Christmas season, this should come as no surprise

J.C. Penney, Macy's to shut stores, lay off scores

Manila Traffic Enforcers to Wear Diapers During Pope's Visit

I suppose it’s a sacrifice for God.

Manila Traffic Enforcers to Wear Diapers During Pope's Visit

Blast hits restaurant near mosque in France's east

Is this a continuation of yesterday’s terror attack?

Blast hits restaurant near mosque in France's east

Meteorite turns night into day over Bucharest, Romania

The light is immensely bright as well..

Meteorite turns night into day over Bucharest, Romania

The Complete Guide to Horror Movies in 2015

It is as complete I suppose as one could get..
It looks like a solid group of garbage in my opinion, with a few gems of exceptions..
But 2014 was an equally useless year for the genre.. So why not continue suckage well into ‘15..

The Complete Guide to Horror Movies in 2015

Science says you might have psychopathic traits if you post a lot of selfies

Here is the gist of the study as reported by the UK INDEPENDENT: 

Men who take more selfies have higher than average traits of narcissism and psychopathy, a study from academics at Ohio State University has found.

The research, published in the journal of Personality and Individual Differences, looked at 800 men between the ages of 18-40 who completed an online survey about how many photos they posted on social media, and another questionnaire looking at their personality traits.

It also found men who edited their selfies before posting them were more likely to have traits of narcissism but editing selfies was not linked to psychopathic traits.

I am a bit back and forth on this, quite frankly.

I am not a selfie kind of guy, and typically avoid cameras.. but at times I really enjoy having photographs of myself in certain situations. Nostalgia sets in quickly. I also appreciate that my wife snaps a number of photos of the family for posterity..

However, I also know people who take lots of snapshots of themselves to document, in a sense, their self importance. And yes, they put that colored hue on it courtesy of the iPhone effects of Instagram editing.. Virtually no photo taken anymore is actually of the scene. Instead colors are changed and the edits are done to make the fragmentation look better and the pixelation tanner.

I do not think, though, that every person who is a selfie fiend is also a self-aggrandizing psychopath in the works.. 

But a lot are. 
I think that..

Think back to history, though. I would say this: If cell phones were around during Black Plague, the Middle Ages, the Civil War, the French Revolution, selfies would have been just as popular then as they are now.

Even during the 1800s, it was a major big deal to get a family portrait snapped.. It was historic for a person to get their image solidified in history.

Now there’s a billion selfies being posted every second of the day. And quite frankly, the more that get posted the less they matter.

Psychopaths maybe. But it’s a psychopathic world where no one gives a damn anymore about what you ate or where you went. You simply exist in your own small sheltered world of self importance. 

Enjoy it.

Science says you might have psychopathic traits if you post a lot of selfies

Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks

Despite the pedophile mogul’s conviction for soliciting underage prostitution, his circle is standing by their man. Scientists whose research Epstein funded also back the billionaire, writes Alexandra Wolfe.

Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks

A new study from reputable sources claims that the SUN may actually predict how long a person lives

The lifespan of those born in periods of solar maximum — interludes marked by powerful flares and geomagnetic storms — was “5.2 years shorter” on average than those born during a solar minimum, they found. “Solar activity at birth decreased the probability of survival to adulthood,” thus truncating average lifespan, according to the paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Causation or correlation?

I am sure there are people who are surprised to see such astrology making the rounds in real news sources today.. but this study seems to confirm long held worship of the giant orange ball in the sky..

But think about the actual results. . In a way, they make perfect sense. 

Everything is connected.. we all are, too..

Looks like I have five years less.. 1980 was a big year for solar flares. 

A new study from reputable sources claims that the SUN may actually predict how long a person lives

Jeffrey Epstein And A Long History Of Slime

And some names may surprise you.

LIKE STEPHEN HAWKING!?

The SMOKING GUN reports:

Epstein refers to himself as a “science and education philanthropist” who sponsors “cutting edge science around the world.” In 2012, Epstein hosted Stephen Hawking at a science conference held on his private Caribbean island. The theoretical physicist joined the sex offender, three Nobel Prize winners, and other noted scientists like Lawrence Krauss for a discussion on gravity.

The sordid tale only gets weirder..

Jeffrey Epstein And A Long History Of Slime

A scene of defiance..large crowds descend on Paris as darkness falls.. tributes being placed to the cartoonists killed today . and people holding signs saying “not afraid” …

MORE..

Y2K-15?!

The International Earth Rotation Service will add a leap second on June 30 to sync up the atomic clock time to Earth’s rotational time.

And that is supposedly now going to cause a problem for the internet..

Here is a good summation of the summer’s upcoming computer problems from THE VERGE

Of course, not every website or company has the sort of engineering resources needed to implement something like a “leap smear,” and when June 30th rolls around in the summer, you can expect to see the odd outage or two. Beyond clever engineering though, there’s not much to be done. As The Telegraph reports, there are some factions in the US that would like to drop the leap second altogether, but doing so would mean unmooring our concept of time from one of the most fundamental timescales, the solar day, and setting civil time on a path forever diverging from time as measured by our planet. Would it be worth the trouble? We’ll get another chance to find out on June 30th.

Just something else to worry about.

As far as why the second is being added: The earth’s rotation has slowed..

While I have seen a multitude of theories as to why, let’s not forget the major earthquakes of the past ten years—and even how some speculated after the Japan quake in ‘11 that it caused an earth wobble and affected time itself.

Cue the DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED VIDEO.

Y2K-15?!

I thoroughly disdain the term “polar vortex” .. I liked the 1990s term ‘Arctic Express” much better. It felt happier and more a reminder of winter as opposed to the deadly cold that is going to bite our faces away..

Just look at how cold it’s going to get.. The way it will fear as far as Florida.. this is a deep freeze.

It may not last long. But with temperatures that low who cares.. let it end fast..

UNEXPECTED Strong geomagnetic storm hits Earth

The warning also said that the storm could push the area where the Aurora could be seen as far south as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.

The main intensity of the storm was supposed to have affected the planet just before 6:30 a.m. but the storm was reported to still be in progress at 9 a.m.

The storm was being called ‘unexpected’ .. This is how SPACE WEATHER documented today’s event: 

UNEXPECTED GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A strong G3-class geomagnetic storm erupted during the early hours of Jan. 7th, sparking bright auroras around Earth’s poles. What happened? The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near our planet tipped south, opening a crack in Earth’s magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in to fuel the strongest magnetic storm since Sept. 2014. NOAA analysts believe the fluctuation in IMF is related to the arrival of a CME originally expected to miss Earth. Browse the aurora gallery for pictures of the event. 

The geomagnetic storm is the strongest to hit Earth since September..

UNEXPECTED Strong geomagnetic storm hits Earth

This is an image of a police offering begging for his life at the Charlie Hebdo building.. The media is opting to only show this still image and now the next scene in which the officer has his head blown off..

FLASHBACK: White House slams French magazine Charlie Hebdo over Islam cartoons

An interesting flasback via poorrichardsnews:

This is from 2012.  Leave it to the Obama administration to take the side of the terrorists…

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday criticized the “judgment” of a French satirical magazine for publishing cartoons that are critical of the Islamist political movement, amid the routine threat of attacks by Islamists during President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.

“We are aware that a French magazine published cartoons featuring a figure resembling the prophet Muhammad, and obviously we have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this,” Carney told reporters during a midday press briefing at the White House.

“We know these images will be deeply offensive to many and have the potential be be inflammatory,” Carney said in a prepared statement.

The French government reacted to the expected threats by temporarily shutting down embassies and schools in 20 countries with significant Muslim populations.

Certainly, in the perceptive of today’s events, this is interesting..

FLASHBACK: White House slams French magazine Charlie Hebdo over Islam cartoons

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Raw footage of the Paris terror attack..

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

EARTHQUAKES CONTINUE IN TEXAS!

9 in 24 hours..

Make that 11 in 27!

New information breaking shows a steady continuation of the quakes around Dallas.. 

The latest two ..

8:34 a.m. Wednesday               2.6 magnitude

9:57 a.m. Wednesday               2.7 magnitude

The aim is to laugh. We want to laugh at the extremists — every extremist. They can be Muslim, Jewish, Catholic. Everyone can be religious, but extremist thoughts and acts we cannot accept.

Charlie Hebdo journalist LAURENT LEGER, speaking after the firebombing of his publication’s offices in 2011; the controversial magazine had published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.

(via Time Magazine)

And the events of today have led to anything but laughter..