The prisoners had to be evacuated to a nearby church and kept under guard as the jail burned down. The prisoners are now being transferred to other facilities as a part of an emergency measure put in place..
Already conspiracy theories are arising in the local area.. ‘they wanted a new prison,’ one wrote on Facebook. The jail was old. But an inside job? No evidence (yet) .. but there is enough evidence to show that this brutal fire needs to be investigated fully..
1998 was clearly a solid year..
News from Columbus Ohio..a substitute teacher is up on felony charges for showing the horror movie THE ABCS OF DEATH to her class! The COLUMBUS DISPATCH has the full story on Sheila Kearns..
The defense attorney for Kearns argued that she had her back to the screen for the film and did not see the graphic sex or murder scenes.. The JURY in the case is going to be made to watch THE ABCS OF DEATH–anyone who has been aware of this film knows what the jury is going to see..
I have written about the ABCs before.. It’s not my type of horror flick to watch for fun.. BUT.. in fairness and, well, in America.. being fired may be the best result. Being kicked off the rosters in the entire state may be fine, too.
But criminal charges?
Prison time? All for a horror movie that, chances are, was already seen by half of the kids in the high school class rooms where it was being shown?
I think that goes well beyond too far.. But even horror movie fans seem divided on whether her punishment equals her crime.. Read the comments section on this BLOODY DISGUSTING article to get a full flavor of the sentiment among people who love horror but are still divided on whether she should do prison time..
‘UNFRIENDED’ is a horror movie that takes place entirely online. And it is being called deeply disturbing by people who have seen it. Perez Hilton says the scariest thing about the movie is how easily some of it can actually happen to anyone..
Is the core of the earth changing? Causing booms? That is what Linda Moulton Howe is wondering, along with lots of people who have felt the ground under their feet shake lately..
Print reborn!! 3 mil copies of the newest CHARLIE HEBDO magazine have sold out across France.. 2 million more copies are going to be printed to meeting the surge of demand in the nation (AND THE WORLD) for the first paper to be published since the attacks.. Interesting to note, this once had a flailing number of 60,000 prints per issue–and more than half of them were trashed due to the lack of interest. From 60,000 from 5 million.. Math tells me that is over an 8000% increase..
Just as SONY made a bad situation into a positive, perhaps the same is true for CHARLIE HEBDO..
NASA had said it suspected a sensor error and that astronauts were not thought to be in any danger.
As the NEW YORK TIMES reports,
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was right there next to the president of France on Sunday, marching through the streets of Paris for all the world to see — all the world, that is, except the readers of an ultra-Orthodox newspaper in Israel.
The newspaper, HaMevaser, altered a front-page photograph of the march to remove Ms. Merkel and other female leaders, setting off snickers and satire on social media.
Ultra-Orthodox publications generally avoid pictures of women for reasons of modesty, and their intended audience has been known to scratch women’s faces out of bus advertisements and to bar them from running for public office in their parties. But some people saw the deletions from the Paris photograph as a more serious sin.
CBS News is just one media outlet choosing to show the defiant cover of the new, post-massacre issue of Charlie Hebdo, which features a caricature of the prophet Mohammed shedding a tear under the headline “All Is Forgiven” and holding a sign which says “I Am Charlie.”
They are just one.
And not enough others are..
I have so many emotions running through my head about this young man—an amazing story. He was trapped inside his body for years.. Could not move.. his parents taking care of him, in a monotonous way, for 12 years.. and yet he now is able to speak through technology and a computer, he wrote a book about his trapped soul inside this body and his encountering of those silent demons of the mind.
Of course some may say the scariest is having to listen to the BARNEY show for hours a day for years—that is horrific, don’t you think?
From NPR, a highlight worth reading:
He was trapped, with only his thoughts for company. And they weren’t particularly nice thoughts.
"No one will ever show me tenderness. No one will ever love me."
And of course there was no way to escape. He thought, “You are doomed.”
So he figured his only option was to leave his thoughts behind.
That was his first strategy — disengaging his thoughts — and he says he got really good at it.
"You don’t really think about anything," Martin says. "You simply exist. It’s a very dark place to find yourself because, in a sense, you are allowing yourself to vanish."
But occasionally there were things that elicited thoughts he could not ignore.
Like Barney.
"I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney," Martin says.
Since all the world thought Martin was a vegetable, at the special care center where he spent his days he was often in front of the TV watching reruns of the children’s cartoon hour after hour, day after day.
Then one day, he decided he’d had enough. He wanted to gain some small measure of control over his day. So he figured out how to tell time by how the sun moved across a room. That was the start.
Eventually Martin found a way to reframe even the ugliest thoughts that haunted him. Like when his mother said, “I hope you die.”
I cannot even comprehend the magnitude of a child hearing his own mother tell him that she hopes he dies.. and yet she did because she felt he was living in an awful condition..
Yet he came out of it..
His parents are now emotional about the years they endured their trials and he is almost heroic in his description of outlasting his tribulation..
The story is inspiring, and it’s also seemingly one of luck.. not dumb luck, but perhaps a guided sense of purpose type of luck.
I would love to meet Martin and shake his hand and thank him for causing me to stop my own life for a while, slow down, and start re-thinking about a big picture I often forget.. the big picture of humanity.. and more than anything else, the big picture of respecting someone’s dignity and how, no matter what, we all deserve dignity..
This caused me to rethink some stuff and open some old wounds.. I am sure it will you, too, should you take the time to listen and contemplate..
Miracles do happen.
But why?
And why not to all?
Those are those unending questions that make me sleepless at night.
But for Martin, this amazing human, his words and inspiration may lead others to find a way out of their plight as well..
The chemical, BPS, is found in many products that bear the “BPA-free” label.
Great.. just great..
As hard as it is will be, the main goal in life suddenly seems to be: Just stay away from all plastic.
Good luck with that..
Let me just say, if you thought 2014 was strange, this years beginning no different…
Now we have the speaker of the house’s bartender plotting to kill him because the devil’s making him do it? These headlines read like a strange spy novel, but they’re true
I just wonder what the speaker’s drink of choice was, I’m sure something tropical to go with his orange glow..
Martin Pistorius suffered from a rare condition called “locked-in syndrome”
I read at least a dozen different articles on this boy today.. I plan on coming up with some more coherent thoughts when In have some time.. there is so much I am thinking..
The most moving thing I heard was an NPR interview with this miracle named Martin and his parents..
Some very eye opening and moving moments..
For now, this Washington POST article sums up some good facts..
The soldier just returned from duty in the hotzone of Ebola in West Africa..
MORE:
Killeen Police told KXXV the cause of death is unknown and that the soldier’s body has been sent to Dallas for an autopsy.
The soldier returned from Liberia in early January. Soldiers returning from West Africa are supposed to be in quarantine for 21 days after returning to the U.S. However, Fort Hood Officials said this soldier was home on emergency leave and was “self-monitoring himself twice-a-day and report his status to medical officials.”
Fort Hood Officials told NBC News there is no indication had Ebola nor is there any danger to the community.
Tests ongoing..
