One Tom out. Another in.

Tom Wolf now the Governor of Pennsylvania..

Pope: Catholics need not breed 'like rabbits'

And even more..

Don’t forget: Every Sperm is Sacred

Pope: Catholics need not breed 'like rabbits'

WNEP’s live stream of Tom Wolf’s inauguration keeps crashing. And every time I go back to click on it again I accidentally express my interesting in Turkey sausage flatbreads..

Facebook The Best Predictor of Your Actions

Using info on one’s Facebook page, new software proved itself better able to judge one’s personality than friends and family members could.

Just more proof that technology is becoming another arm of human behavior.. we are programming our personal Facebook pages to act as us.. This gives rise to the strong potential for Facebook to be programmed to automatically publish links and thoughts even after we are long dead.. 

Think about that one..
Deep..
Like BLACK MIRROR stuff there, don’t you think?

Facebook The Best Predictor of Your Actions

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Sort of bizarre.. PCN’s coverage of Tom Wolf’s inauguration has been showing this guy for quite some some. I think he’s testing some stuff..  or did he just step in front of the camera? Even more.. he looks like a cross between Michael Moore and Kevin Smith,

At one point, as noted in the photo, he looked pretty enthusiastic that so many people were seeing him instead of the new Governor..

In this tweet, @BigJoeBastardi is talking about a storm I have also been watching for this weekend.. At this point, the model he speaks of is forecasting a big hit on the East Coast.. 

Something I would truly not like.. my wife is set for a plane flight home this Saturday night. A MECS would be a troubling issue for that …

There’s another storm possible even AFTER this one 120 hours out—lots of time to go and lots of moving and shaking of models may still occur. We don’t know until we are about 38-48 hours away..

The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history

Some food for thought on Chris Kyle from a 2014 WASHINGTON POST story.. the sniper we are all seemingly celebrating because of a movie ..

The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history

ISIS plans for the 21st century: 20th century death, times a few hundred million

ISIS plans for the 21st century: 20th century death, times a few hundred million

ISIS members using animals to practice beheadings discovered in Israel

Seven ISIS members arrested in Haifa, Israel, for forming the terror group’s first cell in the country brutally slaughtered live animals as they practiced how to behead people.

ISIS members using animals to practice beheadings discovered in Israel

Orphaned by Boko Haram: 'They are slaughtering people'

Yes indeed.. this is the world we live in..

Orphaned by Boko Haram: 'They are slaughtering people'

Fox Announces They Will Reboot 'The X-Files'

I am a little shaky about this..
I don’t know if the 1990s and all their glory can be recreated..

Then again, Art Bell plans on returning to broadcasting in July of this year.. so perhaps we can party like it’s 1999 all over again..

Fox Announces They Will Reboot 'The X-Files'

Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck gushes over sniper: Killing 33 people in 4 months is ‘incredible’

Yea.. I guess that’s quite incredible..

Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck gushes over sniper: Killing 33 people in 4 months is ‘incredible’

You don't have lots of money. Even if you think you do, you don't. Need proof?

HERE..

Half of the wealth of the world is held by the 1%..

And this..
In the city of Angels, you need to earn at least $33 an hour just to afford a basic apartment..

New York TIMES details what men who don't work are doing

And they also offer up an interactive map of where men who don’t work exist..

New York TIMES details what men who don't work are doing

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AMERICA, seriously!?
Mark Dice proves in a new video that lots of Americans either think Martin Luther King JUST DIED or was the first African American to walk on the moon..

Dumber than a sack of rocks, America..
You make me very unproud..

Lee Greenwood needs to re-write his song if this keeps up..

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Tom Wolf, who becomes the Governor of Pennsylvania tomorrow, is making some history already.. he nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to the office of physician general. She’s a transgender woman.. But much more importantly, she has an impressive record and amazing reputation among people who know her..

Historic, yes.. But deeper I think than the skin deep issues are the ideals she possesses.. Perhaps a new take on medicine is coming to the Keystone State. Long overdue if that occurs!

It’s BLUE MONDAY. The saddest day of the year.. Bills are due. The doldrums setting in.. Winter is here. Moods are deflated. As are wallets. And the buying splurge we went on a month ago seems silly now. As it does every blue Monday of every year..

The Patriots may have deflated footballs in DeflateGate scandal

All the world’s a stage.. and the players are merely players. In sports, all the world’s a fix, and the schmucks are those who don’t think so.. From the world of football today, there is some big news called DeflateGate.. A source is telling reporters that the PATRIOTS may have deflated footballs in their 45-7 victory over the Colts on Sunday night.. READ MORE HERE»>  The NFL is ‘investigating‘ ..

The Patriots may have deflated footballs in DeflateGate scandal

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My wife is in St. Maarten for the week—my son and dog are both stuck with me alone for the week.. The strict regiment of 9pm nbedtime failed last night already.. I envision the day care start times as being late each day too if the pattern, already set in motion, continues..

Without delving too deep into my personal issues here, this has been a rough bit for me .. Eight crazy nights’ worth of being the loner dad—that doesn’t sound right does it?—and knowing that, while I peer out of my dirty coal-covered windows at a lazy winter gray sky my wife will be suffering through sunny days with 80 degree temperatures.. 

Nonetheless, these are the plights and perils of only one parent going on a vacation while the other does not.

However, in my strange mindset, my wife set me the photo you see with this post of the view from her airplane wing as she flew south.. My first thought was how much it resembled the scene from the Shatner TWILIGHT ZONE.. Really.. 

Maybe this is my other paranoia setting in—the fear of flying that was deeply ingrained in my non-traveling parents at an early age. 

People of the coal region inflict that on others.. My wife, who was from Philadelphia, never had to worry about the sheltered mountain mentality of being fearful of change and discovering new things.. I suppose now 30+ years into that fear, it’s still so hard to overcome that I see visions of monsters on airplane wings..

My son has already announced that he listens to ‘mommy when she counts to three,’ but went on to remind me ‘but I am not going to listen to you when you do it!’ And then he belted out an evil laugh..

7 more days..
One week.
Either from parental hell or from angelic heaven.

Time will tell. As will moods—and God forbid some wretched snowstorm piles up this week, forcing us to maintain sanity in four walls.

While in St. Maarten? 85. Sunny. What else is new..

That moment of disappointment

musingsinhtx:

When you turn on the scifi channel and see “Friday the 13th” followed by “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and after being psyched for an 80s slasher fest find out they’re the remakes.

MY GOD.. I agree with this 10000%