Perhaps the title speaks for itself..
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches
Since the 80s the entire program was turned to waste. Nothing improved even with newer guidelines. The sugar industry had too much say… sick examples are presented here when the Daily Mail compares the US school lunches to cash strapped nation…
Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches
This image is sure to stir up controversy (and sell some fish wrappers).. the NEW YORK POST pictures President Obama with a blindfold around his head as a message that he is ignoring Islamic terror threats…
You can read the article in full here: http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/obama-refuses-to-acknowledge-muslim-terrorists-at-summit/
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The 500 pound meteor in the room
AAn amazing—and scary—piece of news is being reported ..
Americans in New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania reported seeing a fiery, 500-pound meteor soar through the sky this week before the space rock apparently broke up somewhere over the Keystone State, according to scientists.
NASA said on Tuesday this week that the meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere in the sky above western Pennsylvania earlier that morning and was reportedly witnessed by spectators stretching for hundreds of miles across the United States from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest.
The meteor burst into flames above PITTSBURGH..
Remnants of the meteor ended up on the ground in Pennsylvania—my home state as well. I didn’t see this, however, it seemed more confined to the Western part of the state..
It was traveling at 45,000 miles per hour..
The video and the story are both equally amazing..
There were reports of sonic booms.. Lots of calls to the AMA..
And also this piece of interesting news: A meteor exploded over New Zealand yesterday..
The pink stars are falling all too often lately, don’t you think?
The 500 pound meteor in the room
I went back and found this Microsoft PAINT creation I made in the year almost ten years ago—already! It seems like yesterday. What was obvious then is that TV mattered—certainly more so than it does NOW as proven by the TIME magazine article I posted tonight on the death of television..
Pop culture was once dictated to us.. It was once forced down our digestive tracts..
Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.
There is a revolution in what people want and how they want it.. The talking heads who gave us what they wanted us to digest are almost no more—the power is in the people’s hands.. is this why regulation is being discussed? Why the Internet will be branded as a public utility and the government will act accordingly?
Since 1998 the NET was a wild west, tamed a bit by modernization and maturity.. but we are living in unparalleled times.
Anything is possible.
Good.
And bad.
It is our choice .. and cutting out the norm of how we once acted is a good choice.
Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever
This is important and game changing.. A cultural switch is going on. And this backs up my point the other night that Saturday Nighy Live and other live programs are becoming increasingly irrelevant ..
Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.
Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever
Mystery Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet
So many things in the universe we don’t know yet.. so many mysteries we have yet to discover.. we are left to ponder the strange things we have yet to find a d these little lights on a tiny planet showcase the infancy of our universal lives. .
Mystery Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
This is what a real woman looks like when she is near 50.. CNN reports this:
《 The image comes from a cover shoot for the December 2013 issue of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America, representatives for the Mexico-based publication said. The photo in question was not published, and spokespeople did not provide an explanation for how it surfaced last week.》
The ultimate response to the photo has been applause.. I’m OK with the picture too..
Clearly we have been overwmeled by popular media and lied to about what real beauty is…
Another one bites the dust
The Schuylkill Mall is being hit with another store closing.. Kmart liquidation will be this year..
80 employees out of a job..another anchor store shuddred.. another day closer to the now very likely demise of the once great mall on the hill..
Another one bites the dust
If people think this is journalisitucally offensive they probably never visited the Newseum or have any inkling on just how rude and crude newspapers once were.. that’s not to diminish what this paper did. But shouldn’t first amendment protections be afforded to those who we disagree with the most?
Quite frankly this is one of the major problems I have with Raw Story and other publications geared to promote themselves in Facebook. The vast majority of time is spent on click bate or controversial headlines that often neglect to delve any deeper than the byline.
Online news gathering and consumption should NE amazing. Instead we are left to debate mundane and insignificant events on social media.
Why I am quitting sleep meditations
The march of machines is taking our jobs from under our feet.. robots will accomplish tasks once held by human.
But in all of the futureshock we are being hit with, one thing remains clear: People are still trying to be people. And get in touch with the larger element of our cosmos..
Enter into the equation something that maybe could be the job of the future: An expert on meditation..
Mary Macvean of the LA TIMES writes that people are seeking a way to slow down.. a moment to take a breather and disconnect from the highly wired world. And in doing so, find the inner peace that is promised with meditation..
The LA TIMES opens this way:
“Bring your attention to this moment,” Janice Marturano instructed. “Be open to sensations of warmth or coolness, sensations of fullness from breakfast, or perhaps hunger.” Minutes later, the meditation ended with the traditional strikes of little hand cymbals.
Buddhists? Old hippies? New Agers?
Nope. The room was full of hospital executives and managers in lab coats and scrubs, jeans and sports coats at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. And the teacher was Marturano, once a top executive at General Mills.
And it goes from there–people who are in highly respected walks of life are the new meditators.. They are attempting to slow down a bit..
Years ago, well before the 60s generation drugged the meditation world up, this would have been unheard of. It wasn’t so long ago that even Catholic priests warned of the dangers of meditation.. you can slip out of the realm here and let evil forces take over. Now most religions are heralding in the power of yoga and mixing it with prayer. What was blasphemy then is bastioning now.
I can see it now.. experts in meditation opening up their own buildings where people can find solitude in darkness. Experts and ‘gurus’ will be the new fad–and lots of people will pay big money to those who call themselves a subject matter expert in the art of just being alive without a handheld device.
Instead of a quiet walk in the woods, we will pay hundreds of dollars to someone who can give us the experience in alternate ways.. A new movement! And a new job market.. Finally humans may have found the one thing robots can’t do. Well.. maybe not.
There is one interesting caveat, and a personal one, I’d like to share on this, however.. And an important one. For about two weeks, I was attempting a certain sleep meditation (one that will remain nameless, as I don’t want to besmirch the reputation of a highly visited YOUTUBE page.) It seemed to be putting my to sleep quite fast.. the video’s essentially said it would connect me, or the user listening, to the God of the universe. Whatever that meant..
The video clearly had an impact on my life. But not the one I expected.. For about two weeks, I fell asleep fast without trouble. But I didn’t dream.. I literally can’t remember one instance in the two weeks where I woke up remembering any dream at all. Even more, for about a week and a half my daily life seemed slower and more zombielike. I didn’t get excited about nearly anything.. I was zoned out, and even my morning coffee didn’t do much to awaken me. I stopped the meditation and without about three or four days I was back acting normal again, heart racing after caffeine. Even my tin-foil hat paranoia was back in full force.
So which ‘me’ was the better me? Zoned out and careless about most of everything. Or wired with a touch of mental anarchy? A better question, perhaps: Which was the real me? I have lived most of my life being stranger than some and perceiving conspiracy where others don’t even see smoke. But I am never at rest. The meditation-version of me was at rest. At night, and even during the day..
This showcases, at least for me, the power of meditation and the ability of the mind-body connection becoming more of an albatross than a savior.
I am quitting the nighttime hypnoses.
Instead maybe I’ll just take a phone-free walk in the snow winter woods.
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