Pope Francis is visiting the White House this September when he in the United States..
For purposes of posterity, here are some photos of previous presidential and pontiff relations..
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Robot eat Dog world
The future is now.. robots are replacing human beings in most lines of work. The service industry and manufacturing base is collapsing.. Even actors may be replaced by digital versions.. And now this: Goodbye guide dogs.. Robots on reins about to take their work..
Catholic priest, ex-EWTN TV host, fathered child; he’s now in custody fight, accused of abuse
My grandmother watched this quite often when I was young.. I recall this priest’s face from my early days. Thankfully, as a child, I didn’t know him personally..
According to prosecutors, screaming could be heard on the audio recording only in the last few minutes, and death was instantaneous for those on board when the plane crashed.
Whether that is true or not, perhaps we’ll never know.. It certainly is easier for humans to digest the idea that death is unknown rather than an 11 minute knowing of the doom to come..
New research reveals why animals don’t get schizophrenia and humans do
Think this: Bigger brains. Bigger problems.
New research reveals why animals don’t get schizophrenia and humans do
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
And you thought the Flight 370 was a mystery..
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
Attention all teenagers
There must be an epidemic today of teenagers crying online, on Twitter and Facebook, about the Zayn One Direction nonsense. Keep in mind, the internet never goes away now. All of your tears will come back to haunt you five years from now when you wonder why you cried about this..
I’m very happy the internet wasn’t popular with Hootie and the Blowfish broke up..
I have yet to find the person that will disprove my theory
People who drive white vans that have curtains on the windows are always crazy
Huge asteroid is on near-collision course with Earth..but it will miss.
If the 2014-YB35 asteroid hit Earth it could wipe out a country
Even more troulbing: This fire in the sky is about to skim past Earth this FRIDAY—THIS FRIDAY—at 23,000 MPH..
It will not hit us.. But it’s relatively close and will be viewed by professional and amateur astronomers alike..
It’s also a huge reminder—in size and meaning—of how much is beyond us that can endanger this planet.
While we argue about useless memes and toil away with trouble, the danger lurks in our galaxy. It can strike at any time. So far we’ve been lucky.. But you sure would think by now we would have found a way to find these threats and do something about them …
Huge asteroid is on near-collision course with Earth..but it will miss.
Germanwings plane crash: New information suggests that the descent took 18 minutes, not 8
A lot of initial reporting on the Germanwings flight crash in the French Alps has been discredited as more information has surfaced.. The initial report yesterday that a mayday distress call was placed was wrong.. And then another issue was reported, that the descent of Flight 9525 took 8 minutes. Instead, new information suggests, it took 18!
John Lichfield with the UK INDEPENDENT reports this for history:
The French environment and transport minister, Ségolène Royal, said that the crew of the Airbus A320 had stopped responding on radio at 10.30am yesterday when the aircraft was over the Mediterranean.
The aircraft slammed into the sheer side of a mountain in the French Alps soon after 10.48am. For those 18 minutes, it gradually shed height from 28,000 feet to less than 2,000 feet without transmitting any form of distress signal.
This information is also being reported: The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said that so-called “black box” had been damaged in the crash but was “usable”. .. For some reason, I hesitate buying into this at this point. With the number of times official stories have already changed, I wouldn’t doubt a change in this factoid either.
At this point, the results from yesterday’s crash are horrific.. one family last three generations of people. A school lost 16 of its best and brightest children.. The heartache extends to the United States with news that two passengers on the doomed flight were from here..
And a few more things of note as well:
Three generations of one family dead in plane crash..
Mystery: What happened on Flight 9525?
Two people from the United States were on flight..
Weather an issue in search ..
Germanwings plane crash: New information suggests that the descent took 18 minutes, not 8
Three generations of a family die in Alps plane crash
Three generations of one family — a schoolgirl, her mother and grandmother — were on the Germanwings plane that crashed, according to a town outside Barcelona.
A statement from Sant Cugat del Valles town hall didn’t provide their names.
The girl was a student of a middle school for children aged 10 to 11 at Santa Isabel school in Sant Cugat.
"The students are very affected. The teachers are trying to help them any way they can," said a woman who answered the phone at the school. She refused to give her name or comment further.
—By Associated Press writer Jorge Sainz in Madrid.
Three generations of a family die in Alps plane crash
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Two stories to make you feel very very small
Just when you think your plight in the grand scheme of things matters a bit, news comes along to give perspective to just how tiny we all are. Today, two examples exist in science news, presented for your review:
Maybe JUPITER is planet x!? There is new information to suggest that the early solar system was made up of giant super earths. And then Jupiter came along to smash things into pieces.. A theory for now, but certainly amazing when considering the mighty explosion something like this could have made..
And this other tale, a little closer to home: The huge Australian impact of an asteroid was so large that it caused cracks to the earth’s core..
When considering the history of our universe, and the ever-changing space around us, it’s pretty amazing that we are even here. That somehow we evolved into the creatures of habit we have.. and somehow still survive in a very hostile existence..
We are somehow alive..
No matter how big of planets of the past crashed and asteroids smashed.
Of course all of that could easily happen again..
The US executed 20 Molly Maguires in biggest federal executions ever
Irish miners hanged for fighting back against horrific working conditions.
This is a good read about worthwhile history of the coal region.. The area I am from is going downhill fast.. Vacant streets and empty storefronts. We are a mere dilapidated replica of the wealthy area we once were decades ago. But there is still reason to be proud .. even if I move from this area soon—and for my family and me, it will be the best choice when I do it—there will still be these proud roots in my heritage. A place where workers rights began in the United States. Where the government’s injustices were seen in black and white.. with coal soot on top..
The US executed 20 Molly Maguires in biggest federal executions ever
Cruzing to a bruising
I don’t put much stock in the chances of Ted Cruz becoming our next president.. But his candidacy will lead to lots of fun and jokes.. Already has..
But there is one thing that makes a bigger difference to me than him even being from Canada:
After 9/11, he stopped listening to rock music.
Hunter Schwartz with the Washington POST reports,
In an interview with CBS News Tuesday, Cruz said he grew up listening to classic rock, but became a country fan after 9/11 because of how musicians responded to the attacks.
"I actually find this intellectually curious, but on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded, and country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me, and I just have to say just at a gut level, I had an emotional reaction that said these are my people," he said.
Country music was very patriotic following 9/11. Songs like “Only in America” by Brooks & Dunn, “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” by Alan Jackson, and “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” by Toby Keith were all hits on Billboard’s Country chart.
The POST article goes on to point out the rock songs that became popular after 9/11, like Bruce Springsteen’s THE RISING, Wu Tang Clan’s RULES, and Neil Young’s LET’S ROLL..
It’s not being said, but I think this whole Cruz quote is based off of what happened to the Dixie Chicks. Remember that fiasco? Freedom fries eating American burned their albums to protest their protesting of the Iraq war? Let’s be honest… there were two periods after 9/11: 1) The initial unification of America and chance to change the world. 2) The Iraq war run-up.. Which America is Cruz talking about?
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