Germanwings co-pilot had dreams about plane crashing, report says

The co-pilot Andreas Lubitz who steered an airline with 150 people on board into a French mountainside had been dumped by his girlfriend the day prior to the crash and was undergoing treatment for depression from a doctor, according to reports Saturday.

But we are just finding out so much about Lubitz so quickly, aren’t we?  The problem I have with all of these stories is that unnamed people are being quoted and we are not finding the true source of the information. Where does it come from? Family? Friends? The EX?  I am not trying to cast too big a shadow of doubt—I believe in conspiracy but also know that not everything is one, so i am trying to be cautious but sensible.  But here is a quote from the FOX NEWS story that gets me into the caution zone:

The New York Post reported that the German newspaper Bild quoted an ex-girlfriend saying that Lubitz “would wake up in the middle of the night screaming, “We’re crashing!”
“When I heard about the crash, one thing that he said kept going through my head: ‘One day I’m going to do something that will change the whole system, and everyone will know my name and remember it.’ ” the woman told the paper, according to the Post.
“I didn’t know what he meant, but now it makes sense,” the woman added.
The Post also reported that French TV channel iTELE reported Lubitz and another girlfriend of seven years shared an apartment in Dusseldorf and planned to get married next year. However, the channel had said Lubtiz’s fiancée ended the relationship the day before the crash.

So how convenient. Suddenly when a big crime is committed, we are told by this EX that she broke up with him a day prior.. And we also have been told as a child he loved this area of the ALPS. And we also know that he was DREAMING about crashing a plane now.. All of this added up together sure sounds like the perfect story book beginning and ending …

I think this girlfriend story is a little sketchy. Don’t get me wrong, again, I am not trying to create rumors where there are none.. but I would think investigators should be asking more about this EX.. asking why the breakup happened. If it did. Asking more about those dreams. If they did.. 

And if someone is speaking about ‘doing something everyone will remember,’ or something of the like, the partner usually queries a lot more about that than this girlfriend apparently did.

And now pilots are going to have to sign away their medical information on a regular basis to a corporation to ensure something of this nature will never happen again.. I guess Andreas Lubitz will be remembered for that…

….but I keep pondering the ‘we’re crashing!!’ dreams, and they are peculiar.  I have reservations about buying into the storyline at this point—at least as it is being presented by the supposed ex-girlfriend of 24 hours.

And let me ask something more.. in our information age where everyone tweets and tumbles and Facebooks into the night, where is the social media presence of Lubitz? Or this girlfriend?

Germanwings co-pilot had dreams about plane crashing, report says

For God’s sake, open the door

Last words of Patrick Sondenheimer, according to reports in a German paper, from Germanwings Flight 9525..

SPECIAL FORCES SWARM THE SOUTHWEST TO OPERATE AMONG CIVILIANS IN ‘TRAINING’ EXERCISE 

Operation Jade Helm will see 1,200 service members including Green Berets and SEALs and special forces from the Air Force and Marines in July.

Soldiers armed with blank rounds will operate in and around towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado for 8 weeks.

The so-called Realistic Military Training has some residents fearful the drill is a preparation for martial law

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Start your Sunday with energy..

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SCARY STORIES TO BAN IN THE DARK

Given history, I suppose it’s amazing I even got the chance to read SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK when I was a kid in the 90s. I was doing more reading on the upcoming documentary being made on this and learned something I never quite knew previously: This was among the most banned book of the 1990s..

Cody Meireck describes it best, 

The interesting thing that I have been encountering as I begin to talk about this documentary is the question of how I can “bill” the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. It is listed as the most banned book between 1990-1999 and remained at #7 in 2000-2009. It was #1 on the list for several years in the 1990s. In the 21st Century there are a number of other books that have taken the mantel for most frequently banned… Harry Potter is often up there, and recently the book And Tango Makes Three is often high on the list because of the presence of a homosexual couple (animals though they may be). So although Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is no longer top on the list, for the last 25 years that the American Library Association has been compiling a list, it has been a major title on the list. The original books are over 20 years old at this point, and yet they still show up on the lists amongst more widespread and known books such as Harry Potter and Huckleberry Finn. That says something.

I remember the moment I got my first SCARY STORIES book.. it was during grade school when a book fair truck came and set up in the school gym.. I found this black book with a skull on it and somehow was attracted to the concept and stories.. It became a treasure for me and then, with each new one, I would buy them up for the collection. 

The most amazing part, given history of book bans, is that I bought my SCARY STORIES book at a Catholic school book fair!  The same Catholic school that suspended me for a day for bringing a fake Freddy Kreuger glove to class in fourth grade for our field trip..  

I suppose the school’s nuns couldn’t be aware of every book that was sold. And even more, I ponder if the book seller was secretly trying to fight the pop culture movement at the time to hide these books from kids.

If it wasn’t for the SCARY STORIES books, my appreciation of the paranormal and even love of drawing perhaps would never have blossomed. I bet there’s a lot of 90s kids in the same boat as me because of this series..

The creepy blanket at 3am

Let me first explain what this is.. Late at night, if you’re perched at the right place in my bathroom, this is a view directly into my bedroom.. There is a piece of blanket stuffed into the closet which pokes out. Quite frankly, perhaps my laziness has equaled this, it has been there for a long time.. Too long. As a matter of fact, each night at 3am when either nature calls or some other noise of the house startles me awake, I make my way to the bathroom and see this blanket.. The more I stare, though, the less it is looks like a blanket.

See, this blanket has been scaring me for months. With the darkness of night shrouding the room and just the faint glow from a nearby night light, this little piece of blanket starts it morphing. It looks at first like a witch, sort of staring at me.. If you look long enough, it begins to change into a smiling old hag, almost with a knowing cackle on her face as she sees me have a heart begin to race.. A few times it turned into a man, posing as though he was taking his final photo of life. There was a time when it appeared to be a wolf.. Another time it was simply a blank figure but yet somehow had eyes that were staring at me, almost winking with each second I gawked back..

Sure, I know this is all a figment of the wild night time imagination—when your reality suspends for a little as you take walks between the here and the dream world there.

But each time this is so realistic that I need to check this blanket prior to attempting to regain the sleep world. Regardless of my knowledge, my distinct knowledge, that this is a blanket, my deep fear of the shapes it poses as forces me into a nightly check.

I maintain sanity, let me explain.
I maintain reality..
But in the dangerously dark night air, the shapes that objects take can piece your imagination and scare you to the bone.

A few minutes... I just can't do this television..

I watched the Kids Choice awards for a few minutes—enough time—to get a taste of the modern generation.. I’m not going to complain like some old fogey.. Instead I’ll say what annoyed me about these awards is the very things that annoyed me as a kid myself when they were on: the endless and senseless teen girl scream that echoes through the house for the duration of the event. I don’t know if the producers are piping it in or if it’s just how shrill it really is.. But the noise never changes.. 

Even back to the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. That scream. That mind penetrating scream..I also thought to myself about the famed green slime tradition. Do kids today even know where that comes from? Do they know YOU CANT DO THAT ON TELEVISION? .. They know Marc Summers from a cooking channel, not Double Dare. They never saluted their shorts.. They never knew how to sing a song for Hey Dude. 

And they never knew that Dave Cut it out Coulier had an ‘experience’ with Alanis Morissette in a theater but still played Finders Keepers on Nick.

All this nostalgia.
Screaming kids.. But no mind for the history of generations who screamed before them..

As they said, blue skies, Barfy burgers..girls!

Crash pilot was psychiatric patient, planned big gesture

He was on meds, as predicted.. He was also planning something do everyone could remember his name.. And ‘change the system,’ as his girlfriend Maria now recalls.. Lots of recollections are going to be occurring now and people coming out of the word work on this guy..

Crash pilot was psychiatric patient, planned big gesture

Just when you’re happily shopping for a shirt, you turn around and the friendly mannequin is mistaken for Slenderman.. not a creepy pasta but an actual occurrence …

Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal

This one goes out to those who told me that peer-reviewed papers should never be doubted .. the Washington Post gives us lots of information that may inspire a lot of doubts. At this point, the only thing real is Truman…

Vaccines anyone?

Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal

Science explains why hipsters grow beards

Primal sexual urges or just another bandwagon to jump on.. as a cleanly shaven blogger, I have my opinions but no scientific research to counter this official study explaining why our modern male species has the urge to grow facial hair. Now what I really really want to know is why hipsters stop bathing and cleaning their beards regularly….a little counterintuitive to that sexual prowess thing, no?

Science explains why hipsters grow beards

Good morning. A view from my jeep window.. supposedly in spring.

27-year-old Ken Gruno went missing in December, 2014. He was one of many young man who seemingly go missing after leaving bars in this country.. And just like many other men, he was found—this week—in a pond floating..

Detroit FREE PRESS reports,

The Flint Journal and Detroit News say that the body found Thursday morning is that of 27-year-old Ken Gruno. The pond is in Forest Township, just outside Otisville and about 12 miles northeast of Flint.
State police Lt. Ryan Pennel says Gruno was carrying identification. He says there are no signs of foul play.

Only days ago, a story was published about how his mother hoped he was still alive.

A January article described the strange circumstances that surrounded Gruno’s mysterious disappearance.. He was at a holiday bar-go-round with friends.. This from M LIVE:

Grainy security footage from a nearby bank shows him standing outside, said his parents, who have seen the footage. He is standing in the street talking to people in cars that are coming by. Then, he calmly starts walking away. He walks west down East Wilson Road. He walks farther and farther into the darkness and eventually disappears entirely.
To his family, it makes no sense. The 27-year-old was home from Christmas break, preparing to start his second year of classes studying computer science at Wayne State University in Detroit.
His mother said there’s no indication of why he left. They’re desperate for clues, but so far have found little more than rumors and bogus leads.

It should go without saying that the SMILEY FACE KILLERS Facebook page has certainly latched on this case..  

'A boy like so many others': Shocked reactions from those who knew Germanwings co-pilot

'A boy like so many others': Shocked reactions from those who knew Germanwings co-pilot

Police investigate complaints of drone following children!

HEY  KIDS, WELCOME TO EARTH.. WHERE CREEPY PERVERTS WILL FOLLOW YOU AROUND WITH DRONES. ENJOY THE STAY..

Well, of course the creepy perv route hasn’t been officially taken yet, but it’s sure the first thing to pop into my mind.

Sometimes I wish we could go back to 2002 when mainstream media denied drones were coming and called those saying they were kooks and conspiracy theorists.. Those were the days..

If I become president, I will declare that all drones operated by perverts must be equipped with brown curtains. Because every van I ever saw with brown curtains certainly exemplified filth and a deplorable human being to me..

Police investigate complaints of drone following children!

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This is a video of Terrence McKenna describing his DMT Trip .. It’s a rare audio clip, and not presented in an form of an endorsement of his words.. But just take a minute and listen to how he describes it.. The air pumping out the room, edges sharpening, colors jumping up.. and then after one more enormous hit, it separates the ‘intrepid from the casual,’ as McKenna said..

McKenna describes colors racing together and forming a slowly rotating place..

I have always been fascinated by McKenna.. and this video. Thought I’d share it on a cold early spring night..

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The capital of Sierra Leone has turned "eerily quiet" at the start of a three-day national lockdown aimed at accelerating the end of an Ebola epidemic in the worst affected country.

The capital of Sierra Leone has turned "eerily quiet" at the start of a three-day national lockdown aimed at accelerating the end of an Ebola epidemic in the worst affected country.

The big political news tonight: Hillary Clinton wiped her server clean *(come on, who didn’t see this coming? )* The bigger story to me: POLITICO found the most unflattering photo of Hill they could find for their story..

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Monsanto may get the WHO to retract the Roundup cancer link study, I don’t know but they are not going to do anything to win the hearts and minds of the purchasing public with performances like this..

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Pilot Used an Axe: Final Moments on Germanwings Plane Sound Pretty Horrifying

The other pilot slamming into the cockpit door with an ax…. people screaming as they saw their peril.. this is like a horror movie and I sure can’t even contemplate what it’s like to be a family member or friend of one of the tragic souls who perished in this mass murder event..

Pilot Used an Axe: Final Moments on Germanwings Plane Sound Pretty Horrifying