The conviction of Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin man who appeared in the documentary “Making a Murderer,” has been overturned by a federal judge in Milwaukee, according to court documents obtained by CNN…
Friday, August 12, 2016
"Making a Murderer:" Brendan Dassey's conviction overturned
"Making a Murderer:" Brendan Dassey's conviction overturned :
Weak economy is responsible for rampant swoleness, according to a new study
Weak economy is responsible for rampant swoleness, according to a new study :
Austerity has eroded young men’s traditional means of value-creation so they have become increasingly reliant on their bodies as a means of feeling valuable in society,” said study author Jamie Hakim, a professor at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. “In theoretical terms, so-called ‘spornosexuality’ is an embodied response to material changes brought about by neoliberal austerity.”
The study found that the most significant increase for gym attendance from 2006 to 2013 was among 16- to 25-year-old men. Hakim denied the growing interest in bodybuilding simply reflects a new craze.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Erdogan issues ultimatum to US over exiled cleric
Erdogan issues ultimatum to US over exiled cleric :
As reported during the attempted coup in Turkey.. my home state is making international news .. This from CNN:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave the United States “an ultimatum,” demanding the extradition of the cleric he believes is behind the failed July 15 coup attempt.
The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that Erdogan had said the US had to choose between its relationship with Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally who has been in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania for decades.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
The Fountain Springs Country Club and Golf Links in Ashland PA...
The Fountain Springs Country Club and Golf Links in Ashland PA as it once was.. Way way back.. before it closed.. before it turned into a public restaurant (and the place I worked for some time and got married at in October 2007) ..
The golf course is now gone as well.. so is the tennis course. In place of it, a new housing community …
Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich - Who Was MURDERED in DC - Was Wikileaks DNC Source!
Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich - Who Was MURDERED in DC - Was Wikileaks DNC Source!:
This is as big an election scandal if ever heard.. Wikileaks is not only saying that they’ll give $20,000 to anyone with I formation about the murder of Seth Rich but that Rich was also the source of the emails from inside the DNC.. Shattering rumors it was Russia .. And raising a whole whole whole bunch of new one..
Another interesting tidbit reported late evening yesterday: Roger Stone appears to be in touch with Wikileaks… We will watch where that goes..
As the campaign turns.
The wildest election in modern history continues..
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
The former ROXY theater in Ashland PA .I can just imagine the...
The former ROXY theater in Ashland PA .
I can just imagine the memories had there.. the movies shared there..
An image taken in 2006 of inside the Ashland PA hospital, at...
An image taken in 2006 of inside the Ashland PA hospital, at that time St. Catherine’s Medical Center.
If someone who worked there can remind as to the floor it was taken on, I would appreciate it.
Something about the hallways in this former hospital just scared me to death.
An old postcard of Immaculate Heart Academy. Which then turned...
An old postcard of Immaculate Heart Academy. Which then turned into Cardinal Brennan high school, my Alma mater.. which now sits dormant and vacant. Purchased by North Schuylkill school district, no plans have yet been announced for the building. But everything in it was sold at a public auction earlier in 2016..
Monday, August 8, 2016
The once famed Loeper Hotel in Ashland PA .. I have heard some...
The once famed Loeper Hotel in Ashland PA .. I have heard some rumors from old timers of how amazing the restaurant and bar were in the heyday of coal..
Now the building is the site of a senior citizen high rise …
This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.....
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This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.. and these images, the smoke and houses and end of times feel, is exactly what I remember from my very early youth..
Truly nostalgia 101 with this..
My hometown of Centralia, PA… What’s left of it.. as...
My hometown of Centralia, PA… What’s left of it.. as seen by a drone around April of 2016..
Sunday, August 7, 2016
The Ashland State Hospital in Pennsylvania sometime in the mid...
The Ashland State Hospital in Pennsylvania sometime in the mid 1900s as shown with a postcard..
The hospital went through a lot through the years. Today it’s closed after mismanagement and bankruptcy from previous ownership..
Future plans include a potential drug treatment center.. But for now the building is shuddered..
The image you see actually isn’t what it looks like today.. there were new additions onto the hospital, that changed the architecture..
But what remains are ghosts … spirits.. and fifth floor intrigue.
If ghosts exist, I doubt that a closed hospital would have ever gotten rid of them at this location..
These are scenes from the 1980s SEARS Christmas catalog …...
These are scenes from the 1980s SEARS Christmas catalog … The catalog was normally sent to houses around this time of year through September in the mail.
My wife and I were trying to tell my son today that this is how we used to do Christmas toys.. just get the book and circle what we wanted..
Ayden actually has already begun his summer list. Sure it’s early August, but why not..
And after looking through image searches for old nostalgic toy ads from paper books, I miss it…
The coal miner’s salute. Located in Minersville, PA..
The coal miner’s salute. Located in Minersville, PA..
This is the once future site of the Cressona Mall in Cressona...
This is the once future site of the Cressona Mall in Cressona Pennsylvania, taken long before stores and parking lots were ever contemplated..
The farm is still there.. but the big swamp you see is not, the river was rerouted and the rest was history..
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Over 20 Treated for Overdoses at Ohio Music Festival: The Mansfield News Journal quoted a Richland County sheriff's major as saying the concertgoers were given packets of what appeared to be candy that had a "very, very high dose of THC." The packets were marked "Nerds," Major Joe Masi told the newspaper. THC is the chemical in marijuana that intoxicates users.
popculturebrain: Box Office: ‘Suicide Squad’ Heads for Enormous...
Box Office: ‘Suicide Squad’ Heads for Enormous $140 Million Opening Weekend
Despite dismal reviews, Warner Bros. “Suicide Squad” is heading for an impressive $140 million opening weekend at the North American box office, early estimates showed Friday. The supervillain tentpole, playing at 4,255 locations, will wind up in the top 20 domestic launches of all time.
It is having an enormous box office weekend.. And doing very well in Mexico and the UK along with the United States..
Critics be damned.. this movie is huge.
Perhaps a strike back against movie reviewers in a big way: With dollars.
A Saturday night shock poll released: Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to less than three points
A Saturday night shock poll released: Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to less than three points:
About 42 percent of likely voters favored Clinton, to Trump’s 39 percent, according to the July 31-Aug. 4 online poll of 1,154 likely voters. The poll had a credibility interval of plus or minus 3 percentage points, meaning that the results suggest the race is roughly even.
Among registered voters over the same period, Clinton held a lead of five percentage points, down from eight percentage points on Monday, according to the poll.
The reasons behind the shift were unclear.
And that is after THIS WEEK of stories..
Friday, August 5, 2016
Strange things above… panic below.A few days ago there...
Strange things above… panic below.
Now the weird lights reports are expanding..
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is the latest area where strange orb-like visions have been spotted.. From CBS news:
KDKA received some calls into our newsroom about it, starting around 8 p.m.
People reported seeing a shiny, silver object in the sky. The reports were coming from areas west of downtown.
“Around 8 p.m., we were looking up into the northern sky and saw what looked like just to be a bright, silver object in the sky, and then after we got a telescope on it, it looked like it was a clear balloon that was catching the light as it moved from west to east,” said Russ Moll, of McKees Rocks.
Moll says it was it a very odd sight in the evening sky.
“It stood out because it was before dusk and so the stars weren’t out yet, so it just really caught our eye,” Moll said. “You noticed it as being something out of the ordinary.”
And this..
The National Weather Service sends balloons up to measure atmospheric conditions; however, they said they had no issues Thursday night.
In a statement, they say: “We’ve had no issues with the launch this evening or any calls about objects floating/glowing in the sky.”
Look to the sky!
You’ll never know what you will see..
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