The rumors: Hillary Clinton has 'medical episode' at 9/11 ceremony, source says

The rumors: Hillary Clinton has 'medical episode' at 9/11 ceremony, source says

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You may be the last person to see someone. And save someone.

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Reports online: Hillary Clinton medical episode at Ground Zero ceremony

No cameras.. But witnesses and some reporters claim her knees buckled, she lost her shoes, and had to be rushed away..

No campaign statement.. At this pony wild speculation and urgent news reports from some sources..

Developing.

9/11 oddities and high strangeness

The day was filled with odd occurrences.. as were days prior and even those since.

One of the most interesting and all-encompassing websites I have frequented over the past decade has been Killtown’s 9/11 Oddities page..

So many years ago.. it seems like an entire age..The children...

So many years ago.. it seems like an entire age..

The children  of 9/11, those who were either too young to remember or just too young to understand, have never known a world prior to the day  of infamy. They were not aware of pop culture prior to terrorism.. not inclined to understand a world before World War .. The children of September 11 have grown up. And the adults have aged older.

The newest generation to come of age has grown up online post dial up and post buildings coming down. They watched footage of the terror attacks fifteen years ago but did not watch it on live TV…

Others who did remember what it felt like.. all day.. all night.. all week.. and for the rest of 2001. The swift unkind gusty gale of change took an entire nation and forced it into places it never wanted to go or never thought it would ..

People falling from buildings live for the planet to watch.. the demise of buildings..

And a peaceful field in Pennsylvania scarred and charred by a passenger airplane..

We lived through this 15 years ago. Even though now it does not seem a bit like we did.. the freight train speed passage  of time is as surreal as the moment we watched airplanes flying into buildings right after Al Roker talked about weather. From quaint to horror. From normal to a new normal.

And the rest is history.

The Hurricane that could have prevented 9/11

In 1814, while the British red coats were in the midst of burning down the White House, the Library of Congress, and other governmental institutions, President James Madison had to evacuate. His wife, Dolly, the first lady of the United States, stood in the White House until she knew for sure that a painting of General Washington was safe.  The nation was in a standstill. President Madison in a panic about how he would reconvene the government and make the central system work again. On August 25 of 1814, with a glowing red flame in the sky above D.C., nature’s wrath stepped in. The ‘storm of providence,’ as it was dubbed, hit the nation’s Capitol. A fierce wind, perhaps even a small hurricane as some speculate, moved inland. British soldiers reportedly had to lay down in order not to be blown away. A tornado—yes, and maybe more than one twister—formed and moved directly through the city. The blinding rains put out the fires the Brits had set.  Legend has it that when British soldiers, while retreating, asked what kind of storms are in this country, someone replied that it was Providence to drive the enemies from the young nation.

If the war of 1812’s conclusion was settled in part by the hand of God, then where was providence on September 11, 2001?

The longest living storm to ever have formed did so in the Atlantic Ocean on September 1, 2001. The hurricane was named Erin. It was weak, and continued to strengthen and weaken during its lifespan in the open waters. At one point, Erin fell apart and dissipated on September 5 of that year, only to reform again and whirl back into a sizable wave.

On September 9, 2001, Erin strengthened itself into a major hurricane. It passed by Bermuda 105 miles east.. It turned. It began to barrel itself directly for the city that never sleeps.. Satellite of the storm is chilling. Erin is massive and swirls right off the East Coast of the United States.

Three hours before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 began, Hurricane Erin took an immediate and obvious U-Turn away from New York City.

Repeating myself on purpose, where was Providence the way it was there in 1814 during the attack on D.C.?

There are abundant conspiracy theories as to why the hurricane took a quick turn. Some speculate it was HAARP, weather malfeasance.  Theories are fun.

But the simple truth: A very strong cold front moved through the Eastern part of the United States, including New York City, and literally forced the storm to bounce away from the United States like it was on a pool table.

Those who were alive and recall what happened 15 years ago –my God, 15 years already—may also recall the beautiful weather across the nation. I live in the same location I did then, Eastern Pennsylvania. I remember the autumnal feel in the air that morning. The sun was brilliant and the skies were deep blue. It was a picture perfect day. It was actually quite possibly one of the most beautiful weather days I recall in my entire life.  

It was completely ruined and disjointed forever, however, by the acts of cruelty and terror as mostly Saudi hijackers boarded planes in the United States and crashed them into buildings.

If a chain of events did not occur, history may have been altered. It is really strange to contemplate that. But picture a slower cold front.. picture a hurricane that, suddenly, moves into New York City with whipping winds and flooding rains. Truth be told, there was not much preparation for Erin or even news coverage. I challenge you to go back and find any information of the city preparing for evacuation. Every prediction was clear: The strong Canadian cold front was going to ruin the chances of peril due to a storm.

Nature’s wrath never occurred that day. Instead, God’s brilliant sun beamed down from blue skies over burning buildings and people committing suicide by jumping as opposed to burning to death.

If Erin would have come closer … or even struck .. planes would have been grounded. People would have been moved out from their homes. 9/11 would have become famous for an entirely different reason.

Providence, perhaps, would have prevented something that we never even would have known was going to occur.

But none of that happened. Erin did not slam land, but instead rolled away and paved the way for one of the most disastrous days in history since Pearl Harbor. Or even since 1814..

While researching and thinking about what I would write about on this anniversary of 9/11, I went to the famed archive.org Wayback Machine. 

To my surprise, very little captures of famed weather sites exist from September of 2001. It is now nearly impossible for me to even recall my own mindset at the time. I was a Weather Channel addicted nerd since 10 years old. And for some reason I don’t recall knowing a thing about Hurricane Erin at the time the storm was poised to do something off the coastline of the United States. 

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 The other day I tuned into the YouTube channel of Mark Dice. He was doing his man on the street interviews and found just about no one in Southern California that knew much of anything about 9/11. Some people saying a “Hussein” perpetrated the attacks, others claiming it was Iraq and Syria behind them.. 15 years of life takes its toll. And yes, history moves fast. But we are obviously doomed to repeat it without proper knowledge of where we have come from or what we have been through..

 Fifteen years ago this September I was working full time as a waiter, staying up very late every night listening to Art Bell until sunrise, and having the time of my life. I just turned 21. I was invincible, as other 21 years olds are when they hit that age.  Life doesn’t really happen yet.

My father woke me up that morning and told me we were attacked.. early on, he blamed the Chinese! He was from a time when nations struck, not group of extremists or those aligned with others in the darkness of terror. We watched live on TV as more buildings were attacked, the Pentagon was hit, and as a plane fell from the sky about three hours from my house. If you look at the flight path records for the hijacked planes on 9/11, at least 1 would have flown above the county I live in as it did a U-turn back  to New York City.  

We filled our car tanks with gas due to fear of price gouging. There was a lot of fear that day. The entire nation had a sense of shellshock, an immediate and confusing reaction that, while knowing things changed, not really knowing yet how they did.

That night I watched George W. Bush, updated my website via FTP on dial up, and never went to sleep. The coverage took over every channel. Every bit of life. Every thing. A few days later, Bush stepped on a heap of carnage in New York with a megaphone. The nation rallied behind war. And today we wonder how we stepped into the nightmare scenario of ISIS and Middle Eastern chess match madness.

It all began there.

It all happened when weather did NOT strike. 

 There is some strange coincidence in a way… as Hurricane Erin u-turned and paved the way for terror, the hijacked flights away from New York and Boston were also in the middle of u-turning as well. 

 The stage was set as Erin’s path towards the United States was halted because of a cold front… 

 And the rest was history.

My son and I have become quite addicted to the game Tappers of...

My son and I have become quite addicted to the game Tappers of Grayskull over the past week.. It’s new, you can get it for iPhones or Androids.. 

The goal seems to be tapping as fast as you can without breaking your phone screen. Seriously is really is that intense.

Ayden is doing better than me.

I am glad he can enjoy a He-Man game, as opposed to when he plays with my old 1980s He-Man toys, he complains about the “old” smell they have.

Tap away Meryl! Tap away.

Summer heat fading

Here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it has been near 100 all week. Ankles are sweating and forming kankles in the heat.

Good thing is, a cold front is sweeping through.. I can feel the changes coming. By Thursday next week low temperatures in the 40s… Football Fridays will start to feel like it.

And we will enjoy the cool breeze and pumpkin flavored life. And in about two weeks miss the summer.

Mandela Effect cleaning

I feel ‘oxy cuted’ .. you know that product, right? No, not the pimple meditation.. the other stuff that Billy Mays sold before his death.
Ocyclean?
There is a problem, of course.. the product, despite what I always thought, is not called Oxyclean. It is OXICLEAN. With an I not a Y.
Really..

Don’t believe me? Look it up..
I know, I know.. impossible! You recall the ads that said ‘oxycute’ dirt..Or pimples..  you know that the “oxy” was a reference to oxygen somehow being used in conjunction with the cleaner..? Am I way off base here?
But that is not what this timeline is serving up to you.
I have not written about the now famed ‘Mandela Effect’ lately. Which is actually too bad. I have had and led several conversation with friends and family over the past few months regarding the topic. Recently Heather Wade had a very listenable program on the September 1 edition of MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT regarding the topic, should you want to go back and have a look-see.
But this Oxy….I mean Oxiclean issue is the most recent type of time slip I have experienced that actually, well, angered me. Anger because it just stopped making sense. Angry because my sanity feels in jeopardy so often when I delve into this whole time slip notion.

You and I have heard the scientists and experts pooh pooh the Mandela Effect theory.. mass hallucination! Sure, tens of thousands of people remember the BerenSTEIN Bears.. and yes, so many—including me—recall King Henry VIII holding a giant turkey leg in a painting that was pictured in history books in the 1980s.. The list goes on and it is being added to daily. Check Mandelaeffect.com for the complete annals of alternative history. It is an amazing site that no one can replicate.. Add your own commentary and voice to it as well.

With the latest Oxyclean or Oxiclean conundrum I experienced, it reminded me of another recent topic that I did not write about: The movie DAZED AND CONFUSED.  No, it was not a good film. It was that typical early 90s teen angst not so funny type of movie.. But it also has created a chapter in the history books of Mandela Effect lure.   Did you ever hear of the theory that there was a land mass off of the coast of Australia? It was a large mass and many thousands of people recall it—oddly they all recall it in around the same vicinity. There is no recorded evidence of this mass, or as some have dubbed it, Taured, existing. (also Google the MAN FROM TAURED for some creepy late night reading) .. However, a brief classroom scene from the film DAZED AND CONFUSED may add to the mystery. During the short snipped, there is actually a globe spinning that seemingly has that creepy now vanished land mass!
I went through the normal notion that it was a mistake. Just a misprinted map used in the film. Heck maybe even intentionally done. But this was in 93, long before the Mandela Effect theory. Then I thought, perhaps, the island shaped something was just a map legend. Or a logo of the company who printed it.. But it looks to island-shaped to be such. Or maybe so many people remember the map from DAZED AND CONFUSED that they became dazed and confused and recall this map as real history?

Frankly, none of it makes sense.

So why would a little dumb movie be the key to the Mandela Effect?  I have no clue. Perhaps the giant computer programmer in the sky forgot this movie even existed, so much so that the computer code erasing history never was updated the correct way?!

And why would Oxyclean now have an I…?
What if this…super computer popping into parallel dimdimensionsd messing with the timeline not only there, but also here? Sounds like fiction. But get this. (link) The website HACKED reported a year ago that a venture capitalist for the D-Wave computer system announced it had broke the 1000 qubit barrier and that some weird things are now happening.. The managing director of the company, Steve Jurveston, said that now super computers have become so powerful that they actually harness the computing power of huge numbers of parallel universes!  Pretty quantum and crazy…
Can we blame D-Wave?
Can you blame CERN?

And …why ..
And why..
And you know what is coming up? September 22. Or the 23rd. That is the date when some weird stuff happens. At least some speculate such.

So in moments like this, during times of frustrating no-answer question sessions, the best thing to do is sit back, pop in Forest Gump and realize you misquoted it your entire life (or did you) and eat a big giant turkey leg.

King Henry VIII style.

Chicago's 500 homicides

Chicago's 500 homicides:

Very troubling..

Here is the synopsis of the film KUBO AND THE TWO STRING:Living...

Here is the synopsis of the film KUBO AND THE TWO STRING:

Living with his mother in peace, Kubo’s life is changed when he is tasked with finding the sword unbreakable, armor and helmet to defeat his sinister aunts and destructive grandfather. To assist, a monkey and beetle are on hand to help him.

But it goes from there to become one of the greatest and most powerful movies I have ever seen..

My son Ayden took note of the ads on TV for it, we decided as a family to make a movie day. None of us were ready for the wild ride of emotions that hit us.. From laughter and sadness to complete tears and enormous joy and pride of the hero of our film..

Kubo starts with a story that we should not blink.. that the story about to be told is very important.. It is not a lie. 

One of my favorite entertainment sites the Flickering Myth has a good review of the film on its site. But not even the review does justice .. the movie is beyond emotional..

By the time the final act arrives, and the remake of MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS begins to play, Mom and Dad were tearful wrecks while Ayden was asking to see the movie again.

It was deep and meaningful.. it had moments for children and adults.. very strong, strong moments.

It is one of the best movies I have ever seen.

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On another election note..

I am going to start a tag here on my site.. the ‘strange places I see Donald Trump signs.’  I see them everywhere.. in weird places, too. On trucks, on rocks. Farms.. on dilapidated houses..

Photos posted in no way shows an endorsement.. just a strange piece of pop culture activity taking place before out eyes..

Everyone is making a big to-do about the Hillary Clinton Labor...

Everyone is making a big to-do about the Hillary Clinton Labor Day coughing spurts .. one during a speech that went on exceptionally too long and the other on a plane ride afterwards.. 

While there are talking heads and pundits on the big TEE VEE pondering the health of the potential president, I am pondering the tenacity of the potential future VP.  Seriously Kaine, you just allowed her to sputter around on the stage for a long time while you sat behind her smirking and clapping? You couldn’t fetch her a mint? Glass of water? Anything? …

And in case you’re attempting to keep tabs on all of the public coughing issues that Clinton has faced, here is a site keeping a tab for all of 2016..

Russia is not going to allow much advertising of BAD MOMS.. it...

Russia is not going to allow much advertising of BAD MOMS.. it would appear that Mila Kunis’ name has a pretty similar spelling to the Russian word for ..well.. this is a kid friendly page. You can read it yourself.

Clown tries to lure kids in Winston-Salem, two clown sightings reported

Clown tries to lure kids in Winston-Salem, two clown sightings reported:

Winston-Salem police say someone in a clown costume tried to lure kids into the woods Sunday night.

The incident happened in the 1200 block of East 29th Street off Hwy. 52 about 8:30 p.m.

The “clown” was described as wearing white overalls, white gloves, red shoes with red bushy hair, a white face and a red nose.

The suspect allegedly tried to lure the kids with treats. The suspect was reportedly seen by two children and heard, but not seen, by one adult. The suspect fled the area when officers arrived.

This ACTUAL picture pops up every now and then in pop culture...

This ACTUAL picture pops up every now and then in pop culture and has done so for decades.. An actual scene of workers eating lunch above a still being built city.. on a beam.. inches from death but not scared of anything, just devouring their food in order to have energy to work more..

Labor Day is something special.. something very important. It is not MAY DAY, America was sure to separate its reflection of workers from the Communist inspired day across the rest of the world. No, here in America, we have long prided ourselves on having workers rights alongside of capitalism. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not. Every now and then someone like Teddy Roosevelt or Franklin have to come around and give workers more rights.. or Richard Nixon and give the government more power to protect. 

But labor day did not just emerge because someone in power liked labor unions.. Not at all. It was forged with blood and sacrifice. Real blood and real death. The United States Department of Labor offers up a history of Labor Day on its website.. 

Not spoken about much during Labor Day celebrations: The Molly Maguires .. They battled coal barons in my home location of the dark mines of Eastern Pennsylvania.. They forged fairness for workers and wages for those who often were just slaves to the company towns.. And they were charged with crimes without evidence they committed them and hung–most likely because their actions have weight that forever changed the nation. 

And even today, in the Old Jail in Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania, it is said that a handprint of one Molly still exists as a sign for all future generations of their universal power and strength. 

Labor Day comes every year with picnics and beach trips.. and just like every other holiday here in the United States, over time it seemingly loses meaning for some people. Labor Day should not at all.. the very fact you have a day off or are able to have a wage and overtime after forty hours is because of the sacrifices often in blood that so many had generations before us..

A child’s perspective

As my son opened a bin of my childhood He-Man Toys:

“These toys smell really old. Gross.” 

Prayers before bed

Me: Ayden, anything you want to ask God for before bed?
Ayden: No. Just tell him I don't really need anything. Everything is okay.

MAC madness..

After much thought and debate, I purchased a MAC computer this week. A desktop too! Throwback 1998!

One of the biggest things I looked forward to: Using the TUMBLR Mac backup app..

And then…came to realize tonight that it seems the MAC backup ability through the Staff Tumblr page is dead and not working.

Can anyone with a MAC background assist in this matter?

The most wonderful time of year

The sun is shining bright today.. this is a fine Sunday, the kind that I feel like I will remember in my ripe old age. 

LABOR DAY 2016 is upon us.. my birthday just took place two days previous, and as I age, I really have come to love this month. From September 1 through about October 31, I believe is the best time of the year.. The most remarkable weather here in the eastern part of the former once great Coal Region of Pennsylvania.. The late summer grass begins to fade from green to yellow, leaves start to turn vibrant.. The festivals and fairs of fall usher in a new feeling.. a crisper feel to the air and a rash of hurry in the atmosphere..

The nights get longer.
That part isn’t my favorite..

The days grow weary.. But until November, there is still abundant sun and warmth.. 

I just love this time of the year.