A big day for NWSL

Ali Krieger is out at the Washington Spirit..
And my favorite player, Crystal Dunn, is going overseas!

The drive to see the best players may be a lot longer.. and now require a boat or a plane..

The WASHINGTON POST splashed this about three hours ago..

Spirit attacker Crystal Dunn, the 2015 NWSL MVP who scored twice in the championship defeat to the Western New York Flash last month, is apparently seeking to move overseas. Like Krieger, Dunn is under contract with the U.S. Soccer Federation, which underwrites the NWSL by paying the salaries of marquee U.S. player

And the soccer world went wild.. Reactions surely are on your timeline if you follow the usual suspects..

Pride and prejudice

A sad day for Washington Spirit fans.. Ali Krieger is most likely being announced to be going to the Orlando Pride today ..

Her true fans will follow.
But sadly for most it will be a much longer drive.

What you see is not what you get. Ayden was Chewbacca for...

What you see is not what you get. Ayden was Chewbacca for Halloween. I was just dad. We swapped faces and it’s entirely too creepy to stare at.
Hope your Halloween was filled with cool ghouls and frightening escapes into the netherworld. And candy as well.
Happy Movember. Gobble early and often.

This was ASHLAND PENNSYLVANIA around the year 1900.. Published...

This was ASHLAND PENNSYLVANIA around the year 1900..

Published by Vaughn’s 1400 Centre Street, Ashland, PA

I always wonder what stories, anecdotes, and interesting colloquial affairs were taking place the day that such old photos were taken..

Also amazing to see how structures that look as they are today looked then.. over 100 years back in time.

AND NOW FOR NEWS THAT YOU DIDN’T HEAR DISCUSSED ON DEBATE STAGES THIS YEAR

grasslooter:

Perhaps some of the most important information, as well.. things that are actually effecting our health. Our families. Our lives. And our futures..

THE OPIOID CRISIS..

The number of young children and teens hospitalized for overdosing on opioid painkillers have spiked nearly threefold in recent years, a new study finds.

Among children under 10, most of the painkiller poisonings were accidental, with children “eating them like candy,” said lead researcher Julie Gaither, a postdoctoral fellow in biostatistics at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. Among teens, most were accidental overdoses, although some were suicide attempts.

In both age groups, the increase in cases involving painkillers like OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin was dramatic.

Among children aged 1 to 4 years, the number of poisonings went up 205 percent from 1997 to 2012. For teens 15 to 19, the increase was 176 percent. Overall, the study showed a 165 percent increase in poisonings from opioid painkillers among those 19 and younger.

In addition, poisonings involving the use of heroin among teens increased 161 percent, while poisonings involving methadone went up 950 percent.

Among children aged 10 to 14, the incidence of poisonings from suicide or self-inflicted injury rose 37 percent, while the incidence of accidental poisoning increased 82 percent.

Among teens 15 to 19, poisonings from suicide or self-inflicted injury increased 140 percent, while accidental poisoning increased 300 percent, the researchers found.

Some Florida residents plan armed trick-or-treating after creepy clown 'threats'!

Some Florida residents plan armed trick-or-treating after creepy clown 'threats'!:

scarystoriestouploadinthedark:

In South Florida, Broward County schools prohibited clown costumes for Halloween activities, according to a Sun Sentinel reporter.

Parents received phone messages this week that said: “While many of the clown threats in our community and across the nation have proven to be hoaxes, it is still best for us to continue to operate in an abundance of caution.”

Ridiculous, as I have written before and will again next year when the August through fall small town clown romp begins anew.. 

But for tonight, don’t ARM YOURSELF to deal with clowns..
And …. as the message from the schools in Florida have even admitted, most of these clown ‘threats’ have been hoaxes and fake anyway.

Everyone be calm tonight.. Jeez Louise.. 

This is a little creepy…Katy Perry as Hillary..Orlando...

This is a little creepy…
Katy Perry as Hillary..
Orlando Bloom as Bubba.

It is realistic in a bizarro version of both of them..

Chop your broccoli.

It may actually stop aging.
See…
The ancient song from a century ago was right.

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A tale of a few headlines

If you want the unbiased unabashed truth on the US economy as we head into the November election, don’t expect to find it..

Just look at these series of stories from Google News just this morning, a collection of links controlled by robots by the way .. The common theory is that the US economy is roaring back. Or … it’s slow. Or it’s anemic. But it’s the best in years. But it’s awful.

Good luck with understanding that.

6.6-magnitude quake rocks central Italy (*again)

6.6-magnitude quake rocks central Italy (*again):

More quake madness in central Italy–a location hit hard by tremors over the past six months..

A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy on Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey, in the strongest tremor to hit the country in 36 years.

From the CNN report..

A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy on Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey, in the strongest tremor to hit the country in 36 years.

Residents ran onto the streets in a panic as the quake struck at 7:40 a.m. local time (2:40 am ET), and rescuers were seen in the area around crumbling historical buildings soon after the tremor hit, helping evacuate a group of nuns. They worked through aftershocks that hit every 20 minutes or so.

Recall earlier this week that there was a 5.5 and 6.1 .. and in August a major quake that hit and killed 300 people..

Prayers go to the nation of Italy..

This is the latest cover of the NEW YORK POST.. The bombshell of...

This is the latest cover of the NEW YORK POST.. The bombshell of October surprises occurred just as the waning days off the 2016 presidential campaign began.. Hillary Clinton’s email server investigation was closed by James Comey and the FBI back in the summer. Safely paving the way for the nomination of HILL.. it was reopened yesterday .. Anthony Weiner’s computer apparently had emails that would have had, as the POST claimed, enough ‘dirt’ to compel the FBI into reopening the investigation. Reigniting the issue. Restoking the flames. And invigorating the Donald Trump campaign to use it as an issue as the last days of this election cycle now begin…

The race is on.

New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Devices Once Used by Anthony Weiner

New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Devices Once Used by Anthony Weiner :

The entire 2016 presidential campaign has now been rocked ..

ROBERT ENGLUND posted a whole bunch of old behind the scenes...

ROBERT ENGLUND posted a whole bunch of old behind the scenes images from NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET..

JUST PICTURE MICHAEL MYERS WITH A TERRIBLE MASK!

An artist named Marc Schoenbach did just that! 

There are some amazing Michael Myers masks out there for Halloween.

And some really, really awful ones.. I have owned both. 

The most iconic image of Michael Myers comes from the original film.. William Shatner’s face without paint is haunting and will forever be so. But just picture some of these wretchedly AWFUL Michael Myers masks replacing the first film’s SHAPE face!

For HALLOWEEN fanatics this may particularly funny..

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I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT GETTING BEHEADED..Guillotines...

I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT GETTING BEHEADED..

Guillotines made the act of decapitating someone relatively quick (but not painless), but before the guillotine was invented, using a sword or axe often meant multiple strokes were required. Mary, Queen of Scots, for example, required three strokes when she was executed in 1587. Think that’s bad? According to Tudor History, Margaret Pole, the Eighth Countess of Salisbury, was beheaded by an inexperienced executioner who botched the job and practically shredded her head and neck. made the act of decapitating someone relatively quick (but not painless), but before the guillotine was invented, using a sword or axe often meant multiple strokes were required. Mary, Queen of Scots, for example, required three strokes when she was executed in 1587. Think that’s bad? According to Tudor History, Margaret Pole, the Eighth Countess of Salisbury, was beheaded by an inexperienced executioner who botched the job and practically shredded her head and neck.

Interesting breakdown..

Interesting breakdown..

This is an image from Seph Lawless–one of my all time favorite...

This is an image from Seph Lawless–one of my all time favorite photographers and one of the coolest people online today .. he takes footage inside abandoned places. He is best known for his work with malls that are closing or have closed, sneaking in and taking video and footage from inside of malls that once were amazingly busy and popular. He also has been in some very emotionally heavy places.. 

When Seph posted this doll head on Facebook, he also wrote this: (my emphasis added)

It is true that I’ve been inside and photographed some of the same abandoned houses that were used by serial killers Anthony Sowell and Michael Madison over the years. Both serial killers acted independently and used abandoned homes to torture, murder and hide the victims bodies in and/or on the property of these abandoned homes. Both men are currently on death row.
That being said I’ve seen crazy things inside abandoned places that make no sense at all and at times are truly frightening like a sex chamber set up at an abandoned building in Detroit that I reported to the Detroit PD years ago and never released those images and some that are just creepy like this abandoned home that had a room full of mannequin heads along with old lab equipment and intricate surgery tools oddly out of place.

People ask me all the time if I get scared in locations like this and the answer is undoubtedly yes but not because of ghosts…I’m petrified of humanity.

The Walking Dead torture porn hour

The WALKING DEAD gone too far!?
Fans revolted and repelled at Sunday night’s Torture Porn hour?

Fans are in a nightmare scenario: The Walking Dead may have lost its edge last season, but this year may have actually stooped lower and began the trend of being unwatchable..

The DAILY BEAST’s Melissa Leon writes this"

zombie drama aired its all-time most unwatchable hour Sunday night in a mind-numbingly brutal Season 7 opener that finally, after some ballsy meandering, revealed the identity of Negan’s victim, who was clubbed to death with a barbed-wire baseball bat in last season’s much-maligned cliffhanger.

You can read the entire review of the first night of the season here.

There is only so much you can do … Only so much hopelessness before you lose fans.

And I predict this year is the season when fans will say goodbye..

Trump, Clinton In Dead Heat As Race Hits Final Two-Week Stretch — IBD/TIPP Poll | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis

Trump, Clinton In Dead Heat As Race Hits Final Two-Week Stretch — IBD/TIPP Poll | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis :

This is much different than the ABC NEWS poll released yesterday showing Clinton with a 12 point advantage ..

The noteworthy number may be the sampling of R, D, and Inds…

The final stretch now begins. WE are almost to Election Day .. And then we can have our lives back again.