The near death life review

You have seen it in movies! A near death experience.. life flashing before your very eyes in a chronological order..

In real life--if this is real--maybe something very similar happens.

Read this article and think about it.. It details how just maybe the flash of life does take place when the last spark of life is being lived.. The brain, instead of using a chronological system however, makes it a little more interesting. The fact that time and space itself seems to be gone, that time--TIME itself!--appears to not exist anymore, is the most amazing of all..

The respondents in the study seem to imply that when their near death experience occurred, the different between 1000 years and 1 second didn't seem to matter, or even be present ..And then to top things off, respondents in the study say that during the life review, they felt the emotions that others felt ..such as a father's emotion towards a child. Fascinating.
And though fascinating, some would call it all false.




Where you stand on near death experiences mostly depends on what you stand on matters of faith and existence itself. An NDE could be proof of an afterlife ...or that the brain fires off a to of charges before eventual death occurs..

I read another study this week that fascinated me as much as the NDE survey: That life tries to continue living even after a body dies.. the study seemed to suggest that cells try to generate even when the brain no longer functions and the heart has long stopped beating...

WE are at the beginning of our understanding of everything. We are infantile in our thoughts..An NDE today could be explained tomorrow..an NDE today could be tomorrow's path to understanding God or an afterlife....or the brain and science.

We do indeed live in amazing times. ANd die in them too...
Maybe before we die those amazing times simply flash by before the play of life finds the curtain of time..

The end of an era: An icon of Cardinal Brennan passes away

To my friends who graduated or attended Cardinal Brennan high school, the end of an era has occurred.. The famed custodian Nate has met his demise.

Godspeed Nate. You are in every students fond memories of Cardinal Brennan and made each day better, brighter, and more interesting ...

Including my memories and days.
Rest In Peace.

Feet don’t fail me now.

Feet don’t fail me now.

The February non surprise?

There is still not enough consistency in the models for the potential Super Bowl Snowstorm along the East Coast.. Too many zig zags, too many low pressure models off the coast not being exactly where it should be to produce a Nor'Easter ...

Still watching and waiting to see how model runs will work out this week.

But if some consistency starts to become seen, get ready for the 6-12 inch range in locations that are going to get snow..

At this point, however, model runs including the storm being rain or even moving out to sea are still possible.

CENTRALIA MEMORIES ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON

This was my house when I was young in Centralia PA.. the one next to the church to the right. That is the mine fire in the top of the photo..

The image being presented simply for the purpose of nostalgia on a Sunday afternoon.

SUNDAY WASHINGTON DC RUMBLINGS

White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media info and cell phone contacts »

Amid the chaos and confusion of President Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration and refugees, sources tell CNN that White House policy director Stephen Miller spoke with officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others to tell them that the President is deeply committed to the executive order and the public is firmly behind it – urging them not to get distracted by what he described as hysterical voices on TV.

MORE..

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not respond to a request for comment.Already, Politico reported in December, the US government had quietly begun asking that foreign visitors provide their social media accounts voluntarily. The Obama administration had previously approved asking for much more information from people on terror watch lists, The Intercept reported in 2014.Trump’s executive order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days.Trump’s unilateral moves, which have drawn the ire of human rights groups and prompted protests at US airports, reflect the President’s desire to quickly make good on his campaign promises. But they also encapsulate the pitfalls of an administration largely operated by officials with scant federal experience.

With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table »

President Trump has reorganized the National Security Council by elevating his chief strategist Steve Bannon and demoting the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Now, Bannon will join the NSC’s principals committee, the top inter-agency group for discussing national security. The National Security Council is the staff inside the White House that coordinates decision making by the president on such matters, in coordination with outside departments including the State Department and the Pentagon.

Global Criticism of Trump Ban Builds From Germany to Google »

The world is in a flivver…
Trump puts earth in a quiver..
A ban on a plane..
The global pain..
At the future we shiver..

Global opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump intensified on Sunday, as world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced his decision to limit entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the name of fighting terrorism.

Trudeau, in a tweet, said Canada would welcome those fleeing “persecution, terror and war. Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith.” Merkel expressed her concerns about the temporary ban during a call with Trump on Saturday, her chief spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

Uber Responds to Rage over Alleged 'Strikebreaking' During Protests »

On Saturday night, Uber’s New York City Twitter account notified riders that the company was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK Airport, the site of protests against President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking some Middle Eastern travelers and refugees.

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL-CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride-hailing companies like Uber.

What followed was a firestorm of online anger and calls for a boycott of Uber. Well into Sunday morning, #deleteuber was a top trending topic on Twitter, with many commenters sharing screenshots of their deletions or account cancellations.

And now the newest feature of today’s online world; How to quit UBER.. delete UBER.. get rid of UBER..

SO THIS HAPPENED TODAY: Trump asked me how to legally create ‘Muslim ban’ said Giuliani »

Mark Moore writes.

Rudy Giuliani said Donald Trump asked him to work out how he could legally implement a “Muslim ban.”

“He called me up, he said, ‘Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally,’” the former mayor, who has been advising President Trump, said on “Fox News” Saturday.

Giuliani then said he put a panel together that included former federal Judge Michael Mukasey, Rep. Peter King and Texas Rep. Michael McCaul to come up with a plan that placed the emphasis on threats not religion.

“And what we did was we focused on, instead of religion, danger,” Giuliani said.

“The areas of the word that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible,” he added.

The president signed an executive order on Friday that bans indefinitely refugees from Syria from entering the US and for 90 days immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya.

Trump doubles down on refugee ban »

President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his executive order to severely curb refugees and legal immigration, insisting on Twitter that America needs “extreme vetting” to avoid the “horrible mess” elsewhere.

Trump’s defense of his actions came as he faced escalating pressure to rescind the order. A growing number of Republicans chided Trump for the order, humanitarian groups planned a second round of protests Sunday, and some judges issued rulings halting the deportation of refugees and others caught in the fire.

On Twitter of course…..

“Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world — a horrible mess!” Trump tweeted early in the morning.

Reports: '57 dead' in first US raid on Qaeda in Yemen under President »

A US raid in Yemen killed 41 suspected Al-Qaeda militants and 16 civilians on Sunday, an official said, in what would be America’s first military action in the country under President Donald Trump.

Eight women and eight children were among those killed in the dawn raid in Yakla district, in the central province of Baida, said the provincial official, who did not want to be named, and tribal sources.

Sources in the region said the raid targeted the houses of three tribal chiefs linked to Al-Qaeda.

The provincial official said Apache helicopters also struck a school, a mosque and a medical facility which were all used by Al-Qaeda militants.

White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media info and cell phone contacts

White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media info and cell phone contacts:

Amid the chaos and confusion of President Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration and refugees, sources tell CNN that White House policy director Stephen Miller spoke with officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others to tell them that the President is deeply committed to the executive order and the public is firmly behind it – urging them not to get distracted by what he described as hysterical voices on TV.

MORE..

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not respond to a request for comment.Already, Politico reported in December, the US government had quietly begun asking that foreign visitors provide their social media accounts voluntarily. The Obama administration had previously approved asking for much more information from people on terror watch lists, The Intercept reported in 2014.Trump’s executive order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days.Trump’s unilateral moves, which have drawn the ire of human rights groups and prompted protests at US airports, reflect the President’s desire to quickly make good on his campaign promises. But they also encapsulate the pitfalls of an administration largely operated by officials with scant federal experience.

With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table

With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table:

President Trump has reorganized the National Security Council by elevating his chief strategist Steve Bannon and demoting the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Now, Bannon will join the NSC’s principals committee, the top inter-agency group for discussing national security. The National Security Council is the staff inside the White House that coordinates decision making by the president on such matters, in coordination with outside departments including the State Department and the Pentagon.

Global Criticism of Trump Ban Builds From Germany to Google

Global Criticism of Trump Ban Builds From Germany to Google:

The world is in a flivver…
Trump puts earth in a quiver..
A ban on a plane..
The global pain..
At the future we shiver..

Global opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump intensified on Sunday, as world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced his decision to limit entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the name of fighting terrorism.

Trudeau, in a tweet, said Canada would welcome those fleeing “persecution, terror and war. Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith.” Merkel expressed her concerns about the temporary ban during a call with Trump on Saturday, her chief spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

Uber Responds to Rage over Alleged 'Strikebreaking' During Protests

Uber Responds to Rage over Alleged 'Strikebreaking' During Protests:

On Saturday night, Uber’s New York City Twitter account notified riders that the company was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK Airport, the site of protests against President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking some Middle Eastern travelers and refugees.

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL-CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride-hailing companies like Uber.

What followed was a firestorm of online anger and calls for a boycott of Uber. Well into Sunday morning, #deleteuber was a top trending topic on Twitter, with many commenters sharing screenshots of their deletions or account cancellations.

And now the newest feature of today’s online world; How to quit UBER.. delete UBER.. get rid of UBER..

SO THIS HAPPENED TODAY: Trump asked me how to legally create ‘Muslim ban’ said Giuliani

SO THIS HAPPENED TODAY: Trump asked me how to legally create ‘Muslim ban’ said Giuliani:

Mark Moore writes.

Rudy Giuliani said Donald Trump asked him to work out how he could legally implement a “Muslim ban.”

“He called me up, he said, ‘Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally,’” the former mayor, who has been advising President Trump, said on “Fox News” Saturday.

Giuliani then said he put a panel together that included former federal Judge Michael Mukasey, Rep. Peter King and Texas Rep. Michael McCaul to come up with a plan that placed the emphasis on threats not religion.

“And what we did was we focused on, instead of religion, danger,” Giuliani said.

“The areas of the word that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible,” he added.

The president signed an executive order on Friday that bans indefinitely refugees from Syria from entering the US and for 90 days immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya.

Trump doubles down on refugee ban

Trump doubles down on refugee ban:

President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his executive order to severely curb refugees and legal immigration, insisting on Twitter that America needs “extreme vetting” to avoid the “horrible mess” elsewhere.

Trump’s defense of his actions came as he faced escalating pressure to rescind the order. A growing number of Republicans chided Trump for the order, humanitarian groups planned a second round of protests Sunday, and some judges issued rulings halting the deportation of refugees and others caught in the fire.

On Twitter of course…..

“Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world — a horrible mess!” Trump tweeted early in the morning.

Reports: '57 dead' in first US raid on Qaeda in Yemen under President

Reports: '57 dead' in first US raid on Qaeda in Yemen under President:

A US raid in Yemen killed 41 suspected Al-Qaeda militants and 16 civilians on Sunday, an official said, in what would be America’s first military action in the country under President Donald Trump.

Eight women and eight children were among those killed in the dawn raid in Yakla district, in the central province of Baida, said the provincial official, who did not want to be named, and tribal sources.

Sources in the region said the raid targeted the houses of three tribal chiefs linked to Al-Qaeda.

The provincial official said Apache helicopters also struck a school, a mosque and a medical facility which were all used by Al-Qaeda militants.

This was my house when I was young in Centralia PA.. the one...

This was my house when I was young in Centralia PA.. the one next to the church to the right. That is the mine fire in the top of the photo..

The image being presented simply for the purpose of nostalgia on a Sunday morning.

THE BEAST soars high again: SPLIT reigns for second weekend

THE BEAST soars again..

For the second week in a row, SPLIT reigned high at the box office, delivering another decisive victory for M Night Shyamalan.

From BOX OFFICE MOJO:

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Looking to hold on to the number one spot with ease, Universal’s Split brought in an estimated $7.9 million on Friday and is looking at an impressive $25+ million second weekend.

Landing in second on Friday is Universal’s A Dog’s Purpose with an estimated $5.3 million as it looks as if it will finish around $18.5 million for the three-day weekend.

Screen Gems’s release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is projected to take in $13.7 - $14 million for the weekend after taking in an estimated $5.1 million on Friday.

The stories and video about dogs from DOG’S PURPOSE being treated questionably probably didn’t help the film–and with the cloudy month we had we are sad enough without watching a movie about dogs dying continuously.. 

That said, I also loved the movie SPLIT.. The ending wasn’t the twist I completely have come to love with M Night, but it worked for the film and the atmosphere presented about a city of Philadelphia under siege from 24 personalities without knowing it..

James McAvoy was impressive, completely impressive. Anna Taylor Joy was as well–as usual M Night cast the film with the perfect people to perform the roles necessary..

This is also a much needed victory for M Night Shyalaman, so many films now he has been hit was criticism.. 

I have loved each movie he made–even the ones others didn’t..

So happy to see SPLIT performing well..

Weekend final numbers for this week: 

• Split (3,199 theaters) - $18.8 M
• A Dog’s Purpose (3,058 theaters) - $18.0 M
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (3,104 theaters) - $12.2 M
• Hidden Figures (3,351 theaters) - $11.6 M
• xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (3,651 theaters) - $11.0 M
• La La Land (3,136 theaters) - $10.0 M
• Sing (2,690 theaters) - $5.4 M
• Gold (2,166 theaters) - $4.1 M
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2,049 theaters) - $4.0 M
• Monster Trucks (2,496 theaters) - $3.5 M

THE BEAST soars again..For the second week in a row, SPLIT...

THE BEAST soars again..

For the second week in a row, SPLIT reigned high at the box office, delivering another decisive victory for M Night Shyamalan.

From BOX OFFICE MOJO:

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Looking to hold on to the number one spot with ease, Universal’s Split brought in an estimated $7.9 million on Friday and is looking at an impressive $25+ million second weekend.

Landing in second on Friday is Universal’s A Dog’s Purpose with an estimated $5.3 million as it looks as if it will finish around $18.5 million for the three-day weekend.

Screen Gems’s release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is projected to take in $13.7 - $14 million for the weekend after taking in an estimated $5.1 million on Friday.

The stories and video about dogs from DOG’S PURPOSE being treated questionably probably didn’t help the film–and with the cloudy month we had we are sad enough without watching a movie about dogs dying continuously.. 

That said, I also loved the movie SPLIT.. The ending wasn’t the twist I completely have come to love with M Night, but it worked for the film and the atmosphere presented about a city of Philadelphia under siege from 24 personalities without knowing it..

James McAvoy was impressive, completely impressive. Anna Taylor Joy was as well–as usual M Night cast the film with the perfect people to perform the roles necessary..

This is also a much needed victory for M Night Shyalaman, so many films now he has been hit was criticism.. 

I have loved each movie he made–even the ones others didn’t..

So happy to see SPLIT performing well..

Weekend final numbers for this week: 

• Split (3,199 theaters) - $18.8 M
• A Dog’s Purpose (3,058 theaters) - $18.0 M
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (3,104 theaters) - $12.2 M
• Hidden Figures (3,351 theaters) - $11.6 M
• xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (3,651 theaters) - $11.0 M
• La La Land (3,136 theaters) - $10.0 M
• Sing (2,690 theaters) - $5.4 M
• Gold (2,166 theaters) - $4.1 M
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2,049 theaters) - $4.0 M
• Monster Trucks (2,496 theaters) - $3.5 M

Confusion over the Trump executive disorder

Reporting from CNN

When President Donald Trump declared at the Pentagon Friday he was enacting strict new measures to prevent domestic terror attacks, there were few within his government who knew exactly what he meant.Administration officials weren't immediately sure which countries' citizens would be barred from entering the United States. The Department of Homeland Security was left making a legal analysis on the order after Trump signed it. A Border Patrol agent, confronted with arriving refugees, referred questions only to the President himself, according to court filings.Saturday night, a federal judge granted an emergency stay for citizens of the affected countries who had already arrived in the US and those who are in transit and hold valid visas, ruling they can legally enter the US.

And more..

It wasn't until Friday -- the day Trump signed the order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and suspending all refugee admission for 120 days -- that career homeland security staff were allowed to see the final details of the order, a person familiar with the matter said.The result was widespread confusion across the country on Saturday as airports struggled to adjust to the new directives. In New York, two Iraqi nationals sued the federal government after they were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and 10 others were detained as well.

Border blitz! The Trump ban! The overturning judge! All breaking tonight

SATURDAY NIGHTS ARE RIGHT FOR FIGHTING..
THE DRUDGE REPORT SUMMARIZES HEADLINES OF TODAY THE BEST WITH A SERIES OF HEADLINES AND LINKS ..

Protesters Gather At JFK...
Taxi drivers strike...
Ban includes green card holders...
Lawyers move in...
Trump expands power of immigration officers...
Agents Cheer...
Iranian Filmmaker Barred From Oscars...
Tehran vows retaliation...
GOOGLE Recalls Overseas Staff...
Silicon Sultans Panic...
Hollywood Meltdown...
Journalists Freak...

BORDER BLITZ SPARKS CHAOS
REFUGEES TURNED AWAY
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP

The monocle Mandela Effect

It happened again..

The Mandela Effect, for all its naysayers, seemingly strikes when you least expect it.. at the most comfortable of occasions, you find yourself uneasy.. Uncomfortable.. Unsure of what you may have just realized is true despite what you always knew to be reality.

Last night while playing Monopoly, I took a hard look at the Monopoly Man. I have seen him my entire life. . . from old board games as a child to even the NINTENDO version in the late 1980s, I have always loved the game. The newest version is cool but creepy–a credit card and banking fees, all electronic. So it was that when I figured, alright.. they must have modernized the Monopoly Man to have him loose the monocle.

Thus began another night of Mandela Effect thinking.

See… I went back, and I could not find any image of the Monopoly Man having a monocle. Even odder was finding people in Halloween costumes, dressed as the Monopoly Man with a monocle..

I also founds lots of pop culture references to the monocle.. people writing articles that that to really, really be the Monopoly Man you need a monocle to adorn your face. Even a scene in ACE VENTURA that would muddy the waters..

And nothing..

No evidence that a monocle ever existed..

Nothing to showcase proof that such a facial feature was on the Monopoly Man..

So yet again, another piece of information that weaves together a confusing fabric of the Mandela Effect.

I have long written about this topic on this website.. I have not really opined much about the validity of the effect, whether it’s true that reality has shifted or if we just all remember everything the wrong way.. Except a few times, name the following:

The turkey leg King Henry VIII mystery..

The movie KAZAM that never existed..

And OXICLEAN.. or however you spell it..

Add to that.. the Monopoly Man. And the fact that I have distinct and really vivid memories of the famous figuring having a monocle.

Unless I was just getting him confused with the PLANTERS NUT all of this time?

If it was on the Monopoly Man, no dice.

It’s gone now.



At least gone in this timeline..

John Hurt dead

The Hollywood Reporter:

The British actor of stage and screen also received an Academy Award nom for 'Midnight Express' and was memorable in 'Alien,' three Harry Potter films and 'Doctor Who.'
John Hurt, the esteemed British actor known for his burry voice and weathered visage — one that was kept hidden for his most acclaimed role, that of the deformed John Merrick in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man — has died, according to reports from several British newspapers. He was 77.

The two-time Oscar nominee's six-decade career also included turns on the BBC’s Doctor Who and in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Midnight Express (1978) and three Harry Potter films.

He announced in June 2015 that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.