Sound of the static groans

Tonight there was a brief snippet on some news station my wife was watching about the strange noises in the sky (or ground) in Oregon as of late. If you haven’t heard or have been under a sheltered rock, Oregon is not the first place where these noises have happened. But somehow, this Oregon screeching noise has caught on more than others..

While the news was playing the noises tonight, it caught the attention of my 5-year-old Ayden. He initially held his ears, cupping his hands on them to avoid the screeching sound.. as the news story continued, Ayden wanted to know more. After it was over–and no answer found–Ayden asked to hear the sound again. And again.. and again. He was fascinated by it. So we YouTubed some videos and found some, at least a few that weren’t frightening and didn’t portray the sound as an end of the world noise.

I was fascinated at his fascination. But I also think anyone who hears the noises and experiences them–as I did recently–are curious to their core about the source and reason they are sounding across the planet. Who wouldn’t be.

Last night Clyde Lewis presented a good Ground Zero about these noises.

Tonight Linda Howe will be on Coast to Coast AM.

The world is starting to wake up to the sound of the static noise.. a noise that has an unclear source an apparently no explanation…as the trumpets sound.

Five years ago tonight Ayden Morris was in an incubator and my...

Five years ago tonight Ayden Morris was in an incubator and my wife and I were awaiting the joys of parenting. And they have been joys. And fast times on the planet earth.. 5 years gone too fast and a growing boy becoming more amazing by the day.

An amazing video and hysterically funny.. take a look at ‘Game...

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An amazing video and hysterically funny.. take a look at ‘Game of Thrones Winter is Trumping’

Klamazoo police claim the 45-year-old man who went on a shooting spree Saturday night, killing six, was an Uber driver who dropped off passengers between shootings. According to WOOD-TV, authorities are investigating reports that the suspected gunman, Jason Dalton, dropped off a group of people at a Fairfield Inn before going next door to the Cracker Barrel and opening fire on two vehicles, killing four people.

Klamazoo police claim the 45-year-old man who went on a shooting spree Saturday night, killing six, was an Uber driver who dropped off passengers between shootings. According to WOOD-TV, authorities are investigating reports that the suspected gunman, Jason Dalton, dropped off a group of people at a Fairfield Inn before going next door to the Cracker Barrel and opening fire on two vehicles, killing four people.:

Just wow…

Chopper gone bad.

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Chopper gone bad.

6 Dead as Tropical Cyclone Winston Tears Through Fiji; State of Emergency Declared amid Severe Wind and Flooding Damage

6 Dead as Tropical Cyclone Winston Tears Through Fiji; State of Emergency Declared amid Severe Wind and Flooding Damage:

Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston made landfall in Fiji on Saturday, killing at least six people and destroying hundreds of homes. Strong winds and flooding from Winston have caused severe damage across the island nation, which is under curfew until 5:30 a.m. Monday. A month long state of disaster has also been declared.

Haven’t heard from Truman yet.

14-year-old girl seventh to die after shootings in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area

14-year-old girl seventh to die after shootings in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area:

A 14-year-old girl is the seventh person to die after a series of shootings in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area.

Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas says the teenager was one of five people fatally shot in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant.

Matyas corrected earlier information released by authorities that the girl was nine years old.

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“We seem to be dealing with a worst-case scenario, someone driving around shooting,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told NBC News after the shootings. At least three people were wounded in the attacks.

The Kalamazoo Public Safety Department said a suspect fitting the description of the gunman had been apprehended without incident, citing Chief Jeff Hadley.

The shootings all appear to be random acts..

A man was detained in central Kalamazoo, according to County Undersheriff Paul Matyas.

The suspect is currently being interviewed by police, who told WWMT-TV they are sure they have their man

Mr Matyas told reporters: “The threat to the public is over. We now have our suspect.”

DEVELOPING..

Storm coming this week looks like a Great Lakes cutter instead...

Storm coming this week looks like a Great Lakes cutter instead of a Nor’Easter…

The strange music from the dark side of the moon

There are a few reasons you should read Lee Speigel on a regular basis on the HUFFINGTON POST.. tonight I read an article solidifying my personal reasons to read his content. 

Get this: Astronauts heard music on the far side of the moon during a mission in 1969 .. they were shocked, surprised, confused.. and they did not know if they should ever even have said anything.

The article by Speigel appeared on the HUFFINGTON POST.. Speigel writes,

The taped recordings contained “strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module’s radio,” according to the upcoming Science Channel series, “NASA’s Unexplained Files.”

The unexplained “music” transmission lasted almost an hour, and just before the astronauts regained radio contact with Earth, they discussed whether or not to tell Mission Control what they had experienced

This text showcasing what the astronauts were actually saying as they pondered the source of the music and whether or not to tell Mission Control:

“It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music.”

“You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!”

“Well, that sure is weird music!”

“It’s unbelievable! You know?”

“Shall we tell them about it?”

“I don’t know. We ought to think about it.”

There very well could be a scientific meaning to this.. A reason for the sounds.. perhaps even a distant playing of Pink Floyd from some aliens that … wait.. they didn’t write that album yet in 1969. Well.. then.. time travel! that’s it! Time travel…

Look, none of us really know what this source could have been.. what the music may have meant .. perhaps gravity? Something..

I know this: It’s amazing and thought provoking. And I love to have thoughts provoked..

And I can only imagine.. wait I actually cannot imagine.. what it would have been like to hear faint and distant sounds on the ………..dark side of the moon.

6 people killed at Michigan restaurant and car dealership

6 people killed at Michigan restaurant and car dealership:

BREAKING NEWS CONTINUES TO UNFOLD IN MICHIGAN.. THE DEATH TOLL FROM SEEMINGLY RANDOM SHOOTINGS HAVE GONE UP .. SO SURREAL

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At least three people have been shot and killed in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, according to police, who say the suspect is still on the loose and seems to be shooting people at random. “We had several shootings tonight in the county and in the city of Kalamazoo. They all appear to be related. We have multiple people dead,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told 24 Hour News 8.

At least three people have been shot and killed in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, according to police, who say the suspect is still on the loose and seems to be shooting people at random. “We had several shootings tonight in the county and in the city of Kalamazoo. They all appear to be related. We have multiple people dead,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told 24 Hour News 8.:

TODAY IS IMPORTANT

My wife is 36. My son is 5.
Birthdays galore.. and moments in time that we need to stop and reflect.

Tara may not want picture herself at the age she is–though I remind her she can now run for president. Heck if Trump can anyone can.

As for Ayden, 5 is a big deal.

I still remember his first birthday.. And third.. and now fifth–we didn’t skip the 2nd and 4th but we just opted not to have parties for them.

So later today as a dozen kids roll around a giant play time location with a ball pip and giant sliding board, it will feel strange and real.

Later this year: Kindergarten.

Until then let’s hold on to 16 as long as we can. The changes coming around real soon will make us women and men.

I love you Tara.
I love you Ayden.

Brazilian health officials and the World Health Organization are denying links between a well-known pesticide and microcephaly, a condition that causes babies to develop abnormally small heads and leads to death in some cases. The pesticide is called Pyriproxyfen, and it’s used in water tanks to eliminate mosquito larvae.

Brazilian health officials and the World Health Organization are denying links between a well-known pesticide and microcephaly, a condition that causes babies to develop abnormally small heads and leads to death in some cases. The pesticide is called Pyriproxyfen, and it’s used in water tanks to eliminate mosquito larvae.:

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“We decided to suspend the use of the product [Pyriproxyfen] in human consumption water until we get a position in the Ministry of Health and because of that we strengthen the appeal to the population to eliminate any possible breeding ground of the mosquito,” said Gabbardo said…

There are a large number of people who believe that Zika is being blamed too quickly..

SALON writes: Could a horror movie set in the 17th century explain America’s current insanity?

SALON writes: Could a horror movie set in the 17th century explain America’s current insanity?:

Is “The Witch,” under the surface, a story about sexual abuse, and about the vicious combination of guilt and jealousy that can poison relationships between mother and daughter, or between sisters? That’s certainly one way to read it. Is it, on a grander scale, an allegorical tale about religious hysteria and paranoid delusion, and even about the current of self-hatred and self-destructiveness that lies at the heart of the American experience? I would strongly argue for yes. But those aren’t mutually exclusive options — and it’s also a story about a well-meaning American family confronted by evil.

There is a witch in the woods, after all. We see her sneaking away with infant Sam, the unbaptized babe so crucial to certain diabolical rituals. Later in the film, we see her lure Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw), Thomasin’s slightly younger brother, into her lair with a display of legs and cleavage entirely without precedent in 17th-century America. Is it relevant that we have already seen Caleb, a devout and loyal son, eyeing his sister’s body with the first stirrings of prurient interest? It might be. I’m sure someone will write a piece this week suggesting that Eggers is playing into misogynistic stereotype by implying that there may really have been child-killing witches in the New England woods, who could fly and who engaged in unorthodox sexual practices and who had signed their names in blood in the Black Book.

UMBERTO ECO DEAD AT 84

UMBERTO ECO DEAD AT 84

A pair of NASA astronauts released a capsule loaded with 1.5 tons of trash Friday. The spacecraft should re-enter the atmosphere and burn up harmlessly over the Pacific on Saturday.

A pair of NASA astronauts released a capsule loaded with 1.5 tons of trash Friday. The spacecraft should re-enter the atmosphere and burn up harmlessly over the Pacific on Saturday.

Trump says he'll release hidden 28 pages of 9/11 report

Trump says he'll release hidden 28 pages of 9/11 report :

Those pages detail the nation that that aided the hijackers… Some have seen, a few. But you haven’t. Or me. Trump says he’ll show us. And he thinks it implicates the Saudis…

This is wild.

WINTER IS NOT OVER..Evidence supplied from the latest computer...

WINTER IS NOT OVER..

Evidence supplied from the latest computer model runs of a storm coming next week showcases that.. 
BUT…
The confidence level of a cold storm is low.. there is so much uncertainty about this. It could be rain. Ice. Mix. Snow. All of the above.. And all for a long duration–if this is all snow get ready for more than 1 foot. If it’s a mix, get ready for one of the sloppiest segways into March winter can provide..

Accuweather is forecasting that enough cold weather should pour in to make snowmen possible.

All this possible. And developing. A days away.

McDonald's survey of franchisees finds pessimistic view of chain

McDonald's survey of franchisees finds pessimistic view of chain:

McDonald’s Corp. franchisees remained pessimistic about the company’s turnaround efforts during the much-hyped rollout of all-day breakfast, according to an internal survey. ..

Breakfast all day isn’t helping.

And speaking of breakfast all day, they don’t do egg-white sandwiches, so I hear. Maybe that has hurt too.

OR .. the turn to more healthy food in America would have gone wild on their profits and futures..?

Pope suggests contraceptives OK to slow Zika

Pope suggests contraceptives OK to slow Zika:

In other Pope news, he said that Donald Trump was not really a Christian. Trump fired back that when ISIS attacks the Vatican, the Pope will wish he would have prayed that the Donald would have been President.

2016 sure has been wild so far..