WEDNESDAY APRIL 10 2013

Been a rough past week, didn’t get much of a shot to do major updates. Luckily for Earth, not to many major developments. When I started the brief hiatus  North Korea was threatening to bomb everyone. And today they still are..
From the world and beyond, the news of the day:






Culture of death: While America seems intrigued with sex and murder in the Jodi Arias trial, we aren’t paying much attention to a doc who is accused of murdering live babies and putting the lives of mothers at risk..



China detains 12 for ‘spreading rumors’ about bird flu.. China is clearly in damage control mode, and they certainly don’t want to spark and more attention from the world on how they are dealing with the potential next 1918..












THE PURGE to open horror movie festival.. And the PURGE may be one of the more interesting films (not just horror category either) that will be released this year…

Forgive me for some more military related postings over the next several years

But today my nephew became took his oath and went to Paris Island to become a Marine. It’s been a weighty day, emotion wise.. and it portends to only get more intense as his training intensifies and world conflicts brew. So yes, North Korea  Afghanistan, and all the other ‘Stans’ and strange arenas of global strife suddenly take center stage in my family’s life.
We are proud of this young man, Shawn “Mere” as he will now be known. We know he can do it.
And we also know he understands the oath he took today is one of the most sacred and noble things he has ever done…
He’s surely more brave than I ever was at the age of 18..

China squawking

CNN reports:

Chinese authorities have killed more than 20,000 birds from a live-poultry trading zone in Shanghai after an unusual strain of bird flu was found in pigeons, state-run media Xinhua reported today.

The H7N9 virus, or bird flu, has killed six people. It had not previously been found in humans until 14 cases were reported in China this week — all in a coastal area of eastern China.

A message received on North Korea from a reader

It was in response to my posts all day regarding North Korea.. Valid points are asserted, however. Read along:

Well the US has to treat the threats with some sort of seriousness. A threat is a threat, but it is really not one they should have children hearing about and scared of because as of right now nothing is going to come out of this.The fact that there are US military on the 38th parallel is no new thing, they have been there ready for attack since the seize fire with the Korean War. Actually, we are technically still in the Korean war since no peace treaty was signed, it’s just a seize fire. Plus I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the North Korean troops started surrendering as soon as we would start an attack. Lots of North Koreans are scared to speak out against their country since it means an immediate sentence for them and their whole family to prison camps. In previous wars, like the Iraq war, the conditions in the country are full of so much suck that the soldier surrender immediately hoping that if they aren’t immediately killed, that they will be given asylum in America. It can be expected that much of the same would happen in Korea since even their Army is starving and the wealthiest in the capital still have to abide to food rations. It’s just a terrible situation for the North Koreans. They really have no chance, I just hope if and when something breaks out we do something for the innocent victims living in North Korea, it is so sad. Watch some of the Korean documentaries on Netflix if you have it like Camp 14.