Why Is There A Winter Flu Season? A series of info-graphics attempts to explain..

I have been researching this for a while. I was sure there was an answer.
And then I realized, there are a ton of answers and endless possibilities as to why there is even a flu season to begin with.
And with all the possibilities, I will add one more in the mix: The flu shot. It seems that whenever there is a hot and heavy campaign to vaccinate people against the flu, the flu suddenly spreads.
Coincidence, I am sure I’d be told. Coincidence. 
Now excuse me while I pop my vitamin D supplement. 

TUESDAY TERRORS: Newsworthy events of the world and beyond

TUESDAY OCTOBER 22 2013
Other news of the day..

A Montana government employee is in some hot water after she hired a paranormal team to find an office ghost!

This is pretty much disgusting: Mark Dice was able to get people to sign petitions say that they support an Orwellian state in America. What have we become!

The Left Anger: Chris Hedges admits that the military police state is far worse under Obama than under Bush 2

The mystery continues: 2 more Naval Officers get purged by the Obama Administration..

Drone strikes are killing more than the United States admits..


Chinese city shrouded in smog–airport shut down, masks are being worn, and ground transport is at a standstill.. And because of the smog, and God knows what’s in the thick stew, a city of 11 million people in China has completely been cut off from the world

Mega wildfire could form in Australia burning..

Red October: Some wildfires in Australia have been started by people–and authorities are shocked to know that some of those people are children as young as 11..

FOURTH earthquake hits Israel!

Heavy rains overflow water tank barriers in Fukushima..

Your “chicken” McNugget gets a close look..

The future of street lighting: Glow in the dark streets!

Comet Ison is glowing green.. and it’s tail has been captured glowing in a new image.. Next stop: Our sky..

VERY INTERESTING video and story from SLATE: Here are three illusion that will melt your brain.. your perception will be thrown off.. and you won’t know what is happening..

What is causing earth’s gamma ray bursts?

NETFLIX continues earnings success..

Is BEETLEJUICE 2 actually going to be made?
Tim Burton and Micheal Keaton are eyeing a sequel..
WARNER BROS looks to develop..

The incredible technology of horror movie monsters..

Game day: Early scene of BATMAN VS SUPERMAN filmed..

Not a day goes by that we are not subjected to a nude or partially nude celebrity selfie on Twitter. Today it’s Shai Labeouf..


Corey Feldman breaks his silence: A new book memior reveals the sexual abuse that he said he, and Corey Haim, faced in the 1980s.. Even more interesting, Feldman writes The man who abused Haim now “walks around, one of the most successful people in the entertainment industry, still making money hand over fist” ..

Song of the century: WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND singer Noel Harrison dead..

The strange video of Elisa Lam’s final moments of life

Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old student staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles .. She also succumbed to her fate there.. The story was a shock to the world: She was found dead in the Cecil’s water tank. 
And now the weird death of Elisa Lam made the Cecil an even darker place than it already was.
The other night, Art Bell’s website showcased a video of Elisa Lam in her final moments of life.. Though the video was online for some time now, Art Bell talking about it propelled it to instant popularity. 
It shows Lam on an elevator acting, for lack of a better word, strange. Some think she is battling a spirit or demon, others think the video is simply an example of her fragile sanity.. The four-minute security video was posted on YouTube (*I don’t know by who, you’d think this was evidence??*) .. In the clip, Lam is frantically pushing elevator buttons as the door of the elevator stays open.. then she starts behaving bizarre..After these strange events on the elevator, Elisa Lam gained access to the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel. She climbed into the water tank of the hotel. She then died–and was found two weeks later .. The only reasons she even was found was because hotel guests were complaining of the water’s taste and color–investigators found her body decomposing in the hotel’s source of water.. 
In September, the UBC student’s parents filed wrongful death litigation against the owners of the Cecil Hotel. After all, the water tank is in a restricted area, and it is sealed. Yet somehow she ended up being found dead in a place where, frankly, someone of her strength and size should not even be able to get to..  
The VIGILANT CITIZEN website did great work on a report concerning Lam, the dark history at the Cecil, and other weird things like the Lam death being similar to DARK WATER from 2005 and the fact that, after Lam’s death, tuberculosis broke out on skid row in Los Angelas, near the Cecil Hotel, and the test kits used during those situations were named: ‘LAM-ELISA’..
This video, along with the inclusion of her circumstances on paranormal websites across the Internet landscape, must be painful for the family already reeling in pain from the loss of her innocent life. 
But there are just some weird things about this video.. her behavior may be a result of a psychotic episode or drug use.. but the elevator doors not closing until she is gone? The fact her body was found somewhere that a person should not be able to get to? 
The Cecil’s history is already frightening enough.. Add this to the mystery of the location.. And this one, in my opinion, is still unsolved–regardless of the experts and officials that called this death accidental. 

The red line is simply meaningless.. And perhaps always was..

Remember a few weeks ago when Syria crossed that ‘red line’.. the President went on TV, and the world was on the brink of World War III. 
Until Vlad the Impaler Putin was able to get his best buddy Assad to ‘give up’ those weapons of some destruction. 
But now comes this story from the LONDON TELEGRAH: Assad’s snipers, they report, are ‘targeting unborn babies’ .. the story is shocking. 
Including with it is even a disturbing image of a fetus with a bulley lodged in its head.. And whether this is true not or, LIFENEWS (a pro-life oriented site) reports that an X-ray shows unborn baby being targeted screamed in pain ..
We have been here before–times when ‘doctors’ and other experts from within a nation say something has happened but history uncovers a fact that it never did. Think back to the babies being thrown from incubators in Iraq .. George H.W. Bush used it as part of the pretext to enter Gulf War I. It has since been revealed that those events did not occur, but simply were used as propaganda to humanize the war to sell it to America..
Is this new example of babies being killed in the womb another example of selling a war? 
Is this war even for sale anymore?

NIGHTMARE AT FUKUSHIMA.. And other samplings of the Monday news

MONDAY OCTOBER 21 2013

New York TIMES details: “When CEO’s embrace the occult” The TIMES writes about Korean executives who often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions — decisions that can affect their employees around the world…
OBAMASHOCK: Healthcare.gov website STOLE copyrighted scripts! And the site STILL does not work!? Shameful.. technologically shameful..
The WASHINGTON POST is reporting on a new water park in North Korea.. The government built the brightly colored park, in the middle of the drabby conditions the nation faces.. among some odd photos released, the POST reports, pictures of “handful of eager-looking young men and women playing in the water while, in the background, a mass of several hundred stern-looking men in dark suits look on silently. It’s weird.”
Where did the fear of poison in Halloween candy or knives in apples come from? The MEDIA! The SMITHSONIAN offers up an interesting report that you probably didn’t know: You really never had anything to fear with All Hallow’s Eve treats.. I myself also recall a childhood fear of this very thing–the notion that the candy would kill me or that a razor blade would be hidden in my fruit. The fear was only inspired further by the scene from HALLOWEEN 2 (not the Rob Zombie version) of a boy in a pirate suit being taken to the hospital for his mouth bleeding.. Those fears that we have, ingrained in us from an early age thanks to modern media and pop culture. And today, I still check the candy every Halloween night..

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE AND WE ARE MERELY ACTORS

This photo is a scene from the White House today, where a woman passed out and was caught by President Obama mid-fall .. 
But Alex Jones’ INFOWARS headlined a story on his site today asking if this fall was a staged event..
Steve Watson writes, 

First of all, who in their right mind asked a pregnant woman to stand up in front of hundreds of photographers for a significant amount of time?
Secondly, take a closer look at the video. After turning to the woman, Obama actually turns back toward the microphone, raises his voice and says “I’ve got you.” He then turns back to her, turns back to the mic and again says “You’re ok.”
Who is he addressing? The woman who is behind him or the world’s press in front of him?

The event did allow the President to take some heat off of the HEALTHCARE.GOV debacle–that website where customers are supposed to sign up for Obamacare but face a momentous challenge in even setting up an account… 

NO SEX PLEASE? NO REALLY

A fascinating story from Japan: The youth of the nation do not want t have sex.. so much so that there is a birth crisis on the horizon..

The UK GUARDIAN has a report about Japan, where people seemingly have stopped desiring sexual relations.. As a matter of fact, it’s not just a disinterest, but a large percentage of the nation ‘despises’ sexual contact! 
Even more, the ‘celibacy syndrome’ is so bad that the government is worried about it.
Not mentioned in the story: Worries about Fukushima.. I wonder how many people have stopped being interested in having children because they fear the nation that their children would actually grow up in?
Nonetheless, the GUARDIAN story is worth the read.. 
Is this just evolutionary? That naturally, somewhere along the line, human beings would stop being interested in the very act that resulted in our existence? 

On a bright October 20th .. somewhere in time.

Six year ago today (on a day virtually the same as today weatherwise) my wife Tara and I took our first walk as a married couple. 
This image perfectly symbolized how I felt that day—walking into the future, backs to the past.. but the same bridge of life. 
Since then we had a child, headaches and heartaches, deaths and tribulations. 
Along with it, laughs, endless smiles, and sure, a few necessary frowns.
The journey of life.. accompanying each other..
After six years, we now have a legacy. 
A child .. 
In six years, he’ll be going on 9.. and we’ll be combing out gray hairs—with me maybe shining a bald head.
While we know things can mightily change in the span of only a few years, a few constants will remain. 
Happy 6th Tara Lynn. And many, many more.