Month: December 2013

THURSDAY DECEMBER 5 2013

20 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS

Weird booms continue, this time in the midstate of Pennsylvania .. the booms were loud, and heard in three counties..

The Pope was once a bar bouncer..

Idiocricy: The dark side psychology behind holiday shopping madness..

China stops banks from Bitcoin transactions..

Greenspan perplexed by Bitcoins, saying it must be ‘backed up by something’… Like the dollar is, Alan?

Chinese media brag about ‘death star’ base on the moon..

2 million Facebook users have their passwords stolen.. And the passwords weren’t great to begin with..

Nelson Mandella on his deathbed..

Hubble finds signs of water on 5 alien planets..

At least 11 teens with tumors in a small Southern California town..

Wormholes and quantum entanglement may be linked together..

SPACEX launches its first commercial satellite..

Why are so many wealthy people building underground bunkers?

Perhaps this is why all men are pigs? An American geneticist is raising eyebrows after claiming that human evolution began after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig..
Oink.

Gal Gadot cast as WONDER WOMAN in MAN OF STEEL 2
Casting bombshell..

Epic Ice Storm Possible; Millions Could Lose Power »

A major ice storm will plague Arkansas over the next week, causing major power outages. I look at the possibilities and past ice storms.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 3 2013

I just looked at my calender for the first time this month–December 3 but it just seems to have a feel that December is already over. Maybe it’s due to the oddly short time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Maybe it’s because the rest of 2013 was a steamroller of time, marching through existence like a pale midnight rider.. taking with it the memories of the year and the hopes and dreams that never became reality through the last eleven months..

It’s almost Christmas, everyone. And almost 2014. I can hardly wait until the SYFY TWILIGHT ZONE marathon heralds us into a new beginning..

And now for the news..

United States ‘deeply concerned’ with China’s moves in the East China Sea..

This is just so wrong: Thousands of homeless vets have nothing for Christmas..

American teenagers fail miserably in education when compared to the rest of the world..
Teenagers in Shanghai top..

OBAMA 3.0: An opinion piece in the Washington POST calls for the end of presidential term limits..

Beautiful sight! Rare weather event fills the Grand Canyon with fog..

Another massive power outage across the entire nation of Venezuela..

Dangerous cold is coming to much of the United States–temperatures not this low in over 15 years for many..

News from Nepal: 45 sinkholes open up..

Loud mysterious booms force evacuation of school in New Mexico..

Before and after flashes of light in Montreal boom..

Boy being mauled in Romania brings new focus on animal cruelty in the Balkans..

IS your TV set watching you?

Mad Cow Risk Prompts U.K. Inquiry Into Blood Screening
UK: At least one in every two thousand persons is suffering from this syndrome..

Controversial GMO Study By Gilles-Eric Seralini Retracted. That was the study that said GMO could cause cancer in rats .. More on the story here..

Unprecedented event along the West Coast: Video of Humpback whales feasting on record number of anchovies

NO news is GOOD news? CNN is about to make a major change and have LESS news.. Well, the Weather Channel stopped airing weather.. The Central New Network may as well fire all their newscasters.. Call me crazy, but I miss the days of CNN’S HEADLINE NEWS back in the early days when they’d have a live broadcast, every half hour, of the news of the moment. Real news–like NEWS, and not just blips and beeps coming from talking heads. I am tired of politics.. I am tired of the ‘right wing and left wing’ arguments, arguments that go no where and are tired out from their own weight of hair air. And now CNN will air less news.. I am releasing a big ‘sigh.’
I suppose this is only more evidence to show why millions of people go immediately to the INTERNET and Twitter for news–news you cannot find, or ever will, on any news network on the TEE VEE..

I love it! A ‘Darth Vader’ SELFIE opens up the official STAR WARS EPISODE VII Instagram page..

First look at Daniel Radcliffe in FRANKENSTEIN..

Another FRIDAY THE 13TH movie planned.. and it may be a bad idea..

MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2013
THE ‘GRIND’ RESUMES.

For lots, it never ended. Today is also Cyber Monday. Which is an annoying term, but at least it prevents stores from using that horrendous word “doorbusters” to describe their sales.
So does HEALTHCARE.GOV work in time for Cyber Monday?

Onto the news..

‘Promise me, no more funerals.’ ‘Just one more’: Haunting lines spoken by Paul Walker and co-star in Fast & Furious clip leaked days before he died in fiery car crash in friend’s Porsche Carrera

There are constantly rumors online that celebrities are dead.. they are normally always hoaxes. When Paul Walker died on Saturday, many thought it was the continuation of a hoax from Friday saying that he died..

Renewed attention being given to the New Madrid fault

Quake swarm: California..
Earthquake number 17 in North Texas..

“Comfort station” in old coal city Pottsville is a thing of the past.. The economic downtown and a city in distress–as many cities are these days..

More scary Google patent news: Google files patent for robot that writes your Facebook posts, emails and tweets – but will need FULL access to scan your accounts It would study you, be you, and mimic you. When someone posts a message, your robot you would reply just as you would. But what if the other person is a bot, too? What if we are all bots? This is a ride down to the abyss, where your mind will be dead to ‘them’ and your body will simply be a cavern of organs, blood, and a semi-beating heart.

New research: America is now dead last in education.

Who is watching the watchers?

Monsanto set to battle its negative public image..

Comet Ison: Alive, then dead, then found, now fading.

Roseanne Barr says she will never work in TV again..

Cats are suffering from a new phenomenon where they suffer seizures triggered by everyday sounds.. and it has a name: ‘Tom and Jerry’ syndrome

Would you eat a carrot grown no the moon? The question is, at this time, would a carrot even grow on the moon?

Who says drones can’t be used for the good, too? »

SUNDAY MORNING SIDEWALK, DECEMBER 2013

I had a brief conversation with my wife yesterday.. we pondered our existence, and wondered if ‘time’ is really going as fast as we perceive it. My only argument was that the major earthquakes on this planet over the past decade did speed us up fractions of a millisecond–that was scientifically proven. Maybe that slight alteration in time does something to us over time.. maybe it in fact does make us feel that the passage of time–and in essence our trek around the sun–is changed.
Or..
It’s because we have a child, and now a dog, and a rush of life with work and few pleasure. Could it be the plague of parents–the idea that you’re watching your child grow too fast and also facing your own eventual ‘ending’? It’s already December.

And as long as my fate continues to allow me to exist, expect some Christmas related material this month and later as we get close to 2014, there will be an annual year in review offered us by this website for your pleasure or displeasure.

In the mean time, some news is worth offering.

Actor Paul Walker dies–in some form of twisted irony, in a car crash. He was one of the actors in the FAST AND FURIOUS films..

Paul Walker was just 40 and had a career still ahead of him.. Stars are reacting to the death..
Fast and Furious: Walker lived how he died..

The secret code for nuclear launch? It was just this easy: “00000000” So easy even a Reagan could have done it..

The monsters are always due on Maple st: A large number of Americans do not trust each other..

Video shows Comet Ison dying again..

A grim website tracks the number of deaths and injuries on Black Friday..

Sick: 97-year-old woman beaten to death during home invasion..

North Korea continues to hold 85-year-old American hostage.. the US says to let him go..

90 youth football players hit by “nasty” virus in Vegas.. The strange part that baffled medical officials: None of the players who were vomiting or sick (many went to the hospital) had one common symptom..

A Black Hole is found–that emits a brilliant light.. And it should go without question that this black hole without blackness is perplexing scientists..

At least they left her liver? Woman has her baby taken from her fetus by social services..

Chinese now think a second child is too expensive.. See what decades of a violent and horrid one child policy does to the mind of a population?

UK destroying “embarrassing” Colonial papers..

HUNGER GAMES continues to rampage box office..

CATCHING FIRE and FROZEN set to break box office records for Thanksgiving weekend..

AMERICAN MIRROR reveals the life of Norman Rockwell..

Unpublished JD Salinger stories leaked..

Sexual frustration equals a shorter life..

How to stay healthy: STAY ACTIVE ALL DAY..

COLLIDER will be a horror movie..

Must have retro school lunch boxes..

Get it now: UFO investigations manual..