Year: 2013

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This Billy Joel song, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, is the ballad of my labor days of years past, present, and probably future..
I still recall getting this CD for my birthday from my brother in 1993, and I listened to it over and over, and over again after the Ashland PA ABA Parade that year..
Every song was amazing..But especially this final song, with its lyrics of cleaning of streamers after the Labor Day parade and enjoying coffee and apples in the early autumn.
I still remember when Billy Joel appeared on David Letterman during his first week on CBS back in ’93… My God I am aging. We are all though–I am not alone but maybe more melancholy in my approach to the passage of time.

Years gone by… Age 13 in ’93…..age 23 in ’03… and this year, this month, this day… age 33… Add that together and start your numerology. I’ll just grin and bear it. Or something.

The wedding cake still tastes great after all these years…
And somewhere, somehow, my memory still walks the streets of Ashland, Pennsylvania, during a Labor Day ABA parade……with streamers and horns, balloons and the sweet smell of fried food and Devitos Pizza in the air above my head. Those were the days.
These are the days, too.
They’ve changed.. and gone by.
And as time goes by so do the years.
33 years ??! I just was 21, wasn’t I!? I was just 13… in ’93. Back during that blizzard….back during that point in time. Brendan! Joe! Johnny! Where are you? Where is the poetry!?
I think it’s still being read in a deep and dark basement, under the strained lights of the 3am hour. The dead poet society still preaches, I hope, at 21..I hope.

Where the hell does it all go?
To the Langoliers, I say! Eating away as Stephen King wrote. UNDER HIS DOME. With Billy Joel endlessly playing on David Letterman’s opening night on CBS..

More Artisms from his Facebook page over the past several hours:

Art Bell: When they hired George they asked me to say something nice about him, all I knew at that point was he did a Paranormal show In St Louis so I said “He gets it” that was a Decade ago. Since then if he ever got it, he lost it again.

Art Bell: yes he suddenly has started playing my bumper music like crazy, I wonder what is up with that, it started the day I announced.

Art Bell: George Knapp is indeed my friend and one hell of a Host, if he was the full time guy I would stay Retired happy that Coast was in good hands, he is also a award winning TV Reporter on KLAS

Interestingly enough this was predicted by earthquake watchers for a few days.. Amazing that it happened as expected. I may start paying a lot more attention to people like Stan Deyo and others that so often seem to correctly pinpoint where earthquakes will occur..

The gloves are off in the Art Bell vs George Noory match.. This is Bell’s latest Facbook post, and a brutally honest post it is:

“I guess it is about time to straighten a few things out. I had no input or voice into the choice of George Noory as Host…none. He recently, after Dark Matter was announced dropped my name from mention then he says put it back because it was the right thing to do, nonsense, he did it so he could stop open line callers from being cut off because they kept trying to mention my new show. That is why he announced it. I wanted my name dropped from the show as well as my Saturday shows stopped to be blunt because I hated the direction the show had taken and no longer wanted to be associated with it. George is I am sure a nice guy BUT he has become lazy and does not pay attention. I am sorry to be so blunt but that’s how I feel. I hope what little competition I can provide will cause him to up his game”

Developing..

ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME KNOWS THAT I HAVE LONG PREDICTED ‘PHONES IMPLANTED IN OUR HANDS’ BY 2020..

Only problem is, I may have been off on the time period in which  I thought it would happen.. As a matter of fact, a man is now making news because he implanted an RFID chip into his hand.

Transhumanism.. Robotic future.. Mr. Roboto.

Today is a pretty historic day, it is the anniversary of the famed I have a dream speech made by Martin Luther King so many decades ago.. But maybe I should be careful even saying the words I have a dream because the speech has been copyrighted and it will not legally be able to be seen in its entirety in the public domain until 2038!

The King estate gets paid hefty fees and royalties by people who want to use the speech in its entirety..

I must say, I really never knew this. Just when you think all speeches are created equal, a story like this comes along to show you that some are worth more not only in the realm of history but also in the realm of the almighty dollar…

In other news…

Signs? Collapse reported on Temple Mount..

More facts that will showcase a future water war coming to the planet earth.. in this situation, a huge aquifer that runs through 8 different states is QUICKLY being tapped out.. the water could be dried up within 50 years unless something is done now to conserve..
But maybe we can find an alternate source…?

New evidence suggests water below the surface of the moon!

White UFO orb circles cities..

Slowest start ever for hurricane season..

Rare snow falls in Atacama desert..

New concern that Fukushima is tainting Alaskan salmon..

NOAA thinks virus is killing East Coast dolphins..

I’M AMAZED BUT SCARED! Mind over matter: Researcher remotely controls colleague’s body with brain!
Mind control over the internet!
First human brain-to-brain interface!

Joel Osteen, the “man of God,” lives on a $10.5 million mansion .. Joel and his family worship God in a home with six bedrooms, six bathrooms, three elevators and five wood-burning fireplaces, and with a one-bedroom guest house and pool house.. I am sure somewhere in there lurks a chapel for Osteen to pray for hours and submit his life to his savior.. after his maid cooks up a fancy meal of pure products and he and his family pick which dining room they want to eat in..

Take this PTC! A study finds that playing violent video games does nto make children violent .. but something I worry about, not addressed much by this study, is whether overloads of violence and faux murder forces people to disband their concern for fellow humans.. That is still something I wonder if it occurs..

Puke gone viral: Kentucky students tell First Lady Obama that her lunch foods ‘tastes like vomit’

One of the suspects who killed Shorty the World War II vet with a flashlight offers up this defense: We were buying crack from him! There is no evidence, cops say, that Delbert Belton was selling crack to underage kids..
But…stranger things have happened…

The trial of the man who fatally killed 13-month-old baby continues..

The kids AREN’T ALRIGHT: 10-year-old girl accused of raping 4-year-old boy!

Six year old Chinese boy who had his eyes gouged out by an attacker asks his parents why it’s dark, state media says he doesn’t know he has been blinded..

There are days when news of children simply cause me to collapse in fear, sadness, or anger.. This world is so cruel, especially to the innocent. But when the innocent are cruel to their fellow innocent, I become beyond sick to my core..

Matt Damon will NOT be Robin the boy wonder..

Horror movie “YOU’RE NEXT” sat on shelf for years
And finally when it was released last week, it did poor at the box office.. SHOCK TIL YOU DROP examines why..

Now that we have seen twerking gone mad at the VMAs thanks for Miley Virus Cyrus, it’s time for the trusted old folks at the Parents Television Council to weigh in: They say “heads should roll” over Cyrus’ performance..
While the PTC won’t let her by or let Cyrus twerk me, there are other people still reacting to the horror show that prevailed on live MTV at the ‘music’ awards: The UK DAILY MAIL laments the disturbing decline of Miley Cyrus..

“Twerking” may become the word of the year..

I had a few conversations with people about Miley Cyrus over the past 48 hours since her great American decline on live TV with the Thicker fuller man.. And it provides me hope! Some of the older folks I spoke to (older being about ten years beyond me) were aghast, as I expected–with the exception of two men who seemed a little too excited about watching Miley be Miley .. And the younger people I spoke to, some of them half my age? They were saddened to see their child star go this way! One of them actually told me that she supports freedom of expression, and realized that it’s a sexualized world, but she said that Miley looked like a drugged up crazy sex addict and made a complete fool of herself. Perhaps my father, who is late in life, had one of the better reactions. He said this goes back to Madonna, and Miley is just purposely ditching the childhood fame from her past and trying to start fresh as an adult. And that is it. No horror, no reaction of disgust.. with one sentence, he matter-of-factly made sense of pop culture as the game it is..

And one more must read article offered up in today’s news update: Our friend the Cinema Psycho has typed up another article, and has given a name to all this Miley Virus nonsense: All Hail the Rise of Porn Pop” .. I love it.. Porn pop it is! I will use the term now as well, because it does make sense.

But the US, Israel and other external powers are hardly honest brokers. Behind the facade of humanitarian concern, familiar interests are at stake. Three months ago, Iraq gave the greenlight for the signing of a framework agreement for construction of pipelines to transport natural gas from Iran’s South Pars field – which it shares with Qatar – across Iraq, to Syria.

If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida. Quite an alliance! Was it not the Three Musketeers who shouted “All for one and one for all” each time they sought combat? This really should be the new battle cry if – or when – the statesmen of the Western world go to war against Bashar al-Assad. The men who destroyed so many thousands on 9/11 will then be fighting alongside the very nation whose innocents they so cruelly murdered almost exactly 12 years ago. Quite an achievement for Obama, Cameron, Hollande and the rest of the miniature warlords.

A strike on Syria could happen by Thursday..

The US says it would be ‘limited’ in scope.. Russia and China both are warning the United States not so do it.

Chess pieces are taking their places..