Day: January 20, 2014

George Knapp is like a cat.. he has 8 more lives to go.

CNN POSTS AN EXCLUSIVE: Gruesome Syria photos may prove torture by Assad regime »

A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found “direct evidence” of “systematic torture and killing” by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the lawyers on the team say in a new report.

 CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the photographs, documents and testimony referenced in the report, and is relying on the conclusions of the team behind it, which includes international criminal prosecutors, a forensic pathologist, an anthropologist and an expert in digital imaging

For those who don’t know, I herald from Centralia, PA. The town with the mine fire under.. Now and then, on days like today, I like taking a venture through the old streets .. Now, with Mutley the Dog, I have a friend–Ayden Morris won’t be ready for such walks until maybe age 5.

Two snapshots of the latest on Grafhitti Highway for your winter enjoyment..

Here are some links from TMZ .. the latest with Beebs.. 

The Beeb’s drug of choice: He guzzles high quality syrup.. Actavis prometh with codeine cough syrup..

Bieber enjoys the top of the line drug.. As a matter of fact, his Sizzurp is $800 per pint.. Enough mind altering power to end any Bieber fever.

Escape!! Beebs goes snow boarding.

I read a few days ago a chance that Beebs could be deported. Can someone start a petition to work on that?


FALLING STAR: BIEBER’S MANSION A ‘TREASURE TROVE’ OF DRUGS

Just in .. A quote direct from their urgent news report:

The U.S. military will have up to two warships and several large transport aircraft on standby under a contingency plan to help evacuate American officials and athletes during the Sochi Olympics if ordered, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the plan told CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.

The official said the State Department would take the lead in organizing and evacuating Americans. The official declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information.

Did anyone ever see ‘PORTICO’ NEWS?

I hate it. Despise it.. loathe it.

My wife and I bought a new TV and, while exploring, came across the app for Portico news. It was awful. Fake background, fake newscasters.. nothing real. It was so bad.

There is nothing ‘real’ about Portico news. The over made up and trendy dresses ‘newscasters’ stand in front of a green screen.  They tell us they will give us news, encapsulating all the most important things in a nutshell for us in just 20 minutes. I could not even put up with 20 seconds of it! It was so awful.. It was as of
It actually began to make my physically sick.

I was desperately trying to TURN OFF the Portico News feed but the television remote stopped working.. I felt trapped and hopeless.

The Portico song kept playing over and over again, mocking me.. it felt like a harpoon of awful things directly into my heart.. Watching Portico news for the 25 seconds I did, I think my IQ actually dropped about 10 points.

I don’t think I have ever come across an app that made me physically nauseous.. If why wife would not have commandeered the remote and quickly turned the whole system ‘off’ I may have actually vomited all over the new smart TV. It was just that bad..

There is nothing good about PORTICO NEWS.

 

He was cuffed and and taken to St. Luke’s Hospital. After several hours, he was hauled off to the 24th Precinct station house.

His 41-year-old son, a lawyer who would not give his name, first said at the station house Sunday night that did not wish to discuss his feelings about the incident.

“I don’t want to talk about anything like that in front of all these cops,’’ he told the Post

But walking farther down the street, he said, “The cops are playing games. They won’t tell me what he’s being charged with.”

He first heard his dad had been busted in a 6 p.m. phone call from cops, who asked if the elderly man needed medication but would not say which hospital he’d been taken to. So the son went to the station house, where he said he got a similar run-around.

Finally, he found out on his own that his dad was at St. Luke’s and had been arrested for jaywalking.

“Oh, great! Beating up on an 84-year-old man for jaywalking,’’ he said.

Neither the hospital nor the cops would allow him to see his dad until after 10 p.m., explaining that since he’d not been admitted, he was not a patient, but a “prisoner.’’

MONDAY JANUARY 20 2014, MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

I was reading about Marin Luther King Jr’s words last night–not his famed speeches, but instead what he said about the Kennedys. There are newly discovered audiotapes King didn’t credit the Kennedys help completely with getting him out of jail before the 1960 presidential election. JOhn and Robert did work behind the scenes to help Dr. King be released..

Ukraine protesters fill the streets..

New terror threats in Sochi..
Video released threatens Olympics terror..

Another strong quake rattles New Zealand..

ARCADE FIRE, PEARL JAM, AND SNOOP DOGG rock crowds in UK..

Disgusting: Investigation reveals massive on-line child abuse in the Philippines..

Sick: Mother charged with killing her children.. the toddlers were stabbed to death and the defense appears to say she was trying to perform an ‘exoricsm.’

Is our sun falling asleep? The BBC asks that, and quotes a solar physicist of 30 years who says he never saw anything like what the sun is currently doing. Could there be a frost fair again on the Thames, as happened the last time the sun fell asleep during the 17th Century?

This is the difference one year makes. That is snow cover in the 2013 image. Notice nothing in ’14? Same date? There is a big drought in California and apparently it’s getting worse. Officials are going back to water rules from the 1970s and a state of emergency has been declared by Governor Jerry Brown..

Hackers get and release secret Walmart documents.. They don’t show anything we didn’t already know: An attempt to chill efforts on the part of workers to organize within the stores.. Read the documents..

Now states are considering using firing squads to kill prisoners sentenced to death.. lethal injection drugs shortage is being blamed. I have opined previously about the death penalty.. at this point, I really have nothing further to say..

Muddying the Martian Waters: The rock that suddenly appeared in front of the Mars rover is like no rock ever seen before on the red planet.. Baffled scientists realize that the rover never ever drove over that spot before.. One scientist was quoted in the UK INDEPENDENT saying, “I don’t know what any of this means. We’re completely confused, and everyone in the team is arguing and fighting”

A profile of Jack Carry, the head of the Paranormal Intelligence Agency..

Pink stars are falling: More fireballs over Puerto Rico..
Booms and bright flashes in Kentucky..
Video: Meteor spooted in Germany..

David John Oates has released his own reverse speech app. Something tells me Art Bell will NOT download it..

Video: What is this over SAN DIEGO?

Billy Crystral will be the final Jay Leno TONIGHT guest..

Jimmy Fallon already announces his first TONIGHT SHOW guests: Will Smith and U2.. I think the show will be highly rated for a bit. I think that eventually people will move over to Jimmy Kimmel. I just don’t think Fallon has what it takes to engage a national audience like Leno did–and watching modern ‘comedians’ makes me realize just how unfunny they all are..

The ‘polar vortex’ is coming back. But not really. It will not be as cold as it was earlier this month. And I am really tired of news agencies scaring the long Johns off of everyone. This is winter.. it will be cold. It will snow. You hear that all the time. You want cold? Go back to 1994 in the Northeast when it was so cold, businesses and schools shut down.. People literally could not walk outside. I was 14 during the great American Cold Wave of 1994 and fondly remember it.. being off school was cool–adults had it worse than me at the time. But when you compare THAT winter to this one? I don’t even want to hear people talking about the polar vortex. It’s already the most overused weather expression of the year.. How about start telling people, “Well, WINTER is still here.” In the summer when temps reach 100 or more, what fancy term will we come up with to scare the hell out of everyone?

1994.. when cold waves were king.

Have a good winter day, everyone.