Month: January 2014

Now what

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died at age 85, eight years after a stroke left him in a coma-like state, according to Israeli Army Radio.

Freaky Friday headlines from the world

FRIDAY JANUARY 10 2014

When is it the time to stop saying happy new year? There are people I am still seeing that are wishing me such things.. Certainly ten days into a year is the right time to end the practice? So I decree: There will be no more happy new year utterances until the first week of 2015. So says me..

Forced abortion abuses in China revealed..

Toronto woman wants to create public record of frost quakes..

Chris Christie meets the press about bridge scandal weighing him down..

Arctic nightmare moves to Britain.. sub zero temps coming..

Flu researcher rift.. how should they stydy the potential pandemic H1N1?
Now H1N1 becomes deadly in North America..

Massive chemical spill in West Virginia forces state of emergency and a water ban in 9 counties! More than that.. schools and restaurants are closed in the main capitol of Charleston.. The water ban and state of emergency comes after a chemical leak into Elk River.. MORE: Affected residents have been told not to drink, cook, bathe or wash with the contaminated water supplied by West Virginia American Water .. Along with all of this, some people are being treated for water related issues .. from the CBS report: “Once word got out about the governor’s declaration Thursday, customers stripped store shelves in many areas of items such as bottled water, paper cups and bowls. As many as 50 customers had lined up to buy water at a convenience store near the state Capitol in Charleston. “It was chaos, that’s what it was,” cashier Danny Cardwell said. “

Omaha police fired after ‘caught on tape’ incident’..A parking ticket turned into an issue of excessive force and now termminations..

And another story from Omaha: A cursing toddler seen on a viral video has been put into protective custody in Nebraska..

I pray that Omaha and Nebraska (especially the ‘system’ for children) is better than it was during the Franklin Credit Union Scandal. Only that, I will say..

5.1 quake hits Florida and Cuba..

Fukishima us.. should you take radiation pills?

Kabul says that US forces shot and killed 4-year-old Afghan boy..


Why are COWS washing up on beaches in Denmark?


EW gets behind the scenes look at WAYWARD PINES..

“THOSE WHO KILL” gets March 3 premiere date on A&E..

BANSHEE CHAPTER movie review..
Another review says BANSHEE plays like an uninteresting X FILES..

BANSHEE director selects 5 conspiracy other horror movies worth watching..

Amazing Magic with David Blaine and Harrison Ford..

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Who needs parents when your kids have PJs

Another example of technology extracting even bit of human interaction in life.. Pajamas will soon tell bedtime stories to your kids. Seriously..

While the pajamas will not be able to comfort a crying child who is scared of dark shadows at bedtime, I am sure a robot soon will. And you, as a parent, can achieve your splendid plan of doing nothing while raising your child. Congrats .. now the shining and most beautiful moment of the day—bedtime—will be taken from your by technologically advanced pajamas.

Secret traitor man

 I don’t quite know what to make of this.. I have written before about my speculation that Dennis Rodman may be on a secret mission in North Korea to save the planet from World War III.. But today news that he sang happy birthday to Kim Jong Un is just creepy..
The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the headline was that Rodman sang the song in Marilyn Monroe style to the Lil Dick-tator. 
Other players did NOT join Rodman..
This is how CBS ended its dispatch on this strange display of ….Rodmanism: 
Rodman has faced both ridicule and harsh criticism for his trips to North Korea, which some U.S. politicians and activists view as serving only as fodder for North Korean propaganda.
But he defended his visit, saying it would help “open the door” and was a “great idea for the world.”
“It’s amazing how we thrive on negativity. Does anyone know this guy’s only 31 years old?” he said of Kim, whom he calls his friend.
“Dennis, he could be 31, he could be 51,” said CNN interviewer Chris Cuomo. “He’s just killed his uncle. He’s holding an American hostage.”

Noahs Ark Risks Collapse Without Bond Buyers by February »

Shame if the park isn’t created. No, not because I am anywhere close to a literalist, but because .. seriously.. this is a fun story and I have always remembers the Noah’s Ark song from my childhood!
As insane as the Noah story has always been to me, I’d LOVE to go to the theme park. Just alone to hear ‘scientists’ try to tell me why dinosaur eggs weren’t able to hatch on the boat.. 
And if there’s a rid similar to the last scene of EVAN ALMIGHTY I’d surely pay..

Alfred Hitchcock’s unseen Holocaust documentary to be screened »

Did you know..? Alfred Hitchcock made a film about Nazi death camps?But according to this UK INDEPENDENT article, Alfred Hitchcock, the master of macabre, was so haunted and disturbed by actual footage of the Holocaust that he stayed away from the Pinewood Studios for a full week after seeing it..
And now, soon, we will all get to see the horrifying footage that haunted Hitchcock.. The INDEPENDENT reports:
In 1945, Hithcock had been enlisted by his friend and patron Sidney Bernstein to help with a documentary on German wartime atrocities, based on the footage of the camps shot by British and Soviet film units. In the event, that documentary was never seen.
“It was suppressed because of the changing political situation, particularly for the British,” suggests Dr Toby Haggith, Senior Curator at the Department of Research, Imperial War Museum. “Once they discovered the camps, the Americans and British were keen to release a film very quickly that would show the camps and get the German people to accept their responsibility for the atrocities that were there.”
The film took far longer to make than had originally been envisaged. By late 1945, the need for it began to wane. The Allied military government decided that rubbing the Germans’ noses in their own guilt wouldn’t help with postwar reconstruction.
Five of the film’s six reels were eventually deposited in the Imperial War Museum and the project was quietly forgotten.
In the 1980s, the footage was discovered in a rusty can in the museum by an American researcher. It was eventually shown in an incomplete version at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984 and then broadcast on American PBS in 1985 under the title Memory of the Camps but in poor quality and without the missing sixth reel. The original narration, thought to have been written by future Labour Cabinet Minister Richard Crossman in collaboration with Australian journalist Colin Wills, was read by actor Trevor Howard.
The Imperial War museum has now put together the real footage along with other material and have prepared the film to be seen in the same way that Hitchcock did.. it will be shown on British TV in 2015 when the world marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Europe—the film will then be seen at other theaters and film festivals..