Day: March 17, 2014

The ring of fire is rocking

The Pacific ‘ring of fire’ has seemingly awakened over the past several weeks, producing large earthquakes in a number of locations.

This morning, things were no different; Southern California experienced a relatively substantial shake at 6:30am PDT.. The quake registered at 4.7 but was downgraded to 4.4. ..

While no significant damage has yet been reported, vehicles were rocked back and forth in the early morning commute hours..

CBS’s local affiliate said that they felt an intense rocking back and forth during the early morning quake. Live during the newcast, the entire set of the news program starting shaking as the helpless broadcasters were shocked during the live footage..  reports indicate that the quake lasted for several seconds, as least..

Since the initial large rattle, further aftershocks have occurred.. LA QUAKE BOT, a programmed Twitter account, gives the latest information on the aftershocks in real time..

“In other news”

Events and people making news around the world today, March 17 2014:

People celebrate after voting at Lenin Square in Simferopol, March 16
Plane vanished in plain sight: As if things couldn’t get weirder with Flight 370’s vanishing act.. Read this: The missing Malaysia plane reportedly sent signals, a final ‘ping,’ seven hours later after the flight vanished..

Those who have listened to Coast to Coast AM since the 1990s (and lots of other UFO oriented sources) may know this name: Dr. Roger Leir. He was famous for saying he took alien implants out of a large number of patients who went to him.. He passed away this weekend while awaiting surgery relating to a 2010 accident…
An avalanche in Idaho buried state highway 21 under 60 feet of snow! There’s no spring coming to melt that fast enough..
There’s been a tremendous amount of conspiracy conjecture relating to Fukushima since the nightmare began March 2011.. but this article posted at the New York TIMES is hair-raising.. Apparently Japan’s government is trying to stop reporting of facts, such as this: Radioactive cesium 137 in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean COULD BE 10,000 times as high as contamination from Chernobyl. Let that, and other facts from the article, sink in a bit..
I get a feeling that if alien life is going to be announced, it will be coming from religious leaders before the government. That way it would sink in better with people if they heard it from God-like men as opposed to devil-like whores.. And in that regard: The Vatican Observatory is co-hosting a conference in Arizona this week on the search for life beyond the solar system.. I always think back to the priest who said he’d love to baptize an alien.. Maybe the Vatican knows disclosure will lead to a surge in numbers. But what will the aliens donate in the weekly collection basket?

A Case of the Paddy’s

Last night I posted something that has been getting re-posted for a long time on my personal Facebook page: It was from CRACKED, and it was the ‘8 insulting ways people act ‘Irish’ on St. Patrick’s Day’.. What sort of astounded me was the reaction it got from someone.. She was hardcore angry over the content. She is Irish, I am just about 50% if you would measure me, so I offered up the article because a friend of mine did and I found it interesting… 

But her ferocious outrage and indignation with the article was obvious from her lengthy post about the author .. corned beef.. and cabbage.  Perhaps I should have linked up this article by Seamus McKiernan on the HUFFINGTON POST. He has dual citizenship, here in the United States and also in Ireland. He is not celebrating St. Patrick’s Day because he fears that the events occurring at local watering holes and parades across the US of A have become a ‘cartoonish’ farce..  He also pointed out that St. Patrick’s colors were blue, not green.. and that the good Irish saint may not have even been Irish!

The HUFFINGTON POST isn’t done yet.. another blogger, Bill Stieger, writes about the American version of drinking the holiday to death.. He says,

“Do you think I exaggerate? Read the messages on the horrific buttons and sweatshirts these revelers wear to degrade the tribe: “10 percent Irish/90 percent beer,” or “Member of the official Irish drinking team!” Check out pervy intonations, like “Erin Go Braghless,” or “Kiss my Shamrocks,” or my favorite of all: “I’m starting a drunken brawl with the first person who stereotypes the Irish.” I mean, please!

Can you name another ethnic group so bent on its own self abasement? Imagine any other culture or ethnic group frolicking in costumes and behaving in a manner that perpetuates the stereotypes of bigots. None do it. But Irish Americans insist on acting like the clowns at their own circus.”


For the purpose of appeasing all readers, I’ll keep Irish related content to a minimum this March 17th. But my font will still be green because blue just doesn’t seem right.. Hopefully that will not offend anyone Irish or not.