Month: March 2014

I tried for a while to understand Bitcoins. Once I did, I had no ability how to explain it to others .. And quite frankly, there are things about Bitcoins and the big business of trading the virtual coin I’ll never understand..

But the house of virtual cards appears to be falling down on the man who is called the father of Bitcoins..

Satoshi Nakamoto lost his privacy when NEWSWEEK reported that he lived in California. The NEWSWEEK profile was a cover story. There’s a sense of irony to me since Newsweek is now virtual too…but this new NEWSWEEK is also featuring a return to a print edition–the first in 15 months

I digress…

Nakamoto was outed on his location and how much money is is making off of Bitcoins.. Over the past several weeks, though, there has been more negative attention being paid to the Bitcoin a suicide of a CEO.

And now with Nakamoto’s newfound fame, he led reporters on a wild freeway car chase to the local headquarters of the Associated Press in Southern California.. 

This is how REUTERS is reporting the situation:

Newsweek included a photograph and described a short interview, in which Nakamoto said he was no longer associated with Bitcoin and that it had been turned over to other people. The magazine concluded that the man was the same Nakamoto who founded Bitcoin.

Dozens of reporters, including a sprinkling of Japanese media, encircled and camped outside the man’s two-story house on Thursday morning, accosting the mailman and repeatedly ringing the doorbell, to no avail. Police cruisers drove by several times but did not stop. 

Several times, someone pulled back the drapes on an upstairs window. 

In the afternoon, the silver-haired, bespectacled Nakamoto stepped outside, dressed in a gray sport coat and green striped shirt, with a pen tucked in his shirt pocket. He was mobbed by reporters and told them he was looking for someone who understood Japanese to buy him a free lunch.

And now Nakamoto is denying his involvement with Bitcoin, saying Newsweek’s reporting that he’s the founder is false..

One odd moment occurred when Nakamoto asked for someone who spoke Japanese because he wanted someone to buy him a free lunch. True story.. Reuters reported that odd aspect as well.

In the afternoon, Nakamoto stepped outside and told reporters he had nothing to do with bitcoin but was looking for someone who understood Japanese, to buy him a free lunch. 

An AP reporter said yes, and the two made their way to a nearby sushi restaurant with media in tow, before leaving and heading downtown.

Not a bad deal.. AP gets an exclusive and Nakamoto gets some grub.

As the Bitcoin fever fades…

A recent buzz about an old freaky book caught my attention this week..

The book and its page snaps is being linked in various places on the Internets, including the Vigilant Citizen..

The book is a children’s book, with artwork for for kids, about SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE–that fad from the 1980s that peaked in the early 1990s.

The book is called DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK MOMMY. It’s filled with frightening images of dead rabbits, abused children, and spooky images of Halloween.. The book was written by Doris Sanford–and right now on AMAZON, given the nature of the story, the book is selling for a not so cheap $155 hardcover. On the Amazon page, several comments are negatively criticizing the book–including a librarian who said the book was not permitted on the shelf due to the morbid content.

If you want to purchase this book, maybe you should also include the SATANIC PANIC by Jeffrey Victor.  It may add balance to your collection since that is the book accusing the whole Satan scare of being a simple false panic promoted unknowingly by media and knowingly by religious leaders trying to fill their churches with more to give cash..

If you care to remember, during the time when Communism was causing a red scare around the world, the Satanic scare occurred when the media of the 80s focused on stories of animal mutilations and devil worshiping in rural America. No place was safe from evil–not even Washington D.C. During the late 80s, kidnappings of children in the bread basket of the United States coincided with a sick scandal involving Lawrence King (not the talk show host) and a credit union. And a sex ring. Read about the Franklin Cover Up if you have some time.

There were two decades of reporting on SRA–with the 1980s being the time when people were most scared of the evil they could now see, and the 1990s being the decade of discrediting the past. During the Clinton 90s, the FBI wrote formal reports saying that Satanic ritual abuse reports was a scare and largely not true.. 20/20 did a show suggesting children had SUGGESTIVE memories, also discrediting SRA..

But official reports from the government have not done much to quell renewed the renewed Internet sensation of SRA..

While some accuse the Church of Satan of being behind the whole affair, that is blatantly not true and shows disregard for logic. The Church of Satan does not even believe in Satan–something that throws a wrinkle in the stories of some, even the latest ‘satan’ killer Miranda Barbour from  Sunbury, Pennsylvania. 

Some real victims of SRA were those who were accused of things they never did. No different than the witch scare of centuries ago..  But there are still websites and groups that wholeheartedly argue SRA is real, and ongoing. And while no ‘fad’ can ever be completely discounted–clearly there are reports recently of two boys trying to make a deal with the devil and killing an innocent girl–a massive amount of Satanism leading to crime does not seem to have merit.

But that doesn’t stop DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK MOMMY from being one of the freakiest books I’ve ever seen..

Winter weary.. Weather changing. This weekend will be just fine, with clocks being set ahead and a taste of spring reportedly on the way.. What else could go wrong!? Winter is over, if you want it. OR.. not. For days now, the weather forums I frequent have been talking about an impressive and large storm coming around the middle of March. And just in time for that, models are now picking up a big event for next week.. However, we’ve recently been down this path. Just last week, forecasters were confident and scary by saying 20 inches or more of snow was set to fall on millions–so a grain of road salt may be in order watching this forecast evolve.

What models are showing, at this hour, is an impressive Nor’Easter like storm hitting the East Coast.
Other reputable weather forecasters don’t believe it..
So weather is like politics now. Take a side..

The models are running cold–which means that opposed to spring like Southern air dominating the storm, there will be an onset of cold Arctic air to turn precipitation frozen. If it happens.

If any of this happens.

As mentioned, there were frightening days leading up to the big storm that never was last week–bread and milk sold out for no reason.

But the trouble is, even if a storm was set to strike it’s like the forecaster who cried wolf!
The sky didn’t fall last week. Neither did snow.
So people may be hit hard and they won’t even have bread and milk to feast on..

We’ll be watching this one since we are in the target area for blizzard like conditions.

Ebony Wilkerson, age 32, drove her van filled with a 10, 9, and 3-year-old into the Atlantic ocean as onlookers watched in horror..

What ensued was a rescue mission and children screaming for their lives as the water kept getting higher on the car..

Video of the nearly tragic event is harrowing to watch.

Mom and kids were pulled from the water.. An investigation is ongoing and mental health professionals are examining the situation..

It may be slightly noteworthy to mention that, before the event took place Wilkerson was apparently proclaiming demons were in her home..

They starred in a BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER episode in 1999 before the turn of the century.

They were a group of demons that roamed from town to town and needed human hearts to stay alive.

I always wondered with Joss Whedon based the GENTLEMEN on.. Perhaps Slenderman? Maybe the men in black.. Not the Black Eyed Children, since the BEKs are more of a new found group of paranormal entities.. The answer appears to be this: Whedon had a dream when he was a child about a floating monster approaching his bed.

Doug Petrie said they were the creepiest villains ever done on BUFFY ..
He’s right.

Only 17 minutes of the 44 minutes of HUSH had dialogue.. it was the only episode of the series to get an Emmy nomination.

If you don’t remember the episode HUSH here’s a clip of the gentlemen and the creepy song that accompanied them.

Sleep well..

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The U.S. military is increasing its presence in Poland and the Baltics in response to the crisis in Ukraine, officials said Wednesday….

An American journalist said she was quitting a Russian-backed TV station in an on-air protest Wednesday, telling viewers “I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government, that whitewashes the actions of [President Vladimir] Putin.”

Mass. High Court: Subway Upskirt Photos Not Illegal! »

Yeah, I know the law can be subtle, but if upskirt photos are legal, so is taking a photo of a woman’s cleavage or up her nose or of the contents of her pockets or handbag. To me, all of these things seem like they should be considered harassment, aka something illegal.

My reader has a point.. to an extent.
I guess it comes down to what is ‘off limits’ when it comes to the public. In a sense, I’d say if you bare your breasts in public or allow cleavage to be shown, you’re aware that it’s in the public domain. But the hidden areas should not be in the public domain. Or the pubic domain…

BUT THIS!!

‘Photography is not a crime:’ Kansas teen charged after filming cops speeding »

From my other site, the COAL SPEAKER

The Pope said something by accident during his blessing:The Italian version of the F bomb..

Kiss his holy Ash, Wednesday.

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