Day: July 12, 2014

Saturday morning cartoons

The freakin’ weekend here..
Enjoy the time you have.
Before rolling through the day, here’s a few headlines of importance from the world at large..

Wars and rumors of war: Israel strikes Gaza mosque..

Ghost tours on steroids in Kentucky, as developers are going to turn an old tuberculosis hospital where thousands of people died into a hotel and convention center.. It’s called the Waverly Hills. The official website for the attraction calls it the most haunted place on earth. That’s quite a statement–but undoubtedly lots and lots of people would book their rooms and love to stay for a weekend.. Here is the Waverly Hills Sanitorium Facebook page..

On a site note, turning former hospitals of death and distress into haunted locations for profit has not been something I typically favor. I wrote a scathing article on Pennhrust last year .. Looking back, perhaps I wasn’t completely fair to them, or others who do the same, as long as the owners preserve the history of the location and respect the dead. . But deep down, there’s something in my that tingles when I hear of a location where so much grief occurred will now be a place for people wearing ridiculous outfits to go and have a ‘fun night out’ .. I will stop now or this will turn into another lenghtly post..

 

CDC, what the hell are you doing? First the mishandling of anthrax and now the bird flu? Some may say you’re doing it on purpose..

For anyone paying any attention to the Atlantic City scene, there’s something very important happening: Casinos are shutting down. The unheard of fact is becoming very commonplace, the elderly are drying up (no pun intended) and the tourism is suffering. Plus casinos in Pennsylvania, right near me, now attract those seniors who once went on three hour bus tours to the Jersey shore.. The latest casino to close looks to be Trump Plaza–and this is the fourth! There’s something inside my that wonders if Atlantic City will become the next Asbury Park.. Towering but vacant buildings, a beach with no one on ..The once fabled Atlantic City is currently in free-fall form .. And summer business is bad. Maybe it’s time for Bruce Springsteen to write a new song.

Ain’t that America.. I missed this story when it was published in June by the Washington POST but it’s just as important now: Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations, immune from open records laws.. That’s a big deal.. and just awful if they win.

42% of Millennials claim they are socialists. But only 16% of them know what it means. The ignorance, the arrogance, the stupidity .. America was once great. Now it’s a cheap date for other nations that will look for resources and real estate. The dumbing down is not happening, current time.. it happened.

Cleveland goes wild after it’s announced LeBron James would be returning to the Cavaliers.. You know, the same fans who burned his jersey years ago? Who hated him? They love him. Meanwhile the world burns, and Americas are busy caring about soon to be washed up basketball players earning millions more a second than most humans.. Here’s a video from CNN asking people on the street what they think about Lebron. I bet most would have not been able to answer one question about Syria, Israel, Ukraine, or the emerging police state in the United States.

A scandal is brewing in Hollywood: Pixar’s Ed Catmull has emerged as a prime player in a wage fixing scandal..

Good historical account of what would have happened if the United States would have avoided involvement in World War I..

Monsanto herbicide linked to fatal kidney disease epidemic..

Could 99 days of Facebook freedom make you happy? A new campaign suggests that a hiatus from the social network will do your body good..

AMAZON seeking permission for drone tests..

Thomas Erdelyi, better known to the world as Tommy Ramone, passed away late Friday night at his home, where he had been receiving hospice care due to bile duct cancer. He was 62 years old…

I have been finding a lot of gems of horror movies on NETFLIX recently.. apparently I am not the only one.. Here’s a listing of good horror sleepers on the service. Even a mention of ZOMBIE ASS: TOILET OF THE DEAD.. that one I didn’t try yet.

Friday night lights: Very important news you probably don’t know about

Around 4pm today, my email got several messages from reliable sources and news orgazniations about a major 6.8 quake striking Fukushima–with a tsunami warning sounding.. Something still 20th century in my brain made me turn on the TEE VEE networks immediately. Nothing.. the large-headed money men were on FOX talking about the markets and how illegal immigrants will ruin their chances for success.. MSNBC was going on most likely about Chris Christie or an obscure Republican who they say hates women.. CNN’s WOLF BLITZER, at least, was the only one actually reporting news from the Gaza Strip. But no mention anywhere of this notable event.. an earthquake hitting where a nuclear disaster is ongoing.

But that’s not the only piece of information that major news folks have ignored over the past 24 or so hours.. Some very notable events are occurring on this planet–and beyond–that are bigger than any one political blip on the conventional news radar..

Before moving on to the rest of the scares, some information about FUKed-ashima for a minute.. The 6.8 jolted Japan and the initial tsunami warning that sounded was lifted without incident. Also if you believe TEPCO, there were no abnormalities today at Fukushima despite the strong earth movement–if you believe TEPCO. And hell, even if there were no issues today there is the constant and ongoing crisis in slow motion that is Fukushima.

But at least there’s a bit of a sigh of relief..

Traveling quite a bit away from Japan’s series of bad luck events, Yellowstone National Park is seeing some abnormalities worth mentioning (of course unless you’re on a major news network) .. Roads are melting and turning into a ‘soupy mess.’ This is often normal, we are told.. But not this time. The park spokesman Dan Hottle, told media organizations that bothered to ask today this: The liquefying of pavement that is now occurring is extreme and unusual. A caveat was added, when Hottle said, “But it’s hard to tell if a thermal area is hotter than normal, because it’s always fluctuating here. Road closures are business as usual for us”

Park officials are discussing how to address the problem, especially since we’re in the midst of the Yellowstone summer tourism season. And let’s not forget recent history: Yellowstone shook in April, March, and several times in between. There was debate in early spring over whether animals were truly running for their lives or just running. Maybe they were avoiding melting roads.. Things got so ‘hot’ that in April, scientists were forced to say there were no reasons to worry about Yellowstone blowing. I have not seen the same scientists comment since the new information of melting roads were reported, nor are they talking much lately about earthquakes resuming along the magma chamber ..
Another piece of science information that has received little press today: Scientists ‘have no handle’ on distant radio bursts coming from deep space.. It’s a mysterious fast radio burst.. It’s from outside our galaxy–far outside our galaxy. Could this be a burst of some unknown origin …or an alien saying ‘can ya hear me now?’ …scientists are baffled. So there’s no way I would conjecture anything the bursts may be..

And if all this was not enough, there’s one last thing to pay close attention to: Earth’s magnetic field flip could happen much sooner than expected.. It may even be happening now! Life during wartime.. and pole shifts. It could happen.

But Ford’s in his Flivver..

And PLANET OF THE APES is expected to be number 1 this weekend. So ignore all of the bad and just have some fun.

Raise a glass. The moon is full. And it’s a super moon.