Day: July 22, 2014

What are the chances …

We often hear about people being hit by lightning twice..
We also heard last week about Kaylene Mann, the woman who lost her brother on Flight 370, also lost her stepdaughter and husband on flight 17..

Yin and yang.. there always seems to be a counter balance on this planet..

For every bit of tragedy that Mann’s family is feeling, there’s a chorus of voices thanking fate .. Dutch cyclist Maarten de Jonge planned on being on both flight 17 and 370.. He changed his plans each time.

Jonge was quoted as saying, “These things don’t happen twice.” but apparently they do. For him, a miraculous stroke of luck two times in one year.. For Mann, a tragic ending to two separate stories..

What are the chance… in a world of 7 million people, two were somehow chosen to be involved directly in two plane crashes in one year.

It’s like some twisted version of FINAL DESTINATION. Sadly it’s too real for Mann.. luckily it’s reality for Jonge..

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Cruzing to a bruising: Ted Cruz loses the vampire vote

The acclaimed vampire spectacle on HBO, TRUE BLOOD, got political this weekend when it featured Senator Ted Cruz..

Here is how RAW STORY summed up the plot:

In the episode, characters Eric Northman and Pam De Beaufort dress up in stereotypical Texan Republican trappings to infiltrate a Cruz fundraising event in Dallas. “Oh my God. I’m a Republic*nt,” Pam remarks after seeing herself in the mirror.

Ted Cruz responded to the show on his Facebook page, saying, “Of all the places I never thought to be mentioned, HBO’s True Blood vampire show would have to be near the top of the list. Sunday night, they aired a misogynist and profanity-ridden episode where Texas Republicans are murdered attending a “Ted Cruz fundraiser.” Well, I’m sorry to have lost the vampire vote, but am astonished (and amused) that HBO is suggesting that hard-core leftists are blood-sucking fiends….”

Here is the scene from the show:
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If you find your dream house in Pennsylvania, don’t expect to be told of the nightmares

LINK: Home sellers don’t have to tell buyers about murders, other tragedies, Pa. Supreme Court rules in death house case »

“We hold that a murder-suicide does not constitute an actionable material defect,” Justice J. Michael Eakin wrote.

Interesting..

I asked several people today with varied background for opinions on this story. I live in Pennsylvania.. so the ruling has a direct affect..

The reaction seemed to fall within the normal boundaries of religious belief.. Two atheists I knew didn’t care one bit if a murder/etc took place in their abode. I even asked them if a pedophile perpetrated horrible actions in a house, would they still consider buying it? They said sure..

On flipside, three Christians and one Jehovah Witness all had issues with the Supreme Court ruling, stating that they believed in a good and and that houses could have spirits and feelings trapped within them.

My wife and I saw a house several years back.. the real estate agent secretly and silently disclosed to us that a suicide took place within the confines of the property.. even pointing out the section of the basement a hung body was found in. While it was a gesture of “get out now” she loudly commented to us about how beautiful the house was. And it was. We didn’t purchase it for other reasons —the suicide factored in for me.

I think I would do my due diligence regardless of a real estate agent’s words.. The internet, public property searches, and court house papers are all at our fingertips these days…

I laugh when I see the movie THE CONJURING or AMITYVILLE HORROR where people simply fall in ‘love’ with a house and rarely ask anything about it..

Do research.. do your own due diligence. Ask about the material defects.. but also, should you be inclined to think a paranormal realm could exist on the planet earth, investigate it for yourself and learn all you can learn about a property you’ll want to call home.

HORROR REPORT POLL: What is death?

A recent article from Caleb Wilde’s website has me thinking.. What exactly is death. Is it the beginning of the end? The end of the beginning? A simple road block on the passage way to the next realm?

This is one of the most important questions we can ask. And we are surrounded by it.. take a peak at the nightly news.. Chances are you’ll see lifeless corpses resulting from war, storms, or just simple old age. Chances are you’ll hear of fires and car wrecks on your nightly news.. chances are, you, reading this, are suffering the loss of a loved one right now. Maybe even the family pet passed away. And we are all left with the same question: What is death.

So I’d like to know.. from you, what do you think death is?

Click one of the answers below to weigh in…

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It’s far to say that the canned answers I picked for this poll don’t encompass all that death could be–science and religion may offer in different notions about what death is and when it even happens. But from my point of view, death is the beginning. Perhaps it’s the beginning of a long process of decomposition of the corpse.. or maybe the traveling soul that leaves a physical presence to walk into the big electric universe.. but beyond that not very astute opinion, I frankly have no clue what death is.

If you don’t follow Caleb Wilde, you should..

 

…but proceed with caution. He’s a funeral director who is very honest, brutally so, about his profession..

I read this article today titled ‘when embalming is beautiful’ ..

It’s not an easy read, but an important one. In essence, Wilde talks about the death process—post death really—and how he hates embalming children. What results is a horrendous but yet beautiful description of a family’s reaction to a three-year-old’s corpse laid to rest..

Again, it’s brutal .. and quite honestly brought my to immediate tears that flowed for several minutes.

But it’s just so honest..

Read on should you choose..

Daily dose of the weird and wild from around the world

A collection of news from the world today..

Delta flight to Israel diverted to Paris after reports of a rocket or debris near Tel Aviv. Plane departed from JFK. ..

The future is now: What happens when robots know us better than we know ourselves?

How JAPAN fell in love with American drones..


My what old meat you have.. The Illinois-based firm, privately held OSI Group Inc., that supplied the questionable meat products to McDonald’s Corp. and KFC restaurants owned by Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) has been suspended from supplying further products to the two fast-food giants.. Apprently it all started with China’s DRAGON TV report ..The problems appear to be strictly in China. Unless you consider McDonalds meat itself the problem..And this: The scandal has now spread to Burger King and Starbucks..

Officials say that Flight 17 wreckage was hacked into with saws..


Now CELL PHONE walking lanes established in Washington!

Homelessness becoming a crime in many places in the United States..

Why are so many earthquakes hitting Vietnam The latest: Three quakes rocked the northern part of the country in one night..

6.9 quake strikes Fiji.. Hope Truman is alright..

Follow the money: Here are ten cities where wages are soaring..

Caleb Wilde writes a gutsy and hardcore article about how he does not like embalming children.. It’s morbid and a tough read.. but so amazing to hear a funeral director speak so brutally honest about his profession..

Liberian nurses contract Ebola..


Florida residents on edge as massive sinkhole swallows entire street..


This is what would happen to the United States if Yellowstone blew: 2/3 of the United States devastated..


United States government reveals new map of rising risk for earthquakes in much of the United States..

Will Doctor Strange be a horror movie?

NETFLIX passes 50 million subscribers.. *Expect no price decreases any time soon..

First look at DIMENTIA starring Kristina Klebe Jones..

X-RAY (not x-rated) photos of pin-up models..


News on the specs and bonus featured for HALLOWEEN complete Blu-ray..


Nine television panels coming to COMIC-CON..