Month: September 2014

Twas the day before 9/11

Obama prepared to order airstrikes in Syria as part of strategy against Islamic State »

Foreign-policy experts he consulted with say he believes he doesn’t need Congress’s approval.

It was discussed tonight over dinner, the WASHINGTON POST reports..

It reminds me of being in my early 20s again.. the debate on the TEE VEE sets around the nation: Does George W. Bush have to get Congressional approval to go to war… Democrats said yes. Republicans said no.

Fast forward.. another enemy, or the same.. but another war coming, it would seem.. and this president now believes that he does not have to get any official Congressional approval to act against ISIS. Or Syria. Or someone, somewhere.. or everyone, everywhere..?

This from the POST:

Administration officials have been working in recent days to enlist the support of the nation’s political establishment to help sell their strategy to the American public, which Obama will address in a prime-time speech Wednesday night. The president met with the top four congressional leaders Tuesday, while his aides held briefings on Capitol Hill.

And there are a few more things at play..besides an approaching war.. First, there are Congressional elections this year. Second, there are high emotions the night before the anniversary of 9/11.. third, how would the world react.. And how imminent is it?

The POST has something on that:

There is no indication that a U.S. strike in Syria is imminent, and the Obama administration has signaled that a stepped-up U.S. effort in Iraq, in conjunction with an international and regional partnership, is probably the first step in combating the Islamic State’s advances.

I still recall when the President went to the airwaves to announce that America needs to strike Assad in Syria—and arm the rebels.

The tables surely have turned.

The real question I ask is this: Does America really want to hear about a new potential battle the night before they honor the souls who perished 13 years ago?

Meanwhile:

ISIS Threat: Fear of Terror Attack Soars to 9/11 High, NBC News/WSJ Poll Finds »

LIFE AND FIREBALLS UNDER THE SUPER HARVEST MOON

The camera on my iPhone cannot do any justice to the sky I see right now. It’s chilly, breezy, and the sky is becoming a welcoming location for tonight’s super harvest Moon. Now it feels like September.

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Right after I took the picture of the sky tonight a large fireball flew through it
It happened around 8 PM Eastern time, it looked to be flying over the Ashland PA area..
The fireball looked close enough for me to literally reach up and touch, it was flying behind the mountain near my home. I did not hear any bones or crashes, but it was an amazing sight.
After that meteor strike in Nicaragua, seeing it tonight made me nervous
Heads up world, anything is possible on this planet

As the super moon rises in the meteors fly in the sky, it’s just another night here on the pale blue Dot

A case of the Mondays

Mondays have such a bad rap.. There are songs about how bad they are.. there are weekends that make them bad..But Tuesday should be just as bad, if not worse.. it doesn’t solve any problems of Monday, but only amplifies them. In all honestly, I have long thought that Thursdays were the best day of the week. I decided this in the late 1990s. I actually think my decision was biased. I enjoyed Seinfeld and ER on Thursdays..So maybe those two TV shows forever influenced my decision to make that day the best of the week. And  think: Some people love Friday. But when it’s Friday, it’s a day closer to Monday and the anticipation is over. Thursday is the day of anticipation…Just like Christmas eve or the day before Thanksgiving. As humans, we enjoy looking forward to something much more than actually doing it..

And on that note: The news  of the day.
News that I don’t look forward to even typing about. So let’s get this over with now:

The HORROR REPORT and various other sourcereported

The HORROR REPORT a various other sources reported some troubling news recently about the beheading of an elderly woman in the UK.. And now this news: Another person, this one a disabled elderly Londoner, had his throat slashed.. It was potentially a beheading attempt –and the third one in weeks..

Irish MIRROR: Children of the Caliphate: Junior jihadis play with severed heads and enjoy crucifixions..

This is a disturbing article: Meet the British mothers who behead Chistians..

The kids aren’t aright: 100 teens swarm Memphis plaza and knock down shoppers..
Teens beat store worker unconcious..

I have no proof, but I wonder if this Memphis beating and swarming was a PURGE style act?

Yet another massive dust storm blankets Phoenix..

Breath easy.. But I am getting a little nervous about this one: The respiratory virus hitting kids in America continues..
More than 1000 kids in ten states..

Satantic temple to open in Detroit..

The BOX OFFICE has been having a rough time of it this summer. This past weekend was no better: It was bad. very bad.. But as conncidences go, here’s the weird part: This was the lowest box office since September 11, 2001.. just as we prepare for the anniversary of September 11..

Toxic and decaying meat being sold as fresh..

Not sure how true.. but it’s being reported in various publications: Amateur sleuth claims that he identified Britain’s notorious killer, Jack the Ripper..

Big internet slowdown coming.

The paranormal becoming science every day: Scientists achieve brain-to-brain ‘telepathic’ communication for first time! This is just an amazing story..

CHICAGO FIRE actress Molly Glynn dies after being hit by falling tree..

New studies point to brain injuries being the root cause of autism.. …it could might be that dysfunction within the cerebellum at crucial moments in development that lead to autism. The doctor who did the study says it all happens when the brain gets injured in the womb.. But what about those brains of children that seem to develop fine for a while.. children smile, learn, and even talk. And then around, oh say 15 months (or an MMR vaccine), and the immediate regressing begins? And food for thought: Vaccine injury funds often go to helping children who had brain injuries ..

More coverage of the Dr. Thompson autism scandal..

The harvest: September supermoon tonight..

Will ‘something’ happen on September 9? Someone took great pains to put this all together. It may be pure bunk.. but read and discern accordingly. Either way we will find out in 24 hours. And speaking of finding out of strange space events will happen in 24 hours, this from SPACEWEATHER: NOAA forecasters have raised the odds of an X-class solar flare today to 30%. Two sunspots turning toward Earth pose a threat for such eruptions: AR2157 and AR2158. Both are capable of strong geoeffective activity..

BE SAFE OUT THERE, UNIVERSE.

Sky Fall

The big asteroid sailed past earth today. We were told no worries.. no dangers.. no damage. It may be huge, but it would be safely far enough away from earth that nothing memorable will happen..

And then this: 

A mysterious explosion that rocked Nicaragua’s crowded capital Managua, creating a large crater, appears to have been caused by a meteorite, officials said Sunday.

Amazingly, in a sprawling city of 1.2 million people, the impact near the international airport did not cause any known injuries, but it did leave a crater measuring 12 meters (39 feet) across.

“We are convinced that this was a meteorite. We have seen the crater from the impact,” said Wilfredo Strauss of the Seismic Institute.

Let’s take a breather.. and wonder.

Remember when Cherlyabinsk happened?
We were all watching the wrong part of the sky—a big close flyby that day was happening, and NASA hadn’t been tracking anything that could hit the planet.. as a matter of fact, Cherlyabinsk caught us all off guard.

And now today, apparently, it happened again. 

While we were watching New Zealand, Nicaragua’s crater happened.

I wonder, and have wondered, if some of these large objects travel in pairs, or at least have a trail of friends that come with them.

Cherlyabinsk scared me a bit, especially with how unexpected and sudden it all was.

And now today, a near miss and a slam to the planet.. all at once.

History repeats itself..

But at least this was one “small.” In the scheme of things..

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But either way, we should be a little concerned about our overall well being.

Consider this: The asteroid was discovered August 31. And we were told it would safely pass by earth. And then maybe now a piece of it broke off and hit earth—or it was traveling with a friend. 

And this is just one of the many many space rocks to worry about.

We are sitting ducks.
Hopefully we stay quacking.

The Hawking particle

I remember a very cool summer night in 2006 when I gathered around a fire with friends in the mountains of Pennsylvania.. We shared laughs, cold beer, and scary stories.. Mine was about an upcoming event; The beginning of the end. I told them that a big super collider was going to hunt for God. And that an alternate universe may open, or a black hole would be created to swallow us whole.

Years later, and a “God particle” being found too, we didn’t die in a big tremendous bang or even a whimper. Instead, life has gone on.. in some cases that’s been an awful thing for humanity.

But the super collider was just the beginning.. other colliders are coming. Bigger ones.. better ones.. Badder ones. Maybe that black whole we fear may open yet.

Or even this, as Stephen Hawking apparently thinks: The God particle could wipe out the universe! If only I knew that back in 2006 when beers were talking late in the night ..

This is what Hawking believes, according to others who are reporting on it: 

The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming.

A particle accelerator that reaches 100bn GeV would be larger than Earth, and is unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.

Now imagine that.. the same Hawking that brought us some amazing theories of US and .. aliens.. and all of that, now says that it’s possible—though highly unlikely—that the act of ‘being’ may end..

Now here’s my take, a purely non scientific one at that. Ever since the Higgs Boson was found two years ago I felt things to be off kilter.. that something weird was happening. That time and space were somehow locked in a struggle. And that, in many cases, time slips were becoming more common. I had some actual weird experiences happen in my person life in the final month of 2013. Did the discovery of Higgs Boson do something? Did we all speed up, or .. slow down?

And really, think of this: As silly as my not to intelligent conjecture may seem, would anyone really know if something THAT big was happening anyway? Even Hawking said that if his total end of everything theory happens, it would hit us like a ton of bricks at night. We would never see it coming.

So many if something weird has already started, our bodies can’t see it coming because it would, in all other ways, seem to be ‘normal.’ But nothing is normal.

Actually, everything is amazing.
And we are living through it.
Maybe in multiple ways.

The kids clearly aren’t alright

Drew Carey Donates $10,000 to Help Find Teens Responsible for Horrible Ice Bucket Challenge Prank »

Drew Carey is stepping up for a very good cause. The Price is Right host and comedian has offered…

If you didn’t hear about this, as bunch of disgusting excuses for teenagers decided to pull a prank: They convinced an autistic boy to participate in the ice bucket challenge, but instead dumped other things on his head that consisted of urine, feces and spit.

Drew Carey reacted and issued his own challenge: To find the teens responsible for this.. With that would come $10,000.

If you want to see how sick the human conditions sometimes is, look no further than this video.

 

The kids aren’t alright.. I’ve been saying that since I was a kid, too.
And it hasn’t changed, instead it seemingly is increasingly getting worse.

Johnny 5 is killing your job

Here’s The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job »

A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot “meant to completely obviate [employees].”

I have been saying for quite some time that the service economy is going to get the same hit that manufacturing did.. that there will be so many fast-paced technological changes, people in service jobs will soon be obsolete.. People will happily give their orders to machines, robots will, as we see here, crank out the food, and bam.. no questions asked.. no complaints, either. And the robot may not care if you like your meal, but since it’s a robot, you won’t be inclined to tell it.

That’s the future. It’s happening. Quickly, too..

So when I see fast food workers clamoring for an increase in the minimum wage, I sort of stand back and see the dust settling behind them.. the dust of the jobs.

I don’t at all say this is a good thing. But this is realistic. This is how it’s going—the future is now and the future as it is happening is making all human production obsolete. But human consumption will not be.

This is also the beginning of a future where quite possibly money, at least as we know it, is outdated, too..

Time will tell.

But time is of the essence. And Johnny 5 is alive. And he is stealing your job.

The beheading of Palmira Silva

Here is a troubling story from across the pond.. A Christian woman of Italian descent was found beheaded in her garden in a London Suburb.. Palmira Silva, 82, beheaded..

Reuters reported that she was elderly and authorities are saying it was not a terrorist act..  So… we’re talking an every day run of the mill beheading as opposed to one of a terrorist nature. Right? Of course we see some more online sources have a bit more of the blanks filled in compared to Reuters.. such as the fact that it was a beheading taking place in the broad daylight.. the machete wielding man was ‘menacing’ others prior to this beheading.

And the other sort of unsaid fact: Edmonton has a higher than usual  Muslim population.

While this may not be a terror act, could it not be a terrorist inspired crime?

Oh, and finally, this: Locals in the town told reporters that the suspect beheader converted to Islam last year.

A Friday volcano of news update

The world’s serving of dreadful headlines … Enjoy them if you must.


There is going to be a burst of feminine adrenaline when FIFTY SHADES OF GREY is released into theaters in 2015.. But Ronnie Berke wrote a piece on CNN as to why she doesn’t want her daughters to see it..  The trailer is interesting, to say the least.. the movie will feature sexual bondage for sure. But as Berke writes, the question is: Does “Grey” have the chance of manipulating young female minds with a film telling them what their proper sexual roles are?  I say … it will. This is going to be, as some point out, the STAR WARS of the female millennial crowd. Get ready for a GREY 15..


And anyway.. Don’t tell me it’s not porn..


Here is a troubling story from across the pond.. A Christian woman of Italian descent was found beheaded in her garden in a London Suburb.. Palmira Silva, 82, beheaded.. Reuters reported that she was elderly and authorities are saying it was not a terrorist act..  So… we’re talking an every day run of the mill beheading as opposed to one of a terrorist nature. Right? Of course we see some more online sources have a bit more of the blanks filled in compared to Reuters.. such as the fact that it was a beheading taking place in the broad daylight.. the machete wielding man was ‘menacing’ others prior to this beheading.  And the other sort of unsaid fact: Edmonton has a higher than usual  Muslim population. While this may not be a terror act, could it not be a terrorist inspired crime?  Oh, and finally, this: Locals in the town told reporters that the suspect beheader converted to Islam last year.

The bombshell CDC whistleblower story continues.. now Dr. William Thompson has gone further and said specifically that mercury does cause autism.. 


A follow up to a post we had yesterday.. what in the world is happening to Barack Obama?

Alex Jones’ INFOWARS reporter Joe Biggs dresses up like someone from ISIS–and crosses the border without incident!

Michael Gearson from the Washington POST writes about Ebola: Nature is out to kill us.. (It always is.. but eating bush meat makes things easier in that regard..)

Experts now say: Ebola is ‘unstoppable.’
 Sierra Leone is contemplating a nationwide shutdown over Ebola..
Some want an international military response to the Ebola crisis..
Ebola could spread to the United States by the end of September..

Lava is flowing at the Iceland volcano.. video shows a must see event.. In reality, it’s both beautiful and frightening all the same.

Fears over Hawaii event: Volcano alert raised to ‘warning’ with an emergency declared by civil defense.. 

Billionaires quietly preparing for stock market crash..

Late night hosts honor Joan Rivers..


A lot of people are sharing and re-posting the supposed ghost of room 209 at the Windgate Hotel.. But in 2013, the website Museum of Hoaxes did a good analysis on the supposed ghost video from 2003. Good read.  I did some more of my own digging, and figured hotel review sites may be the best sources of information on whether a ghost truly exists in this hotel.. One review on TRIP ADVISOR wrote that someone who traveled there on business in 2009 left thinking the place was haunted.  Another reviewer was more critical of the staff than the dead.

‘STALKED BY AN AD’ is a horror movie trailer for the modern age.. It’s a spoof for sure.. but by God it’s true. Sometimes the ads that follow me are an embarrassment for multiple reasons.  Damn you adsense!