On this side police, on the other: Occupy DC.. Location: The Smithsonian Museum.. a developing story this Saturday night..
Category: blog
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Out of water in the middle of the ocean
You may have never heard of the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, but you may now. They have experienced a horrible drought. And now the country in the middle of salt water is out of the most precious gift on earth: Drinking water.
The nation of 11,000 can now only hope that the help they are getting from New Zealand and Australia will be enough to avert a very bad disaster.. We will be watching this story..
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Big Bird and company protest
Occupy Wall Street!? Try this: Occupy Sesame street is the newest fad.
This thanks to the website Tauntr.com, which is posting perfectly photoshopped images of Sesame Street characters in the midst of the Occupy Wall Street protests..
One image shows Grover being arrested by strong-armed police..Another shows a sneaking Oscar the Grouch hiding from cops.. Elmo on the ground being cuffed.. Bert angrily being arrested.. and the Count crying after being pepper sprayed.
And now, after Tauntr’s efforts to parody with purpose, other sites and people who quickly getting into the act. The images are spreading like wildfire around the internet–and other Sesame Street related websites are popping up.
Another new fad during chaos.. humor during crisis. And a bigger message through laughter. The internet is showing the modern way people deal with problems.
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Money can’t buy happiness
Since his passing only days ago, the world is celebrating the life, times, and products of Apple’s Steve Jobs.
Mr. Jobs’ death at an early age this week and was immediately heralded as a genius of this age, someone who created products with purpose that people needed and wanted.
But while he was making billions for his company, the back story of his life is only now being revealed from those close to him.
In proof that money can’t buy pure happiness, the UK INDEPENDENT is reporting in fresh international runs that Steve Jobs had a final wish that had nothing to do with his products or his profits: Instead he wanted to get to know his children before it was too late.
According to the INDEPENDENT report, Walter Isaacson, Jobs’ biographer, visited Jobs a few weeks ago and found him curled up in pain, too weak to even climb stairs. Isaacson told the paper that he recalled Jobs saying, “I wanted my kids to know me. I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”
Jobs is survived by a wife and three children..
Friends have also rumored that some who went to see a dying Jobs weren’t alllowed in, but some others were, including Roger Iger of Disney, and other Apple officials..
An amazing man, indeed.. And a showcase of how, while money may equate happiness while health is good, when it’s not, the real things begin to matter: Life, family.. and the legacy you will leave behind.
Mr. Jobs’ public legacy is strong and respectable. It appears that he wanted to ensure that his private legacy was just as powerfu before he lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Steve Jobs is gone..
But his products are not.. DAILY MAIL reports that there are years of products coming, due to his last minute plans before death.. Amazing man, sad passing.. and no way that Apple will ever go away..
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Friday photo of the week
Happy weekend everyone. Be safe out there
(Photo courtesy James DeMott, Florida, from a storm this past July) -
Forecasts looking ominous for next week in the Northeast
The same areas flooded weeks ago are set for more drenching days next week.. Forecasters watching closely, as is this website. Stay tuned..
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Weeks before a collapse?
One person predicts that the world will experience an economic collapse in two to three weeks.
It may sound far fetched, but the idea is from an IMF advisor..
Robert Shapiro said without a plan to save the Euro, banks in the UK could falter, followed by more across the globe..
Clock is ticking..world is waiting..
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The mounting disaster toll
It’s evident that much of the world and the media forgets about the disaster(s) in Japan–but the Japanese are well aware of the increasing toll that nuclear catastrophe is taking on the nation..
The ECONOMIST reports on radiation covering trees, villages, and entire landscapes from Fukushima..
Cesium 134 is spiking, and workers are warning about pollen on the radiation-scorched earth.
Despite the world’s apparent attempt to forget and move on from the massive Japanese disaster, it only escalates and radiates as time ticks on.
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“Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow”
A Wisconsin judge has fueled rage across America with a September decision that people do no have a fundamental right to drink their own animals’ product. In more detail: Dane County Circuit Court Judge Patrick J. Fiedler has issued an order holding that owners of cows do not have a fundamental right to consume milk from their own cow.
The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund website has a full PDF of the September decision.. The highlights, as exposed and now widely being reported on the internet, have massive implications:
(1) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;
(2) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;
(3) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to board their cow at the farm of a farmer;
(4) The Zinniker Plaintiffs’ private contract does not fall outside the scope of the States’ police power;
(5) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice;
(6) DATCP [Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection] . . . had jurisdiction to regulate the Zinniker Plaintiffs’ conduct.
The case is expected to continue through higher courts due to appeals.. This website will attempt to follow the developments with it..
Until then, the old adage that you are what you may soon have to be changed: You are what you are permitted to eat..
