It was the best of times.. The worst of times.. The rest of the time, The world’s sublime. Here is a sample of a sampling of news from the world that we think you should know today.. Some good, some bad, some scary, a few fads.. read and weep, Earthling.. Some political news to begin … Read moreFanning the flames of oddity: The news of the world on an early Thursday morning in October
In the words of Willie Wonka as he took a boat of children through hell in his chocolate factory, There’s no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There’s no knowing where we’re rowing Or which way the river’s flowing Is it raining, is it snowing Is a hurricane a-blowing? Not a speck … Read moreGoing deep into the tunnel
Getting the story first often means the wrong person is dead. CBS news today was one of the first sources to report that actress Sarah Goldberg was dead.. And quite sadly, too.. the 7th HEAVEN star died in her sleep from ‘natural causes’ at the young age of 40.. Sometimes begin first is fraught with … Read moreThe perils of being first: You can get things very wrong
This poll was offered up before.. I am re-opening the poll again to see if your opinion has changed a bit since the first time I posted it two months ago. Since that time, Ebola has jumped the ocean and now patient zero vomited all over the grounds of the United States. His family is … Read moreYOUR TURN: ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT EBOLA?
A Monday roundup of the strange, the unusual, the obscene, and the unexplainable, presented in snippets for your brain to quantify.. Enjoy. If you sprinkle when you pray, please be neat and wipe the seat.. Of all the places you would not expect to find the Son of Man: On a newly laid toilet floor.. … Read moreCase of the Mondays: The good, the bad, and the three-breasted Halloween costumes
DAILY MAIL reports: Online revenge: U.S. State Department tweets pics of dead ISIS jihadis » After Tuesday night’s airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, the US government tweeted photos of four dead jihadis on an account that already distributed pics of airstrike gunsights and rocket launches. The hashtag is #thinkagainturnaway. I am thinking again. Someone else … Read moreTaking the low road
SOLAR FLARE: MY GOD, IS THIS THE KILLSHOT!? » This from the AP: An extreme solar flare is blasting its way to Earth and could mess up some power grids, satellites and radio transmissions, scientists say. It’s been several years since Earth has had a solar storm of this size coming from sunspots smack in … Read moreSOME SUNNY DAY
This autism/CDC scandal continues to develop on certain websites.. This series of text messages is being shown by the website TRUTH BARRIER.. the site reports this: Dr. Wakefield shared two text messages with The Truth Barrier that he and his wife received from Dr. Thompson. The first one was to Dr. Wakefield’s wife, from August 20, 2014, Carmel, … Read morePaging Dr. Wakefield?
Joan Rivers: Coma or comfortable? This is a developing story tonight.. TMZ was the first to report that Joan Rivers stopped breathing during a throat surgery.. Tonight, the UK DAILY MAIL is running its own breaking news that Rivers has been placed in a medically induced coma.. her family, we are told in reports, anxiously … Read moreA comedian known as death
Some Bay Area Residents Report Mysterious Flashes In The Sky During Napa Quake » Several people called the KPIX 5 newsroom after Sunday morning’s magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Napa, reporting mysterious flashes of light in the sky. Witnesses said the strange phenomenon looked like lightning. This is actually very normal—there seem to be reports around the … Read moreTHE FLASH ABOVE AND THE SHAKING BELOW