FRIDAY JANUARY 17 2014
A sampling of things from bad to worse.
Enjoy:
The Discovery Channel tells people not to worry about Fukushima radiation.. Clyde Lewis points out “The Discovery Channel which is owned by NBC Universal which has had a relationship with General Electric, which is the company which built the Fukushima reactor says stop worrying about Fukushima radiation … this is sad comedy”
A bay in Norway got so cold that it froze fish while they were swimming..
Dangerously high methane levels have been detected in Washington DC.. There are apparently a dozen manholes with gas levels high enough that they could explode.. They are most common in the district’s oldest neighborhoods.. There’s most likely no fear in Congress, the only thing that blows there is hot air..
Assumption sinkhole: Louisiana officials set to reveal methane gas concerns at meeting ..
A fault line taht could make Hollywood tumble..
How we know the earth is moving through space..
The experiment that changed reality: WIRED explains..
Every time another planet discovery is announced, I question how long until we find the alternate versions of us? How long until we see that we’re just being replicated in the galaxy, a mass computer system of simulations. The matrix.. All that. Until then, we only have stories like this–equally amazing nonetheless: First exoplanet orbiting Sun’s twin in star cluster found, scientists say.. Yea that’s cool too..
UNITED set to furlough up to 700 flight attendants..
Google set to make ‘smart’ contact lenses. But they will only be as smart as the owner..people will still forget they have them in causing infections, and they’ll also drop them or get them stuck in their forehead. It never fails..
Landmark case has been thrown out of court! A Google Glass tester was ticketed for wearing the device while driving.. The case has been watched and now, accordingly, has been thrown out of court..
Black Friday: JC Pennys and Macys among big stores that are announcing big closings.. One store, JC Penny’s, is near me at the Laurel Mall in Hazleton, PA. It is amazing how big of spaces are developing in malls around the country.. being replaced with dollar stores and pawn shops.
A clean house is a holy house: The Pope has fired all but one Cardinal in just 11 months from the Vatican bank..
Execution in Ohio: Witnesses say Dennis McGuire snorted and struggled to breathe during his nearly 25 minute long execution. Lawyers for the convicted rapist had argued that the method of execution would put him at a risk of unusual agony and terror. The death has been called horrific. I am not a real big fan of capital punishment, maybe that’s the Catholic education I had.. nonetheless, if we’re going to do it, do we want this much pain and suffering? Really.. why not just do the Kim Jong Un way and feed them to dogs? Or the old fashioned way and make the lions ravage him? I am not in a position to judge anyone in a family who lost a loved one and seeks the death penalty as retribution for a crime. But I am in a position, as any other human being is, to say that if we’re going to have this type of government sanctioned killing, let’s do it as fast as we can and not have someone struggle for 25 minutes dying.. Come on John Kasich, can’t you do something sensible here? I just had to say my peace.
Shia La BOOOFF!! Actor headbutted a man in a bar, so says a report.. Something tells me he would have a very painful head..
1960s BATMAN series finally coming to disc..
Well we knew Bieber was a bad egg.. Now his iPhone has been siezed due to investigation of egging incident..
