Enable the best in yourselves

(Unlike this prisoner [of self].)

2012.04.30

Solar observatory flotilla, the sniffle before the sneeze: solar eruption, on Coast To Coast AM.
X-Rays, from north, may knock out half of the Earth’s satellites.  Survival, yes, but... desertland?

2012.04.26

Some weapons analysts say N. Korea’s missiles on display are fake.

CDC: toxic gas in dog vomit a threat to vets.

$610/share: Apple stock price skyrockets.

Britney Spears’ fiancé takes over her personal life.
Jason Trawick gains legal decision-making authority over his future wife’s well-being.

Hillary Clinton signed an exec. order against defamation of religion...of course for the point of censoring people, mainly within the govt., information that self-destructive Progressives say puts ‘a negative light’ on Islam.  Even if that information is factual.

2012.04.24-25

2007: Obama missed two votes on student load debt (double cost).  That’s how much he cares.
He’s such a Fraud.—Carr.

Fmr. SNL member Jon M. Lovits, to Kevin Smith, sounding like a foul-mouthed Republican: Obama says he wants you to succeed.  Then, when you do, f--k you!

2012.04.23

N. Korea interrupts TV broadcasts to announce plans for an “unprecedented” attack on S. Korea.

Police chief in Trayvon Martin case to quit.

Doctor confirms Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb has colorectal cancer.

2012.04.21-22

All time spent updating od28-6.  As far as sleep, only one day was adequate (12 hrs. total, that day).

2012.04.19-20

Quakes caused by fracking?  Food and water to become even more difficult to acquire?  U.S. govt. to try and lower the price of gold?  N. Korea’s more dangerous than Iran?  It’s the Age of Aquarius on Coast To Coast AM, with an Astrologer.  That 11:11 is Aquarian time, the era of group/community effort.  Over individual effort?

2012.04.18

Dick Clark died this morning.

2012.04.17

Cyberwar: bigger than some governments, with tons of money, Mexican drug cartels use IP traceback to kidnap bloggers, including those of Anonymous.

2012.04.16

Temps in the 80s.

According to the Intl. Bottled Water Assoc. (IBWA), many common brands are fluoridated anyway.  According to the listing in an (old) issue of Self magazine, Poland Spring isn’t.

2012.04.15

The Titanic sunk 100 years ago today.

2012.04.14

Revenge of the f---ing ants.  These invading bastards (or, bastard invaders) just do not stop coming.  It’s the “can’t really work or sleep” period — interrupted.

Scams are not good for search engines: Google advertising is failing.  Many of the results on the right side of the screen are known to be scam pages.

2012.04.09

Spent the whole morning reading all of 2009 JOTW.  Some of it brilliant, some of it...

2012.04.08

Easter Sunday.

2012.04.07

After programming into about noon, videogaming after waking up.  With none of the RAM constraints of the older machine...

Obit

Myron Leon “Mike” Wallace dies at 93.  Journalist and father of Chris and Peter (died 1962), he worked as an announcer early in his career, the voice of Elgin-American in commercials of shows like You Bet Your Life (Groucho Marx).  In 2006, he announced his retirement from 60 Minutes (37 years), a show that would not have lasted as long without him, and continued as “Correspondent Emeritus” thereafter.

2012.04.06

The 1995.09 issue of Cosmopolitan I dug up, covered in mold, is 616 pages!

2012.04.05

New photos of Charles Manson, 77, released (gray hair)...the same age as an elderly Greek pharmacy retiree that left a note [for] police of fin. trouble bef. committing suicide.

Yemen kills 10 militants, Sanaa faces carbomb threat.

Israel has few options for rocket fire from Egypt, one hitting a city near the border.

Delta IV rocket lifts off from CA coast w. secret payload.

Zimbabwe seizes controlling stake in foreign mines.

“Azawad” State on the edge of the Sahara: Mali Tuareg rebels say liberation push is complete.

Italy Northern League leader resigns amid fraud scandal.

U.S. man sits 10 mos. in Bolivian jail, uncharged.

Pope denounces priests who question celibacy.

An MIT team says the world will suffer a “global economic collapse” due to resource consumption.

TN: elite HS MLB player Stephen Gant, 19, died of apparent suicide Tues.

Zimmerman tells lawyer(s) he whispered, “punks,” not a racial slur bef. shooting Trayvon Martin.

Coast Guard to sink ghost ship fm. Japan tsunami.

Texana Hollis, 101, allowed to return to the Detroit home her husband bought after WWII.

Facebook to list on Nasdaq, source says; everyone declined to comment.

N.Y. Fed markets group Chief Brian Sack to resign.

New Yahoo CEO purges 2K employees.

MaineCare glitch affected more than first thought.

Spo, Sci, Ent:

Gregg Williams instructed Saints during speech to injure 49ers, gets suspended.

Soccer/futbol player hit in teeth, rips the rest of one tooth out, continues playing.

Quietest place on Earth, an Orfield Lab chamber: such 99.99% silence causes hallucinations.

Codename Dazzle: Jackie Kennedy’s secret svc agent writes a memoir.

Anonymous says it hacked Chinese govt. sites.

NY appeals court reinstates case against YouTube.

AZ bill against “annoying” comment posting to get change.

Stephen Hawking on Big Bang Theory—not looking too good.

Sky News (U.K.): we hacked in the public(’s) interest.

Snake on a plane: pilot turns back after one pops out of dashboard.

One Tree Hill says goodbye.

Another American Pie sequel to come out: American Reunion.

James Bond fans react to Daniel Craig’s Heineken drinking in the new super-spy installment.  SACRILIGE! (sic) wrote Joshua Mallet.

And this is what od28-6 is currently capable of doing — the monitor that has a working CFL doesn’t support higher resolutions.

Obit

Guitar amplifier builder Jim “Lord of Loud” Marshall, 88, of cancer and a series of strokes, in Milton Keynes.  Pete Townshend (The Who), Jimmy Hendrix, and Eric Clapton among early clients, Guns ’n’ Roses the more recent.

2012.04.02-04

Oakland U shooting: S. Korean national One L. Goh, 43, kills 7, arrested at mall; targeted mostly women—a pol.-charged shooting, he confessed.  One L.A. Times comment poster: This is what happens when One Goh postal.

Yep, coke was found in and around Whitney Houston.

Dexter to be renewed, new Dallas on 6.15.

Van Jones says Occupy movement saved America.  Yes, bongo playing, using anyplace as the bathroom, following whomever’s got the blowhorn.

First it was NBC editing audio to make it sound like George Zimmerman was obsessed with race by several seconds of drugs and gang-related conversation with the 911 operator, now it’s ABC reporting that Zimmerman wasn’t injured, even though video, footage that even they broadcast, reveals a head wound.

One news piece on a Chicago case: woman pleads to shooter not shoot her because she’s pregnant.  He shoots anyway.

2012.04.01

Jesse Jackson aims to ril up the race baiters by not only trying to make a 17-yr.-old fourteen, but say he was shot in the back of the head.

Coo Coo for cocoa puffs: Keith Olbermann refuses to talk to the limo driver(s).

Disclaimer:
Even though there are aims for accuracy here, only trust original sources.