There has been some strange things going on...........spooky......eerie......downright scary stuff. Surely most people have taken notice........unless........uh...er....well........I take that back......let me start over..................
You gotta be a moron if you haven't noticed that alot of strange unexplicable things have been happening all over the planet. Maybe some people just have "normalcy bias" as an excuse.......you know.......normalcy bias.......just look THAT one up. "Things can't be that bad."......and "Oh.....It happens all the time......It too shall pass." The problem is, while such words are somewhat comforting, and all of it is more comforting when any issue or event is pitifully small in the grand scheme of things, lately.........it appears that stuff is happening frequently and in massive doses.
First it was the honey bee........remember that? The honey bees were disappearing and nobody had any definative reason for it...........and now nobody seems to even mention it anymore. For me........it all began when I noticed that flies had replaced all of the bees that would routinely feast upon the bushes that were in the front of my house. I thought that was odd. About a year later, it was all over the news that the bees were vanishing. Surely this one odd thing is not enough to make you or I pack up our bags and head for the hills.
Lately, though.........other things have been happening all over the world. Masses of fish are showing up dead in rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Again.......I keep hearing "This is nothing new....it happens all the time".
Maybe it does happen all the time........but I don't seem to remember hearing about it with such frequency or scale. We didn't even see any pictures of any large scale fish kill resulting from that huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Why is that? One would think that there would have been. You would think there would have been a shrimp and crab shortage too.....but I have not seen any indication of it. I seriously did not trust any of the sensationalized reports about that oil spill......it was not anywhere near as bad as they made it seem.
And now its birds............birds everywhere have been just dropping right out of the sky in mid-flight.......for no apparent reason. "Lightning strike"......."fireworks scared them"........."blunt force trauma"........."no disease found in autopsy........just blunt force trauma".........are you kidding me?
Sure.......birds die.....as do fish.................one or two at a time maybe............
........but this is getting to be biblical in proportions if you know what I mean.
"Blunt force trauma"..........hmmm.........thousands of birds at one time?.........huh?
Something is seriously going on, folks..............but don't worry..........so they say. I get asked why I think this is happening and the only bird related disaster situation that I can recall was when the birds were suicidal in a movie I saw when I was a kid.
The good news is that there is a huge difference. The birds in Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds, not only were suicidal.......but they were attacking everybody. For now.......birds are just dropping dead........no indication of them being suicidal.........and so far, I am not aware of mass attacks of humans by birds.............well......there have been a handful of reports about some birds attacking people.......but not in any large numbers. So what do I think about all of this?
I could joke around and just suggest that Hitchcock never died and that he has been filming a 3-D sequel of his classic film. Sadly, there are people on this planet that would believe that.
I suppose it all comes down to a multiple choice question. The challenge for you is to pick your answer for your own self.
Here ya go:
Why have birds been dropping out of the sky?
Answer (choose one):
A. Shit happens.
B. The birds crashed into something invisible and huge......like maybe a UFO.
C. The military has been testing new weaponry which uses sound blasts.
D. The military has been testing new weaponry which messes around with ions.
E. The magnetic north pole has been shifting and will soon be located in Russia. (don't laugh....this is true)
F. George Bush
G. Sarah Palin
H. It's a sign of the end.
There you have it. Take your pick........whichever you choose............and then
I'll be a bit busy for the next two weeks..........I'll be driving from Maryland to Texas, then to Tennessee, and then back home. I have made lots of audio cds to listen to during the drive......that will be good. I plan on taking my time and I fully expect a minimal amount of stress. As for the Fourth Of July.............I will be making a batch of minestrone........very similar to Carrabbas.............and after everybody consumes that, the fireworks should begin within an hour or two.......hehehe. It will be great to get away from Baltimore, the tv, the computer.........ahhhhhh.......I am looking forward to this.
So what will I be doing? I will be visiting family that I do not see often enough........and spending lots of time with my mom. Yes I will take lots of pictures and post some of them when I get back.
Meanwhile, I have some stuff I would like to write about but for some reason I am in a rut and haven't been able to find the gumption to do it. I will, however, find my gumption after the trip and start getting busy with writing and maybe even find my artistic self and kick that into gear as well. Truth be told, sometimes it is tough dealing with depression..........yes, even ole Signtopia......even though he has so much wonderfulness in his life.....gets depressed. Most folks take a prescription for such a thing.......me?........no.........I would like to think that I deal with it my own way......however that is. Don't be alarmed though.........I think that everybody gets depressed at times and I simply have my share of it. A nice vacation usually snaps me out of it....hehehe.
Here is something to rattle your minds while I am away from the blogosphere...............
As you surely must know, all sorts of spacecraft has been sent to Mars. Lots of pictures and there has even been craft that has landed there. Some believe that life exists....in some form.....elsewhere other than on earth.........and there never seems to be any proof...........but just maybe...........maybe..........maybe.......we are gonna find out something we might not wanna know...........maybe we will be glad to know............time will tell, but for now, there are some peculiar things that are worthy of note. Consider the following video about Mars and how this dude shows you how to "see" what you would not ordinarily see. Personally, I was stunned by this and I don't really know what to think about it.......... will leave it up to you to see for yourself. Feel free to comment about this.
If that doesn't make you wonder.......try this video about the end of the world.
Leave it to me to have to show you this stuff and point out the obvious signs that the world's demise is upon us with escalation never before seen on this planet. Please accept my apologies for the following photo...............
Wayne Newton EVERYBODY.............RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
It's that time of year.............time for trick or treaters coming to your door for some Halloween candy. The weather has cooled off and all the leaves on the trees are changing colors before they fall to the ground..............well..........some of them...........because some of them never get the message that every year at this time of year, it is supposed to be the "end" of their world. In our world..........the human world........it ain't the end until you are dead. Then again.........the jury might still be out on that one.........after all, I was just at the grocery store and there were two women shoppers, not unlike the two old ladies that you see in the photo above, that could barely walk and yet proceeded to load up their groceries into their Buick and speed off across the parking lot. I don't know about you and how you feel about such things, but for me........this kind of thing sends a chill down my spine. Why? Well........because these old women will be on the road at the same time that I am on the road! Personally, I would like to live as much as I can while I can and I don't need no ancient women on the road driving Buicks.
Aside from the previous mentioned event, as I write this I am reminiscing about the past two months leading up to this week. I have written about the trip to Texas and some other things that were on my mind........but I didn't tell you about the Jehovah's Witness visits in recent weeks. Before I get to that, keep in mind that it is the end of the world again..........just like it was in 1999..........remember this?:
Well.........the year 2000 came and went and we all went ahead and opened up our stored canned food and ate so many beans that Al Gore had to announce a newer more surefire "end of the world" ..........you know...........Global Warming...........ahhh yes..........there is nothing better than a potential world disaster caused by..........well...........farting!.That's pretty sensational.........but it's not really knew. Al Gore just knew that those magazines at the grocery checkout counter make alot of money because of what the subject matter was...............the END of the WORLD! And again.......there was nothing new about having magazines try to scare the crap out of people or suggest that the END was near. The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc pretty much cornered the market on such things. The difference, of course, being that they didn't put the magazines in the grocery stores............instead, they just keep sending moronic lemming cult members to fan out through every neighborhood and bang on doors and ring doorbells hoping to find some sucker that will take the bait.
Maybe you remember seeing this magazine laying around at the laundromat or in a doctor's office................but that would be years ago.........look at the cover. See the nice old people?, not unlike those two women in the photo at the beginning of this blog entry.......except that the magazine is dated 1984. Hmmm.........1984.........Holy Orwell! Now let us think about that.......if those people on the cover of that magazine looked like that in 1984.........what would they look like today?...............or..........maybe they all kicked the bucket...........after all........today it is 2009 and only two months away from being 2010............25 years later! Most of you that read this will probably think "so what is his point?"............it's okay.....I understand.......maybe you can do a little research on just how long exactly a "generation" is. Easily, the majority of those people on the cover are at least in their seventies. The even bigger point to ponder is how are we to know just when it was that the photo was taken. It could be a photo from 1975............which, by the way, was yet another specific date set for the end of things as we know it.........and yes.......it was the Jehovah's Witnesses that picked that year.........which resulted in the largest number of new recruits in their history. When 1976 came, the result was the largest depletion of their rank and file in their corporate history.
I remember a Jehovah's Witness woman rattling her spiel on the Paltalk internet community chats. She would repeatedly say "Jehovah's Witnesses never advertise! and do not participate in commercial ventures.".................hehehe........such bilge from cult lemmings is the result of them not knowing their own history. Look at the picture........it speaks for itself. If that ain't advertising, then Billy Mays is still alive and selling magazines in Brooklyn.
I must mention that before Jehovah's Witnesses were Jehovah's Witnesses........they were called "International Bible Students" led by "Pastor" Charles Taze Russell. It wasn't until Russell died that the corporation was taken over by "Judge" Rutherford. Rutherford coined the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" and the Watchtower corporation separated itself from the International Bible Students. As of today, there are still International Bible Students. If you were to ask a Jehovah's Witness today "Who is the founder of the Watchtower Society?".........they would most likely say "Charles Russell". Needless to say, Russell and Rutherford both saw their personal "world" come to an end and they have been dead as a doornail for years now. You can rest assured that neither of them are tossing beachballs around with lions and tigers in paradise.
Bible scholars eh?...........hehehe..........gotta love it. I bet those bible scholars are.......well.......now on Al Gore's payroll.
"The World Has Ended!".......that's what the sign says........imagine that...........and the picture is from 1922. You gotta love those wacky cult groups. Somebody made alot of money hawking this stuff.
So this brings us to the past few weeks that I mentioned at the beginning. A few weeks ago I had a visit by a Jehovah's Witness on a Saturday morning. It was a very black gentleman with a heavy foreign accent and he was with two small children. One of the kids handed me a magazine and I began a discussion with the man. It turns out that he was from Nigeria. He told me that because I thought he had a Jamaican accent. Anyway, I immediately challenged him with getting him to acknowledge and explain his beliefs that Jesus is the fallen angel of the abyss named Abaddon and why Jehovah's Witnesses reject the symbolic flesh of blood of Christ every year in a Watchtower ritual entitled the "Memorial". Well...........it got real interesting and the two kids were sent to the car to be with their mother. The man had to admit that yes indeed, they believe that Jesus is Abaddon. At first he danced around it until I cited the Revelation:It's Grand Climax Is At Hand! book and the Insight book. He proceeded to divert from the subject that I brought up and attempted to rejoin his pre-planned agenda of the day. I, of course, would not let him continue on that path and kept bringing him back to the Abaddon stuff. All in all......our discussion was a polite one and we both smiled alot. It got to the point where it was time for him to get going and our conversation came to an end. Before he could leave, I reached out and shook his hand and said "God Bless and Have a Nice Day". The Jehovah's Witness said "Goodbye". I then stopped him before he could get to the car and said to him "Why is it that a Christian can say God Bless to a Jehovah's Witness, but a Jehovah's Witness never says God Bless to a Christian in return?" He looked at me and smiled and said "I don't know......why?" and I responded with "You're asking me? YOU are a Jehovah's Witness and you didn't say God Bless either" He then just simply left in the car.
A week later, there was a knock on my door but I had not heard it. The Jehovah's Witness man had returned and left me a note. The note said that he would return at another time to continue our discussion and that he would answer my questions then. Huh? I never gave him any homework.........hehehe..........maybe he was confused. So two weeks go by and it is a Saturday and there is a knock on my door again. It was that same Jehovah's Witness man with his kids and his wife sitting in his van in front of my house. I think we spoke for about 45 minutes and had rehashed the Abaddon stuff and a few other things. I mentioned that I knew he was an elder and I had to explain to him how I knew that..........."because you speak more than an average JW".........hehehe. I rattled off quite a bit about his organizations history and we went toe to toe about blood transfusions............and then..........finally..........he finally started to get to the those questions that are most important to him.
What could those questions be? Maybe you wonder eh?
"Were you ever one of Jehovah's Witnesses?" No "Have you ever attended meetings?" No. "Are you disfellowshipped?" I responded with......How do you disfellowship someone that has never been one?" "Did you disassociate yourself?" No. "Are you married to one of Jehovah's Witnesses?" No way.
Gotta love those questions.
With that, our conversation came to an end. As he walked to his van and got in his car, I followed him. I reached out my hand through his window and shook his wife's hand and greeted her and the kids. I then, once again, reached for his hand and shook it and said "God Bless and have an nice day!"..........and once again.....he said nothing in response. So I did what I had to do and said to him "There you go again.............Jehovah's Witnesses just can't seem to ever say "God Bless" to anybody"
He smiled up at me and stuttered momentarily and then let go with a "God Bless" from his mouth in that Nigerian accent of his.
I looked over at his wife's face and she just smiled at me...........but I could see another look on her face........one where I would have loved to have been a fly on the rear-view mirror on their way home.
Hehehehe.
So now......Halloween in fast approaching.........in fact.......this coming weekend. The past two Saturdays have come and gone and I haven't seen the Nigerian Jehovah's Witness elder any more. Maybe he will come back one day but I doubt it...........I know way too much about his organization and teachings and because he cannot figure out how it is that I know these things, it just doesn't compute with him. That's why he asked those questions.
Hmmmmm.........and to think that I never got to tell him about the "end of the world".
I didn't make this stuff up.....these are true headlines. I woke up today and within five minutes of checking the Drudge Report and my local news.....this is what I get........more signs of our demise.
Sometimes you just wanna reach into your television or computer monitor and wring the necks of morons. For some reason such an act would be less violent than the majority of what is being broadcast through the airwaves and cables. Every time I see Nancy Pelosi she makes me nauseous. I understand that women do not want to show their age and do whatever they can to try to make themselves "pretty" and young looking. Well.....Pelosi ain't fooling nobody. It appears that even when she isn't surprised.......she always has that surprised look on her face. It must be the "cosmetic" facial surgery.......I don't know. Does she think that we aren't smart enough to know that at her age she has gray hair? Who is she foolin'? You? Me?.........I don't think so. My God!........please make her go away! This woman is not only psychotic looking but it is way too early for Halloween. Okay......okay........I apologize.......I should not write such things about some kid's grandmother. It is wrong to do that...........but..............it was bad enough when all of the politicians were men and that many of them..........even to this day............had their hair sculptured and dyed resulting in that "anti-whirlwind" kind of fake tv preacher look about themselves. But now we have Pelosi...................its like having a full technicolor nightmare.I tried to warn everyone about Pelosi. She was born and bred in the Little Italy neighborhood in Baltimore. Her maiden name is D'Alesandro. She has that corrupt Maryland Democrat type of blood running throughout her vieins.
She needs to go away......and soon. Meanwhile......while I may be wrong to have written such nasty stuff..........somebody else managed to come up with a picture that sums it all up:
There ya go.....................and as it turns out......this kind of thing is as infectious as the H1N1 virus on a half eaten enchilada in the suitcase of a fat frequent flyer to Cancun. .........hmmmmm......well...........there is just ONE other case that I have found :
Oooooooh Yeah!...............This "Joker" thing is getting out of control............but.........I can see the similarities between Pelosi & Obama and the Joker. Now if Life would imitate Art just a few times............these two will find a way to eliminate themselves.
Remember that bogus election that was recently held in Iran? Remember the guy that "lost"?
Yep........That's the guy that "lost" the Presidential election in Iran. I knew he looked familiar..................... ............none other than movie director Steven Spielberg..........hehehe.........who knew?
Okay........enough "joker-ring" around.
When you read this blog, you surely must know that it is possible for you to respond or comment.........just click and respond and I will be notified via e-mail by Blogger and I will submit your commentary after making sure it is decent to post. I am not much on censoring and if I do I will specify the portion of your comment that I remove. Otherwise, I even let the Jehovah's Witnesses try to defend their beliefs.............by the way........if you missed the few posts I made about the Jehovah's Witnesses and their wacky beliefs, you most likely also missed all of the Jehovah's Witness comments to those posts. Such entertainment cannot be purchased anywhere, folks. You can go back and review all of the posts I have made since I began this blog.
Furthermore, as you may have noticed........there are no ads on my blog. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that I just simply haven't set it up for any ads and thus I make no money. And Two is that I simply do not have enough readers to warrant such. You may notice that I also do not have a "visitor counter" on my blog. I was tempted........but I kinda like not knowing exactly how many people are actually visiting my blog. Such info would have no bearing on what I write here.
I must say though, that It surely doesn't hurt to occasionally hear from those that stumble onto my blog. You can be a kind as you want or you can be as critical of the blog as you wish. You can rest assured that you will remain "anonymous" unless otherwise specified. That's the way I operate. Those that really know me already know my name and those that I myself already know, do not need to be reminded of who they are.......hehehe.
A little feedback would be nice.........occasionally.
Also.........popularity on the internet is not something I seek and it has never been the purpose of this blog. However..........if you happen to enjoy this blog, I do hope you would share it with your friends and families and co-workers, etc. There is nothing better than word-of-mouth promotion. Who knows...........maybe I can reach twenty readers soon......hehehe.Or maybe I can get twenty new enemies........it's all good.
Coming Soon:
The Todd Rundgren "Arena" concert in Baltimore......lots of pictures!
Time is flying by quickly. I suppose that the busier you are, the faster time goes........and I can safely say that I have been very busy this past year. Alot has happened in the past year and I can see where it is possible that even more stuff to do will enter the picture next year. I am not complaining.........life should be lived to the fullest......within reason.
Just a few thoughts.............well.......maybe a few of those signs of the end that most people haven't noticed...........
We somehow managed to elect a man named Obama to be President of the U.S..........hmmm....does this mean that we will now have an ObamaNation for a country?.............you must admit that alot of folks already know that the whole enchilada is an "abomination".
It doesn't sit right with me that our new President's middle name is Hussein......this cannot be a good thing.
Is it a coincidence that Obama was touted as some sort of new messiah?.......he has been called Obamassiah by some radio show hosts............and who does Obama select to be his Chief Of Staff?...........none other than someone named Emmanuel........go figure.
The price of gasoline dropped and I haven't heard any reports that there was some sort of sudden increase in the amount of oil in the earth.......what is up with that?
They remade the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still"..........as if the first one was so bad that people demanded it be done over.............Keanu Reeves as Klaatu?.......you got to be kidding me.
The late news is now an hour earlier. Imagine that. If they start saying that the early news is now an hour later.....look out.......it's almost over folks.
Bob Turk is still mumbling the weather at WJZ TV in Baltimore.
The Ravens had the Steelers beat.......but the officials managed to make some "corrections" and turn things around.............this is no surprise.
Hillary Clinton, instead of becoming President, accepts a job as a Secretary........go figure.........and the Pro-Women's groups are not outraged.
Oh well...............it is time to get ready for Christmas..........
........does this mean that I can expect Jehovah's Witnesses to come knocking this week?
If they do..........I am prepared for that.............but they are not.
Stay tuned everybody........all ten of you.......hehehe.
There has been some strange things going on...........spooky......eerie......downright scary stuff. Surely most people have taken notice........unless........uh...er....well........I take that back......let me start over..................
You gotta be a moron if you haven't noticed that alot of strange unexplicable things have been happening all over the planet. Maybe some people just have "normalcy bias" as an excuse.......you know.......normalcy bias.......just look THAT one up. "Things can't be that bad."......and "Oh.....It happens all the time......It too shall pass." The problem is, while such words are somewhat comforting, and all of it is more comforting when any issue or event is pitifully small in the grand scheme of things, lately.........it appears that stuff is happening frequently and in massive doses.
First it was the honey bee........remember that? The honey bees were disappearing and nobody had any definative reason for it...........and now nobody seems to even mention it anymore. For me........it all began when I noticed that flies had replaced all of the bees that would routinely feast upon the bushes that were in the front of my house. I thought that was odd. About a year later, it was all over the news that the bees were vanishing. Surely this one odd thing is not enough to make you or I pack up our bags and head for the hills. 
Again.......I keep hearing "This is nothing new....it happens all the time".
Maybe it does happen all the time........but I don't seem to remember hearing about it with such frequency or scale. We didn't even see any pictures of any large scale fish kill resulting from that huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Why is that? One would think that there would have been. You would think there would have been a shrimp and crab shortage too.....but I have not seen any indication of it. I seriously did not trust any of the sensationalized reports about that oil spill......it was not anywhere near as bad as they made it seem.
And now its birds............birds everywhere have been just dropping right out of the sky in mid-flight.......for no apparent reason. "Lightning strike"......."fireworks scared them"........."blunt force trauma"........."no disease found in autopsy........just blunt force trauma".........are you kidding me?
Sure.......birds die.....as do fish.................one or two at a time maybe............
........but this is getting to be biblical in proportions if you know what I mean.
"Blunt force trauma"..........hmmm.........thousands of birds at one time?.........huh?
Something is seriously going on, folks..............but don't worry..........so they say. I get asked why I think this is happening and the only bird related disaster situation that I can recall was when the birds were suicidal in a movie I saw when I was a kid.
The good news is that there is a huge difference. The birds in Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds, not only were suicidal.......but they were attacking everybody. For now.......birds are just dropping dead........no indication of them being suicidal.........and so far, I am not aware of mass attacks of humans by birds.............well......there have been a handful of reports about some birds attacking people.......but not in any large numbers.
So what do I think about all of this?
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