Al Gore Phone Home!

I don't believe it is possible to have been alive for the past few days and not have heard the news about recent events that were startling enough to have been an excerpt from the Book of Revelation. No..........the image of Signtopia did not hover in the sky frightening thousands of people and causing chaos.

Surely you must have seen reports about something else in the sky.............a bright light......a fireball.........something went over the horizon.............hmmmmm....it wasn't me........so what was it? From what I have read, no reports offer up any serious assessment or solid answers. Surely you know that we have some very high tech abilities to analyze, inspect, and watch over our skies. Radar, doppler, NORAD, the entire military, telescopes.....etc......etc......you get the picture, right?

But NO.......we ain't getting any picture. All we have is some film from a cop car camera and the like. Is it possible for something to zip across our airspace and no pilot sees it? Is it possible for NORAD not to have seen it and tracked it and know where it hits? Is it possible that absolutely no scientists or astronomers seen this coming? Is it possible that there may be something going on that "they" may not be telling us? I don't know about you, but to me this is HUGE.

Contrails........right? And those contrails are not from the large bright light. They are from something else.Look at the photo above............that's a huge bright light in the sky, yes..........and we don't know what it is...............but look at what else is in the picture. I see two streaks.......don't you? Okay.........if those are from jet airliners........then those pilots would have had quite a look at what went zipping past them at an extraordinary speed. If those contrails are from something military........a fighter jet or two.......then they know what it is. If those contrails are from shot at whatever caused the bright light we may never know. Either way it is a mystery and it boggles my mind that all we can come up with is some speculation about it. That alone, is scary. Norad can track Santa Claus but it missed something real......go figure.............we all need to worry about this.

But here is something explainable..................biblical proportions of ash spewing forth from a volcano in Iceland. Such proportions that flights had to be cancelled all over Europe.......and this is just from one measly volcano. Imagine the impact...........stuff like this is what caused mini ice-ages throughout the history of the planet...........and this isn't because of something humans do or might do and even continue to do. Stuff like this must make the Goracle toss and turn and night and slap Tipper with a stack of Parental Advisory stickers. So where is Al Gore while all of this is happening?

Al Gore (The Goracle) never seems to talk about this stuff.......and it is those things such as natural occurring volcanic activity and earthquakes that should be worried about. Does Al Gore take up the cause and plead for people to stop living on fault lines? Does he beg for us to not fly in planes because a meteor or some unknown object might hit us? No.......he doesn't.

As huge as the volcano eruption in Iceland is and the impact it will and does have on our planet............it is minor league. Even worse is the caldera that is brewing at Yellowstone. Surely you have heard about that.........right? If you haven't heard........just Google it and educate yourself................you will be amazed. The image shown above is a small indication of just how active the caldera has been. Each dark speck......and there are thousands of them.......are earthquakes. Shocking isn't it?

So where is the Goracle?............maybe Al Gore should phone home.

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TSA Must Mean Something

So there I was............at the Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall Dixon Rawlings Blake O'Malley Schaefer Mfume International Airport............waiting for a plane to show up. Lately, I have noticed that when I arrive at my assigned gate for departure, my plane is never sitting there waiting for me...............still in the air somewhere. The jet engines hardly get a chance to cool down in between flights...............I do not know if this is a good thing or a bad thing..........oh well.............there are enough obvious bad things to deal with at the airport these days.............and this day came full tilt right off the bat before we ever got to the departure gate. Aside from having to wait for your plane at the gate.......hmmm.....the waiting process might just be a cooling off period for pending passengers.............everyone is subjected to the scrutiny of the TSA. It is miraculous that people are able to hold back their anger at some of the bogus things that we are subjected to as a result of a few towel-headed morons having a desire to make history and go hang out with something like 70 alleged virgins with hairy armpits and enough peach fuzz on their faces that Achmed might think he was ripped off by Allah and sent to a gay oasis. Oh well.

As it is............and we just have to live with it.........we have to each go through a security checkpoint operated by the finest idiots in the USA............well.........okay.........."some" of the finest idiots...........it would not be fair of me to categorize idiots as all being "fine". If there is one thing I hate about traveling on a plane, it is the process you go through before you ever get to see a plane. Now don't get me wrong here.......I fully understand and accept the necessity for having a security checkpoint. What I do not understand is the bullshit that comes with such a thing.

You reach the checkpoint and you have to put all of your stuff on trays that you send through an x-ray machine. Take your computers OUT of the computer bags and put in a seperate tray...........what? This does not make any sense to me...............x-rays can't see through computer bags?.....huh?.......since when?..........I ain't buying this crap. Hats off..........remove your shoes and send it through...............okay, okay........I understand the shoe thing......but not the hat thing. After all......I am about to walk through a METAL DETECTOR!.......and I am fond of my cast iron baseball cap. But WAIT!................."Sir, please remove that Baltimore Ravens jacket before you enter the metal detector!" "Put the jacket in a tray and send it through the x-ray machine along with your computer.........but put the jacket in a seperate tray." Everyone knows that a thin Ravens jacket blocks x-rays. If the jacket covered over the laptop computer, the idiot that is carefuly analyzing the monitor on the x-ray machine might not be able to tell that it is a laptop.

Are you getting my point here? Sometimes we step into such a huge pile of bullshit that it takes weeks to remove the stench from your nose.

So I ask the high-tech TSA guy......."My jacket?..........seriously?"......he said "Yes"......so I ask the question that begs being asked "Do you want me to take off my shirt too?". See.......I do not see any difference between a jacket and a long sleeved corduroy shirt. Common sense tells me that if you could hide something in a light jacket.......surely you could hide something in a shirt like mine. Furthermore, it is at this point I am now wondering about the quality of the metal detector that we are to walk through. Shirt fine........shirt AND jacket.......too thick for this equipment, eh? It could have easily gotten ugly at this point.........I was very vocal about my disgust over the ridiculousness..........but I got through the metal detector after succombing to their requests...........but then I hear the TSA person that is analyzing the x-ray machine call out "Whose tray is this?" and I look up and it was MINE! "Hey, that's my tray"..............."Sir, we are gonna have to run this through again".............it wasn't the tray with the shoes........or the one with the laptop computer.........not the one with the wallet, hat and glasses and camera bag................it was the TRAY WITH ONLY A THIN RAVENS JACKET IN IT!!!!!!!! Folks.........it IS the End Of The World.......and this little incident is just another fine example that we are well on our way.

So I had to wait as they ran my jacket through a second time................everything was being held up....slowed down........all for a Ravens jacket..............anyway.......I finally get my jacket back and get my shoes tied and turn around and what do I see? I see Supernurse and Princess Fartknocker standing there at the end of the whole operation, waiting as a TSA moron was going over one of those seriously dangerous items that Princess Fartknocker carries around with her...........

...................a Barbie Doll! The TSA guy was lifting the skirt up on the doll, held it to his hear, stuck it near some sort of analyzing machine................I made a comment out loud to Supernurse....."What is wrong?.....Did you forget to take the shoes off of the Barbie Doll?" Once again, things could have gotten ugly at this point, but I held back after one of those looks that Supernurse gives me when I start getting a bit obnoxious and sarcastic. Can you believe this? Then I thought about it...................and I think I fully understand why an x-ray machine can tell if your power supply pack for your computer is filled with c-4 explosives while at the same time cannot give a clue as to what is going on inside a Barbie doll.

Hmmmmmm....have you figured it out yet?

It's because it is all bullshit. The machines are probably the cheapest pieces of shit that money can buy.......which goes right along with the morons that operate it. Is it a good idea, in the name of national security, to hire the bottom feeders of the food chain? Huh? So what does TSA stand for? The Shit Accumulates?
This Shit Again?
The Slowest Agency?

So what are we left to do............knowing what we know now.........and having gone through what we have gone through..........................hmmmmmm. You have to take things into your own hands.........or eyes. If I have confidence in anything, I have confidence in myself......I trust what I see with my own two eyes. Now it is up to me to be aware of my surroundings.......and I have to sit there or stand there, waiting for the plane to arrive...........and inspect and analyze all of the other passengers that will be getting on my plane. I think I could spot potential Achmeds anywhere.


As it happened.......we were assigned seats in the very last row on the plane. The only things behind me was the restrooms and two small spaces for the stewardesses to sit. I can watch everyone..........and I did. It would have been nice if I could have had some confidence in the TSA, but not on this day.........a nap would be out of the question. I am pissed.

I was heading to an area outside Austin, Texas to see one of my daughters and new grandchild. Not a vacation trip............but a family visit. We would spend some time with those we miss. Not interested in roaming all over the place, sightseeing......stuff like that. The bonus for Princess Fartknocker was that not only did she get to see her Aunt Noodle and new cousin, but also her other grandparents. It is great when things work out that way.

It was also my intention to watch the skies once in Texas because there has recently been alot of reports about UFO's in an area not too far from where my daughter lives. If there was a flying saucer or something unusual.........I have my camera ready to go......................

......................and as I sat there on the plane..........I saw something!



I never saw anything like it before.........I had to take the picture.............damn.........and I was so close to it.........it was amazing..........it was almost scary......................definately something you don't see everyday.....................

............an eclipse!



Stay Tuned! I have some stuff to tell you about Texas.

UFO's, Space Stations and Other Mysteries

I was thinking about the many hours I spent participating on the internet chat program entitled "Paltalk". For the most part, I spent the majority of my time there in discussions about the Watchtower and its adherents, the Jehovah's Witnesses. I will blog about some of those discussions here in the near future. There is one thing though that frequently popped up in just about every discussion, no matter what night or day that I was on Paltalk................ufo's.

Often, religious discussions will occur where somebody comes along and mentions flying saucers.....and then there are those times when a participant announces to everyone that he is a bona fide alien from one of those flying objects. I remember one guy who was promoting the notion that there are lizard people coming to get us.......hehehe. There are all sorts of wacky people on the planet and there are legions of these people on Paltalk.

It has been over a year now since I last logged onto Paltalk. I can imagine that nothing has changed much there. Same old discussions and arguments...........and most likely........more wacky folks telling others about the lizard people coming to get us in their ufo's.

I would love to see a UFO........unfortunately, I do not live where they seem to be showing up. It would be fantastic if a UFO would hover over a ghetto in Baltimore..........wouldn't that be wild?

Instead, the people of Baltimore are left with police helicopters and Medivac copters hovering in the skies.........and way out there somewhere in the sky..............the multi-billion dollar space station. I was listening to a radio program the other night and a guy named Hoagland was being interviewed. He has been following closely the recent shuttle mission. Hoagland apparently has exclusive access to information about this recent escapade in space. What really caught my ear was when he said he had an exclusive about a problem with the space station. He said that the curled up piece of foam on the shuttle was "not" the real problem happening. What?

Now my ears have perked up. Well.......he said that the major media did not know about this specific problem because NASA had not given any press releases about it.....no official announcements. I find that very interesting.

Well, according to Hoagland, the scoop was that the computers on the space station were down. No way to control the gyroscopes.........the space station is basically spinning out of control! The shuttle jets were being used to steer the station and they only have so much power to keep doing that before they run out. This is amazing stuff! I wondered how long it would take for NASA to make this announcement.

Well, earlier today, I heard a report on the news that "fire alarms" had been sounding on the space station. It was allegedly in the Russian section of the craft and yet after thorough searches, no problem was found. I heard this and thought...."sounds like a bullshit warm-up to me". Then, later today, the big news broke. It was finally reported that there are problems with the computer systems that control the space station and operate the life support systems.

Amazing stuff. Here is the deal........if they do not get it fixed real soon....it will be "ABANDON SHIP!" ........that's right..........billions of bucks about to wander off into oblivion or at the very least find its good ole way into a fiery return to the planet. If that happens, we may all have something to see in the sky.............let's just hope it falls in an unpopulated area.

Hoagland said that NASA cannot find any momentum to proceed with any program to get us back to the moon as long as we are bogged down with the space station program. This is very interesting. I suspect he is suggesting that this recent "problem" may well be a planned event.

We will stayed tuned to this one won't we?