"Mystery" Storm in Istanbul Turns Day into Night

Last Tuesday a sunny day in Istanbul was turned into darkness by massive clouds that rolled in literally out of nowhere. The good people of Istanbul were bamboozled, and understandably there was talk of the Apocalypse. 

 It's one thing so see the sky go dark, but why was it a mystery? Because it didn't show up beforehand on any weather radars, satellite images or even from the ISS...it just appeared.

 That's what they're saying anyway. It should be an impossibility, but it happened. Could it be an example of "Signs in the Heavens" that the Good Book mentions? Maybe. 

 Apparently people went back and looked through radar and satellite loops and the ISS feed, and there was no sign of the storm until it appeared. I guarantee we'll be seeing articles that contain my very favorite phrase of the New Bullshit Era in which we live- "Scientists are scrambling to..." I love that. What they're scrambling to do is come up with an "Official Explanation" for what happened, whether it's complete bullshit or not. 

 They did detect an anomalous heat plume about 15 minutes before the clouds rolled in, and it too just appeared without warning. It likely caused or contributed to the event, but no one knows where it came from. Again, it shouldn't have happened, yet it did. 

 As I've said a million times, I was a dedicated sky-watcher and meteor observer by age four, so I really get off on stuff like this. As I've also said a million times, the first Good Book verse that got my attention was the verse that talks about a time when we'll see "Signs in the Heavens," and I think we're there.

 I remember way back then, imagining my older self looking up and seeing all this crazy shit going on in the sky, and thinking that if it happened, and I was pretty sure it would, then it could indicate that the Good Book is actually true. Do you think that some of the good people of Istanbul thought it might be a "Sign in the Heavens?" I bet they did, no matter which book they believe or don't believe in. 

 What will happen is that the few people who are interested in this to begin with will look for an explanation, but once they don't find one they'll just dismiss it. Since it can't be explained by normal means then they don't care about it, but I think those things are the things we should concentrate on. Things that "can't be explained" always get my attention. 

 So how could a storm, and a remarkable one at that, seemingly appear out of nowhere and defy the Laws of Nature? It is an actual "sign" from Heaven? We don't know for sure, but that makes as much sense as anything else. If it's true that the storm didn't show up on radar before it happened then it's a sign of something, and it can't be explained by normal means. 

 It took less than five minutes for the sky to go dark. The system also hovered in place for a bit, which isn't normal either. There's a short time-lapse video taken by Siraj Noorani on Twitter. It's really intense. You can see it >HERE. Was it a sign in the heavens? Maybe we should treat it as such. Heads-up. 

Video (and Title) of the Day

The YT algo pisses me off to no end, but sometimes it drops a jewel into my feed, and it adds a bright spot to my day. This video harkens back in fact Jack to the golden era of YouTube. The title alone- "Horse Kicks Tree, Farts on Dog Then Runs Away" is beautiful, and I'll click on a video with a title like that all day of the week. 

 Sure enough, the horse in question did in fact kick a tree, fart on a dog and run away, with the dogs hot on his hooves. It made my day. 

The first commenter by the name of Silence Listener, and I love that handle, seemed to agree. The title alone sells it. You can see it HERE. It's worth a watch. The comments are the best I've seen. Have a nice day. 

 

Quote of the Day

"A lie, when stuck to, becomes a truth." - police investigator Jeff Arnold
 

Quote of the Day

"I'm totally sober." - Kimberly, who'd passed out in her running car at a gas station, and who was anything but sober
 

Where Have I Seen This Look Before?

Dear God...this is one scary-looking face. It looks really familiar though...it reminds me of something really classic from the past...

...oh, yeah...I remember now. 

 

The Anheuser-Busch Deal

With this Bud Light thing, so many people are talking about the sexuality aspect of it, but the way I see it is this is just what happens when you try to cater to a small fraction of the population, while disregarding the rest of the population, aka the majority.

 Although the number has about doubled in the last few years, the number of US adults who identify as part of the LGBTQ+- etc. community is around 7%, according to a 2022 Gallup poll. For a country where the majority has traditionally determined policy, this kind of thing just won't fly. It can't fly. It's just the numbers, and you can't fuck with the numbers. Speaking of numbers, it must really suck to lose $5-billion in sales. Oops.

 Sorry Anheuser-Busch, but when you try to be all hip and "woke" and shit, and cater to a fraction of the market at the expense of the rest, this is what happens. Just what did y'all think would happen? The people have spoken. 

 

Surreal Things Revisited

I've talked about this more than once, but it still trips me out, and it was so utterly bizarre and unimaginable that it made me realize that we'd turned a corner in social weirdness, and we're basically headed for Hell in a handbasket if things don't change. 

 This was about 6-7 years ago, during the peak of the "creepy clown" era. It was bad enough that people were seeing them on their Ring doorbell cams and whatnot, but one day at least one elementary school near us was on lockdown due to creepy clowns being sighted in the nearby woods. Say what? 

 Yep, they put a public school on lockdown because there were creepy clowns lurking in the woods. When I heard the news I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but I guess that's the nature of clowns anyway. Clowns...some people love 'em and some people hate 'em, but to have them terrorizing schools was just whack. 

 My ex and I took the dogs for a walk around noon. I was keeping an eye out for clowns the whole time, which is something I couldn't ever have imagined happening. There was a short road that dead-ended right into the woods. It would've been a perfect place for a creepy clown to lurk. My ex was already spooked, and she hurried past that spot. I'd agreed to take pepper spray, to ease her mind a little. I wished I had a squirting flower that shot pepper spray, but I didn't. That would've been funny. 

 That night my ex was too scared to go for our midnight walk. I'll admit I was keeping an eye out for clowns...fucking clowns. I'm not sure how much fun it'd have been to see a clown lurking in the woods at midnight, but I had my camera ready Justin Case. Creepy or not I couldn't have turned down a photo op like that. 

 There's some really interesting theories on what might be behind the creepy clown epidemic, but I don't reckon I'll go into any of them here. Not much could be too much crazier anyway than schools being shut down because of fucking clowns. It did make a great introduction to the clown world we live in now. They say we're going to Hell in a handbasket. I say we're going to Hell in a Clown Car. Honk-Honk.
 

Quote of the Day

"I was trying to turn around, and the goddamn ditch ate my car." - a super-drunk motorist, explaining to police why her car was in a ditch
 

Giving Blood

I used to donate blood all the time. I figured it was my civic duty. I donated so much blood in fact that I supposedly can get free blood transfusions for life, unless they've discontinued that policy. I was a regular at a couple of clinics, and they knew me by my blood type instead of my name. That was a joke.

 I think I should start donating again. Why? Because there's a huge demand for "un-veed" blood. It's making the news even. People are waking up. I don't know if my "lifetime blood donor" status would have any bearing on the situation, but I'd sure ask for un-veed blood if, God forbid, I needed a transfusion. 

I reckon they still give you a sticker that says "Be nice to me...I gave blood today." I'm old enough to remember when they gave you stick pins, but maybe enough people accidentally stuck themselves...donating blood without meaning to, that they quit making them. Safety first, plus stickers are cheaper.

 In any case...veed or un-veed, consider giving blood. It's always needed. It's the thing to do. You never know...you might just fall in love with a nice healthcare worker. Maybe one day you can say: "Your mom and I met at a blood drive." Right on. I can taste them cookies and juice right now...

 

The Pedo Files: A Disgrace to Metal

It's wild to be watching a livestream on YouTube, where they're confronting a Pedo, and certain info gets out, such as their fb and other social media pages, and you can find them in real time while you're watching them get exposed, and hopefully arrested, for preying on kids. One of the teams confronted this clown yesterday, live on YouTube.

 In his messages to the adult who was pretending to be a minor, he mentioned that he was in a band, and he said the name- "Nefarious Heart." I can't speak for the rest of band, who've hopefully fired him by now, but he has a nefarious heart for damn sure. 

 When someone mentioned his band I went straight to YT to see if they happened to be on there, and there the motherfucker was. He is, or was, in a Satanic Metal band, although what specific genre I'm not sure. The video I saw was from a CD release party, if you could call it that, and is three years old. 

 In three years only 100 people had seen the video, and that's pretty sad. It's now up to 125 views, and the extra 25 people went to it to see a real-life Chomo in action. All of that, plus the fact that he's a mediocre guitar player at best doesn't matter, compared to the fact that he's a sick monster who preys on children, apparently between gigs. Even if he were a monster guitarist he'd still be a sick fuck. 

 In Colorado they have some of the best laws in the nation, and simply setting up a meeting with someone they think is a minor is a felony, whether they actually are minors or not. Sending or asking for lewd material are also felonies. This predator hunter always calls police after he interviews them for a bit, and usually they're taken away in handcuffs. On this particular catch they were too busy to send a unit, but dude here, whose name is Mike, will be getting a knock at the door at some point. 

 He's a disgrace to the Metal community, even if nobody cares about his band, and he's a total piece of shit too. Metalheads, like people in prison, don't like Chomos very much at all. Neither does the majority of regular society for that matter. They're worse than murderers to some, including me. It's hard to imagine being attracted to kids in the first place, much less be willing to scar them for LIFE, all for their sick gratification. They're wired differently.

 Good ol' Metal Mike here showed zero remorse whatsoever, but narcissists are incapable of feeling remorse because they have no empathy. Since they don't understand it it's hard for them to even fake it. Mikey here was arrogant, looking at his phone, and acted like he'd done absolutely nothing wrong. These Pedos are trying to hurt kids...it makes you want to just stomp them into the ground, and people like Mike especially.  

 If you happen to want to see what a guitar playing Pedo looks like, you can watch the video >HERE. It ain't nothing special. What's funny is that in all those three years the video had one comment from some wanker, but now there's half a dozen calling Mike a Chomo. 

 What blows my mind is that some people think these catches are fake, even when you can look up the perp in real life. I guess they think that they can get the cops to play along and pretend to arrest the fake suspects. I think that might be illegal. 

 Unless someone was really hurting for money, which the catchers don't have much of anyway, I doubt they'd want to expose themselves to hundreds of thousands of views for nothing. There are groups that seek out these people and fuck them up. If I were Mike I'd lay low for a while, jail or not.

 So yeah, if you happen to want to see a genuine predator playing mediocre guitar in a mediocre Metal band, you can click the link and see one. I'll leave the name of the song as a surprise, should you want to see it. I feel badly for the rest of the band. That is, assuming they're not like Mike. 

 It's a trip to see someone being confronted in real-time and being able to look them up, and in this case finding that one of them, when not at his day job of molesting kids, is a Metal wannabe. What he really is is a sick fuck, and there's a special place in Hell for people like Mike. He's into Satan anyway. Good luck asshole. 

 

Star Killer

Have you ever sprinkled iron filings into a flame? This is what happens. This is a gas flame with lots of filings, but it's a lot cooler with a candle flame and just a pinch of filings at a time. You can see each tiny explosion. 

 BTW it also works with sugar. When I was a kid I got busted all the time for playing "Army" by sprinkling sugar onto a red-hot eye on the stove. Like an asshole I was pretending to bomb "enemy" villages, but I was a dumbass kid and didn't know any better. As a byproduct of playing Army on the stove, the house would have a wonderful burnt-caramel smell. Don't try this at home y'all. 

 Anyway, for the last several years people have reported reddish-brown dust falling on outdoor surfaces. Many have speculated that it's iron dust, and indeed it sometimes will stick to a magnet. 

 Last year in fact so much of it was being reported that they had to announce an "Official Explanation" about it. They said that it was definitely iron dust, and that it came from a Supernova that happened somewhere in the galaxy. We do know that iron is plentiful in space, from dust-size particles up to boulder-size and probably bigger. 

 I'm pretty sure that iron dust is a byproduct of Supernovae, but none of my guys knew about it. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but they keep up with these things and no one heard about it, and amateur Astronomers can usually see them with good telescopes. Whatever, right? Trust the science (SCIENCE). 

 My main info guy says that there's massive clouds of iron dust incoming, and apparently some of it is headed for the Sun. You'd think that any iron dust would burn up long before it got to the Sun, but my guy says there's enough to possibly cause explosions on the Sun. That would not be good. I'm almost positive that this phenomenon has been observed in other solar systems, because he says that some refer to these clouds of iron dust as "star killers." 

 Anyone who's been keeping up just a touch with space weather knows that the Sun is going berserk right now. It's already popped off almost three times more X-Class solar flares so far this year than in all of 2022. We don't want one of those to hit the Earth directly. Humans wouldn't be harmed from an X-Flare, but it'd be bye-bye electrical grid. 

 None of that matters if a giant cloud of iron dust were to impact the Sun, but it's worth noting. So what could happen if a giant cloud of iron dust were to interact with the Sun? See the photo above. Is this "fear porn?" HELL, no. We don't know for sure that it will happen, but if it does, it's better to have at least heard about it, so that you aren't totally taken by surprise. It's not about frightening people. 

 What can we do about it? Physically, nothing, but mentally, at least you'd have a heads-up, and that's a good thing. Spiritually, I'd say to get right with God...immediately. That's what I'd do. It's not so bad. Heads-up, yo.