As we continue collecting stories of things that seem to “blink out” or, simply aren’t where people consciously put them, along with stories about people missing bits of time, here’s one that’s mighty interesting:
Have you ever heard anything like this? In the mornings, I listen to AM Talk Radio, and one of the shows I listen to is Dennis Prager on 870 AM. He’s on from 9 a.m. until noon on weekdays, and I know of no other broadcast of the show in this area at any time. I live in Los Angeles.
Tuesday morning, February 14th, I was driving down the freeway from Los Angeles to Orange County. It’s about 9:38 a. m. Bright sun is pouring in through the windshield. I’m listening to Dennis, and the segment begins with him saying, “Welcome back to the show, and Happy Valentine’s Day.”
Then Dennis starts talking about how people who listen regularly to his show know that he doesn’t make predictions. My ears perked up a little, because it sounded familiar. Then the real strangeness began. Dennis continued, “Well, I do predict the winners of the World Series, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup and the Super Bowl.”
Now I’m freaking out. I had heard this all before, word for word. WORD FOR WORD. When he started to correct himself and say, “Well I do predict the winner of the World Series…”, my mind repeated his answers perfectly… NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, and the Super Bowl. It was as if I was listening to a rebroadcast, but that was impossible. I thought it super strange he would say this about predictions two days in a row. Very bad radio. I had the sense I’d heard the show about 4:30 p.m. the day before, going in the opposite direction, on a cloudy, gray afternoon.
I quickly discounted that possibility because he had just said it was Valentine’s Day, and he wouldn’t have said that the day before. Besides, it’s not broadcast on a station I could get at that hour.
Dennis continued, “But I am going to make a prediction today.” Oh, my God, I thought! He’s going to start talking about the riots in Greece! I had heard all this before! It was spectacularly eerie. It was far stronger than any sense of Déjà Vu. It was WORD FOR WORD over an extended period of time.
“I want to make a prediction about the riots in Greece,” Dennis said. “No way!” I exclaimed. I reached up and turned the radio off to try and make sense of what had just happened. It was profoundly disturbing to my logical mind.
What’s going on here, do you think?”
My best guesses? Either a) the radio station was replaying an earlier version of Prager (calling the station would answer that one) or b) you’re going through some kind of mass deja vu thing on a scale we haven’t heard reports of previously.
One question that pops up? Where exactly were you when this was going on? I ask because if there are other people in the OC/LA area who had a similar event on this date. Still, my big money would be it was a “next morning replay” of the previous day’s show for some reason or other.
This morning a rather odd sounding story pops out of the I-Ching Inbox – this one is a post off a site called Apparently Apparel and the story is “The Truth About Hair – Covered up since the Vietnam War.” Although posted in the fall of 2011, it makes a very good read now [going into summer] because this is the period (spring) when lots of people, including me, get haircuts. Our summer “do’s.”
The basic idea is that long hair has something to do with how well a person can “sense” – things like danger coming toward them.
Honestly, I hadn’t given it much though, but certainly the referenced material over at Wikipedia, such as this little tidbits:
Before World War One men generally had longer hair and beards. However, short hair on men has often been enforced as a mean of control, in police, military and other forces that require obedience and discipline.
Slaves and defeated armies were often required to shave their heads.
Sikhs wear long hair (Kesh); This was one of the ‘five requisites of faith’, collectively called Kakars that form the external visible identifiers to clearly affirm a Sikh’s commitment and dedication to the order.
Very interesting topic of awareness I’d never given much thought to…but it’s something to think about. Maybe Delilah was onto something.
Of course the danger of asking questions like this (e.g. “Is there a measurable strength difference of people before and after haircuts”) is that it leads into all kinds of other research including this “Short Survey of Scientific Literature on Shaving” though we don’t find any discussion about a tie-in between Delilah and Norelco.
Still, not taking any chances, I don’t think I’ll shave for a day, or two, till I get my strength back from the busy weekend.
Links of legit research on this would be appreciated. Very short hair in the summer seems to make sense, but not if it makes me any dumber than I already am.
Health Police: Government Gone Mad?
A story popped up on the ‘net Friday which has our attention. Seems a blogger dude in North Carolina received a letter from the North Carolina Board of Nutrition and Dietitians which is upset with Steve Cooksey’s website, which if I follow their logic, seems in their view to be ‘practicing medicine’ because he’s a formerly obese, formerly drug-dependent type 2 diabetic. He’s been encouraging people (based on his success) to lose weight (lots of weight…) and get back on the road to healthy. Problem is? Cooksey has stepped over a governmental/regulatory line.
The NC regulations, which you can read here, get us around to a very awkward question: IF reading this fellow’s blog is done without compensation is there liability? Of course not: Double your money back is still zero. Except in North Carolina.
Cooksey’s concern is that he’s got free speech rights on the line here but he has already taken down what he figures to be the offending material (probably on good legal advice), but there’s the whole matter of the “chilling effect” on free speech all this has.
This all comes at a time when at the national level, the Food and Drug administration has been lining up the natural food movement in its sights. Somehow it’s OK to put industrial chemicals like chlorine and fluoride in water, but it’s a crime to drink fresh whole milk. Even worse: Selling a natural product like Red Rice Yeast unless it has been regulated into inefficiency because naturally occurring statin-like chemicals don’t offer former regulators jobs…or big campaign dough up the food chain…Of course, a roll-your-won workaround is on eHow, but I digress.
Cooksey’s site, you see raises a difficult question for the food police of Nanny Government: Can people generally improve their health by losing weight, which in turn reduces the body’s workload on heart, lungs, and other internal organs?
Sorry, I cannot answer that by saying “Yes!” since this column might be read in North Carolina. Ask your doctor.
Instead, I’ll restrict my discussion to rats, such as may be found getting skinny in good science research like “Calorie Restriction Enhances Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake and Akt Phosphorylation in Both Fast-Twitch and Slow-Twitch Skeletal Muscle of 24-Month-Old Rats.”
Of course, if you are overweight and have an insulin problem, but don’t have a ready supply of 24-month old rats to test, consider a trip to North Carolina where, I hear, somewhat older rats seem in plentiful supply.
Whatever you do, don’t point out recent articles in the PubMed database like “Efficacy of fasting calorie restriction on quality of life among aging men.”
I’ve alerted our crack legal team to be on the lookout for a warning letter from the Klang Valley, Malaysia Board of Dietetics/Nutrition, just in case.
Coming up tomorrow morning – some new stuff about 2012 and Nostradamus and to make sure you grok that, be sure to read about the Chinese dissident dude at the US embassy in Beijing.
It will all make sense tomorrow, more than the Obama dog jokes this weekend, fo sho…
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A High Beta Investment System
It has been a while since we have discussed high beta investment systems, but with the market more or less stuck in “boring” maybe we should see if there’s a way to play it, shall we? But not, of course, before tromping through some of the headlines that will push markets around next week, Still, it’s the poking around looking for new and different ways to make money (or hold onto value so you’ve got a little something for a rainy day) which is fun. Think of it has entry-level forensic economics…
(Also) The “Flip-Side” of Virtual
In Wednesday’s report on the future of virtual reality glasses, a new technology which I think had pretty good potential to “pop” (standing 10-feet from a virtual 102″ screen is pretty snazzy stuff) which qualifies it as one of our serial get-rich-slowly paths, which usually seems to take years instead of days, but that’s another matter. What matters this morning is that as a friend (Oilman2) told me this week, there’s a really horrible side of virtual and he’s been kind enough to share details of how virtual is getting ready to start whacking jobs down in the oil patch. As usual, before we wade into the grim, we can recap the market and some of the major week ending headlines to see where that points…
Safer Computing: Swearing Off Cookies
It has been a while since I roared the praises of the Maxa Cookie Manager which you can download and install for a free test drive by clicking here.
To upgrade from the demo to full working is still less than $30 (During their Spring Sale) and one heck of a bargain at that, if I do say so.
I am a high-reliability computing kind of guy – and near as I have it figured, the road to a hassle-free computing experience is (like flying an airplane) a matter of going through a proper checklist before popping onto the web:
You need an active cookie manager – because sites you visit can put small bits of code on your computer and some of these are designed for Flash, have no expiration, and can really bugger-up the computing experience. This part gets handled by Maxa Labs’ product which on my system says 184,380 cookies have been removed, 73,881 “web bugs” which can track movement from site to site and such, and I have only 10-active cookies.
Second thing you need is a good antivirus program – and I happen to really like Avira’s Antivir pro.
Then you need to deal with Malware so for this Malware bytes is updated and run daily.
And last, though certainly not least is the firewall and the one in Win 7 works fine.
Like anything in computers, updates are critical so before work every morning, the computer does its update ritual – Check of Maxa (5.3.02 is current) Avira, and Malware bytes.
Toss in a good bit of common sense (example: Don’t open email purporting to be from UPS, IRS, the US Post Office, or anything else that even has a hint of fishy odor to it) and first thing you know, the internet’s actually a useful tool.
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