Monday, August 31, 2015
Walker goes full Forrest Gump, says Canadian border wall is “legitimate issue for us to look at”
Update: Readers who hunger for more mockery of Scott Walker should check out the #CanadaWall tag on twitter. ————————————– Today on Meet the Press, Scott Walker said that a border wall between the United States and Canada is “a legitimate issue for us to look at”. I expect his campaign will tomorrow release a “clarifying” more »
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Walker goes full Forrest Gump, says Canadian border wall is “legitimate issue for us to look at”
Update: Readers who hunger for more mockery of Scott Walker should check out the #CanadaWall tag on twitter. ————————————– Today on Meet the Press, Scott Walker said that a border wall between the United States and Canada is “a legitimate issue for us to look at”. I expect his campaign will tomorrow release a “clarifying” more »
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Discover Your Perfect Man Cave
No matter your taste, there is a man cave for you.
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Shade Tree Clinic Benefit Concert feat. Nashville Sinfonietta. Las Vegas Blog
Reported From Area 51.
As Nashville’s classical community slowly creeps out from its reverse hibernation, we clear our groggy eyes & celebrate and honor the complete of summer time’s programming drought. The- Schermerhorn prepares for an additional stellar classical season … Read the rest
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Child Care Advisory Council Meeting Reminder
As a reminder, the Child Care Advisory Council will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, September 8, 2015, at 1:30 PM.Meeting AgendaFor additional information, contact Lisa Roberts, Division of Public and Behavioral Health at 775-684-4421.
Monday, August 24, 2015
Quinnipiac poll of FL,OH,PA: fortunes of Walker and Clinton sink as Biden’s rise
Notice that in the crucial state of Ohio, Scott Walker is only at 2%. This is all come to a poll looking for these days: Walker’s failure. But other people are paying attention to the bigger picture, of course. Rubio is the only Republican polling ahead of Clinton in Ohio. Quinnipiac Poll: @MarcoRubio is the more »
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Scott Walker flip flops on birthright citizenship. Blames tiredness.
"Scott Walker said he accidentally took a position on [citizenship] because he was 'tired'"
https://t.co/BBMDYMZQJo pic.twitter.com/vqBv0rSU8b — Billmon (@billmon1) August 21, 2015 At the Iowa state fair, Walker was for elimination of birthright citizenship. By Friday he had “no position” on it. “I’m not taking a position one way or the other,” Walker said in an more »
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Scott Walker flip flops on birthright citizenship. Blames tiredness.
"Scott Walker said he accidentally took a position on [citizenship] because he was 'tired'"
https://t.co/BBMDYMZQJo pic.twitter.com/vqBv0rSU8b — Billmon (@billmon1) August 21, 2015 At the Iowa state fair, Walker was for elimination of birthright citizenship. By Friday he had “no position” on it. “I’m not taking a position one way or the other,” Walker said in an more »
Friday, August 21, 2015
Back to School: Tips for Creating a Morning Routine
“School Year’s Eve” can be a tough night for families. It is a rude awakening that another summer has passed and the countdown until summer vacation has been reset. Our best advice for a smooth transition…be a fan of the plan. Remove the chaos from getting ready for school each morning by creating a routine […]
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Are you brave enough to drive Florida's I-4, AKA "The Dead Zone"?
The port city of Sanford, Florida was established in 1877. Today, Sanford features a bustling downtown with antique shops, art galleries, a zoo, a farmers market every Saturday, and even a Soapbox Derby. However, the history of this Central Floridian city is actually quite less cosmopolitan. The original inhabitants were the Mayaca (AKA Jojoro) native American tribe, who were all but decimated upon contact with Europeans, by war and disease. After Florida became an official U.S. state, following the Seminole Wars, many Swedish indentured servants were brought to the area. It was these Swedes who did virtually all of the hard labor to settle the land and grow the area into becoming the world's leading producer of oranges. About ten years after the colony was established a horrifying fire broke out that destroyed much of the settlement. This was followed by a terrible epidemic of Yellow Fever and an historic freeze that ruined the area's citrus industry at the time.
However, Sanford rebounded at the turn of the century, and while industry grew, the population increased and the community settled into a new, prosperous era of contentment. But, some spooky things began to occur around the middle of the 20th century, mostly around the main highway that connects Tampa with Daytona. You've probably driven Interstate-4 if you've traveled around Central Florida.
Local News 6 covering the unexplained phenomena in the area:
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Unfortunately, this bit of transportation infrastructure has a bit of a dubious past. You see, it was built on the site of the Swedish settlement. After the Yellow Fever epidemic, all that remained of the pioneering site was an abandoned farmhouse and several family graves (of those who perished during the epidemic). Did that halt construction of the I-4? Nope.
PSI Researcher
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Way back in the late 1800s when the Department of Agriculture along with the Governor of Florida established the ‘Florida Land and Colonization Company', its puprose was to populate the state with workers. This is how the tiny colony of Swedes came to settle the area initially. It was called Saint Joseph’s Colony, and it was a religious settlement led by Father Felix Prosper Swembergh. However, when Father Swembergh was sent to Tampa he contracted Yellow Fever and died. Soon after the families of St. Joseph's Colony also contracted the disease: "As Father Swembergh was dead, there was no one to give the last rites to the stricken, and the four victims were quickly buried without any formal ceremony. No family gatherings and no absolution." (PSI Researcher)
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With no colonists left to tend the land, it was soon absorbed by Lake Monroe township:
...[B]y the early 1900s, a farmer by the name of Al Hawkins, his wife and family bought a large portion of the colony’s land. Quickly, the farmer started clearing the now overgrown fields of the old colony for orange groves and celery fields. While clearing the dead center of the field, the farmer found four small graves, evident by four small rotting wood crosses, eerily reaching out of the tall weeds and thickets. Weathered and falling apart, the wooden markers meant honor to the farmer, and respectfully decided to do his farming around the graves instead of plowing over them. “The Field of the Dead” as it became known, remained in its peaceful spot for years, until the farmer died in 1939. (PSI Researcher)
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Then in the 1950s a super highway was proposed that would cut through the area. The farmer's widow was convinced by Walt Disney's promise of bringing new life to the area with his construction of Walt Disney World. So, she sold the land and the construction of Interstate 4 began. The land surveyors made the executive decision that the graves were so old that they "felt it was best, as well as beneficial to construction and time issues to ignore the graves and build over them." In fact, one engineer is reported to have said "“It’s not an ancient Indian burial ground, they’re just a few old bones:"
According to the legend, the very day the road engineers began plowing over the graves, filling them with dirt in order to elevate the land for construction, one of Florida’s most deadly Hurricanes crossed the state. A name that may still strike fear into the minds of those who survived it, Hurricane Donna caused millions of dollars in damage to many areas of central Florida, and was responsible for many lives lost, not to mention the disruption of further road construction for several months afterwards. Some believe that when the surveyors disrupted the graves, a bad omen took place; the hurricane and the curse of I-4 had begun. (PSI Researcher)
Today, there are rumors and legends of "pioneer ghosts standing by the busy highway at night, ghostly voices coming over radios, CBs and cell phones and radio stations going dead while crossing the grave site..." It's been referred to as the "Dead Zone," and it's believed to be one of the most haunted highways in America. The weirdness begins at the southern side of the bridge as it crosses over St. Johns River, just west of modern-day Sanford, for about a quarter of a mile"
This mystery has baffled many because there are no radio or cell phone antennas nearby, nor any microwave emitters from local weather or television stations in the area, so logical explanations are hard to find for these electrical disruptions. There are also an unusually high number of traffic accidents on this section of road, accidents that are well recorded with the Florida Highway Patrol. Although the traffic accidents and fatalities are bad enough, many people have claimed that other strange and sometimes frightening events have taken place while crossing this section of road. One of the most common complaints are that cell phones will sometimes cease to function properly when crossing the bridge, as well as car radios going static, or going silent all together. (PSI Researcher)
And that's not even the spookiest stuff that's been reported by drivers:
Other complaints include hearing voices crackling over the static of the radios, which are said to sound like a man’s voice calling out “Who’s there?” or “Why?” Sometimes, when truckers cross the bridge, they hear the same thing echoing over their CBs, and when a trucker answers back to what he thinks to be just another driver on the road, he’ll get no response. On occasion, some have heard what sounds like the giggling of two or more girls playing in the distance, as if from a playground, eerily echoing over the radio. Some have even claimed to have seen ghostly hitchhikers on the eastbound side of I-4, as well as dark shapes of people walking on the banks of the road near the river. (PSI Researcher)
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According to News 13:
The actual grave site is said to be underneath I-4, in one of the eastbound lanes just before the south end of the St. Johns River Bridge. [Charlie] Carlson [author of Weird Florida] claims that between 1995 and 1997, there were 44 crashes that injured 65 people on this stretch of I-4. Add those numbers together, and you get 109 — the exact age of the graves as of 1996. Coincidence? While the verdict is still out whether the spirits of disturbed graves have caused several bad accidents on I-4, another rumor is that the spirit energy causes electronic equipment to malfunction and your cell phone to lose reception.
What say you? Have you dared venture across the St. Johns River Bridge? Experienced any spooky, unexplainable phenomena? Share your stories in the comments!
News 13
Read more:
PSI Researcher; Florida Memory Project; Charlie Carlson's Weird Florida
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Monday, August 10, 2015
Booze it up in the Bay Area with the ultimate San Francisco bar crawl
There's no better way to get to know a city than through a bar crawl to some of its best and most unique drinkeries. You'll meet all kinds of people and see different sides of the city, all while taking in some of the finest drinks the town has to offer. Drink your way from South Beach, across the Financial District, through Chinatown, and end in North Beach, experiencing the different sides and tastes of San Francisco with this ultimate guide to the San Francisco's bar scene.
Pro tip: One of Roadtrippers' favorite travel hacks is to use delivery.com to get the city's best food, drink, and even groceries delivered right to your door. Before you go out, have delivery.com deliver you some pre-game booze. It'll save you time and energy, so you can rest up before hitting the town. Once you're nice and buzzed, set off on the route!
The brewery: 21st Amendment Brewery
What to drink: Hell or High Watermelon
Kick off your boozefest at this awesome brewpub. They serve up some pretty good food, but the highlight is, of course, the beer. Even if you've had the pleasure of enjoying a can of their famous Hell or High Watermelon, there's something distinctly better about enjoying it from a tap -- plus it comes with a little watermelon wedge! Then again, you can't really go wrong with any of their beers... and they always seem to have a good variety of stuff on tap. They have a nice patio, and it's also a popular spot to watch a game, if the Giants or 49ers happen to be playing while you're there.
The swanky bar: Novela Bar
What to drink: Hemingway's Code Hero Punch
You can get a nice cocktail at one of any number of bars in San Francisco... but you can't get a bowl filled with a nice cocktail at every bar. Novela serves up several different kinds of punch (meant for a group of people, of course) in old-timey bowls that come with ladles and cups. The ambiance is likewise pretty swanky, so you'll feel super classy as you knock back a few of those little cups of punch and peruse the menu, where every drink is created and named for a literary character. Be forewarned: the Hemingway's Code Hero Punch is made with three kinds of whiskey!
The bourbon bar: Rickhouse
What to drink: An old fashioned
Now that you're nice and liquored up from the punch, it's time to head over to this cozy, antique-looking, speakeasy-inspired bar for some more whiskey! Even if it starts to get crowded (which it might, since it's consistently ranked as one of the best whiskey bars in the country) the vibe remains chill and relaxed. Must be all the scotch and bourbon they keep flowing.
The funky dive bar: Tunnel Top Lounge and Bar
What to drink: Watermelon gimlet
Like the name implies, this funky dive-y drinkery is located... well, on top of a tunnel. They've got live music and DJs upstairs and a quieter space downstairs, so no matter what mood you're in, you'll have a good time. If you're hesitant to order a cocktail at a dive bar, don't be; their mixologists know what they're doing, and even if you don't like it, their cocktails are only $7 a pop. Good thing the drinks are so cheap, since the place is cash only.
The not-hipster-y dive bar: Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe
What to drink: Anchor Steam
This place manages to be eccentric and artsy without being pretentious. It's hard to mistake a bar for pretentious when they'll serve you a block of cheese and saltines as a (much appreciated) snack. The decor is beyond fascinating... like their name suggests, it really is almost part museum. And the people-watching is top-notch. Plus, the location is sort of hidden, so walking from the alley into this magnificently decorated dive makes you feel like you're in on some sort of secret.
Pro tip: This bar is totally cool with you bringing food in. Order your meal for the night from hundreds of nearby San Francisco restaurants using delivery.com to soak everything up!
The Chinatown dive bar: Buddha Lounge
What to drink: Buddha beer!
This Chinatown bar is, without a doubt, unlike anything you'll ever find anywhere else. The buddha beer is essentially a Heineken, but it comes in a bottle shaped like buddha. And if you're actually in the mood for another mixed drink, go for the Mai Tai, and soak it all up with some free popcorn. Like most good dives, it's cash only. Oh, and if the bartender asks to play Liars' Dice with you... totally do it. Just be prepared to deal with the consequences of losing!
The famous, historic bar: Vesuvio Cafe
What to drink: Absinthe
The list of geniuses who went for a drink here is reason enough to stop by: beatnik legends like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassaday, and various other creative minds like Bob Dylan, Francis Ford Coppola, and Dylan Thomas. They serve absinthe just in case you're in search of a little creative brilliance, like the famous writers who drank here before.
The karaoke bar: Bow Bow Cocktail Lounge
What to drink: A shot of Patron
After a visit here, you'll see why it's been awarded spots on a few different lists of the worst bar in America -- and you won't care. The owner and bartender is known as Mama Candy, and her poison of choice is always a shot of Patron. You'll need it, since you can't come here and not sing at least one song! The crowd is always good-natured, the booze is always flowing, and you'll get plenty of peanuts and pistachios to snack on while you enjoy the rest of the karaoke performances.
The (sort of) Irish pub: Kennedy's Irish Pub & India Curry House
What to drink: Guinness
Few establishments can boast that they are simultaneously the best Irish pub in the city and the best Indian restaurant. Wind down your eventful evening with some pool, darts or foosball and a beer... and you can soak everything up with an order of curry fries (see? Irish food and Indian food do go really well together). Besides, when else will you be able to visit an Irish pub that serves curry? Or is it a curry house that serves booze? Either way, it somehow works!
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
49ers Release a Show star Defender Aldon Smith, Including to Their Current Turmoil. Las Vegas Blog
Reported From Area 51.
The San Francisco 49ers let go linebacker Aldon Smith on Fri. after his arrest on accusations of hit & run, driving under the influence & vandalism, a move in that continues the extraordinary foundering of an … Read the rest
Woman in Need of Double Lung Transplant to Taylor Swift: 'Thank You for Being An Inspiration'. Las Vegas Blog
Reported From Area 51.
By Bea Karnes & Autumn JohnsonAn East Bay lady awaiting a double lung transplant is keeping her spirits up by listening to her favourite performer–Taylor Swift.Brentwood resident Tiffany Rich, 26, has cystic fibrosis. The- large #Swiftie, … Read the rest
Thursday, August 6, 2015
John Doe developments: Walker was target in 2011, Appeal impending
Eagle Scout integrity: “Gov. Scott Walker was under criminal investigation in 2011 for misconduct in office — even as he insisted he wasn’t — over a proposed real estate deal when he was Milwaukee County executive, according to records filed Wednesday in federal court” Source: Despite denials, Scott Walker was target of probe in 2011 more »
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Proof: Scott Walker’s aide Archer lied. Maltreatment she claimed rec’d during #JohnDoe raid refuted by newly released recording
Recorded audio from the FBI-assisted raid of Cynthia Archer’s home has been released. “The audio of the raid is being released now in an attempt to rebut claims Archer makes in her suit. For instance, she said in her filing that officers stormed into her house “throwing the (search) warrant at her without giving her more »
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Milwaukee Bucks arena is product of bizarre and bipartisan bedfellows
It takes an incestuous bipartisan pile of snakes to foist this expense upon Wisconsin when only 9%* of the Wisconsin public wants to help fund it AND when the administration is slashing public education funding. Steve Horn and Michael Arria have a long and interesting piece out on Truthdig that exposes backroom bipartisanship and public more »