–A 55-year-old woman from Michigan was killed on Thursday off the Florida Keys when the moving boat she was on was struck by a 75-pound eagle ray. This was simply a bizarre accident; the woman died when she was knocked to the deck of the boat. A barb from the ray is not what killed the woman as had been the case with Steve Irwin.
The ray is thought to have leaped to avoid predators or dislodge parasites; this was normal behavior. The woman was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time…
— An elusive, almost mystical white killer whale has been photographed off Alaska’s Alleutian Islands! The whale has been previously reported but its existence not documented. Actually only the saddle area of the whale is white; other areas are kind of a yellow or brown-white. This means that the whale is not a true albino, which is proably good…albinos tend not to live long, and are prone to health problems. The whale is thought to be a healthy male, about 25 – 30 feet long and weighing upwards of 10,000 pounds…very cool!
— There haven’t been many accounts of his activity since 1988, but South Carolina’s Lizard Man is now reportedly becoming more active. This is a seven-foot bipedal reptilian creature with scaly green skin, red eyes, and three elongated digits on all four limbs. He has been seen most often in swamp areas and back roads of South Carolina, and may have been seen as early as 1972 although the first “official” account is from 1988.
Lizard Man is strong, agile, and swift. In the 1988 account, a 17-year-old was changing a tire late at night near the Scrape Ore Swamp near Bishopville, S.C. and had just finished the task when a reptilian creature came running at considerable speed towards him. The kid managed to get back inside the car, but not before Lizard Man had grabbed the driver’s side mirror. The observer then took off in the car with Lizard Man in pursuit, the creature then jumping onto the roof of the car. The young man sped up and was able to shake the thing off, but damage was done to the side mirror and roof. Lizard Man was described as “strong and angry.” Other independent sightings were reported in 1988.
Recent reports of Lizard Man’s activities have included damage to cars and the slaughter of cats…
— In late February or early March, a spy satellite weighing about 10,000 pounds will come hurtling to earth. They don’t know exactly where, but possibly in North America.
This satellite was launched in 2006 by the good ole USA, and never really worked properly so it was declared a total loss. There’s no control of the craft, but you just don’t want to be under it when it comes down. Not to worry…the government that put it up is developing a contingency plan for dealing with it when it crashes down. Somehow, I’m not comforted…the spy satellite was to protect us from our enemies…but who protects us from the spy satellite?
Just wanted you to keep your heads up in late February and early March, folks…
— A flavoring agent in microwave butter-flavored popcorn, diacetyl, has been known to cause a rare lung condition, popcorn lung, in workers at factories producing the product. Now there’s the first known consumer case in a guy who consumed two bags daily for a long time…he sure got his fiber…and guess who he’s suing? — The store that sold him the popcorn!
–Is this a great country, or what?–Popcorn without diacetyl is still a safe, rather healthy snack, and I’m gonna eat it!
— This picture has not been altered. I’ve mentioned here before the guy whose skin turned blue as a result of taking a silver colloidal emulsion…he took the stuff for dermatitis, and while it didn’t heal the dermatitis, it did help the inflammation. Silver emulsions were taken for their anti-bacterial properties in over-the-counter and folk remedies until banned by the FDA in 1999.
The blue man lived in Oregon, but moved to California when his skin began coloring as Californians tend to be somewhat more, err, tolerant…he even has a girlfriend who barely notices his skin color anymore. The man is 57 years old, and took the colloidal silver for over 10 years. The condition, called argyria, is caused by the silver in the skin interacting with light as it does in the photographic process. The silver simply collects in the skin and other organs, and doesn’t disperse.
As if he hasn’t suffered enough, the guy has had to endure being called, Papa Smurf! — Anyone remember when they were popular?
–There’s a guy in California who as the result of consuming a silver-containing colloidal emulsion has developed skin that’s kind of a bluish-purple color.–I swear I am not making this up! He isn’t Andorian or a member of the Blue Man Group. He consumed the silver solution convinced that it helped all kinds of bodily ailments, and still takes smaller amounts of the stuff. Having bluish-colored skin has caused social problems, leaving him feeling a bit blue…he just wants to be accepted.
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