A Paranormal ‘Incident’?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 13th, 2009
I wonder if our friends in the UK have been trying to post here? I just got a heads up about the ‘Octopus UFO’ that flew in the sky and collided into a wind turbine a week ago, ripping off one of its 65-foot blades!
Hmm….is Azza back in town or just our Madaline having a little too much fun? Or something else? Oh…please chime in and make yourself known. We would love to know more of the details!
It has been reported by people living in a nearby town of Lincolnshire (Oh love that name; it is just so Brit!), that strange orangey-yellow lights were headed in the direction of the said wind farm earlier in the evening. And then surprise! Those same peeps were awakened at 4 am by the sounds of crashing and smashing…the wind turbine was getting chewed up in a bad way.
“It looked like a giant explosion in the air,” said one local. Another witness said he saw a “massive ball of light with tentacles going right down to the ground. … It was huge. With the tentacles it looked just like an octopus.” Hundreds have reported seeing the same phenomenon.
An Octopus eh? Now, too bad we don’t have a photo. Out of all of those people woken up by this monstrosity, no one bothered to grab a camera to document this exciting event? Bummer.
So it appears that one blade was completely torn off the giant windmill, and has yet to be found. While the remaining blade was totally mangled. Ha!…It looks just like one of my forks that fell into the garbage disposal one time.
UFO experts “are very excited” by the prospect that the crash could have been caused by a paranormal incident.
Incident? Not sure I would call that an ‘incident’. Unless the UFO thought it was getting into a skirmish with another type of ship. Or it was alien who thought he could wrestle the being with the whirling blade-like appendages. (Can you see the visual?) No I wouldn’t call it an ‘incident; more like a paranormal ‘accident’. I think it’s funny.
Readers: What about you? Comments? blog me. (Especially if you are from the UK – would love to hear about your experience.)
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Hi Zen Lill: No biggie – happy that you were having fun with Miss Lily. I love riding go-carts, and yes I am laughing the entire time too – Doug is the driver and all I do is scream and laugh – it is so much fun! Maybe we will go soon Doug?
Thank you for saying all that you said. I was a bit surprised to hear such words from you. Delighted of course that I could be that for you. Thank you for saying so. It is my lifetime goal to inspire others…not necessarily to be like me – how boring that would be…However if you recognize certain things in me, know that you hold these too :) lol..you are too busy being you to be me! Be you – you are perfect as you are.
Hello D’r'fa: I am sorry but thank you for trying…seems you did get in…finally. May peace and safety be yours soon.
Hello Nadia: If ZL wants to repost it here for you, that is fine with me.
Hi Croe: I have heard the same and was just ‘disgussing’ that same topic with Doug last night. That’s my new word…a morphing of ‘disgusting’ and ‘discussing’ – saved for topics of discussion that disgust me. And Bush fits the bill. Oh, I hope he takes a nice long vacation in a foreign country that doesn’t treat their criminals so kindly.
Hi Phillip: Good to hear from you. Interesting comment. I get what you mean. And, I agree with you. Although he did say that he aspired to be a dictator, I don’t think that he has the brains to ‘contemplate’ being a dictator either. You’re thinking logically – which is good. But you’re forgetting that Bush isn’t very logical.
My point is…does it matter whether he has the brains to contemplate it or not? He doesn’t have the brains to be a president either but he was voted in twice! As long as he surrounds himself with the right puppeteers, the strings will be pulled and shit will get done. – that has been proven. So, if the American people were stupid enough to vote him in twice, I wouldn’t put it past them to help him in his aspirations should he ever get the opportunity. The fact that he blatantly said that and nothing was written about it in the media – no one said a word….Except for Doug sitting next to me in shock, and now Carmen’s comment from yesterday), the American people have expressed their ‘boneheadedness’ again. And yes, I’m making up my own word again…but it works doesn’t it? :)
hello Lashkar Gar: I hear you loud and clear. And I too am wishing for our oil independence, not only for us but also for the many women whose lives need to desperately change. You have my support too and I am grateful for yours.
Hi Gereshk: Good to hear from you. I know how true it is as I have read and heard the stories from others just like your brother. It is so sad and disturbing to know that this atrocity breathes on a daily basis. I hope that my column and others like it can help but I know more must be done besides making people aware. Awareness is only the beginning.
How narrow-minded that the Islamic council thinks that I am anti Islamic. Far from it. Just another excuse to control their women. What I am is anti slavery and anti rape..and really any type of abuse to their women and children. I am for women’s rights and that means I am for them loosing control of their said property. Oh I know that just doesn’t sit well with the Islamic men. Control is a biggie.
To the rest of my readers who posted a comment yesterday: I apologize that I cannot address you today – work calls, but I promise tomorrow I will speak to you.
peace out….
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michelle
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January 13th, 2009 at 10:35 am
How to Find Money You Didn’t Know You Had: Unclaimed Assets
Mark Tofal
Government agencies are holding onto more than $60 billion in unclaimed assets and missing money. Some of it may be yours. Life insurance proceeds… bank accounts… tax refunds… government benefits… savings bonds… inheritances — all can go astray without your knowledge.
HOW IT GETS LOST
Assets are considered abandoned when contact with the owner is lost — usually due to a name change after marriage or divorce, an unreported change of address, illegible or incomplete records, or clerical errors.
If you don’t promptly get in touch with the holder of a dormant asset, you may lose out.
Banks, stockbrokers and transfer agents, utilities, employers and life insurance companies remit the unclaimed funds to the protective custody of a government trust account in a legal process known as “escheat.” There it awaits your claim!
Millions of family members are unaware that they are eligible to collect unclaimed assets owed to relatives who died without leaving updated wills or financial road maps for their heirs.
Important: You must initiate the search — the federal government and states holding unclaimed funds will likely not contact you.
Caution: There is no central repository or single database containing all unclaimed assets, so don’t be fooled by Web sites offering paid access to one.
INSURANCE POLICIES
It’s estimated that between one-quarter and one-third of all life insurance policies — amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars annually — go unclaimed upon the death of the insured. Why? Because it’s generally up to family members to notify the insurance company when a policyholder dies, and many simply aren’t aware that a policy exists.
What’s more, many life insurance companies have “demutualized,” entitling millions of current and former policyholders to receive stock and cash in addition to policy benefits. Demutualization is the process whereby mutual life insurance companies, which are owned by policyholders, convert to stock ownership. PolicyÂholders become stockholders, and receive shares and/or cash in exchange for their ownership interest. Examples…
John Hancock — at the time of demutualization (1999), addresses for more than 400,000 policyholders were not current.
MetLife — 60 million shares of stock (worth $855 million at the time of demutualization in 2000) went unclaimed.
Prudential — the company was not able to find about 1.2 million policyholders entitled to compensation when it demutualized in 2000.
By law, unclaimed policy benefits and demutualization proceeds are held in trust until claimants come forward. In 2005, trustees took custody of $22.8 billion, of which less than $1 billion has been claimed.
Important: Act fast when making claims. Unclaimed stock from the nearly two dozen other companies that demutualized in the past decade may be sold by a government-appointed custodian. Thereafter, you won’t get any dividends or stock appreciation.
For a list of demutualized insurance companies, visit the Demutualization Claims Clearinghouse site, http://www.demutualization-claims.com.
What to do: You may also be in luck if you are the heir of someone who held a policy with one of these companies. Contact the policyholder’s company, and ask if you are owed money from an unclaimed policy or demutualization. With demutualization, you will most likely be directed to the company’s transfer agent or the government trustee holding the compensation, if indeed it has gone unclaimed for the statutory dormant period, typically one to three years.
SAVINGS BONDS
Contact the Bureau of Public Debt for unredeemed savings bonds. US savings bonds often go missing — they are received as gifts, put in a drawer and forgotten for decades. All US savings bonds stop earning interest at final maturity (now 30 years), and less than 1% of bondholders are notified when their bonds reach that date (only holders of Series H and Series HH bonds that pay interest by check are notified). The value of unredeemed bonds that have reached final maturity currently exceeds $13 billion.
Important: Use the right form for your request…
For undelivered bonds, use Form PD F 3062-4 E.
For destroyed, lost or stolen bonds, use Form PD F 1048 E.
For a missing interest check for HH bonds, use Form PD F 5235 E.
Download the form you need from http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov?/bpd/bpdforms.htm, call 866-388-1776 or E-mail your request to savbonds@bpd.treas.gov.
LOST TAX REFUNDS
Contact the IRS at 800-829-4477. Last year, the IRS had 84,000 income tax refund checks totaling $73 million undelivered, mainly due to unreported changes of name and/or address (typically after a move), marriage, death or divorce. In addition, each year an estimated $500 million in IRS refund checks that are delivered go uncashed and unpaid.
Upon request to the IRS, checks that were returned will be reissued. If no request is made, the IRS will credit the amount toward any amount due in the succeeding three years. Checks worth about $6 billion have been delivered but never cashed. A check that has been lost, voided (after one year) or destroyed can also be reissued by contacting the IRS.
Important: Generally, no refund can be issued more than three years after the due date of the return to which the refund relates. If you are the heir of a deceased taxpayer who may be owed a refund due to an overpayment made during the year of death, contact the IRS immediately — before the refund period expires.
MONEY HELD BY STATES
Last year alone, states collected $23 billion in unclaimed assets, representing everything from utility deposits, escrow accounts and never-cashed paychecks to the contents of safe deposit boxes. Every state and the District of Columbia maintains a database of unclaimed property, which may be accessed on-line. For free links to all state unclaimed property databases, go to http://www.unclaimed.com/unclaimed?_property.htm. Check every state where you and family members have had a connection — work… business… residence.
Hints: When searching, use your maiden name, any previous married name as well as middle names and initials. Also search for names of deceased relatives.
/Retirement interviewed Mark Tofal, a consultant and consumer advocate on matters of escheat and unclaimed property, Palm Coast, Florida, http://www.unclaimedassets.com. He is author of Unclaimed Assets: Money the Government Owes You! (NUPA).
January 13th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Carmen, men can only fool women with the info I provide if that woman is deluding herself. Women know when they’re in bed with a sexist, they’re just in denial. I know that of which I speak. Men who respect women don’t just thrust their tongue up your ass for their own debauchery but for your pleasure (if that’s how YOU like being pleasured), big diff.
‘I’m not like that’ – it’s just words, watch actions, they speak much louder. Men and women can send out words that they think fit the situation but aren’t always appropriate or well meaning, the actions surrounding your daily encounters speaks volumes, pay attention to nuance, women are much better at this naturally and that’s why we know before they do if they’re a sexist, some of it can be upbringing (especially amongst Republican men, watch your back with them, they can be covert in their methods especially if both are bought into religious doctrine on the subject).
& remember this: men will make up whatever they can to protect the fact that they have often have no idea what they’re doing when engaged in a relationship so they cover their inadequate feelings with statements like ‘I’m not like that’ – they want to believe they’ve got it all ‘wrapped up’ including how they ‘handle’ ‘their woman’ – what I offer up is that while maybe they don’t, so what, maybe they are well meaning so let’s give them a little help. If a man wants to use my words to ‘fool women’ then who’s the fool really, yeah, check the mirror, dude.
I’ve stated it recently on my blog…’know me, love me, and hurt me if you think it’s necessary, but why would you want to…’ I wrote that bc I think often men feel they are being controlled by women and they like to feel in control of themselves and have a sense of freedom (don’t we all) so they do unnecessary things to make you pay, it’s reactive. I will address that control things soon, like manana, so maybe that whole above statement will have better context for discussion.
There are always behind the exterior (of a man or woman) reasons for doing what we do, I just want to bring some of that nuanced behavior into the forefront so we can all deal with each other better. I will also discuss soon for those interested the one thing men/women all have in common, the want/need/craving of intellectual foreplay, if a man doesn’t want that kind of seduction (just hit me with the sex, babe) then he’s a bit low on the bar of intellect, period, and would not be of interest to me (or many other women for that matter).
I’m not angry at men at all, I’m just a discerning woman who dislikes blatantly sexist men. I certainly don’t seek to have my ass kissed by anyone, yet, if a man is there and kissing it, I want him to want to be there as much as he wants to be there and doing what he’s doing, again, big difference. I don’t bed with men I do not respect and don’t respect me, so let me just say this, unless one person or the other is offended or uncomfortable with what is asked for in the sack, then carry on, what’s that personal event have to do with respect if we both into it, whatever IT is??
Misch, disguss, love that, I’m going to use that. I am so busy being me and perfecting that but my Zenishness (new word) comes with much work, I can go hot head about certain subjects and I’ve learned to temper it and express it better, much the way I believe (but do not know for sure) you would handle a sitch, Eckhard Tolle assisted nicely also. Yes, that is a compliment but a deserved one, for both you and Mr Tolle.
Nadia, I think Azir reposted old comments inadvertently, please disregard.
Carlos, you may not get a choice in who touches your balls in the near future, if you think you can whip Maddie’s ass you got another think coming!
Re: this post, cannot wait to hear from UK peeps lah.
This is long, sorry about that : )
Luv, Zen Lill
January 14th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Carlos,
If you are a Catholic male, stating that you will not allow someone else to touch your balls without your permission, that is quite a sorry plea…
But, hey…uh, good luck with that!
January 14th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Catholic or not…
January 14th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Sorry, I keep thinking faster than I can type…This banter is based on the male dominant position, I assume. My reaction statement come out of the nature of the laws against women.
For clarity to those who didn’t get it.
January 14th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Best Easy-Care Decks and Patios
Danny Lipford
Patios and wood decks can deteriorate into eyesores or even safety risks if they’re not properly maintained. For home owners who would rather spend their time lounging on their decks and patios than working on them, there are lower-maintenance options…
Plastic-resin composite decks. Man-made composite planks, typically a mixture of polyethylene and fine sawdust, don’t require staining or sealing, just an occasional wash. Early composite decks tended to fade in the sun. Today’s products fare better. The best composites, which also are used for railings, do an excellent job of mimicking the look of natural wood. Reliable brand names include ChoiceDek, Elements, EverGrain, Geodeck, LP WeatherBest, TimberTech, Trex and Veranda. Select a product that has a warranty of at least 10 years.
Cost: $3 to $7 per square foot for composite deck boards. That’s about $15 per square foot, including installation, which is comparable to redwood and slightly higher than cedar or fir.
I don’t recommend decking that is made entirely of plastic. It stands up to the elements better than composites, but it doesn’t look like wood.
Concrete patios. Today’s concrete patios are pleasing to the eye. They last for decades and require very little maintenance — just a wash or a sweep every now and then. You can minimize the effect that hairline cracks have on the appearance of your patio by cutting quarter-inch-deep “control joints” into the concrete — at least one every eight feet — using a circular saw with an abrasive blade. Cracks will tend to form only along these thinner joints, where they’ll be mostly hidden. Make additional cuts in a square or diamond pattern, and you can spice up the look by making the concrete appear to be large tiles. This is cheaper and more convenient than buying and installing large concrete tiles.
Cost: $2 to $3 per square foot for materials, or $4 to $8, including installation. Add an additional $2 to $3 per square foot to have a decorative pattern cut into the surface. (These labor estimates assume that your yard is flat.)
Helpful: About a month after the slab is poured, it can be stained or acid-washed to add color. This job is best left to a professional. It will add $4 to $5 per square foot to the project’s cost.
Paver patios. Pavers are durable and classic-looking, and they don’t require much maintenance. They have been on the market about 20 years. They’re similar to traditional bricks but available in a wider range of colors and sizes and often are made from concrete. Paver patios also are a great do-it-yourself project. Just clear a flat piece of land and dig it out two to three inches deep. Then remove all plant material… spread crushed stone… add an inch of masonry sand… firmly set the bricks… and sweep masonry sand into the gaps between them. Home stores sell plastic or aluminum forms that hold the outermost bricks in place. For details, click the “Decks & Patios” link on my Web site.
Cost: $7 to $10 per square foot for materials. Add $6 to $8 per square foot for professional installation.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Madaline
I have been reading this blog for almost a year. My ex girlfriend’s brother put me on to it. It is my understanding that we can say anything here and not feel that some alien(not saying I believe in aliens) would come after us.
Michelle isn’t that true? Zen Lill I was not saying anything about whipping Madaline’s ass.
Carlos
January 14th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Zen Sweetness
Always a pleasure to see my moniker reflected in the inteslextive(my new word) way you weave a thought of me in your comments.
I will comment on several things. Presently, I am being briefed on the communiqué sent by Bin laden. I am still in good standing with the international group (IG) that uses every incident of financial significance to our best advantage.
While the potential for a profit is being calculated everything else is on hold. That is our basic creed. We are committed to that endeavor regardless of race, nationality, religion or anything else except a challenge to our leadership in the field or our personality safety. No one’s safety is sacrosanct if it jeopardizes IG’s existence or its ability to control the flow of money.
I personally think it has gotten to powerful to be controlled even by the originators. It seems to be operating on its momentum of greed. But that is another matter.
I will be responding to your requests in a couple of days.
Oh, I liked the poem. Perhaps I should pose one of my own to my sweet, if fair damsel is amenable.
Anonz
Oh, yes, the definition of inteslextive – introspectively using sexual connotations to provoke intellectual dialogue on understanding the intentions of the meanings of “I said, she said” between the sexes.
A bit much, yes, so spank me.