12/1/1934 – 4/24/2016

6/7/1958 – 4/21/2016

 Let’s all remember the 34 victims killed in the Brussels terror attacks Tuesday-March 22, 2015.

by Andrew Rudansky, Phil Helsel and Blake McCoy – NBC NEWS

6 dead, 3 wounded after ‘random’ shootings in Michigan2:06

Picking targets seemingly at random, a gunman went on a hours-long rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Saturday night, driving around the city and opening fire on unsuspecting victims at an apartment complex, a car dealership and a Cracker Barrel restaurant.

Six people died, and another two were seriously injured — including a 14-year-old girl who had been pronounced brain dead but squeezed her mother’s hand as doctors were preparing to harvest her organs, police said. Amid the carnage, her case stood out as a miracle, authorities said.

The suspected killer, a 45-year-old Uber driver named Jason Brian Dalton, was in custody Sunday but had not been charged, police said

Dalton has no record of criminal history, nor anything in his background “that would lead us to believe he was capable of this type of behavior,” Kalamazoo Police Chief Jeff Hadley said Sunday morning.

Dalton, who is expected to be charged Monday, apparently acted alone and there was no continuing threat to the community, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting said.

Uber’s chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, said Dalton had passed a background check to become a driver. The company was “horrified and heartbroken” and had offered to help investigators, he said.

The first shooting occured around 6 p.m. local time at the Meadows Town Homes in the city’s northwest, where one woman was shot several times but survived, police said. The next burst of gunfire happened more than three hours later, when police were called to a car dealership, where two men, possibly father and son, were shot dead, authorities said.

The final attack occurred a few minutes later at a nearby Cracker Barrel, where the gunman approached two cars in the parking lot and had a brief conversation with people inside before he “unloaded his weapon into both cars,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas said. Four adults died there, and the 14-year-old girl was seriously injured, authorities said.

Michigan State Police, according to WOOD, identified the dead Cracker Barrel victims as Mary Lou Nye, 63, of Baroda, Michigan; Mary Jo Nye, 60, of Battle Creek, Michigan; Dorothy Brown, 74, of Battle Creek; and Barbara Hawthorne, 68, of Battle Creek.

The victims “appear to have been chosen at random because they were available,” Getting said.

The girl was initially reported dead. But more than an hour later, as doctors were preparing to harvest her organs, she squeezed her mom’s hand, Michigan State Police Lt. Dale Hinz told NBC News. She was then able to respond to questions by squeezing her mom’s hand several more times, and was rushed into surgery.

“It’s an absolute miracle,” Hinz said.

Other victims had not yet been identified because their families had not been notified, officials said.

“There’s a sense of loss, there’s an anger — there’s fear — there’s all these emotions and then you put on top of that: how do you go and tell the families of these victims that they weren’t targeted for any reason other than they were there to be a target?” Getting said.

Dalton was taken into custody around 12:40 a.m. after his Chevrolet HHR was spotted on a surveillance camera leaving a bar parking lot, authorities said. Police found a semi-automatic handgun during the arrest.

“We have 9, 10, 11 shell casings at each of these scenes,” Getting said, adding that police were investigating to ensure there no other crime scenes. “These weren’t a sudden explosion …this was done intentionally.”

I gotta tell ya – I admit I had too much bad for me food and drink and very little sleep.  WE all know how much fun that is, but it is not the best for your health.  I kinda wish I was a young-un and could take on a routine NOW that would follow me throughout life to keep my health in check without so much upset.  Tell me – do you get your recommended daily allowances for, Vitamins?  Carbohydrates?  Fat?  How about proper exercise?  Your full eight hours of sleep a night?

Today we are going to talk about respect, consideration, and doing the right thing.  You see these onion rings?  Well believe it or not a popular fast food chain actually served us this mess.  Now I wonder  If you pull this burnt, greasy, mangled, disgusting mess out of a fryer – be it at home or as a worker in a restaurant – what would you do?

1. See it and decide it looks ok as far as you are concerned.  After all, you made it and you are the best!  This is how I want to represent myself!

OR

2.  See it and decide it is absolutely nothing you would want anyone to connect you with and think that you are so disrespectful and show no concern for others that you would actually reason that it is ok to serve this to others and you stand by it’s quality.  After all, you made it and you are the best!  This is how I want to represent myself!

REALLY????

Hi guyz!  Looks like my neck of the woods is supposed to get a snow storm wallop this weekend – I don’t know about you, but, WOO HOO!!!

Hi everybody!

Finally, the weekend is here!  Me? it means pizza, cheeseburger, ice cream, movies, bowling, pool, sleeping late, etc.  Tell me what are you gonna do this weekend?

Hi All!  The Powerball drawing is at over a BILLION dollars!  Wow – can you imagine if you won all that money?  Tell me – what would you do with it if you were handed $1.4 Billion dollars?  Would you take care of your family?  Put it in the Bank?  Your community?  Any charity?  Buy an island?  – let’s hear how you would spend the money!