Predictions for 2014

I dare make them.

• Healthcare.gov will begin working, and people will sign up for care. The problem will be lack of younger people signing up, and new rules will be fashioned to force them further into the Obamcare mandate, as the fine will not be enough to sustain the law.


• Local and state governments will face crises in 2014 and big layoffs may occur throughout the nation.


• The winter of 2014 will be warmer than normal. Less snow than normal. But when it snows it will be big. Weatherwise, there will be hurricanes that strike the United States. Tornado season will be especially dire.


• Democrats will get control of both the House and Senate. Republicans will begin to reorganize and promote Chris Christie for president.


• Art Bell will NOT return to radio.


• The Hollywood blockbusters of the summer will be huge. People are craving an escape from reality, and movies are going to feed their desires.


• There will be new court actions against the NSA spying programs. People will begin to speak out against government surveillance in bigger numbers.


• Time travel will not happen, but discoveries of the universe will feed into the notion that it can.


• Radiation from Fukushima will begin to create dire problems in the Pacific Ocean. 


• Milk prices will be $7 by December 2014.


• There will be a burst of enthusiam for the Catholic Church, thanks to Pope Francis and Hollywood movies about the Bible.

• 2014 will not be that bad. All in all. 

Best short-lived radio of the year

Best paranormal radio of the year
Art Bell made a deal with Siruis XM radio and returned as a paranormal radio broadcaster in September. It was a triumphant return to radio full time after years being off. Sirius paid for a full set in his Pahrump NV home. And then after his brief stint on air, he quit after his Halloween show. Six weeks of radio, and he saw his shadow..and made a decision to go back into radio hibernation and a two year non compete clause.. Not even a #FreeArtBell campaign was able to stop the Sirius suits from holding Bell to that.

Best haircut of the year

Haircut of the year
My son Ayden! Looking good.

Creepy Illuminati of the year

Creepy painting of the year
You are looking at an image of the official portrait of the Danish Royal Family by Thomas Kluges. And it’s really, really weird. The ghastly image is terrifying. Though the official description of the painting says the Royals are featured ‘their own universe’ in plain clothing, it looks more like the cover of a bad horror flick. The only thing missing on the girl in the left hand corner is blood dripping from her mouth. The boy directly in the middle appears to be a harbinger to an OMEN sequel, and faces on the grown men appear to be hiding a undesirable scowl of evil.



Best illuminati symbolism of the year
The Kardashian Christmas card was the best “Where’s Waldo” of conspiracy theory this year. It’s certainly not a traditional greeting.

A Dicknado struck in 2013

Dick of the year
Andy Dick was seen visibly intoxicated and harrassing people in the Hamptons. It was known as a summer DickNado. 

2013: The year we looked to the sky and dodged a few bullets

Meteor of the year
It was in Russia in February. And the strength was enough that it sent a shock wave around the world twice.

Flop under the dome.

Most promising TV of the year that turned into a flop
UNDER THE DOME had so much potential. Although the book was 500 pages too long for me to finish, I thought the show had some promise. After a season, I wished the pink stars would have actually fallen on my head to block by vision from seeing his TV series. And since I am luttog

The weird secret service alien guy from earlier this year

What the hell of the year!
A Secret Service agent guarding President Barack Obama could be a shape shifting alien! That was a claim this year..

GIF of the year. Congrats Rob Ford

GIF of the year
If you did not follow the epic story of Rob Ford, you should have. The crack smoking Canadian mayor dominated headlines and become a 15-minute of fame sensation. And his trouble may be summed up with just one moving GIF.

2013's prophecy of the popes and all that weird stuff.. lightning and devil shadows oh my

Prophecy of the year

Ten months ago, St. Peter’s Square was struck by lightning. It was shortly after Pope Benedict resigned and Pope Francis was chosen—Francis the Roman? Long ago, a ‘prophecy of the Popes’ was penned supposedly by Malachi. The last Pope was going to be Peter the Roman. Francis has been steadfastly reminding us about Peter all year, even this fall putting St. Peter’s bones on display. Is it the END? Or the beginning. And if he is the final Pope, what about those weird devil shadows appearing on walls around Bergoglio? 

She cooked. She said racist things. She fell.

Downfall of the year
Paula Deen cooked, Southern style. She also thought like a Cofederate soldier. Now she’s not on TV.

Underreporting and just plain bad reporting in 2013

The most under-reported story of 2013
Washington DC and the media was in a tizzy when, during the autumn government shutdown, there were reports of a ‘shooting’ in the nation’s capitol. The media picked the story and ran with it, alleging that a shooter was in the US Capitol building and that cops were down. It turned out that a woman named Miriam Carey was in a car, supposedly ran a barricade, and was chased by cops. They cornered her, and then shot and killed her without attempting to arrest her—afterwards Congress applauded the murder on the floor of the House. Late this year, it was somewhat determined that there really was no need to kill Carey. The amazing part to grasp is that an unarmed African American woman with a child in the back seat of her car was shot dead without just cause. And no civil rights leaders spoke out? No one spoke out? Instead, we as a nation applauded the verdict rendered without due process and went about business as though it never happened.

Year of the fly

Year of the fly
President Obama was photographed on multiple occasions this year with flies surrounding him or landing on him. He once caught a fly during an interview. 2013 was the year they took revenge.

Weird photo of the year

Weirdest photo of the year
Beyonce looked like this in a photo and her PR folks wanted to get the photo off the net. No luck there. I think we were looking at Sasha Fierce. 

My dog just turned all Cujo and nearly attacked a neighbor's manger scene ..

And I cannot even blame it on animals, they only had Jesus and the three wise apples ..should I be worried!?

Too much celebrity in 2013

The biggest pest of 2013
It’s been the year of the Bieber Fever. At least for some—for most we’ve been trying to rid ourselves of this nasty flu for 12 solid months. The media world celebrated when Beebs grew a version of facial hair, he spit on fans, and urinated in a mop bucket. All in the year of a life of Justin Bieber. And unforuntately, we lived the life with him. He went from cute to creature. We’re stuck with him in ‘14 unless he really keeps his promise and quits music.. 

Worst plastic surgery of the year
It’s bad enough there is one Justin Bieber, but imagine someone paying to look like the second Justin Bieber? And in the end, he STILL does not look as womanly as Beebs.. 

Bad photo ops

Worst photo op of the year
Who planned this one!? Obama and Putin.. friend for life? Putin probably recalls the days of Bush. He was known as Pooty Poot. Now he’s putting Pussy Riot behind bars. 

The person of the year..

Person of the year
It is not the Pope. At least not according to the Coal Speaker. Edward Snowden changed a LOT this year by exposing some of the most secret of government secrets.. By telling the citizens of the world how the government spies on them was an eye opening event—and something which may have changed the world for good. 

Worst candidate for person of the year
Miley Cyrus exposed a lot this year. She twerked, she became a popular Halloween costume, and she lost her innocence for the world to see. She came in like a wrecking ball and sold lots of albums. At the end of the year, she just now looks wrecked. 

A tremendously bad wreck shut parts of the PA turnpike down this morning.. It appears to have been snow related..

The storm seemingly came out of nowhere, as I showed this morning with a post of some very snowy roads.. 

The most important story of the year

The story of the year
2013 was the year I gave up politics. I will still vote, and I will still be informed, but 2013 is the year where I realized that regardless of political stripe or belief, life goes on. The news is dominated by political tirades. Right, and left. Both sides are pitted against each other in heated verbal battles. People screaming and yelling, acting like righteous rebellions for some kind of cause. Angry old men on the boob tube… But what do they really accomplish? In 2013, they shut down government and almost risked a United States default. And inaction on a farm bill may push milk prices to $8 in 2014. And for those who battle to defend the President, Obama’s health care website was so disastrous that it became the top story for months by barely working and failing to keep up with the users trying to access it. Government itself is made up of people—people who push papers and have desk jobs, those who know regulations and tell you to smile when they take your drivers license photo. In some states, like mine, government employees sell me wine and liquor. In other states, they clean up messed on streets and respond when gas lines are ruptured, threatening entire towns. I would like to believe that government is not made up of politicians. They are the roadblocks to progress, the hindrance of common sense. Politicians are reptilian shape shifters, pretending to care when they don’t and looking for the next mistress in a crowd of fans. They drink and drive.. and we pay. I am so done with politics, but not government. They are distinct and different. In 2013, I finally came to the full realization, years in the making, that “right vs left” is a sham argument, a meaningless piece of tripe given to us by the media, and a mistake to fall into. Let 2014 be the year of reason, the age when you also find out that the political beliefs you harbor have simply been implanted into your brain. Think for yourself. The nation depends on it.