This is an abandoned funeral time in the rural south taken by...

This is an abandoned funeral time in the rural south taken by photographer extraordinaire Seph Lawless..

Give his social media accounts a look-see.. amazing work is offered up regularly..

Over two dozen earthquakes hit near Lake Tahoe within four hours

Over two dozen earthquakes hit near Lake Tahoe within four hours:

Over two dozen quakes have been reported to hit the California-Nevada frontier Wednesday morning, with tremors being felt as far as Sacramento, San Francisco, and Las Vegas.

On Tuesday afternoon, Trump Tower in New York City was evacuated after a suspicious, unattended package was discovered in the lobby. However, once police arrived on the scene, it was determined the bag, described as a yellow backpack, was filled with children's toys.

On Tuesday afternoon, Trump Tower in New York City was evacuated after a suspicious, unattended package was discovered in the lobby. However, once police arrived on the scene, it was determined the bag, described as a yellow backpack, was filled with children's toys.

My predictions for 2017!

Let my prognostication be recorded for the year. Wish me luck. And the world.

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I went back to my predictions for both 2015 and 2016..

From the 15 set, something interesting was written

The campaign for the White House 2016 will become very annoying. Straw polls, debates.. early PR disasters. Jeb Bush . Hillary Clinton .. we will be dreading 2016. Maybe though a dark horse will emerge and, even more importantly, perhaps third party candidates will start becoming more acceptable to Americans

And from the 2016 set:

Donald Trump will be the nominee for Republicans. He will choose Marco Rubio. Hillary will be for the Dems.. her choice as a running mate: Charlie Crist

I was right about 15.. a dark horse emerged. And I was right that Trump would be the nominee……but the VP choices were WAY off..  After all, Trump had bigger hands than little Marco and Crist ..well…would have been a better choice for Hill than Kaine.

How else did I do with my 2016 predictions?
Some below with commentary after.

1. Donald Trump will be the nominee for Republicans. He will choose Marco Rubio. Hillary will be for the Dems.. her choice as a running mate: Charlie Crist. Already addressed that one.


2. Terrorism will be the top story by the end of 2016. As will the fear it generates. It is. The latest truck attack in Germany solidified that.. The listing of churches that could be attacked in Christmas in America equally spread fear.


3. There will be a medical development with cancer that will give hope to millions who are afflicted. While not receiving much reporting, this is interesting..


4. There will be a bigger emphasis on open-source artificial intelligence. It will be ‘power to the people,’ with the dawn of the drones. Get ready. They are coming.  Nothing at all incorrect about this prediction. 


5. GMO-free food will gain in popularity. But there will be increasingly and creative ways to mask GMO from consumers. It’s the year you’ll be deceived even more by fancy packages. Be smart and buy after research.  Very very true.. This is happening more and more by the year. I think it will continue as well–for the better of all society. At least those who research ..


6. There will be less tech addiction in 2016. People have had enough. Phone free Sundays may turn into phone free weeks. People may give up on Facebook, except for the emergency chats.. I think I was overall wrong on this. But I think by the end of the year I ended up being slightly right. After all, we get TIRED and SICK of constant election news. It turned us from being on Facebook.. we took some time off. 


7. Health–real health–will be en vogue in 2016. Not fad diets or fraud get thin quick schemes. But real long term health. This is the beginning of a new age of fitting in jeans and having a healthy heart. ….not ready to claim victory on this, Though we are finding better sources of food we are certainly not showing a loss of weight. The jury is still out on this.


8. The Olympics will not be without incident. Massive rains–flooding rains actually–may hit just in time in Brazil.  Not sure how I got this one on the head, but my long term weather guidance in December 2015 just must have been accurate. The RIO Olympics were soggy.


9. The economy that will matter in 2016: India. China will matter a lot less. …I guess this was mostly wrong?


10. It will be hot. All year.. some of the hottest weather on the planet earth in centuries is on the way.  YES! It was .. bigly. Expect more in 2017.

And now with all of that behind us, let’s focus on the year to come.

My top ten predictions for 2017..

1. Donald Trump is going to have a much more difficult time than expected. At least initially.  He will be besieged by protests and also by people within his own party. By the middle of the year, he will realize that by going directly to people above party leaders can motivate the electorate to accept some if his policies. I expect rallies by the end of the year to be a normal course of White House business.


2. The stock market will hit 20,000 and stay within that range. By August we will be speculating when the market will hit 25,000.


3. Vladimir Putin will either visit the United States or Donald Trump will visit Russia. Either way a more united front will emerge.


4. The weather in 2017 will be hot. As hot as 2016.. there may be slick spots of winter that emerge from time to time sporadically throughout the world, but the majority of the months to come will feature hotter than normal temperatures.


5. The British Royal family will have to decide how to move forward after a tragic scenario.. there may be a new queen before 2018.


6. Stephen Colbert may be facing cancellation in 2017. There is going to be a dramatic realignment of late night TV. People are tired of an obsessive amount of politics during the daytime hours. The nighttime should be sacred for comedy. People may turn on political version of such by rebelling against the Colbert program on CBS.


7. BREXIT. Trump. I think France and Germany will have upheaval in 2017. The world is shaking like a post-earthquake atmosphere from the changes in 2016. Transitions something are sloppy. And we have somehow transitioned into something very different than we were in 16..


8. Major hacking will reveal something in 2017. Either from Wikileaks, or a source not yet to be named. Secrets will become revealed in 2017 to make us question what type of reality we live in.


9. Though everyone seems to predict it, Donald Trump will be aggressive in NOT declaring war or bombing other nations. (This is a prediction, but also a prayer)


10. Virtual reality! All the rage in 2016! …..but just wait. I predict the opposite for 2017.

Carrie Fisher dead in LA

Carrie Fisher dead in LA

RELAX.IT’S OVER.

RELAX.

IT’S OVER.

Another RIP HITS… George Michael dead .. MORE.

Another RIP HITS… George Michael dead ..

MORE.

We believe

We believe

Carrie Fisher heart attack drama

DEVELOPING STORY..

Actress Carrie Fisher suffered a medical emergency aboard a flight Friday afternoon and her condition remains unclear.

Her brother, Todd Fisher, told the AP that she was “out of emergency” and stabilized at a Los Angeles hospital Friday afternoon. He said he could not discuss any other details about what happened.

But both the

 LA Times 

and TMZ say Fisher is still in critical condition. A local ABC affiliate 

reports

 she is still “on a ventilator.”..

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DRAMATIC AUDIO HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM THE PLANE..

Actress Anna Akana was on board the flight when Fisher went into medical distress and she described the upsetting scene in a series of tweets.

She said Fisher stopped breathing and was helped by a doctor and nurse who happened to be on board.

A United Airlines spokesperson said: “Medical personnel met United flight 935 from London to Los Angeles upon arrival today after the crew reported that a passenger was unresponsive.

"Our thoughts are with our customer at this time and any requests for additional information should be directed to local authorities.”

Akana, 27, wrote: “Don’t know how else to process this but Carrie Fisher stopped breathing on the flight home. Hope she’s gonna be OK.

"So many thanks to the United flight crew who jumped into action, and the awesome doctor and nurse passengers who helped.”

Akana wrote that Fisher wasn’t breathing “for 10 minutes or so” and CPR was administered until the plane landed.

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The DRUDGE REPORT tonight is showcasing an image of Fisher from the newest ROGUE ONE film–the CGI version that appears at the end of the film..

DEVELOPING..

Zsa Zsa Gabor dead at 99

A woman famous for being famous.. She has now left this earthly domain at 99..!

A really rough year for celebrity deaths continues .. the steady drumbeat doesn’t appear ready to end despite the end of the year coming ..

Found some early artwork.. circa 1996ish.

Found some early artwork.. circa 1996ish.

The wild West

This year started strange. Was weird in the middle.. and ending in the same style as it began.
Nothing predictable happened. No ordinary events … all big magnitude, big “yuge” style happenings littered the months of 2016.

And it ends as odd as it began.
With Kanye West to Trump Tower!

Let me first say, all politics aside, Donald Trump is a media genius. There are countless media organizations focused like a laser beam on the Trump tower elevators… Cameras pointed to catch every guest of honor or deplorable. Trump is eating up the attention.. Yesterday, big news took place in Aleppo, Syria. But the media instead was more concerned with West’s brief meeting with the President-Elect and post even briefer media presser..

Later on Twitter, West posted a #2024 and mentioned that he spoke to Trump about important issues, such as violence in Chicago.

And the media was shocked. Stunned faces as West appeared..and the Twitterverse went mad, angry people saying hateful things is a normal course of business on the social network.. but Trump’s daily actions ignite more passion than anything of recent memory.

If this 2016 cycle is any predictor of next year, 2017 is going to be as wild by the day as the latter half of our current calendar was..

The Trump show is a skilled media performance. It is not a circus, as some have deemed. Instead it is an intelligent and formalized media sucker punch each and every day. And they fall for it.

Every news network has tuned into Trump TV. His face is everywhere.. his actions are noted … at some point I expect his bowel movements to be live-streamed and for his colon to have a Twitter following.

Yes indeed. This year as shaped us up for a much different 2017 than many expected.

And some Kanye West sprinkled on top for good measure as this year slips and slides into oblivion just as quickly as it began…

Yet another tragic celebrity death.. 2016 has been...

Yet another tragic celebrity death.. 2016 has been unkind..

Alan Thicke shockingly passed away on Dec. 13 after suffering a heart attack while playing hockey with his 19-year-old son Carter. He was 69 years old and still working as an actor.

Don’t know if this is real or not but I love it!

Don’t know if this is real or not but I love it!

An angel gets its wings. Chewy to the top of the tree for...

An angel gets its wings. Chewy to the top of the tree for Christmas 16!

I see turtles. All the time. #tmnt

I see turtles. All the time. #tmnt

Trump to Tap Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder for Labor Secretary - NBC News

Trump to Tap Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder for Labor Secretary - NBC News:

He has flirted with the idea of replacing some fast-food employees with robots to combat rising minimum wages.

In March, he told Business Insider: “They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case.”

He has also fiercely defended controversial ads for Carl’s Jr. that have featured women in bikinis eating burgers in a suggestive manner.

“I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American,” Puzder told Entrepreneur last year. “I used to hear, brands take on the personality of the CEO. And I rarely thought that was true, but I think this one, in this case, it kind of did take on my personality.”

Donald Trump will remain EP on 'Celebrity Apprentice'

Donald Trump will remain EP on 'Celebrity Apprentice':

Donald Trump will remain as an executive producer on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” even while serving as president of the United States.
That agreement, first reported by Variety and confirmed by sources at NBC and the Trump campaign, means the president will have an interest in a show aired by a media company that also reports on his presidency – a major conflict of interest for the network.

Okay.. well…alright then..

John Glenn dead at 95

John Glenn dead at 95

They picked the Donald

They picked the Donald