Reuters reports this tonight:
"Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend."
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Anonymous gets involved in Steubenville, OH, rape case; releases video of high school football stars bragging about brutal rape of girl…
The kids aren’t alright..
A disturbing story out of Ohio..
In Steubenville, OH, the football team is tops..
And most people are counting down days until the next season.
So when teenagers were accused of brutally raping a girl and urinating on her, it shocked the town.
Now even more shocking:The group Anonymous is invovled, even to the point where they are releasing videos of students joking about how brutal the rape was..
The hacked video was released by the group.. it shows teens laughing about the crime, and even commenting that the girl must have been dead because she wasn’t moving during the raping..
Many are now asking 'why' as the rape shocks the small city in Ohio..
The part of the story that may shock the city the most: The heralded football team is bragging in the video about the rape.. a part of the quote from the video:
“She is so raped,” he says. “Her puss is about as dry as the sun right now.” She’s “deader than a door nail,” and “deader than OJ’s wife”
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
You know how people are called 'crazy' for thinking governments are trying to control weather? Well the US and New Zealand tested a 'tsunami bomb' that would have been capable of destroying coastal cities
Hillary out.
Already out of the hospital, reports indicate that Secretary Clinton is already quite active..
Onto the White House in ‘16!?
For the record, Bubba is joining Hil in the photo..
The first First Man of the nation!?
Nothing can keep her down.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
No turning back now... America over the cliff
Cnn: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he does not support a Senate deal to avert the fiscal cliff but that House GOP leaders have made no decisions on the bill’s fate.
Carson Daly sure got old. David Letterman was a rerun. And ABC with without Dick Clark. All the more reason to watch CNN’s odd mixture of real news with Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper. At one point it appears she went down on him.
As usual, lots of uncomfortable moments and strange ones, too. Such as when Kathy Griffin kept interrupting Cooper reporting that there was a late night fiscal cliff deal.
Strange stuff indeed. Cable TV. Weird.
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The entire earth has flipped the calender to 2013.
And with it, we know, you can’t turn back the hands of time.
No matter how much you try.
Let’s make it a great year
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Monday, December 31, 2012
A ROCKIN' NEW YEAR WITHOUT DICK CLARK JUST DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT, DOES IT?
Welcome to the final minutes of the year 2012. Yes. Already. It was so looked forward to, and it is ending so quickly…
It’s minus Dick Clark this year, though. And that is notable. Fergie is showering ABC viewers tonight in the pre-game with Dick Clark related footage. Donna Summers is playing while the Doors are swaying. Yes, it’s a stroll down amnesia lane in the fast lane. Dick Clarkless 2013. No countdown with the master of Times Square this year.
The show goes on, of course. With Ryan Seacrest to help. Before Seacrest will be ‘out’ there will be a number of events that occur. A massive ball will drop in Times Square. Revelers will kiss their hearts out.. then race for port-a-potties and their hotel rooms. Maybe stop by a pub and have a cup of cheer..
All around the world, the events are taking place. Some places on Earth are already 2013. The Pope will have a homily about how peace could be achieved. Fireworks will fly high into the night sky.. People will embrace and raise their glasses of chosen adult or child beverage. And we will all be one (in a number of different time zones, of course.)
This is, after all, New Year’s Eve. It is a special kind of night.
Recall your fondest new years memories… I know you have them. It may be eating too much turkey in a bar somewhere in the deep dark mines of the Coal Region (the turkey was good. I swear).. or maybe it’s a quiet time in your own home with the people you love. Or maybe it’s working.. Hotels, bars, restaurants.. they are all open tonight. It’s a big night for the service industry… And depending on what services you’re looking for, and what services are being offered, maybe you’re even being serviced, I hope you’re all having a blast.
It seems like yesterday that 2000 hit us like a wrecking ball. Remember those days? People were worried computers would shut down. They stockpiled water and food. Sounds similar to the doomsayers of December 21, 2012, doesn’t it? The only difference is, back then, we partied like it was 1999. This go around we’ll be lamenting the late 90s and wishing they could come back all over again. Gas at a buck a gallon.. milk around 2.. life happy. But was it?
I don’t know.
After all, think of another fond saying people have on New Year’s Eve: “Out with the old, in with the new!” “This year will be better than the last!”
Is any year better?
Is any year new?
It’s all relative, in a way.
It’s only a calender that tells us we’ve swung from one set of 365 to the next. But the events of the day are still stagnant. Reality doesn’t tell time well. We simply measure our existence in the boundaries of it..
But what is time? What are hours, and minutes.. and days and years? I don’t know much about what they are besides what I grew up knowing. And the earth, as it rotates into infinity, allows us to make certain that time is told.
Time is a magazine.
And it’s an enemy.
So often.
And now, like we’ve done countless times before, we’re going to hold our lovers close, call the parents, and hope to keep a couple friends in the process. We have been down this road before. It seems very familiar to me, and I am sure to you.
As the clock ticks down the final minutes of 2012 here on the East Coast of the planet earth, let’s truly hope that 2013 is one that brings all those things we’ve wished for since we began wishing around this time of year: World peace, love across the continents, economy stability, good news, no storms, laughter, and memories to be fond of.
What we may find, as we herald in 2014, is that ‘13 was a mixture of good and bad, positive, and negative. We’ll look back on 12 months of war and hate. It will be peppered with stories of humanity and love, perseverance and kindness. And that’s just life as we know it. Living in America. And at the beginning of the millennium… (2013 still somewhat counts as a beginning, no?)
Since we’ve been down the road before of resolutions and hopes, let’s just calm ourselves down this go around and take it in stride. Don’t put too much pressure on a calender change to change your life. But certainly don’t give up trying to make it.
So happy new year. Raise a glass. Toast the past. Love always. Love deeply. Love actually.
525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure,
measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In
inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes - how do you
measure a year in the life?
How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of
love.
Happy 2013.
I hope.
This is not good
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a blood clot between her brain and skull behind her right ear, her doctors said.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
The latest on Hillary Clinton's condition
CNN reporting:
She is expected to remain at New York Presbyterian Hospital for the next 48 hours so doctors can monitor her condition and treat her with anti-coagulants, said Philippe Reines, deputy assistant secretary of state.
"Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion," Reines said. "They will determine if any further action is required."
The latest on Hillary Clinton's condition
President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government's authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists.
It’s also known as WARRENTLESS WIRETAPPING…
President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government's authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists.
*And he did it behind closed doors. How nice.
President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government's authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists.
2013 PREDICTIONS
Some really great things happened in 2012. We landed a rover on Mars, with success, and we now have the potential to beam back information in real time. Images of the red planet appear more like a Southwest desert. That is absolutely amazing..
There were some other great things in 2012. But it seemed shrouded by those events that were not so great.
I wonder what amount of media influence takes place to keeps us from seeing the bright spots in life.
Yes there is war, chaos, climate change, and fraud. But there is also honesty, goodness, love, and beauty. It abounds.
People have fond memories of the past. Often their recollection isn’t 100% correct. Some people think they 80s were fun. Others recall poverty and constant fear of nuclear war. Some think the 90s were great. But others lost their jobs due to NAFTA and worried about the year 2000. It’s all relative. Before I get into this year’s predictions, I want to review last year’s predictions. I wrote,
Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. Newt Gingrich will crash. Ron Paul will run as a third party… but won’t be a major factor. Barack Obama will be the president for the next four years after his victory in November 2012.
North Korea will launch missiles to threaten the United States. Kim Jong Il dead.. Un here. Ugh.
The tension in the Middle East will dramatically escalate in 2012. Iran, Israel.. Syria.. No nation will appear stable.
Lots of people will begin to think the end times are upon us. Not only due to the Mayan calender end in December 2012 but because of strange world events Gas prices will soar.
The stock market will have major upticks and downward crashes.
Unemployment claims will continue to fall.. Maybe to 8% or lower. But the real unemployment number will surge into the 30% range. The economy will look like it’s recovery but it will not.
Not bad! Mitt Romney did lose. North Korea did try to elevate their threat level with missile launches, Israel and Syria did become crisis areas, and the real unemployment is surging. I was wrong on gas prices, and on the stock market.
2012 over.
2013 here we come.
Predictions for the new year, in no particular order:
- The fiscal cliff will not be avoided. Congress and the White House will become wreckless in their political partisanship. While economic turmoil will not be avoided, it will not be as bad as some predict. Though taxes will go up on everyone in some manner.
- North Korea will amplify their threat. They will attempt to scare their neighbors to the South and could elicit a forceful response from the world.
- 2013 is not a year of luck. March may be the worst.
- Bad weather will dominate news in 2013. Hurricanes will strike the United States. Tornadoes will be abundant. Large snowstorms will hit in the winter. But the drought will continue and food prices will surge.
- Technology will take surprisingly huge advancements in 2013. Don’t be surprised if by next December the biggest gift of the year will be something that gets implanted in the human body.
- A comet in November will be as bright as the moon. End of the world groups will latch on to it. Unfortunately some suicidal end of the world groups may go too far in their fears..
- By next Christmas we will have fewer malls, fewer stores, and fewer jobs. There are no big employment surges that will occur. Instead, state governments throughout the nation will suffer big layoffs.
The final prediction: In 2014, God willing, we will be here, judging that happened in 13. And when we do, we will lament another quick year. We will kiss as the ball drops. We will all be another year older. And we will all wonder what 2014 will bring.
Time does, after all, go by rather fast..
Creepiest tabloid story of the year
In gossipy news of the year, Justin Bieber was roughed up by paparazzi. And a kidnap gang was busted. Their plan was to steal Bieber and kill him, plus get $2,500 per testicle. I feel icky even typing about it. So I will stop now.
In gossipy news of the year, Justin Bieber was roughed up by paparazzi. And a kidnap gang was busted. Their plan was to steal Bieber and kill him, plus get $2,500 per testicle. I feel icky even typing about it. So I will stop now.
Strangest concert moment of the year
Just when you thought it was safe to have glasses on, Madonna decided to take off most of her clothing. Who can stop her now?
Just when you thought it was safe to have glasses on, Madonna decided to take off most of her clothing. Who can stop her now?
Most annoying tabloid gossip of the year
If it wasn’t Madonna it was the new Madonna, Gaga. They appeared nude this year. But then later in the fall she didn’t look quite the same. Rumors flew.. was she pregnant? Or just eating too much pasta. Later in 2012 she vanished from the entertainment scene. She exists on Twitter. And decides often to wake me up by Tweeting late night barages of messages to her millions of fans.. But the media enjoys having it both ways on the issuye of weight. They cry and wine about young girls who think too much about it, and say we worship thin people way too much. At the same time, though, they will publish articles being critical of any female star who gains a few pounds. Leave Lady Gaga alone. She was born this way, babaaay..
If it wasn’t Madonna it was the new Madonna, Gaga. They appeared nude this year. But then later in the fall she didn’t look quite the same. Rumors flew.. was she pregnant? Or just eating too much pasta. Later in 2012 she vanished from the entertainment scene. She exists on Twitter. And decides often to wake me up by Tweeting late night barages of messages to her millions of fans.. But the media enjoys having it both ways on the issuye of weight. They cry and wine about young girls who think too much about it, and say we worship thin people way too much. At the same time, though, they will publish articles being critical of any female star who gains a few pounds. Leave Lady Gaga alone. She was born this way, babaaay..
Scariest weather of 2012 that will impact 2013
2012 was another hot year. Really hot. So much so that parts of the Mississippi River had to be closed off because it was running dry.. barges couldn’t even use it. The nation saw one of its worst droughts in decades. It continued for most of the year. The harvest in 2012 was predicted to be quite nice, early on. That is before the rain stopped. And it never started. Going in 2013, some of the same regions plauged by dry conditions are still in the same bad situation… Food prices will soon reflect that..
Worst campaign of all time
Paul Ryan fell in love with Mitt Romney. But America didn’t. He tried in 2008, but he never caught on. Why did he think he would in 2012? I don’t know. As in ‘08, no fire in the belly erupted in Republicans. Instead, he lost in quite a disastrous election for the Grand Old Party. But their fire in the belly is turning quickly into aged distress. How grand are they? How old have they become? Not even Mitt’s mom jeans could save them in ‘12..
Least Chrsitian Catholic of the year
The Pope began tweeting in 2012. And when he did, lots of other Twitter users mocked him accordingly. Perhaps he was trying to re-tweet a new image of his Pontifcate since earlier in 2012, the biggest story about the Church was that of the Pope’s butler spilling the religious beans on secret affairs inside the Vatican. Mutiny in the Church! a butler locked away! Of course by the end of the year, the Pope pardoned his Butler. SO perhaps that Christian in Benny is coming through after all. LOL RT..
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