John Schindler writes this in the Observer tonight:
“ Back in October I told you that Hillary Clinton’s email troubles were anything but over, and that the scandal over her misuse of communications while she was Secretary of State was sure to get worse. Sure enough, EmailGate continues to be a thorn in the side of Hillary’s presidential campaign and may have just entered a new, potentially explosive phase with grave ramifications, both political and legal.”
There is something always successful when you consider January horror. It’s the come off of Christmas feeling people get. I noticed that a long, long time ago now (too long and too quick) with a quick January PG-13 hit called DARKNESS FALLS.
The one interesting thing about this movie this year, THE FOREST, is that it is loosely based off of real events.. The forest in Japan where people go to commit suicide is all too real and very unexplained..
Speaking of horror, there are lots of lists being compiled on the movies in 2016 you should see.. ’31’ is included with this IGN list of 12 movies. In my opinion, that makes it 11 movies you should see. I just cannot and will not get into this 31 film, regardless of anything.. And quite frankly, all of the rest of the movies look like awful.
Tonight, the POWEBALL is powerful.. set over $800 mil (if no one wins this could get to a billion) .. I am going to buy my ticket and I suspect you will buy yours. This could be a blowout for the victor..
Or a curse.
There are always dreams of the but jackpot.. the fantasy of the fancy cars and fine wine that come along with any victory in the lottery game.
But there are equally concerns. I think we all have seen those specials on TV or the concerning documentary about people who won the lottery, people like you and me who were normal (we are, right).
People who just tried making it in life and suddenly had millions in cold hard cash leaped on their heads.
They fell apart… did they live some luxury lives? Some. For a while. And then their families and friendships dissolved.. Often suicide and murder took place.. The money was a hoax of happiness, a curse and blemish on their once normal lives. But normal lives have struggles.
Yesterday we all were told a cop was shot in Philly by a man proclaiming allegiance to ISIS..
Now the new Mayor of the city, Jim Kenney, said ISIS had nothing to do with the shooting. Anger ensues among some about that.. The police officer is alive, incidentally..
But you know the worst part? Life goes by so fast I forgot Nutter was out and there was even a new mayor of Philly.. and I live 90 miles north. That is a failure on my part. I hope it will not happen again.
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that he will “start in earnest” to return an estimated 2.2 million citizens who have been forced to flee their homes.
However, while most of the territory once held by Boko Haram has been recaptured, experts say the insurgents’ renewed guerrilla campaign is deadlier than ever.
I guess these returning innocent lives will find out soon firsthand..
This Mashable story about a cancer survivor who turned into the butt of a joke should be required reading for every moronic jerk who has the Internet and social media to mock fellow humans with ugly memes.. The butt of this joke doesn’t do meth. Instead he’s a cancer survivor who struggled with his own appearance. And now his struggle is receiving global attention after his image ended up online and being involved with a meme joke calling him a meth addict..
Interesting story.. And it is the one part of his whole Avery story that the documentary neglected to explore in depth..
On this note, I have just begun watching the series.. Only on episode 2, though I am very aware of then murder story and the further allegations that have taken place since the 2002 exoneration of Avery..
It’s an amazing documentary, very well produced, and obviously controversial since it’s an ongoing issue with a number of opinions on all sides of the issue.. The real story may be DNA, crime, and science..
Innocence until proven guilty.. Until DNA can immediately convict someone .. Or exonerate someone..
The entire judicial system is being turned on its head by progress and scientific discovery..
There are a lot of cultural and judicial ramifications. This documentary seems to be hitting a nerve.. A nerve at the core of how American justice is served. And so often not served.
“Despite heavy lobbying by the food industry, the guidelines — which set the standard for federal food programs such as school lunches and food stamps — also recommend that most people get 2,300 mg of salt a day or less. The average American gets 3,400 mg a day, Burwell said — and that can lead to high blood pressure.”
There are fears that a devastating blow could take place within the next seventy or eighty years.. And not just Yellowstone but any of the world’s big volcanoes..
As reported in here days previous, some experts think we are now heading into ‘volcano season’ when things of this nature are going to occur..
The broadcasts will restart on Friday, South Korea’s presidential office says, calling the North’s bomb test a “grave violation” of an agreement in August between the two Koreas, which had aimed to ease mutual tension. At that time, the two traded artillery fire after Pyongyang had demanded a halt to the broadcasts.
One of these is me. The other is is Doug Walker, an online movie critics with almost 700,000 followers on YouTube.. I may have found my much more popular doppelgänger.. Perhaps contact should be made? But would works collide? Would the center of gravity give out? By the way the close up is me. The other one is the popular guy.
There were tears from the hardcore horror buffs who demand blood and gore.. This movie got an NC 17 two times. Obviously something or somethings were cut to make it R..
No worries for those still craving the desire to see needless violence.. 31 is still going to feature, “strong bloody horror violence, pervasive language, sexual content and drug use.” Rejoice. I suppose.
It’s really not a new claim.. It’s been around as long as conspiracy lure concerning the Kennedy assassination.. But it’s always interesting to see it splashed again in tabloids with new evidence being offered up that it was the desire to know the truth about space aliens that may have got JFK killed..
WHAT should have been a heart-warming experience for expectant parents turned into a chilling moment as a bizarre demon-shaped figure was found lurking in an ultrasound image.
The snap has gone viral since it was posted on imgur a day ago under the headline ‘A friend’s ultrasound. When you see it …’, where visitors to the site quickly picked up on the disturbing presence of the ‘demon’, seen in the top right-hand corner of the mother’s womb.
The sinister grainy outline has divided commentators, as some insist the shape resembles a mythical creature, while others among the 710,000 social media users to have seen the page insist it depicts something more sinister.
Well when a new study comes out daily refuting the previous day’s study about what causes cancer, should there be any confusion as to why there is confusion to begin with!? Honestly, navigating through the realities of what and how to eat is difficult..
Studies about what cause cancer may actually cause cancer, according to a new study.
My wife and I took our son to see ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS this weekend.. when we were there, the cashier told me, “When you come here, we all say you are the guy who looks like Ed Helms.” I thanked them for their….honestly? I contemplated this a bit.
I love VACATION, really funny movie. Ed Helms is talented.. but .. looking like Ed Helms? What place does that put me in life? Where am I now..? The guy who looks like Ed Helms to movie theater employees.
The asteroid often makes close approaches to Earth, and will make one such approach sometime between March 3 and March 8, 2016
Get this:
While the nominal (best fit) orbit suggests that it will pass 1.3 Lunar distances (LD) from the Earth, it may pass as close as 0.061 LD (23,600 km) to the Earth or 0.032 LD (12,200 km) to the Moon- although not using the same orbit. The asteroid is only 21-52 meters across, making it approximately as twice as large as the Chelyabinsk meteor and likely creating a large fireball in the sky, and possibly an impact crater. This would create an impact between 100 and 575 meters across, assuming an impact angle of less than 45 degrees.
This week: Winter comes to the Northeast. Goodbye 70s.. hello the real thing. Can’t say it’s the ‘return of winter’ since winter never really hit yet. This is the first time this year. And because of that, it will appear to be even colder than it is, until the body adjusts.. We aren’t used to this, Eastern Seaboard people. Time to put away the shorts and employ the highest degree of warmth available to you. Times are changing. The polar express is late. But arriving..
Sunday, January 3, 2016
This is a lost never really seen before poster for BACK TO THE FUTURE from 1985.. I would sure love to own it. I guess now I can! As can you..
It’s the story of a song called ‘See you after, Babe,’ by a band called Symmetry Icon, from the year 2008.
Remember that song?
Some words..
I just wanted to be a big name For you.But I got caught up in this craziness Without you.We made a deal with him, He said he’d rise us upIn exchange for something small.
I don’t know what to make of this. I mean, it is kind of catchy in an out-there kind of way, and I’ve listened to it a few times just because it is kind of enjoyable and reminds me of my days in college.
Does anyone else remember “See You After, Babe” from 2008???
I just…I need to hear the whole song again, and it sucks knowing I never will.
Perhaps the creepiest part of this entire story of See You After Babe: I sort of initially recalled the song. I kind of, well, questioned my sanity afterwards.. So I sent this to my wife, who is an amateur expert on music. She did not recall it but was really bothered by the whole thing, even wondering aloud if the whole post could be REAL after all. Then I sent it to other friends, all of whom felt the same way. Creeped out even though they knew, probably, it was not real..
I went on to peruse the commentary that the post was getting on Reddit, You Tube, and @sixpenceee.. It would appear a number of people aren’t getting the hoax of it all and believing it, even desperately searching for the ‘whole song’ somewhere online..
I think that is because, deep down, we all know there have been times we have been hit with time slips–those moments when your reality is shaken to the core and no one else realized how they slipped, too.. Times when what you thought was real turns out to be a dream. Or vice versa..
So this song, this ‘2008 one hit wonder,’ seems to nicely fit into that category.
As one Reddit response went,
I Googled both the song and the group. Not sure if I am glad that the search turn up with irrelevant results. I half-expected there to be pictures of 3 guys on an album cover…
Because the story seems to real.. This is quite a legendary No Sleep Reddit story already. Guaranteed it will show up on a paranormal site near you.
Their fear: The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite will be trending on social media again.
The academy found itself on the defensive last year when white actors earned all 20 of the nominations in the lead and supporting categories. The topic came to define the Academy Awards so much that host Neil Patrick Harris opened the ceremony by quipping: “Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest. Sorry, brightest.”
The good thing to remember, all: The Oscars are completely and utterly meaningless when it comes to what is actually a good film.
I wrote several predictions for 2016 and published then on here a few days ago.. Read them if you choose.
I have also been reading some other people’s predictions. One I found in the Wall Street JOURNAL is amazingly accurate, wish I would have said it myself.
This is going to be a fabulous year for books. In 2016, Elizabeth Strout has her best novel yet coming out, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” and I can’t wait to sell the late Paul Kalanithi’s gorgeous “When Breath Becomes Air,” and just when you think Louise Erdrich can’t get any better, she goes and writes “LaRose.” Go to your local independent bookstore this year and buy a copy. You’ll be part of the trend.
Independent book stores are amazing. All book stores are amazing.
In my county, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, there are virtually no more book stores left. We have to leave the county to get somewhere meaningful in the print world. This has become a detriment since my nearly 5-year-old loves book stores..
Last month, we signed up at the library for the first time, at least for me, in 15 years.
It’s all worth it. And yes, progress is amazing. Tech is great. But there will never be anything which surpasses holding paper bound together in your hand and turning pages. .
2016.. the return of book stores. I like that one.
Cliven Bundy is also advising the local ranchers, Steven and Dwight Hammond, not to submit to federal authorities as required on Monday. Instead, Bundy is urging them to go to the Harney County jail and ask for “protective custody.”
