Horror Report

Day: December 28, 2011

  • Predictions for 2012

    Predictions for 2012

    The Earth Informer.. not the prognosticator of prognosticators.. but neither is that little groundhog.. so if he could try it, so could I. 

    The predictions for 2012. Hold me to them. We’ll check in ’13 how well this site did in its psychic ability to foretell future events before they occur.

    • 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.
    Am I a downer? Or a fine predictor or the future.
    Check in January 2013 and find out.
    If we are still here………….
  • Dumbest product of 2011

    Dumbest product of 2011

    A late year decision occurred: The pajama jeans were dumb in 2011 until I saw this: The Forever Lazy.

    For the nudist in you.. or the person who still wants to be a child.. Pajamas with feet. 

    The ad paints a good picture.. you can drink coffee, type on the computer.. open Christmas gifts. Even go to a tailgating party before a football game. All in your forever lazy. 

    Although I don’t know how much respect you’d get in a football parking lot wearing a full body pajama set. 

    But there may be something to this Forever Lazy frenzy.. could it be a sign that we, as Americans, are nothing but children in our mind? Childlike culture? Stay forever young… delusional that we are young but aging before ourselves in the mirror? I don’t know.

    Forever Lazy. A sign of the times or an exceptionally dumb blip on the radar. Time will decide.
  • Culture of 2011: Fear

    Culture of 2011: Fear

    We have been bombarded with scenes of torture and crime.. mayhem and murder.. terrorism.. fear.. and this is all just in our entertainment! This is all just at the 10pm hour.. this is all just at our local movie theater.

    Since 2001, the American mind has been on a steady diet of fear porn. Our pop culture and entertainment forever changed with airplanes flying into buildings ten years ago. And now, this year, it is clear just how far down the path of uncertainty this has taken us.

    • Protesters have been pepper sprayed for simply sitting on a sidewalk.
    • An American citizen in another nation, one who we say was a terrorist, was killed on an order from the President of the United States.
    • The United States Congress and Senate passed a bill that may allow for the arrest of American citizens–on the homeland–and indefinite detention without charges… A few stood up to oppose. Most didn’t. And most Americans didn’t even know that Congress had that provision in the defense bill.
    • Stories of overreaching cops.. police arresting those who videotape arrests.. police pepper spraying or tasing senior citizens.. drone attacks in nations that didn’t declare war on us..
    Oh yes, indeed… what a rabbit hole we have placed ourselves in.

    The term ‘slippery slope’ is heavily used, if not overused. But what other term truly could describe the place we find ourselves? The slippery slope….. where cops in black uniforms don’t patrol neighborhoods on foot but instead bust doors down after the drone in the sky says criminal activity may be taking place. Warrants? Nah… we have the drone now. The mighty eye in the sky.. 

    It’s not a bird. 
    It’s not a plane.
    It’s the future… slyly flying..
  • The biggest ass of the year

    The biggest ass of the year

    Bill O’Reilly. How cannot it not be?
    He earned his title with this:

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBWekT_1Og]

  • The person of the year

    The person of the year

    TIME magazine made their choice: They picked ‘the protester’ as the person of the year. I agree with TIME in a degree, that may be the most important ‘type’ of person… it’s broad, yes. And nameless, sure. But we are all protesters in some degree..

    In my estimation, though, the person of the year is one sole human being… and no one besides a few in higher rankings of the government even knows the name of the person of the year. The man (or potentially woman) who shot Osama Bin Laden during the spring time raid in Pakistan. That, indeed, is the person of the year.. they changed history…

    Controversy aside.. whether it was right or wrong aside.. it surely was the most dramatic event in geo political affairs of 2011. And one person is responsible for that final shot. Either in the back of the head …or the front…