Month: December 2017

The horror entertainment of the year

I don’t have to recreate the list others have already done.. the top movies of this year undoubtedly contain the films IT and GET OUT. While GERALD’S GAME is also considered a great flick, I didn’t much care for it..

Concerning IT, the movie’s magic works because of how similar it is to STRANGER THINGS.. Pennywise is the horrid clown in a town full of uncompassionate and scared people. Children going missing, bullies reigning their terror on adults and kids alike.. It would seem that Derry is the worst place to live..
But…could it be worse than the small hamlet in GET OUT? Where a weekend getaway exposes hatred and is a truly amazing portrayal of modern racism? 
Or the town from STRANGER THINGS. Where not much happens. Except for an underworld creature of the upside down snatching children, and BARB..? 
All of these places seemingly are the worst places for people to inhabit.. But viewers can be delighted by watching in the comfort of their own beds or couches, or cozy modern movie theaters..
The top five of the year, movies/Netflix combo, in order of goodness:
1: STRANGER THING 2
2: GET OUT
3: MINDHUNTER
4: IT
5: JUMANJI
Yes, you saw that last number correct.
Jumanji.   Future president the Rock had some lackluster acting.. the cast ensemble, however, proved amazing. The late 2017 movie was a homage to the past, nostalgia, but yet recreated Jumanji in a new light.. it was potentially one of the better movies I have ever seen. I mean that. 

WEIRDEST TRUMP OF THE YEAR: 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW


There were so many! Like this image from Halloween, where President Trump welcomed various children into the Oval Office. He noted that the Asian girl near him was present, and told he was going to China for a trip.. And then he began to tell the children not to be like their parents, their parents being members of the ‘fake media.’ He took his passive aggressive anger out on the adults in the room snapping photos by telling their kids that they should not be proud of the parental professions of their guardians..

Another bizarre moment occurred soon after Trump was sworn into office. In May, when CBS’ John Dickerson interviewed him and asked about controversial topics, Trump immediately stopped the interview and walked back to his desk Resolute. He sad down. And picked up what appeared to be a blank paper.. the silence was overwhelming and awkward.

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Another fun time came during the Great American eclipse on August 21 (more on that later) .. thought warnings persisted for weeks prior, the President seemed to defy logic and safety as he looked directly at the sun without protective glasses for several seconds.

And while we can go on forever, we’ll sum up the final moment only with the video of what appears to be Donald Trump’s teeth dislodging as he told the world that Jerusalem was now the capital of Israel.

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YEAR IN REVIEW: THE BIGGEST NEWS STORY OF 2017

THE BIGGEST STORY OF 2017

It was without a doubt the story that fed people a certain sense of tabloid, scandal.. revelation. This was the year of the great Celebrity Apocalypse! 
The great unveiling! All of the sex scandals from politicians to media figures.. and even Harry Knowles from AINT IT COOL NEWS. Nothing this year seemed to surprise. 
Whether it was Matt Lauer purchasing sex toys or having a button under his desk to lock women in his office, or a Kentucky legislator Dan Johnson shooting himself in the head after being stunned by information he was under scrutiny of media due to sexual molestation. This was the year where #MeToo hashtags led to women (And men) revealing secrets became the TIME persons of the year.. Where conspiracy theories about Hollywood’s culture of child molestation became factual. Corey Feldman suddenly redeemed by revelations of truth from Tinseltown. And George Bush Senior became known as David Cop-a-feel. His own nickname stuck after various women spoke of his rear grabbing habits.
Al Franken was brought town. Roy Moore was shown the door…
So any names. So many stories. So many victims.
The eyes of the world are now watching.
And though Bill Cosby’s trial did not end with successful prosecution, what mattered this year is the public eye’s verdicts. And by 2017’s end, as soon as a tidbit of information was dropped, our culture decried and asked for termination without redemption.
In an age where all scandals are true, the subject of activity is guilty until innocent..

CHRISTMAS DAY NEWS ROUNDUP 2017

WE BELIEVE: MERRY CHRISTMAS 2017

The lights that adorned this page have  been taken down. Christmas, a white one this year with a fluffy inch or so on the grassy surfaces, is ending..

The annual buildup and energy to the biggest holiday of the year is finished.

365 more days to go until the next budget busting seasonal fanfare.

The whirlwind amount of unwrapping makes the hours worth of work seem futile.

But this year, my son still believes. His honest and true 6-year-old heart is beautiful. The joy he brings his family is incredible. The youth and vigor in which he faces like is inspiring.

I hope you have inspiration as these 535,600 minutes of 2017 come to an end..
And in ’18?
I hope we all experience a season of love.

And believe…..
Hope.
Hope springs eternal.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 21 2017 NEWS ROUNDUP

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20 2017 NEWS ROUNDUP

CHRISTMAS EVE EVE EVE EVE EVE

TUESDAY DECEMBER 19 2017 NEWS ROUNDUP

CHRISTMAS EVE EVE EVE EVE EVE EVE
Not in the Christmas Spirit? ‘Rudolph’s Rage Room’ Allows People to Smash Away Holiday Stress! People in London are paying $25 to swing a baseball bat at a Christmas tree, proving that the holiday spirit may not be alive and well inside everyone. For just three minutes, people who loathe the holiday season can don a red jumpsuit, wear protective goggles and beat up a fully decorated Christmas tree for $25 unleash their rage against the season. A creative events group came up with the idea to help people relax and release their frustrations inside “Rudolph’s Rage Room.”
‘I Don’t Know Where It’s From’: Former UFO Program Head On Navy Jet Footage .. Elizondo tells Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep that Pentagon staff didn’t always understand what they saw. Among the mysteries was recently-released footage recorded from the cockpit of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet. In it the pilots can be heard marveling at an object, astonished at its speed and how it seems to rotate, inexplicably, in the air..
Ex-Navy pilot describes an eerie encounter with UFO.. MORE: “It was a real object, it exists and I saw it,” he told the Washington Post. “Something not from the Earth.” Fravor spotted the flying object on Nov. 14, 2004, after a break in a routine training mission about 60 to 100 miles off the coast between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico, the newspaper reported. He was searching for some flying objects that officials had been tracking, when he spotted one hovering above the ocean’s surface. It looked like a “white Tic Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet long with no wings,” Fravor said. “Just hanging close to the water.”

MERRY CHRISTMAS! DISCLOSURE!?

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program Revealed!

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:

In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.
The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.
The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth.

This is disclosure, in a sense? The idea that not only UFO enthusiasts claimed secret government programs existed but also that secret UFOs confounded the government as well?

…all of this happening just about in the same pattern that Tom Delonge said it would..

Disclosure: Not with a bang but a whimper with a Friday night news drop.

Politico picked up the story..
RAW STORY did too..
The Navy released footage..
The New York TIMES led with it…

This is disclosure.