Author: The Horror Report
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Don’t look now.. but Kathy Griffin is practically naked
Lots of people don’t watch CNN.. or their coverage of new years eve.. but if you missed it this year you didn’t catch Kathy Griffin surprising Anderson Cooper by stripping down to her undersomethings.. she said to Cooper that if Lady Gaga can do it so could she. And she did.Kathy Griffin may be the one thing that makes CNN’s yearly cover somewhat worthwhile. Clothing or not. -
Great shot
Happy New Year everyone! (Photo by Kena Betancur, Reuters)A moment in time, snapped by a photographer at the right place at the right time.. under the confetti .. under the weight of the world. -
We seem to be making strange things on New Years a common thing
Once again, thousands of blackbirds fall down dead over Arkansas town
And yes it was after New Year’s Eve fireworks.. Perhaps for beginning to see a pattern -
The real world gets done with 1 million people leave the ten block area they are in
The real heroes of new years eve: The clean up crew in Times Square -
While you were celebrating ..
A quick reminder.. while you were sleeping, drinking, or celebrating, President Obama was busy signing. Even though he has reservations about the National Defense Authorization Bill, he signed it anyway. And sure, new rules will allow military forces to swoop in and take Americans to undisclosed locations.. but the President said not to worry: He will not go ahead and do that to Americans.
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Right back where we started.. Big quake in Japan.. more birds dying in Arkansas. I thought this was 2012!?
Once again, thousands of dead blackbirds rain down over Arkansas town.. And yes, it was after the fireworks again
.. It feels like groundhogs day. After the year we just had, 12 months of hell and high water, we start this way?
An earthquake in Japan, an earthquake in New Zealand.
And to top that all off, now we have this thousands of dead blackbirds! I’m feeling like we are right back where we ended.. -
2011.. better gone than here…. as life’s whirlwind continues, a short pause to think back to the 12 months of horror that just occurred
Here we go again. The end of a year. The beginning of a new one.As I get older, I begin to discover that we seem to live the same day over and over again. Bill Murray in GROUNDHOG DAY is..well…us! We are Bill Murray.We are all in the same story. We are all in the same loop. Spinning in infinity. Over and over again. Or at least until the brain, heart, and mind give out and we travel to that other side. Whatever that other side may be. IF that other say may even be there. Christopher Hitchens left our world this year, and he sure as heck didn’t believe in a God or a Satan. So if he is somewhere now after life, I wish he’d come back to say he was wrong. Hell, I wish he’d come back to say he was right! Anything.I entered the 30-somethings a year ago. Now at 31, I started a new chapter in life.My beautiful son was born on February 22, 2011. When he came out of my wife’s womb, he was new to the world… fresh. And throughout this entire year he has grown with such speed that it has transformed life into a virtual whirlwind. I think some brain cells of mine became fried this year.. I think some intelligence was lost. I became worried about every little gasp, whimper, and wail. Little Ayden Morris never seemed to fail; he could make you worried, happy, and sad all in one cry…Indeed, everything changes with a birth of a child.I can only explain it like this: When my wife told me at 3am February 22 that “this is it,” my entire life changed in an instant….. so there we drove to the hospital after a snowstorm… hours later new life arrived on this planet.But it wasn’t without its losses, this year.. No indeed, not at all.This year saw horror, tragedy, strife, and loss. Just like any given year, you may say. But this year seemed worse.I lost my dog Bailey two weeks before my son was born. My sister lost her dog Cloud the same night that my wife went into labor.Later in the year, my wife lost her mother, Joyce– a beautiful woman who walked this planet for over 80 years but left in an instant.Beyond that, the human race itself lost many this year.It could only be described as a year of disaster.From birds dying in thousands on New Years day to a tsunami, to an earthquake in the Northeast in the summer..to rumors of war and to bombs of real war… Oh lord, yes indeed, we lived through it all. Not all of humanity lived through it though.The massive tsunami that struck Japan was immense.. unbelievable..historic.. and deadly. A 9.0 quake coupled with a deadly tsunami and an after effect of nuclear contamination. The perfect storm of horror… the government denied problems first. High radiation levels later they couldn’t deny anymore… so the US simply raised the level of ‘safe’ radiation!That’s how the West responds to horror.But the West wasn’t safe, either.In 2011, drought killed animals in Texas and dried lakes. An earthquake rattled parts of the nation that never got rattled. Deadly tornadoes killed without prejudice in Joplin, Missouri. Flooding … winds… hurricanes striking New York City.. massive dust storms in Phoenix.. extreme heat.. snowstorms on Halloween. .It’s all too much.The Arab spring.The strange summer.The frightening fall..The nuclear winter.A comet was supposed to destroy earth. So were solar flares.But that never happened..Instead, the earth got busy trying to destroy itself.By year’s end we had no choice but to fall on our knees and hear the angels’ voices.. the night divine.Osama was killed and now sleeps with the fishes.. the hot sauce mom went to jail.. A tent collapsed at a fair in Indiana before Sugarland sang. Cholera spread in Somalia. London blazed. ‘Anonymous’ was unfazed.Congress voted to make the homeland a battlefield.Republicans never stopped talking about torture..Obama lost the mojo..Vladimir Putin came back.Amy Winehouse left.Sandusky “taught kids to use soap.”Joe Pa got fired.An apple fell from the tree when Steve Jobs left….Fall on your knees indeed. And hear the angels…crying? Shrugging?Not sure what they will do after 2011. The year of our lord. Or lordless.Or lard-asses.Oh night divine.. save us all.Yes, indeed, it’s been a year. It’s been real. Or unreal. I can’t tell, really. I sure think the earth will be glad this whole mess of a calender year is now behind us.Welcome, ’12! Bring us the Mayan Calender! Bring us revolt!Bring us an election!Bring us something…………. maybe no disasters? Maybe no birds dying? Maybe no earthquakes? Come on mother earth, even you have to get tired some time or another…!?Good year, folks. ’11 gone. 2012 hear. Y2-12. Never thought we’d make it through K.Twelve more months and we’ll do this again….. unless those Mayans were right after all.Happy new year, Earth. Same as it’s ever been. -
A Grim decision: There is ‘no question’ the ground is unstable in Allentown cemetery
This is another image from Allentown, Pennsylvania, of a sinkhole developing near a cemetery in the town–an historic cemetery that may now have to have graves moved.A court order was secured in case Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim may need to make the grim decision on what to do with the graves. Land is being watched closely in case any shifting in soil occurs. Nearby homes have also been evacuated.The cemetery holds 20,000 graves–including some from the Civil War.“It’s a very volatile situation. The ground is unstable. There is no question it is moving,” said Everette Carr, president of the Union and West End Cemetery Association,
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Allentown the vanishing?
The land of the dead…sinking underneath the crust of the earth.. Living there in Allentown.. and all the land is giving out.Billy Joel had a hit song about Allentown decades ago.. a whole new tune may need to be written if rumors, which are rampant online, turn out to be true: Allentown is sinking?What we do know is that a sinkhole has developed in an historic cemetery in the city. Officials say a water main break is to blame–along with a year of saturation with constant rainstorms and flooding.But the more interesting part comes around when you search out, as one YouTube user did, just where this sinking is occurring: Directly next to the site of a major gas line explosion in 2010.So sayseth the rumor: The center of the town is sinking because of massive earth changes–changes which caused the gas line to rupture and now the ground to give way under the feet of Allentownians.While the premise sounds far fetched it also raises eyebrows when you consider proximity of where the ground is buckling.. The focal point being the center of town.. next to where a gas line did actually rupture a year back.Sinkholes have been in the news for several years now. Dramatic photos of dark openings that look as though they go to the center of the earth itself have been published all across the world.The latest news from Allentown brings no comfort for those who simply wish the crust would stay intact. Now graves may need to be moved in the city. Additional to the dead, current living residents have been displaced by the sinkhole..Watching this one closely.. I am after all relatively close to it, anyway.
