My new After Dark magazine came in the mail yesterday. It is kind of a prediction 2007 issue. So I flipped through it and found Sean David Morton's predictions. Just glancing through I immediately noticed that these predictions are something that anyone who is at all up to date on world events could have come up within a couple minutes of time. Really, most of them are just obvious observations, example "Ill health and scandal will lead to the possible physical or political death in the form of resignation of VP Dick Cheney." Likely scenario and one that has probably been thought of by 98% of the population. Other no brainer predictions, Bush continues as a double lame duck and is hounded by dems, Immigration becomes a National outrage, National ID card with biometrics, Iraq divided into 3 countries. For absolute silliness and totally obvious predictions we have - "Brad and Angelina will fight," "Katie and Tom will get crazier" and "Rosie will be fired from the View." My 4 year old Niece could have come up with those. Then there is the totally sick part of the article where Morton hypes his Investment Group by predicting it will rake in record profits. Allowing a free plug for any investment group in After Dark makes me want to cancel my subscription, but especially Morton's, you can see how great his stock picks are by going here - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/aspie/trueorfalse/sdmstockwatch.html. There are a couple that are doing well, but many are flat or dropping. I would say anyone could probably put together a stock portfolio that would do as well or better than that.
After Dark isn't all bad this month, it does have an interview with Loren Coleman. Noory's article is titled "The spy who loved me," so many jokes I could make about that one, but they are just too obvious.
I could have waited for c2c rewind, but let me start bitching right now. John Lear was the guest on c2c and Noory wasted the entire second hour with him by having Richard C. Hoagland on. Any of you that have ever heard RCH know full well that Lear was lucky to get in a few sentences. It was so bad that you could hear John breath a sigh of relief when he was gone and John actually said "thank God he is gone." Don't we hear enough of RCH's moon and mars theories? Do we really need to take up a full hour of some other guest's time with RCH? I say no and especially not a guest like John Lear who doesn't need help keeping people's attention.
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Guess my hopes of a great coast with both Hoagland AND Lear were misplaced. RH just can't shut his trap. I actually found myself shaking my head when he wandered off yammering about his pet interdimensional physics. Dammit I wanted to hear more about the structures and mines.
He can't shut up and there was no reason to have him for an entire hour. It was a waste of my time, I have heard all that from Hoagland before, I wanted to hear Lear.
Lesley:
I'm a Streamlink subscriber & I download C2C episodes that interest me and listen via earbuds while @ work. I agree w/ you about George's and Hoagland's pre-programmed conversational ruts. Fortunately, I discovered the speedup feature on the Microsoft Media Player. Like a premature ejaculation, you can feel either George's or Hoagland's mental tape loops approaching, but there's nothing you can do about it -- so I speed them up on the Media Player by repeatedly clicking on the double arrows on the lower right side of the program progress slider until they sound like chipmunks on meth. Even though the words are indistinguishable, the speeches are well-rehearsed & you know the content; so one listens for the return of the guest's voice and, voila! the pain is only momentary.
Thanks for the wonderful website, BTW. Our views on things aren't always in harmony, but I appreciate the daily collage of interesting topics & your courage in baring your day-to-day mind, sans mental make-up.
Oh. And your picture's 'way cute too.
Anon - I also skip over certain things when I download and listen. Last night I was listening live so I couldn't do that.
I would be worried about you if you always agreed with me.:-)
Thanks for dropping by and for the nice comments!
This is the first time i have seen a reference to lame duck ANYWHERE THIS YEAR
Eric - Really? I have heard it used as much since the election in November, but I seem to hear it at least a couple times a day on CNN and MSNBC.
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