Web Bots for breakfast

If you are in a certain type of gloomy, doomy morning mood you will get off on what is linked here. (pdf), the "web bot" predictions for 2009. The web bot computer program predicts future events based on the use of language on the internet. The 2 men behind this say they have correctly predicted major events including 9/11, the '04 tsunami, and the 2008 financial meltdown. I have not found any proof otherwise, but I have not looked hard for any. They did predict a pandemic in 2009 - though they stated it would be in the Fall. The concept itself is fascinating. I believe in Jung's collective unconscious. Therefore I assume one could make reasonably accurate guesses of future human caused events based on what a goodly chunk of us have on our minds consistently. Predicting earthquakes and such...not so sure...but, again, why not? Intuition is powerful stuff - probably hardwired after millions of years of evolution.

And, as we all know, the world does not end until December 21, 2012, (around 3pm Pacific Standard Time - ruining the last episodes of both Oprah and Judge Judy.) So we still have some time for distractions such as the Web Bots.

The most intriguing predictions for 09? The "summer of hell", "global coastal events" in May - that would be tomorrow, the decline of the markets through Feb 09 - they were correct here, the destruction of the U.S. dollar. There are even worse tidings in the report. (I make few predictions myself, as my ego is too tender. I called the election for Obama in early October but that was not exactly psychic.)

The web bots are certainly more reality based than Nostradamus, and probably have a better record of correct prediction than nearly all mainstream economists.

Good Morning! Thoughts on 12/21/12 and a poll. Plus a daily does of Shakespeare.

God knows I try to mix it up a bit on this blog. Hate it to be doomsday central. (no! that is a lie. I love the doomsday stuff..I just don't want Liberal Rapture to be all doom all the time.) Nevertheless here are 30 Reasons the new Great Depression is landing as we breath: I think it will be worse than the depression. Before I go to sleep at night, I wonder if tomorrow is the
day Moody's and S&P will announce a downgrade of U.S. government bonds.

The Obama/Bush failure is moving forward...and since I live in a big city, am not Amish or Buddhist, and dislike discomfort - I'm not overjoyed that I believe we are compulsively playing out the EndTimes narrative. Nor do I think Obama has any power to stop this compulsive play acting (all the while blaming the god of Moses and John of Patmos. ). Obama is, in fact, a RESULT of this mass delusion and denial. But since I really dislike the man (who is such a fraud we may need to retire the word fraud) if the world is going to end - it may as well
happen on his watch so he can take the blame. The Mayans tell us that the world ends on December 21, 2012, placing the last days during the Biden/Gingrich Administration interregnum. Nostradumbass, and Edgar Casey and my favorite doom machine the Web Bot Project place it around that date as well. When do you think the world ends?
And some Shakespeare - Titus Adronicus, Bill S's slasher/revenge bloodbath. Here is the moment Titus must decide what to do about the brutal rape and mutilation of his daughter.