Personally, I think the more the economy is deregulated the more trust you are putting in humans to use their money to support those products and services which benefit everyone.
Unfortunately humans are flawed so a free market doesn't work unless the end game is the extinction of the human race or at the least, long periods of desperation for a majority of the population. Humans are selfish and shortsighted and this latest debacle of the economy is a glaring example.
Conservatives argue for deregulation. But.... what happens when a companies best interest is not in the best interest of the society? In a 100% free market we would probably get the most efficient and cheapest products and services but at the expense of the environment going down the shitter along with our health and the people at the bottom would have very little opportunity to rise to the top.
I think the level of regulation for a large part depends on the particular market. For example, how cool would it be if they deregulated the amount of cable TV companies there were and more companies could rent the cable lines. That would be great. This way companies like Comcast might actually have some competition and be forced to have more efficient customer service.
But in an industry like real estate finance, obviously there needs to be more regulation/standards. Houses are expensive, most people can not afford houses no matter what you do. If you are a teacher and pulling in $50,000 a year you can not afford a house in many markets. This sucks because we need more teachers, but it is the reality of the market. Trying to lower the standards through which people can attain mortgages so people who can't afford houses can now afford them in the very short term is asinine selfish thinking that needed to be regulated from the outset. This is an example of a market place that needed a lot more regulation because of the selfish short term profit driven arrogant ways of the powerful banking/mortgage companies.
As a species, humans are not evolved enough to trust our fate and stability to institutions that are bottom line driven, it just doesn't work.
Hopefully in 1,000 years humans will evolve and develop an intuitive sense that we are all in this together which will guide our behavior and thinking. Until then, we need serious checks and balances or selfish motivations will continually set us back and keep us running in place as a species. New technology and increased efficiency doesn't necessarily translate into growth as a species. If we stay on the path we are going, we won't even have the chance to evolve! And this is why I drink :)
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Mainstream News Drops the Ball on UFO"s Again for the millionth time!!
Check out this great blog entry from Billy Cox over at the Herable Tribune below. Essentially ABC did a story on UFO's, the type of story that has been done many times with basically nothing new except for some info on the recent Stephenville, Texas incident. However, when discussing this incident they apparently didn't bother to do any investigative research in light of the recent developments of official FAA radar reports 100% confirming everything that witnesses saw and which the air force was caught lying about. Here is a case where there is everything you'd need in a court of law to prove the Air Force is covering up something yet not one person in the mainstream news media has bothered to do their fucking job. Why not??? It would seem to me that unauthorized craft being intercepted by the Air Force headed towards George Bush's ranch with multiple witnesses and FAA radar reports would deserve to be looked into rather than lets say, whether or not Britney Spears farted yesterday. Why isn't the mainstream media following up on this story? Am I missing something? People should be outraged. The best possible scenario is that the US has some top secret craft capable of maneuvers never thought possible and they forgot to coordinate with the Air Force on where they were flying the thing. Honestly though, it's probably more likely this thing was not one of ours, which should be front page earth shaking news. Wake up people, this shit is real and happening every day whether the media wants to admit it or not...........
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Hey, ABC: Reporting is believing
Published: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 1:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 5:17 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 5:17 p.m.
Not that the Air Force really had anything to fear from the hacks at ABC News. But you do have to wonder if the brass at Carswell Field outside Fort Worth were splitting a gut during its "PrimeTime" show last night and going, "What a bunch of morons! They're rippin' off Larry King!"
It’s a little too easy to get hung up in the fact that Tuesday evening’s "UFOs: Seeing Is Believing” microwaved 90 minutes of leftovers from Peter Jennings' 2005 report by the same name. Because, yeah, after all, they tossed in the whole laundry basket again — alien abductions, Roswell, the Phoenix Lights, radio astronomers vs. flying saucers, even the same old B-52 incident over Minot, S.D., from 1968.
What made this show such an inadvertent glittering jewel was its utter lack of irony. Because David Muir, the standup blow-dry who had to paint the lipstick on this pig, actually said, "Tonight, we'll report what's new."
He said that.
Now, to be fair, we can't blame it all on David. The guy had a team of writers and producers and probably a bunch of marketing suits armed with flash cards and timers warning that devoting more than six minutes would lose the entire audience.
And did you notice how the narrative made such a breezy transition from the Phoenix Lights to NASA's Phoenix Lander, the probe that discovered ice on Mars? Aside from the word “phoenix,” neither had a thing to do with the other. So that segue had to be a group effort. No one person dreams up that sort of non sequitur by themselves.
The only “What’s New” aspect to “Seeing Is Believing” was the lead segment — the Stephenville, Tex., incident. But ABC’s irresponsible management of it attains tragic proportions only if one assumes investigative journalism, not entertainment, were the imperative.
Let’s (sigh) run through it again real quick: A massive UFO passes over a rural region of north Texas. Multiple witnesses also report jet fighters in hot pursuit. Some contend the bogey was heading toward George Bush’s ranch in Crawford.
A spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the nearby Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station (Carswell Field) denies any warplanes were in the sky that night. Two weeks later, aware that investigators with the Mutual UFO Network are filing radar records requests with various military and civilian agencies, the USAF realizes it’s about to be caught in a lie. In a pre-emptive motion, it concedes it had 10 F-16s in the air. Conducting “routine” training missions.
All military agencies in receipt of Freedom of Information Act requests from MUFON — as well as the Department of Homeland Security — stonewall the release of radar data. But it’s too late. Federal Aviation Administration and National Weather Service returns tell the story: F-16s were all over the place that night, straying out of their military operating areas and closing to within a mile of the UFO on its southeast trajectory toward Crawford. Nothing routine about this. And when the object bore down on a straight path to the Bush ranch no-fly zone, the military inteceptors were nowhere in the vicinity.
ABC compresses this stuff into a four-minute feature dominated by civilian eyewitnesses. There’s a sound bite with MUFON report co-author Robert Powell. But no serious examination of the radar data, no airing of the redacted flight logs from Carswell, not even any indication that “PrimeTime” attempted to resolve the USAF’s information embargo.
Perversely, “PrimeTime” concluded its broadcast with an exhortation from physicist Michio Kaku, who wondered if UFOs embody the technology needed to circumvent the constraints of time and space: “Let this investigation begin!”
Exactly. Because ABC can't handle it.
Friday, September 12, 2008
It's Not What You Say But How...........
It seems to me that in politics it's often not about what you say but how you say it. This sucks and could be the downfall of the U.S. where image and how you come off is more important than actual substance. This is human nature in some ways and has probably been a common occurance throughout human history.
Let's look at a good example, how about George Bush. Actually he is the classic example and it has been time tested. People in our country are so fucking stupid that they voted for this guy..... twice! During the debates he had with Al Gore it was like I was living on a different planet.
Both candidates would be asked the same question and Al Gore would give this really in depth completely intelligent well researched answer that made complete sense and showed he had in depth knowledge and experience about the given topic. To some however, he came off as arrogant, which he probably was, but you know what, who gives a shit? Wouldn't you rather elect someone who knows what they are doing than worry if they are being a little snooty to someone who obviously doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about?
Then George Bush would try and answer the question and it was like watching someone in the Miss America Padgent answer a question they weren't expecting and he would barely be able to regurgitate some fact that slightly related to the question and it would be obvious to anyone with an IQ above 3 that he was not well read on the subject at all. Then at the end of the debate the commentators would say how George came off pretty well in the public polls after the debate????? What the fuck???????? This is when I stopped paying attention to politics and the polls. I started to question my own reality. Am I missing something? Am I the one who is fucked up? Even worse, is more than 50% of my own country fucked up?
The last two elections showed me that the majority of American's don't care about substance or content, they just care about image. It's more important to stay the course and be a stubborn badass and be totally wrong then take a more well reasonded approach based on thorough research and anyalysis and be flexible to change if the initial research is shown to be inaccurate. People would rather have Jon Wanye be in charge than Aticus Finch, and this is coming from someone like me who loves watching the Ultimate Fighting Championship and watches people beat the shit out of each other every day to relax!
Hence, the movie Idiocracy is so accurate in some ways it's almost scary. And the fact the movie Idiocracy (staring Luke Wilson and Directed by Mike Judge) isn't as well known in the country is purely because of the topics the movie spoofs on, corporate power and lowest common denomenator thinking. Fox basically did zero promotion for this movie and it had a very limited release and went straight to video. IMO this is because this movie is an endightment of the corporate culture we live in where people don't bother to look for substance they just want sound bytes spoon fed to them in the form of the lower common denomenator.
This is pefectly personified in the movie by what is the equivalent of 'Gatoraide' which in the movie is called 'Brawno'. Here's the scoop about Brawno, it has electrolytes which is something you really need according to their campaign. But what are electrolytes? No one in the movie knows what they are, they just know that your body needs them and Brawno can give them to you. Therefore, you need Brawno.
Why are we going to Iraq when the people who committed 911 are not from Iraq?
Because we have to go to Iraq, they may have WMD's.
But what does that have to do with 911?
We have to go to Iraq and if you don't see why your not patriotic and you just don't get it.
But I want to be patriotic and 'get it'!
Okay, so you must agree with me.
Okay, lets go kick Sadams ass!
Are there Electrolytes in Iraq?
Meanwhile inside Dick Cheaney's mind:
"I can't believe it's happening! Finally a reason to invade Iraq, this is gonna be great, we can control the oil there, get rid of the asshole in charge and in the process generate billions of dollars for the US industrial complex! Total win win, after all, none of my kids have to go fight and you know those who have to fight chose to fight, so that's on them. This will be a great thing for the country. We'll be in and out, secure oil, and make some corporate money........." Fast forward years later......................
For the love of God I hope humans evolve before Global Warming creates a new ice age or we are gonna be up the creek killing each other to survive like Lord of the Flies!
And this is why I like to drink on the weekends!!!! God help us all.
Let's look at a good example, how about George Bush. Actually he is the classic example and it has been time tested. People in our country are so fucking stupid that they voted for this guy..... twice! During the debates he had with Al Gore it was like I was living on a different planet.
Both candidates would be asked the same question and Al Gore would give this really in depth completely intelligent well researched answer that made complete sense and showed he had in depth knowledge and experience about the given topic. To some however, he came off as arrogant, which he probably was, but you know what, who gives a shit? Wouldn't you rather elect someone who knows what they are doing than worry if they are being a little snooty to someone who obviously doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about?
Then George Bush would try and answer the question and it was like watching someone in the Miss America Padgent answer a question they weren't expecting and he would barely be able to regurgitate some fact that slightly related to the question and it would be obvious to anyone with an IQ above 3 that he was not well read on the subject at all. Then at the end of the debate the commentators would say how George came off pretty well in the public polls after the debate????? What the fuck???????? This is when I stopped paying attention to politics and the polls. I started to question my own reality. Am I missing something? Am I the one who is fucked up? Even worse, is more than 50% of my own country fucked up?
The last two elections showed me that the majority of American's don't care about substance or content, they just care about image. It's more important to stay the course and be a stubborn badass and be totally wrong then take a more well reasonded approach based on thorough research and anyalysis and be flexible to change if the initial research is shown to be inaccurate. People would rather have Jon Wanye be in charge than Aticus Finch, and this is coming from someone like me who loves watching the Ultimate Fighting Championship and watches people beat the shit out of each other every day to relax!
Hence, the movie Idiocracy is so accurate in some ways it's almost scary. And the fact the movie Idiocracy (staring Luke Wilson and Directed by Mike Judge) isn't as well known in the country is purely because of the topics the movie spoofs on, corporate power and lowest common denomenator thinking. Fox basically did zero promotion for this movie and it had a very limited release and went straight to video. IMO this is because this movie is an endightment of the corporate culture we live in where people don't bother to look for substance they just want sound bytes spoon fed to them in the form of the lower common denomenator.
This is pefectly personified in the movie by what is the equivalent of 'Gatoraide' which in the movie is called 'Brawno'. Here's the scoop about Brawno, it has electrolytes which is something you really need according to their campaign. But what are electrolytes? No one in the movie knows what they are, they just know that your body needs them and Brawno can give them to you. Therefore, you need Brawno.
Why are we going to Iraq when the people who committed 911 are not from Iraq?
Because we have to go to Iraq, they may have WMD's.
But what does that have to do with 911?
We have to go to Iraq and if you don't see why your not patriotic and you just don't get it.
But I want to be patriotic and 'get it'!
Okay, so you must agree with me.
Okay, lets go kick Sadams ass!
Are there Electrolytes in Iraq?
Meanwhile inside Dick Cheaney's mind:
"I can't believe it's happening! Finally a reason to invade Iraq, this is gonna be great, we can control the oil there, get rid of the asshole in charge and in the process generate billions of dollars for the US industrial complex! Total win win, after all, none of my kids have to go fight and you know those who have to fight chose to fight, so that's on them. This will be a great thing for the country. We'll be in and out, secure oil, and make some corporate money........." Fast forward years later......................
For the love of God I hope humans evolve before Global Warming creates a new ice age or we are gonna be up the creek killing each other to survive like Lord of the Flies!
And this is why I like to drink on the weekends!!!! God help us all.
Is Our Airspace Really Secure??????
Check this out from Journalist Billy Cox's Blog on the Herald Tribune Website - http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=BLOG32
* Thursday, September 11, 2008, 12:57 pm
9/11's Potemkin Village
by Billy Cox
As the nation pauses for 9/11, let us also remember that, despite billions of dollars invested in a new security bureaucracy, American airspace is no more secure today than it was seven years ago.
Federal Aviation Administration radar records indicate that the U.S. Air Force was powerless to stop a mysterious aerial incursion from surging toward President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex., in January. The 77-page analysis posted by the Mutual UFO Network in July has been neither challenged nor rebutted by military officials. Nor have any scientists emerged to take issue with any of the technical points raised by the MUFON study.
Nor have government authorities bothered to refute last year’s study assembled by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena. That 155-page report described how a UFO parked itself over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago’s busy O’Hare International for 18 minutes while ground crews watched the object burn a circular hole in the cloud cover upon its departure.
Our government’s refusal to acknowledge these meticulously detailed reconstructions, along with the media’s failure to press for answers, creates a vacuum that can only be filled by vigilant taxpayers demanding accountability from this Potemkin Village. Maybe the citizens of Arizona are best positioned to elevate this conundrum into what it’s been all along — a political issue.
Long before the “Phoenix Lights” incident drew international attention in 1997, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater made repeated and now well-publicized attempts to flesh out the UFO mystery. But not even the lion of modern conservatism could get past the locked doors of Gen. Curtis LeMay, the former Air Force Chief of Staff.
Several months after countless Arizonans were startled by the massive UFO cruising their skies 11 years ago, Goldwater’s successor, John McCain, defended the military cover story that warplanes were conducting routine maneuvers that night in a letter to a constituent (at https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxBjDsjYMesHf0Ycf96qM1EMb_VJ4fq1nYGKjEIAdUCdD8L1lXFMbRutc4QHfJpzMcWO2O1nTmiHn5w2XrU1lNcIzU7Xinfb3IyHybjW_hlxJvLwJ5uQWjhVLn0FEZ9aqiSg2q6GkGlA/s1600-h/Phoenix+Lights+McCain+Ltr+Pg+(1).jpg):
“I believe that these exercises, culminating in the release of many flares simultaneously, provide a reasonable explanation for the appearance of the peculiar lights that evening.”
Several years later, however, when asked at a press conference about UFOs, McCain wasn’t laughing (see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4686586251683588658): “I think it’s of great interest. I would point out to you that there was a case a couple of years ago in Arizona of some lights that were seen over Arizona and that has never been fully explained.”
So which is it? What does McCain know?
In 2007, fellow Republican Fife Symington, the former Arizona governor who initially ridiculed the Phoenix Lights, admitted he’d seen the damned thing himself. He called it “enormous. It just felt otherworldly. In your gut, you could just tell it was otherworldly."
It’s time for the “maverick” presidential candidate to figure out what’s going down in his own back yard. There’s never been a better moment for the folks who put McCain in office to demand a little more straight talk at the next town hall forum.
* Thursday, September 11, 2008, 12:57 pm
9/11's Potemkin Village
by Billy Cox
As the nation pauses for 9/11, let us also remember that, despite billions of dollars invested in a new security bureaucracy, American airspace is no more secure today than it was seven years ago.
Federal Aviation Administration radar records indicate that the U.S. Air Force was powerless to stop a mysterious aerial incursion from surging toward President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex., in January. The 77-page analysis posted by the Mutual UFO Network in July has been neither challenged nor rebutted by military officials. Nor have any scientists emerged to take issue with any of the technical points raised by the MUFON study.
Nor have government authorities bothered to refute last year’s study assembled by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena. That 155-page report described how a UFO parked itself over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago’s busy O’Hare International for 18 minutes while ground crews watched the object burn a circular hole in the cloud cover upon its departure.
Our government’s refusal to acknowledge these meticulously detailed reconstructions, along with the media’s failure to press for answers, creates a vacuum that can only be filled by vigilant taxpayers demanding accountability from this Potemkin Village. Maybe the citizens of Arizona are best positioned to elevate this conundrum into what it’s been all along — a political issue.
Long before the “Phoenix Lights” incident drew international attention in 1997, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater made repeated and now well-publicized attempts to flesh out the UFO mystery. But not even the lion of modern conservatism could get past the locked doors of Gen. Curtis LeMay, the former Air Force Chief of Staff.
Several months after countless Arizonans were startled by the massive UFO cruising their skies 11 years ago, Goldwater’s successor, John McCain, defended the military cover story that warplanes were conducting routine maneuvers that night in a letter to a constituent (at https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxBjDsjYMesHf0Ycf96qM1EMb_VJ4fq1nYGKjEIAdUCdD8L1lXFMbRutc4QHfJpzMcWO2O1nTmiHn5w2XrU1lNcIzU7Xinfb3IyHybjW_hlxJvLwJ5uQWjhVLn0FEZ9aqiSg2q6GkGlA/s1600-h/Phoenix+Lights+McCain+Ltr+Pg+(1).jpg):
“I believe that these exercises, culminating in the release of many flares simultaneously, provide a reasonable explanation for the appearance of the peculiar lights that evening.”
Several years later, however, when asked at a press conference about UFOs, McCain wasn’t laughing (see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4686586251683588658): “I think it’s of great interest. I would point out to you that there was a case a couple of years ago in Arizona of some lights that were seen over Arizona and that has never been fully explained.”
So which is it? What does McCain know?
In 2007, fellow Republican Fife Symington, the former Arizona governor who initially ridiculed the Phoenix Lights, admitted he’d seen the damned thing himself. He called it “enormous. It just felt otherworldly. In your gut, you could just tell it was otherworldly."
It’s time for the “maverick” presidential candidate to figure out what’s going down in his own back yard. There’s never been a better moment for the folks who put McCain in office to demand a little more straight talk at the next town hall forum.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
COMCAST SUCKS AGAIN!!!
i've been waiting all week to watch the UFC pay per view. For the fucking 3rd time in a row I am unable to order a UFC pay per view because COMCAST is so inefficient it's mind blowing.
to order the pay per view I have to call them. Why can't I order it through the fucking TV? Because that would actually make a lot of sense!!! So I try calling them first thing this morning to make sure I can get the fight that will be on at 10pm tonight.
However, I am put on hold for an hour and a half. great, it's not like I have anything else to fucking do today but wait on hold????????????? So right now I'm currently trying to use their online interface to get in touch with them since they don't answer the phone and I can't order through the TV. I'm currently number 50 in their online customer service line. What the fuck????????
Do you want me to give you money or not? You should make it easy as shit for me to order this. I've wasted the entire morning and afternoon on this and this is the fucking 3rd time this has happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the fuck is wrong with COMCAST???????????? I just don't get and I'm actually tired and bored about complaining about them. How many times can I call them out on their shit??? if they didn't carry the soap opera channel I would have gone to Star power long ago. I am a good husband for putting up with such a terribly inefficient company. They must have some really good friends in the government to be able to continue to operate like this, my God man!!!!!!
to order the pay per view I have to call them. Why can't I order it through the fucking TV? Because that would actually make a lot of sense!!! So I try calling them first thing this morning to make sure I can get the fight that will be on at 10pm tonight.
However, I am put on hold for an hour and a half. great, it's not like I have anything else to fucking do today but wait on hold????????????? So right now I'm currently trying to use their online interface to get in touch with them since they don't answer the phone and I can't order through the TV. I'm currently number 50 in their online customer service line. What the fuck????????
Do you want me to give you money or not? You should make it easy as shit for me to order this. I've wasted the entire morning and afternoon on this and this is the fucking 3rd time this has happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the fuck is wrong with COMCAST???????????? I just don't get and I'm actually tired and bored about complaining about them. How many times can I call them out on their shit??? if they didn't carry the soap opera channel I would have gone to Star power long ago. I am a good husband for putting up with such a terribly inefficient company. They must have some really good friends in the government to be able to continue to operate like this, my God man!!!!!!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
When You Shoot From The Hip, You Better Watch Your Feet!
John McCaine's new campaign slogan should be "When you shoot from the hip you better watch your feet!" Unfortunately for him, he shot his foot with his VP selection.
This is from the PR Industry Website - Daily Dog, Enjoy!!
"At the least, Republicans close to the campaign said it was increasingly apparent that Palin had been selected as McCain's running mate with more haste than McCain advisers initially described. People familiar with the process said Palin had responded to a standard form with more than 70 questions. Although the Washington Post quoted advisers to McCain as saying Palin had been subjected to an FBI background check, an FBI official said Monday the bureau did not vet potential candidates and had not known of her selection until it was made public.
In Alaska, several state leaders and local officials said they knew of no efforts by the McCain campaign to find out more information about Palin before the announcement of her selection, Although campaigns are typically discreet when they make inquiries into potential running mates, officials in Alaska said they thought it was peculiar that no one in the state had the slightest hint that Palin might be under consideration.
"They didn't speak to anyone in the Legislature, they didn't speak to anyone in the business community," Lyda Green, the State Senate president, who lives in Wasilla, where Palin served as mayor, told the Times."
http://bulldogreporter.com/
This is from the PR Industry Website - Daily Dog, Enjoy!!
"At the least, Republicans close to the campaign said it was increasingly apparent that Palin had been selected as McCain's running mate with more haste than McCain advisers initially described. People familiar with the process said Palin had responded to a standard form with more than 70 questions. Although the Washington Post quoted advisers to McCain as saying Palin had been subjected to an FBI background check, an FBI official said Monday the bureau did not vet potential candidates and had not known of her selection until it was made public.
In Alaska, several state leaders and local officials said they knew of no efforts by the McCain campaign to find out more information about Palin before the announcement of her selection, Although campaigns are typically discreet when they make inquiries into potential running mates, officials in Alaska said they thought it was peculiar that no one in the state had the slightest hint that Palin might be under consideration.
"They didn't speak to anyone in the Legislature, they didn't speak to anyone in the business community," Lyda Green, the State Senate president, who lives in Wasilla, where Palin served as mayor, told the Times."
http://bulldogreporter.com/
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Sarah Palin
So John McCain chooses an inexperienced hyper religious person to be his running mate. She is very pro life and is a creationist (evolution isn't real). Very interesting.
Did I mention her policy towards teen pregnancy is to promote abstinence instead of educating kids about birth control, yet her own daughter (who I feel very sorry for) chose to ignore this rule of abstinence and is now a pregnant teenager? Maybe if she had educated her own daughter about birth control she wouldn't be another teenage pregnancy statistic. Obviously there is a disconnect there which the Republicans are spinning into a positive because she didn't have an abortion so this shows how pro life she is. WTF???? It's her fucking daughters decision isn't it? Her daughter chose to have unprotected sex and has also chosen to have the kid. Good for her daughter, too bad her mom has now made her situation a nationally covered public news story. What's more important, being a Vice Presidential candidate or making sure your daughter is able to successfully cope with an unexpected pregnancy away from the public eye??? I guess ambition is more important than your family in this case, granted being a Vice Presidential Candidate is a once in a lifetime chance, so I can't totally blame her, in her mind it's probably justified as the 'greater good'.
Sarah Palin also was reportedly invovled in 'Alaska's Independance' movement in the 1990's, whereby Alaskans for many years have tried to revote on whether to continue to be part of the US in favor of joining Canada or being their own country. Wow. That's not exactly partiotic. Mr. McCain are you sure you did a background check on Sarah before you named her as your running mate? Are you going to be this thorough if you are elected into office? Of course I am biased because I don't like people who like to mix religion and politics (by the way isn't there a rule against this and isn't this the entire reason the pilgrims came to this country?).
I was a religion major in college and I can tell you having read the bible a couple time that if you are looking to justify something, it's in there. Want to justify murdering innocent people? Just look in the bible. Want to justify incest? It's in there as well. Want to read about beings (they are called the Nephilim ) coming down from the skies and then raping woman on Earth? Oh yeah, it's in Genesis, you want it, it's in there.
Of course there is also great wisdom in the bible as well, but to use it as the only authority on right and wrong when there are clearly many unethical things that go down in the bible on behalf of God is opening yourself up to critism from people like me who actually studied this stuff from a semi objective veiwpoint (aka my parents didn't force me to believe any of this stuff!). To pick out bits of pieces of the book that support your individual agenda is called 'prooftexting' and I suspect that prooftexting is responsible for millions of deaths just by itself. And this is from someone (me!) who thinks the bible is cool and is willing to consider much of it as possible although a product of a bygone error (no need to sacrifice a goat before every season anymore!), so I'm far from an anti religous/bible person, I'm just someone who is a critic of being completely incosistent and misleading to oneself.
Anywho, the next blog entry will probably be on UFO's and Nukes. There is a history on the presence of UFO's near nuclear silos in the US which in some instances have either shut down or even engaged the launch sequence of our nukes. Pretty crazy I know, but there is significant witness testimony and documentation that this has happened on several occasions.
What does this mean? I have no idea how to interpret the actions of some potentially super advanced species, but it's still fun to guess!
Did I mention her policy towards teen pregnancy is to promote abstinence instead of educating kids about birth control, yet her own daughter (who I feel very sorry for) chose to ignore this rule of abstinence and is now a pregnant teenager? Maybe if she had educated her own daughter about birth control she wouldn't be another teenage pregnancy statistic. Obviously there is a disconnect there which the Republicans are spinning into a positive because she didn't have an abortion so this shows how pro life she is. WTF???? It's her fucking daughters decision isn't it? Her daughter chose to have unprotected sex and has also chosen to have the kid. Good for her daughter, too bad her mom has now made her situation a nationally covered public news story. What's more important, being a Vice Presidential candidate or making sure your daughter is able to successfully cope with an unexpected pregnancy away from the public eye??? I guess ambition is more important than your family in this case, granted being a Vice Presidential Candidate is a once in a lifetime chance, so I can't totally blame her, in her mind it's probably justified as the 'greater good'.
Sarah Palin also was reportedly invovled in 'Alaska's Independance' movement in the 1990's, whereby Alaskans for many years have tried to revote on whether to continue to be part of the US in favor of joining Canada or being their own country. Wow. That's not exactly partiotic. Mr. McCain are you sure you did a background check on Sarah before you named her as your running mate? Are you going to be this thorough if you are elected into office? Of course I am biased because I don't like people who like to mix religion and politics (by the way isn't there a rule against this and isn't this the entire reason the pilgrims came to this country?).
I was a religion major in college and I can tell you having read the bible a couple time that if you are looking to justify something, it's in there. Want to justify murdering innocent people? Just look in the bible. Want to justify incest? It's in there as well. Want to read about beings (they are called the Nephilim ) coming down from the skies and then raping woman on Earth? Oh yeah, it's in Genesis, you want it, it's in there.
Of course there is also great wisdom in the bible as well, but to use it as the only authority on right and wrong when there are clearly many unethical things that go down in the bible on behalf of God is opening yourself up to critism from people like me who actually studied this stuff from a semi objective veiwpoint (aka my parents didn't force me to believe any of this stuff!). To pick out bits of pieces of the book that support your individual agenda is called 'prooftexting' and I suspect that prooftexting is responsible for millions of deaths just by itself. And this is from someone (me!) who thinks the bible is cool and is willing to consider much of it as possible although a product of a bygone error (no need to sacrifice a goat before every season anymore!), so I'm far from an anti religous/bible person, I'm just someone who is a critic of being completely incosistent and misleading to oneself.
Anywho, the next blog entry will probably be on UFO's and Nukes. There is a history on the presence of UFO's near nuclear silos in the US which in some instances have either shut down or even engaged the launch sequence of our nukes. Pretty crazy I know, but there is significant witness testimony and documentation that this has happened on several occasions.
What does this mean? I have no idea how to interpret the actions of some potentially super advanced species, but it's still fun to guess!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Obama's Speech!
I just watched Obama's speech on YOUTUBE from last night and thought it was pretty damn good. He pointed out some really important differences between him and McCaine and made a very compelling argument for himself in a way that even a high school drop out from the bible belt could understand. In the past I think the reason George W was able to get elected (assuming the electino was not stolen which it probably was!!!!) was because he spoke to the lowest common denomenator, so while Al Gore would actually answer the question in a debate and provide extremely relevent statistics to back up his opinion, George Bush would say something like, "I'm for America, and America is great!" and then win public opinion somehow. Obama is able to speak in a simple way and generalize complex issues to their purest form which is very very important. The way he aligned McCaine with Bush was great (90% of the time McCaine has voted with Bush, do you want to elect someone who brings a 10% chance of change?).
He also confronted the current adminstrations failures head on, no punches pulled and he made some really good points that were targeted to the swing voters when he did a pre-emptive counter attack to what is sure to be McCaine's stragety when he said that we are all patriots regardless of what side we are on and that the election should be about the larger direction of the country, not arbitrary social issues.
My only knock on Obama is he doesn't get very specific in speeches like Hilary did when she would outline her plans. But I've been to his website and there is more specific info there and my brother has friends that have worked with him and he has assured me his speaking in generalities is merely a strategic thing. It certainly worked for George Bush who spoke more generalities than an abstract Haiku poet!
He also confronted the current adminstrations failures head on, no punches pulled and he made some really good points that were targeted to the swing voters when he did a pre-emptive counter attack to what is sure to be McCaine's stragety when he said that we are all patriots regardless of what side we are on and that the election should be about the larger direction of the country, not arbitrary social issues.
My only knock on Obama is he doesn't get very specific in speeches like Hilary did when she would outline her plans. But I've been to his website and there is more specific info there and my brother has friends that have worked with him and he has assured me his speaking in generalities is merely a strategic thing. It certainly worked for George Bush who spoke more generalities than an abstract Haiku poet!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Newsweek On Bigfoot
Here is a link to an article about the recent bigfoot hoax - http://www.newsweek.com/id/155355/page/1
Essentially some guys from Georgia claimed to have found a dead bigfoot (Really a frozen gorilla costume filled with animal body parts, gross!!!) and along with a bigfoot promoter (I didn't realize there was such a thing?) they held a press conference which the mainstream media all covered to handout the DNA results from a University professor which turned out to show it was .................. a hoax!!! The DNA was Possum DNA! I would have at least used Gorilla dna, come on guys!!! Possum DNA? If you're gonna go that far off why not just use squirrel DNA (who's gonna volunteer to jack off the squrirel? Not It!).
Any who, the article also points out there are serious PhD's who believe that BigFoot exists and actually have found some real evidence which they are continuning to research.
So what does this all mean?
Yes this most recent hijinx was a hoax, and a pretty lame one at that but.......... that doesn't change the fact that the Bigfoot phenomena is also taken seriously by certain people within the academic world.
As I've said before, if there is a missing link species hanging out in the woods, I don't think it would change my world view very much. So I while I'm intellectually curious, I don't think the discovery of bigfoot is as revolutionary as the UFO phenomena. Aren't they always finding new species?
If bigfoot is real, I wonder what the back story is. It could be anything from an entire society of a different humanoid/ape hybrid species living underground to some very late cases of isolated evolution or, some byproduct of UFO occupants breeding program....................
I guess that is the real question what is the back story to this species if indeed it is proven real? It could just be the equivalent of a leper colony for people who suffer from the genetic disorder that makes some people extremely hairy like this guy -
www.freaksuncensored.com/Fedor_Jefticheff_Jeftichew_JoJo_the_Russian_Dog_Faced_Man.jpg
Meanwhile, my favorite UFO blogger Billy Cox at the Herald Tribune is strongly encouraging public pressure on the Air Force to provide a comment on the recent FAA radar reports of the Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings.
To quickly recap, a massive UFO seen by many corroborating witnesses flies over texas. Around the same time several F16's are also seen in the area. The Air Force releases a public statement saying they weren't in the area.......... two weeks later they say, "Oh yeah, we were in the area :) ".
Some civilian UFO researchers contact the FAA to get radar reports of that day. The radar reports support everything the witnesses say and actually show the massive UFO going 1,000 mph and then slowing to 50 mph while heading towards George Bush's ranch. Billy Cox (investigative journalist) contacts the Air Force for comment on the radar reports and gets no response after repeatedly contacting them for 2 weeks so he is soliciting 'us' the public to write letters to the big man on campus at the air force. I have posted a link to Billy's blog along with Air Force contact he wants people to send letter too.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=BLOG32
From Billy's Blog:
"So here’s a suggestion: Forget Carswell, it’s not their call. If you’re seriously interested in transparency, take a whopping seven minutes out of your busy day and write a note to Gen. Schwartz at the Pentagon. Snail mail makes a better impression than e-mail. Send it to Air Force Chief of Staff, 1670 Air Force Pentagon, Washington, DC 20330-1670.
Gen. Schwartz began thinking on his feet during the white-knuckle evacuation of Saigon in 1975. He’s the first cargo pilot ever appointed as USAF Secretary and the first non-fighter pilot to occupy that office since 1982. He’ll get to the bottom of this Stephenville thing if you're motivated enough to buy stamps."
Essentially some guys from Georgia claimed to have found a dead bigfoot (Really a frozen gorilla costume filled with animal body parts, gross!!!) and along with a bigfoot promoter (I didn't realize there was such a thing?) they held a press conference which the mainstream media all covered to handout the DNA results from a University professor which turned out to show it was .................. a hoax!!! The DNA was Possum DNA! I would have at least used Gorilla dna, come on guys!!! Possum DNA? If you're gonna go that far off why not just use squirrel DNA (who's gonna volunteer to jack off the squrirel? Not It!).
Any who, the article also points out there are serious PhD's who believe that BigFoot exists and actually have found some real evidence which they are continuning to research.
So what does this all mean?
Yes this most recent hijinx was a hoax, and a pretty lame one at that but.......... that doesn't change the fact that the Bigfoot phenomena is also taken seriously by certain people within the academic world.
As I've said before, if there is a missing link species hanging out in the woods, I don't think it would change my world view very much. So I while I'm intellectually curious, I don't think the discovery of bigfoot is as revolutionary as the UFO phenomena. Aren't they always finding new species?
If bigfoot is real, I wonder what the back story is. It could be anything from an entire society of a different humanoid/ape hybrid species living underground to some very late cases of isolated evolution or, some byproduct of UFO occupants breeding program....................
I guess that is the real question what is the back story to this species if indeed it is proven real? It could just be the equivalent of a leper colony for people who suffer from the genetic disorder that makes some people extremely hairy like this guy -
www.freaksuncensored.com/Fedor_Jefticheff_Jeftichew_JoJo_the_Russian_Dog_Faced_Man.jpg
Meanwhile, my favorite UFO blogger Billy Cox at the Herald Tribune is strongly encouraging public pressure on the Air Force to provide a comment on the recent FAA radar reports of the Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings.
To quickly recap, a massive UFO seen by many corroborating witnesses flies over texas. Around the same time several F16's are also seen in the area. The Air Force releases a public statement saying they weren't in the area.......... two weeks later they say, "Oh yeah, we were in the area :) ".
Some civilian UFO researchers contact the FAA to get radar reports of that day. The radar reports support everything the witnesses say and actually show the massive UFO going 1,000 mph and then slowing to 50 mph while heading towards George Bush's ranch. Billy Cox (investigative journalist) contacts the Air Force for comment on the radar reports and gets no response after repeatedly contacting them for 2 weeks so he is soliciting 'us' the public to write letters to the big man on campus at the air force. I have posted a link to Billy's blog along with Air Force contact he wants people to send letter too.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=BLOG32
From Billy's Blog:
"So here’s a suggestion: Forget Carswell, it’s not their call. If you’re seriously interested in transparency, take a whopping seven minutes out of your busy day and write a note to Gen. Schwartz at the Pentagon. Snail mail makes a better impression than e-mail. Send it to Air Force Chief of Staff, 1670 Air Force Pentagon, Washington, DC 20330-1670.
Gen. Schwartz began thinking on his feet during the white-knuckle evacuation of Saigon in 1975. He’s the first cargo pilot ever appointed as USAF Secretary and the first non-fighter pilot to occupy that office since 1982. He’ll get to the bottom of this Stephenville thing if you're motivated enough to buy stamps."
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
My First Blog at the Dirt Jerk Diaries, Please Read!!!
Thanks for visiting my brand new blog, 'Dirt Jerk Diaries'!!!
I have been keeping a regular blog on my bands website while also sending out a weekly email on the topic of UFO's to a list of friends who are interested in the issue. Rather than continue to fill up the bands blog with stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with the band and everything to do with me (the Dirt Jerk!) and also rather than send 5 page emails about UFO's to friends, I decided it was time to put together my own blog.
Right now this blog is filled with old entries from both my past UFO emails as well as some highlights from my bands blog as well as material from an ancient blog I once had on Frienster called 'Cake Lama'.
Going forward, I will be posting here regularly, so please sit back, relax, enjoy yourself. Can I get your some coffee?
ENJOY!!!!!!
I have been keeping a regular blog on my bands website while also sending out a weekly email on the topic of UFO's to a list of friends who are interested in the issue. Rather than continue to fill up the bands blog with stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with the band and everything to do with me (the Dirt Jerk!) and also rather than send 5 page emails about UFO's to friends, I decided it was time to put together my own blog.
Right now this blog is filled with old entries from both my past UFO emails as well as some highlights from my bands blog as well as material from an ancient blog I once had on Frienster called 'Cake Lama'.
Going forward, I will be posting here regularly, so please sit back, relax, enjoy yourself. Can I get your some coffee?
ENJOY!!!!!!
Comcastic!
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Comcast: Slow To Block Kiddie Porn! - 7/23/08
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
 | Comcast: Slow To Block Kiddie Porn! Well, if you read this blog you know that I hate Comcast. Just search through my past blog entries with the keyword 'Comcast' and you will find several blog entries dedicated to the frustration I've had with Comcast since it's impossible to get in touch with them to get help for anything! But the Comcast Corp unit did not sign New York's "code of conduct" that includes these and other business reforms, Cuomo wrote in a letter obtained by Reuters. Comcast issued a statement saying it has been working with Cuomo and said it expects it will sign on to the New York code of conduct. The company also noted it signed a separate agreement with the cable industry and 48 state attorneys general to help combat child pornography, reports Reuters writer Joseph A. Giannone. Cuomo said the nation's No. 2 ISP "has continued to drag its heels when it comes to taking every necessary action to eliminate online child porn from the Internet." As a result, New York will pursue "legal action" if Comcast does not agree to change its business practices within five days, Cuomo said, according to Reuters. The attorney general said his office issued a subpoena to Comcast on May 6 related to the industry wide investigation and commenced talks "several weeks ago" to reach some agreement over how Comcast could "fight against child pornography." Posted from - http://www.bulldogreporter.com/ |
Comcast Reads Blogs About Comcast Sucking?
Monday, July 28, 2008
| Comcast Reads Blogs About Comcast Sucking? I just found an interesting article about how Frank Eliason the "Digital Care Manager at Comcast" will search through blogs for negative mentions of Comcast. When he finds one he then tries to clear the air with disgruntled customers. In his words, ""When you're having a two-way conversation, you really get to clear the air". |
Paranormal Time 8/7/08)
It's never, never, never as straightforward as it seems in the UFO world!
Bear with me, this is complicated. My fellow message board geeks with the help of a journalist and historian have uncovered a complicated circle of disputed claims regarding Dr. Edgar Mitchell's recent testimony in the news.
HERE WE GO.............
Dr. Mitchell has claimed an unnamed Admiral at the Pentagon told him personally that the UFO special access projects were real and that he was denied access to them. However, Herald Tribune writer Billy Cox was able to locate and contact this admiral and the admiral told Cox that:
"What is true is that I met with them. What is not true is that I was denied access to this material, because I didn’t pursue it. I may have left it open with them, but it was not especially compelling, not compelling enough to waste my staff’s time to go looking for it.”
So, while the admiral says an initial meeting did take place he claims he never followed up with Mitchell about being denied access to anything. Meanwhile, in the same Billy Cox article, Mitchell now says that a 'secondary trust worthy source' was actually the one who relayed to him the information about the Admiral being denied access to these projects.
Right there we have an inconsistency with Mitchell's statements. First he said the admiral told him directly. Than he says he found out about the admiral being denied access indirectly via a second party. To further complicate matters, Dr. Steven Greer was involved in these meetings. Steven Greer is not credible at all. If Greer was Mitchell's secondary trusted source, things are not looking good, but this remains to be documented.
At the least, Mitchell has been misleading in changing his story on whether the Admiral told him directly or told another source directly.
For the record, extremely credible UFO/Cold War historian Richard Dolan (who has written the most credible compressive book on the UFO topic) vouches for Mitchell's claims via his own anonymous source who says that indeed the admiral is lying about not being denied access to the UFO special access projects. Dolan went on to say that his source reveals that the admiral wasn't even contacted by normal military personal in this matter, but rather he was contacted by Lawyers who worked for private contractors. Strange strange strange????
So either the Admiral is lying or Mitchell is lying. Mitchell has no incentive to lie, but he has been caught in being inconsistent and was involved with someone who has a very sketchy track record - Dr. Steven Greer. The Admiral on the other hand has every reason to lie, but is he?
To be continued........... here are links to the various things I have cited. I doubt the media will do much follow up on this stuff:
Herald Tribune Article (slow server) - http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=BLOG32
Richard Dolan's claims - www.presidentialufo.com/richard_dolan.htm
Bear with me, this is complicated. My fellow message board geeks with the help of a journalist and historian have uncovered a complicated circle of disputed claims regarding Dr. Edgar Mitchell's recent testimony in the news.
HERE WE GO.............
Dr. Mitchell has claimed an unnamed Admiral at the Pentagon told him personally that the UFO special access projects were real and that he was denied access to them. However, Herald Tribune writer Billy Cox was able to locate and contact this admiral and the admiral told Cox that:
"What is true is that I met with them. What is not true is that I was denied access to this material, because I didn’t pursue it. I may have left it open with them, but it was not especially compelling, not compelling enough to waste my staff’s time to go looking for it.”
So, while the admiral says an initial meeting did take place he claims he never followed up with Mitchell about being denied access to anything. Meanwhile, in the same Billy Cox article, Mitchell now says that a 'secondary trust worthy source' was actually the one who relayed to him the information about the Admiral being denied access to these projects.
Right there we have an inconsistency with Mitchell's statements. First he said the admiral told him directly. Than he says he found out about the admiral being denied access indirectly via a second party. To further complicate matters, Dr. Steven Greer was involved in these meetings. Steven Greer is not credible at all. If Greer was Mitchell's secondary trusted source, things are not looking good, but this remains to be documented.
At the least, Mitchell has been misleading in changing his story on whether the Admiral told him directly or told another source directly.
For the record, extremely credible UFO/Cold War historian Richard Dolan (who has written the most credible compressive book on the UFO topic) vouches for Mitchell's claims via his own anonymous source who says that indeed the admiral is lying about not being denied access to the UFO special access projects. Dolan went on to say that his source reveals that the admiral wasn't even contacted by normal military personal in this matter, but rather he was contacted by Lawyers who worked for private contractors. Strange strange strange????
So either the Admiral is lying or Mitchell is lying. Mitchell has no incentive to lie, but he has been caught in being inconsistent and was involved with someone who has a very sketchy track record - Dr. Steven Greer. The Admiral on the other hand has every reason to lie, but is he?
To be continued........... here are links to the various things I have cited. I doubt the media will do much follow up on this stuff:
Herald Tribune Article (slow server) - http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=BLOG32
Richard Dolan's claims - www.presidentialufo.com/richard_dolan.htm
Paranormal Time (8/6/08)
Well the mainstream media has finally started to follow up on Apollo Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell's claims that UFO's are real and there is a massive cover up. Here are some of the clips from the past week:
MSNBC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7-w1B93v0
Fox News - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HXMqmv2ZEs
CNN - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1371749035930508088&hl=en
Did you know Dr. Mitchell has been saying this very publicly for 10 years yet it was never covered? Why now? Are we on the cusp of the insiders allowing this stuff to leak out? Is this stuff just happening organically? Is it a coincidence that the Vatican issued a public statement about aliens being our brothers? Is the announcement of water on Mars a part of this slow desensitization program? (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-07-20-mars-flight_N.htm)
Strangely, Dr. Mitchell is not the only astronaut to come out about the UFO issue. One of the first Astronauts, Gordon Cooper, also came out very publicly that he believed UFO's were real and being covered up before he died. Here is a short obit about this from CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/04/gordon.cooper/ . Would you believe Buzz Aldrin is another one? Unlike these others though, Buzz apparently changes his story frequently. One day it's definitely a UFO the next day Buzz isn't so sure. This from Larry King where he talks about this UFO experience - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np45b2Xt-Ww&feature=related
Another space program veteran named Clark McClelland says he witnessed aliens first hand. Clark's story has all but been ignored, but perhaps with Dr. Mitchell gaining press Clark will eventually get some press as well. Here is a brief about Clark, I don't know much about this guy, http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=317:ufo&catid=41:rotator-news
While I'm at it, here are a couple presidential UFO bonus tracks for you to check out:
Here are clips of Ronald Reagan talking about being invaded by aliens in several speeches, very strange. When these clips are taken into the context of Army Intelligence Officer Colonel Philip Corso's book, all of this stuff including all of the stuff above makes a lot of sense. Corso's book is available at any Barnes and Noble/Borders, it is called 'The Day After Roswell' and was a NYT best seller. Here are the Reagan clilps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KvC_NDlHoI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag44dRO8LEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDmaB5BxzA&feature=related
A recording of ex-president Jimmy Carter talking about his own UFO experience - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4D3hxgSfXY
Until next time............................ keep in mind there are truckloads more of this stuff.
MSNBC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7-w1B93v0
Fox News - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HXMqmv2ZEs
CNN - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1371749035930508088&hl=en
Did you know Dr. Mitchell has been saying this very publicly for 10 years yet it was never covered? Why now? Are we on the cusp of the insiders allowing this stuff to leak out? Is this stuff just happening organically? Is it a coincidence that the Vatican issued a public statement about aliens being our brothers? Is the announcement of water on Mars a part of this slow desensitization program? (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-07-20-mars-flight_N.htm)
Strangely, Dr. Mitchell is not the only astronaut to come out about the UFO issue. One of the first Astronauts, Gordon Cooper, also came out very publicly that he believed UFO's were real and being covered up before he died. Here is a short obit about this from CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/04/gordon.cooper/ . Would you believe Buzz Aldrin is another one? Unlike these others though, Buzz apparently changes his story frequently. One day it's definitely a UFO the next day Buzz isn't so sure. This from Larry King where he talks about this UFO experience - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np45b2Xt-Ww&feature=related
Another space program veteran named Clark McClelland says he witnessed aliens first hand. Clark's story has all but been ignored, but perhaps with Dr. Mitchell gaining press Clark will eventually get some press as well. Here is a brief about Clark, I don't know much about this guy, http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=317:ufo&catid=41:rotator-news
While I'm at it, here are a couple presidential UFO bonus tracks for you to check out:
Here are clips of Ronald Reagan talking about being invaded by aliens in several speeches, very strange. When these clips are taken into the context of Army Intelligence Officer Colonel Philip Corso's book, all of this stuff including all of the stuff above makes a lot of sense. Corso's book is available at any Barnes and Noble/Borders, it is called 'The Day After Roswell' and was a NYT best seller. Here are the Reagan clilps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KvC_NDlHoI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag44dRO8LEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDmaB5BxzA&feature=related
A recording of ex-president Jimmy Carter talking about his own UFO experience - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4D3hxgSfXY
Until next time............................ keep in mind there are truckloads more of this stuff.
Paranormal Time (7/29/08)
Is the New York Times done with their blackout of UFO coverage?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29pope.html?ex=1217995200&en=261a4fac954a0495&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Today they ran the op-ed above by Nick Pope, who I've seen speak in person a couple of times.
Nick Pope worked at the Ministry of Defense (MOD) in England. His job was to investigate UFO's to make sure they didn't pose a threat to national security. The United States spent years also investigating UFO's but after deciding there was no national security threat, the US 'publicly' stopped investigating UFO's.
Nick Pope was initially skeptical about UFO's, but during the course of his job he realized there is a significant percentage of UFO reports that can not be explained. Nick supposedly left his job at the MOD and now speaks openly about the importance of investigating this phenomena and he also keeps up to date with the MOD's public release of previously classified files. As mentioned before, both France and the UK have opened up many of their previously classified unexplained UFO files to the general public.
Having seen Nick in person and followed his work, I have a sneaking suspicion that Nick still works for the MOD. He always seems very coy about his real opinion and I have a hunch he has much more knowledge than he lets on and perhaps his 'real' job is to both get people used to this phenomena and gauge both public reaction/opinion.
You probably think that's crazy, but believe you me, there is more arbitrarily strange deception in this field than any of you will ever know. Want proof of how strange it gets? Read well known French Astrophysicist and very successful Technology entrepreneur Jacque Vallee's book 'Revelations', which is available on Amazon. Jacque is one of the most thorough researchers in this field of all time and in this book he discusses how much deception and how deep this stuff gets with strong thorough research - http://www.amazon.com/REVELATIONS-Alien-Contact-Human-Deception/dp/1933665300/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217339140&sr=1-5
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29pope.html?ex=1217995200&en=261a4fac954a0495&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Today they ran the op-ed above by Nick Pope, who I've seen speak in person a couple of times.
Nick Pope worked at the Ministry of Defense (MOD) in England. His job was to investigate UFO's to make sure they didn't pose a threat to national security. The United States spent years also investigating UFO's but after deciding there was no national security threat, the US 'publicly' stopped investigating UFO's.
Nick Pope was initially skeptical about UFO's, but during the course of his job he realized there is a significant percentage of UFO reports that can not be explained. Nick supposedly left his job at the MOD and now speaks openly about the importance of investigating this phenomena and he also keeps up to date with the MOD's public release of previously classified files. As mentioned before, both France and the UK have opened up many of their previously classified unexplained UFO files to the general public.
Having seen Nick in person and followed his work, I have a sneaking suspicion that Nick still works for the MOD. He always seems very coy about his real opinion and I have a hunch he has much more knowledge than he lets on and perhaps his 'real' job is to both get people used to this phenomena and gauge both public reaction/opinion.
You probably think that's crazy, but believe you me, there is more arbitrarily strange deception in this field than any of you will ever know. Want proof of how strange it gets? Read well known French Astrophysicist and very successful Technology entrepreneur Jacque Vallee's book 'Revelations', which is available on Amazon. Jacque is one of the most thorough researchers in this field of all time and in this book he discusses how much deception and how deep this stuff gets with strong thorough research - http://www.amazon.com/REVELATIONS-Alien-Contact-Human-Deception/dp/1933665300/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217339140&sr=1-5
Paranormal Time (7/17/08)
In case you missed it, there were massive UFO sightings in Texas earlier this year (very close to GW Bush's ranch!!!). All the major networks covered these sightings and so did I! Doctors, lawyers, firemen, police all saw a massive UFO. These witnesses also saw many F-16's in the area. The air force denied being the area..... until 2 weeks afterwards when they publicly said, 'oh wait, yeah, we were in the area'. Hardly anyone in the mainstream media called them to task for being caught in a lie, too much going on with Britney Spears that week I guess.
Any who, MUFON (a leading UFO civilian organization) just released it's findings on this sighting in a report. In a nutshell, they have the radar clips from the FAA which show the UFO at about 1,000 feet in size traveling over 2,000 mph. And people say there is no evidence? Well, have you ever bothered to look?
Any who, MUFON (a leading UFO civilian organization) just released it's findings on this sighting in a report. In a nutshell, they have the radar clips from the FAA which show the UFO at about 1,000 feet in size traveling over 2,000 mph. And people say there is no evidence? Well, have you ever bothered to look?
Paranormal Time (7/9/08)
So Larry King get's Appolo Astranaut and MIT PhD Astrophysicist Edgar Mitchell on his show to discuss Roswell as part of the anniversary celebration that is going on there.
As with all these shows, they usually have what we call a 'Debunker'. There are healthy skeptics who use the scientific method but are open to listening to the evidence that exists and then there are 'Debunkers'. Debunkers don't listen to what anyone says and make no sense and make it hard for anyone to carry on a conversation.
You know when you watch a political talk show and there is that one guy (usually a hard ass Rebulican!) who won't let anyone talk no matter how rational they are? That's a debunker and every serious talk show about UFO's has one, it's apparently mandatory and it's always ruins the discussion.
So who did Larry King book as the qualified debunker on this show? None other than stand up comic and kids science show host wacky Bill Nye! I've been in a room with Bill Nye when he was charging people $20 each to get his autgraph and I've been in a room with Edgar Mitchell who freely signed whatever people put in front of him. What's my point?
Having Bill Nye on the show to have an informed discussion on UFO's is like having Pat Sajack on a serious show about the Presidential Race with James Carvel and Pat Sajack goes out of his way no matter who or what is said to cut everyone who has any substance off. The guy walked on the moon, inquired to high level military about UFO's and was told it was true yet Bill Nye the comic won't believe it. Great, who gives a shit! Next...........
Typical, typical. Anywho, below is a short piece from the Herald Time Tribune about this recent show. Enjoy!!!
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
There is only one King
Billy Cox
Published Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 6:09 p.m.
What do you call nine guests wadded up into a 42-minute show about Roswell, where the skeptic once won a Steve Martin look-alike contest and the only living eyewitness gets cut off for the night after uttering 17 words?
You got it — Larry King Live.
Sigh.
This is a tough one to write about. So much potential. Again. As usual. Even Apollo astronaut Ed Mitchell got roped into this one. Mitchell, the Roswell native. Roped into Larry’s disjointed, tortured, attention span-impaired narrative. Trying to tell a national TV audience how he, Mitchell, took concerns raised by Roswell witnesses to the Pentagon, where he met a vice admiral with the intelligence committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Only to informed by the admiral, weeks later, that the matter was classified and compartmentalized beyond the admiral’s control.
This is the part where you ask: Dr. Mitchell, what’s the admiral’s name? Only, this is Larry King. Who turns the mic over to Bill “The Science Guy” Nye, the Cornell-educated, Emmy-winning, standup comic. Transcripts:
“KING: All right, Bill.
NYE (to Mitchell): So, what are you saying? First of all, did you interview these people on their death bed or under oath? Let the viewer - I'm not going to change your mind. So that's for Ed, go for that.
MITCHELL: They sought me out.
KING: They sought him out.
NYE: But they were not on their deathbed. A deathbed declaration is quite a different thing from seeking you out and telling a story. You're not going to convince me.
MITCHELL: I am not interested in arguing with you. I'm telling my story. If you want to shut up and hear it, I'll be glad to talk. Otherwise, no.”
Sweet weeping cheeses.
But the guy you really had to feel for was 82-year-old Earl Fulford, who came all the way from his Florida panhandle home of Mayo to participate in last weekend’s Roswell UFO Festival.
Fulford was an Army staff sergeant dispatched with a debris-recovery team in 1947. He told his story to authors Don Schmitt and Thomas Carey, whose “Witness to Roswell” book came out last year.
When King asked Fulford what he saw 61 years ago, the veteran replied in the measured cadence one expects from an octogenarian: “It was similar in appearance to aluminum foil, like new aluminum foil which had never been crumpled.”
That was all ol’ Earl could manage before Larry flitted away to another guest.
“It was pretty bad,” Carey told De Void on Tuesday. “I was with him, (witness) Frankie Rowe, and the elderly colonel (Wayne Mattson) in the hangar and it was hot and very humid in there. It must’ve been 150 degrees.
“Halfway through the show, they apparently lost Don on the satellite, we can’t see Larry King because there’s no monitor, and we’re just staring into the camera lens inside an overheated hangar. And listening to this ‘Science Guy’ confusing Project Mogul with Skyook balloons, basically just throwing excrement against the wall to see what sticks.”
De Void’s head hurts. De Void needs to go now and get the special medicine out of the cabin
As with all these shows, they usually have what we call a 'Debunker'. There are healthy skeptics who use the scientific method but are open to listening to the evidence that exists and then there are 'Debunkers'. Debunkers don't listen to what anyone says and make no sense and make it hard for anyone to carry on a conversation.
You know when you watch a political talk show and there is that one guy (usually a hard ass Rebulican!) who won't let anyone talk no matter how rational they are? That's a debunker and every serious talk show about UFO's has one, it's apparently mandatory and it's always ruins the discussion.
So who did Larry King book as the qualified debunker on this show? None other than stand up comic and kids science show host wacky Bill Nye! I've been in a room with Bill Nye when he was charging people $20 each to get his autgraph and I've been in a room with Edgar Mitchell who freely signed whatever people put in front of him. What's my point?
Having Bill Nye on the show to have an informed discussion on UFO's is like having Pat Sajack on a serious show about the Presidential Race with James Carvel and Pat Sajack goes out of his way no matter who or what is said to cut everyone who has any substance off. The guy walked on the moon, inquired to high level military about UFO's and was told it was true yet Bill Nye the comic won't believe it. Great, who gives a shit! Next...........
Typical, typical. Anywho, below is a short piece from the Herald Time Tribune about this recent show. Enjoy!!!
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
There is only one King
Billy Cox
Published Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 6:09 p.m.
What do you call nine guests wadded up into a 42-minute show about Roswell, where the skeptic once won a Steve Martin look-alike contest and the only living eyewitness gets cut off for the night after uttering 17 words?
You got it — Larry King Live.
Sigh.
This is a tough one to write about. So much potential. Again. As usual. Even Apollo astronaut Ed Mitchell got roped into this one. Mitchell, the Roswell native. Roped into Larry’s disjointed, tortured, attention span-impaired narrative. Trying to tell a national TV audience how he, Mitchell, took concerns raised by Roswell witnesses to the Pentagon, where he met a vice admiral with the intelligence committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Only to informed by the admiral, weeks later, that the matter was classified and compartmentalized beyond the admiral’s control.
This is the part where you ask: Dr. Mitchell, what’s the admiral’s name? Only, this is Larry King. Who turns the mic over to Bill “The Science Guy” Nye, the Cornell-educated, Emmy-winning, standup comic. Transcripts:
“KING: All right, Bill.
NYE (to Mitchell): So, what are you saying? First of all, did you interview these people on their death bed or under oath? Let the viewer - I'm not going to change your mind. So that's for Ed, go for that.
MITCHELL: They sought me out.
KING: They sought him out.
NYE: But they were not on their deathbed. A deathbed declaration is quite a different thing from seeking you out and telling a story. You're not going to convince me.
MITCHELL: I am not interested in arguing with you. I'm telling my story. If you want to shut up and hear it, I'll be glad to talk. Otherwise, no.”
Sweet weeping cheeses.
But the guy you really had to feel for was 82-year-old Earl Fulford, who came all the way from his Florida panhandle home of Mayo to participate in last weekend’s Roswell UFO Festival.
Fulford was an Army staff sergeant dispatched with a debris-recovery team in 1947. He told his story to authors Don Schmitt and Thomas Carey, whose “Witness to Roswell” book came out last year.
When King asked Fulford what he saw 61 years ago, the veteran replied in the measured cadence one expects from an octogenarian: “It was similar in appearance to aluminum foil, like new aluminum foil which had never been crumpled.”
That was all ol’ Earl could manage before Larry flitted away to another guest.
“It was pretty bad,” Carey told De Void on Tuesday. “I was with him, (witness) Frankie Rowe, and the elderly colonel (Wayne Mattson) in the hangar and it was hot and very humid in there. It must’ve been 150 degrees.
“Halfway through the show, they apparently lost Don on the satellite, we can’t see Larry King because there’s no monitor, and we’re just staring into the camera lens inside an overheated hangar. And listening to this ‘Science Guy’ confusing Project Mogul with Skyook balloons, basically just throwing excrement against the wall to see what sticks.”
De Void’s head hurts. De Void needs to go now and get the special medicine out of the cabin
Just a couple quick tidbits for y'all to munch on.
Firstly, a university of Florida professor is working on some really cool electromagnetic tech for travel - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/techdigest/20080703/ttc-wingless-electromagnetic-air-vehicle-e870a33.html
Upon first look and being a dumb dumb when it comes to science, to me this appears to be related to the type of technology which UFO circles have been discussing for decades and the type of tech that our country's black budget world has supposedly mastered a long time ago. The word on the street is that any time a scientist starts making progress in electromagnetic antigravity technology, for some reason their research usually stops. Is it because they get paid or threatened to shut the fuck up? Probably :) With countries like north Korea and Iran running around, I don't blame our black budget world for trying to keep tabs on this type of futuristic tech.
Anywho, check it out, this professor looks to be 100% legit, here is his website - http://cpdlt.mae.ufl.edu/roy/ Can you imagine propulsion through electromagnetic technology? Well, I think they (black budget world) imagined it over 60 years ago. I'll try and keep tabs on this guy and give you an update next year.....
Meanwhile, tons of UFO sightings around the world, a lot of them in Latin American (Mexico city and Argentina), who knows why that is. I'm too lazy to post the typical local paper shit where the local sheriff or gov official is interviewed about the local sightings, just know they are frequent and they are all over the world, this is not a US phenomena, it's a global phenomena as is the abduction stuff as well.
FYI, if you know someone who wants to learn more about UFO's but is very doubtful (including yourself!), just have them buy this book which documents the US government's response to this issue which basically proves that yes, our own government believes they are real - http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-Chronology/dp/1571743170 .
Here are the most common UFO theories:
- they are top secret compartmentalized US technology
- they are from another part of the universe/galaxy
- they are from another dimension (maybe even share our space but in another dimension)
- they live on the planet earth in our dimension, perhaps under the surface of earth (we don't even know what lays 5 miles under our own soil!!!)
- they are our subconscious (strange indeed!)
What do I think? I think all of the above are likely to be true and that the paranormal is all related and often deals with various dimensions.
I just finished reading this book - http://www.amazon.com/Arigo-Surgeon-John-G-Fuller/dp/0690005121/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215450301&sr=1-2 .
Firstly, a university of Florida professor is working on some really cool electromagnetic tech for travel - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/techdigest/20080703/ttc-wingless-electromagnetic-air-vehicle-e870a33.html
Upon first look and being a dumb dumb when it comes to science, to me this appears to be related to the type of technology which UFO circles have been discussing for decades and the type of tech that our country's black budget world has supposedly mastered a long time ago. The word on the street is that any time a scientist starts making progress in electromagnetic antigravity technology, for some reason their research usually stops. Is it because they get paid or threatened to shut the fuck up? Probably :) With countries like north Korea and Iran running around, I don't blame our black budget world for trying to keep tabs on this type of futuristic tech.
Anywho, check it out, this professor looks to be 100% legit, here is his website - http://cpdlt.mae.ufl.edu/roy/ Can you imagine propulsion through electromagnetic technology? Well, I think they (black budget world) imagined it over 60 years ago. I'll try and keep tabs on this guy and give you an update next year.....
Meanwhile, tons of UFO sightings around the world, a lot of them in Latin American (Mexico city and Argentina), who knows why that is. I'm too lazy to post the typical local paper shit where the local sheriff or gov official is interviewed about the local sightings, just know they are frequent and they are all over the world, this is not a US phenomena, it's a global phenomena as is the abduction stuff as well.
FYI, if you know someone who wants to learn more about UFO's but is very doubtful (including yourself!), just have them buy this book which documents the US government's response to this issue which basically proves that yes, our own government believes they are real - http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-Chronology/dp/1571743170 .
Here are the most common UFO theories:
- they are top secret compartmentalized US technology
- they are from another part of the universe/galaxy
- they are from another dimension (maybe even share our space but in another dimension)
- they live on the planet earth in our dimension, perhaps under the surface of earth (we don't even know what lays 5 miles under our own soil!!!)
- they are our subconscious (strange indeed!)
What do I think? I think all of the above are likely to be true and that the paranormal is all related and often deals with various dimensions.
I just finished reading this book - http://www.amazon.com/Arigo-Surgeon-John-G-Fuller/dp/0690005121/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215450301&sr=1-2 .
Paranormal Time (7/7/08)
A U of Florida engineering teacher is working on a UFO (electromagnetic technology is how many think real 'ufo's' fly)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/techdigest/20080703/ttc-wingless-electromagnetic-air-vehicle-e870a33.html
Could be a PRISM breifing.
Although I believe this type of research has been done in the black budget world for many years (many think the Stealth Bomber contains electromagnetic antigravity technology) this is one of the first times I've seen an article about this in the mainstream like this. You tend to hear about this stuff in one article and then nothing ever blossoms.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/techdigest/20080703/ttc-wingless-electromagnetic-air-vehicle-e870a33.html
Could be a PRISM breifing.
Although I believe this type of research has been done in the black budget world for many years (many think the Stealth Bomber contains electromagnetic antigravity technology) this is one of the first times I've seen an article about this in the mainstream like this. You tend to hear about this stuff in one article and then nothing ever blossoms.
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