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News Briefs 14-01-2008

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Quote of the Day:

All right, you win. You win. I give. I’ll say it. I’ll say it. I’ll say it. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!

Dr Frederick Frankenstein, in Young Frankenstein.

  1. Computer Rooms
    If there is one constant in the world, it’s that rense.com is the most idiotic web site on the web. Well, next to DailyKos and DemocratUnderground anyway.

    There were more than 430 companies in the WTC (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/tenants1.html). I’d bet most of them had computer rooms located on one of more the floors that they occupied. Talk about manufacturing a conspiracy theory out of whole cloth.

    1. True enough
      Problem is, some people want to see more than there is while others want to see nothing.

      Its hard to really be objective when your mind is already made up, one way or another.

  2. Foodscapes (have you played with your food lately)
    These images remind me of the old tale about The Land of Jauja, a place where food literally comes out from the gound or falls from the sky, and where everything is edible (even the animals were ready to eat). There was a book by Hans Sachs about it, and a spanish playwriter called Lope de Rueda also wrote a little piece about how two tricksters scam a poor sap with the images of the Land of Jauja. In spanish, jauja is a synonimous of prosperity.

    Pieter Brueghel made a very famous painting with this theme.

    http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagen:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Land_of_Cockaigne.JPG

    I really don’t know if being in Jauja would be like Heaven, or Hell. Although for someone like Homer Simpson, that would be a very, VERY stupid question (remember that episode when he dreams he is in The Land of Chocolate?)

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

      1. Globe and Mail is reporting a UFO
        This is a business newspaper, people! The end is obviously near!!!!!
        Huge, silent UFO startles Texas town
        ANGELA K. BROWN

        Associated Press

        January 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM EST

        STEPHENVILLE, Tex. — In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.

        Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.

        “People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it’s the end of times,” said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. “It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts.”

        While federal officials insist there’s a logical explanation, locals swear that it was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object’s lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object.

        Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 90 metres over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.

        “You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal,” Mr. Sorrells said. “It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I’m not crazy.”

        Mr. Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle’s telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.

        Major Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sighting.

        Major Lewis said the object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes. Lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun.

        “I’m 90 per cent sure this was an airliner,” Lewis said. “With the sun’s angle, it can play tricks on you.”

        Officials at the region’s two Air Force bases — Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls — also said none of their aircraft were in the area last week. The Air Force no longer investigates UFOs.

        One man has offered a reward for a photograph or videotape of the mysterious object.

        About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate.

        Erath County constable Lee Roy Gaitan said that he first saw red glowing lights and then white flashing lights moving fast, but that even with binoculars could not see the object to which the lights were attached.

        “I didn’t see a flying saucer and I don’t know what it was, but it wasn’t an airplane, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” constable Gaitan said. “I think it must be some kind of military craft — at least I hope it was.”

        1. Wow!
          It reminds me of what happened in Phoenix. Thanks for the link Paul.

          —–
          It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
          It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

          Red Pill Junkie

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