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May-29-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Esteemed Jersey Residents> Thanks for that heads up- I just purchased two books co-authored by your brother in law. I just clicked on a link, and they will be shipped post haste to my Moms in Canada!! <playground player> on a rare serious note, possibly you could convince Dr. Ray not to sue me if I scanned photos from his books and put them in the documentary? It wouldn't see the light of day for a year at the earliest anyways. I didn't get where I am today (not in jail) by not being afraid of being sued. |
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May-29-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Alien Contact>
Please forgive brief off-topic note- did you know that research into the "Wow" radio signal of 1977 was hindered by the United States Armed forces? "It's not a conspiracy if the guy's on camera telling you about it." Yep the actual scientist who recorded the "Wow" signal from space- still regarded today as the best evidence of actual alien contact- went on camera and told the story of how the US Government ordered the signal "classified" as soon as they became aware of it, and actually hindered the coordination of the world's radio telescopes to follow the breaking discovery. Today, the entire 70 seconds or so of the "Wow" signal can be listened to on youtube, but really scientists are still pretty choked about missing the chance to follow this lead whilst it was actually happening. |
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May-29-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: And finally- on a recent National Geographic documentary, one of America's leading SETI scientists predicted that due to a boost in funding and technology, confirmed contact with intelligent aliens will likely occur before 2025. QUESTION: should we lay out the welcome mat, or start indiscriminately firing nuclear warheads at stars? YOU BE THE JUDGE |
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May-29-11 | | hms123: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQi5... |
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May-30-11
 | | playground player: <Jessicafischerqueen> I think most of the pix used in Jersey Devil Book 1 were already in the public domain, but Ray's wife took some of the photos in Book 2. I very much doubt they would sue you (especially if I don't tell them about your video, heh-heh). If it makes you easier in your mind, I can always phone him and get permission. Or get him to send you his permission via email. But I think it would please him--he loves having his books remembered. As for alien contact... well, I'll believe in it when I see it. So far we're able to find more life in a bucketful of sea water than we've been able to find in the whole rest of the universe. And if it turns out there's some kind of weird extraterrestrial microbe breathing ammonia gas on Titan, that still leaves us a long way from "Klaatu barada nikto." |
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May-30-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: I didn't get where you are today by telling people about my chess videos. Seriously though thank you- As a mystery and cryptozoology and stories of the supernatural enthusiast I can't wait to read those books. Possibly after I do read them you could pass on an email to Dr. Ray? This is way in the future, since I live in Magog at the moment, "the mail moves slow" to this quarter. |
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May-31-11
 | | playground player: <Jessicafischerqueen> Sure, I'll be happy to pass your email on to him whenever you want. Meanwhile, I'm so far behind in my work that I hardly know where to begin... |
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May-31-11 | | dakgootje: <'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'> |
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Jun-01-11 | | madlydeeply: The last great president was Eisenhower. Why? He stopped a war. CASE CLOSED |
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Jun-01-11
 | | playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> I have a column today on News With Views ("Mad Leaders, Mad Policies," http://www.newswithviews.com/ ) that might cheese some of you off--especially if you're committed to government "solutions" to man-made Global Warming. But some of you might enjoy it. Back to work... |
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Jun-01-11 | | achieve: <Esteemed Host> Perhaps I'm not too late. You could inject the oxymoronic concept of "Free Speech Zone" as a core piece (Ok - for that I am too late) theme in your column. I can't think of a more treasonous US president than Obama. "No signing statements huh?, no end runs around Congress hmm?, no lobbyists running the White House err?, illegitimately ascending the throne of president of the Security Council of the UN in his first year as umm president of the US, ouch!" Go get 'em. Annihilate. Cheese them all off, as long as you have verified your sources as best you can. Best wishes and wisdom in preparing your column. |
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Jun-01-11 | | madlydeeply: Its amazing that Obama took the worst fears about the (Bush) patriot act...torture and the ability to label any person a "terrorist"... and expanded them... without even discussing them publicly! Remember when Bush tried to defend waterboarding? Obama doesn't even mention it! ANd whereas Bush rounded up Afghanis and called them all "terrorists" and threw them in the guantanimo hole, Obama takes whistleblowers...in other words people who hold up their hand and say "excuse me...corruption over here" and calls them "enemies of the state" and throws them in a hole! Whenever i bring this up in converation my so called "liberal" peers, so hateful of Bush, just dart their eyes and change the subject. These Obama years are turning into lonely times for yours truly. |
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Jun-02-11 | | achieve: <deeply> I promised myself to withhold from posting elsewhere than the "French Open Tennis page" this week, but I can't keep that up, I realize. I was just thinking of the uproar that was "temporarily" (*very* temporarily) caused when MEP's here in Europe demanded explanations for <US detention camps in Eastern European countries / EU territory>. This must be some 5 years ago btw.
Of course these questions were easily dismissed by US as well as EU "officials", as publication of those "locations", countries, would put them in increased danger for Terrorist Attacks. Right? well... So, relating this to the Guantanamo situation and Obama's statements on closing it, addressing CIA's 'Enhanced Interrogation Methods', which you imo rightly condemningly addressed, I wanted to put it in perspective that <even if> Obama could have held his "promise" on those issues, it would be in large part symbolical, since the Detainees will simply be flown to camps in eg eastern Europe, or other locations, where their legal rights will equate to a big, fat ZERO. Of course keeping locations and practices SECRET puts the lid on it. |
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Jun-02-11 | | achieve: Btw, I fell hook line and sinker for Wonder Boy's slick rhetoric back in 2007-2008 prior to the elections, as to me for a politician almost "unprecedented" statements like the following reached these <stunned shores>, and ears, and had me glowing with optimism: Nov. 10, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Obama declared:
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.
During his campaign, Obama also said, "I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House." or Health Care negotiations on C-SPAN: “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made.” January 20, 2008 Throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2009 and 2010; when John McCain asked about it during the health-care summit February 26, Obama dismissed the issue by declaring, “the campaign is over, John.” Transparancy of Government
On the White House website, the Obama administration claims it will be "the most open and transparent in history.
The administration released a memo on Jan. 21, stating:
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. … "However, Congress and the administration hurried the $787 billion, 1,027-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to a vote after allowing lawmakers just a few hours to read the bill. It was also available online in a form that could not be keyword searched.
While former administrations immediately posted transcripts of presidential speeches – including some remarks before delivery – the White House website often waits until days or even weeks after an event to release transcripts.
Also, some say recent reports of tax evasion by Obama nominees is evidence that the administration is not as transparent as promised." Just before Obama named Timothy Geithner to be his treasury secretary, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank quietly paid $26,000 in back taxes and interest due since 2001 and 2002.
Obama characterized the eight-year tax evasion as "an innocent mistake." I'll skip the Signing Statements broken promise.
Most of what I quoted uphere is from WorldNetDaily.
So, the Billion Dollar Question then becomes ....
I'll be back next week on that if our esteeemed host permits ;), AFTER the French Open... "Now will I <keep my promise>???" If not I am hardly in a position TO JUDGE. |
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Jun-02-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <playground player> congratulations on your new byline! As always I went in fearing I'd disagree with every single word, but as usual I ended up strongly agreeing with one of your central points- in this case, the "decreeing the end of boys and girls" by my own provincial government. Do you have a link on that item you could drop in your forum? If not I'll have a search myself, but it's not something I 'want' to know about. Although I certainly need to know about it.
Best light possible on that is that it's "obviously silly." Worst light is that it's an egregious encroachment by the government in an area of basic sociolinguistics where it has no business of any kind, whatsoever. It's a bad precedent any way you look at it. It's a form of defacto criminalization of the basic free speech rights of teachers and school administrators. Luckily, we BC residents can cheer ourselves up with the Vancouver Canucks hockey team winning the fist game of the Stanley Cup final. I've never been prouder of the fine "girl-boys" who comprise our stout hockey organization. |
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Jun-02-11 | | achieve: <Mr. pgp> I had trouble finding your column from the main page, but found that it was <more> than worth the effort, and then some. Very well written and while getting to the latter part of your column, was thinking of <exactly> that book and chapter, that passage, connecting to that monumental Psalm 2, the most damning and decisive statements to be found anywhere in the bible. All prophetic roads seem to lead back to that chapter. No need for silly comparisons, but this June 1st column is the best that I have read from your pen. 5/5 stars
Food for thought, and action. Thanks, <L>. |
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Jun-02-11 | | cormier: psalm 2:7 I will proclaim the LORD’s decree:
He said to me, “You are my son;
today I have become your father.
8 Ask me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance,
the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You will break them with a rod of iron;
you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”<like clay in His hand will he mold(work-> tramsform) them over> |
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Jun-02-11
 | | playground player: <Achieve> You're always welcome here. You and <madlydeeply> have discovered the boiling-over hypocrisy of the American Left and the highly-paid journalism professionals of the American "news" media. Amazing, isn't it, the way the antiwar movement disappears as soon as a Democrat becomes President? Remember their working premise: "It's only wrong if a Republican does it, and it's only right if a Democrat does it." <Jessicafischerqueen> I think you can get your best information on that via the BCTF handbook itself, to which there is a link within the column. It really speaks for itself. I'm in the process of writing a news story about it. The highly-paid professional news media have ignored it, and I doubt most parents in BC are even aware of this idiocy. Years ago, when I was a substitute teacher in a nearby public school district, I worked every day, they needed me for every grade and every subject... except Sex Education! Apparently Sex Ed teachers never got sick. And the kids used to complain that it wasn't fair to give them tests and quizzes on the subject because they were not allowed to take the textbooks out of the classroom and study from them. Obviously the reason for that was so that the books would never be taken home where taxpaying parents could see them. |
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Jun-02-11 | | achieve: <pgp> Thanks. But you know that the bi-partizan system I regard as two slightly different flavours of the same dish. Many of your compatriots agree in that regard. second, I think the facts about funding campaigns and positions in real figures speak most loudly. Thirdly one must review the secret organizations that JF Kennedy denounced as detrimental to US constitutional interests. I have transcripts of those and even those by his brothers' basically INVITE critical review of long lost interpretations of government promises. Robert Kennedy was unusually frank and payed for it. Obama doesn't to me even deserve a place in this discussion, he's excelled at selling lies to me and the US electorate. I learned this by meticulously researching politics at home, and abroad. A person addressed by the like of Richard Hoagland conveyed his intimate relationships with both Arnold Schwarzenegger, Obama, and Alex Jones. Now I do hate Obama and Schwarzenegger, I hate Alex Jones, but how do I interpret the information that needs extracting by a christian hopeful?? Perhaps we'll meet again when i have more truths on offer from Gaia, Rio Earth Summit. Until then please look at the facts/official statements. UN Rio Earth Summit 1992 being your first assignment. I'll prefer to not mention the info challenge until you have the time and inclination to do so. Do i sound alarming? Perhaps the answer is yes.
My Best. |
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Jun-02-11 | | madlydeeply: Hmm a sex ed conspiracy theory? wow. I wonder if its related to the Evil Denver Airport conspiracy theory http://io9.com/5807582/proof-that-d... |
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Jun-02-11 | | madlydeeply: PGP i don't believe the antiwar movement ever disappears...just the corporate coverage. The fact that this coverage has a such a profound impact on my peers....that's so very lonely and disturbing! "Liberalism" and "Conservativism" (as profoundly and irreversibly defined by Rush Limbaugh the past thirty years) have simply become comsumer profiles....goods and rhetoric. I'm talking guns, car models, bumper stickers, politicians... even the whimsy we are allowed to have! 1984 is here and drones have dopey little smiles, darting terrified eyes, credit card debt, and their only route to self - actualization is a pile of cheap plastic knicknacks filling their houses (playstations, baubles, cars)... I can't wait for 2012 personally...my personal nightmare is that nothing changes at all! HA! Later Days! |
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Jun-02-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> I can confirm that in Canada we have a "defacto" bipartisan system, in that only the liberals or conservatives ever actually form governments. I can also confirm that the majority of Canadians definitely view these parties as two sides of the same coin, which helps account for the fact Canada has an even lower "voter turnout" rate than the United States. Even our news media doesn't cover Federal elections as much as in the past. Reminds me of the final scene in <Animal Farm>, where the faces all start to look the same. |
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Jun-02-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <playground player> thank you= that was sloppy reading on my part. I will read the link to the "horse's mouth" directly. Although I fear it may link to a horse's ass instead.
After reading, I'll do my part by emailing my family and friends in Canada. Can't let this stand unnoticed. |
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Jun-02-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <esteemed host>
I think you're overstating the behavior of the press on "anti war" sentiment depending on who occupies the whitehouse. The press certainly reported on the anti war movement when Democrat <LBJ> was in the house- "hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today"-
In addition, CBS news with Walter Cronkite reported Republican president <I LIKE IKE> coining the phrase "The military industrial complex" live on camera. The fact that <IKE> was a Republican gave greater weight to his concern with the Pentagon and Corporations presenting a danger to the body politic. So there are exceptions to "Republicans" and "Democrats" being portrayed in a univocal manner. Remember the Left doesn't have a monopoly on the Press. FOX news is alive and kicking. |
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Jun-02-11 | | achieve: <Jess> Very recognizable. Pretty much identical actually to the multi-party systems of european parliamentary Democracy. Like Animal Farm I'm trying to find the time to read, from cover to cover, '1984' by Orwell, as well as a couple by H.G Wells, one being 'The Open Conspiracy'. I got them downloaded to my hard drive, but that alone doesn't really get me anywhere, does it? heh I'll also tie this in (less cryptically!) with what I mentioned as the Rio Earth Summit 1992, where it was openly stated that another US must never arise, and that industrial development of the Third World (continent of Africa) must be prevented. Geo-politics at its finest, to put it sarcastically. This is all well documented in the writings by Kissinger and Brzezinsky, and several major think-tanks all operating under the Green Agenda. I have no doubt individual people involved in those, including former political PMs, leaders and hot shots think they are working for the "greater good." I also agree on your expose of huge media "bodies" run by the same "mogols" pushing both the Left and Right "agendas". Very cleverly organized, and if you look for alternative media as an alternative to eg Glenn Beck, you'll likely be reigned in by Alex Jones, excelling at selling half or three quarter truths and lies. Anyways when I get a few things, publications, ready in orderly fashion, I will get back to the Rio Earth Summit, the UN Earth Charter, and then it all of a sudden ties in neatly with <playground player>'s latest column. |
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