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Setback for Pentagon Planners

In Shiite strongholds like Basra where the program debuted over the weekend, Iraqis watched the sitcom in stony silence, seething as if mocked by the raucous laugh track.

“Why do they let that idiot [Doris Roberts] in their house?” said a visibly angry Hassan El-Medfaai, 47. “If this is what democracy will bring, I'll have none of it.”

Sources inside the Pentagon blamed the decision to broadcast “Raymond” on the advice of Iraqi exiles who had enjoyed the sitcom on American Airlines while jetting back and forth between London and Washington.

The discovery that Iraqis do not love Raymond is only the latest in a series of setbacks for the Pentagon planners, who last month unsuccessfully attempted to introduce Sara Lee breakfast treats to Iraq.

"Psychiatry never has proved that ADHD, let alone depression, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder [OCD], even exists."


Retired California neurologist Fred A. Baughman Jr. fired off a letter in January 2000 to U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher in response to Satcher's Report on Mental Illness. "Having gone to medical school," Baughman wrote, "and studied pathology — disease, then diagnosis — you and I and all physicians know that the presence of any bona fide disease, like diabetes, cancer or epilepsy, is confirmed by an objective finding — a physical or chemical abnormality. No demonstrable physical or chemical abnormality: no disease!

"You also know, I am sure," Baughman continued, "that there is no physical or chemical abnormality to be found in life, or at autopsy, in 'depression, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.' Why then are you telling the American people that 'mental illnesses' are 'physical' and that they are due to 'chemical disorders?'"

Baughman concluded his six-page letter to Satcher by saying that "your role in this deception and victimization is clear. Whether you are a physician so unscientific that you cannot read their [the American Psychiatric Association's] contrived, 'neurobiologic' literature and see the fraud, or whether you see it and choose to be an accomplice — you should resign."

It is this direct, no-nonsense style that has made Baughman a pariah among the psychiatric and mental-health communities and a hero to families of children across America who believe they have been "victimized" by the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) label. The "disease," Baughman tells Insight, "is a total 100 percent fraud," and he has made it his personal "crusade" to bring an end to the ADHD diagnosis.

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition)
by Thomas S. Szasz

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060911514/qid=1071346578/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6650692-6310361?v=glance&s=books

Thomas Szasz is a real hero of consciousness, freedom and intelligence who is never afraid to disclose the information that hurts the orthodoxy where it counts.

Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R.D. Laing

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1853433950/qid=1071347031/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-6650692-6310361?v=glance&s=books

Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.

In the year before he died, in 1989, the renegade psychiatrist Laing spent many hours talking to Mullan, his would-be biographer, whose access to documents and correspondence was later cut off by those tending to Laing's estate. Mullan decided to edit the taped conversations and publish them when he learned of forthcoming biographies. The conversations, presented as brief questions followed by Laing's answers, cover topics including his influences; the medication-free experiment of Kingsley Hall; his contemporaries; the dialectics of liberation; Buddhism; theory and therapy; and psychiatry and schizophrenia. Distributed by New York U. Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

PITTSFIELD - Instead of an end-of-the-year Christmas turkey bonus, Lawrence Wyman opened up a letter from his employer Friday afternoon and found a $19,000 check.Standing beside him was his wife, Charlene Wyman...She also got $19,000.

Called together about 2:30 Friday, each of the 200 employees of San Antonio Shoe in Pittsfield was presented with a gift of $1,000 for every year each had worked at the shoe manufacturer.

SAS Pittsfield is a division of the parent company located in San Antonio. The corporate offices were closed Friday afternoon and officials could not be reached for comment. A letter included with each check said the gifts had been a longtime dream of the company and were also in appreciation to employees for standing by the company during hard times. The letters were unsigned.

Back in high school, Brenda Giguere would ice skate with her friends every week at a local shopping center. But she quickly got bored going in circles, while watching her more adventurous friends switch from skating backward to forward.

I got really fed up with myself about being such a chicken, but I seemed doomed to skate in circles forever," she recalled.

One night as she was falling asleep, she realized that she could probably practice those backward moves in her sleep. She had been conscious before when she dreamed, although she didn't know at the time what that type of dream was called.

"Before long I was dreaming I was skating, and I got very excited. I knew it was a dream, so I knew it couldn't hurt me at all. ... It was so realistic. I got the very convincing sensation of skating backward -- the movement of my legs, the cool air, the feeling of propelling myself this way. Suddenly, it made sense to me as a set of logical, fluid, sequential body movements."

And the next time she was out with her friends, she skated backward without hesitation.

So Werner Heisenberg is driving down the highway,
and he gets pulled over...

The cop says, "Do you know how fast you were going?"

He says, "No, but I know where I am."

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So a neutron goes into a bar. He sits down, has a couple of drinks, and decides to go home.

He asks the bartender, "How much do I owe you?"

"For you," he says, "no charge."

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Two atoms are walking down the street and they run into each other.

One says to the other, "Are you all right?"

"No, I lost an electron!"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm positive!"

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descartes is sitting in a bar, having a drink.
the bartender asks him if he would like another.
"i think not" he says and vanishes in a puff of logic.

Engineer Paul Nahin says, "The fact that you can't change the past doesn't mean that you can't affect it. We know Joan of Arc died, but you could very well be the person who threw the match on the wood."

"I tend to believe the many-worlds interpretation," Kaku says. This means that there's a world in which Joan of Arc died, and another in which you went back in time and saved her— in fact, there are as many universes as there are possibilities.

Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction
by Paul Nahin
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0387985719/qid=1071277487/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-6650692-6310361?v=glance&s=books


FROM THE REVIEWS:

SFRA REVIEW "Dr. Nahin has done a fine job with this book. [This book] is an excellent synthesis of the current state of the philosophical and physical discussion on time travel. His use of science fiction to illustrate the possibilities of this research make his work very readable for the layperson as well as the scientist. His explanation why H.G. Wells's time machine wouldn't work (it does not move in space) is particularly engaging...[it] is an excellent addition to the discussion of time travel."

NATURE "The research that has gone into this book is impressive. The author has a made a good selection of ideas from the scientific literature on spacetime, causality violation and time-travel paradoxes, and they are presented at a popular level with science-fiction plots running in parallel."

Google AdWords appear to be pretty okay...I've been running them on Magdalen Sez and buying a few ads to test for a client & for 2GQ.org. It's all been grand.

Too bad I never read those licensing statements before the hitting "I Agree" button, or I might've noticed that Google reserves the right to be precious, Puritanical, & policially-correct: just what the Internet needs, right? They recently suspended AdWords for Dave Walsh's Blather site, which follows and often debunks paranormal activity in Ireland, and covers other interesting stuff.

Read all about Google's lame, annoying exploits at Blather's Shitegeist weblog, and a recent followup penned by the irascible Barry Kavanagh of the very dreamy musical combo Dacianos.

When the incomparable Dave Stevens made his comic book The Rocketeer, he used Bettie Page as a the girlfriend of his fictional hero. How fitting that when the film version was made, that the statuesque pin-up goddess' role was filled by Jennifer Connelly, who captures the raven haired girl next door quality of Page like no other glamour girl has since. We've seen her grow up from the Goblin King's object of torment in Labryinth, to the sexy girl with a too tight white shirt riding a horse in Career Opportunities, to the brilliant Oscar winning actress of A Beautiful Mind. One thing's for sure...it's Jennifer's world, we just drool in it.

More:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=jennifer+connelly&btnG=Google+Search

VIA ROOT CELLAR:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0123486/

Could a massive marine extinction have been caused by . . . trees?

excerpt:

The evolution of trees and seed plants 360 million to 380 million years ago dramatically altered the terrestrial landscape, providing new habitats where animals and other plants could flourish. But geologist Thomas Algeo of the University of Cincinnati thinks that trees might have played a more sinister role in the oceans—that of executioner. Algeo noticed that the rise of large land plants coincides with the late Devonian mass extinction, a devastating die-off during which at least 70 percent of Earth’s species went extinct. Marine organisms such as reef-dwelling corals suffered the most severe losses. Researchers have proposed that a severe global cooling might have been responsible. But Algeo suspects the deadly hand of “killer trees.”

Can anyone translate this page...I can't find the prices and wonder what other styles
they come in !?

Commentator Andrei Codrescu talks about a spider in his backyard and how it relates to Internet web logs, or blogs. The blogger is at the center of a web, like a spider. Both eventually die -- from the cold or from being unable to pay the server's bill.

DW SEZ: ...of course the spider or blog wouldn't die if they were supported by a sizable windfall from the widow of Mc Donald's founder like NPR recently was !

NPR gets $200M bequest
http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/07/news/companies/kroc_npr/

Today, in the young field of nanotechnology, scientists and engineers are taking control of atoms and molecules individually, manipulating them and putting them to use with an extraordinary degree of precision. Word of the promise of nanotechnology is spreading rapidly, and the air is thick with news of nanotech breakthroughs. Governments and businesses are investing billions of dollars in nanotechnology R&D, and political alliances and battle lines are starting to form. Public awareness of nanotech is clearly on the rise, too, partly because references to it are becoming more common in popular culture—with mentions in movies (like The Hulk and The Tuxedo), books (including last year’s Michael Crichton bestseller, Prey), video games (such as the “Metal Gear Solid” series), and television (most notably in various incarnations of Star Trek).
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The New Atlantis” (1627) was the title Francis Bacon selected for his fable of a society living with the benefits and challenges of advanced science and technology. Bacon, a founder and champion of modern science, sought not only to highlight the potential of technology to improve human life, but also to foresee some of the social, moral, and political difficulties that confront a society shaped by the great scientific enterprise. His book offers no obvious answers; perhaps it seduces more than it warns. But the tale also hints at some of the dilemmas that arise with the ability to remake and reconfigure the natural world: governing science, so that it might flourish freely without destroying or dehumanizing us, and understanding the effect of technology on human life, human aspiration, and the human good. To a great extent, we live in the world Bacon imagined, and now we must find a way to live well with both its burdens and its blessings. This very challenge, which now confronts our own society most forcefully, is the focus of this journal.

create your own chaotic masterpiece

This site is here to show those houses where the residents are likely
celebrating a happy holiday, but have no sense of decency in how they
choose to celebrate. We will show the garish, the ugly, the weird.

For your own sake, and the sake of your neighbors, do not try this
at home.

excerpt:
Measurements of ancient air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice offers evidence that humans have been changing the global climate since thousands of years before the industrial revolution.

From 8000 years ago, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide began to rise as humans started clearing forests, planting crops and raising livestock, a scientist said on Tuesday. Methane levels started increasing 3000 years later.

The combined increases of the two greenhouse gases implicated in global warming were slow but steady and staved off what should have been a period of significant natural cooling, said Bill Ruddiman, emeritus professor at the University of Virginia.

Science says, "Without objectively verifiable evidence, assume that it doesn't exist." But it is more accurate to say, "Without such evidence, we can't say whether it exists." We must be careful not to become lazy and let our skeptical mind-set become a closed one.

We have a certain view of how aliens will and will not behave and manifest their presence here. We get huffy when these imagined rules of interplanetary etiquette (of necessity based on projections of ourselves) are not followed. Skeptics complain that the aliens reported by UFO enthusiasts don't act like real aliens. Real aliens would not spend that kind of money on space fuel (energy is money). They'd stay home and improve things in their own systems. Real aliens wouldn't be interested in kidnapping humans and examining us or stealing sperm and eggs. We can't think of a good reason for them to behave like that. Real aliens would surely leave some spare parts or space trash or footprints behind for us to study. Don't you know anything about aliens?

A beautiful essay on how skeptical scientists are approaching the UFO question with the wrong mindset. Feels good to be posting again, by the way.

Author: James Koehnline & the Autonomedia Collective


Autonomedia’s new Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2004!

BERKELEY, Calif. (Wireless Flash) -- Nobody likes spending the holidays alone, or do they?
According to Anneli Rufus, self-proclaimed loner and author of "Party of One: the Loners' Manifesto" (Marlowe & Co.), there are a large number of folks who prefer to spend the holidays solo, but other folks won't leave them alone.

Rufus claims fellow loners want the rest of the world to know they aren't broken and don't need to be fixed and they don't want to be invited to holiday parties.

So if loners want to get out of social engagements, she recommends they can tell white lies like "sorry, I have other plans," schedule to be out of town during parties or tell the host the honest truth "I'm happy being alone."

If loners are looking for something to do, Rufus recommends going to the beach, going on long drives or to the movies. These usually crowded places are deserted on Christmas and New Years Day.

Bill O'Reilly - America's "Pinhead"
Joe Lolli
December 10, 2003


I watched Bill O'Reilly on “The O’Reilly Factor” lie to his viewers last night over what the Clinton "Assault Weapons Ban" (AWB) says. Mr. O'Reilly claimed that the public supports the AWB because it “keeps your neighbors from owning bazookas and machineguns in their homes”. But those type weapons have been illegal for almost 3/4 of a century. And the AWB has nothing to do that that. The Clinton AWB only makes guns that "LOOK" like military assault weapons illegal and has had no impact on preventing or reducing crime in the ten years of its existence.

Anyway, here's what I sent to O'Reilly:



Hey Pinhead,

The phony "assault weapons ban" is not about bazookas and machineguns... those things have been illegal since 1934. A bazooka is a rocket launcher. A machine gun is a battle weapon that fires numerous shots with one pull of the trigger. Both have been illegal for normal unlicensed citizens to own for almost 70 years.

What the 1994 Clinton AWB is about is banning rifles that merely LOOK like military weapons but function just like any other normal semi-automatic hunting rifle, i.e. firing just one shot with each pull of the trigger. In Switzerland, they actually REQUIRE the head of every household to own and maintain a REAL military-style fully automatic battle rifle. Bill, it’s been ten years since the ban was implemented... so can you show me the stats that where the AWB has reduced any crimes? You can't find any stats because there aren't any. The banning of these assault weapons has made NO DIFFERENCE in assaults, murders or any other violent crimes.

What's really needed here is a redefinition of terms. Remember the Korean shopkeepers defending their homes and property in East L.A. during the Rodney King riots? The only homes and businesses that were left standing were the ones where their owners stood guard holding their very intimidating looking "homeland defense" weapons, like AR-15s and police style Riot Shotguns.("assault weapons" to you pinheads... or "property and life insurance" weapons for those fending off the looters and vandals that would have otherwise destroyed everything these people created.) The real victims of this anti-gun law were all the shopkeepers and homeowners that DIDN'T have a homeland defense weapon during the riots and were prevented from buying one because the People's Republic of California requires a ten day waiting period before they would be allowed to take their new weapon home with them. That was the real gun crime in L.A. during the riots.

So Bill, the next time you want to have GOA's Larry Pratt on your show, why not try actually listening to what he has to say instead of simply pushing your "Howard Dean is flip-flopping" agenda.

Besides, nobody cares! Here’s a hint - Howard Dean is a politician! Just like Bush or Clinton before him, Dean is going to tell folks what he thinks they want to hear. In 1992 Dean was running for Governor in a state where honest law abiding adult citizens are allowed to carry a firearm CONCEALED on their person, anywhere in the state WITH NO GOVERNMENT SANCTION!

So, there you are, sitting in the in same anti-gun city that has just prosecuted an honest citizen for using a firearm to shoot a burglar in within the confines of his baby's bedroom in his own home and you are using a Dean campaign pledge made in the nation's most gun friendly state eleven years later as a hammer in front of a national audience that would actually prefer that the AWB expire.

Bill, get a clue!

National Rifle Association
http://www.nra.org/

American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/

THE BILL OF RIGHTS
Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution
http://memory.loc.gov/const/bor.html

President Nixon didn't think much of fellow Californian and Republican icon Ronald Reagan, calling him "strange" and not "pleasant to be around," newly released White House tapes show.

Talking politics with White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman at Camp David in August 1972, Nixon switched the conversation to two Republican governors, Reagan of California and Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Both men unsuccessfully sought the 1968 Republican presidential nomination that Nixon received.

"Reagan is not one that wears well," Nixon said.

"I know," Haldeman agreed.

"On a personal basis, Rockefeller is a pretty nice guy," Nixon said. "Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just isn't pleasant to be around."

"No, he isn't," Haldeman said.

"Maybe he's different with others," Nixon said.

"No," Haldeman said.

"No, he's just an uncomfortable man to be around," Nixon said, "strange."

The conversations are part of the 240 hours of White House tape recordings from the Nixon administration released Wednesday by the National Archives. Covering the period July through October 1972, the tapes are the 10th batch of Nixon recordings, totaling 2,109 hours, that the Archives has released since 1980. In all, there are about 3,700 hours of Nixon White House tapes.

Nixon installed a secret taping system in the White House. Some of those tapes later showed a White House cover-up in connection with the 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building. The release of those tapes, which Nixon fought all the way to the Supreme Court, eventually led to his resignation in 1974 rather than face almost-certain impeachment and conviction

In a book published by an aide in 1996, Nixon is quoted as saying that Reagan's economic policies were unduly harsh and cautioned against giving him too much credit for winning the Cold War. "Communism would have collapsed anyway," he told Monica Crowley, a Nixon aide in his last years, according to her book, "Nixon Off the Record."

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told a Miami audience Tuesday that the country should legalize millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country.

Ridge said he thinks the body politic is about ready to address the issue of the illegal immigrants, who he said contribute to communities and Social Security and pay taxes. He referred to a growing number of bills that would grant residency to some of those living here illegally. He said one of these, which would require all illegal immigrants to leave the country before applying for residency, is "not workable."

"I'm not saying make them citizens, because they violated the law to get here," he said. "So you don't reward that type of conduct by turning over a citizenship certificate. You determine how you can legalize their presence, then, as a country, you make a decision that from this day forward, from this day forward, this is the process of entry, and if you violate that process of entry we have the resources to cope with it."

Alternative Catholicism, Gnosticism, Templars, and The Holy Grail




http://l.webring.com/hub?ring=gnosis

NEW YORK—Citing curiosity as his primary motive, Bill Clinton typed his own name into the popular search engine Google.com during a lull in his daily activities, the former president reported Monday.

"I had no idea I would get 2,790,000 results!" Clinton said while seated before the Apple PowerBook in his Harlem office. "Besides all the news articles, there were encyclopedia entries, links to Amazon for books about me, and tons of photos, too. I even came across some frame captures from those Rock The Vote shows I did back in 1992. I'm going to take a couple of those and make them my desktop picture, once I figure out how to tile them."

Clinton added that, as he progressed through the pages devoted to himself, he found some "other Bill Clintons."

"There's this other Bill Clinton who's a big Hendrix fan," Clinton said. "There's another one that books gay cruises, and another one that ran for county coroner in Iowa. There are a lot of other guys with my name out there, all across America. Kinda neat, huh?"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - Arvin Mayor Juan Olivares had just one request of a Kern County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop - "Don't call me dude."
The mayor of the city of 20,000 people about 20 miles south of Bakersfield planned to file an official complaint with the sheriff's department, seeking to have the deputy fired for what he calls disrespectful behavior.

"I asked him five times, 'Please officer, don't call me dude.' I'm not a dude. I'm 41 years old, I'm a businessman, I'm a Christian and I consider myself a gentlemen," Olivares said Monday.

What if he offered Americans the jobs at the same rate he would be paying for Indian programmers? It seemed like a long shot. But it also seemed worth the gamble. So Jon placed some ads in The Boston Globe, offering full-time contract programming work for $45,000 annually. (He had decided that it was worth adding a $5,000 premium to what he'd pay the Indian workers in exchange for having the programmers on site.)

The result? "We got flooded" with resumes, about 90 in total, many from highly qualified programmers having trouble finding work in the down economy, Jon says. His decision: "For $5,000 it was no contest." Jon went American. And the outcome? "I think I got the best of both worlds. I got local people who came in for 10% more (than Indians). And I found really good ones."

An Essex school which advertised for a new teacher who
"must like chocolate" has seen a huge increase in
applications for the job.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A small earthquake that started in Virginia was felt by several counties in the WRAL viewing area.

Officials say at 3:59 p.m. Tuesday, an earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude was reported.

Its epicenter was 30 miles west of Richmond. There is no word on the length of the tremors.

The earthquake's effects have been reported in areas such as Fuquay-Varina, Roanoke Rapids and Henderson.

LOS ANGELES -- Ozzy Osbourne was seriously injured Monday in an accident on the grounds of his estate in England and underwent emergency surgery, a spokeswoman said.

The 55-year-old rock star was riding a "quad bike," or all-terrain vehicle, on his Buckinghamshire property when the accident occurred, according to publicist Cindy Guagenti.

His injuries were not considered to be life-threatening, she said.

A brief history of the subject, in both science and fiction.

Author's note:
I'm working on a novel, If God Were Alive Today, about a fictitious man, Gil Berman, 36 years my junior, who cracks jokes or whatever in front of college audiences from time to time, something I myself have done. Here are excerpts from some of what I myself said onstage at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on the evening of September 22, 2003, as we touch off the last chunks and drops and whiffs of fossil fuels.

K.V.
September 24, 2003
Sagaponack, New York

"...and hey, listen: A sappy woman sent me a letter a few years back. She knew I was sappy, too, which is to say a lifelong northern Democrat in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt mode, a friend of the working stiffs. She was about to have a baby, not mine, and wished to know if it was a bad thing to bring such a sweet and innocent creature into a world as bad as this one is. I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society. Perhaps some of you are or will become saints for her child to meet."

'We Can Implant Entirely False Memories'

You were abducted by aliens, you saw Bugs Bunny at Disneyland,
and then you went up in a balloon. Didn't you?

Alan Alda had nothing against hard-boiled eggs until last spring. Then the actor, better known as Hawkeye from M*A*S*H, paid a visit to the University of California, Irvine. In his new guise as host of a science series on American TV, he was exploring the subject of memory. The researchers showed him round, and afterwards took him for a picnic in the park. By the time he came to leave, he had developed a dislike of hard-boiled eggs based on a memory of having made himself sick on them as a child - something that never happened.

Alda was the unwitting guinea pig of Elizabeth Loftus, a UCI psychologist who has been obsessed with the subject of memory and its unreliability since Richard Nixon was sworn in as president. Early on in her research, she would invite people into her lab, show them simulated traffic accidents, feed them false information and leading questions, and find that they subsequently recalled details of the scene differently - a finding that has since been replicated hundreds of times.

New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Rush & Molloy: Tasteless gags Maher a Hillary tribute

Bill Maher has made another stab at career suicide.
The Bush-bashing comic stunned some of Hollywood's most powerful liberals by joking about Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions at a benefit honoring Sen. Hillary Clinton.

New York's junior Senator was accepting an Oceana Partners award in Los Angeles last Wednesday for her work on environmental issues. Maher emceed the event, which also honored marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, as well as Ron Howard and his Imagine partner, Brian Glazer.

Among the unamused in the audience were Oceana board member Ted Danson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kiefer Sutherland, Diane Lane, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal and Kirsten Dunst, Norman Lear and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

"Maher began bringing up 'Bill Clinton's [bleep] jobs' - with Hillary sitting right there in front of him eating her chicken," says a witness. "It was just cruel. Ted Danson's wife, Mary Steenburgen, is a longtime friend of the senator's. I can't believe they approved of this."

The former President, although not there, was listed as a co-chairman of the event, which raised $600,000.

Maher also took a shot at Cousteau - sniping: "That must feel great, getting a one-quarter standing ovation." Cousteau walked out of the building shortly afterward.

Promillelukko

APOD: 2003 December 7 - The Eskimo Nebula from Hubble

In the spirit of the "Project Mayhem Invasion of Avery Templates", we present the latest in noosphere tagging, "Java 2 For Dummies". Check out the example on page 32.
The title and page 32 combine for a double word score on that one?

Dr. ((delted)) said that he was driving toward his home on Friday, November 21 between 9 and 10:00 p.m. with his 2 sons, 15 and 18-years old (He recalls the specific date, knowing that one son is in college and would not have been home any day except Friday).

While driving, they all spotted a soundless aerial object over a nearby open field that was described as an oval-shaped, white-colored light source as big as a pea held at arms length which moved 'like a hummingbird would move.'

The object, seen in the dark and clear night skies, was relatively high when first seen and was "coming down, moving in increments as if an elevator would drop and stay there awhile, then drop and stay there awhile," Dr. ((deleted)) said.

After the first 3 or 4 minutes of visual observation, the object began moving around to different parts of the sky. They got out of car to see if they could identify this object and verified to their satisfaction that the object was not a plane, helicopter or aurora borealis.

"My first inclination was to rationalize what this object could have been," Dr. ((deleted)) said. "rather than jumping to conclusions. After we ruled out the various possible explanations we assumed that this was a UFO."

"I know for a fact that there was no explanation for this object and I'm just glad I had my two sons with me to see it," he said.

After observing this object for a few minutes, ((deleted)) and his 2 sons got back in the car and drove on to their home under a certain sense of apprehension.

"I would say that our feeling was more a sense of apprehension than fear," he said, "I did not know what it was we were looking at and had some concern that it might or could have spotted us."

After driving the short distance to their house, they went to a second floor bedroom and looked out the window to the northwest where they continued to watch the object. It descended lower toward the ground and seemed to be settling in a nearby field where its color had shifted from a white to an orange. As the object got lower and lower to the ground, it became bigger and its color changed to a reddish light.

He said that the size of the object increased from a pea at arms length to a dime at arms length, stressing that its size, from his perspective, was "not quite as drastic as a nickel at arms length."

"There was like a vacuum of silence while we watched this," ((deleted)) said, "it was like everything was real quiet, at a standstill and then when it became a red color, everything went crazy."

((deleted)) said that animals in the area suddenly erupted in a frenzy. His neighbors dog was barking crazily and his German Shepherd dog tried to break its chain.

From his perspective, the object descended to the ground but was not certain that it touched or made contact with the ground as trees prevented him from seeing this with certainty.

"At that point, after this object got red, it just "shot off" like a dart, some kind of acceleration and it just took off to the west. We just stood there dumbfounded."

He said the sighting lasted for an estimated 10 to 15 minute duration.

"I was very reluctant to call the police about a UFO sighting," he said, "at that point, we were not going to report this."

"Right after that my 2-sons went back outside and heard the screaming. It was a female voice. They got in the car and within minutes had called from their cell phone to say that they had been hearing screaming sounds in the field where this thing came down," he said.

"Approximately 20-minutes after the UFO sighting the police were at my door, there were about 20 officers and a rescue squad over in the field where I spotted the UFO. They were combing the area and had asked me what I knew about someone screaming."

"Apparently, others had heard the screaming sounds."

He paused from our conversation to check with one of his sons, asking if the son could recount the nature of the screaming sounds. He said it was a desperate, blood curdling scream of a female voice that kept saying: "Help me, oh my God, help me!"

Holographic Universe: "We are really 'receivers' floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram. This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small but growing group of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may solve some mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and even establish the paranormal as a part of nature."

Former President Bill Clinton has been asked to make a last-minute campaign appearance for San Francisco's Democratic mayoral hopeful, who faces a tough runoff race against a Green Party challenger, campaign sources said Friday.

Newsom, 36, is in a closer-than-expected race against Matt Gonzalez. Both are members of the Board of Supervisors, where Gonzalez, 38, is president and one of the nation's highest-ranking Green Party officials.

Clinton: A Moderate Republican
http://www.kellysite.net/modrep.html

Clinton was a disaster for liberals and Democrats because he was a closet Republican and was a major cause of the wealth and income gap that exists today between the rich and middle- and low-income Americans. Voters now identify his economic policies that benefitted investors and the wealthy at the expense of workers—primarily, but not exclusively, NAFTA, WTO and "globalization"—with today's liberals and Democrats. As they say, "Why vote for a Democrat if their economic policies are just as bad as the Republicans."

The Wall Street Journal agreed. From the November 7, 1996 issue:

"We have a great Republican president now."
A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard
Chairman of the Securities Industry
Association and head of Alex Brown, Inc.

Throughout medieval times, a major current of thought distinct from
official religion existed, culminating in the works of the alchemists
and hermetics. Among such groups were to be found some of the early
modern scientists and men remarkable for the strength of their
independent thinking and their adventurous life, such as Paracelsus.
The nature of the beings who mysteriously appeared, dressed in shiny
garments or covered with dark hair, and with whom communication was so
hard to establish intrigued these men intensely."
- Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia

LibertyThink.com founder ''Valis'' Framed (Busted in Austin, Tx)



December 5, 2003
Austin, Texas
Legal advice needed: Valis framed

Hi gang,

Valis here. Legal help needed.

Got busted by tonight by TABC (Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission) in an organized sting. (Server: me; selling to underage operatives)

Problem is those who claim to "use real IDs" and "only be themselves" used IDs that were horizontal (see DPS regulations on State Identification), and had no "under 21" insignia.

AKA: Fake ID's used, when unconstitutional to the paradigm they envision..

Please help.

(*according to the TABC, these raids are constitutional, because nobody is being fraudulent in their identification. However, this is not the case.)

(or help me organize my Monday Night "Goin' to jail for two weeks" party.")

Either response is encouraged......

See: TABC Minor Sting Operations
http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/enforce/minor.htm



Deadline: Tuesday AM

Cheers
- valis

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