Reality Check

Someone on FreeRepublic said, “We don’t have a choice”. I vehemently stand against that statement.

Socialism; say Yes or No
Ladies and Gentlemen….

I beg to differ. America has a choice. While our choice in Presidential candidates has somehow been dictated to us by some lame-brained dumbasses in the various parties, we certainly DO have a CHOICE.

We have a choice as free Americans to NOT take what is handed to us, or shoved down our throats. However, we DO have a system in which we need to work first.

I never thought I’d say this, but I’m going to vote for McCain.

And then I’m going to oppose him every step of the way, and I would urge you all to do the same when it comes to things like raising taxes, leaving our borders open and pulling us out of the rest of the world.

Americans need to understand that WE ARE STILL IN CHARGE OF OUR COUNTRY.

Those leftists who are incrementally attempting to change our children need to be stopped, and they need to be stopped LOUDLY and pointedly.

Some day, this may come to violence with the opposition - and I hope it doesn’t but you should chose your side carefully and thoughtfully and not continue hammering on McCain because you don’t like him.

It’s time to vote for what semblance of conservatism we have LEFT and force the new President to move as far right as we can force him to go.

Don’t give up, don’t give in to all the nay-sayers and don’t be a nay-sayer yourself. Let’s get this in high gear, put a “Republican” (even if he IS a RINO), he isn’t B. Hussein Obama” who is a dyed-in-the-wool SOCIALIST. We’re one step from being “Europeanized” folks!

Do NOT let that happen.

Kick CAIR out of this country.

Tell the ACLU to clam up.

Stop the schools from teaching political correctness.

Put someone in office who MIGHT be a liberal but certainly isn’t a Socialist.

Stop your damned BITCHING and get to work LOCALLY like the rest of us are doing, pushing for conservatives in Congress and other offices.

Stop worrying so much about the President, elect McCain and NOT Obama.

And We DO have a Choice, God BLESS America!

Rick Donaldson

lgf: We Got Mail!

Apparently there are STILL kooks who believe that the attacks on 9-11-01 was a US Government Conspiracy.

Anyone with a lick of sense already knows this was a conspiracy, but it was a conspiracy carried out by terrorists, and not people in the US Government.

That ANYONE could believe the US Government was in any way involved shows that there is so much ignorance in the world and we continually need to combat this lack-of-intelligence on the part of the general population of the world.

The Truth, as a once-popular (and coming back) TV series “X Files” said, “Is out there”. Unfortunately, those who “believe in the truth” of a government conspiracy are buying into lies, and obfuscation and utterly refusing to see the facts — because they “want to believe”.

It is sad and frustrating that there are still ignorant people like this in the world. Below is the text of the letter sent to LGF.

Sad. Very, very sad.

Come on, tell me why you still believe it was possilbe for hijacked!? airliners to fly all over the eastern U.S. for hours without any meaningful response nor even any pursuit? Come on! (How could Osama bin-Forgotten do that? Or was that the work of Cheney?)

Our trillion-dollar air defenses were allegedly defeated by Osama bin-Forgotten & his 19 lackeys with box-cutters?

American Airlines Flight 77, having a 125’ wingspan disappeared though a16’ foot initial impact hole at the Pentagon. All clear video (at least 80 of them) of what blew-up the Pentagon being withheld to this day?

WTC-7 has small, scattered fires, yet it imploded in a controlled demolition later in the day on 9/11. Larry Silverstein, the over-insured leaseholder, said:

“I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, ‘We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.’ And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.”

Etc., etc.

Everyone needs to do his/her own research about September 11, 2001! (A good start is to watch “9/11 Ripple Effect” free on the web.)

Cell Phones Bad For Your Health – Again - Lifestyle News - Digital Trends

It’s the issue that won’t go away. Are cell phones detrimental to your health? Will the electromagnetic radiation cause brain tumors? Studies have said yes, studies have said no.

Again and again I have heard this. Again and again, I have to say that to make statements that cellular telephones specifically cause brain tumors is a load of nonsense.

I do not say this lightly either. As a long, long time Ham Radio operator I have used radios for many years. In the military I used handheld radios as did many, many people.

Amateur Radio Operators have been exposed, on average to much more Radio Frequency (RF) energy than anyone is exposed to by cellular phones on a daily basis, over long periods of time.

The fact is that all life on earth has adapted to exist in low frequency, naturally occurring radio frequency energy. While Amateur radio tends to be higher frequencies - usually falling between 2 and 30 megahertz, and a majority falling in the 144-440 mhz (used in local and repeater communications).

I believe that there are numbers showing that ham radio operators do not suffer from any greater instances of cancer than other people not exposed to ham radio. I’ll probably look into that a bit more later, but for now, this is merely opinion - although it’s not simply my opinion, but it is based upon knowledge of RF radiation.

Essentially, RF radiation is non-ionizing radiation and in most cases the worst thing that can happen is skin heating. Of course, not to minimize this a high powered radio system can injure you and cause burns.

Cellular telephones are much higher in frequency than even your television signals, or those of ham radio, the local AM/FM radio stations and so forth. They generally run in the 800-900 Mhz range - approaching what is commonly called “microwaves’. So-called because of their very short wavelength in the micrometer length.

Nearly all radio frequency energy at those frequencies travel over the surface of radiators, or antennas - and I’m speaking of the human body in terms of acting like an inductive device. The human body is mostly salt water, and thus is relatively conductive in comparison to many other things.

In fact, the human body will conduct RF along the surface. The evidence for internal heating simply doesn’t exist except at extremely high energy levels, something a cellular telephone is NOT capable of accomplishing. The fact is that tumors occur internal to the body, and frequencies from above about 30 Mhz simply don’t enter the body into the brain unless there are inordinate amounts of energy being used.

The majority of cellular telephones in use generally use less than 2 watts of RF power. There are some that use as much as 4.6 watts, but in general most phones are much less. Now, since I can’t cite specific studies where they have shown the penetrative abilities of RF energy at telephone frequencies, I can’t say for certain that 2-4 watts of energy does not definitively cause damage, however, I will say that from personal experience with radios operating at higher wattages, close to my face that I have never once suffered from RF burns on my eyes, eye sockets or anywhere near them, having used radios of much higher power, and even lower frequencies.

I know of no other amateur or professional radio operators who have suffered such damages either.

I did see one… error… at least in my opinion. Far be it for me to “question” a person with a phd, however,

Occupational and Environmental
Medicine (2004) Volume 61; pages 769-772). In other words, deep in a building
or in a moving elevator, the handset’s power output increases temporarily in order
to pick up a base-station’s signal so that the phone users can continue to
communicate effectively.

this bothers me some. His explanation is incorrect, though, I get his meaning. The handset doesn’t increase it’s power in order to “pickup” the base-station’s signal, it increases power to maintain contact with the base-station. Nitpicking, I know, but if you’re going to write a technical paper, then be technically correct.

In electrical signals, particularly alternating current signals, there is a physics phenomenon called “Skin Effect”. This is where currents flow in conductors closer to the surface as the AC frequency increases. There are set depths in electronics for various frequencies using copper as the medium. The higher the frequency, the lesser the depth for copper. The human body, being made up as I mentioned before of mostly salt water is a poor conductor at best and therefore higher frequencies penetrate the skin less than they do in copper wires.

This simple science fact should be enough for everyone to understand that at higher telephone frequencies there is less ability for RF energy to penetrate into the body. And yet, so-called “smart organizations” like the World Health Organization states that cell phones are dangerous. Oh, pardon me, they have “determined” they are dangerous.

Well, as a former electronics teacher, a real-world “physicist” with my background in RF energy, and a professional communicator, an amateur radio operator and someone with forty years of RF experience, I too have made a determination. The World Health Organization, Vini G. Khurana and his paper and pretty much anyone that makes the comment that “cell phones are dangerous and cause cancer” are simply playing on your emotions, probably have a reason to detest cellular phones and want the general public to stop using them at large.

In other words, these groups and people are wrong - and in short “full of it…”.

Obviously, I’m not a doctor, nor a lawyer, but I am an expert in RF radiation. It seems to me that these “dire warnings” put out in this paper
are based upon less science and more upon poorly accomplished research than anything else. In particular this scientist states clearly that this is “evidence based conclusions” and “opinions” of the author alone.

That is fine and dandy, but any one with a sufficient amount of research can find and draw incorrect conclusions from any evidence one choses to use, and in some cases ignore. At the same time, I do understand myself that safety precautions should always be observed in relation to any sort of electronic communications devices that emit radio frequency radiation. However, there are some questionable issues with the paper, as well as anyone simply making the accusation that a tumor is caused by a cellular phone.

Will I, should I ever find myself in that scary predicament suddenly sue Sprint and Samsung because I’ve been using the same sort of phones for over 10 years now, and the same services for at least eight or nine years? I might. Previous precedence has already been set in law suits leading up to these sorts of articles.

Essentially, there have been several dozen studies which have had varying degrees of finger pointing regarding cancer, cell phones and malignant brain tumors. In no case has any study conclusively determined there is a connection. Period. The World Health Organization, for no apparent good reason has determined cell phones are dangerous, and various people across the land have made unsupported, unsubstantiated claims regarding RF energy from cellular phones.

Why, I wonder, haven’t military personnel made similar claims about handheld radios? How about police and fire officials, nearly all of whom have handy-talkies strapped to their belts? What about amateur radio operators? How about ambulance drivers? Why aren’t any of the people in the security field making similar claims of handy-talkies?

It amazes me that this radio technology has been around since 1945 (hand held radios) set up on various frequencies from 1 MHz all the way up to the gigahertz range and yet is is only cellular telephones which have become the bane of the brain, and the purveyor of cancer when radio signals at higher frequencies like the cellular phone do not even penetrate the skull.

When will things like Global Warming and the rest of these silly, pseudo-science-based Conspiracy theories stop?

When people become educated.

I will state that a cellular telephone in the hand is generating an average of 2 watts, and probably much less would even be contacting a person from a few inches away. People who live in buildings, with antennas above their heads, broadcasting hundreds, or perhaps thousands of watts are in a much greater danger than those with handheld devices.

My own antennas have 100 watts or less RF power applied (and much less than that a few meters away from the antenna) so keeping in safety guild-lines put out by the Federal Communications Commission is not very difficult to do. However, making “more rules” for consumer devices is much more invasive than the RF that this doctor, and others are trying to limit.

The Wobbly Nomad

It appears the Wobbly Nomad has managed to get himself noticed. He has threatened people, and made it clear he would like to see “The Gathering of Eagles” kill, murdered or at least just see them dripping in blood.

It also seems that he is aptly named, since he’s apparently on heavy medication, hence “wobbly” and perhaps even a nomad because he’s really a homeless, uneducated Liberal who feels that the world owes him something.

Well, the world doesn’t owe you jack-shit sonny.

You’re the sort of thing that the Military has fought to protect - your so-called “Freedom of Speech”.

Well, sonny, let me give you some facts. With freedom of speech comes responsibility and you’re going to have to, sooner or later, take responsibility for your actions. I personally have “flagged” your pathetic little bog as having objectionable material. I think I will make a few phone calls to some buddies in some of the various agencies around the country so this jerk can see what it’s really like to be “hounded by the Government” for a change….

So that folks can see what this assclown is about, I’ve gone ahead and made sure there’s a link and here’s a little taste of what this asswipe is saying… He’s no more an Iraqi Veteran than I am a Korean War Vet.

Since when did the Wobbly Nomad become such a big hit? I didn’t know radical revolutionary ideas could be so … powerful! I didn’t know that one Iraq Veteran could be so … effective!

So here’s the scoop. Gathering of Eagles is bunch of bullshit, and as far as I am concerned, they all need to either go eat an IED in Iraq, or go drink some dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (agent orange, assholes) and suck it the fuck up for Big Brother.

Michele Malkin is George Bush’s groupie [ideological] slut. She needs to pull her head out of W’s asscrack, and start asking the real HARD questions. Questions like: Why did Chris Hill assault and batter Carlos Arredondo? Like: Who the fuck are you to call me crazy, bitch? I fought in Iraq.

I really really really hope that someday Malkin and her counterpart, Ann “Fucking” Coulter end up laying hog-tied with electrical wire in an Iraqi ditch, looking up at an American-armed death-squad of oppressed and equipped Sunnis who will then procede to show them nice and slow exactly how they came to their viewpoints about the bullshit that is American Fascism.

So ladies and gentlemen, this is the sort of short-sighted, ignorant elitist, scum-sucking, Liberal, American Hating children the Left of this country is raising.

My bet is this is some rich kid who came from a rich family who has bought into the “The world owes me everything” bullshit and now he’s upset with everyone in the world because he got his money cut off.

Or more likely he’s a fat, retard who can’t get out of mama’s basement because he eats too much pizza and plays the “Sims” too much. His real-world reality is a darkened room, with two computers and a high speed connection, while trying to make virtual money in a game that’s just pissing him off because some other fat guy in another basement just jilted him (You know, pretending to be a hot internet chick) and nomad figured it out finally. (Probably the first thing he has gotten right in his life….)

Sad sad sad.

Wobbly Nomad - I dare you to prove you’re an Iraq veteran, you won’t because you can’t. I think you’re “Pizza boy” myself.

UPDATE! Wobbly Nomad is NO MO’. Site is offline now. Clicking on the link to the site gives you this:

Blog has been removed

Sorry, the blog at wobblynomad.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.

Good Job all who helped shut him down. At least for now. I suspect he is somewhere else now.

YouTube - The Great Global Warming Swindle (Complete)

Folks, those of you pushing the Global Warming, POLITICAL agenda really need to listen to and watch this movie. All your alleged ‘facts’ are wrong. Global warming isn’t happening based on CO2, CO2 happens because of warming. Golly, you all have it wrong way around!

New micro-level search engine to help researchers cover the web, and locate information about UFOs, and the Paranormal.

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IBM wants to help you find out if UFOs are real. Well, sort of. With UFO sightings seemingly on the rise, Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer UFO Crawler, a new search engine specifically tuned to search for information about the paranormal, unexplained or just plain bizarre.

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The Anomalies Network has teamed with IBM to create a micro-search engine, that will give you much greater information if you’re interested in finding information about UFO sightings, “Alien Abductions” and similar scientific anomalies.

I spoke at length with Olav yesterday. He said this is going to be very good for the Anomalies community. The search engine will allow users to customize specific searches to allow them to locate that data they need in doing research.

Silicon Valley Web Hosting has a hand in it, as well as IBM. Big Blue seems interested in things like “Is there life out there”?

Link to the Search Engine: UFO Crawler

I did a podcast about parts of this last night, and it’s online now at:

#8 Reality Check - Anomalies, UFOs, and general talk

I’m working on getting set up to interview Olav for the next podcast sometime in the next few days.

Listen in on the pod cast, and send me comments.

I just wanna make something very clear here…. /rant ON

My opinions are mine. I’ll share them if you ask, and sometimes when you don’t ask. I make sure that when I form an opinion it is based on factual data, thoroughly examined and calculated, weighed and OBJECTIVELY read. I also base my opinions on life experiences as well. I know the difference in right and wrong, and I know when someone is trying to pull the wool over my eyes. So, if you want my opinion, and ask, I will give it and you can KNOW for a FACT it is well through out. If you don’t like my opinions, tough shit, I probably don’t like yours either.

If I appear to have slammed something someone has said on these forums, then know that it isn’t that I just "disagree" with you, or that I am "brainwashed" by some "Fanatic Right Wing government", nor that I’m a Nazi (I’m not for the record, I’m a dyed in the wool-Reagan-Republican who saw the light after working for Jimmy Carter, the very FIRST President I voted for. Reagan was the second.) — Nor am I a man of no or small principles. It’s because the person that made the crack that I responded to is full of shit, talking out his or her ass, or worse, is merely a misinformed person trying desperately to "fit in" with some group or organization (usually a left-leaning group, by the way).

As Elzie Segar’s, Popeye the Sailorman used to say, "I yam what I yam…"

Somewhere along the way, I’ve gained a kind of "following". I receive non-solicited "Fan Letters" on occasion. They range from awesomely written pieces to manaical personal attacks upon me. In the years since I started doing Anomalies I gained a vast array of–for lack of a better word–evildoers who were at the time hell bent on the destruction of the Anomalies Network. I’ve received, recently in fact, death threats. The shit never stops. The idiots continue to breed. Stupid people, by the way, ought not breed, nor should Liberals. (I suggest you continue aborting your children, and leave ours alone so that the Liberal will eventually go extinct.)

The kooks at Anomalies managed, for the most part to be written off as part of the history of the site. Somewhere along the way, I let my guard down and some of the got the "best of me" and managed to convince Olav that I was a tyrant and evil person, who was hell bent on preventing them, good innocent little people of the world, from "getting the word out". The truth is, I was protecting the site, and Olav with all my heart and soul. I poured more hours each day into that site than I did my family, my job, my hobbies. In short, I LIVED IN that site and was a PART of the site. I left a large mark on the site, and not a Black one as people like Kerry P, Jools, Porque, Tripp, Mr. P and many others are still SPOUTING even THIS day out on other sites out there. They know that they can’t bring a fight to me any more since I never respond to their nonsense on Anomalies these days, and if they come here, they will find themselves quickly in the toilet. And, they HATE it.

Olav, God Love him, was looking for a way to make Anomalies into his vision. I can not, nor would I blame him for that, and he managed to get his chance once day. But, regardless of the original intent of Anomalies, it grew out of love for the stories and information, and the people came. Both sides of the fence showed, and discussed and debated real data. Then it spiraled with the joining of a few trolls — some of whom I converted to be good Moderators. Andy G for one. Andy wasn’t really a troll, per se, but was definately misinformed. The day he took the helm of one of the forums, Andy did an about face, and took a "Right Turn" towards reality. He was one of our better moderators (and they were all damned fine people, don’t get me wrong, even a few I ended up firing eventually). But Andy was a person who, like many sat there and believed a lot of the stuff he read, as long as it fitted into some preconceived notion of his world view.

Then, shortly after taking over as a Moderator, Andy G did what few people do. He realized that belief in a subject is not the same as KNOWLEDGE in a subject and he studied a lot.

Andy was diagnosed with some sort of spinal cancer a year or so back. I was in contact with him for a time, and then that contact stopped. His Girl Friend was to let us know what was going on, but I’ve never heard from her since. I have not heard from Andy in months and I don’t think anyone else has either.

Andy G.– Where ever you are now, we all miss you.

Today, I see Anomalies suffering from piddling little posts and godawful conspiracy theories to no end. It’s sad, very sad. It’s like watching your mother with Alzheimer’s Disease, wasting away, babbling about things that aren’t true, or trapped in her mind that you can never know about.

Here on this site, several folks have taken to making cracks and remarks, which tend to "incite" me. Religion is one. Let me tell you my take on religion. First let me say this, carefully, I have no argument with religion per se. I appreciate it, and I understand the companionship people seek in knowing God. I also understand there are dozens of religions out there and billions belong to one or another. Finally, I understand that we all must take certain things on faith.

Now, stand back and minute and forget anything you knew about ANY religion, just for a moment, including your own. Place yourself as a complete and utter novice in the face of ANY religion, and know you know nothing about it.

Now, completely indoctrinate yourself into one (any) religion, follow it’s tenents, listen carefully to the Preachers (or whatever other teachers are involved) and then understand that you’ve been brainwashed. Now you know why Islamics are so hell bent on killing Americans, Jews and Western Civilization.

Now, knowing that this can happen to people, is it any WONDER that sometimes the Left Wing in America can be so evil when it comes to churches and religion? Is it any wonder that they bitch and scream and want to see something they call the "Separation of Church and State"? You see, where religion is involved, there is a degree of BELIEF and FAITH that must be taken into account. When that belief and faith are used as battering rams against people, say, like me who APPEAR to be "non-believers" then the application of that religious teaching becomes unwanted and unwarranted. I don’t need, nor want "conversion" and I do NOT believe that God is going to take care of me all the time. He might be there to nudge me a bit one way or the other, but what I do, and what happens around him has NOTHING to do with him normally. You believe what you will, and I will believe MY way. Don’t try to tell me that I’m doing something wrong because you disagree with it — but at the same time, don’t think that you’re doing something RIGHT because you simply BELIEVE it.

Things I can’t and won’t tolerate ever:

1) Someone trying to force me to "believe" in ANYTHING including religion, or conspiracy theory… which by the way, are BOTH RELIGIONS.

2) Lies. Damned lies and Statistics. I use statistics, but I show all of them, not part of them (like the crazy, whacko Global warming kooks do). One thing I don’t do on this or other web sites when I write though, is LIE about data. I tell it like it is, exactly. I show the facts. If I interject my OPINION on a subject, it’s not based on vague, feel-good rules. It’s based on facts and personal experience. I’m sure no one likes to think they are wrong, and neither do I. But I STRIVE to be not just right, but ACCURATE, even in opinions.

3) Personal attacks on anyone on this site. I won’t stand for it. And if you think I’ve made one, then look again at what you did to get the remarks I made. If you are going to sit there and tell me I did something I didn’t do, that’s akin to calling me a liar, and you’re going to get creamed. Don’t like that? TOUGH, don’t tell me I said something I didn’t say.

4) Rewording something I’ve said. Don’t do that. My writing is my writing, as is my writing style. I may not remember in two weeks precisely what I said, but it’s there for the world to see. If you wanna question something I’ve said, then you need to make sure you quote me ACCURATELY.

5) I won’t tolerate Communists, Socialists, Marxists, or whatever you wanna call yourselves, I don’t tolerate Enviromental LIBERAL idiots, people who damage others’ properties, murderers, terrorists, rapists and in general criminals. I WON"T tolerate people who threaten me, my family or my friends, and a lot of my friends are on this site.

There’s probably a lot more I WON’T Tolerate… just don’t be one of the "more".

Then, there’s the Right Wing, in particular the Religious right… who deem themselves sometimes completely free of committing crimes or wrong doing, and see that even recently the head of the New Life Church, Ted Haggard got himself in deep doo doo. Well, he and others got himself in to it — and no puns were intended here. People on both sides of the political aisle can be fools, do things they shouldn’t do. I’ve done a lot of things in my time I shouldn’t have and am not proud of them. But, it ain’t nobody’s business but mine. And unlike LIBERALS I don’t go around telling my kids and others what I’ve done "bad" — because it isn’t anyone’s business, and any mother or father that admits to their children they did drugs in the ’60s and ’70s are imbeciles. Your KIDS don’t need that kind of example. They need one that DOESN"T make mistakes. They need Parents who are BEYOND HUMAN. So, if you want to be a good parent, it’s easy. Be strong, and sometimes LIE to your kids when they ask you stupid questions.

When it comes to gathering information, I don’t just sit back, read and listen to one point of view. Neither should you. I listen to them all, so if anyone wants to tell me "You’re brainwashed" — go ahead, but know you’re lying, and I’ll call you out… and in the same vein as my ancestors, I’ll be happy to meet you on the street and kick your ass for saying such a thing about me. I tend to look up things, a lot of things every day. EVERYTHING that catches my attention becomes either a bookmark on a computer, or a piece of information I put in my brain. I’d expect every one of you to do the same, instead of setting your parameters and bias ahead of time, why DON’T you spend time digging into that conspiracy piece that looks so inviting and find the actual, first person source of the data.

You will be SURPRISED, trust me, if you go and read up on, say… "Concentration camps in America". Oh, my God, you will find so LITTLE truth, and a whole lot of run around, it’s truly mind boggling that people can believe this CRAP. (and a little hint, ALL the information you will find will eventually lead back to ONE PERSON, imagine that!)

I don’t mince words. I tell it EXACTLY like I see it. I AM somewhat wordy at times in articles (like this one). This is because I try very hard NOT to leave some of the imbeciles out there that like nothing better than to argue for no reason, and with no argument, no way out.

If you want to complain about my articles. Do it to yourselves. I’m sick of people telling me I write too much, or not enough. I am what I am. I do what I do because I know it is the right thing to do.

So.. for that group of you finally coming back out of the woodwork, who used to hang at Anomalies, and are looking to pick fresh fights with me… I’ll tell you this. I have more backup here than you can imagine. We might argue amongst ourselves at times on the meaning of this or that, but the folks that formed the core of this site have a goal, and we will stick to it. we don’t have any backdoors you’re going to get into and stab one of us in the back. TAA is here, for the duration. Trolls won’t shut us down and they won’t shut me up.

There’s no going behind one of our backs. You stand up, you face us like men, and we’ll face you back. You wanna bring weapons to the fight, feel free, but understand this core group not only outguns you in intellect, it outguns you in real life.

For the forces of evil out there bent on doing harm to the United States of America…

Do your best, but know that there are Americans.. JUST LIKE Me, who will not take your shit, we will point it out every step of the way. We will follow you around and scream at you if necessary, shoot you if we have too. America will not fall to the likes of Leftists, Socialists and Communists. The Democrats in this country need to understand this and get behind the rest of us Americans in fending off the Islamofascists and the rest of the WRONG-THINKING on this planet. Socialism is going to die in the next generation. I will help see to that.

President Bush said, after 9-11, "You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists".

Chose sides. Most already have, those that are on my side will win. Those on the side of the terrorists will lose.

So, when you post on this site, get your FACTS STRAIGHT, don’t lie, and DO by all means DOUBLE CHECK YOUR DATA. Because if I start seeing conspiracy crap on this site, I’m going to go through it with a fine toothed comb and I’ll call you out when I find your sources don’t match or all are circular to the same source.

Get your shit together on this site and expect, EXPECT that you’ll be questioned when you post crap. If you don’t like it, tough, go somewhere simple-minded and sloppy to post your garbage. But if you want to discuss something with an intelligent group, this is the place to do it. Just don’t expect me or anyone else to back down when it comes to hard questions.

If you don’t like my opinion, don’t ask for it. Don’t post things that are going to bring me out to work on what you’ve said. Because, folks, I’m probably the meanest son of a bitch in the valley and you don’t want to screw with me.

Oh… and last thing. The next THREAT I receive, I won’t send to the FBI or the local cops. I’ll take it seriously and I’ll hunt your ass down and make God Damned sure you don’t do that to me or anyone in my family again.

That’s not a threat, that’s a PROMISE. If the cops won’t do anything, *I* will.

have a nice day.
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If your opponent is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. — Sun Tzu

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Raj Bhakta crosses the border — on an elephant

OMG, too funny.  The only thing I don’t understand is why he said he felt bad about pointing out the Mexican National who ILLEGALLY entered the country. Nope, don’t feel bad. You’re a Great American.  You’ve shown the world the Circus on the US-Mexican border.

Wait until the Enviromentalists see this, they’re gonna go nuts over Elephants in a waterway, pollution to the water you know, abuse of the Elephants for riding them, and putting that big metal thingie (their words, not mine) on the Elephant’s back and good God, turning in an innocent man to the Authorities!

I have been asked this several times over the past year.  Here’s the answer, politically correct, or not.

Olav Phillips is a good friend (The Anomalies Network). He hosts my personal web page, for free for me, and has for many years.

He asked me to help him host the Forums many moons ago — almost ten years ago now — when Richard C. Hoagland (The Mar’s Face fella!  The Enterprise Mission) came upon some hard times.  Richard was having some issues with an ISP and not able to handle his site, they apparently shut it down or limited his bandwidth after a couple of interesting shows on Art Bell’s "Coast to Coast" show.

Around the very same time, Art Bell’s web site, run at the time by Keith and Mary Rowland went offline, right in the middle of the "John Titor — Time traveler" discussion.

I told Olav we needed to help, Olav already had in mind to get me on the site and run the forums. So, that’s pretty much how it started.

Over the years, we had our share of trolls, but conservative and liberal, skeptic and believer.  I have no problem with either group, and I prefer discussions that are, we will call them "somewhat heated" at times, and we wound up setting up rules for posting. Those rules were continually being ignored or the trolls would find ways to get around them very carefully avoiding the moderators.

Eventually, we got to the point where things were pretty settled.  Then Hoagland changed his idea of the way things ought to be.  He started telling me to ban people whom he previously wanted on the site, he wanted to close downt he detractors and I refused.  This caused a huge blowup on the site. Finally, Olav gave Hoagland the boot. He gave him 30 days to seek a new host, and haul his ass off of the Anomalies Network (and this was after we separated the Hoagland forums from everything else on the site).

We all went to great lengths to accomdate everyone, both sides of an arguement, ourselves, Hoagland and even to a degree the trolls causing the issues.

Finally after Hoagland found a new home and Olav transferred everything on the site, things settled.  Except for the trolls.  The staff had their issues with them and one day, I resigned.  Olav and I had a disagreement about things and I was being stressed to the max.  Olav asked me back, and I agreed.

However, there was an agreement made regarding the running of the site. By gentleman’s agreement, Olav made me "full partner" (hell, no pay involved and money coming out of HIS pocket all the time so it wasn’t that big of a deal to either of us).  He agreed that HE would be the network/hardward geek/guru as well as handle the amazing database, UFO pictures and the like, and I would be the sole person in charge of the Anomalies Forums.

I agreed, he agreed.

Over the course of a few years, this worked well, until the trolls decided to play mind games and Olav being overseas bought into it.  They created multiple accounts on the site, and started writing letters to Olav.  One day, after some personal issues had managed to keep me in total stress, someone started in on the "No plane hit the Pentagon" crap again.  I blew a gasket, locked a thread after spending time trying to get them to actually POST their evidence.

Olav countermanded me, reopened the thread and made sure to slam me publically about closing threads.  It wasn’t his field, it wasn’t his place to do it, and I quit… outright.  Then I found out about the trolls in the background pulling their crap.   I found out a lot of things.  It was too late, I’d resigned already.

Since the day I stopped being the administrator for the site, it has pretty much died.  Most of the major posters moved to the Trans-Asian Axis which has moved pretty much the entire political material to that site, including the terrorism forum, news, World at War forums and many other things.  The TROLLS are still there, on and off, and they post elsewhere on other sites about how "Evil" I was, but you know and THEY know that their own actions caused most of the problems.

The truth is, I’ve been working with BBSes, since the Dialup Days; since 1977.  I ran my own bulletin board service way, way back then, called AppleVenture ][.  It started on an Apple ][+ computer and ran little games people could play at the grand speed of 300 baud.  Eventually we advanced to an Apple //e, with lower case (ooh!) and a 9600 baud modem, a 20 megabyte HD and political forums, gaming forums and such things. We even had an email system capable of sending email as we know it today through various systems and into the real "internet" as it was begining to grow.  (We could send email to anyone with an email address in those days through Joey Schober’s "StarPort BBS" system).

Anyway, since those days, I’ve dealt with trolls, pirates, hackers, phreakers and just plain, old ordinary folks, and some famous ones as well.  Trolls have been there since the beginning and unforntunately, they won’t leave.  They will be around forever I’m sure since they seem to believe they have a "right to exist" to give others crap. I have no problem with freedom of speech, but I have a serious problem with trolls who think that they have a right to lie, say what they want and make things difficult on the folks that run web sites, and forums.

Anyway — I’m retired now from Anomalies though I still post in the Moderator’s Forum on occasion, interjecting my opinion on some subject or another.  Olav and I have, I suppose "buried the hatchet", though our relationship is somewhat "stressed" and we do not speak as often as I would like.  All I can say for certain is, Olav has been a very good friend to me in the past, and I consider him a friend now.