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zappaman's JournalWell some people claim there is a "puff of smoke" in a picture
showing the fence behind the grassy knoll.
I hope you will help fund my upcoming documentary that proves once and for all, what that "puff of smoke" really was...
It's stunning how some people can believe the most ridiculous things.
"I seen it on the video!'
No, Mermaids Do Not Exist
This week, Animal Planet aired two fake documentaries claiming to show scientific evidence of mermaids. I say fake documentaries because thats exactly what The Body Found and The New Evidence are. The scientists interviewed in the show are actors, and theres a brief disclaimer during the end credits. However, the Twitter conversation surrounding the show (#Mermaids) reveals that many viewers are unaware that the show isnt real. (Sample Tweets: After watching the documentary #Mermaids the body found
I believe there are mermaids!!! and 90% of the ocean is unexplored and youre telling me #mermaids dont existwhich has been retweeted more than 800 times.) It is, after all, airing on a network that claims to focus on educating viewers about the natural world. The Body Found was rightfully described the rotting carcass of science television, and I was shocked to see Animal Planet air a sequel.
As a marine biologist, I can tell you unequivocally that despite millennia of humans exploring the ocean, no credible evidence of the existence of mermaids has ever been found. Some claim that manatees are the source of the legend, but youd have to be at sea an awfully long time to think that a manatee is a beautiful woman. Sure, new species are discovered all the time, but while a new species of bird or insect is fascinating, it doesnt mean anything is possible, and it is certainly not equivalent to finding a group of talking, thinking humanoids with fish tails covering half of their bodies. The confusion generated by The Body Found got to be so significant that the United States government issued an official statement on the matter.
When I started angrily posting about this on Facebook and Twitter, many of my nonscientist friends asked me why it matters if people believe in mermaids. It matters because the ocean is extremely important. It provides jobs for tens of millions of people and food for billions. However, many marine resources are being overexploited and mismanaged, leaving us in serious danger of losing them forever. Policy solutions can help, but if you are so ignorant about what is really happening in the ocean that you believe that there are organisms that are half human and half fish, you're almost certainly unaware of the important problems, much less how to solve them. Even if you dont believe in mythical creatures, you may be unaware of the severity of the crises facing our oceans. Now that weve established that mermaids arent real, here are 5 other important things about the ocean that everyone should know...
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/mermaids_aren_t_real_animal_planet_s_fake_documentaries_misrepresent_ocean.html
He was right about George Bush.
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder is a 2008 book by former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. It argues that George W. Bush took the United States into the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses and should be tried for murder for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. The book sold over 130,000 copies within its first three months of release.
I agree with him.
Good catch!
Mark Lane: The Original Shyster
Judging from website reports, Lanes supporters are unaware of his previous shenanigans which stretch back to December 1963; yes, Lane was present at the creation. In 1966, Lanes first book, Rush to Judgment, was persuasive with the mainstream media who were taken in by Lanes lawyerly tricks and silver tongue as he debated supporters of the Warren Commission around the world. As Commission lawyer Wesley Liebeler observed, Lanes antics during these debates reminded him of an old legend about frogs jumping from the mouth of a perfidious man every time he speaks . . . . If (Lane) talks for five minutes, it takes an hour to straighten out the record. Even the counter-culture Rolling Stone magazine characterized Lane as a huckster and hearse chaser. Bugliosi describes Lane as having infidelity to the truth . . . a person who commits outright fabrications . . . a fraud in his preachments about the known assassin . . . and that he had deliberately distorted the evidence and repeatedly omitted evidence damaging to his side.[6]
In Rush to Judgment, Lane abused the Warren Commission testimony of Jack Ruby, Oswalds killer, and others like Charles Brehm, an alleged grassy knoll witness, who said Lane took his statements out of context and added a different meaning to them. Lane also omitted the statements of key witnesses like Johnny C Brewer, who observed a nervous Oswald avoid police patrols after the shooting of Officer Tippit.[7]
But Lane has a long history of playing fast and loose with the facts. In the early 1970s he used unreliable testimony to accuse American soldiers of multiple atrocities during the Vietnam War, according to New York Times correspondent Neil Sheehan, a prominent critic of US involvement in the Vietnam War. Sheehan investigated the accounts in Lanes book, Conversations with Americans Testimony from 32 Vietnam Veterans, and found most of them to be bogus.[8]
Whole article is worth a read about this sad lying man
http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2012/05/lane.html
well...
Still trying to prove Oswald was a hero, Octafish?
How's that going?
"As for Oswald, I don't know if he was a hero in all this or not."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2232672
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