Empire of the Odd

OK, now James is backpedaling, not that he didn’t have good reason to! Erich von Daniken is a revered name in the paranormal biz. A super star. Why he wrote books that were on the Times best seller’s list! I’ve read most of them! Not that I like to admit that, I was pretty impressed with Chariots of the Gods too. I was in GRADE SCHOOL at the time, now I know that his conclusions were more or less bogus. Chariots is the only one I remember well, the rest seemed kind of lame, he never really proved his forgone conclusions with any satisfaction. Really he never even came up with a smidgen of EVIDENCE let alone compelling evidence.  (Look, saying over and over again that the Pyramids in Giza had to have been constructed by spacemen jest don’t cut any mustered here in Roswell New Mexico.  WHY do you think they were made by spacemen, why do you think spacemen would WANT a giant burial mound made of stone, not to mention the nearly 100 other pyramidal buildings scattered all around the region.

No, Von Daniken is and remains a hotel hotel night clerk who wrote some interesting books while in and out of prison for fraud. He ADMITTED to making up some of his so-called “evidence” and plagiarized the whole idea from other authors, Lovecraft for one.

Anyway, James seems almost sorry that he treated Eric so badly. His little fans are certifiably impressed with Von Dainikin – not that this surprises me in the least.

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Although the overall response was positive concerning our concerns about Erich’s Coast to Coast denial there is no scientific evidence concerning ufos being here now and in the past since the old testament one subscriber became very irate. It was considered an attack among other things on Erich; which it was not. It was addressing statements made which are misleading and incorrect and in direct opposition to the evidence. Coming from a position of authority and making statements; which support the ongoing cover-up and misinformation game are clearly in need of addressing. When it is ignored and not addressed on Coast to Coast and disinformation is allowed to go unchecked in the interest of truth we do address these issues. Where I totally respect von Daniken’s work as far as antiquity and believe it played a major role in understanding out ancient past the problem is there is a more recent history, a now and a future replete with contacts and sightings. The frescos on church walls throughout Europe show clearly sightings and contacts playing a major role in many religions. Paintings with Voltaire and other great minds interacting with ufos are easily found by a simple search on the internet. http://www.eceti.org/Eceti.UFOInHistory.html Now add this to the disclosure projects and literally millions of ongoing sightings around the world we have to ask why Erich would make such broad all encompassing statements. It would be more appropriate to say I am only interested in antiquity and roughly anything before 2000 years ago then acting as an authority on matters he has not researched or does not want to research. Hope this clears up this matter. It is important we do not add our own victim, persecutor or savior roles into these matters and deal with them with simple logic. 

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…simple logic?

Why don’t you try some logic out James. Logic would dictate that aliens are probably not traveling millions of miles just so you can ‘belive’ in them. Such a feat would not require belief, it would be factual and uncontroversial. If aliens required me to ‘belive’ in them and required faith to exist, they would either not be working in my best interests or they would not BE aliens in the first place. The very idea that aliens would need to use deceptive means to survey the Earth flies int he face of logic and reason or didn’t you know that?. It’s a religious idea, logic has no use for mystery or systematic dogmatic deception. UFOs and aliens are a fantasy unless and until incontrovertible evidence is obtained. And don’t give me any dope about Goooberment cover-ups. Governments have a tough time keeping much of anything a secret, they are certainly not  interested in chasing ball lighting or ghosts, not spending money on it and governments have come clean about UFOs. What did they find?

Same thing Eric found.

A big fat nothing.

A clairvoyant who champions herself as Britain’s best-loved psychic has rejected allegations she used off stage helpers during her shows.

Psychic Sally, or Sally Morgan, whose A-list clientele includes Princess Diana, Robert De Niro, George Michael, and Uma Thurman, angered fans who claimed to hear a man telling her what to say at a performance.

The show, at Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre on Sunday September 11, prompted one audience member, Sue, to call in to Irish radio programme, RTE Radio 1 the following day.

Sue said she was impressed with the accuracy of the readings in the first half of the show, but said during the second half she heard somebody talking loudly and realised everything he said Mrs Morgan repeated.

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LINCOLN, N.H.—Fifty years after Betty and Barney Hill reported seeing a flat, cigar-shaped craft hovering over them in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, the state has put up a historical marker noting their close encounter with a UFO.

Lurking in the wild borderlands between Alberta, Canada ski resort town Banff and neighboring Kootenay, a group of unusually large primates live peacefully among the trees. Or so says Todd Standing, a local who says he’s found a “Bigfoot colony” and photographed it extensively. You can see Exhibit A, above.

Among the groups taking this finding very seriously are the producers of a Discovery Channel show about paranormal events.

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And the Lulz continues. Chip and Ron Tebo’s SciFake page have been going after each other for the last year or so. After some unspecified comments, Chip Coffey decided he’d had enough and called his lawyer to send (this) to Ron and the denizens of SciFake. As usual I woke the “Hounds of Hell,” being “the legal agency of Labrusky, Skinflint, Shyster, and his larger brother Leo. As usual the senor partners were busy with some vile thing, but I did sit down with Leo Shyster to go over the letter and this is what he said.

Please note that this is NOT legal advice and it’s for entertainment purposes only. I say this because there are a number of you funseekers out there who take this and yourselves way to seriously! You know who you are and I know who you are.

Basically the letter says this;

Your webpage (SciFAke.com) “hosts posts” which are damaging to Chip Coffey. (A public person and celebrity.)

We are preparing litigation against some of the people who comment on your site.

Please remove the relevant comments at once.

and , defamation is not a protected form of expression.

“…Well!” said Leo Shyster after sniffing around the letter for a while. This is a pretty stinky kettle of fish. They didn’t send this to you did they?

“OMG no” I said, ” not this time anyway. I got this off of Ron Tebo’s SciFake web page.”

“Sheeze of all the dumb things.” said Leo.” First off, this is really a Cease and Desist letter even though those words  ain’t on it. C&Ds are legal time-line starts for the most part. and part scarifying devices. They server to mark the beginning of a legal action while at the same time pointing out whatever is offending the “client.”

This Chip Coffey probably takes umbrage over some of  of the the SciFake comments and wants the publisher/editor to know it. He’s also probably interested is crushing any negative comments on that page and encouraging people to stop talking about him unless it’s of a complementary nature.”

“How do you know so much about Chip Coffey?” I asked.

“Simple,” He said. “A lot of lame junk like this gets passed around when some dufus gets their panties in a wad. People make all kinds of stupid comments on news items and forums. Some people take this stuff a little too personally and it’s best to ignore trolling pages like SciFake anyway unless you are into such things.  But some people want to challenge whatever it is that pissed them off. The only legal way is to take them to court and convince a judge that the comments are damaging or defamatory in some way. The problem with this crap is the statement has to be factual or at least sound factual. If it’s an opinion than it’s not actionable.

“Why do you think SciFake is trolling Chip Coffey?” I asked.

“I don’t think they are trolling him per-say,” he said. “they are certainly muck-raking the paranormal business and creating controversy. Chip Coffey being a paranormal celebrity is a fair target.  I’ts not illegal or anything unless it breaks into libel. Libel though is freaking hard to prove, especially over some stupid comments on a web page. Of course Chip could just sue to make trouble for Mr Tebo. There is lots of precedent for that kid of thing, but Ron Tebo could hire a lawyer fight it and spend a lot of money in the process. Sometimes people do that just to squash critics, but any real public figure wouldn’t bother because there is really no such ting as bad publicity. ”

“But this is not a criminal thing or a tort of defamation or really anything” he said.” It’s just saber rattling. They e correct about one thing, defamation is not protected by the Constitution, but defamation is very hard to prove.

Now you can do your own seance on your I-phone.

“Have you ever wanted to hold a seance?
Have you ever wanted to talk to the dead?
What if summoning as spirit was as easy as pressing a button?”

What if you needed to get your head examined?

I suppose now I’ve heard everything, an I-phone application that eliminates inviting some immature super-psychic  to steal stuff while they search for “ghost” does have it’s advantages.

Advantages;.

You don’t have to hire a fake medium.
don’t have to listen to fake medium’s sales pitch.
No need to buy fake medium the super-slam at Dennys.
It only costs a couple of bucks as apposed to fake medium who might charge a few hundred an hour.
You can turn it off.
You can uninstall it.
It only comes on the I-phone.
and
You don’t have to hire a fake medium.

I’d like to say that this whole ghost-busting / medium nonsense has jumped a big shark and who’t be around much longer. The sad fact is that PT Barnum was right! People are just going to keep on buying I-Phones and they will load stupid crap like this on them. I’m just glad that there is no such thing for the G phone!

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Televangelist Pat Robertson suggested Wednesday that cracks in the Washington Monument caused by the August 23 earthquake could be a sign from God, and the natural disaster “means that we’re closer to the coming of the Lord.”

To explain the rare east coast quake, Robertson pointed to the Biblical prophecy of the end of the world, which claims there could be potential devastation from natural disasters leading up to Jesus’ return to Earth.

On his television show, “The 700 Club,” Robertsonsaid:

“I don’t want to get weird on this, so please take it for what it’s worth, but it seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God. Now there’s a crack in it.”

“Is that a sign from the Lord? Is that something that has significance, or is it just the result of an earthquake?” Robertson asked his viewers.

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August 20, 2011 12:00 PM EDT

GREENLAND — We are not alone.

A group of people who believe in aliens and unidentified flying objects met Friday night to discuss the history of UFOs in many places, and particularly New Hampshire. “Social Saucers” was hosted by Andy Kitt, founder of the Kitt Center for Consciousness Studies in Greenland.

Farmington resident Michael Stevens is a paranormal investigator with the Kitt Research Center. He is also responsible for the new historical marker in Lincoln, honoring former Portsmouth residents Betty and Barney Hill. The marker details their alleged UFO encounter and abduction in 1961. Lincoln is the location where the Hills say they were abducted, a story well known to many Seacoast residents.

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