Do you believe there are alien life forms in the universe? Well, then, there’s good news for you, Jimmy Carter, and Dennis Kucinich (both believe in aliens–the extraterrestrial kind), coming out of a settlement between the team of the SciFi channel and freelance writer Leslie Kean and NASA, which they sued.
While I doubt this info will settle anything, once and for all. After all, they still have “Area 51” and Roswell, New Mexico to fantasize about:
From The Sunday Times
December 16, 2007
Tony Allen-Mills in New York
FOR decades it has been a staple of science fiction, somewhere out in the galaxy, a highly developed alien race picks up a radio signal from Earth, and decides to eat us for lunch.
In a world plagued by war, hunger and disease, a possible attack by little green men may not rank high among most nations concerns. Yet for a small group of scientists who are harnessing increasingly powerful technologies in a trans-galactic search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, the prospect of catastrophe has stirred an angry debate.
Two senior scientists have resigned from an elite international study group in protest over a lack of public discussion about the possible consequences of attracting the attention of aliens by sending signals deep into space.
We'[re talking about initiating communication with other civilizations, but we know nothing of their goals, capabilities or intent,†warned John Billingham, a former Nasa scientist who has quit an extraterrestrial study group set up by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).
Lord Rick, the Buffalo to Florida transplant Ghost-Buster and paranormal expert wanna-be has found his niche in the wonderful world of the Internets.
Rick tried to make web pages, they were full of viruses, he tried pod-casting, nobody listened. He tried to create a professional Hockey team, no one came. Rick has tried bugging The Sci-Fi channel and his local news channel “please make me a star!” he says. They ignore him (just like they ignore 99% of everyone else who tries.)
Last week his Lordship was interviewed on an obscure Internet Radio feed out of Chicago. The interview was more or less professional (for people who do radio as a hobby.) The hosts asked Rick some questions, Rick avoided answering them like he always does. Rick rambled on like he always does, there was a bit of snickering by people in the background and a few of Ricks fans happened to be in the chatroom. ….
Rick for his part didn’t take this as an opportunity to show his good graces or tolerance. He didn’t take the attitude of someone who realized that he doesn’t do things like anyone else (although he admits to being eccentric.) Rick wasn’t contrite or apologetic
(heaven forbid!)
Rick attacked! (even though no one was attacking him but this has never stopped Rick before!)
Rick’s has his OWN show now thank-you-very-little and he’s not going to allow some nerd in a chat room make a monkey out of him!
Oh no!
He’s going do that all by himself!
What does he talk about on his show? He talks about Rick. He talks about the 50,000 ghost photos he has on his web page. (50,000 ghost photos = almost 200 ghost photos per week, assuming he started in 2001.) He talks about Rick some more, he complains about how people are mean to him, he threatens to take care of people who are mean to him, he claims it’s OK to break the law because laws are stupid anyway. He threatens to SPANK people who dis him….. seriously!
Then he talks about Rick some more.
Mostly he talks about his favorite subject. Which is ummm…. Rick! He talks about how wonderful he is, how he invented ghost busting and how everyone else is jealous of his world famous success. He’s done two or three hours of this stuff and is threatening to do more.
But watch out He also cusses like a sailor, don’t turn your speakers up, not if you have kids around. He sounds exactly like a bad episode of South Park with the bleeps removed, seriously!
What’s funny is, Rick’s pretty good at it! I could see Rick as a talk show host although he could never allow a producer to dictate what he can say (that’s the kiss of death for a radio personality.) If he toned down the language he might just have a pretty funny show. Also if he could stop bragging about illegal activities and drug use, stop putting folk’s home phone numbers on the air or mocking handicapped people. That kind of stuff is ….well dorky sounding.
The rest of it? It a comedy goldmine! A kind of “America 2-Night” of the paranormal set. It’s too bad that Rick can’t seem to understand the dynamics of what he’s doing. That’s quite OK, everyone ELSE understands!
Of course (hedging my bets) I’ve entertained the idea that Rick has us all fooled. Perhaps he’s a rogue genius pretending to be….. um Lord Rick– stoner and ghostbuster extraordinaire!
I’ve invited him to come by for lunch when he was “investigating” in my backyard. I wanted to see for myself this Internets phenomena. I don’t have any super-duper psychic powers like Lord Rick, but I can size people up pretty well.
He stood me up. I wonder was it because he didn’t trust me? Perhaps he was afraid of me!
Or,….. maybe he didn’t want to let me into the secret…Hummmm! Rick is just PLAYING with us! He’s really a supra-genius with a personal fortune and a secret identity! Instead of dressing up as Batman and fighting crime, he dresses up as Lord Rick, God-man and supera-ultra-power man! Then he ghost-busts.
That’s got to be it!
Posted
An overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God and significant numbers also think
that UFOs, the devil and ghosts exist, a poll has shown.
The survey by Harris Online showed that 82 per cent of adult Americans believe in God and a slightly smaller percentage – 79 per cent – believe in miracles.
More than 70 per cent of the 2,455 adults surveyed between November 7 and 13 said they believed in heaven and angels, while more than 60 per cent said they believed in hell and the devil.
Almost equal numbers said they believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution (42 per cent) – the belief that populations evolve over time through natural selection – and creationism (39 per cent) – the theory that God created mankind.
Seventy per cent of Americans said they were very (21 per cent) or somewhat (49 per cent) religious, while around one-third of those polled also said they believe in UFOs, witches and astrology.
–AFP
I know some of you out there have been wondering where the heck I’ve been, others have been congratulating themselves in FINALLY driving the pesky Odd Emperor off of the Internet.
Well rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I’ve been busy, with THIS.
“This” is an updated Odd Empire page that is based on the TIki-Wiki package. What that means is the page is now editable by the public at large.
Now you can add your own content like …those other Wikis out there.
The system is in open Beta, I plan to switch over on or around January 1st, 2008. Take a look! Be amazed. Be amazing! Be appalled or be appalling if you so desire.
It’s the Odd Empire Wiki! It’s written for you BY you.
And me too….
15-20 Ashtar on the Road, Submitted by the Odd Emperor with express thanks to ECETI
“I AM ASHTAR, SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE GALACTIC FEDERATION FLEET. WE HAVE MILLIONS OF SHIPS FROM ALL OVER THE GALAXY, AND WE ARE UNITED UNDER THE BANNER OF LOVE. WE ARE ANGELS AND MASTERS OF THE LIGHT, COMING TO YOU IN PEACE AND INDESCRIBABLE JOY
Sometimes I wonder about all-caps. Is it sexier than that normal writing? Does it give your text a special flare? Making people sit up and notice, causing people to say here’s someone worth following!’ We should get behind this Ashtar bloke, follow him to the ends of the Earth! (It doesn’t do a thing for me, seems dorky as a matter of fact.)
Well Ashtar and his trusty channel “Susan” doesn’t give a fig if it looks dorky or not. No supreme commander of millions of starships would really care if their web page looked like, well -dorky! All they care about is spreading the work of the supreme commander from the galactic federation.
So what is the Supreme commander of the Galactic Federation fleet comprising of millions of ships doing on Earth? Well he’s spreading a message of universal peace and love. Or else a hoard of invulnerable ROBOTS are on their way to obliterate your bungholes!
Dirty humans!
Whowa, I think I was channeling Claude Raines a as Klatu from “The Day they Earth Stood Still.” What does all this have to do with Ashtar?
Quite a lot actually!
15-19 Logos Christian Fellowship, Submitted by the Odd Emperor with express thanks to Penn and Teller.
I stole this one from Penn and Teller. When I looked at their web page I found that I had 
to include it here, no choice!
Like this bit from Ufologists for Jesus! (I can’t keep from smiling when I see that…. Ufologists for Jesus.. Ha)
What makes you think you’ve been abducted by bothersome aliens?
- Have you had abductions since childhood?
- Has this happened to other members of your family or relatives?
- Do you fear another abduction, but feel special?
- Can you tell when the abductions are about to take place?
- Do you find yourself sharing about your experiences with strangers?
- Do you feel pride in knowing the different beings?
- Are you able to stop the abductions some times and not others?
- Have you been shown an alien child or your hybrid child?
- Have you been to other places other than the ships like subterranean caverns?
- 10. Have you seen the same alien(s) repeatedly?
Well good news funseekers!! You are not being abducted by strange vile creatures from another solar system. It just run-of-the-mill demons! And rest assured that if it’s good-ol ‘ demons the good-holy folk down at Logos Christian Fellowship will fix you right up!
And not by any of any pussy Catholic ceremony either. The good-holy folk at Logos Christian Fellowship will rip that that pesky demon’s head right off and piss down it’s scaly neck!
All in the name of Jesus.
So pack your bags sinners! A Greyhound ticket to bucolic Leesburg Florida is not too expensive. I’m not sure what you will do once you get that pesky demon excised out of your brain. Sit around, drink Ripple and watch the traffic lights change
blink-blink
And that’s why Trump is so deferential to Putin.
And that’s why Melania Trump walks around like she’s Carmela Soprano in Season 7.
And that’s why the Trump Cabinet is honeycombed with Russian sympathizers (I haven’t even mentioned the friendship medal Secretary of State Rex Tillerson personally received from Putin).
And that’s why Snowden is in Russia, and Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
And that’s why Rudy Giuliani withdrew his name from consideration for State.
Most of all, that’s why Barack Obama seems so chill about the whole thing. He knows how the movie ends! But thanks to Glomar, there can be no spoilers.
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Inducted June 20, 2007
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the UFO community (or incessantly whining about your lost crap on an old Active worlds account, ) you have probably heard of the great alien exchange program. Known as SERPO (or it’s more sinister moniker Chrystal Knight,)
SERPO reads exactly like a bad Science Fiction story. One that got rejected because it’s not a very good story and it’s all been done before (Close Encounters of the Third Kind comes to mind. ) It’s a tale of some military people who visit an alien world. Its not even on Second Life! Its for real!
One problem I have with this tale is, the world is not very alien, not alien enough to my way of thinking. Set on a small planet in orbit of the binary(!) star system of Zeta Reticul the story recounts an ill fated exchange program with dopey aliens who traveled billions of miles just to crash their ship on some poor sheep rancher’s spread.
(why the f^%@) is it always Zeta Reticuli? Everyone from Bob Lazar to Betty Hill claims(ed) that aliens come from Zeta Reticuli. What’s so special about it?
Anyway, back in 65, some intrepid volunteers journeyed 39.5 light years (roughly 229266389554160.79 miles) to a world where the people were nice but the radiation levels sucked. Most of this information is located on the so-called Open Minds Forum.
Some jerk started trolling .. er enlightening the forum members a few years ago with this thrilling account.
The new revelation pre announcement can be found here
The following was received from Victor Martinez this morning via e-mail. It’s time to gear up the Serpo and Disclosure machine!
On Halloween eve, Tuesday, October 30, 2007 @ 6 a.m., PDT, I will be streaming a never-before-published, highly classified document dealing w/ the UFO subject in both GENERAL terms and very SPECIFIC terms.
I’m acutely aware of and know that for many of you, the “Project SERPO”
story is just that: the story is too UNbelievable and takes belief that such an exchange program ever occurred so far that it’s just too “out
there” for many of you.
***
DOC P / STAN FRIEDMAN / BILL HAMILTON: So you guys wanna know how they get from Point A to Point B? Ever wonder WHY we can’t duplicate their technology? Ever wonder how FAR AHEAD they are of us? Ever wonder the different means of alien propulsion that various races use to get to Earth? YOU WILL BE RUBBING YOUR EYES IN UTTER DISBELIEF!
Whatever. SERPO is an obvious and bald faced hoax in my not-so-humble opinion. I often wonder how this kind of thing gets any serious review .You will be rubbing your eyes in utter disbelief. My god! The last time I saw copy like that was on a poster for The Deadly Broccoli of the Earth’s Core! (In Cine-Rama.)
It is certainly too out-there for me, I like my sanity just the way it is thank you very little! This is all SO predictable. The fantastic revelations will be testimony from yet another anonymous source, or it will suddenly quashed by unnamed and sinister government types. Or the very popular “I have to keep my identity a secret to protect my family from the sinister government types.”
Same crap different day. (SCDD)
The script for SERPO was written long ago, it’s appeared in folk tales for hundreds of years, (Rip-van Winkle is just a contemporary example.)
Now fun-seekers; don’t have a problem with a good yarn but come-on people! Can anyone look at this material and NOT instantly toss it into the cosmic dustbin as yet another UFO hoax? (the answer to THAT question is a definitive Yeeees!) Many people are taken in by this, not merely because they are gullible, not simply because they accept any wild story without a shred of evidence, not only because they exist in a fantasy based world where people like the writers of the SERPO nonsence pawn their minds over and over again.
They accept junk like this because they really REALLY want it to happen and no accounting of facts (or lack of fact) will make a smidgen of difference. It’s too bad that real research gets drowned out by this kind of balderdash and otherwise good people get transformed into salivating, demented sounding fools when people (like me) come along and say that it’s just a hoax.
Most of the original posts from this crapfest can be found here.
The original web minister graciously bowing, out when things got too far fetched for even him to believe.
And the noise level continues to rise!
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The Odd Empire is taking a short break. We are retooling and modernizing the Odd Empire web page, bringing it into the 21st century as it were, that and a couple of other small things. We will soon be back, mortally offending the over sensitive, upsetting the emotionally insecure while delighting the rest of you.
Published by krisse at 20:43 BST, October 3rd 2007
There have been claims of mysterious flying saucers carrying alien creatures for over sixty years now, but very few supposed witnesses have ever taken pictures or filmed these craft. Now that cameraphones are becoming ubiquitous, will we see a flood of UFO images, or a drought of UFO sightings?
(Note: Although “UFO” technically means any unidentified flying object, this article uses “UFO” in its popular sense, to mean a flying craft of apparently non-terrestrial origin.)
In Texas, USA, on the 29th of December 1980, an event known as the Cash-Landrum Incident supposedly took place: three people were driving along a rural road when a huge glowing diamond flew towards them and hovered above the ground, emitting a bright light and great heat. A group of helicopters, apparently belonging to the US military, appeared on the scene and somehow took the object away. Afterwards the witnesses suffered from the symptoms of radiation sickness. While the illness was observed by hospital staff, the cause of the illness wasn’t observed by anyone except the alleged victims. The witnesses had no camera with them, so even if the object did exist there was no way to prove it. UFO fanatics seized on the radiation as proof that the story was true, while sceptics seized on the lack of health checks before the incident which would have ruled out another source of radiation.
