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I always get a kick out of the "Obama the socialist" thing. He's more conservative than Nixon, and 40 years ago would have been at home in the Republican Party. It's only since right-wingers who back then were thought of as crazy (they still are) have now taken over the Republicans that Obama...

I agree somewhat about Strieber. His early novels like "The Wolfen" and "Warday" were good reads, and if he'd kept on like that he'd probably have a Stephen King level of popularity today. I haven't paid attention to him since "Communion" though. Based on bits and pieces I've seen here and...

I don't have a problem with most of their ideas, but the bit about laser pointers triggered an alarm. People have been prosecuted for aiming lasers at planes.

About laser pointers -- you're breaking the law and creating a hazard if you point one at an aircraft. Our local astronomical society uses them (green ones are great for pointing out stars etc.) but we're warned to never point them at anything flying. You could blind a pilot who's using night...

The video oversimplifies the Biblical God. The view that God is all-powerful and perfect is a Christian one, and originated in Greek philosophy rather than the Hebrew Bible. The idea that religion is primarily about belief is also Christian. Traditional Judaism and Islam are more religions of...

Thanks for posting the video, and the reasonable explanation for it. "Debunked" is probably too strong a word. Nobody was shouting to the rafters that here at last was proof that flying saucers are real. It was something that looked strange that turned out to have a mundane cause. "Identified"...

Re technology, one tip-off that the old UFO contactees were either frauds and/or the victims of disinformation (by who?) is that the technology they describe looks like their time's notion of what advanced technology would look like. Not like technology as it actually developed in even 60 years...

581g Doubts raised about existence of Gliese 581g: Buzz About Gliese 581g: Doubts of Its Existence; Aliens Signals Detected | Universe Today Claim of signal detection called suspicious: SPACE.com -- Claim of Alien Signal from Planet Gliese 581g Called 'Very Suspicious' I thought the...

I haven't listened to as much as Brian Now did, but so far Sanchez reminds me a bit of Childress. A nice guy who isn't very selective in his speculations.

More on Benford beacons here: It's from a lecture one of the Benfords gave at the SETI Institute, which is mentioned in the article. Lots of other stuff there too, much of it over my head. Neat to hear about though.

As far as health care, it depends which Canadians, I guess. There's another blog I follow where Canadians sometimes post, and during our health care debate they were sort of scratching their heads. One guy said he pays $54 a month for health coverage, can see any doctor he wants to, with no...

"Social welfare" includes education, health care, etc. Do you really think all that was wasted?

Certainly the U.S. played a large part in burying the Soviet Union. In doing that we also crippled ourselves, spending huge amounts on the military while other advanced western countries spent their money on economic development and social welfare, to the point where they are more prosperous...

"telling someone on this board to 'get a life'... kinda falls flat" Well, there was a time when I had better things to do on a Friday night than read about UFOs, but...

From Sky and Telescope magazine: "In 2000 an Australian optical SETI project named Oz OSETI was set up by Ragbir Bhathal of the University of Western Sydney, using two telescopes (0.4 and 0.3 meters aperture), each with two photometers, in separate domes about 20 meters apart to eliminate...

"Only a cretin would think a theocracy could be imposed here." Looking in the mirror when you wrote that, Trajanus? I don't think an outright legal theocracy could be imposed here, although I think there are people who'd like to try. A society where both within and outside the government...

In a bizarre way it's actually part of an old pattern. Just as fear of communism (and now Islamism) was used to impose and maintain a national security state, there are some number of people who want use fear of "demons" to impose a theocracy. I vote (while I still can) for trainedobserver's...

This brings back nostalgic memories of reading the FATE magazines lying around my grandparents' house back in the 1960s. I didn't believe much of what was in them but they were always entertaining, and they did spark an interest in the paranormal (albeit a skeptical one) which I still have. Good...

I agree, CapnG, although in fairness to Childress he does say we're taller than people were a few hundred years ago because of better nutrition etc. His claim is that there were "giants" several thousand years ago.

A New York take on the mosque controversy: Dear Rest-of-America: Take This Map, It's Why You're Wrong About the "Ground Zero Mosque" - New York News - Runnin' Scared The "mosque" (actually a cultural center) is not at the WTC site ("Ground Zero"). Nor do its builders intend it to be...