I'll have to throw in that, while I still think I prefer the old version, the forum itself for the Paracast rocks. I, too, prefer the easy-to-read Paracast message board, with its bright colors, and bright posters. ATS seems to have lower standards.
I enjoy posting and sharing opinions, and answering questions with people that are generally highly intelligent and can SPELL!
The YouTube point is well taken. It seems to be a haven for racists, anti-Semites, and people that form opinions based on little to no information. The Paracast message board is nearly always interesting, fun to be involved with, and definitely a cut above most of the web--ATS especially.
When I occasionally listen to Coast, I always cringe when they have open lines, or when callers make it in when they have a guest that I want to listen to. These people don't compare to the posters here in the forum. They make the rest of us (in the UFO community) look bad. When people talk about aliens looking down and seeing the human race as a bunch of tribal warfare-oriented monkeys, the Coast audience seems to me to be who they're talking about.
John Lear has always been the stuff of ridicule. The way the Coast audience fall all over themselves to flatter him and give him props for "calling it like he sees it" is pathetic. Every time he goes on Coast, he talks about his gold mine.
Which he no longer owns.
What's the point?
Oh, and Dulce. The underground bases at Dulce.
Which he can't find.
I mean, for fuck's sake--what's the big deal? They guy's dad invented the leisure jet, and he has thousands of hours of flight time. Whoop-de-doo! He's a rich kid with no legacy other than what he makes up. Notice how he never has a book to promote, a film, anything? What's his real contribution to the UFO field? Fanning the flames of bullshit conspiracy, that's it. He never has anything to say except, "Dan Burisch is telling the truth." "Project Serpo is real". "The Drones that Linda's been reporting on are spot-on." "The aliens have had bases on the dark side of the moon, and the U.S. secret space program lands there all the time." What a steaming load.
The guy is a pathological liar and needs attention. The more he gets, the more it infects the real efforts to unravel the UFO mystery, muddies the waters, and takes gullible people's eyes off the ball of the real story.
John Lear needs to go away, forever.
We should start a bin for people that are "no longer relevant" to the UFO problem/mystery/whatever, and toss those in there that we've collectively decided are no longer worth our run time to think about.
Burisch. Bushman. Sereda. Meier. Wendelle Stevens, Michael Lindemann, Michael Horn, Ed Walters, etc.--We need a special "round file" for the people that we can all agree have contributed nothing but specious claims and ZERO evidence to the conversation. If people log on and want to go have a look at what we've said in the past about Lear and these other nimrods, we will have a dustbin that they can rummage around in.
In the meantime, let's us get on with the business of separating out the truth from the fiction, the good from the garbage, and not waste any more time on collectively trashing these types.
Our spending time talking about them at all--even to say we think they're full of it--is exactly what they want. We're spending energy and CPU run time thinking about them instead of delving deeper into the heart of the UFO enigma.
Mods: Create a dustbin file, start a poll on each of these jokers, and if they get voted in, by a majority after a given amount of time, users will have to "Enter the Dustbin" to rummage around after them if they really want to pursue the lower-quality "personalities".
That will leave the rest of us free to deal with what we feel is the rest of the story--and to allow us to get at the heart of the matter with more and better guests, cases and stories, and not be distracted at the change of the wind with this utter malarkey.
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