http://thespacewriter.com/wp/2009/06/26/crescent-moon/

What if Earth never had a moon? Would we still have figured out that there were other worlds out there?

"Now that I've got your attention . . .
"Every time I take a stab at debunking pseudo-science topics like UFOs and the 2012-doomsday predictions, it’s like kicking a hornet’s nest, judging from some of the comments posted here.

"Some of these counterpoint arguments from readers are tied to references in clips on YouTube (truly a cesspool of idiocy) where self-styled 'experts' try and sound authoritative in front of the camera. More often than not these 'whistle-blowers' assert having special knowledge about 'government conspiracies.' They’ve discovered the Internet is a bottomless pit of people who feel powerless and suspicious of everything. Healthy skepticism is good, which means followers should not unequivocally swallow the tall tales from self-proclaimed 'insiders.'

"Occasionally I’m going to give out a Pants-on-Fire award to those individuals who make outrageous claims that are simply incredulous [sic]. Either they were duped or have endless other motives: selling books, videos, articles, going on a lecture circuit, getting onto radio shows or CNN’s Larry King Live (he loves UFO tall-tales), or simply bolstering their sense of self importance.

"My first winner of the Pants-on-Fire Award is to former Air Force Sgt. Karl Wolfe who was referenced in a comment on this site. First listen to the YouTube video from 2001 and then we’ll separate fact from fantasy: . . ." More: http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2009/07/journey-to-the-dark-side-of-rationality.html#more

http://jordan179.livejournal.com/132479.html

This is something that should be on Tales From the Crypt. :-)

With every horror that happens every day, I am glad that I am close to the end of my life, and that I've never had any offspring, who would have been corrupted, enslaved, and destroyed by the monsters who, more and more, have been taking over my country. I will make a prediction: Soon most Americans will wish they were dead, and those who have had children will wish they had not. The one mercy in all this is that the bastards who've done this to us all can't stay Death's hand, can't keep us from dying at our appointed time, whatever that may be. Once we are dead and gone, we are beyond their control. I swear they want to empty the Earth out -- but once they have, will they wonder why it is so silent, so quiet, so haunted? And will they wonder why they can no longer find anyone to find solutions to all the terrible problems that arise? And will they then have any good reason to go on living themselves? Their hubris has no bounds. And Nemesis awaits in the wings.

Everything that happens anywhere in the universe generates patterns. Those that happen here on Earth generate patterns that can be seen by us. The events of the last two decades have set off patterns which, more and more, show the ultimate extinction of all complex life on Earth -- not as a result of conservative policies, mind you, but rather actions and policies of the Left. In effect, the Left is slowly committing suicide, and taking the rest of the living world down with them. Why are they too stupid to see this?