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The 2011 Psychic Year in Review |
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Written by Eric Francke
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Friday, 30 December 2011 16:06 |
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Coming to the new year is frequently a time to look ahead, and also a time to reflect on the year gone by. And for us, it gives us the rare opportunity to look back at the people who said one year ago, that they were looking ahead at the future, and telling us what was going to happen in 2011. Yes, its the annual “Psychic Year in Review”. Before moving to what psychics got right and what they got wrong, here are some of the things that none of the dozens of self-proclaimed and big name psychics had foreseen for 2011: The “Arab Spring” which saw the overthrow of Egypt, Libya (with the resulting death of Qaddafi), and deadly protests in Syria, Yemen, and other countries. The earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan The killing of Osama Bin Laden The impending collapse of the Euro The Occupy Wall Street protests worldwide. The death of Steve Jobs
In short, they missed pretty much anything of significance. And these people charge big money to tell people the future. Instead, here are some of the more significant predictions: There would be a serious earthquake in California that would knock the “Hollywood” sign down flat. (Craig Hamilton-Parker, “Psychic to the Stars”). He also predicted a nuclear industrial accident in India, and chemical accident in China, like the Bhopal incident. His predictions of a divorce announcement for the Beckham's and a record cut by Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono he at least is acknowledging was 100% off. “World Psychic” Lamont Hamilton is claiming a “win” on the fact that he predicted that in 2011, there would be cell phones capable of video chat, and many websites were tracking the browsing habits of site visitors. Okay, so perhaps Lamont's is a little behind the times. These are akin to someone predicting that next year, IBM will start building a “Personal Computing” device called the “PC”. Lamont also predicted the invention of personal levitation devices for people in 2011, and “reverse microwaves” in peoples kitchens that could freeze something in seconds. Oops. Sidney Freidman, who has been featured on The View and The Today show, claims his 20 major predictions for 2011 were mostly correct. He predicted that there would be a major bridge malfunction in New York City. That was fulfilled, he says, because the Occupy Wall Street protestors caused a traffic jam in Brooklyn one day. He predicted that Lady Gaga would be teaching at a university. He says that prediction was accurate, because there were small school aged children singing in her Thanksgiving day special. Eerie!
There was one undeniably correct prediction for all of the big name psychics, which was that of the “Psychic Twins”, Terry and Linda Jamison. They went way out on a limb on “The View” and predicted that in 2011, Pres. Obama would not win re-election. Whether they realized or not that election isn't until 2012 is still up for debate, but nevertheless, they are technically accurate! |
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Last Updated on Friday, 30 December 2011 16:11 |
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The Meaning of the Brown Election |
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Written by Eric Francke
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:29 |
After attending the the 96.9 / Brown Victory Party one would have to acknowledge that you have never seen such an excited bunch. It has been characterized as a populist revolt, akin to the Boston Tea Party, or the "Shot Heard Round the World" at Lexington Bridge 2030 years ago. Today, MSNBC and the Boston Globe will try to figure out what happened. How did the bluest of states side with what they called a "just an excitable boy" and a "homophobe who likes violence against women and politicians"? How did a truck-driving state senator defeat the politically-entrenched Martha Coakley, even when President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama both came in the last weekend to campaign for her?
The truth is Americans don't want socialism. They don't want big tax-and-spend government, and elitists in Washington who think they can run our lives better than we can. This is a referendum against all big-government politicians, from both parties.
As Americans, we don't want another billion spent on a "Stimulus Package" that is nothing but pork projects, that created no real jobs. Why is it the that average American knows that our current debt will only mean either raising taxes astronomically or devaluing our currency, and the President and Congress don't know that?
We don't want a healthcare bill that can only be passed by bribery and secrecy, especially when we know it is going to cost a trillion dollars that we don't have.
Instead, if you lower the tax burden, the bureaucracy, and crippling regulation, America can prosper. Government needs to get out of the way. We can be innovative, productive and prosperous.
This is not even about being Democrats or Republicans. It is about regaining the American ideals that made us great to begin with .
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Obama Reverses Himself On Prison Photos |
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Written by Eric Francke
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:46 |
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President Barack Obama, contradicting his earlier promise to release hundreds of photos, is now seeking to block the release of those photos showing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. The pictures allegedly show mistreatment of detainees at US run prisons in Iraq. He articulated his new position after military commanders warned that the images could stoke anti-American sentiment and endanger U.S. troops.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the president was concerned that the photos' release would pose a national security threat, an argument the administration has not made yet in the courts. "The president does not believe that the strongest case regarding the release of these photos was presented to the court and that was a case based on his concern about what the release would do to our national security," Gibbs said. Gibbs said that the main argument previously was a privacy one. He emphasized that the president continues to believe that the actions depicted in the photos should not be excused and fully supports the investigations, prison sentences, discharges and other punitive measures that have resulted from them. The ACLU responded with searing abuse for the Presidents latest decision.
"The decision to not release the photographs makes a mockery of President Obama's promise of transparency and accountability," said ACLU attorney Amrit Singh, who argued and won the case in front of the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in New York. "It is essential that these photographs be released so that the public can examine for itself the full scale and scope of prisoner abuse A military group said it was relieved Obama would fight the photos' release, adding that soldiers' lives could otherwise be put at risk. Brian Wise, executive Director of Military Families United, said the pictures "will only serve as propaganda to our enemies who will use the images as a recruitment tool to enlist terrorists." "The president has said that he wants to improve the image of America throughout the world," Wise said in a statement. "This is not the way to accomplish that. These photos represent isolated incidents where the offending servicemen and women have already been prosecuted. There is no good that can come from releasing these photos." that was conducted in its name."
Both Democrats and Republicans find it somewhat disturbing that the President of the United States can make a policy decision, and in just a matter of days, take legal action to support a position completely opposite his publicly stated position just a few days earlier.
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Anthropologists Discover a Broken Link |
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Written by E.F. Winslow
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:37 |
Anthropologists Discover a Broken Link
Tuesday, with great fanfare a fossil was unveiled at a news conference at the American Museum of Natural History that was quickly dubbed the "missing link" of human evolution. The primary scientist behinds the discovery is Dr. Jorn Hurum of the University of Oslo, who nicknamed it "Ida," after his own six-year-old daughter.
Roughly about the size of a racoon, the purportedly 47 million year old fossil is a nearly 95% complete, and has almost all the characteristics of a modern day lemur. It is only slightly different in that it doesn't have fused teeth, rather teeth more like that of a monkey, and doesn't have a "grooming claw".
The hype has been so great on the discovery that even google for the day has replaced its normal logo with a modified logo featuring the fossil, and name the image "missinglink.gif"
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Perhaps the most perplexing question that many inquisitive people might raise is "just how does this fossil fit in as the missing link in human evolution?". The common understanding of the quest for the so-called "missing link" is the gap in the fossil record which would demonstrate some transitional species between human and lower primates. Despite the fact that many in the press and scientific community have used the phrase "missing link" for Ida, the fact is that no one is trying to seriously make the case that this is the "missing link" in the traditional understanding of the word.
To make this even farther removed from the idea of being the "missing link" between humans and other primates, the scientists behind the discovery, in a more subdued tone, have even noted that Ida may not have anything to do with the human evolutionary chain at all, never mind fitting in between apes and humans. They said in a paper on the subject that "“[The species] could represent a stem group from which later anthropoid primates evolved [the line leading to humans], but we are not advocating this here.”
Looking at the fossil, it looks like a lemur, is the size of a lemur, and probably acted like a lemur. This might lead uneducated people to believe that..it IS a lemur.
How, one might ask, did it make the headlines on CNN, top of the Drudge Report, and the front page of the New York Times? Pretty simple. It was a calculating publicity campaign that is running in advance of a book (entitled "The Link), and series of promotional "documentaries".
It is a sad observation of our culture to note that the public is being deliberately misled about the significance of a scientific discovery for no other reason than the promotion of a book. However, that is clearly the case, and the media is a willing party, banking on the sensationalism earning pageviews for websites, and Nielsen ratings for television shows.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:39 |
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Romney's Health Plan is Odious to Everyone |
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Written by Eric Francke
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Friday, 06 October 2006 19:29 |
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Amid balloons, confetti and much fanfare 18 months ago, Mitt Romney launched his "universal" health care plan which he and his handlers hoped would become a model for other states, and eventually, the nation. It was supposed to be the best of every world- providing low cost coverage for everyone, while allowing the free market to create the necessary insurance to competitively meet the need, without undue government interference. Instead, it created a bureaucracy that failed to deliver the promised goods. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 29 May 2009 17:22 |
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