Violently hoaxed

I recently wrote this to a friend who e-mailed me with a forward. He said he was disappointed with President Obama and that e-mails like the one he included were getting to him. The e-mail in question had a photo of the president at an event that involved the military. According to the photo description the president refused to salute during a ceremony honoring the soldiers killed in the Ft. Hood massacre:

I can understand being disappointed in a politician, but I’d base that disappointment on something more tangible than a mislabeled photo.

Pics don’t always have to be Photoshopped to be hoaxes, instead they can just be falsely attributed or described. That’s the case here. The photo isn’t from Fort Hood, it’s not taken as the honor guard passes and it wasn’t at an event to honor the soldiers killed at Ft. Hood.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/veteransday.asp

President Obama isn’t a Muslim, a Kenyan, a terrorist, a member of the New World Order or a vampire. He doesn’t hate the military, freedom, the US, babies or apple pie. He is a smart guy who loves his country and wants to make it a better place. However, he is/was a bit naïve and overestimated the things he thought he’d be able to accomplish in a year.

The fraudsters that create this crap and the e-mailers who forward it are really starting to piss me off. Instead of offering up deserved criticism that can lead to intelligent debate and actual change for the better they prey on the base fears of an overworked, stressed demographic trying to scratch through what is an extremely difficult time in our country.

It could be argued that the extreme division they’re creating in the populace is as dangerous as some of the real terror we face from foreign enemies. I fear that it may be creating a perfect environment for unjustified violence.

Anyway, sorry to get all up in arms, I hope all is well. We haven’t spoken a while. I’ll give you a call this weekend.

NWO marching on!

My brother sent me an e-mail that was sent to him by a friend concerning the new movie, “The Obama Deception.” It’s made by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and really isn’t so much about President Obama but instead the New World Order that supposedly controls him.

My response:

Dude, it’s talk like that that’s going to get you and your family thrown in one of those FEMA camps!

Yeah, I’ve seen most of this already. Pretty interesting and very well done and I have got to give Alex Jones props. Unlike so many other conspiracy theorists he doesn’t just pimp his books and movies for money. Instead, he’s out there on the “frontlines” raising hell.

Still, I can’t get behind the whole One World Government conspiracy for a few reasons:

1. Those behind the OWG killed President Kennedy, but they can’t kill Alex Jones or Ron Paul?
2. Those behind the OWG must not be too bright. After orchestrating the 9-11 terrorist attacks they had a nation, I’d actually say most of the world, ready to follow President Bush into the bowels of hell and back. Americans would have goose-stepped into FEMA camps and cheered as the government declared martial law. Instead we were urged to shop. Any group that can’t take advantage of a situation like that can’t be too dangerous.
3. According to conspiracy theorists the OWG group is in total support of the North American Union. If President Obama is their puppet, it seems rather odd that his administration put the kibosh on Bush’s cross-border trucking program and that they’ve hyped a new “Buy American” movement in his new budget.
4. I have never heard a logically sound explanation for what the OWG is ultimately after. Alex Jones says that they want power, but don’t they have nearly unimaginable power already? They can buy and sell nations, collapse economies and I really don’t think it would be a stretch to say that they can kill with impunity. What more is there? Alex Smith and many OWG theorists talk about the OWG’s shadowy links to Satanism or some quasi-Egyptian religion. Umm, yeah…that’s just silly.
5. What is a OWG going to do with China , India and Pakistan ? Why did they let them become world economic powers in the first place? Wouldn’t they have been more controllable if kept peasant farmers? What about Saudi Arabia , Israel , Iran and other places driven more by religious dogma than maximum profit?
6. If I remember correctly, there are about 90 guns for every 100 citizens in the United States . The OWG folks should have nipped that in the bud a little earlier.

Anyway, that’s just a few things to think about. I’m much more worried about our more concrete problems: sky rocketing national debt, bank failure, lost nuclear material, punks shooting cops in Oakland , Mexico ’s encroaching drug war, and so on.

It's the end of the world as we know it: PART II

Too What End

Jones believes that the New World Order is made up of Satanists, Occultists and Demon worshippers whose goal is to enslave the world. Once we’re enslaved I guess they’ll be worshipped like gods and be able to do what they want…but didn’t/don’t they already? To measure “power” you need to quantify a few areas including wealth, military and influence.

Wealth
According to a 2006 United Nations report, the richest 1 percent of the world own 40 percent of its wealth. These wealthy people mostly live in the US, Japan, the UK and France. They can buy and sell you and I, but more importantly they can buy and sell entire nations.

Military
A 2007 report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows that the US, UK, France, Japan and China have the largest, strongest and most expensive armies in world, the US being the absolute strongest.

Influence
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development the US, Germany, France, the UK and Japan provide the most aid in raw dollars in foreign assistance. The US gives the most (but is way behind the rest of the pack when it comes to the amount of our Gross National Product donated).

So, it looks like the rich people (some of whom belong to this Satan worshipping club) live in the strongest and most influential nations in the world. That sounds like massive power to me. The only thing they might not be able to do is sacrifice a child to their master every now and then. Oh wait, did you say that on average 800,000 missing children are reported to American law enforcement each year? Hmm, maybe it’s just that they can’t do it during primetime television.

Why Now?

Supposedly, the New World Order’s plan to enslave the world will soon come to fruition. President Obama’s cult of personality and the worldwide financial crisis they orchestrated will allow them to manipulate the majority of the earth’s populace, turning us into good citizens. After all, we’re scared, we’re all behind the president and we’re all ready for change. So really, there has never been a better time…or has there?

In 2001, right after the terrorists attacked the United States by flying planes into the Twin Towers (another event that was orchestrated by the New World Order), President George W. Bush’s approval ratings were almost 90 percent. Ninety percent! That’s huge, and that’s just in our country. Internationally, countries were falling over themselves to aid us. Everyone, nationally and internationally, was scared and as such they were ready to join together and fight terror; most, looked to the United States and our leader George Bush and his army of Neocons to lead them. It’s important to remember that these Neocons, or new conservatives, were allied with the Project for the New American Century, a group which called for an American Empire that could be built by starting a war.

And we did. After the September 11 attacks, Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly gave the president authorization to bring the fight to the terrorists wherever they may be. With international approval we hit the Taliban in Afghanistan and with the assistance of foreign troops pushed Osama Bin Laden and the “government” protecting him into the mountains bordering Pakistan.

Flash forward…President Barack Obama was put into office by about 52 percent of the US electorate. He beat McCain pretty handily, but it was far from a landslide. However, his popularity has only seemed to increase and now he has about a 70 percent approval rating. Still, even with the country in dire economic straits he recently couldn’t pull any Republicans in the House of Representative to support his economic stimulus package.

Do you see my point yet? If the NWO and/or the Reptilians wanted to enslave the world and eat our brains and sacrifice our children to their evil overlord they missed their chance. Although our current president is popular he has nothing on President Bush after September 11. Bush had the support of the Democrats, Republicans, the nation and the world. He could have closed the borders, gathered up all the guns and declared martial law and everyone would have cheered. YAY! He could have rallied the forces and stomped into the Middle East at the behest of his Reptilian masters...but he didn’t.

So, if the NWO exists they already have more power than anyone could ever wish for, but they are too stupid to know how to use it. I’m not too worried.

It's the end of the world as we know it: Part I

So I like to keep up with offbeat news, you know conspiracy theories, aliens and Bigfoot kind of stuff. I’m fascinated by how they’re started, how they’re perpetuated and by those who don’t just believe them, but actually treat them like a religion. For them facts, common sense and Occam’s Razor mean nothing. Instead, it’s all about faith.

There are two big areas being mined for conspiracy theories these days: the approach of the year 2012, when many people believe the Mayan calendar predicts the world will end; and the election of President Barak Obama, who many people believe is the pawn of a secret group of world leaders often referred to as the New World Order.

The 2012 theory varies from conspiracy to conspiracy. Some see the end of the Mayan calendar, which is in and of itself debatable, as the Catholic Apocalypse. Others see a catastrophic event like a meteor hitting the earth, and some believe that it won’t be just a meteor but an entire planet colliding with us. It is said that astronomers are either silenced by the government or they can’t see the meteor/planet because it is behind our sun.

Conspiracy’s concerning President Obama revolve mostly around him being a pawn of the NWO and using his cult of personality to create a totalitarian state in much the same way Hitler did in Nazi Germany. Apparently with Obama in power, citizens will be stripped of their right to bear arms, a civilian police force will be created, martial law will be declared and our evil alien overlords will be allowed to feast on us like cattle. Okay, that last part is a bit of a joke…or is it?

Mr. David Icke, a one time footballer now rabid conspiracy theorist, believes that many of the world’s leaders, including Britain ’s late Queen Mother and George Bush are actually Reptoids. For those not in the know, Reptoids are reptilian beings from another galaxy that eat human flesh. On the subject of Icke, he’s sure that Obama and his “controllers” are pulling a fast one over on the world and that we’ll be goose-stepping and having our brains eaten by our Reptoid masters even before the 2012 comet reduces us to space dust.

Icke isn’t the only one convinced were heading towards certain doom. Well known warrior against the New World Order, Alex Jones is so sure he’s releasing a movie on the coming Obama nightmare. His thoughts mirror Icke’s, minus the carnivorous Reptoids, and end with rebellious citizens being imprisoned in concentration camps in Colorado . According to Jones, the children of our country are already being indoctrinated in ways similar to the Nazi youth movement.

Facts, theories and logic aside I’m left with two questions: “towards what end? and “why now?”

Bizarro World

Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. With the roommate out, helping the parents and being a lazy ass it can get a little hectic.

So at a recent McCain campaign rally the crowd became so worked up when the Senator mentioned Obama they started yelling “traitor” and “terrorist.” McCain did the decent thing and condemned such talk but holy shit! People are losing their freaking minds.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen people lose their heads like they have during the run-up to this election. I’ve seen and heard so many hypocritical, ridiculous and insane things I’m starting to wonder if I’ve stepped into some sort of Bizarro world.

Below are just a few examples of what I’m talking about:

NPR had an old lady on the other day who said she was a life long Democrat who has never considered herself racist, but she’s not sure she’s going to vote Democrat this time because Obama would put “his people” first.

And who can forget the Republicans who’ve lambasted Obama for not having enough experience and then embracing Palin.

Or the Republicans who’ve lambasted Obama for not having enough experience even though they voted George W. Bush into office.

Then there was the female Democrats who are so upset about Clinton not being named the Democratic candidate they're voting for the McCain/Palin ticket.

We also have the evangelical females who believe a woman’s place is in the home caring for children but are championing Palin.

And there are the masses at MCain campaign events booing government regulation, when McCain says that deregulation is partly to blame for the country’s housing crisis and subsequent economic downturn.

There are also the Hilary Clinton critics who told her to stop whining about her media coverage but are sick of the liberal media’s coverage of Governor Sarah Palin. On the same page, we can’t forget the Palin critics telling her to stop crying about the media coverage when they cried about the coverage of Clinton .

We also have all the crazy things each candidate has said, like John McCain saying the economy is “fundamentally sound” and Obama saying the surge of troops in Iraq is not working. (Again I would highly recommend that everyone research the truth in each candidate’s words by hitting up PolitiFact.com and FactCheck.org.)

Still, I think the oddest thing I’ve seen is the independently produced Hilary Clinton campaign video: Hilary for You and Me. This, in my opinion, is why she was not chosen as the Democratic candidate. Through no fault of her own, I believe this video actually will cause people who see her in the street to run up and punch her in the face.

The video above is enough giggity for today.