BERLIN (Reuters) - A German mistook a subway entrance for an underground car park and her vehicle got stuck on the stairs, police said on Wednesday. The 52-year-old drove her Volkswagen Beetle across the pavement in central Duesseldorf and into the entrance where it ground to a halt about five steps down, police said. Stairs, Ramp, whats the difference?
Police estimated the damage at around 1,500 euros (1,000 pounds).
Proof that a 12-foot creature with fiery red eyes spooked Braxton County (West Virginia)schoolchildren in 1952. Proof that aliens crashed a spaceship near Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Proof that the U.S. military engaged alien spaceships in battle over the Atlantic Ocean more than 50 years ago.
"You're going to see some hard evidence" at the Flatwoods Monster 55th Anniversary and Flying Saucer Extravaganza on Sept. 7-8 in Charleston, said promoter Larry Bailey. "That's a promise. That's not just promotional talk."
The UFO conference coincides with the 60th anniversary of an unexplained sighting of a crashed aircraft in New Mexico that is still a source of controversy and speculation of a government coverup. It's also the 55th anniversary of sightings of a noxious-odor-emitting monster in Flatwoods in Braxton County.
Freddie May, one of the boys who saw the monster after a fireball fell from the sky in September 1952, is scheduled to attend. He will refute those who dismiss the monster as a hoax and others who say it was a gaseous ball that formed during a meteor shower.
Also on the lineup is author-illustrator Frank Feschino, who penned "The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of The Flatwoods Monster." His follow-up book, "Shoot Them Down," details aerial combat he says was waged in 1952 between U.S. aircraft and alien ships over the ocean.
Feschino spent 14 years researching the sighting and plans to present a 53-minute documentary on his findings at the conference. Staton Friedman, a former nuclear physicist who helped investigate the Roswell crash and has published more than 70 papers on UFOs, is also scheduled to attend.
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I wonder if there is a "classical" psychology experiment that is periodically reproduced about UFOs, but secretly? It would seem to make sense.
The objective of the experiment would be to take a cross section of society, then give them an authentic looking briefing that "the aliens are coming/here", just to find out how it would change their behavior.
I can guess that only a few people would totally freak out, but extrapolated to the population at large, that could be a MAJOR problem. However, it might not be the WORST problem.
That is, I would guess that maybe even a majority of people become lethargic in such a situation.
Imagine the impact it would have on our nation if, all of a sudden people stopped working and just stayed home to watch TV? If more than a limited number of people did this, our economy would come to a halt overnight.
Why go to work, the aliens are here! The aliens will solve all our problems for us! The aliens are here to destroy us! Whatever.
The point is that it doesn't matter *what* the aliens think, they could collapse our society.
And you could figure this out with a psychology experiment. If the government hasn't been doing this for a long time, it should.
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It's what might be called the "Loch Ness Monster" effect. A Loch Ness with a monster in it is more interesting than a Loch Ness with no monster. Therefore, people who see something in the loch (a fish, a log, a funny shadow) that they can't tell what it is end up psychologically spring-loaded to seeing it as a monster.
Same thing with UFOs. A universe with aliens is more interesting than a universe with no aliens. Some people want to see the aliens so bad that they spring-load themselves to see any light or thing in the sky with no obvious explanation as a UFO driven by aliens.
In extreme cases, UFO belief becomes almost a substitute religion. Gather enough UFO buffs in one place at one time, and you create what the P.T. Barnums and Elmer Gantrys and Mrs. Mariam Abachas of the world call "a target-rich environment."
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His follow-up book, "Shoot Them Down," details aerial combat he says was waged in 1952 between U.S. aircraft and alien ships over the ocean.
So, seeing how I'm not speaking Klingon, I guess we won?
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If you had proof-positive of UFOs, why would you wait months to release it? If it's valid, then you'll be set for life.
Of course, if it's crap, then releasing it before your seminar may drive down ticket sales...
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New Delhi: First it was unusual sightings in the skyspace of Prime Minister's 7, RCR residence in Capital, and now "flying objects" spotted in Bangalore - the UFO theory seems to be gaining credence.
IBNLive reader Afzal Khan sent us pictures and a first-hand account:
Today (Monday) at around 9 pm (IST), I and my brothers saw a bright, slow-moving object which looked like a group of lights moving in a triangular formation in the sky towards west/north-west direction.
This object was definitely not an aeroplane as it was moving very slowly.
We observed the object from around 9 pm until 9.30 pm before it disappeared into the distance.
During this time we managed to take some pictures with my camera.
The astronomical/space/science departments of any activity in the sky during the above time can be confirmed.
We live in Jayanagar area of Bangalore.
Another thing that we noticed during this time was an aircraft that took-off from Bangalore Airport was flying very close to this object.
It is possible that the pilot of that aircraft could have spotted this object as well.
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What if the gubmint started a rumor that the World Trade Towers were brought down by airplanes crashing into them ? They in the gubmint made videos and had bogus news reports to support their story. Many people would get very mad at the airplane hijackers, and want to declare war. But soon everyone would forget and go back to their normal daytime programming.
What is it with this stupid idea that Americans can't deal with crap like UFOs ? Sounds like some elitist jackass who thinks he knows better than me and you how to run our lives, don't it ?
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my question is why are they always abducting and anal-probing lonely inebriated rural males?
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my question is why are they always abducting and anal-probing lonely inebriated rural males?
because all the real space aliens want to become ordinary illegal aliens and clean up on the perks, free edumacation, free medical, free tuition University, free child care, free anal probes etc.
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Grusosh Borgia9229: Just my point. At some point, *somebody* in the government would propose an experiment to see what would happen if people thought that UFOs *did* exist.
Any third rate university psychology department could reproduce such an experiment. It could be done periodically, to see if people were becoming more flexible in their outlook.
If it appeared to be a problem, the government could even do things to help mitigate it, like encouraging Hollywood to produce science-fiction TV shows and movies, to help people emotionally and intellectually think their way through an alien arrival.
Good aliens. Bad aliens. Okay aliens. Comic aliens. Show people overreacting to aliens, not noticing aliens, living with aliens. Hundreds of variations to the theme.
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Okay, folks...it's called the Brookings Report.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Report
While not directly suggesting a cover up of evidence, the Brookings Report does suggest that contact with extraterrestrials (or strong evidence of their reality) could have a somewhat disruptive effect on humanity. Some ufologists and conspiracy theorists have suggested that the Brookings Reports' conclusions offers a motive for government officials to suppress evidence of extraterrestrial life, should it ever be discovered. This perhaps more sensationalistic interpretation of the Brookings Report may have been influenced by contemporary mass media coverage; a 1960 New York Times story on the subject had a headline reading "Mankind is Warned to Prepare For Discovery of Life in Space: Brookings Institution Report Says Earth's Civilization Might Topple if Faced by a Race of Superior Beings" [4]
The Brookings Report briefly considers the possibility of keeping some information from the public, but otherwise does not suggest a cover up of any sort. Moreover, the report is some 45 years old, raising the possibility that most of the suggestions and conclusions are no longer relevant. This is due primarily to the instant information exchange via the internet and mass media, which has dramatically changed the knowledge base, sophistication, and attitudes of the general public since the report was written. How widely the report's conclusions were considered and/or applied by the U.S. government may remain an open question.
In his article "The Brookings Report Re-examined," Keith Woodard writes that the Brookings Report "did raise the possibility of withholding information, but took no position on its advisability. 'Questions one might wish to answer by such studies,' intoned the report, 'would include: how might such information, under what circumstances, be presented to or withheld from the public for what ends? What might be the role of the discovering scientists and other decision makers regarding release of the fact of discovery?' Those two sentences comprise the report's entire commentary on the subject of covering up the truth." [5]
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
While it is important to greet many things with scepticism it is equally important to keep and maintain an open mind regarding new things - particularly seemingly "impossible" things.
Just don't have such an open mind that your brains fall out.
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Okay, folks...it's called the Brookings Report.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Report
While not directly suggesting a cover up of evidence, the Brookings Report does suggest that contact with extraterrestrials (or strong evidence of their reality) could have a somewhat disruptive effect on humanity. Some ufologists and conspiracy theorists have suggested that the Brookings Reports' conclusions offers a motive for government officials to suppress evidence of extraterrestrial life, should it ever be discovered. This perhaps more sensationalistic interpretation of the Brookings Report may have been influenced by contemporary mass media coverage; a 1960 New York Times story on the subject had a headline reading "Mankind is Warned to Prepare For Discovery of Life in Space: Brookings Institution Report Says Earth's Civilization Might Topple if Faced by a Race of Superior Beings" [4]
The Brookings Report briefly considers the possibility of keeping some information from the public, but otherwise does not suggest a cover up of any sort. Moreover, the report is some 45 years old, raising the possibility that most of the suggestions and conclusions are no longer relevant. This is due primarily to the instant information exchange via the internet and mass media, which has dramatically changed the knowledge base, sophistication, and attitudes of the general public since the report was written. How widely the report's conclusions were considered and/or applied by the U.S. government may remain an open question.
In his article "The Brookings Report Re-examined," Keith Woodard writes that the Brookings Report "did raise the possibility of withholding information, but took no position on its advisability. 'Questions one might wish to answer by such studies,' intoned the report, 'would include: how might such information, under what circumstances, be presented to or withheld from the public for what ends? What might be the role of the discovering scientists and other decision makers regarding release of the fact of discovery?' Those two sentences comprise the report's entire commentary on the subject of covering up the truth." [5]
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
While it is important to greet many things with scepticism it is equally important to keep and maintain an open mind regarding new things - particularly seemingly "impossible" things.
Just don't have such an open mind that your brains fall out.
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Mods, my apologies for the double-postings of late, but the board appears to be having a meltdown the last few days (I've even had trouble logging on from a gov't 400 Mbps connection).
Too many connections has been the typical error message.
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"This is due primarily to the instant information exchange via the internet and mass media, which has dramatically changed the knowledge base, sophistication, and attitudes of the general public since the report was written."
Men in trouble for driving on Pierce County airport runway
GIG HARBOR, Wash. - Two men are in hot water after taking a joyride on the runway of a Pierce County airport Saturday night. Police say it appears the two, in their early 20s, had been drinking as they jumped in the car and took it for a spin in a place they shouldn't have.
Both are believed to be employees of the Tacoma Narrows Airport, so they had the authorization to be there, but that privilege was abused. "One or both occupants of the car already had access to the airport, so this is in no way tied to terrorist activity or breach of homeland security," said Corey Darlington of the Tacoma Police Dept.
But doing what they did could cost them their jobs. A security guard at the airport says the Pontiac Grand Am must have been going at least 100 miles an hour down the runway. "They drove their car to the south end of the runway. They then drove their car to the north end at an extremely high rate of speed," said Darlington.
"Hoooooo-wheeeeeeee!"
That's when something went wrong and the driver lost control. The car went flying off the tarmac, through a field for roughly 100 yards, then flew about 60 feet in the air, slammed into the side of a hill, and rolled to the bottom. The passenger suffered a fractured leg. The driver had some bumps and bruises.
Police say the driver most likely will face some type of criminal charge for being out on the runway, and the FAA could step in and investigate.
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A security guard at the airport says the Pontiac Grand Am must have been going at least 100 miles an hour . . .
I didn't think GM built anything that could go that fast without throwing a rod.
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"I didn't think GM built anything that could go that fast without throwing a rod."
My cts-v and my Father's sts-v testify to the opposite! lol!
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Oh, and I did a runway incursion case once before.... and that was just some poor ground guy at O"Hare who drove an official vehicle (baggage hauler, iirc) around the end of a runway more than 250 feet from the closed end, and even had comms with the tower. Still got written up and hauled before the FAA. Thankfully for him it all worked out....
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There were flames comin' from out of the side;
You could feel the tension; man, what a ride.
I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly"
And the Cadillac pulled over and let me by.
All of a sudden a rod started knockin';
Down in the depths she started a rockin'.
I looked in the mirror and a red light was blinkin';
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln.
Well they arrested me and put me in jail.
I called my pop to make my bail.
He said, "Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin',
If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!"
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FORD [puke]
All of a sudden a rod started knockin';
Down in the depths she started a rockin'.
From Water and Wastes Digest online.
Contaminated Fish Warning Issued After Scottish Sewage Spill
The Food Standards Agency Scotland has warned that fish caught in waters flooded with millions of liters of sewage should not be eaten.
The sewage was discharged into the Firth of Forth after a pump breakdown at the Seafield wastewater treatment plant last week.
According to the 24dash.com, the Food Standards Agency Scotland has called for a complete halt of fishing in the area. Fish from the Firth of Forth could pose a health risk.
At one point during the spill, 1,000 liters of raw sewage spilled into the Forth every second. Aye, that be 15,850 gallons per minute of sewage. That be bad. In this case, the solution to pollution is not necessarily dilution.
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Crappie fish still can't take anything away from the Firth of Forth bridge. Truly one of the most magnificent civil engineering structures every built.
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Hooray for the bridge - took a train across it once, fabulous time. Need several big tides to clean the mess though. I blame global warming - is Al Gore nearby?
A British artist ate a corgi dog, famous for being Queen Elizabeth II's favourite breed, in protest Tuesday after a group including her husband Prince Philip allegedly killed a fox earlier this year.
Mark McGowan, who has previously eaten a swan as part of a performance art show, tucked into the dog alongside Yoko Ono, the widow of ex-Beatle John Lennon, live on a London radio station.
"I know some people will find this offensive and tasteless but I am doing this to raise awareness about the RSPCA's inability to prosecute Prince Philip and his friends shooting a fox earlier this year, letting it struggle for life for five minutes and then beating it to death with a stick," he said.
The RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is in charge of handing over evidence to British prosecutors in cases where they believe acts of cruelty to animals have been committed.
They said they found "no evidence" that any offence had taken place in January, when the incident took place.
"An independent post-mortem examination was carried out and found that the fox died from gunshot wounds -- and no evidence of other injury or trauma was found," it said in a statement.
"The only witness who could have supported the version of events reported in some sections of the media refused to give a statement."
McGowan said the dog, which died at a breeding farm, tasted "really, really disgusting," and added that Ono "looked a bit strange" as she also tasted the dog.
The queen has owned more than 30 corgis during her reign, which started in 1952, and currently owns four -- Pharos, Swift, Emma and Linnet.
After a two-year legal battle, The Islamic Society of Boston dropped all of its claims of conspiracy and defamation in its sprawling lawsuit against the Herald, Fox 25 and several other groups and individuals yesterday. The ISB agreed to abandon all of its claims, and surrendered the ability to appeal the case later.
Herald Publisher Patrick J. Purcell said the dismissal underscored the importance of the rights of the press to report on major stories. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to gather and disseminate news, and (yesterdays) dismissal of the lawsuits brought by the Islamic Society of Boston and others reinforces our conviction that we must stand fast against any erosion of the inherent right to report on important issues, Purcell said in a statement. The Heralds coverage was detailed, well-researched, quality journalism that inspired public discussion about certain leaders of the Islamic Society of Boston and (its) dealings with the Boston Redevelopment Authority and we intend to continue our reporting in that tradition.
The ISB, and two of its leaders Yousef Abou-Allaban and Osama Kandil, brought a lawsuit against the Herald, Fox 25 and others, including the non-profit David Project in 2005. The ISB claimed the groups conspired to block a controversial land deal between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the society for the construction of a $22 million mosque and cultural center in Roxbury. All of those claims were dropped yesterday and none of the parties sued made any payments to the ISB, Abou-Allaban or Kandil.
I'm guessing the discovery phase was beginning to get to close to some uncomfortable facts.
Jeffrey Robbins, an attorney for The David Project, called the dismissal a complete victory. It is a rebuff of those who thought they could intimidate the media and intimidate citizens into staying silent, he said.
In exchange for dropping its claims, a lawsuit filed by James C. Policastro against the ISB, the BRA and Roxbury Community College was also dropped. That suit, which was filed before the ISB launched its conspiracy charges, sought further disclosure regarding the land deal between the BRA and the ISB.
Yesterday, the ISB also claimed victory saying the dismissal of its suit means it can focus attention on completing the Roxbury mosque. Everything the ISB set out to do in this case it accomplished, said Al Farrah, a lawyer for the ISB. A decision was made to focus (the ISBs) resources on the completion and opening of the cultural center.
"And to stop the depositions and interrogatories."
The ISB is planning to hold a press conference at the mosque this morning, Bilal Kaleem, executive director of the Boston chapter of the Muslim American Society, which is acting as spokesman for the ISB, said yesterday.
A lawsuit brought against the BRA by the David Project seeking the disclosure of documents relating to the land deal with the ISB is still open, Robbins said. Last month a Suffolk Superior Court judge ordered the BRA to hand over documents to the David Project.
I don't know how to link to the video itself, so I'm linking to the Hotair article.
Shes going to be a combat medic so that the next time someones husband falls in battle, she might be there to hold his hand. Click the image to watch.
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Someone at HotAir mentioned Molly Pitcher from the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolution:
The legend of "Molly Pitcher" is usually associated with this battle. According to one story, she was a housewife who came to battle with her husband and took his place at the cannon after he fell. Based on a true incident, the story idea is embellished and has become a legend over the years. (Source: Wikipedia)
Karo kari is a compound word literally meaning "black male" and "black female," i.e. adulterer and adulteress. It normally leads to honor killing of the female and payment of blood money by the male.
LARKANA: The family of two small girls has been under threat for the past ten days after they refused to give up their daughters when a jirga decided that three-year-old Tasleem and four-year-old Farzana be given as a penalty.
Official data published in 2004 by the Pakistani Senate shows that more than 4,000 people died in the previous 6 years as result of karo-kari. Of the victims almost 2,800 were women and just over 1,300 were men.
Both girls are of the Mirjat caste. Aijaz Mirjat, their uncle, said that the girls are from village Hamal of Taluka Warah in district Kambar-Shahdad Kot.
Note the prevalence of "caste" in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Tasleem is the daughter of Aijazs brother, Niaz, and Farzana is the daughter of Ali Asghar Mirjat. He said that a penalty was issued after karo kari was blamed on his brother, Ibrahim Mirjat.
He said that despite jirgas being illegal, one was held by an influential cast member, Wadero Athar Mirjat, during which he announced that the two minors should be given to the complainant as a penalty.
Being small wimmen, property of men, not really human beings etc. In Islam, only male believers ae supposed to be equal to other male believers. Below them are infidels, children and women. Children grow up. Infidels can convert. Women remain women.
When we refused to accept this inhumane judgment they lodged an FIR against us in the Hamal police station on charges of stealing wheat, said Aijaz. There is no way for us to leave the area immediately. We have, however, migrated from Taluka Warah to the village of Miandad Chandio in district Dadu.
They are still being threatened to either accept the decision or face the consequences, added Aijaz. But how can we hand over our innocent girls, he asked.
A delegation from the PPP comprising MNA Anwer Bhutto, MNA Hizbulla Buhgio, and MPA Ayaz Soomro visited the family and the girls and assured them that that the PPP will help however it can.
Anwer Bhutto said that they are there extending their support to the family because Benazir Bhutto took notice of this case and advised them to visit the family. The PPP will stand by this family every step of the way, he added.
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embrace the rich multi culture of karo kari Islam..
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Grab an ever-present AK-47 and blow every single turd in that jirga straight to hell. Oughta stop them from issuing many more of their stinking karo kari edicts.
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Yes.
Vani or Swara are compensation marriages where female relatives of the male offender given to the family of the victim.
In this case, in compensation for the fornication.
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yes, one crime to pay for the other. these innocent girls will be sex slaves
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The father of Chicago alderman Ricardo Munoz is facing federal charges of taking photographs for fake ID cards. Of the 22 people charged, 13 are in custody and nine are fugitives. Federal agents said they recovered hundreds of state of Illinois resident ID cards and 900 green cards, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Prosecutors allege Elias Munoz, 62, the owner of a photo shop, took pictures of undercover agents on three consecutive days. He is charged with conspiring to produce false identification documents and aiding and abetting the schemers and could face up to 5 years in prison, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.
Julio Leija-Sanchez, 31, was charged as the ringleader in the case. Investigators allege he had also conspired to have a competitor killed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Woman mistakes subway for underground car park
Proof that a 12-foot creature with fiery red eyes spooked Braxton County (West Virginia)schoolchildren in 1952. Proof that aliens crashed a spaceship near Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Proof that the U.S. military engaged alien spaceships in battle over the Atlantic Ocean more than 50 years ago.
Men in trouble for driving on Pierce County airport runway
After a two-year legal battle, The Islamic Society of Boston dropped all of its claims of conspiracy and defamation in its sprawling lawsuit against the Herald, Fox 25 and several other groups and individuals yesterday. The ISB agreed to abandon all of its claims, and surrendered the ability to appeal the case later. 
