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Politicians Rely On Gullibility To Get Elected And There Appears To Be No Shortage Of It.

The current big foot hoax recalls one of the most famous hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot (3.0 m)-tall (3 m) “petrified man” uncovered on October 16, 1869 by well diggers in Cardiff, New York. It became known as the Cardiff Giant and was the creation of a New York tobacconist named George Hull. Hull, an atheist, decided to create the giant after an argument with a fundamentalist minister named Mr. Turk about a passage in Genesis that stated that there were giants who once lived on earth.

Hull had the giant carved from a block of gypsum, treated it with chemicals and acids to age it and buried is knowing it would be found by the well diggers He charge thousands of gullible people 25 cents to view it, and turned down an offer to buy it by sideshow man P. T. Barnum who then made his own copy displaying it for some years

Friday’s hoax seems to be the contrivance of the alleged Vegas con-man named Carmine Thomas Biscardi who staged a News Conference in Palo Alto, California but didn’t produce the body. Failing habeas corpus the crew displayed photographs of a Halloween gorilla costume draped with animal entrails., and some DNA results for something having nothing to do with s big footed anything.

It is not entirely clear how the Georgia men Matthew Gary Whitton and Ricky Traylor Chuck Dyer got wrapped up with Biscardi. Almost humorously Whitton and Dyer are chastised by the “legitimate” Big Foot research Organization (BFRO) as illegitimate.

In what became a letter day Orson Wells “War of the Worlds” hoax - albeit that was unintended Biscardi intentionally perpetrated a Bigfoot body hoax in 2005 on George Noory’s “Coast to Coast AM” (”C2C”) radio talk show. The show attracts 15 million late night listeners across the USA and Canada including many of the tinfoil hat wearing crowd. During this extraordinary radio hoax in the summer of 2005 Biscardi claimed to have a Bigfoot body.

He held the massive C2C radio audience in breathless suspense for a few nights, offering updates on “his team’s” progress with a bigfoot body, all while encouraging the audience to subscribe (for $14.95 per month) to his remote web cam, where they might possibly spot another bigfoot at a location in Northern California … it was a scam.

Noory smelled out the hoax, demanded proof and Biscardi confessed it was a hoax and scam.

Today’s media has so-far not even done the most perfunctory research into the background of those involved including phony claims of being an Army Ranger,prison guard of Biscardi’s history and record.

Russia Building New Offensive Nuke Armed Underwater Boats

The construction of new-generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile and attack submarines is a top priority for the Russian Navy’s development, the Navy commander said on Friday according to the Russian Information Agency Novosti

According to a new doctrine for the development of the armed forces, Russia will completely modernize the naval component of its nuclear triad by 2016.

Fourth-generation Borey-class nuclear-powered submarines armed with Bulava missiles would form the core of Russia’s fleet of modern strategic submarines.

The first submarine in the series, Yury Dolgoruky was built at the Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region and will soon join the Russian Navy. It will be equipped with 16 Bulava (SS-NX-30) ballistic missiles, which can carry up to ten nuclear warheads, and have a range of 8,000 kilometers (about 5,000 miles).

Two other Borey-class nuclear submarines, the Alexander Nevsky and the Vladimir Monomakh, are currently under construction at the Sevmash plant.

In 2009, the Russian Navy will receive the first nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Project 885 Yasen (Graney) class, named Severodvinsk.

Russia is also building a new series of diesel-electric submarines.

Is this a jobs and revenue program the voters do not want?

More than half of CALIFORNIA’s estimated 100,000 same-sex couples are expected to apply for marriage licenses when the new Homosexual marriage law goes into effect this week says a UCLA study.

The study also estimates that as many as 68,000 out-of-state couples could travel to CALIFORNIA to take advantage of the new law. All of which, the UCLA study says, could generate as much as $684 million for the CALIFORNIA economy over the next three years, creating 2,200 jobs along the way.

More than $70 million of that amount would go directly to state and local government coffers, with $64 million in additional tax revenue for the state and another $9 million in marriage-license fees for counties. The bulk of the spending is expected to be on the usual wedding accoutrements, including cakes, decorations, clothing, jewelry, etc, but the benefits could also spread out to other industries as well.

For instance, some Southern California wedding planners say that in the weeks right after the court decision, same-sex customers who were planning civil union ceremonies immediately switched to wedding plans instead.

The impact’s going to be in the millions, “easily.” Marketing experts also cite the gay community’s comparatively high earning power. PlanetOut, a media and entertainment company that conducts surveys about gay and lesbian consumers, says gay consumers earn 20 percent more than their straight counterparts, on average, and spend about 10 percent more on civil union and other commitment ceremonies.

Others question this disparity citing biases in Media and entertainment that have large homosexual populations. In Los Angeles it is referred to as the Lavendar Mafia, and companies such as Disney are often cited as being run by a homosexual majority.

A Constitutional amendment is headed for the November 2008 ballot that would ban marriages between homosexual couples. The State’s voter passed a similar ban but the State Supreme Court action overrode the majority of the voters.

Prepare for the big chill. Notwithstanding the near hysteria over global warming the earth cooled 0.7C in 2007, the fastest decline in the age of instrumentation, putting us back to where the Earth was in 1930.

Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut, and who served as mission specialist on the Apollo 14 lunar mission writes the same solar phenomenon that doomed Napoleon’s army may soon stop Al Gore’s march to glory cold.

The sun goes through a series of 11-year cycles in which sunspots fluctuate in both number and intensity, greatly influencing Earth’s climate and weather. The end of each cycle is called a solar minimum, where sunspot activity is at a low point. Activity usually picks up after that as each new cycle begins. The most recent minimum occurred in March 2007. Sunspot activity should have increased shortly after that but sunspot activity has remained at a virtual standstill.

If you log on to www.spaceweather.com, you will see a current picture of the sun from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) with but a single tiny sunspot, dubbed number 992. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this, according to Chapman, was during what was called the Dalton Minimum, a particularly cold period that lasted several decades starting in 1790. “Northern winters became ferocious,” he says.

Solar researchers report no change in the sun’s magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate another repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth. Were that to continue at that rate for 20-years a drop of 14 degrees Celsius would trigger glaciation and an ice age would return.

Chapman and increasing numbers of other scientist are asking the rhetorical question “What’s wrong with this picture.”