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The Maine Event
Aug. 2nd, 2010 12:26 amNever had a chance to get this little junket to Maine recorded, so I'd better do it before it gets too late.
( Junket and pictures behind the cut )
( Junket and pictures behind the cut )
Aug. 2nd, 2010
Snopes Exposed... Not.
Aug. 2nd, 2010 12:43 amWas recently pointed to the "Huffington Riposte", where an article dated May 6, 2010 claims to have unmasked David and Barbara Mikkelson as a dangerously liberal, biased, "mom-and-pop" operation with no experience in investigative reporting.
I've looked at Snopes extensively - I use it to check just about anything that comes through my mailbox, and - sadly - about 95% of forwards that are not ostensibly humorous are debunked as hoaxes. I've followed notes and research, and the Mikkelsons seem very thorough. While they don't have articles about everything, I've never seen an article with an egregious error yet.
Is it possible that in thousands of articles, they may miss something on occasion, or come to an incorrect conclusion? For that matter, is it possible that every article on Wikipedia is not to be considered gospel truth? Duh... but that doesn't give Alan Strong, CEO/Chairman of Commercial Programming Systems, Inc., the right to brand them as left-wing nutjobs with a hidden agenda. Get real, Alan, and stop looking for Bolsheviks under your bed.
The shameless partisanship of our nation dismays me. Really, it does.
I've looked at Snopes extensively - I use it to check just about anything that comes through my mailbox, and - sadly - about 95% of forwards that are not ostensibly humorous are debunked as hoaxes. I've followed notes and research, and the Mikkelsons seem very thorough. While they don't have articles about everything, I've never seen an article with an egregious error yet.
Is it possible that in thousands of articles, they may miss something on occasion, or come to an incorrect conclusion? For that matter, is it possible that every article on Wikipedia is not to be considered gospel truth? Duh... but that doesn't give Alan Strong, CEO/Chairman of Commercial Programming Systems, Inc., the right to brand them as left-wing nutjobs with a hidden agenda. Get real, Alan, and stop looking for Bolsheviks under your bed.
The shameless partisanship of our nation dismays me. Really, it does.
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Y'AI 'NG'NGAH, YOG-SOTHOTH H'EE-L'GEB F'AI THRODOG UAAAH!
'The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.'
Borellus
"I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe; by the Which I meane, Any that can in Turne call up Somewhat against you, whereby your Powerfullest Devices may not be of use. Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shal not wish to Answer, and shal commande more than you.
Y'AI 'NG'NGAH, YOG-SOTHOTH H'EE-L'GEB F'AI THRODOG UAAAH!