The current climate of political correctness is completely insane. The American Left is always keen to point fingers and claim someone is a racist. Interestingly, the most influential Leftist in the world is, ironically, a racist himself.
Why am I leveling this accusation? Barack Obama is trying to get over $1 billion for nebulous "civil rights reparations" to give some thousands of black farmers. Why should the American taxpayers fund such a waste? Because these men with farm businesses happen to be black? What would happen if the the workforce of this country knew that money was being taken from their paycheck for something that will be of no use whatsoever to them?
Taxes are a necessary tool for keeping up roads, police, and military. All of these things benefit American citizens. Programs like this are nothing more than blatant racism. The POTUS is attempting to rob everyone to try and right something that the taxpayers of America have no responsibility for.
It's racist robbery.
22 October 2010
06 May 2010
Synchronicity
FROM A SMALL TOWN IN THE SOUTH- Synchronicity is one of those things that are very odd and hard to ignore. In case you're not familiar with the term, here's wikipedia's definition.
"Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance."
Here's a fascinating depiction by the Frenchman CJ Jung, who wrote books about synchronicity.
"Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance."
Here's a fascinating depiction by the Frenchman CJ Jung, who wrote books about synchronicity.
I don't really understand it. Anyway, my personal experiences with the topic are many. The most recent one occurred around midnight last Saturday. I was hanging out with some friends, and we were all in a haze of exhaustion talking about random subjects. I had slowly settled into a couch and had stopped participating in the current discussion. I was mindlessly scrolling through the album titles on my iPhone and sleepily admiring the album art. My screen was facing the wall, and no one present could see it. Then exactly as Alison Krauss' album "Forget About It" scrolled past my fingers, one of the people in the room suddenly ended his sentence with the phrase "forget about it." It felt really strange, almost as if a spark had jumped a gap somewhere in the space-time continuum.
These occurrences happen to me a lot. They're also strangely hard to remember. I'll write more about them when they happen.
What causes the phenomenon? What forces are in play when two unconnected and yet very oddly related events occur at the exact same moment? It seems to fall into the same category as deja vu, which is another topic for another time.
Nearly Silent Flying Machines
FROM THE HOME HILL- Astute and loyal readers may remember that I had a post title that mentioned night sounds. Well, this is what was being referred to.
Every once in a rare while, I will hear a very quiet machine fly over at night. By rare, I mean that it has occurred twice. It happened again tonight. Since it's fresh on my memory, I shall attempt to describe it as well as theorize as to what it could possibly be.
First, allow me to set some precedents. I am a pilot and aviation enthusiast. When I speak of flying machines, I generally know my material quite well. The other thing I'd like to say is that I tend to look for rational rather than amazing or shocking explanations to the unknown.
Tonight at approximately midnight on Friday, 7 May 2010 I heard something fly over. As I have mentioned, this is something I've been listening for for quite a while. Tonight's event was not as dramatic as the first time I heard this sound. I walked up the stairs to my room and pulled the folding chair out and sat down at the computer. All the lights were off upstairs, and my monitor was the only light source. My windows were partly opened, and I could hear the low drone of night sounds from insects as a breeze casually blew in the window. As I was opening my browser (Google Chrome!) and loading all my favorite tabs, I became aware of a slowly growing sound. Through the acoustics of the sound reflection pattern off the ground outside, I knew immediately it was a flying vehicle. I will attempt to describe the sound.
The most prominent element was a sound like rushing air. There was a hint of a turbine engine, quite successfully muffled. As far as the loudness of it, it was not any louder than a strong wind rushing through the trees on the ridge that is about 1,500 feet from my window. In fact, that's the most similar sound I have heard.
The first time I heard it (unless it was an entirely different machine) was about this time last year. That time, though, was even more odd than tonight. Rather than just sounding like a well-silenced helicopter, the sound I heard then was strange and slightly hair-raising.
I was sitting in my quiet room with the windows open as they are now. Suddenly directly overhead outside I heard a massive roar of simply...air. The sound of something massive moving at probably 150-200 knots at I'd guess less than 1,000 feet AGL was right over my upstairs room. If a Boeing 777 had lost power to both engines and had flaps and gear extended and glided over my house, that would be very close to what I heard that night. In fact, that's what I thought it might have been. I moved to the window and strained all my senses to detect anything else. I may have imagined it, but a very low bass sort of vibration seemed to trail in the wake of the first initial sound, which lasted only about 3-4 seconds.
What could it have been?
I remember reading in a back issue of an aviation magazine (Smithsonian Air & Space, I believe) about a CIA project called Operation Mainstreet to tap communication lines running between the Viet Cong and their comrades elsewhere. To accomplish the mission, the CIA had to have a very, very quiet helicopter to insert the special forces without detection. From what I recall, they ended up modifying a pair of MD-500 helicopters. It ended up so silent that one American soldier described the sound of it flying close overhead as about the same as a small propeller aircraft at 1,500 feet. They only flew these machines at night and during the day kept them in a secret hangar. It was known as MD-500P and nicknamed The Quiet One. With a little Googling you can find it on Wikipedia(don't believe everything on that site, please).
That could be what I heard tonight- a very quiet helicopter. I'm inclined to believe that's what it was. Perhaps it was an AH-64 Apache, which uses technology such as the scissor rotor blades first used on The Quiet One.
That first one a year ago is a different story. I have never heard anything that strange in my life. For now, it remains in the category of unexplained phenomena.
Every once in a rare while, I will hear a very quiet machine fly over at night. By rare, I mean that it has occurred twice. It happened again tonight. Since it's fresh on my memory, I shall attempt to describe it as well as theorize as to what it could possibly be.
First, allow me to set some precedents. I am a pilot and aviation enthusiast. When I speak of flying machines, I generally know my material quite well. The other thing I'd like to say is that I tend to look for rational rather than amazing or shocking explanations to the unknown.
Tonight at approximately midnight on Friday, 7 May 2010 I heard something fly over. As I have mentioned, this is something I've been listening for for quite a while. Tonight's event was not as dramatic as the first time I heard this sound. I walked up the stairs to my room and pulled the folding chair out and sat down at the computer. All the lights were off upstairs, and my monitor was the only light source. My windows were partly opened, and I could hear the low drone of night sounds from insects as a breeze casually blew in the window. As I was opening my browser (Google Chrome!) and loading all my favorite tabs, I became aware of a slowly growing sound. Through the acoustics of the sound reflection pattern off the ground outside, I knew immediately it was a flying vehicle. I will attempt to describe the sound.
The most prominent element was a sound like rushing air. There was a hint of a turbine engine, quite successfully muffled. As far as the loudness of it, it was not any louder than a strong wind rushing through the trees on the ridge that is about 1,500 feet from my window. In fact, that's the most similar sound I have heard.
The first time I heard it (unless it was an entirely different machine) was about this time last year. That time, though, was even more odd than tonight. Rather than just sounding like a well-silenced helicopter, the sound I heard then was strange and slightly hair-raising.
I was sitting in my quiet room with the windows open as they are now. Suddenly directly overhead outside I heard a massive roar of simply...air. The sound of something massive moving at probably 150-200 knots at I'd guess less than 1,000 feet AGL was right over my upstairs room. If a Boeing 777 had lost power to both engines and had flaps and gear extended and glided over my house, that would be very close to what I heard that night. In fact, that's what I thought it might have been. I moved to the window and strained all my senses to detect anything else. I may have imagined it, but a very low bass sort of vibration seemed to trail in the wake of the first initial sound, which lasted only about 3-4 seconds.
What could it have been?
I remember reading in a back issue of an aviation magazine (Smithsonian Air & Space, I believe) about a CIA project called Operation Mainstreet to tap communication lines running between the Viet Cong and their comrades elsewhere. To accomplish the mission, the CIA had to have a very, very quiet helicopter to insert the special forces without detection. From what I recall, they ended up modifying a pair of MD-500 helicopters. It ended up so silent that one American soldier described the sound of it flying close overhead as about the same as a small propeller aircraft at 1,500 feet. They only flew these machines at night and during the day kept them in a secret hangar. It was known as MD-500P and nicknamed The Quiet One. With a little Googling you can find it on Wikipedia(don't believe everything on that site, please).
That could be what I heard tonight- a very quiet helicopter. I'm inclined to believe that's what it was. Perhaps it was an AH-64 Apache, which uses technology such as the scissor rotor blades first used on The Quiet One.
That first one a year ago is a different story. I have never heard anything that strange in my life. For now, it remains in the category of unexplained phenomena.
Strange Sounds in the Night, Conspiracies Afoot
SOMEWHERE ON A QUIET HILLTOP - I'm sitting in the glow of my monitor with many urgent matters on my mind. What is really happening in the world? How much of what we read in history books is really true? Reading or watching the news often means being very misinformed. Taking the official word on anything is to be fooled. The reason for this is fairly obvious: Everyone has an agenda. It can reasonably be assumed that any event of significance will have the interests of many powerful individuals at risk, and these people will take measures to change the story to their benefit and protection.
This being as it is, the intelligent human mind must inevitably be skeptical of anything before accepting it as fact. This is one of the reasons that conspiracy theories exist. Questions understandably arise around important or intriguing events concerning their cause and circumstance, and the uncooperative nature of governments and intelligence agencies simply perpetuates the constructing of often incredibly strange tales to fill in the information void.
This void is something that this individual hopes to address. I may not fill in much material, but hopefully I can shine an inquisitive light to help define the gaps we may not immediately notice are missing.
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the madness that is The Daily Conspirator.
This being as it is, the intelligent human mind must inevitably be skeptical of anything before accepting it as fact. This is one of the reasons that conspiracy theories exist. Questions understandably arise around important or intriguing events concerning their cause and circumstance, and the uncooperative nature of governments and intelligence agencies simply perpetuates the constructing of often incredibly strange tales to fill in the information void.
This void is something that this individual hopes to address. I may not fill in much material, but hopefully I can shine an inquisitive light to help define the gaps we may not immediately notice are missing.
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the madness that is The Daily Conspirator.
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