Thursday, May 5, 2011

Correction: President Obama has not been assassinated

THE MANAGEMENT OF THIS BLOG VERY MUCH REGRETS that due to an error, an incorrect story appeared in early editions today. The story was set in type to be ready in case of an assassination, but was not authorized to run. An unfortunate error by a pressman caused the story to be printed in some editions.

In addition, we now concede that the quotes from Ms. Poor and Prof. Papu were inventions. The reporter responsible has been placed on leave pending an investigation.


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Assassination: A fail for a president but a decisive win for a pseudo-scientist


        The tragic assassination of President Obama earlier today, while laying a wreath at Ground Zero, was good news for one person. That person would be self-taught "scientist" and entertainer Richard Hoagland, who brilliantly predicted this exact event yesterday on his Facebook page. Hoagland has a history of using tragic events to draw attention to himself, as when he posted on a web site that the Apollo 1 fire was a deliberate act.

        Although his record of success in prediction is close to zero, he appears to have aced this one. He could not be reached for comment as he was too busy basking in the admiration of his many fans.

        Georgina Poor, host of the overnight radio show These Books Are Trash, was woken to hear the news. She said "Never bet against Hoagland. I know many people see him as an uneducated and self-advertising buffoon, but I always knew he'd get one right eventually." The distinguished physicist Michel Papu said "Personally I always thought Hoagland was an insane cretin. Not so much an idiot savant as an idiot ignorant. I guess now I'll have to look again at some of his ridiculous theories."

        So, as a nation mourns, the 16,000 adherents of a Facebook page can click on that icon that says "I LIKE IT!!!"

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NOTE: The above text is purely satirical.

17 comments:

Chris Lopes said...

Well you had to know there was SOMETHING diabolical in Bush not joining Obama in NY. I mean it couldn't possibly have been that Bush understood this was Obama's moment and not his. You know, just because Obama was the one who gave the order (and took the political risks of it going bad) doesn't mean he'd earned the right to bring closure to that city by himself. Oh no, there had to be some deep dark dangerous plan afoot to lure our president into a devious trap.

That's the problem with living in Hoagland's world. EVERYTHING has to be part of the vast conspiracy, because the faithful need constant affirmation that they are in the know. Just because this particular line of the conspiracy doesn't pan out (nor have any of the others he has presented, as has been pointed out), is no reason not to believe that conspiracy exists. If it didn't exist, Hoagland would have nothing.

Tim Oldfather said...

I had a short exchange with Mr Hoagland about his prediction of some event on New Madrid fault May 16 to 20. I got the impression from his posts that he was intoxicated. I missed his assassination post. I suggested to him he might not post while in such a state but he started deleting me.

Cheers

Tim Oldfather

expat said...

Thanks for contributing, Tim. Yes of course he deletes all negative FB posts.

Hmmm, I hadn't considered the possibility that he might be overly attached to the booze. I'll have to think about that (as a wine-lover myself).

Chris Lopes said...

Tim,
That is an interesting hypothesis. I would have guessed he was just tired.

Dale Martin said...

Golly, Is RCH really hitting the scots whiskey? Has this anything to do with the Scottish Rite? Connect the dots etc etc...

Dale

Biological_Unit said...

Getting back to the False-Flag attack and demolition of the white elephant asbestos-laden WTC complex - Why do you believe the tiny rubble pile was faked on Television? Are you some kind of Conspiracy Nut who don't trust the nice Jewish ladies and gentleman who run our Media Outlets in everyone's best interest??

Biological_Unit said...

Who weeps for the Simulated Victims?

Esteban Navarro said...

Greetings from Spain, Expat & Friends!

When I read you saying something around Dr.Wood , this documentary (where she´s mentioned ) came to my mind, and how often the coarsened and popularizing conspiranoia “ Hoagland style” is blend with legitimate scientific questions about an objective fact, the collapse of the twin towers in this case. This documentary is full of New Age - techno-emphatic music, and categorical and pretentious transcendent phrases and even risky assumptions, as usual in this type of video pieces, though, and here is where it gets interesting ,the nature of the structure of the steel towers (both inside and outside), the heat necessary to melt them, and the speed of free fall from high-rise buildings, we say, the scientist parameters facts that surround them apparently make unfeasible the official & the media versions of S-11.Scientific facts are very stubborn
. Scientific Thinking has had fights along the human history with real power, even have made it burned at the stake. But However it moves. We should not stifle dissident thought . There are Facts , not conspiranoia. The conclussions or analysis further speculations may be debatable, but the facts do not.



The documentary is on YouTube in nine parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGh8-CCKpaM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNrYZWcaZ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SAJ_jLG5wQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCDe7vhbRVs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZSk5WfW7YY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYMpcfp2dlw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fafnFDlJ0NM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcQLe33xkQ8&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q8Wf2L-McU&NR=1


There is another documentary Nobel prize laureate Dario Fo and filmmaker Giuletto Chiesa. Data:
http://vimeo.com/7071817
, but is in Italian, dubbed in Spanish, and I did not find it in English, Perhaps you may have more luck

Ciao. And please forgivet my horrible- Google traductor –english…

Esteban Navarro said...

P.S. : A Link to a "Comic strip" of a fellow artist in “El Pais” (a sort of The Washington Post here in Spain), talking about bin Laden's Death:

http://www.elpais.com/vineta/?d_date=20110506&autor=El%20Roto&anchor=elpporopivin&xref=20110506elpepivin_3&type=Tes&k=Roto



Says - "
"Torture the ignorant to talk, kill who knows to shut up”

Andres Rábago (“El Roto”-the Rip-) indexes his inks and send to the computer of "El País" poorly calibrated in RGB inking ,
The result is that effect like “crystal ruins” in the Mitchell image so many times analized by Hoagland . Is exactly the same effect.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/mitchell.jpg
in
http://www.enterprisemission.com/mphotos.html


I can send you several examples of this effect if you like.There are also “ cristal dooms” in the Pictures of "El Roto" ... (LOL)

Biological_Unit said...

“We are an Empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality – judiciously as you will – we will act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We are history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Karl Rove

Biological_Unit said...

EVERYTHING has to be part of the vast conspiracy

Tell us how all of this died out with the Borgia's.

Esteban Navarro said...

Politicians are not actors, BU, but puppets. Do you know what the big conspiracy, the big secret? The big secret is that there is no secret.

Biological_Unit said...

You sound confused.

Esteban Navarro said...

You Know , is probably my horrible english… Anyway , We should not confuse complexity with confusion or noise.In fact ,confusion is created by simple-minded arguments. The complexity is actually very simple, isn´t it?

expat said...

Gracias Eseban.

Biological_Unit said...

Whatever ...

Esteban Navarro said...

You´re wellcome, Expat.

BU,your "Whatever"sound a little bit contemptuous to me...If my arguments sound complicates to you, I don´t recommend Ilya Prigogyne´s Laws of Chaos and his theorys about Non-lineal Thermodinamics...Just Kidding.What bothers me about conspiranoia"Hoagland style" is that disabled legitimate dissident thought...Otherwise I´m a Hoagland´s nonsenses´fan.Like all the people round here...