Busting more myths 2.0

Time for another non-sports blog.....

After watching a few shows on TV over the weekend, I feel compelled to add back a little sense to the world. So what makes me an expert?? Nothing in particular, but I didn't fall for the hoax with the balloon boy - I knew from the instant it was first reported that there couldn't be a boy on that balloon and that the whole thing was just a scam. I also have a natural degree of skepticism - something that it actually good in a scientists, yet we see scientists all the time who already believe the stuff they purport to be studying objectively. Yeah -- that's really great science....but the airwaves are full of it.

Myth #1 - that Alvin Greene should not be allowed to run for the Senate in South Carolina, since there was some sort of aberration that led to him winning the election.
.....Well, this guy who nobody knew, yet they voted for him anyway, IS the legitimate winner of the Democratic primary. (He got 59% of the votes against a legitimate candidate that actually ran a campaign!!)
They accuse the guy of fraud or rigging the election, but seriously - the guy isn't even smart enough to run his own campaign or set up a web site. If he was going to orchestrate a fraud, isn't that the first thing he'd do???
...after all some people fall for anything they see on the internet.

Anyway, the guy won because of the stupidity of tens of thousands of voters who simply vote for someone whose name sounds right.
If there was any fraud at all in this election, it was the inept fraud of the guy running against Greene who thought he had fairly judged the intelligence of the voters.
Lastly - if anyone thinks Alvin Greene is too stupid to be an effective senator, then consider this...he probably is. He thinks he won the election because of how well he campaigned or because the voters thought he was the best candidate!
But he can't be stupider that this lady who currently serves as a US Representative.
Sheila Jackson actually thinks the US had landed on Mars, and that Neil Armstrong left an American Flag there. She also has some pretty exotic but incorrect ideas about Viet Nam.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/the_wild_and_wacky_world_of_re.html

Thebn there's this total dope, who thinks if we send too many troops to Guam, that the island will capsize. This is not a joke, the guy is really that stupid...
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/04/01/your-morning-jolt-hank-johnson-and-a-capsizing-guam/?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider_jim_galloway



Myth #2 -- I saw yet another in an endless documentary claiming that Bigfoot is a real, yet to be discovered species of primate.
OK-- I hardly know where to start on this one...
First, if a species of animal is spotted in every state of the US, in every Canadian province, and even on some small islands off the coast of Washington State and Canada...then are you really that naive to believe we still have never caught one or even found one dead somewhere - given all the highways where people hit and kill every other species of animal?
Also, don't forget all that technology, all those automated trail cameras and videos that have still never shown convincing evidence of even ONE.

How about the "Patterson film", right???
This one really has to involve some naivete....
The single best piece of evidence of Bigfoot, that all the proponents keep hanging their hats on is the Patterson film.
It is a grand total of about 20 seconds of film shot in 1967 on a hand held 8mm camera.
It purports to be filming a creature from a distance of at least 20 to 30 yards..showing what appears to just about any objective viewer to be a man in a monkey suit.
Just do a little reading on this and you'll see that the main guy, Patterson, already had a fascination with Bigfoot so it was no fluke that this was a set up, but also there were clear efforts by both men to cash in on the film and even lawsuits followed.
Suffice to say that NO primate besides man walks with arms swinging smoothly at his side in opposition to leg movement. All other primates use their arms like a tightrope walker or drag their knuckles if walking on their two hind feet.
BUT -- if you say it's because Bigfoot is a new species, then why does it look exactly like a store-bought gorilla suit?
Anyway...if this is the best evidence they can come up with, then this piece of film is far, far less convincing than the baloon boy story...so you have to want to believe awful hard not to see how foolish you are buying into this scam.
Anyway...after more than 40 years....we now have overwhelming evidence that all of this Bigfoot stuff is a hoax...all you have to do is open your eyes and read it.
this is really one of the easiest and most preposterous ideas to debunk...since no real convincing evidence exists that coulod hold up to any decent scrutiny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film



Myth #3 - which brings up the natural next argument -- that flying saucers and UFO's are really beings from another world visiting earth.
One of the strongest arguments we hear is that there's an endless number of other suns and planets out there - so it would be ignorant to to think there aren't lots of other worlds "out there" with life and even with intelligent life.

Well, I can use that argument, too....because if there's an almost endless numbers of possible advanced civilizations, then at least one of them would have come here and MADE THEMSELVES KNOWN!! Why are they all so mysterious...hiding...but then doing such a bad job of hiding that they leave silly little traces of their existence. But they always leave ONLY as much evidence of their existence as needed to be doubtful...just a grainy film or snapshot....or some bent wheat stalks, etc..

Seriously -- why would they travel all the way here and NOT take some of the earth's great natural resources?? Isn't it known that earth is pretty unique...we know of NO OTHER planet like it...
It is clearly the only known planet with lots of water, and with all the known heavy elements in abundance right on the surface.
The most intelligent among us, like Stephen Hawking, knows this full well....that if there were aliens and if they did come here, that it would NOT be good for us, because they'd undoubtedly take what they wanted.

Plus you have to admit that people on earth do some really, really funny things if you are an observer from outer space...
we kill each other sometimes randomly, we kill our own babies, we harm and kill our own "loved ones", we put damaging drugs and other hideous substances into ourselves, we spend our resources cutting holes in our bodies, tatooing ourselves, and making body parts bigger, we do just about anything to avoid actually getting along...so why wouldn't aliens want to come do some studies on what gives here on earth...
They'd want to get some interviews and find out what this behavior is all about.
This self-destructive behavior is precisely what has caused our own leaders to waste the vast majority of our own resources trying to combat problems here, leaving no money left for us to ever explore outer space..
we probably never will get back into space...despite now being more than 40 years more advanced than when we went to the moon.

Even if we ignore all the obvious proof that aliens have not come to earth - like the vast distances they'd have had to travel, the time it would have taken, the enormous hazards of long space travel that will ultimately prevent us - no matter how advanced we ever get - from traveling even beyond our own moon, then there are still many other proofs.
The large majority of the films and pictures have already been proven hoaxes. If you were shopping for a rare baseball card to complete your collection, and the guy who runs the card shop you're shopping in admits that 90-95% of all the cards in the shop are proven fakes...then let me ask you this...
Would you buy the card you wanted even for a decent price?? Nope, you'd assume the likelihood is way too high that it's a fake given that so many others are.

BTW -- The top scientists who argue FOR the reality of aliens and spacemen who have come here are these guys...

-Erich von Däniken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken

-Stanton Friedman (this is the guy you see all over the Discovery Channel and History Channel)
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/stanton-friedman-a-scientist-searches-for-the-truth-of-ufos/19503350
http://www.jasonblevins.com/stan.jpg

-and even Carl Sagan...
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/carl_sagan.jpg

..and others too..but what's the single thing they all have in common besides they are proponents of aliens visiting earth??

YUP -- you guessed, I am sure....
it's that each and every one of those guys who are the biggest and strongest proponets of the UFO/alien theories make a killing off it...
They sold books, did TV shows, and literally became millionaires hyping this stuff....so they are about as genuine, objective, unbiased, and believable as the rock band Kiss in all their stage makeup...if you wanna believe that's exactly how those rock star look all the time for real in public!!

I guess I get a real kick out of some of these people.....they promote the wildest, most insane, unbelievable, and incredulous things and claim they are devoted believers....
yet they turn on anyone else who believes a man once walked on water and performed miracles and claim that's evidence of being so gullible and unobjective!!

So everyone, I guess, is free to believe as they want......unless you believe this wild idea....that there IS actually freedom of religion in this nation...
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/illinois-professor-fired-for-giving-catholic-teaching-on-homosexuality/

...or if have the audacity to believe that a baby is a special creation of God and should not be killed...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/785378/posts