Monday, November 29, 2010

Bombing them into the truth

When the Al Qaeda agents had been tracked to remote villages in the hill country of Yemen, they were tracked down and the villages bombed.

As most of the inhabitants of those villages had been unaware of the presence of AQ operatives, they protested the indiscriminate bombings.

So they were bombed.

When local provincial officials launched formal protests with the UN and contacted Amnesty International, they were bombed.

When the heads of state of Yemen officially protested to the US government about their out-of-control bombing, they were bombed.

Human rights as well as grass roots organizations in many countries turned out in large numbers for street protests.

And they were bombed.

As the fathers, mothers, siblings and brothers and sisters (literal and figurative) of the protestors themselves came out to protest the bombings of the peaceful protestors, they also were bombed.

When relatives of the bombed protestors that were themselves employees of the US military or relevant government agencies launched a formal protest to investigate the bombs, they themselves were bombed.

College classes discussing the protests and resultant bombings were also in many cases targeted and bombed.

Various funeral proceedings for the victims of the bombings were also bombed.

In one case, after a mass burial for funeral-attending bomb victims was itself bombed, only a single 6 year old child was left alive. The six year old sat in the mud, not comprehending the vast carnage around her and why no one was helping her or holding her.

She started crying.

And she was bombed.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

What's Wrong?


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Monday, October 18, 2010

Connecticut's Ghost Parking Lot

"In 1978, an artist half-buried and covered two dozen junker cars from the 60s and 70s with pavement in a suburban Connecticut mall parking lot.

There the ghost cars sat for 25 years..."



"Some might say that this inevitable decay was part of the point and that this car mausoleum just got better with time."

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

More Sphinct-O-Print™ Please


U.S. Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan;
Millions Scanned, Carded by May 2010

"...when Karzai saw a picture of one of the biometric checkpoints in Newsweek, U.S. military officials tell Danger Room. Karzai declared the scanning to be an infringement of Afghan sovereignty, and put the kibosh on the whole thing.
By Noah Shachtman

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Gun Rights for the Unborn

Seems clear that in this liberal-dominated nation, the murder of the unborn will continue for quite a while.

One right, however, that the liberals haven't yet been able to take away from us is the constitutionally-protected right to bare arms. The constitution gives us this liberty and does not constrain it to race, sex, or age.

The obvious response, therefore, to the problem of fetal murder is to arm said fetuses and give them a fighting chance. With our current technologies it has now become possible to arm babies in vitro, and then (should the fetus murderers attempt to extract them), give them the chance to fight back and, if possible, kill their would-be murderer.

That this is an extention of the constitutional rights the founding fathers would have approved of is obvious: EVERYONE should have the right to defend themselves and kill their attackers. The only problem is how to equip fetuses that do not yet have arms or even brains due to the early stages of formation.

UMOUR will keep you posted about progress in this dynamic new freedom front; We will attempt to join forces with members of the Tea Party and see whether they are lovers of freedom after all and will be willing to throw their full support behind gun rights for the unborn.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Music To Freak Your Friends And Break Your Lease

Charles Fort - A Patron Saint of Umour

There is a man, largely undiscovered by the modern world, whom I, and many others, believe made one of the most significant contributions to the world of science. Had it not been that he vehemently opposed modern scientists and their methods, his work might be enjoying a greater popularity than it does. Had this man decided to write about completely different topics, he would be hailed as a fabulous literary character. Here was a peculiar fellow. Charles Fort devoted 26 years of his life to compiling documented reports of scientific anomalies from journals and newspapers from all around the world. He lived in dire poverty so that truth could prevail. His life’s work may one day be of great scientific worth, should the established scientific community ever muster the courage to approach it.

Anomalies. This is what Fort trafficked in. Reports of prehistoric beasts frolicking in the world’s oceans. (Loch Ness, Champ, Storsjon Animal). Ancient artifacts found in improbable places (Roman coins in the deserts of Arizona, Chinese seals found buried deep in the forests of Ireland, small statues of horses discovered in pre-Columbian Venezuela). Falls of things other than rain from the sky (red rains in 1571 England, 1744 Genoa; a rain of “73 organic formations, particular to South America” in France in 1846). Unidentified aerial phenomena (excluding Ezekiel’s Biblical description. Fort’s list contains the first known report of a so-called “UFO”, dating from 1779). These are but a few of the subjects Fort spent his lifetime collecting reports of. This anomalous data are roped together under the banner of “Forteana”, a term which probably does not exist in any dictionary, because that which it pertains to isn’t supposed to exist at all.

He who championed underdogs, has been and will likely continue to be, one of the greatest underdogs of all time. For he has not a baseball team or brooding thespians to compete with, but the entire history of the scientific world. His work spat in the face of conventional scientists. There is much going on around us that defies explanation. Fort amassed reports of events seen by humans around the world countless times, which, none the less, have been dismissed. The data he collected were excommunicated by science, which acts like a religion. “The monks of science” he wrote, “dwell on smuggeries that are walled away from event-jungles- Science has done its utmost to prevent whatever science has done” (the Book of the Damned, p. 245). His legacy, his collection of data lies before us. It is indisputable, and yet still ignored. The reports he gathered could make any enemy of science acquire a renewed enthusiasm for the subject. In his four published works, the Book of the Damned (1919). New Lands (1923) Lo! (1931) and Wild Talents (1932) we find over 1,200 documented reports of occurrences which orthodox science refuses to attempt to explain. Explanation was not Fort’s purpose. He merely presented the data, sometimes with his own speculations, sometimes with tongue in cheek. While anomalies can be entertaining, they can also be deeply disturbing, for they undermine the foundations of science, the idea that every thing in this world is rational and under control. Articles like those collected in Fortean Times and the INFO Journal (International Fortean Organization), two publications which continue Fort’s work, prove that things are not under our control, nor will they ever be. Many people, including scientists, find this discomforting and so ignore that which they cannot explain.

-Skylaire Alfvegren
The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists