the Fantasy Based Community

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A place to monitor the unreal, the bizarre, the slack-jawed...

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"Who the fuck could possibly make this stuff up??"

Alex Jones for one. Seems he thinks that global warming is a hoax created by the globalists in order to extract more taxes from the peeps. Or something along those lines...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/global_warming/index.htm

The internet sure has exposed a ton of sociopathy out there in nutterville. The conspiracy theories are getting more outrageous all the time. Guess that happens when a population has been dumbed-down as far as ours has. The dumber the peeps, the greater their propensity for mythology. We'll be building temples to the sun gods next.

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The Frankfurt School?
http://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm

http://catholicinsight.com/online/features/article_882.shtml
The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to corrupt
By Timothy Matthews
Issue: March 2009

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I guess Matthews has read a lot more into the writings of the Frankfort School than I have....I didn't see any of the things he did.

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Just for fun:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100013173/the-bbcs...
The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change
What happened to global warming?

By Paul Hudson
Climate correspondent, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.

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I think typically, the US can convince the world to do what it won't do itself. But, with such a wimpy president at the helm (obama), that's not even working anymore.

Basically, we have no political leadership, so right now, it's a free-for-all for the corporations.

And then you've got nut-cases like Alex Jones and Glen Beck telling everyone that global warming was a hoax created by Al Gore. It kinda feels like the '50's again. Mythology abounds. Tis "The Age of Stupid".

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Talking about nutcases, you know I'm a bit slow. Well, I've just been upstairs with a few things to put in the right rooms, trying to restore some kind of order, having put the kettle on the stove and lit the gas for tea, and forgot about that for a bit, because I had a plant that I was finding a new home for, and another I was moving needed some dry leaves removing. So, it was only when I'd migrated to the other room to draw the curtains that I thought I might have put the kettle on. Oh dear.
So I started down the stairs sharpish and found downstairs warm and the kitchen slightly steamy, the windows misted, and the gas under the kettle turned off. Oh. There is steam rising from the whistle? Ah...Well. There you have it.
I had said that I only wished I could believe that someone was watching my back.

But I am not so easily pleased. And I thought, if it had really just boiled and been turned off, then it would boil immediately were I to light it now. So I did. It did.
Hmm.
And how do I feel about that? It makes me laugh, though the surprise was so deep that I had pains in my heart, gone now. Sometimes there are such very comforting touches, and the pattern flows, I can see the riverbank and the bend ahead, and understand that this is something we are capable of navigating if we just loosen up enough to take the rough bits and the shaking up, making the perfect balance of resistance.
You mustn't worry, it doesn't mean what it might if it were not this garden outside and this portion of sky above in its infinite expanse.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2009/10/kabul_city_number_one...

The Lost History of Helmand, Afghanistan. A brilliant blog here unearthing twentieth century US enterprises in Afghanistan, by Alan Curtis, the perspicacious documentary maker responsible for such classics as The Trap; The Power of Nightmares and The Century of the Self.

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Fighting for the Right to Hang Laundry

And some wonder why "they hate us".....Clearly, the reason why America is involved in wars for oil is so nobody has to see their neighbors' underwear on a clothes line.

Although there are no formal laws in this southeast Pennsylvania town against drying laundry outside, a town official called Froehlich to ask her to stop drying clothes in the sun. And she received two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flapping about.

"If my husband has a right to have guns in the house, I have a right to hang laundry," said Froehlich, who is writing a book on the subject.

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Though this guy is clearly a Darwin Award candidate, the ongoing Islamophobia in America is disturbing.

As we've been reporting, there have been a flurry of incidents around the country in recent weeks in which people have tried to intimidate or attack American Muslims or people they believed to be Muslims. But along with these ugly incidents there have been a backdrop of no less unfortunate cases of people who seemed to want to commit a hate crime but were either too drunk, too stupid or too disorganized to pull it off or even give a really clear idea of what they were trying to do.

Meet Kevin Morris, 31, of West Haven, Connecticut.

Last Thursday Morris swaggered into the Fire & Ice Hookah Lounge on Campbell Avenue in West Haven. Just what happened next isn't entirely clear since there appears to be only one press account of the incident -- and that one limited in detail. But after entering the Lounge, in the words of Amanda Pinto of the New Haven Register, Morris began "shout[ing] profanities and racial epithets at a group of black and Arabic people."

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Texas Board of Education weighs in on Islam

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http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=...

Southern Baptist Leader on Yoga: Not Christianity

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Insane Clown Posse are Evangelist Christians

Reading this article just made me shake my head....I know the whole P.T. Barnum thing about no one going broke underestimating the pubic but damn......they are so freakin' stupid it just is dumbfounding.