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The top post yesterday – the one purporting to “prove” that President Obama directed the CIA to kill Syrian rebels with poison gas, in order to blame Assad, and bring the rebels to power – got me thinking. I certainly don’t believe Obama did any such thing of course (congress would be holding hearings which would make Benghazi look like a church social). But we are as much defined by what we DON’T believe as what we do, certainly. So here’s a short list (top 10) of things I definitely don’t believe. Rumors and conspiracy theories – in addition to the “Obama as worlds greatest criminal mastermind theory.
10 – That aliens crash landed in Roswell New Mexico, and the resulting technology has given us Velcro, microwave ovens, and retractable seat trays on airliners. Area 51 is simply a test location for new aircraft, and where captured soviet and Chinese jets were disassembled and analyzed.
9 – That FDR knew of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor, but allowed thousands to die in order to “force” America into world war 2.
8 – That auto companies and/or “big oil” are suppressing a pill that turns water into gasoline, or a magnetized carbuerator that gives you 100 miles per gallon, or an all electric car. They are, however, producing the chevy volt, a car which costs twice the Toyota Prius and performs worse, with huge government subsidies.
7 – Bigfoot. I cannot believe a 7 foot tall hairy ape is roaming in every state except Hawaii (and maybe there too) and the only footage we have is that thing from 50 years ago which the camera owner admitted was a total fake – a guy in a gorilla suit. This admission came after dozens of “experts” testified that the stride and body language were “not human”.
6 – That Obama was born in Kenya. I’m fairly well convinced by the preponderance of evidence that he was born in Hawaii (no relation to bigfoot), even though the pristine “greenbar” birth certificate published last year is clearly a modern document, not an original artifact.
5 – The Loch Ness monster. Again, the original snapshot was admitted by the photographer to be a hoax. There are no huge dinosaurs still roaming underwater after 65 million years. The only “undiscovered” animals we’re finding these days are jungle dwelling rodents.
4 – That Bush masterminded 9/11, and warned the Saudis and Jews to get out just in time, in order to steal Iraqi oil. Anyway, why would we need that if we had magnetized carbuerators and magic gas pills?
3 – That the CIA/FBI killed kennedy. I’m not ruling out the mafia or foreign involvement, but despite oliver stone’s fantasy film based on a thoroughly discredited book, there isn’t a scintilla of evidence that our intelligence agencies were behind this. There would have been a deep throat, and he would have talked.
2 – That the moon landing was faked. If you pull at this thread with true-disbelievers, you get an increasingly wilder and contradictory set of theories (if that’s even possible) concerning which mercury and gemini missions were real vs. faked, whether space shuttles exist, and whether roswell alien technology helped our hurt our space program. Besides which, powerful telescopes can actually see the Apollo landing craft left behind on the moon.
1 – That a balanced budget amendment is possible or will “fix” everything even if it’s passed. Related outlandish economic theories include the need to go back on “the gold standard”; demolish the federal reserve; or that deficits don’t matter and you can print money endlessly without consequences.
I’m just saying – these are the rumors I don’t buy into.
