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Wednesday, April 12, 2000 02:14 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000412c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No Wiccans were stalked during the production of this bulletin. I hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Elian!! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/20000411/flbw130 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wormholes take on new dimension. (BBC) New calculations suggest that worm- holes large/stable enough to allow intergalactic travel really can exist. Engage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_710000/710812.stm # Star trekking - Voyages across the Universe have come light years closer. Shortcut to anywhen: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns223420 @ SpaceTime Wrinkles http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html @ SpcTime Splashes: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Apps/GenRel/SC93/HOME_sc93.html @ Numerical Relativity Exhibitions: http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Exhibits/ @ Salvaging/reviving old stories, tying together science & human predicament http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/09/stibooboo01009.html : How many aliens have zipped through wormholes to get to Earth? All of'em? Are any aliens/humans/deities/demons precluded from traveling via wormhole? Once pesky humans learn to use'em, will we clutter-up the universe? When?? # Supersonic Transports Could Be Powered By Coal. To allow jet planes to fly faster/safer/cleaner, scientists are looking to coal, not petroleum, as a source of fuel. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410084650.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Get Me to a Nunnery, PornStar Sez. ROME. One of Italy's most famous porn stars said she's had enough of the hard life and was taking a spiritual retreat in a convent. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-pornstar # Court: 'Gays' are sick - Backs Catholic view of homosexuality as illness: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/12/timfgneur01008.html # The Sex Drive of Long Distance Runners. Sex on eve of a big race is good for marathon running: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-sex # Work Harder In Bed: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-divorce @ Did Charlie Chaplin Jr. really show Marilyn Monroe how to masturbate? Did DiMaggio beat her? Did the CIA believe she once slept with Lassie? Really? http://www.observer.com/cgi-win/homepage.exe?nyo1/b1040300 : What do you & your belief system believe/know/think/fantasize about human sexuality? Is human sexuality more/same/less complicated than your dogma? Do you think about sex a lot? Do you try not to? Do voices in your head insist? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Seattle II' gears up in DC - Thousands gather to protest World Bank, IMF: http://shns.scripps.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=IMF-PROTESTS-04-11-00&cat=AN # A16/DC guerrilla gardening info pack: http://ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04072.html # A16 Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Update www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04078.html # Protests vs. IMF,World Bank. Protesters to use human chains, other Seattle tactics to obstruct sessions, but cops have studied tapes of the Seattle demos: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565626865-530 # FAIR: Media Distortion of DC Protests Starts Early - believe half that you see, nothing you hear: http://news.tao.ca/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/0146213 # DC cops "stocking up on fresh tear gas and rubber bullets" - getting ready to party hearty, eh? http://news.tao.ca/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/0011204 : Have you disrupted any economic/political systems lately? Have the systems disrupted you? Who/what is most disruptive? Is disruption normal? Is exist- ence a series of disruptions interrupted by more disruptions? Are you happy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # People with AIDS illnesses more prone to memory loss - NSA engineered HIV virus to attack human brain: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9659774 # Solar Flares Affects ECTV Producer's Memory - UFOlogy provocateur becomes brain-dead: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0411solar.htm # MEMORY PILL for elderly (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9660914 @ "The finitude of human life is a blessing," intone bioethicists. Part of a potent new pro-death lobby: http://www.reason.com/opeds/forbes/041700.html # SOUL CATCHER - BigMicro Watching: http://www.parascope.com/en/slacker.htm # Ghosts, computers, and Chinese Whispers - "CLICK HERE to upload your soul" If any. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/writing/PCW/upload.htm # Wired: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_708000/708048.stm # Lo-Power Radio: http://salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/11/radio/print.html # The 2000-yr-old computer: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal040702.html # Basic Mind-Control - How-To: http://www.geocities.com/wtmick/basichow.htm : Are you intrinsically connected to other people;the universal unconscious; your memories; space-time; machines? Where would you like to send your soul, if any? Would it be rejected and sent back? Would that rilly bum you out?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wicca-Hater With Dagger Guilty of Interstate Stalking. (Reuters) A man armed with a dagger who hitchhiked across the United States in search of a death duel with members of the Wiccan faith was convicted on interstate stalking charges: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-hitchhiker # GOOD CATHOLIC/BAD CATHOLIC: A former altar boy (and lapsed Catholic) reveals what stopped him from attending Mass after 19 years of perfect attendance. The Grateful Dead and pretty girls were just starters: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0015/features-seely.shtml # Mission to seek lost Persian army in Egypt desert. CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists head into Egypt's Western Desert next month to try to solve an ancient mystery - the fate of the lost Persian army of Cambyses. Abducted? http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000411_2173.html : Are/were you on a holy mission? Was it canceled? Who plans/controls holy missions? Have you stalked any human/aliens/spirits lately? Did you get'em?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracies'R'Us: # FAMILIES DEMAND RELEASE OF MATERIALS ON COLUMBINE SHOOTINGS. The families of two slain Columbine High School students have given the sheriff three days to release his final report on the shootings. Then they'll come out with guns blazing... http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/11/columbine.parents.ap/ # As Infamous Anniversaries of US Terrorism Loom, Nation Asks Why. WHY!?! Citizens and government to mark dates of Oklahoma City and Littleton tragedies. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20000412/t000034282.html # SOUTH POSTPONES RISING YET ANOTHER YEAR. HUNTSVILLE, AL -- For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, repre- sentatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again. http://theonion.com/onion3613/south_postpones.html # Bill Gates uses Ralph Reed to buy George W. Bush Jr. - affordable: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565621898-bf0 # US VICE PRESIDENT BACKS ANTI-CATHOLIC GAY EVENT IN ROME - Gore is Satanic tool: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49053 # Alleged rapist footballer Mark Chmura wanted to be GOP politico: http://www.jsonline.com/packer/news/apr00/1chmura12041100.asp # Holier-than-thou Chmura refused to meet with "sinner" Clinton: http://www.jsonline.com/packer/comm/apr00/baumcol12041100.asp @ Hillary Clinton has built her child-care policy on a curious -- and false -- theory of human development. Where do her ideas come from? Where are they going? Who's right? http://www.gladwell.com/2000_01_10_a_baby.htm # Jenny Craig drops Monica Lewinsky - too unwieldy to lug around any more: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565624313-e39 # Going to Pot. The Web is going to pot. Just ask the founder of iToke: a Web-based pot delivery service preparing to launch in Europe. If you think the concept is outrageous, wait until you hear the plans for world domination. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35496,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "There is no sin except stupidity." --Oscar Wilde * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Wednesday, April 12, 2000 11:36 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000412b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No code-breaker geeks were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Little Futurama People: http://www.quinnarama.com/futurama.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronaut believes there's life beyond Earth. A NASA astronaut who is the veteran of four space shuttle missions says his explorations of space have contributed to his belief that there is extraterrestrial life in the universe. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041201.html # PUBLIC IS READY TO HANDLE E.T. REALITY Fresh encouragement about the govt Acclimation Program of preparing the public for official acknowledgment of extraterrestrial contact. http://www.jps.net/drboylan/wlffrsh.htm @ LGM: http://space.com/spaceimagined/books/little_green_men_000323.html @ IS ETA CARINA GOD? Yeah sure, why not? http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/ # THE SUN SPEAR. Oh my gosh, I can't believe my eyes. Looking through the eyes of the SOHO spacecraft I just saw something spear the sun, right through it from north to south pole, or vice versa, stem to stern, slick as a whistle! Now what do I do with this? http://www.caus.org/os041200.htm : Have aliens manipulated/reprogrammed/attacked/penetrated your galaxy/star/ planet/brain lately? Have they conspired with your govt to cover-up damage/ contact/control? Do LGM (Little Green/Gray Men) buzz ominously in your head? Are the Grays and Greens battling for your heart/soul/mind/money? Who else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Making and breaking codes at US spy agency NSA. FORT MEADE: Some of the US govt's best weapons against terrorism wear eyeglasses held together with tape and sometimes forget to wear their shoes. They could be known as the Nerd Warriors of the National Security Agency,mathematical puzzle-solvers. Geeks'R'Us http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/apr/12/12042000ft.htm#A1 # Shadowy world of germ war. (UPI) - While the threat of an all-consuming nuclear exchange between superpowers has diminished in recent years, the grisly development of biological warfare remains a bustling cottage indus- try among rogue states. http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=78496 # Company running U.S. uranium operations facing serious money problems -- nukes not profitable any more -- US/Russia decommissioning treaty jeopard- ized --- subsidy needed? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9661987 : What's your favorite military technology? Are war.techs best neutralized/ suppressed by rendering them unprofitable? Is cyberwar cheaper, more cost- effective than physical warfare? Will all war be cyber in the future? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Did Looped Heart Shape Give Edge To Vertebrates? Asymmetrically swirling flow patterns and direction changes in heart cavities may be important for smooth, efficient heart action, enabling it to move blood through the body efficiently, especially with the increased demands of exercise. But bugs never get pumped-up, sweaty: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0412003.htm # Sweaters for Penguins: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9660139 # Mystery footprints said to be 500 million years old. A mystery footprint found by a fossil collector in Utah two decades ago is said to be 300 to 600 million years old. And he apparently wasn't alone in his discovery. Proof that there were previous civilizations on Earth, or visitors from another world? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041202.html : Are you better/bigger/badder than bugs? Then why are there so many of THEM and so few of YOU? How old are y'r footprints? How old are bugs' footprints? What conclusions are inescapable? Which aliens influenced your evolution?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The "Warning" To Take Place This Week. This is the week to watch the skies very closely. The info was bestowed upon me regarding the Third Secret Of Fatima states a time between April 8th and 16th is a day the sky will turn red. There is speculation it will be a near miss asteroid or comet. It may also occur as a direct hit from a CME. People around the world should take pause. Alert! http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0409warning.htm # Red Skies Already? www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0409skies.htm # Does the New Jersey Devil predict wars? Lurking in the wooded areas of the New Jersey Pinelands is a legendary creature that's been scaring residents since 1735 or even earlier. The Devil's first appearance dates back to the era when Native Americans populated the area and described its haunts as "the place of the dragon." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041102.html : Have you been warned by angels/aliens/demons/deities lately? Do their pre- dictions alter your behaviours/thoughts/spirit? Are the predictions/warnings manifested as atmospheric phenomena, tectonic activity, economic volatility? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dolly Creators Baa-aack Limited Human Cloning. (BBC) The scientists who created Dolly the sheep renew their call for the UK Govt to allow limited research into human cloning. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9665132 # Research: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_703000/703133.stm # Embryoes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_703000/703182.stm # Approve http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_699000/699627.stm # That cloning issue: Where is it headed? Despite a major breakthrough, scientists are still vexed over the moral issues of human cloning. Fretful: http://www.straitstimes.asia1.com/singapore/sin20_0411.html # New Details Of How Genes Are Transcribed - by single molecules of RNA polymerase: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000406091040.htm # Mouse Genes Same As Humans: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0412002.htm : Do you worry about clones? Do clones worry about you? Should/will clones hold confabs about the ethics of 'natural' reproduction? Does 'natural' just mean old, inefficient, obsolete? Will GM supermice inherit the world/galaxy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Knock, knock... Here's Satan! DEVIL WORSHIPPERS WILL BE AT YOUR DOOR SOON! NASHVILLE, TN If you think ordinary, Bible-thumping evangelists are pesky when they show up on y'r doorstep to share the gospel on a Saturday after- noon, just wait until you open your door to a gang of drug and sex-crazed Devil worshippers trying to sell you on the advantages of giving your life and soul to Satan! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1464.html # SKULL OF 14TH CENTURY ANTI-POPE STOLEN FROM SPANISH MUSEUM - cultists will ingest it: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49058 # Ugandan police seek cult leaders - rewards up to $1,300 offered: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565624700-e63 $ RAPTURE INSURANCE: http://www.ualr.edu/~ACMELBERG/rapture.html : Have any cultists/sectarians/religions/heretics/pollsters knocked at your door lately? Did they try to steal y'r artifacts/brain/virginity/future? Did they succeed? Are you bereft? Will you descend into decadence, degradation?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "In a world without hope, there would be no such thing as disappointment. Help stamp out hope.it's our only ho.damn, this isn't going to be as easy as I'd ho.crap.just stamp it out.Stamp it out NOW." -- http://SleazyTabloid.com * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Wednesday, April 12, 2000 09:48 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000412a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cheating hearts were lab-grown during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Nothing's obsolete: http://www.obsolete.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Are ETs and alien abductors... us? A UFOlogist has published an extensive theory of aliens who travel in parallel universe, and that may be "our own species of the future. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041101.html # Top scientist sez: SPACE ALIENS ARE STEALING OUR WOMEN & turning them into prostitutes! LAS VEGAS, NV -- Twisted aliens are running a shocking inter- planetary white-slavery ring, says a top UFOlogist, charging that the ETs routinely whisk female abductees off to far-flung planets & space stations to serve as hookers! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1457.html # Whither "Jane Doe's" UFO? A probable "UFO/ET abduction" case may prove to be too much evidence for Virginia Gov. Gilmore to ignore in his continued stonewalling of requests that he do his constitutional and statutory duty in repelling the "UFO invasion." http://www.caus.org/gc041200.htm : Have you encountered any ETs lately? Have they stolen your women/men/kids/ pets/money/land/sexuality/brain/inhibitions? D'ya have cause for a lawsuit? Can you successfully sue time-travelers?Do they already know what'll happen? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Damaged Nerves Heal Faster With Electricity - stick finger in socket for new brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410091145.htm # GROW YOUR OWN HEART? The future of cardiology -- growing hearts in labs? www.healthcentral.com/columnists/JoeFlower/JoeFlowerFullText.cfm?ID=31429 # MY HMO WON'T PAY FOR A NEW HEART ANYWAY, EVEN IF I GROW IT MYSELF. Gosh darn them: http://www.healthcentral.com/centers/onecenter.cfm?Center=Hmo # Study Of Rats' Brains Indicates Brain Continues To Grow After Puberty. A simple study of rat brains has added more substance to the idea that the adult brain is still a work in progress, even well after puberty. While overall size may not change, composition of nerve fibers in a key area does. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000406091914.htm : Have your bodily organs grown lately? D'ya prefer to grow organs in situ, in vivo, in utero, in labo? Has y'r brain grown after puberty? Is this good? Have you stimulated growth of your brain/heart/genitalia with electricity or drugs or prayer or vacuum pumps? Has your insurer reimbursed you? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LAST DAYS WARNINGS OF POPE JOHN PAUL. VATICAN CITY -- A document crafted in secret by Pope John Paul II and intended only for the eyes of his successor has surfaced in Rome. And it contains terrifying warnings of worldwide turbulence & bloodshed destined to occur in the coming days -- culminating in Armageddon! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1455.html @ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future @ All about 2000: From parties to predictions: http://www.cnn.com/2000 @ 21st cent. scenarios: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll $ ROCK PROPHECY -- The Hendrix/asteroid/Microsoft incident. A new religion, the original asteroid prediction of Jimi Hendrix triggered an avalanche of asteroid stories. Interpret history in ways that dominators are most concerned to obstruct and crush. The story reports Microsoft's connection with the end of civilization. Gates IS Satan: http://www.rockprophecy.com/ : What's your favorite prognostication? Does your belief system control/see the future? D'ya keep your knowledge secret or d'ya warn all humans who will heed you? Do those who ignore you deserve their dreadful fate? Does anyone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA & NCI To Develop Nano-Explorers For The Human Body. To treat symptoms of the common cold, most people take a gel capsule containing hundreds of granular pieces of medicine as a remedy for coughing, sneezing and a runny nose. Now, imagine ingesting a capsule of similar size, containing micro- scopic sensors to detect, diagnose & treat disease inside the human body. Li'l angels: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410092003.htm # Robots in rescue plan. US scientists are developing a new breed of robot to locate avalanche victims four times faster than conventional mountain rescue teams. They're developing an army of cockroach-sized mini robots that can scour the snow surface looking out for radio signals given off from transmitters sewn into modern ski jackets. Robo-bugs swarming on a mission: http://www.the-times.co.uk/interface/insight/story328.html : What's your favorite little robot? Are all robots satanic, possessed by demons? Are you? D'ya want robots swarming around inside/upon/near you, with their clicking & buzzing & coordination? Do they distract your inner voices? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # French anti-racist group sues Yahoo - charges firm hosts illegal auctions of Nazi-related stuff. France has strict laws against selling or display- ing anything that incites racism. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9663615 # Judge: historian a Holocaust denier. LONDON (AP) A judge branded historian David Irving as an anti-Semite racist and an apologist for Hitler, ruling an American scholar was justified in calling him a Holocaust denier. So THERE! http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565623669-1a9 # Swastikas Painted on Stadium: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9650457 # Chile bans 100 pro-Nazi visitors - international Nazi-congress - some face arrest: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565626949-d5e : Who's your fave Nazi? D'ya buy/sell/rent/borrow/steal Nazi paraphernalia? Is there a good market in Nazi stuff? What's y'r favorite defeated ideology? Should relics of all failed ideologies be collectable? Why d'ya love losers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Teletubby In Hot Water Again; Some Think Doll Says, 'Get a gun' -SAN DIEGO First, Tinky Winky was taking heat. Now, the kiddy character is accused of packing heat. The Teletubbies TV show figure, once characterized by Rev. Jerry Falwell as a gay role model, is again causing a stir because people say a talking version of the fuzzy purple figure is uttering gun threats. Bang: http://www.uniontrib.com/news/diversions/20000408-0010_1b8tinky.html # DEA Suicide: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565621048-4ad # NEW BOOK BLAMES JONBENET RAMSEY KILLING ON MOTHER. Detective Steve Thomas sez a panicky Patsy Ramsey strangled her daughter after the girl sustained an accidental, near-fatal head injury precipitated by the mother's anger over bed-wetting. http://CNN.com/2000/books/news/04/11/jonbenet.book.reut/ : Are you now, or have you ever been, programmed to kill? Do you kill when so ordered; instinctively; randomly;entertainingly? Have you killed yourself or others lately? Is killing the best/only way out of your dilemma? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Everyone should try their best to get in touch with their inner child. But don't expect your inner child to be perfect. It is in their flaws and imperfections that we find their individuality and beauty. My own inner child has attention deficit dis-- Hey! Star Trek is on!" -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding... |