-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991205a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No NASA spacecraft were cannibalized for parts to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Idol of Fombum: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/fombum.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DOMINION - Crucified gorilla painting yanked from show. While the work gets criticized & vandalized, the artist defends the piece. The painting symbolizes man's inhumanity to animals and Earth, she says. Crucify her too: http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/1203tsw4nmcrucify.htm : What's your favorite religious art? Do you worship art depicting tortured entities? Who would you rather see crucified: humans, animals, aliens, me, cartoon characters, politicos, performers, preachers, potentates? D'ya want them clothed, nude, gore-smeared, tarred/feathered, painted, gilded, burnt? How do you react to such images? Do you join angry mobs attacking'em? Why? # Out of Africa: from simple squares to fractals, African craft and art traditions show stunning, complex designs: http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/11_27_99/mathland.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A deafening silence from the Mars Polar Lander. (BBC) US space scientists have once again failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander, raising fears that their multi-million dollar mission may have ended in failure. Bother: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_550000/550600.stm : Did ETs hijack the Polar Lander for spare parts? Did they need the solar panels, the semiconductors, the rare metals? Have ETs stolen your hubcaps? # No word from Mars, now what? NASA tries to spin the disaster: http://www.space.com/space/jpl_mars_pressconference_991205.html # Silence from Mars: Polar Lander Teams Hunker Down for Long Wait: http://www.space.com/space/technology/mars_probes_991205.html # Beltway Holds its Breath and its Opinions about Mars Mission: http://www.space.com/space/beltway_mars_991203.html # NASA Tests to See If Mars Polar Lander Survived- Here we go again! http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters19991204_1052.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cave fossils expose new mysteries of paradise lost. FOSSIL evidence found on cliffs near several Oz beaches reveals a tropical paradise existed in NSW as late as 6000 years ago - a blink-of-an-eye in geological terms. The findings suggest answers to many historical mysteries. Dramatic change in sea levels & climate could explain why ancient Egyptians stopped building pyramids, why the Bronze Age came to an abrupt halt, why the Dark Ages began, why social collapse occurred wherever civilisations were beginning to emerge. http://news.com.au/news_content/national_content/4401871.htm : When humans achieve total control of Earth's weather, will social/historic boom-bust cycles stop? Will we achieve Nirvana? Will we be as gods? Will we get fat'n'lazy? Will aliens easily harvest us? Are aliens leaking weather- control technology to us so that all this may happen? Should we resist? How? # The brain has no center for intelligence, which has neither focus nor locus. Like the other higher faculties, it is everywhere and nowhere: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/04/spectrum/spectrum4.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CANDIDATE? WE AIN'T FOUND NO STINKIN' CANDIDATE. It's bad enough that most voters don't vote. In 1998 the turnout was 36 percent, along with 1986 the lowest since 1942, when a lot of Americans were away fighting a war. But now most Murkans won't even respond to opinion polls. The response in some recent polls fell as low as 20%. Makes you wonder what significance these surveys have. http://capitolhillblue.com/Dec1999/120599/voters120599.htm : Do citizens in a democratic republic get the govt they deserve? Would you prefer monarchy, syndicalism, theocracy, kleptocracy, anarchy, rule by ETs? Has The Conspiracy successfully alienated US voters? Are they gloating? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NOTHING'S SACRED? BABY JESUS STOLEN FROM MANGER. "The missing Baby Jesus is described as being a newborn male, 12 inches long, with a socket in his back. He is made of plastic." Please be on the lookout. Is Charleston such a hotbed of yidnapping? http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/1999120121/ : How many footlong plastic newborn males with back-sockets are missing in your town? Are they hard to track down? Do Satanists torture them in ritual abuse? Do you? Has a plastic baby Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, Joseph Smith been snatched in your community lately? Are they held for ransom? D'ya pay? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wishbone and Santa help with dog's return. Bosley, a 12-year-old deaf Springer spaniel, didn't return home after a romp in the woods. Days went by and it looked bleak for the dog's owners. But two little girls yanked a wishbone for Bosley and reported his loss to Santa. Thirteen days later he was found, although with some buckshot in him. Says dad: "Wishing on the wishbone brought him back. We're lucky he's here." Amen to that: www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/338/metro/Dog_long_gone_finds_his_way_home-.shtml : What's your favorite ritual for the return of last dogs/cats/kids/otters? Do you pray to Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Great Pumpkin, the Goddess of Love, aliens, robots, me? Do you desecrate a bird's anatomy as an offering? # It's not easy for a large, clumsy Midwesterner with a large clumsy name to sell his script idea to TV: a talking rat who smokes a cigar: http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/991129/dreams.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BIGFOOT. Bigfoot learned to disguise himself as a weiner-dog in the late 1970's, and then as a wild chicken. Then bigfoot was run over and discovered the road-kill disguise. And, using this disguise, he travelled undetected throughout North America during the 1980's. ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/bigfoot/part1 ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/bigfoot/part2 : Are you a disguised bigfoot? Do you hide much? Do you hang out with yetis? Do you smell bad? Do you have a TV talkshow, a website, a lawyer, a guru?? # Govt Moves to Coverup Solar Anomaly- Details pouring in! Images confirmed on NASA server! 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