-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991201a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 vampires or gargoyles were incinerated to produce this bulletin. Ick. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Viacom's media empire: http://www.cjr.org/year/99/6/planetv.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Drug-sniffing police dog dead. Beloved Max the German Shepherd succumbed to methamphetamine poisoning during a drug-training exercise. His partner, a deputy sheriff, will cremate Max and keep his ashes in an urn at his house. "I'll have him with me all the time," says the cop. More than he can say of his wife: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/18news11-30-99.htm : Has the War On Drugs needlessly cost the life of yet another innocent dog? Would Max be alive today if politicos and the media hadn't whipped up this anti-drug frenzy? How many more dogs will die before this madness is ended? # PLANT COMPOUND COULD TREAT DRUG ADDICTION. A compound taken from the root of an African shrub, called ibogaine, might have potential as a treatment for drug dependence, experts said in New York this month at a conference on the plant. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22610 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UPDATE Visitors Now & Forever - Part I, II, III & IV: No. I don't believe *in* UFO's. I believe UFO's. The difference is NOT that subtle. And what is there not to believe. Seriously: it crawls all over the written record, and yet collectively we continue to laugh inappropriately up our damp sleeves. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/visitors.htm : Do you laugh about UFOs, ETs? Do ETs laugh about you? Is your sleeve damp? Are theirs? Are 'supernatural' entities in human religions really aliens?? @ Biblioteca Arcana: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/ # Linux guts: http://www.byte.com/printableArticle?doc_id=BYT19991122S0002 @ The Gospel According to Acharya S: http://www.truthbeknown.com/gospel.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spam still a tasty, popular treat. (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES It's pink, square and slides out of its can with a mysterious gel-like substance. It's Spam, and it's what's for dinner. For all the Spam jokes out there, the cubic luncheon meat, like Elvis dolls and hula-hoops, has found a place in Americana. Oh yummy: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991201/odd-242 : Are leftover parts from humans 'harvested' by Reptiliods sold to Hormel & made into Spam? Are only Hispanics so processed? Is SpAm "SPanish AMerican"? # Genetically Modified Foods: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/gmdebate/ @ Empire: Rule the world: http://games.iafrica.com/index.htm?src_id=tmp0348 # Alternative to Nude Olympics: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991201/odd-39 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ VampaRama: # 'Vampire' Found Guilty in Murder. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A man who said he was a 2,000-year-old vampire who needs to drink human blood has been found guilty of second degree murder for slashing the throat of a San Francisco homeless woman and killing her. Restrained by crosses and garlic: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991201/07/odd-crime-vampire : Is vampirism an excuse for homicide? Have you vampirized anyone lately? Do you have especially long teeth? Are only stupid vampires captured by humans? @ Roman Churches Reaction to Vampyres - Initial reaction to the vampyre beliefs of the early Roman Catholic Church. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/vampyre/vampchurch.html @ The Croglin Grange Vampyre - Chilling bit of folklore from England about a re-animated human corpse which attacked a woman on 2 occasions. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/vampyre/cgrangevamp.html @ Psychic Vampyres - Non-traditional vampyres which feed off one's astral body, instead of their blood. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/vampyre/psivamp.html @ Mara Experiences - The Mara comes into your bedroom at night, sometimes to look, sometimes with a more sinister plan. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/mara.html : Are you vampiric, either figuratively or literally? D'ya suck blood, bile, lymph, other bodily fluids, energy, money, other resources? Are you strong? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # People Underestimate Damage to Oceans. MONTEREY, CA (Reuters) Most Murkans think healthy oceans are key to human survival, but far fewer realize that individuals, not industry, pose the biggest environmental threat to the seas: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991201/01/science-environment-oceans # Chico Mendes killer granted release. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - A judge has granted work release privileges to a man convicted of killing rain forest defender Chico Mendes. Mendes, an Amazon rubber tapper and union leader, gained international recognition for peacefully blocking loggers and ranchers from cutting down trees in the western Amazon state of Acre. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562339357-1d5 : Would you rather destroy oceans, rain forests, other environments? Which environmental activist would you most like to kill? Are environmental acti- vists all soulless Communist agents bent on interfering with your God-given duty to exploit all natural resources, regardless of cost? Are you blessed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-R-Us: # Y2K - Heat Fries Y2K Film Web Host. (WIRED) When the FBI came a-knocking, Wieger trembled. That was nothing compared to the attacks from the fringe when he pulled a Y2K spoof video from his servers. Worked up to a froth: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32772,00.html?tw=wn19991130 # Y2K - DRUG COMPANIES ARE STOCKPILING MORE DRUGS IN CASE OF Y2K PANIC http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22704 # Y2K Fuel Shortages 'Improbable' - panic over feared shortages 'likely'. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32777,00.html?tw=wn19991130 # Y2K - 'National Emergency' Planned? 'Martial Law' Signs Being Readied? http://www.sightings.com/politics5/mlaw.htm # Y2K - Clinton Set To Declare National Emergency - 50+ Crises Expected www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991129_xex_clinton_set_.shtmlm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "There's guv'mint agents ev'rywhere The NSA reads all your mail So wrap yourself up in alum'nin foil To make all their 'lectric probes fail They're putting chips in ev'rybody They'll stamp a bar code on your ass The New World Order is coming So top your walls with broken glass" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs4c.htm#nwoo * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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