4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Best protest: UVA students hold blank pieces of paper at the September 6 UVA-University of Richmond game to demonstrate their disapproval of the athletic department's ban on signs.
Rowdiest: Football fans who urinated on and trashed the Lawn and Range August 30 at the USC game, leading UVA to ban tailgating in the Academical Village for the September 6 game. Brian McNeill has the story in the Daily Progress.
Least amused: Four Chi Phi pledges– Jordan Vinsant Davis of Midlothian, Gabriel Rust-Tierney of Washington, Joseph Uzcategui of Rye, New York, and Chase Wagner Whitlow of Sterling– are charged with kidnaping a man who was walking along Rugby Road late April 12 or early April 13. The UVA students allegedly threw the man in the back of a car, bound his hands and feet with packing tape, robbed him, and dumped him in Crozet in what Charlottesville Police Captain Bryant Bibb tells the Cavalier Daily that the suspects likely would see as a prank, but that the victim and police see as assault and kidnapping. The four 19-year-olds, who are still enrolled at UVA, go to court October 23.
Worst hack job: Seventeen counts of child porn possession against Walter David Gregory Jr. are dropped after it's revealed that his wife, Lisa Gregory, found the pix on his computer with the help of a sex offender, Eric Gray, according to a Progress report.
Biggest conundrum: Albemarle County high school students ace the SAT state and national averages, according to a release, but four of its five middle schools fail to pass the Adequate Yearly Progress Act numbers– according to another release.
Biggest drop in business: The visitors center on Route 20 has seen 90 percent fewer tourists over the past year, plunging from 10,058 in August 2007 to 998 this past August, according to the Progress, while the new office in the transit center on the Downtown Mall has seen a 74 percent increase in visitors. The Charlottesville-Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau's executive board recommends the the Route 20 facility be closed.
Most energy efficient: Over the past five to eight years, UVA has added 150 students a year and constructed several buildings– without increasing its energy use, UVA architect David J. Neuman tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Most presidential-candidate visits: Senator Barack Obama hits Lebanon in southwest Virginia September 9, and Senator John McGain and Governor Sarah Palin are in Fairfax September 10. And Senator Joe Biden hangs in Virginia Beach September 4.
Highest speed chase: Staunton resident and alleged habitual offender Michael Toney, 37, hits 100 mph on I-64 September 5 before crashing his Ford Explorer into two cars and a bus on Roosevelt Brown Boulevard in Charlottesville, the Progress reports.
Hottest study: UVA's sexpert from psych medicine, Dr. Anita Clayton, is running a study to see whether Libigel boosts women's libido.
Ickiest alleged affair: Staunton school bus driver Paula Tomlin, 37, faces seven charges for having sex with a 16-year-old friend of her son, NBC29 reports.
Best time to dump hazardous waste: September 20 at the Ivy Material Utilization Center. Other upcoming special (free) dump days: Furniture and mattresses September 27, appliances October 4 and tires October 11.
Best déjà vu: The Virginia Film Fest broadcasts Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio play October 30– the 70th anniversary of it terrorizing the nation– at McCormick Observatory, where locals fled in 1938 to check the skies for invading spacecraft.
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Never mind that they're putting hazardous waste, otherwise known as hydroflourosilicic acid consisting of not only deadly brain-eating fluoride but also arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, and my favorite of them all, polonium 220! Maybe that's why I'm such a healthy guy - I grew up on the stuff. Yep, a lot of kids today are growing up on toxic waste. It makes me downright angry, and it ought to make everyone downright angry. Problem is, it's so horrible that many folks are deeply invested in the lie that it's safe at low levels and it's good for your teeth. The reality that a tiny minority in the shadow government has used sodium fluoride (and toxic waste) to dominate a huge majority of people in America since 1947 by putting it in the water they drink and telling them its good for their teeth. They seek to turn "us" into a subspecies of human, and it could be argued that they have through the degradation of our DNA through deliberate poisoning with things like mercury, lead, all of the toxic crap in chemtrails, radiation (google "ringworm children"), food additives, genetic modification, microwaves, etc. etc. You think they use/drink/eat/allow their children to be exposed to any of that? No. They know better. They have developed twenty first century propaganda so sophisticated that they can actually get many of you to support Barack Obama for President. That's serious, folks. When John Rockefeller amassed his corruptly obtained fortune, he didn't spend it on big mansions and boats and didn't drink alcohol at all. He invested his money into research, he sought out the smartest psychologists and scholars and told them he (and the other tiny minority of super-dominant, super-coldblooded moguls, royalty and black nobility he colluded with to maximize profit and security) wanted a scientific technocracy in which the subclass of humans will never be able to resist, where they would dominate every facet of our lives. And then they would be able to exterminate everyone but them and have the whole world to themselves. Some of them even want to destroy themselves for the sake of the world. And others would destroy the whole world if they could. And as horrible as it is, the toxic waste being added to Charlottesville's water supply is only the tip of the iceberg. Look into the facts, folks. It's important to get informed so that you can warn other people not to drink the fluoride and teach them about how to resist the sophisticated propaganda that they use to brainwash you. Here's a good website to use as a reference point, and don't be afraid to listen to the Alex Jones Show while you're there: www.infowars.com
DON'T DRINK TEA, IT'S GOT LOADS OF ALUMINUM FLUORIDE WHICH WILL EAT HOLES IN YOUR BRAIN! IF YOU HAVE AMALGAM FILLINGS IN YOUR TEETH, GET THEM REPLACED WITH COMPOSITES, OR THE MERCURY WILL LEACH OUT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DRINK YOUR TEA, AND EAT HOLES IN YOUR BRAIN! BUT BE CAREFUL AND MAKE SURE YOUR DENTIST KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING SO THAT YOU DON'T END UP HAVING EVEN MORE HOLES IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU BREATHE MERCURY VAPORS FROM THE DRILLING INTO THE AMALGAM! YIKES! IT'S AMAZING HOW LITTLE A BRAIN I MUST HAVE LEFT, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING HOW LITTLE A BRAIN I MUST HAVE HAD TO START OUT WITH. AND STILL, I'M NOT FOOLED BY THEIR PROPAGANDA! IT'S ALL PROPAGANDA!
Skeptics debate 9/11 events
Rachel Meador
Daily Texan
September 11, 2008
Sept. 11 conspiracy theories are widespread — some seemingly outrageous, others eerie and perhaps persuasive.
The U.S. government knew it would happen.
The U.S. government planned for it to happen.
The trade centers were rigged with demolition explosives. American Airlines flight 77 never actually hit the Pentagon. The planes that struck the Twin Towers and the
Pentagon were remote-controlled. The U.S. issued visas to the hijackers, despite warnings that they were terrorists.
Rallied around the 9/11 Truth Movement, celebrities, ex-CIA members, scientists and victims’ families continue to ask questions and seek justice.
“It’s incredible the totality of evidence we have on our side,” said Harlan Dietrich, co-owner of Brave New Books, a store on the Drag dedicated to suppressed information and open discussion. “We don’t have all the answers, but we’re trying to ask the questions.”
UT associate history professor Mark Lawrence said an argument can be made that attacks have been staged in American history, but he considers it irresponsible to say that Sept. 11 falls in that category.
“You can look at cases like the Gulf of Tonkin, and you can argue that they were set off by small incidents that were to some degree provoked by the United States, but that’s not the same as a terrorist attack,” Lawrence said. “There’s a point there, but they use it too loosely. The difference is so significant that the generalization doesn’t hold.”
Although anything is possible, Lawrence said, declaring Sept. 11 an inside job gives too much credit to the government and policymakers for pulling all the strings. He considers the attacks and the aftermath a record of jaw-dropping incompetence and lack of foresight and forethought, not of deviousness or cleverness.
Evidence that Dietrich and others point to ranges from pools of molten metal outside the Trade Center that theorists say could not have formed from a plane crash to how impossibly fast the buildings fell. The ever-growing list of evidence can be overwhelming, confusing and misleading, and advocates of the Truth Movement want to help people distinguish between fact and speculation.
“Believe me, I don’t want this to be true, but I can’t keep drinking the Kool-Aid. I can’t keep going along with the Hollywood story,” Dietrich said. “If we’re going to give up the way we live as Americans, we need to understand.”
Internationally recognized documentary filmmaker and radio host Alex Jones is a prominent member of the group and a firm believer that Sept. 11 was an inside job. He said the facts of history combined with the solid evidence that the attacks were staged are irrefutable.
“We are not making this up. This is really happening,” Jones said. “These people are not playing games, and I do not take it lightly going up against them. I am doing it because I am a person who stands up for liberty and justice, and I am honored to do it.”
Although Jones draws criticism for his outspokenness, many of his interviews have become a topic for mainstream media. Jones said he continuously receives letters accusing him of exaggerating, but plays things down because people just find the whole truth too hard to believe.
“Do not believe Alex Jones, but do not believe George Bush or Barack Obama,” Jones said. “I beg my fellow country-women and men to do the research. It’s more scary to let this continue unless we face it.”
Biggest drop in business-
10058-998 is not 90 percent less.
The Chi Phi "kidnapping" wasn't a random guy walking down rugby, it was another brother at Chi Phi. Not to say this justifies it but it sounds a lot worse if you say they saw a kid walking down rugby and threw him in a van.