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Showing posts with label Hoaxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hoaxes. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Operation Hammerstrike 2010:
Videos

4/01/2010 06:14:00 PM , 0 comments

**UPDATE** Thank you all for going along with the April Fools Day prank. I (Bobby) decided to stop after people started calling in reports of strange military activity in the area. IT may be a while before I do another one.

 

Photo: B2 Spirit over Franklin, NC Credit: Bobby Coggins









Earlier today, I posted a video and continued to tweet throughout the day, the progress of the military operation in western North Carolina.


Here are the videos that I have not had the chance to embed:






























Here are the tweets relating to the exercise I posted in reverse chronological order:








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ThunderPig: Video of a V-22 flying very low over Macon County rendering right now. Should be ready in half an hour. #hammerstrike2010
about 15 hours ago from web · Reply · View Tweet


That was the extent of material I posted today to further the April Fool's Day Prank "Operation Hammerstrike 2010". 


None of it happened. I swiped the video from youtube, edited and repurposed it to serve the prank. I did a couple of photoshops on images I found online and married them to recent photos I took around the area for the project.


The goal of the prank was to see if i could make up a story out of whole cloth and get away with it. Maybe I have. You can judge for yourself whether i did that or not.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Today Is Blog Action Day – Blog About Global Warming
My Contribution

10/15/2009 09:16:00 AM , , , , 2 comments

GTemps480 Pictures, Images and Photos




Today is the day in which multitudes of Lefty bloggers will be blogging their little hearts out about how mankind is destroying the earth and is changing the global weather patterns and causing the earth to heat up.


I here to tell you that human-caused Global Warming is a hoax. Just as Lefties were wrong and cried and screamed and warned us of the dangers of the coming Ice Age back in the 70's, they are wrong now. They are taking advantage of the way temperatures trend during warming and cooling cycles.


The earth has been warmer than it is now, and life thrived...even with more carbon dioxide in the air than we have now. As recently as the year AD 1000, Greenland was warm enough to produce grapes for making wine. When the next cooling cycle came, the Vikings had to abandon their vineyards and flee.


The earth has also been colder than it is now, with Ice Ages galore, including the Little Ice of the 17th Century and a smaller cold cycle from the 1940's to the 1970's. We are even in one now...global temperatures have been in decline since 1998 [source 1] [source 2], and will likely continue declining for the next two or three decades....so don't sell off your cold weather gear just yet, you might be needing them sooner than you think!


You can find out more about the lies that Lefties and Enviros have been telling us by visiting the following websites:


Watt's Up With That?  


Al Fin (climate cycles keyword search)


Tom Nelson has an excellent blog where he links to zillions of articles


Global Warming Hoax News


WHNO News Feed


I've uploaded a few videos mocking the concept of human-caused Global Warming over the past couple of years, and here are a couple, complete with green borders to show you that I, too, care about the earth:











An Earth Day Celebration












July 18, 2007

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Bigger than a Catamount? No, It's a Hoax

6/09/2008 04:07:00 PM 0 comments

It must be something in the air that brings the spring panther hoax to western North Carolina.

There is nothing I love more than doing away with hoaxes like this, and purported UFO sightings, chemtrails, 9/11 conspiracy theories, Bigfoot sightings, and of course, my favorite...ghosts. I have found no evidence to support any of the above.



This is from my inbox:





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Look at what James Snipe hit with his car on US-64 
west of Cashiers in Jackson County . 
The panther was still alive but unable to move, 
so our neighbor called animal control and they came 
and put him down. A land owner had seen this one a 
week before dragging off a 320 lb steer.

Our neighbor is an amateur taxidermist and he's 
going to stuff him. This one weighed 260 lbs. 
while most mature male panthers weigh 80 to 150 lbs. 
We had no idea they still roamed around here!
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Here are the two photos that were attached:




And here was my answer:


It's a hoax story.

Snopes.

More details on this discussion board.

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