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	<description>No really, I read lots of odd books</description>
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		<title>Comment on 1996 by Gloria Naylor by anitadalton</title>
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		<dc:creator>anitadalton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeffrey, I can see your point because in what you say above, your perspective that this could serve as a text about government power and racial relations in the USA is not a smokescreen, a weaselish way to avoid the brier that can stick you if you say Naylor suffered a complete break from reality.  As long as it is seen as a statement about race relations and power and not an account of them, I think I&#039;m okay.  But in too many of the discussions I saw of this book, shocked academicians just waffled, refusing to state the obvious, that even National Book Award winners can come unhinged in completely distasteful ways and it annoyed me.  

I can barely bring myself to read the news anymore because of poll reports.  In fact, I had to kill my Facebook account because if another person I had known from high school who seemed to have a functioning mind back then yet now lost their mind over Obama&#039;s birth certificate or freaked out about how the government is gonna put an RFID chip in their taints as the Mark of the Beast, I was gonna end up on the evening news somehow.  And not in a heartwarming, &quot;This woman has 9 cats and they warble the National Anthem, aren&#039;t they cute&quot; sort of way.  The stupid really does burn.  We live in such paranoid times that I am sure many people will think 1996 and similar tomes are real time documentaries.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeffrey, I can see your point because in what you say above, your perspective that this could serve as a text about government power and racial relations in the USA is not a smokescreen, a weaselish way to avoid the brier that can stick you if you say Naylor suffered a complete break from reality.  As long as it is seen as a statement about race relations and power and not an account of them, I think I&#8217;m okay.  But in too many of the discussions I saw of this book, shocked academicians just waffled, refusing to state the obvious, that even National Book Award winners can come unhinged in completely distasteful ways and it annoyed me.  </p>
<p>I can barely bring myself to read the news anymore because of poll reports.  In fact, I had to kill my Facebook account because if another person I had known from high school who seemed to have a functioning mind back then yet now lost their mind over Obama&#8217;s birth certificate or freaked out about how the government is gonna put an RFID chip in their taints as the Mark of the Beast, I was gonna end up on the evening news somehow.  And not in a heartwarming, &#8220;This woman has 9 cats and they warble the National Anthem, aren&#8217;t they cute&#8221; sort of way.  The stupid really does burn.  We live in such paranoid times that I am sure many people will think 1996 and similar tomes are real time documentaries.</p>
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		<title>Comment on 1996 by Gloria Naylor by jas</title>
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		<dc:creator>jas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking as a scholar who routinely trades in serious bullshit, might not both readings of this book be true?  She&#039;s clearly nuts and most of the stuff that she thinks happened to her probably didn&#039;t---but that doesn&#039;t necessarily mean the book is NOT an interesting statement about race, power, paranoia, etc.

After all, Ms. Naylor--delusional though she may be (or may have been)--does share a country where increasing numbers of idiots think the President is Muslim and born in Kenya. Who&#039;s crazier?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking as a scholar who routinely trades in serious bullshit, might not both readings of this book be true?  She&#8217;s clearly nuts and most of the stuff that she thinks happened to her probably didn&#8217;t&#8212;but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the book is NOT an interesting statement about race, power, paranoia, etc.</p>
<p>After all, Ms. Naylor&#8211;delusional though she may be (or may have been)&#8211;does share a country where increasing numbers of idiots think the President is Muslim and born in Kenya. Who&#8217;s crazier?</p>
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		<title>Comment on 1996 by Gloria Naylor by anitadalton</title>
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		<dc:creator>anitadalton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I still don&#039;t entirely understand what the person who has experienced this terrible ironing over means happened to his shirts.  I&#039;ve read it several times and just don&#039;t get it.

Hoo boy, I have not heard of Duncan and Blake.  I can see a new rabbit hole opening up before me.  Like you, I can see a sort of low-level gang stalking happening when a religious group sees someone they fear will harm their cult.  Looking away so I can work on more reviews but I see some serious online reading in my future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still don&#8217;t entirely understand what the person who has experienced this terrible ironing over means happened to his shirts.  I&#8217;ve read it several times and just don&#8217;t get it.</p>
<p>Hoo boy, I have not heard of Duncan and Blake.  I can see a new rabbit hole opening up before me.  Like you, I can see a sort of low-level gang stalking happening when a religious group sees someone they fear will harm their cult.  Looking away so I can work on more reviews but I see some serious online reading in my future.</p>
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		<title>Comment on 1996 by Gloria Naylor by Hils</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hils</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The evidence &quot;Ironing-Over of Button Hole and Button&quot; is very damming, though!
I haven&#039;t read a lot about sabotaging, but I remember being fascinated when the case of Duncan and Blake was being written about a lot. Scientology and sabotaging seem to be an actual possibility!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The evidence &#8220;Ironing-Over of Button Hole and Button&#8221; is very damming, though!<br />
I haven&#8217;t read a lot about sabotaging, but I remember being fascinated when the case of Duncan and Blake was being written about a lot. Scientology and sabotaging seem to be an actual possibility!</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Franklin Cover-Up by John W. DeCamp by anitadalton</title>
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		<dc:creator>anitadalton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tony, thanks for reading.  

One of the points of the book is that DeCamp insists children were molested, raped, kidnapped and murdered by people in power.  The book produces weak evidence to prove that assertion.  Moreover, if any of the eyewitness testimony in the book was used to take investigators to the scenes of where bones were ground to meal, where there were sex parties, then forensic evidence could have been gathered.  None was gathered so it&#039;s not like that evidence got suppressed - it never existed.  No attempt outside Johnny Gosch was made to link children eye witnesses saw being molested with children who were missing or killed.  All we have are a bunch of allegations by fragile witnesses or witnesses with an agenda (the fact that a DNA test was performed that proved Alisha Owen was lying about the paternity of her child, that the sheriff did not rape her into a pregnancy, was left out of the book entirely) and no attempt to perform routine investigations on the parts of even these weak allegations that could prove something tangible happened.

The evidence DeCamp gives does not lead me to believe the bulk of what he said happened, and therefore his assertion of a cover-up means little to me when I don&#039;t think &quot;those in control of the system, with immeasurable access&quot; had much to tamper with in the first place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tony, thanks for reading.  </p>
<p>One of the points of the book is that DeCamp insists children were molested, raped, kidnapped and murdered by people in power.  The book produces weak evidence to prove that assertion.  Moreover, if any of the eyewitness testimony in the book was used to take investigators to the scenes of where bones were ground to meal, where there were sex parties, then forensic evidence could have been gathered.  None was gathered so it&#8217;s not like that evidence got suppressed &#8211; it never existed.  No attempt outside Johnny Gosch was made to link children eye witnesses saw being molested with children who were missing or killed.  All we have are a bunch of allegations by fragile witnesses or witnesses with an agenda (the fact that a DNA test was performed that proved Alisha Owen was lying about the paternity of her child, that the sheriff did not rape her into a pregnancy, was left out of the book entirely) and no attempt to perform routine investigations on the parts of even these weak allegations that could prove something tangible happened.</p>
<p>The evidence DeCamp gives does not lead me to believe the bulk of what he said happened, and therefore his assertion of a cover-up means little to me when I don&#8217;t think &#8220;those in control of the system, with immeasurable access&#8221; had much to tamper with in the first place.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Franklin Cover-Up by John W. DeCamp by Tony</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think its funny this article tries to poke holes in a compendium of evidence by saying there is missing evidence here and there, when its seems to be that&#039;s the whole point of the book...those in control of the system, with immeasurable access, have tampered with the system itself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think its funny this article tries to poke holes in a compendium of evidence by saying there is missing evidence here and there, when its seems to be that&#8217;s the whole point of the book&#8230;those in control of the system, with immeasurable access, have tampered with the system itself.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Intermediate States, edited by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy by anitadalton</title>
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		<dc:creator>anitadalton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh man, elements of this sort of New Age Squick leave me full of rage.  It&#039;s irrational as there are so many other truly exploitative topics out there but there you are.  That having been said, I went on a couple of ghost hunts before I got kicked out of the group (I am sort of asocial and when one is tracking the wily dead, one must be livelier than me, evidently).  It was amazing - everyone heard a ghostly whisper every ten seconds or so (let us not discuss the squeeing over &quot;orbs&quot; caught on dig cams on a misty night).  I listened to my recordings and there were no EVPs - just a bunch of wacky people in graveyard freaking each other out.  True and nearly pointless story.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh man, elements of this sort of New Age Squick leave me full of rage.  It&#8217;s irrational as there are so many other truly exploitative topics out there but there you are.  That having been said, I went on a couple of ghost hunts before I got kicked out of the group (I am sort of asocial and when one is tracking the wily dead, one must be livelier than me, evidently).  It was amazing &#8211; everyone heard a ghostly whisper every ten seconds or so (let us not discuss the squeeing over &#8220;orbs&#8221; caught on dig cams on a misty night).  I listened to my recordings and there were no EVPs &#8211; just a bunch of wacky people in graveyard freaking each other out.  True and nearly pointless story.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Intermediate States, edited by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy by Jeffrey Sconce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sconce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For the origins of the whole &quot;Spiricom&quot; nonsense, check out Konstantin Raudive&#039;s book &quot;Breakthrough.&quot;  He started the whole mania for EVP (electronic voice phenomena) which even today leads stoned teenagers out to graveyards with their tape recorders.  Supposedly endorsed by the Pope!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the origins of the whole &#8220;Spiricom&#8221; nonsense, check out Konstantin Raudive&#8217;s book &#8220;Breakthrough.&#8221;  He started the whole mania for EVP (electronic voice phenomena) which even today leads stoned teenagers out to graveyards with their tape recorders.  Supposedly endorsed by the Pope!</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Carnivals of Life and Death by James Shelby Downard by anitadalton</title>
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		<dc:creator>anitadalton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the reverse happened to me.  As I get older the twisted shit seems less and less twisted to me.  Also, it just now occurred to me that I have at least one of your books on my wish list, which makes this officially a weird moment for me.  Possibly a meta moment.  But mostly weird.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the reverse happened to me.  As I get older the twisted shit seems less and less twisted to me.  Also, it just now occurred to me that I have at least one of your books on my wish list, which makes this officially a weird moment for me.  Possibly a meta moment.  But mostly weird.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad by anitadalton</title>
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		<dc:creator>anitadalton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, Joe.  I&#039;m muchly looking forward to reading your new book.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Joe.  I&#8217;m muchly looking forward to reading your new book.</p>
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