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Title: Retired NASA SpaceCraft Operator Witnessed Extraterrestrial in Space Shuttle Mission-This time its Clark C. McClelland, former ScO
Source: americanchronicle
URL Source: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/70032
Published: Aug 1, 2008
Author: Michael Salla
Post Date: 2008-08-01 07:22:42 by gengis gandhi
Keywords: None
Views: 2184
Comments: 47

Retired NASA SpaceCraft Operator Witnessed Extraterrestrial in Space Shuttle Mission Michael Salla

Dr. Michael Salla is an internationally recognized scholar in international politics, conflict resolution, US foreign policy and the new field of 'exopolitics'. He is author/editor of five books; and held academic appointments in the School of International Service& the Center for Global Peace, American University, Washington DC (1996-2004); the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96); and the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., (2002). He has a Ph.D in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has conducted research and fieldwork in the ethnic conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Sri Lanka, and organized peacemaking initiatives involving mid to high level participants from these conflicts.

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Michael Salla July 31, 2008 Clark McClelland is a retired Spacecraft Operator with NASA who during a 34 year career was responsible for ensuring the safety of numerous NASA missions including Mercury spaceflights, Apollo missions, the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. In a statement released on his website on July 29, 2008, McClelland revealed that he witnessed an eight to nine foot tall extraterrestrial in association with a Space Shuttle mission he was monitoring from the Kennedy Space Center. He wrote:

"I, Clark C. McClelland, former ScO [Spacecraft Operator], Space Shuttle Fleet, personally observed an 8 to 9 foot tall ET on his 27 inch video monitors while on duty in the Kennedy Space Center, Launch Control Center (LCC). The ET was standing upright in the Space Shuttle Payload Bay having a discussion with TWO tethered US NASA Astronauts! I also observed on my monitors, the spacecraft of the ET as it was in a stabilized, safe orbit to the rear of the Space Shuttle main engine pods. I observed this incident for about one minute and seven seconds. Plenty of time to memorize all that I was observing. IT WAS AN ET and Alien Star Ship!"

Furthermore, McClelland wrote that he was not the only NASA official who witnessed the incident: "A friend of mine later contacted me and said that this person had also observed an 8 to 9 foot tall ET INSIDE the SPACE SHUTTLE CREW COMPARTMENT! Yes, inside OUR Shuttle! BOTH missions were DoD (Pentagon) TOP SECRET (TS) encounters!'

McClelland's testimony is significant due to his impeccable credentials. His website has a number of documents he has released to the public confirming some among the long list of achievements and testimonials arising out of his long NASA career. His claims of directly having witnessed events involving extraterrestrial life and technology while at NASA are a primary source of testimonial evidence. McClelland's testimony can and should be used to initiate a Congressional investigation of extraterrestrial life. His statement is likely to lead to more serious attention by the scientific community to evidence of extraterrestrial life. What follows are some of the intriguing questions and conclusions arising from McClelland's statement.

Some of the immediate questions include: "how did the extraterrestrial communicate with the two tethered NASA astronauts from the Space Shuttle?" "Was the eight to nine foot tall extraterrestrial human looking?" And, "how many other NASA missions did McClelland directly witness evidence of extraterrestrials meeting with astronauts?" Also, "how long was the extraterrestrial inside the spacecraft according to his friend?"

A number of conclusions can also be drawn from McClelland's statement given his credibility as a primary witness for events that have occurred at NASA. First, his statement helps confirm the reality of extraterrestrial life and technologies, and that NASA has been secretly suppressing this information on national security grounds due to the Pentagon's involvement. This is consistent with recent analyses pointing to the Pentagon's role in getting NASA to suppress information on extraterrestrial artifacts discovered on the moon, Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system.

A second conclusion is that McClelland's testimony reveals that extraterrestrial vehicles and personnel are able to perform highly complex maneuvers in the vicinity of NASA spacecraft, and even perform docking maneuvers. This gives credence to whistleblower claims that NASA regularly sanitizes videos or photographs of any images involving extraterrestrial technologies or artifacts during space missions.

Finally, McClelland's testimony suggests that there is a high level of cooperation between at least one extraterrestrial civilization and NASA/Pentagon. It appears that extraterrestrials may even be giving assistance in some space missions where difficulties arise as may have occurred with the tethered astronauts. McClelland's statement helps confirm other whistleblower testimonies of secret agreements concerning extraterrestrial life and technology. These testimonies have led to a civil society initiative to begin the process of nullifying all secret agreements concerning extraterrestrial life and technology.

In conclusion, McClelland's statement will be very helpful in exposing NASA's handling of whistleblower and witness testimony of extraterrestrial life and technology associated with NASA missions. Together with the recent disclosure by former astronaut, Dr Edgar Mitchell over a government cover up of extraterrestrial life, there is strong reason to begin a Congressional inquiry into NASA's and the Pentagon's roles in covering up evidence of extraterrestrial life.


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i am going to tend to believe former shuttle operators, astronauts, etc, versus impotent disinfo shills posting status quo horseshit from their mother's basement while wearing their captain kirk pajamas. but, thats just ME....

Looks like disclosure is coming faster and faster.

Call your local belief system franchise, all you shiteating useless idiots, and get ready to hear what to be told to do.

and, since its not exactly in the bible, well, gee, that sorta makes the ole bible less reliable than the nyc phone book in terms of accurate information.

and dang, the government, the vatican, etc, would lie to us?

do you find that in all matters that you can handle with your tiny brain, they are liars, and corrupt liars that most of the public knows to be corrupt liars......but with stuff that won't match your cognitive, government/religiously installed map of a sesame street reality system....well, then they're telling the truth.....there are no ufos, those are weather balloons and seagulls...and you can trust them, because they have proven their trustworthiness via a litany of lies with a higher degree of consistency than the coming of the seasons....

oh, btw dumbasses, the fucking pope said its okay to believe in et's now, so you are once again, free to have your very own thoughts the others said you could. please, give all you can, for the children, secret bank accounts, whorish, gaudy pimped out buildings that look like they were designed by elvis' builder, and other important stuff, like victim compensation funds for altar boys who were raped by these super credible, holy men of god...

now, go watch some television and enjoy a drum of aspartame riddled goat piss, take your fucking prozac and turn on the View.

but...but....but.....how could god let this happen to us?

preacher will know....its because youre sinful.

actually, its not god.....its just that you're a fucking moron, pretty much.

"rotten wood cannot be carved"
confuscious, analects

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#7. To: gengis gandhi, christine, Wudidiz, TwentyTwelve, FormerLurker, Peppa, CadetD, all (#0)

It is interesting to watch and read the reactions.

The "Brookings Report" from 1960 predicted that many people would not be able to accomodate the reality of non-terrestrial entities because of cultural conditioning and belief systems. It does not fit in their world view and so is discarded because it conflicts with other things they believe to be true. This much like the NeoCons who cannot see evidence of 911 being an inside job because they know it can't be true and therefore it isn't.

One can observe similar reactions when people are presented with information which points to a much much earlier existence of anatomically modern man and advanced cultures. Again it conflicts with what they "know" to be true and therefore it is is discarded and derided.

Throw in the giggle factor since there has been considerable PsyOps to prevent thinking outside the approved box and you get people deriding things they "know are false" because it disagrees with what they currently believe as they have been conditioned to believe.

All in all an interesting subject and exploration.

P.S.: Of course we are not alone, and are likely one of the more primitive cultures in the region. Of course that won't compute for many either as it contradicts hard held misbeliefs.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-08-02   11:25:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Original_Intent (#7)

This post kind of explains why Scientology doesn't bother you.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   11:35:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: gengis gandhi, Original_Intent, all (#0)


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   11:49:49 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: gengis gandhi, Original_Intent, buckeye, all (#9)

I don't deny that there are other life forms in the universe or that Extraterrestrials have been or are here.

Of course I'll be much more convinced once I see one.

I've seen a couple of ghosts.


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   12:10:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: wudidiz (#10)

Wud, did the ghosts see you? Did they tell you anything important, if so?

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   12:17:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: wudidiz (#10)

Project U.F.O. aka Project Blue Book (TV series)

It could be real, Wud. Hollywood took time to turn it into a whole TV series.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   12:25:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: buckeye (#11)

I don't think the ghosts saw me. They weren't looking at me.

Once was about 20 years ago. I saw a semi-transparent, dark dog-like creature scurry across Yonge street in Toronto.

Another time a few years ago I saw a light grey, semi-transparent bat with a foot long wingspan appear out of a wall just below the ceiling and fly in almost slow motion from one end of the living room to the other and disappear through the other wall.

Yeah, that was weird.

Hard to get people to believe me, but it's true. I saw it.


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   12:25:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: wudidiz (#13)

Great stories, and no doubt you saw something.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   12:27:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: buckeye (#14)

The bat was very clear and vivid.

Unless I was hallucinating (cuz ya just never know), it was VERY real.

You actually got me to type a bit, eh?

:-)


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wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   12:34:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: wudidiz (#15)

I don't go from what you saw to believing in the contemporary presence of ETs in our Solar system, or to spirits of the dead visiting us in some kind of afterlife. The stories are still interesting, and don't detract in any way from rational discussion about our situation as human beings. There's a lot we don't know.

On the other hand, a lot of people have used these kinds of stories throughout the millennia to control others through fear and superstition. That bothers me a lot.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   12:40:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: buckeye (#16)

"The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know." - Unknown

"The first thing I know is that I know nothing." - I forget who said that one...


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   12:45:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: wudidiz (#17)

I have a better one:

Supposedly carved into the temple [of the Greek Oracle] were three phrases: [gnothi seauton = "know thyself") and [meden agan = "nothing in excess"]...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   12:50:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: buckeye, Original_Intent, TwentyTwelve (#18)


If you know your enemies
and know yourself, you will
not be imperiled in a hundred
battles... if you do not know
your enemies nor yourself,
you will be imperiled in every
single battle.


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   13:02:06 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: wudidiz (#19)

People who know themselves aren't in need of L. Ron Hubbard's phony clearing techniques.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   13:04:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: buckeye, Original_Intent, TwentyTwelve (#19)

..and my favorite;

"All I want to know is God's thoughts, the rest are details." ~ Einstein


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wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   13:04:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: buckeye (#20)

uh-oh...


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wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-02   13:07:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Old Friend (#4)

Dude they are lizards and they run everything. Even the post office. Ask Hounddog.

I won't ask for a link to me making such absurd statements.

You should stick to posting raw porn between your other fits of Christian hypocrisy.

A word of warning. If you wanna play games be prepared to lose.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-08-02   13:17:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: HOUNDDAWG (#23)

He's referring to your signature from a few days back. Most of us understood it to be sarcastic.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   13:18:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: buckeye (#24)

I know what he meant, and he's taking a shot for reasons which you know nothing about.

Thanks for translating, though.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-08-02   13:24:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: HOUNDDAWG (#23)

Dude they are lizards and they run everything. Even the post office. Ask Hounddog.

I won't ask for a link to me making such absurd statements.

You should stick to posting raw porn between your other fits of Christian hypocrisy.

A word of warning. If you wanna play games be prepared to lose.

Lol....I was joking can't you tell. You had a tagline that I suggested about lizards.

Can't you remember that far back?

Have you no sense of humor.

Old Friend  posted on  2008-08-02   13:36:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: HOUNDDAWG (#25)

I know what he meant, and he's taking a shot for reasons which you know nothing about.

Taking shots? lol

Actually I was just trying to make him laugh.

Old Friend  posted on  2008-08-02   13:37:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Old Friend, christine, Jethro Tull (#26)

Shouldn't you be at your website posting vile shit about christine and JT with your fellow jerkoffs?

Yesterday I made a point of avoiding an embarrassing post to you and PMed you instead, but apparently you didn't appreciate the gesture.

Don't post haughty comments to me and kiss my ass in PMs because I'll post them in the future.

Your PM from 5 minutes ago will remain confidential because you weren't yet warned. But, trust me, your PMs expose your character and you don't want that.

And, FYI the statement that "even the post office" is not humor. it's intended to make me sound like some fucking tin foil hat kook. You did this because you got your feelings hurt and now it's payback time? I don't do it to others and I don't allow mental midgets to make jokes at my expense.

Hey, I'll play.

But, don't forget. I know your secret.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-08-02   13:51:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: HOUNDDAWG (#28)

Grow up. Here is the PM I sent you

Why do you think I am taking shots at you?

I'm sorry I posted that pic. I thought it was funny. So did others.

I'm not perfect dude. Being a christian doesn't mean your perfect. I'm not even close.

There.

You have my motives wrong. I was joking around. I didn't want to make you out to be a tin foil hat guy. My feelings aren't hurt.

I didn't mean to hurt yours. If the joke about lizards and the post office hurt your feelings. Then i'm sorry, but that is pretty thin skinned.

As for making comments about Tull and Christine.

I have never made any bad comments about tull. I have about Christine and I apologized to her for it. Not you.

Old Friend  posted on  2008-08-02   14:01:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Old Friend (#29)

Maybe you should make a public apology.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-02   14:18:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: buckeye (#8) (Edited)

Argumentum Ad Hominem

Am I pushing your comfort level?

Does thinking outside the box scare you that much?

What specifically about my post do you disagree with and why?

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-08-03   2:25:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: wudidiz (#17)

"The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know." - Unknown

"The first thing I know is that I know nothing." - I forget who said that one...

Socrates.

Shortly before he was forced to commit public suicide, for challenging people to think, by drinking Hemlock.

However, it is a truism. The more I learn the more I am aware of what I don't know.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-08-03   2:30:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Original_Intent (#32)

Chemist who falls in acid will be tripping for weeks.

(Compliments of the Linux Fortune program.)


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-03   3:20:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Original_Intent (#32)

Socrates.

Shortly before he was forced to commit public suicide, for challenging people to think, by drinking Hemlock.

However, it is a truism. The more I learn the more I am aware of what I don't know.

So Socrates said "The first thing I know is that I know nothing." and "The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know." is a truism?


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-03   3:25:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Original_Intent (#32)

All I know is that I know nothing ...To show the different variations attributed to Socrates


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-03   3:33:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: gengis gandhi (#0)

I saw Santa Clause at a mall last December too.

Some people will believe anything.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2008-08-03   3:42:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Original_Intent (#7)

P.S.: Of course we are not alone, and are likely one of the more primitive cultures in the region.

I have never seen them. Until I do I will remain highly skeptical of their existence.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2008-08-03   3:48:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: RickyJ, Original_Intent, gengis ghandi, buckeye, TwentyTwelve, all (#37)

"What destroys me, strengthens me." ~ Ashley Alexandra (Youmans) Dupre


DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON THE BUS

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-03   4:10:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: wudidiz (#38)

Beauty and intelligence rarely go together.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2008-08-03   4:28:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Original_Intent (#31)

Am I pushing your comfort level?

Not in the least. Your proclivity to Scientology does make me skeptical about your other faculties of judgment, though. When we dwell on the subject of Alex Jones, for example, I remember that you're "tolerant" of L. Ron Hubbard's suckers.

Tolerant in this context brings to mind the ADL, but now that I know that you're an ET believer, I'm more apt to think of you as a Scientologist yourself.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-03   7:42:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: buckeye, Wudidiz (#40)

Translation: You are trying to manufacture a point on which to attack and will not address the substance of my post nor what you find objectionable about it.

You are relying on Argumentum Ad Hominem and are trying to erect a Strawman Argument .

What so disturbs you about the concept that we are not the only intelligent life form in the universe (and very likely, approaching unity, not the most technologically advanced)?

What so disturbs you about the probability that anatomically modern man was in existence, possibly millenia based on the evidence, long prior to the current "mainstream" dogma of academic archaeology.

Thinking outside the box is a mind expanding experience. I feel sorry for those, such as yourself, who voluntarily wear blinders, feel threatened, and become antagonistic, when confronted with thoughts and concepts which do not agree with their prejudices.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-08-03   11:36:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: RickyJ, christine, flintlock (#36)

you truly are one of the stupidest niggers I have ever had the misfortune of running across.

That you can actually wake up in the morning and figure out where you ass is in relation to your brain is a feat that is worthy of note merely because of the huge, gaping, mental deficit you manage to heroically function beneath on a daily basis, with only a tube a vaseline, the bible, and your helper monkey.

on a related note, you dimly lit shiteating waste of carbon, this just came in.

now, get your fucking bible, make an appointment with your psychiatrist, and i would do that soon as the waiting list is going to be extended with your fellow loons coming home to roost in the spreading branches of the tree of reality.

i will below, picking you off like the vermin you truly are with a scoped .223.

this is from world net daily, now....please, for the sake of humanity, stop breeding.

and no, god doesn't give a fuck what your preacher says, or what you think.

WND THE FINAL FRONTIER 'Provocative' Mars data shows 'potential for life' White House alerted by NASA of major announcement soon Posted: August 02, 2008 7:10 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Soil-sampling trench dug by Phoenix lander Soil-sampling trench dug by Phoenix lander

This week's confirmation by NASA that the Phoenix lander had confirmed the presence of water ice on Mars was just the tip of the iceberg.

Sources say other "provocative" and "complex" data, not disclosed in Thursday's announcement and not yet discussed openly by NASA officials associated with the Phoenix program, show that the red planet has "potential for life."

So hush-hush have been the latest findings that NASA excluded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory science team for the wet-chemistry instrument that made the findings from the news conference to prevent them from being asked questions before an announcement is made, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported.

NASA has briefed the science adviser's office of the White House ahead of what is expected to be a mid-August announcement, although sources said the revelations may not be made public until September.

While the announcement of the confirmation of water's presence on Mars was widely reported, scientists were not surprised and had expected the result.

"They have discovered water on Mars for the third or fourth time," a senior Mars scientist told Aviation Week.

The Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer team, announced last month, following the first of four wet chemistry experiments, that Mars soil chemistry is "Earth-like" and capable of supporting life.

Now, following the second MECA soil test, NASA and the University of Arizona are making efforts to keep the findings from being made public until an official announcement is made.

(Story continues below)

Rather than the mere presence of water, scientists are looking for how water and the Martian soil behave together. This week, after two attempts, the Phoenix scoop successfully deposited a sample of soil and ice into the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, where it was heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit so the released gases can be evaluated. Analysis will take several weeks.

An earlier electrical short that threatened the TEGA experiments has resolved itself, William Boynton, TEGA principal investigator from the University of Arizona, said.

From the beginning, scientists working on the Phoenix project have said that neither the TEGA organic chemistry lab nor the MECA wet chemistry system would be able to detect the presence of life, either current or past, but two microscopes on the MECA analyzer can resolve features as small as 10 nanometers, sufficient to detect bacteria.

by Wotan's beard, your timing is in perfect synchronicity with your spectacular stupidity.....

say hello to santa for me when they drag you off, finally, to the nuthouse or TBN, which is a shade of gray so finely demarcated as to be indistinguishable.

Many believe in either intelligent design or evolution...but I am opting for unintelligent design, where god is a retarded kid who likes setting army men on fire and leaving his toys out in the rain.

Gengis Gandhi, Troubled Genius

We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!

On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore.

gengis gandhi  posted on  2008-08-03   12:00:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Original_Intent (#41)

You are relying on Argumentum Ad Hominem and are trying to erect a Strawman Argument .

I just knew you'd pull out your rhetorical encyclopedia! But I've got this:


New Dianetics advertisement from Anonymous Anonymous on Vimeo.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-03   12:03:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: buckeye, all (#43) (Edited)

Careful, your psychosis is showing. So, are you going to answer my questions or simply resort to more childish antics?

I named your tactic correctly and accurately, it was and is Argumentum Ad Hominem and the attempt to build up a Strawman Argument . That you were/are attempting to do so was absolutely clear to me from the first post.

You made an attack upon me, we both know that is what it was intended to be and was and that you were trying to manufacture some kind of issue. It ain't gonna work tovarisch.

Whatever twisted suppositions you have are just that - your twisted suppositions.

So, are you going to answer the questions or will you actually be honest and simply admit that your intention from the first post was to try to manufacture a Strawman Argument that arises from your fevered imagination?

We both know that you are avoiding my legitimate questions that were in response to your attack.

We both also know that your continuing to avoid them and divert from them simply demonstrates that your intent from the beginning, for whatever strange reason, was intended as a personal attack.

Don't ever take up Chess - you'll lose to any good pautzer.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-08-03   23:40:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Original_Intent (#44)

Careful, your psychosis is showing. So, are you going to answer my questions or simply resort to more childish antics?

Dr. Freud, I presume?

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-03   23:41:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: Original_Intent (#44)

I like this one:


2/10/08: Los Angeles, CA from Anonymous Anonymous on Vimeo.

buckeye  posted on  2008-08-03   23:46:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: buckeye, Original_Intent (#46)

I like this one:

What are you doing?

You could just answer the questions.


"Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is.
Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature.
Attractive because it promises true good." ~ Pascal

wudidiz  posted on  2008-08-04   0:04:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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