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Check out the new poll on the city police chief vs. the mayor!

Hey give us your opinion on the city police chief vs. the mayor issues on the polls to the right and let us know your opinion here.

Currently, the city police chief Allen Webster is suing Mayor Jim Ireton because Ireton "wrote up" the Chief four times for not complying with his order to cease investigating a missing video tape in the possession (allegedly) of Debbie Campbell (as Salsibury Turns).

Salisbury Police Chief Vs. Major Ireton

By WicBury Crapper Board Member "KissMyBrass"...

Okay, obviously not a "late breaking story" but lets talk a little bit about the Salisbury Police Chief vs. Mayor Ireton.

What the hell is going on with this political crap? Seriously. Does anyone care about some video tape of something that disappeared years ago prior to the police chief taking office in regards to Debbie Campbell? The mayor is now stating the the city police chief is taking away from the city tax payers because he is suing the city and thus the tax payers and therefore taking away from the ability of the city police force to fight crime. Stupid argument and pulling at straws in order to make the chief look bad. Just a few months ago the mayor was touting the city police chief as being effective on crime fighting. So Ireton has a press conference surrounded by Pick and several other lackeys about the city police chief. Hey, idiots, this is the same guy you supported months earlier.

Ireton is an idiot.

Second, why is the city police chief bent on getting this video tape? Who cares? Quit this shit and go back to work protecting people. Stop giving the daily slime stories to publish and keeping those morons in business.

So, WTF are you people crazy or what? Gentle towns people, it is time to oust all of these idiots and start from scratch. Don't elect Ireton again. NOTHING HAS IMPROVED.

Sheriff admit's he's bald and fat!

By CATHERINE TSAI
Associated Press Writer

DENVER --
Spectators watching the alleged balloon boy hoax unfold on live TV suggested paragliders, skydivers, fishing hooks and more to bring down the flying saucer-shaped craft thought to be carrying a 6-year-old boy.

Since the boy, Falcon Heene, was found at home and investigators declared the whole saga a hoax by the boy's parents, the e-mails flooding Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden's inbox have turned to criticism of his actions in the case.

In his online newsletter Thursday - titled "Up, Up and Away" - Alderden writes that people have sent e-mails from around the world, some of them calling him gullible, fat and bald with an over-inflated ego. They compared him to Barney Fife, the bumbling sheriff's deputy on the 1960s TV show "The Andy Griffiths Show."

Alderden conceded he's fat and bald. He disagreed with most of the rest.

Though he led a weekend news conference announcing his office was pursuing criminal charges against Richard and Mayumi Heene and then appeared on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday, Alderden said he really doesn't enjoy the media spotlight.

"In fact, I'm pretty ticked off that I had to spend my weekend dealing with them instead of some quality time in the saddle," Alderden wrote. "That said, sometimes the Sheriff just has to be the spokesperson instead of putting it off on the Press Information Officer. I did my best to put an end to the media circus and have refused to do any more interviews or morning TV shows, even turning down Dr. Phil."

The Heenes haven't been arrested yet, and have denied the balloon incident was a hoax. The Heenes appeared on ABC's "Wife Swap" late last year and again in March, and investigators said the couple wanted to use publicity from the balloon episode to get their own reality TV show.
Alderden said he might address criticism next week that he misled the media in the hours after the boy was found, when he told reporters that investigators still believed the Heenes were sincere. Alderden since has said he said that because he didn't want the Heenes to be tipped off to the criminal investigation.

The semi-regular newsletter, "The Bull's-eye," is posted on a private site linked to the official sheriff's site. It carries the subtitle, "Straight Shooting from the Sheriff."

Alderden wrote that one onlooker's suggestion for bringing down the balloon involved multiple helicopters and a large net. Others suggested using blimps, skydivers, paragliders, and fishing hook and line.

Alderden thanked everyone who sent ideas to rescue the craft.
"Some suggestions were actually pretty sound. Others - not so sound," the sheriff wrote.
___
Larimer County Sheriff's Bulls-eye: http://www.larimersheriff.org/BullsEye/

American Police Force Leader's Long Criminal Record

American Police Force Leader's Long Criminal Record
Zachary Roth October 1, 2009, 11:17AM

The American Police Force, that mysterious security company that just took over an empty jail in Hardin, Montana, is looking shadier than ever.

Since yesterday, details have been emerging about the background of the man behind APF -- a California-based grifter, who has said he's a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Montenegro, and uses the name Michael Hilton.

Over the years, Hilton has served jail time for fraud, and had a string of arrests and other run-ins with the law. Based on reports from the AP, the Billings Gazette, and Prison Legal News, here's a quick rundown:

• 1988: Hilton arrested in Santa Ana, Calif. for writing bad checks.
• April 1990: Hilton is again arrested in Santa Ana for writing bad checks and for grand theft.
• 1992: A civil judgment of $83,000 is entered against Hilton and Ilia Dokovich.
• March 1993: Hilton pleads guilty in Orange County court to 14 felonies, including 10 counts of grand theft. One charge involves a $20,000 real estate scam, in which Hilton persuaded an associate to give him a deed on property in Long Beach, Calif., saying it was to be used as collateral on a loan, then sold the property to someone else. According to the AP, he spends six years in prison in California.
• 1999: A small claims judgment is entered against Hilton for $3,979.
• 2000: the same plaintiff obtans another small claims judgment against Hilton in Los Angeles County, this one for $1,852.
• March 2000: Hilton is accused of fraud, larceny, and breach of contract, in connection to a venture in which Hilton and others recruited the plaintiff to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to create collectible Super Bowl commemorative coins. According to the complaint, Hilton and the others said the money would be used for the design and manufacture of the coins and for a license to produce them from the National Football League -- but the NFL never issued a license. Hilton is ultimately ordered to pay the plaintiff $200,000.
• Around the same period: Hilton also faces two similar fraud suits: In one, he's accused of posing as a fine arts dealer to deceive a Utah couple into giving him a $100,000 silver statue. In the other, he is said to have teamed with a doctor to recruit investors for a southern California assisted-living facility that was never built.
• November 2002: Hilton files for bankruptcy, in order to avoid eviction by his landlord.
• March 2003: Hilton is arrested for DUI in Huntington Beach.
• February 2004: Hilton files for bankruptcy once more, again to avoid eviction.
• January 2006: A $5,052 judgment lien is entered against Hilton in Orange County, CA.

A Lexis search conducted by Prison Legal News turned up the following aliases used by Hilton: Miodrag Dokovich, Miodrag Djokich, Miodrag Djokovich, Michael Hamilton, Anthony M. Hilton, Michael A. Hilton, Michael Milton and Hristian Djokich, plus related variants

U.S. Mystery 'Police' Force Has Small Montana City on Edge

U.S. Mystery 'Police' Force Has Small Montana City on Edge
Friday , October 09, 2009
Katie Landan

When two brand new, shiny black Mercedes SUVs bearing a "Hardin Police Department" logo drove through the main thoroughfare of Hardin, Mont., last week, people took notice.
"How many police forces have Mercedes?" said Charlene Warren, a local business owner who has lived in Hardin for more than half a century. "That threw up a red flag."
And speaking of flags, it did not go unnoticed that the emblem on the sides of the SUVs bore a strong resemblance to the Serbian national flag.
Furthermore, those "police department" cars were rolling through Hardin, a small southeastern Montana town of 3,600 that just happens not to have a police department.

The luxury vehicles that rolled through town belonged to the American Police Force (APF), a California-based security firm that is drafting a contract that will give it control over a $27 million medium-security prison that was built in Hardin more than two years ago, but has never held any prisoners.

But that contract is now on hold as the Montana State Attorney General's Office investigates APF and the Big Horn County Sheriff's Department enters preliminary talks about incorporating a real police department in Hardin so a similar episode doesn't occur in the future.
At first, Hardin residents were pleased that APF was planning to turn their empty prison into a training facility. Hardin has a double-digit unemployment rate and is desperate for revitalization, and the area was left high and dry last spring when the federal government decided not to use the facility to harbor Guantanamo Bay detainees. Opening the prison would mean jobs.
But since the SUV incident, APF's reputability is under scrutiny.

"We have covered this story for years now, and for the last month, it’s been one twist and turn from the other" Nick Lough, a reporter at KULR-8 in Billings, Mont., told FOXNews.com.
The latest twist: The owner of APF, Michael Hilton, is a convicted felon, including two convictions in grand theft cases, and an alleged con-artist who, according to some sources, utilizes more than 20 aliases.

"That is big controversy, is the unknown," said Warren. "There are too many lies."
Michael Cohen, a former Secret Service agent named as the would-be operator of the prison, served 14 months in prison for stealing $2,800 from the agency after his conviction in 2004. Cohen told the Associated Press he spoke with Hilton about the position but was not offered the job.

Hardin's Two Rivers Authority Board — an economic development agency — was contacted by APF about a month ago to draft a contract that would hand over control of the prison. But now the board's Web site prominently displays the following words:

We welcome anyone to visit our town!
There are no commandos in the
streets.
There is no fence or gate being built around Hardin. People are free
to come and go as they please. APF is not running our town or our police force.

Residents and concerned citizens now are voicing their opinions on street corners, at town hall meetings and in the blogosphere. They are demanding to know who APF's parent company is, what the company plans to do in their town and, finally, what on earth those two Mercedes were doing roaming their streets.

Bob van der Valk, contributing writer for the Terry Tribune and editor of the travel website Montanawithkids.com, doesn't think the people of Hardin will let the APF get the contract to run the prison.

"I think the people found out that what occurred was an under-the-table deal that shouldn't have happened," he told FOXNews.com. He said he hopes the facility will be turned into a high school to combat school overpopulation in the community.

FOXNews.com contacted Hilton's office at APF, but he declined to comment. The company's public relations director, Becky Shay, formerly a reporter for the Billings Gazette, also refused to comment. According to one report, Shay fears for her own safety and recently hired her own security team. Residents, bloggers and the media are said to be filling her inbox with their grievances, and there are reports that she has received death threats.

"They just can't give us any answers," Warren told FOXNews.com. "People are afraid. This is a good little town, we got a nice people here, and I wouldn't want to see some dishonest person, like this American Police Force, do any harm to our town."

"They found us real vulnerable right now," Warren says, "and they are just taking advantage of a good thing."

Md. delegate pays police $300 for proposal stunt

We, at the crapper, would like to indicate that this politician takes responsibility for his actions publicly and defends the police officers involved who, we are sure, did the following as a favor to a friend. We applaud him for his forthright attitude and honesty.

By Brian Witte Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland lawmaker reimbursed the city of Baltimore $300 Thursday for a marriage proposal stunt that involved police, writing on his Web site he hopes officers won't be blamed.

On Aug. 7, police boarded a boat Delegate Jon Cardin and his fiancee were on with friends in the Inner Harbor and pretended to search for contraband until Cardin popped the question. A police helicopter flew overhead. In an earlier posting, Cardin said he and his best friend dreamed up the scenario.

"I take full responsibility for initiating this incident," wrote the Baltimore County Democrat. He also wrote that he has made a separate contribution to the city's 121-year-old mounted police unit, whose existence has been threatened by budget woes.

Cardin said he "should have been sensitive enough to realize that these are extraordinarily difficult times in Baltimore, both financially and from a public safety perspective."
"In that context, I realize how inappropriate my request was," Cardin wrote.

He also apologized to his intended, Megan Homer, of Rockville, who did accept his proposal.

"Finally, I hope that my fiancee will be able to forgive the fact that I brought this unexpected and undesired public attention to what should have been a special moment in our lives," Cardin wrote.

The episode has embarrassed Cardin, who has posted three successive statements on his site after the proposal grabbed headlines.

Cardin has been criticized for everything from bad taste to the misuse of resources in a city hit hard by violent crime, especially near the Inner Harbor shopping and entertainment district, where recent beatings and shootings have scared tourists and residents alike.
Police are conducting an internal investigation.

"I certainly hope that the blame for this is placed on me, and none of it is given to any of the brave officers of the Baltimore City Police Department," Cardin wrote.

Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman, confirmed that Cardin's check had been received. The department decided on the figure, based on the hourly rate paid to the officers in the stunt, which lasted about 13 minutes. Fuel for the helicopter also was included, Guglielmi said.
Guglielmi noted the helicopter already was patrolling the harbor area.

"It's not like he was just caught up in this incident," Guglielmi said.

Gigi Wirtz, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore Community Foundation that accepts donations on behalf of the mounted police unit, confirmed Cardin gave some money, but she declined to say how much.

Morons in Charge...

WTF is going on with the bomber they just released to a terrorist country? This guy killed over 200 people in an air bombing and they released this criminal back on "compassionate grounds"?! Maybe they should have let that cancer eat away at his pecker like it did his prostate. What is happening to this world? What a complete farce of justice. Your thoughts?

Salisbury Mayor Jim Ireton

The new city Mayor, Jim Ireton, has been in office for some time now and is drawing critics from all three of the other blog sites online in the area. The Grinch and SbyNews.com are apparently casting aspersions on the general functionality of the Mayor in office. Correction: Two Sense has advised us that they support the Mayor.

Which brings us to the second point, the city police Chief Webster and the Daily Slime. Although we are not particular fans or enemies of Webster we completely disagree with the coverage the Daily Slime has been lending to these "issues" concerning letters of complaint written against the City Police Chief. Ultimately, the employment of the city police Chief and his continued appointment to office does last with the Mayor. However, the complaints should have never been published due to the fact that the police Chief is right in saying that it was a personnel matter and should never have been released to the media for any reason. Moreover, the Daily Slime has run this same story for four weeks now, give it a rest. We get it, two people wrote complaints about the Chief to the Mayor. WTF Else is there to say about it? Who cares? Publish something about something worth reading. Currently the Daily Slime only lines our Crapper bird cage. Slow news days we guess.

Lastly, we sent Mayor Ireton an e-mail last week telling him that we were the Crapper and blah blah blah but he never responded nor wished our input in crime prevention within Salisbury City :( Poor Cwappa.

Dorchester continues investigation into deputy assault allegations

Here is another story by our favorite cop hater, Sharahn "Boring" Boykin. If you are not aware, Boykin is the lovely writer for the Daily Slime that constantly writes about how terrible local police and it's leaders are. She's writing today about Joel Arnold, who is incidentally now apparently engaged to the girlfriend that appeared in this story, who is undoubtedly not going to cooperate with any criminal investigation into this incident. So, why is the Dorchester county states attorney's office investigating an incident when charges were already dismissed?

July 23, 2009
Dorchester continues investigation into deputy assault allegations
By Sharahn D. Boykin, Staff Writer

SALISBURY -- Charges against a former deputy accused of choking and threatening his girlfriend were dropped, but the case hasn't gone away, according to the Dorchester County State's Attorney's Office. Joel Arnold, 32, was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment and malicious destruction of property after a verbal disagreement with his girlfriend allegedly turned physical in April.

Arnold submitted a letter of resignation to the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office a little more than a week after the incident. The state dismissed the charges in May.

"It has not gone away," said the prosecutor, Dorchester State's Attorney William Jones. "It is still being investigated by my office." The charges against Arnold stemmed from a series of arguments between Arnold and his live-in girlfriend. The couple's quarrels started the day before police were called. According to police interviews with the victim, the two argued about a text message on his cell phone and when the victim asked Arnold about the message, he told her he wanted to move out and end the relationship.

The couple continued the argument through text messages after Arnold left for work. Early the following morning, around 1:30 a.m., the couple agreed to work out their differences, according to police interviews. At about 4 a.m., the victim woke up to Arnold yelling at someone over the phone, according to court documents. She asked who he was talking to. Eventually, he admitted he was on the phone with his "estranged" wife, according to court documents. Arnold became upset when they started to argue again, according to police interviews with the victim. He allegedly grabbed her by the neck, with two hands, and started choking her, according to court documents.

After she broke free, Arnold allegedly grabbed her by the neck a second time, according to the documents. Eventually, the victim was able to escape from the home and call police from a neighbor's house.

News Anyone?? Anyone have any news??

Wow. Well it seems that the Daily Slime has released this article again, citing some vague complaints about Chief Allen Webster. They already posted another two articles about some vague complaints by two of the city council people and Mayor Ireton's response... But, does anyone really care? Anyone can register a complaint about anyone else to their supervisor. Is this news or what? Although his response that he is the target of malicious complaints are somewhat ridiculous also because he is a public figure. So he being a "whistle blower" and seeking protection under that city regulation is also ridiculous.

You know we don't particularly support Chief Webster but, what is the basis of the complaints and even if complaints exist, what is the point of publishing two complaints that haven't been acted on yet? And why would they post a picture of Sheriff Lewis next to Chief Webster when there is nothing in the story about the Sheriff?

We feel that if you have news then great report it, but if you don't have news why is it always required to create something for people to talk about when it's really meaningless? They have published three stories that two city council people have written complaints against the Chief of Police? That's news? Increase circulation of their rag publication.

Moon landing...Joe Albero

It seems that Joe Albero really doesn't believe that the united states landed on the moon citing one major example of the moon rover that would not be able to fit inside the orbitor.

Well, genreally this is because the moon rover did not fit inside the orbiter, it fit on the outside of the orbitor.




http://www.ask.com/bar?q=moon+rover&page=1&qsrc=0&ab=5&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov%2Fplanetary%2Flunar%2Fapollo_lrv.html.

Further, there were literally hundreds of thousands of people involved in each moon landing. From the astronauts to ground control personnel using different tracking stations, to the people that observed the launches of the vehicles. One of the major obsticles that doubters of the moon landing is the mirrors on the moon, right at the appollo landing site which are still in operation today. More commonly known as "The Apollo 11 lunar laser ranging retroreflector array."









http://www.ask.com/bar?q=moon+mirrors&page=1&qsrc=2106&ab=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.nasa.gov%2Fheadlines%2Fy2004%2F21jul_llr.htm

So you are telling us that the government can't keep a secret for two years that the CIA was going to use a "hit squad" but they kept the moon landing a secret for 30 years? Not likely. See our prior article on this

http://wicburycrapper.blogspot.com/2009/07/did-we-land-on-moon.html.

Deputies disciplined after crash reviews

Our fav reporter & cop hater Sharahn "Bonking" Boykin spouts off again anti-cop garbage. Here she talks about the accidents that cops have had over the past several months at the Sheriff's Office. Unfortunately, accidents are going to happen. It's the name of the game, especially when driving for ten hours a day and sometimes at high speeds. Stories like this are only designed to improve circulation and her career on the backs of cops. The department, in our estimation, was right not to print the disciplinary action because that would have opened them up for certain liability.

July 17, 2009
Deputies disciplined after crash reviews

By Sharahn D. Boykin

Staff Writer

SALISBURY -- At least three deputies received disciplinary action after a quarterly internal review of vehicle crashes at the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office.

"Some of the sanctions levied were unprecedented in my 21 years at the Sheriff's Office," said Wicomico County Chief Deputy Gary Baker. "I think we did the right thing. I think it was fair."
The Sheriff's Office reported seven collisions this quarter. Three were considered preventable and chargeable, according to Baker.

All of the crashes forwarded to the review board were not major collisions, Baker said. Three of the incidents involved deer.

"The investigations occur any time there's damage to a vehicle," Baker said.
With about 90 vehicles in their fleet, the seven collisions this quarter is about average, according to Baker.

The Sheriff's Office internal review board investigates each crash and forwards its findings to Baker. The chief deputy reviews the board's recommendations and the deputy's driving record before forwarding his recommendations for disciplinary action to the sheriff, according to Baker.
Deputy 1st Class Evan Avent was among the seven deputies subjected to the internal review process. Avent, 32, struck a Mercedes Benz and Dodge Ram after going through a steady red light at the intersection of Cedar Lane and North Fruitland Boulevard around 9:50 p.m. June 13.
Avent was on duty at the time of the accident, but was not responding to a call according to police.

Avent was treated and released from Peninsula Regional Medical Center. The other drivers were unharmed, according to police.

Baker declined to name the deputies or give further details concerning the disciplinary actions taken. After consultation with other police departments, the county attorney and other officials, the Sheriff's Office determined that the actions taken against the deputies were a personnel matter and the office could be liable if it were to release specific details, Baker said.

Police Departments Still Use Typewriters!

07/16/2009

New York police departments still rely on typewriters - By Jason Kessler CNN.com

NEW YORK — In 2009, some units of the New York Police Department still function more like "Dragnet" than "CSI." They rely on typewriters.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne confirmed the department's continued, if limited, use of the 20th-century writing devices, explaining that they're mainly used for filling out property vouchers -- forms that officers must file when they seize items during case investigations. The typewriters also are retained in case a technological meltdown disables the NYPD's computers, he said. The vintage typing machines do not come cheap.

Public records show that the city signed a $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance with Afax Business Machines in 2008, as well as a $99,570 contract with that company in 2009. Typewriter company Swintec received a $982,269 contract from the city in 2007.
Eugene O'Donnell, a former New York police officer who now lectures at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the typewriters are an anachronism -- and a waste.

"The two places you'd find typewriters are the museum and the police department," O'Donnell said. Typewriters create significant efficiency and storage problems for the department, he added, causing extra labor and unwieldy paper trails. Deputy Commissioner Browne emphasized that "we have a $4 billion budget" and the financial resources devoted to typewriters are relatively miniscule.

Officers interviewed by CNN on the street had no soft spots for the contraptions.
"It's so antiquated," said one officer who did not want to be identified. Her partner shared her frustration. "It's very inconvenient -- you have to find ink, you have to find this, find that."

Did we land on the moon?

Of course we did.

We read Joe's and Jit Bags (Grinch) site today and saw that Joe doesn't really believe we landed on the moon. It's an interesting idea but here's whats wrong with it. While technology in the 1960's was not very advanced, it doesn't mean we didn't land on the moon. Case in point, even though much of the current technology we have today, never existed prior to the 1990's, people still lived and got by just fine. Even prior to automatic electronic calculators, which only really made their first appearance in the early 1960's, we still had automatic adding machines and prior to that an abacus! So, just because advanced technology didn't exist, doesn't mean it wasn't "doable" with their current technology of that era. Remember they built a submarine during the American Civil War. German's had U-Boats with no computer electronics on board. We were smarter when we had less computers working for us.

Additionally, remember that it was a cold war era, we and the Russians already had spy tracking satellites capable of tracking intercontinental ballistic missile launches in a MAD response situation so, they could easily track a rocket to the moon. And we had ground radar since WWII. Further, you could see the landing site, with an advanced telescope, from earth. There is also a mirror on the moon that was left by an Apollo mission that tracks the moons orbit using ground lasers even today, which they also had in the beginning stages, in the 1970's.

Further, hundreds of moon rocks were brought back to earth by the Apollo missions. These rocks are unlike any other on earth in which they have micro meteor craters in them. Pieces of dust in space can travel at 50,000 miles per hour because there is no resistance. So these pieces, although very fragile, impact rocks and cause micro craters. Even particle accelerators on earth can't create this level of impact by firing neutrons at them. A lot of people gauge the moon landing about how things physically react with the environment on earth. But, its a completely different environment, there is no air and 1/6 normal gravity and no shielding of intense light.

So then why are they shadows going in different directions in some pictures? People who don't think we landed on the moon see shadows going in different directions and theorize that it is because of different light sources. Also incorrect. Light, does behave much the same way on the moon than as on earth however, there is no atmosphere filtering it. However, if you are on earth and two people are standing at two different distances during full daylight, they're shadows will fall in different places because they're position in relation to the sun to the earth changes as they move closer or farther away from the viewer. This is why when you walk down a side walk you shadow seems to be walking next to you, following you; it does not remain in the same position all the time while walking. Your position is changing in relation to the direction of the light source to your eyes. The sidewalk, acting as a straight line, gives your brain a reference point for your moving shadow.

Why does the dust fall after the footprint is made? The moon is a much smaller mass than the earth so there is one sixth the gravity on the moon and no air. If a person steps on the moon, the particles do fall back to the moon but not in a regular falling arch formation like on earth due to the low gravity and no air resistance to particles.

Why is the flag waiving? Air is not required to make a flag wave. A flag waves when also shaken or waved by another force, say a person. So when the astronauts were planting the flag in the ground, it continued to wave after the pole was shaken to push it into the lunar soil. Due to no atmosphere and low gravity, it stays "a float". If the moon landing was made on a sound stage, why would they create artificial wind to make the flag wave? They knew the moon didn't have air! Additionally, even in the 1940's movies were made on sound stages, very few where shot outside if you want to expertly control the environment.

Why can't we see stars in the background? The cameras of the 1960's were not that advanced. In fact, even with modern cameras that use an automatic iris, it closes to prevent too much light or "over exposure". Since the surface of the mars and space suits are gray/white the camera adjusts to see objects that are closer and more brightly lit rather than objects that are father and very dimly lit compared to closer objects. If you turn on a flash light outside and place it on top of you facing down toward your face and try to look at the stars, it's very hard to see them, if at all. And your eyes are much better than most modern cameras at detecting light variations and subtlety in color, not with standing 1960's era cameras.

How did the rover get up there? Heh. Well we did not go to the moon just once as a lot of people think. We went to the moon six times total. That amount doesn't include the flybys and experimental launches to the moon. The rover was deployed from a payload module during the Apollo 15 mission.

"The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal. Apollos 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the Command and Lunar Modules, and did not return lunar data. Apollos 8 and 10 tested various components while orbiting the Moon, and returned photography of the lunar surface. Apollo 13 did not land on the Moon due to a malfunction, but also returned photographs. The six missions that landed on the Moon returned a wealth of scientific data and almost 400 kilograms of lunar samples. Experiments included soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismic, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields, and solar wind experiments." - Nasa.gov.

Billy Mays is Dead

Billy Mays, the oxiclean hawker on television and star of "pitchmen" a reality series is dead at 50. His wife awoke next to him and he was not breathing. He was not feeling well the night before his death and was involved in an accident where the front tire blew out on a US Air flight that day. He was struck in the head by falling objects however, it is not known to be the cause of his death.

Interesting how people speak up now...

It's interesting how people speak up now that they adored Micheal Jackson and learned so much from him and his musical abilities, etc. now that he is D.R.T. (Dead Right There).

We bet a week ago you couldn't get one of these Hollywood liberals to say a good word about this walking corpse (see picture left). He looks like he just crawled out of a grave in his thriller video.. Actually, he was much black-er then. But now that it's the popular thing to do all kinds of people are crawling out from under rocks talking about how great a guy this accused pedophile was. Well LADEFREAKENDA. Everyone was friends with this guy all of a sudden yet while he was alive and leaving candy canes for the kiddies no one wanted to be associated with this guy.