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"Wally AngleseaT" <wanglese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:ateiv114rdtmv7d9firb4d2i6k5m602qh3@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:23:07 GMT, "George"
> <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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>>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:r89iv1tq1n663dk9e6q7kkm5ipdiigcmo9@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:18:36 GMT, in sci.geo.earthquakes, Wally
>>> AngleseaT <wanglese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>>On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:44:15 -0800, Bob Officer
>>>><bobofficers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>><SNIP>
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As you guess, I know people on the bunko-squad. they said when a
>>>>>>> scam
>>>>>>> is uncovered, while con-man is usually not upset. the people that
>>>>>>> usually object the most are the marks and rubes who foolishly and
>>>>>>> with great folly invested their cash and beliefs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Their are not mad at the Con Artist. they are usually mad at the
>>>>>>> police... and make accusations of towards the police of shutting
>>>>>>> down
>>>>>>> an honest businessman; alternate medical practice; or free thinking
>>>>>>> spirit. Most refuse to admit their own folly.
>>>>>
>>>>>>I'd feel sorrow for them if I wasn't so busy laughing at their utter
>>>>>>gullibility.
>>>>>
>>>>>I feel sorry for old couples, often spending there last dollars for
>>>>>worthless cures. It always seems to leave the widow dead broke.
>>>>
>>>>1: The scam artists depend on the needs of the scammed, and prey on
>>>>those needs. The immorality of it all doesn't enter into the scammers
>>>>mind.
>>>
>>> Faith healers; snake oil salesman; Orgon Generators; blood zappers;
>>> Cell salts cults; Some <not all> herbal curatives.
>>
>>Add: Crystal healers, magnetic medical bracelets, etc.
>
>
> Oh, mate the funniest thing I ever saw was a magazine that had an
> "expose" on power lines, and how the government was hiding the fact
> that the magnetic fields generated from power lines were causing
> cancer, and bipolar disorder and other illnesses in children.
>
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> Then on the inside back cover, they were selling the therapeutic
> benefits of pillows bedsheets and mattresses with magnets in them.
>
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> Find out about Australia's most dangerous Doomsday Cult:
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/pebble.htm
>
> "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down."
Well, the ads must certainly have been amusing under those circumstances.
I don't want to argue the pros and cons of whether high tension powerlines
cause cancer, but I will tell you that my mother and step-father, who lived
for many years next door to the largest power substation here in
Louisville, both developed rare non-canerous tumours at the base of their
pitiutary glands that had to be removed via a very dangerous operation,
plus some limited radiation therapy. My step-father developed the tumour
first. Five years later, my mother developed the exact same tumour. When
my mother developed it, I asked the neurosurgeon who operated on her what
the chances were of two genetically different people living under the same
roof developing the exact same rare tumour, and he said that you are more
likely to win the lottery. Did powerlines cause their tumours? I don't
know, but I do know that the lady behind them died of colon cancer, one of
her sons developed a non-cancerous tumour in his chest that was the size of
a softball, the man who lived next door to them (closer to the substation)
died of bone cancer, and the lady who lived next to my mother (and who had
lived there for over twenty years) suddenly contracted pancreatic cancer
that grew so fast that it killed her within three weeks. Are all of these
deaths/illnesses related? I don't know, and I have no way of knowing. I do
know that the power company now will not allow any contractor to develop
residential properties within 100 yards of their high tension lines.
George
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