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In article <81eKf.809885$xm3.629409@attbi_s21>, george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(George) wrote:
>
> "Wally AngleseaT" <wanglese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:ateiv114rdtmv7d9firb4d2i6k5m602qh3@xxxxxxxxxx
> > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:23:07 GMT, "George"
> > <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>"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:
> >>>
> >>>>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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then on the inside back cover, they were selling the therapeutic
> > benefits of pillows bedsheets and mattresses with magnets in them.
> >
> > --
> >
> > 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
For somebody who didn't want to argue the pros and cons, you sure did a good
job.
Alan
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