One person's rant is another's "freedom fighter"

I've been noticing a lot of military vehicles flying over the house lately. More than usual. Am I being monitored already? (Edit: No seriously. We normally see Apaches, Sukorsky's, transport helicopters, and transport planes around here -- but not at this frequency flying directly overhead. Plus - the other day it was sunny and the sky was perfectly clear. I was outside and heard the sound of a fighter jet approaching swiftly. The sound went directly overhead, but I never saw it. No clouds, no sun in my eyes, just nothing there. Maybe we have a new technology that actually makes the jet invisible. I HOPE so. It would give me at least a little bit of hope for the future of our military and national security.)

So, apparently my health insurance premium is going up another $30 this year! In the past it's gone up around $10 at a time (i don't see why it should be going up this consistently in the first place). In 5 years it has very nearly doubled!!!! This is nuts! How can they justify this? I haven't even been sick in over a year. I'm so annoyed, I'm going to go outside, build a laboratory, and start making my own medicines and vaccines. Heck, maybe I'll start my own medical school...

The other night I saw a little interview with the infamous Billy Mays. The shocking part: He wasn't yelling! In fact, he acknowledged how everyone thinks he's "always yelling," and explained it away as "cutting through the clutter." It actually made sense. We're always being bombarded with noise and ads and stimulation -- if Billy came on the tv and spoke calmly and quietly, no one would listen to him and no one would buy his products. And you know what...during the interview while he was speaking in a normal tone of voice...I actually almost found him likeable.

There's a show on the History Channel called UFO Hunters. Mostly it's a tiresome charade as this group of professed UFO experts visit the sites of encounters and try to investigate whether or not something actually happened. Just like most series nowadays (like the one with the guy who goes looking for monsters/legends), they find some circumstantial and often conspicuous evidence, they hear questionable stories from pseudo-reliable witnesses, and in the end they come up with nothing more than they started with. But the other night they actually managed to hold my attention. They were investigating the stories of secret Nazi projects involving UFOs. Apparently a former Nazi scientist claimed that they had received help from aliens and were trying to make their own flying saucers (and other secret weapons). The Nazis had a vast number of secret projects going on throughout the war and were also considered to be well ahead of the rest of the world in areas of rocketry and propulsion. In the course of the investigation they even found that one Nazi scientist had been conducting human experiments on how the body would be affected by space travel. The most interesting part of the show came when they visited a former secret Nazi bunker in Poland. Supposedly the Nazis had been working on their ultimate weapon there, something called a Reeza (sp?) - or "bell." The artistic interpretation showed a bell-like hovering metal object that had to be chained in place. I think it was supposed to be the engine or power-source for a flying saucer. While people could walk around in the bunker, there was a large section of it that had been sealed off long ago. In this sealed area is where the bell was alleged to have been stored. Upon returning to the US, they found that this bell actually had been found by our military after the war (along with a host of other Nazi projects) and was brought back here. I'm sure it's being studied by "top men." What men? Top men.