Ninjas, this means war

Michael T, Hollywood, CA — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:05:38 GMT

Hey Will,

It's always those few fringe ninjas that give the rest of them a bad name. Joel Veitch (of "Blode" fame) has a more upbeat take on them:

http://www.7secondsoflove.com/ninja/

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Michael, Halifax, Canada — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:48:19 GMT

From The World's Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories:
"Scientology: Billions of years ago the intergalactic overlord Xenu used a film to brainwash our souls ("Thetans") into believing in the world's major religions, which he invented."

Wait a second! I thought that Scientology was an actual, valid religion, but this article seems to state that it is, in fact, a cult! Wow, I never would have thought that!

(The preceding is sarcasm. Take seriously at your own risk.)
Anywho, all hail the mighty Xenu! We must rescue him from his eternal prison! If we could only deactivate that blasted eternal battery!
(Oops, more sarcasm)

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Larry Naegle — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:25:19 GMT

Hi Will, The wierdest conspiracies listed aren't even close. There was a site called Black Ops during the early days of the Web,(14-15 yrs. ago), that had people send in their "theories" and favorites. My all time favorite was the Spam conspiracy, (Meat-not email-that spam didn't exist yet). It was fantastic, hooking everything from aliens, pyramids, Illuminati, cattle mutilations and Elvis sightings plus everything else into one massive conspiracy based on the mystery meat, Spam. I printed it out as a put on for a little nutjob at our local donut shop just before he left to work in Alaska for 6 months. My son had doodled on a corner of the front page. Three months later I was having coffee with a friend at a local truck stop discussing the net and I was telling him about it when a trucker got involved in the conversation. He said he had documentation on the Spam conspiracy out in his truck which he had gotten from a guy in New Hampshire. He went out and got it and there on the front page of the much copied piece was my son's much copied doodle. As I understand, it was put together by a couple of college kids. Last time I looked for Black Ops their site said to buy their book at Barnes and Noble. The tin foil hat thing started about the same time as an early net hoax. I chatted with that guy a bit back then. He ended up making a lot of money selling plans for the hats. The last time I looked at his site he was still pushing the hat plans and the Oregon rain forest tree dwelling octopus (with Pics).

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Matt M., Fort Hood, TX — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:19:04 GMT

Re: President Bush's teleprompter woes...

Don't you think that it is simply unfair to make a big deal of this? I mean, really, it's long been at the point that W is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If he had pronounced the names incorrectly, it would have been another round of "Look how President Chimpy is embarrassing America!" And now that measures were taken to compensate for his glaring lack of verbal prowess, we make a big deal about how he's using a phonetic spelling on the teleprompter.

I'm sick of the "gotcha!" culture coming from that side of the political spectrum.

I do appreciate the fairness you've shown in this story, though, Will.

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C.E., Portland, OR — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:18:44 GMT

Those conspiracies are hilarious. And the comments are even better for a good laugh. NESARA is an intrigueing idea. But then I gave up hope on that one when the author on the started writing about Cheney and Bush's "mind-controlled clones..."

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Hyperpsyched, Berlin, Germany — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:23:29 GMT

Thanks for the commuter click. You are right. Absolutely gripping, start to finish.

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notanewt fan, Mpls, MN — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:10:19 GMT

Hi Will,

I was having a hard time with the lawsuit in England about "The Inconvenient Truth" until my spouse pointed out it was all a matter of perspective. I was asked if I would have a problem with Newt Gingrich having a movie shown to all the 8th graders in America. LOL.
Thanks for the links!

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Jerry, Trailer in Alabama — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:50:26 GMT

Say it ain't so! War on ninjas would undermine the very premise of my blog, which is to track the concept of the "ninja motif" in modern society.

What I've learned so far is that the ninja identity has been hijacked by various groups ranging from rebels in the Congo to reggae rappers to petty thieves such as you've mentioned.

Real ninjas, however, are all around. They spring from that magical place inside all of us, formerly thought to be the house of the inner child. I urge you to release you inner ninja. IN the meantime, keep clicking, I enjoy your site greatly.