Rare Vicious Tongue-Eating Parasite Found (this is no joke)

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Phantoms and Monsters DJIA Closed 9,605...Same on 9/11/01 and 9/11/09 Video: Mysterious UFO - Unknown Marine Terminal Rare Vicious Tongue-Eating Parasite Found Masons Prepare to Counter New Dan Brown Novel DJIA Closed 9,605...Same on 9/11/01 and 9/11/09 Posted: 12 Sep 2009 11:15 AM PDTDow Jones Industrial AverageTuesday, September 11, 2001Closing Price: 9,605.51Open: n/aHigh: 9,740.44Low: 9,431.07Volume: 280,043,500Dow Jones Industrial AverageFriday, September 11, 2009Closing Price: 9,605.41Open: 9,627.78High: 9,698.67Low: 9,532.11Volume: 196,670,800Are we entering into a new cycle? Just food for thought...LonVideo: Mysterious UFO - Unknown Marine Terminal Posted: 12 Sep 2009 09:49 AM PDT(notice many individual lights - enhanced image above)Click for videoNOTE: this video was received by email this morning from Michael Cohen Allnewsweb.com. He states..."We just received this UFO video from a reader by email. The reader left no information regarding the footage and has not responded to emails from us inquiring as to where and who does this video come from". IMO, it appears to be from a marine terminal somewhere in eastern Asia, perhaps Indonesia, Malaysia, etc...I can't translate the audio. I did enhance and shade a video capture of the object. The top screen capture is interesting since there seems to be many individual lights on this object. I'll keep an open mind until I get other evidence...LonRare Vicious Tongue-Eating Parasite Found Posted: 12 Sep 2009 09:03 AM PDTdiscoveryon.info - A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast.Fishermen near the Minquiers - islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey - found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish.Marine researcher Paul Chambers, from the Société Jersiaise, was one of the fishing party and identified the find.He said he was surprised to find the isopod away from the Mediterranean sea.Isopods are normally about 2cm (1in) long and live in fish, surviving on the animal's blood, in warm waters.'Quite vicious'Mr Chambers told: "When we emptied the fish bag out there at the bottom was this incredibly ugly looking isopod."Really quite large, really quite hideous - if you turn it over its got dozens of these really sharp, nasty claws underneath and I thought 'that's a bit of a nasty beast'."I struggled for weeks to find an identification for this thing until, quite by chance I stumbled across something that looked similar in a Victorian journal."Apparently there's not too much ill effect to the fish itself except it's lost its tongue."Experts at the University of Southampton confirmed that the creature was an isopod and that there had been several sightings of them in Cornwall in 1996.Mr Chambers added: "It doesn't affect humans other than if you do actually come across a live one and try and pick it up - they are quite vicious, they will deliver a good nip."Masons Prepare to Counter New Dan Brown Novel Posted: 12 Sep 2009 08:35 AM PDTsltrib.com - As members of a secretive brotherhood, Freemasons are no strangers to conspiracy theories.They have heard it all before -- that they are child-sacrificing cult members, or religious zealots plotting a New World Order with the Jews, or satanic anti-religious alien spies.With Dan Brown's newest novel, The Lost Symbol, hitting bookstores Sept. 15 -- much of it rumored to revolve around Masonic myths -- the Masons are in pre-emptive damage-control mode.Although Brown -- of Da Vinci Code fame -- and his publisher, Doubleday, are being tight-lipped about the book's contents, some Masons are preparing for an onslaught of negative press. And because Brown is known for tying religious themes to his thrillers' plots, Masons are carefully addressing common misconceptions about their religious affiliations."There is the basic question asked: Do you believe in God?" said Richard Fletcher, executive secretary of the Masonic Service Association of North America. "Beyond [requiring a belief in God], we're not a religion, and we don't pretend to be."Because the book's contents are so hush-hush, Fletcher and others are unsure what to expect. The only information Doubleday has released so far is the book's cover art and sporadic Twitter "clues" that hint at religion, Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers.Mark Koltko-Rivera -- a Mason from New York City and author of the upcoming book Discovering the Lost Symbol , which tries to anticipate charges leveled in Brown's novel -- created a blog to discuss and interpret each Twitter clue.Based on those clues, Koltko-Rivera is convinced that Freemasons, particularly the Scottish Rite branch, "will take it in the chops."A psychologist by trade with particular interest in psychology of religion, Koltko-Rivera believes Brown will try to associate Freemasonry with religious extremists or, as one Twitter clue suggested, that the Founding Fathers d to deism (a generic belief in God) rather than theism (a belief in God as creator and ruler)."That alone would really tick people off," Koltko-Rivera said, "and that's a religious position Dan Brown would be comfortable with."Fletcher said Freemasonry has been scrutinized for centuries because it welcomes men of all faiths to join. He said that Nazis forced Masons into concentration camps because Freemasonry welcomed Jews as members.Noting that Jews are themselves no stranger to conspiracy theories, he said, "a lot of anti-Masonry is rooted in anti-Semitism."Jay Kinney, a Mason and writer from California, is releasing a book to counter Masonic falsehoods a week before Brown's book goes on sale. Kinney's book, The Masonic Myth, delves into the history of the Freemasons and attempts to dispel rumors and misconceptions about the brotherhood.Kinney said he avoided mentioning Brown or his novel, and he's not trying to guess what conspiracy theories Brown might try to advance."On the whole, my approach to the book is to not have Dan Brown define what I'd be writing about," Kinney said. "I just tried to reboot the subject and methodically go from there. If a reader reads Dan Brown and has questions, undoubtedly they will have a variety of books and sources that will offer counterinformation or clarification."One blogger explicitly warned readers about the "Dan Brown Effect" -- the response that followed The Da Vinci Code by misinformed and sometimes gullible readers who take historical fiction as historical fact.The Da Vinci Code sold more than 80 million copies worldwide and stirred up controversy by suggesting a romantic relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, upsetting Christian groups and historians who argued against the plot's historical and biblical inaccuracies.Whether Brown makes Masons the good guys or the villains, members of the brotherhood seem to agree that the attention could nonetheless pique people's interest and lead to increased membership requests.********************Are you interested in the paranormal, cryptozoology, UFOs and conspiracies? 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