RW attacks on "climategate" and "pedophile gays"

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FRI__3:06 PM 12/11/2009
Media Matters: With "Climategate" and Jennings smears, the right goes guerilla
The conservative reaction to President Obama's election is turning
downright Faustian.
As the rhetoric on the right has grown increasingly shrill, a few
conservatives have raised their voices in alarm, counseling their
ideological kin to step back from the abyss. Former Bush speechwriter David
Frum wrote in August that "the increasingly angry tone of incitement being
heard from right-of-center broadcasters" is likely to lead to politically
motivated violence. Not two weeks ago, conservative blogger Charles Johnson
articulated the reasons behind his departure from the right, citing
conservative support for "anti-science bad craziness" and "[h]atred for
President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies."
If the past week is any indication, those warnings have been roundly
ignored. The conservative media, in their quest to derail the president's
progressive agenda, have thrown their lot in with the grisly underbelly of
political activism -- dumpster-diving thieves, extremist hate groups, and
scam-artist videographers who sacrifice credibility for sensationalism and
value Web traffic over truth.
Take, for example, the hackers who illegally accessed email servers at the
University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit and stole thousands of
emails. From Fox News on down to the conservative blogs, right-wingers have
seized on the stolen documents as "proof" that climate change science is a
"hoax" and attacked the global scientific consensus on climate change as a
"cult." As Media Matters explained last week, the emails show nothing of the
sort, and they are being wildly distorted. But the right not only
wholeheartedly embraced these illegally obtained documents, it actively took
steps to hide the fact that they were obtained by theft. Fox News spent an
entire week describing the emails as "leaked," "revealed," and "uncovered."
The conservative media critics at NewsBusters chastised the media for
"paint[ing] the 'stolen' e-mails not as laudatory whistle-blowing, but as an
unwanted impediment to the left's global warming agenda."
There were also new developments this week in another bogus "controversy"
being stoked by right-wingers: the ongoing homophobic smear campaign against
Department of Education official Kevin Jennings. Led by Andrew Breitbart and
The Washington Times, conservatives falsely accused Jennings' organization
of handing out explicit sexual materials to children, and smeared Jennings,
who is gay, as a "deviant," a "pedophile," the "buggery czar," and a
"mega-pervert." It was later revealed that the falsehoods upon which these
smears are based originated with a group called MassResistance, a
Massachusetts-based anti-gay hate group that purports to chronicle the
"brutal fascist tactics" of the "homosexual movement," and whose leader
compared the gay rights movement to Nazism.
Speaking of Andrew Breitbart, the Drudge-protégé and Twitter fiend received
some bad news this week. An investigation by former Massachusetts Attorney
General Scott Harshbarger into Breitbart's much-publicized videos purporting
to show ACORN aiding an undercover pimp and prostitute in tax evasion
determined that the videos contained no evidence that the organization acted
illegally. The report also found that the videos, shot by conservative
activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, "appear to have been edited, in
some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover
for significant portions of Mr. O'Keefe's and Ms. Giles' comments, which
makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are
responding." Perhaps he'll have better luck with his next project -- rooting
through ACORN's trash to find incriminating documents.
The newest right-wing smear centers on a deceptively cropped undercover
video shot by an anti-abortion activist at a Planned Parenthood office in
Wisconsin. The Fox Nation and other right-wingers claimed the video shows
Planned Parenthood trying to force women to have abortions. In reality, the
video is so heavily edited it's impossible to determine the context of any
of the Planned Parenthood staffer's supposedly damning statements.
These are the big stories for conservatives right now, and they're all based
on thievery, the smears of an extremist fringe group, and disreputable
hucksters with video cameras.
Now, it's probably not completely accurate to say that the right's embrace
of these types of people is a Faustian bargain -- after all, such an
arrangement typically involves the good being corrupted or seduced by the
evil. When it comes to the conservative media, which are already notorious
for slander and falsehood, it's more like the next step of a natural
progression. The real danger is that they are helping to mainstream these
fringe characters. The Washington Post published an op-ed by Sarah Palin who
used the -- ahem -- "publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research
center" as a pretext to lie and mislead on climate science. The Post
defended publishing Palin's op-ed by claiming that it didn't have time to
fact-check it and that Palin "is someone who stirs discussion."
And that's exactly the mindset these conservatives are preying upon: Forget
the facts; we just want eyeballs on the screens.
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Warren Buffet: my class is winning the class warfare

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LINK:
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/144388/america_without_a_middle_class_--_i
t%27s_not_far_away_as_you_might_think/?comments=view&cID=1382255#c1382255

Everything is going according to plan
Posted by: CaliJim on Dec 5, 2009 8:32 AM
In the mid 90's I had a customer who was writing a paper at the University
of California. The title of the paper was "The Latin-Americanization of the
United States".
The premise of the paper was that the rich and corporate interests were
aligned in an effort to eliminate the middle class in our country, while
greatly increasing the incomes and wealth of the tiny "elite" percentage of
the population. The result would mirror the Latin American model of a tiny
minority that owned or controlled the vast majority of everything, a tiny
middle class struggling to hang on, and a large and rapidly increasing
"underclass" of poor who would literally have to do whatever they could to
survive. Literally, a return to the Feudal system of lords and serfs.
I read his paper and we had many discussions regarding it...and I have to
admit that I thought it was a bit extreme in it's predictions at the time.
Now, of course, it's clear that he was a prophet - and that things have
proceeded exactly as he predicted they would. Wages have been systematically
held down, benefits have been reduced and/or eliminated, jobs have been
systematically shipped overseas (often with tax benefits to the corporation
for every job that was eliminated in the US), taxes for the rich and
corporations have been vastly reduced and funding for education, health care
and other essential services are no longer adequate to do what needs to be
done. The rich get richer and richer, while the corporations get more and
more powerful and arrogant.
I've already advised both of our kids to move to New Zealand or Australia if
they can...where minimum wage is $12-13 an hour and they get free health
care - which is exactly how it should be here.
Ironically, a fairly large percentage of the population has been conned into
going out in force and supporting the very policies that are harming
them...by distortions, manipulations and outright lies regarding unions,
increasing wages, raising taxes on the rich and corporations, health care
reform and restrictions on the powers and rights of corporations. These have
been sold by highly paid spokespersons like Limbaugh, Beck and others, who
get their funding from the same rich and corporate interests who are
benefiting.
Unfortunately, nothing has been done to rein in the financial abuses by the
banks, insurance companies and other multinational corporations - even after
the wholesale collapse of our economy.
I'd love to be able to end with some uplifting and encouraging comment...but
the best I can do is to repeat the quote by Warren Buffett “There’s class
warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war,
and we’re winning.”
Unfortunately, nothing has been done to rein in the financial abuses by the
banks, insurance companies and other multinational corporations - even after
the wholesale collapse of our economy.
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A GOP Win-Win Predicament

The loss of the last presidential elections in 2008 turns out to be a gift and a blessing for the Republican party.
The Obama administration will continue to put more money into the pockets of the already superrich banks, companies and billionaires in this country and in the process they will make sure that the next thirty years at the helm of the USA will be for the Republicans.
Bless them.

As The Romans Already Knew

All it needs is a hamburger patty and a TV to make a happy population.
"bread and entertainment" is the tool of choice for American politicians to pacify the vast majority of the working class in the United States of America.
Or: to say it with the Romans 2000 years ago "panem et circenses".

the invention of the chinese firecracker

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the invention of the arab zero

see here:
http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/11/america_does_not_steal_oil.html

Keep believing that America never landed on the moon, 9/11 was engineered by Mossad, that Islam is the Religion of Peace, that we went into Iraq for oil, and that Infidels are stealing the resources of Muslims. The truth is, without infidels Muslims would be naked, diseased, miserable sand fleas without two camel dicks to rub together. Whatever commodities of value you Muslims have, infidels have discovered, developed, and helped you market and for which we pay a high price and get back zero gratitude.
You're welcome.
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WashingtonTimes Jeffrey T. Kuhner 2009-08-15

A failed, single term?
The prospect of going the way of Argentina
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner | Saturday, August 15, 2009

Saturday, August 15, 2009
A failed, single term?
Jeffrey T. Kuhner

President Obama is on the way to joining an exclusive club. It is the club of failed one-term presidents.

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama sold himself as a pragmatic moderate. In fact, he is the very opposite. He is an internationalist socialist whose policies will lead to ruin at home and defeat abroad. They will also doom his re-election efforts. He is flirting with political disaster.

Despite his many flaws, former President Bill Clinton established the model for successful Democratic administrations. Mr. Clinton governed as a liberal centrist. He realized that veering too far to the left early in his presidency was detrimental: His support of Hillarycare and gays in the military resulted in the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. Mr. Clinton changed course by embracing free trade, welfare reform and balanced budgets -- combining fiscal responsibility and social liberalism. This formula prevented the Republican Party from recapturing the White House in 1996.

Mr. Obama is the anti-Clinton. He is a leftist ideologue who has surrounded himself with radical and inept advisers. Mr. Clinton had political counselor Dick Morris and Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. Mr. Obama has David Axelrod and Timothy F. Geithner.

As a result, Mr. Obama's presidency is starting to look like the worst in 100 years. His $787 billion fiscal stimulus has failed to restore economic recovery. Unemployment remains high. Growth is anemic.

His massive spending is projected to yield record budget deficits of $1.8 trillion this year and $1.3 trillion next year. Over the next decade, according to the Obama administration's own estimates, the debt will explode by more than $10 trillion. These soaring deficits threaten to cripple our long-term prosperity and economic security. No country has sustained this kind of massive borrowing and spending without becoming a second-class nation. America is going the way of Argentina.

Mr. Obama's government-run health care plan is too expensive: It will saddle taxpayers with more than $1 trillion in costs. If enacted, it will do what socialized medicine has always done: ration care, extend waiting lines to visit a doctor and deny lifesaving, costly treatment to those deemed the weakest and most unproductive members of society -- the elderly. It is why so many seniors rightly oppose Obamacare.

National health care will force Mr. Obama to break his tax pledge. His signature campaign promise was not to raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year. However, Mr. Obama has boxed himself in, vowing that any health-insurance overhaul must be paid for without adding to the deficit. Hence, his administration is exploring soak-the-rich schemes such as higher income and capital gains taxes and a "wealth surtax." The problem remains that even these policies can't generate nearly enough revenue to fund Mr. Obama's ambitious expansion of the welfare-entitlement state.

This leaves him with only one option -- raising taxes on the middle and working classes. Already, key administration officials are considering a 10-percent national sales tax, also known as a value-added tax (VAT). In other words, a European-style health care system inevitably leads to European-level taxation -- and, consequently, European-style high unemployment and low growth rates.

Mr. Obama's energy policies will also undermine the economy. If passed, his cap-and-trade initiative will impose huge indirect taxes on businesses. It will punish manufacturing, oil-producing and coal states. Its goal is to increase the costs of gas and electricity, thereby discouraging their use.

Consumers will be paying more not only at the pump but also on everything from food to heating and electric bills. Mr. Obama's green socialism threatens to erode our standard of living, trigger skyrocketing inflation and stunt job creation.

Yet, the biggest danger is in foreign policy. Mr. Obama is pouring another 21,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan. American forces are bogged down in a protracted guerilla campaign. The Taliban are resurgent. They have reclaimed their stronghold around the southern city of Kandahar. Insurgents are waging bold and deadly attacks even in the northern and western parts of the country -- formerly stable areas. The fighting is spreading, U.S. casualties are soaring, and public support for the war is ebbing.

The problem in Afghanistan is that terrorists are able to blend in with the native population. American soldiers find it increasingly difficult to distinguish civilians from combatants. The administration does not have a coherent counterinsurgency strategy. Hence, the Taliban are winning, and Washington is clueless on how to change the grim results on the ground.

Mr. Obama is frequently portrayed as the heir to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The more apt analogy, however, is Lyndon Baines Johnson. Just like Mr. Obama, President Johnson believed he could have guns and butter. He sought to implement the Great Society while escalating America's military involvement in Southeast Asia. Unable to choose, Mr. Johnson lost both: His domestic agenda and prosecution of the Vietnam War proved to be disastrous. His reckless ambition reduced his administration to political rubble, costing him any chance for re-election in 1968. This is why he (smartly) decided not to run again.

Social democracy and interventionist nation-building do not work. They destroyed the Johnson presidency and are on the verge of destroying Mr. Obama's as well.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

link:
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6352154870380296264

WashingtonTimes Cal Thomas 2009-08-18

National Health vs. USA
Steps in a discouraging direction
By Cal Thomas | Tuesday, August 18, 2009
PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland

For the past month, I have watched British media report and comment on the American health care uproar. American cable networks also are available here. The back-and-forth reporting and commentary resemble a replay of the War of 1812, this time with verbal salvos.

Conservative American politicians and commentators fire at the British National Health Service system, and the British fire back, sometimes on the same program, repeating the Democrats' mantra of how 47 million Americans are "uninsured" and how medical treatment in the United States depends on how much patients, or their insurance companies, will pay. Here, they say, health care is "free," thanks to taxpayers, a minority of whom (i.e. the successful) bear ever-greater amounts of the burden.

A conservative British politician trashes the NHS on Fox News, and the BBC carries an excerpt, along with a defense of the NHS by other British politicians, including Tory leader -- and prime-minister-in-waiting -- David Cameron. In an apparent effort to outflank the critically ill Labor Party, Mr. Cameron promises to strengthen the NHS.

The British media are conflicted. They patriotically defend the NHS while simultaneously acknowledging its serious shortcomings. One example: A recent Daily Mail editorial praised the NHS for its free care and universal availability but then added, "Our survival rates for breast, prostate, ovarian and lung cancers are among the worst in Europe, despite huge additional expenditure." Free is nice, but best is better.

Beyond the headlines are some disturbing trends within the NHS that ought to serve as a warning to Americans, should they wish to abandon, rather than improve, our current system for treating the sick.

Last week, a London Times story began: "Hospitals Creaking Under the Strain as NHS Vacancies Are Left Unfilled."

The story reported that socialized medicine has created a shortage of doctors, nurses and other clinical staff. As of March 31, a survey found a 5.2 percent vacancy rate in these critical fields, compared with a 3.6 percent vacancy rate a year earlier. According to the Times, "Qualified nurses and midwives are retiring at a greater rate than newly trained staff can enter the professions." A poll by the Royal College of Nurses found that among 8,600 young people, ages 7 to 17, "only 1 in 20 considered nursing to be an attractive career."

Anthony Halperin, a trustee of the Patients Association, said: "Nursing staff see that there are higher rewards in the private sector while doctors and dentists no longer see medicine as a career for life, or are having their hours cut back by European legislation. All of this has negative outcomes for patients."

A man attending a town meeting in America who opposes the Democrats' reform plan said on Fox News (replayed on BBC): "Have you seen British teeth?"

Anyone wishing to revise America's medical system and model it after the systems in Britain and Canada ought to thoroughly examine how those health care systems function before plunging into the same pool. A reasonable conclusion is that these systems require long waits and treatments (if you can get them) that are inferior to what's available in the United States, based on government "guidelines" that frequently approve care only if the patient is deemed "worthy of the investment."

As a symbol, Adolf Hitler has been overused, but the philosophy behind the horrors he unleashed can be found in the beliefs of some of those who would use the power of the state to determine who gets help and who doesn't.

The 1933 Sterilization Law was one of Hitler's first acts after taking power. Called the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring, it required compulsory sterilizations for those deemed by the state to be "racially unsound," including people with disabilities.

In a posting on the Huntington's disease Web site, Phil Hardt, who along with his wife visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to study the Third Reich's view of medicine and the sick, reached this conclusion: "Perhaps when you reduce a human being to nothing more than an 'element,' they somehow become easier to abuse and later kill."

As with a journey, so it is with inhumanity: Both begin with a single step.

Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist.

link:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/18/national-health-vs-usa/

WSJ William McGurn 2009-08-18

Harry Reid's 'Evil' Moment
And Democrats wonder why their health plan isn't selling.
By WILLIAM MCGURN

Remember when polite society treated a politician's use of the word "evil" as a sign that the old boy was dangerously lacking upstairs?

We saw it in 1983, when Ronald Reagan famously used the word in a speech to describe the Soviet empire. What a rube! New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis spoke for the smart set when he wondered what Soviet leaders must think: "What confidence can they have in the restraint of an American leader with such an outlook?"

We saw it again in 2002, when George W. Bush characterized North Korea, Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq as an "axis of evil." Tom Daschle, a Democrat and then Senate majority leader, warned that "we've got to be very careful with rhetoric of that kind"; former President Jimmy Carter called it "overly simplistic and counterproductive"; and comedian Will Ferrell parodied it on Saturday Night Live. Soon the phrase became acceptable only in the ironic sense—as in the Chris Fair cookbook titled "Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States: A Dinner Party Approach to International Relations."

With all this history, you would think Harry Reid (D., Nev.) had ample warning. Nevertheless, the Senate majority leader invoked the e-word himself last week at an energy conference in Las Vegas, where he accused those protesting President Barack Obama's health-care proposals of being "evil mongers." So proud was he of this contribution to the American political lexicon that he repeated it to a reporter the next day and noted the phrase was "an original."

And then . . . nothing. No thundering rebuke from the New York Times. No outburst from Mr. Carter. In fact, it's hard not to notice that the good and gracious people who instinctively recoil at words like "evil" or "un-American" (the preferred term of Mr. Reid's counterpart in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi) have all been silent.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., second from left, accompanied by Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.
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It would be easy to read something dark into Mr. Reid's characterization, and the yawn with which it has been greeted. In fact, what we have here is really the logical extension of the liberal assumption that they have a monopoly on brain power. In such a world, anyone who dissents, almost by definition, has to be stupid or evil or both.

It's a point of view Mr. Obama inadvertently encourages when he indulges in, say, the trope about Medicare that has become a staple of his town halls. The president tells the crowd he's received a letter from a woman upset with his plans for health care. "She said, 'I don't want government-run health care. I don't want you meddling in the private market place. And keep your hands off my Medicare.'"

Get it? The applause tells us the audience does: How dumb can this woman be?

It's much the same with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. In his press briefings, Mr. Gibbs seems to suggest that all hard questions about health care are based on "misconceptions." Really?

Is the Congressional Budget Office's finding that the House plan would significantly raise health-care costs a "misconception"? Was it a "misconception" that the now-abandoned section covering end-of-life issues had an in-built conflict of interest between lowering costs and providing care for the elderly? And is it a "misconception" that Mr. Obama's ultimate goal is a single-payer system, when Americans can watch him on earlier videos saying as much?

Right now the entire Beltway—including the West Wing—seems obsessed with finding out what went wrong with the administration's sales pitch. No one appears to think the problem might be substance. Or that the vague answers and vitriolic rhetoric we get from Democrats such as Mr. Reid convey a sense that the plans they favor will not hold up under public scrutiny.

In fairness to the senator, perhaps history will one day vindicate his "evil monger" statement as a prophetic Gipper moment. If so, the legions of white-haired grandpas and grandmas now descending on our nation's town halls will be exposed to be as irredeemably evil as, say, Iran or the USSR. When asked if the senator has any second thoughts about calling American citizens evil, a spokesman emailed me to say that Mr. Reid's only regret is the "hate-filled rhetoric and signage" being used "to disrupt civil dialogue."

Plainly the Nevada Democrat is taking no chances. Instead of pressing the flesh at a real town hall this August, Mr. Reid has opted for a tele-town hall late next week. Aides say the format allows him to reach thousands more people. Of course, it also protects him from having to come face to face with all those evil mongers out there.

As with so many of his colleagues, Mr. Reid appears unable to connect his attitude to a questioning American citizenry to poll results showing increased sympathy for town-hall protestors, flagging public support for the health-care plans in Congress, and an erosion of Democratic credibility from the White House to Capitol Hill. To paraphrase Anthony Lewis, what confidence can the American people have in leaders with such an outlook?

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freedom of speech?, in the US of A ?

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http://www.alternet.org/politics/141857/top_5_ways_the_%27birthers%27_are_like_the_global_warming_deniers/?page=entire

are you blind? Posted by: Rusty Shackleford on Aug 8, 2009 11:08 AM
Why is it that these right-wing nuts are allowed to post here but my wife's account on the Fox News website gets deleted when she posts one comment that isn't even that obviously left-wing?
I suppose it's for the same reason that the democrats hold open sessions, open to everyone, while the republicans, like a group of sexist little 8-year-old boys, hold closed sessions, where only registered republicans can join in.
They don't see our hospitality. They don't see our attempts to reach out. They don't see our pacifist attitudes. They don't see our logic and reason. Or... maybe..... maybe they do. Maybe they do see ALL of it, and they're scared of it. They're frightened of a truly liberal society where everyone has access to taxpayer funded healthcare. Where everyone drives long range electric cars, and minimum wage is $12/hour. Where the rich have to pay their fair share of taxes (90%), and the poor who make less than $20,000/year are tax-free. Where children have access to quality education in the forms of seminars that discuss life, happiness, and acceptance of others, instead of preparing them for a world of cut-throat competition and aggression.

I do not trust any police officer in this country

I don't trust any police officer in this country:

---too many police scandals over the years
---too many "Rodney King" incidents
---too many "police brutality" reports
---too many "fraternity cover-ups"

I rather trust a communist police officer in Moscow; - no personal agenda

The Obama Administration Health Care Train Wreck

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On the Senate side, Jeff Merkley is joining Ron Wyden, agreeing to give up the August recess if it means passing health care reform:

"I'm committed to passing health care reform and I'm extremely concerned that the window of opportunity is starting to close. Anything that can speed up Senate deliberation is valuable. And if keeping the Senate in session in August can move the bill forward, I'm absolutely committed to being here."

Finally, last Friday I attended a small gathering of bloggers who chatted with Dr. Howard Dean at Powell's Books in Portland. Dean was there on a book tour for his new book with a long ass title: Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer.

Dr. Dean powerfully advocated for the public insurance option to the attendees. "This is the test of whether it was worth it to putting a Democrat in the White House and such a big majority in the Senate," he said.

My take on all of this: "Obama is a dead fish in the water, belly up"

This country is Rape Nation

TITLE: This country is Rape Nation

This country as a whole has a problem. And the population needs to go see a psychiatrist.

Because:
-every family in this country has a rapist. Father, brother, Uncle you name it.

-every priest has raped for, five, a dozen boys forty years ago. And in 2008 or 2009 all the fifty-something rape victims

collectively remember it. Why they remember it now is a mystery.

-every doctor rapes his patients. And in 2008 or 2009 all the thirty-something remember their experience. Why they all

forgot about it and remember it now is a mystery.