Friends, Enter the Serengeti of Synecdoche, to creep with elephant gun half-cocked through the high grass plains of the animal kingdom of Nostradamus’ words. »»]]>

Friends,
Enter the Serengeti of Synecdoche, to creep with elephant gun half-cocked through the high grass plains of the animal kingdom of Nostradamus’ words. We are doing the Safari Darwin of Debunk. We are up-wind of a pack of lionesses of skepticism watching their instinctive strategy of the hunt. They seek to pounce upon the weakest verses in the vast herd of Nostradamian quatrains: those Wildebeests of portent too slow to run off in sudden bright cognizance, the ones too vague in vision to see the huntresses approach.

These sorry ungulates of augury are ever the prey of debunkers, marking and maneuvering for the kill to cull the enfeebled and most confused in the “heard” of Nostradamus’ over 1,500 verses.

These are the only ones they dare hope to feast upon. You will rarely see a pack of debunkers fall between the horns of a full bull wildebeest prophecy: one with clear intent, gleaming in a black-eyed and sharp auguring vision, snorting and stamping its point hard in the ground, waiting. Daring a fool lion to think these are black haunches to claw and tooth without hazard.

A lioness tried it. Ten times. Back in the 1990s, the reigning “queen” of debunking lionesses, James Randi left his teeth rather than teeth marks in the behind of bull wildebeest quatrains and got gored for his troubles. It happened when I wrote for the sake of the hunted an answer to all of his attempts to eviscerate ten quatrains, famous for leaving behind them very large and lingering sharp horned prophetic accuracy.

Every once and awhile, when current events don’t demand a quick prophetic response, I will return to and refresh this prophetic showdown from the 1990s. We will run again from time to time with these skeptically dangerous quatrains, renewing the battle of beasts-of-prey prophecies and debunking predators.

For today, I’d like to talk about the vulnerable prophecies, the type we examined back in the blog article entitled “Nostradamus Predicts McCain Win? NOT!” — quatrains 78 and 79 of Century 10. These pathetic creatures are fair game for skeptics because they are exactly the right kind to easily chase down. They remain verses so vague and open to interpretation that con-skeptics swipe and claw them to the ground easily, so that you might think the rest of the “heard” quatrains are as easy for lions to clutch by the throat and smother like a scrawny dik-dik.

Beyond it being simply wrong or false, what makes a quatrain appear prophetically weak?

Either it may not give up its secrets until the clues make sense to those in the time it foresees; or, it’s something impossibly nebulous, intended for Nostradamus’ contemporary and long-departed audience. In either case, it is marked by weak credibility for a pounce and a “purr” puss full devouring.

Here’s the two prophecies again in the original Renaissance French followed by my English translation and commentary from 1997. I haven’t looked at these interpretations for 11 years and found it amusing that I waggishly predicted some future debunker would sink its fangs into them:

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10 Q78
Subite ioye en subite tristesse,
Sera ?† Rome aux graces embrassees:
Dueil, cris, pleurs, larm. sang excellent liesse
Contraires bandes surprinses & troussees.

Sudden joy into sudden sadness
Will be at Rome for the graces embraced.
Grief, cries, tears, weeping. Blood, excellent mirth
Contrary groups surprised and trussed up.

A vision of the contradictory images fluttering on modern Italian television? Who knows. This could describe any number of instances of sudden joy and sadness felt by people waiting for news of survivors from some ship or airplane accident.

10 Q79

The old paths will be all improved,
One will travel on them (to a place) similar to Memphis:
The great Mercury of Hercules, fleur-de-lys,
Causing to quake land, sea and country.

As far as I know, the authors of cheap-thrills Nostradamus articles in the tabloids have yet to make hay over line 2 of this quatrain:

FLASH! Nostradamus predicts Elvis slighting!

The new king from Memphis probably isn’t the King of Rock. As flashy as his sequined costumes were, I never saw any with fleur-de-lys designs. But all seriousness aside, a snarling and sexy king of another song and dance is meant here. The great Hercules of the lilies can only be a king of France. The references to home improvements in the first two lines are not intended for the new driveway at Graceland. They are better applied to the public works of Louis XIV during the period of 57 peaceful years when the rocks of the stonemasons rolled to finish the Palace of Versailles. “Thank-yuh-v’ry-much.”

Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies, (1997) p. 809

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We’ll take on the bull quatrains by the horns as soon as stock market crashes and forecasting the fates Obama cabinet choices give me the time to go hunting.

John Hogue
(07 November 2008)

Friends Toto, Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion bear witness to my 7 October predictions posted on this bog three days ago »»]]>

Friends
Toto, Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion bear witness to my 7 October predictions posted on this bog three days ago on Election Day.

It’s a full month later. Four days have passed since the election. Long enough time for all the votes to be counted. Let’s see how I did:

1.) The following is categorically going to happen: Barack Obama will win the electoral collage and thus win the presidency.

ASSESSMENT:
Correct. At the time of this writing, the Missouri vote is still being counted but Obama enjoyed a rapid and complete landslide in the Electoral College with over a hundred more votes than he needed. Obama will win a projected 365 electoral votes to McCain’s 162.

2.) He will win the Electoral College vote early that night. We will know who was elected president of the United States by no later than 11 pm Pacific Time.

ASSESSMENT:
Correct. We knew early who was the winner very early. There would be no long night of waiting, or weeks of disputed recounts. A moment after the polls closed on the West Coast at 8 p.m. all the major news channels unanimously declared Obama the winner by an overwhelming Electoral College landslide.

3.) The future of the popular vote is murkier. Because Obama DID NOT choose Clinton as a running mate, he has made this a close election –¬† one in which there’s an outside chance the McCain/Palin ticket could even win a slim margin in the popular vote that hasn’t been seen since Nixon lost a potentially disputable election against Kennedy in 1960.

ASSESSMENT:
Not quite correct on the popular vote being murkier, but correct on it being close. Obama didn’t win a mandate coming in at 6.5 percent of the popular vote. A true mandate is a minimum of 10 percent or more.

Obama gambled on picking the running mate he wanted as president. Moreover, as he appears to be echoing the karma of John Kennedy, he did not make Kennedy’s compromise. Obama didn’t pick a vice presidential nominee he personally disliked but deemed necessary to pick up votes. Kennedy in 1960 picked Lyndon Johnson to carry the US South. Obama stuck to his statesman principles. He picked someone he felt comfortable with as councilor rather than a necessary political compromise he could marginalize later. Obama threw the dice and once again showed he had the luck.

He was also lucky the Republicans couldn’t summon someone more formidable. A future disputed close election was avoided because of McCain’s strategic mistakes, such as playing the “maverick” after the economic crisis began while Obama continued playing it cool and stable, presenting a calming choice for president. The Change-meister stood in sharp contrast to McCain’s bottom-squirming moments during the presidential debates when wild gestures and sometimes-unhinged expressions made him look cartoonish. Was this a future president or a comedic impersonation of the bugged-and-squinting eyed Bill D. Cat? That’s the Sylvester-on-speed-hair-balls, “gack gack”-ing creation of cartoonist Berkeley Breathed created for the comic strips Bloom County (1980s) Outland and Opus?

If McCain had picked Mitt Romney as his VP running mate he would have had a cool and stable Republican with respectable business credentials as his backup, not a straight and strident shooting, plucky moose plugger, Sarah Palin. The Governor of Alaska choice made for great political theater and even though my friends on the left still can’t figure it out, my friends on the right were galvanized by her red moose meat and Anchorage potato spud Republican values, if not so much by her lack of national political skill sets. She made this election close. However, the timelines that my oracle also presented to me indicate that Mitt Romney would have made the election far closer. I had predicted in early January 2008 that Romney would make the best president of the Republican Primary candidates.

More than that, one has to consider how “real” issues can sway the voting public. For instance, I can’t see Tina Fey in a suit doing a good Mitt Romney impersonation, but I could see the former Governor of Massachusetts being a formidable opponent and a great communicator for the Republican agenda on the economic front. And, since any racial or religious discrimination in presidential election lost you votes (unless it was misogynistic) any taunts of “Mormon” in “magic pants” would not have had the effect on a male VP candidate that Clinton pant suits and Palin-eolithic skirted chic had.

4.) If this election is disputed, the hubris of Obama is responsible. If Clinton had been his running mate it wouldn’t even be close. Read this carefully. If there is one iota of potential remaining that Obama could even LOSE this election, it will come from his bad political choice in running mates. He needed a centrist to win big, not someone like Senator Joe Biden, who is nearly as left leaning as himself.¬† Biden might make a good Vice President (he may even “become” president) but first things first. You have to win the election.

ASSESSMENT:
I had to report on this possible destiny despite its fulfillment being remote. Then again, I thought it was remote that Hillary Clinton’s one vote legacy gaff in October 2002 — siding with those granting war powers to Bush leading to the Iraq Invasion — would cost her the presidency. It did lose her the primary and a chance to run in November. You can see what I said about it back in early 2007 HERE. Therefore, for the sake of prophetic caution I had to explain the remote possibility of Obama losing the election. I foresaw a future and hold to it, that with Clinton as his VP running mate he would have attained a popular mandate of 15 percent or more, even though this future path is closed.

5.) Personally, I confessed to George Noory on Coast to Coast that I thought the election would not be that close in the popular vote. I added that if I’m going to be wrong it could be about the election being close.

ASSESSMENT:
The final vote in 2008 was definitely not a landslide like Nixon over McGovern in 1972 or Johnson over Goldwater in 1964. Johnson beat Goldwater by a difference of nearly 16 million votes. Nixon beat McGovern by nearly 18 million. Obama will carry an estimated difference against McCain of around 9 million.

The voter turnout in 2008 was only two million more than in 2004. The projected 136.6 to 140 million record voter turnout forecast by some pundits — the largest in 100 years — never happened. The total national voter turnout at the time of this writing will clear only a little more than 225 million votes. No group of voters was decisive, either. The much-ballyhooed Obama youth vote was not a key factor.

6.) Beyond my personal feelings are those mysterious “revelations” of my oracle that after 40 years of successful presidential predicting cannot be discounted. My Oracle says this is going to be a close popular vote. The race over the coming few weeks will tighten. The best Obama can hope for is a popular vote count between 4 and 8 percent. Nothing higher, and certainly even lower than 4 percent is possible.

ASSESSMENT:
Well in the end, that mystery of augury that uses me as a medium was right and my personal feelings about the vision was once again wrong. The popular vote fell within my Oracle’s more modest percentile projections for a good night for Obama (between 4 to 8 percent of the popular vote. He got 6.5 percent, receiving 65,340,608 votes (52.6 percent) to McCain’s 57,358,053 votes (46.1 percent).

7.) Still, he will win the Electoral College, no matter how many calls for state recounts there may be.

ASSESSMENT:
There were thankfully no calls for recounts even though Missouri’s count is still out. (It will go to McCain, I think.) North Carolina took several more days to tally their close elections sending it to Obama side. Add therefore 15 electoral votes giving Obama 364 to McCain’s 163 electoral votes (174 if Missouri passes to him). The electoral landslide was so early and so overwhelming that if there were shenanigans with the ballots none made the election close enough for armies of blue versus red lawyers to come out of their trenches swinging in a half dozen battleground states.

8.) I don’t recall if I said this on Coast to Coast, so I’ll make sure it is recorded here for posterity. There’s a potential return to the days of Florida 2000 in more than one state, only this time around, the burden of defending themselves against cries of voter fraud, bungled ballots and miscounts will be on operatives of the Democratic Party and special left-wing interests more than on the Republicans. The Left will no longer be able to uphold the myth that only the Right steals elections and tampers with voting machines or those computers that record the tallies of such.

ASSESSMENT:
I did get one thing right in number 8. I reviewed my radio predictions in early October and I did say that voter fraud would make more news this time around from the Democratic side. Then came the Acorn scandal. Some Acorn registrars, piece paid by the headhunt to sign up the maximum amount of left-of-center voters, entered thousands of phony names, including Disney characters, and the entire Dallas Cowboys Football team. Acorn forever busted the myth that only Republican ideologues try to steal elections.

9.) In the end, it matters not, for Obama will be elected president on 4 November 2008. Even though he threw away a popular mandate by not picking Clinton as his running mate, Obama will enjoy a mandate in the Congress. I predict the Democratic Party will have two-thirds majorities in BOTH the House and the Senate. That means in the Senate, Democrats could win even a few more seats than 60.

ASSESSMENT:
He got the legislative mandate in the House of Representatives, but I will definitely be wrong about gaining more than 60 votes in the Senate. Right now, it stands at 57: a caucus of 54 Democrats and two Independents. I’m still holding out for a Democratic legislative mandate of 60 seats if the Senate Election recount in Minnesota tips to the comedian-turned-politician, Al Frankin. He’s currently behind incumbent Senator Coleman by a mere 221 votes. Georgia could see the Democrat Jim Martin win against Republican Chambliss in the run-off election expected in mid-December. The felon in Alaska, incumbent Ted Stevens (guilty of corruption), may yet lose his seat once all the absentee ballots are counted.

Prediction number 10 is a prophecy in motion like the future. We will return to it at the end of February 2009 when Obama and the Democratic Party begins (endures?) their first month in office commanding both the Executive and Congressional branches of Government. Here’s the prediction once again:

10.) After Election night the Democratic Party will be standing naked. It will no longer be able to pretend it can’t act because it is clothed in a Republican straight jacket made of the fabric of Senate filibuster or the confining corset of a Republican president’s veto power. The Democratic Party elect will no longer hide their warts, cellulite flab and hypocrisies under a cloak of excuses. The American people will vote them the Executive Branch and both houses to do the people’s business unimpeded. Do not take this as a mandate to take American government out of the frying pan of one ideological extreme into the fire of another –¬† from Right Wing extremism to Left.

The American people will speak on 4 November and their vote will say it really IS time for a change.

What kind?

They expect balance, fairness. They seek a purple American government, not dark blue after eight years of deep red. So listen well, Democratic Party elect. After Election Night, you will stand exposed.

You are on a two-year probation granted by a slim majority of your judges and parole officers, the American voters.

CHANGE!

Or suffer dire political consequences in the mid-term elections that could isolate President Obama and rob him of his destiny.

Look for a bulletin about Prophecy 10 on 20 February 2009.

John Hogue
(08 November 2008)

Friends I got this great CGI political cartoon from Johnny Anonymous who hosts the ATSmix with Dave Rabbit. I enjoy doing radio pod casts »»]]>

Friends
I got this great CGI political cartoon from Johnny Anonymous who hosts the ATSmix with Dave Rabbit. I enjoy doing radio pod casts with them. They are very funny, witty guys. Together we invoke the fond memory of Sebastian Cabot (the late British Actor, and my look-alike) to have some in-depth yet serious fun with doomsday. I mean, if you can’t laugh at doomsday, what can you laugh at?

Well! Here we are at last, at the End of the Beginning. The wooing is about won. The honeymoon is soon to be over. The next president will have to shift his sweet talking from promising us “Change we can believe in” to explain just how we will embark on that exciting, painful, transforming course to “A Change we can Become.”

What that “Change” is, only the mighty and all-powerful Wizard of Oz knows.

John McCain kind of looks like the befuddled Elmer-fuddish and foppy Wizard of Oz in the classic movie that Toto so rudely revealed when the little bit of an intrepid doggie pulled the curtain back on the Wiz’s charade. However, he’s about to be sent packing on a balloon back to Kansas. (Or was it Arizona?)

Well, bust my buttons! I wish the Wizard of Arizona a good life. Perhaps he can be president of the Lollypop League or fight for the rights of Munchkins on the floor of the Senate. For that is where prophecy will land him (after the pop of his presidential ambition balloon.)

Obama courted the American people with his full court press of promises. He will be our hubbie-in-chief and no tapping of ruby Republican red slippers three times, reciting “There’s no place like home — there’s no president like Reagan — will bring the farm house down to that black and white political world again.

So, I suggest you celebrate the history changing Election Night cuddling with your favorite Munchkin, winged Chimpanzee, naughty witch, tin man, dancing scarecrow or cowardly lion by listening to George Noory’s special Coast to Coast AM show starting 9 p.m. Pacific, tonight (Election Night). I don’t yet know when I’ll be on, or whether Ron Paul will join us, but it will be a Wizard of Oz hoot for sure. You can bet your burnt witch’s broom on it, Wiz.

Check your local Premier Radio affiliates for the show. You can also listen live on internet or download a pod cast later on at: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

MY PRESIDENTIAL PREDICTIONS

(I made these on my 7 October appearance on Coast to Coast AM and I still hold to them:)

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1.) The following is categorically going to happen: Barack Obama will win the electoral collage and thus win the presidency.

2.) He will win the Electoral College vote early that night. We will know who was elected president of the United States by no later than 11 pm Pacific Time.

3.) The future of the popular vote is murkier. Because Obama DID NOT choose Clinton as a running mate, he has made this a close election — one in which there’s an outside chance the McCain/Palin ticket could even win a slim margin in the popular vote that hasn’t been seen since Nixon lost a potentially disputable election against Kennedy in 1960.

4.) If this election is disputed, the hubris of Obama is responsible. If Clinton had been his running mate it wouldn’t even be close. Read this carefully. If there is one iota of potential remaining that Obama could even LOSE this election, it will come from his bad political choice in running mates. He needed a centrist to win big, not someone like Senator Joe Biden, who is nearly as left leaning as himself. Biden might make a good Vice President (he may even “become” president) but first things first. You have to win the election.

5.) Personally, I confessed to George Noory on Coast to Coast that I thought the election would not be that close in the popular vote. I added that if I’m going to be wrong it could be about the election being close.

6.) Beyond my personal feelings are those mysterious “revelations” of my oracle that after 40 years of successful presidential predicting cannot be discounted. My Oracle says this is going to be a close popular vote. The race over the coming few weeks will tighten. The best Obama can hope for is a popular vote count between 4 and 8 percent. Nothing higher, and certainly even lower than 4 percent is possible.

7.) Still, he will win the Electoral College, no matter how many calls for state recounts there may be.

8.) I don’t recall if I said this on Coast to Coast, so I’ll make sure it is recorded here for posterity. There’s a potential return to the days of Florida 2000 in more than one state, only this time around, the burden of defending themselves against cries of voter fraud, bungled ballots and miscounts will be on operatives of the Democratic Party and special left-wing interests more than on the Republicans. The Left will no longer be able to uphold the myth that only the Right steals elections and tampers with voting machines or those computers that record the tallies of such.

9.) In the end, it matters not, for Obama will be elected president on 4 November 2008. Even though he threw away a popular mandate by not picking Clinton as his running mate, Obama will enjoy a mandate in the Congress. I predict the Democratic Party will have two-thirds majorities in BOTH the House and the Senate. That means in the Senate, Democrats could win even a few more seats than 60.

10.) After Election night the Democratic Party will be standing naked. It will no longer be able to pretend it can’t act because it is clothed in a Republican straight jacket made of the fabric of Senate filibuster or the confining corset of a Republican president’s veto power. The Democratic Party elect will no longer hide their warts, cellulite flab and hypocrisies under a cloak of excuses. The American people will vote them the Executive Branch and both houses to do the people’s business unimpeded. Do not take this as a mandate to take American government out of the frying pan of one ideological extreme into the fire of another — from Right Wing extremism to Left.

The American people will speak on 4 November and their vote will say it really IS time for a change.

What kind?

They expect balance, fairness. They seek a purple American government, not dark blue after eight years of deep red. So listen well, Democratic Party elect. After Election Night, you will stand exposed.

You are on a two-year probation granted by a slim majority of your judges and parole officers, the American voters.

CHANGE!

Or suffer dire political consequences in the mid-term elections that could isolate President Obama and rob him of his destiny.

***

I posted this on my early election morn (Pacific time). Now the wait begins to see how many things I got right or wrong. I start pawing my furry lion’s tail nervously for the reckoning later this evening. I will stand in the rain in line at the polling place, pondering the presidential outcome and get Tin Man rusted (easy thing to do up here in the Pacific Northwest). Actually I voted absentee on Halloween night but I liked the image of the last sentence and since this is about politics I’ll join the two candidates and be a bit too fee and easy with the truth. In additon, while I await my radio appearance in the evening and sort out the talking head cases as polls begin closing on the East Coast, I might, like Dorothy, get hit on the head by a door-in-a -tornado of new insights and have a different technicolor vision to tell on Coast about the next president that will rival Oz, the Emerald City and Munchkinland

Here’s a preview prophecy we can sing to the signature song “We’re off to see the Wizard”:

We’re off to see Obama,
Obama Obama in Oz.
He’ll be the Prez,
If ever a Prez,
If ever a Prez he was.
If ever, oh! ever a Prez he was,
Barack Obama’s the one because,
Because, because, because, because, becaaaause!
Because of the Wonder of Change we Buzz.
Dah-dittily, dittily doo! Dee dum!
We’re off to see Obama!
The wonderful Wizard of US!!

John Hogue
(Afternoon of 3 November 2008,
posted Election Morning: 4 November 2008)

CAP News, a tongue-in-cheeky cyber journalism web site, proclaimed Dr. Hubert Evans »»]]> Friends,
To paraphrase a Monty Python skit, “And now for something completely and prophetically different‚Äö?Ѭ?”

CAP News, a tongue-in-cheeky cyber journalism web site, proclaimed Dr. Hubert Evans used a prophecy from Nostradamus to prove Senator John McCain would become president. This fellow is touted to be some Professor in Renaissance Studies at Yale University and author of the best-selling book: Nostradamus: Prophesize This!

Looking at his conclusions I believe he is more “spoof”-fessor than professor and rather than Yale University, he hails from James Randi U., brandishing his “Pen” to be a “Teller” of tall Nostradamians tales.

This Evans fellow (who I assume is not a man with three buttocks) declared, “Conventional wisdom picks Obama. Nostradamus, four and a half centuries ago, picked John McCain.”

“Quatrain 78, Century 10 in particular seems to indicate that Obama had better not be measuring the White House windows for curtains quite yet, at least by my interpretation,” boasted Dr. Evans.

Here is his translation

‚Äö?Ñ??At the war’s end
The Feeble Kept-One will strike down the Night
And his Imbecile Queen will rise from the snow
Bedecked in finery and the pelt of a wolf.”

Here now is the actual Renaissance French followed by a literal translation of 10 Q78:

Subite ioye en subite tristesse,
Sera ?† Rome aux graces embrassees:
Dueil, cris, pleurs, larm. sang excellent liesse
Contraires bandes surprinses & troussees.

Whatever Doctor Hubert Evans is, his knowledge of Renaissance languages has been protected by teacher’s tenure far too long.

The article is clearly a fling of mud slung by punked-journalism. It is an attempt at sophomoric humor from cynics putting on airs of skeptical inquiry, trying to set up a Nostradamus credibility buzz kill for Chip Manheim, who we are told is a “renowned skeptic and paranormal debunker.”

Segue now to a bit of bullish Chip:

“Whenever current events cough up a notable historic chapter, like on 9-11, the Nostradamus nuts are right there, twisting text to make the prediction meet the event,” Chip chafed.

“Just in terms of comparison, take a look at the next quatrain from Century 10, Quatrain 79. This, incidentally, was the last quatrain that Nostradamus ever wrote:

“In five moons, the Feeble Kept-One is no more
In addition, his Imbecile Queen sees the Great Bear
From her backyard, almighty, and flings giant poison arrows
In addition, the Great Bear responds in kind, and, well, The End.

“What the f**k does that even mean?” Manheim exclaimed.

The answer, Chip, without need to wax vulgar is that you are perhaps severely impaired intellectually, or perhaps a less than stellar researcher and investigator, or most likely just doing your part in a propaganda campaign to belittle a fair and balanced study of Nostradamus by uttering false information as fact for a fib.

For one thing, Century 10 Quatrain 79 was not the last verse Nostradamus wrote or published. Anyone who has actually READ his book ‘Les Propheties’ (The Prophecies) knows that he wrote 21 quatrains after Quatrain 79 to finish Century 10 at 100 quatrains.

Chip Manheim’s grasp of Nostradamian French is even farther removed from diddling Dr. Evans persona. Here is the original words and spelling:

Les vieux chemins seront tous embellys,
Lon passera ?† Memphis somentree:
Le grand Mercure d’Hercules fleur de lys,
Faisant trembler terre, mer & contree.

And the translation into English:

It would seem that the “Nostradamus’ nuts” are the Nostradamus debunkers.

Certainly, we should train a truly skeptical eye on the prophecies of Nostradamus. The root of skepticism in ancient Greek is “to investigate.” Notice that the word does not qualify bearing a preconceived prejudice for or against what is about to be investigated.

I like a good joke at Nostradamus’ expense; however, this one is spiced to sharply with negative agendas. I “predict” CAP will do better next time. (I did laugh at the book title: Nostradamus: Prophecize This!)

There will ever be new generations of con-artists, cynical propagandists, parlor magicians beyond their prime seeking new employ as debunkers, Nostradamus comedy writers, etc., that will use their negative skills to deceive, to twist and help people idly laugh off serious investigation into Nostradamus’ prophecies.

They don’t seem to get it. These fake critics never do as much harm to the study of Nostradamus, but they do do grievous harm to true skeptical inquiry.

John Hogue
(3 November 2008)

PS‚Äö?Ñ?ÆAfter the election tomorrow, I will explain Quatrains 78 and 79 to you. They are a foggy trip and I will tell you why cynical wolves in the fleece of skeptical inquiry clothing prey on them.

PSS–Will McCain still win, according to Nostradamus? Stay tuned for tomorrow’s Election Day bulletin.