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The Loughner Space Coincidences

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Jared Loughner, with UFO imagery created by Red Pill Junkie, a Fortean blogger. "What is government if words have no  meaning ?" Jared Lee  Loughner   asked Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in 2007. So what is the meaning of Loughner ? It appears to be a Americanized version of the German name  Lachner , which is an "occupational name for a physician, Middle High German  lachenære  'healer' (see  Leach),  which issues from the "topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or lake, from Middle High German  lache ."  The leeches found in aquatic locales, of course, are associated with the  medieval medical practice of "bleeding," often by applying leeches to the sick person,  ( Dictionary of American Family Names , Oxford University Press ). "Lough" is the Irish word for "loch" or "lake," so the origins of the name is decidedly watery in nature. The Jared Lee Loughner case has developed into a classic weird tri...

July 21: Moon, Death, Masons and Golf

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The flag that Brother Mason Buzz Aldrin unfurled on the Moon on July 21, 1969, when he stated " our flags " were being planted on the lunar surface. July 21, 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). Grissom was scheduled to be the first man to walk on the Moon. Instead, Grissom was killed January 27, 1967, along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a training exercise and pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the Kennedy Space Center. Grissom was born in Mitchell, Indiana. Grissom was a master Mason and member of Mitchell Lodge 228. July 21, 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission. Buzz Aldrin is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Masonic Knight Templar, and a Shriner. Buzz flew the Supreme Council's flag on the moon. That flag is now on...