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The Hillsdale bombing by Alex Youshock on August 24, 2009, seems self-fulfilling, in terms of it being a shock to the community where it occurred. On a deeper level, it continues the name-game theme seen recently with the death of John A. Keel and the involvement of the name " Ardmore " in clown and child abduction cases. If you recall, the name Ardmore is a Gaelic word signifying high grounds or hills . John A. Keel pointed to hilltops (literally the "keels" of the high grounds) as the best places to observe Forteana. Furthermore, synchromysticism's godfather John Shelby Downard was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Monday's school violence happened in Hillsdale, California, and, of course, there is a significant Hillsdale in anomalistic history. The famous Hillsdale UFO sightings of March, 1966, involved reports from Hillsdale County, as well as those in Livingston and Washtenaw Counties, Michigan. Over 100 witnesses (including policemen, college students, an...

We live in strange times, it seems, with politicians viewed through the character of an evil clown who was played by a famed actor who died young. Take this summer of 2009. Look at the new posters called "unpleasant," "disturbing" and a "fake grassroots movement" by liberal bloggers, and pointed out by conservatives as some kind of "popular" commentary. The original image was apparently created by Firas Khateeb, a student living in Chicago. However, whoever adapted it as a poster and added the legend, "socialism," is still a mystery. Photos by Chris, via Tammy Bruce . Made by persons unknown, the posters started showing up around Los Angeles. They are of President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight , with a none-too-subtle "socialism" message attached to them. It gets to be very cryptopolitical and weird out there. [Update: See SMiles' " Alex Jones as The Joker ."] LA...