From the Grapevine – Part One: 130 Facts or Opinions

Published by Dr. Phillip E Clark in Random
May 7, 2009

This article is to challenge you to research the statement given, which was heard by the Grapevine. The statements in this article was either heard and is a rumor or fact, you decide.

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From the Grapevine: Fact or Opinion?

1. Chloride/chlorine: Chloride and chlorine depletes the ozone layer? It’s eating at the ozone layer?

2. Abraham Lincoln: President Abraham Lincoln was born in Illinois 1863?

3. Recession: The pressure of recession hits the NFL? The organization is laying off players in 2009?

4. Merrill Lynch: The Merrill Lynch Company was bought by Bank of America?

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5. Belching: Belching is the result from swallowing air and expelling the gas form from the stomach through the mouth?

6. Seawater: 3% of Seawater is sodium chloride?

7. Dollar Bills: Stack a trillion $20 dollar bills up and you will be a 3rd away from the sun?

8. Personality: Some people personalities are like tornadoes? They tend to extract information from others in order to build themselves and being destructive. While others being constructive extract information from others in order to build themselves? (from: Dr. P)

9. Israel: Israel is God’s inheritance to gain a population of believers who are sealed recipients of God’s salvation?

10. Credit Card: The credit card specialists American Express becomes a bank?

11. The Past: Don’t caught up in the past, while the present is focused on the future? Watching the footprints of the past prevents studying the next steps into the future? (from: Dr. P)

12. Waste: Waste not, want not?

13. Banking: Merrill Lynch bought by Bank of America?

14. LA: The City of Los Angele’s have over 6 million citizens?

15. Hungry: Over 953 million people in 2008 worldwide went hungry? One out of seven persons went hungry?

16. Ozone: The Ozone depletion’s were noted over Switzerland in the 1970 and in 1990 the Continental USA, Canada, New Zea-land, and Hawaii? These measurements confirm that the decline of the ozone layer is not limited to the Antarctic?

17. Baldness: Baldmen verse men with full set of hair makes 16% more money in the workplace?

18. Fault-zone: Newport Angle, Whittier Fault, and San Andreas fault are located in California?

19. Earthquakes: Earthquake zones are Anchorage, Boston, Charleston, Memphis, Portland, Reno, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, and Seattle?

20. $100: A $100 dollar bill is a legal tender for debts?

21. San Andreas: San Andreas means raging god?

22. Sun Heat: Direct heat from the sun breaks down the immune system, long sun exposure can cause skin cancer and/or heart attack? Sun heat sets off electrical grids and causes human disorientation?

23. Immune system: The immune system fights toxin from insect bits, scraps, bruises, and a strong immune system fights disease?

24. Clouded: A clouded mind only shadows the heart?

25. Choices: Making choices in life never runs out?

26. Beer Burger: A hamburger made with a small measure of beer is non-alcoholic?

27. Flight 1549: The flight 1549 lands in the Hudson River, NY 2009?

28. Angels: Humans don’t become angels, and angels are not angelic babies but are huge and gigantic celestrial beings. (FACT)

29. Election: From 1908 to 2007 there haven’t been a record breaking turnout election except in 2008 for president? A record for 100 year record breaking election turnout?

30. Words: Words, pictures, thoughts, sayings, traditions, and charms are mental psychological thoughts? The weak and strong will become gullible? (Dr. P)

31. Workplace: A company can be great? Add textile humans to a company formation and it can be complex and great from the core? (Dr. P)

32. Pyramid: In 2008 a discovery of a pyramid in Egypt dates around a 4300 year old pyramid?

33. Urine: One day urine will be fertilized into fresh drinking water?

34. Storm: The tropical storm Faye hits land three times?

35. Fast-food: Chidren’s fast- food menu not so healthy?

36. Storms: Tropical storms and hurricanes have storm eyes?

37. Hubbard: The inventor of the Hubbard telescope died in 1953 and his wife hid his body?

38. Atoms: Durable atoms played a role in creating the universe?

39. Air: There are 45 billion billions of atoms in one cubit space of air?

40. Death: Atoms never dies, although human beings die, atoms go on living practically forever?

41. Coin: The 1st African American to appear on an US coin is Duke Ellington?

42. Vitamin: Vitamin D helps keep away the common cold?

43. FDR: President Franklin Roosevelt said, “I am an old campaigner and I love a good fight?” “We are the Great arsenal of diplomacy?

44. Shinto: Shintoism: the worship of the Emperor and descendants? To be Japanese is not a matter of choice?”

45. Pineapples: Pineapples don’t grow on trees?

46. Stringer: A Stringer is a member of press following police and fire events with photo coverage?

47. Delaware: The State of Delaware is the 1st State of the Union?

48. Housing: The US housing market loses $2 trillion in value in 2008?

49. Objects: God didn’t create objects, but living things? Man has created objects that has long decaying life?

50. Management: The right people in a company need little to no management over them?

51. Authorities: We will always be subject to higher authorities?

52. Stomach: The adult human stomach can hold one quart of food?

53. Women: Women don’t think they feel?

54. AIDS: AIDS is the deadliest infectious disease in China?

55. Cellphone: Old cell phone chargers causes over fifty tons of waste per year?

56. Crocodiles: In 2009 remains of a 5 year old was found in a crocodiles stomach?

57. Beer-belly: Sometime beer-belly is pressuring the spine? The pressure is an unnecessary strain, not to mention pressure on the legs and feet? Extra weight is also unnecessary pressure for internal organs, such as the heart?

58. Platectonics: In platectonics there are 20 minor plates and 8 large ones?

59. Sinking: Sinking countries include Australia and Indonesia?

60. Einstein: Einstein dies in 1955?

61. Galaxy: The galaxies are rushing apart? The universe is bent and has no edge?

62. Universe: The universe is billions of square miles of space?

63. Human Atoms: The human atoms are alive over 650,000 hours?

64. Points: A cylinder is a curve surface shortest distance of points on a sphere, a circle center to rim, equal distance rural triangle, equal diameter?

65. Organs: Every 10 years our body produces new organ replacement? For healthy cells copy after copy such as regeneration?

66. Hair: The average human grows seven miles of hair every year?

67. Exercise: Exercise gives strength to the heart?

68. Aging: In aging, oxygen slowly poisons free radicals slowly damaging cells?

69. Oatmeal: Eating a daily dose of oatmeal lowers cholesterol?

70. Moon: The Moon is 220,000 miles away from Earth?

71. War: North Korea and South Korea signs an agreement to officially end the Korean war for over 54 years in 2007?

72. Typhoon: A 2007 Typhoon floods China and Thailand?

73. Tap Water: In 5 of the major cities of the U.S. pharmaceutical elements were found in the drinking water?

74. Infants: Infants who have lack of sleep will be obese before 3 years old?

75. Iraq: The U.S. spent $500 billion in Iraq in 2008?

76. Advancement: Women’s advancement increased in the workforce?

77. Slowdown: 150 highway construction workers are killed by drivers yearly?

78. Persecution: Persecution is to get a person to depart from a belief or an extreme truth? Testing or picking to an degree of education, school, physical, spiritual, and natural beliefs?

79. Denmark: Denmark was voted the happiest country in the world? The United States the 16th happiest nation?

80. Silver Dollar: The new silver dollar will have the image of Louis Braille, the inventor of the alphabet for the blind?

81. S.S: Social Security is the largest source of income for most elderly people?

82. Petunias: Give your petunias a shot of vitamin B1 or B12 for healthy growth?

83. Roads: Roads are lifelines to cities?

84. Sunscreen: Sunscreen lotion may be burning the skin rather than helping/

85. Snow: The North pole is losing snow?

86. Jathopha: A fruit from Florida named the Jathopha Fruit is used for bio-diesel?

87. Idling: Idling cars at a drive-inn fast-food chains increase global warming?

88. Wind: Wind is modern energy?

89. Internet: The Internet will be all filled up and a company is preparing to enlarge it?

90. Public service: Public service is helping people?

91. Taxes: 2/3 of U.S. companies are paying taxes?

92. Italy: April 4th 2009 a 6.3 magnitude Earthquake rocks Italy, killing 250 people with an aftershock of 5.6 magnitude?

93. Pirates: Pirates hijacks a U.S. American citizen crew & cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, Africa?

94. Toxic: Toxic drywall from China is found in 60,000 U.S. homes?

95. Nano: The world’s cheapest 4-door car sells at $2000 U.S. dollars in India? The Nano is 10 feet long?

96. Recycle: Recycling includes: aluminum, plastic, plastic detergent bottles, newspapers, paper, and copper pennies?

97. Emperor: The Japanese Emperor is believed by the Japanese people to be equal to god of gods, Popes, Presidents, Cardinals, Arch bishops, and an Emperor god descendant of the Sun?

98. Moon: The moon is 220,000 miles away?

99. Stomach: The human stomach can hold 10 quarts of food?

100. Creation: It’s physically impossible without aid of man’s invention devices to ascend to the moon, visit a star in space, to fly like a bird through the sky, or to descend into the depths of the sea?

101. Decompression: Decompression is needed when ascending to fast from the depths of the sea?

102. Organs: Every 10 years we get new organs? Cells copy healthy cells, copy after copy, cell replacement?

103. Heart: Exercise gives strength to the heart, extra cavalries grow, and air-sac fill in the lungs?

104. Oatmeal: Eating oatmeal lowers cholesterol?

105. Circle: Shortest distance of points on a sphere equals a circle?

106. Aging: Oxygen slowly poisons us? Oxygen poisons free radicals which slowly damage the DNA cells?

107. DNA: DNA determines the length of life per individual? DNA imperfections: cell copy after copy soon loses vital pieces of originality, organs fail?

108. WWII: A published German war budget for 1933-39 states $80 billion was spent for rearming Germany?

109. Manchuria: Manchuria September 18, 1931, 6000 miles from San Francisco World War II began?

110. The Shroud: The Shroud of Turin, the burst of radiation imprint on the cloth has no way to duplicate the 3-D image? The photograph on the linen is the only photograph of the resurrection?

111. Ziggaret: The Ziggaret form is used to communicate with spirits or gods?

112. World: The World is 75% water and 25% land? The World’s wealth is that of 25%?

113. Germany: German historical names are the Prussians, the Huns, and the Nazis?

114. Carbon 14: 1260-1390 A.D. carbon 14 dating not an exact science?

115. Galaxies: The Universe is bent and has no edge?

116. Pluto: At the speed of light from Earth to Pluto would take 7 hours?

117. Planet: On Feb 1999 Pluto officially a planet?

118. Mass: Mass and Weight varies depending on the center of an objects mass?

119. Gravity: In space gravity hold objects together, on Earth it makes objects fall to the ground?

120. Magnetic: A Magnetic Zone protects the Earth?

121. Sonar: A wave of high pitch sound is sent out in a direction? The time it takes for the echoed pitched sound to return determines the distance?

122. Paragraph: The shortest PARAGRAPH in the Biblical Old Testament is Genesis 19:26?

123. Grades: Failing grades in the USA in crease the drop-out rates?

124. Kansas: A natural disaster in 2008 wiped out 95% of the town of Greens-burgs, Kansas?

125. Obedience: Obeying the law willingly is better than something forcing you to?

126. GE: Former President Ronald Reagan was Program Supervisor for General Electric in the mid 20th century?

127. Fate: Influence that affect the fate of this country are: movies, music, books, magazines, sports, newspapers, television, shows, governments, laws, education, and wars?

128. Parents: 60% of parents in the USA doesn’t want their children to work for their own government?

129. Bird: The early bird gets the worm?

130. Time: Time is money?