CBS News sinks to new low; publishes crackpot global warming story, attributes it to AP, kills it

Watts Up With That? ^ | June 19, 2008 | Anthony Watts

[1rudeboy]

CBS News sinks to new low; publishes crackpot global warming story, attributes it to Associated Press, kills it with no retraction

Yesterday I posted a story from CBS News: Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes?

The main headline was this: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming

This drew a lot of attention because of the total lack of verifiable science associated with it. I posted some graphs of USGS data showing that the opposite was true, that recent earthquake energy was actually less that in the early 1900’s, and several commenters pointed out that the source of the story, a Dr. Tom Chalko, has some less than stellar associations with what I would describe as “new age” mysticism, such as Thiaoouba Prophecy and “reading your Aura”. He also writes a dandy piece entitled “Global Warming: Can Earth EXPLODE?” which is linked to a website he runs about “bioresonance” where you can buy a “bioresonant” shirt.

So with that sort of science background available on the web for anyone to see in a few seconds of searching, one wonders how CBS News was duped into running a story like this without even bothering to check into the author. This makes the “historic” Microsoft Word documents used by Dan Rather to discredit President Bush’s National Guard Service look like a peer reviewed science paper.

The story gets weirder. CBS attributed the story on their website to the Associated Press (AP) and you can see that clearly in the screen capture of the story [at link]. Odd thing though, there is no byline, no story author as you usually see with an AP story . . . .

After apparently learning of the less than scientific associations of the lead author of the research, CBS removed it from their website as of about 3 p.m. EST on June 19. This was the original link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/18/tech/main4191556.shtml

Here is where it gets interesting, after CBS pulled the story from their website, I did some searches for it on the Associated Press website at www.ap.org thinking it would still be there.

The story is not found in searches at www.ap.org using “Tom Chalko” or “earthquake global warming”

At the www.ap.org search, for earthquake(s) we find many stories either side of it on June 18th:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=CAVIC&query=earthquakes

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=CAVIC&query=earthquake

But nothing about the Chalko story. Putting in the authors name “Tom Chalko” also yields nothing on ap.org. I wasn’t content with that, so I asked my radio station newsroom at KPAY to run a search on the AP wire stories they receive; nothing turned up. I also asked the editor of our local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise Record, to run a search, and he also found no evidence that AP had transmitted this story.

A further point- it seems to be only connected to CBS News, and their attribution to the AP appears when I do Google News searches such as this one:

“earthquakes global warming Associated press” or “Tom Chalko AP” the only association that appears is the CBS story with (AP) in it, as shown in the screencap [at link].

[1rudeboy]

More goodies at the link. Give this guy some hits, he deserves them.

[kidd]

...one wonders how CBS News was duped into running a story like this without even bothering to check into the author...

Well, there is a precident...

[jmaroneps37]

Well let’s see the ratmedia acting like anti Ameriican scumbags, the news here is what?

[KoRn]

It appears that both the story, AND the source were just made up. lol

I think the National Enquirer has more credibility than most of our main stream “news” organizations.

[HerrBlucher]

I consider ALL stories of human caused global warming to be crackpot.....some are more crackpot than others though.

[HerrBlucher]

I think the National Enquirer has more credibility than most of our main stream “news” organizations.

They see red meat and they just can't help themselves. That was certainly the case with Rathergate. Plus, they know that the facade of "objectivity" was blown off long ago so why not indluge in hysterical reporting for fun and profit eh?

[CedarDave]

Here are the FR links to the two original stories:

Earthquakes Became Five Times More Energetic Due to Global Warming

No second chance? Can Earth explode as a result of Global Warming?

Chalko's a far, far out woo-woo crystal-loving nutcase.

Dr Tom J. Chalko lives in Mt Best, Victoria, Australia. He holds PhD in laser holography since 1979 and MEngSc in engineering since 1975. From 1982 to 2001 he was an academic at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys a good health, that he has restored himself in 1994 from quite a miserable state. He plays classical guitar exceptionally well, enjoys windsurfing (he calls himself a speed addict here), takes time to practice meditation, telepathy and astral travel. His hobbies include challenging paradigms and paradoxes in geophysics, studying puzzling properties of electro-photonic glow (Auras) using Kirlian camera, learning to see human aura, discovering purpose of life, as well as organizing controversial seminars.

[GOPJ]

So with that sort of science background available on the web for anyone to see in a few seconds of searching, one wonders how CBS News was duped into running a story like this without even bothering to check into the author.

Great post, 1rude. Thanks.

[AlexW]

“I think the National Enquirer has more credibility than most of our main stream “news” organizations.”

Sadly, the dumbed down public will take this junk
hook, line, and sinker.

[ConservativeMind]

FYI.

[rahbert]

astral travel??

[LayoutGuru2]

Today's Quakes Deadlier Than In Past, Study: Seismic Activity 5 ...

New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just ...
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/18/tech/main4191556.shtml - 81k - Cached - Similar pages

[Erasmus]

"Tom Chalko AP"

This wasn't an attribution to AP at all.

It's actually Tom Chalko's title: Advanced Putz.

[CedarDave]

As seasoned internet news junkies know, if the story had run on the AP wire service, it would have showed up automatically in several newspapers, radio, and TV station websites. But it did not.

It appears that the original source for this story was from a website in Canada, called “marketwire” which has some of the same exact quotes as the CBS story.
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=869983

MSNBC also apparently fell for the Marketwire story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25222766/

It appears that the staff of two of the "news" organizations most dedicated to pushing "global warming" drank a little too much of their own Kool-Aid!

[The Free Engineer]

But those nice folks at CBS really really wanted it to be true.

And as we have seen that is the standard at CBS.

[ETL]

THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD

ABSTRACT:

"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.

Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.

If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."

http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html

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The graph above represents temperature and CO2 levels over the past 400,000 years. It is the same exact data Al Gore and the rest of the man-made global warmers refer to. The blue line is temps, the red CO2 levels. The deep valleys represent 4 separate glaciation periods. Now look very carefully at this relationship between temps and CO2 levels and keep in mind that Gore claims this data is the 'proof' that CO2 has warmed the earth in the past. But does the graph indeed show this? Nope. In fact, rising CO2 levels all throughout this 400,000 year period actually lagged behind temperature increases ...by an average of 800 years! So it couldn't have been CO2 that got Earth out of these 4 past glaciations. Yet Gore dishonestly and continually claims otherwise.-ETL

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"The above chart shows the range of global temperature through the last 500 million years. There is no statistical correlation between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the last 500 million years and the temperature record in this interval. In fact, one of the highest levels of carbon dioxide concentration occurred during a major ice age that occurred about 450 million years ago. Carbon dioxide concentrations at that time were about 15 times higher than at present.":
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010405M

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FWD:

So, greenhouse [effect] is all about carbon dioxide, right?

Wrong. The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.

In simple terms the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, 'Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,' Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).

The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other 'minor greenhouse gases.' As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

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FWD:

Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many 'facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

Human activites contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NBC Nightly had a big laugher based on man made climate, floods, etc last night.

[LayoutGuru2]

Click on the “Cached” link to view the story...

[ETL]

Hugo Chavez on Global Warmimg

"The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet."

"I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don't think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, 'tomorrow could be too late, let's do now what we need to do'."

"I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet."

--Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/640/640p16.htm

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Maxine Waters warns Shell president in House committee hearing

Posted: May 23, 2008
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A report by Fox News, captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com (Must see video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaY3LhJ-IQ) , showed Waters challenging the president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, to guarantee the prices consumers pay will go down if the oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want off of U.S. shores.

Hofmeister replied: "I can guarantee to the American people, because of the inaction of the United States Congress, ever-increasing prices unless the demand comes down."

The Shell exec said paying $5 at the pump "will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies."

Waters responded, in part, "And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um. …"

The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts [for about 5-6 seconds this went on, while her colleagues behind her laughed].

"...would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …"

The oil executives responded, according to Fox News, by saying they've seen this before, in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

Congresswoman threatens to nationalize oil industry Maxine Waters warns Shell president in House committee hearing:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65111

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Chávez vows to nationalize all energy - International Herald Tribune:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/14/business/chavez.php

Venezuela's Chavez says government could nationalize supermarkets, food storage facilities:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/15/business/LA-FIN-Venezuela-Nationalizations.php

Chavez to nationalize telecom, utilities:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16530241/

U.S. blasts Chavez plan to nationalize electricity, phones:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-01-08-venezeula-usat_x.htm

[MindBender26]

There was a time when the Tiffany Network simply got it right.

Now decisions are made by “the news children” who WANT stories like this to be right, regardless of the facts.

Years ago, in the old UPI City Room in Chicago, there hung a sign with sage words of advice to all reporters and editors:

“If your mother says she loves you,
Check it out!”

Today, that sign would be ignored.

[Eva]

It looks like someone picked up an old story from June 2006 and reran it. The original story came from some nutty woman at the WSJ, who often writes articles that are based on the meta narrative of global warming. The story was then picked up by some enviro-nazi sites, where it laid dormant for two years.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They are right about the level of the Weekly World News that publishes stories about B-17’s “found” on the moon.

[Old Professer]

CBS may have taken that wacko off the Net but check this out:

Weather.gov Forecast

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301-713-2087 ext 174
Scientific Assessment Captures Effects of a Changing Climate on Extreme Weather Events in North America
June 19, 2008

High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research today released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change previously evaluated extreme weather and climate events on a global basis in this same context. However, there has not been a specific assessment across North America prior to this report.

Among the major findings reported in this assessment are that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes are likely to become more commonplace as humans continue to increase the atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

The report is based on scientific evidence that a warming world will be accompanied by changes in the intensity, duration, frequency, and geographic extent of weather and climate extremes.

“This report addresses one of the most frequently asked questions about global warming: what will happen to weather and climate extremes? This synthesis and assessment product examines this question across North America and concludes that we are now witnessing and will increasingly experience more extreme weather and climate events,” said report co-chair Tom Karl, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
“We will continue to see some of the biggest impacts of global warming coming from changes in weather and climate extremes,” said report co-chair Gerry Meehl, Ph.D., of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “This report focuses for the first time on changes of extremes specifically over North America.”

The full CCSP 3.3 report, Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate, and a summary FAQ brochure are available online.

Global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases, according to the report. Many types of extreme weather and climate event changes have been observed during this time period and continued changes are projected for this century. Specific future projections include:

Abnormally hot days and nights, along with heat waves, are very likely to become more common. Cold nights are very likely to become less common.
Sea ice extent is expected to continue to decrease and may even disappear in the Arctic Ocean in summer in coming decades.
Precipitation, on average, is likely to be less frequent but more intense.
Droughts are likely to become more frequent and severe in some regions.
Hurricanes will likely have increased precipitation and wind.
The strongest cold-season storms in the Atlantic and Pacific are likely to produce stronger winds and higher extreme wave heights.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and information service delivery for transportation, and by providing environmental stewardship of our nation’s coastal and marine resources.

NOAA plays a key role in the Climate Change Science Program, which is responsible for coordinating and integrating climate research, observations, decision support, and communications of 13 federal departments and agencies.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research investigates climate, weather, and other topics related to the atmosphere. It is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed by a nonprofit consortium of universities, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I saw that dude at a Dead show once. He had a bong made out of a diggery doo.

He’s a righteous cat, man.

[RogerD]

"...one wonders how CBS News was duped into running a story like this without even bothering to check into the author..." Well, there is a precident...

Has CBS yet clarified the story? No doubt they have a good explanation on how this story matched their motto: "Fake but Accurate".

[ModelBreaker]

After apparently learning of the less than scientific associations of the lead author of the research, CBS removed it from their website as of about 3 p.m. EST on June 19.

That has never bothered CBS News before. There must be more to this story.

[Thunder90]

GW ping!!

[Walmartian]

He holds PhD in laser holography

Book learnin' never scalded no pig.

[NormsRevenge]

cool. and very strange. Thanks for posting this.

[traviskicks]

Well, there is a precident...

[ConservativeMind]

No, I no longer believe they have ever had it “right.”

Cronkite was not much different from Couric—you just couldn't as easily debunk what he said without other sources as readily available.

We grew to “trust” them out of our own lack of news sources. We trusted them more during times of war, but the government was throttling them even then, unlike now.

We have no reason to trust CBS or the other media outlets, and must reassess our “fond” memories of prior days with them.

[ChildOfThe60s]

You know, I don’t CBS was duped in the traditional sense of the word. I just think they don’t care about the “source” and run the story as long as it fits their agenda. Most of the time they don’t get called on it regardless of the validity. When they do, they bob and weave & it goes away quickly.

[bamahead]

[SlayerOfBunnies]

takes time to practice meditation, telepathy and astral travel

Ok - that's the most hilarious bit here. It's one thing to believe in something absurd but to claim to practice that absurd thing is quite another. If you believe in Sasquatch well - good for you, but if you claim to have had him over for tea this past Thursday, well...

A psych prof of mine used to point out that neurosis is 'building castles in the air' but psychosis is moving in. I guess we know where Chalko lives.

[bamahead]

#33

[Hot Tabasco]

telepathy and astral travel

Believe it or not, I think I just picked up a telepathic thought from him. Something about "Thats the biggest dooby I ever seen man, where did you get it? ...

[moose2004]

Professional journalism at it’s finest.

[L.N. Smithee]

I don’t think CBS News can do any more sinking. They just move laterally along the ocean floor.

[MindBender26]

“Whulter’s” desire to “do the right thing” during the civil rights struggle is when and where CBS turned.

[GOPologist]

Has CBS rehired Dan Rather the expert on falsified news?

[Stentor]

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

CBS NEWS source-bioresonant.com.

I'm holding my side. "If you doubt whether a planet can explode - you need to see a witness report of a planetary explosion in our Solar system. Plato (428-348 BC) reported that the explosion of the planet Phaeton had been perceived by our ancestors on Earth to be as bright as lightning...".

[LibertyRocks]

Interesting... I did a VERY quick google search and found what is probably the basis for this story: A Press Release put out by Chalko on MarketWire back on the 17th. Here is a link to the release at Yahoo!

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080617/0408064.html

[Strategerist]

Chalko looks like he should be building mail bombs in a tiny cabin in Montana.

[CRBDeuce]

The standard liberal answer to every question of its kookiness is “Because I can”! Applies here just as it does to the 17 kookie HS girls who got pregnant and will raise 17 kids to the same ‘rule’!....gratis our Blue Dress Stain-in-chief!

[CRBDeuce]

They see red meat and they just can't help themselves. That was certainly the case with Rathergate.

Watching Rather was like watching a monkey in its cage (doing what a monkey does best)....CBS is just a zoo full of monkeys!

[CRBDeuce]

He enjoys a good health, that he has restored himself in 1994 from quite a miserable state. He plays classical guitar exceptionally well, enjoys windsurfing (he calls himself a speed addict here), takes time to practice meditation, telepathy and astral travel.

Sounds suspiciously like the same traits that TereTza loved in JFn Kerry! Is he running for office in Australia?

[Rome2000]

Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett (1832 – presumed dead 1894) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He disappeared after 1888 and is believed to have died in Minnesota in 1894, but this is unproven.
Contents
[hide]

* 1 Early life
* 2 Enlisted in the Union army
* 3 Assigned to pursue John Wilkes Booth
* 4 Civilian life after the Union army
* 5 See also
* 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Corbett was born in London, England. His family emigrated to New York City in 1839. He eventually took on the trade of a hatter in Troy, New York. There has been speculation that the use of mercury as part of the hatter’s trade was the cause of Corbett’s later mental problems.

Corbett married, but his wife died in childbirth. Following her death, he moved to Boston, and continued working as a hatter. He became a born-again evangelical Christian and changed his name to Boston. Trying to imitate Jesus[citation needed], he began to wear his hair very long.[citation needed] On July 16, 1858, in order to avoid the temptation of prostitutes, Corbett castrated himself[citation needed] with a pair of scissors.[citation needed] Afterward, he ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting, before going for medical treatment.[citation needed]

[edit] Enlisted in the Union army

Corbett joined the Union army at the outbreak of the American Civil War. He re-enlisted three times and eventually obtained the rank of Sergeant in the 16th New York Cavalry. He was captured by the Confederate Army on June 24, 1864, and was held captive at Andersonville prison. He was eventually exchanged and returned to his unit. He later testified for the prosecution in the trial of the commandant of Andersonville, Captain Henry Wirz.

[edit] Assigned to pursue John Wilkes Booth
Wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold (1865)
Wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold (1865)

On April 24, 1865, Corbett was one of the cavalrymen sent to pursue John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln and was still at large. On April 26, they surrounded Booth and his accomplice, David Herold, in a tobacco barn on the Virginia farm of Richard Garrett. The barn was set on fire to try to force them out. Herold surrendered, but Booth remained inside. Corbett was positioned by a large crack in the barn wall. He saw Booth moving about inside and shot him with his Colt revolver despite Secretary of War Stanton’s desire that Booth be taken alive. Booth was struck in the neck, the bullet injuring his spinal cord, and he died a few hours later.

Corbett was immediately arrested for disobeying orders, but the charges were later dropped by the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. Later, Stanton said, “The rebel is dead. The patriot lives.” Corbett received his share of the reward money, amounting to $1,653.84.

In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln’s assassin was getting ready to use his weapons. This was denied by other witnesses. When asked later why he did it, he said that “God Almighty directed me.”
Boston Corbett
Boston Corbett

[edit] Civilian life after the Union army

Shortly after being discharged from the army, Corbett returned to his trade of being a hatter, first in Boston, and later in Connecticut and New Jersey.

His later life involved increasingly erratic behavior. In 1875, he threatened several men with a pistol at a soldier’s reunion in Caldwell, Ohio. In 1878, he moved to Concordia, Kansas, where he lived in a hole dug into a hillside. In 1887, he was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas. Overhearing a conversation in which the legislature’s opening prayer was mocked, he jumped to his feet, pulled out his revolver, and waved his gun. No one was hurt but Corbett was arrested, declared insane, and sent to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane. On May 26, 1888, Corbett escaped from the asylum. He went to Neodesha, Kansas, and stayed briefly with Richard Thatcher, a man he had met during his imprisonment at Andersonville in the Civil War. When he left, he said he was heading for Mexico. Corbett possibly settled in the forests near Hinckley, Minnesota and died in the Great Hinckley Fire that took place there on September 1, 1894. There is no definitive proof of his demise, but the name “Thomas Corbett” appears on the list of the dead and missing.

There is a Boston Corbett roadside monument just outside of Concordia, Kansas.

[toddlintown]

“astral travel??”

Be sure to book at least 2 weeks in advance and cough up $15 per bag when you leave this plane of existence.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Quite a guy....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He has a nice web site...another example of why the MSM hates bloggers that capture what they feed to the public...and don’t like copies... prior to their revisions ...available to the masses.