The Spot Starters (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... 11th in the league in ERA as they coughed up tons of walks and home runs. Dave Roberts and Joe Coleman were both far below league average and logged over 300 combined innings. The Tigers middle infield was also weak as they had several hitters posts OPS+ numbers below 80, hence the drafting of Alan Trammell. Summary: The 1975 Tigers lost 102 games, so the 1976 Tigers, while bad, were certainly...
Alexia Golez (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Is PST the new GMT? A brief history of artificial life. [Next Step] Visualisation on contoured maps? Toronto is a city of datasets. Open data, we likez. Joe Coleman of Dublin? Via Twenty. Urban Informatics Speech Title Generator. 8′20″ – The Ebb & Flow of Paris Traffic. Recorded from the top of the Arc De Triomphe on traffic below. More info.
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Ballyfermot based charlaton Joe Coleman has claimed to receive a communication from the Virgin Mary. Coleman is a professional "healer". No doubt...
CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... predicted Halloween visit to Knock, Ireland, as discussed in an earlier post. Alleged clairvoyant Joe Coleman said that she would appear to one and all at 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon. As you might imagine, this prediction prompted the formation of a huge crowd -- 10,000 strong, by one estimate. So what went down? Well, I'm not sure. Via Google News, one can find much snarky commentary, but...
Old Bitter Balls (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... motifs as Venus was born from the ocean just off the coast of Ballyhalbert in Northern Ireland . Joe Coleman who said that he saw and spoke with Mary is a clairvoyant and spiritual healer, he is not expecting any monetary reward or anything as you'll find out if you book a healing session at his clinic in Ballyfermot which has now gotten a ton of publicity. Coleman says you have to...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Other Stories »'Visionary' says Virgin Mary passed on message of peaceSTEVEN CARROLLA MAN who drew thousands to Knock Shrine in Co Mayo on Saturday to witness a visitation by the Virgin Mary says she told him that she hoped her message of peace would be “given around the globe in different ways” to all her faithful.Joe Coleman, from west Dublin, said the apparition asked him to “thank all my...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... the sky as the sun danced nearby. Another apparition has been predicted by the same clairvoyant, Joe Coleman, for this weekend and several thousand people are expected to make the pilgrimage to Knock. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Other Stories »Spiritual search turns into a stampede as impatient lose faith in double visionariesMIRIAM LORDThousands flock to Knock as new Ireland trades in financial visionaries for spiritual gurusTHE DOUBLE Visionaries were in no doubt. Joe and Keith didn’t need to give an ETA – estimated time of apparition, because they could confidently announce a DHA – definite hour of arrival.It was apparition...
Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A couple of weeks ago, thousands of people gathered at Knock Shrine in Ireland, gazing upward, looking for a vision of the Virgin Mary. Why? Earlier in the week Dublin-based clairvoyant Joe Coleman predicted Our Lady would appear at the old parish church – scene of the 1879 apparition – at 3pm. Quite a number [...]
Zoomtard (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... and sent the rich away empty .” What really reveals this as the work of a charlatan to me is Coleman’s comment about the people who came to see his date with Mary. He said, “They just want something to hold onto because the government aren’t giving them anything to hold onto.” Mary, the young revolutionary who delighted in the Annunciation that God had come to tumble the proud and conceited...
CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
An alleged clairvoyant named Joe Coleman (no relation, I presume, to the artist) has said that the Virgin Mary will make a return appearance in Knock, Ireland on October 31 -- Halloween. Previously, she was predicted to appear on October 11. Although she proved a no-show on that occasion, the crowd did allegedly witness strange solar phenomena, as documented in this video . Skeptical cur that...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... on Monday urging the faithful to disregard the forecasts by Dublin-based "spiritual healer" Joe Coleman that Mary, venerated by Christians as the mother of the son of God, would reappear."Faith makes Knock pilgrims firm in hope," Archbishop Michael Neary said in the statement. "They do not expect visions or seek further apparitions."Some of those present said Mary appeared on Saturday, most...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Last Updated: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 07:2310,000 gather for Knock 'visitation'CONOR POPEUp to 10,000 people gathered in Knock yesterday afternoon in the hope of witnessing a visitation from the Virgin Mary.The apparition had been predicted by Dublin man Joe Coleman, who describes himself as “a visionary of our Blessed Mother”.By 3pm - the time Mr Coleman said the apparition would take...
The Atheist Experience (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Hat tip to one of our fine Irish viewers, Fergus Russell, for this amusing story . It transpires that some dimwit named Joe Coleman, who thinks of himself as “a visionary of our Blessed Mother and a spiritual healer under the energy of the Holy Spirit” — which is an awfully big mouthful to say in lieu of simply "kook" — predicted that there would be yet another...
E F pastor emeritus (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... notion, arguing the event could risk "misleading God's people and undermining faith". Joe Coleman, a psychic who had predicted the event, argued that what happened was similar to the 'Miracle of the Sun' at the Portuguese shrine of Fatima. Dr Neary made the rebuke yesterday evening and said such events were "to be regretted rather than encouraged". But Mr Coleman...
