Kamal Saleem's vision of the supersonic eagle :)

The approximate maximum distance Kamal could have seen a 3 foot eagle is about 357 feet. The eagle would have appeared to be less than an inch tall. There is no way he could have even known it was an eagle. The approximate maximum distance Kamal could have seen a soaring eagle with an 8 foot wing span is 952 feet. It would have appeared to have been less than two inches. At that distance, Kamal could not have told the difference between a buzzard and an eagle.

He then says he saw one of the eagles travel faster than the speed of sound (1,126 ft/s). At that speed, the eagle would have disappeared from Kamal's eyes in less than a second. The eagle would have needed to be almost twenty feet long or wide to have been visible to Kamal for even about two seconds.

Sadly his audience just eats this stuff up. I know it was a "vision", but it was a ridiculous one. Kamal had no way to know if anything he called an eagle broke the sound barrier. The eagle could have transverse the distance easily at less than the sound barrier and quickly have left his field of vision. At the distances he describes, the eagle should have gone splat. :)

I crack up every time I hear him do his eagle impressions.

Sources

Calculate the size of things at a distance http://www.1728.org/angsize.htm
Acuity of the human eye http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/PenetrantTest/Introduction/visualacuity.htm

Music

"Tuba Waddle" provided by http://audionautix.com/html/film__orchestra.html

Original sermon available here

morningstartv.com/sunday-services/2012-10-14/kamal-saleem----america-crack-its-foundation

Kamal Saleem shocks the eagle with his lies about Obama

"Those, who will come without Islam, without Allah, is not accepted from them." This statement has never been made by the President in front of the United Nations.  Do not take my word for it.  Try to find it. 

What I want to do here is give you a quick tool for your baloney detection kit.  You can type the sentence into Google, but a couple of red flags should have already gone off.  One, why have you never heard about this before?  Obviously, we are bad evidence detectors, but if Obama had said this, the right wing blogs should have lit up like a Christmas tree.  Even if the quote is taken out of context, it would have most likely been picked up by at least the crazies. 

Two, he has made other crazy incorrect claims.

Three, did you notice the grammar?  Let's diagram this sentence.  Those is a plural pronoun and the subject of the sentence.  "Who will come without Islam, without Allah" is a adjectival phrase modifying "those".  "Is not accepted" is the verb.  "From them" is the adverbial prepositional phrase modifying the verb.

I know there are a several different ways to diagram this.  The prepositions should be on the slanted lines, but I did this in MSPaint.  Still did you notice the error?  "Those" is plural, but "is" is singular.  "Those" should take a plural verb like "are".    Also, the correct preposition should be "by" not "from".   Now the President is very scripted, every modern President is.  His speeches are largely written and edited for him.  If Kamal is quoting the President, "word for word" and reading it off his notes, why does the President speak Kamal's poor English?

I would propose that there are two reasons.  One, the President never said this to the United Nations.  I have already noted that Kamal is the only source for something the President supposedly said on international television.    Two, Kamal wrote the quote himself grammatically incorrect.  When you are faking a bad accent, sometimes it is difficult to know when to stop. 

Unedited video can be found here
morningstartv.com/sunday-services/2012-10-14/kamal-saleem----america-crack-its-foundation

Music
"The Handyman's Lament" by Josh Woodward from joshwoodward.com