The repeated lie

If you say it often enough, and with enough conviction, sooner or later people will believe it – even if they know it’s an outright lie. “If you like your current insurance, you will be able to keep it” Forget the fact that a government-sponsored plan, paid for out of tax dollars, will inevitably put …

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Morons cause panic in NYC

Ignorant, immature, and conceited. That’s the only explanation for the complete morons that decided it was a good idea to send a 747 to buzz Manhattan Island without warning the general public. Can we squeeze this one onto the list of top 100 blunders of the one-der kid’s first 100 days? As secret missions go, …

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CHANGE!

No, really… change (of the pocket variety), and not much more! Folks irked by Obama coins that are simply stickers placed on 50-cent pieces Hilarious… slap a sticker on a coin, get Montel Williams to promote it on an infomercial – shazam, CHANGE!  Believe it! Figures. Obama Coins Turn Out to Be Cheap Stickers on …

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The Federal Indictment “He doesn’t want you to know about”

Three years without having to suffer through another windbag, snake-oil salesman’s pitch from the dark prince of nighttime television infomercials… Yay! Judge Orders Kevin Trudeau to Pay More Than $37 Million for False Claims About Weight-Loss Book A federal judge has ordered infomercial marketer Kevin Trudeau to pay more than $37 million for violating a …

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Why would scientists lie?

Painting by numbers: NASA’s peculiar thermometer Viewing the NASA 250-mile map for March below, what immediately grabs the attention is that NASA has essentially no data (gray areas) in most of Canada, most of Africa, the Greenland ice sheet, and most of Antarctica. This begs the question, how can one calculate an accurate “global temperature” …

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“The greatest scam in history”

I’m guessing John Coleman doesn’t get invited to ride on Al Gore’s private jet… Weather Channel Founder’s Forecast Currently, John Coleman is a TV weatherman for KUSI News in San Diego. But Coleman is most famous for being founder of the Weather Channel. He has had a long career in predicting the weather, working for …

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Sometimes even the good guys send spam

Just a minor rant, as I clean out the trap of another spam filter (gmail, this time) Awhile back, I had subscribed to the MinutemanHQ.com (link deliberately left out, if you want some of this, find it yourself) newsletter. All was fine for quite some time, but then I noticed I started getting the same …

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Congratulations, Al – you big, dumb, fake.

How many holes in Al’s little Powerpoint presentation have to be punched before the whole thing collapses around his ears? Why is the “settled science” of man-induced global warming being challenged by more and more of the leading scientists in the world? Why is big dumb Al so interested in scaring you into buying make-believe …

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Making the completely stupid sound perfectly plausible?

I’ve often been amazed at the ability of seemingly reasonable people arriving at obviously stupid conclusions. Especially those whose educational credentials should allow them to know better. Consider the “911 scholars for truth” (website not linked, as I won’t waste my time to find it), and useful idiots like Rosie O’Donnell (spelling? I’m also not …

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Wanna-be Commanders in Chief: Condemn Rush, but not Moveon?

Perfect reason to dismiss Hillary and Barack: SENATE DEMOCRATS CONDEMN LIMBAUGH’S ATTACK ON OUR TROOPS ” Thousands of active troops and veterans were subjected to Mr. Limbaugh’s unpatriotic and indefensible comments on your broadcast. We trust you will agree that not a single one of our sons, daughters, neighbors and friends serving overseas is a …

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So Al Gore ISN’T a Scientist?

And the dreaded “hockey stick” diagram is as stupid as it sounds? Wow… Red faces at NASA over climate-change blunder In the United States, the calendar year 1998 ranked as the hottest of them all – until someone checked the math. After a Toronto skeptic tipped NASA this month to one flaw in its climate …

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Scary but true… IRS is as stupid as you think

Do they hire morons off the street to work at the IRS? Sure looks like it… IRS bureaucrats duped into exposing passwords According to a report released Friday (PDF) by the Treasury Department’s inspector general, 60 percent of a sampling of 102 Internal Revenue Service employees, when contacted by government auditors posing as help-desk employees, …

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