MSNBC's Rachel Maddow - Gov. Huckabee's foot-in-mouth on Gay issues - ex...

I've gotta say, Mike here is looking more and more like a closet case to me. The fact that he's compared homosexuality to drug use makes me suspect he's suppressing some "jonesing" of his own.

It's only a matter of time before he's outed. You don't equate homosexuality with drug addition unless you yourself are fighting some serious man-love urges. The quivering, butterfly-stomached way he touches the issue of homosexuality screams "denial" with a salivating, unctuous urgency of the kind only heard from within the confines of a Caligula themed, San Francisco bath house.

That's my suspicion anyway.

Caturday

Inhibition of human basophil degranulation by successive histamine dilutions:

I recently finished reading a homeopathy study titled "Inhibition of human basophil degranulation by successive histamine dilutions"

While superficially interesting, the human basophil degranulation test used in that study is a test tube test. It's not a human or even animal trail. Homeopaths can use special pleading all they want but a test tube trial is not how real pharmaceuticals get approved for sale.

I'm STILL looking for homeopathy related, double blind, placebo controlled human trials with a non-trivial sample size that demonstrate a statistically significant effect. Is EVERYTHING homeopaths have really just test tube studies that haven't been replicated?

Dennis Markuze aka David Mabus found my blog

I was never really into the whole "Ego surfing" thing. I'm not going to claim humility or a lack of narcissism has anything to do with it. The simple fact is there are plenty of men named "Matthew Miller" who are more famous than I am, so I'd have to slog though a lot of data about other people before I found much about me.

Dennis Markuze aka David Mabus on the other hand has no such problem. His name is rather distinct so it's not hard to track down references to the name online. It also looks like Dennis / David found my recent blog post about him. He posted a response, which I'll discuss below. Oddly he also posted similar replies to three other posts of the last few weeks, none of which had anything to do with him. I guess he wanted to make sure I noticed him.

Anyway, on to amateur the analysis of the crazy:

THE DEATH OF ATH*ISM - SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF GOD

David is off to a bad start. The all caps typing is generally considered poor form online. It implies the writer is shouting. The inexplicable * in "atheism" is a clear indication that DM thinks it's a naughty word deserving of censorship, which is just plan silly.

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=280780

This is a link to a discussion forum where Dennis Markuze aka David Mabus posted a few bits of flotsam, but never made any actual statements or arguments. It's sadly typical of the Markuze posts I've seen online. He seems to think making unsupported statements and linking to unrelated videos constitutes evidence of some kind.

Einstein puts the final nail in the coffin of atheism...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vpw4AH8QQ

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The youtube video talks about Einstein's theory of relativity in relation to theoretical time travel. It doesn't offer any evidence or claims about the existence or non-existence of God. Aside from mentioning Einstein it is wholly and completely unrelated to his claim of Einstein putting "the final nail in the coffin of atheism". Markuze's "logic" if I can use the word, seems to be to make a wild claim about Einstein and then support his claim by screaming "See! This video mentions Einstein so that PROVES I'm right!" It would be a bit like claiming Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990 and then linking to a video of Beck talking about the health care bill as "evidence" to support the claim.

atheists deny their own life element...

Again, Markuze makes a statement but does nothing to support it. WHAT life element are atheists supposedly denying? What does Markuze even mean by "element"?

LIGHT OR DEATH, ATHEISTS?

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***************************LIGHT*********
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Demonstrating he's at least consistent, Markuze makes no sense here. I see no indication of any kind of an attempt to prove a point or argue a particular viewpoint. All Markuze has offered in the above is a string of inarticulate ranting. There's no cohesion, no attempt to state a point and then defend it, nothing. If posts like the ones he made to this blog are a window into his actual thought processes, then it looks like there isn't much there except irrational, broiling antagonism.

add comment moderation to your blasphemy blog, you fool...

Why bother? This is a low traffic blog and most of the people who have posted comments here made actual contributions to the discussions or were at least relevant. There's already a spam filter. Markuze posting his rant in three unrelated posts is the worst I've had in well over a year.

Now, Markuze might very well decide to start spamming this blog with his nonsense. If he restricts his posts to the threads about him and tries to rationally and calmly defend his position, then I welcome his input. If all he does is post the same copypasta to one thread after another then I'll have to turn on comment moderation until he grows bored with me and moves on to the next person who dares mention him online.

And what, pray tell, is so blasphemous about my blog anyway?

Mr Markuze, you have a very poor reputation online. I want to give you the chance to demonstrate a level of rational thought and coherent discussion your critics seem to think beyond your capabilities.

Wait, it's news that Ricky Martin is gay?

Ricky Martin reveals he's a strong, proud gay Latino

Why is this considered news?

Is EVERYONE'S gaydar REALLY that broken?!?

Jesus H Christ. I'm a corn-fed Midwesterner who was raised in a conservative, fundamentalist home and I could tell Ricky Martin was gay back when he was at his peak.

What next, a front page story revealing that Liberace was bisexual??? Should I write a shocking biography revealing the deep, dark secret that Christine Jorgenson used to be a man? Oh! I know! I'll revel in the rumors of a secret gay past in the life of Ted Haggard.

I swear this sort of thing is only news because people are in such deep denial that they fail to notice such things when it first comes to light. They're so terrified of gays that they refuse to pay attention to even obvious clues to someone's sexual orientation. It's downright hilarious that the people who are most likely to care if a person is gay are also the ones least likely to realize it.

How I caused a panic 6 months after April 1

Back when I was working at FinancialCampus, I circulated a memo on
April Fool's Day, 2002. The memo got a few giggles but was largely
ignored, as most my coworkers didn't get the joke.

In the next five months the company had a major growth spurt. An
entire department sprung into existence with close to a dozen people.

One day I returned to the office after giving a deposition. (The
company was being sued, again) and I was approached by an
exceptionally foolish woman who had, for reasons known only to her,
been going though my home directory on the server. Why she even had
access to my home directory the Network Admin refused to tell me, but
the damage was done. She'd found my memo and printed it up,
circulating it among her coworkers. The entire department was in a
panic, as the only person in that department who'd been with the company when I'd first
circulated the memo had clearly forgotten all about it.

She ran up to me and demanded to know why I hadn't told anyone about
the "poison in the water." I was confused until she showed me a printout
of the memo. I read it and started laughing. This upset her and some
of the people behind her. "This could be killing our kids" one of them
said.

I asked her where she'd gotten the memo and she admitted to having
spent the day poking around peoples' home directories on the server. I
pointed out the date.

"So?" she demanded.

"I sent it around on April 1."

One of her coworkers swore quietly and returned to her desk. A few
others groaned and did the same.

"So we've been drinking this s**t for months?"

It took an additional 20 minutes to get her to understand it was an
April Fool's joke and that dihydrogen monoxide was water.

Below is the text of the memo:

The Massachusetts Water supply has been found to contain dihydrogen monoxide.

This acid can cause corrosion in a variety of substances, irreversibly
damaging wood, paint, metal and most structural components.

Prolonged human exposure can cause loss of skin oils, discomfort,
encourage bacterial infection and in some extreme cases, death.

In pure form, it is clear, odorless and tasteless.

Numerous organisms, many harmful to humans, thrive on this chemical.

This chemical also damages electrical components and destroys paper products.

Thousands of deaths a year can be attributed both directly and
indirectly to dihydrogen monoxide. One recent, and spectacular death,
involved an unfortunate man who handled electrical components that had
come into contact with dihydrogen monoxide. While electrocution was
the direct cause of death, the electrical device would have posed no
threat if the dihydrogen monoxide had not destroyed the device's
insulation.

Presence of dihydrogen monoxide in the lungs prevents the absorption
of Oxygen, and results in death.

There has even been one case reported where excessive quantities of
dihydrogen monoxide caused electrolytes to be flushed from the body,
resulting in death. This however, appears to be a suicide.

Dihydrogen monoxide intake can be correlated with an increased need to
urinate as the chemical is flushed from the body.

Recent studies have revealed that most Americans have large deposits
of dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies.

Withdrawal from dihydrogen monoxide intake is generally fatal.

It's production and distribution is legal and unregulated aside from
rudimentary purity laws.

Please take the appropriate precautions.

When will Erick Erickson be outed?

I've long suspected that the most outspoken, angry and paranoid anti-gay activists are closeted homosexuals. In my estimation their hate fueled diatribes are not expressions of moral certainly or religious zeal, but the burbling emissions of a deep seated self loathing. There's research linking homophobia to homosexual arousal. The cases of men like Ted Haggard only add real life examples to fuel the theory.

Based on this information, I'd like to suggest that Erick Erickson might be gay. Erick Erickson's anti-gay vitriol leaves little doubt about his homophobia. For example, Erickson compared hiring a homosexual to supporting NAMBLA in one essay. In that essay he gave the impression that he sees no difference between homosexuality and pedophilia. Kevin Jennings was not the only person to face the business end of Erickson's rhetoric . Obama and Ted Kennedy are among the folks who have been on the business end of his ire.

It's his anti-gay statements that interest me most. His inability distinguish between homosexuality and pedophilia for example is the sort of thing I've come to expect from political nutjobs being eaten alive by their own desire for a wild night with Ricky Martin.

The question then becomes, how long will it be before someone outs him? How long before a past lover comes forward to reveal steamy, seedy secrets about late night bath house encounters? Will some staffer at CNN discover a gay porn stash on Erickson's PC? More importantly, are there any offshore gambling sites that will let me set up a pool on when Erickson will be outed?

Are ALL Homophobes this gay?

I'm tempted to start a web site where people can bet on when a given homophobic politician or activist will be outed by a gay sex scandal. Ted Haggard set off the gaydar of so many people BEFORE he was outed by his gay lover that it's hard to believe ANYONE actually thought he was straight in the first place. I mean, seriously, take a look at the guy. I know I'm not the only one who was unsurprised by his outing.

Dr Aubrey Levin has proven that this phenomena is not unique to the USA. Levin is a South African nutjob known for doing things like using electro-shock to "treat" gay soldiers,a and giving IV barbiturates to soldiers who objected to serving int eh apartheid era military. Now Dr Aubrey Levin, known as "Dr Shock" for his love of running current through patients' brains, has been secretly videotaped making sexual advances on a make patient.

That's right, the "dr" who used electro-shock treatment to "cure" gay soldiers is himself not just a homosexual, but a predator trying to abuse at least one male patient.

It's a shame online gambling laws are so strict in the USA. I could really clean up running a betting pool on these sorts of things.

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

Woman claims she's being oppressed because she's being treated the same as everyone else.

Shirley Chaplin doesn't look like a religious nutjob. She's a nurse who worked at a hospital that banned all necklaces for safety reasons. The elderly patients she cared for have a tendency to grab things when being moved or treated and a necklace is a nice shiny object that poses the exact kind of safety hazard the hospital wants to minimize.

Ms. Chaplin however, disagrees. You see, her necklace has a gold cross. Even though someone wearing an Islamic Crescent, a Star of David, a Wicca Pentagram or a Flying Spaghetti Monster would all be asked to remove their necklaces in the workplace, Shirley Chaplin's cross is special. She considers it persecution that she's being held to the exact same standards as everyone else.

The hospital makes concessions for religious clothing, like head scarves, but not for jewelry. Being the whiny, self centered twit that she is, Ms Chaplin has gotten her clergy involved. The clergy in turn has decided to claim that this safety rule is an example of religious persecution.

Who is it asking for special rights again?

Energy Star proven to be a useless rubber stamp

Audit Finds Vulnerability of EnergyStar Program

It turns out you can get an energy star rating for just about anything, even a gasoline powered alarm clock! All you have to do is claim that YOUR gasoline powered alarm clock is at least 20% more energy efficient than any other gasoline powered alarm clock on the market.

No, the government doens't check your claims.

In light of this stunning revelation, I'm moving forward with the following inventions:

• The bacon fat powered lawnmower.
• A series of model rocket engines that use salami as the fuel source. (Hey, the Mythbusters say it works!)
• A car that can burn raw crude oil. The Slogan: "It's Smokin!"
• A new, Energy Star compliant coal furnace for home heating!
• A new hybrid engine that uses coal to perform electrolysis and then burns the resulting gas to actually power the engine. Since the product form the FINAL combustion is just water, it's a green car too!
• A coffee maker powered by wood stove pellets.
• And of course, the high efficiency fireplace! It's 20% more efficient than a regular chimney if you operate it with the flue closed! (Operating fireplace with the flue closed is not recommended as this will result in carbon monoxide poisoning.)

What are YOUR invention ideas?

Homeopathy preys on the desperate

It's really sad that 200 year old magic, with NO evidence of efficacy is not only still circulating but is being paid for by government and private health care plans.

Homeopathy preys on the desperate

But how present is the original molecule in the preparation? Products are sold using a dilution range of 6X to 30X where X represents the Roman numeral 10. So, 6X equals one part in 10 to the power of 6, or one in a million. Some products use "C", the Roman numeral for 100. If one were to ingest a preparation of 30C, that would equal 1 followed by 60 zeros, or the number of atoms in our galaxy. At this point, you are consuming nothing more than water.

You shouldn't be surprised that not one person has overdosed on a homeopathic remedy.

Jason Beats the Westboro Baptist Church

When hate groups give you lemons, make lemon-aid.

Bricks for Health Care

Hurled bricks, threats surround health overhaul

Bricks now thrown at lawmakers over health care vote

Bricks shatter glass at NY Democratic offices

Why are these psychotic, violent, right wing proto-terrorists throwing bricks through windows?

Because throwing a brick is easier than actually DOING something to change things, like, I don't know, running for congress themselves! Heaven forbid instead of expressing impotent rage through acts of mindless vandalism they do something CONSTRUCTIVE to change things for the better.

Foam Baby Foam!

What do you do when the preponderance of modern science says your preferred form of medical quackery is a useless waste of time and totally ineffective?

Why, you start calling people NAZIs of course: HOMEOPATHY: Jew of Nazi Medicine

Here is Dr Novella's response: Homeopath Benneth Jumps the Shark

I find it interesting that none of the links next to Benneth's video point to or mention Dr Novella's response.

I find it hilarious when Benneth says Dr Novella should be an underwear model. I can't help but wonder why Benneth spends so much time imagining Dr Novella in naught but his knickers. It has no relevance to who is right and who is wrong, but unrequited longing could explain the vitriol of Benneth's video when all Novella has done is reference scientific studies and clinical trials.

Dennis Markuze aka David Mabus

There's a man online known as David Mabus. He's a bit of a nutter. While no one has ever really discerned what he's trying to say with his posts, the best guess at his meaning is that Nostradamus predicted Depeche Mode and through them the 9/11 terror attacks. This somehow (he's never elaborated that I can see) entitles him to the 1 million USD James Randi education foundation prize.

I was curious what he was up to these days, so I went spelunking online. I found this response to his rantings that I personally think is the best, most appropriate reply that could ever be given to David Mabus. I encourage anyone who encounters him online to use it:

Source:
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/forums/showthread.php?p=8644

Dennis Markuze aka David Mabus - former computer salesman - Montreal, Canada.

please seek advice.

http://www.montrealtherapy.com/
1-800-THERAPIST network

Montreal Psychology Office
Obtain help for depression, anxiety, smoking cessation, relationship issues, and more...
http://www.psymontreal.com

If you are more comfortable in a French speaking environment
Luc Blain, psychologue clinicien
La vie est une succession d'événements qui amènent l'individu à les subir, à les nier, ou encore à les transformer pour les rendre digestes psychiquement. Dans le processus de transformation, la personne retrouve une plus grande liberté intérieure dans différentes dimensions de sa vie: capacité d'avoir du plaisir, d'aimer et d'être aimé, de s'épanouir dans un travail ou des activités.
http://www.lucblain.ca

Picked up off the net, but you may need reminding.

Bunny Bonanza

Cheyenne does something similar when I give her her daily pellets. Half the time I have to pour them over her head into the bowl.

The Fairy Scientist

This young woman shows more scientific rigor than most alt-med practitioners. It gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

Honk (official video)

A video that can save lives...

The Cheap Seats: Things That Are Fabulous

I'm not normally that into the Olympics, but the controversy over the homophobic asshats who took issue with Johnny Weir's sexuality has caught my attention.

The Cheap Seats: Things That Are Fabulous

Personally I think the commentators were just lashing out because Johnny Weir makes them feel all funny "down there" and lashed out instead of confronting their tendencies.

Video of Bob Marshall Proves He Said What He Meant, Meant What He Said

Bob Marshall is, quite literally, accusing anyone with a disabled child of having had an abortion. According to his logic, Jenny McCarthy, Barbara Bush, Sarah Palin and even the Duggar wife have all had abortions.

The man is clearly a lunatic.

Glenn Beck Attacks President Barack Obama's Name?

Every day I'm more and more convinced Beck is either an actor or genuinely crazy.

The HAARP loony responds again

lsmanure Feb 02, 2010
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: hi

just go to the HAARP website and view frequently asked questions.. at the bottom you should find your answer.. but you may have to have some knowledge in frequency and watt amplification

I checked out the web site in question and sent the following response.

Me: Feb 02, 2010
The HAARP site says it CAN'T change the weather

Let me get this straight.

You claim HAARP can change the weather. To support your claim, you direct me to the official HAARP web site which explicitly states that HAARP is not capable of changing the weather and then explains why.

I think it's safe to say that at this point, even your fellow conspiracy theorists would consider you a failure.

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.html

Is HAARP capable of affecting the weather?
The HAARP facility will not affect the weather. Transmitted energy in the frequency ranges that will be used by HAARP is not absorbed in either the troposphere or the stratosphere - the two levels of the atmosphere that produce the earth's weather. Electromagnetic interactions only occur in the near-vacuum of the rarefied region above about 70 km known as the ionosphere.

The ionosphere is created and continuously replenished as the sun's radiation interacts with the highest levels of the Earth's atmosphere. The downward coupling from the ionosphere to the stratosphere/troposphere is extremely weak, and no association between natural ionospheric variability and surface weather and climate has been found, even at the extraordinarily high levels of ionospheric turbulence that the sun can produce during a geomagnetic storm. If the ionospheric storms caused by the sun itself don't affect the surface weather, there is no chance that HAARP can do so either.

lsmanure Feb 03, 2010
Re: The HAARP site says it CAN'T change the weather

no ..in the question and answer page.. it says it does not change the weather.. but it does say that it has the capability to modify changes on earth , it is only a question of moral character.. i told you to read up on watts and waves and then read the page.. i can tell you did not.. because yo are skimming over the page like a lay-person and one who hasn`t studied the knowledge of radio frequency..I worked with frequency for some time. it can be distorted.. and with a system as sophisicated as HAARP ..distortion on a high level can be manufactured..why are you so primitive in this age of innovation.. the smoking gun are the E.L.F. waves or watts.. that can permeate deep inside the earth.. maybe before you close the book you should research this thing..more it is evident that you are not.. too adept in the technology field ..

Me: Feb 03, 2010
Re: The HAARP site says it CAN'T change the weather

"but it does say that it has the capability to modify changes on earth"

Where does it say that?

Copy and paste the text you think is so important and send it to me.

"the smoking gun are the E.L.F. waves or watts.. that can permeate deep inside the earth"

Please cite some actual scientific research indicating that E.L.F. waves can be bounced off the ionosphere, back down to Earth and them penetrate the crust. So far your messages have been nothing but a long list of bald assertions and ridicule without any supporting evidence. I'm getting tired of asking for supporting evidence that you have yet to actually provide.

lsmanure Feb 03, 2010
Re: The HAARP site says it CAN'T change the weather

oh yeah an as you can see ..it is not a private ( corporate ) site. it is a Government site..

Me: Feb 03, 2010
Re: The HAARP site says it CAN'T change the weather

"oh yeah an as you can see ..it is not a private ( corporate ) site. it is a Government site.."

And your point is...?

lsmanure Feb 03, 2010
Re: Re: The HAARP site says it CAN'T change the weather

ha ha ha .. the evidence is clear.. HAARP uses ELF waves..these waves can produce and esrth quake.. will HAARP admit to criminal intent ?.. I don`t think so.. do you.. therefore it is left up to the person..untill some type of investigation can be done at the site..this is what you are looking for I have proven that Haarp can in fact cause an earth Quake.whether they did in Haiti ..many people think so.. from the evidence recorded of the rainbow clouds before the quake to the sonic boom.. witnessed.. . you just are ignorant of the facts.. and do not realize the potential of ELF wave.. It is a fact that these waves are used by HAARP by their own admission..

Me Feb 03, 2010
Re: Re: The HAARP site says it CAN'T change the weather

"ha ha ha .. the evidence is clear.."

You haven't offered any.

"HAARP uses ELF waves..these waves can produce and esrth quake.."

Do you have any EVIDENCE to support this claim? Are there any actual scientists who have published papers supporting this claim? Is there ANYTHING you can offer to provide evidence in support of the claim that ELF waves can cause earthquakes?

As the quote goes "That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." You have offered no evidence that HAARP is capable of causing anyone any harm at all. You've made plenty of accusations, but I have yet to see you provide any evidence to back up your claims.

"will HAARP admit to criminal intent ?.. I don`t think so.. do you.. therefore it is left up to the person..untill some type of investigation can be done at the site.."

You have yet to offer any evidence that there IS criminal intent, or even offensive capability in HAARP. Why bother investigating an unsupported rumor with no scientific validity?

"this is what you are looking for I have proven that Haarp can in fact cause an earth Quake."

Yes, this is one of the questions I've asked. So far you have refused to answer. I doubt you're going to provide any evidence now.

"whether they did in Haiti ..many people think so.."

So what? That's the "Argument from popularity" logical fallacy. Most the people on Earth once believed the Earth was flat, that didn't make it so.

"from the evidence recorded of the rainbow clouds before the quake to the sonic boom.. witnessed.. ."

And your SOURCES for these claims are? Please remember, repeating the claim does not constitute a "source."

"you just are ignorant of the facts.."

Then send me links to your alleged evidence. Do you have any? Please keep in mind youtube videos are not evidence. So far all youve sent me are accusations and insults. You have offered NO evidence.

"and do not realize the potential of ELF wave.."

What proof do you have that ELF waves are dangerous or capable of causing earthquakes? Repeating your claim over and over again does not constitute evidence.

"It is a fact that these waves are used by HAARP by their own admission.."

Who cares? You've offered no proof that they're dangerous in any way. You might as well complain about the color of the gravel they use on maintenance paths.

Wrong, just wrong

I opened my e-mail and found I'd been sent Westborough Baptist Church inspired, pornographic fan-fiction.

It's ONLY saving grace was that it was about Shirley Phelps and not her father.

Chat with a loony

It started innocently enough. I was on youtube and saw a video where people were claiming HAARP was causing satellite anomalies as a result of being used to control the weather. None of them offered any real evidence. Most of the relies were people insulting me for not believing their unsupported assertions and claims of having appeals to authority. They basically repeated a closed loop of rumors and urban legends whose only sources were sites that were themselves just repeating rumors.

Then youtube user lsmanure started sending me private messages though youtube. He took things up a notch, and instead of just boring me with the same un-sourced tall tales, spewed a truly impressive stream of conspiracy soup nonsense. I now present the exchange we've had thus far. I've since realized that he's probably not trying to deluge me with irrelevant nonsense. I now suspect he is genuinely disturbed and suffering from profound mental problems.

His likely mental issues makes his youtube channel's focus on underage girls even more disturbing.

lsmanure Jan 21, 2010

you better get your facts straight baby... satellite resonance taken globally from nations all over the globe..shows what happened in Haiti is inconsistent with an Earth-quake and even a Haarp quake.. what the imagery denotes are patterns similar to an implosion.,a massive implosion.. it`s time for someone to get a lawyer.

Me: Jan 21, 2010

And your source for these claims is???

lsmanure Jan 21, 2010
Re: Re: hi

E.L.F.

lsmanure Jan 21, 2010
Re: Re: hi

you don`t read the news to much do you.. oh you do.. oly dumbed down American news deemed to rob you of your rights and tax dollars...but There is another reality to your little gated community.. it`s called The World .Just because you like being ripped off by your politicians doesn`t mean that this is a world view.. quite the opposite. what they are not telling you is that The only thing saving you from a real Homeland attack ( since we have seen over and over again that homeland security doesn`t work.. ) ,are people who do get their fact staright and don`t bother listening to crappy no new media.. ..To Which one prominent Muslim admitted ..``It is not homeland security that keeps Americans safe.. It is the knowledge tha Americans are against their corrupt government and protest against them as we see, all over the world do. It`s not Just Muslims ..It Brits.. Its Sweds The Spanish ..The Jews The whole of Europe Iran Iraq Turkey.. Africa Japan so many many other nations Nations ..satellite imagery of the Haiti event can be googled ..just ask for it.. Yet This intell has been leaked from Moscow to Venezuela to the point where Mr.Chavez The President.. blasted The United States for it.this is the age of information intelligence.. just because your government doesn`r allow your press to report the facts.. don`t take offense with me.. you are the one buying the crap they pimp you in commercials.

lsmanure Jan 21, 2010
Re: Re: hi

oh yeah .. many nations have satellite imagery ot this fake ass earthquake..

Me: Jan 21, 2010

And your source for this claim is????

lsmanure Jan 21, 2010
Re: Re: Re: hi

it`s all over the internet.. google it.. .. i`m not your keeper you are grown.. it is there. and you know it.. you are being silly to the fact now.. google HAARP

lsmanure Jan 21, 2010
Re: Re: Re: hi

GOOGLE ALSO SENATE BILL 517 and HOUSE BILL 2995 weather modification for military purposes.. are you white..??/ because most white people and a growing number of ethnic groups know this already

Me: Jan 22, 2010
Re: Re: Re: Re: hi

"SENATE BILL 517 and HOUSE BILL 2995"

I have to break it to you but you've been conned. Conspiracy theory sites have been spewing misinformation at you and you've swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

House Bill, 2995 also known as H.R.2995.IH is the "Disaster State Housing Recovery Act of 2009"

You can read the full text of the bill and learn it's current status here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.02995:

The 110th congress has a bill S.517.IS designed to "To amend the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide additional assistance to State and local governments for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes."

Neither of these bills have anything to do with weather modification.

lsmanure Jan 27, 2010
hi

try the 109th congress of 2005.. and see what you pull up..

lsmanure Jan 27, 2010
Re: Re: Re: Re: hi

hi .. The bill was introduced by Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchenson

Me: Jan 27, 2010
Re: Re: Re: Re: hi

I found the bill you were talking about and read it.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.517:

[S.517.RS] is the most recent version.

The bill was introduced to the Senate over a decade after HAARP was operational. The text of the bill clearly states it was intended to found an exploratory committee to investigate cloud seeding and improve weather prediction technology.

More to the point, it was shelved later that year.

Why, exactly are you wasting my time with this during a discussion about HAARP?

The bill died in committee, wasn't even introduced until after the conspiracy theories about HAARP were running rampant and was designed to fund a committee, not actual research.

Did you actually READ the bill, or just the foaming at the mouth rants about it on conspiracy theory sites for lunatics like Alex Jones, Alexander Cornswalled and David Icke?

lsmanure Jan 27, 2010
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I hate to burst your bubble.. but they have been doing weather modification since i was a young lad.. I`m now 47 years old.. when I was young.. The government was boasting about weather modification was no big deal. recently though.. i was listening to the foreign press.. - ( I do not listen to american corporate media. press.. they brought us The Great american lie which still has its controll mechanisms.. [ WMD ]... ) I FIND FOREIGN PRESS IS FAR MORE ACCURATE AND BY THE TIME tHE AMERICANS WANT TO PUBLISH IT.. IT IS HOURS AND SOMETIMES DAYS LATE...Take for example.. The Iranian protest which left several people dead..or the former protest which resulted in the first wave of riots.. The first thing I heard on this corporate media.. was The President..saying that he supported the protestors.. but didn`t bother to mention the PKK terrosim splinter group behind it..`` now we support terrorism now....Or the fact that. Hillary Clinton retained 18 million votes and threatened to do the exact same thing..``Protest.`` but alas.. her scorn was frowned upon.. ..and also given the fact that.. this latest violences stemming from terrorism against Iran.. happened on one of their most holiest days of mourning....If Hillary`s 18 million would have riot at Christmas or during Hannakah.. Americans would have slammed her for it..First of all ,we as Americans are so belittled by our leaders that we are not to be educated.. we rarely speak a foreign language.. yet we wonder about our state..We don`t bother to realize.. just maybe.. we are so hated because of the policies. of loot and plunder other peoples natural resources.. enough to infuriate another home owner.. where as a robber would steal all ones belongings..And they give their looting and plundering..the Name ``War on terror..`` get real....there are over 1.5 billion Muslims on earth.. sweety.. here along with the 1.5 billion Chinese.. ..if they wanted to destroy us...they would have and could have a long time ago.. but it is our corporations who tell us.. of the threat.. it is not Muslims who are the threat.. it is White people in American who are the threat.. You have the highest Carbon foot print.. ..this is no conspiriacy theory.. this is fact.You are being downsized from the middle class ,and you just want subject yourselves to being some global slave.. you had to become the problem.. the carbon problem... they want to tax the distance you drive.. and sponsor a 2% tax on everyone who is a worker globally..The body scan..in many airports globally..can telivise your pubic hair. ( it is that clear and crisp.. ;;)how would you like your daughter`s vagina to be televised to a total unknown stranger..aka.. serial maniac..think about anyone looking at nakes scans all day for several months.. if he is not a pervert.. he will become one.because these things are un-natural. and pose a bigger risk than the ``so-called terrorist ``..like the poor Black boy.. ,who was no more of a terororist than your mother is..( but that`s how stupid they are to think Americans are that stupid.. this boy was not a trained terroist.. ``bull-shit.. this was a plot that went so bad.. I could have told them.. you never put a black person on a plane witha hughe crowd of white people.. and threaten to harm them in any way.. unless you want your ass whipped.. and thet`s what those white people did to that youth.. they beat him so bad that the undercover agents who were part of this scam had to come from under cover and rescue this boy before they beat him to death..If you want to live in this controlled enviroment. thinking it is all about .. taking care of you.. wrong...China has been getting hugh amounts of snow.. as you have heard.. what you may not heard.. which China reported the day it started.. is that they had been experiencing a drought.. ..and that a massive front was moving in.. which would mean rain for the chinese.. but..it would do little seeing a heaving downpour rarely saturates the ground and usually runs off before it is saturated..to remedy this.. China reported that it would use weather modification to turn the incoming downpour into snow....this way it would provide a gradual soak which would be a benifit to the land...well it has been snowing in China every since.. so much that house are being buried.. you can live in a shell if you like.. but that`s not going to stop ..or change.. anything.. i was watching Israeli tv.. after 911..when there were 2 young men would came on this T.V. show .. with a video of the 911.crash.. they had went into a New York Palestinian neighbor hood and filmed not only the Second tower being struck.. But the First one as well.. from which they were immediately heckled off th stage.. but to set up a camera and film this whole disaster ..denotes forknowledge and to use it as a publicity media stunt is too nasty.. but it too happened and was witnessed globally..as well as the slaughter in Gaza.. why is it that.. the ones mostly claimng that everything about 911 conspiracy theory is from baffons.. when in fact the only support that says it wasn`t a conspiracy comes from people how have no professional knowledge on what to look for in criminal investigations.. or forensics..Bush lied about WMD to which 100s of thousands maybe over a million were killed. and now we are in 3 going on 4 nations because of it.. but you have a problem with them taking down a single building with about 3000 people in it..my dear over 5000 of our soldiers have been lost. as well as hundreds wounded. millions of people dead and wounded.. ( that`s over kill -and there`s no excuse for it other than greed-and we are now seeing the repercussions of it.). and yet not one of these congressmen has bat an eye..MY DEAR.. THE MATH ISN`T ADDING UP.. ONE OTHER THING.. We are about to give almost another trillion dollars away to defense for this war on terror..now..we are not spending a trillion dollars that fast.we aren`t using any heavy artillary.. or a massive air operations..we have a stoke pile left over from the last previous wars... the way they are hustling it from us..where is the money going ???..how about taking a look at those pricey`` smart`` condos ``cities `` going up in occupied Palestine..I could go further. but.. now isn`t the time..

Me: Jan 27, 2010
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"weather modification"

Humanity has been trying to seed clouds and modify the weather since the days of the Chinese emperors. This is not news.

The fact that such programs have existed for the last few thousand years does not, in any way, support the theory that HAARP is capable of weather modification. Boston area radio stations put out more energy than HAARP does for crying out loud.

The rest of your rant is, to be blunt, irrelevant. None of it supports your claim that HAARP is capable of weather modification. I suggest you seek therapy for your obvious and crippling focus issues.

lsmanure Jan 28, 2010
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you are being stupid now.. I seen the HAARP electricity fields.. and they have been using HAARP to find oil and other natural resources for decades.. Israel even has a HAARP weapon..which The defense minister was bragging about last week..I don`t know what planet you are on.. but this is a civilized nation with far more sinister toys than HAARP.. you talk like HAARP is some conspiracy weapon.., Everone who is anyone in the oil industry knows HAARP extreme potential.. to suggest this is some conspiracy undercover weapon .. is totally stupid.. HAARP technology is nothing anyone is hiding.. so why are you going over-board to try to create a conspiracy theory concerning something that is quite the norm in the field of technology.. scientist have claimed that HAARP could produce an earth-quake as well as discern oil from natural gas.. as well as how much of it there is in a particular reserve., this is know fact.. the question was would The government use this technology to create such conditions in the atmosphere to facilitate and earth quake and risk human life.....while you are mindlessly trying to attack me.. why don`t you do your home work and see the difference in the Haitian earth quake and and a natural earth quake.. there is a difference...one is round and one is rectangular....

Me Jan 28, 2010
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"I seen the HAARP electricity fields.. and they have been using HAARP to find oil and other natural resources for decades.. Israel even has a HAARP weapon..which The defense minister was bragging about last week..I don`t know what planet you are on.. but this is a civilized nation with far more sinister toys than HAARP.. you talk like HAARP is some conspiracy weapon.., Everone who is anyone in the oil industry knows HAARP extreme potential.. to suggest this is some conspiracy undercover weapon .. is totally stupid.. HAARP technology is nothing anyone is hiding.. so why are you going over-board to try to create a conspiracy theory concerning something that is quite the norm in the field of technology.. scientist have claimed that HAARP could produce an earth-quake as well as discern oil from natural gas.. as well as how much of it there is in a particular reserve., this is know fact.. the question was would The government use this technology to create such conditions in the atmosphere to facilitate and earth quake and risk human life.....while you are mindlessly trying to attack me.. why don`t you do your home work and see the difference in the Haitian earth quake and and a natural earth quake.. there is a difference...one is round and one is rectangular...."

And your sources for all those claims are...?

If you had reliable sources for any of those claims it would be trivial for you to document at least a few of them.

Me: Jan 29, 2010
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Again, where are your sources????

You keep making unsupported claims as if repeating a long list of baseless accusations will somehow convince me.

lsmanure Jan 29, 2010
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well ...Sec.of defense Barak.. showed the weapon on Israeli news.. google haaretz news..and

Me: Jan 30, 2010
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"well ...Sec.of defense Barak.. showed the weapon on Israeli news.. google haaretz news..and"

So the best defense you have of your claims is to assert, without any evidence or supporting links, that an Israeli newspaper also bought into the hype and conspiracy theories?

Seriously?

That's honestly as close as you can come to evidence supporting your claim that HAARP is a weapon, that some random reporter also made the same claim but you don't have a link to the article????

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Have you gone mad???

lsmanure Jan 31, 2010
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you are becoming quite amazing...I don`t need to proove Haarp or anything else.. You are under the assumption ., that American opinion matters at all.,You risked your security in the hands of crooks.China Russia Iran African oil resource wealthy nations Venezeula and Haiti knows what the United States is capable of .. and trying to convince people in The U.S., especially by those people who insist on painting a deceptive pictiure for personal privledge will net what it is neeting now..nothing. China cares little for you., as does Russia.. and ask this question.. did Europe help invade that criminal Iraqi fisaco.. which netted much loses.. no you can think that people are so silly .. if indeed, you are computer literate,when something you are not sure about needs clarity ...you have a wealth of knowledge at your feet..I have had no trouble finding anything ..pro and or con.. in cyberspace.. you seem to be dealing with the very same petty tactics that has put this hemegony ...on the back burner.. you fali to realize .. that we are not a resource wealthy nation.. nor are our allies.. the have nothing but a military with has been more of a liability than an assest.. what good is having hundreds of billions of dollars and lose your hegemony within the next 5 years.. that`s what`s up..nobody gives a damned if you don`t believe in something that those who work at the damned facility demostates.. and if you haven`t googled enough info on haarp.. to know what it is where it is and who it works then you don`y need to be on a P.C. you need special education.. because you are skipping ,..but any how.. you don`t own an oil resource wealth nation so haarp is not your concern.. but when these nations start thier offensive it will not be a C.I.A. funded Alciada where you can control the fight ...it`s going to be nasty.. You are not trying to find truth.. you are trying to hamper truth.. but know this.. truth.. All the world chases after religion.. and all roads they find they say are to Judaism.. but the truth is that Abra-Ham-ite did not father circumcism ,yet he was circumcised. By Who.. ?? Yet with all the super intelligent inventions .nothing can be compared to the Egyptian science religion..and our most intelligent sciences can`t break the code.. it is not theirs to break.. and regardless of any weapon formed.. the consequences to the bearer will mean his end..No one is going to tolerate this B/S/ anymore...CHANGE MEANS CHANGE

Me: Jan 31, 2010

You have consistently failed to provide the one and only thing I've been asking of you:

A source.

I really don't care what conspiracy theories seem self-evident to your mind. I only care about what can be proven. You are clearly incapable of providing anything that even passes for evidence. In the absence of any sources for your claims, I have no choice but to reject them. That which can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence and your refuse to provide any evidence for your claims about HAARP.

Have a nice life.

lsmanure Feb 01, 2010
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I will ..One thing....Did you even try to give any evidence to suggest my claim.. surely this isn`t a battle of left and right.They now, are debating the ``Body Scanner in Europe...look up Mike Chernoff ? Homeland security..The claim is that he is going to make a lot of money offf of this..The thing about the product is.. Can anyone.. who has not taken the ``Doctors oath`` be allowed to view my wife`s or your wife`s / husband ..daugthers` ..or Mothers` vagina.And after some ``Male..has looked there at all those vagina`s.. knowing geeks can copy that image..looking at Genitals for days and months.. you are creating a worse threat.. to society.. and we all know that there will be pervs.. The question is what kind.. Answers : All kinds ..Word in the middle class community is that they nearly beat that young ~~Black boy to death...so much though that the ``operatives had to come and rescue the boy..It was silly in fact to suggest such ,dealing with the background of this nation... and this young man was not a jihadist ,nor alcaeda.Suicide attacks are ``instilled.. there is no delay.. these young men have been taught to avenge against anyone who threatens their Sovereign..theirs is not fear as was suggest in this young black young.. ``Black people don`t do that type of mayhem anyway.. they do drive bys..and it is when some rival has crossed them.. they don`t fool with white people.. all these years you have known Black people and this indeed is a first.. we have some serious structural solutions to manifest. and the current government is not qualified to lead .. ``The World ..Obama had it all.. and the crooks got to him..well before perhap ,yet still that tide he rode... many a man could work miracles.Now Ahmadinejad Got it.. You know how..Gaza.. When ``( what-ever ).. there was a serious fumble... this would have been the perfect.storm for Obama to come in.. slap Israel ( symbolically on the wrist ).. and start a massive building Campaign with a ``Brand Spaking New Government..`` Right in the Heart of the Middle East...And now the bums are in Haiti... some times I want to cry to see how stupid he was and further.. those behind him...I don`t know what level you are on.. Try this Slogan.. Tax -Payer Owned and Operated .I don`t care what the device is.. you have some stupid people doing some really stupid things and stepping on so many toes. China is ignoring us.. not good when such holds your debt card in front of the imf..while Iran is host nation of The New World Order..We are so far behind ... and if middle class wants to be null..then..you won`t have any enemies in the developing world..you will simply be one of them and fit right in...... that`s for sure.. Is that enough to Google.

Me: Feb 02, 2010

Are you actually writing replies to me, or just pasting in blocks of computer generated rants?

You aren't even pretending to be talking about HAARP anymore.

Are you an internet troll or genuinely suffering from profound mental illness?

lsmanure Feb 02, 2010
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i see you are one of the bad guys.. there no trying to talk to you.. i was in a chat room once ..and i dealt with several people of your. type...you don`t want to be knowledgeable ..knowledge scares you..LIKE I SAID who cares what you think.. ``you are what Europeans call stupid American..`` too bad The party line isn`t cutting it for your type anymore.. and no one`s ranting.. i could give you several sites with plenty of evidence.. but you seem to be one who will probably have the site shut down.. you sound very anti-people ..but your side is the minority. we call your type ``chat plants``..all you have done was kept a closed mind and looked for insults.. if you are too stupid to find information, acting like a little kid who needs to be directed to every bit of knowledge like a pre-schooler.. then of course you would have problems in an adult world.,..bottom line.. there are more fascinating toys we. have ..the chinese have the russians and other countries..other than HAARP... this is one of the older technologies..and like i said.. we ran into people who would say ``give me the site..`` if in fact it was something very hard to find ..i would have no trouble with it. but no one gave me a site. it was on talk radio .. and i googled it..( the haiti incident ) but i knew about haarp long before haiti.. the question was would they use it....did Americans used depleted uraniun in Iraq..you have only to look at the number of deformed babies.. and like said.. if any man could fabricate ( which bush later admitted nowmd ) such a lie to have hundreds of thousands of people ( maybe a million ) killed .. there should never be a question of intent..most americans see any thing major as a farce now.. since 911 and wmd the governments credibility stinks..and anyway..your type.. has been given evidence upon evidence of a range of things..i am sure.. and you will only seek to discredit it.. you don`t want the truth because you already know it.. and it does not suit your agenda.. tell it to the chinese.. because they are not buying your insolence either. and they hold your debt card..they know what america is capable of.. and your petty ignorance won`t change that fact..

Me: Feb 02, 2010
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"you don`t want to be knowledgeable ..knowledge scares you"

I asked for evidence, all you've done is babble about unrelated topics. Claiming the world is a scary place full of conspiracies and making a bunch of unsupported claims does NOT constitute evidence for any one theory.

I'll ask you again, what evidence do you have that HAARP is capable of controlling the weather?

It's a simple question and one you have refused to answer.

Vampire Prevention Win

I'd been thinking of growing my own garlic next year.

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

Autotune is normally abused. This is example of the RIGHT way to overtune in autotune.

Homeopathy & Nutritionists vs Real Science!

The Jesus Cult was all about magic mushrooms???

It would be something of an understatement to call this a mind boggling theory.

In 1970, the famed Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Marco Allegro published the following series of articles in the London Sunday Mirror, UK. This series of articles was to announce that Christianity is based on a fertility-mushroom/drug cult, and that Jesus was none other than the mushroom itself.

Read more and see some intersting artwork at Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

"Jesus is the reason for the season."

"Jesus is the reason for the season."

Actually, no he isn't. According to the data in the Gospels, Jesus was born in the spring, early fall at the latest. The celebration of Christmas was a circa 400 AD (AKA CE) move by the Church to try and co-op pagan Yule festivals and the celebration of Apollo's birth. As a result the leaders of the pre-Catholic church decided to manufacture a celebration around the birth of Christ and schedule it to roughly coincide with the assorted Yule festivals.

Christmas trees, (Which may be forbidden by Jeremiah 10:1-5) the gift exchange, most the symbolism in Christmas decoration, even Santa Claus, are all Yule trappings. Jesus was clumsily grafted onto the existing traditions like a massive gold cross sprouting out of Stonehenge. A Catholic Saint was eventually tacked onto the Santa clause figure as an "origin" even though Santa predates Christ by 3,000 to 4,000 years. Comic book fans call this a retcon.

In the end, Christmas has very little to do with Christ. If you stripped away all the pagan trappings you'd be left with an extra church service Christmas Eve, another on Christmas day and a nativity. Unless of course the Nativity was stolen from the celebration of Apollo's birth. At that point you're left with the extra church services. Given everything else the church in Rome stole from the pagans, I wouldn't put it past them to have "borrowed" the nativity as well.

And don't get me started on the difference between Angels as described in the Bible and the winged androgynous Cupid knock-offs on Hallmark greeting cards.

Christian Side Hug

I know this may sound racist, but, with rare exception, white people should never attempt to rap. This rule is even more important when people are attempting to write over the top religious lyrics with no comprehension of what makes a good song. Choosing to rap is NOT a way to cover a lack of musical talent. A lesson these nit-wits clearly missed.

About 'Twilight'

Twilight is the story of a 109 year old, blood sucking pervert who hangs out at high schools and stalks an underage girl because she "smells" right. He then proceeds to spend his nights watching her sleep and his days telling her how much she needs him to protect her.

And this is supposed to be romantic???

Let's make a slight change to the story. Let's make Edward a perfectly mortal 54 year old blood fetishist instead of a vampire and he's her Geometry teacher. This gives him a reason to be in the school, something he didn't have before. Don't make ANY other changes except ones needed to accommodate those tweaks.

Is it still romantic when he spends his nights watching her sleep and his days telling her how much she needs him all because of how she smells?

Unsubscribe request

I somehow got on the mercola mailing list. I just sent an unsubscribe request. When doing so I was asked why I was unsubscribing. This is the explanation I gave:

I was really sickened by the slew of misinformation and outright lies being spread by this newsletter. The easily debunked anti-vaccine nonsense alone was nauseating. It's clear that the newsletter promotes not science base medicine but whatever trendy quack idiocy is making the rounds.

Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level

Is this some sort of holistic colon cleanse remedy I haven't heard of?

Some things just hurt one's brain to read:

Fulminant acute colitis following a self-administered hydrofluoric acid enema.

Cappell MS, Simon T.

Department of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson (Rutgers) Medical School, New Brunswick.

A 33-yr-old white male presented with bloody diarrhea, leukocytosis, and left lower quadrant direct and rebound tenderness after a self-administered concentrated hydrofluoric acid enema while intoxicated from intranasal cocaine administration. Intraoperative flexible sigmoidoscopy and a gastrografin enema revealed severe mucosal ulceration and edema in the rectum and sigmoid colon. Laparotomy revealed an ulcerated, necrotic, and purulent sigmoid colon and intraperitoneal pus. The patient underwent a limited sigmoid resection and a Hartman procedure. Five months later, the patient presented with a rectal stricture which was resected. This case demonstrates that a hydrofluoric acid enema can cause fulminant acute colitis and chronic colonic strictures.

Hydrofluoric acid, the stuff the guy used in the enema, is used to etch glass. He got the brilliant idea after snorting cocaine. Five months later they were still stitching his rear end back together.

I can suspect Nancy Reagan never thought of using something like this as part of the "Just Say No" campaign.

Philip

"The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"

The Keanu Reeves Conspiracy Theory

There's a new conspiracy theory floating around the Internet. It's proponents are still trying, and failing, to get some traction so it may yet die on the vine. The theory is an amusing one. Allow me to let one of the posts pimping the theory to speak for itself:

The painting on the far left is of actor Paul Mounet and it was done in 1875. Today, that same actor is known as Keanu Reeves.

But wait! There's more!
According to Wikipedia (Jean) Paul Mounet was a French Actor who lived from October 1847 – February 1922. Keanu Charles Reeves was born born September 2, 1964, leaving about 42 years "unaccounted for" according to the theory.

Is it silly?

Oh yes. The idea of Keanu Reeves having been kicking aorund since 1847 is very silly. The most amusing thing about the entire theory is that the paintings of Mounet provide proponents of this theory even MORE evidence than folks like David Icke and his instance that shape shifting reptilian aliens secretly rule the Earth. If the popularity of conspiracy theories was based on the supporting evidence the Mounet / Reeves "connection" would shoot to the top of the charts.

Koala story

Just a bit of silliness circulating the web.

A koala was sitting in a gum tree smoking a joint.

when a little lizard walked past, looked up and said, 'Hey Koala! What are you doing?'




The koala said, 'Smoking a joint, come up and have some.'

So the little lizard climbed up and sat next to the koala where they enjoyed a few joints. After a while the little lizard said that his mouth was 'dry' and that he was going to get a drink from the river.

The little lizard was so stoned that while trying to drink he leaned over too far and fell into the river. A crocodile saw this and swam over to the little lizard and helped him to the side. Then he asked the little lizard, 'What's the matter with you?'

The little lizard explained to the crocodile that he had been sitting with the koala in the tree, smoking a joint, but got too stoned and fell into the river while taking a drink.

The crocodile said that he had to check this out and walked into the rain forest. He found the tree where the koala was sitting finishing a joint. The crocodile looked up and said,


'Hey you!'

The koala looked down at him and said,

'Shiiiiiiiiiiit dude...
How much water did you drink!?'

The "Smoking Tooth"

There's a video out there called the "Smoking Tooth" video, depicting a lot of vapor rising from a recently extracted tooth that contained a silver filling. Silver fillings contain trace amounts of mercury. The video claims that the vapor rising from the filling is mercury. There's one small problem with this claim.

Mercury vapor is heaver than air.

If mercury was indeed coming off that tooth as vapor, the vapor would be FALLING not rising. Whatever is coming off that tooth, it's not mercury vapor. Anyone with dental training would have received enough basic science education to know this.

Why then is the narration in the video talking about mercury, when basic chemistry tells us that the vapor RISING from the tooth can't be mercury vapor? Is this a deliberate fabrication, or mere scientific illiteracy and incompetence? Is IAOMT, the distributors of the video, engaging in deliberate fraud, or merely displaying fundamental ignorance of the materials involved?

In short is the IAOMT lying or just plain stupid?

You can check out Mercury Fillings: A Mouthful of Death! by Skeptoid for more details, including the rather shocking fact that a chemist was involved in the production of the video! I shudder to think about the quality of work coming from a chemist who doesn't know mercury vapor would fall in air. You'd think if it was a deliberate fake he'd at least know to have falling vapor!

A Few Notes About Homeopathy

A while back I posted "Scam artists Offer Fake Flu "Immunization" and it's legal." and it, like most the content on my blog, languished in obscurity. Then a true believer in homeopathy posted a rather comical reply where they tried to defend a methodology based on 200 year old misinformation about the human body. I started writing a response and it grew into the post below.

Defining Terms

"Medicine" can be broadly divided into two categories. Science based and mythology based.

Science based medicine, also known as evidence based medicine, relies upon research, clinical trials and the overall advancement of knowledge to progress. Treatments and recommendations change over time as we learn more about the human body and the cause of disease. A few hundred years ago if you went to a doctor with a digestive complaint you were likely to be told that your humors were out of balance. Today your doctor is able to examine you, talk to you about your symptoms, run tests when necessary and prescribe a personalized treatment program based upon about 100 years of modern medicine. Modern medicine is far more likely to actually work.

The advances of science based medicine can be clearly demonstrated by comparing the infant mortality rates and overall health of, for example, stone age tribes in undeveloped portions of the modern world to the average citizens of France, Japan or the USA. Modern medicine makes us healthier. Brian Dunning goes into more detail on Skeptoid in "Natural Hygiene: Health Without Medicine (or Wisdom)"

Mythology based medicine however is a bit different. At some point some kook comes up with a set of rules and treatments. Those "treatments" are then passed on with little to no modification. One easy way to spot a mythology based medicine is that it changes very little, if at all, when new information is introduced.

Homeopathy is one of those sad, pathetic remnants of the days when little accurate information was known about the human body. I could go into a long discussion about what homeopathy is and how it differs from herbal or science based medicine but more articulate people have already done that for me:

Podcasts, web sites and videos where you can learn more:

James Randi explains the history, theory and the "4 rules of homeopathy" part 1

James Randi explains the history, theory and the "4 rules of homeopathy" part 2

Here be Dragons, an introduction to critical thinking

James Randi takes on "Head-On" the homeopathic headache "treatment."

QuackCast 3. Homeopathic Theory Of all the kinds of alt.med available, Homeopathy has to be the most retarded. And thats saying something. Listen and see why.

QuackCast 4. Homeopathy Clinical Trials. Clinical trials of homeopathy are of poor quality and treat self limited diseases. The better the study, the less well homeopathy does. In the best meta analysis to date, it is concluded that homeopathy doesn't work. Duh.

QuackCast 12. How to Identify Quackery and Homeopathic Horrors. Seven rules of thumb to identify quackery, with examples. Also more on the potential dangers of homeopathy.

The Skeptics dictionary definition of Homeopathy

Homeopathy: Pure Water or Pure Nonsense?Most homeopathy users believe that it's some kind of herbal remedy. Is it?

What's the harm in homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a practice created by Samuel Hahnemann that believes that incredibly minute quantities of substances dissolved in water can have powerful effects. Here are 437 people who were harmed by someone not thinking critically.

Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake Homeopathic "remedies" enjoy a unique status in the health marketplace: They are the only category of quack products legally marketable as drugs. This situation is the result of two circumstances. First, the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which was shepherded through Congress by a homeopathic physician who was a senator, recognizes as drugs all substances included in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States. Second, the FDA has not held homeopathic products to the same standards as other drugs. Today they are marketed in health-food stores, in pharmacies, in practitioner offices, by multilevel distributors, through the mail, and on the Internet.

This of course is jut the tip of the iceberg.

Searching for the Research

I've spent a good deal of time trying to find a homeopathy study that met the following criteria:

1. Double or triple blind
2. Placebo controlled
3. Had a large sample size
4. Showed an effect larger than placebo and the study's margin of error.
5. An objective measurement of clinical effectiveness, as opposed to a subjective one.
6. Rigorous methodology.

I haven't found any.

I've found a lot of garbage. I found small pilot studies of less than 50 people. I saw "positive results" that were so small that the study's margin of error made them indistinguishable from placebo. The simple fact is the more competently conducted the study, the smaller the result gets for homeopathy.

Now, Rene David can call me "simply ignorant" until the cows come home, but that won't change the fact that I have actual science on my side and Rene is relying upon mythology and anecdotes. I have the facts, Rene has wishful thinking and a misguided faith in nonsense. I'd love it if Rene could provide me with a few studies that met the six criteria I outlined above. In the past I've asked homeopaths for actual research that indicated efficacy. What I got were the titles of dozens of small studies showing tiny effects, none of which met the criteria I'd requested.

Where Zicam fits in

The closest anyone came was to mention Zicam, which is a "2C" dilution. The "2" means it's been diluted twice. The "C" means each dilution was 1 part source material to ten parts water. A 1C dilution would therefore be a 10% solution and a 2C dilution would be 1%. As a point of reference Household bleach is a 5.25% dilution of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCI) and a few tablespoons of that is enough to kill the bacteria in 5 gallons of water. Depending on the compound, 1% can be well in the range of a clinical dosage. Calling Zicam a homeopathic remedy is pure marketing.

The more common "X" designation on homeopathic remedies means it was diluted to 1 part per 100. this means a 1X dilution is a 1% solution. By the time you get to the 30X and 200X dilutions used for many homeopathic remedies, you could drink an entire Olympic swimming pool of the "treatment" and never encounter a single molecule of the original ingredient. The Mentalist James Randi will often start demonstrations by taking and entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills.

Conclusion

The bottom line is, homeopathy is bunk. The people claiming otherwise are relying upon shoddy "research" and outdated fantasies about how the human body works. I'm sure most homeopaths are convinced that there's actual science behind their cute little mythology. I suspect most of them are sincere in placing 200 year old misinformation ahead of modern medicine. That doesn't change the fact that they're wrong. Homeopathy is, at best, a placebo. Relying upon a placebo in place of actual medicine can kill you.

Crocodile Poo as a Topical Contraceptive

I was participating in an online discussion about an "alternative therapy" for which there's no actual evidence of efficacy. In short, the sellers make wild claims but have no proof of those claims. One person in the forum posted the following as part of their defense of the unproven:

"I find it interesting that so many people are willing to poo-poo something with which they have no experience. Have they actually tried the water and determined that there are no effects or benefits? If they opened their mind enough to get past their prejudice, they might discover life changing enlightenment."

My response:

I could use the same logic to ridicule others for not using crocodile poo as a topical contraceptive. The Ancient Egyptians used it as a contraceptive AND as an anapestic on woulds. How can you ridicule it? Have you spoken to the people who use crocodile poo as a topical contraceptive? You have NO experience with it, so you have NO right to question it!

Clinical evidence? Bah. Who needs clinical proof when I can produce a stack of testimonials from people who did NOT get pregnant when they speared crocodile poo on their genitals before intercourse.

There's a whole list of compounds in crocodile poo that will kill sperm and it's all natural to boot! Who CARES if the arguments made in defense of this therapy are easily dismantled with a few minutes of research and a rudimentary understanding of biology and chemistry? The arguments SOUND scientific and plenty of folks who don't understand chemistry believe them! The very POPULARITY I claim for CrocPoo(tm) contraceptive cream is proof enough that it works, right?

I'm now tempted to create a web site for CrockPoo Contraceptive and use it to parody the ramblings of the ignorant and deluded who are promoting or buying quack remedies.

A Few Notes on Water Powered Cars

Let's walk through a quick example of a water powered car.

Let's say you start with 100 Newtons of energy in the battery.

You use that energy to perform electrolysis on water. Let's be wildly optimistic and say you only lose 10% of the energy to heat, noise and friction. That leaves you with 90 Newtons of energy in the form of Hydrogen.

You then use the Hydrogen to power an internal combustion engine. There's isn't some magical way to burn hydrogen that's "better" than internal combustion, even though some water powered car proponents seem to forget this. Again, we'll make wildly optimistic assumptions and assume you only lose 10% of the energy in both powering the car AND recharging the battery. This leaves you with 81 Newtons of Energy in the battery.

On the next cycle, you only have 81 of the original 100 Newtons to work with. This means you'll be able to produce less hydrogen.

Keep in mind, energy is used by moving the car. Even if you found some magical zero loss way to convert the electricity into hydrogen and then combust the hydrogen, you still lose energy in the process of moving the car. That 100 Newtons of energy will get whittled down and on each cycle you'll have less and less energy with which to perform electrolysis and thus less hydrogen to burn.

Water powered car proponents skirt over this simple bit of science and pretend they can magically get more energy out of burning the hydrogen than it took to separate the water in the first place. Doing so would violate one of the most fundamental laws of physics. Anyone who found a way to do this, who managed to unseat a basic principal of the cosmos like the laws of Thermodynamics would sweep away Newton and Einstein as irrelevant footnotes.

Realistically, if you have a charged battery, it makes more sense to drive the engine directly. This allows you to use all the energy that would be lost during electrolysis and combustion.

But don't take my word for it. Popular Mechanics got their hands dirty testing some of these magical perpetual motion engines.

"The Truth About Water-Powered Cars: Mechanic's Diary"

"Water-Powered Cars: Hydrogen Electrolyzer Mod Can't Up MPGs"

"Why Water Won't Improve Your MPG: A PM and Dateline NBC Investigation"

You can also check out "The great "run your car on water" scam" for more detailed information on the con artists selling conversion kits.

Scam artists are using claims of a "Big oil conspiracy" to get people to buy plans for electrolysis devices that don't improve gas mileage. The simple fact is if these devices worked, auto manufacturers would be building them into cars as improved fuel economy is a MAJOR selling point in most markets.

Oops, that's not funny

Another item I found on the Internet.

Who am I to God?

I'd currently describe myself as vaguely protestant, ranging from moderate to liberal in my beliefs and views.

I was raised in a conservative home attending churches affiliated with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. The 700 Club was on TV daily and my parents were members of said club. I was raised to be suspicious of charismatics, but televangelists like Pat Robertson were OK, even though Pat was a bit liberal at times. I was a Creationist and all around Conservative until College. I even listened to Rush Limbaugh and taped his TV show when it was on the air.

Then that pesky corrupter "knowledge" entered my mind. For example, the more I learned about the Bible, the more I realized that vast swaths of it were never meant to be taken literally by the original authors. Actually meeting people outside the safety zone of my youth allowed me to see that the black and white morality I'd been taught was inadequate for navigating the real world. I soon found myself disgusted with the behavior of many in organized religion and it wasn't until a few years later that I started separating that disgust from my questions about theology and God. My family and I don't discuss religion anymore, not after the last shouting match about sex ed. To give you a frame of reference my Mother still thinks George W did a bang-up job.

In terms of specific dogma and beliefs, I'm still reevaluating that. I haven't really "settled in" theologically speaking. I'm not entirely sure "settling in" is a healthy thing religiously, as most people seem to act like the need to explore and learn has come to an end when they do.

Change we can beleive in