Matt T.: Yes, well. That is the sort of thing up with which we must put down –er, up here in the glorious border state. The ass that the Big Orange totally kicks sure adds up, don’t it?

I’m capable of understanding the gist of his paper, but not really competent to assess whether he’s correct on all points. We’ll have to leave that to the physicists over time…

You might as well add Phil of plumbbobblog.com to that list. He not only bit, he’s still chewing on the plastic squid.

Still, it is kind of like Xmas in July, isn’t it?

Yes, it’s truly a sad day in the Magical Kingdom of Les Nuts d’Wing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Broderers

Modern day Broderers have eschewed linen and velvet, and make their living by embroidering the truth.

Well, nothing sucks like a Big Orange, as they say in Tuscaloosa, Athens, and Gainesville.

Exactly. Just throw this one on the pile with “the Chinese are drilling off the coast of Cuba” and “Katrina didn’t cause a single oil spill.” Zombie lies aren’t killed by mere facts.

What is this, pick on Tennessee day? Don’t we have enough troubles down here as it is?

In answer to your question, Nim: I think they slipped quietly back under the rock from whence they emitted themselves. Shhhhh.

If only that were the worst of it.

July 18, 2008 at 20:20

Being Republican means never having to say you are sorry (or wrong).”

That is true. Everyone automatically assumes you are not sorry, but are wrong in the first place. Any sort of confirmation of such well known facts is waste of effort. Sort of like starting every conversation with “Earth it round, did you know?”.

In anycase, it is good that all those people aren’t posting on the same website. Such concentration of stupidity would cause a black hole like effect in the internet.

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/kbday/2008/jul/17/breaking-news-sunlight-shines-on-global-warm/

This doofus thinks the worst part about the whole global warming “hoax” is that it besmirches the good name of the United States. Quoth Mr. KBDay:

Meanwhile, global warming which the EPA now insists be called ‘climate change’ which the APS is now referring to as ‘climate senstivity’ is costing the United States both money and goodwill. Countries where people don’t have enough to eat are given the impression the U.S., rather than natural events, wars and lack of leadership, is causing food shortages.

That’s right. People subsisting on dried roots in the expanding sub-Sahara might actually resent fat-ass Americans idling in the McDonald’s drive-thru in their SUVs because of this “climate sensitivity” nonsense. And after our leaders have worked so hard to build up good will between the Third World and the “world’s biggest polluter”.

Monckton’s views on how the AIDS epidemic should be tackled have been the subject of some controversy. In an article entitled “The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS”, written for the January 1987 issue of The American Spectator, he argued that “there is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month … all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently.” This would involve isolating between 1.5 and 3 million people in the United States (“not altogether impossible”) and another 30,000 people in the UK (“not insuperably difficult”).[10] Monckton appeared on the BBC’s Panorama programme in February 1987 to discuss his views and present the results of an opinion poll that found public support for his position.[5] In 1999 the British gay rights group OutRage! launched a campaign to force the manufacturer of Monckton’s Eternity Puzzle to disassociate itself from him because of his views.[11] Monckton has since clarified his views on AIDS, stating that “the article was written at the very outset of the AIDS epidemic, and with 33 million people around the world now infected, the possibility of [quarantine] is laughable. It couldn’t work.” [12]

Note last sentence. Basically, he came up with a policy based on his own ignorance and intolerance; when reality reared its ugly head, he was forced to call his own plan “laughable.” He was Jonah before there was a Jonah.

An enormous blast zone, and — in the center — no crater, nothing.

Hey everyone, please use 5min of your life to check this, it’s really worth it. Nasher’s distinguished source Lord Monckton of Brenchley… Well, what can you say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,...

and like Plughead told already:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1...

This is priceless!!!! What a clown!!! No degree in science, whatsoever. And he is “challenging” hundreds of physicists.

And his main income seems to creating jigsaws and sudokus…. Wow. But

quote:
he is reportedly known to his nieces and nephews as ‘Mr Knowledge’

You two funny brothers, Michael and Christopher, Monckton is a “journalist”, too. At least he has a diploma in journalism. And a degree in classics. That’s all his “scientific” background.

I have been laughing for a half an hour reading through different gems from Monckton (links in wiki)

An aristocrat from England with too much time available. Kind of sad. Or. Very. Funny.

Holy cow.

(
Hey Asher, a good time for a summer holiday? And apologies for lowest quality “journalism”? Waste of everyone’s time.
)

fanfuckingtastic.

an idiot says something on the internet. a bunch of other idiots link to it. slowly it works up the food chain. i will hear about this from my right-wing relatives later, perhaps in an e-mail that will be forwarded to a million people.

we are doomed.