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Conspiracy Nation

I spent part of 9/11 arguing with some 9/11 conspiracy kooks.  I didn't waste a whole lot of time because it is a descent into madness.  It's the fault of the Jews Antisemitism is an indelible stain born by all of Christendom, and "The Jews were behind 911" is just another sour note on the scale of a millennia-old theme. The "Mossad did it" theory has Jewish men filming before the attack and then dancing in jubilation when the destruction occurred.  It's not even worth wasting space on the supposed details.  Various disconnected events are hodge-podged together to make it all fit.   Plausibility and Motive are Not Proof Could Israel have been behind the attacks? Sure, anything is possible.  The supposed motive is that Israelis would benefit from us feeling the sting of terrorism that they know all too well, causing us to sympathize with them and subsequently go on a global jihadi safari, killing all their enemies for them. Sounds ...

Who Cares if The President is a Muslim?

Media-Crafted Controversy This is traditionally a bad season for our sensationalistic, controversy driven 24/7 noise machine known as the "news" media. It's mid-August, and Americans are trying to enjoy what's left of summer. We've unplugged for the summer, so media profits are sagging.  They respond by inventing stuff to get us back and basking in the glow of their corporate-sponsored cliffhangers. So PEW conducts a poll and a news-hungry media is all over it like a pack of rabid jihadis on a cartoonist. 18% of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim! So what??? The Same poll reports that only 46% of Democrats believe Obama is a Christian!  By their own standards, half of all Democrats are kooks.  20% of adults believe space aliens live among us in disguise 33% believe 911 was an inside job "If Bush ran the car in the ditch, Obama and the Democrats went on a drunken joy ride and drove it the wrong way down I-70, caused a two-tho...