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Taking it to the radio…
March 30, 2011
I heard from some of you who were surprised to hear that I wasn’t to be heard on the radio this afternoon. Nobody was more surprised than me, and I was Mr. Peter G. Grumbletrousers all afternoon.
No, that’s not right. I was DOCTOR Peter G. Grumbletrousers. The radio interview, which was to be about the language of pseudoscience, did not happen for reasons that are not completely clear to me. It was email’s fault, though. You know, I’m pretty laid back, especially when I’m at work. But, man, it was a slap in the face to be completely forgotten about. Not cool.
I don’t want to complain, but you know by the preceding independent clause that I’m going to. I told my students about it, put aside other work to prepare, and canceled a class to be there. I have to cancel a class next week too because of a conference. It’s going to be hard to justify doing it again so close to the end of the semester.
Big disappointment.
But when life gives you a turd, make a turd pie! IIG-Atlanta will be officially constituted by the time I am rescheduled, and I’ll be able to announce the $50,000 challenge for evidence of the supernatural, paranormal or occult under properly controlled conditions. That’s a plus. Also, I will be back from NECSS, which I will be attending next week after my panel at NeMLA. (By a very great coincidence, I’m going to be talking at Rutgers the day before NECSS starts and will hop on the train to New York City.) I should be charged up and ready to go after that. And, I am going to ask that a couple of local paranormal celebs be present or invited to call in.
Strike me down, and I’ll become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
RJB
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The Week in Conspiracy (26 March 2011)
March 27, 2011More news that validates everything regarding whatever position I advocated last week about who’s really in control. I mean, it’s staring you in the face, man! Or woman. Or reptillian-human uberlord.
- Is the New World Order paying the Muslim Brotherhood to foment revolution in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy? A guy in Pickneyville, IL thinks so. And he’s not afraid to use exclamation points to demonstrate this.
- The Foreign Policy Journal: “Carbon emission caps are the Rothchilds’ route to global governance.”
- The International Herald Tribune kicks around David Icke for a while, which is fine.
- Man in video (below) has bad dye job. Also, the Japanese earthquake was the result of tectonic nuclear warfare, which of course we knew. Word for the unwise: don’t joke about nuclear warfare and Japan. They have real feelings about it.
- Wow. FoxNews girl says this out loud: Maybe Obama is not showing his birth certificate in order to make birthers look as foolish as birthers are. No, hon, it’s a ruse to make FoxNews girls say what you just said! Muahahahaha!
- Ach! Libya intervention was planned years, or possibly even months, ago, depending on which YouTuber you listen to. Also, a very old quote from Wesley Clark!
- Children declared a public hazard? Public nuisance, maybe . (Of course, maybe I’m jaded, since I was at Disney World earlier this week. I’m just saying I saw a lot of Justin Beiber t-shirts.)
- I love the title: “Chemtrails? There’s an app for that!“
- Japanese Princess Nakamaru, damn it, spilled the beans about the Illuminati depopulation program. Stupid princess. (In fact, I can’t find here princessly credentials. You’d think she’d have a wiki entry at least, right?)
- The globalists are stirring up problems in Syria. (How could you tell?)
- Least sensational headline of the week: “Libyan War: “Cancer-causing U.S. ‘coalition’ bombs reign terror on local populations“
- Is Newt Gingrich somehow connected to 9/11?
- Gays profited from AIDS. Fuck you, Randy Engel. A snippet:
JV — Did the AIDS crisis hinder or help the Homosexual Movement?
RE — In terms of finances, government-sponsored AIDS programs proved to be the goose that laid the golden egg, and millions of dollars of “health” funds has made their way into homosexual political/activist organizations. AIDS has the added “benefit” of helping to reduce the “surplus population,” in keeping with the New World Order’s relentless campaign against the proliferation of people. Unfortunately, the useful idiots that dominate the “gay” leadership have yet to figure that out, or if they have, they are silent so as not to loose their salaries, or possibly their lives.
- WWIII began this week. Did you miss it?
- Enormous UFO crash in Russia? We’ll never know, since the Youtube user took down the video!
- I have a feeling that this news report is associated with the Japanese earthquakes or the fact that California apparently was supposed to sink into the sea yesterday, and not with plumbers: “HUGE CRACK in Everrett, WA.”
- I don’t remember if I mentioned Donald Trump’s demand to see Obama’s birth certificate last week, but the heir of a talented businessman continues his crusade toward unelectability. And it IS racist.
- Speaking of unelectable, Michelle Bachmann has hired a birther to her (probable) 2012 election team.
- Hey, a blast from my bloggy past! Fake historian David Barton praised by Newt. Does this mean that David Barton had something to do with 9/11? Think about it.
- Yay! Glenn Beck joins forces with G. Edward Griffin! It can only get hilariouser.
- Arts and Letters Daily, a venerable source, sent me to a site talking about the evolution of concepts of who causes natural disasters.
Conspiracy Theory of the Week!
Almost forgot about this one! A group that seems to represent the (few probably delusional) family members of 9/11 victims (but sounds more like it is Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth) launched an ad campaign to raise an awareness of WTC 7. As badly as I feel for some of these people, I can’t help but remind you that your personal tragedy does not give you expertise any more than having expelled a child from her uterus makes Jenny McCarthy an infectious disease specialist.
That’s what I got for now, people. Keep the tin foil tightly wrapped!
RJB
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Skeptics visit the Creation Museum
March 24, 2011About a year ago, over Christmas break, Eve and I visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky. It was fun and everything, but not for the reasons the creators (with a lower-case “c”) intended.
This never happened.
Every so often, we may post audio of our public talks. Just be you warned. This is a young website, one sparking with shiny promise.
The Atlanta Skeptics in the Pub podcast, by the way, is produced by Mark Ditsler of Abrupt Media. He’s a multimedia whiz-bang and does a great job for the Altanta Skeptics. He’s also on the steering committee of the newly formed IIG-Atlanta. More on that project soon!
RJB
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The Week in Conspiracy (3/20/11)
March 20, 2011Well, hi there! I was almost right last week when I sounded the alarm about the apocalypse that was coming. I meant to say within two weeks of the 14th of either this month or next month. But it’s coming!
Anyway, this was another Japan-heavy week in the flip-out-o-sphere. Nukes and all that. The mainstream media, I will note, did not help and should be ashamed. Regardless, there is a new war on, Libya, and a whole new suite of fears to exploit. Let’s have at it!
- Glenn Beck blames nuclear fears on Soros propaganda.
- Obama almost personally hauling off people who disrupt Congress.
- 911Truth tweet claims that quake warfare is real, points readers to a fairly unremarkable, unrelated Daily Mail article.
- Alex Jones claims US government is blocking sale of potassium iodide…
- …except when the vomitous, opportunistic nutloaf is selling potassium iodide at his store.
- MSNBC looks at the economics of the apocalypse.
- In a related story, Rapture Ready’s “Rapture Index” reacts to the Japanese quake.
- Um…Illuminati card…and…Japanese people…and…I don’t know…what this is supposed to show, honestly. I think it’s a prophecy without a prediction. Strange that.
- Fed nutters are reportedly going to try to keep workers out of the Federal Reserve on the 24th. I expect that it will last about 2 minutes.
- Is the Pentagon hiding information about the Fukushima plant?
- Blitz gets to the bottom of the New World Order thing.
- Nation of Islam + Crop Circles + Apocalypse = one weird-ass newsletter.
- “Planes were not aimed at the Burlington Coat Factory.”
- David Horowitz’s site parrots Beck.
- A double-review of Paul Offit and Seth Mnookin’s books on vaccine scares.
- As expected, the Chinese are poised to invade across the US-Mexico border. Luckily, we have the minutemen to protect us.
- Donald Trump: Birther.
- Canadian nuclear accident cover-up! Actually, I saw another report about this that associated it with a 4.3 earthquake or something. I don’t get out of bed for 4.3s.
- Sweden (heheh): “Radiation to cover the entire northern hemisphere!!!!!ZOMG!!!11!!emphasis!!“
- A movie about the Oklahoma City bombing in the works?
- New Orleans conspiracy theorist (possibly mentally ill) harasses FBI agent.
- OH NOES! Radiation megastorm coming! So are giant octopus and mega shark.
- Ron Paul writes about the Fed at Prison Planet. Guess what he doesn’t like?
- From an unnamed source at the Denver International Airport, home of the Illuminati playgroup, elites are piling into fallout shelters. Last week it was survival arks. Now it’s fallout shelters. Just another week of Alternative 3 here at Skeptical Humanities.
- “Earthquake War!“
- The secret plan for a global currency.
- The birther obstacle course that 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls will have to navigate.
- Compasses are going crazy, reports lone ATS nut.
Conspiracy Theories of the Week:
- The Atlantean Brotherhood Cult is sending secret messages in the CBS TV show The Mentalist. This is a must try-and-read. And here is the blog.
AND
- Is Gaddafi a Rothschild? (Not unless Bedoins are suddenly Jewish. He might be a lizard-person, however.)
RJB
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The Week in Conspiracy (13 March 2011)
March 14, 2011Fwaaaaaaaaaa! I can’t believe I thought last week was going to be the culmination of immense, secret machinations. This week it will be different. This week it will happen.
Yeah, as I’m sure you are aware, the wackosphere is going potty over the earthquake in Japan. No disaster is too horrific for them to not fap furiously over.
It’s been quiet here recently, and I appologize. I have, in fact, been busy this week doing conspiracy related things. On Saturday, I went to a 9/11 Truther event in Atlanta and did some interviews. I offered my audio to a locally produced podcast that you may have heard of, so we’ll see what happens there.
Before launching into this week’s theme, Japan, I wanted to mention a little tweet from a big twit, in which a 9/11 Truther encourages Charlie Sheen to get back to his crazy roots. Personally, I think that Charlie Sheen is disinfo. Think about it, people.
At any rate, I have been doing things and you can’t prove that I haven’t so there.
- The earthquake in Japan prompts renewed efforts to shut down HAARP. The subject and predicate of that sentence are completely unrelated. It’s like saying “Hurricane Rick prompts calls for closure of Purina cat food division.”
- Thousands of UFOs sighted (or expected to be) sighted in Japan following earthquake. Odd stories.
- WHY DIDN’T THE TECHNICIANS AT THE FUKUSHIMA POWER PLANT LISTEN TO THE ALIENS’ WARNINGS?!
- The title of this video below is “HAARP is an Illuminati Earthquake Machine Used in Japan,” but the guy in it claims that he was offered the job of finance minister of Japan by an assassin.
- Undeniable proof of HAARP in Japan. Or of radar in Japan. One or the other:
- Wow, that guy who was offered the job of finance minister has been working hard this week.
- This week a new phrase entered my vocab: “death cloud.” Do you notice how nobody quoted mentions a death cloud, yet it is in quotation marks?
- And this is how the death cloud is going to come to the US West Coast: the jet stream.
- Predictive Programing, Japan-style. Predictive programming is supposed to be a depiction of future events in pop culture to condition people to accept horrible things to come. In the movie 2012, there were two earthquakes near Japan. Therefore, we were conditioned to…what exactly?
- In time for next week’s Skeptics’ Guide, ATLANTIS DISCOVERED IN SPAIN…DESTROYED BY TSUNAMI! I feel that “tsunami” is going to be the new “terrorist.”
- Did the Saudis cause the earthquake in order to stymie the Day of Rage?
- Vigilant Citizen believes a woman predicted the tsunami on 3/8, days before the event itself. Of course, Vigilant Citizen believes a lot of stuff. This same person predicted that the elites were secretly getting into “survival arks.” Oh well. I’m pretty sure she’s crazy most days, so her prediction is quite meaningless.
- Was the Japanese earthquake caused by the supermoon? (The answer has less yes in it than you might think.)
Let’s turn this into something a little more productive this week. Please visit the Red Cross and donate to their Japan relief efforts.
RJB
UPDATE:
A couple more conspiracies are trickling in. There is no shortage of goofy Japan-related woo:
Conspiracy numerologist. (This is tongue in cheek.)
Courtesy of Nate, from the Atlanta Skeptics, <panic>Nibiru caused the earthquake</panic>:
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Hurrah for Dr. Madden!
March 8, 2011Last night, when Eve brought this article to my attention, she asked, “Do you remember Tom Madden?”
I imagined John Madden. “Yeah.”
“You know he’s an expert on the Crusades?”
How nice for John Madden, I thought. “No.”
Sensing that something was wrong with my brain, Eve said, “Thomas Madden, from the SLU history department?”
“Oh, yeah, yeah.” I said. I think I covered myself pretty well.
Turns out a few years ago Dr. Madden wrote an article that appeared in the National Review, called “Not Dead Yet,” about the Naked Archaeologist’s The Lost Tomb of Jesus. Calling Simcha Jacobovici a “Naked Archaeologist,” mind you, is like calling me a “Bejeweled Pro Wrestler”–he is neither an archaeologist nor is he naked. “Fully Clothed Failure” seems more apt.
Regardless, it was published in March 2008 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the release of the Discovery Channel’s misguided airing of James Cameron’s goofy documentary, and it seems to fit within the scope of this site.
Enjoy!
RJB
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Do you like despairing? Sure! We all do!
March 8, 2011Then read the YouTube comments about the newly released police 9/11 video. Very disheartening. It’s a swarm of fail.
Now, if you will excuse me, I’m going to do…anything else but look at those comments.
When I feel like crap, I look at movies of puppies:
RJB
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The Week in Conspiracy 6 March 2011
March 6, 2011This week saw the beginning of the end. It’s all coming together now. If you can believe it, it’s even more sensational than the previous week, which I misidentified as the climax of history. That’s this current week. Yes. For sure this time. I know this because it was announced on Twitter that today, March 6, is the beginning of the world uprising.
- O noes! De Waffschilds is makkin de revolushinz in de Muswim landz!
- Jones and Beck together in Rolling Stone.
- Former toilet importer almost quotes Shakespeare on chemtrails.
- Birther legislation introduced in Iowa.
- Oh, birther legislation introduced in Georgia too. (It seems that it is losing support.)
- Sovereign Citizen arrests are on the rise in Atlanta. SC’s don’t think that the law applies to them generally.
- Headline of the Week: “Charlie Sheen: Stoned, Crazy, or Jesuit?”
- Was Gaddafi a fall guy for CIA drug running in Locherbie?
- Is the military weaponizing prion diseases to turn us into zombies?
- At minute 4:30, China reports that Earth is now Tatooine. Seriously, you just need to see it. Clearly it is a weather report.
- Silly people! 2012 won’t be caused by Nibaru. Obviously it’s going to be caused by earth expanding.
- Oh, speaking of Nibarunians, “flesh eating sodomite giants” found in Peruvian history.
- Special Ben has clearly not read Brian Mackey’s awesome slapdown of David Ray Griffin. I’m working through it right now, and he makes technical details of the WTC collapses accessible. JPL engineers are rock stars. That is all.
- It occurs to me that the people who think that people cannot possibly be responsible for modern technology, attributing it to aliens (what they came here to give us Teflon?), might as well be saying, “It’s magic. Can’t explain it. Magic.”
- Female cat alien detected on Siberian radar. (My god, I have such a strange blog.)
- Iran decries the 2012 London Olympics logo as “Zionist.” Please visit this link at your own risk: It’s HuffPo.
- Weird-ass Arkansan claims that Obama was raised in Kenya. I’ve seen this described as “Birtherism light.”
- Canada Free Press suggests that Obama will declare the Constitution unconstitutional. I’ll let you think about that for a minute.
- Here’s an interesting insight into how someone who might otherwise be skeptical can start formulating what they do not understand into a conspiracy theory.
- The Conservative Examiner reports that Obama is appointing members of the Muslim Brotherhood to key posts. And they wonder why grade school newspaper editors point at them and call them “doodie-heads.”
Conspiracy Theory of the Week:
I’m not enamored with the judgment of The View’s producers putting Alex Jones on, so I am going to air an oldie but goodie, Alex Jones getting slapped around by…some guy:
RJB
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