AvidEditor Confuses Science and Opinion Again

Alright, alright. Sheesh! As requested, here’s a hit piece on the captain of capture, the magnate of mojo, the drag-and-drop angry prophet of the airwaves, AvidEditor.

A few days ago, AvidEditor chose to poot forth the ridiculous notion that liberals support the anthropoegenic climate change hypothesis in order to ensure U.S. dependency on our Muslim masters and thus we will destroy our wicked Judeo-Christian overlords through gay marriage. Which is certainly an interesting spin considering that one of the most-often cited positive externalities of increased investment in renewable energy sources is the ability to wean ourselves off of our foreign oil dependency. Apparently we Islamist-Jihadist-Liberals aren’t circulating the memos to our enviro-nazi buddies.

What’s more, AV uses the thoroughly debunked propaganda piece “The Great Global Warming Swindle” to make his argument. Apparently what passes for science in the mind of the conservatroll is hearsay, conjecture, and anything liberals disagree with. Which would explain their other anti-science efforts, I suppose.

So I hereby challenge AvidEditor to provide some convincing, PEER-REVIEWED scientific evidence contradicting the scientific consensus on anthropoegenic global warming. Not some hearsay hit piece or a Wall Street Journal editorial by some economist whining about how models are inaccurate. Show me some scientific evidence that shows the AGW theory is wrong.

Oh, and please don’t insult my intelligence. I’ve heard the ice is growing in Antarctica and the Mars is warming too argument and the it’s the coldest winter ever argument and the global cooling argument before. They’ve all been thoroughly debunked. Gimme something new, please.

TP Watch Poster Fails Out of Kindergarten!

Now as we all know, the grandiloquent man-children behind the blogograph ThinkProgress Watch are not well known for their command of grammar or diction. But it appears that the problem may be worse than we originally suspected. It seems that they are having difficulty distinguishing several letters of the alphabet. Specifically, the letters S and B.

In today’s bit of blogghorea, they cite TP poster Bilbo “Hussein” Baggins thusly:

Think Progress as has been documented here at TP Watch has expressed open suppport for the Iranian backed Mahdi Army. Well poster Bilbo Hussein express his support of this Fascist Organization.

Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 am

Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for a million-strong demonstration against U.S. ‘occupation,’ a potentially destabilizing show of force after his followers battled U.S. and government troops.

Do you suppose having a million people in Iraq saying “get the hell out of our country” would be enough for Bush. Nah… he could care less what the people in Iraq think.

Now, putting aside for a moment the fact that Bilbo’s quote doesn’t actually express any support for Shi’ite cleric Muqtada as-Sadr, we can also see that the TP Watcher is quite confused in his description of as-Sadr’s organization as the “Iranian backed Mahdi Army.”

As numerous news organizations have reported, it is not the Mahdi Army of Muqtada as-Sadr that is backed by Iran, but the Badr Organization (the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council) that was formed in Iran in the 1980s and continues to receive support from Iran. The Badr Organization is the one allied with the ad-Da’wa party of Iraqi President Noori al-Maliki.

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that at least one of the posters at TP Watch failed kindergarten and thus is unable to distinguish between these two very different letters.

Conservaspeak: Caring about the troops = hating the military

The TP Watchers have put up their daily dose of twisted logic, and today they provide us with a veritable Möbius strip of syllogism. See if you can follow this one:

A. TP reports that soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Pentagon sources, have difficulty accessing mental health services.

B. TP reports that, according to an Army General, extended deployments are putting trememdous stress on military families and damaging troop readiness.

C. In repeating these statements made by military officials, TP obviously hates the military.

In logic terms, this would be stated as IF A AND B, THEN C, where A=”caring about the mental well-being of our troops” and B=”caring about the readiness of our troops” and C=”hating the military.”

Liberals (and apparently some traitors in the Pentagon) are killing our troops by caring about them! This carejihad must be stopped! How dare we liberals think of our troops as anything other than backdrops for photo-ops?

I wonder if anyone ever mentioned this to Bob Hope before he went on more than 50 troop-hating excursions with the USO…