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By Joshua, August 15, 2010 2:43 am

State Representative Debbie Riddle and U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert, two incredibly, incredibly stupid politicians, are pushing the idea of “terror babies:”

Regular viewers of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360″ will recognize that term as referring to children born on U.S. soil to illegal immigrants. The children are automatically granted U.S. citizenship under the 14th Amendment and then are smuggled back to their home countries to be raised as pint-sized, America-hating terrorists. Then decades later, when the children have grown into adults, they could easily — because of their U.S. citizenship — re-enter the United States to attack it from within.

The two Texas Republicans who are actively spinning this yarn — State Representative Debbie Riddle and U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert — both appeared on Cooper’s show this week, and neither could provide any evidence of the existence of these mythical terror babies. In fact, in the face of questioning by Cooper, both got extremely defensive.  Riddle and Gohmert claimed they got the information from conversations with “former FBI officials.”

Of course…

So Cooper interviewed CNN contributor Tom Fuentes, who served as the FBI’s assistant director in the office of international operations from 2004 to 2008.   “The FBI has 75 offices overseas, including offices in Jordan, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan,” Fuentes said. “There was never a credible report — or any report, for that matter — coming across through all the various mechanisms of communication to indicate that there was such a plan for these terror babies to be born.”

What terror babies are are a plot by incredibly, incredibly immoral, stupid and irresponsible people to drum up support for their weird immigration policy objectives.

What’s wrong with people?

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By Joshua, August 4, 2010 2:19 am

FOX News reports: “Solar Tsunami to Strike Earth“

Earth is bracing for a cosmic tsunami Tuesday night as tons of plasma from a massive solar flare head directly toward the planet. 

The Sun’s surface erupted early Sunday morning, shooting a wall of ionized atoms directly at Earth, scientists say. It is expected to create a geomagnetic storm and a spectacular light show — and it could pose a threat to satellites in orbit, as well. 

“This eruption is directed right at us and is expected to get here early in the day on Aug. 4,” said Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “It’s the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time.”

But, ti’s okay.  Radiation “almost never” hits the Earth:

The radiation “almost never” makes it to ground, he noted, though pilots and passengers in airplanes may experience increased radiation levels akin to getting an X-ray. 

No cause for worry:

This type of solar event has both government officials and satellite manufacturers worrying.

NASA scientists warned recently that high-energy electric pulses from the sun could cripple our electrical grid for years, causing billions in damages. In fact, the House is so concerned that the Energy and Commerce committee voted unanimously to approve a bill allocating $100 million to protect the energy grid from this rare but potentially devastating occurrence.

By the way, have you noticed that “Time and Date.com” do not have calendars past the year 2012?

For more information on this solar tsunami, please watch the following instructional video (don’t panic):

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By Joshua, July 1, 2010 2:20 am

Weird things in the story about 11 spies reporting to Moscow:

President Barack Obama last week took Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to his favorite hamburger joint, which turned out to be just blocks from the Arlington, Va., apartment building where one of the alleged Russian secret agents lived.

How do we know this is Obama’s favorite hamburger joint?  And what is the name of this alleged favorite? 

He said Mr. Obama was aware of the alleged spy ring, but the president didn’t discuss the topic in face-to-face meetings last week with Mr. Medvedev.

Really.  We’re really expected to believe Obama said nothing about it when he has the President of Russia right in front of him.  Perhaps the “secret message” Obama sent by taking Medvedev to Obama’s “favorite” hamburger “joint” was message enough, huh?  That showed him.  Here, Prez Medvedev:  eat this HAMBURGER.  (*hee hee*)

A criminal complaint filed Monday by prosecutors in New York showed that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been investigating the alleged Russian agents for a decade, and have had access to communications between Moscow and the suspects.

TEN YEARS?  How many secret secrets have these secret spies secreted away to Moscow in 10 years?  They could’ve taken America’s whole secret shebang in ten years.  Bush and Obama didn’t want anyone looking at the White House guest list and they let Moscow spies run around for 10 years?  I got two words for that: FISHY.

Ten of the suspects, mostly Russians, were arrested in recent days in several U.S. cities. The 11th person, whom U.S. authorities alleged was a ringleader purporting to be a Canadian named Christopher Metsos, was taken into custody Tuesday by police in Cyprus. He was released on bond, despite U.S. concerns that he might flee.

Some judges don’t allow guys who sell an ounce of pot to be put on bail, and they let an alleged spy — whose whole business is to lie to others and disappear — out on bail?  See the two words above for what I think about that, too.

Many Russian officials and analysts said they presumed that hawkish elements within the U.S. government had engineered and timed the arrests to embarrass President Obama and undermine the “reset.”

Why not?  It’s fun to blame the Republicans!  Here’s another one:  “It’s hot today.  Must be global warming.  Blame the Republicans for not signing the Kyoto Protocol!”  Hee hee!  This is fun!

What we learned:

(1)  Spies exist, but this spy story is a bunch of low level crap.

(2)  Republicans didn’t have anything to do with it.

(3)  This is not the Cold War.

(4)  Hee hee.

UPDATE:  I exist.

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By Joshua, March 23, 2010 9:05 am

Weird fees, restrictions on use, and expiration dates for gift cards are to be federally regulated:

The Federal Reserve issued new rules on Tuesday to protect Americans from getting stung by unexpected fees or restrictions on gift cards.  Gift cards have grown in popularity — with more than 95 percent of Americans having received or purchased them, the Fed said. And as usage has gone up, so too have complaints from people taken by surprise by fees that eat into the value of the cards as well restrictions on how long they’ll be good for.Under the rules, consumers must have at least five years to use the gift cards before they expire. The Fed also says service or inactivity fees can be imposed only under certain conditions. Such fees can be charged if the consumer hasn’t used the card for at least a year, if the consumer is given clear disclosures about them and no more than one fee is charged a month.

The rules take effect Aug. 22.

Congress ordered the Fed to issue the new protections under a law enacted last year. The Fed received more than 230 letters weighing in on its proposal first unveiled in November. Many individual consumers urged the Fed to ban all fees and to eliminate expiration dates so that people didn’t lose any value on the cards.

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By Joshua, March 3, 2010 9:01 am

Safety is job one:

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether a child directed planes from Kennedy Airport’s air traffic control tower.  A child’s voice can be heard on a tape making five transmissions to pilots preparing for takeoff on Feb. 17. The recording was obtained by WFXT-TV in Boston.In one exchange, the child can be heard saying, “JetBlue 171 contact departure.” A male voice in the tower says: “That’s what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school.” The child later clears another plane for takeoff, and says, “Adios, amigo.”

The FAA said in a statement: “Pending the outcome of our investigation, the employees involved in this incident are not controlling air traffic.” It added: “This behavior is not acceptable.”

This behavior is not acceptable, indeed.  And now, to lower further your hopes for safe air travel, watch the Frontline report “Flying Cheap” on regional air carriers in the U.S.

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By Joshua, January 14, 2010 4:00 am

Pat Robertson, the venerated spiritual leader of some Evangelicals comments on the Haiti’s earthquake:

Officials fear more than 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti.

Robertson, the host of the “700 Club,” blamed the tragedy on something that “happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it.”  The Haitians “were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever,” Robertson said on his broadcast Wednesday. “And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’   You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other.”

Robertson has previously linked natural disasters and terrorist attacks to legalized abortion in the United States. Soon after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 and wreaking unprecedented devastation on New Orleans, Louisiana, Robertson weighed in with his own theory.  “We have killed over 40 million unborn babies in America,” Robertson said on his September 12, 2005, broadcast of “700 Club.” “I was reading, yesterday, a book that was very interesting about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who shed innocent blood. And he [the author] used the term that those who do this, ‘the land will vomit you out.’ … But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way?”