Category: Tortured Logic

Meme Alert – Happy For The Scott Brown Victory = Racist.

A number of bloggers are freaking out over something Alvin Felzenberg wrote over at National Review Online: Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts is more than just a defeat for President Obama and the priorities his administration has established during his first year in office. It is an outright rejection of the “identity” politics he and [...]

Thursday January 21st, 2010 in Politics / Law Stuff, Tortured Logic | 1 Comment »

Moutains Out Of Molehills…. Or Himalayans – The IPCC Strikes Out

One of the stated policies of the IPCC is to only use peer reviewed materials in their AR publications. Setting aside questions of peer review accuracy that have been raised due to Climategate, there are instances where they don’t stick to the stated goal. There was one instance where they used a no-peer reviewed graph [...]

RealClimate Plays Defense Worse Than The Cleveland Browns

*** Note# 1: I’m off the grid for a few days. If you leave a comment, I’ll reply as soon as I can. Man, I miss my iPhone! *** *** Note # 2: If you’re familiar with climate science and Climategate, skip the first paragraph. *** For those who aren’t familiar with the in’s and [...]

Glenn Greenwald – Dishonest Blogger??? Patterico – Criticism Is Lacking Something… Perspective. UPDATE X 3

On the one hand, from what I’ve read on his blog, though I don’t think I’ve ever used him as a source for anything, Greenwald seems knowledgeable enough on the stuff that I’ve read. On the other hand, Patterico says he uses cheap party trick to make conservative bloggers seem disreputable, cherry picking, as it [...]

Quote Of The Week: “It isn’t helpful to anybody to exaggerate the situation. It’s scary enough as it is.”

Said by Vicki Pope, top Met Office climate hypocrite scientist kvetching about why no one believes in Global Warming anymore. Too many people exaggerate, she says. Problem is, her name is attached to articles with titles like this: Met Office warn of ‘catastrophic’ rise in temperature And she is prone to leaning on the “worse [...]

Elvis Costello Wins Nobel Peace Prize For Writing The Song “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, And Understanding”!

Hey, if we apply the same standards used to justify the Obama award, Costello was a visionary -  they might as well! While trying to find out exactly why Obama deserves this recognition, I came across Andrew Sullivan’s joyous, nonsensical rational to justify Obama receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize: If any person has done [...]

Friday October 9th, 2009 in Stupidity / Satire, Tortured Logic | 3 Comments »

More On Palin – Conservatives Play The Victim Card…. For Ratings.

On many conservative blogs, you’ll read something like this: The amount of vitriol and harassment Sarah Palin has endured following November as a losing prez or VP candidate is no doubt unprecedented in American history. Uhm, someone doesn’t know much about the revolutionary period. Please read up on the history of John Adams vs. Jefferson [...]

The Obama Administration – A Return To Science Based Policy.

Err…. not so much. So the EPA is prepared to issue the latest Endamgerment Report. It’s supposed to be based on the latest scientific research. Well, not if it interferes with an ideology. An EPA scientist tried to have the agency include some of the latest peer reviewed science that points away from carbon dioxide [...]

Tortured Logic – A Simple Question.

Me and a fellow blogger have been having some good back and forth on the torture dilemma. The pro-torture side is stuck on the definition and procedural aspects of the interrogations. They’re stuck on semantics. Lawyers for the President redefined the techniques as non-torture, so presto, it’s not torture.  Yet the same “enhanced methods” we [...]

Tuesday April 28th, 2009 in Tortured Logic | No Comments »