Wasting Time With Alex

Friday, May 02, 2008

The lies about what went on at Tuskegee need to be addressed

With the whole furor in the news these days about Obama’s loony preacher Wright and his crazy beliefs, the subject of the Tuskegee experiments on syphilitic black males and the ridiculous lies about how it was done on purpose have popped up again. Primarily by idiot libs that want to justify the ridiculous assertions by Rev. Wright’s about how AIDS was a US government manufactured disease to kill blacks. I was going to write about this whole ridiculous lie, but Jonah Goldberg beat me to it and did a much better job about it too..

He basically debunks this whole stupid lie that the US government purposefully infected black males with syphilis to conduct a study. That is a lie. Nobody infected people on purpose. Infected males where chosen and then studied for 40 years to understand the spread of syphilis. Nobody can deny that government power was basically misused. But who was government and why did they have no qualms doing this kind of thing? Jonah gets it right:

But why blacks remain the most reliable voters for the party of ever-expanding government power is something of a mystery. Indeed, it’s worth noting that the Tuskegee study, launched during the pre-dawn of the New Deal-era, was symptomatic of arrogant liberal government. The study “emerged out of a liberal progressive public health movement concerned about the health and well-being of the African-American population,” writes University of Chicago professor Richard Schweder. He adds: “The study was done with the full knowledge, endorsement and participation of African-American medical professionals, hospitals and research institutes.”

As you can see, the evil here is not what the lie about Tuskegee proposes however. The evil is that people that where sick where just observed rather than cured by a “progressive government”. Jonah points out something very important. The left has masterfully, yet again, put blame for something they did on someone else:

Liberals like to invoke Tuskegee as if it’s solely an indictment of what other people did, proof that we need more progressive government. But Tuskegee was in fact the poisoned fruit of progressive government.

In the end the question begs to be answered about why it seems that this stuff is never understood by hucksters like Wright. Or do they understand this just fine? After all, they are preaching hatred because it pays well. The facts be damned.

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

And the spinning begins..

The MMGW alarmist cult has run into some really nasty problems recently. Most of it is related to the real data and unmanipulated facts showing that the world is cooling off, and that their predictions of global catastrophe within the next decade is as likely as my chances to win the lottery when I buy no tickets. Of course that will not dissuade them from continuing to predict that the sky is falling and that only they have the answer - global socialist government to address social injustices - to this woe. But too many people are seeing that the emperor is wearing no clothes, and abandoning the cause because it is even too hard for all but the most fanatical to keep believing the lies. So how do you keep the momentum going? Well you make up shit about why we have only been given a temporary reprieve from a horrible fate.

April 30 (Bloomberg)—Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.

The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.

Does this stuff not sound exactly like the shit some cult leader would tell the idiots that are left waiting for the promise that the passing comet would suck them up and take them on a space ride while the rest of mankind perished 30 minutes after the predicted catastrophe did not happen or what. I did not lie to you! I just got the timing a bit wrong! The world is still ending just not when I told you so, so keep doing what I tell you no matter how crazy and destructive please. Pass the kool-aid!

The world will become at least 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer by 2100, compared with the pre-industrial period, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in March.

See? This is not over! We are still going to die unless you let us make that global socialist government to address social injustices and stop MMGW you heathens! What a bunch of retards these people must take people to be. Guess by the amount of idiots that still buy into these lies no matter how much proof emerges that they are just plain falsehoods, they are not totally wrong. Resistance is futile! Dissent will not be tolerated! Bow to Gaia’s pop the Goracle and accept the blessings of socialism or perish! Talk about your freak show.