I Hate 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists

I had the pleasure of watching the coma-inducing documentary “911: In Plane Site: The Directors Cut” (get it plane site…yeah) this evening.  This poor excuse for a poor excuse is hosted by this man: David Von Kleist.

David Von Kleist frequently uses time travel to satisfy all his audio/video needs.

I would’ve been pretty confused about all the seemingly wild claims he makes in this documentary, but thankfully within the first five minutes Von Kleist lays down the bedrock of his method with this statement; “…but once you have a piece of evidence, no matter how flimsy or circumstantial it may be, it becomes a possibility.”  From this point forward Von Kleist would shows wreckage from 9/11 and then follows it with “question; is it outside of the realm of possibility…” followed by some completely improbable situation.  So, in an effort to save you the time of having to watch it yourself I’ll just give you a quick “top three” run down of Von Kleist’s claims.

#1.) The planes that hit the towers were actually military planes with missiles attached to them.  So, SURPRISE  if a family member happened to          be on board they were either dropped over the ocean or were part of the conspiracy themselves!

#2.) There were bombs planted on each floor of the towers which is why they fell. I mean, c’mon a Boeing 767 full of fuel which has  an                 average cruising speed of about 530 mph and missiles attached to them couldn’t be enough to affect the structural integrity of the towers all  by themselves.

#3.) The United States Government “created” Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda as a cover-up for their dastardly deeds.  You may ask, “How is that possible? We funded these REAL people against the Soviets in Afghanistan,” but that’s just what we they want you to think.

Also, all the “Mainstream Media” knows of this but is covering it up.  It’s a lot to handle I know…but consider this…is it beyond the realm of possibility?  Aha! It is not!  So…somehow…it has to be true.  All in all it’s a terrible documentary where you keep expecting him to explain something, but instead Von Kleist just keeps suggesting random scenarios with zero proof.  Most of these scenarios aren’t even consistent with other scenarios he comes up with.  Also it seems that he’s going for a Carl-Sagan-with-no-skepticism look but failing miserably.

And because Von Kleist’s argument is solid enough to stand on it’s own, he has decided to to present it in song form as well.   Here he is performing his masterpeice “There Really is a Conspiracy.”  A true peice of Shart.

Horrible.

-The United States Government

-TheMinorDrag

Fedor Emelianenko

One of the very few sports that I find entertaining enough to watch on a semi-regular basis is MMA (the other two being Competitive Frisbee and Pickle Ball, of course). MMA’s equivalent of Michael Jordan would most likely be Russia’s 6 foot, 233lbs Fedor Emelianenko.

Fedor will also drink your milkshake.

At 33 years old Fedor’s MMA record is 30-1. His only loss came from a technicality when his opponent, Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, accidently and illegally elbowed him in the face. The elbow opened up a large cut on him and seeing that this was a tournament and one fighter had to advance, Fedor was given the loss (in a rematch Fedor would win by doctor stoppage in the first round). Outside of that loss Fedor has 30 wins, 26 consecutively and six of them come off UFC Heavyweight Champions. Outside of being arguably the best of the best as far as MMA goes, he’s also somewhat of an antithesis to the UFC’s current image. For instance, in the UFC’s last Heavyweight Championship the winner, Brock Lesnar, proceed to give the crowd his middle finger, insult the UFC’s sponsor (Bud Light) along with his opponent and the informed the crowd that he “may even get on top of my wife tonight.”

Brock Lesnar relaxing.

On the other hand Fedor shakes hands, wins fights and continues on. This Saturday (Nov. 7) Fedor will be fighting the undefeated (10-0) Brett Rogers live (and free) on CBS. I haven’t heard much about CBS’s reputation as far as their MMA goes, but if you get a chance to check out the fight, I highly recommend it. Those who are turned off by the UFC’s seemingly dumbed down mentality may find it refreshing to see a true athlete and gentleman pummel another gentleman.

 

Here is Fedor’s fight with UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia.  Many people at the time claimed that Fedor had never fought someone as tall, big and versatile as Sylvia and that he was likely to lose. You be the judge.

 

-Theminordrag

 

Intellerjent Dezign

Germ Theory of Disease vs. Evil Spirits; you decide.

I was recently in a store and saw Ben Stein’s “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” Although the reviews of this film were similar to the reviews for the 1996 smash hit “Kazaam,” I thought the premise behind the film brings up a good point. Actually the film brings up a horrible point, and let me show you why.

Here’s some of Mr. Stein’s arguments;

1.) Evolution should be taught alongside Intelligent Design in public schools because both are non-religious scientific theories.

2.) Although evolution is a brilliant theory, it does not offer any information on how the Universe or life began; thus the theory is lacking information.

3.) Professors and teachers 1st amendment right is being trampled on because they are being censored into not talking about intelligent design in school.

Firstly, intelligent design IS NOT a scientific theory on the variations of life anymore than Astrology is a scientific theory on how stars are formed. It is someone’s guess about how life came about and does not have any empirical evidence to support it, nor does it make any predictions. Evolution essentially says “Man we’ve got a bunch of different types of animals, where did they come from?” the answer, after collecting extensive empirical evidence was “Hey, it looks like all animals that are alive today have ancestors and if you go back far enough all living things have the same ancestors.” On the other hand, intelligent design says “Hey we’ve got a bunch of different types of animals, where did they come from?” the answer, after collecting zero evidence to support this claim was “Hey, it looks like all the animals were created from some sort of ‘designer’ whom we know nothing about and have no evidence for their existence.” This is a guess, not a theory. Unless you want Astrology, Flat-Earth Theory, and “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Guide to the Holocaust” to be taught in school, you cannot include Intelligent Design.

Secondly, Evolution is a theory that tries to answer the question “Why do we have such a huge variation of animals?” It is not asking about the origin of life, origin of the Universe or any type of spiritual question. The theory of evolution is just an explanation for the variation of different animals we see on Earth and how they got to be so different. To claim that the theory of evolution has holes in it because it does not explain the origin of life or of the Universe would be similar to saying that Newton’s theory of Gravity is incomplete because it does not give any information about the origin of gravity. Scientific theories are not supposed to explain everything possible on the subject.

Lastly, this is just stupid. Granted I’m sure some professors are getting into trouble over teaching this stuff, but they should be. If you’re trying to run a good school and Professor Joe Blow is taking 3 hours a day explaining to the students that the Earth is flat, he should be fired. This argument is ridiculous. The first amendment protects against the government censoring you. I guess if it’s a public school you could argue this, but again I cannot cry that my first amendment rights are being violated if I’m teaching my History class that the Holocaust never happened. I should promptly be fired because clearly I don’t know what type empirical evidence is needed to support something before something can be taught as a theory or fact.

The whole premise of the film is ridiculous, but it made some money and I’m sure the choir was happy.  To end, I’ll leave you with a quote from Ben Stein himself that is so enlightening that I nearly accepted the premise of Intelligent Design.

“When we just saw that man, (PZ Myers)…talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you. Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.”

-Ben Stein

Ben Stein: Lawyer, Economist, Actor, Writer and perhaps most famously, not a Scientist.

-TheMinorDrag