Error Theory: How to read a fortune cookie

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

How to read a fortune cookie

Christmas party lunch at Chef Chu's today. The gals from the office srarted playing fortune cookie games. One game: add "between the sheets" at the end.

My fortune: "Unveil your ideas. Then act on them."

Got some holiday movie recommendations too. Over the Hedge. Slum Dog Millionaire.

My recommendation: go see Bolt, in 3D if you can. A really fun movie for adults and kids.

# posted by Alec Rawls : 12/16/2008 03:29:00 PM

Comments:

You fool! Don't you know that Bolt is Islamofascist propaganda! Can't you spot the crescent on the logo?!

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:48 PM

I think the comment above, by anonymous, commits the "straw man" fallacy: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html

# posted by

Max Kuenkel : 1:07 AM

Leftists are always trying to see how stupid they can be, as if this is somehow a reflection on other people.

# posted by

Alec Rawls : 4:40 AM

your mom is a leftist

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:55 AM

"A debater commits the Ad Hominem Fallacy when he introduces irrelevant personal premisses about his opponent."

I'm starting to think that "anonymous" is not so much a debater as a troll, here to stir up trouble and be entertained. He has no interest in the topic of this blog, like a 3rd grader sitting in the back row in class, eager to disrupt the teacher's lesson any way he can.

# posted by

Max Kuenkel : 6:19 PM

your mom is a third grader as well, and I'm making out with her in the back row.

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:15 AM

Okay, no more feeding the trolls, even the cute fuzzy ones.

# posted by

Alec Rawls : 1:28 AM

Your mom's a cute fuzzy troll.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:58 PM

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I was writing a book on republicanism (the system of liberty under law) when I discovered that the Flight 93 memorial was going to be a terrorist memorial mosque, so I had to jump in a write a book about this rehijacking of Flight 93 first (Crescent of Betrayal, temporarily available for free download at CrescentOfBetrayal.com). I have been writing conservative commentary for forty years. Follow me on Gab at gab.com/AlecRawls

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Global warming hoax

An economic analysis of the external value of CO2 shows an unambiguously high positive value: we should be encouraging, not deterring, CO2 emissions
For a list of my other climate skeptic posts, scroll down past the list of posts about the crescent-shaped memorial to Flight 93

Flight 93 Memorial posts since the release of Crescent of Betrayal, the director's cut (in chronological order)

July 06, 2007
New book exposes the planned Flight 93 Memorial to be a terrorist memorial mosque
July 17, 2007
Tribune Democrat abusing Families of Flight 93
July 31, 2007
The hijacker has gained control of the cockpit
August 10, 2007
Memorial Project Chairman John Reynolds is a fraud
August 14, 2007
Tom Burnett Sr. denounces Flight 93 Memorial, calls for Congressional investigation
August 18, 2007
Insane statements from the Flight 93 Memorial Project
August 22, 2007
Tom Burnett Sr. and Alec Rawls protest the Flight 93 Memorial on TV and radio
August 29, 2007
Three terrorist memorializing features in the Flight 93 Memorial, all trivially easy to verify
September 17, 2007
Is there such a thing as the direction to Mecca?
September 19, 2007
Flight 93 superintendent will NOT honor Tom Burnett Sr.'s request to keep Tom Jr's name off the memorial
September 19, 2007
Tom Burnett's 9/11 protests against the crescent memorial
September 28, 2007
Flight 93 Memorial riddle: why only 38 Memorial Groves?
October 2, 2007
Full riddle answer: Why only 38 Memorial Groves?
October 3, 2007
Short riddle answer: Why only 38 Memorial Groves?
October 10, 2007
Memorial Riddle #2: Why did architect Paul Murdoch lengthen the Entry Portal Walkway?
October 14, 2007
Answer to riddle #2
October 14, 2007
The exact Mecca orientation of the Flight 93 Memorial
October 24, 2007
"A pig is a pig!"
October 31, 2007
Lying about the 44 blocks
November 5, 2007
Tancredo condemns continued use of giant crescent in Flight 93 Memorial
November 12, 2007
Support Tom Tancredo's call to scrap the crescent memorial
November 20, 2007
Memorial superintendent admits giant crescent still present in memorial design
November 27, 2007
Mary Bomar's fraudulent investigation
December 4, 2007
TBogg deleted evidence of cover up at the Flight 93 Memorial
December 11, 2007
Kevin Jaques: U.S. response to 9/11 should conform to sharia law
December 18, 2007
TBogg's phony excuse for the deleted Flight 93 document
December 20, 2007
TBogger verifies that TBogg DID delete the Jaques comment

2008 Flight 93 posts

January 1, 2008
Crescent mosque violates the only physical requirement for design entries
January 9, 2008
Professor who white-washed the Crescent of Embrace was Paul Murdoch's classmate at UCLA
January 15, 2008
Pentagon not the only Department giving the last word to Muslims covering up terror threats
January 22, 2008
More deceptions from Muslim advisor regarding Flight 93 mosque
January 29, 2008
The crescent-topped tower
January 31, 2008
A plea from Tom Burnett Sr. to the wonderful people of Somerset, American Daily ad #1
January 31, 2008
Daily American ad #2: the fraudulent investigation of the Flight 93 memorial
February 6, 2008
Where is the lizard army?
February 12, 2008
It points to the Vatican
February 19, 2008
Memorial Project founder: "They decided that, 'we're just not going to address the issue' [of Islamic symbolism]"
February 27, 2008
Map of betrayal
March 5, 2008
Islamic symbolism causing fundraising problems for Flight 93 Memorial
March 12, 2008
Joementum!
March 19, 2008
QiblaLocator confirms Mecca orientation of Flight 93 crescent
March 25, 2008
Petition for Congressional investigation
March 31, 2008
A letter from Tom Burnett Sr: Please sign our petition to stop the Flight 93 Memorial
April 2, 2008
UK Independent reports the Mecca orientation of the Flight 93 crescent
April 8, 2008
Petition picking up steam
April 16, 2008
40 infidels, strung like fish beneath symbolic Islamic heavens
April 23, 2008
Pennsylvanians build an organization to stop the Flight 93 memorial
April 30, 2008
Congressman Ramstad comes out in opposition to the Flight 93 memorial
May 4, 2008
Crescent controversy on Fox News television and Fox News front page!
May 7, 2008
No more do-overs for terrorist memorializing architects
May 14, 2008
Crescent shapes with and without Islamic intent: the Obama logo example
May 21, 2008
Mancow: "I'm gonna take a sledge-hammer to it" "You'll go to jail for it?" "Absolutely"
May 28, 2008
Plan your trip to the Flight 93 crash site for the weekend of August 2nd!
June 4, 2008
A call for America’s churches to step up as witnesses for the truth about the Flight 93 memorial
June 10, 2008
Why the drag lines were removed from the Flight 93 crash site
June 18, 2008
Who broke the circle?
June 25, 2008
Park Service refuses to say who broke the circle
July 2, 2008
Calling Michelle Malkin, Charles Johnson, A.J. Strata, Ed Morrissey, Richard Fernandez and Ace of Spades
July 9, 2008
Muslims can earn goodwill by helping to stop the crescent plot
July 16, 2008
"I hope I'll see your face again baby..."
July 23, 2008
9/11 date to be placed as star on crescent and star flag
July 30, 2008
Rally this Saturday: Stop the crescent mosque!
August 7, 2008
"Flight 93 Families Divided"
August 13, 2008
Memorial Project superintendent lies about receiving threats
August 20, 2008
Big DC fundraiser cancelled
August 28, 2008
What if a Chinese rebel pulled off the biggest practical joke in history, and nobody got it?
September 3, 2008
ISNA crescent atop Flight 93 minaret
September 8, 2008
Frontpage Magazine covers the memorial debacle
September 12, 2008
9/11 recollection
September 17, 2008
"They had some forewarning and they chose to take action." The defenders of the crescent also have forewarning, and are trying to cover it up.
September 24, 2008
Paul Murdoch channels Allahpundit
October 1, 2008
What a mihrab means to the Wahhabists, the Khomeini-ists and the other Salafists
Octeber 14, 2008
New discovery: Murdoch's preliminary design also contained an Islamic sundial
November 3, 2008
Lesson for the Obamamedia: threats you try to cover up will be inevitably be realized
November 12, 2008
Tom Burnett Senior: “We have an Islamist design here that can't go forward, please.”
November 26, 2008
No, the Mecca-orientation of the Crescent of Embrace is NOT a product of the landform
December 11, 2008
Crescent video, Part 2: "The terrorist memorializing features all point to each other"
December 27, 2008
Another stealth jihadist plants another evil hidden Islamic message

2009 Flight 93 posts

January 14, 2009
1 in 131 billion: the movie
January 29, 2009
Caught on video: shameful cover-up of the crescent-topped Tower of Voices
February 11, 2009
Memorial Project officials insist that it was the passengers and crew, not the terrorists, who broke the peace on 9/11
February 26, 2009
Mother of Flight 93 hero calls for “a full and transparent review” of the crescent-shaped memorial
March 11, 2009
Senator Specter’s payoff for betraying his party: betrayal of his state
March 31, 2009
Press refuses again to check and report the facts, this time in BART shooting
April 21, 2009
Moral Muslims don't want a memorial to the terrorists on the Flight 93 crash site
May 8, 2009
Saudi authorities contradict U.S. Park Service: mihrabs do NOT have to point exactly at Mecca
May 21, 2009
Two Memorial Project commissioners quit over the Project’s bad behavior
June 16, 2009
False AP report: Obama did NOT say that Iran must respect voters' choice
July 10, 2009
Everyone involved with the Flight 93 Memorial knows that the Crescent of Embrace points to Mecca
July 28, 2009
Memorial Project still helping the hijacker fix his disguise
September 12, 2009
Burnett radio interview about 9/11 and the Flight 93 memorial
October 21, 2009
Construction drawings released: Flight 93 crescent now points less than 3° from Mecca
November 10, 2009
Ground broken for Terrorist memorial mosque
November 23, 2009
Flight 93 father denounces civilian trial for 9/11 terrorists

2010 Flight 93 posts

February 25, 2010
MDA's full circle-in-circle crescent geometry used on several jihadist insignias
March 13, 2010
Crocodile tears from the parents of Jihad Jamie?
April 14, 2010
Nuclear summit logo is an Islamic-shaped crescent
June 28, 2010
Kagan lied to Supreme Court in 9/11 case, should be disbarred
July 20, 2010
Flight 93 father: Ground zero mosque is the SECOND mosque being built on a 9/11 site

Flight 93 Memorial posts, up to Crescent of Betrayal release (in chronological order)

September 24, 2005
44 dead people, 44 translucent blocks on the flight path
September 30, 2005
Tower of Voices also oriented on Mecca
October 7, 2005
Crescent Tower is Islamic prayer sundial
November 30, 2005
Redesigned Flight 93 memorial still an Islamo-fascist shrine
July 10, 2006
Comment period now open for Flight 93 memorial: Keep the crescent-mosque off of the crash-site!
July 11, 2006
Model comment in favor of No Action Alternative for Flight 93 memorial
July 14, 2006
Plotting Crescent orientation using Google Earth

Posts on the global warming hoax. (CO2 has only a trivial effect on climate. The real danger, very possibly imminent, is natural global cooling.)

August 26, 2004
Global warming alarmists still running gov. bureaucracy
January 28, 2005
Greenhouse alarmists fight the new sunspot understanding
February 11, 2005
Is Realclimate part of the "reality based" community?
April 21, 2005
Earth Day 2030: "A new eye blinked open upon the world"
April 30, 2005
NASA global-warmist James Hansen is a LIAR
February 14, 2007
My commentary on the draft IPCC report, submitted last spring
February 18, 2008
Global warming alarmists knew cooling was coming, were hoping to secure restrictions on economic activity first
March 21, 2008
Time to start adding a thicker blanket of greenhouse gases
April 30, 2008
Ocean oscillations are not "masking" global warming: the cooling is real
July 24, 2008
Global warming Idiots: "Sunspot and temperature correlations do not prove causality."
August 18, 2008
Hathaway and the IPCC: both simply ignore contrary evidence
September 13, 2008
Non-homogeneity of sunspot numbers a problem, but the more important record of solar activity is in the geologic record
November 28, 2008
An economic analysis of the external value of CO2 shows an unambiguously high positive value: we should be encouraging, not deterring, CO2 emissions
December 16, 2008
Natural warming is driven by the level of solar activity, not the trend (CHECKMATE)
January 22, 2009
Dishonest global warming survey counts skeptics as alarmists
February 15, 2009
My prediction: the now birthing Obamination will come to a head with the global warming hoax
March 22, 2009
No Mt. Redoubt eruption please
April 10, 2009
NASA’s acknowledgement of “deep solar minimum” is still deeply dishonest
June 1, 2009
NASA still hiding correlation between solar activity and temperature
June 19, 2009
EPA comment period closes Tues: tell ‘em no state-establishment of CO2-phobic religion

Climate and environment blogroll

The rational folks:
Watts up with that? (Anthony Watts)
CO2 Science (the Idso's)
World Climate Report (Patrick Michaels)
Climate Audit (Steve McIntyre)
Climate Depot (Marc Morano)
Greenie Watch (John Ray)
Climate Science (Roger Pielke)
The Heartland Institute
Tom Nelson
Roy Spencer, Ph.D.
Jennifer Marohasy
Dalton Minimum Returns
Climate skeptic
The leading global warming frauds can be found here:
RealClimate(Schmidt, Mann, Benestad, et al.)

Iraq war posts

September 27, 2004
More Bush doctrine, not less
October 18, 2004
Quiet George wins the peace
September 20, 2005
MSNBC: Baiting the flytrap with the sickly sweet stink of defeatism
October 27, 2005
Evil bit©h watch
October 28, 2005
Evil bit©h II
December 1, 2005
Dems duped into duping al Qaeda
December 16, 2007
Rumsfeld's victory: a retrospective look at our de facto flytrap strategy in Iraq

Law and war

June 28, 2004
Left Supremes out to Mirandize enemy combatents
August 10, 2004
Internment and racial profiling
November 15, 2004
If wounded Iraqi was faking death, Marine may have been right to shoot first, ask questions later
November 15, 2004
Rogue CIA and the republican guarantee
November 19, 2004
Should the possum-take-out video have been censored?
May 5, 2005
Threatening good soldiers with prosecution assists the Kerry strategy for defeating America
May 6, 2005
"Reverse incorporation" and Korematsu
May 20, 2005
Publishing classified intelligence is TREASON, again
May 28, 2005
Order to release Abu Ghraib photos ignores war powers
June 7, 2005
Hellerstein is usurping war powers
June 27, 2005
Dems not just legalistic in GWOT, but for the defense
February 7, 2006
Diamond not just in the rough, but out of bounds
June 5, 2009
Obama’s filing against 9/11 families: so bad it's good
June 11, 2009
Gay marriage is not a right
June 28, 2010
Kagan lied to Supreme Court in 9/11 case, should be disbarred
July 6, 2010
Media Matters backs Kagan's lies about 9/11 case: time for Volokh, Reynolds, Jacobson et al. to weigh in

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