Comments on: Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MWB http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-20774 MWB Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:42:31 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-20774 Government closed roads after a Cat 5 hurricane and FEMA killed her baby?! That my friends is The Conservative "Mind" nearly in haiku. As the man said "if men were angels no government would be necessary..." Government closed roads after a Cat 5 hurricane and FEMA killed her baby?! That my friends is The Conservative “Mind” nearly in haiku.

As the man said “if men were angels no government would be necessary…”

]]> By: New Hampshire Liberty Forum - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8783 New Hampshire Liberty Forum - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:39:55 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8783 [...] John Stossel will give the Saturday night keynote speech entitled “Enemies of Liberty.” With a name like that, the speech is bound to be interesting. (Download John Stossel’s speech at the Cato Institute about his book, Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity.) His speech will follow a delicious four-course meal that already has my mouth watering. [...] [...] John Stossel will give the Saturday night keynote speech entitled “Enemies of Liberty.” With a name like that, the speech is bound to be interesting. (Download John Stossel’s speech at the Cato Institute about his book, Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity.) His speech will follow a delicious four-course meal that already has my mouth watering. [...]

]]> By: Larkem http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8782 Larkem Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:25:05 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8782 It seems odd to me that there should be any question of the issues in the public school. All who are against vouchers seem to be extremely and venomously opposed to even trying vouchers? I always wonder why they would be opposed to them so vehemently. The answer of “do vouchers work” would be so easily tested. Give it a try for 10 to 15 years and see if the students are better educated when a free market is available (we certainly couldn’t be doing them a greater harm – particularly in the inner cities). Those who oppose them would never consider giving them a try and testing the results. I say that vouchers would work. I have no problem setting a free market system in place and testing the results. What exactly do opponents to vouchers fear by testing a free market system? If they believe that vouchers would have deleterious effects, a testing of the free market would certainly reveal it, but if they do work and students overall receive a better education, wouldn’t that be advantageous to the most disadvantaged in our society? It seems odd to me that there should be any question of the issues in the public school. All who are against vouchers seem to be extremely and venomously opposed to even trying vouchers? I always wonder why they would be opposed to them so vehemently. The answer of “do vouchers work” would be so easily tested. Give it a try for 10 to 15 years and see if the students are better educated when a free market is available (we certainly couldn’t be doing them a greater harm – particularly in the inner cities). Those who oppose them would never consider giving them a try and testing the results. I say that vouchers would work. I have no problem setting a free market system in place and testing the results. What exactly do opponents to vouchers fear by testing a free market system? If they believe that vouchers would have deleterious effects, a testing of the free market would certainly reveal it, but if they do work and students overall receive a better education, wouldn’t that be advantageous to the most disadvantaged in our society?

]]> By: Peter Gibbons http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8781 Peter Gibbons Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:46:38 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8781 Aw, who cares about that baby anyway. It was just going to end up on welfare and run up a huge and unpaid cellphone bill. Stereotypes are there for a reason, you blind-o's. Aw, who cares about that baby anyway. It was just going to end up on welfare and run up a huge and unpaid cellphone bill. Stereotypes are there for a reason, you blind-o’s.

]]> By: Kevin Fields http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8780 Kevin Fields Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:39:39 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8780 I watched Stossel's so-called "apology". It wasn't an apology, it was an admission that he got busted and a plea that we all move on and forget it about it. As for any further lies that are in the book, I have no idea, I stopped reading it after the first two pages. As I said, Stossel has no credibility in my eyes any further and I cannot and do not trust him as a journalist. He's said too much and done too little over the last decade to fix that. And I disagree that he shook off some sort of magical bias that holds other jounralists back. The only thing he shook off, IMO, is the ability to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and picked up the ability to spin stories in order to create sensational headlines that attempt to draw in more viewers and sell more books without telling you the complete truth. He's a shill, he's in the business of news entertainment. He crafts the stories so that you end up agreeing with his conclusion, and doesn't leave you room to reach your own conclusion. I watched Stossel’s so-called “apology”. It wasn’t an apology, it was an admission that he got busted and a plea that we all move on and forget it about it.

As for any further lies that are in the book, I have no idea, I stopped reading it after the first two pages. As I said, Stossel has no credibility in my eyes any further and I cannot and do not trust him as a journalist. He’s said too much and done too little over the last decade to fix that.

And I disagree that he shook off some sort of magical bias that holds other jounralists back. The only thing he shook off, IMO, is the ability to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and picked up the ability to spin stories in order to create sensational headlines that attempt to draw in more viewers and sell more books without telling you the complete truth.

He’s a shill, he’s in the business of news entertainment. He crafts the stories so that you end up agreeing with his conclusion, and doesn’t leave you room to reach your own conclusion.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8779 Michael Hampton Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:37:37 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8779 Unbelievable, maybe, but Stossel is entirely right. The situation is quite different from going to a concert where you aren't allowed to bring in your own food and drink. You know you're getting gouged there, because the concert venue is screwing with the market. In the case of the hurricane aftermath, you probably had a few people taking advantage of the situation, but by and large, if there just plain isn't enough of X to go around, (and there wasn't primariliy because of FEMA keeping the roads blocked!) then the prices go up. FEMA, then, killed that woman's baby. Unbelievable, maybe, but Stossel is entirely right.

The situation is quite different from going to a concert where you aren’t allowed to bring in your own food and drink. You know you’re getting gouged there, because the concert venue is screwing with the market.

In the case of the hurricane aftermath, you probably had a few people taking advantage of the situation, but by and large, if there just plain isn’t enough of X to go around, (and there wasn’t primariliy because of FEMA keeping the roads blocked!) then the prices go up.

FEMA, then, killed that woman’s baby.

]]> By: Mary http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8778 Mary Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:32:43 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8778 Re: price gouging, so the mother with the dehydrated baby only has $1.00, and baby died. After the WTC attacks, store owners gave away water, sneakers, opened their doors for the Red Cross to serve people. Have you ever been to a concert in the hot sun, where water (etal) prices are prohibitive, (gouged, that is, one isn't allowed to bring in one's own). The law of supply and demand sets prices, one wonders why the store couldn't get supplies, perhaps the gouger, bought them all, so none would be available to any other stores. Re: price gouging, so the mother with the dehydrated baby only has $1.00, and baby died. After the WTC attacks, store owners gave away water, sneakers, opened their doors for the Red Cross to serve people. Have you ever been to a concert in the hot sun, where water (etal) prices are prohibitive, (gouged, that is, one isn’t allowed to bring in one’s own). The law of supply and demand sets prices, one wonders why the store couldn’t get supplies, perhaps the gouger, bought them all, so none would be available to any other stores.

]]> By: Max http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8776 Max Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:29:36 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8776 http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=19 and http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1134 In particular. Also: http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh011706.shtml and http://dir.salon.com/story/media/feature/2000/02/25/stossel/index.html?pn=1 He's a shill for, among others, the Heritage Foundation. One quick excerpt from Salon: "Another guide (accompanying Stossel's "Scaring Ourselves to Death") snidely attacks the government for changing dietary recommendations to emphasize fruits and vegetables over meat and dairy products. Ironically, most of the critics of the health scares Stossel debunks in his special are big believers in just those health recommendations. People like Bruce Ames, an internationally reknowned scientist and vocal critic of the Environmental Protection Agency believe that lower fat, higher fruit and vegetable diets fight cancer and other health problems, just like the government does. Here's the last sentence of that guide: "Will headline hysteria and federal regulatory agencies continue to divorce public policy from reality?" Many, if not most, of the 35 to 40 footnotes accompanying each guide cite predictably conservative sources like the Heritage Foundation, the CATO Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Young Americas Foundation and the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages. They're not exactly the sources a skeptical reader would find convincing." I gave up on him a long time ago. He should just start doing talk radio and give up the pretense... http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=19

and

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1134

In particular.

Also:

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh011706.shtml

and

http://dir.salon.com/story/media/feature/2000/02/25/stossel/index.html?pn=1

He’s a shill for, among others, the Heritage Foundation.

One quick excerpt from Salon:

“Another guide (accompanying Stossel’s “Scaring Ourselves to Death”) snidely attacks the government for changing dietary recommendations to emphasize fruits and vegetables over meat and dairy products. Ironically, most of the critics of the health scares Stossel debunks in his special are big believers in just those health recommendations. People like Bruce Ames, an internationally reknowned scientist and vocal critic of the Environmental Protection Agency believe that lower fat, higher fruit and vegetable diets fight cancer and other health problems, just like the government does. Here’s the last sentence of that guide: “Will headline hysteria and federal regulatory agencies continue to divorce public policy from reality?”

Many, if not most, of the 35 to 40 footnotes accompanying each guide cite predictably conservative sources like the Heritage Foundation, the CATO Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Young Americas Foundation and the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages. They’re not exactly the sources a skeptical reader would find convincing.”

I gave up on him a long time ago. He should just start doing talk radio and give up the pretense…

]]> By: Max http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8777 Max Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:35:45 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8777 Sorry... One more, in which JS manages to make the argument that someone gouging $20 for a bottle of water during the Katrina Disaster is, in reality, a lifesaver: http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/ Un-effing-believable. Sorry…

One more, in which JS manages to make the argument that someone gouging $20 for a bottle of water during the Katrina Disaster is, in reality, a lifesaver:

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/

Un-effing-believable.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8775 Michael Hampton Tue, 30 May 2006 08:06:41 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/25/myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity/#comment-8775 P.S. Stossel donates all his speaking fees to charity. P.S. Stossel donates all his speaking fees to charity.

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