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Popular Mechanics, which last year debunked 9/11 conspiracies, now debunks Katrina myths.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/16/2006 at 04:20 AM
  1. May be the Iranians will debunk the debunkers (cartoon style of course!)

    Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 02 16 at 04:26 AM • permalink

  2. but then, Aljazerra as recently as January argued ... well you know, see http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=287

    Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 02 16 at 04:31 AM • permalink

  3. The ‘so-called’ ‘Popular Mechanics’ magazine is the propaganda wing of King George Bu$h II’s imperialist war mongering oil devouring hate machine cabal thingy.
    Goebells would be proud!

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 16 at 04:34 AM • permalink

  4. #3 is on to something.

    Where do Mechanics work?  They work at Halliburton.  Who controls Halliburton?  Dick Cheney controls Halliburton.  Is Dick Cheney Popular?  Popular enough to be elected VP of the United States.  Thus, Dick Cheney wrote this article for Popular Mechanics.

    Posted by perfectsense on 2006 02 16 at 05:08 AM • permalink

  5. #4 - I arrest my case!

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 16 at 05:34 AM • permalink

  6. White-anted by idiots on the street, antagonists in the minorities, ably assisted by those in the media and in politics who fail to realise that what they do to win government might lose them a country to govern.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 02 16 at 06:01 AM • permalink

  7. THe Katrina disaster was not planned by George Bush but by the extended arm of the Zionist cabal. Even from his hospital bed, Sharon is able to control such manoevres with ease to gain valuable Israli export contracts
    Got that one Leunig for your next cartoon inspiration?
    No charge as per my Jan 1 posting re the mining disaster!

    Posted by davo on 2006 02 16 at 06:15 AM • permalink

  8. A zionist butterfly flapped its wings in the Amazon….

    Or was it a duck???

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 02 16 at 06:21 AM • permalink

  9. Flying bicycles would solve everything.

    A ``Kids! Build this flying bicycle!’’ issue is called for.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 02 16 at 06:26 AM • permalink

  10. Ah yes. But what about the alligators snatching babies from their mothers’ arms? hmmmm ?

    Notice how PC has nothing to say about that. What are they hiding?

    Posted by geoff on 2006 02 16 at 08:22 AM • permalink

  11. If we’re going to gin up a conspiracy theory involving Popular Mechanics we really need to work the Rosicrucians into it somewhere.

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 02 16 at 08:47 AM • permalink

  12. The people who want to believe conspiracy theories such as these are blatant anti-Western dodo’s who need a good bitch slapping.

    These people need to remember that when they give weight to conspiracy theories and excuse terrorism, they are insulting the victims of 9/11.

    Posted by anthony27 on 2006 02 16 at 09:11 AM • permalink

  13. No, no, Paul (#11), wrong genre. The Knights of the Rose Cross don’t build hutches or change their own oil—they have minions for that. Tool companies: Skil, Black&Decker;, and the rest of the cabal. Can you imagine how many 24-volt drill motors and handy portable workbenches must have been sold to the people fixing up after Katrina? Gotcher motive right there.

    Denuding entire rain forests of rare tropical woods (the source, no doubt, of cures for everything from chlamydia to sandal-bunions, sacrificed forever) to build gun cabinets, for no real purpose except to sell the tools to make them with, makes Mr. Cheney smile. The tool-tips columns make wonderful places for disseminating the latest word from on high, suitably encoded.

    Rotarians, perhaps. Rosicrucians have other, less plebian venues.

    Regards,
    Ric

    Posted by Ric Locke on 2006 02 16 at 09:12 AM • permalink

  14. The point of #11 is that it is in the back of Popular Mechanics where we encounter the little advertisements for The Secrets Of The Ages.

    Posted by triticale on 2006 02 16 at 10:37 AM • permalink

  15. Tim: now that’s what I call a “quality link”. The article is the best I’ve seen on the subject; I particularly like the juxtaposition of “myths” and “facts”.

    #4: A brilliant deduction; however, even if Cheney did write it, it doesn’t mean it isn’t true. He has a great reputation as a straight-shooter retailer of hard facts.

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 16 at 01:29 PM • permalink

  16. Which fact the Rosicrucians and their White House allies have apparently succeeded in hushing up. Aha!

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 02 16 at 01:30 PM • permalink

  17. It’s really very reassuring to be here in the Blair cocoon, so cosy and safe. Nobody wants to believe that America is in the hands of a cabal of venal, deceitful and, most of all, incompetent dipshits, and here, suffused in the balm of Mr Blair’s soothing banalities, we can, for a moment, just wish it all away.

    Keep up the good work.

    Posted by loadedog on 2006 02 16 at 01:44 PM • permalink

  18. Wheels within wheels, old fellow, wheels within wheels . . .

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 16 at 01:44 PM • permalink

  19. “Nobody wants to believe that America is in the hands of a cabal of venal, deceitful and, most of all, incompetent dipshits”

    Come now, dog load, you don’t really consider yourself a “nobody”, do you?

    Who forgot to set out the troll motels - again ?

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 16 at 01:47 PM • permalink

  20. When is it going to debunk the myth that the NY Times is a “news"paper?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 02 16 at 01:55 PM • permalink

  21. “Popular Mechanics” has 16 letters.

    “George Walker Bush” has 16 letters.

    SEE???

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 02 16 at 02:19 PM • permalink

  22. Wait, my research just dug up more facts:

    16 + 16 = 32
    3 + 2 = 5

    5? As in 5 points on a… Pentagon? Nice try, chickenhawks!

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 02 16 at 02:21 PM • permalink

  23. Nobody wants to believe that America is in the hands of a cabal of venal, deceitful and, most of all, incompetent dipshits

    Why yes, we are strangely reluctant to believe in the hallucinations of a drooling moron. Go figure. But you go right ahead and believe whatever you want, loady.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 16 at 02:56 PM • permalink

  24. #17 loadedog

    People of your type used to attack Winston Churchill as a warmonger when he began warning Britain of danger before WW2. Then he was accused of being incompetent whenever there were reverses in that 5 year battle to the death with evil. But in the end the lies and exaggerations of the critics were probably little more than a nuisance.

    Deranged attacks on Bush which began in earnest after the war with the Islamists began, now cover everything from hurricane relief efforts to trying to listen in on terrorists phone conversations.

    Just to remind you, the true conspirators flew planes without warning into buildings full of ordinary people. Yet you choose to believe in a make believe “cabal” in America.

    How did you come to be so deluded?

    Posted by Newman on 2006 02 16 at 03:03 PM • permalink

  25. #11.  Damn those Masons!  I knew they had something suspicious going on in that little brick building of theirs on the edge of town!  There are tattered copies of Popular Mechanics in every waiting room I’ve ever been in, just waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting children.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 02 16 at 03:16 PM • permalink

  26. Damn, but that is one fine afteraction report Popular Mechanics did!  I’m passing it on to other folks as well.  Thanks for the link, Tim!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 16 at 03:21 PM • permalink

  27. Nobody wants to believe that America is in the hands of a cabal of venal, deceitful and, most of all, incompetent dipshits…

    wronwright, did you leave the keys in the Tardis again?  Loadedog thinks it’s 1978 (or possibly 1992), and the Democrats are in power.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 16 at 03:23 PM • permalink

  28. Looks like the dog found something new to load up on, he’s even more into la-la land than the last time he made an appearance.

    Thanks for the view from the reality-based community, regardless. It’s always reassuring for us regulars here to find out our ideological opponents are still morons.

    Posted by PW on 2006 02 16 at 03:39 PM • permalink

  29. 24: “How did you come to be so deluded?”

    Some people are born deluded, some acquire delusions, and others have delusions thrust upon them. Personally, I think somebody just laced “dog’s” Alpo with hashish. And how doggish of him: he just trots by, messes in the yard, and trots off again.

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 16 at 03:43 PM • permalink

  30. PW, I hate to be picky, but the correct term is alternate reality-based community.

    Posted by Newman on 2006 02 16 at 03:45 PM • permalink

  31. Now I get it!

    THEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON!!

    Posted by mojo on 2006 02 16 at 03:47 PM • permalink

  32. And how doggish of him: he just trots by, messes in the yard, and trots off again.

    C’mon, don’t tempt him into posting one of his boring, deluded (and not to mention looooong) monologues in which he repeatedly refers to himself in the plural.

    Admittedly, the phrase “dropping a load” becomes a lot more, erm, plastic whenever this dog comes around, so you might be on to something.

    Posted by PW on 2006 02 16 at 03:54 PM • permalink

  33. #32: You’re absolutely right; I wasted enough time yesterday tossing chum overboard to another blow fish.

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 16 at 03:57 PM • permalink

  34. Funny, the server that hosts loadedog’s website seems to be physically located in the United States. Surely somebody who’s afraid that the U.S. is run by a malevolent cabal wouldn’t do that. I guess the dog’s part of the cabal, then.

    Posted by PW on 2006 02 16 at 04:04 PM • permalink

  35. I actually encourage trolls, particularly on a Friday.

    The smell of moonbat makes the claws of RWDBs bigger, while RWDBs help to perpetuate the victimhood of the trolls. It works for all of us, don’t you see, Loaded Dog?

    Oh and Loadie, what are you wearing?

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 02 16 at 04:47 PM • permalink

  36. Pop Mechanics did a good job on this.  Thanks for the link.

    Posted by stuartfullerton on 2006 02 16 at 05:46 PM • permalink

  37. WHAT SECRET, EXTRALEGAL POWERS DOES THIS VICE-PRESIDENT POSSESS?

    The ancients called it The Unitary Executive.

    God-like powers will be yours when you master the secret of the Unitary Executive. The Roveicrucians (not a religion) are an age-old brotherhood of oil-industry cronies. Write today for a FREE COPY of their book, The State Secrets of the Ages.

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 02 16 at 05:56 PM • permalink

  38. Off Topic

    Female Reporter Stoned at Turkish Cartoon Protest

    GatewayPundit

    WOW lady, you gotta stop smokin’ that shit.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 02 16 at 06:21 PM • permalink

  39. The female journalist was attacked for being ‘sexually provocative’ for not wearing a head scarf at the demonstration organised by the Peoples Education Research and Support Group in Konya (He-Da-Der) and entitled ‘Loyalty to the Prophet’.

    Good God.  Sexually provocative?  Those people need to get out more.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 02 16 at 07:50 PM • permalink

  40. Damnation, where did our trolls go? - I just wanted to be friends.

    #38 and #39 - I expect we will hear our feminist lefty female journalists from the west come out in solidarity against this barbarism, won’t we?

    I am holding my breath as of - now…

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 02 16 at 07:58 PM • permalink

  41. Can we have a miutes silence for the passing of Margos Maid, cruely taken as an indirect victim of hair rays.

    When will popular mechanics investigate these cruel rays??

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 02 16 at 08:11 PM • permalink

  42. The link is much appreciated Tim. Can any of the US resident posters tell me what happened to Ray Nagin, BTW? Is he still mayor? Is he back on his medication yet? I heard a rumour that he was caught in the back room of City Hall sniffing black helicopter wax, but I’m sure that’s just a vicious lie.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 02 16 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  43. SwinishCapitalist

    Yes, Nagin is still mayor.

    Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations…FreeRepublic

    Margos Maid…Ummmm, breathe please.

    RebeccaH…I think their problem is, is they get out to much…way to much.

    The Left seems to gravitate to totalitarian things, much like moths to a outside night light.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 02 16 at 08:31 PM • permalink

  44. El Cid - UNbelievable! Begging letters to China and Libya too, no doubt.
    This guy would raffle off his own grandmother if he thought he could sell the tickets.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 02 16 at 08:37 PM • permalink

  45. SwinishCapitalist

    This guy would raffle off his own grandmother

    She’s on eBay…:).

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 02 16 at 09:09 PM • permalink

  46. LOL, El.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 02 16 at 09:10 PM • permalink

  47. The Popular Mechanics is controlled bu the Secret Direct Marketing Empire of Lillian Vernon, she of the Big Curlers and Headscarf!

    Posted by -keith in mtn. view on 2006 02 16 at 09:23 PM • permalink

  48. Re: #6,

    Absolutely!

    Posted by Brian on 2006 02 16 at 09:49 PM • permalink

  49. Now I’m very concerned about Margo’s Maid.

    While purple is a very fetching colour, I’m not sure faces are supposed be shade…

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 02 16 at 10:24 PM • permalink

  50. PIMF that shade

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 02 16 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  51. Have just watched Kerry Packer’s State Memorial Service at the Sydney Opera House.

    Wow.  Tell me anyone on the planet that wouldn’t like a send off like that.

    “C’mon Aussie C’mon” sung - at length - by a packed house, with banners, placards etc.  The Chardonnay Set will never set foot there again (he he).

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 02 16 at 11:01 PM • permalink

  52. ... and to ice the cake, it will send every leftoid and Howard Hater completly nuts when they read / hear about it.

    Did anyone see Paul Keating there, or was he polishing his clocks?

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 02 16 at 11:06 PM • permalink

  53. O/T - The Aussie ‘Muslims Village Forums’ posters are outraged by the Abu Ghraib photos but seem pretty happy with ‘Juba, the legendary sniper of Iraq’, who’s responsible for the deaths of multiple U.S servicemen.
    And these are the so called ‘moderate muslims’ of Australia?

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 16 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  54. It’s a good article, but I wonder about this bit:

    Bumbling by top disaster-management officials fueled a perception of general inaction, one that was compounded by impassioned news anchors.

    I’m curious to know exactly what was “bumbled”—who, specifically, was supposed to do what that didn’t happen? I’ve heard some examples given at the State and local levels, but has anyone actually compiled a list of who failed to do what, and backed ut up with public documents?

    Posted by John Nowak on 2006 02 16 at 11:23 PM • permalink

  55. #10 Geoff:

    those stupid babies shouldnt have been there in the first place, invading the legitimate space of wild creatures. Obviously, these thoughtless babies got what they deserved..

    Posted by dee on 2006 02 16 at 11:26 PM • permalink

  56. Meanwhile back at the ranch:

    A group of Israelis have announced their own antisemitic cartoon competition. http://www.boomka.org

    “We will show the world we can do the best, sharpest,most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published. No Iranian will beat us on our home turf.”

    Entries should be sent here .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

    Competition closes 5 March 2006 and is open to “Jew creators only”.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 02 17 at 12:01 AM • permalink

  57. #56 - Ant Lowenstein should enter. I think he qualifies as a Jew.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 17 at 12:45 AM • permalink

  58. Maybe we should enter Loewenstein. He would have to qualify as the most offensive Jew hating cartoon in creation.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 02 17 at 12:52 AM • permalink

  59. OT czechs get it…
    A group of activists plan to hold a demonstration outside the Iranian
    embassy in Prague on Friday. The group says it will be protesting, in
    the name of free speech, against the diplomatic note sent by the
    Iranian government to the Czech foreign ministry after one of the
    prophet Mohammed caricatures was re-printed - for illustration purposes
    - in two Czech newspapers.

    Posted by KK on 2006 02 17 at 02:42 AM • permalink

  60. #59

    Oooh, more of that please.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 02 17 at 03:37 AM • permalink

  61. Iranian Embassies would seem to be superfluous to requirements, since they do not wish to have meaningful ongoing relations with anyone while they await the big bang.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 02 17 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  62. I think I’ll start reading Popular Mechanics again, for its political content.  The linked articles are so much better than what I read in the SMH here.

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 02 17 at 07:25 AM • permalink

  63. Any journos in Oz young enough to show their legs anyway?

    Posted by crash on 2006 02 17 at 08:15 AM • permalink

  64. Actually, the bit about the floodwalls is dead wrong. While they were driven 17’ into the ground as per design spec, the design was flawed. Due to the soil conditions, they needed to be 3-4 times deeper.

    Posted by Cybrludite on 2006 02 17 at 09:47 AM • permalink

  65. And you have sources to back that up, I assume?

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 17 at 01:57 PM • permalink

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