Bad Deeds for 6-20-2007

“Conservative Encyclopedia You Can Trust” Says the Ice age is “a Theorized Period of Time” (the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, you know) – Most scientists know the Pleistocene Epoch as the ice age and date it back at least 1.6 million years. But Conservapedia.com calls it “a theorized period of time” — a theory contradicted, according to the entry, by “multiple lines of evidence” indicating that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, as described in the Book of Genesis. It also defines Femininity as the quality of being “childlike, gentle, pretty, willowy, submissive.” A hike in minimum wage is referred to as “a controversial manoeuvre that increases the incentive for young people to drop out of school.” The entry on Hillary Clinton states, She “may suffer from a psychological condition that would raise questions about her fitness for office” — namely, “clinical narcissism.” The founder of Conservapedia.com defends the Clinton article as “an objective, bias-free piece from a conservative perspective.”

Rudy Giuliani Prefers High-Priced Speaking Engagements to Iraq Study Group Meetings – Rudy Giuliani was kicked out of the high-profile Iraq Study Group for failing to show up to meetings–and that said failures had to do with the ISG meetings conflicting with your high-priced speaking engagements.

Rudy Giualiani’s South Carolina Campaign Chairman Indicted on Cocaine Distribution Charges – The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has just announced that State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel has been indicted by federal jury on cocaine distribution charges. Ravenel, who was elected last fall, was named the Chairman of presidential candidate Rudy Giualiani’s (R-N.Y.) South Carolina campaign in April. Considering Giualiani’s former police chief of New York and now this guy, what do you suppose his cabinet would look like if he was elected?

Bill O’Reilly Can Do Magic; Makes Bottom Half of the New York Times Front Page Disappear – On his program, Bill O’Reilly, said, “Now apparently The Times isn’t real concerned about Muslim guys allegedly trying to set up another 9/11. …This is not the Colbert Report. This is The Factor and this is the fact. On page one, The New York Times instead of the JFK terror arrests, we saw some Indian people with bricks,” while showing only the top half of Sunday New York Times, obscuring from viewers the headline beneath the fold that read “4 Charged in bomb plot at Kennedy Airport.”

Regards,

Jim