“ an extraordinary outburst by Joe “You Lie” Wilson in 2002, berating his a Democratic colleague, Rep. Bob Filner of California, as an anti-American traitor. […] Wilson claimed Filner was lying, saying that Iraq had purchased chemical weapons from the “former Soviet Union,” ignoring the fact that the Iran-Iraq War ended in 1988, while the USSR still existed, and, more importantly, that the U.S. had in fact made such sales (as documented above). After falsely accusing Filner of lying, Wilson went into overdrive, launching his tirade squarely into Michele Bachmann territory, accusing Filner of harboring a secret “hatred of America.
“ Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) warned that socialized medicine would be a death sentence for the vulnerable among us, like ALS-afflicted physicist Stephen Hawking. IBD editorialized, “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.” Hawking is, of course, a professor at the University of Cambridge, and quite British.
“ The treaty was designed to streamline the extradition of terrorist suspects by eliminating the requirement on the US to provide prima facie evidence when requesting the extradition of any UK citizen. So it gives the Americans carte blanche to take anyone they want from this country without having to offer evidence against them in a British court, although the UK still needs to provide evidence to the US in the reverse situation.
“ Claims that immigrants are given priority access to social housing have been dismissed as a myth by the equalities watchdog. A study for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found that only 1.8% of social tenants are immigrants who had moved to the UK in the past five years.
“ Since companies like Apple, Google and Nokia are already invested in H.264, the prospect of having to support an old obsolete codec is not at all desirable. Google has noted that there’s no way the company could serve up YouTube’s billions of streams using the much less efficient Ogg Theora codec, saying it would consume the world’s Internet bandwidth due to its less sophisticated compression. Ogg Theora also lacks the hardware acceleration available for H.264, making it completely unattractive for use in mobile devices from netbooks to smartphones. Opera and Mozilla don’t make mobile hardware, so they don’t care about this. Mozilla doesn’t even have a viable mobile browser. Opera’s mobile business largely centers on Opera Mini, which isn’t really a web browser but actually an applet that displays pre-rendered web pages served by Opera’s web proxy servers to less powerful phones that can’t run a real browser. All of the advanced new mobile devices use a WebKit-based browser, from Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch to the Palm Pre, BlackBerry Storm, and Google Android devices.
“ The irony, of course — and there’s always irony when creationism is involved — is that she’s talking about uranium mining, and it’s through the radioactive decay of uranium that we know the Earth is billions of years old. And she also praises technological achievements!
