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Smart idiot is sarcasm. Just idiot, but a certain kind that believes itself smart.

"Know thyself" is a great starting point that has been around for a long time. Very good advice.


Smart stupid, unfortunately, cannot see their own stupidity. That is the "glue" that keeps it all together. I guess if a person could catch a sobering glimpse of the stupid part, they wouldn't remain smart stupid much longer.


I guess this "know thyself" sh*t really works.

The remarkable thing is, sarcastic or otherwise, there's a disturbing element of truth in the seeming oxymoron. Having a PhD tacked on to the end of your name can signify a certain measure of intellect and accomplishment, but such a person can be completely clueless only one step out of their own domain. Of course, some are clueless within their own domain.

Run of the mill stupid people can be a problem. Stupid people with credentials are a much bigger problem.

Take some of the response surrounding the University of East Anglia files (Climategate). Really intelligent people who don't make software for a living probably don't understand it's almost impossible for the program described in the HarryReadMe file to be a correctly functioning program. I'd be fired if I produced crap like that - immediately and without question. The "fate of the world hangs on the work" of these demigods and they don't know whether they're coming or going as far as this one very important aspect of their work. What is stupid is to believe that there's nothing deleterious of substance to be found, based on the "unknown unknowns".

Truly smart people know their limitations, and understand the power in admitting those limitations.

The person who identifies themselves as only a number said:

000063 wrote:That thread is where they bring up scientific claims proven wrong just so they can reassure themselves science isn't reliable.

Really, that's what you got out of this? Best you start recognizing your limitations, for they are legion, starting with reading comprehension.

W.D. Clinger, it was so kind of you to say "I thought that was one of the less nutty threads I've read there", meaning this thread. Please, please, I'd love to know what you think a nutty thread is.

Maybe this? Hahahahahaa!!!


PS. Clinger, maybe you thought my sound refutation of your reaction force supposition on WTC1 tilting was nutty...

PPS. This is the second time I've seen this forum's low membership and traffic numbers trotted out by a critic as if that's a bad thing. I guess people like that think Lady Gaga is good music, too.

PPPS. Clinger:

Yes, but science isn't perfectly reliable. It just looks that way when compared to what you get without it...

...as demonstrated by some of that forum's other threads.

I can only kick people out so fast.

This may be one of the best examples of what the word "philosophy" meant to Plato. It also shows that not much has changed after 2,500 years.


Socrates is speaking before a tribunal of about 250 politicians that will decide whether he should be put to death. He tells how he had attracted so many enemies for doing nothing wrong.

This ancient Prince of calmness, reason and sarcasm explains:





"Well, Chaerephon, as you know, was very impetuous in all his doings, and he went to Delphi and boldy asked the oracle to tell him whether there was anyone wiser than I was, and the Pythian prophetess answered that there was no man wiser
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Why did I mention this? Because I am going to explain to you why I have such an evil name. When I heard the answer, I said to myself, What can the god mean? and what is the interpretation of this riddle? for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What can he mean when he says that I am the wisest of men? And yet he is a god and cannot lie; that would be against his nature. After long consideration, I at last thought of a method of trying the question. I reflected that if i could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might go to the god with a refutation in my hand. I should say to him, "Here is a man who is wiser than I am; but you said that I was the wisest." Accordingly I went to one who had the reputation of wisdom ... and the result was as follows: When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me. So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, altough I do not suppose that either of us knows aything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is - for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter particular, then, I seem to have a slight advatage over him. Then I went to aother, who had still higher philosophical pretensions, and my conclusion was exactly the same. I made another enemy of him, and of many others besides him.


After this I went to one man after another, being not unconscious of the enmity which I provoked, and I lamented and feared this: but necessity was laid upon me - the word of God, I thought, ought to be considered first. And I said to myself, Go I must to all who appear to know, and find out the meaning of the oracle. And I swear to you ... the result of my mission was just this: I found that men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that some inferior men were really wiser and better."


I will tell you the wanderings and of the "Herculean" labors, as I call them, which I endured only to find at last the oracle irrefutable. WHen I left the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. And there, I said to myself, you will be detected; now you will find out that you are more ignorant than they are. Accordingly, I took them some of the most elaborate passages in their own writings, and asked what was the meaning of them - thinking that they would teach me something. Would you believe me? I am almost ashamed to speak of this, but still I must say that there is hardly a person present who would not have talked better about their poetry than they did themselves. That showed me in an instant that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them. And the poets appeared to me to be much in the same case; and I further observed that uopn the strength of their poetry they beleived themselves to be the wisest of men in other things in which they were not wise. So I departed, conceiving myself to be superior to them for the same reason that I was superior to the politicians.


At last I went to the artisans, for I was conscious that I knew nothing at all, as I may say, and was sure that they knew many fime things; and in this I was not mistaken, for they did know many fine things; and in this I was not mistaken, for they did know many things of which I was ignorant, and in this they ceratinly were wiser than I was. But I observed that even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom - therefore I asked myself on behalf of the oracle, whether I would like to be as I was, neither having their knowledge nor their ignorance, or like them in both; and I made answer to myself and the oracle that I was better off as I was.


This investigation has led to my having many enemies of the worst and most dangerous kind, and has given occasion also to many calumnies, and I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess the wisdom which I kfind wanting in others: but the truth is, O men of Achens, that God only is wise; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothintg: he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name as an illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. And so I go my way, obedient to the god, and make inquisition into the wisdom of anyone, whether citizen or stranger, who appears to be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of the oracle I show him that he is not wise; and this occupation quite absorbs me, and I have no time to give either to any public of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to god.




There is another thing:- young men of the richer classes, who have not much to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear the pretenders examined, and they often imitate me, and examine others themselves; there are plenty of persons, as they soon enough discover, who think that they know something, but really know little or nothing: and then those who are examined by them instead of being angry with themselves are angry with me: This confounded Socrates, they say; this villainous misleader of youth! - and then if somebody asks them, Why, what evil does he practice or teach? they do not know, and cannot tell; but in order that they may not appear to be at a loss, they repeat the ready-made charges which are used against all philosophers about teaching things up in the clouds and under the earth, and having no gods, and making the worse appear the better cause; for they do not like to confess that their pretence of knowledge has been detected - which is the truth: and all in battle array and have persuasive tongues, they have filled your ears with their loud and inveterate calumnies."


And then they killed the dude.

Smart idiots forget science is administered socially. Thus, it does not avoid the taint of sociopathy along the way from being excreted by likes of Popper to being consumed by the likes of Jacques Q. Public. I've lived long enough to see "that was then, this is now" turn into "that was then and that, too, was then", enough to see that this is/will be the then of tomorrow. At every stage, we're so right, yet so wrong.

So I never stopped eating butter in favor of margarine, and I won't even if transfats make a comeback when now becomes then, yet again. Margarine tastes like ****. **** Science.

It is not the tin foil crowd that make criticism of big pharma, big energy, big ag, big security, big defense, big government, etc difficult if not impossible. It is the serf with a modicum of education in some narrow field emboldened to defend his master's status quo by all means necessary. Often by sweeping smear, as W.D. Clinger has done (but does quite a bit less than his/her peers, generally).

A lot of this forum is crap, including and especially some of my stuff (since, naturally, a lot of it is my stuff). So what? It's easy to see the distinction between settler and frontier mentality. I'm evolving. Work from two years ago in a field I only began examining about four years ago ought to show some improvement! Even as a hobby.

Yes, Dr. Clinger, this is where I "develop my skills", you hit the nail on the head. I'm not offended. I recently referred to it as "working on my chops", but same thing. That's a musician's term, by the way; probably not something a Lady Gaga fan would understand. Not saying anyone in particular is a meat dressin' skank aficianado, you know, just that a lot of people are, so I'm sure a mathematician can appreciate a probabalistic argument (as opposed to a sweeping smear).

I see you, too, where you develop your skills. Keep working. Pride is an enemy of science.

Excellent excerpt, Major_Tom. Keep that "nutty" stuff coming, it helps nutters "reassure themselves science isn't reliable."

Went to a 'highbrow' book club meeting recently. Fortunately, I did not waste my time reading the book, spare time was better spent developing my skills in Boolean Delay Equations and the Discrete Element Method (seemingly diverse interests to the 'scientifically' uninitiated). It was a beard-scratchin', elbow patch kind of affair, with university professors overrepresented.

After the lively discussion about the book, which at one point led to the sole professional musician in the group beating an English professor with her shoe, informal chat about this and that ensued (inevitably, sort of like global collapse). One of the topics was the Fukushima incident, which was less than a week on at the time. I'll spare the gory details, but an astrophysics professor pontificated for a time about how there was a very small probability of containment breach or significant contamination hazard, this based on design differences between Chernobyl and this plant - as if that were the discriminator.

I worked in a nuclear plant as a nuclear engineer. I partied until closing time at the local dive with reactor operators. I let him talk. Later, he described how he could only stop filling his gas tank at the self-serve pump when the digits of the gallons or total sale was a Fibonacci number.

Advanced techniques of people farming are being used throughout the U.S. with very effective results.

Consider a new law that requires mandatory drug testing for all welfare recipients in Florida.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/06/fla-lawmakers-require-drug-tests-for-welfare-recipients/

If one is a father, and one deviated from the path of the Lord to smoke a single joint once a month, their family could be up sh*t creek.

Considering a welfare recipient family of 4, one must remember that full time employment at lower wages will pay a bit more than the rent in many areas. Many of these families are employed full time, yet still qualify for welfare. Access to healthcare is basically impossible in this condition, even though fully employed, without state offices with doctors and long lines.

Masterful and very successful farming operations. The creation of oceans of need in the land of plenty. By stabilizing low wages and having a steady supply of willing victims to compete for those wages, that is how you keep an economy strong.


War upon anything having to do with marijuana or cannabis, including much of the U.S. sub-culture that opts out of professional roles or living in suburbia, has been highly effective. It has been an excellent way to introduce the police state into our bloodstreams. To normalize cavity searches. To normalize selective prejudism and hypocrisy.

In a world of next generation prozac and people who need special pills to get their dicks hard, the war on drugs has been a great tool to farm and hassle anybody that looks like they are not a white yuppie, though most lighter skinned yuppies also receive a pass. Anything that doesn't conform is suspect.

Excellent instiller of fear and degradation on a chosen populace.

Most low level employment in the U.S. now requires invasive testing of blood, urine, saliva and hair follicles as a condition of employment. If they wish to work, fresh urine is required. This is the current norm in the U.S.

It is based on the parol system of tracking former inmates. Most smart stupid people have no idea it even exists, since yuppies are largely exempt. Selective herding.

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What I mean is that people on parol are monitored and expected to submit to invasive checking within their own personal space for a certain time. They sacrifice the right of personal space as a condition of parol.

The surrender of personal space to the point of regular urine and blood chemistry analysis would have been considered absurd only 20 years ago in the U.S.

It now represents the norm within normal lower paying jobs which often involve manual labor. A pretty clear extension of inmate tracking, where the methods were first perfected.

Of note is that this system is extended through the private sector, and therefore is considered acceptable as a personal choice by any given private business. But as the custom became normal business practice, little attention is given to the striking similarity to the control of inmate populations.

Because the weapon is used collectively against a certain large sector of society with little if any political representation, the good people of the world visit their therapists for their daily fixes while their children have access to any type of mind altering substance on earth, yet float above the invasive searches or any consciousness of their own double standard.

It is interesting to observe the often extreme dependence on alchohol many at a country club, for example, with someone who can loose their last source of food and shelter for their children for smoking 1 unauthorized joint a month.


Prozac Generation moralizes to the masses.

Know thyself to overcome hypocrisy, consider...

Reality Check: Why now, in 2011, is it necessary to add this "new law"? If the system has been in place for some time, why during an obvious economic meltdown for ordinary people is this new measure needed?


As a new tool to herd people of a certain income is the obvious purpose. No sane thinking or feeling human being who can experience "other" as a fellow human being just as ones "self' could agree to such hypocrisy.


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My working definition of CANNIBALISM

1: the usually ritualistic eating of human ______________by a human being

Where the blank can be "flesh" or any and all of the following:

"effort, life, health, food sources, shelter, land, future possibility, suffering, hope for ones children, sense of history, sense of dignity"


I like this simple way to look at cannibalism or vampirism since morality becomes a lot simpler. For example, the ten commandments can be written as:

Thou Shall Not Cannibalize


Much easier to remember..

True human evolution and culture could be viewed as the ability to overcome cannibalistic tendencies. WIsdom could be seen as the knowledge of how humans cannibalize without being aware of it and how to rise above such a barbaric fate.

Moral education could be learning to be properly repulsed by acts of cannibalism and teaching ones children how to live without practicing cannibalism.

Human history could admit the dominance of cannibalistic acts in our past and present rather than flattering those in power with a bunch of fairy tales.

True social intelligence would be an understanding of the symmetry between "self" and "other". This could be understood and fostered through reason. Such an awareness would be properly repulsed by acts of cannibalism. It would be perceived as abhorrent, as a state of ignorance.




Many people are repulsed by the act of cannibalism. This is very healthy, to be repulsed by it.

A prime example of large scale cannibalism is happening these days with the spike in world food prices.

Maybe no better example of how ignorant smart idiots can be while others are left to suffer the mess.

Comfortable people exporting problems which create conditions of which they have no clue.

The mystery of the "2 paths".

Notes on the Wisconsin Public Sector demonstrations.



I was talking to the head of a teachers union recently, and he was telling me how he educates his two girls so that they will receive a good college education. He explained to me that if he doesn't do that, the girls could face a very difficult future. He noted, like many, that the prospects for those who do not attend the university in the U.S. are getting visibly bleaker and bleaker.


This approach seems quite reasonable. It doesn't take a genius to see that no access to health care and lower, stagnant wages await many of those who work with their hands for a long time to come.


As seen from a typical family like this, there are two main economic streams available and the higher stream goes through a university education and a decent paying job with good benefits.

Yeah! Makes sense, no? Totally reasonable and responsible way to raise the girls. Who can find fault with his desires for his children?

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But now, let us look at the mechanics of the larger flow. There are two "streams". One stream gets, on the whole, a better material life. THey basically "eat", or receive, a fair bit of material benefit from the large society.

The other stream basically "gets eaten", often giving in services and labor much more than they receive. This is no secret, as the Teacher and his wife and his neighbors and his daughters and pretty much everyone can figure out just by looking about.

The man is basically giving the good advice to enter the stream of those who benefit from their relationship with the larger society, the "eaters". Those to whom visible benefit flows.

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Needless to say, he prefers his daughters to eat rather than be eaten.













But to what degree does he ask himself, "Eat what?" "What are we eating?" "Who are we eating?"

And what of those of the other stream? What becomes of them?

HOW TO KEEP PUMPING AN ADVANCED, MATURE ECONOMY:


"Here's a clip from an interview with history professor Robert Brenner who sums it up perfectly:

Robert Brenner: "... Economic forecasters have underestimated how bad the current crisis is because they have over-estimated the strength of the real economy and failed to take into account the extent of its dependence upon a buildup of debt that relied on asset price bubbles. In the U.S., during the recent business cycle of the years 2001-2007, GDP growth was by far the slowest of the postwar epoch. There was no increase in private sector employment. The increase in plants and equipment was about a third of the previous, a postwar low. Real wages were basically flat. There was no increase in median family income for the first time since World War II. Economic growth was driven entirely by personal consumption and residential investment, made possible by easy credit and rising house prices. Economic performance was weak, even despite the enormous stimulus from the housing bubble and the Bush administration’s huge federal deficits. Housing by itself accounted for almost one-third of the growth of GDP and close to half of the increase in employment in the years 2001-2005. It was, therefore, to be expected that when the housing bubble burst, consumption and residential investment would fall, and the economy would plunge.” (“Overproduction not Financial Collapse is the Heart of the Crisis”, Robert P. Brenner speaks with Jeong Seong-jin, Asia Pacific Journal)

Sound familiar? Flat wages, weak demand, slow growth and more and more debt? All signs of an aging, hobbled system that's slipping inexorably into stagnation. This is why the Fed adopted its present policy of bubblemaking, because the only way to avoid stagnation is by increasing the debt-load. Authors John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff traced the origins of the policy back to the 1970s. They revealed what their findings in an article in The Monthly Review titled "Financial Implosion and Stagnation". Here's an excerpt:

"It was the reality of economic stagnation beginning in the 1970s, as heterodox economists Riccardo Bellofiore and Joseph Halevi have recently emphasized, that led to the emergence of “the new financialized capitalist regime,” a kind of “paradoxical financial Keynesianism” whereby demand in the economy was stimulated primarily “thanks to asset-bubbles.” Moreover, it was the leading role of the United States in generating such bubbles—despite (and also because of) the weakening of capital accumulation proper—together with the dollar’s reserve currency status, that made U.S. monopoly-finance capital the “catalyst of world effective demand,” beginning in the 1980s. But such a financialized growth pattern was unable to produce rapid economic advance for any length of time, and was unsustainable, leading to bigger bubbles that periodically burst, bringing stagnation more and more to the surface.

A key element in explaining this whole dynamic is to be found in the falling ratio of wages and salaries as a percentage of national income in the United States. Stagnation in the 1970s led capital to launch an accelerated class war against workers to raise profits by pushing labor costs down. The result was decades of increasing inequality." ("Financial Implosion and Stagnation", John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review)

Foster and Magdoff do a fine job of explaining how the system has been rejiggered to overcome stagnation. Financial assets provide a place where surplus capital can go and grow via paper profits. But this type of investment does not add to productive capacity or real wealth; it merely enlarges the amount of money capital while creating the means for transferring wealth from one class to another. And that's the point. Every burst bubble thrusts middle class households further and further into the red, while bank moguls and Wall Street tycoons get even richer. It is all by design, nothing is left to chance.

It might surprise you to know that the Fed has become so skilled at bubble-making, that the condition of the underlying economy doesn't really matter any more. By fixing interest rates below the rate of inflation and attaching a liquidity-tailpipe to the stock market (QE2), the Fed has been able engineer a boom in equities, while the so-called "real" economy languishes in a near-Depression. In fact, consumer credit is actually shrinking (excluding student loans) while margin debt (the amount that speculators borrow to buy stocks) continues to soar. This is an astonishing development. The Fed has created a bifurcated market where bankers and hedge fund managers are able to rake in billions off their gaming operations while 300 million working Americans remain mired in debt. "

Original article here

This is what is being overlooked in Bahrain.

People farming, the old fashioned way:

One consultant and family physician described in an email how she had been beaten, abused and humiliated and left with a black eye and bruises on her back during a seven-hour detention at the Central Province Police centre. Fearing for the safety of her children, she asked to remain anonymous.

She was sworn at, called a "dirty Shia" and a "whore", beaten with a thick hose and forced to sing the national anthem, she said.

At one point she was blindfolded and made to run down a corridor until she banged into a wall.

Her assailants alleged she had protested against the regime, and hit her when she denied it. She was released after signing a document admitting she had protested against the Health Minister.

The doctor believes she was targeted because she is the wife of a prominent surgeon who has been held in custody since being arrested in mid-operation more than a month ago "While I thank God I have been reunited with my children, I am even more fearful for the well-being of my husband, knowing the torture that I endured," she wrote.

She said that another female doctor detained with her had been unable to sing the national anthem when ordered to do so because her throat was too dry.

"The interrogators gave her a tiny sip of water and told her to stick out her tongue. She was blindfolded and when she put her tongue out, one of the officers suddenly stabbed it with a pen. Then they told her to sit on a chair because she felt dizzy.

"When she went to sit, they pulled the chair away and she fell to the ground. Then they threw the chair at her and it landed on top of head. They told her not to remove the chair from her head."

Relatives of those detained said some were forced to confess to acts they had not committed, with those confessions filmed by the security forces for subsequent broadcast.

The daughter of one doctor said: "They were made to confess that they gave treatment only to Shia protesters and not to Sunnis, stole blood from the hospital to splatter on protesters to make the situation seem more dramatic, and that they encouraged others to protest against the regime."

Rights activists say medical officials have been targeted because they bore witness to the terrible injuries sustained by the protesters they treated, and could therefore give evidence against the government.

Forty-seven doctors and nurses were charged last week with "promoting efforts to bring down the government" and "harming the public by spreading false news". Their trials are expected to begin shortly.

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To what degree can anyone be thought of as "human" who treats women medical staff in this way?

Good thing our governments looked the other way while the King "established order" again. Problem solved.

Some times if your cow or pig gets unruly, you have to use a whip.

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I heard on the BBC the other day that about 20 people had died in Bahrain since the demonstrations began.

Why shouldn't the word "cannibal" be used to describe the BBC for clearly lying about the death toll? Aren't they helping? These people are being eaten and a bunch of sheep that imagine themselves to be humane pretend it isn't happening. Life in the first world.

Even the winners lose. The winners lose their humanity. What possessions are you going to enjoy once that is sacrificed? How do you win anything by sinking to the point of becoming a walking piece of sh*t?

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own humanity? His own intelligence?

There are smart idiots, and then there are evil smart people.

There are evil smart people doing bad things, and then there are smart idiots who expend inordinates amount of time and energy trying to suppress inquiry into potential shenanigans by means of ridicule. I'v noticed there are certain enclaves in which one can absolutely expect, without hesitation, to be excoriated for doing any of the following:

- questioning the motives and integrity of certain governments, corporations or institutions (NGO)
- speaking in support of certain governments not in the subset above
- claiming or even suggesting anything is false in a 'story' put forth by any entity in the first subset
- claiming or even suggesting anything is true in a 'story' put forth by any entity in the second subset

It's really easy to see the common intersection in the items above - it is anything that risks maintenance of the status quo desires and objectives of western facism. Simple as that. If you can't see it, I guarantee you're an idiot. If you can see it, but shill for free, you are still an idiot. Kissing ass will, at best, secure you a future of kissing asses. If you can't see it and don't benefit from it but are remarkably intelligent in one or more different domains, you're a smart idiot. If you see it but shill for profit, you are smart evil, but not nearly as smart as those who do it.


Smart idiots are the only reason the opportunity for conspiratorial malfeasance in places of power is abundant. Only an idiot would think powerful sociopaths would not avail themselves of the opportunity. The reason I have a dim view of the near future is not because of the deleterious influences of truthers or the sods falling for scams of Sylvia Brown; it's because there really are evil, intelligent people in places of power with armies of unwitting smart idiots paving the way for their conquest.

They happily toil away at their college-educated white collar jobs fashioning the tools of their own enslavement, all for a pool and gated community (for now). Their masters take the lion's share, this they know, and they believe the master deserves it. After all, if it weren't for the masters, wouldn't they be shitting in a ditch right now? Oakwood Estates looks mighty fine by comparison. So long as we can keep the ghetto rats out!

It can't happen here, it can't happen now. Oh yes they admit, some limited hangouts did happen but only in the dim and distant past; and, it happens over there (in places of resource contention - all the time, even much worse of course). That's why we have to kill them! And take their oil!

Internet forums are quite useful for maintaining a record of how smart idiot claims have panned out, and evolved, over time. JREF is a goldmine of smart idiot drivel, if you can dig through the noise. Search the posts of various members and see how their tune changes before, during and after the WTC7 report comment period and release. Same goes for financial crises/bailouts, probably all sorts of topics. A certain faction in each subforum can be counted on to rise to the defense of bankers, politicians, globalist industries, defense and security consultants at the slightest hint of dissent.

If you are a smart idiot reading this, your visceral reaction right now (if you've made it this far) is "this nutcase is going off and making a fool of himself with all the long-debunked canards of whackdom". That visceral reaction is a programmed mask to cover for your gut's recognition that you are a schmuck after all, and the sheepskin doesn't prove otherwise. Your mind may be able to do (e.g.) integration by parts, but you wouldn't know evidence of a conspiracy if it were rammed up your ass.

I know you, but you don't know me.