12 million Americans believe lizard people run the USA

[Nadia]

I'm dreaming of a green christmas ..

http://boingboing.net/2013/04/15/12-mil ... eve-l.html

[Alluveal]

<spanks Nadia for fun>

[Ddrak]

It *would* explain a lot.

Dd

[Alluveal]

I hope this isn't rooted in the gun-control debate. I hope even more than this will not be used as fodder for such as well.

[Kulaf]

Wait......the CIA didn't develop crack?

[Partha]

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lu ... ation.html

John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is --

Tyrone: 27%.

John: ... you said that immmediately, and with some authority.

Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That's crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.

John: Objectively crazy or crazy vis-a-vis my own inertial reference frame for rational behaviour? I mean, are you creating the Theory of Special Crazification or General Crazification?

Tyrone: Hadn't thought about it. Let's split the difference. Half just have worldviews which lead them to disagree with what you consider rationality even though they arrive at their positions through rational means, and the other half are the core of the Crazification -- either genuinely crazy; or so woefully misinformed about how the world works, the bases for their decision making is so flawed they may as well be crazy.

John: You realize this leads to there being over 30 million crazy people in the US?

Tyrone: Does that seem wrong?

John: ... a bit low, actually.

[Taxious]

You can add me to the "believes aliens exist" stat.

[Massterloo]

The good thing about believing in aliens is - finding any kind of life (simple bug like, or animal) anywhere in the universe between now, and a billion years from now makes you right.

I would not say the Medical industry does invent diseases......Hospitals are a breeding ground for mutating strains of viruses. Not on purpose, but shit happens.

The Government cant control minds through TV, but they are trying like hell.

[Arathena]

Well, the question is: Does life exist elsewhere? (Almost assuredly yes.) vs Do little grey men with big black eyes kidnap southerners and stick quasi-scientific instruments up their butts? (Almost assuredly no.)