Nonsense

.Escher - Waterfall

Just a recap of some of the nonsense coming my way today:

• A friend sent me an article about the WWII memorial in Washington DC. Someone said that the words "... so help me God" were omitted from the FDR Day of Infamy speech, partially cited on the monument. I automatically clicked on the Urban Legends reference page (snopes.com), where it was naturally debunked with a logical explanation. FDR said the words, but two paragraphs later in a different quotation. Why don't people check before sending along this bunk?

• Jimmy Carter drank his Ovaltine today, and blasted the war in Iraq from sixteen different positions. The most error prone president in history, IMHO, Carter flouts his Nobel Peace Prize as if it's a badge to say anything he wants. I do not condone the Iraq debacle, but it was Carter whose Iranian non-policy started us on this merry-go-round. Just look at the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners to put him into context: Arafat, Gorbachev, the IAEA, the U.N. and Kofi Annan!! The best thing Alfred Nobel ever did? Not the peace prize; he invented dynamite. Here, Jimmy, have a cigar...

• Princess Diana. Will it never end? The conspiracy theorists are running amuck, again. Who knows what set them off this time? The royal family, it goes, had a lot to gain by wacking Princess Di. The simple facts are stunning: four people were in the car. The only one who lived was the only one wearing a seatbelt. All of the seatbelts functioned correctly. The one who lived sat in the passenger's side of the front seat: the most dangerous seat in the car. There was no malfunction of the car. Just how did the Royal Family convince three people NOT to wear seatbelts; get the driver all liquored up; and get him to speed enough in an underground tunnel so that he would crash? Please, people, take some valium and then go for a ride. Without your seatbelt.

There. The case is solve -ed.