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Charles Johnson, Liar Extraordinaire…

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 235 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Blogwars, LGF, Progressives at April 28th, 2010 - 3:00 pm

Last night, at his pathetic cesspool for dimwitted losers who dwell in Mommy’s basement, Charles Johnson (AKA Nancy, AKA Chuckles, AKA Queeg, AKA Fat ass pony-tailed douchebag), owner of a once great blog called Little Green Footballs (Until he banned all the people that actually made it great), proved yet again that he’s not only a first class, stark-raving mad, brain-dead liberal moonbat, but also a liar of the highest caliber.

He claimed that Michelle Malkin wrote an editorial in 1994 that said, well, I’ll let you read how he put it…

Michelle Malkin’s 1994 Big Tobacco Recruitment Drive
It’s 1994, and who do we find shilling for the tobacco industry’s last ditch efforts to cast doubt on the scientific evidence that tobacco smoke is killing people?

Nancy provided a link to a story that was just about damn near impossible to read. I guess he figured no one would actually read what Malkin wrote, since it would prove (yet again) that he’s a pathetic liar.

Well, guess what Chuckles? I read it.

I simply followed the link YOU provided, and I used a little-known feature from Microsoft that works on all windows PC’s.

If you hold down the “crtl” key, and tap the “+” key on the keypad, the text (or whatever else you’re looking at- pics, etc.) gets larger until it’s large enough to actually read. Then I could read what Malkin actually wrote.

Charles, you’re a damned liar. Those of us here have known it for years.

And your “link” is to a pathetic website about the non-existent global warming threat and scare-mongering you lib losers have been perpetuating on other ignorant liberals (redundant, I know) for years.

You’re nothing but birds of a feather who scare other stupid liberals together. Get a life, loser.

This “TASSC” you’re so afraid of that you wet your panties is run by Steve Milloy, who also runs the website junkscience.com, which dispels and debunks all the BS claims such as AGW, over-population, and the catastrophic demise of the ozone layer you lib losers make.

Here’s what Malkin actually wrote, and you will not see one word defending, “shilling” or even mentioning, the tobacco industry. All she writes about is radical environmentalism.

[original story Charles links – click on the image to enlarge and read the whole thing- some of the text quoted below]

Slogans no substitute for sound science

Bv Michelle Malkin Los Angeles

Shaping of the nation’s environmental conscience doesn’t happen overnight. Only after years of shaky science, reckless reporting and inane sloganeering have we arrived at the current state of fear and paranoia about the Earth’s chances for survival. So, unfortunately, It may take twice as many years of sound science, informed reporting and responsible education to undo the damage. The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a new grass-roots organization. may be just the place to start.

It was formed In November to monitor the government’s abuse of science and manipulation of public policy. This is especially welcome at a time when the Clinton administration is fixing to raise the Environmental Protection Agency – a prime source of such abuse – to cabinet-level status. Among TASSC’s goals: To Inform the general public about the consequences of inappropriate science by focusing attention of current examples of unsound government research used to guide policy decisions; to establish an educational outreach program; and to offer resources to ensure that sound sclentific principles are applied. Former New Mexico Gov. Garrey Carruthers, TASSC’s chairman, says: “This group Is long overdue. We believe that science used to guide public policy decisions should be based on sound principles – not on emotions and beliefs considered by some as politically correct”

He’s absolutely right.

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The Alar myth, concocted by unnamed scientists and CBS’s “60 Minutes”, needlessly alarmed the country’s schoolchildren and devastated the apple Industry. And the coalition should emphasize the outrageous cost to taxpayers of environmental regulations ($115 billion alone In 1991) that are based on dubious claims of supposed health threats. Even the EPA acknowledges the dismal state of much of its own scientific research. In a March 1992 report, the agency conceded that it “has not always ensured that contrasting, reputable scientific views are well-explored and well documented from the beginning to the end of the regulatory process”.

So before purchasing some environmentally correct product from the Body Shop, why not pick up a copy of Dixy Lee Ray’s “Trashing the Planet”? Or how about signing up for a free membership to TASSC? Taking these long-overdue steps to allay fears with facts may be one of the best gifts money can buy this holiday season.

Charles, you’re such a loser…But don’t worry. You’ll always have your dimwitted psycho-phants to tell you how great you are, while everyone else laughs at you.

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The Mother of all Conspiracies

by snork ( 136 Comments › )
Filed under Crime, Economy at January 23rd, 2010 - 12:00 pm

Here is a story with something for everyone: Big Tobacco, Islamic terrorists (yes, I said that; sue me), Hezbollah, CAIR, the ATF, Koreans, Italians, Bloomberg, and Exxon, Glenn Beck, and the Vatican have gotta be in there somewhere.

Undercover ATF agents in Virginia have funneled more than 250 million cigarettes onto the nation’s streets in the past three years through black market sales targeting smugglers, an Associated Press review has found.

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Many of those cigarettes undoubtedly wind up in the mouths of minors, since black market vendors have no reason to turn away teenage purchasers.

Despite that, government auditors and anti-tobacco groups want the ATF to do even more.

So… Our friends at the BATF are selling cigs to kids. And the anti-tobacco groups want them to crank it up. Why? Because NYC has, by far, the highest tobacco taxes in the country. So why is BATF focusing on these rings that sell in the city? Because the NYC city government is losing significant tax revenue.

The Department of Justice, the ATF’s parent agency, estimates that federal, state and local governments lose out on $5 billion annually in tax revenue from cigarettes sold through illegitimate channels.

So the feds are trying to maintain the city’s tax collections.

…Eastern District of Virginia, which includes Richmond, northern Virginia and the Interstate 95 corridor. The area is a hotbed for the crime because while 42 states and the District of Columbia have collectively passed more than 80 tax hikes on cigarettes since 2002, Virginia and North Carolina, the heart of tobacco country, still tax tobacco at only pennies per pack.

“The profit margin on this is ridiculous,” said Ashan Benedict, resident agent in charge of the bureau’s office in Falls Church, Va. “It’s not that hard to find a customer who wants to save $40 a carton.”

That’s a very interesting comment, coming from a fed. It’s profit if smugglers do it. When the city taxes it away, is it still a ridiculous profit margin?

The Virginia agents say they focus on cigarette smuggling in large part because the investigations often turn up other crimes. The ATF’s Richmond office went so far as to set up its own store in King George, Va., called KG Wholesale, which advertised in Arabic-language newspapers and elsewhere. The store was set up with audio and video surveillance to record the transactions, all of which were illegal undercover sales.

Uh-oh. Profiling. They’re setting up stings for Arabic speakers only.

The planners of the storefront sting were aware that cigarette smuggling has been a source of terrorist funding in the past – in 2002 a federal jury in North Carolina convicted two Lebanese citizens of diverting millions of dollars in cigarette smuggling proceeds to the radical Islamic group Hezbollah – and were anxious to disrupt other similar money trails.

Agent Ken Mosley is confident that investigations like the KG case disrupt terror financing, but he acknowledged evidence was insufficient to bring terrorism charges.

“There is no doubt in my mind that we have arrested people involved in terrorism,” Mosley said.

Now they dunnit.

The focus on Arabic-speaking smugglers in the KG Wholesale investigation – the store did not run ads in other foreign-language papers – smacks of profiling, said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group.

“Obviously it would be a concern if they targeted only Muslims and/or Arab-Americans,” Hooper said.

Well, Dougie, you may have a point there.

The focus on Arabic-speaking smugglers in the KG Wholesale investigation – the store did not run ads in other foreign-language papers – smacks of profiling, said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group.

“Obviously it would be a concern if they targeted only Muslims and/or Arab-Americans,” Hooper said.

But they aren’t the only ones involved:

Benedict and Fairfax County Police Lt. David Smith had the Korean smugglers convinced they were Italian mobsters. In the KG case, Mosley said agents would get angry or cagey if their customers asked where all the cigarettes were coming from.

And to round out the roster of unsavory characters, we have:

In fact, the cigarettes come from the same places the legitimate ones do: Big Tobacco. Under an ATF program, tobacco corporations supply cigarettes for stings and are repaid with the proceeds from the sales.

So it’s all a big conspiracy to put money in the hands of (gasp!!!!!!!) Big Tobacco at the expense of NYC taxpayers!!!!!11 But I shouldn’t be telling you about this, because you’re probably getting kickbacks, too.

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