As IF Times

link Dinosaurs farted their way to extinction, British scientists say | Fox News.

The implications of this ‘news story’ are mind boggling.   While I am certainly not in a position to scientifically question the astounding conclusion of this study, if these scientists’ claims are valid, some big changes are going to happen to our society.

The very first thing that comes to mind is the concept of being a vegetarian.  As astute readers of the article will notice, most of these behemoth monsters were actually vegetarians, consuming mainly plants and trees, albeit by the acre, Michael Moore-like.  As most consumers of beans and legumes are aware, consumption of such stuff can lead to embarrassing moments in crowded elevators.  Apparently, the dinosaurs had the same issues millions of years ago and they gassed themselves to extinction.  Logically, we can only extrapolate that vegetarian humans are actually harming our present environment and therefore they should be stopped immediately before it’s too late.

If we were able to monitor the air over San Francisco, Los Angeles or Vancouver, there’s a certainty that the air quality would show higher than the normal measures of toxic gases, which we can now trace  to rampant vegetarianism among their populace.  People may be forgiven who had thought that BS emanating from these cities were responsible for the bad air.  Of course, this gas issue is already known by those who are participants in Yoga classes.   They should immediately form an organization called STOP generating annoying smells, or STOP GAS.

If human vegetarians are a menace to society, then so are all herbivores.  For years, there were theories that cows were in fact the greatest contributors to global warming due to their release  of methane gas from eating grass.  Now, the fickle finger of blame is zeroing in on these dangerous animals.  This dangerous list of herbivores will include goats, sheep, deer, elephants and giraffes too.  All of these creatures are hastening the doom of mankind.  It turns out that eating meat is not only tasty, it’s also green and socially responsible!  Eating broccoli is bad after all!

Another implication of this story is that scientists seem to have the ability to discern the cause of events looooong past their occurrence by persistent and ingenious sleuthing.  Even though dinosaurs died off a few million years ago, apparently the cause of their demise is evident even now, as if it were a slightly cold CSI case and the chalk outline was in clear view.  It’s hard to believe that the dinosaur conclusion wasn’t arrived at sooner.  It was right under our noses; all that was needed was to stitch a bunch of seemingly unrelated pieces of evidence together as if it were a Mississippi trial.   This should scare all criminals.  The truth will come out eventually, although perhaps a few million years down the road.  It will only be a matter of time before they apply modern science to unravel some of the true puzzles of modern life; such as the mystery  of Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance or how they get the caramilk in a caramilk bar.

link Fox News Personality Slammed for Mocking Rick Santorums Crazy Behavior After Babys Death Video – Hollywood Reporter.

It’s a sober measure of how far awry mainstream society has veered when we look at the standards of what is considered sane and what is considered crazy.  Rick Santorum is the latest Republican contender for the GOP leadership fight to emerge as an alternative to Mitt Romney for that role.  As expected, the left dominated media are scurrying to frame every Santorum position as being extreme.

Up to now, the many and numerous candidates have been run through the media gauntlet as they are scrutinized for any possible attribute, real or imagined, that would disqualify them to run and eventually serve as President.  In the absence of any genuine flaw, the default knock is to label their views as crazy or extreme.  Such was the fate of Michele Bachmann who recently withdrew her candidacy.  Obviously, being a professional tax attorney, serving 3 terms as a congresswoman including sitting on the National defense committee, raising 5 children of her own as well as 23 foster children makes her a loon. 

Santorum is the newest candidate to be painted as some kind of conservative nut now that his campaign appears to be gaining some traction.   When asked by Bill O’Reilly how he was going to respond when people try to label his views on marriage as extreme,  Santorum responded with what I think is the line of the year,  “Well I don’t happen to think that marriage between a man and a woman is extreme.” Well that’s just crazy talk!  

Santorum is known as a consistent defender of traditional values and has never wavered on that in the pursuit of votes.  While that may be endearing to a conservative base, the unwillingness to accede to the erosion of social values embraced by most of society today makes him an easy target for those, especially in media, who frame his values as extreme.  Apparently boys marrying boys and girls marrying girls is not extreme. 

As a group, the GOP contenders often cite the U.S. constitution as their guide for enacting any legislation, a reference that the Democrats seldom, if ever make.   Conservatives lean towards self sufficiency and hard work to create wealth and prosperity.  Liberals are partial to collectivism, the enhanced role of government and entitlements to distribute wealth and cap prosperity.  As Al Sharpton might say, conservatives want to make, liberals prefer to take.   Apparently to take from the productive to give to the non productive is not extreme.

As a group, liberals love to sing the siren song of equality of all peoples in a society but then balkanize them in order to pit one group against the other.  Everyone is equal except Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Hispanics, Asians, the young, the old, the handicapped, union members, women, vegetarians, pot smokers, drug addicts, rap stars and environmentalists.  Apart from special treatment for this small group, everyone else is equal.   Apparently, this is not extreme.

Every single candidate running for the Republican nomination has had more experience in real life activities in business and administration than the current resident in the White House.  That resident came from an isolated academic background, had a closet full to bursting with friends and supporters who have been exposed as avowed radical socialists, or criminals or both.  This however is not extreme.  

It’s better to disregard most of what the media frames as extreme.  Unless any of the GOP candidates have frozen corpses hidden in their basement freezers, any of them are vastly more suitable to hold office than the nutters the other side has to offer.  The next time a mouthpiece from the left appears on TV, turn down the sound and just watch the delivery.  Unfailingly, they’ll all have the appearance of just having been let out by the guards for their daily walk.  For progressives to label others nutty, they should at least minimize the antics of Alec, “let me finish my video game” Baldwin, or Michael “we are the 99%” Moore, or Al “we’re all gonna die” Gore, or Nancy “middle class” Pelosi, or Joe “we are not at war with the Taliban” Biden.   Apparently, that’s not extreme.