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Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you?

rdbrewer trumped me on this one (check the sidebar), but this is an important article about a very important study. Too many of the current nutritional mandates emerging from our benevolent dictators government are based on faulty science, or no science, but rather the political expediency of getting the first lady's face plastered all over the media. more...

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Or whether this guy is a lunatic

Or...Jelly Doughnuts.

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More From The NRA Annual Meeting

John, Ben and I got together and did a special podcast episode on last week's NRA Annual Meeting.

Referenced:

• Daniel Defense


• Target Vision Cam


• Ohio Ordnance Works


• Geraghty: The LeftÂ’s War Against the Culture of Gun Owners


• John E: The Media Finally Notices The Decades-Long Drop In Violent Crime, And All It Took Was a Wayne LaPierre Speech


• Bob Owens: The REAL NRA Show

So, So Stupid

This is as uninformed as the "gun tech" guy we talked to at the NRAAM (discussed on the podcast). They've constructed a straw man argument that the NRA is full of luddites that oppose all sorts of technological breakthroughs in "gun safety".

Meanwhile, companies have been making biometric gun safes for years. If the Wired folks weren't so busy sneering, they might've attended the NRA Annual Meeting and dropped by Gun Vault's booth.

Gun Of The Week

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In case you missed it, our so-called independent Press and current White House occupant had an evening of champagne and self-congratulation last night. Twitter was all a-twitter about the First Lady's dress.

Here's a visual guide to explain to you what is considered Good versus Bad according to the MSM.

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Welcome again to the Spaced-Out Challenge! Whether you have a question about equipment, a new astronomical discovery you want to expand on, or just want to kick back and enjoy the cosmos above, come one come all on our weekly astronomical journey.

This week, I review a fantastic gizmo that can take your iPhone out into the great beyond and we will review a small but wonderful constellation just "under" the Big Dipper. more...

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Better late than never.

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How about a little history to start of this ONT. Tremendous story of the incredibly stupid one at the Hanoi Hilton. While his first tour may not have started out well, he was incredibly key in getting our POWs back in the end.

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To quote Lachlan Markay, "AYFKM with this?"

No. No, they are not. This is a thing.

They do, however, attempt to define that quality which differentiates a bad movie from being a good bad movie and just a plain ol' bad movie. This, they conclude, is the latter.

It feels like Zombeavers's writers saw Sharknado and its instant online popularity and thought it'd be easy to replicate something so bad that it's good. But there's a special magic to a movie like Sharknado, and that lies in its earnestness. For all its faults, Ian Ziering sells that he is afraid that sharks will fly out of a tornado and kill his family. It's insane. It's incredibly stupid. And you know what? It's wildly entertaining. Ultimately, Zombeavers is just two out three.

From a title like Zombeavers, you'd probably expect a creature feature studded with gore, goofiness, and perhaps some T&A, right? Well, if that's all you're hoping for from this horror-comedy, you'll be satisfied. Zombeavers delivers in being wacky and graphic. It's just a shame it doesn't aspire to be anything more, like spirited, smart or frightening.

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Today's Aaron's 499 race kicks off at 1:00 pm EST at the 2.66 mile track at Talladega, AL.

Brian Scott and Paul Menard will be leading the pack with qualifying speeds of 198.290 mph and 197.888 mph respectively. The full lineup can be found HERE.

There are a few paint scheme switches this week. Of these, Michael Waltrip's looks pretty good.

Voting is open for 2015 Hall of Fame inductees. Cast your vote here.

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Good morning morons and moronettes and welcome to AoSHQ's stately and prestigious Sunday Morning Book Thread. All non-book discussion should go in Andy's open thread below. Thanks.

Pious Frauds

For my money, the second best conservative blog on teh internets is The Other McCain, where Robert Stacy McCain dishes up long, deep think pieces on an almost daily basis. Like in this one, where he notes the importance of "the authority of experience" in feminist writing, and how one particular writer uses some horrific circumstances of her earlier life to buttress the political point she's trying to make. McCain smelled a rat, so he searched for other articles by the same author, and in every one, she tells a different, yet painfully dramatic, personal story to argue her point. This happens so often that after awhile, you start to wonder how all the stories she's told about herself can possibly be true. McCain's chief complaint is the unverifiable nature of these anecdotes, particularly from a pseudonymous author. I suspect that if someone took all of these author's stories, tried to relate them to each other, establish timelines, etc., in order to set them on an objective foundation, they'd soon run into contradictions and impossibilities that couldn't be reconciled.

As I was reading McCain's piece, I was reminded of something similar that happened a number of years ago in the Christian circles I hang out in.

Back in the late 1980s, in the wake of some dubiously prosecuted child abuse cases, there was a big stink made over what was called "satanic ritual abuse". A sensational book by a Christian publisher was released, Satan's Underground by Lauren Stratford, who claimed to be an adult survivor of SRA, that detailed how her mother and succession of men kept her prisoner and made her perform all sorts of obscene and disgusting sex acts (that were filmed), and even making her get pregnant on multiple occasions so the baby could be used in sacrificial rituals. The stories told by Stratford were horrific and gruesome and so the book became a big seller.

Apparently, someone at the Christian magazine Cornerstone smelled a rat. So they investigated Stratford's claims, interviewed the people involved, tried to verify the details of her narrative, and discovered that the whole thing was pretty much a lie. Stratford was a deeply disturbed woman who lived at the intersection of evil and mental illness. She had been telling these sorts of lies about those around her for pretty much most of her life. Her 'sacrificial babies' never existed.

Funny thing is, you can still buy her completely fabricated sham of a book, though. The original publisher dropped it, but amazingly, another publisher picked it up.

After she was busted by Cornerstone, Stratford made herself scarce. But then she resurfaced several years later as "Lauren Grabowski", a child survivor of Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust. She got busted for that scam, too. She passed away in 2002.

And then there's that other Christian fraud, Michael Warnke. Wrote a best-selling book detailing his life as some big leader of a Satanist cult. And then he got pantsed by the guys at Cornerstone. His response was one of those weak-tea minimal apologies, and to play the victim card.

I don't think that very many of you morons are going to be surprised when I tell you that both Stratford and Warnke both have their defenders and followers even today, even after they've been exposed as frauds. Go read the 5-star Amazon reviews. more...

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