I haven’t been making hurricane posts here at all. Doesn’t mean that the past few weeks of storms and devastation to the Gulf Coast and human lives hasn’t affected me. Or that the ridiculous, bitter partisian politics on both sides of the political fence hasn’t disgusted me. The blogosphere is drenched with citizen journalism on the hurricane reports – - and all the side stories that go along with it. I don’t need to join in that saturated fray, when so many others are doing it so well.
I couldn’t let this one pass me by, though.
Recipe for a Hurricane Conspiracy Theory:
Take one Idaho Weather man.
Mix in two devastating Cat 5 Hurricanes to our Gulf Coast.
Add in a dash or two of the Japanese Mafia.
Top it off with one tin foil hat.
What do you get?
Scott Stevens – Idaho weatherman at KPVI News Channel 6 who blames the Japanese Mafia for Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Stevens made his final Channel 6 forecast Thursday night, leaving a job he’s held for nine years in order to pursue his weather theories on a full-time basis.
Since Katrina, Stevens has been in newspapers across the country where he was quoted in an Associated Press story as saying the Yakuza Mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. He was a guest on Coast to Coast, a late night radio show that conducts call-in discussions on everything from bizarre weather patterns to alien abductions. On Wednesday, Stevens was interviewed by Fox News firebrand Bill O’Reilly
Hmmm.
Ok – I guess that’s one theory.
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On hurricane coverage – Foamy says it best.
Speaking of “conspiracy theories”…
One thing that struck me as odd in the days after 9/11 was Bush saying “We will not tolerate conspiracy theories [regarding 9/11]“. Sure enough there have been some wacky conspiracy theories surrounding the events of that day. The most far-fetched and patently ridiculous one that I’ve ever heard goes like this: Nineteen hijackers who claimed to be devout Muslims but yet were so un-Muslim as to be getting drunk all the time, doing cocaine and frequenting strip clubs decided to hijack four airliners and fly them into buildings in the northeastern U.S., the area of the country that is the most thick with fighter bases. After leaving a Koran on a barstool at a strip bar after getting shitfaced drunk on the night before, then writing a suicide note/inspirational letter that sounded like it was written by someone with next to no knowledge of Islam, they went to bed and got up the next morning hung over and carried out their devious plan. Nevermind the fact that of the four “pilots” among them there was not a one that could handle a Cessna or a Piper Cub let alone fly a jumbo jet, and the one assigned the most difficult task of all, Hani Hanjour, was so laughably incompetent that he was the worst fake “pilot” of the bunch. Nevermind the fact that they received very rudimentary flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, making them more likely to have been C.I.A. assets than Islamic fundamentalist terrorists.
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Time to wake up America.