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I always tell people, “I put half my points in magician and the other in con man.” Inspired by Houdini, Penn & Teller and James Randi, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the skill and the presentation, but I hoped to use any of the skills I learned for good and not for evil.

Here’s an opportunity. A con. A big fat con. A con that involves Al Gore and his film An Inconvenient Truth. Yeah, I’m gonna talk about GLOBAL WARMING.

You see, I’ve seen Mr. Gore’s film. And I decided to check some sources. Especially those who give the film a failing grade. And I have some news for all of you.

My friends, this is a lesson in checking your sources.

You may have heard about the 31,000+ scientists who have signed a petition saying the Global Warming Crisis is a lie.

You can see the petition and it’s details here. 

Go check it out. Then, come back.

The Oregon Institute of Science got the ball rolling and over the last few years, has organized those 31,000 scientists to reveal the Big Lie of Global Climate Change.

The petition was sent out with a peer reviewed paper dismantling Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth film. Except there’s one problem. 

The paper wasn’t peer reviewed. 

In fact, it’s never seen any scientific journal. It was self-published by the founder of the OIS–an “institute” that happens to be this guy’s house.

And the “scientists?” One of them includes the Public Relations Officer for an extermination company. And there’s no way to verify any of these people’s credentials. The OIS says, on their website, that they can back up all the signitures, but when pressed, refused to do so.

You can find more details here.

Anyone who tells you Gore’s movie is poorly researched or makes unscientific claims needs to see the movie. It’s really that simple. If you haven’t seen the movie–and checked the facts yourself–you really don’t have any business talking about it. There’s more misinformation about the film than information in the film itself. Lots of lies, deceits, cheats and misdirections.

The skills used for evil.

When they have to lie to beat you, you know you’re doing something right.

Quote mining Christians like to pull this trick a lot. They take quotes out of context, misuing Einstein’s sense of humor and poetic use of the word “god.” They say, “Einstein was religious!” when all evidence–when looked at in the correct context–proves he was not.

Those who like to pull the “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind” quote out of their asses don’t know when he said, why he said it, where he said it, or who he was saying it to. They know the quote, they don’t know the source. If they actually read Einstein’s letters (available at Amazon.com), they’d understand his sense of humor, his love of irony and sarcasm, and the poetic use of “god” when speaking of the universe.

(When Christians try to claim Einstein as one of their own, they often forget he was Jewish–a fact that puts him squarely in Hell, standing right next to Hitler, Jim Jones and Stalin. They forget that.)

And so, to provide even more evidence against this ridiculous idea, here’s a new letter–that you can read for yourself–that makes it very clear what Einstein thought of religion.

No quote mining. No out-of-context bullshit. Just plain speaking from the horse’s mouth.

Your man Romney, he done good.

Recalling criticisms that he left nonbelievers out of his December speech on faith in America, Romney said: “Upon reflection, I came to understand that while I could defend their absence from my address, I had missed an opportunity . . . an opportunity to clearly assert that non-believers have just as great a stake as believers in defending religious liberty.”