Speaking of Revisionism... this stuff is hilarious

[aerocontrols]

Mad Revisionist pins 9/11 attacks on America's True Enemy (http://www.revisionism.nl/Sept11/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)

Mad Revisionist gets underneath The Irish Potato Hoax (http://www.revisionism.nl/Potato/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)

Mad Revisionist answers the question: Does the moon exist? (http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)
The answer may surprise you.

There's so much more... Check out his letters trying to convince Theodore O'Keefe at the holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review to spread the truth of the Irish Potato Hoax.

[rustypouch]

This guy can't be real. At least I hope the site is a satire. And his prize for proving the existence of the moon... wow. I don't know what to say.

A cash reward of $100,000 has been offered to anyone who can send us, by e-mail, conclusive physical evidence of the existence of the moon. This reward remains unclaimed.

[Checkmite]

A cash reward of $100,000 has been offered to anyone who can send us, by e-mail, conclusive physical evidence of the existence of the moon. This reward remains unclaimed.

:D :D :D

[UnrepentantSinner]

I am so happy that I took the Moon Hoax link and read the content. :)

This guy is great.

[reprise]

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This guy is my new hero.

[BillyTK]

Thanks for this. This is real "rolling on the floor laughing my ass off" material which simultaneously takes the mick of the more woo-woo views on the web and the po-facedness associated with these subjects.

Current favourite bit:
This photograph is labelled on the website Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850, as "A family evicted by their landlords" (Source: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland). However, when you look at it, how can you really tell that that's what's happening? They could be just out for a walk.
:D

[Mike B.]

WOW...

The case against Canada for 9/11 is pretty strong:

"Take a look at the CN Tower. Why would they build such a big, long, hard, rigid monstrosity? What purpose does it serve other than to give New York State the finger from across the lake? Canadians seem to take great pride in the fact that theirs is the largest tower in the world. What, then, would they be expected to feel about other structures in other countries whose sizes are a cause of distinction?"

:D :D :D :D

[UnrepentantSinner]

Originally posted by Mike B.
WOW...

The case against Canada for 9/11 is pretty strong:

"Take a look at the CN Tower. Why would they build such a big, long, hard, rigid monstrosity? What purpose does it serve other than to give New York State the finger from across the lake? Canadians seem to take great pride in the fact that theirs is the largest tower in the world. What, then, would they be expected to feel about other structures in other countries whose sizes are a cause of distinction?"

:D :D :D :D

That's it! I'm a convert and it's clear that Petronas is next. Now those wiley Canucks just need to find some Christians to buy the whole martyrdom thing and fly a plane* into the towers, if anything for the ironic value.

*The connecting superstructure of Petronas Towers will greatly assist a single plane bringing down both.

[rikzilla]

Originally posted by aerocontrols
Mad Revisionist pins 9/11 attacks on America's True Enemy (http://www.revisionism.nl/Sept11/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)

Mad Revisionist gets underneath The Irish Potato Hoax (http://www.revisionism.nl/Potato/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)

Mad Revisionist answers the question: Does the moon exist? (http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm)
The answer may surprise you.

There's so much more... Check out his letters trying to convince Theodore O'Keefe at the holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review to spread the truth of the Irish Potato Hoax.

Hoo boy!! That's rich!!

The guy is both funny...and doing "the Lord's" work ;) (needling the IHR I mean...those guys are evil)

[Skeptic]

This guy can't be real. At least I hope the site is a satire.

It is.

[Shane Costello]

Originally posted by aerocontrols:
Mad Revisionist gets underneath The Irish Potato Hoax

This is pretty skillfull satire, but lest we forget satire contains a nugget of truth.

In fact, some rabid North Americans of Irish ancestry now claim that the British deliberately created and maintained economic conditions that allowed the Great Hunger to go unchecked.

This is a fact. IIRC the state of New York now teaches that the Irish potato famine was a calculated act of genocide comparable to the holocaust. Where this thesis falls down is in the fact that the British state apparatus of the time was decidedly libertarian and non-interventionist. Unlike Nazi Germany it simply lacked the capabilty to mount a campaign of genocide. Indeed it did attempt to alleviate some

The potato blight crossed the Atlantic from America. If you ask me it was an act of biological warfare perpetrated by the US government, who sorely needed Irish Catholics as cannon fodder for the impending civil war. They were egged on by their corporate paymasters, who eagerly anticipated a flood of cheap immigrant labour.

Are we expected to believe that no one in Ireland was growing anything other than those specific strains of potato that succumb to the phytophthora infestans? When one examines the evidence, one finds that this is not the case. In fact, throughout the period of the alleged famine, Ireland continued to export crops of various kinds.(!) Why would they export food while they themselves were starving?

This is correct. Agricultural protectionism was in force even then, with the Corn laws preventing cheap grain imports into the United Kingdom. Exporting corn from Ireland was a profitable exercise, and bread prices were artificially high putting this basic staple beyond the means of the poor. It's not presumptious to assume that the people exporting the corn were as Irish and Catholic as their starving neighbours.

It has become a matter almost of religious faith that the number of victims was in the order of about 1.5 million. However, estimates have been known to vary wildly. Several years ago, I read an article in the New York Times that discussed the number of people who actually died, from all causes, during the Irish Famine of the 1840s. I read about how the number was now estimated to be about 500,000. Tears of joy ran down my face as I sat back and put my feet on the desk. How happy I felt for the Irish people of the world. What a great time to rejoice. But guess what? There were no parties or TV specials. No newspaper reports. The media continued to repeat the 1.5 million number and still do.

It's impossible to estimate the exact number of deaths. The most common numbers used are a million deaths with another million fleeing the country in the immediate aftermath.

Why then, do scholars rely on such an inexact method for determining the number of people who fell victim to the potato famine? What exactly are they hiding by their avoidance of the much more reliable documentary and physical evidence? The truth, which the establishment fears, is that the amount of physical remains that can be reliably attributed to the period of the alleged famine show only a miniscule fraction of the number of deaths commonly cited. And what about death records? Wasn’t every death then, as now, documented by a death certificate? Indeed, the number of deaths that can be certified by documentary evidence is far closer to the much smaller number that can be verified by physical remains, and quite a ways off from the 1.5 million number that mainstream historians continue to push on us with their shady “demographic statistics”.

Deaths weren't documented, it simply wasn't possible. Not only was starvation rampant, but all kinds of nasty epidemics were sweeping the country. The dead were simply shoved into mass graves as quickly as possible. My own mother discovered one as a child.

It is in this way that the Potato Hoax was manipulated by the Elders of Eire to maximum political and financial benefit.

Whatever about the Elders of Eire, all kinds of Irish-American woo-woos have been flogging the famine to death for ages now. People like Ted Kennedy, whose ancestors were strong farmers from a part of the country relatively untouched by the famine, and that continues to be an area of cereal production to the present day. It's tempting to put two and two together and conclude that Ted's forebears were making a few shillings shipping maize to Britain. Not that I'm claiming moral superiority here. My forebears survived the famine by God only knows what means.

It is actually erroneous to refer to the Irish as Celts, though we do so because our readers may not be aware of the distinction. Although the Irish may have some Celtic blood in them, their island was beset by the same waves of invasion as England was. Therefore, they are just as much Saxon, Viking, or Normand as they are Celt.

Kinda right. The Celts were a cultural, rather than an ethnic group. However there never was any Saxon settlement in Ireland. While there was a Viking influence, there was never extensive Viking migration into Ireland, as the lack of Norse placenames (very prevalent in Scotland and England) and genetic studies show. The Normans did have an enduring impact. The "English" invasion of the late 12th century actually consisted of Norman lords from South Wales invited in by an Irish king to assist him in a turf war with one of his peers. The Normans founded a great many Irish towns, and those of us with surnames like Burke, Fitzgerald, Walsh, Burke and Costello trace our ancestry to them.

The Mad Revisionist mightn't be all that mad. ;)

[aerocontrols]

Originally posted by Shane Costello


This is pretty skillfull satire, but lest we forget satire contains a nugget of truth.



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