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Tony Perkins

Anthony Perkins is an American professional homophobe and the president of the Family Research Council. After a gunman shot up his group's offices in 2012, Perkins partially blamed the Southern Poverty Law Center for the incident, claiming that their branding of the Family Research Council as a hate group inspired the shooter.TPM
In 2012 alone, Perkins said kids are made gay because of immoral parents, that the Secret Service prostitution scandal was a result of the administration's repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," and that JCPenney should have been boycotted because it chose a lesbian spokeswoman in Ellen DeGeneres.http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/advocate-45/2012/08/21/45-biggest-homophobes-our-45-years?page=full 
He is known to have associations with white supremacists, such as David Duke and the council of conservative citizens. After attending a convention run by the latter he claims he was unaware of the latter's racist intentions (despite blatantly speaking in front of a Confederate flag).https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/tony-perkins He also hypocritically attacked Trump for refusing to disavow the former.http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-hits-trump-over-david-duke-endorsement-despite-his-own-duke-connection
==Don't ask, don't tell==
On the 17th of August 2016, Perkins — who has claimed that natural disasters are God's way to punish gays — had his own southern Louisiana home ravaged by massive flooding. Perkins claimed that this flood was different, describing it as an "…incredible, encouraging spiritual exercise". With 11 people killed and over 40,000 homes destroyed in the flood, one hopes Perkin's spirit has been exercised to herculean levels.http://deadstate.org/guy-who-says-god-sends-natural-disasters-to-punish-gays-has-his-home-destroyed-in-a-natural-disaster/
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Tony Zirkle

Tony Zirkle was a candidate in the Republican primary for Congress in Indiana's 2nd district in 2008. He had run before for the nomination in 2006, when he won 30% of the vote, losing to incumbent Count Chris Chocola (who then lost to challenger Donnelly in the fall). He stated that he was running again in 2010, but it appeared to fade out after he was disbarred.
Until recently, Zirkle was best known either for his plan to separate African-Americans and white Americans into different states within the Union or for his crusade against "Jewish-run pornography." According to Zirkle, "We now have a small army of male black porn stars that are sifting through five, ten, fifteen thousand women... One man can now genocide the wombs of thousands of women," infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases that leave them barren.Fox News: The Indiana Congressional Candidate the GOP Wishes Would Go Away. Joseph Abrams, 30 April 2008
However, Zirkle was catapulted into national prominence when he addressed a party in Chicago that had been convened to celebrate the 119th anniversary of Hitler's birthday (his address was on the perils of white women being targeted for prostitution and pornography). He stood in front of a giant picture of Hitler, flanked by swastikas, and there was a sparkly little "Happy Birthday" sign on the front of the table.Stupid, stupid burning brightly, or how not to win an election. scienceblogs.com, 25 April 2008.
He has put forward many different defenses. At first, he claimed that they were not Nazis but, in fact, National Socialists. When the problem with this defense was explained to him, he later claimed that he was just "bringing the Gospel to them" and said that people should praise him for trying to educate the hate out of them.Al Kamen, Just Can't Shake That Nazi Party Hangover. The Washington Post, 5 May 2008.
==External links==
*Tony Zirkle at the Encyclopedia of American Loons
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Too big to fail

"Too big to fail" is a descriptor assigned to banks or other large corporations[https://web.archive.org/web/20190603142758/https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/too-big-to-fail.asp "Too Big to Fail," Investopedia. Updated April 
30, 2019. Accessed July 17, 2019.] which have such a wide and deep investment in the international stock market that, were any of these institutions to go under, a chain reaction would result that would undermine and potentially atomize the world economy. A more truthful phrase would be "too big to be allowed to fail".
The term originates from Congressional hearings in the 1980's related to the Savings and Loan scandal, but became popular as a kind of meme when Andrew Ross Sorkin used the phrase as a title of his non-fiction accounting of the 2008 crash and the TARP legislation program the American Treasury executed to prevent a cataclysm.
==Derivatives==
*Too Big to Jail - a popular phrase at Occupy Wall Street
*Too Big to Put on Trial - Senator Elizabeth Warren, of the Senate Banking Committee, at a hearing in 2013Senator Elizabeth Warren's First Banking Committee Hearing
==See also==
*Great Recession
==References==
Category:Economics
Category:Neologisms
Category:Political terms
Too cheap to meter

Too cheap to meter is a phrase often brought up by the anti-nuclear movement. It is used to imply that early proponents of nuclear power promised that it would lead to a utopian future, but never delivered on these promises. The problem is that this phrase was a general futurist statement and never explicitly referred to nuclear power.http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2009/09/too-cheap-to-meter-nuclear-quote-debate.htmlhttp://media.cns-snc.ca/media/toocheap/toocheap.html
The phrase was coined by Lewis L. Strauss, the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in a speech given to the National Association of Science Writers in 1954. This was 3 years before the first American nuclear power plant began operations. The speech included themes of improving the fate of future generations through the advancement of science, and the key phrase referred to the general possibility of electric power becoming so cheap that it will be billed at a fixed rate (e.g. similar to how many Internet connections are billed now), because power meters will become uneconomical.
Even at the time of Strauss's speech, nuclear power proponents did not think it would be too cheap to meter. In fact, they considered it would be more expensive than coal for at least 10 years. Strauss did not refer explicitly to nuclear power in his speech, although it is unclear whether this is because nuclear power was still a secret, or he thought other future advances in power generation would be needed, or for some other reason.“Too Cheap to Meter”: A History of the Phrase, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission blog
More recently the phrase is occasionally used by advocates of renewable energy such as solar and wind power.Sun and wind could finally make electricity ‘too cheap to meter’, The Conversation, Jan 6, 2015 This does not reflect mainstream opinion, especially as advances like smart meters make it cheaper to meter and bill customers.
Occasionally the wholesale price of electricity falls to zero or negative values for short periods. This occurs in short-term situations (certain times of day, holidays, etc) where electricity production exceeds the combination of demand and storage capacity, but the electricity must go somewhere (you can't just dump it in a hole or put it in a shed). Power generation can't always be turned off with the flick of a switch, and start-up or shut-down can be expensive, while combined heat-power plants must keep running to provide heating and hot water. The price rises again once wind falls, demand increases, or power stations can be taken offline. This reflects inflexibility in power generation, and because consumer prices are based on long-term average costs rather than spot prices, it does not mean free electricity for most people.The causes and effects of negative power prices, Clean Energy Wire, 8 Jan 2018
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Tooth Fairy

The Tooth Fairy is a mythological (or perhaps metaphorical) fairy-like creature that takes the fallen-off milk teeth from children and gives them money in exchange.
==The story==
The myth usually consists of the following.
*Child loses their baby tooth.
*Child is told to put their tooth under their pillow.
*During the night the tooth is replaced by a coin or maybe even a bank note if the child is very lucky.
This is said to be the work of the Tooth Fairy. This is a fairly solid explanation, as you sleep on your pillow, how could someone reach in and take the tooth without waking you up! It must, therefore, be magic.
==The Tooth Fairy as a symbol==
The Tooth Fairy story is basically a simple piece of mythology told specifically to children to entertain young minds and convert a painful or frightening experience into something fun and exciting. It's generally seen as harmless fun, on par with Santa Claus and not some heinous and dangerous practice.
Because believing in the tooth fairy requires child-like logic and thinking, the Tooth Fairy has been developed into a kind of insult: e.g., "you'll be saying the Tooth Fairy did it next" to display incredulity. It is also often invoked by atheists in some reductio ad absurdum arguments; e.g., "if atheism is a religion, not believing in the Tooth Fairy is also a religion".
===Tooth fairy science===
The nature of the tooth fairy is generally known and understood by Western adults; for this reason it has been adopted as a useful metaphor for studies into the fundamentally unverifiable, under the label "tooth fairy science", coined by Harriet Hall of the Science-Based Medicine project who described it thus:
Examples include studying the effects of acupuncture, chiropracty, and homeopathy, all of which are based on fundamental premises that are provably wrong.
==See also==
*Santa Claus
*Easter Bunny
*Tooth Fairy Project
==References==
Category:Folklore
Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism

Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism is an anti-evolution book written by young earth creationist James Perloff and published by Refuge Books in 1999. The title is a reference to Hoyle's fallacy.
==Overview==
The book claims that only variation within species occurs and rejects macroevolution which Perloff defines as "one animal type turning into another".Tornado in a Junkyard by James Perloff Perloff employs all the standard creationist arguments such as claiming Carbon-14 testing is inaccurate, mutations are all harmful and there are no transitional fossils. He also quote mines and lies about many scientists such as Stephen Jay Gould on the fossil record and attempts to discredit evolution by linking it to nazism and racism.Book Review
==Science==
It is an anti-science book. Perloff claims to be a free-lance writer and has no science education or qualifications.Creationist Website Perloff is known for using dishonest arguments and his book is not taken seriously by the scientific community.Perloff: Another who doesn’t seem to have a clue The book is nothing more than debunked creationist arguments regurgitated in an attempt to seem original. It has been described as one of the worst creationist books as it is filled with hundreds of random quote mines.The Worst Creationist Book Ever
==See also==
*Darwin, Then and Now, The Most Amazing Story in the History of Science
*The End of Darwinism
==References==
Category:Creationism
Category:Religious books
Tory

The Conservative and Unionist Party in the United Kingdom is often referred to as the Tory Party. This appellation is quite general and is even used by its own members at all levels despite its less than complimentary origin: "from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí — outlaw, robber".Coincidentally, in South Korea, those who talk nonsense are also known as Torai. The original Tory Party which preceded the Conservatives was founded in 1678 and the transformed the Tory Party into the modern-day Conservatives.
Tory is also widely used in Canada to refer to the Conservative and Progressive Conservative parties at both the federal and provincial level.
==As a political philosophy==
In Britain and Canada, "Toryism" also refers to a particular strain of conservative thought that emerged in reaction to the American and French Revolutions. It was the governing philosophy of the British elite, particularly the "old money", seeing traditional values, the landed gentry, and the monarchy as guiding forces in a world that was rapidly changing due to the Industrial Revolution. When it came to cultural values, they were either High Anglicans or traditionalist Catholics and opposed radical social reform. They generally took a paternalistic attitude towards the lower classes; as socialist politics developed in the late 19th century, they often came around to supporting a welfare state in order to prevent poverty from leading to social upheaval and revolution.For a non-British example of this, the German welfare state created by Otto von Bismarck was transparently aimed at undercutting the appeal of the socialists and preventing an uprising like the Paris Commune in 1871. They were highly suspicious of free trade, particularly when it came to agriculture, and economically they supported protectionist policies like the Corn LawsEncyclopedia Brittanica: Corn Law which fueled the Great Famine in Ireland.
Today, Conservatives who still identify with classical Toryism as opposed to the neoliberalism of the modern Conservative Party typically call themselves High Tories or Red Tories.
=="Tory" in the US==
In the US, the word has generally retained its pejorative emphasis. During the American Revolutionary War, "Tory" referred to a resident of the colonies who supported the British. Many, including Benjamin Franklin's son William, fled the country during and after the Revolution, moving to Canada or back to the British Isles. At least part of the motivation for fleeing was to escape widespread mob violence following the revolution.
During the American Civil War, "Tory" was used in a derogatory manner in the southern states, referring to southerners fighting for the North.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the moonbat capital of the East Coast, Brattle Street, between Harvard Square and the Watertown border, is sometimes called Tory Row due to the large number of big, very old houses and the Revolutionary-era population of Royalists who lived in them.
==Notes==
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Toward Soviet America

Toward Soviet America is a book written in 1932 by William Z. Foster, the noted satrap of Joseph Stalin who as General Secretary purged the Communist Party USA of anyone dissenting from whatever party line Stalin was promoting that week.
==Contents==
The book, as might be expected of a Stalinist work, contains copious amounts of denialism, lies and bullshit, whitewashing the Soviet situation and characterizing reports of unpleasant facts about that country as "lies of the anti-Soviet propaganda campaign."
Of particular interest is the section in which Foster, following the then-current Soviet line, drops the usual pretense that communists consider themselves on the same side as liberals, blasting them and the non-communist left (who had the audacity to suggest that Stalin was some sort of dictator) as being "social fascists," thus anticipating in some measure the later claims of Jonah Goldberg.
In a hilarious passage, the practice of science under communism is described as:
He also somehow managed to keep a straight face while squawking about non-anthropogenic famines in non-communist countries, while pointedly and repeatedly denying the one his patron created.
==Cold War reprinting==
The book was reprinted in 1961 by the House Un-American Activities Committee, with a foreword by its chairman Francis E. Walter,http://cgi.ebay.com/1961-TOWARD-SOVIET-AMERICA-Communist-Takeover-BOOK-1eDJ-/320613026591 as an "expose of the evil communist conspiracy." However, the book was just a tiny bit outdated by then, with Stalin dead for some years and the Soviet Union in the midst of the Khrushchev Thaw. We're sure that was a totally honest mistake on the committee's part.
It appears that two parts of the book's agenda to which the HUAC specifically objected were equality for women and African-Americans.http://books.google.com/books?id=TzwkYyAqZqMC&pg=PA152
==References==
==External links==
* The book
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Townsend Plan

The Townsend Plan was a proposal by Dr. Francis Townsend, a retired medical doctor, during the Great Depression for an old-age pension in the United States. For a few years it spawned a popular movement, but with the passage of Social Security the Townsend movement lost most of its steam.
The plan was mathematically suspect. The proposed pension was $200 a month, to be funded by a 2% national sales tax, which wouldn't come close to covering the proposed pension for every senior citizen. To get around this, it relied on a requirement that the entire $200 be spent immediately, where it would be taxed at 2%, and claimed the plan would pump so much money into the U.S. economy it would automagically generate all the tax revenue needed to fund it, and get the U.S. out of the Depression all at the same time. (This is called something-d-o-o economics). It was opposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt for this reason, but its popularity may have propelled the passage of Social Security as a more workable, mathematically soundThis is disputable, but at least Social Security has survived this long. The Townsend Plan had all the soundness of a pyramid scheme and would have collapsed within a few years if enacted. plan in its stead.
Francis Townsend sought out some strange alliances trying to get the plan passed by Congress. He first appealed to the Roosevelt administration and was rebuffed. He then allied his movement with the 1934 campaign of former socialist Upton Sinclair for governor of California, then a couple of years later in an alliance with the antisemitic Roman Catholic "radio priest" Father Coughlin, in support of a short-lived third party called the Union Party, which only ran candidates in the 1936 election and disbanded shortly thereafter. Despite Social Security filling the need for an old-age pension, the Townsend movement continued well after Francis Townsend's death in 1960 into 1978, when the National Townsend Plan closed its doors leaving only state chapters, and beyond, albeit with minuscule and aged support by then."Townsend Plan, Once the Hope of Thousands, Is Near Death", The New York Times.
==See also==
* The 9-9-9 Plan
==Notes==
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Toxin

"Toxin" is a term commonly thrown around by quacks, even though they can't tell you what the exact toxin in question is, how it is absorbed or builds up in the body, why no organisms have evolved methods of disposing of these toxins, or why things like dose, epidemiology, or basic chemistry don't make any difference to the said toxin's effects.
"Toxin" in the scientific and medical sense refers specifically to a metabolic product of a living organism that has deleterious effects either in itself or in another organism at a sufficient dosage. In alternative medicine and food woo, "toxin" is not restricted to metabolic products; woo-meisters often use the word to refer to or to synthetic chemicals (which, if showing any actual toxicity, should correctly be termed "toxicants"). Alternative medicine is often not concerned with whether the dosage is sufficient to cause an actual measurable harmful effect.
Detoxification, more popularly known as cleanses, is big business in the alternative medicine world. Chelation therapy is a more formal — if less popular — quack attempt to remove "toxins", most commonly lead or mercury.
If you are unsure if you're dealing with genuine detoxification woo, simply ask the basic kindergarten question: "Can you please name the compound in question and explain its mechanism of action?". If this question stumpsThat is: stumps, or sends into a fallacy spiral, or sends into a shill gambit, or what have you. *shudder* the person in question, snap a Polaroid for remembrance's sake. It's not every day one brushes up this close to textbook woo.
== General ignorance ==
According to a woo-meister, a toxin is any chemical that doesn't belong in a (usually human) body, for whatever reason they think it shouldn't be there. However, alties usually ignore the following:
* Appealing to nature is not a component of any system of thought that makes even basic sense.
* Bodies of organisms may have ways of either processing or ejecting those chemicals through digestion, basic liver functions, sweating, vomiting, conjugation, Glucuronidation, and a hundred other things (which explains why studying to be a biologist or chemist can't be done over a weekend, e.g. at a firewalk convention in Tampa, Florida).
* Some chemicals, such as formaldehyde (a boogeyman amongst the anti-vaccine movement), are found in many natural foods, but are also produced by the bodies of organisms.
* The dose makes the poison.
* Many "unnatural" (in the sense of not being part of a normal diet) products have no chemical or biological effect from exposure or ingestion. For example, other than displacing oxygen, breathing helium is harmless, as it does not react with any part of the body and is exhaled with the next breath.
* The chemistry of living organisms is kind of an actual branch of science and not something you master simply from years of wearing sandals and eating chlorella. Even is vital to your very own, individual health (the lack of it being kind of deadly).
==See also==
* Dihydrogen monoxide
* Detox
* Median lethal dose
* Appeal to nature
* Alternative medicine
* Food allergy
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