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Thurgood Marshall

[[File:Thurgood-marshall-2.jpg|thumb|Thurgood Marshall, 1976, is politely unimpressed by your argument and about to rip you a new one.]]
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{{cquote|America must get to work. In the chilled climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing winds. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education, or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and timeless absence of moral leadership. We must dissent, because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.|||Speech delivered on July 4, 1992, before the Annual Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit, quoted in Supreme Justice Speeches and Writings Thurgood Marshall. Edited by J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2002).<ref>[https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/thurgood-marshalls-stirring-acceptance-speech-after-receiving-the-prestigious-liberty-award-on-july-4-1992/ Thurgood Marshall’s Stirring Acceptance Speech After Receiving the Prestigious Liberty Award on July 4, 1992], Legal Defense Fund</ref>}}
'''Thurgood Marshall''' (1908—1993) was a lawyer for the [[NAACP]] and later the first African-American [[United States]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] Justice.  He is most remembered for having filed and won ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]''.  

Justice Marshall was a reliably [[liberal]] voice on the Supreme Court. During the administration of [[George H. W. Bush]] he took ill and resigned. Not wanting to seem [[racism|racist]], Bush appointed [[Clarence Thomas]] to the position, despite being the polar opposite of Marshall. While Marshall was surely waiting for a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] president before he resigned, congestive heart failure made it irresponsible to continue. Marshall passed away four days after Clinton's inauguration.
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Tides Center

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The '''Tides Center''' is a liberal advocacy organization in the [[United States|US]], founded by Drummond Pike in 1976. 

Contrary to what some crackpots assert,<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20111020175408/http://yourdaddy.net/2010/10/21/money-laundering-for-democrats-enter-george-soross-the-tides-foundation/ Money Laundering For Democrats: Enter George Soros’s ‘The Tides Foundation’]."  ''YourDaddy's Politics''.  2010 October 21.</ref> the organization is in no way connected to [[George Soros]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051226224703/http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5184 Tides Foundation and Tides Center].  DiscoverTheNetworks.org.</ref>  However, this apparently escaped Byron Williams, who was arrested in 2010 for an attempted terrorist attack on the California Tides Foundation and [[ACLU]] offices.<ref> "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120503102453/http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/highway-shooter-targeted-tides-foundation-aclu/nK56r/ Highway Shooter Targeted Tides Foundation]."  KTVU.  2010 July 21.</ref><ref> [http://gawker.com/5593078/oakland-shooter-targeted-obscure-foundation-that-glenn-beck-rails-againstByron]</ref> He cited [[Glenn Beck]] as his inspiration, and claimed that he thought the Tides Center was owned by George Soros (who was plotting a Commie Revolution or something, we're guessing).

It seems that the Tides Foundation came to Beck's attention thanks to a 2007 [[viral]] video called ''{{wpl|The Story of Stuff|The Story of Stuff}}'', which was also published in book form in 2009.  The video and book explain how the [[United States]]:
* has about five percent of the world's population, but uses about 25 percent of its resources;
* exploits the people and natural resources of other nations to maintain this level of consumption; and
* will not lower its level of consumption until it becomes unprofitable to do otherwise.

==The video Itself==
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Tim Todd

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'''Tim Todd''' is an [[evangelist]] who runs Revival Fires International Ministries based in West Monroe, LA. Following in the vein of [[Jack Chick]], Tim Todd's ministry publishes various "kid-friendly" media series designed to warn your children of dangers of [[evolution]], [[rock music]], [[homosexuality]], [[abortion]], and [[Harry Potter]]. These include ''The Truth for Youth'' series of evangelical [[tract]]s, which are similar to Chick Tracts, but in a more contemporary manga style (there is also a ''Truth for Youth Bible'' which features the [[New Testament]] stores in a comic book format). Todd boasts of of his "TFY" Bible having been endorsed by the likes of Michael Reagan, [[Rod Parsley]], [[Pat Boone]], [[Jerry Falwell]], and others

The online store also includes other media including the "Hairy Polarity" comic book (a Harry Potter parody which teaches your children about the real witchcraft found in the book series), as well as the [https://archive.org/details/BVL_0074 "Freddy for Jesus"] children's program - which features Todd and his "puppet buddy" Freddy (who bears an eerie resemblance to the 80's Michael Jackson) teaching your kids about the Bible.

His ministry has been featured on many news stations (such as [[CNN]] and [[Fox]]) and Christian programs (such as the [[700 Club]]).<ref>http://www.timtodd.org/about.html</ref>

==See also==
*[[John Todd]]
*[[BibleMan]]

==External links==
*[https://revivalfires.org/ Tim Todd's website]
*[https://revivalfires.org/truth/ Examples of Tim's comics]
*[https://boolean-union.com/dissections/boolunion/dissect_boolunion_index.html#JumpTruthYouth Reviews of some of the Truth For Youth comics] at Boolean Union
*[http://blip.tv/found-footage-festival/religious-medley-6638692 Clip of Tim's "Freddy for Jesus" children's program]

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Timeless physics

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'''Timeless physics''' is an attempt to construct a useful formulation of [[physics]] that does not rely on a "t" term as fundamental, but rather has what we perceive as "[[time]]" emerge from the model.

Its main proponent is '''Julian Barbour''', in his 1999 book ''The End Of Time''.<ref>Julian Barbour. ''The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics.'' Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195145925. [http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/barbour-time.html First chapter].</ref> Barbour says that time is only an illusion, and that problems arise from assuming that it does exist: "Change merely creates an illusion of time, with each individual moment existing in its own right, complete and whole." He notes that [[Einstein]], in one of his last letters, writes: "People like us, who believe in [[physics]], know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion."

The notion is very fringe, but is regarded by serious physicists (including such diverse people as [[Lee Smolin]] and [[Luboš Motl]]<ref>[http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/04/timeless-physics.html Timeless physics] (Luboš Motl, ''The Reference Frame'', 08 April 2006)</ref><ref>[http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/06/timeless-physics-2009.html Timeless physics 2009] (Luboš Motl, ''The Reference Frame'', 20 June 2009)</ref>) as "interesting" rather than "[[crank]]." Timelessness would obviously be more elegant, so the idea appeals to physicists. There just isn't much of practical use for it as yet.

[[LessWrong]] also endorses the idea and develops a few of its odder local ideas from it.<ref>[http://lesswrong.com/lw/qp/timeless_physics/ Timeless Physics] ([[Eliezer Yudkowsky]], LessWrong, 27 May 2008)</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.platonia.com/papers.html Research Papers] (Julian Barbour's papers)

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Timothy Geithner

[[File:Timothy_Geithner_Treasury.jpg|thumb|He does look somewhat creepy]]
'''Timothy Franz "Great Gazoo" Geithner''' (b. 1961) is [[politician]] and [[economist]] and from 2009 until 2013 the Secretary of the Treasury under [[President Obama]]. He attended Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and served in the International Monetary Fund as well as the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Geithner played a key role in dealing with the financial crisis of the [[Great Recession]] and fell under the inevitable criticism of some [[conservatives]] as well as many [[liberal]]s. Apparently Geithner had not paid $35,000 in [[tax|taxes]] for the years 2001–2004.<ref>[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090114/D95MTVI05.html Tax problems may plague Obama's treasury pick]</ref> He later paid them, plus $15,000 in interest. <ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/21/usa-geithner-idUSN2130757020090121 Reuters]</ref>

==AIG scandal==
Geithner is said to have urged {{wpl|AIG}} to conceal certain terms of the company's bailout from the public.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/OccupySeattle/posts/396845770329823?comment_id=5491685 Occupy Seattle], Facebook, March 6 2012.</ref>

==References==
*[http://www.biography.com/articles/Timothy-Franz-Geithner-391494?part=0 Biography: Timothy Franz Geithner]

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Timothy Mousseau

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'''Timothy Mousseau''' is a leading "[[Pseudoscience|scientist]]" in the [[anti-nuclear movement]]. After a mainstream [[biology]] education he eventually became a professor at the University of South Carolina.<ref>http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/Mousseau/Mousseau.html</ref> Since then, he has taken an [[crank|unorthodox approach]], particularly in regards to [[radiation]] damage suffered by animals around [[Chernobyl]] and [[Fukushima]]. Collaborating with Dr. Anders Pape Møller (who was found guilty of fabricating data by a Danish government committee in 2004<ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2004/01/ecologists-rocked-misconduct-finding Ecologists Rocked by Misconduct Finding], Gretchen Vogel, Fiona Proffitt, Richard Stone, Science Magazine, 2004</ref>) he has produced large amount of research showing that [[radiophobia|radiation causes far more damage]] than is accepted by almost anyone else, claiming to have found evidence of tumors, physical deformities, and reduced populations.<ref>"Genetic and Ecological Studies of Animals in Chernobyl and Fukushima", Timothy A. Mousseau and Anders P. Møller, Journal of Heredity, Volume 105 Issue 5, Pp. 704-709.</ref>

As well has revealing claimed damage from radiation, Mousseau has also claimed to have found evidence of animals [[adaptation|adapting]] to high radiation levels in the area around Chernobyl, with the suggestion that species that are thriving around Chernobyl may have adapted to counter the damaging effects of radiation.<ref name=fountain>[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/nature-adapts-to-chernobyl.html?_r=0 At Chernobyl, Hints of Nature’s Adaptation], Henry Fountain, New York Times, May 5, 2014</ref> However other scientists have disputed his findings, finding no proof of any effect from elevated radiation levels around Chernobyl.<ref name=fountain/>

Unfortunately for Professor Mousseau, his work is now widely viewed as unscientific because nobody else has been able to find the damage he reports.<ref>https://www.triumf.info/wiki/pwalden/index.php/Mousseau_at_the_Helen_Caldicott_Symposium%2C_March_11%2C_2013</ref> Although he routinely speaks at anti-nuclear rallies rather than scientific conferences, unlike most anti-nuclear activists he still participates in the scientific community.<ref>http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/mousseau/mousseau-cv.pdf</ref>

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Tom

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*[[Tom Bethell]], [[pseudoscience]] promoter
*[[Tom Cruise]], actor and [[Scientology|Scientologist]]
*[[Tom DeLay]], corrupt former Congressman from [[Texas]]
*[[Tom DeLonge]], [[music]]ian and [[Ufology|ufologist]]
*[[Tom Harkin]], former Senator from [[Iowa]]
*[[Tom Laughlin]], director of ''[[Billy Jack]]''
*[[Tom Lehrer]], [[math]]ematician and [[satire|parodist]]
*[[Liberal talk radio#Tom Leykis|Tom Leykis]], radio host
*[[Tom Metzger]], [[Klan]]sman and [[neo-Nazi]]
*[[Tom Monaghan]], 
creator of disgusting pizza
 founder of the [[Thomas More Law Center]]
*[[Tom Naughton]], creator of ''Fat Head''
*[[Tom Ruffles]], member of the [[Society for Psychical Research]]
*[[Tom Tancredo]], [[racist]] former [[Congress]]man from [[Colorado]]
*[[Uncle Tom]], originally from abolitionist novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' but later came to mean a self-hating black person

==See also==
*[[Thomas]]
Tom Cryer

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'''Tom Cryer''' (he's a whiner all right) (1949-2012) was a [[Louisiana]] lawyer and longtime promoter of various [[tax protester]] schemes. Cryer ran a [[Time Cube|Time Cube-esque]] website called "The Lie-Free Zone" that outlines a variety of disproved and rejected theories for the illegality of the federal income tax, as well as bizarre pictures of dragons, Abraham Lincoln, and huge amounts of CAPSLOCK.

In October 2006, Cryer was indicted on two counts of tax evasion.<ref>[http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/law/news/wdl20061026.pdf Local attorney indicted on tax evasion charges]</ref> In March 2007, two counts of willful failure to timely file tax returns were added to the charges.<ref>See Superseding Indictment, docket entry 37, March 28, 2007, ''United States v. Cryer'', case no. 5:06-cr-50164-SMH-MLH-ALL, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division.</ref> The indictment alleged that Cryer evaded over $73,000 in taxes in 2000 and 2001 by using a trust to receive payments of dividends, interests and stock income. 

Several charges were eventually dropped from the criminal complaint, and because Cryer claimed that he ''really'' did believe that he was not liable for income tax he was able to finagle a not guilty verdict from the jury for ''willful'' failure to file.<ref>Loresha Wilson, "Local attorney acquitted on Federal income tax charges," July 13, 2007, ''Shreveport Times'', at [http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007707130321]</ref> This tactic is commonly known as the Cheek defense (from ''Cheek v. United States'', 498 U.S. 192).

While Cryer's acquittal was based solely on the technicality of the definition of ''willful'' and not based on the merit of any of his legal arguments (and despite having been convicted under civil law and forced to pay back taxes) he has still become a bit of a legend in tax protester circles. History has been rewritten by the [[Kool-Aid drinker]]s that somehow Cryer's acquittal validates the central thesis of the illegality of the income tax. This is, of course, patently absurd and completely wrong. 

Cryer was not done though and in December 2007 sued the federal government for bringing criminal charges against him. This lawsuit was unceremoniously rejected shortly thereafter.<ref>''Cryer v. United States'', 2008-1 U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH) paragr. 50,361 (W.D. La. 2008); Memorandum Ruling, p. 6, docket entry 8, May 9, 2008, case no. 5:07-cv-02206-DEW-MLH, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (Shreveport).</ref>

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Tom Harkin

[[File:Tom Harkin official portrait.jpg|thumb|165px|Tom Harkin has got the "cure" for you!]]
'''Tom Harkin''' {{lived|1939}} is the former [[Democratic]] Senator from [[Iowa]] (1985-2015<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-tom-harkin-d-iowa-wont-seek-reelection/2013/01/26/891f161c-67d9-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html Harkin will not seek reelection in 2014.]</ref>) and the former Representative for Iowa's fifth district (1975-1985). Harkin is known for being a staunch [[liberal]] and, at the same time, a promoter of [[quackery]]. He helped push through landmark legislation like the Americans with Disabilities Act and ran for president in [[1992 U.S. Presidential Election|1992]].

==Naval service==
Harkin has been caught lying about the extent of his military service. He has claimed at various points to have been a pilot in the Navy serving in [[Vietnam]] and [[Cuba]]. He was, in fact, a Navy pilot, but never served in either theater.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040908083126/http://www.opinionjournal.com:80/extra/?id=110005497 Candidate Harkin Stretches the Truth], by James M. Perry, ''The Wall Street Journal'', December 26, 1991.</ref>

==Alternative medicine==
Harkin is a major [[woo]]-meister and advocate of [[alternative medicine]]. He was a major force behind the institution of the [[National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]] (NCCAM).<ref>[http://nccam.nih.gov/ National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine</ref><ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/03/maybe_nccam_isnt_so_bad_after_allnahhh.php Senator Tom Harkin: NCCAM has fallen short because it hasn't validated enough woo], [[Respectful Insolence]]</ref> He co-sponsored the {{wpl|Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994|Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act}} (DSHEA), which is not only the current law in the US for regulation of [[dietary supplements]] and [[herbal supplements]], but the reason that the [[Quack Miranda Warning]] exists. He has used such "experts" as [[Andrew Weil]] and [[Mehmet Oz|Dr. Oz]] to testify at Senate hearings.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/whitecoatunderground/2009/03/harkins_war_on_science.php Harkin's War on Science], White Coat Underground</ref> He also tried to slip some [[quackery]] into [[Barack Obama]]'s [[Obamacare|health care bill]].<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/07/senator_tom_harkin_pulls_a_fast_one_alte.php Senator Tom Harkin Pulls a Fast One], Respectful Insolence</ref>

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Tom Lehrer

[[File:Tom Lehrer - Southern Campus 1960.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Tom Lehrer performing in 1960]]
[[File:1-16 The Elements.mp3|thumb|right|170px|"The Elements"]]
'''Tom Lehrer''' {{lived|1928|2025}} was an [[United States|American]] musician, [[Satire|satirist]], and [[Mathematics|mathematician]]. Lehrer is known for his comedic and satirical songs which usually involve [[science]] and mathematics, such as his song "The Elements",<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo "The Elements"] animation on [[YouTube]]</ref> which recites all the chemical [[Periodic Table|elements]] up to Nobelium. Tom Lehrer taught [[music]], theater and mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He got out of music and comedy after only three albums when [[Henry Kissinger]] got the [[Nobel Peace Prize]], an event he claimed made [[satire]] superfluous.

Though raised [[Judaism|Jewish]], Lehrer identified as an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Celebrities in hell|year=2002|publisher=chelCpress|isbn=9781569802144|page=72|author=Warren Allen Smith|chapter=Tom Lehrer|quote=He responded: No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has The Truth. To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.}}</ref>

He also claimed to have invented the Jell-O shot to circumvent restrictions on alcoholic beverages at the army base where he was stationed, although this may already have been invented.<ref>https://jelloshotrecipe.blogspot.com/2008/11/bit-of-history.html</ref>

In 2022, he released all of his songs into the [[public domain]].<ref>[https://tomlehrersongs.com/disclaimer/ Disclaimer], Tom Lehrer 26 November 2022</ref>

{{wpl|Aptonym|Coincidentally|,}} Lehrer is also the German word for "teacher."

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Tony Judt

{{UKpolitics}}'''Tony Judt''' {{lived|2 January 1948|6 August 2010}} was a [[United Kingdom|British]] historian and intellectual.

Like many British academics of his day, he embraced [[Marxism]] in his youth but later came to renounce the ideology. He was also originally an avowed left-wing [[Zionism|Zionist]], but got in a shitload of trouble after questioning the democratic basis of the [[Israel|Jewish state]] and voiced support for the one-state solution. The [[Anti-Defamation League]] was horrified, mostly by his characterization of the Israeli state as "an anachronism".<ref>[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/oct/23/israel-the-alternative/ Israel: The Alternative] ''New York Review of Books''</ref><ref>[http://middleeast.atspace.com/article_3648.html And Alternative Future: An Exchange on Tony Judt's "Israel: The Alternative"]</ref>

Judt wrote widely on [[France|French]] intellectual history and the emergence of [[socialism]] within that country. His ''magnum opus'' was the magisterial ''Postwar'', a 1,000-page tome analyzing [[Europe]]'s history from the end of [[World War II]] to the '90s. Later he became a champion of the international left with his ''Ill Fares the Land'', a rebuke of the standard [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]/[[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] [[dogma]] of the market and a personal testament in honor of the European [[Welfare state|Welfare State]], which Judt considered the single greatest achievement of mankind.

Judt had to deal with many [[wingnut]]s. As he grew older, he consistently challenged what he saw as powerful Zionist influences in American politics with his insightful and entertaining columns for the ''New York Review of Books''.

Tony Judt died on 6 August 2010 after a long struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a degenerative motor neuron disorder.

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