Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Cuckoo Award

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Cuckoo Award

Boy they are on a roll this week!

Did you know that “they” controlled the weather for the Iowa Caucus? Yup, that is what all the wackos are saying!

Conservative activist baselessly links Nikki Haley, HAARP and Iowa blizzard | Fact check
USA TODAY
By Hannah Hudnall
January 19, 2024

The claim: Nikki Haley used HAARP technology to disrupt Iowa caucus
A Jan. 12 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) questions if the weather was being controlled to affect the results of the Iowa Caucuses.

"Is the Deep State activating HAARP to disrupt the Iowa Caucus?" conservative activist Laura Loomer asks in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that is shared as a screenshot. "We all know @NikkiHaley has a lot of friends in the defense industry and Military industrial complex. She’s losing in Iowa, and now Iowa is set to get hit with a ONCE IN A DECADE blizzard as Donald Trump is set to dominate the Iowa Caucus."

The Instagram post garnered more than 1,000 likes in three days. Similar versions of the claim were shared on Instagram and Facebook.

Cuckoo, cuckoo!

Our rating: False
The claim is nonsense. Experts have repeatedly told USA TODAY that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, also known as HAARP, can't manipulate the weather. The Arctic weather was caused by a naturally occurring atmospheric circulation pattern.

The problem is that people believe this bull! These kooks must have slept through science class.

This is our third Cuckoo Award this week.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

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