cockamamie

You would have to have been the denizen of the fantasy world of Alice in Wonderland to believe that a cockamamie idea like the Peace to Prosperity Conference held in Bahrain this week -- the brainchild of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whose ethereal goal for the conference, we were told, was to, well, turn Gaza into another bustling Singapore and the West Bank into a mirror image of an ebullient San Bernardino Valley -- ever had a chance of being taken seriously, even by the American Secretary of State, who had two weeks ago called it "unexecutable".

This remained true even among children who had risk factors for autism, such as a sibling with autism or an older father." Anyone with cockamamie reasons to flout established science will still do so.

Reacting to one of her cockamamie theories, progressive journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted, "She is Glenn Beck standing at the chalkboard.

What kind of mental process does that - construct an entirely make-believe scenario about one of those defining moments in a young person's life, and then cling to that cockamamie yarn, wholly unembarrassed, in the face of facts?

Nor will one of those cockamamie veterans committees if Tom Ricketts ever is on the panel like Jerry Reinsdorf has been.

Effectively, the argument is that Nawaz's over-reliance on Dar because of familial relations allowed Dar's cockamamie economic theories to go unchallenged.

Meanwhile, some Uber employees who won't wait for an initial public offering are selling their shares at $33, which is a monumental discount to Uber's cockamamie $120 billion valuation.

The country exhibits large current account deficits (reliant upon external capital), large trade deficits (imports exceed exports), a large amount of corporate debt denominated in foreign currencies, enormous external debts (large foreign holdings of a country's debt make it more vulnerable to shocks), a rapidly declining currency, well-above-peer inflation, cockamamie monetary policy and few true allies.

to a cockamamie fantasy (from Moscow) with no basis in reality."

It is one of the reasons that we now have the cockamamie deals where young artists sign with a record label, and the record label takes half of their publishing and half of their merchandise sales - because that is the only way that they can make any money.

As for Bolton, if he's still talking about the Libyan example or some other cockamamie formulation, fine.