Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’
Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is the nation’s most prominent global warming denier. He famously declared that global warming is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” Now, he’s taken the argument a step further. In an interview with Tulsa World, Inhofe compared people who believed global warming was a problem to Nazis:
In an interview, he heaped criticism on what he saw as the strategy used by those on the other side of the debate and offered a historical comparison.
“It kind of reminds . . . I could use the Third Reich, the big lie,” Inhofe said.
“The big lie,” is a propaganda technique Adolf Hitler attributed to Jews in his book Mein Kampf. It involves telling lies “so colossal” that no one would believe “others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”
Inhofe added that every claim in An Inconvenient Truth “has been refuted scientifically.” He also admitted he’d never seen the movie.
UPDATE: Inhofe also compared An Inconvenient Truth to Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf.
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Senator, you are a dolt and an idiot.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:21 pmAs Earth becomes Hell, watch & learn.
You may have the perfect family, but all is naught
when you decide most of the people I created are
beneath you. I don’t recall appointing you anyone’s
personal Ayatollah of Ethics, including he with the
name of vegetation.
Beware! I am an angry God, & right now I’m really
pissed at you.
See you Sunday,
I thought the righties hated that Nazi analogy thingie.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:23 pmGuess not.
Fuhrer Bush must have invested in some new ovens.
The War on Science continues.
I’ve never seen the movie, therefore I can claim an unbiased opinion when I say everything in it is wrong….
Inhofe = Bought and Paid for by Big Oil
July 24th, 2006 at 3:23 pmHe demonstrates a common trait of the Rethugs. The proclivity to operate the mouth before engaging the brain. However, when one is suffering from a rectal-cranial insertion the only way to keep from getting crap all over one’s face is to open one’s mouth.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:25 pmWhen did our countrymen become blithering idiots?
July 24th, 2006 at 3:28 pmC’mon Inhofe, toss out Final Solution and sucking the blood from Christian babies and you will have completed your journey to Crazy Land.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:30 pmLFMAO at Inhofe!
July 24th, 2006 at 3:31 pmHmmm and he is an elected government official
I dont remeber the oil companies electing him..
and where are your 928 scientist to back up your claim Senator…..hmmmmm.just asking
July 24th, 2006 at 3:31 pmHe can’t tell a lie, he can only regurgitate what he is told to say. He is intentionally ignorant of any and all knowledge, that way he can say what the following tell him to say without the least bit of detectable stress from lying.
The top industries supporting James M. Inhofe are:
July 24th, 2006 at 3:34 pm1 Oil & Gas $311,208
2 Electric Utilities $180,907
3 Retired $145,771
4 General Contractors $116,611
5 Leadership PACs $100,347
6 Lobbyists $99,741
7 Lawyers/Law Firms $95,372
8 Commercial Banks $79,925
9 Health Professionals $77,550
10 Building Materials & Equipment $75,267
11 Air Transport $75,069
12 Insurance $72,171
13 Automotive $63,250
14 Misc Finance $61,500
15 Defense Aerospace $60,500
16 Real Estate $58,555
17 Business Services $53,766
18 Mining $52,600
19 Pro-Israel $49,300
20 Chemical & Related Manufacturing $47,010
I know this is a big shock, but Inhofe is also a major evolution denier.
That’s quite a pair they’ve got in Oklahoma between this guy and Coburn.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:36 pmi think he is referring to the holocaust and how he believes it didn’t happen, the “big lie”
this is a strange tyranical type that might be coming apart at the seams.
who would shout like this unless they are;
July 24th, 2006 at 3:37 pm1. under investigation for crimes
2. know there will be no election to worry about
3. represent a district of people so like minded (or perhaps blinded) that they agree with him
Inhofe belongs in a mental institution. Just another class act in the Republican party.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:37 pmIs there something in the water at the Republican side of the Senate?
July 24th, 2006 at 3:38 pmI want Inhofe to apologize on the Senate floor like they forced Durbin to apologize for invoking Nazism when he repeated a report of prisoner abuse.
Durbin wasn’t even speaking for himself, just that the reports sounded Nazi-like. Inhofe went much further.
If every fact can be refuted, where is the list of the facts and the corresponding rebuttels?
July 24th, 2006 at 3:38 pmInhofe, put up or shut up!.
i wish he could have joined me in woodland hills ca this last saturday. 120 degrees, the hottest day in history. he’d of loved it.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:39 pmReply to Clyde the Ripper:
The real trait being demonstrated here is the hijacking of a talking point to poison it to the point of uselessness.
If you’re capable of using the Internet enough to get to this page, you’re probably painfully aware that there is a lot of things that went on during the events of 9/11 that the American government is lying about to its own citizens and to the world. When confronted with this uncomfortable information, the average American naturally doesn’t want to believe it, and the number one objection is always ‘it’s just too big…there’s no way they could pull off such a lie’.
By way of response, I direct them to this quote:
As a result, the concept of the ‘big lie’ has been bandied about by many progressive groups trying to expose the truth behind 9/11. By attempting to appropriate the terminology for the Right, Imhofe hopes to poison its message to the point of uselessness, insuring that the real ‘big lies’ (enumerated above in an earlier post) continue uninvestigated.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:40 pmFrom the last article linked:
Funny, but this sounds more like a characterization of the RNC than the climate science community, no?
July 24th, 2006 at 3:40 pmOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKLAHOMA!!!!!!!!
July 24th, 2006 at 3:46 pmOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKLAHOMA!!!!!!!!
Citizens of Oklahoma, I beg of you, please just use some common sense next time you go to the polls. Both senators from your state are a national security threat.
Inhofe’s attitude can’t possibly be influenced by the fact that energy companies are his largest campaign contributors. That makes his fund-arising from fear comments hilarious. He accuses environmental groups of using fear of global warming to raise money. What about his using fear of environmental groups to raise money from energy companies?
July 24th, 2006 at 3:48 pmSeriously, what the hell is wrong with the water in Oklahoma?!?! This is a serious question. I demand answers!!!
July 24th, 2006 at 3:49 pmActually when the Righties accuse the Lefties of lying they are probably right in their conception as it has been said that the best and greatest lie is the truth disbelieved. How true it is.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:50 pmSen Inhofe reminds me of the movie “Animal House” in which the character played by John Belushi whose grade point average in college is Zero point Zero eventually becomes Senator Blutarsky. Another example of truth being stranger than fiction. I wonder if Sen. Inhofe in his college days ever led food fights in the cafeteria or organized toga parties? The only thing is that Inhofe doesn’t seem to have the same sense of humor as Belushi.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:53 pmRegarding Inhofe’s reference to the “Big Lie,” these paragraphs were also part of the Wickipedia article. Sound like someone else we know…like the “Decider?”
“The phrase was also used (on page 51) in a report prepared during the war by the United States Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler’s psychological profile [1]
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. – OSS report page 51″
July 24th, 2006 at 3:54 pmMaybe we should bomb Oklahoma as practice for Iran.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:55 pmNote: “Oklahoma is OK”. Not great, not even good, just okay.
And that’s the best slogan they could come up with.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:56 pmChrist, this guy can’t help but fall over & punk himself right & left, can he?
Ya’d think the left was out to get him but he’s doing such a good job on his own, I wouldn’t want to get in his way….
I do have to wonder about the good people of Oklahoma though. I know a bunch & they aren’t dummies. What’s up with that? Why would someone continue to elect morons for higher office (dumbya’s ears perk up).
July 24th, 2006 at 3:57 pmSo, what does it mean when you post a comment, it appears, then it’s suddenly no longer there?
July 24th, 2006 at 3:58 pmWe better get on Senator Durbin for this horrible degradation of our discourse!!!!!!!!!
July 24th, 2006 at 3:59 pmMust be the heat being applied to the pot he is in. His brain is being boiled.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:00 pmWikipedia (linked in the article) gives this bit of info from our own government; refering to the “big lie” –
“The phrase was also used (on page 51) in a report prepared during the war by the United States Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler’s psychological profile [1]
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. – OSS report page 51 [2] ”
Does this not sound disturbingly familiar?
July 24th, 2006 at 4:00 pmBadmoonman: it means the censors at TP are geting themselves all hot and bothered again.
Say, editors, why was my first post removed? Reasons?
July 24th, 2006 at 4:01 pmMy father married a woman who lives in Bartlesville, OK, and he moved there a few years back (from California) to join her. He and I were discussing this imbecile Inhofe over the weekend. I asked the question many of you ask, how could OK citizens possible believe in, support, and reelect someone so clearly owned by the companies listed in #9 above, my father’s response, “they don’t care and they won’t change.” OK is a lost cause. They’ve drunk the Kool Aid.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:02 pm#11
That’s quite a pair they’ve got in Oklahoma between this guy and Coburn.
Comment by attaturk — July 24, 2006 @ 3:36 pm
Don’t leave out Istook. fortunately his campaign audit should keep him busy.
The waters fine here, although a bit cloudy due to the main break. The problem with Oklahoma is that they elect ‘normal’ people to state office-probably to keep them here – but send the nutcases to Washington.
How they’ve gone from men like Carl Albert and David Boren, to Istook, Coburn and Inhofe is a testament to the gross manipulation of their deeply held religious convictions.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:02 pmBadmoonman: it means the censors at TP are geting themselves all hot and bothered again. – - Gosh I wonder which word offended someone. Could it have been dumbass? Ignorant? Okie? Or, dustbowl? Oh, maybe the word ‘Inhofe’ was offensive.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:02 pmBadmoonman:
At least you had something in your post that might have been considered offensive…as far as I can tell, my post was yanked for no reason at all.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:04 pmDamn, here we go again. This guy is a sleezy, sleezy man. I’ve lived in Oklahoma for the last 4 years (feels longer), and there are some good people here. I do have to say, though, that there is a pretty clear correspondence between poverty, the lack of quality public education, and the election of sleezeballs like Inhofe and Coburn. Well, that and religious fundamentalism.
I agree — the senators from my state are obviously securit risks and should be removed from office.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:09 pmHe uses Crichton as the final authority on the question of global warming. I think that Crichton was an MD, not a climatologist. How many thousands of qualified experts are discounted by this? What logical fallacies are used here- straw man, quoting an authority- what else?
July 24th, 2006 at 4:10 pmNote: As I explained in an earlier thread, the comments section isn’t a place simply to hurl invective at your enemies. These kind of comments crowd out actual discussion. If you have a post that’s only invective it will be deleted.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:11 pmNOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
I think that what she said she would like to do to GWB she might want to consider (but not by me, of course) for this idiot senator….
July 24th, 2006 at 4:11 pm“that there is a pretty clear correspondence between poverty, the lack of quality public education,”
Oklahoma has roughly the same poverty rates as Texas, California and New York, so I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:13 pmIs it just me or does comparing honest, thinking scientists and those who respect their professional opinions to the Third Reich is enough “invective” to justify throwing a little bit back?
July 24th, 2006 at 4:17 pmI think that Crichton was an MD, not a climatologist.
He would be if he hadn’t dropped out of med school.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:18 pm#42 PLC,
No shit, uh, I mean, this Inhofe guy, just who does he think he is?
July 24th, 2006 at 4:19 pmIf we don’t reduce CO2 emissions, the Earth will figure out a way to do it for us…and it’s not going to be pretty.
We cannot wait any longer.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:21 pmRe: Crichton
I guess Inhofe believes that we can make dinosaurs from mosquitos, that soon we can travel to medieval Europe and that Michael Douglas would NOT have sex with Demi Moore…
July 24th, 2006 at 4:24 pmJudd, I’m happy to see your deleting some posts that are not of any use!
It’s one thing for Inhofe to just say “it’s a hoax” but he offers no proof. That he can say this in the mainstream media without any reprisal is just not right and down right scary.
If Inhofe is so against science then perhaps he needs to step down a notch in his daily living. I’m thinking that becoming an Amish follower would be a good start for him.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:24 pmMsybe they need to change the lyrics of that song (”Oh What a Beautiful Morning”) to:
July 24th, 2006 at 4:24 pm“Where the bullshit’s as high as an elephant’s Eyyee!
And inhof’s crapola reaches up to the skyyyy!
Come here to Sacramento where we’ve had record temps for a week and a record for duration too!
The “Big Lie” is the GOP. Time to torpedo them in 08!
In response to Comment 38 (note by Judd) I would like to say that I am disappointed that my reference to Sen. Inhofe comparing him to Sen. Bultarsky in the movie “Animal House” is not considered a post that is hurling invective and therefore was not deleted. I want to stand up for all of us who feel we are hurling invective at Sen. Inhofe and yet have not been deleted. Some of us would be proud to have our posts deleted (so long as we were given proper credit)
July 24th, 2006 at 4:25 pmThe post comparing Sen. Inhofe to Sen. Blutarsky was no 22 (if it has not already been deleted)
July 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pmReply to Juan C:
Hoax is probably the backbone of american history.
No ‘mabye’ about it…false-flag operations are a time-honered tradition of this country.
(Interesting aside: the U.S.A. may be skilled at false-flag operations, but we are by no means the masters. Go ahead and google ‘false-flag’, and see which country’s name appears most prominently…)
July 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pmBig Al, I too wish Judd would delete your post as I think it’s an insult to Belushi. Now, clearly you were referring to the character Belushi played but you slipped up in the last sentence and that is where I draw the line. LOL
July 24th, 2006 at 4:30 pm“the big lie” is a Bush administration technique.
Apparently it is also a technique practiced by all republican “followship party” members.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:31 pmAs they say in the research community, “where’s your data?”
I can’t believe this guy thinks he is qualified to make any comment regarding this matter, not that he said anything intelligent that could be questioned.
My guess is that he is every bit as intelligent as our little wooden headed president Pinocchio.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:33 pmI totally agree with #13. Someone should raise a huge stink about his dropping the N-bomb and have him grovelling on the Senate floor.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:42 pmOk, Ok, enough with the Okie dustbowl crap. When you have the big oil companies pouring millions into the campaigns of Inhofe and Coburn you can get anybody elected. They do the
July 24th, 2006 at 4:44 pmsame shit that Dubya and Rove did to get re-elected. Flag burning, abortion, gays getting married. Stir up the Baptists on social issues and ignore the record gas prices and profits by the oil companies, unjust war, record deficit, etc.
They do the same thing here in Texas, it’s just the two nuts from Oklahoma are a lot more vocal.
[...] Thanks to Raw Story for the “heads up” and you may find the piece here at Think Progress.com. [...]
July 24th, 2006 at 4:45 pmSenator is a classic example of corporate ass kisssing leaders who have little education or understanding in science, and/or don’t really give a crap about the future generations.
Mental dinosaurs like Inhofe should be the first to become extinct..
July 24th, 2006 at 4:45 pmI don’t know where Inhofe gets his anger. Are global warming proponents (meaning all scientists and everyone on the political spectrum save for right-wingers like Inhofe) calling those who disagree with them Nazis? I don’y think so. Maybe we should start, seeing as Inhofe refuses to let up from his sqawking hissy-fit. He’s got t to pretty loud for us to hear him, considering his head is in the ground.
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July 24th, 2006 at 4:48 pmFact is, the only people dumber than Okies are Texans. Trust me. I know. What a turd.
Comment by Total Information Awareness — July 24, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
The Okies went to California, perhaps that’s where you live?
July 24th, 2006 at 4:52 pmThe extreme right wing militia/KKK groups used to use the exact same phrase” The greatest hoax ever perpetuated” when they were trying to “prove” that the holocaust did not happen. Hmmmm.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:56 pmHow can one ‘refute’ a glacier disappearing? Pictures clearly don’t lie. Temperatures are most definately on the rise. The raw data unequivocally demonstrates this. The source of that increase may be in the debate by those in denial. However, proper scientific methods are very convincingly suggesting human activity is the source of this. I hope the A/C doesn’t go out in poor old Inhofe’s cushy office so he can keep focusing on being in denial.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:56 pmMichael Crichton’s State of Confusion from the Real Climate Scientists.
Okay, I just deleted my rant on what a piss poor writer the guy is, too.
I think it would be a good idea to call your favorite democratic Senator to demand an apology on the Senate floor for calling democrats (except it’s not just democrats) “climate Nazis.”
July 24th, 2006 at 5:02 pmwho is more credible..Baghdad Bob or Oklahoma Jim as the flames lick around the latter’s ankles?
July 24th, 2006 at 5:03 pm#64
We are not denying that global warming exists, but what is the cause. The earth’s climate is not static and has not been so in its 4 billion year existence so why should it be now? My problem with Gore and the rest of you chicken littles is your willingness to scream about the problem yet do nothing about it. You had eight years before Bush to get us off fossil fuels, what was stopping you? You contolled congress for forty years prior to 1994, what was stopping you? The sun actually drives our climate changes but none of you are willing to accept that fact.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:06 pm[...] check it out here: Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’ [...]
July 24th, 2006 at 5:06 pmHey TP editors…couldn’t help but notice that my post was deleted again…
Perhaps if you tell me what content in that post was ‘objectionable’, I can try not to offend thusly in the future…
July 24th, 2006 at 5:06 pmI’m a Texan. Totally. Favorite Texas politician quote: Ann Richards, former gov.:
“Poor George. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
July 24th, 2006 at 5:08 pmThe idiot Senator must’ve been elected by people with frozen brains.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:10 pmI suppose that won’t be a problem soon, when Alaska is tropical.
Boy is it me or does it appear that Oklahoma is where the fountain of American stupity is located.
-GSD
July 24th, 2006 at 5:13 pmwow, how many goofers are they feeding the idiots on this board?! What a bunch of morons. The sky is falling, we’re all gonna die!!! Get a life you idiots.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:13 pmGive the cow that kicked this idiot in the head extra feed. No doubt, he not only didn’t see the movie he feels he knows everything about, since he is a rethug you just know he was not capable of reading the book even with all the pictures. Sorry Oaklahoma he is all yours, and your welcome to him.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:14 pmThere is no Global Warning I repeat there is no Global Warning oh I lost my chip there is Global Warning and boy it’s hot all over the world. What was it agin Bush said. With the heat wave all over the world I guess God took care of letting the GOP know their lies wont work anymore. Thanks God.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:18 pmInhoff is talking like a man who takes enormous bribes from oil companies. But I could be wrong about that…He could be taking enormous bribes from someone else.
Here’s an idea: Let’s elect a Democratic congress and have a whole lotta fun finding out who’s been bribing Inhoff!
July 24th, 2006 at 5:21 pmAnd now… for your viewing pleasure, a sitting senator will perform the Big Lie–about the Big Lie.
Amazing performance. He looked like he actually believed himself.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:26 pmLook at his pic, he just farted and i can see teeth in his asshole…
July 24th, 2006 at 5:33 pmoh wait…that’s his mou…never mind
I just wish that he could be fed to Woo’s pigs……..Deadwood style…….
July 24th, 2006 at 5:35 pmWow, I find this guy’s comments offensive not only as an environmentalist, but also as a jew. Not only is his above comment outrageous because it undermines our scientific consensus that global warming is an immediate problem that needs to be addressed, but it also downplays the severity of how twisted and evil hitler and the nazis were.
Senator Inhoefe = the ultimate douchebag
July 24th, 2006 at 5:37 pmCheck out Inhof’s campaign donations at http://www.opensecrets.org
His top two donors are Oil/Gas and Electricity…
If it were rich white guys at a bar, he would give them lap dances. Instead, it’s rich white guys who run oil companies and utilities…so he says stupid stuff
July 24th, 2006 at 5:39 pmUnfortunately there was a brain drain from Oklahoma during the 30’s dust bowl. The smart people left for California. Oklahoma has yet to recover.
Seriously. If he wants to debate the issue, I’m game. What evidence is he looking for? What can he offer in exchange.
How about this. Let’s see Gore and Inhofe debate for 90 minutes on an extended version of Meet the Press.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:39 pmHe’s welcome to come to Southern Wisconsin. I’ve lived here most of my life, and even in the past 25 years, the cross country skiiing has turned to crap. The snow just doesn’t stick around for more than a week or two these years.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:39 pmWhat a jerk. There are none so blind as those who would superglue their eyelids shut.
But I agree with the learned senator. And the second biggest hoax is that the world is round, when obviously it is flat. And if God wanted us to cool the planet, he would have made it with a big temperature control. See spot run Mr Inhofe?
July 24th, 2006 at 5:40 pmI am embarrassed he is from my home state.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:40 pmOh, and he’s a complete ass.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:41 pmI realize fully that nobody likes to hear these things. But it would be difficult to find anything more illogical or more insane than our contemporary laws in regard to State citizenship.
At present there exists one State which manifests at least some modest attempts that show a better appreciation of how things ought to be done in this matter. It is not, however, in our model German Republic but in the U.S.A. that efforts are made to conform at least partly to the counsels of commonsense. By refusing immigrants to enter there if they are in a bad state of health, and by excluding certain races from the right to become naturalized as citizens, they have begun to introduce principles similar to those on which we wish to ground the People’s State.
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
The political disparity of von Kahr and Adolf Hitler is elucidated when the editor of the staunchly royalist newspaper and speech writer for Von Kahr, Paul Egenter, questions Pöhner while locked in the beer hall: “Isn’t there a basic contradiction between von Kahr’s monarchistic and Hitler’s republican-dictatorial aims?” Munich 1923, pg 168.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:44 pmThis is just another reason to make sure everyone you know votes Democratic this November and again in 2008. It is time to sweep these parasites out of office and restore honor to America.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:47 pmI saw a documentary a few years ago on the fact that Oklahoma had one of, if not the, highest high school drop-out rate in the country. It was literally the trendy thing to do there.
So, if the majority of your population doesn’t have greater than a 9th – 10th grade education, then how do you expect them to care about or vote intelligently? Statistics show that the better educated a society, the more they advance themselves and their surroundings. Inhofe is exactly the kind of guy to get elected by people who don’t see the value in graduating high school.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:47 pmAll I can ask is your forgiveness for the citizens of Oklahoma, the very dolts that elected this numbskull to the Senate. What’s truly amazing is that Inhofe may actually be the more intelligent of the two “distinguished” senators from Oklahoma. Ouch.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:49 pmIf anyone wonders why our country is in crisis..in many ways….just read comments like this by the all time winner for talking trash. I have the utmost contempt for this weenie of a man. Anyone with a brain knows by now that the “opposite game” designed by Rove..(say what your opponents accuse you of back to them and acuse them of it..louder) is a pile of crap. It’s no longer going down. Inhofe is closer to the Third Reich than anyone who is American enough to face the truth about global warming, His days in power are numbered because the grownups are finally starting to arrive. Down with the Republican Party.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:50 pmThis is completely accurate. And we are finsing more and more proof that the Earth is indeed flat. Joshua did make the sun stand still. All Science is a liberal bias. When Jesus comes he will show all of you liberal punks that goodness comes in the form of a mushroom cloud. AMEN!
July 24th, 2006 at 5:52 pmDud you probably want us to believe that skin cancer can be obtained from over exposure to the sun. What will you think of next! Global warming. How about liberal warming!
Senator Inhofe is outraged at An Inconvenient Truth. And I’m outraged at his outrage.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:54 pm[...] Courtesy of Huffington Post and Think Progress- the head of the Know Nothing Party in action. [...]
July 24th, 2006 at 5:57 pmAnd we are finsing more and more proof that the Earth is indeed flat.
Comment by Suzy — July 24, 2006 @ 5:52 pm
I genuinely hope you are being sarcastic.
If not, I suggest you go back to middle school and get an education. The FACT that the Earth is round is irrefutable.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:57 pmHow about this. Let’s see Gore and Inhofe debate for 90 minutes on an extended version of Meet the Press.
Comment by TheMank
I would pay to see Inhofe spanked so bad.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:00 pmHere’s a similar strategy.Gut public education funding ’til the system no longer functions.The yield? A simple, malleable citezenry. The less you know the more you believe. Promise the public comfort and safety. Tell them the entire planet is threatened by intellectuals,scientists,teachers,free thinkers and practitioners of religious beliefs they are unable to comprehend. Create a blizzard of bullshit to distract, confuse,and frighten any doubters. All this,and lots more,is repeated time and again throughout history.The history no longer taught in public schools.From Little Joe Goebbles to Karl Rove propagandists haven’t really changed at all. A properly educated and informed public can limit their effectiveness
July 24th, 2006 at 6:00 pmBe proud Oklahoma, be proud.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:02 pm#68 – Granpa Seth,
We are not denying that global warming exists, but what is the cause. The earth’s climate is not static and has not been so in its 4 billion year existence so why should it be now? My problem with Gore and the rest of you chicken littles is your willingness to scream about the problem yet do nothing about it. You had eight years before Bush to get us off fossil fuels, what was stopping you? You contolled congress for forty years prior to 1994, what was stopping you? The sun actually drives our climate changes but none of you are willing to accept that fact.
Comment by Grandpa Seth — July 24, 2006 @ 5:06 pm
In point of fact, Senator Inhofe IS denying (and has repeatedly denied) that global warming is happening. Perhaps you should look up the word “lie” (which he has used on numerous occassions to describe the VERY real phenomenon of global warming. As to those of you who only debate the reasons for global warming, show us some peer-reviewed scientific evidence from credible sources (and, no, medschool dropout science-fiction writers do not make credible sources when discussing climatology) and, perhaps, we shall take you seriously. You ask why we didn’t do anything about it? How about the fact that EVERY, I repeat EVERY step taken by the Carter administration to reduce our nation’s dependance on foreign sources of energy and clean up our environment was overturned by the Reagan and or Bush Sr. administrations. President Clinton begin to regain some of that ground by attempting to beef up the Clean Air and Water acts but, the Republican controlled Congress of the late ’90s fought him tooth and nail on all of them and what he did get passed has been overturned by the Bush Administration. It’s quite simple really, our planet doesn’t make distinctions for whether or not one is a Democrat or a Republican. This is NOT a partisan issue and, more importantly, it’s not only a scientific issue. You think our dependance on foreign oil is bad? Wait until our children are dependant on foreign water, or foreign air. As I said already though…you show us some credible peer-reviewed research that states that our planet is just going through a normal heating period and, just maybe, we’ll listen to what you have to say. Otherwise, keep your lies to yourself and let the rest of us “chicken littles” as you called us save the lives of your grandchildren grampa.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:08 pmInhoff is one of the dumbest people who ever held office -
July 24th, 2006 at 6:09 pmhe Dan Quayle & Georgie Bush combined don’t have the IQ of Paris Hilton!
He’s another Republican airhead who is going down in November -
go back to baging groceries senator
July 24th, 2006 at 6:11 pmThe other “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” was the “election” of GW Bush — at least the first time anyway. The second time, well, that maybe be the second “greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people”.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:11 pmThe country is run by nut jobs and it keeps getting worse. Where did these maniacs come from, and why are they running the country? Oh wait, no one reads anymore. No one values education any more, in fact, educated people are not to be trusted. (Ask George. They made him uncomfortable when he was in school.) I should know, I’ve taught high school for the last 32 years. It’s become a point of honor to be a dolt. Then they go out into the world and vote… or not…
July 24th, 2006 at 6:11 pmDick Durbin reads an FBI agent’s testimony about Gitmo that compares some of our methods to those in Nazi Germany and republicans went hog wild. I think one of the reasons why 7 in 10 people want to give control of congress to Democrats is that we’re tired of these inane double-standards.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:15 pmsenator IN-Hoof-Mouth -
July 24th, 2006 at 6:19 pmNominated for Boob of the Month -
Awarded Title for Life –
Another right wing wack job who made it into office -
you have one last chance Oklahoma to prove you’re not
all major idiots for voting for a retard like ol James -
Oklahoma once had a capable U.S. Senator who wasn’t an embarassment to his state or to his nation. But then David Boren resigned to become President of the University of Oklahoma, so he could have the ultimate power… the power to hire and fire the OU football coach. That should tell everyone the priorities of that state. I spent 14 months there in the 1970s (Thank God I was a graduate student at Oklahoma State!) and I learned enough about their priorities (or lack of them, depending on one’s point of view) to last me a lifetime. No wonder that state sees its best and brightest young people moving almost anywhere else after finishing college.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:21 pmThe scariest aspect of this whole thing is that our democracy succeeds in electing the likes of this person. I know: Oklahoma. But Oklahoma is full of wonderful, fine people too. How is it that things have become so skewed that such anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-common sense, anti-decent public debate people make it to our highest offices in our democracy? In the past, yes, but today? We are going to have to do much better than elect people like this person to high office in our States and in the nation.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:22 pmNote: This isn’t a place to discuss 9/11 conspiracy theories. If you post on that topic it will be deleted.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:26 pmTo Karl Marx, If we all came over to your house and took a dump, you would scream like a little girl. It’s about stewardship of the only home God has given us. So what’s so funny about managing it properly and handing it over to our children in better shape than we received it. Remember what your moron leader said about how his administration would be treated by history? “It won’t matter, because we”ll all be dead”. Real funny guys , real funny….So many Obscurants, so few bullets.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:29 pmRight, environmentalists are telling the “Big Lie” about global warming, so all of the Reichwingers need to commit genocide against them so that they — the Reichwingers, that is — will have all of the “breathing room” (and natural blond-haired blue-eyed superiority) they could ever need. And the world will be a happy place for the survivors, right? Makes perfect sense to me — good analogy, albeit probably not entirely intentional.
On a related note, has Iran mentioned global warming yet?
July 24th, 2006 at 6:30 pmChris- I’m from Pennsylvania and I certainly wouldn’t want anyone sizing up my intellectual skill set by the fact that Santorum is in office. I share your outrage and incredulity.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:31 pmDid anybody hear the latest on global warming? That it’s causing increased and more deadly wildfires throughout the world? Wildfires that are similar to the ones that devastated Inhofe’s home state of Oklahoma earlier this year.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog.php
July 24th, 2006 at 6:32 pmJudd,
The dishonesty never stops, does it? Inhofe was comparing global warming advocates to something Hitler attributed to the Jews, not to Nazis.
Gawd. Yet note here that at Think Progress it is quite common for lefties to call everyone else Nazis, fascists, neo-Nazis, and just a few comments above me, “Reichwingers”.
The hypocrisy is astounding, once again.
PS. Anyone remember Al Gore’s “digital Brown Shirts”? Yeah… Hypocrisy is a bitch.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:34 pmOf course the world is round! Of course the world is flat! Of course the world is round and flat! Just like a pancake! Duh!
July 24th, 2006 at 6:37 pmComment by Seixon
If the shoe fits then dont bitch when people suggest it might be yours…
July 24th, 2006 at 6:37 pm[...] Think Progress » Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’ EXCERPT: [...]
July 24th, 2006 at 6:38 pmJudd,
I recently posted in the comments section a “proof” specifically for a poster named seixon who had asked for proof to support of liberal comments. I had simply revisited the past and listed government documents with some editorializing. I worked hard on the post and felt that it was important. There were no personal attacks and no foul language and yet I was axed all the same.
I think there is something else at work beside your dislike of personal invective.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:44 pmThis is not the first time Inhofe has demonstrated what an unbelievably stupid and ignorant man he is. Let’s hope his constituents are more reality-based.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:46 pmSeixon, didn’t you post a comment criticizing Dick Durbin for reading an FBI officer’s opinion that our Gitmo methods were similar to Nazi methods?
July 24th, 2006 at 6:47 pm“It kind of reminds . . . I could use the Third Reich, the big lie,†Inhofe said.”
Once again Inhofe proves he is the “big stupid.”
July 24th, 2006 at 6:47 pm#2: Amerikan GOP = 1930s German Nazis.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:48 pmAnd, let’s be clear on Nazis. Hitler and the Nazis hated liberals.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:48 pmHere’s the problem: If an okie is electing a senator in OK, one of which is holding a bible and the other a science text, who do ya think is going to win?
July 24th, 2006 at 6:49 pmInhofe, the same guy who publicly stated he absolutely has no gays anywhere in his entire family history. Yeah here’s a real open minded, deep thinker.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:50 pmInhofe, you recall, was behind making English the National Language by law. Too bad he didn’t want to make intelligence the National Characteristic.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:50 pmI’m an Okie and I’ve been embarrassed by the politicians of my state for the past 50 years. We’ve had a few good ones such as Fred R. Harris and Henry Belmon, but that’s about it.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:51 pmHe may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you.
He really is an idiot.
Groucho
July 24th, 2006 at 6:52 pmWhen your rectum becomes “Inhofe”, it means you have been shoving various items up there and they have become stuck.
Oh an Oklahoma is certainly OK, to avoid at all costs.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:52 pm#123 Hitler wasn’t big on diversity, either. But Hitler would be the first to ban flag-burning and gay marriage.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:53 pmThe dishonesty never stops, does it? Inhofe was comparing global warming advocates to something Hitler attributed to the Jews, not to Nazis.
Comment by Seixon
I’m confused. Inhofe is saying today’s liberals are like Jews living in Nazi Germany?
July 24th, 2006 at 6:55 pmHeh. One could deride the heartland’s intellectual capacity by simply saying, the heat must be getting to them.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:57 pmIf everyone keeps utilizing the same comment over and over again, it eventually desynthesizes the public so much that when it finally does mean something no one will listen. Similar to the word “War†– after “War on Christmasâ€, “War on Terror†and “World War IIIâ€, the public is becoming quite accustomed to being at war about anything and everything.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:59 pm[...] Other views: Think Progress, Sooner Thought, Tags: Inhofe, Senator, global warming [...]
July 24th, 2006 at 7:00 pmOne could defend the heartland as Peggy Noonan did. If the scientists wanted us to do something about global warming, why did they use scare mongering tactics and fantastical stories of record breaking heat waves, drought in the Amazon, wildfires out of control, and hurricanes that wipe out major cities?
I mean really people, you expect us to believe that?
July 24th, 2006 at 7:00 pmIf anybody is to be compared to the Nazis its Inhofe and his fellow infidels. Let’s not forget that the scientific community is on the side of the believers in global warming. Inhofe is the one spouting the “big lie” when he claims that all the claims about global warming have been disputed by the scientific evidence. Quite the contrary. All the studies of any scientific authority and credibility support the global warming theses. Inhofe is the real Nazi here. Not the people who accept global warming as a reality.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:05 pmAccording to one 2005 poll, Inhofe is among the 10 least popular senators in the country, as voted on by a random survey of 600 Okies.
He scores even lower than DeWine and Santorum. For good reason.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:06 pmSen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To The Third Reich…
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) declared that global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. and declares that global warming is “a big lie”
Note his tope contributers:
July 24th, 2006 at 7:12 pmThe top industries supporting James M. Inhofe are:
1 Oi…
Come on, people……He is from Oklahoma, an ignorant political wasteland….I live there.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:14 pmWho got this drunk out of bed? This idiot has missed more roll calls because of alcoholism than any other senator alive.
Screw him at election time folks.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:16 pmI hate to say it about any government official, but Man, what a dumb-ass! The problem is, that kool-aid drinker is about as Nazi as you can get.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:19 pmNo James, you are the big lie.
Just where do they find and elect morons like this?
July 24th, 2006 at 7:21 pmWell, with this evidence of complete lack of intelligence so openly displayed by Inhofe, at least it offers the good people of Oklahoma a serious wakeup call. What criteria is used by Americans to determine at what point you throw someone out of office and set him free on the badlands somewhere to spout his stupidity to the nightcrawlers?
July 24th, 2006 at 7:22 pmHe proved his own point by telling a gigangic lie of his own.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:23 pmHow could anyone expect anything else out of the butt (mouth) of this wingnut piece of shit. he’s a fascist bullyboy like his master.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:27 pmIt always amuses me that these rightwingers always use Nazism as a club to bash those of us on the left, particularly when Nazism was a RIGHTWING ideology!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
July 24th, 2006 at 7:28 pmIt’s not just Inhofe, but the whole lot of the GOP (my former party). What is happening to them? They’ve been caught over and over again distorting documents, etc., pertaining to women’s health, global warming, and so forth. Not long ago, a group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes. Those are the facts. Our best and brightest are horrified by the pack of lying fools in charge.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:30 pmI very rarely run into anyone that denies global warming and when I do they are usually hardcore right wingers. Many people say they don’t believe that mankind is the cause, the answer to that is, What difference does it make what the cause is? Mankind or nature it still has to be dealt with.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:34 pmThis is what makes me cringe when I have to give my location. Being an Oklahoman at times like this is postively horrendous. I just hope my own State realizes what they did wrong by electing Tweedle Dum and Dee to the Senate.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:35 pmHear no evil, see no evil…
Why don’t republicans just put their hands over the eyes and start singing koombaya
July 24th, 2006 at 7:35 pmI think Senator Inhofe’s intellectual inquisitiveness ended at either the last page of the Bible or on the final tally of his campaign contributions.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:37 pmLeave the man alone. He’s not right in the head.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:38 pmyes, that’s right, judd, keep playing defense. great tactic. a sure winner. keep airing the views of the whackjobs and giving them a forum. great progress being made here.
or in other words, please get your head out of your ass and start talking about solutions and not being fixated on the trainwreck that is the skeptic movement.
no offense, of course, but this is getting ridiculous.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:39 pmQUIT WASTING TIME AIRING THESE WHACKJOB OPINIONS.
we need to also think about what is going on in other parts of the world. a couple of years ago i spoke to a guy from amsterdam and he says that there had been more rain that year than they have had in 480 years. i figure if anyone has been keeping weather records for a long time it is the netherlanders. they have wrested much of their land from and sea and that it is very low lying…the dutch are also seafarers for forever…sailors and fishermen.
p.s. also while i was there, there was a hail storm (!) it didn’t seem very normal. it was much heavier than sleet but smaller than the hail i’ve seen before,,,it accumlated about and inch on the ground.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:43 pmHmmm. One of the Fellows of the International Leadership Forum, Michael Crichton, wrote an interesting book called State of Fear, and he also posted an article called “Environmentalism as Religion”. Also Jane Poynter, who has the opposing view, and is an environmentalist who lived in Biosphere 2 for two years, wrote “Environmentalism is Dead, Long Live Environmentalism, and these articles can be found in the blog, ILF Post (http://www.ilfpost.org) for your opinion. My own feeling is that Imhofe should have his head examined. This kind of comment is so 1945. He sounds so far right he is not even in the ballpark.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:47 pmSen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) declared that global warming is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.†and declares that global warming is “a big lie” Note his tope contributers:
July 24th, 2006 at 7:49 pmThe top industries supporting James M. Inhofe are:
1 Oil & Gas $311,208 2 Electric Utilities $180,907 3 Retired $145,771 4 General Contractors $116,611 5 Leadership PACs $100,347 6 Lobbyists $99,741 7 Lawyers/Law Firms $95,372 8 Commercial Banks $79,925 9 Health Professionals $77,550 10 Building Materials & Equipment $75,267 11 Air Transport $75,069 12 Insurance $72,171 13 Automotive $63,250 14 Misc Finance $61,500 15 Defense Aerospace $60,500 16 Real Estate $58,555 17 Business Services $53,766 18 Mining $52,600 19 Pro-Israel $49,300 20 Chemical & Related Manufacturing $47,010
What the heck does global warming, nazis, and these republican jerks have in common-the term ‘wipe-out’ comes to mind.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:55 pmI guess they don’t teach science on Oklahoma. If so, this ass never took a course. He’s no doubt a member of the flat earth society. What an embassishment to the senate.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:55 pmI think he believes in Armageddon. If that’s the case, any other response from him would be a waste of his time.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:57 pmWhy even air the opinions of this knucklehead? He’s not qualified to comment, and continuing to give a voice to the purveyors of “controversy” just enables their dumb asses.
Ignore them and they’ll go away. Mom said.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:57 pmHe’s no doubt a member of the flat earth society. What an embassishment to the senate.
Comment by David B — July 24, 2006 @ 7:55 pm
Have you ever been to the Flat Earth Society’s website? It’s laughable how they refute a ‘global’ earth… like saying that gravity works two dimensionally, and therefore a person should fall off the South pole. It defies 5th grade Science, really.
I can’t believe they don’t know how embarrassed they should be…
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
July 24th, 2006 at 8:01 pmyes, ignore the entire state of oklahoma.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:02 pmexcept where the flaming lips live.
China, they’re not going away, especially if we ignore them. No, their opinions deserve to be aired in the light of day and discussed. Ignore them, and they’ll just continue to run this country into the ground.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:03 pmComing from a Republican the Nazi comparisons are sickening given that his party is comprised of men who willfully violtate the Constitution when they see fit. Inhofe is closer to the Nazi side of the spectrum than any Environmentalist.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:03 pmFrom the Flat Earth website… It helps explain Inhofe:
A second critical piece to the Efimovich model is that the Earth is not the center of the solar system either. It is, according to “round Earth” theory, orbiting the sun at a radius of around five-hundred million kilometers. Were this the case, the Earth would be an accelerated object in circular motion around its sun. And thereby are the problems introduced. The Earth accelerating in circular motion would behave no differently than would a car taking a corner: loose objects (humans and animals would act like loose change or a cup of coffee on the dashboard) would slide around, or be thrown off completely. There would be an apparent centrifugal force on everything. During the day, when things would be facing the sun and therefore on the inside of the “orbit”, buildings would be crushed and humans beings squashed like grasshoppers in a centrifuge. And at night, when everything would be at the outside, trees and buildings would be ripped from the ground and flung into outer space, and humans wouldn’t stand a chance. Obviously, there is a flaw in Efimovich’s “orbit” theory.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:04 pmspeaking of solutions — not that i have $85,000 for a car — but has anyone else seen the tesla roadster? all electric, 250 mile range, 0-60 in 4 seconds… featured in ny times over the weekend.
if this thing becomes a status symbol, it’s a start. i can’t afford it, but if enough trendy cool people with money buy it, maybe the company can start making an affordable sedan or something.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:06 pmhow wonderful, now the republican nazi party’s inhofe us callling those who believe in global warming nazis. thats like hitler calling the jews nazis. if it looks like nazi, smells like a nazi, marches like a nazi, lies like a nazi and acts like a nazi, you its a republican!
July 24th, 2006 at 8:09 pmLol – does this tool really think anyone other that other tools will listen to him? Look at this friggin idiot. I bet he’s wearing panties and dreams of little boys while his ugly wife is sleeping.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:09 pmactually, bluedog, i think you’re wrong. i thought about changing your statement to:
No, their opinions deserve to be aired in the light of day and discredited.
but even then i think it’s going too far. as long as we’re willing to “discuss” the veracity of global warming, as if it’s still in doubt, then we’re getting caught up in the republican “when you lie, all you need is a tie” debating method.
we need to get on to solutions.
and we need to make pariahs of these people. no one in their right mind should want to listen to their opinions. let alone “discuss” anything with them. they don’t want any solutions, they want the status quo.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:13 pmIt used to be that we could count on the country’s two worst senators being from Alabama or Mississippi. Now it’s Oklahoma, where Imhofe thinks global warming is a hoax (what about WMD in Iraq, Senator?) and Coburn thinks doctors who perform abortions should get the death penalty.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:18 pmAll of this business is very simple. Bushes agenda not only for a New World Order, in which he and the NeoCons rule and you are basically on your own as in Katrina, but for a North American Continent Trade Government in which he and the NeoCons are in charge.
You can kiss the United States goodbye. This is why our laws such as immigration are not inforced. This North American Free Trade agreement calls for no borders and super NAFTA highways running from the Southern tip of Mexico into the extreme North of Canada.
These conservatives in Congress are preparing you for the disolution of America and Americans are simply too lazy to rise up against this let alone go to the polls.
Bush and Cheney pulled off 9/11. Anybody with a brain knows this.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:23 pmGiven enough time and damage, the Earth will shake us off like a dog after a swim. The Earth will continue. Carbon-based life forms containing mostly water will be extinct and some other kind of sludge will inherit the garden.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:25 pmYes, of course, people who don’t agree with the Republican leadership are “like Nazis” and are “against God.” Therefore, there is no reason to hold hearings, or have debates, or allow alternatives to be considered. How efficient our Congress has become! One wonders what took them so long.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:49 pmAn idiot but a misleading headline. Unfair and unneeded, Inhofe needs no rhetorical trickery to show he is an ass.
” Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’”
the idiot’s comment:
““It kind of reminds . . . I could use the Third Reich, the big lie,†Inhofe said.”
July 24th, 2006 at 8:50 pmA considerable part of our people which, thanks to the incessant influence of our lying press, still regarded France as the champion of progress and liberalism
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
July 24th, 2006 at 8:52 pmShall we refer to Inhofe as Colonel Klink! Yavolt, Acommodant. If anyone knows about nazi’s, I’m sure you do. Too bad science is winning over ignorant fools such as yourself.
As I write this Sacramento has broken a record for consecutive days with 3 digit temperatures. I’m adding AC to my home. The home I bought 5 years ago in an area where no one has AC because “…we don’t need it here!….
Ice caps are melting, polar bears are drowning, glaciers are nearly gone, hurricanes are the worst we’ve seen.
But no, I’m sure you’re right. After all, you base your points on…..on…. hmmm…. I guess I missed your background in this field. Could you provide that so I can defend you further! Thanks.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:57 pmwhat could liberals (whatever that means) possibly gain from warning us about global warming? perhaps I should ask what cons could possibly lose but we know that answer, though they wouldn’t dare admit it: namely, that their corporate friends might lose a teeny bit of profit by slowing down their rape of the environment.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:59 pmre: oldtree post
Number two is correct. There will be no election to worry about.
Or, if there is an election, it too will be rigged.
Anyone notice how the republicrats aren’t moaning anymore about losing the majority? The fix is in.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:16 pmActually, every claim in TRUTH has been proven scientifically and agreed upon by 98 out out 98 top scientists. The only dissenters literally work for Exxon, and there are a few of those whom the righwing media promotes.
This senator sounds like a lobbyist for the pollution sector.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:27 pmI don’t understand. If Inhofe thinks this is a lie. He should be pushing the lie and finding a way to capitalize on it. Imagine if we were no longer discussing it and instead, as a country, leading the solution. It’s a win, win, win, win, win.
1) More jobs
2) More money for corporations.
3) US retains its currently faltering super power status
4) The rest of the world loves us. (ok, that’s stretching it, I know)
5) The planet starts a healing process.
I have to think the other posters here may be right then. Since there is money to be made and the repubs are ignoring it, it must be the neocons calling the shots and they can’t wait to the end so they can take their rightful place in heaven…???… or maybe they are getting used to the heat here on Earth before they begin their descent???
Mind boggling.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:27 pmFrom 1999 to 2004, Inhofe received more than $588,000 from fossil fuel interests, but that’s not the scary part. As an avowed Christian Zionist, Inhofe is trying to convert the U.S. into a Christian theocracy of the sort that would make Jesus weep. His foreign policy views include calling for an escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (he’s partying now!) because that’s what the Bible told him.
Even more terrifying, and perhaps illuminating, is Inhofe’s support of an end-timer view that says God needs help from man to prepare the world for the apocalyse. Environmental ruin is a key aspect of this warped theology, and global warming is preparing the path. I believe that Inhofe is lying – he knows the reality of global warming and, as long as we do nothing, it supports his Nostradamus-on-acid beliefs.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:28 pmwhat could liberals (whatever that means) possibly gain from warning us about global warming? perhaps I should ask what cons could possibly lose but we know that answer, though they wouldn’t dare admit it: namely, that their corporate friends might lose a teeny bit of profit by slowing down their rape of the environment.
Comment by jimmy
It’s all in line with the concept of Darwinism: These lemmings (so called Conservatives) will meet their own demise, however, unfortunately, at the expense of the rest of us.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:36 pmIt involves telling lies “so colossal†that no one would believe “others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.â€
The same goes for conspiracy theories.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:53 pmI cannot believe people like this run the United States. What in the hell is wrong with people in Oklahoma who vote for this moron?
July 24th, 2006 at 9:54 pmI think Inhofe is completely cynical and completely opportunistic. In the bosom of his nearest and dearest cronies he likely doesn’t believe what he says. He’s just in there to mix things up, to act as a lightning rod, and yet still please the base as a “man of God.” An Elmer Gantry in the Senate. His future is assured as a combination fixer and jester.
(No doubt there’s some Social Security grandmas who think Mr. Senator is just wonderful he fixed that problem I had with my check and is such a man of God just the man we need in Washington . . .)
There was some article a year or two ago on the pleasure and leisure of being a right-wing snark. You didn’t have to do anything but sneer at the other side–that was your purpose. You didn’t have to justify your opinions nor offer solutions to problems. You just had to make outrageous statements.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:54 pm[...] But now, I hoot back… because it turns out that all of the Global Warming Skeptics Republican Party hacks have been spending the dog days of the hottest first half of the year on record in the U.S., doing what? You guessed it… denying global warming. [...]
July 24th, 2006 at 9:58 pmNo wonder this man supports George W. Bush. HE’S A MORON.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:06 pmThe dishonesty never stops, does it? Inhofe was comparing global warming advocates to something Hitler attributed to the Jews, not to Nazis.
Gawd. Yet note here that at Think Progress it is quite common for lefties to call everyone else Nazis, fascists, neo-Nazis, and just a few comments above me, “Reichwingersâ€.
The hypocrisy is astounding, once again.
PS. Anyone remember Al Gore’s “digital Brown Shirts� Yeah… Hypocrisy is a bitch.
Comment by Seixon — July 24, 2006 @ 6:34 pm
July 24th, 2006 at 10:12 pmNorway Bob, glad to see you back? The discussion was on the “big lie”. Not Jews or Nazis. I am amazed that you craweled out from under your rock in safe Norway. You being a world renown chicken hawk/$hit. People like you that hate some one so much (Al Gore) have a big mental problem. Please go post on Limburgs/O’Liely?Insanity’s blogs they will love you. They all have made up a complete false world that you fit in. Your all insecure and have problems that you manifest as hate for others. They way you build yourself up (which you can’t) is to cut every one else down. Your a fraud, coward and always make a complete fool of yourself here. No one has any respect for you, go away.
Seixon,
The difference is that wingnut political machinery (which includes violent assholes like Ann Coulter and Michael Savage and serves Bushco) indeed sent those “digital Brown Shirts†to journalists who were unwilling to play their game. They use intimidation to protect their power like other people breath. It’s in their nature.
One reason why the Nazis could destroy the checks and balances of German democracy was their assault on the press. Initially they did it with intimidation — not torture or murder. Certainly nothing compared to what they did later in Auschwitz and elsewhere.
But they couldn’t have created concentration camps had they not established absolute executive power first.
There is a similarity between the way Bushco has tried to eliminate checks and balances and establish absolute executive power (’we can do whatever we want because we are at war’) and how the Nazi party did just that before the slaughter began.
By contrast there is no similarity whatsoever between those who say man-made global warming is a threat and those who said that Jews should be eliminated.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:21 pmOh geez, how can the people of Oklahoma vote for Inhofe?
Most of the country is roasting in record heat. While Inhofe and his masters in the energy industry can count their immoral profits, the grandchildren of our generation and the World itself will suffer greatly.
TO THE PEOPLE OF OKLAHOMA — WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING BY VOTING FOR THIS ENVIRONMENTAL ANTI-CHRIST?
July 24th, 2006 at 10:29 pmseixon is gone. He is a digital low life brown shirt that thinks very highly of himself. He is so smart that it pains him to drop down to every one elses level. It really hurts him. He is so superior to every one else he can’t risk his life to defend anything he beleives in. He is part of the master race with Herr Jason. The reality is he is a born loser like MA. I still don’t know what makes these sickos tick, maybe their mommy didn’t breast feed them.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:31 pmThis guy doesn’t seem to know his history
The Russian Molotovs were of course manufactured by the Ford-built works at Gorki, Russia. In France during the war, passenger automobile production was entirely replaced by military vehicles and for this purpose three large additional buildings were added to the Poissy factory. The main building contained about 500 machine tools, “all imported from the United States and including a fair sprinkling of the more complex types, such as Gleason gear cutters, Bullard automatics and Ingersoll borers.17
Ford also extended its wartime activities into North Africa. In December 1941 a new Ford Company, Ford-Afrique, was registered in France and granted all the rights of the former Ford Motor Company, Ltd. of England in Algeria, Tunisia, French Morocco, French Equatorial, and French West Africa. North Africa was not accessible to British Ford so this new Ford Company — registered in German-occupied France — was organized to fill the gap. The directors were pro-Nazi and included Maurice Dollfuss (Edsel Ford’s correspondent) and Roger Messis (described by the U.S. Algiers Consul General as “known to this office by repute as unscrupulous, is stated to be a 100 percent pro-German”)18
I guess that capitalist pig Ford believed in global warming and the third reich eh??
July 24th, 2006 at 10:35 pmALL YOU LIB’S HATE AMERICA, YOU HATE OUR AIR, OUR WATER, OUR RIGHT TO DO WHAT WE WANT, AND OUR GOD. YOU GAY A-HOLES SHOULD ALL MOVE TO NEW YORK AND MASSACHUSSETTS AND HAVE A MARCHING BAND OF COMPLAINING NOT-HAVES….WE ON THE OTHER SIDE KNOW BETTER, WE LOVE FREEDOM! WE LOVE SUV’S! WE LOVE FAST FOOD! WE LOVE OFF SHORE TAX HAVENS! WE LOVE NO OVERSIGHT! (FREEDOM) WE LOVE BABIES WHILE YOU ARE MARCHING AND SWEATING …I’LL BE STIRRING MY DRINK AT THE FOUR SEASONS.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:38 pmI was going to write a comment about Inhofe’s ignorance, but in the end all I can muster is a roll of the eyeballs and slow shaking of the head. Wowsers!
July 24th, 2006 at 10:43 pmJebus loves gay marching bands, suv’s, babies that are not sweating or marching or too gay. and most of all (drum roll) seixon for proving that $hit happens.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:45 pm[...] you’re a fascist asshole, Jim. So we’re even. Permalink| [...]
July 24th, 2006 at 10:59 pmThis guy i will see him standing/sitting in 50 degrees chilling with his granny – realising the heat kills humans.
Amen
July 24th, 2006 at 11:03 pmSad but true, Okies still haven’t been able to pull their heads out of Bush’s ass. Okies are the only state that still support’s Bush’s Nazi regime by a large margin above 60%. Too stupid to see and too eager to believe in the ignorance of Inhofe. They are likely to re-elect the Nazi hillbillies and destroy the very civiization that seek to profit off of. Once Global Warming is fully engaged to destroy our planet and their profitable economy, who in the hell will they sell to then? If no buyers are left to buy, no matter how much they profited off of killing the environment, their profits will go up in smoke anyway. To Senator Inhofe I ask: “Is it Christian to destroy that which gives you life?”
July 24th, 2006 at 11:05 pmWE LOVE SUV’S! WE LOVE FAST FOOD!
that’s why you’re so fat and lazy.
and actually, to give “credit” to oklahomans, recent polls only show their support for bush at 42%. utah wins the hopeless ideologue prize, coming in at a disgustingly high 57% approval for the incompetent merkel-groping dry drunk.
mormons are stupid. god hates mormons, which is why they had a megalomaniac “messiah” and who led them to a hellhole like utah. normally i’m against this kind of generalizing and persecution, but i actually believe mormons should be persecuted out of existence (not killed, just relegated to the dustbins of history as a horribly bad idea).
big love to all you mormons out there!
July 24th, 2006 at 11:28 pmIt’s great that this Wing Nut can talk about the Big Lie type stylings of scientists and scholars who have worked hard for over twenty years investigating and researching this phenom without the backing of Big Oil companies.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:34 pmWith the Big Lie of the BushCo these past five years Global warming does not even come close.
We should train ourselves and our children, just look at this guy, that’s the same face of evil that all these Republicans have, if you look closely you can see it. Once you see one of these strange looking fellows, small beady eyes, usually wearing glasses, and indicator that they “can not see” in the minds eye as well, they are old, look like they are from another era, one that does not exist anymore, but do not change phsyical appeance with the times. These are the people who are dangous, the face of madness, an old madness. People who are stuck at an adelesent age they where 50 years ago, minds filled with idiologies, not thier own, but of their parents, which makes their idology 100 years old. That’s why they are causing problems in this world.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:43 pmQuoted from above:Anyone with a brain knows by now that the “opposite game†designed by Rove..(say what your opponents accuse you of back to them and acuse them of it..louder) is a pile of crap.
I found this interesting, certainly a perpetual infantile like Rove would think up some sick thing like that cause he is one sicko. But the “opposite game” is identical to something called Projection, is well understood in Psychology, also called Freudian Projection, it’s mental illness! ahahahahahahahaha!
July 24th, 2006 at 11:56 pmIT’S SO SAD THAT AMERICANS WILL UNDERMINE THEIR COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND FOLLOW ENVIRRO-NAZI FASCISTS. TO THE LOVE IN. TO PLAY THEIR BONGOS IN THE DIRT. WHILE FAMILIES ARE BEING BLOWN TO BITS. FOR BEING STUPID ENOUGH TO BE BORN IN LEBANON. THREE YEAR OLD ASSHOLES. THEY REALLY PICKED THEIR PARENTS BADLY.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:58 pmI really believe that someone has put a mickey in someones drink. Look we can talk all we want about global warming. But you must look at the facts and look at pictures from about 1906 to 1948 in your cities. I will use Louisville, Kentucky as my example: Pictures of the 30’s and 40’s show the city skies nearly black. That came from industries and coal heating. Today we have clear skies here. You can get the pictures at the Louisville Free Public Lib. The weather was nothing different than it is today. In fact! Todays high was in the 80’s. The record high for this date was 107. That was in 1896. The record cold was 54 in the 1950’s. Weather was alot worse for tornado’s and such in much earlier times. The worst Earthquake in American history was in the early 1800. The New Madrin fault area. That is near the Missouri and Kentucky area’s. Along the banks of the Mississippi river. The quake rattle every state in the Union. Rang the church bells in Boston, and shook buildings in D.C. If this country had more people in it. The scientist say 1million people would have lost there lives. The worst outbreak of tornado’s where between 1890’s to the 1920’s. You can find this information on the internet! Though I do agree that pollution is bad no matter what. What kind of pollution did this country have back then? They did not have cars! But the temp’s were just as high! The bad weather climiate was the same if not worse! Just look up the facts and not listen to rhetoric
July 25th, 2006 at 12:21 amand the BS! Just look at the facts. Who are we to believe. There are half of the scientist believe there is global warming, the other half don’t. So who do you believe?
Rest assured, we are watching the antics of Jim Inhofe here in Oklahoma – or at least I am.
I have a treasure trove of email from his office in response to questions I’ve asked him over the last few years, I plan to point out his ignorance in the editorial pages of Oklahomas newspapers as the ‘08 election approaches.
As far as Tom Coburn goes some of the people are showing their own ignorance by dismissing him as a nut – he’s a good man.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:30 amI think the Senator should be forced down to the far southern tip of Chile and forced to walked under the sun for a day or two. If by this time next year his skin is not covered with melanoma cancer, then he should be given a trophy.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:31 amit’s so sad jeff gannon used to visit the white house to have gay sex with our commander in chief.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:46 amDeciding to avoid Oklahoma at all costs because of the unarguable incompetence and ignorance of it’s elected officials—carried to the extreme of the policy—would require everyone to avoid the United States of America because of it’s President. Hmmmm, maybe that is happening? I believe that the reason my fellow citizens elect and re-elect Oklahoma’s infamous Senators is because the majority of those with deeply held religious beliefs are manipulated into voting for the religious right candidate. Throw in a righteous war and enough “Big Lies” and it’s a done deal.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:47 amInhofe went on to quote Groucho Mark:
July 25th, 2006 at 12:49 am“Who are you going to believe? Me, or your own lying eyes?”
The creed of Republicans is seen on the back of the tour-bus sized motor homes:
“I’m spending my children’s inheritence”
The meaning is clear, ‘I’ve got mine and even my own children and grandchildren can ƒµç√ off and die’.
He doesn’t give a flying God damn that his kids will inheret a dying planet.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:51 amTO PLAY THEIR BONGOS IN THE DIRT
frank zappa wouldn’t have wanted anything to do with you screwed-up whackjobs, so don’t defile his name by attaching his words to your sick rantings, you worthless scumbag. i don’t even think homosexual prostitute jeff gannon would want to be associated with your hate-filled blatherings. you are a sociopath.
in 1986 zappa predicted that america was headed towards a fundamentalist christian theocracy, which he was vehemently against. the man was well ahead of his time.
and he despised people like you.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:52 am[...] Webster, Clay, Humphrey, Kennedy… Inhofe Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is the nation’s most prominent global warming denier. He famously declared that global warming is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.†Now, he’s taken the argument a step further. In an interview with Tulsa World, Inhofe compared people who believed global warming was a problem to Nazis… – Think Progress [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 12:54 am[...] Stolen directly from here. [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 12:56 amto see frank zappa telling a right wing scumbag to kiss his ass, go here…
July 25th, 2006 at 12:57 amWhat other comments can you expect from yahoo from Oklahoma. It’s the results of inbreeding between siblings.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:21 amThe real truth is it might be too late to stop what is happening to the earth. Guys like this one wont really matter because he wouldnt really be able to comprehind it anyways. If voters cannot do better its truly sad.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:31 amWe miss you Frank Zappa………
July 25th, 2006 at 1:36 amListen as well, if you like, to the song “I’m the Slime”
(oozing out from your TV set)
Released I believe in 1973, it’s on the CD Apostrophe/ Overnight Sensation (collection)
Guaranteed to thrill you chill you and fulfill you……
and a good laugh to boot.
How to such ignorant people reach such high places of power. Unbelievable and scary.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:36 amSen. Inhofe must resign from the Senate immediately > he is a menace to Oklahoma and the entire nation > shame on him!
July 25th, 2006 at 2:15 amZappa was my next door neighbor when I was a young boy in California > I do remember him playing the drums in his garage and all the neighbors calling his parents to tell them to have Frank lay off the banging > lol. My mother sponsored Zappa in an art contest at Claremont High school and owns his art piece that took the first prize ribben > that painting hangs in my house today!
July 25th, 2006 at 2:32 amIt’s aclose call, but I’d claim that Brownback & Roberts ( those krazy Kansas kooks) are a greater embarassment than Coburn & Inhofe. The end times MUST be near , with all this mass insanity about.
July 25th, 2006 at 2:54 amFourth Reich is Rising…
So there’s this halfwit, right-wing American senator who believes that “People who believe in global warming are like the Third Reich.”Lets look at what he is saying:Hitler claimed that the Jews were guilty of spreading “The Big Lie”.Global warmin…
July 25th, 2006 at 3:40 amWe shouldn’t condem senator Inofe for his ignorance. We should pray for him and the citizens of the state of Oklahoma. His sin “bearing false witness” guarantees his damnation. His fate is now sealed. The question is only whether the other God-fairing folks will accept his false witness and condem themselves as well.
The prospects are not bright as current climate models suggest that extensive heating and drying will occur in the interior of continents. As the snowmelt decreases in the Rocky Mountains the water in the rivers in Oklahoma will begin to run dry. With increasing temperatures the moisture in the soil will also decrease and dustbowl conditions will return. God has a way of punishing those who bear false witness.
The irony is that most of the scientists who have accepted global warming as a reality have been proved wrong. It is occurring, but as it turns out much faster than anyone had predicted.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:55 amThe Honorable Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) from Oklahoma is not an idiot. He knows exactly what he needs to say to keep his job and his great pension, salary ($171,000/year) and health care plan.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:05 amThe real idiots are the Oklahoma folk who vote for this bum.
He is just the messenger.
Inhofe and these future holocaust denyers should understand one thing. There is no debate. All real scientists who are involved in climate research agree and agree completely. There is no real dissent on this issue. Global warming (and global dimming) are real and caused by pollution that humans generate. It’s measurable, demonstrable and undeniable. Stop trying to sway elections with such an important and life threatening issue! This is not a political football for you to play with.
All of the raging hypocrites who hate science and are threatened by deductive reasoning should be forced to stand in the blazing summer sun without the benefit of protections that engineers, scientists and learned men have given society.
No air conditioning, no fan, no swimming pool, no ice cubes or refrigerated food or drink, no shelter, no sunscreen and no way to block the sun’s rays. These are all things that scientists and critical thinkers brought to you. You should not be allowed access to them. If your faith tells you that science is bad, then be true to your faith and renounce the protections that it affords you. Bake to death in the hot sun as you believe that your twisted God demands.
Know this: Your God is not my God. My God is a “God of love.” who wants us to “love one another as I have loved you.” Look up 1 John 4 and Mattew 25 and learn the true nature of God.
God would not want humans to destroy the earth. We are the stewards of the earth as it states in Genesis, and it’s our self created problem that we now must fix together. We know what causes pollution – the burning of fossi fuels. We need to find alternative sources of energy and use them so that we don’t destroy the earth and us with it. It’s a big problem that takes leadership, and right now we don’t have leadership from the Republican party. I wish that we did. We have a bunch of men who are obviously bought off and paid to hurt the public interest. We need to vote them out of office and use the brains that God has given us. Instead of attacking scientists, engineers, lawyers and anyone else that speaks up for the greater good, we should support them. These scientists may just find a way out of this mess. Wouldn’t that be something that we could all tell our children.
Here where I live in the Rocky Mountains, we have had record heat in several heatwaves exceeding 103 degrees for weeks at a time. Three years ago we had the worst drought in history and wildfires that burned out of control. The globe is heating up folks. Let’s elect leaders that understand what we all already know to be true. Let’s elect leaders that will do something to stop global warming. If Republicans want to make it a partisan issue, then let’s vote them out for being immoral enough to try to bamboozle us.
July 25th, 2006 at 5:33 am#221- You’re absolutely right, what’s wrong with Kansas? Brownback is a real kook, thinks he can be president. Roberts graphically attached to the president’s ass. Didn’t Kansas recently outlaw sex all together event between consenting adults? Thank God for the liberal coasts. The big red waste land can burn in hell.
July 25th, 2006 at 5:45 amGRAPHIC VIDEO – Lebanese Doctor Says ‘Phosphorus Weapons’ Cause Suffering
CNN video correspondent, Karl Penhaul, follows a family that had been mistakenly caught in an Israeli air strike. The doctor treating the family says that there is phosphorus in the weapons that cause extremely painful burns on it’s victims.
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Lebanon president says Israel uses phosphorous arms
PARIS, July 24 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s president accused Israel on Monday of using phosphorous bombs in its 13-day offensive and urged the United Nations to demand an immediate ceasefire.
“According to the Geneva Convention, when they use phosphorous bombs and laser bombs, is that allowed against civilians and children?” President Emile Lahoud asked on France’s RFI radio.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said arms used in Lebanon did not contravene international norms.
July 25th, 2006 at 6:17 amI worked on the Inhofe for mayor campaign in Tulsa about 25 years ago. My goal was to put him in a position where he could gracefully go out to pasture in a city that was literally run in the Petroleum Club. Besides, we had soon to be Senator Boren and 2 idiots were quite enough thank you.
I apologize to the nation for helping get this fool elected and “on his way”. Ya’ know, when you try and get involved in local government sometimes shit happens.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:59 amThe morons of Oklahoma should be ashamed. It’s mindset like this, and people that elect people with a mindset like this who are destroying this planet.
July 25th, 2006 at 8:26 amO-o-o-h!
July 25th, 2006 at 8:33 amThis is the place where people go when they have nothing else to talk about
“… telling lies so colossal that no one would believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.†Oh, like WMD???
July 25th, 2006 at 8:36 am[...] Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) recently said that people who beleive in global warming (like, you know, scientists) remind him of the third reich. He’s also said that Al Gore’s book, An Inconvienant Truth, is similar to Mein Kampf. [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 8:36 amI am sorry say this man was my divorce attorney for a “few months” in the 1970’s in Oklahoma City. I think it was about 3 months. He was the most worthless attorney I have ever come across as far as legal action but very quick in his billing. Now there is a perfect Republican(not that this is exclusive Repub territory for attorneys). Seems like his style has not changed since he moved to Washington. But then you have to understand how Okies vote. They voted a guy named Henry Bellmon for governor twice even though he was known to rip the state off the first time. Every time I see or hear of him and his ideas I get the chills.
July 25th, 2006 at 8:38 amThe thing this is often left out of reporting on Inhofe is that he is the CHAIRMAN of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, THE committee which oversees legislation on, get this, global warming! Can we please remember to include that in our coverage of this man – he is the singlemost reason that, as long as Republicans control the Senate, there will never, ever, ever be legislation addressing global warming.
Had enough? Vote Democratic and take control of the Senate this fall!
July 25th, 2006 at 8:47 amwhere was this interview published?
July 25th, 2006 at 9:00 amThe real tragedy in all of this is that the problem is actually much worse than the baseline we now scientifically accept. We didn’t know when the models were originally constructed and targeted for scientific verification that the process of warming would spawn warming itself. We are finding this is occurring at a horrifying rate. For instance, as the tundra and other areas warm, huge amounts of greenhouse gasses are then released and the problem becomes exponential. Yet at the same time, our oceans are dying equally fast and the lungs of the planet along with it, that being the ability to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere into coral formations.
All of this was known years ago and has been concealed. The biggest ruse was the Biosphere project. We all thought it was about testing survivability in extraterrestrial environments, when it was really to see if humans can survive in what they know our eventual environment will mostly likely be here on earth. I have to tell you, this arrangement excludes one hell of a lot of people. But most people will be dead by then anyway.
You see the real problems will come from destabilization first, long before we can no longer deal with the issue of heat. Renegade systems are developing as the status quo of the environment deteriorates. Everything will become less predictable at the same time it becomes more extreme. The easiest way to imagine this scenario is to imagine the weather as it shifts into chaos with less predictability and greater impact. The absolute folly of our centralized food production and distribution system will come home like a hammer at that point. Actually, for those who are aware, this is already happening. The sad truth is that the first real hit to civilization will be death by starvation, decades before heat ever becomes a problem.
And then there’s the die off of species, which is occurring as we speak, without any real coverage by the news. This includes both plants and critters. All of which will have an unbalancing effect, which is also occurring rapidly. Pestilence, on a biblical scale, will sweep the world into a huge war that can only be met with force and the greater elimination of species. If you think you’re bothered by mosquitoes now, just wait around a few years. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the true definition of the ‘meek shall inherit the earth.’
I can remember trying to bring these issues to the attention of people in the 80’s. I dare say very few of you would side with the truth at that point. Now I will bring something else to your attention, and I dare say again, that despite your new found ‘enlightenment’ you are all still just as ignorant about the cause and the cure. What I say to you is the single greatest thing we can all do to try and reduce human suffering and minimize the impact of the impending earth changes is to completely abandon, on a global scale, the notion that our foods must be derived from animal sources.
Understand, that more than 30 percent of what you witness in the decline of the environment (as the single greatest contributing factor), and more than 60 percent of all degenerative conditions to human health are directly related to the production of livestock and the culling of the seas for consumption. Before you brand me a lunatic you must understand the problem as it exists now. You must open your eyes. You must get out of the food box exactly as you have gotten out of the environmental box. You must understand from a deeply personal point of view the perfect nature of the seed and how we’ve ignored it. We have been given everything for free and yet we have chosen to pay for the privilege of our own destruction. This is what those who would destroy you wish to keep from you—your blessed inheritance.
This is the true ignorance upon you all. The flesh enslaves and the seed sets you free. Only in the cycle of the seed is there balance and abundance for all. Only in the cycle of the seed can humans construct both a permanent and stable habitat, as well as a transformational existence. Only in the cycle of the seed can humans and the earth be healed. Only in the cycle of the seed can we deeply understand how every bit is part of the whole. Only in the cycle of the seed is there wholeness and renewal.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:22 amwell he is from oklahoma—-give him some slack.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:30 amCan we trade Oklahoma for Isreal? We’ll the Japanese to move all the shrines and synagogs here and put bricktown in their place.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:31 amIts sad to read all your misinformed responses to this column. If you people bothered to actually study the science and facts behind your “Global Warming” and weren’t lead by ignorance and blind hatred for any contradictory opinions you might be able to see that global warming IS a hoax. The vitriolic hate and ignorance in most of these posts is astounding. Reading your opinions is reminiscent of gradeschool.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:39 amMira in #149 you elected TWEETLE DUMB& TWEETLE DUMBER
July 25th, 2006 at 9:46 amI am thankful that my wife and her family will no longer be living in whatever OK has become. Wit h Senators such as yours it is a wonder than anyone, other than potential facists, would want to live your beautiful state.
I’m beginning to think we need to revise the way in which state quality of life rankings are done. We could estimate the intelligence of a state’s govenor and senators and rank states by the intellect of their leaders. Clearly given the lack of intelligence of your senators OK would fall below even SC and AL. Too bad.
Again I’m thankful my child will be able to settle in NC where it appears that the leaders are actually capable of thought.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:46 amYou don’t have to be an idiot to be elected in Oklahoma….but it helps.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:46 amIn defense of the Sooner state it should be pointed out that not everyone here is a blithering idiot. We’ve produced such talented individuals as Will Rogers, Woody Guthrie, James Garner, and Garth Brooks. That said, it must be admitted that Sen. Inhofe is one of the most ignorant and arrogant people ever to serve in the US Senate–and he proves it every time he opens his mouth.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:48 am[...] For example, most people would be shy of expressing an opinion about a movie they have not seen, but not Senator Inhofe. Despite not having viewed An Inconvenient Truth, he has no difficulty in finding a basic unit of comparison to enlighten others. The Oklahoma Republican compares “An Inconvenient Truth,” which he doesn’t plan to see, to Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf.” [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 9:55 amok, dickwad, apparently you didn’t get the memo announcing the moratorium on Nazi references… we’ve got to come up with some new ones here, people…
July 25th, 2006 at 10:08 amAnd when it hits the fan, what will he say then oops? It will be too late..The science is there folks.. The only people who dont see it are those who profit from the ststus quo…Like bush and cheney and this knucklehead.
July 25th, 2006 at 10:10 amSAYS IT ALL HUH!
The top industries supporting James M. Inhofe are:
July 25th, 2006 at 10:12 am1 Oil & Gas $311,208
2 Electric Utilities $180,907
3 Retired $145,771
4 General Contractors $116,611
5 Leadership PACs $100,347
6 Lobbyists $99,741
7 Lawyers/Law Firms $95,372
8 Commercial Banks $79,925
9 Health Professionals $77,550
10 Building Materials & Equipment $75,267
11 Air Transport $75,069
12 Insurance $72,171
13 Automotive $63,250
14 Misc Finance $61,500
15 Defense Aerospace $60,500
16 Real Estate $58,555
17 Business Services $53,766
18 Mining $52,600
19 Pro-Israel $49,300
20 Chemical & Related Manufacturing $47,010
I thought this bears repeating thanks to spyder
He can’t tell a lie, he can only regurgitate what he is told to say. He is intentionally ignorant of any and all knowledge, that way he can say what the following tell him to say without the least bit of detectable stress from lying.
The top industries supporting James M. Inhofe are:
1 Oil & Gas $311,208
2 Electric Utilities $180,907
3 Retired $145,771
4 General Contractors $116,611
5 Leadership PACs $100,347
6 Lobbyists $99,741
7 Lawyers/Law Firms $95,372
8 Commercial Banks $79,925
9 Health Professionals $77,550
10 Building Materials & Equipment $75,267
11 Air Transport $75,069
12 Insurance $72,171
13 Automotive $63,250
14 Misc Finance $61,500
15 Defense Aerospace $60,500
16 Real Estate $58,555
17 Business Services $53,766
18 Mining $52,600
19 Pro-Israel $49,300
20 Chemical & Related Manufacturing $47,010
Comment by spyder — July 24, 2006 @ 3:34 pm
July 25th, 2006 at 10:12 amIts sad to read all your misinformed responses to this column. If you people bothered to actually study the science and facts behind your “Global Warming†and weren’t lead by ignorance and blind hatred for any contradictory opinions you might be able to see that global warming IS a hoax. The vitriolic hate and ignorance in most of these posts is astounding. Reading your opinions is reminiscent of gradeschool.
Comment by Not a Sheep
So if the scientists are all saying Global Warming is real and YOU are saying it is a hoax then you are saying the worlds scientists are hoaxters… and if that is true then who the hell is doing all the actual science in this world? Hoaxters dont make space ships, nuclear bombs, and computers… scientists do … and the scientists say global warming is indeed real … YOU are the hoaxter…
July 25th, 2006 at 10:24 amanother proud member of the flat earth society
July 25th, 2006 at 10:25 am“…We’re at the mercy of so few
With EVIL HEARTS determined to
Reduce this planet into hell
Then find a buyer and make QUICK SALE…
To end up on a happy note is
Like trying to make concrete float
It’s very simple knowing that
God IN YOUR HEART LIVES”
George Harrison
July 25th, 2006 at 10:25 am“Save The World”
Album: Somewhere in England
On behalf of rational Oklahomans, I abjectly apologize. Some of us keep voting against these nutzos, but they just won’t go away. The crop of Republican fanatics and hypocrites running in today’s primary elections don’t look any better :-(
July 25th, 2006 at 10:38 amInhofe is also notorious for visiting the infamous Tar Creek watershed northeast of Tulsa that is horribly contaminated by old lead mines in three towns nearby. Children especially have been very ill from the lead, which sits in chaf mountains a couple hundred feet high you can see for miles around.
July 25th, 2006 at 10:41 amInhofe looked around Picher, Oklahoma, said he saw nothing wrong and left. Oklahoma has some very strange politicians. Tom Coburn is even wackier. What does that say of those who vote for these right wing nut cases?
It’s funny to me that several people have referenced Crichton’s “State of Fear” in this message thread. If Inhofe couldn’t be bothered to see Gore’s movie, I strongly doubt that he had the time (or other abilities needed) to read Crichton’s book.
I read it and even took a highlighter to it. One point he made really stood out in my mind as I critiqued it: The satellite data does not support a worldwide increase in average temperature. Well, at the time that he wrote, that was true.
The reason was discovered about six months ago and was widely covered in a story picked up by AP: The satellite data was wrong. The bird used to collect the data had begun to drift on axis and its field of view had crossed into the terminator. So the “average temps” being collected were gradually falling because the bird was seeing more and more darkness. When the satellite was repointed, it turned out that the data indicated a far greater level of average warming than previously believed.
Now that you know where I stand, I urge those of you who are refererring to localized events in space and time (recent record highs in CA, etc) to show some restraint. Global warming is definitely NOT about local or recent change. Events covering just a few thousand square miles or a few days/weeks/months of time are not valid indicators. When you point to them, then the next record low in Maine or NH in December will become the right’s proof that global warming is a sham.
July 25th, 2006 at 10:43 amWho is the conspiracy nut now? ROFL
If Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) statements are true than this is a vast NAZI global conspiracy because it’s scientist from all over the world that have concluded that global warming is real.
Since Inhofe is the one perpetrating the big oil lie & loves NAZI terminology so much perhaps we should respond to him in kind and stuff his lying mouth with some facts to paraphrase his hero.
July 25th, 2006 at 10:45 am#239: And what scientific evidence would you offer to support your claim that global warming is a “hoax”?
July 25th, 2006 at 11:00 amInhofe is a true whackjob
Having said that…..
I have no doubt that something is sure as hell effecting our climate these days. Yes, I believe that there are definite cycles. I also think that the way mankind has chosen to live, even after knowing better, has speeded up a natural cycle, so we will not have time to adjust and many millions will die as a result.
Some of those dead will be the people who are reading tis post. Some of us will be fortunate enugh to drop dead before the worst of it.
Here is a question. What possible motive could Al Goire, various scientists who work for NASA and others of great stature, around the world, have to gain by telling us something that we really do not want to hear? Somehow, that seems like a pretty dumb political strategy. What possible motives could they have for being the messenger of such bad news, especially knowing what usually happens to such messengers?
When those who have a highly vested interest in the continued use of fossil fuels tell us there is no such thing as rapid climate change, It easy to see the motive, especially, when they are giving tax breaks for buying the biggest urban assault vehicles available.
Who has a motive for lying? Who has a motive for abject denial.
I, for one, kind of like hoaxes, as long as they are not too dangerous or cruel. They are a little mind-bending and revealing.
Climate change is no hoax. It is real. God, how I wish it weren’t.
Of course, I also wish we didn’t have ideologically brain-dead people holding high office.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:03 amOuch!!! I live in Oklahoma and some of the above comments were not only in bad taste, but they hurt those of us who are stuck here in this environment, can’t leave, and can only keep trucking to the polls and voting Democratic.
We have a primary election today and the offerings are slim, but lots of Repubs. I think it is the slimy fringe benefits (pensions, kickbacks from lobbiests, etc) that bring them out to campaign.
I have made a decision, (used to split my vote, voting for whom I thought was the best in each party) but now starting with today’s primary, I WILL ONLY VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS!!
Oklahomans have some big problems with their political judgement and will believe almost anything. BAD NEWS is Senator Inhofe is leaving Congress and is running for Governor here in Oklahoma. I yell, ” NIMBY”, but his nose is on the trail for more power and benefits.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:05 amI grew up in OK, left after high school, and have never been back. Don’t even enjoy visiting, due to all the overt “christianity” that gets crammed down your throat. It is exactly this kind of b*llsh*t that both infuriates me, and saddens me. Until the majority of Okies learn to open their eyes and learn about the world, and dump these kinds of scumbags from public office, I say, let all Okies suffer the scorn and rejection the world provides them. I give up. The root of the problem, and I know from 15 years of first-hand experience, is prideful ignorance, and fundamentalist “christianity”. The populace is perfectly adapted for exploitation.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:13 amI should add, the prideful ignorance often stems from the fundamentalist “christianity”. Too many Okies live in the Dark Ages; gladly.
I remember a fellow who came to install a fireplace window at our house one time. He was going on about how his toddler daughter had a cough during the night, and he and his wife “laid hands on her, and lo-and-behold, she was healed !” I thought to myself, “you f*cking moron, she coughed twice, and then it was over, had nothing to do with anything else.” Heck, maybe the child learned to create some coughing fits to get her parents to come hold her while she slept.
Worked in a grocery store, where we instituted a new policy, due to an experience with one customer. She had the “christian fish” symbol on her checks. Wrote one, and it bounced like a rubber ball. When the manager called her up to inquire, she replied, “I have faith that God will provide”. WTF! Unless Jesus was doing a direct deposit….
This was in the days before instant checking fund verification, so for any questionable customer, and especially for a questionable customer with the fish symbol on their checks, we always called the bank, on the spot.
These kinds of stories happen every single day, in OK.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:28 amWhat are you guys bitching about? This may be the first time Inhofe states a fact.
Better for a CONgressman to discuss a nebulous concept of global warming over which he has little to zero control, than discussing the environmental degredation occuring in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon … and soon others, at the behest of his government in which he is in charge.
He might be embarrassed.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:31 amSpyder
Thank you very much for the list of Inhofe’s supporters.
Very enlightening.
With your permission, I would like to post that data on my website – http://www.politicallyoutspoken.com
July 25th, 2006 at 11:37 amquestion when was the last time Arianna Huffington or Al Gore flew commercial?
July 25th, 2006 at 11:56 amIt’s like living in a world where Onion headlines are real …
July 25th, 2006 at 12:02 pm“So if the scientists are all saying Global Warming is real and YOU are saying it is a hoax then you are saying the worlds scientists are hoaxters… and if that is true then who the hell is doing all the actual science in this world? Hoaxters dont make space ships, nuclear bombs, and computers… scientists do … and the scientists say global warming is indeed real … YOU are the hoaxter…”
The scientists are NOT ALL saying global warming is real. You are being told they are, and most people who say it is REAL are not SCIENTISTS. Everyone is causing undue stress pressue and spending rediculous restrictions for normal weather pattern changes. The weather patterns on our planet are not static, things change get warmer, and cooler. They cycle. Look it up, check the real facts, dig deeper than you have in the past and you can find the truth. Open your mind and your eyes, you will see the folly of your shortsightedness.
And true to form, you still fell back to name calling rather then confronting the truth or the reality.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:12 pmI know this is a big shock, but Inhofe is also a major evolution denier.
“That’s quite a pair they’ve got in Oklahoma between this guy and Coburn.”
Please stop picking on Okies. Just because some really, big names were FROM Oklahoma, Will Rogers, Bob Newhard, an astronaut, a Navy Chief of Staff.
You ought to hear some of those who like Inhofe/Coburn are still here.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:30 pmBeing from Oklahoma City and experience the hotter than hell temps with no winter to speak of for the past hew years, yes, this guy is an idiot. However on the upside, I am seeing more and more Dem signs in the yards, a lovely sign on the I-40 highway saying “Enough is enough, Vote Democrat!” Repug voters that are no longer running thier mouths and the strange fact that most politicians advertising on the tele are not giving thier political affiliation. Even as they show up at your doorstep you have to ask thier party. The times they are a changin, so give those of us a break who are aware, are paying attention and do have a higher than 9th grade education. It’s not just here, but all over the country that ignorance reigned in the last big election.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:32 pmNote: “Oklahoma is OKâ€. Not great, not even good, just okay.
And that’s the best slogan they could come up with.
Comment by DieNowForPeace — July 24, 2006 @ 3:56 pm
July 25th, 2006 at 12:38 pm———————————————-
The motto on the car tags is now Native America. Never thought about it, but explains why real Native americans here in Oklahoma are getting Tribal tags, not only cheaper, but distancing from Inhofe/coburn types?
Every time I think I’ve seen the biggest idiot in the GOP, they bring a bigger one out and parade him around.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:38 pmFrom: #67
1. Any climate change this rapid could easily result in the destruction of life (esp. higher life) forms. Why are you so willing to HELP this happen by turning a blind eye to SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN man-made contributions?
2. If the Dems failed to change U.S. policy so far, it is the SOLE blame of the GOP and their corporate masters for getting in the way. It’s difficult enough to get normal Americans to consider such a complicated topic, but it becomes almost impossible when the GOP/cons keep adding LIES and DISTORTIONS to the discussion.
3. If the sun drives our climate, as you say, then it should be OBVIOUS to you how FOOLISH it is to open the atmospheric curtains wider and wider through our greenhouse emissions!
(GOP/cons aren’t necessarily stupid; they just CANNOT think more than one step at a time…)
If our atmosphere does become uninhabitable due to our contributions to global warming, it will be the REPUBLICANS’ fault. THEY will have to answer for being the murderers of mankind.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:41 pm“The scientists are NOT ALL saying global warming is real.”
Comment by Not a Sheep
That’s right – some of the “scientists” work for or are bought off by the energy industry. Don’t forget about them. However, the major consensus by the vast majority of scientists (heck, me included): global warming is the real deal. Of the few untainted scientists that might be left on Inhofe’s side of the fence; seems more are converting every year. Haven’t heard of too many (well ANY) global warming-believing scientists renouncing their beliefs. Go ahead sheep, by all means, link to one. please.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:41 pmYes, Simpson is right. Just because the GOP wants to hand you a load of s### about their strength with the voters doesn’t mean we have to hold our hands out and take it. Liars lie, it’s their nature. Anybody who still backs the neocons is lying to themselves, at the very least, and has not one iota of respect from me. The Dems are guaranteed the election on ALL fronts after this fiasco of a Congress faces the voters. Even here in the south, no Bush stickers left on the cars, no W stickers (except the ones with lines through them). Support the Troops stickers is all you’ll see these days. Nobody likes to admit they made a mistake, but that doesn’t mean they’ll make it again. At this point, I think the South’s support for the GOP is around 25%, tops. Largely because of the devastating images of Katrina juxtaposed beside “heckofajobBrownie” Bush and his photo ops. That … that will be remembered.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:45 pmSen Inhofe is a global warming and evolution truth denier?
Just wondering, if during his next re-election campaign, the good citizens of Oklahoma will become an Inhofe denier.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:45 pmAll Inhofe has to do for people in the “reality based community” is back-up his allegations with emperical evidence. The Senator admitts to not reading Gore’s book. I wonder if he has actually read Mein Kampf? If he has he would recognize the projection of his own reflection.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:55 pm“All I can ask is your forgiveness for the citizens of Oklahoma, the very dolts that elected this numbskull to the Senate. What’s truly amazing is that Inhofe may actually be the more intelligent of the two “distinguished†senators from Oklahoma. Ouch.
Comment by Professeur — July 24, 2006 @ 5:49 pm”
Which proves that it does not take a rocket scientist to become a Dr. a la Coburn. But the good Dr Frist has proven that.
Don’t know about the HS drop out rate, but the divorce rate is second to Nevada, and the teen pregnancy rate is up there, so plenty of little Okies in the pipeline. At least OK has dropped in the Bush approval rating from 4th to below sixs place. Dubya may not be the hero anymore??
July 25th, 2006 at 12:56 pmi am enjoying this “progressive” stereotyping of Oklahoma… good stuff…
July 25th, 2006 at 1:03 pmSorry!!! I got my Oklahoma misfits mixed up. Inhofe is not running for governor in Oklahoma.. Istook is!
July 25th, 2006 at 1:03 pmSenator Inhofe either is so stupid that he really doesn’t believe in climate change, or he is so corrupt from big energy campaign cash that he really doesn’t care. Either way, this man is a danger to America and the world and should be recalled. Senator, get your head out of your A$$.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:03 pm#270 (GOP/cons aren’t necessarily stupid; they just CANNOT think more than one step at a time…)
Great point. The same steps needed to try to slow GW, are also good for the infrastructure, smaller vehicles for commutes, less highways, less dependents on (imported) oil. Less money for the financiers of terror in the Middle East.
Maybe fewer imports, more local production i. e. more local idustry etc.
As you say the GOP/cons can only hold one thought at a time. Which explains why Sen Inhofe allowed the waste of money to dust off the lead pollution in the Carden/Pitcher mining area of NE OK, instead of buying out the residents.
Now that highways are collapsing and the pollution run-off is hitting th Inhofe weekend retreat at the top of Grand Lake it is an important problem. All these collateral effects of abandoned mining caverns were predictable from the start, except for the one track senator.
Which brings us back to Dr Goebbels and the big lie, attack one group, with one BIG lie at at time.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:07 pm[...] Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’. [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 1:17 pm[...] Senator Inhofe compares people who believe in Global Warming to “The Third Reich.” Feel free to tell him what you think by contacting him here. [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 1:20 pmThe sad thing is; it’s people out of cause, that is the cause of global warming effects. Until we advance causality education; more effects..
July 25th, 2006 at 1:47 pmMaybe Bushniks want the earth to become an oven so they can train for their “life” after death, in HELL.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:52 pmAfraid those of us in Oklahoma are stuck with Sen Inhofe — and have had years of him and his oddball pronouncements. It’s not surprising he uses Nazi references — he has goosestepped to Bush’s agenda thoughout the past 5 years. He was indignant that anyone wanted to investigate the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. But he is the ‘golden boy’ of the major newspaper in Oklahoma.
We admit Sen Coburn’s pronouncements also can be startling at times, but we feel he deserves credit for taking on Republicans and Democrats alike in trying to ‘cut the fat’.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:58 pmI suggest that someone, everyone, anyone on the net access the L.A. Times Op/Ed section and email yesterday’s (July 24, 2006) article entitlle “Global Warming- Signed, Sealed, Delivered”. The article is written and submitted by one of the most quoted and referrenced scientists in his field. The gist of the article is its content, there is no debate as to wheter global warming exist or if it is man made. On the contrary, there is overwhelming consensus in the world scientific community that global warming is real, is man made and was forseen and foretold over, at the very least, the last three decades. The esteemed Senator from Oklahoma is a moron, an embicile and one of the people who contribute to the continued peril of us all. And for what reason might I ask?
July 25th, 2006 at 2:24 pmI AM FROM OKLAHOMA, BUT THOSE TWO IDIOTS INHOFE AND COBURN EMBARASS THE WHOLE STATE. INHOFE IS THE IDIOT WHO ON THE NIGHT OF THE OKC BOMBING, SAID WHILE WE DON’T LIKE CLINTON’S POLITICS, WE ACCEPT HIS HELP. I MEAN, WHAT A TIME TO BRING UP POLITICS RIGHT AFTER THE MOST HORRIBLE TERRORISM TO THAT DATE. HE IS AN IDIOT. FOR EVERYONE OUT THERE, WE STILL HAVE A FEW TRUTHSEEKERS AND RATIONAL PEOPLE LEFT IN OKLAHOMA
July 25th, 2006 at 2:32 pm#265: If you are so insistent that progressives are unscientific in their approach to global warming, please provide a link to one peer-reviewed scientific study that challenges the notion that global warming is happening and that it is caused in part by human activities.
Or I can just save you the trouble: there are no such studies.
July 25th, 2006 at 2:36 pmInhofe is right about one thing: Global Warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American Public, and you guys call him an idiot?
July 25th, 2006 at 2:41 pm#288: In what way is global warming a hoax? Are you suggesting that the 2500 members of the International Panel on Climate Change are guilty of hoaxing the American public? What proof do you have to support this claim?
July 25th, 2006 at 3:00 pmDouche
July 25th, 2006 at 3:12 pmI had absolutely no idea that the citizens of Oklahoma are so stupid and backward. It must be alarming for people in other countries to observe that such a man can be elected to high national office within the world’s greatest nuclear superpower. This man is the poster boy for the dangers of mixing church and state. Rational human thought is an alien concept wherever such people can “win” elections.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:43 pmWe need tight little sound bites that make such claims look as absurd as they are. I suggest, “Why confuse people with facts when lies are so much more convenient.”
July 25th, 2006 at 3:53 pmSeth and K.Marx, and whatever other trolls are in here flinging shit about this….I need you to clarify something about causes for fear and concern…
You want everyone to dismiss the reality of global warming, and not “be chicken” about it, but you have no problem at all being afraid of terrorists – so afraid (and cowardly) that you would (and have) killed a bunch of innocent children to assuage that fear. You also have no problem being afraid of gay people, afraid of Mexicans, and afraid of “liberals”. Cowardly, is the only fair way to describe your thought processes, and the policies your irrational fears give rise to. If you were in battle with Sgt. Rock, or on a cattle drive with John Wayne, they’d send you home to your mommies. Try to buck up a little courage, and face the world that the grownups have to deal with.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:07 pmI agree with Randi Rhodes: remember, we’re dealing with a republican from Oklahoma. Maybe Senator Inbred meant the Nazi thing as a compliment!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:25 pmDo you all realize that both Gore and NASA scientist James Hansen have also used Nazi analogies? Are you all goign to condemn them as well? See below:
Former Vice President Al Gore has used numerous Nazi analogies in speaking on environmental issues.
In Gore’s 1992 book “Earth in the Balance†he wrote:
“Today the evidence of an ecological Kristallnacht is as clear as the sound of glass shattering in Berlin,” Gore wrote.
(Note: On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of pogroms against Germany’s Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (”Night of Broken Glass”) for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets (Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
Gore’s book also noted an “unfolding ecological holocaust†and cited the quote by Martin Neimoller:
“When the Nazis came for the Communists, I remained silent; I was not a Communist. …When they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; I was not a Jew…†Gore also called himself and his environmental allies “the new resistance.â€
Ø More recently, in 2004, Gore said of the Bush administration (June 26, 2005 – Chicago Tribune) :
“The administration works closely with a network of ‘rapid response’ digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’”
Ø In 2005, Gore used a Nazi analogy in a global warming speech to students at the University of Michigan. According to the October 25, 2005 Michigan Daily newspaper:
“Gore compared the dangers of climate change with Nazi Germany’s threat to Europe in the 1930s, likening those who ignore the threat of global warming to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who attempted to stay Adolf Hitler’s aggression by appeasing his territorial ambitions. Quoting Winston Churchill, he said procrastination is no longer viable and that humanity is entering a “period of consequences.”
Ø NASA’s James Hansen has also used Nazi analogies. In a 2006 Washington Post article, Hansen was quoted on alleged scientific censorship in the Bush Administration (Hansen as quoted in the February 11, 2006, Washington Post “Censorship Is Alleged at NOAA: Scientists Afraid to Speak Out, NASA Climate Expert Reports http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021001766.html?referrer=delicious):
“It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the United States,” said Hansen, prompting a round of applause from the audience. He added that while NOAA officials said they maintain the policy for their scientists’ protection, “if you buy that one please see me at the break, because there’s a bridge down the street I’d like to sell you.”
July 25th, 2006 at 4:43 pmJust another global warming denying simpleton. Carbon dioxide is life??? I bet this freaky hick has never heard of Lake Nyos in Africa, where carbon escaped from the lake and killed 1700 people.
July 25th, 2006 at 6:11 pm#295: The difference, of course, is that Gore isn’t comparing his opponents to Nazis, as Inhofe did. Do you think climate change scientists at the IPCC or the NAS are like Nazis? If so, where is your evidence?
July 25th, 2006 at 6:15 pmAnd I thought only Santorum could make such stupid comments.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:03 pmJust because some scientists believe the hoax does not mean it is not a hoax.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:56 pmyou’re a flippin genius, aren’t you mike morgan? keep that foil hat cinched down tight, and don’t let those doctors tell you otherwise – Medicine is a Hoax, too!!
July 25th, 2006 at 8:18 pm299 posts and not a single discussion about solutions.
no, instead let’s just dwell on some asshat from oklahoma who believes the earth is 6000 years old. let’s give him a thread and rebroadcast his rantings, and give his nutjob skeptic friends a new forum to disseminate their ignorance.
can anybody here remember the last tp thread actually dedicated to anyone talking about solutions (besides gore)? or is it just better to keep giving these freaks free publicity? is this how you end the debate — by continuing it?
carbon neutral programs, electric cars, ethanol, wind farms, new green industries, anything? judd does about as much to spread the idiot-skeptic message as the skeptics do.
July 25th, 2006 at 8:28 pmthis is global warming progress?
I resent the Oklahoma bashing. We are not all a bunch of idiots. We “Okies” are not the only state to elect a bunch of repugs to office, so let up on the state blame. Unless you live or have lived here than the right to condemn is short handed.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:21 pmThe sewage doesnt start and stop here, remember Texas is south of us and look at the crap coming out of that state.
sorry e. simpson.
but i must note that you are guilty of doing exactly what you ask people to stop doing, in the very same post. you say don’t blame oklahoma, then go on to blame texas.
kinda undermines your entire point.
July 25th, 2006 at 10:22 pmnot blaming texas,,im just saying the same crap is all over the place. keep the finger in your own backyard…
July 25th, 2006 at 10:47 pmand my refernce was to the “leader of the country” not so much the people in it.
July 25th, 2006 at 10:51 pmok.
i can agree that there are right wing whackjobs from every state.
having spent a decent amount of time in OK, i have to say i’ve met some nice people there, and not all okies are to blame for coburn and inhofe. unfortunately, they don’t reflect too well upon you!
incidentally, the “leader of the country” is as about as much a texan as i am a venutian. but your point is taken, given the quality of the texas politicians: kb hutch, cornyn, gov perry, and of course the inimitable delay.
on the other hand, there is a texas representative that the libertarians call their own (even tho he runs as a republican) — ron paul. he voted against the iraq war, and is a true small gov’t fiscal conservative. republicans would be tolerable if they were all more like him and less like pat robertson.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:01 pm[...] He compares environmentalists to Nazis. WTF? [source] [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 11:57 pmI’m from Oklahoma and i’m embarrassed by this idiot. Did not vote for him. Oklahoma has issues with their politicians and religion. Do not know how to separate the two. We have another nut named Tom Coburn.
July 26th, 2006 at 3:23 amThe time is long past due to rid ourselves of people like Inhofe and the rest of this bunch. If we don’t do it soon, there will be no looking back. The past, the present, and the future will be gone. They must be taken down like they were taken down in the sixties, only this time it must be final.
July 26th, 2006 at 9:06 amThis uneducated and uncurious, two a priori requirements for linkage to GWB, man needs a subscription to the journal Science, which if he reads might well enable him to comment in a substantial way.
By the way, Mr Inhofe may well represent a recent fast tracked evolutionary creature, one whose appearance was six years ago and whose phenotypic expression is that its cephalic end has begun new growth into the distal end of its alimentary canal.
July 26th, 2006 at 9:28 amDoes anyone get it yet? Stupidity follows religion in direct proportion. The more religious the person the stupider they are.
They prove it daily. Inhofe uses his religion and the TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars he receives from energy companies to spew medieval thinking into the public airwaves.
Sort term thinking and irrational thought processes.
The vast majority of the American public uses short term thinking and irrationality as the foundation of their lives. Inhofe is one of them. In addition, he perfectly reflects the average thinking of the voters in OK. If that were not the case, he would not get continuously reelected.
It’s quite unfortunate that our country is totally broken. The American experiment is definitely over. The fact that utter and complete morons like this man, Coburn, Stevens from AK, Santorum from PA, etc get elected over and over is proof that the country is using irrational short term thinking as the basis for their decision making.
The rest of the world is wise to this sham. We are not. What it means is that the rest of the world is getting an education about the difference between make-believe and reality, while we allow mythology to rule our lives and our politics.
July 26th, 2006 at 9:34 amI think it is we, the ones who understand what’s happening, who will remember you, Senator, for what you are. You are a liar quoting “The Big Lie” the Oil Companies have paid you to tell. You are the Nazi fascist. You are reprehensible and disgusting and you and your like will be made to pay for your sins.
July 26th, 2006 at 10:50 am#301 – Organizing in unions and striking is the only way to affect mass economic change, here, or anywhere else in the world, in the past, the present and the future. Progressives and the D’s have been shamed away from that crucial reality, and until there is a labor movement afoot again in the US that carries the same clout it did in the years after the Big wars, we will all be stuck under the wingtip of a plutocratic regime bent on enriching itself at all costs. That is all that has happened since the union-busters took over in DC in the 70’s. Unions, not free markets, made the American Dream reality. So there’s your solution talk. Too bad the common folk nowadays are too timid, dependent, ignorant, and cowardly to do what their grandparents and great-grandparents did, and the learned and professional among us see organizing as a shameful confession of blue-collarly dependence. For the causes of vanity and ignorance, there’s nothing an American won’t sacrifice, apparently.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:06 pm” Senator” Inhofe is either a colossal ignoramus or a shameless corporate shill. My guess is more of the latter. To attempt the refute the expert opinion of the world’s scientific community without any facts to back up his rantings is typical of these soulless creeps who have highjacked our democracy. In addition, by comparing global warming activists to Nazis is unbelievably ludicrous and a major embarrassment to his home state of Oklahoma. The sad part is that there are so many misinformed citizens who actually believe these harmful lies. We can thank the corporate owned mass media for their negligence regarding their responsibility to practice genuine journalism; and, report the truth for the benifit of the world community instead of the top 1/10th of .01 percent of the wealthy elite.
July 27th, 2006 at 12:47 pmThe clue:
It’s called the “greenhouse effect” because it is an observed phenomenon in greenhouses.
It is unfathomable to think that burning trillions of gallons of oil products and trillions of tons of coal while simultaneously eliminating millions of acres of forest over the past 100 years hasn’t produce an unnatural abundance of gasses that retain heat and raise the planet’s temperature.
Congress will change more rapidly if we can get the redistricting laws changed so they actually have to earn their job term-to-term….
Meanwhile, please check out a proposal on how to make Distributed electricity Generation work with solar… netguyct.blogspot.com
July 27th, 2006 at 11:54 pmMany people act like “global warming” is fact and on many occasions have referred to it as scientific fact, but the possiblility that scientists might have gotten wrong is unthinkable to many of these people. Yet, historically science has been ever changing and redefining what is “fact”. Cases in point it was once “scientific fact” that all the planets and stars revolved around the sun – years later – oh wait, that’s not fact – fact is that the Earth revolves around the sun. It was once “scientific fact” that caucasians are smarter than those of darker skin color – years later- oh wait, that’s not fact – fact is that there are varying intelligences and race does not determine intelligence. The examples go on and on and yet many people treat this theory of global warming as if it is solid, unchanging, factual truth when it is in fact a theory. Like all theories it is based on observed instances as well as recorded data. However, for every piece of data that contends there is global warming there is another piece of data that stands against it.
The case has been made that “glaciers are melting and temperatures are rising!”, however, when looking at the history of the planet – caution: not history since humans have been on the planet – glaciers have melted and the temperature has always been varied from year to year, decade to decade, and on and on.
Additionally, Sen. Inhofe is not comparing those that believe in global warming to Nazis. He is comparing the tactic of using propoganda to spread the word of global warming similar to those tactics of propoganda used by the Nazi party.
One observation I have made on this particular topic and of many on the left, in general, is that many of them cannot help but sling personal insults in order to prove their point. Rather than personally attacking the senator try combatting his ideas factually with some sort of thoughtful point or strategy.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:58 amThe Senator and his ilk started long ago making it
personal. Climatologists, atmospheric chemists and atmospheric
physicists have been labeled as being hucksters out for more funding,
liars, lefties out to ruin the economy and pawns of the dreaded U.N.
If there is anyone using “Big lie” tactics It would have to be Inhofe et al. As for a rebuttal of his points
see
One of the many good sites that give a good background
on the issue and where one can see just how off base Inhofe’s comments
are is:
This one comes from the well respected Americian Physicial Society
August 1st, 2006 at 8:26 am[...] What to call those who deny that global warming is an urgent problem or who seek to delay strong action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, people like Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) or President George W. Bush or Michael Crichton, author of State of Fear, a deeply flawed novel that attacks climate science and climate scientists? This is a question that everyone who writes on climate change must grapple with. [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 8:14 pmHe says that he will believe global warming when serious scientists start using sound science…BUT THEY’RE ALREADY DOING THAT. What a freaking idiot!
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:12 pmI’m in school researching Global Warming for a project, and I used this website to help me research the opposing opinion. All I can say is: How can anyone be so dumb?
I obviously do not have as much knowledge as the other comments posted on this site but even I know what’s going on in our world! Turning a blind eye and trying to poison the internet with information that has startling evidence supported by SCIENTISTS (which he will never be no matter how rich he is) is just plain idiotic. Anyway, what’s he worrying about? He’s going to lose all his money anyway if our climate keeps changing. Idiot.
August 30th, 2006 at 12:54 pmYou’ve got to be kidding – you make it sound as if only progressives fling mud. Go to any right wing forum and bask in the hate. Someone should do a study to determine which political bent has more death threats – left or right.
The concept of a flat earth, centered in the universe, is a concept based on myth – not one based on scientific evidence. The earliest claim for the round shape of the Earth is probably from Pythagoras (500 BCE), however, the controversy continued for some time because of the people’s limited understanding of gravity. The beauty of science is that is self-correcting, but it is rare a theory gets totally turned on its head. More often, a theory is expanded or modified to account for new discoveries.
This, in a way, reminds me of the tobacco companies’ propaganda war against any research stating the dangers of using their products. Ever wonder why the electric car died? It could have been part of the solution to reduce greenhouse gases, but then their were people who could see the electric car as a danger to them making even more money through fossil fuel consumption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
Could I ask for a reliable source for your statement:
Finally, what is the problem? We are running out of fossil fuels, looking for clean alternatives seems like a great idea even if global warming was not occurring. We are gambling with the future of humanity, if we ignore global warming and find it is a reality it will be too late.
September 10th, 2006 at 4:12 pmAs a native Okie, I believe that there are two incredibly influential factors to consider when speaking of Tulsans.
1) Tulsa is the BUCKLE of the bible belt. It is absolutely inescapable. Religion is immersed into every aspect of the Tulsa lifestyle. This is a place where Coburn, in his campaign commercials, referenced Jesus Christ as his personal lord and savior because he really thought that people wanted to hear that. And they did!!!! They voted for him because he is their own kind. Hard core christianity is the norm, not the exception. They not only voted Bush in, but they threatened people who didn’t. Churches all over the city were telling their flock that it would be a sin to vote in a Democrat. If a Democrat were to say the sky was blue, the extremists would say he was a heathen sent by the devil to confuse the people. All Inhoff has to do is to say that he is “one of them” and Okies will vote for him based on that. But even more important, he really believes that crap because that’s the environment (no pun intended) that he grew up in.
The other important factor is that 2) Tulsa, until fairly recently, held the decades-long title as the “Oil Capitol of the World”. It is an oil city and there are lots of oilmen, christian extreme right oilmen, putting people into office who will have their back.
Now as I said, I’m a native Oklahoman, and I love the heart of the Oklahoma people, but truth is withheld, science is condemned, people are told what to think and believe, and no one – NO ONE – ever questions it, because to do so would be blasphemous. I feel very sad for Oklahoma. I want the best for them, but they are so misled. Its just sad.
So the point of my comments is that one has to consider the source. I don’t know Inhoff personally so I can’t say that he is actually an idiot or even a horrible person. But I think WHERE he comes from has everything to do with the way he thinks. I think he really believes what he says to be true. His biggest mistake is not so much what he said, but is in fact that he hasn’t researched it to come up with his own genuine opinion based on said research. Instead, like many Okies, he just follows the flock. He is, in essence, the sheep leading the sheep.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:09 pm[...] Better yet, here’s a link for an article in Tulsa World, in which the neatly coiffed Inhofe really lets his hair down. Unfortunately, it seems that his original comments linking hysterical greenies to Nazis has been removed. Too bad, because let’s face it, yesterday’s Nazis used gas; today’s Nazis scream “Gas!” [...]
September 26th, 2006 at 2:13 pmI believe that the earth was created by God and that he died for are sins,
I DO NOT
October 4th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
I believe:
- the world is warming
- it may be in some part due to humans but i think its exagurated
- that people in todays society have concerns about poverty and the enviorment and see this as a way for a world without these things.
- if climate change is accepted by a generartion which it pretty much is, politically the united states will be forced to accept the kyoto protocol or one similar and they will start paying hugh money to other countries, therby redistributing their money to the poorer nations.
- once this happens it will enable china and india and europe to catch up and slowly dilute americas superpower status
- then most people hope we will all live in harmony hold hands, put daisys in our hair and ride horses
- but i do wonder about the inbuilt human desire to be better than their neighbour?
- I will always want to be better and feel more successful, I dont want an even world, I like a society where if you are clever and invent something you become a gazillionaire.
- but I think for a while anyway we will go the green way
- the one thing in my favour is that i will be alive to see the pro climate change gurus snivelling and groaning their weay into an explanation as to why nothing has happened, seeing as though” we are at the point of no return” it should only be 10 years before their is significant visible tangible evidence of sea level rises, than are not within the 1-2mm, I need to see 300-500mm, places flooding all these dreadful things forecast.
- I wont see this and I will have been right
Id love to hear you slate me now.
ps im from new Zealand not oaklahoma
November 6th, 2006 at 1:31 pm2007 Climate Change Performance Index…
Germanwatch and the Climate Action Network-Europe (CANE) have released their 2007 Climate Change Performance Index. Their press rele……
November 16th, 2006 at 3:43 amINHOFE: Global Warming a Hoax…
Oh yea, I get it….
The top industries supporting James M. Inhofe are:
November 19th, 2006 at 10:16 am1 Oil & Gas $311,208
2 Electric Utilities $180,907
WTF haha stupid bitch!!! U R A MORON!!!
December 4th, 2006 at 5:30 pmI’ve never seen such a collective bunch of arogant, hate filled babble in my entire life. All of you libs have way too much time on your hands. Nothing but a bunch of alarmist moonbats.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:59 pmCOL Keating, who has time on their hands to take a cursory reading of the comments, make the conclusion that most of the opinion is ‘liberal’, and then post ad hominem arguments singlehandedly announcing your ignorance?
December 18th, 2006 at 9:25 am[...] On November 17th, Inhofe, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, told Fox News viewers not to worry about global warming. Why shouldn’t we worry? Because “God’s still up there,” he said. In July, he compared Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Inhofe is the outgoing chairman of the Senate Committee on, get this, the Environment and Public Works. [...]
December 21st, 2006 at 7:53 pmI don’t know Prairie Moon, but a cursory reading of the comments certainly does appear to support a notion that most are from a liberal perspective. Is there something wrong with that on a blog called Think Progress?
Perhaps Inhofe is the one espousing An Inconvenient Truth . . . albeit doing so badly.
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 pmReading over the responses of those on the Left makes me laugh as I recognize how intolerant and hateful they are toward any whose ideas are not the same as theirs. How dangerous!
Leftitsts out of one side of their face would have us believe that consensus (as an argument) is good and has been reached regarding “Global Warming,” but out of the other side of their face they argue that consensus is bad. (Consensus at one point in our history suggested that the world was flat ~ a claim the Left mistakenly argues was promoted only by the preeminant leaders of the church.)
Regardless, consensus is not science; it is politics. Consensus is fixated on how many people agree with something, not whether or not something is correct. Science, by its very nature, must ask questions! If polled, a “consensus” of scientists would argue, “There is no cure for cancer.” But, do we ask them to not still search? Question? Probe for an answer? Of course not! To blindly accept “Global Warming” is no better than to blindly deny its possiblity. Therein lies the rub! What standard is used to determine “truth?”
Do we use consensus, a political equation used by many throughout history to bully others into submission (rightly or wrongly)? Consensus suggests that the matter is solved, thus ending debate.
Or, do we use science, which by its very nature reaches no consensus, for it is forever quesitoning, probing, revising, etc.? Debate MUST continue in order for science to be valid! Consensus can not be reached because consensus is NOT science!
Attacking those who believe in a scientific approach to finding answers flies in the face of seeking truth via scientific discovery ~ a very dangerous approach from those on the Left.
December 28th, 2006 at 3:29 am[...] But even if Mr. Schwarzenegger’s miraculous conversion from Hummer shill to climate steward is sincere, we should ask ourselves: Does a reality-based stance on climate change earn the Governor, or any “right-wing greens” like him, a pass on other political and social issues? More importantly, how much support should the Sierra Club or other prominent environmental organizations give Mr. Schwarzenegger and his ilk? In Rhode Island, the Sierra Club endorsed Lincoln Chafee during the last election. While Mr. Chafee had a laudable voting record on green issues, his reelection, as it turns out, would have kept the Senate in Republican hands. What would that have meant? Senator Jim “An Inconvenient Truth is like Mein Kampf“ Inhofe—Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, that’s what. [...]
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:02 pm[...] Thanks to Raw Story for the “heads up” and you may find the piece here at Think Progress.com. [...]
January 8th, 2007 at 10:11 amIf we do not act now, the conquenses of Globel Warming will be billions of times greater than the Holacaust. Global Warming is a fact and it is very clear that this republician senator will go with anything spoon fed to him by his superiors, listening to Bush is very comparable to listening to Hilter. Bush is evil, he lacks respect for human rights the delicate enviroment, and any non-white non christian and non supportative persons. The current administration is as evil as the third Reich. Sorry Mr. Senator, but you are the one who is being lied to and brain washed. And we must legalize pot, thatd be tight as hell.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:44 pmThere’s a simple way to avoid global warming.
Human breath contains CO2. All we need is for every US liberal to promise that they won’t breathe for one day per year – just one day - and the unassailably imminent global catastrophe can be avoided.
Think about it. Just one short day every year without exhaling and you can save Mother Earth. Just one day, that’s all I ask. Who could be so selfish as to deny our precious planet the help she so urgently needs for the sake of just one day’s giving? Any minute now the apocalyptic destruction of our planet might leap from Al Gore’s head into reality.
Liberals, neo-hippies, environ-mentalists, boomers; I appeal to you. Please, please, please, for the sake of current and future generations, give up breathing for just one day this year. We’ll call it ‘National Anti-aspiration Day’. You can even have a coloured ribbon if you want. A sort of cold blue would be good. Act now, before it’s too late.
Remember; just one day is all it takes to Save the World!
Peace out.
January 18th, 2007 at 3:46 pmthe fascism is always the other Mister Inhofe.
January 22nd, 2007 at 5:31 amPeople, open your eyes to what is going on here.
February 11th, 2007 at 10:26 pmThe sky is not really falling and the king is truely naked. You are being lied to. It is a lie! Please open your eyes.
your an idiot mate u dont know anything about global warming .
yours sincerely tomas
February 12th, 2007 at 8:55 pmu silly grass haoppa u need a good lesson in life mate ps tom is stupid
February 12th, 2007 at 8:59 pmshut up azza u dickhead
February 12th, 2007 at 8:59 pmshut up azza u poo bum
February 12th, 2007 at 9:00 pmazza is a poo bum
February 12th, 2007 at 9:01 pmim very smart and iu now every thing u dont the person that made this site is sillly and thinks hes cool but hes not tom mears id=s a stupid juvinal kid that is silly
February 12th, 2007 at 9:01 pmWho are these idiots whom you allow to comment on your site without any scientific evidence for their statements deriding Senator Inhofe’s position on global warming. Have you ever taken a course in geology? Are you aware that Earth has suffered 10 major and 50 minor ice ages prior to human industrialization, with much ice melting in between? That Manhattan was under 2,000 feet of ice 12,000 years ago, and that the oceans have risen 320 feet since then and continue rising. I do not recall our being industrialized except for the past 200 years out the 12,000, or are you going to argue that too. You lunatics are hi-jacking this country and brain-washing our children, but your stupidy will be exposed for what it is. I suppose you believe the earth is flat also? That is why Inhofe called it the Big Lie — he is absolutely right, I am a 58-year-old life-long Democrat woman who simply can’t stand stupidity in her fellow countrymen. Why don’t you spend your time trying to stop the war in Iraq or is your lazy butt n0t on the line over there? I have three children in the military and frankly don’t have time for your nonsense, nor does most of the country. Go study prehistory or to to work on some serious issues.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:19 pmI notice that your subscribers do not rely on any scientific fact in their comments. Is global warming now the new religion of the left? I am a life-long Democrat and a woman, but I fancy myself intelligent and well-read and I cannot stand stupidity, which you and your subscribers seem to demonstrate. James Inhofe is correct — global warming is the BIG LIE and you are a bunch of flat earth society lunatics. Did you never study geology or prehistory? How could you have gotten through school without knowing that the Earth has suffered 10 major and 50 minor ice ages before human industrialization. with inter-mediate warming spells, such as the dinosaur era. Carbon dioxide was much higher during the dinosaur era. Manhattan was under 2,000 feet of ice 12,000 years ago, and oceans have risen 320 feet since then. I suppose you think that dinosaurs caused their own extinction with coal-fired power plants. So something useful such as stopping the war in Iraq. resources away from importanta causes.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:29 pm[...] Al Gore is “full of crap” and compared people who believe in global warming to “the Third Reich.” During today’s Senate hearing, Inhofe used a considerable amount of time to attack [...]
March 21st, 2007 at 6:08 pm[...] has said Al Gore is “full of crap†and compared people who believe in global warming to “the Third Reich.†During today’s Senate hearing, Inhofe used a considerable amount of time to attack Gore’s [...]
March 21st, 2007 at 9:11 pm[...] didn’t think it was possible to dislike Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Denial) any more than I already did, but he has proven me wrong. Because of him and Senate Minority Leader [...]
April 10th, 2007 at 11:57 pm