Glenn Beck Exhales And States: ‘Look How Much Pollution I Just Put Out!’
Glenn Beck Exhales And States: ‘Look How Much Pollution I Just Put Out!’
On his Fox News show today, comedian Glenn Beck interviewed Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) to mock the danger of global warming. In what he billed as an “Inconvenient Segment,” Beck argued that a “smoking gun” memo proves that the proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding on the threat of global warming pollution is based on politics instead of science.
“It turns out, the truth that’s inconvenient is that it’s not like any of this stuff is based on, you know, science. It’s all politics,” Beck said of the danger of carbon pollution. He concluded:
By the way, just so you know, this show has won so many science awards, sometimes we get talking about high-falutin science things like this, and people are like, “What are you talkin’ about?” So let me break it down. Carbon dioxide is basically this. (Exhales.) Look at how much pollution I just put out.
Watch it:
Unless you eat fossil fuels, spewing hot air from one’s mouth is not a major source for pollution…except for Glenn Beck.
Barrasso told Beck that the Obama administration is using the threat of EPA regulation of carbon dioxide “as a club to force cap-and-trade taxes,” but that he is using this memo to say, “Hey look, the science isn’t behind you.”
As Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag explained, however, the White House agreed that the “proposed finding is carefully rooted in both law and science,” and the “OMB simply collated and collected disparate comments from various agencies during the inter-agency review process of the proposed finding.” The author of the skeptical comments forwarded by the OMB was Joseph M. Johnson, a Bush administration holdover in the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. In 2005, Johnson joined the SBA from the Mercatus Center, an anti-regulatory think tank founded by right-wing pollution giant Koch Industries.
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Every time Beck opens his mouth he spews forth pollution.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:36 pmRepublicans: trite since 1980.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:40 pmBeck is a wingnut tool. He claims to be a comedian but he’s not even funny. I’d like to see a plastic bag tied over his head – see how long he lasts before he blacks out.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:43 pmNixon was a criminal but at least he had a brain. I guess he was the last Republican who did.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:44 pmYou’d think 12 year olds had the vote.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:45 pmI looked at Becky and puked so, he helped me create a biological weapon. This means he helped me become a terrorist! Becky HELPS terrorists!
May 13th, 2009 at 8:46 pmBoy, when he’s right, he’s RIGHT. Gotta give it to him on that one. Everything out of his mouth is pollution.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:50 pmI have yet to hear Palin mock the flooding and giant chunks of ice that wiped out a small town
May 13th, 2009 at 8:51 pmI think Beck needs to visit a Smithfield manure lagoon in La Gloria, Mexico..inhale, then exhale.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pmGlenn Beck Exhales And States: ‘Look How Much Pollution I Just Put Out!’
– - Beck can have a bunch of cows come on his show and fart methane gas. He can start by inviting Rush.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pmA better question is: How much alcohol and marijuana did Beck inhale?
May 13th, 2009 at 8:57 pmGlenn Beck: “Look at how much pollution I just put out.”
Ain’t it the truth, Becky. (sigh)
On the other hand, we could have fun with his quote, i.e., ‘Glenn Beck sez, “Look…I just put out!”
May 13th, 2009 at 9:00 pmI’ve TRIED to watch his blowhards’ show and I’ve FAILED – I just can’t. All these FAUX Noise mouthpieces have their heads stuck so far up their a$$es that it doesn’t surprise me that they say things like this. I also can’t believe that ANYONE with a brain would believe their crap.
What scares me even more is those that listen to this crap and BELIEVE it. Ug! We need to put tracking devices on anyone that listens to reich-winger media crap.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:01 pmthanks a lot
Hikaye
May 13th, 2009 at 9:01 pmHikayeler
Hosting
The cap and trade system is going to sell credits for pollution. The major polluters are not going to pollute less, they just are going to pay more in new forms of taxation. This type of taxation is not going to reduce emissions at all. Anyone with a brain is going to buy up these credits as soon as they come out, then within a year or so they will skyrocket in price. That means that smaller newer businesses are going to fail because they will not be able to expand(not able to afford credits). Its a proposal that seems crap no matter which way you look at it.
Global warming is a religion that is about as hard to prove as any other religion. If people really wanted to save the environment they would stop eating so much beef. Because they cut down the rain forest for beef production. The rain forest takes care of our carbon dioxide. Also Plankton in the ocean gets rid of CO2, but we keep dumping radioactive waste in there. Those are 2 major issue that this type of legislation completely ignores.
I think glen beck is a joke, not a comedian, does that mean fox new is really comedy central? They’ve gotta get the guy who has his hand up billo’s arse, is it jeff dunam?
May 13th, 2009 at 9:02 pmGlenn Beck is correct. He’s a waste of good oxygen.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:03 pm“…this show has won so many science awards…”
WTF?
May 13th, 2009 at 9:03 pmJane E. Schneider Says:
“…this show has won so many science awards…”
WTF?
– - Yes, I frequently mistake Glenn Beck for Don Herbert and Bill Nye.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:05 pmAs Beck and his ilk have a following, isn’t there some responsibility here? These guys should be charged with criminal negligence.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:09 pmGlen, it was your mother who put out the pollution in your family, in the form of you .
May 13th, 2009 at 9:09 pmNope, not gonna waste 2 minutes 27 seconds of my life watching Glenn “I see fascists” Beck.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:10 pmPlease tell me this turd did not reproduce?!?!?!
May 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pmGlenn Beck really isn’t worth the air he breaths. As far as pollution well that happens every time he opens his mouth! The guy is an entertainer, anyone who follows Beck for any length of time experiences brain cell death. It is proven fact, studies have been done, hard science. Honest
May 13th, 2009 at 9:13 pmPerhaps the first valid thing he has said in his career–or at least in a long, long time.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:14 pmLet’s just say for the sake of argument that global warming is not caused by man. Now we would still be using energy that requires oil that is imported from foreign countries where we do not have the best relationships with. Now say we have technology research that will get us off that dependence? Would you still want to use oil then? Plus these new technologies will create American jobs, which are needed now more than ever.
Are conservatives so scared of change that even when it will easily benefit the country they say no?
May 13th, 2009 at 9:16 pmBy the way, just so you know, this show has won so many science awards
Assbag of the Year is not a science award , Mr Beck ..
May 13th, 2009 at 9:17 pmI agree with that. Yet I find some FOX show funny.
But I shouldnt because most are about dysfunctional families or friends. From Friends to Christina to The Simpsons.
Sure, they are funny when scripted but in real life its a disaster
May 13th, 2009 at 9:21 pmGlenn Beck Exhales And States: ‘Look How Much Pollution I Just Put Out!’
Yes, methane is a greenhouse gas (and worse that CO2). But Beck needs to learn to differentiate his caudum from his rostrum.
Cheers,
May 13th, 2009 at 9:22 pmBeckster continues to be one of the top five stupidest people on the planet today…
May 13th, 2009 at 9:25 pmLook Glenn, too much carbon dioxide is bad. If you dont think so sit in a sealed room for a few days. The human body doesnt create oxygen, you will die from your own ‘pollution’ from bith your lungs AND your rectum
May 13th, 2009 at 9:25 pmwhy flatter this guy, calling him a “comedian”?
… that’s an insult to actual funny guys…
…
Even With a Climate-Change Deal, Some Democrats Uncommitted
Wall Street Journal – ?49 minutes ago?
By Siobhan Hughes WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Last-minute negotiating within the Democratic caucus on a climate-change bill continued in earnest through Wednesday, with oil refiners jockeying for more consideration and lawmakers from low-income regions …
Round #1 Compromise on Climate Bill: Cut Clean Energy Requirements Reuters
Republicans push changes to US climate bill Washington Post
AFP – The Hill – New York Times – The Washington Independent
all 365 news articles »
http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ncl=dyk0u7argT1cBlMVzQg9JMrDcfprM&topic=h
… who won this past november?
May 13th, 2009 at 9:27 pmBeck: “Look at how much pollution I just put out.”
Ain’t that the truth. Beck puts the P in pollution as he pollutes the airwaves with crapola. The need for a gas mask is needed every time Beck opens his mouth.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:27 pmbenji85 Says:
Let’s just say for the sake of argument that global warming is not caused by man. Now we would still be using energy that requires oil that is imported from foreign countries where we do not have the best relationships with. Now say we have technology research that will get us off that dependence? Would you still want to use oil then? Plus these new technologies will create American jobs, which are needed now more than ever.
Are conservatives so scared of change that even when it will easily benefit the country they say no?”
It’s called nuclear energy and drilling offshore to get American oil…….Would that make the progressives “scared of change that will easily benefit the country..”?
May 13th, 2009 at 9:27 pmHikaye/Hikayeler?
If it is sex related it has to be good…
May 13th, 2009 at 9:29 pmTruer words have never been spoken
May 13th, 2009 at 9:35 pmWinski Says:
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Beckster continues to be one of the top five stupidest people on the planet today…
May 13th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
With the other 4 being Bush , Bible Spice Palin , Steve King and Michelle Bachmann………
May 13th, 2009 at 9:37 pmWe are all nuclear. Would people stop acting as if that word was some super weapon.
We can, and do, make natural barium [refrigerator magnet] reactors. Drilling offshore? Why? oil usage is down, people are driving less. We have billions of barrels of oil. some sitting in tankers. What we need is refineries.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:37 pmThat’s why we have laws against inbreeding.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:42 pmIn fact the UAE is planning on reducing oil siphoning by some 4.2 million barrels a day because of low prices
May 13th, 2009 at 9:45 pmrepugs have made stupid profitable.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:45 pmVincennes Says:
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That’s why we have laws against inbreeding.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Which the GOP and their imbecilic backers oppose , because that would mean they would never get laid …….
May 13th, 2009 at 9:46 pmHow is drilling offshore of Cuba Americam oil?
Has the limits changed?
Last I heard international waters was some 20 or 40 miles offshore
May 13th, 2009 at 9:47 pmbenji85 Says:
Are conservatives so scared of change that even when it will easily benefit the country they say no?
In a word, yes. But it’s more than that. They will relent and support getting off fossil fuels for our energy needs just as soon as they figure out how to make as much money off alternative fuels as they are making now off fossil fuels. Until then, as far as they are concerned, fossil fuels make them more money, fossil fuels it shall continue to be.
In short, they’re greedy, selfish scum.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:48 pmRP2012 Says:
It’s called nuclear energy and drilling offshore to get American oil…….Would that make the progressives “scared of change that will easily benefit the country..”?
First, I dispute the use of the phrase “easily benefit the country.”
There are practical and sensible reasons to oppose nuclear power. Would you like the radioactive waste literally dumped into your backyard? No intelligent person would. Also, accidents do happen, and when they do, thousands of lives are endangered. And would you really want to live near a prime terrorist target?
As for offshore drilling, many of us are concerned about what happens when an accident spills oil into the water? It doesn’t matter that the chance of it happening is low, it does happen. And when it does, the damage to the local eco-system can take decades to recover. But because one can’t put a dollar figure on the value to mankind of our eco-system, capitalists dismiss it as irrelevant. It is not. It is, in no uncertain terms, essential to human survival.
I’m sure other reasons exist to oppose nuclear power and offshore drilling, and they have nothing to do with being “scared of change that will easily benefit the country.”
May 13th, 2009 at 9:57 pmbenji85 Says: Are conservatives so scared of change that even when it will easily benefit the country they say no?
The word conservative was coined by a frenchman who wanted to conserve, or keep, the ways of King, Monarch, or Lord, with Clergy, ruling over the ignorant and powerless masses.
It has nothing to do with conserving energy
May 13th, 2009 at 10:11 pmRP2012, where do you live. I’ll have the nine nuclear plants in Illinois drop their spent rods in your back yard. Because the storage facility at Yucca Mountain that was started in 1987 has fatal flaws and it looks like it’s not going to happen. So every plant in the country has been storing waste on site even though they promised decades ago that it wouldn’t happen. Now, your address please.
May 13th, 2009 at 10:19 pmMCMetal Says:
Which the GOP and their imbecilic backers oppose , because that would mean they would never get laid …….
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That’s silly, MC.
Everyone knows you can’t get an inflatable doll, or your hand, pregnant.
May 13th, 2009 at 10:25 pmthis man is nauseating. I cannot make myself watch the whole thing because it sickens me. are there really people stupid enough to believe this crap?
May 13th, 2009 at 10:45 pmIt’s called nuclear energy and drilling offshore to get American oil…….Would that make the progressives “scared of change that will easily benefit the country..”?
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nuclear energy is not clean. The people who have to live near the plants are in danger. Oh and those lovely offshore drilling rigs you love so much… would take YEARS to become viable and it’s still not clean.
I fail to see how constructing solar panels and harnessing wind energy is trumped by that RP.
May 13th, 2009 at 10:54 pmTEH STUPID!! IT BURRRRRRRRRNS!!!! IT BURRRRRRRRRNS!!!!!
May 13th, 2009 at 10:55 pmI think Glenn Beck should wear a rabbit suit for his next tea party. Also, if he would perform inside a wire cage i think he could hold his crowd longer, and even bring in the curious.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:03 pmGlenn, seriously, you’re a clown. You’re making up the science award thing much like Billo the Clown’s reputation on winning a Peabody Award. That breath you took, I believe, contains nothing but that hot air you and the other Flavor-Aid drinkers at Fixed Noise spit out.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:03 pmkdgamergirl Says:
I fail to see how constructing solar panels and harnessing wind energy is trumped by that RP.”
Because in this weird place the rest of us live called the real world, the technology that is solar power and wind power are not efficient and yet plausible to replace coal and nuclear energy. (there has been nothing invented yet to store the energy they generate) So instead of taxing carbon to force technological changes, we should let the free market create and perfect these technologies.
Also, nuclear energy is much cleaner then coal..
http://www.ans.org/pi/matters/environment/
and these oil rigs could be up an running much sooner if they didn’t have so much red tape to get through courtesy of environmental lobbying groups.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:36 pmJamesCraven Says:
Glenn, seriously, you’re a clown. You’re making up the science award thing much like Billo the Clown’s reputation on winning a Peabody Award. That breath you took, I believe, contains nothing but that hot air you and the other Flavor-Aid drinkers at Fixed Noise spit out.”
Do you not get that the science award is a joke?
May 13th, 2009 at 11:38 pmGlenn Beck exhales and extinguishes sentient life within 10 meters of anywhere he stands.
Run for yer fuukin LIVES!
May 13th, 2009 at 11:40 pmBeck exhales and the faint odor of brimstone spreads.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:42 pmRP2012 Says:
We know it’s a joke but some of Beck’s viewers are so dumb – they’ll believe it’s true.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:43 pmSo instead of taxing carbon to force technological changes, we should let the free market create and perfect these technologies.
There is not now nor has there ever been a thing that justified the name “free market.”
The entirety of the global marketplace is a hybrid. Trying to impose “free market” principles, through those “shocks” that Naomi Klein discerned, was the undeniable culprit in the recent calamities and catastrophes. The vienna school is as dead as a decade-old dobisch-tort. It NEVER “worked”, it coul never ‘work” except in some rarified–or, better, imaginary– world of so-called rational actors.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:45 pmBy the way, just so you know, this show has won so many science awards…
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Interesting, isn’t it, that he doesn’t bother to state which awards his show has supposedly won? And that he doesn’t necessarily state that these awards were intended as accolades? All he does is insinuate that his show has won these awards and that these awards were laudatory — but no matter how much Beck might want people to think otherwise, the fact that he says this is true doesn’t automatically make it so. That’s just one of the reasons why semantics is so very important and why anyone who wants to be considered intelligent should at least make an effort to question what they’re told…because it’s really not that difficult at all to deliberately twist words in order to make people assume that you’re saying something which you really aren’t.
This is especially true in this day and age when lobbying groups of all kinds are disingenuously and cynically choosing to give themselves names deliberately worded in order to portray the goals of the group as being something very different — perhaps even the complete opposite — of what they truly are. This is often a conscious attempt to mislead and deceive the casual bystander into assuming that the group’s goals are ethical, salutary, well-intentioned, above reproach, and/or beneficial to everyone — but this is not always the case, and even the proverbial road to Hell is said to be paved with good intentions. There are more than a few lobbying groups out there which purport to be working in the interests of science and/or the environment when in actuality they’re working in the interests of industry, as if the two were necessarily one and the same when this is frequently not true.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:46 pmomg… colbert had me rollin’ just now… LOL funny…
oh, and wait till the frighties hear the daily show interview with the pakistan ambassador…
May 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pmthe guy started of on a stupid ‘joke’, but jon stewart saved him and the conversation was entertaining and enlightening…
Gasly!
I don’t need that thought in my head.
becky putting out is TMI.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pmAlso, nuclear energy is much cleaner then coal..
http://www.ans.org/pi/matters/environment/
ah, but there’s that little matter of the waste, a single “breath” of which can kill a population the size of a medium-sized city 100,000 years later…killing off the planet with excess carbon will at least be somewhat slower than doing it with nuclear…is that a bug or an app?
May 13th, 2009 at 11:51 pmKaty: the guy started of on a stupid ‘joke’, but jon stewart saved him and the conversation was entertaining and enlightening…
May 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Stewart is one of the best, most knowledgeable, curious, well-read, interesting interviewers of other smart people anywhere in the conventional media…
i hate is schtick with his show-biz cohorts though…
May 13th, 2009 at 11:53 pmThere are so many things we could do to save energy and prevent as much CO2 being released into the atmosphere. Weatherizing old homes and using energy efficient light bulbs are a couple. We probably won’t be able to stop using coal or oil for years but I see no reason why we couldn’t utilize ‘cleaner’ energy sources in conjuntion with our use of coal and oil.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:58 pmhormiga brava chavez Says:
Beck is a wingnut tool. He claims to be a comedian but he’s not even funny. I’d like to see a plastic bag tied over his head – see how long he lasts before he blacks out.
At least he admits he’s a nutzo. Come to think of it, I can’t tell the different between teabaggers and nutzoes.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:04 am#60
There is not now nor has there ever been a thing that justified the name “free market.”
I think the history of the United States of America might differ with that opinion. If your definition of free market capitalism is an anarchistic type of free for all without rule of law (which is what i’m assuming it is) then you would be a bit closer to correct.
“The entirety of the global marketplace is a hybrid. Trying to impose “free market” principles, through those “shocks” that Naomi Klein discerned, was the undeniable culprit in the recent calamities and catastrophes. The vienna school is as dead as a decade-old dobisch-tort. It NEVER “worked”, it coul never ‘work” except in some rarified–or, better, imaginary– world of so-called rational actors.”
After sifting through the hot air and ‘make myself feel smart’ bs that was just written above, I can safely say you are absolutely 100% wrong. CAPITALISM did not cause this recent economic downturn. The Federal Reserve is really the root of this problem by manipulating interest rates and creating this housing bubble as well as greedy Government officials, Government owned companies, big business and overextended credit holders. Austrian economics is not dead, it is thriving. Austrian economics is the only school of economic that predicted this meltdown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YTY5TWtmU
Like I said before, prior the induction of the federal reserve and heinous government intervention (new deal anybody) Capitalism thrived and made a nation 120 years old the leader of the world.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:05 amdamn it i italicized the wrong thing^^^
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republicans hate facts Says:
RP2012 Says:
Because in this weird place the rest of us live called the real world, the technology that is solar power and wind power are not efficient
B*llsh*t.
RP2012 Says:
and yet plausible to replace coal and nuclear energy.
WRONG…
RP2012 Says:
(there has been nothing invented yet to store the energy they generate)
Except for *batteries* and *hydrogen*. Oh then there’s the little *inconvenient* FACT that MOST ELECTRICITY is REQUIRED when the SUN IS SHINING and NO STORAGE IS NEEDED?
RP2012 Says:
So instead of taxing carbon to force technological changes, we should let the free market create and perfect these technologies.
IRONIC considering BOTH technologies YOU SUGGEST are *HEAVILY* SUBSIDIZED to the tune of HUNDREDS OF *BILLIONS* a *YEAR* and don’t *COMPETE* in the FREE MARKET…. YAWN…”
HAHAHAHA, you actually made me laugh very hard. Your an idiot! Do you think you just made a viable argument??? Public school taught you well RHF, especially those grammar *3$$*** SKILLS**76%%#% of yours.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:08 amGame of Life Says:
Hey I can’t either – neither have any reason or cause for their actions. I just put them all in the wingnut category. LOL
May 14th, 2009 at 12:15 amI wonder if Beck’s claim regarding the science awards his show has allegedly received bears any similarity to Dr. William Hammesfahr’s claim that he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize — a claim which was almost certainly a deliberate attempt to mislead since the person who had nominated him was never invited to submit a nomination by the Nobel Assembly, rendering said nomination meaningless. This didn’t stop the right wing from parroting this claim — apparently without ever bothering to check whether it was valid.
For those of you who may not remember, Dr. Hammesfahr was the neurologist who tried to make the claim that Terri Schiavo was somewhat conscious and still capable of recovering from her persistent vegetative state — claims which the autopsy following her death conclusively negated.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:20 amBluestocking Says:
“I wonder if Beck’s claim regarding the science awards his show has allegedly received…”
It was a J O K E. Do you people really not see that? I mean you are like the 10th person who doesn’t get it.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:25 amRP2012,
At the height of Roarin’ 20’s prosperity, the majority of Americans were in poverty!
May 14th, 2009 at 12:31 amMaybe they didn’t see it as a joke because jokes are supposed to be funny.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:33 amUnlike you most of us don’t watch Fox News or Beck. It kills brain cells. That’s probably why we’re not taking you seriously. Defending Beck, pathetic.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:42 amBeck is obviously joking about the awards, but the problem is that Brad Johnson, who wrote this piece, highlights it as if some dubious claim by Beck. Johnson doesn’t appear to hear it as a joke.—I’m not defending Beck, he’s cuckoo birds, but this is a slight misread on TP’s part.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:46 am*as if it were some dubious claim by Beck
May 14th, 2009 at 12:47 amI’m an expert in bad jokes.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:49 amRP2012 Says:
IRONIC considering BOTH technologies YOU SUGGEST are *HEAVILY* SUBSIDIZED to the tune of HUNDREDS OF *BILLIONS* a *YEAR* and don’t *COMPETE* in the FREE MARKET…. YAWN…”
HAHAHAHA, you actually made me laugh very hard. Your an idiot! Do you think you just made a viable argument??? Public school taught you well RHF, especially those grammar *3$$*** SKILLS**76%%#% of yours.
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Gee… what’s the matter, RP?
Don’t have a good comeback to rhf’s last comment so you just resort to silly insults? Isn’t that kind of admitting you’ve just lost the argument?
May 14th, 2009 at 12:53 amThe Republic of Hymenoptera Stupidity Says:
Gee… what’s the matter, RP?
Don’t have a good comeback to rhf’s last comment so you just resort to silly insults? Isn’t that kind of admitting you’ve just lost the argument?
May 14th, 2009 at 12:53 am
I thought that was a given… ;)
May 14th, 2009 at 12:55 amRP2012 says:
So instead of taxing carbon to force technological changes, we should let the free market create and perfect these technologies.
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How long do we have to wait for that to happen? The free market has already had over 150 years.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:00 amI’m pretty sure the “free market” helped us get where we are today. I’m thinking we should try something else.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:04 amIt’s really hard to believe that Beck is as stupid as he pretends to be.
Maybe someone should offer to put him in a confined environment and see how long he thrives on the CO2 and other waste he spews out.
Hey, Beck, we breathe it out because it’s a waste product! We exhale, move our bowels, and urinate, dumb-dumb , to GET RID OF WASTE. You really are either stupid, crazy, or. most likely, both.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:08 amZooey Says:
I’m pretty sure the “free market” helped us get where we are today. I’m thinking we should try something else.”
Read post #71 and a book.
The Republic of Hymenoptera Stupidity Says:
Gee… what’s the matter, RP?
Don’t have a good comeback to rhf’s last comment so you just resort to silly insults? Isn’t that kind of admitting you’ve just lost the argument?”
No, what RHF wrote was not an argument. Saying “Bullshit” and “wrong” after my points is not an argument. Pointing out an industry is subsidized is not an argument against the free market. Did I say that the oil companies and nuclear power companies should perfect alternate fuel technology? Saying that the technology is viable because MOST energy is used during the day is, well, laughable. I didn’t think I would have to explain myself in such an elementary way.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:13 amThere have been negative consequences from the hot air produced by Faux News and its commentators.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:17 amHow about we all send Glenn Beck a head-sized plastic bag and instruct him to fasten it tightly over his head – then we can observe his …pollution… first-hand!
May 14th, 2009 at 1:18 amtbone Says:
RP2012 says:
So instead of taxing carbon to force technological changes, we should let the free market create and perfect these technologies.
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How long do we have to wait for that to happen? The free market has already had over 150 years.”
Yea that lousy free market only developed every single piece of technology you use in your daily life. Let’s just give the responsibility to the Government because as we all know they are very efficient and inventive when it comes to technology…. please.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:19 amDon’t bother. We’ve heard the same lame arguments from science deniers like you for years. We all know each what you’re going to say before you say it. And frankly, we don’t care.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:22 amThat sounds good but it’s not true.
It wasn’t the free market that split the atom or sent a man to the moon. I could go on but I don’t care what you think.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:23 amHow was the internet formed?
NASA is not private. Many drugs were discovered with government money.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:27 amRP2012 Says:
Read post #71 and a book.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:13 am
F uck you, dooshbag.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:28 amYeah RP, what she said.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:29 amRP,
May 14th, 2009 at 1:31 amWhat they said!
The trend seems to be toward trolls who are supremely confident in their stunning ignorance.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:34 amLet me guess, RP, you’re a “self-made” man.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:36 am“It wasn’t the free market that split the atom or sent a man to the moon. I could go on but I don’t care what you think.”
I actually don’t think you could go on. At any rate I believe you missed the word efficiently in my question. How much wasted money and man hours went into those Government pet projects.
“Don’t bother. We’ve heard the same lame arguments from science deniers like you for years. We all know each what you’re going to say before you say it. And frankly, we don’t care.”
I’m not denying science, I’m the only one basing my argument on science. Solar and wind Technology are not yet ready to dominate the market place and replace coal and nuclear energy. Wishful thinking will only get you so far and I just get worried when a wishful thinker wants to raise my taxes to fulfill idealism.
Why don’t you take a look what the majority of Americans (and many scientists) think about man made global warming, climate change, Al Gore’s big scary money making ploy or whatever the name of the propaganda is this month.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:36 amTypical troll behavior — it thinks our ONLY source of information on climate change is Al Gore.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:38 amI guess I shouldn’t use the word “think” in connection with a troll…
May 14th, 2009 at 1:40 amGermany now has 30% of their energy from renewables. NOW.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:44 amGood evening, Keith.
I saw huge wind farms in Minnesota last summer, and there are wind farms in the Columbia Gorge in Oregon and on ridges in Idaho.
People are into the clean energy, and it will only continue to grow.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:48 amYes RP it is cleaner than coal but again you miss the point. Check out the living conditions of people near these plants. It’s dangerous period.
Clean energy might not be ready to “dominate” but it’s certainly time we start getting it there. I love how Repubs are always whining about how we’re spending their children’s future but they’re perfectly content with not letting them have clean air to breathe.
The free market… gee where has that gotten us? Oh yeah ecomonic crisis! Have you ever heard of batteries btw? Yes there are things out there to store the energy.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:13 amRP2012 Says:
No, what RHF wrote was not an argument. Saying “Bullshit” and “wrong” after my points is not an argument. Pointing out an industry is subsidized is not an argument against the free market.
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Good lord… did you even read what you said, or think about it?
If an industry is subsidized to the degree the energy industry is, you cna you even begin to claim, w/ a straight face, that it’s part of a “free market”?
That’s SOOOOOO elementary, I’m surprised I have to point it for you, but apparently I do. You can thank me later.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:25 amRP2012 Says:
Why don’t you take a look what the majority of Americans (and many scientists) think about man made global warming, climate change, Al Gore’s big scary money making ploy or whatever the name of the propaganda is this month.
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What a load of silly hooey.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:27 amNow now, rhp…
That’s an exaggeration…
Fundies believe the earth is only 6,000 years old, not 8,000.
We must keep our facts straight…
May 14th, 2009 at 2:41 am“I wonder if Beck’s claim regarding the science awards his show has allegedly received…”
It was a J O K E. Do you people really not see that? I mean you are like the 10th person who doesn’t get it. — RP2012
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With all due respect, just because you think that he meant it as a joke doesn’t automatically make that true. As it happens, I watched the video segment — and at least in my opinion, the indications that Beck was joking are nowhere nearly as clear as you (rather conveniently) seem to assume they are. When Beck made the statement regarding the science awards his show has allegedly won — and notice the choice of the word “won”, not “received”, which implies that some degree of competition was involved — he was using what for him seemed to be a fairly serious tone of voice (especially when compared with the rather strident and exclamatory tone which he used throughout most of the segment). He smiled slightly when he made the statement, yes, but I didn’t see much else apart from that which even suggested that he was anything other than serious — let alone anything which made it clear that he was joking.
Even if he was only joking, Beck is more than old enough by now to know (and if he doesn’t know, he should) that intentions are not always enough, that other people cannot read his mind, and that they might as a result accept what he said as fact even when he didn’t mean it as such. This is one of the reasons why it’s vitally important for people in the public eye (and doubly so for people like Beck who potentially have power to sway public opinion) to be very careful about and take responsibility for what they say — communication is a two-way street, and the speaker as well as the listener usually bears some responsibility for whatever breakdowns may occur. After all, issn’t taking personal responsibility supposed to be a virtue that conservatives consider important?
May 14th, 2009 at 2:41 amHi Zooey, Keith,
May 14th, 2009 at 2:43 amI was traveling this last weekend across Washington State and passed a large wind farm just outside Ellensburg.
http://flickr.com/photos/edensgate/2795756128/
It was pretty cool!
Glen Beck = Oxygen Thief
May 14th, 2009 at 2:51 amThat’s one of them, Max! Every time I drive through the Gorge, it seems like there are more. I love it. :)
May 14th, 2009 at 2:53 amAmazing pics, Max!
May 14th, 2009 at 2:57 amGlenda Becky and his snotty sneer – scary.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:20 amGlenda Becky talking “science” – scarier.
A U.S. Senator backing Glenda Becky up in “science” – FUKCING REALLY SCARY!
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I bet RP2012 thinks Chernobyl was clean energy. Can RP2012 say Three Mile Island? Or say, Hanford? While coal ash isn’t clean and contains many toxins that kill, it’s radioactivity lasts longer.
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May 14th, 2009 at 3:27 amZooey,
May 14th, 2009 at 3:30 amI luv me my Google. :)
I don’t own a camera but some people who do take wonderful pics.
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I love how RP2012 uses ubiquitous facts such as “some scientists”.
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May 14th, 2009 at 3:35 amWrong, Glenn, look how much pollution your mother put out.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:54 amBluestocking Says: @113
All that (your post) for becky?
Gee, I bet you could write a trilogy on Sam I Am. ;)
May 14th, 2009 at 4:53 amThat is a nice picture Max. I think those farms are so much nicer to drive by than oil rigs.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:10 amGlenn Beck: “Look at how much pollution I just put out.”
Yeah, Glenn………with all the hot air you spew, global warming has accelerated to top speed.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:25 amit always amazes me that the “pro life” group always pisses and moan over any measure that would ensure life can continue on this planet. why hasn’t anyone pointed out this irony yet?
May 14th, 2009 at 5:56 amLogan’s Law: The dumber the right-winger, the smarter he thinks he is.
Xe Technology: We Mean Very Little Harm to your Planet
May 14th, 2009 at 6:22 amFree Market = Never seen one, except when socialization happens.
What the teabaggers want is free range; monopolies and windfalls. No rules and every man for himself.
Go old boy socialism at work and in full swing…
becky is using a droll brand of teabaggers’ humor, better yet, he’s a Colbert wannabe. One big think about Colbert he doesn’t incite racism, slow progress or provoke harm onto others.
repugs = 2.zero
May 14th, 2009 at 6:34 amPerry logan Says:
Why do you link to him all the time? He isn’t funny and his vids are too long.
May 14th, 2009 at 6:46 amEvery time Glenn Beck exhales an angel dies and it’s wings fall off.
May 14th, 2009 at 6:49 amRP2012 Says:
I actually don’t think you could go on. At any rate I believe you missed the word efficiently in my question. How much wasted money and man hours went into those Government pet projects.
Let me, then. It’s ironic this guy would say this, on the internet, the broadest-reaching, most efficient “government program” on the planet.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:08 amThe USA is failing!
You are doing it to yourselves lol!
I hope when you whack off to cheetos you dont seek medical care for an orange dick
May 14th, 2009 at 8:12 amRP2012 Says:
Bluestocking Says:
“I wonder if Beck’s claim regarding the science awards his show has allegedly received…”
It was a J O K E. Do you people really not see that? I mean you are like the 10th person who doesn’t get it.
For the record, I bring this up every time–Beck is a horrible comedian.
First of all, I looked up that “science awards” comment on his program, and the reason it is hard to discern if this is a legitimate comment or one that is tongue-in-cheek is the fact that he repeats his claim twice on the same segment. Also, let’s not forget how hard it is to distinguish sarcasm from truth in print.
Second of all, Beck is a schizophrenic commentator. One moment he is “joking” about his science awards, mocking people for their situations (”she’s got a limp”), and smearing sections of America (”I just ate Madison, Wisconsin (from a cake of America)–tastes lke garbage”), only to then go all “doomsday” on us.
No one is ever going to take Glenn Beck seriously until he straightens out his split personality. Either be serious or be comical, but do not be both.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:39 amright.wing.leftwing Says:
The USA is failing!
You are doing it to yourselves lol!
I hope when you whack off to cheetos you dont seek medical care for an orange dick
My great-great-grandfather died during the “Orange Dick” Scourge of 1910. Very serious disease that wiped out villages in Canada.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:58 amAs much as I think we should have free markets (just because I want people to be free) I really can’t stand free market fundamentalism. It’s where people believe that the free market can solve all problems and is responsible for all the good in the world while centralization and government control is the source of all evil. It’s just not true and it hurts the cause of liberty to espouse these views.
I don’t support free markets because it’s more efficient or it “works” better. I support them because people should be free and independent.
In cases where people are causing harm, that’s where the government should intervene and stop the activity that’s causing harm.
Also, I used to think that Bill O’Reilly was the stupidest person on TV (well, maybe Nancy Grace) but Beck has them all beat by a mile.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:27 amNuclear power is the only viable source of non-fossil fuel that can provide steady base power for the entire population. Solar and wind are intermittent and there just aren’t enough dams to provide hydroelectric for everyone. Another technology that has lots of promise is wave power, but it hasn’t been developed to a point where it can be put to widespread use.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:31 amIf the EPA cleaned up stupidity, Glenn Beck’s mouth would be a superfund site.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:06 amI can’t even go to a movie and avoid this guy. Saw Wolverine last night and the theater had one of those on-screen advertisement things running the whole time. I got to hear about Beck’s comedy tour 10 times.
No freaking thanks.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:14 amThe free market is good for optimizing prices. It’s the best system to do that, better than any command economy.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:37 amBut the righties insist on extending it to the rest of the universe: the free market produces the best of everything!
Horsehockey.
The fee market does not produce the best literature or entertainment, as theright-wingers themselves will admit, in their ravings against Hollywood. It does not produce the best basic research or the best engineering.
The Soviet Union, falling apart in most other regards, beat us into space.
And the free market consistently ignores research into rare diseases, which are scientifically significant but afflict only a couple hundred people a year.
And how does the free market optimize sciences like astronomy, paleontology, particle physics? Big-ticket science that may explain the structure of the universe, but which produces no saleable widgets?
The righties believe the free market is magic that gives you the best of everything. Unless you can make money from it (and make money NOW) it just ain’t so.
Uh, Glen, I don’t think they meant noise pollution…
May 14th, 2009 at 10:45 amAlejandro, you are right on. I don’t understand the resistance to nuclear. And yes I fully understand the waste problem.
Wind and solar are great sources of energy, not capacity and they are extremely intermittent. We want some storage and we want it now. Now? NOW!!
Hydrogen maybe? I would like to see a buttload of nukes and a buttload of electric cars. And some logic that would couple the recharging of the cars to the output of the renewables. Sort of a distributed battery storage.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:20 amJesus H. Christ. How does this guy stay on air? Dear, Mr. Beck…there is a reason your body REMOVES CO2 by exhaling, and it isn’t because it makes rainbows in the sky. It’s because your body doesn’t want it.
But if you believe CO2 isn’t bad, then by all means, get a big tank of it, and suck it into your lungs and see what happens.
What an idiot. Believing that EXHALING something is proof it isn’t bad is beyond stupid. He may as well be saying cigarette smoke is GOOD and not poisonous because people exhale it.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:48 amRosencrantz, you’re onto something. How about the rest of the excreta of the human body? It’s all good, I guess.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:02 pmBecky and the other reich-winger-idiots are misleading the public as usual. The issue isn’t human CO2, it’s industrial CO2! The reich-wingers are great at reporting half-truths or creating straw-men to divert the truth.
There was an idiot in another thread that sited wiki but only posted HALF of the information. The other half debunked his/her argument.
We gotta keep on these liars and exposed them at every turn when possible!
May 14th, 2009 at 12:05 pmRP2012 is cracking me the fcuk up, with his “look at me, I’m smart” routine.
The free market, RP, didn’t create the vast majority of what we use in our daily lives, NASA did. Nearly everything we use is based on computers technology, which was developed by the government during the space race. Incidentally, there is an enormous list of products and materials that are the direct result of NASA’s research to put a man in space and on the moon. The free market is only interested in what it KNOWS will turn a profit. Without government funded research into high technology and science that isn’t immediately marketable, where exactly do you think the latest and greatest power source will come from?
And that nuclear power that you’re so pumped up about? Guess where that came from – it was a spin-off of the GOVERNMENT’S research into the atomic bomb.
You can keep lying to yourself all you want, the rest of us are all set and ready to move forward and leave you behind. Have fun with your “free market” goods and ignoring reality (like the enormous subsidies the government provides energy suppliers that you somehow have convinced yourself is compatable with the “free market”). Just remember to tell yourself (daily) – “the government didn’t really give me this…that’s just a lie the facts are trying to tell me.”
It’s amazing really, that in so few words (relatively), you have proven yourself to be so clueless. I’d go so far as to say that you seem to have made mediocrity a talent.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:55 pmGlen beck just read this blog and your comments, got a boner, cried and called “it” a communist!
May 14th, 2009 at 3:51 pmSmidget:
I saw that Star Trek episode! Dont rip it off, thats the one where Sarah Silverman was in it. Oddly attractive jew girl that likes to be outrageous and say hideous racist things. Like she had sex with a mexican guy and had diarrhea for a week.
Her quote, not mine, so dont flag me like a Sunni!
So like this one guy gets alien technology goes back in time and becomes guess who? Bill Gates!
Well he was named someone else in the episode but clearly eluded to Bill Gates or that Google Russian f**cker! Not sure which now.
But I am sure that it didnt come from Nasa, it came from the future!!
May 14th, 2009 at 3:57 pmThe future is now fool and your country is bankrupt and none of you know how to build or work or do anything but sit on the interwebs that Gore created while he farts around the planet in a private jet saying his sh*t dont stink or pollute and you all buy it like a girl with white gloves buying a ketchup popsicle!
Global warming indoctrination my popsicle!
@right.wing.leftwing
Did you forget to take your medication?
Seriously, maybe you think you’re being funny, but if so, I feel that I should inform you that the bit needs MAJOR work.
Oh, yeah – Americans put in more hours in a work week than any other developed nation. Laziness-R-Us, am I right? That’s why we have higher stress levels. We work ourselves to death and don’t get half the benefits citizens of other countries enjoy. When you actually learn something about this country, then you can comment. Until then, you simply prove your ignorance when you spout off stupid shit.
Again, you may think you’re being funny, and frankly, who would ever think that someone would read what you wrote and even consider taking it (or you) seriously? But you neglect the fact that there are those that think Sarah Palin is intelligent.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:57 am