Rep. Akin Argues Against Curbing Emissions: I Don’t Want To Stop The Seasons From Changing
Rep. Akin Argues Against Curbing Emissions: I Don’t Want To Stop The Seasons From Changing
Yesterday on the House floor, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) launched into a nonsensical tirade against legislation aimed at addressing global warming by reducing carbon emissions. Akin demonstrated his lack of understanding of climate issues by erroneously celebrating the seasonal change from winter to spring as “good climate change” and confused “weather” with “climate.” He dismissed the threat of global warming as a “comedy” and wondered who would “want to put politicians in charge of the weather anyways.”
Akin also twice implied that his fellow climate change-denying GOP congressmen are more knowledgeable than Democrats because they have “passed high school science”:
AKIN: This whole thing strikes me if it weren’t so serious as being a comedy you know. I mean, we just went from winter to spring. In Missouri when we go from winter to spring, that’s a good climate change. I don’t want to stop that climate change you know. Who in the world want to put politicians in charge of the weather anyways? What a dumb idea. [...]
Some of the models said that we’re going to have surf at the front steps of the Capitol pretty soon. I was really looking forward to that. [...]
We’ve been joined by another doctor, a medical doctor but also a guy who graduated from high school science as well, from Georgia, my good friend, Congressman Gingrey. … So to have actually a guy who’s passed high school science is tremendously helpful. And Dr. Fleming from Louisiana.
Watch it:
While Akin may be excited at the prospect of being able to “surf at the front steps of the Capitol,” the reality of climate change and the resulting increase in sea levels is far more serious. A study published by Science expects sea level rise of 0.8 to 2 meters (2.6 to 6.6 feet) by 2100; as Joe Romm writes, “Needless to say, a sea level rise of one meter by 2100 would be an unmitigated catastrophe for the planet, even if sea levels didn’t keep rising several inches a decade for centuries, which they inevitably would.”
In Akin’s own state of Missouri, climate change has already caused growing conditions to shift and several species of birds common to the state have migrated northward. If global warming persists, climatologists have predicted that Missouri can expect “warmer temperatures, shorter winters, and an overall increase in rain and flooding.” Indeed, unusually harsh storms and flooding caused a state of emergency in Missouri last month.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 12:39 pmHow embarrassing…
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pmToday I am officially ashamed to be from Missouri. However despite my close proximity to Kansas and abundance of family from there, however in light of this past weekends events, I will not renounce my citizenship from this backwards state…
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pmMy, my. Graduated from High School Science? Well, that surely puts all of those climatologists with PhD’s to shame, right?
I mean, studying the intricate patterns of chaotic world-wide systems is not brain science… I mean, it’s not rocket surgery… I mean… uh… it’s all Gore’s fault!!!
/my interpretation of a climate change denier.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm.
Democracy’s do what Democracy’s do…
… They continue to elect the stupid people to represent them.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 12:44 pmYou know you are in trouble when a Congressman relies on a high school graduate for scientific opinions.
It’s no wonder Republicans think people with PhDs are insufferable elitists, and don’t value education enough to put money into public schools…
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 pmAnother “Intellectual Heavyweight”
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pmThey have some pretty smart people there in Missouri…
…smart as in, smarter than lab rats…
…only one by a little.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pmoh good! shitkus is not alone! … oh, sorry…
IL 19 and MO 2 are close, but not connected…
i wondered if it was the water… could be… the missouri river drains into the mississippi there, which is close to collinsville, where shitkus is from…
and, remember when missouri legislature wanted to mandate christianity the state religion?
hoo boy!
religiosity is scary!
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:55 pmHey John, those “effete snobs” support the economy of your otherwise federally-dependent state. Still want to secede?
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pmthere are simply not words for how stupid this guys statements are
wow
just
wow
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pmTo paraphrase Stephen Colbert, science has a well known liberal bias.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pmI agree with this man. We shouldn’t put government into general welfare.
Praise be unto the Free Market, its infinite generosity will prevent all pollution because who wants a mess and those working for their own gain will give .2% of their income to charity and solve everything. Government and environmental protection? Nah, we need more defense bombers.
Government’s bumbling might disturb the great sea monsters that roam the oceans, the krakens and leviathans, etc.
And on a flat earth any excess water will just drip off the sides and corners.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pmSo to have actually a guy who’s passed high school science is tremendously helpful.
oh. my. gawd.
of course, even that is dependent upon WHICH high school…
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm…
Johnintexas Says:
Whatever happened to Al Gore? Whatever happened to global warming? He-he-he-he-he . . .
Back to the basics: And just where do you think all the crud goes that comes out the end of your tailpipe?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pmJohnintexas Says:
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We prefer to educate our own children, thank you, until such time as we cleanse our society of destructive and rampant liberalism/secularism.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Who is this “we” , you pansy ?
You cowards who can’t even handle Mexican drug dealers ?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pmAl Gore is not a scientist and is largely irrelevant to anyone who a more than passing interest in science.
People with degrees in fields like climatology have reached a consensus that global warming is real, it’s accelerating, and it’s largely driven by human CO2 emissions concurrent with deforestation and other environmental damage.
In addition to glacial and polar ice melting far faster than the most dire predictions from 20 years ago, the ten hottest years on record all occurred in the last twelve years. It takes someone who has a vested interest, whether financial political or religious, to continue denying global climate change. It takes someone who’s delusional and willfully ignorant to believe them.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pmAkin is a fool. Every if the ocean were to reach the steps of the capital, there’s no natural reef or geologic shelf in the topography of the DC area that would create a surfable break.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pmJohn, you wouldn’t know the first thing about educating children. Republicans almost always destroy education–and the fruits are the “wiggers.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 pmThe consistent evidence that congress attracts and allows the most idiotic morons to get into office should be a whopping red flag that the system needs to be scrapped and retooled to get rid of the majority of shills and tools already there; both sides of the aisle.
Wired through C-SPAN, there should be gong show-like dismissal buzzers, stage hooks or a trap door triggered through viewer remotes.
Get the scumbag shills out of congress, or maybe just fund enough cloning technology to replicate Feingold, Kucinich, and a few others.
Very few others.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 pmThis kind of stupid is painful to watch.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pmHe probably also doesn’t want Dinosaurs grazing on his lawn…
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pmjohnintexas thinks that if he giggles at Al Gore, he has dismissed the science of climate change.
Of course, johnintexas also believes that the limits of human achievement are largely a function of skin pigmentation, so that should give us some idea of how seriously to take johnintexas.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pmYES! Finally someone sees the threats of Whigger indoctrination… we want to go back to the 1950s Jim Crow and religious patriarchy, not the 1850s!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pmJohn said “whiggers”
I love that, it’s the modern GOP membership card.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pmIt goes up, of course. And since nobody lives up there, it doesn’t matter.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmUh, John? Al Gore won a Nobel and an Academy Award for his work publicizing the threat of global warming while your hero Chimpy McFlightsuit was screwing up the planet. You might have missed that while hiding out in your cave hiding from terrorists.
Meanwhile, I would have to see a transcript before accepting that any member of the House Republican caucus passed any science class in high school.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmMegaloptera McWars Says:
“Back to the basics: And just where do you think all the crud goes that comes out the end of your tailpipe?”
He inhales it for a cheap buzz.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmparents home school their kids to protect them from facts that contradict their ignorant dogma
toiletintexas is just another ignorant hillbilly who is jealous of those of us with educations and book learnin’
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pmGood point, pete. Al Gore is NOT the epicenter of the science community, just as President Obama is NOT a messiah. Those labels are simply paranoid projection by the GOP.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 pmIt takes someone who has a vested interest, whether financial political or religious, to continue denying global climate change. It takes someone who’s delusional and willfully ignorant to believe them.
an excellent and very eloquent sentence
well played pete.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm10. Johnintexas Says: We prefer to educate our own children, thank you, until such time as we cleanse our society of destructive and rampant liberalism/secularism.
And you already have a cultural model(s) from which to duplicate your societal plan: Saudi Arabia
Or Appalachia….take your pick…
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmThat’s embarrassing… I’m from Missouri. Only about half of us are that stupid, I promise!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:11 pmJohnintexas Says:
We prefer to educate our own children, thank you, until such time as we cleanse our society of destructive and rampant liberalism/secularism.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I knew you were an acerebralist racist, but I didn’t know you were a Nazi.
Thanks for the warning…
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 pmSee what happens when childrens get left behind.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmMy son is finishing up the third grade and has gotten all A’s in science throughout the year. Perhaps the GNOP would like to consult with him when preparing their next rant.
On second thought, my kid’s far too knowledgeable and rational for their tastes.
PEACE
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:15 pmThe irony is, he is WAAAAY too much of a sissy to try to pull that crap on us liberals, who, by the way, are strong enough to believe America can defeat terrorists AND remain true to her ideals.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:15 pmI guess high school science at kitchen tables in the backwoods, and along through the Bible Belt has made these lemmings smart enough to figure out how to go extinct without jumping off a cliff.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pmNow, now, Zooey, let’s not go Godwin so quickly. After all, there have been plenty of other examples of “social cleansing” in recent history.
Like… Bosnia… Rwanda… Iraq…
It’s Not Just For Nazis Anymore™
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pmThat’s the problem. Those who are taught to Believe, rather than learn, are actually contemptuous of education. Particularly science education. As long as their car runs, and flame magically appears when they flick a lighter, they don’t even consider science.
And the real pisser is that if they just opened their minds and spent five minutes on Wikipedia, they would realize how stupid they sound when they say “global warming is a hoax” or such rot. Alas, there’s no way to open minds that are so firmly closed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pmOn second thought, my kid’s far too knowledgeable and rational for their tastes.
That means spencer’s mom is a good mom.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pmI have no doubt of that, spencers mom.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pmAll kidding aside, people such as Akin, Shimkus, and their colleagues, (in fields not limited to politics), are a clear and present danger to the welfare of the rest of the planet.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm43. pete Says: Alas, there’s no way to open minds that are so firmly closed.
Particularly the ones whose locks are subsidized by Exxon, Shell…..
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pmJohnintexas babbles:
blah blah blah… edumacation is elitist… blah blah blah… our kidz r 2 kool 4 skool, thanx…blah blah blah… I don’t want reality infused in my belief system… blah blah blah…
And JohnInTexas shows up only to reinforce all the stereotypes of the illiterate, uneducated, conservative rube…
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pmI bet Akin is mad as Hell that kids are taught about “evilution” too.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm“I don’t want the seasons to stop changing.”
just like i don’t want the GOPers to be encumbered by reality. they can keep digging.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmAnd THAT is why white good ol’ boys have resorted to such cruel and inhumane tactics in the history of America. They are simply too dumb, corrupt, and close-minded to see beyond their selfish wants or make reasonable compromises.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pmI heart McWars and Ralph! Thanks guys.
PEACE
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pmWhy does JIT hate Condi Rice?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 pmIt’s startling that there are still people out and about in our land that have their heads so far up their own rear-ends that they actually can talk…They’re clearly not thinking…or making any sense…
I know these morons feel nostalgic for the 1940-50’s but there has got to be a clear message sent to them on terms they can understand – It’s the 21st century – deal with it or perish.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:27 pmyou’re partly right about us liberals with ph.ds. i have one and you could call me snobbish. however, i would happily volunteer to kick a pompous rethuglican’s ass even if it means having to procure a new pair of stilettos.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:27 pmWhy does JIT hate Paul Wolfowitz PHD?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:27 pmWhy does JIT hate William Kristol?
# Faculty, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1983-1985
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 pm# Faculty, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, 1979-1983
# Education: PhD, Political Science, Harvard University, 1979
Please stop repeating the falsehood that Al Gore won an Oscar. He didn’t – the award went to the director.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 pmActually, hanshiro the antlion, I think the greedy ones are easier to convert than the stupid ones. There have been several former oil company shills who have recanted, and been fired for it. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists even supports the theory of anthropogenic global warming to an extent.
It’s the really stupid ones, like Akin or Crazy Shelly (InsaneR, Mn.), who scare me.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm“…a guy who graduated from high school science…”
Yeah, about that. You GRADUATE from high school. You PASS high school science. Good to see the honorable Akin got it right the second time.
I hope they passed Grade 9 biology, where climate is TAUGHT.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pmHey, JIT, tell us about the NCLB..pweeze.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:34 pmJohnintexas Says:
Whatever happened to Al Gore? Whatever happened to global warming?
He and it are still around.
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Johnintexas Says:
We prefer to educate our own children, thank you…
Hyuk hyuk, Cletus grab the shotgun and lock up the compound! If it isn’t secular, it isn’t education; it’s just indoctrination or training.
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pete Says:
Al Gore is not a scientist and is largely irrelevant to anyone who a more than passing interest in science.
But while he was in the Senate, he was the most informed on scientific issues, and the main guy to secure funding for scientifically promising ventures. Like the Internet.
It’s worth recognizing that much as a given politician might become a total wonk/nerd on issues like the Middle East or nuclear proliferation, another one might become similarly studied in the promises and premonitions provided by science. Gore was and is that guy.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:34 pmHey, Todd Akin, the seasons were changing before emissions.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:34 pmI suppose it would be pointless to ask again why that alledged magical hand thingie hasn’t solved the alledged liberal bias in ed… Oh and let’s not even discuss the hand thingie’s inability to deal with the entertainment industry and the media. Either this left bias thing is crap or the magical invisible extremity deal is crap. Either way I call BS…
or then again the invisible hand deal is legit and the market has spoken…
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 pm59.pete Says: Actually, hanshiro the antlion, I think the greedy ones are easier to convert than the stupid ones.
I dunno ’bout that. The stupid ones could conceivably be educated which would give their morals a chance to review the new information.
The greedy ones have already seen and rejected the moral argument and have made their Faustian bargains knowingly at our expense.
Craven behavior, to me, is much harder to reform than reinforced ignorance.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:40 pmMy mercy, deh stupit rules the soon to be Whig party – GOP! I had to wait until my laughter subsided before I could finish writing my comment. HAHAHA! Akin=Big dummy!
johnintexas your weird twisted logic makes me think of every horror flick that takes place in small towns. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Children of the Corn and Nightmare on Elm Street – to name a few…Absolute madness!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pmI wasn’t belittling Gore’s role. I was merely pointing out that his role as a spokesman doesn’t change the science. I also think that his status as a liberal politician made it inevitable that Reichwhiners would reject everything he says just because he’s a “librul”.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pmThese monkeys run our country. We vote these people into high office. WTF is wrong with this picture?
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 pmAkin sounds curiously like Emily Litella from the old Saturday Night Live episodes:
Emily/Akin: “What’s all this I hear about climate change being bad? Why, we just went from winter to spring, and that’s a good thing! I don’t want to stop climate change — I like the seasons!”
Chevy Chase: “Ummmm…Rep. Akin? What you’re describing is weather change, not climate change. Climate change is far more devastating and long-lasting.”
Emily/Akin: “Oh — that’s different. Never mind!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 pmjohnintexas must be 2nd generation homeschooled, he’s too stoopid to know he’s stoopid. Just imagine how stooopid his spawn will be when he’s done homeschooling them…They’ll be ready to strap on bomb vests and blow up Planned Parenthood clinics.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:45 pmSun, thet thar iz ah goat. Eet aint kno woomen fok sew dun lemme ketch yew skrooin eet. Dis, heer, sun, iz ah trakter. Wee uz eet tah pul owr houze wit wheals frum un playce tah ahnudder.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pmAKIN: This whole thing strikes me if it weren’t so serious as being a comedy you know. I mean, we just went from winter to spring. In Missouri when we go from winter to spring, that’s a good climate change. I don’t want to stop that climate change you know.
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If Akin enjoys watching the seasons change and doesn’t want to lose that, it seems to me that this should actually put him in favor of reducing CO2 emissions rather than opposing it. From what I understand, higher CO2 emissions means an increased risk of creating a “greenhouse effect” — which in turn would probably eliminate most of the observable effects of the change in seasons apart from perhaps a slightly lower temperature in during those times when the hemisphere in which one lives is tilted away from the sun.
And claiming that a medical doctor is somehow equivalent to a climatologist when it comes to addressing the subject of climate change?? Please…he can’t actually believe this, surely? Just because someone has advanced degrees in one field of science doesn’t necessarily mean that they know everything — or indeed anything — about other fields of science, especially if the two fields have no relationship to each other. I very much doubt that he would consider a climatologist equally qualified to tender a medical diagnosis either for himself or one of his loved ones — so I can only conclude that this is nothing more than a deliberate attempt on Akin’s part to blow smoke and trivialize the issue for his own purposes.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 pmThat’s why I specifically used the word “stupid” rather than ignorance, hanshiro. I’m not talking about IQ or aptitude. I’m talking about those who are so pig headed that they will deny their own senses rather than learn something contrary to their preconceptions. Those who willfully refuse to learn are, by definition, stupid in my opinion.
Ignorance is no sin and is easy to cure as long as the student wants to learn and is open to new ideas. In my experience, greedy people are easier to reach than stupid people.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pmWow, Mr. Akin, Wow.. scary how anybody can get into the house or Senate, wonder if Mr. Akin could sign his own name or just uses an ‘x’. Obviously not the brighest bulb in the hillbilly chandelier.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pmJohnintexas Says:
Whatever happened to Al Gore? Whatever happened to global warming? He-he-he-he-he .
Uh John, besides having a presidential election stolen from him, winning a Nobel Prize, winning an Academy Award and generally being recognized by free thinking people as a prophet with honor….I guess, not much….
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pmuntil such time as we cleanse our society of destructive and rampant liberalism/secularism.
Never gonna happen.
But here’s a REAL future possibility. Someday you might be part of an installation in a Science and Nature museum in the wing dubbed:
Extinction by Ignorance.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pmDamn, will we ever be able to stop stupid.?……LOL>>>Blessings
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pmdbadass Says:
I suppose it would be pointless to ask again why that alledged magical hand thingie hasn’t solved the alledged liberal bias in ed… Oh and let’s not even discuss the hand thingie’s inability to deal with the entertainment industry and the media. Either this left bias thing is crap or the magical invisible extremity deal is crap. Either way I call BS…
The invisible hand matches supply to demand. That’s all it does. If there’s demand for something, supply will appear; if there’s no demand, supply will wither.
This is why supply side economics, the war on drugs, and investment-focused economies don’t work – they try to control supply, thereby resisting the mighty power of the Hand.
Like just about everything else, the wingnuts don’t understand how the thing they worship actually works, and therefore they end up opposing it in practice.
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Bluestocking Says:
If Akin enjoys watching the seasons change and doesn’t want to lose that, it seems to me that this should actually put him in favor of reducing CO2 emissions rather than opposing it. From what I understand, higher CO2 emissions means an increased risk of creating a “greenhouse effect” — which in turn would probably eliminate most of the observable effects of the change in seasons apart from perhaps a slightly lower temperature in during those times when the hemisphere in which one lives is tilted away from the sun.
Every time winter falls, the wingnuts say “See? Global warming is a fake!” Thus, wingnuts would only admit the existence of global warming when there is no longer such a thing as winter. Mind you, it’ll be far too late by then.
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pete Says:
That’s why I specifically used the word “stupid” rather than ignorance, hanshiro. I’m not talking about IQ or aptitude. I’m talking about those who are so pig headed that they will deny their own senses rather than learn something contrary to their preconceptions. Those who willfully refuse to learn are, by definition, stupid in my opinion.
I believe the PC term these days is “intellectually incurious.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:07 pmI don’t know how things went down in Missouri but, here in Minnesota, I’ve followed Bachmann carefully. In her case, for whatever reasons, the local press simply refuses to call her on her national idiocy.
If one doesn’t follow national media? All that one hears are statements from Crazy Shelly whining about how she was misquoted or trapped by the “librul” media. After her insane rant on Hardball a local TV station gave her a half hour of their Sunday morning show and never played the clip of said rant. It’s maddening.
She also benefits from a lot of unsophisticated voters who never look past her claim of being a “good Christian lady”.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm73. pete Says: That’s why I specifically used the word “stupid” rather than ignorance, hanshiro. I’m not talking about IQ or aptitude. I’m talking about those who are so pig headed that they will deny their own senses rather than learn something contrary to their preconceptions.
I guess Ron White is correct: “You can’t fix Stupid.”
..but his overpopulation idea has merit…
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 pmThis part of Missouri has armadillos now, it didn’t 20 years ago. Let me tell you, that’s not “good climate change.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pmRollaMO Says:
This part of Missouri has armadillos now, it didn’t 20 years ago. Let me tell you, that’s not “good climate change.”
Unless you’re into eating Armadillo stew or something…
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:11 pmI believe the PC term these days is “intellectually incurious.”
bruce, i like the term used frequently by same harris… its only slightly different from your own but flows a little better without the alliteration and for whatever reason, i personally am not fond of the word incurious.. it just seems odd.
“intellectually bankrupt”
i’m more partial to that term, but to each his own
haha
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:19 pmI haven’t been here for a few weeks, but it does seem to trolls are becoming more and more racist.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 pmI lived in MO for 10 years,
Oog oog! Republican hit climate change with big rock! Kill climate change! Win Congressional debate!
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calavzma Says:
bruce, i like the term used frequently by same harris… its only slightly different from your own but flows a little better without the alliteration and for whatever reason, i personally am not fond of the word incurious.. it just seems odd.
“intellectually bankrupt”
I was just pulling out that fascinating phrase invented by the MSM to delicately talk around the troublesome issue that the President of the United States of America was a drooling moron. It was clear as day, but they couldn’t bring themselves to say it outright, so they’d describe him as “intellectually incurious,” as if that doesn’t mean the same exact thing. It really applies to all of the R’s nowadays.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:38 pmDid lil Johnny ever read about the cultural revolution in China? Sounds like he’s all over it for it to happen here.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pmThese conservative extremists don’t even live in the real world do they? They walk among us, but there reality is not the reality of the rest of the world.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:52 pmWell, goodness sake, looks like lil Johnny got his hillbilly racist ass BANNED!
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pmGRTBR.
I was just pulling out that fascinating phrase invented by the MSM to delicately talk around the troublesome issue that the President of the United States of America was a drooling moron. It was clear as day, but they couldn’t bring themselves to say it outright, so they’d describe him as “intellectually incurious,” as if that doesn’t mean the same exact thing. It really applies to all of the R’s nowadays.
oh man, i didnt realize the phrase was coined for bush
do you by any chance remember the network, i’d love to see a clip or something, if you know the network i might be able to check it out.
or was it across a lot of networks?
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:11 pmcalavzma Says:
oh man, i didnt realize the phrase was coined for bush
do you by any chance remember the network, i’d love to see a clip or something, if you know the network i might be able to check it out.
It’s been used about a zillion times to refer to the phenomenon of Dubya specifically. Check it out.
Oddly enough, I don’t really see it before 2006, and most of those seem to cite back to Joe Scarborough, of all people: Is Bush an idiot?
Heh.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmSoooo..by lower Carbon emissions we will all gain the power to change or influence the weather? Kind of like how Storm from the X-Men does? Cause if that’s the cause then I’m all for the lowering of Carbon Emissions and taking care of Mother Earth…
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmSo this jerk doesn’t want to stop seasons from changing. Um, no one does. But I am against 6 months of blistering heat where I live (& related raging fires), against polar ice caps melting because it’s summer there several months of the year, against horrific tornadoes & hurricanes killing 1000s & destroying lives more than they ever have, against inhabited areas being engulfed by the rising seas, against millions starving due to drought, etc. But does Akin even care about that? Apparently he’s too ignorant to understand.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pmAkin (R-MO). Matt Blunt (R-MO). Roy Blunt (R-MO). Lutkemeyer (R-MO). Ashcroft (repub from MO) anyone starting to see a pattern here of loyal Bushie true believers ?
And Akin represents the St. Louis, St. Charles area – that is the more liberal, urban part of the state.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pmThis part of Missouri has armadillos now, it didn’t 20 years ago. Let me tell you, that’s not “good climate change.” — RollaMO
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Considering that armadillos typically seem to prefer somewhat arid environments (such as scrub or desert), you’re right — since this would suggest that Missouri is drying out (which could present serious problems for agriculture) and/or that temperatures in the armadillos’ native habitat are rising so high that their natural prey is either migrating or dying out. The possibility that armadillos, like other omnivores such as raccoons, have been migrating into areas of greater human habitation in order to scavenge from our garbage doesn’t seem to sufficiently address the fact that they’re being spotted in states which have not historically been considered part of their usual range.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 pmI hope President Obama has staff members working on a lot of the issues brought up in the Hart-Ruddman report. Our government is not adequately structured to deal with the problems of the 21st century. Scientific illiteracy in Congress is appalling. We need to have programs to educate Congress people, and there needs to be a mechanism by which they are held to scientific standards and FACTS when making decisions concerning natural phenomenon. One’s opinion on whether or not global warming is real, or DDT is damaging to the environment cannot be taken seriously when you are responsible for legislation that is consequential to all of humanity. Selfish b*stards!
Environmental science is not social “science”. The theory of evolution is not a “theory” in the same sense that the superstar “theory” of management is a “theory”. Laymen ridiculing reports from the National Academy of Sciences so that they can serve the myopic “needs” of corporations that are causing planetary harm is abominable.
The MSM stinks on ice. Congress is not only scientifically illiterate, but is trying to uphold a culture of wishful thinking that no responsible adult should tolerate. The opposition party, in league with neocon think tanks and pundits with no background in the issues they have such strong opinions about are throwing a collective tantrum, the likes of which I have never seen, at the very time they should be working hardest to actually solve problems. Gobsmacking.
These are national security issues. It seems like we have the opportunity for a Renaissance, but a minority is trying desperately to drag us into a dark age.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 pmBluestocking,
I’ve spent my whole life skirting the edge of two biozones. I have seen many plants and animals move their range North in my 4 decades of careful study. I’ve seen the migration pattern of birds change. I’ve seen species that were once plentiful extirpated.
Outdoors men like myself knew something was screwy long before anyone was mentioning global warming. And most of us had a strong suspicion that mankind was responsible long before anyone was talking about CO2 emissions.
On the other hand, I’ve seen environments reclaimed and several species, peregrine falcons and bald eagles most prominently, brought back to nearly their former abundance simply by banning DDT, captive breeding, and protecting nests.
A little farther from home, Lake Erie has been restored from a cesspool to a thriving fishery.
It makes me seethe when someone says, “we puny humans can’t fix it anyway“. When we humans stop arguing and decide to do something we tend to get it done. We just need to keep greed and fear in check. Heck! We would have died out long ago if we couldn’t do it.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 pmwiley,
Maybe I get too optimistic, maybe I’ve had too much caffeine today, but I do think we’ve turned a corner in the war on science. The nuts seem to be fewer in number and growing in desperation/irrationality. Though, regrettably, they grow no less vocal.
And it’s a certainty that Obama himself will make decisions on real-world, real-time, information. He might not make decisions you or I like but he will consider the data. Compared to his predecessor, that cheers me immeasurably.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 pmAkin has it all wrong. After all, we’re liberals. We don’t want to outlaw springtime… just tax it. ;)
June 4th, 2009 at 12:26 amAren’t armadillos cuuuuute? They carry leprosy.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:29 amNo. No. No. I am dumb with disbelief. I simply cannot believe the moronic commments pouring out of the weird right. Yet, sadly, I know these men. They are like all the other southern men I was raised with/by. Die hard racists/anti progress/mysoginistic/…*sputters inarticulately*…Wow. Yup. Y’all gotcher own sci-un-tess right there, gradumacated from school, too…
Pardon my juvenile behavior. I will post erudite posts some other time.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:41 pmYou don’t know how glad I am to see Mr. Akin express his views! Now people may realize that Texas does NOT have a monopoly on idiots and cretins and quit blaming us for all the wrong that is going on in the world. Check out Coburn and Imhofe while you’re at it. And quit blaming us for the shrub, as well. He’s a Maniac preppie from New England, not a Texan. Blame them, not us.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:01 pmburdan
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Rep. Akin makes a great point. Government should leave the Four Seasons alone. Frankie Valli has the right to sing with whomever he wants. Rep.Akin has all of their recordings and has been to numerous performances of “The Jersey Boys. If he doesn’t stand up and courageously defend Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons from this governmental assault, who will. Lovers of Vivaldi applaud his efforts.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:57 pm