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[EarlG]

Inhofe's Grand Climate Conspiracy Theory: It's All About Barbra Streisand

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[niyad]

1. there are days I am convinced that there really is an alternate universe.

[heaven05]

11. yeah

it is like bizarro world.....

[msanthrope]

2. Jeebus Christ. He needs an evaulation.

[radhika]

13. Jeebus double-H xst - OK voters need the evaluations....

Inhofe's been a known commodity for decades. But Oklahomans don't find that pattern objectionable. In fact, they are happy to let him represent them on major issues.

The voters are either just dumb-f**k stupid or just so fundamentally evil and mean spirited they want to sit back and destroy the planet. In preparation for End Times, no doubt. Beam them up, Scotty, please.

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. Oh yes, and they are so hooked on the culmination of the return of their messiah

People, you are your own savior! There's no messiah coming to disappear you to heaven.

Repeat: People, you are your own savior!

[billhicks76]

65. Barbara?

These idiots are bat-shit crazy and should be banned from holding office. Why aren't our leaders calling them out in an equally extreme way? Why are Obama, Hillary, Bill etc so spineless and wimpy? What privileges are they afraid of losing? We better start electing Progressives who get to the heart of the matter instead of pretending it doesn't exist...our system is totally corrupted. No wonder young people won't vote.

[Half-Century Man]

3. Many years ago, I saw a bumper sticker on a dusty Old's 442

It read "Earth is the Insane Asylum of the Universe".

Why Truth would be eating at the Denny's in Vallejo Ca, I have no idea.

[Initech]

29. Actually that's half true. Washington DC is the insane asylum of the universe.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Poor Barbara.

She really did land in their metaphorical crosshairs. Years ago I went to a wedding for a distant relative by marriage. The priest, a Catholic priest, in the middle of the matrimonial ceremony said that sometimes it's okay to hate people and that he sometimes wishes that Barbara Streisand would slip on a banana peel.

Not that I was going to church much before then, but it solidified my apathy about attending services, since it was an era where I was inclined to hear things that would convince me that religion, as I was raised to practice it, was no longer viable.

[Cleita]

5. Wow! That is inappropriate on so many levels, but at

a wedding ceremony? It boggles my mind.

[Baitball Blogger]

33. No doubt in my mind that the young couple had shared their concerns with the priest.

And I have every reason to believe that that side of the family had issues with minorities.

[yellowcanine]

6. Well crap, why would a priest say that anytime let alone at a wedding?

Can priests just say any kind of shit in their homilies? Are there no guidelines? There must be a "Homily Manual for Priests" somewhere. This is not something the Catholic Church would leave to chance.

[Baitball Blogger]

35. Now you have a gander into the world that exists in Central Florida.

I couldn't even bond with in-laws who were raised in the Catholic practices because they had taken to the right-wing screed. And they had strong ties to their church, so the fact that the priest dropped that gem in church was an indication that the world had fallen off its axis. Very difficult time for me, which I resolved by distancing myself from them.

[ALBliberal]

72. we stopped attending mass

In 2008 when a priest told us that Obama "worshippers" should be careful to not put Obama before God. We weren't going to mass much anyway.

[paleotn]

60. I guess he forgot about that bit in Matthew...

...about loving thy neighbor as thy self. Then again, maybe he hated himself, so it made perfect sense to him.

[Baitball Blogger]

61. The Bush years was an era of Christian abandonment.

It was a time when people were satisfied with the approximation of justice and Christian teachings.

[IronLionZion]

68. Nothing celebrates eternal love like wishing harm to someone else

especially a Catholic wishing harm to a Jewish woman.

[Baitball Blogger]

69. I'm pretty sure that that point was lost on them.

They would have objected to her because she was/is a prominent Liberal, or appears to be one.

[Johonny]

7. Go ahead, try and respect the people that voted for him

I can't.

[turbinetree]

8. Drinking water and Carbon gases

I think that when he has one of his so called HOAX hearings someone like (Streisand as an example) should get permission and bring a glass of oil and water mixed together with tar sands, Texas crude Oil, or Oklahoma Crude oil, (don't want to show favoritism in oil now do we) mixed together from Oglala water aquifer (since it is in part of his state), a jar with fracking water and then light the thing and ask him to drink the cocktail, and then to top it all off, a jar with soda ash, lead, mercury deposit coming out a coal fired smoke stack from a polluted lake to drink it and if he will not, to then ask him to take the dry compound of pollutes and have this right wing hypocrite to use it as salt and pepper on a sandwich or a meal, and then ask do you think its a HOAX and ask him to take a bite.
Lets see his conviction LIVE in a hearing room, show us that its not dangerous to eat or drink, please show the entire country, that what we environmentalist are saying is a joke and a HOAX.
That all this crap is clean, the water is clean, food is clean, air is clean, give all of us the Mr. Rogers or Capt'n Kangaroo moment (by the way I loved them both), teach us that we don't know anything.
And then we can all see the true right wing hypocrisy come out of a his right wing mouth of total disdain of Humanity and the planet by someone that has been bought and sold to the highest bidder and should be IMPEACHED

[niyad]

12. brought to mind that scene in "erin brockovich" when she hands the attorney for pge a glass of

water, and then says "it's from hinckley"

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. +1,000,000

[belzabubba333]

9. to all those saying "but we need something to vote FOR not something to vote against" isnt

this something to vote for

like this poster:
We lost because dems didn't have anything to vote for except

"Not As Crazy As Those Other Guys!"
or this
actually there are plenty of good reasons for not voting

especially when we have gone out of our way to disenfranchise votes, specifically, poor/minority voters.

or this
The remedy is not to berate people but to put up candidates for whom people will get excited -- not excited about your candiate is no reason not to vote

[heaven05]

10. amerikkka

and it's policies concerning environment, race, justice.....oh every fucking thing, are in good hands, now...

[SoapBox]

14. And another big thanks...to those that didn't VOTE.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. yeppers.

[Cracklin Charlie]

15. Can we just let Barbra chair the committee instead?

At least we'd have someone who cared that we even have an environment.

Inhofe makes me wanna barf.

[nxylas]

16. Not Al Gore?

I thought the usual wingnut narrative was that Gore had paid 97% of the world's climate scientists to distort their findings in order to plug An Inconvenient Truth. Clearly, the investment was worth it, as it went on to gross more money than Avatar, Titanic and the entire Harry Potter series combined. Thank goodness a few brave Koch-funded scientists (or people who play scientists on TV) were prepared to sacrifice everything in order to get the truth out.

[Kali]

17. ah the ignorant common man can be elected -

one of the drawbacks to democracy, I suppose. you have to admit, he does REPRESENT a constituency of likewise ignorant citizens.

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Note, Streisand equals "Jewish conspiracy" for right wingers.

In other words, they are convinced that climate change is part of a massive Jewish campaign to hurt our good buddy's in Saudi Arabia by cutting their oil profits.

[noiretextatique]

53. +1000 eom

[C Moon]

20. A Koch Brothers request, no doubt.

[gregcrawford]

22. Even a cursory investigation...

... of Inhofe's personal history will reveal him to be a malicious sociopath utterly devoid of conscience or any capacity to entertain the possibility that he might be wrong. About ANYTHING. Sadly, the halls of Congress are filled with such personalities. It's like an cataclysmic infestation of lice, fleas, bedbugs, and cockroaches all at once. And THAT'S no hoax! Now I'm all itchy...

[geretogo]

25. Right on !

[AlbertCat]

23. Barbara Streisand..... environmental mastermind!

Don't rain on her parade!

[geretogo]

24. I'll bet if you asked this dangerous clown about gravity and Izak Newton he would say Newton was a

evil liberal and gravity is a hoax as is the hoax of the Earth revolving around the Sun . The Bible tells
me so . Amen and Amen .

[Initech]

31. If these clowns had been around during the Renaissance Era...

They would have painted Galileo, DaVinci, and Newton as witches and called for them to be burned at the stake.

[geretogo]

34. I'm sure his ancestors were part of witch burning during this period .

[ashling]

26. Streisand should sue Inhoffe for libel

Put him to his proof

[tclambert]

27. I always wondered what Barbra Streisand was up to.

Why is there a missing "a" in her first name? Is it a secret message to her alien overlords? And if you add up all the letters in her name and multiply by 1.618 (the Golden Ratio), you get another number that has secret meaning to believers in Atlantis.

And James Inhofe also refuses to believe in stars (of the celestial kind) because he went outside one afternoon and looked up, and there were NO STARS! Obviously, the whole star thing is another hoax.

But seriously, I thought Al Gore was behind it all.

[closeupready]

28. Earl, you really are a genius at this stuff.

I didn't even have to read the captions, and I started chuckling. Thanks!

[Initech]

30. And we wonder why the rest of the civilized world is laughing at us.

[ffr]

32. I hate you EarlG

You made my anxiety level go up exponentially.

j/k

[AllyCat]

36. Idiots. Why do Americans love idiots so much?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. jeezus.

jeezus H. christ.

[drm604]

39. I have no strong feelings about Barbra Streisand one way or the other, she's barely on my radar,

but I can't for the life of me understand how she became some sort of archetype of evil among conservatives. She's an actor and a singer, not a world leader. She's not a politician. She's not even a muckraker.

I suppose that she's supported some causes the right don't care for. Given their enmity towards her, that must be the case. But hell; lots of people; actors, singers, politicians, etc., have supported "liberal" causes, so what's so special about Streisand? She passed her peak of popularity decades ago, so it's not like she's an opinion leader that they have to counter.

[noiretextatique]

54. see post #19 eom

[elzenmahn]

67. There are a few reasons...

1. She has been a consistent supporter of the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates for 40+ years (Her 1972 album Concert At The Forum was recorded at a George McGovern fundraiser);
2. Anti-semitism - some things never change;
3. She is a feminist icon, and we know how well THAT goes down with the Foxy Noise crowd (especially Bill-O);
4. Her most recent album hit #1 on iTunes recently, so while she may not be selling records at the levels of the Guilty album, she still has a large fan base, and when she tours, her shows typically sell out in minutes;
5. By all accounts, she's fearless, and has zero tolerance for fools and the BS they disseminate.

In short, she's still a threat to the Old Boy Network that runs things in the GOP. She's had to deal with Old Boy Networks throughout her career in the entertainment business, so this should be Old Hat for her. I say - go get 'em!

[father founding]

40. Anti Semetic

Jimmy Inhole is guilty of Hate Speech for his comments.

[Cha]

41. And, this is the kind of shite those who couldn't be bothered to vote because there was

"no reason" put into office... and, of course those who are brainwashed to vote to give Billionaires more Tax Cuts.

More Shite..


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Mahalo EarlG

[ffr]

44. Sounds like something I'd write.

You're suppose to be above that Cha. I look up to you.

But, maybe what we need is a phone APP that shows how fun, even makes a game of voting, so the masses will 'want to' vote in their best interests.

Ugh! We need to institute mandatory military service like they do in some European countries, so that people of voting age and of all ages thereafter, can feel they have a stake in the country they are a part of.

Maybe I'm just being selfish for expecting people to feel compelled to do something that benefits them, as well as, others like them (me).

[Cha]

47. "Above" what? The facts?

[ffr]

50. Yeah, I look up to you.

Don't take it personally. It's not a negative. I was merely agreeing with your comments, with the twist that I sometimes take a satirical perspective on subjects, like the mid-term results and how people just basically sat on their hands.

Your posts are generally above the fray, while mine typically don't or can't.

[Cha]

51. Mahalo~ Your posts are great, ffr. I guess you must miss

those posts where I jump into the fray.

[FiveGoodMen]

42. Would you let some guy perform brain surgery on you because he was good at raising money?

No.

And we shouldn't put unqualified fools in charge of life-or-death decisions based on politics (which is all about raising money).

If we can't see that -- if we can't DO something about it soon -- then this nation will get the lobotomy it deserves.

A lot of this started when the GOP cozied up to the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) and got their message proclaimed from the pulpits as though it came from god.

Don't tell me about respecting religion. It's trying to kill us all. We should fight back.

[ffr]

45. Good analogy! n/t

[BlueJazz]

43. Isn't there anything that anybody can do to stop this fool from being in charge of the environment?

I'm serious and not just commenting on the subject.

[Ilsa]

46. Thank you for the lively pic of Barbra Streisand.

I wish Inhofe would go home. This is serious denial that will kill us all.

[Glaisne]

48. Conservatives are absolute Morons!

And Inhofe is the grand moron!

[Demoiselle]

49. I think it was H.L Mencken (Menken?) who coined the phrase:

…The Great American Boobocracy.
That was back in the '20's--'30's. Sigh.

[JDPriestly]

52. Inhofe -- what he lacks in intelligence, he makes up in stupidy, and his excessive

self-confidence evens out the difference.

What is this world coming to?

I wonder what Inhofe's grades were in science classes.

Inhofe was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Blanche (née Mountain) and Perry Dyson Inhofe.[2] He moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was a child. He was a member of the Class of 1953 at Tulsa Central High School,[3] and served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958.[4] Inhofe received a B.A. degree when he was nearly 40 years old from the University of Tulsa in 1973.

Inhofe worked as a businessman for three decades before becoming a full-time politician.[5] He worked in the field of aviation, as a real estate developer, and in insurance, eventually becoming the president of the Quaker Life Insurance Company. During the time he worked for Quaker Life, the company went into receivership; it was liquidated in 1986.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Inhofe

Not a scientist I guess.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

55. It's very possible

the brilliant senator Sheldon Whitehouse will have an opportunity to shut this fool down permanently. Senator Whitehouse doesn't suffer fools.

Besides, people who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

[onehandle]

56. Obama voters gave him that chair last month. nt

[El Shaman]

57. That feller is a real

Okie.

[armed_and_liberal]

58. Ha! I knew there was a subliminal message in "Evergreen"

I watched her sing that to Glen Campbell in a "A star is born" and suddenly I felt a global warming

[paleotn]

59. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma.....

....were the stupid runs deep and wide.

[Triana]

62. Barbra responded...

[Jamaal510]

66. Perfect! eom

[tavernier]

63. If he was a character in a movie,

no one would pay to see it. Just too bizarre to be believable.

Scratching my head that such nut jobs can hold a job, let alone in government. But then again, I guess it's the only place anymore, outside of Fox News, where they can spew such crap and have ppl nodding their heads in agreement.

[montex]

64. Inhofe is Old

Inhofe will be dead long before the first serious waves of climate change become undeniable. And because he is a conservative christian he is incapable of any sense or feeling of empathy for anyone except himself. Not even for his grandchildren. All he cares about is getting more money for himself.

[LeftinOH]

70. I thought it was Jane Fonda?! You know, that other

uppity Hollywood liberal the RW likes to single out all the time.

[LeftinOH]

71. Infuriating: We have over 300 million people in this country..

..and this dumb f*ck gets to be Chairman of the Senate Environmental Committee.

[polynomial]

73. Inhofe's argument about Barbara being the reason for a hoax; what

One time in my work experience I had the opportunity to work with an influential business person that possessed a Doctorate degree in economics. This was back in the eighties, the roaring Reagan years.

This short story highlights a lot of the inconsistency in America’s everyday life that is current in what Alvin Toffler wrote about in the book called “Future Shock” a book about what will likely happen in the future about choice. America is there now.

This economic person who was thought to be qualified to make predictions for business success turned out to be questionable or outright incompetent. It was a time that I found out this doctor of economics never took a course in Calculus.

As a student of engineering knowing that mastering a basic concept of exponential mathematics developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss is not only needed in science but is the fundamental core theory in money and business management.

Today with the so called uncertainty in climate change plus decisions to be made in government this type of knowledge must be a requirement for our future political people and all citizens must have a solid foundation in this theory or America will not survive as what Franklin once said “ As a Republic” Even the one percenters are scared about something as we all watch the gas prices plummet below $3.00.

It is very disappointing or just plain stupid to hear a political person say they are not a scientist, or engineer to avoid from sorting the important legislative community needs in public discourse that depend all sorts of science and technology involvement. Especially understanding about electric cars, clean water, clean air.

It is time to look at some of the political resume’s out there. However it is not just the resume’s it is the success rate of decisions that need to be observed and scrutinized. It has always been the ideal economic engine is the educational machine now stymied sputtering with very vivid or intense in tone that Republicans are blocking the best education Americans can get through a better system. A free K16 system.

I will use a Palin metaphor The basic educational K12 system needs to be “reloaded” and doubled down for improvement. What was once the providence of the college structure needs to be rescaled into a new k16 free education paradigm.

Its obvious there is something wrong in the governing decisions made about world resources so far because disasters are piling up faster in this new technology era.

We are in future shock, and worst of all it is the media that has the most important responsibility to serve to public however the media serves themselves through commercial revenue especially at voting time. Profits galore with political lies spreading through the culture that divides to country.

If humans are not responsible for climate change, it is certain humans are at the least teasing the situation to a point the earth ecosystem is jittering to a collapse. Else there are those who are of the flat world mentality which is simply the wrong way to think.

Inhofe's argument about Barbara being the reason for a hoax in climate change shows all America his ineptitude however there is a deep vailed reason for doing so masking. Inhofe has to be keeping the Republicans in delaying time by making such a foolish claim.

It can be argued Inhofe is giving America a 911 warning about Barbara…

However in my view the real reason is covered up like the original ground zero 911, never forget, Bush knew what was going to happen and ignored all the signs.

Better yet likely Bush and the Inhofe group all profiteered making better than minimum wage money on Building America.