# Jim Inhofe is a dumbass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586 "2010-12-01T21:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/161 "2010-12-08T16:52:00Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Well, good, then. > The only FOX News I ever watch is in the form of \*Daily Show \*clips. I’d have expected Stewart would have been happy to show that part. Well, it wasn’t like he pwned her or anything - it was pretty much what you or I would have done; mostly, just an expression that said “are you fucking serious, lady?” and occasionally gently pointing out the facts. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/162 "2010-12-08T17:20:56Z")
> [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](#): > > I celebrate Christmas and the birthing of Jesus Christ. When my high school banned our Christmas pageant there was a lot of outrage from the parents in the town. Silent Night could not be sung in the pageant as well as other songs that had ANY religious context. Why? Because the government doesn’t have a right to use taxpayer funds to proselytize, that’s why. Your high school didn’t prohibit that, the Constitution does. > [@](#): > > The Dopers here have admitted that 80% of the American populace are Christians. Why fuck with it? Nobody is fucking with it. You have absolute freedom to practice your religion in whatever manner you want. You just don;'t have a right to use taxpayer funds or public resources for it. > [@](#): > > Because Christians are happy with their ideals in America? Believe it or not, it’s not all about Santa and stockings by the fire. The celebration day itself may be/is fucked up, but the argument thrown down seems to be the same: “DON’T CALL IT CHRISTMAS”.. call it a HOLIDAY. No such argument is thrown down. This is total Fox News myth. Nobody cares what you call it. > [@](#): > > No, I’m going to call it Christmas and everyone can feel free to celebrate as they want. I’m getting a warm a fuzzy feeling about the freedom of religion thing. Bully for you, but nobody is trying to stop you. > [@](#): > > You don’t like that there might be a Christmas Parade? > Start your own parade. I will be a participant. I will celebrate it. The Darwin parade that someone mentioned upthread sounds magnificent. A public parade is a _public_ parade. Christians don’t have a right to commandeer it for their own religious purposes. Its not a Christmas parade, it’s a holiday parade. You want a Christmas parade, start your own and pay for it yourself. You are not being perscuted because you are not allowed to force a city to call a holiday parade a “Christmas parade.” If a city had a publicly funded “Ramadan Parade,” you same CPC sufferers would shit yourselves with outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/163 "2010-12-08T17:27:42Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Because the government doesn’t have a right to use taxpayer funds to proselytize, that’s why. Your high school didn’t prohibit that, the Constitution does. > > Nobody is fucking with it. You have absolute freedom to practice your religion in whatever manner you want. You just don;'t have a right to use taxpayer funds or public resources for it. > > No such argument is thrown down. This is total Fox News myth. Nobody cares what you call it. > > Bully for you, but nobody is trying to stop you. > > A public parade is a _public_ parade. Christians don’t have a right to commandeer it for their own religious purposes. Its not a Christmas parade, it’s a holiday parade. You want a Christmas parade, start your own and pay for it yourself. You are not being perscuted because you are not allowed to force a city to call a holiday parade a “Christmas parade.” If a city had a publicly fubded “Ramadan Parade,” you same CPC sufferers would shit yourselves with outrage. **Dio** , I love you brother, but don’t EVEN ADMIT that the original OP hasn’t denigrated to religion versus no religion ---
**Author:** ![poet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@poet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poet)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/164 "2010-12-08T17:28:15Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > For many reasons. But this is his latest episode of dumbassery: > > **Senator Won’t Ride Horse in ‘Holiday’ Parade** Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/165 "2010-12-08T17:34:56Z")
> [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](#): > > **Dio** , I love you brother, but don’t EVEN ADMIT that the original OP hasn’t denigrated to religion versus no religion The thread as a whole certainly has not gone that way, and to the extent there’s been any discussion along those lines, I think all of it was either in your posts or in response to your posts. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/166 "2010-12-08T17:45:49Z")
> [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](#): > > **Dio** , I love you brother, but don’t EVEN ADMIT that the original OP hasn’t denigrated to religion versus no religion This sentence makes no sense. If you’re saying what I think you’re saying, though, then no. Nobody is calling for the inclusion of atheists in the parade; we don’t have a fucking holiday. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/167 "2010-12-08T17:50:56Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > This sentence makes no sense. If you’re saying what I think you’re saying, though, then no. Nobody is calling for the inclusion of atheists in the parade; we don’t have a fucking holiday. Dolt, I was mentioning the Darwin parade upthread. Merry Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/168 "2010-12-08T17:53:37Z")
If you read page three you’ll see nobody mentioned a Darwin _parade_. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/169 "2010-12-08T17:54:01Z")
What “Darwin parade”? Happy holidays. ETA: Simulpost. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/170 "2010-12-08T17:59:29Z")
Seen the Dawin Parade often. Its led by a vegetarian in a tie-dye shirt, followed closely by a white guy in a suit, followed by a Neandertal, and so forth back to a single-cell blob squishing along on the pavement. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/171 "2010-12-08T18:00:31Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Because the government doesn’t have a right to use taxpayer funds to proselytize, that’s why. Your high school didn’t prohibit that, the Constitution does. > > Nobody is fucking with it. You have absolute freedom to practice your religion in whatever manner you want. You just don;'t have a right to use taxpayer funds or public resources for it. > > No such argument is thrown down. This is total Fox News myth. Nobody cares what you call it. > > Bully for you, but nobody is trying to stop you. > > A public parade is a _public_ parade. Christians don’t have a right to commandeer it for their own religious purposes. Its not a Christmas parade, it’s a holiday parade. You want a Christmas parade, start your own and pay for it yourself. You are not being perscuted because you are not allowed to force a city to call a holiday parade a “Christmas parade.” If a city had a publicly funded “Ramadan Parade,” you same CPC sufferers would shit yourselves with outrage. Exactly MY POINT. Here is some “outrage” that for some reason the SD doesn’t acknowledge: I suggest “The Bill O’Reilly Parade for the Baby Jesus Barn Birthing”. Because that’s really what this is all about, ridiculous posturing by the Ridiculous Party. Christians: The persecuted minority that only makes up 76% the population! How will their religion ever withstand this horrific onslaught? Reply With Quotehristians: The persecuted minority that only makes up 76% the population! How will their religion ever withstand this horrific onslaught? Easy. We killed Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/172 "2010-12-08T18:01:52Z")
Can somebody translate that? His egg-nog seems to have been spiked. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/173 "2010-12-08T18:02:11Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If you read page three you’ll see nobody mentioned a Darwin _parade_. Christ, you are a nitpicker by default ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/174 "2010-12-08T18:06:43Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Can somebody translate that? His egg-nog seems to have been spiked. I was in a hurry, would you like some more anti-christian quotes from this board? Considering that every religion in this country can get a break and all according to this board?? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/175 "2010-12-08T18:11:11Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > …a single-cell blob squishing along on the pavement. Newt Gingrich is hard up for gigs these days, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/176 "2010-12-08T18:12:18Z")
> [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](#): > > I was in a hurry, would you like some more anti-christian quotes from this board? Considering that every religion in this country can get a break and all according to this board?? Dude, what the hell are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/177 "2010-12-08T18:13:40Z")
> [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](#): > > Christ, you are a nitpicker by default Now who hates religion? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/178 "2010-12-08T18:17:00Z")
[quote=“Marley23, post:177, topic:562586”] Now who hates religion? ;)[/QUOTE} Kisses… **Marley**. You rock. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/179 "2010-12-08T18:25:13Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Seen the Dawin Parade often. Its led by a vegetarian in a tie-dye shirt, followed closely by a white guy in a suit, followed by a Neandertal, and so forth back to a single-cell blob squishing along on the pavement. And the parade music is always Stravinsky’s _The Rite of Spring_. **Always.** ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586/180 "2010-12-08T18:25:17Z")
Darth\_Hamsandwich, I’d love an acknowledgement of [Post 147](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13213783&postcount=147). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-inhofe-is-a-dumbass/562586.md?page=10)