Stupid Republican idea of the day

[Evil_Captor]

@elucidator

“You can always hire half the poor to kill the other half”

Variously attributed.

What do you think an army is but the practical expression of this idea?

[TonySinclair]

@Rick_Kitchen

Ben Carson’s budget plan. Even conservatives think his numbers are ridiculous.

Surely the guy has some advisors who aren’t idiots. How do they let him put out something that dumb?

[ElvisL1ves]

It’s better than Herman Cain’s “9, 9, 9” - and he was a CEO.

[Kobal2]

@TonySinclair

Surely the guy has some advisors who aren’t idiots.

OBJECTION ! Assumes facts not in evidence.

[septimus]

@Rick_Kitchen

Ben Carson’s budget plan. Even conservatives think his numbers are ridiculous.

I think you’re entirely missing the point of the clowns’ show if you think it even makes sense to talk about whether a clown’s plan makes sense.

If you really think Ben! uses advisors, perhaps Sam Stone is the finance guru; teradollar deficits are nothing to him: he’s on record as calling $5 trillion chump change, $20 trillion a rounding error, and mentioning any amount less than $1 trillion is nitpicking. (That’s when the talk turns to taxing the rich of course; Welfare Mama’s 69-cent bottle of catsup is a collosal fraud.)

(I’m waiting for Carson to blurt out that he’s found a way around Braess’ Paradox; then we’ll know Stone is his boy!)

[elucidator]

Sam is wrong in a complex way, Carson is just flat wrong.

[Maus_Magill]

I’m willing to bet Carson doesn’t actually have advisors. He’s a brain surgeon, and the only difference between a brain surgeon abd God is that God doesn’t think he’s a brain surgeon.

[GIGObuster]

Rep. Lamar Smith reminds everyone how all Republicans in the house are Stupid for making him a Chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

Congressman doubles down, accuses NOAA scientists of doctoring results

Congressman doubles down, accuses NOAA scientists of doctoring results

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That’s where the subpoena came in.

We noted that although the demand for internal communications obviously implies suspicion of skullduggery, Rep. Smith had stopped short of actually accusing the NOAA of anything like that. That has changed with a statement Rep. Smith provided Nature for its news coverage of the subpoena.

The full statement, which Rep. Smith’s office provided to Ars, reads as follows:

It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades. The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made. NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda. The agency has yet to identify any legal basis for withholding these documents. The Committee intends to use all tools at its disposal to undertake its Constitutionally-mandated oversight responsibilities.

**No ambiguity there—Smith is clearly suggesting that the NOAA is manipulating its results to further an external agenda. **

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The claim of “no warming for the past two decades” is simply false. But more importantly, the NOAA’s numbers don’t differ in any meaningful way from NASA’s or from any of the other independent surface temperature datasets. But Rep. Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, thinks that digging through the e-mails of the NOAA’s scientists will somehow show that they were pawns of the Obama administration.

As a poster from Ars Technica said on the previous article:

Texas Congressman Lamar Smith, in his position as Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Just kill me now.

For a better reply and more about the #1 enemy of science check Tamino’s take:

Lamar Smith: #1 Enemy of Science

We should also mention that what Lamar Smith really objects to is that research by Karl et al. disproved the “pause” that climate deniers loved so much. Lamar Smith wants to revive that zombie, so he can use it to push his anti-science agenda. But the zombie “pause” was already dead, even without the research of Karl et al. I showed it in my own research, using data without the sea-surface temperature revision, so did Cahill et al., in fact it’s now been shown in no fewer than five scientific publications, including the NOAA research that Lamar Smith hates so much, he’ll resort to the nastiest, costliest, and most vicious tactics to destroy.

That’s what Lamar Smith does. He’s the #1 enemy of science.

[Rick_Kitchen]

Kevin Swanson is a Colorado pastor who wants gays put to death. He thinks that the Girl Scouts,the movie Frozen, and the US Women’s Soccer Team will turn little girls into lesbians. He will be hosting a "National Religious *Liberties *Conference in Des Moines next week,

Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal will be attending.

[GIGObuster]

@Rick_Kitchen

Kevin Swanson is a Colorado pastor who wants gays put to death. He thinks that the Girl Scouts,the movie Frozen, and the US Women’s Soccer Team will turn little girls into lesbians. He will be hosting a "National Religious *Liberties *Conference in Des Moines next week,

Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal will be attending.

Considering that Trump attended a meet in support of someone that is currently on trial for contempt of court for defying the limits put on his racial profiling; and for abusing his power to investigate the very judges that are overseeing his case, it is very clear that all those candidates do think that it will get them the support of very unsavoury republican voters.

It has worked so far for Trump, and it is not surprising to me that many conservatives are declaring that they will support Trump if he becomes the Republican candidate. The bigot candidates (or the ones that pander to bigots) do not mind about the prejudice, and it is clear that many Republicans don’t.

[Katriona]

@Rick_Kitchen

Kevin Swanson is a Colorado pastor who wants gays put to death. He thinks that the Girl Scouts,the movie Frozen, and the US Women’s Soccer Team will turn little girls into lesbians. He will be hosting a "National Religious *Liberties *Conference in Des Moines next week,

Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal will be attending.

Frozen? Um, dude, Let it Go isn’t about the dick…

[Death_of_Rats]

@Rick_Kitchen

Kevin Swanson is a Colorado pastor who wants gays put to death. He thinks that the Girl Scouts,the movie Frozen, and the US Women’s Soccer Team will turn little girls into lesbians. He will be hosting a "National Religious *Liberties *Conference in Des Moines next week,

Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal will be attending.

To be fair, it is not like those three have anything better to do. At least this keeps them off the streets.

[elucidator]

You’re right, that is the least.

[septimus]

@Rick_Kitchen

Marco Rubio may have violated ethics rules by soliciting campaign funds while within the Senate building.

Thanks for calling this to our attention. I’ve not seen any mention of it on the Lame Stream Media.

Can you imagine the pandemonium if Hillary had done something like this? Select committees, special reports; Rupert Murdoch might have to start another newspaper.

Perhaps it’s good that America’s media is so biased. I don’t think we could stand it if they scrutinized one side as much as they do the other.

[Rick_Kitchen]

@Katriona

Frozen? Um, dude, Let it Go isn’t about the dick…

That’s the problem. The two leads are female.

[Sitnam]

‘Winning’ a debate now just requires bombastic quotable sentences and good photo ops. No one watches and then fact checks the statements themselves, they have their news outlets to tell them what it all means and sum up who won. On both sides, though not equally.

[Rick_Kitchen]

Ted Cruz" Only “real journalists” like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity should moderate the Republican debates.

[Robot_Arm]

@Rick_Kitchen

Ted Cruz" Only “real journalists” like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity should moderate the Republican debates.

Yeah, I loved the way the candidates said the media wasn’t acting respectfully toward them, then called the media Hillary’s Super PAC.

Respect goes both ways, dudes and dudette.

[TonySinclair]

@Rick_Kitchen

Ted Cruz" Only “real journalists” like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity should moderate the Republican debates.

Also see this refutation of his assertion that the Dems got only softball questions:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/29/ted-cruz-says-the-democratic-debate-was-fawning-heres-what-it-really-was/

[Locrian]

How about ALL of the questions come from regular, voting citizens like us? After all, they’ll be working for us if elected… oh, never mind. I see the problem already.