Not an idea of the day, per se, but the Feb 7 issue of Nature (p. 13) points out that, quote, “The bulk of the economic burden of climate change in the United States this century will fall on Republican strongholds where politicians have historically opposed climate policies…vast swathes of the Repulican-leaning southwest and southeast could see economic looses of 10-28%. By contrast, Democratic-leaning northern states might experience fewer impacts and could even benefit from some effects, including increased agricultural yields.” There’s a map.
So yeah, denying climate change is a really stupid idea - not just because people will die and all that, but because it will cost red states money!
Sounds dangerous. Isn’t that how you get a Texas?
Toxgoddess, thanks. I will share this with my geography students.
You’re very welcome!
Since we don’t have a “Treasonous Republican idea of the day” thread, I’ll put this here:
Trump’s Homeland Security pulls funds and staff from election protection for 2020
Curious? Not to me. The only thing even remotely striking is that they don’t even seem to care about appearances anymore, which leads me to the suspicion that they know the fix is in.
We do have a Republican Malice Thread, though.
Not only do they know that the fix is in, they know their only chance of staying in power is if Russia actually changes the vote totals, this time.
A bill to abolish the death penalty in Wyoming was defeated, with some interesting arguments against it:
:eek:
Huh. I guess that’s why in, say, Cambodia, it’s legal to mellow out under a tree.
That’s an interesting twist on the old theodicy argument.
So Jesus is equivalent to a multiple murderer? I don’t think anybody preaches that.
Also, Jesus was lashed with a scourge and was hung by his impaled hands and feet until he died. I’m pretty sure that qualifies as cruel & unusual punishment. Does Ms. Hutchings think that’s how we should perform executions?
I guess the argument is that we NEED capital punishment today, because there might be a long haired hippie dude who comes around and starts to preach about how we should all love one another, and how those who love only money should be overthrown, and how if someone offends you, the best thing to do is to simply turn away…
And we must have capital punishment, so we can use the power of the state to murder that bastard peacenik hippie, because he’s giving people ideas about how to live a good life. And we can’t have that.z
Or something. I can’t believe that any Christian would support this sort of warped, nonsensical thinking. “If capital punishment was good enough for Jesus, then I’m all for it.” This is simply insane.
One argument was perhaps even dumber than the one you cited:
We all agree that Jesus was put to death, or at least that the Bible says so. I don’t think anyone but Mr. Bouchard would agree that retaining the death penalty will keep prisoners from obtaining gender reassignment surgery.
Probably just wants the death penalty for anyone that wants a gender reassignment surgery. It’s not hard to figure out how these guys think.
I believe it’s spelled “Theidiocy”.
People often misspell “homeopathetic”, too.
Ms. Hutchings seems to have forgotten that the usual Christian take is that Jesus was falsely accused, meaning that the Romans (but, oddly enough, the Jews get blamed for the killing) did not carry out justice. Plus, what the hell is she asserting here; is she expecting a second messiah?
Jesus might get pissed if we put him down a second time.:eek:
“And this time, stay down!”