Well, that settles it for me! A single sentence somebody wrote thousands of years ago in a book of myths that’s been translated and retranslated totally obviates decades of modern data collection and analysis.
Never mind that what he quoted doesn’t even REFUTE climate change on a semantic level. Yes, there will still be winter and summer and plants will still grow. There’s not a single climatologist that will say that’s not true. How cold the winter is, how much rain certain areas get, what seeds will grow where, they will change though. They ARE changing. They HAVE changed.
It probably would have said that, but he apparently wasn’t that good a carpenter. The desk slowly collapsed into a pile of undifferentiated kindling even before his forehead made contact, so they decided to leave that part out of the verse.
Help me out here: is it just selection bias? Are there incidences of modern Republicans saying things that aren’t stupid? Ever? On any subject? Because I have a hard time believing that lowlifes like Inhofe or Palin or Bush or Perry or Santorum (or Limbaugh or Hannity or Coulter or Grace or O’Reilly) might occasionally get something right even by chance. It seems to me that someone would have to be a total meathead - the sort who forgets to breathe now and then - to read (or have read to them) what these . . . these Republicans have to say and then think “Yeah, these people have reasonable political stances on important issues” then head off to vote for them. I’d be impressed if they could manage to think “I like soup.”
It staggers the mind that Republicans are a viable force in American politics. They make me think the best thing America could do as a nation is to flood the continental US and leave it to the cephalopods. How do they (Republicans, not cuttlefish) attain positions of power, seeing as how they’re so very, very stupid?
I’d say yes, they certainly do say things that make sense. But whenever this occurs (IMHO) the larger Republican party / conservative mindset seems to quickly swoop in and kill it.
Two instances come to mind with GW Bush: His initial position on port sales to foreign entities and his suggested immigration policy. Both times I remember thinking, “Finally! He says something that makes sense, I can agree with, and there’s the added bonus of showing my conservative friends that I don’t automatically hate everything associated with Bush.”
Bush fairly quickly lost on both of those, as I recall. Not due to Democratic pressure, but because of the outcry from his own party. :smack:
Barry Goldwater said that the whole argument about gays serving in the military was stupid because you didn’t need to be straight to pull a trigger. Not all that smart, but still, by comparison…
I have no particular fealty towards Ron Paul (dislike anarchocapitalism in general), but he is capable of independent thought rather than pandering.
He was actually very courageous here, but that fact is hampered somewhat because he was talking to an individual that thinks that homosexuals are born of the devil.
Chris Christie just called a veteran (former Navy Seal) an “idiot” on camera. Whatever this phenomenon is which we are observing, Scotty, perhaps we should just warp 10 in the other direction?
It isn’t that the rabid rightous right wants to stick women with a completely unwarranted, invasive proceedure in hopes of intimidating them and limiting their access to abortions…No, they’re trying to empower women.
Of course she is retiring. At least partly to as she says a belief in term limits. So, she seems to be a principled person. Wish there more like this. I get the feeling I may not always agree with her, but we could have at least conversed and come to workable solutions on most things.
