As we swelter thru the latest heat wave, I keep thinking of the jackass who brought a snowball

[captain queeg]

To the Congress or senate, don’t remember which. He holds a snowball and says this is a snowball, it is cold. I’ve seen the Rs become more and more childish and wonder how they can be so stupid and still function. Does someone tie their shoes for them in the morning? I’d love to see someone pour a bowl of water over that idiots head and say here’s your snowball, this is what happens to it in global warming. Of course they wouldn’t understand, or more correctly they choose not to understand. They wallow in their righteous ignorance.

[CatWoman]

1. that was Inhofe

[niyad]

2. sen jim Inhofe OK

[Aristus]

12. I suppose we should feel sorry for Oklahoma.

The state shot its wad by giving us Woody Guthrie. A whole universe of excellence, humanism, and progressivism in one go.
It’s been a wellspring for stupidity, mediocrity, provincialism, and blistering human incompetence ever since.

I should know. My Dad was born in Oklahoma City, and he couldn’t get out of there fast enough…

[Hugh_Lebowski]

17. I have to take a small issue because The Flaming Lips also hail from Oklahoma ...

Only two THAAAANGS come from Oklahoma! Which one are you boy?

[GoCubsGo]

22. Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma, too, IIRC.

That makes it three.

[rsdsharp]

3. Jim Inhofe. Oklahoma Senator.

In a neck-and-neck race with Ron Johnson for dumbest Senator.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. They'll just retort that winter was super-friggin cold so it all evens out

Inhofe is the idiot, btw.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. Well it does even out - excessive deaths in the winter and summer

So you know, even.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

16. Of course, that's just math right there ... plus Gawd is sorting them out so not to worry (nt)

[NYC Liberal]

5. Also reminds me that the term "climate change" was pushed by right-wing strategist Frank Luntz

because it sounded less urgent and alarming than “global warming”

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. It is arguably more accurate, at least in the nearer term ...

On average of course the globe is warming, but on a more localized scale, it's climate change.

If the Atlantic Ocean warm-water conveyor shuts down, Northern Europe could definitely end up colder on average, for a good long time.

Another example being what a cold winter we had in the Eastern part of the USA.

It's kinda both is what I'm saying.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. This

[niyad]

13. catastrophic climate change (C3) from the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

[NYC Liberal]

18. It wasn't coined by Republicans but it was pushed by them to replace global warming.

The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable.

The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its policies as "conservationist" instead of "environmentalist", because "most people" think environmentalists are "extremists" who indulge in "some pretty bizarre behaviour... that turns off many voters".

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange

[RockRaven]

6. I think that was Inhofe and that bastard is still in the Senate...

[smirkymonkey]

8. That was James Inhofe (Genius -OK)

He really showed us, alright! Way to own the libs!

[redstatebluegirl]

9. That would be our Senator Big Jim the moron.

[captain queeg]

10. Sorry for folks from OK. I'm sure there are plenty intelligent reasonable people there

But when I think of Oklahoma I think back to working there for a few months in the early 80s. Horrible weather (due to stifling humidity), too many poisonous critters.

I remember an older fellow I worked with, he used to sometimes bring me some instructions and say he couldn’t make it out, could I? Found out later he couldn’t read. He took me fishing one time, he was a real nice guy really. found out he’d never been outside the county we were in. It really shocked me, I’d never met anyone like that. He wasn’t stupid, pleasant to work with, I was just amazed by that. I couldn’t help but wonder if he wasn’t all that unusual there. On the other hand I don’t think he’d go for all the rethug BS. He’d definitely be a conservative, but he was down to earth and had common sense. I don’t think he’d have cared for TFG at all.

[argyl]

15. Off subject but what does TFG stand for?

I've seen it used lately. I'm thinking Trump F*****g G or something.

[captain queeg]

20. The Former Guy

Took me awhile to figure it out too. For people who don’t want to utter his name.

[argyl]

21. Thanks. The Dotard is about as sanitized as I can describe him.

Kim's one nasty piece of work himself but he pretty much nailed the odious one with that.

[pansypoo53219]

19. i feel for you guys, meanwhile its maybe 70f now in milw.