I'm just gonna lay this here....have at it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

GOP rep.: Global warming is a hoax because dinosaurs went extinct without car pollution

Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) on Monday cited the extinction of the dinosaurs as proof that man-made global warming was a hoax.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/09/gop-rep-global-warming-is-a-hoax-because-dinosaurs-went-extinct-without-car-pollution/

gonna find the aspirin, be back in a bit....

[villager]

1. And how many thousands of years ago does he say the dinosaur extinction was...?

[tk2kewl]

2. too bad republicans can't go extinct without voters

[ismnotwasm]

3. +1000,000

[shenmue]

8. Elebenty bajillion

[ismnotwasm]

24. You win

[WinkyDink]

68. + a brazilian.

[riqster]

60. Actually, without voters, they WOULD be extinct.

[aquart]

70. Yes, they can.

[hunter]

4. I figure Republican dinosaurs pissed off God so He threw a big rock at them.

Global warming is pretty much the same thing; the big rock that will end this civilization.

If we were truly intelligent apes we'd create a sustainable, non fossil fueled civilization to carry on when this one fails, but we probably won't. We'd rather fight wars that nobody wins.

[passiveporcupine]

38. I bet they were gay dinosaurs.

[lpbk2713]

5. This sort of statement validates a theory I've had for some time.

I suspect gawd created rethuglicans to show s/he has a sense of humor.

[3catwoman3]

43. He/she needs to try again.

Rethuglicans are not very funny, at least not when they are in power.

[SunSeeker]

73. I thought the existence of Republicans proves there is no God. nt

[tclambert]

80. Loki, the god of mischief, in action.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

85. A bit from the English film "Brassed Off" is appropriate here

So God was creating man. And his little assistant came up to him and he said: "Hey, we've got all these bodies left, but we're right out of brains, we're right out of hearts and we're right out of vocal chords." And God said: "Fuck it! Sew 'em up anyway. Smack smiles on their faces and make them talk out of their arses." And lo, God created the Tory Party.

Found it on YouTube

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Dinosaur farts are the obvious culprit. Particularly in elevators.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Actually, in Fla...Farting in public is illegal, but only after 6 PM.

True.
See here:
http://floridamanandwoman.tumblr.com/

Friendly reminder about laws in Florida: (Some good, some bad, some just strange.)

In Florida your gender on your license can be changed with just a note from your therapist confirming your gender, and the same is true for a marriage license.
Any “unnatural act” with another person is banned in Florida, which technically excludes all positions except missionary.
Unmarried couples cannot commit any “lewd acts” even if it’s in their own residence.
It was illegal to have sex with a porcupine but no other animal until a few years ago, when all bestiality was considered “animal cruelty”.
Unmarried women may not go parachuting on Sunday. Any other day is fine.
It is illegal to sing in public if you have a swimsuit on.
Men cannot be seen in public wearing a strapless gown.
It’s illegal to kiss your wife’s breasts. I guess that’s considered unnatural.
It’s legal to sell marijuana in certain places with a license but illegal to own marijuana.
All cell phones and electronic devices are technically banned in Internet cafes but of course no one follows that.
Domestic partnerships are only legal in some cities, but in cities where it is legal, same sex domestic partnership is legal.
It is considered an act of public nudity to shower naked.
Farting in public is illegal, but only after 6 PM.
Pregnant pigs cannot be confined to cages. It’s listed in the state constitution.
All doors MUST open outwards.
Chickens are considered a “protected species” in Key West.
It’s illegal to hang your clothes on a clothesline outside in Cape Coral.
You cannot skateboard without a license.

[3catwoman3]

44. Attempting to mate with a porcupine...

...if you aren't one, seems like one of those things that shouldn't need any laws made about it. Anyone who does, deserves what he gets.

(I am deliberately not saying he/she, because I really cannot envision a woman ever even considering this, let alone attempting it.)

[dixiegrrrrl]

48. Dunno....given the room temperature IQ of Fla. Repubs......

Might be those laws were necessary.

[Curmudgeoness]

45. The first porn I might pay to see.....

someone having sex with a porcupine.

But please don't arrest me for public nudity if I shower naked. There has to be something more to that---like showering outside???

[awoke_in_2003]

47. men can't wear strapless gowns?

Guess I wont be moving to Florida

[Live and Learn]

54. This is why I think they should have to remove 2 laws

for every new law enacted.

[aquart]

71. About the marijuana, can you rent it?

[Fuddnik]

74. I'm surprised I'm not in prison as a repeat offender.

[jtuck004]

36. Maybe it wasn't a meteor. Maybe they discovered "fart lighting" and blew themselves up.

Dinosaurs, you know.

[TBF]

7. This is like one of EarlG's bad mailbag entries. nt

[LisaLynne]

9. You know, when someone would state something like this ...

as some sort of "gotcha" and actually think there is merit to it, I just don't see how you can have a discussion with that person. It's not just ignorance. It's a lack of logic. It's a MAJOR lack of logic. It's like logic was something they tripped over once and then tossed out the window .. I just ... ok, now my head hurts, too.

[Scuba]

10. I think the most bizarre part of that statement ....

... is that it was uttered by someone other than US Senator Ron Johnson (R - Stupidville).

[AAO]

33. Oh you name dropper you!. I thought he represented (R-MORONTOWN)

[Rider3]

11. This is exhausting...

Pass the aspirin.

[LoisB]

22. Or the scotch (and I don't even drink)

[Ishoutandscream2]

55. It is, isn't it?

This shit makes me very, very tired.

[CurtEastPoint]

12. He was a Dem until 97, until THEY got him to switch. Thank God for that.

[Blanks]

13. Sigh, I'll see these very words on a graphic on Facebook any minute now. eom

[LondonReign2]

14. Also just in from Miller

Jeff Miller stated gravity is a hoax, because obviously the earth hasn't fallen into the sun.

[vlakitti]

30. Bullseye. YAY!

[Warren DeMontague]

15. seems legit

[LynneSin]

16. OMG the Stupid....it's so strong it BURNS!!!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. So does our planet...sigh.

It would not be so bad if there were a separate place these morons could go to. Sorta like a large zoo or something.
right next to the stuffed dinosauers.

Just realized...if dinosauers were not extinct, these morons would have hunted them all dead anyhow.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

17. Someone needs to go back to Science Class.

Or at the VERY lest, sit down and watch the whole Cosmos series.

[EEO]

18. The stupidity...

it burns.

[Enoki33]

19. Disbelief

In what I was hearing from this elected politician was my initial response, before realizing he belongs in the realm of those nuts who try to tell us that the world is only 6000 years old. Unfortunately politicians and greedy corporations like Rep. Jeff Miller are doing so much more irreversible damage to the planet which is our only home than the literal believers in the Genesis story copied from the Sumerians ever can.

[Swede Atlanta]

21. The stupidity hurts.....

I realize he is just pandering to his base that are uneducated hicks but he says this with a straight face?

Has he never read an article about the prevailing scientific theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out along with about 50% of all other living species as a result of a massive asteroid that struck the earth off what is now the Yucatan peninsula? Is he unaware that scientific evidence shows both levels of suffocating toxic gases in the atmosphere (thanks to ice cores) and a layer of charred carbon material that emanates and radiates outward from the suspected impact?

No the dinosaurs didn't die from manmade carbon emissions. Mankind as we know it today didn't exist at the time. We were on one of the early days of the Genesis story before God made man (and then his servant woman).

I swear the Republicans when I was growing up in a very conservative western state would never have said such nonsense. Nor would they have believed it. They were fairly "ordinary" people who simply had a different understanding of the role of government in society but they didn't consider all taxes bad or that the government should be shrunk until it could be drowned in a bathtub.

[dembotoz]

23. how does he know--i have watched those historical documents called "the Flinstones" and cars and

dinos same time--
don't believe that---look at the sinclair gas logo

[lovemydog]

26. They're the modern stone age

family!

[Solly Mack]

27. Damn

[tecelote]

28. There is more time between the Stegosaurus and T-Rex than between the T-Rex and you.

Man = Meteor

[lovemydog]

29. If he's holding a live grenade

tell him he'll be fine because previous folks were harmed by drowning.

[AAO]

31. Someone with critical thinking skills like that

should not be in an important position anywhere, doing anything! I refute that the dinosaurs went extinct - we now have definitive proof in the newly named Jeffmillersaurus.

[A Simple Game]

32. I feel better now, I mean we survived that one didn't we.

I wish we still had dinos, great grandma said they made the best pets.

[marble falls]

34. I want to smoke what Jeff is smoking, so long as I don't get as stupid as he is.

[lovemydog]

35. How much $$$$ does he get from oil companies?

Rawstory should do a story on that.

[lovemydog]

37. All media should do stories

on how much that mofo gets from big oil. Really. Any journalist - do a story on it!

[onecaliberal]

39. WTF?!?

[lady lib]

40. That aspirin is not gonna work if you keep hitting your head against the wall.

Just saying...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

41. How does he KNOW that?

[lovemydog]

46. There ya go -

proof that Miller is wrong!

[AAO]

87. And I bet that would stump him for a few seconds/minutes.

[bvf]

84. Fred and Barney!

I love it. Works on mutiple levels.

[SheilaT]

42. Because I read entirely too much science fiction,

I frequently think: What if dinosaurs had developed a technological civilization before they all died? Would we even be able to tell?

I suspect that if it had been the kind of world-wide civilization we currently have, we would have long ago found the evidence of it, but nonetheless, I love to speculate.

Which means, as far as clowns like Miller can tell, the dinosaurs DID wipe themselves out, sort of like we seem to be planning to do.

(Walks away, shaking her head)

[blue neen]

49. But, but, what about the dinosaur flatulence?

&quot Reuters) - In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era."

"Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday."

"And just like big cows, their plant digestion was aided by methane-producing microbes."

"A simple mathematical model suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic climate," researcher Dave Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University said in a statement."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/us-climate-dinosaurs-flatulence-idUSBRE8460PB20120507

[dixiegrrrrl]

56. So THAT's why Fla. passed a law against farting

And the part that made it legal AFTER 6 pm is because the dinosaurs would be asleep then.

ahhh...it all makes sense now.

[Journeyman]

50. Car pollution didn't kill 'em! Dinosaurs were done in by smoking. . .

[Uncle Joe]

51. Miller is not that stupid, but he's hoping his base is.

Who at this point doesn't know that a massive meteor wiped out the dinosaurs?

This is nothing but pure, self-serving, political cynicism used to delude his people in the hopes that their ignorance or denial based on being totally enraptured by their faith will keep him in power so that he can serve his true God; that being the almighty dollar.

Thanks for the thread, dixiegrrrrl.

[AAO]

88. Scary thing is - his base IS that stupid!

[OverseaVisitor]

52. Stop taking the aspirin

The reason they come out with stupid is because facts and science is not on their side.

So they really bending backwards to defend their position, Just stick to facts and science. And stop taking aspirin for this.

It only can convince the stupid so the solution is to educate.

[dixiegrrrrl]

64. I took your advice, stopped the apirin.

[Live and Learn]

53. Didn't he watch the Flintstones? Anyone that did

knows they had cars in those days, albeit powered a bit differently. The ignorance absolutely astounds!

[tclambert]

57. Or were dinosaurs the hoax and global warming is real?

Uhuh, see what I did there? I flipped the crazy on ya.

[dixiegrrrrl]

58. if I were a Tea Party repug

that would drive me mad.

[Jackpine Radical]

59. Nonsense--

They went extinct in the Great Flood because Noah couldn't get them on the Ark.

And if the rains that caused the Great Flood weren't climate change, then by God what was?

[Botany]

61. Stockman, Gohmert, Bachmann, and now this guy?

Rep. Miller's Florida district is about to find out how phony climate change is ..... his district is on the west
end of the state (Pensacola)

[dixiegrrrrl]

69. botany...that pic of him..who does it remind you of?

To me he looks like the love child of Bill Murphy and Fred Dalton thompson, the tv actor who was a US Senator form 1994-2003.

[AAO]

89. I see Jonathon Winters batshit crazy son.

[Jefferson23]

62. Republicans never fail to bring the new low. n/t

[Initech]

63. The stupid seriously burns strong with this one!

[savalez]

65. Didn't a meteorite hit the earth

causing a dust cloud that blocked the sun and froze the planet?

[tclambert]

81. No, it doesn't say so in the Bible, so it couldn't have happened.

[CTyankee]

66. This is what I wonder: doesn't this guy have kids? KIds that go to SCHOOL? Where they teach

evolution? What does his kid say to their Dad? They have gotta wonder why sh*t comes out of his mouth at regular intervals while they are learning all about evolution and climate change, etc, etc...

If nothing more, wouldn't he be sorta embarrassed in front of his own kid?

[dixiegrrrrl]

77. They are big on Home Schooling and Charter Schools

both of which have a dominist and Christian emphasis.

[WinkyDink]

67. Dinosaur Rep: "Human intelligence is a hoax because acceptance of science went extinct without

a logical reason."

[rpannier]

72. Won't be satisfied until the climate mirrors Venus nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

75. And there you have it!

Next question.

[Harry Monroe]

76. The real reason dinosaurs went extinct

[HoosierCowboy]

78. INCOMING !

The latest debunking of AGW is now the "theory" that volcanic activity is melting the west Antarctic Ice sheet. Excreted from the Breitbart sphincter:


http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/10/Why-the-West-Antarctic-Ice-Sheet-is-really-melting-And-no-not-climate-change

[dixiegrrrrl]

79. Guess climate change can be from only ONE cause, eh?

I was reading about the volcano idea this am on my weather page.

[bvf]

82. This guy is a regular Sherlock Holmes.

"Watson, do you recall our murder victim of a fortnight ago, found extinguished by a blow to the head with a blunt object?"

"Egad, Holmes! This poor chap must have been done in the same way!"

"Precisely, my good Watson. The multiple stab wounds and the bullet in the back of the head here are obviously red herrings meant to throw us off the scent! We must seek a man holding a large rock, posthaste!"

[rpannier]

83. Congressional GOP keeping aspirin companies and psych wards profitable

[DeSwiss]

86. K&R

- Everyone knows that if the dino's weren't bleed to death with taxes, they'd still be around. Eating us probably......

[SimpleMan]

90. This guy is my Rep...

He is my congressional Representative. What an embarrassment! Unfortunately, we live in the panhandle of Florida (Read: Lower Alabama), so if you're Republican, you always win...even though I'm pretty sure we have more registered Democrats (Read: Dixiecrats). He's honestly a self-centered piece of shit. --He looked like a moron going off on Hagel today too. I just wish he'd stop drawing attention to how stupid he is and put his head back up his ass where it belongs.

[dixiegrrrrl]

92. My deepest sympathies to you.

I am in RED Ala.
Nary a Democrat to be found this year.

[pbmus]

91. Republicans do not believe in dinosaurs ...

I am alerting this post because it is disruptive or untrue ...