Hobby Lobby? Does the GOP and Tea Party Want Climate Scientists to Pass a Religious Test Next?

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Monday July 07, 2014 · 3:51 PM PDT

2014/07/07 · 15:51

This week Las Vegas will be even weirder than normal; the ~~oil, gas, tobacco and coal lobbbyists~~ pseudo-sceptics are in town. The 9th International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute (cuz you know Vegas is smack dab in the middle of the heartland), will trot out their konspiracy kids for an event that should provide enough quotes to keep environmentalists, progressives, and Democrats busy for months.

And while the line-up is pretty much the same old denier, denier, lobbbyist, denier, pseudo-sceptic, paid-shill, denier, pseudo-sceptic, lobbyist, paid-shill parade of snake-oil salesmen the GOP and Tea Party have come to know and love, I'm crossing my fingers that, perhaps emboldened by the Hobby Lobby decision, we'll see them go public with one of their more ardent aspirations - making scientists have to pass a religious litmus test.

For more on that we must visit the cesspool that is the intellectual home of one Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount of Brenchley. Featured Tea Party speaker and invited multiple times by Republicans to testify before congress. Put your boots on the sh*t gets deep.

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Tuesday November 13, 2012 · 2:41 PM PST

2012/11/13 · 14:41

Your party lost a Presidential election? Feeling a bit down? Don't worry, the Obama administration has a feel-good answer to your prayers: sign a petition asking that your state be allowed to secede from the union!

I promise we won't call you childish, petulant, a bunch of friggin' whackos or just plumb nuts crazy.

But we might call you ..... (answer and explanatrion on the other side of the squiggly)

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Wednesday August 03, 2011 · 6:12 PM PDT

2011/08/03 · 18:12

Wikipedia has an entry for Reality-based community. I'm sure you remember how -- thanks to the Bush Administration -- that term entered our political lexicon. Well, I'm still a member of the reality-based community, but it appears more and more than the Obama Administration is channeling their inner Bush.

Join me over the fold for the most recent evidence ....

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Tuesday March 15, 2011 · 1:46 AM PDT

2011/03/15 · 01:46

With Eric Clapton's If I Could (Change The World) softly playing in the background sports radio talkshow host Steve 'Homer' True welcomed St Louis University men's basketball coach Rick Majerus to his show Monday afternoon.

ST: We haven't had this music for awhile - ESPN Wisconsin, ESPNWisconsin.com - that means basketball and life - not necessarily in that order with friend of show and the coach at St Louis, Rick Majerus. Good afternoon, Rick.
RM: Hey Homer, good afternoon to you and all Wisconsinites. I wish I could be up there marchin' with 'em.

This brief exchange was probably missed by most of our union brothers and sisters in Wisconsin, so I thought I'd post this for all to know that one of Wisconsin's favorite sons (born in Sheboygan) is aware of what's happening 'back home' and on our side! Rick Majerus, Scott Walker fan NOT!!!

If you'd like to hear Rick yearning to march the interview starts about 30 seconds in. http://www.stationcaster.com/...

Who's Out $100 - Me or the Global Warming Denialist?

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Monday July 19, 2010 · 4:29 PM PDT

2010/07/19 · 16:29

I've spent the last three weeks camping out on the darkside - the land of Anthropogenic Climate Change denialists. The culmination of my little trip is a $100 bet in which the loser sends a check to the winner's selected charity. It just so happens this denialist blog, Climate Sanity, is run by a Senior Scientist for the US Department of Energy. My task?

GIVEN
A) The North Pole is a point
B) A location is ‘ice-free’ if it is covered by < 15% ice.

PROVE
The North Pole has never been ice-free; not once in the history of the earth.

My proof is on the flipside ...

Poll

22 votes Show Results

This proof really needs...

22 votes Vote Now!

This proof really needs...

5 votes

more squiggly lines

2 votes

watering

0 votes

Inspector Gadget

5 votes

colors

3 votes

ampersands ... we like ampersands

3 votes

PIE

4 votes

Black Vinyl: Putting Healthcare on the Map

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Friday July 17, 2009 · 6:40 PM PDT

2009/07/17 · 18:40

We excel in creating arbitrary lines on maps; delineating countless villages, towns, cities, counties, states, and nations from one another. These arbitrary lines exert influences on our lives subtle or great. For many they are the difference between life and death.

In this, the first installment of Black Vinyl, we look at Map Ref. 41°N 93°W by Wire.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 12:57 PM PDT

2008/10/26 · 12:57

John McCain has been reciting the line, "He wants to share the wealth." When the words drip from McCain's mouth the line sounds like an epithet, a slur, the prelude to, "He's a Socialist."

Watching McCain on Meet the Press with Tom Brokaw this morning the phrase, "He wants to share the wealth," grated on my nerves. McCain repeated it often as though it was an obvious killing blow to Obama. And even though Brokaw pressed McCain on several different economic issues, Brokaw lacked the appropriate catch-phrase in reply to instantly show how stupid this McCain attack is - for it is stupid.

Join me on the flip-side where we provide the media with the counter narrative and search for an equally pithy catch-phrase that puts the current McCain slogan in its deservedly unfavorable light.

Poll

104 votes Show Results

Barack Obama wants to, "Share the wealth." John McCain?

John McCain wants to, "Concentrate the wealth."

John McCain DOESN'T.

John McCain says, "There's no room at the table for you."

John McCain says, "Sorry, a CEO ate your piece of the pie."

Pie? Did someone mention pie?

John McCain thinks the rich are too poor and the poor are too rich.

John McCain says, "Share the wealth? I need to pay for Sara Palin's clothes!"

Ayers! Terrorist! Socialist! Nightmare!

John McCain says, "Trickle down didn't work. So we stopped trickling down. We're keeping it all now."

Let them eat cake!

John McCain says, "My friends. Let me give it to you straight, my friends. We can't share the wealth."

$700 billion bank bailout - We're All Socialists Now, Comrade.

John McCain says, "The fundamentals of the economy are strong ... and I'll save the Everglades too!"

I only read The Onion

Other - in comments

104 votes Vote Now!

Barack Obama wants to, "Share the wealth." John McCain?

John McCain wants to, "Concentrate the wealth."

27 votes

John McCain DOESN'T.

1 vote

John McCain says, "There's no room at the table for you."

4 votes

John McCain says, "Sorry, a CEO ate your piece of the pie."

11 votes

Pie? Did someone mention pie?

1 vote

John McCain thinks the rich are too poor and the poor are too rich.

14 votes

John McCain says, "Share the wealth? I need to pay for Sara Palin's clothes!"

7 votes

Ayers! Terrorist! Socialist! Nightmare!

8 votes

John McCain says, "Trickle down didn't work. So we stopped trickling down. We're keeping it all now."

9 votes

Let them eat cake!

3 votes

John McCain says, "My friends. Let me give it to you straight, my friends. We can't share the wealth."

9 votes

$700 billion bank bailout - We're All Socialists Now, Comrade.

5 votes

John McCain says, "The fundamentals of the economy are strong ... and I'll save the Everglades too!"

2 votes

I only read The Onion

3 votes

Other - in comments

0 votes

In an ideal world ...

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 8:16 PM PDT

2008/10/09 · 20:16

Arriving home from work I logged on and saw the stock market had dropped another 7%. I don't really want to live through a Great Depression. I'm sure it might build character ... but at my age I'm quite content being a little character-deficient. I had a notion about what might help restore some confidence - and almost immediately laughed at myself for such a pie-in-the-sky idea ... and then I read tonight somebody much more astute than I had already voiced the idea ...

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Saturday June 28, 2008 · 10:07 AM PDT

2008/06/28 · 10:07

Facts are stupid things... Ronald Reagan

Since the rise of Ronald Reagan to national political prominence there has been one ideological trait that best defines the GOP and modern conservatism - they are divorced from reality. This malady has now reached the Supreme Court, where Justice Antonin Scalia, the product of a Jesuit education, has betrayed that order's tradition of a continual search for truth by his acceptance of outdated and biased information - and even urban legend - as fact.

Antonin Scalia may have once passed the bar exam, but he can't gain admittance to the reality-based community. Here's why:

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Sunday May 18, 2008 · 11:55 AM PDT

2008/05/18 · 11:55

Something happened this week that makes me wonder if I'm living in the same world I thought I was in - or if perhaps I've warped into some alternate universe. Briefly, here's the gist of what happened:

Our esteemed President goes overseas and visits Israel.

In honor of Israel's 60th birthday he gives a speech to the Knesset - the Israeli parliament.

In this speech he invokes Nazi Germany, the 1939 invasion of Poland, and the "false comfort of appeasement."

OK, up until this point everything seems pretty much like the world I was used to ... George Bush makes moronic statement - nothing to see here ... move along. BUT ... the ensuing week sees a whole host of reactions and yet nowhere can I find a blogger, reporter, or columnist point out the obvious ... I mean, c'mon ... he was standing in Israel, right? OK, let's connect the dots one time, just to see if I've really been transported to an alternate universe.

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Saturday February 23, 2008 · 8:37 AM PST

2008/02/23 · 08:37

John McCain ditched his first wife and married Cindy Hensley, a woman twenty years younger, the very next month.

Vicki Iseman, the female lobbyist central to the NYTimes story on McCain, looks like an even younger version of Cindy McCain.

Lobbyists. Lots of lobbyists. Chief among them Charles Black - who has moved his office right onto the "Straight Talk Express." Can't get much cozier than that.

Pledged not to raise taxes. Do I hear the echo of laughter?

Build a bigger wall. Secure our borders. Waitresses, fast-food clerks, busboys and gardeners are the crux of our problems.

Against the religious right before he was for it.
Against the Bush tax cuts before he was for them.

...and on and on and on ...

Does this sound like a 'maverick' or just another right-wing slimeball?

Let's put him to music ... perhaps some Zappa ...

Poll

20 votes Show Results

John McCain is:

20 votes Vote Now!

John McCain is:

a tool of lobbyists

8 votes

gross and perverted

3 votes

twiisted and strange

4 votes

delusional

3 votes

ready on day one

0 votes

fired up and ready to go

0 votes

straight talkin' American hero

2 votes

Scorched Earth: Hillary Marches Towards March 4th

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 5:40 PM PST

2008/02/18 · 17:40

The Clinton campaign has sought unsuccessfully to find a winning message. It's not for lack of trying:

... Clinton has left behind a rubble of themes adopted and abandoned: At first, she was "renewing the promise of America." Then, she was "In to Win." She was "Working for Change, Working for You." She offered not just "strength and experience" but also "the strength and experience to make change happen" and "the change we need." She’s "the Hillary I know," who will "turn up the heat...turn America around." In the closing days of the race, she started offering a "new beginning."

The shifting, carefully measured words reflect some of the strengths of her campaign but some of its most visible weaknesses. They’re the product of years of meticulous polling, layers of advisers, and evidence of a detailed understanding of what Iowans and Americans want to hear. But they also reflect more perspiration than inspiration. And they don’t have a beat you can dance to.

... and that was just in Iowa!

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