Ted Cruz: The 9/11 Attacks Made Me Realize I Could Pander to Wingnuts by Listening to Country Music

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Bringing new meaning to the term “pandering,” here’s Ted Cruz explaining that he “didn’t like how rock music responded” to the 9/11 attacks, so he switched to country.

As if “rock music” is some monolithic thing that all “responds” the same way. But seriously, Cruz is making a blindingly obvious play for the Republican base here, and of course, the host of CBS This Morning, Gayle King, nods right along as if it’s just hunky dory with her. Gross.

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266 comments
1 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 10:23:37am

Well, Ted can’t use “Born in the USA” as a campaign song…

2 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 10:24:17am

Meanwhile, climate change denier Steven Goddard is praising Cruz’s climate change denial, of course, by posting that deceptive graph that’s supposed to show “no warming” by taking a tiny segment out of a much longer timeline.

3 b.d.  Mar 24, 2015 10:24:31am

And when we didn’t like what the Dixie Chicks said we broke their CDs and ran them out of town because…..freedom

4 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 10:24:36am

There were so many horrible country songs after 9/11. “Where Were You” by Alan Jackson was utterly vomitous. Those songs sucked so hard that’s when I totally stopped listening to country and switched to Wagner.

5 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 10:25:02am

You know, now that I think about it, I don’t like how Bumblebee Tuna responded to 9-11.

6 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 10:25:32am

First off, could he any more of a blatant panderer? Secondly, what the fuck is he babbling on about?Rock’s response to 9/11? If he means the musicians that didn’t buy the bullshit case Bush gave for invading Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11, then yeah but that’s not a bad thing. And then there’s whole Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and other rock stars after 9/11 concert. Cruz really is such a sad sack of shit.

7 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 10:26:12am

Wait, you mean a music genre that was spawned from teens rebelling against the status quo didn’t respond to 9/11 with gushing patriotic anthems and national self-fellatio?

The hell you say!

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8 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 10:27:02am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

I thought Goddard got banned by Twitter?

Anyway, Cruz keeps reciting satellite measurements of the upper atmosphere (from his friend and Bible thumping denier in Alabama.) It’s an intentional diversion from the dozens of differents types of measurements of the climate.

9 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:27:15am

I didn’t like how cats responded to 9/11 so I became a dog person.

10 b.d.  Mar 24, 2015 10:27:20am

I bet Cruz still has his magnetic Support Our Troops magnet on the back of his Hummer

11 KingKenrod  Mar 24, 2015 10:28:15am

re: #4 The Mother Of All Pies

There were so many horrible country songs after 9/11. “Where Were You” by Alan Jackson was utterly vomitous. Those songs sucked so hard that’s when I totally stopped listening to country and switched to Wagner.

Anyone who has a positive emotional reaction to that stuff is a moron or a psychopath.

12 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 10:28:16am

re: #4 The Mother Of All Pies

There were so many horrible country songs after 9/11. “Where Were You” by Alan Jackson was utterly vomitous. Those songs sucked so hard that’s when I totally stopped listening to country and switched to Wagner.

theonion.com

13 b.d.  Mar 24, 2015 10:28:18am

I didn’t like how idiots responded to 9/11 so I quit hanging around wingnuts.

14 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 10:28:42am

re: #13 b.d.

I didn’t like how idiots responded to 9/11 so I quit hanging around wingnuts.

This wins.

15 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 10:28:46am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Umm, even that chart shows warming. The green line is the smoothed average, and it increases throughout the entire period.

If there was no change, there’d be a perfectly straight line, but seems to show an increase around 1998, then in 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2014.

16 jaunte  Mar 24, 2015 10:29:53am
Cruz is making a blindingly obvious play for the Republican base here

This is just how dumb he thinks the base is. It’s scary how accurate his assessment is.

17 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 10:31:20am

Sorry for the early OT but a thousand nerds (including me) just fainted:

No word on if they’ve started construction of new Scully Boxes.

18 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:32:15am

re: #17 Timothy Watson

AAAAAAAAAA!

19 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 10:32:45am

re: #17 Timothy Watson

Sorry for the early OT but a thousand nerds (including me) just fainted:

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No word on if they’ve started construction of new Scully Boxes.

Ugh. No offense, but after about the mid-way point, I gave up on the series. Much like LOST years later, it became less about answering the questions and more about just piling on questions as a way to drive the wafer-thin plot.

20 b.d.  Mar 24, 2015 10:32:47am

re: #16 jaunte

This is just how dumb he thinks the base is. It’s scary how accurate his assessment is.

You guys are the most beautiful and patriotic Americans and are too smart to be pandered to.

21 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 10:33:14am

Ted Cruz is blatantly conflating 9/11 and the Iraq invasion in order to pander to the rednecks.

Rock music was fairly united after 9/11, but a lot of highly critical albums came out in the run up to and early days of the Iraq war. After 9/11 we saw very introspective albums like The Rising come out. The cynical and angry stuff, like Green Day’s American Idiot album, didn’t come out until years later when we were invading Iraq.

Ted’s just mashing it all together to try and pander to the rednecks, telling them they’re Real Murica while rock musicians aren’t. Anyone who falls for this obvious bullshit deserves to have Ted Cruz rob them blind.

22 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 10:33:21am
23 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 10:33:52am

re: #20 b.d.

You guys are the most beautiful and patriotic Americans and are too smart to be pandered to.

This must be Havana Ted’s “Real America” bit. That the only people who are “Real Americans” are those who listen to country music.

24 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:34:09am

re: #19 Targetpractice

The show turned to shit, no doubt about it, but the first “half” was so good…

25 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 10:35:37am

re: #24 Nyet

The show turned to shit, no doubt about it, but the first “half” was so good…

That’s what ticks me off in retrospect, that the series was good when it focused on the “monster of the week” formula. What it started to devote most of the runtime to the plot tumor that was the grand government conspiracy, I gave up.

26 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 10:36:24am

With apologies to Hank Williams:

Hear that Republican whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The primary train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry

I’ve never seen a primary season so long
When time goes crawling by
The convention vote just went behind closed doors
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a Republican weep
When fantasies begin to die?
Like me, he’s lost the will to live
I’m so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up Fox’s B-sky
And as I wonder where you voters are
I’m so lonesome I could cry

27 No Country For Old Haters  Mar 24, 2015 10:37:33am

re: #25 Targetpractice

That’s what ticks me off in retrospect, that the series was good when it focused on the “monster of the week” formula. What it started to devote most of the runtime to the plot tumor that was the grand government conspiracy, I gave up.

I thought the monster of the week episodes were pretty bad, since they failed to advance the story. Many of us prefer TV that isn’t simple weekly stories with a reset button at the end of each episode like old-time TV.

28 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 10:37:33am

re: #19 Targetpractice

Ugh. No offense, but after about the mid-way point, I gave up on the series. Much like LOST years later, it became less about answering the questions and more about just piling on questions as a way to drive the wafer-thin plot.

No argument there, but I am hopeful, especially given the short order of only six episodes, they can focus on the best of the show.

Similarly, and I know a lot of people here don’t like 24, but I thought 24: Live Another Day was great because they only did 12 episodes and they didn’t have to have characters trapped by mountain lions as filler.

29 sagehen  Mar 24, 2015 10:38:07am

re: #25 Targetpractice

That’s what ticks me off in retrospect, that the series was good when it focused on the “monster of the week” formula. What it started to devote most of the runtime to the plot tumor that was the grand government conspiracy, I gave up.

I’ve got mixed feelings on that… I was never a Mulder/Scully shipper, more of a Krycek fan, and the conspiracy episodes is the only time there was any real use for him.

30 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:38:19am

re: #25 Targetpractice

Well, it’s like Babylon 5 or Lexx, where the last seasons were barely watchable. So I’ll give it a chance.

31 Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2015 10:38:40am

“I actually intellectually find this very curious, but on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded,” the senator went on. “

32 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 10:38:54am

re: #24 Nyet

The show turned to shit, no doubt about it, but the first “half” was so good…

The X-Files was awesome up until the movie came out. After that, I quit watching. It just lost what I had enjoyed about it up to that point.

33 b.d.  Mar 24, 2015 10:38:57am

re: #23 Targetpractice

This must be Havana Ted’s “Real America” bit. That the only people who are “Real Americans” are those who listen to country music.

Ted’s ideas are time proven.

Friends, the idle brain is the devil’s playground!
34 S'latch  Mar 24, 2015 10:39:16am

It’s too bad Ted Cruz jumped into the race so early. His implosion will not occur as late in the process as I would like.

Also, this headline reminds me of one of my favorite unattributed statements on the subject of 9/11 and Rock & Roll: “Blaming all Muslims for terrorism is like blaming all musicians for Ted Nugent.”

35 jaunte  Mar 24, 2015 10:39:20am

Ted Cruz says satellite data show the globe isn’t warming. This satellite scientist feels otherwise

“…Mr Cruz (and others who seek to minimize the threat posed by climate change) likes to cite statistics about the last 17 years because 17 years ago, the Earth was experiencing a large ENSO [El Nino-Southern Oscillation] event and the observed temperatures were substantially above normal, and above any long-term trend line a reasonable person would draw. When one starts their analysis on an extraordinarily warm year, the resulting trend is below the true long term trend. It’s like a pro baseball player deciding he’s having a batting slump three weeks after a game when he hit three homers because he’s only considering those three weeks instead of the whole season.”

36 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 10:39:21am

Shame that Ted Cruz has turned his back on Rock music, just imagine a Cruz/Nugent 2016 ticket: The Walking Teds

37 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:40:08am

Ted Cruz is out there…

38 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 10:41:01am
39 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 10:41:11am

re: #27 No Country For Old Haters

I thought the monster of the week episodes were pretty bad, since they failed to advance the story. Many of us prefer TV that isn’t simple weekly stories with a reset button at the end of each episode like old-time TV.

The problem with an overarching plot is that the more you tease it, the bigger the payoff has to be. And there just was never a payoff. You can only tease for so long before people lose interest.

40 S'latch  Mar 24, 2015 10:41:53am

… except for the Dixie Chicks.

41 Lancelot Link  Mar 24, 2015 10:42:44am

Maybe Ted Cruz is a Johnny Rebel fan.

42 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 10:42:57am

re: #30 Nyet

Well, it’s like Babylon 5 or Lexx, where the last seasons were barely watchable. So I’ll give it a chance.

B5 was supposed to end in season four.
TNT wanted another.
JMS obliged.
:/

43 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 10:43:21am

re: #27 No Country For Old Haters

I thought the monster of the week episodes were pretty bad, since they failed to advance the story. Many of us prefer TV that isn’t simple weekly stories with a reset button at the end of each episode like old-time TV.

The Monster-of-the-Weeks tended to be hit and miss. Some of the best ones were in the early part of the show. (I still have an irrational fear of escalators because of what happened to the Liver Eater. Note to self: Don’t let 7 year olds watch The X-Files.)

And the mytharc was also good for a couple seasons, but it grew and grew without any real explanation given and collapsed. Hell, I’m still not sure whatever happened to Mulder’s sister.

44 Agnostick  Mar 24, 2015 10:44:08am

Video

Ted was American… when Canada wasn’t cool…

45 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 10:44:57am

re: #42 Varek Raith

B5 was supposed to end in season four.
TNT wanted another.
JMS obliged.
:/

Actually it was the other way around. JMS plotted five seasons, but TNT decided the series wasn’t bringing in the ratings it wanted, so they gave JMS notice that the fourth season would be the final one. So he spent most of the season wrapping up all the loose threads and condensing the storylines, only to get an 11th hour notice that the series had been picked up for a fifth season. So the fifth season came and he had to create new stories as well as stretch out minor plot threads.

46 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 10:45:04am

re: #42 Varek Raith

B5 was supposed to end in season four.
TNT wanted another.
JMS obliged.
:/

Actually, it was supposed to go 5, then TNT threatened to cut it to 4, so they crammed everything to get it done, then they gave season 5 the go ahead and they had to hobble along after that.

47 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Mar 24, 2015 10:45:11am

…but not the Dixie Chicks, he neglected to say.

48 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 10:45:13am

re: #21 Lidane

Ted Cruz is blatantly conflating 9/11 and the Iraq invasion in order to pander to the rednecks.

Rock music was fairly united after 9/11, but a lot of highly critical albums came out in the run up to and early days of the Iraq war. After 9/11 we saw very introspective albums like The Rising come out. The cynical and angry stuff, like Green Day’s American Idiot album, didn’t come out until years later when we were invading Iraq.

Ted’s just mashing it all together to try and pander to the rednecks, telling them they’re Real Murica while rock musicians aren’t. Anyone who falls for this obvious bullshit deserves to have Ted Cruz rob them blind.

American Idiot came out my senior year while 9/11 happened my freshman year. And you’re right. He’s pandering to the idiots who think Iraq was behind 9/11.

49 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 10:45:28am

re: #42 Varek Raith

B5 was supposed to end in season four.
TNT wanted another.
JMS obliged.
:/

No, B5 was supposed to be five seasons, but was cancelled by at the end of four before being picked up by TNT. Most of the storylines that would have made up the first half of season five got pushed into season four to give a proper ending and they just stuffed unplanned filler into season 5.

50 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:46:19am

Sorry, Varek, you’ve been outnerded.

51 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 10:46:48am

re: #50 Nyet

Sorry, Varek, you’ve been outnerded.

Now, we send in the Narn bat squad.

52 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 10:46:58am

re: #41 Lancelot Link

Maybe Ted Cruz is a Johnny Rebel fan.

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Kajun Klu Klux Klan is one of most awfully hate-filled songs I have ever heard.

53 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 10:47:00am

re: #47 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

…but not the Dixie Chicks, he neglected to say.

That’s why even if Toby Keith is a supporter of SSM and President Obama, I still find him to be an asshole. The attacks he did on Natalie Maines and tho other Dixie Chicks were pathetic. His music ain’t all that good anyohw. Boot in your ass? Gee Toby, original.

54 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 10:47:36am

re: #50 Nyet

Sorry, Varek, you’ve been outnerded.

Indeed.
Being wrong sucks.
I feel dumb now.
:P

55 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 10:47:50am

re: #51 Kragar

Now, we send in the Narn bat squad.

Nah, just dump him in the Grey Sector. Nobody will notice.

56 sagehen  Mar 24, 2015 10:47:52am

re: #42 Varek Raith

B5 was supposed to end in season four.
TNT wanted another.
JMS obliged.
:/

no no no

B5 was always supposed to be 5 years… but then got sorta-probably-seemed like cancelled after four, so the finale (“Remain in Light”) got moved up. Sudden reprieve, suddenly s.5 back on, but by that time Claudia Christian had moved on, so Ivanova had to move on, and rewrites were needed that diminished how awesome s.5 would have otherwise been.

57 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 10:48:22am

re: #44 Agnostick

Welcome hatchling. I missed your first post.

58 S'latch  Mar 24, 2015 10:48:44am

Ted Nugent will still be happy to perform at any of Ted Cruz’s fund-raisers. He might even make a good running mate: Ted and Ted in 2016!

59 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 10:49:31am

re: #53 HappyWarrior

That’s why even if Toby Keith is a supporter of SSM and President Obama, I still find him to be an asshole. The attacks he did on Natalie Maines and tho other Dixie Chicks were pathetic. His music ain’t all that good anyohw. Boot in your ass? Gee Toby, original.

I recall the ex bringing home a TK album, White Trash With Money, which I guess was meant ironically.

Nonetheless the liner notes gave thanks to Jesus Christ while the last song on the album, “Running Block”, was about fucking drunk fat girls in a motel room…

Which really sums up “Middle American Christian Family Values” better than anything else I have encountered.

60 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 10:50:58am

re: #58 S’latch

Ted Nugent will still be happy to perform at any of Ted Cruz’s fund-raisers. He might even make a good running mate: Ted and Ted in 2016!

I hope Father Ted appears and kicks them both in the ass.
/

61 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 10:51:11am

*Scitters away*

62 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 10:52:14am

Mullah Quack is flapping his pie hole again:

63 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 10:52:16am

re: #61 Varek Raith

*Scitters away*

LOL

64 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:52:17am

I’ve just read Phil Robertson’s sick fantasy. He obviously enjoyed telling the details.

65 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 10:52:36am

What a clown this guy is.

66 makeitstop  Mar 24, 2015 10:52:47am

re: #3 b.d.

And when we didn’t like what the Dixie Chicks said we broke their CDs and ran them out of town because…..freedom

And therein lies the point, I’m thinking.

‘Rock music’ didn’t ostracize or blacklist anyone over politics. The country music community most certainly did.

Cruz is pretty much saying he liked the country response better, the little fascist.

67 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:53:18am

re: #65 Charles Johnson

By his own logic: cut out 1998, what will the graph show?

68 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 10:53:29am

re: #62 Lidane

Mullah Quack is flapping his pie hole again:

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Glad Phil has a sense of perspective. What an ass clown.

69 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 10:53:37am

re: #61 Varek Raith

*Scitters away*

“There’s no hidin’ place down here!
You know, there’s no hidin’ place down here!
I went to the rock to hide my face
But the rock cried out, no, no hiding place down here!”

70 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 10:54:01am

re: #65 Charles Johnson

What a clown this guy is.

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No, Steve, you can only plot his growth for the last 20 years…

71 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 10:55:21am
72 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 10:56:05am

Atheists are not defined as people who say that there are no objective right and wrong. There may be a correlation, but that’s just that. Objectivity (or lack thereof) of right and wrong does not depend on God.

73 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 10:57:24am

Even when I was more religious, I never got why so many religious people felt individually threatened by a person’s non-belief in God. If you’re a good person, it shouldn’t matter. But I guess there in lies the rub, they think believing in God is part of what makes a person good and that’s just not true.

74 jaunte  Mar 24, 2015 10:58:15am
75 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 10:58:36am

re: #72 Nyet

If God doesn’t exist, and there is no after life, wouldn’t ending someone’s only existence be the worst crime imaginable?

Phil Robertson is an evil man.

76 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 10:58:36am

re: #73 HappyWarrior

Even when I was more religious, I never got why so many religious people felt individually threatened by a person’s non-belief in God. If you’re a good person, it shouldn’t matter. But I guess there in lies the rub, they think believing in God is part of what makes a person good and that’s just not true.

And that is one reason the Christian grifters do so well.

77 danarchy  Mar 24, 2015 10:58:51am

re: #25 Targetpractice

That’s what ticks me off in retrospect, that the series was good when it focused on the “monster of the week” formula. What it started to devote most of the runtime to the plot tumor that was the grand government conspiracy, I gave up.

I knida liked the story arc at first, but they became so internally inconsistent that nothing made sense anymore. I never watched Lost, but from what I hear it was much the same problem.

And the X-file movies were just a travesty.

78 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:00:09am
79 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 11:00:27am

re: #74 jaunte

The Phantom and Zorro are TOTES INTERCHANGEABLE U GUISE!

ROFL. What a hack. They’re only interchangeable costumes if you think they both wear tuxedos.

80 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 11:02:03am

re: #77 danarchy

I knida liked the story arc at first, but they became so internally inconsistent that nothing made sense anymore. I never watched Lost, but from what I hear it was much the same problem.

And the X-file movies were just a travesty.

First one wasn’t too…okay, I’m gonna stop myself and admit that yeah, it was pretty bad. But the series had sorta reached that point that it was the last gasp before they plowed full-bore into the myth and never came back up for air.

81 Ace-o-aces  Mar 24, 2015 11:02:03am
82 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 11:02:29am

re: #77 danarchy

I knida liked the story arc at first, but they became so internally inconsistent that nothing made sense anymore. I never watched Lost, but from what I hear it was much the same problem.

And the X-file movies were just a travesty.

Yeah, I gave up on Lost after the second season, I heard it only got more frustrating later.

83 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:03:14am

re: #78 Charles Johnson

He’s most probably a creationist too.

84 Ace-o-aces  Mar 24, 2015 11:04:52am

OFA?

85 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:05:09am
86 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 11:05:10am

re: #84 Ace-o-aces

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OFA?

Organizing for America.

87 jaunte  Mar 24, 2015 11:05:19am

re: #79 Lidane

The Phantom of the Opera and Zorro are TOTES INTERCHANGEABLE U GUISE!

ROFL. What a hack. They’re only interchangeable costumes if you think they both wear tuxedos.

Totally consumed by the quest for power, he finds everything else too boring to pay attention to.

88 Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2015 11:06:39am

re: #65 Charles Johnson

What a clown this guy is.

@aceoaces @Green_Footballs If you plot the height of a 60 year old from the day he was born, it will show a long term trend. Is he growing?
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) March 24, 2015

Worst.Analogy.Ever

89 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:06:41am

re: #84 Ace-o-aces

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OFA?

Organizing for Action, Obama’s org.

90 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:06:54am
91 Ace-o-aces  Mar 24, 2015 11:07:58am

Seriously, he tries to debate me using a graph that shows how restricting the time period can alter the trend line? Dude, you just debunked yourself.

92 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 11:08:15am

…

93 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:08:20am
94 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:08:21am

re: #90 Charles Johnson

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Figaro.

95 GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2015 11:09:44am

Ted doesn’t have a single country song on his Zune. I have a guy on the inside. CONFIRMED FACT!!!!!

96 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 11:10:17am
97 b.d.  Mar 24, 2015 11:10:17am

re: #90 Charles Johnson

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Rude, obnoxious, trash talking scientists, a very short book.

98 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 24, 2015 11:10:31am

re: #90 Charles Johnson

It is obvious that you are a brown shirt who knows nothing about science attacking a dissident.

I was attacked by science once. We traded a few punches and then shook hands. We’ve been good friends ever since.

99 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 11:11:43am

re: #92 Lidane

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Good. They can cry together when Ted gets kicked off the GOP island of misfit toys.

100 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:13:13am

re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus

“Shocking new method A weird trick to detect tuberculosis”

101 b.d.  Mar 24, 2015 11:13:18am

Hey Ted, they make a thing called Boot Cut

102 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:13:36am
103 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 11:13:44am

How much money does Goddard get from Koch?

104 Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2015 11:14:00am

I’m having difficulty finding ANY of Goddard’s peer-reviewed publications:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Goddard+SS

Shocking.

105 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 11:14:18am

re: #102 Charles Johnson

His graphs were unskewed and therefore your argument is invalid.
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106 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 11:14:49am

re: #104 Dr. Matt

I’m having difficulty finding ANY of Goddard’s peer-reviewed publications:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Goddard+SS

Shocking.

Peer review is effete liberal intellectualism. Galileo was never peer reviewed!!!

107 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:15:08am

re: #102 Charles Johnson

I think it’s high time to go with “Godwin - you automatically lose”. It’s obnoxious, but he deserves that.

108 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 11:15:14am

Again, is this the same Steve Goddard that twitter suspended the other day?

109 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 11:15:31am
110 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 11:15:50am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Peer review is effete liberal intellectualism. Galileo was never peer reviewed!!!

Sucks to have the Holy Office as your thesis committee.

111 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:15:56am

re: #103 The Mother Of All Pies

How much money does Goddard get from Koch?

He’s a nobody with a silly blog. So I think none. “Took 2nd place in the Loser Contest…”

112 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 24, 2015 11:16:03am

Steve Goddard exhibits so much butthurt that he should be a spokesman for Preparation H. Cruz isn’t refuted, he’s “smeared”. Anyone who points out Cruz’ and Goddard’s shared ignorance is a “brownshirt”.

113 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 11:16:56am

re: #111 Nyet

He’s a nobody with a silly blog. So I think none. “Took 2nd place in the Loser Contest…”

So that’s the award that CCJ won.

114 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:16:59am

re: #104 Dr. Matt

His name is Tony Heller.

115 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 11:17:28am

re: #96 Kragar

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“Doctor, do you think it could be TB?”
“Not sure. Let’s consult Mr. Whiskers.”

116 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 11:17:30am

re: #101 b.d.

That photo is the living definition of Transplanted Texan. Yeesh.

117 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 11:18:49am

SMITHSONIAN TAKES KOCH MONEY TO PUT UP CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL EXHIBIT==>

118 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 11:18:57am

hahahaa…

Cruz isn’t that closeted.

119 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 11:19:22am

re: #116 Lidane

That photo is the living definition of Transplanted Texan. Yeesh.

“I’ve got cowboy boots and blue jeans! I’m an authentic Texan!”

/*shakes head*

120 Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2015 11:19:40am

re: #114 Nyet

His name is Tony Heller.

Ah, so he hides behind a pseudonym…..why exactly should he be trusted then?

121 De Kolta Chair  Mar 24, 2015 11:20:29am

And so begins the epic quadrennial battle for Hank Williams Jr.’s endorsement.

122 Jack Burton  Mar 24, 2015 11:20:54am

re: #65 Charles Johnson

What a clown this guy is.

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123 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:21:12am

re: #120 Dr. Matt

Ah, so he hides behind a pseudonym…..why exactly should he be trusted then?

He came out last year.

124 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 11:21:41am

re: #119 Targetpractice

“I’ve got cowboy boots and blue jeans! I’m an authentic Texan!”

/*shakes head*

It’s like he doesn’t realize boot cut jeans exist.

John Cornyn must really hate him to let his fellow Texas Senator dress like that in public. Haha.

125 Drive By Commenter  Mar 24, 2015 11:22:17am

Ted Cruz and Ted Nugent 2016. The Turd Ticket.

126 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 11:22:51am

Butthurt wingnut is butthurt:

127 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:22:55am

re: #108 freetoken

Again, is this the same Steve Goddard that twitter suspended the other day?

Yes.

128 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 11:23:00am

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahaa…

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Cruz isn’t that closeted.

What does that even mean? And as much as I dislike libertarianism, Ted is definitely not even close to one.

129 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:23:13am

re: #125 Drive By Commenter

Ted Cruz and Ted Nugent 2016. The Turd Ticket.

Add Phil Robertson, and you have a Turducken.

130 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 11:23:35am

re: #126 Lidane

Butthurt wingnut is butthurt:

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Canadian wingnuts gotta stick together. Or is it Steyn that i’m thinking of.

131 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 11:24:38am

Remember this racist Neo-Confederate? He’s a misogynist too==>

132 Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2015 11:25:01am

re: #123 Nyet

He came out last year.

BFD. He still has zero publications and still once hid behind a pseudonym

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Heller+T+and+climate

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Heller+T

The published ‘Heller T’ is Theo Heller

133 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:25:29am
134 Drive By Commenter  Mar 24, 2015 11:25:44am

re: #129 Nyet

Add Phil Robertson, and you have a Turducken.

That much negative energy would cause a black hole to appear.

135 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:26:23am

re: #132 Dr. Matt

And?

136 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 11:26:23am

re: #134 Drive By Commenter

That much negative energy would cause a black hole to appear.

MMmmm. Stuffing.

137 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:28:00am

re: #136 Decatur Deb

MMmmm. Stuffing.

You don’t want that.

138 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 11:28:06am
Gov. Jerry Brown said opposition to steps President Barack Obama is taking on climate change “borders on the immoral,” as he tore into Republicans in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Read more here: sacbee.com

Goddard and anyone else who knowingly spreads falsehoods about climate change crosses that border.

139 Jenner7  Mar 24, 2015 11:30:29am

hdontap.com

One of the eggs hatched early this morning. This has been fascinating to watch and I’m now watching 5 different eagle cams. lol

140 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 11:31:32am
141 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 11:32:41am

Consensus: 97% of climate scientists agree

climate.nasa.gov

142 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 11:32:42am

re: #139 Jenner7

hdontap.com

One of the eggs hatched early this morning. This has been fascinating to watch and I’m now watching 5 different eagle cams. lol

Is the cam active right now? Can’t get it to come up.

143 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 11:33:40am

It’s a psychological trick, and I know what’s on Heller-Goddard’s twitter avi, but when I see its miniature version, I think “Grima Wormtongue”.

144 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 11:34:04am

That’s climate scientists, not biologists, chemical engineers, et al.

145 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 11:34:06am
146 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 11:34:14am

Must be a Romney.

Cat photographed riding on hood of car

147 Jenner7  Mar 24, 2015 11:35:20am

re: #142 Decatur Deb

It is for me, but it’s been in and out all day due to tons of people watching.

148 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 11:37:57am

re: #145 Lidane

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I’m convinced more than ever that there’s something wrong with that guy. He actually has his delusional belief Obama being like Hitler furthered by visiting the Holocaust museum? And I hope the interviewer pointed out to him that Gates who he preports to like as Defense Secretary was retained by Obama. This guy has no business running for any office let alone one like the presidency.

149 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 11:39:41am
150 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 11:40:48am

re: #17 Timothy Watson

Sorry for the early OT but a thousand nerds (including me) just fainted:

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No word on if they’ve started construction of new Scully Boxes.

I remember I’d be able to tell if Scully was going to be running in a segment because she’d have on her running sweater. I’d be saying “Run, Scully, Run!” Damn, I had the hots for her…..

151 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 11:43:14am

re: #150 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Gillian is only 5’3” tall…David is 6’.

152 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 11:47:56am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, climate change denier Steven Goddard is praising Cruz’s climate change denial, of course, by posting that deceptive graph that’s supposed to show “no warming” by taking a tiny segment out of a much longer timeline.

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Finally had a few minutes to track down that WoodForTrees dot org that’s on the chart.

LOL! These people are delusional.

153 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 11:48:57am

This is TEH MOAST UTTERLY STUPIDEST STUPID THING YOU WILL READ ALL DAY==>

154 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 11:50:16am

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

Finally had a few minutes to track down that WoodForTrees dot org that’s on the chart.

LOL! These people are delusional.

lackofenvironment.wordpress.com

This is a transcript of an email I sent to Paul Clark, the owner of the website woodfortrees.org - from which graphs have appeared in presentations by numerous people who dispute the reality of anthropogenic climate disruption.

heh

155 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 11:51:11am

No dumbshit, housing is expensive in places like New York, San Francisco because space is limited and housing is in demand. If there were fewer regulations, builders would just build MOAR high-cost housing for millionaires and use substandard materials, which in fact, they already do.

156 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 11:52:20am

re: #155 The Mother Of All Pies

No dumbshit, housing is expensive in places like New York, San Francisco because space is limited and housing is in demand. If there were fewer regulations, builders would just build MOAR high-cost housing for millionaires and use substandard materials, which in fact, they already do.

The point is that GOVERNMENT REGULATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING BAD IN THE WORLD.

157 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 11:53:19am

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The point is that GOVERNMENT REGULATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING BAD IN THE WORLD.

I swear I lost about a million brain cells reading that stupid-as-shit thing.

158 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 11:55:09am

re: #119 Targetpractice

He’s unable to pull off the Ted Mosby. And that’s saying something…

159 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 11:55:43am
160 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 11:58:05am

re: #150 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Check GA out in this on Netflix. You will like…

salon.com

161 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 11:58:43am

Congratulations Charles!

I went to Goddard’s bloggy and you are now a candidate for “Climate Moron Of The Day”

I wonder if you should win, what the prize might be.

Link if anyone wants to see that crap: Real Science

Also, I note he is getting off of WordPress servers with his bloggy and setting up a new server. He said climate Nazis got him censored at Twitter and he expects it will only be a matter of time before the Nazis get him at WordPress.

Damn fine work Charles.

162 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 12:01:19pm

re: #159 Kragar

Why? So both partners can be miserable?

163 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 24, 2015 12:01:26pm

re: #153 The Mother Of All Pies

They won’t let me put up a trailer house in the park!

164 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:02:05pm

re: #161 ObserverArt

Any link gives him free hits and a higher google pagerank.

165 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 12:03:26pm

re: #162 Lidane

Why? So both partners can be miserable?

Better miserable than being an abdomination unto the Lord!!!

166 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 12:03:38pm

Here is your midafternoon STUPIDEST WINGNUT MEME OF THE DAY==>

167 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 12:03:42pm

re: #153 The Mother Of All Pies

NYC housing prices are crazy because everyone wants to live here - and there’s only so much land to go around. That’s why we build skyscrapers. Because you can get more homes/offices per square foot of buildable land than out in the prairie.

Population density plays a role in prices. Supply and demand too.

Building regulations affect the initial housing/office construction costs, but over time, those costs get overwhelmed by other factors.

Like say converting office space to luxury condos. The Woolworth building has undergone conversions of some floors, and now has a penthouse suite well north of $100 million.

But the NYC Department of Buildings has an ongoing scandal - inspectors bought off and there are regular and ongoing investigations into how the agency operates. Because developers are trying to skirt the rules and find inspectors willing to look the other way for cash on the side.

168 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 12:04:08pm
169 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:05:09pm

re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Better miserable than being an abdomination unto the Lord!!!

Abdomination is an abomination with a six-pack?

170 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 12:05:22pm

re: #164 Nyet

Any link gives him free hits and a higher google pagerank.

Link will be no good in a few days. He is using a new link in his transition.

Plus, I don’t think linking to a WordPress blog is like linking to GoatNews.

Just my opinion.

171 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mar 24, 2015 12:06:04pm

re: #153 The Mother Of All Pies

He must never have been to Irvine, CA. They build a ton of houses during the boom, priced way out of reach for the average family, they never filled them all for that reason and many stood empty. They weren’t expensive because of regulations, they were expensive because of greedy developers and Irvine itself.

172 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 12:07:56pm

re: #159 Kragar

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Is he saying it worked for him?

173 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 12:08:49pm

re: #151 Justanotherhuman

Gillian is only 5’3” tall…David is 6’.

I’m surprised she’s 5’3”. They had her and Patrick Stewart presenting some award once and she looked like she could walk under his outstretched arm—and he’s pretty short.

174 Lancelot Link  Mar 24, 2015 12:09:28pm

re: #169 Nyet

Abdomination is an abomination with a six-pack?

More like a keg.

175 Ace-o-aces  Mar 24, 2015 12:10:03pm

Going for that “crazy-ass-billionare-living-on-an-oil-platform-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean” vote?

176 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 12:11:46pm

re: #30 Nyet

Well, it’s like Babylon 5 or Lexx, where the last seasons were barely watchable. So I’ll give it a chance.

Well, it wasn’t certain there would be a Season 5, so Straczinsky jammed everything in Season 4.

I’m sorry Crusade didn’t make it. That show had definitely piqued my interest.

Must read ahead before commenting.

177 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 12:12:08pm

re: #153 The Mother Of All Pies

This is TEH MOAST UTTERLY STUPIDEST STUPID THING YOU WILL READ ALL DAY==>

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Magnets Supply And Demand, how do they fucking work?

178 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 12:12:10pm

re: #171 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

There are places out around Vegas and in Arizona and Florida that were built by speculators, and they went bust.

People began to wake up and realize that McMansions in the middle of nowhere wasn’t where they wanted to be.

179 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 12:14:10pm

re: #176 Romantic Heretic

Well, it wasn’t certain there would be a Season 5, so Straczinsky jammed everything in Season 4.

I’m sorry Crusade didn’t make it. That show had definitely piqued my interest.

I dunno. The last season of B5 had that scene where Lita was controlling everyone in the Zocalo, to all drum their fingers on the table in unison, till Sheridan - and his RPG pistol - reminded her she wasn’t the only one touched by the Vorlons.

180 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 12:15:58pm

re: #166 The Mother Of All Pies

Here is your midafternoon STUPIDEST WINGNUT MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Must be more of that outreach to women we heard so much about.

181 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 12:15:59pm

re: #178 lawhawk

There are places out around Vegas and in Arizona and Florida that were built by speculators, and they went bust.

People began to wake up and realize that McMansions in the middle of nowhere wasn’t where they wanted to be.

Williston ND is the most expensive housing market in the US, more expensive than NY & LA. Oil boom town, thousands of temp workers, nowhere for them to live, what could go wrong?

182 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 12:16:08pm

And of course, obsessed stalker has to chime in.

183 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 12:17:10pm

re: #180 Blind Frog Belly White

Must be more of that outreach to women we heard so much about.

I have to give credit to Like On Facebook/Stop Hillary for better Photoshops than the usual wingnut memes. I’d like to know where they get all their stock illustrations of 1950’s mentally-challenged white people.

184 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 12:18:11pm

OMFG THIS IDIOT==>

185 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 12:18:30pm
186 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 12:19:40pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

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Did you see where he got his chart? :D

187 allegro  Mar 24, 2015 12:19:53pm

re: #180 Blind Frog Belly White

Must be more of that outreach to women we heard so much about.

Of course! See, the only thing women want is to get married. It doesn’t matter to who (as long as it’s a male) and we only need sex once or twice to get knocked up. Even a gay guy can do that.

Duck man is just watching out for us helpless wimmens.

188 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 12:22:02pm

re: #183 The Mother Of All Pies

I have to give credit to Like On Factbook/Stop Hillary for better Photoshops than the usual wingnut memes. I’d like to know where they get all their stock illustrations of 1950’s mentally-challenged white people.

Easy. Go to Google. Click on images use a search like: “illustrations of people in the 1950s” and there you go. Substitute other decade numbers for others. Also, to narrow…use women or men instead of people and you get different results. Try it.

189 allegro  Mar 24, 2015 12:22:38pm

re: #187 allegro

Of course! See, the only thing women want is to get married. It doesn’t matter to who (as long as it’s a male) and we only need sex once or twice to get knocked up. Even a gay guy can do that.

Duck man is just watching out for us helpless wimmens.

I was thinking oops I forgot the sarc tag on that, then I realized I didn’t need one. It rather well sums up their thinking.

190 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 12:23:51pm
191 Dave In Austin  Mar 24, 2015 12:24:48pm
192 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 12:24:58pm

re: #188 ObserverArt

Easy. Go to Google. Click on images use a search like: “illustrations of people in the 1950s” and there you go. Substitute other decade numbers for others. Also, to narrow…use women or men instead of people and you get different results. Try it.

I have done that, but Like On Facebook/Stop Hillary seems to specialize in illustrations of, how do I put this…really stupid-looking people.

193 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 12:25:08pm
194 EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2015 12:25:26pm

re: #175 Ace-o-aces

Thiel is correct in noting that Republican elected officials tend to be stupider than their opposition. However, promoting “book-smart, but still crazy” people like Ted Cruz isn’t going to help with this.

After all, the real problem in the GOP is the malice at the core of the party that makes fostering stupidity among both voters and elected officials an essential part of their enterprise.

195 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 12:25:55pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Just remember Triangle fires still happen all the time, at factories in Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc.

196 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 12:26:25pm

re: #148 HappyWarrior

I wouldn’t even let him operate on me any more. He’s so nuts I suspect he’d look me up on line and make sure I died on the table.

197 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 12:27:12pm
198 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 12:27:56pm
199 FemNaziBitch  Mar 24, 2015 12:27:56pm

Posting from my phone…

Lookup “fatburg”. Just learned about it from NPR in the car.

Oy

200 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:28:18pm

re: #194 EPR-radar

Thiel is über-creepy.

201 EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2015 12:29:00pm

re: #197 The Mother Of All Pies

In what universe is this anecdote about Obama’s grandmother supposed to trump the published birth announcement in the Hawaiian newspaper?

202 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 12:30:42pm

re: #197 The Mother Of All Pies

It wouldn’t fucking matter, Ryan, you idiot.

Off to see my legal eagle and try to get those specious charges out of my hair.

203 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:30:48pm

re: #196 Romantic Heretic

I wouldn’t even let him operate on me any more. He’s so nuts I suspect he’d look me up on line and make sure I died on the table.

He’s unhinged.

204 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:31:29pm

Which ideology has birthers that are elected officials? Hint not liberals.

205 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 12:33:23pm
206 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:33:29pm

I would expect it would be expensive to fly from Hawaii to Kenya.

207 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 12:33:49pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, climate change denier Steven Goddard is praising Cruz’s climate change denial, of course, by posting that deceptive graph that’s supposed to show “no warming” by taking a tiny segment out of a much longer timeline.

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Where is Goddard’s predicted temperature drop? Funny he doesn’t push that too often any more.

208 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 12:34:09pm

re: #199 FemNaziBitch

Eww, that’s soooo gross. I feel sorry for the workers who have to clean it up.

209 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:34:15pm

re: #206 HappyWarrior

I would expect it would be expensive to fly from Hawaii to Kenya.

But then, you’re using logic.

210 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 12:34:53pm

re: #179 Blind Frog Belly White

I dunno. The last season of B5 had that scene where Lita was controlling everyone in the Zocalo, to all drum their fingers on the table in unison, till Sheridan - and his RPG pistol - reminded her she wasn’t the only one touched by the Vorlons.

What happened to Lyta made me hate the Vorlons even more.

I do love, though, that the Shadow War ended with philosophy rather than weaponry.

211 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:34:55pm

re: #209 Nyet

But then, you’re using logic.

Yeah the thing the birthers never use.

212 FemNaziBitch  Mar 24, 2015 12:35:26pm

re: #166 The Mother Of All Pies

Here is your midafternoon STUPIDEST WINGNUT MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Did Rush write that?

213 FemNaziBitch  Mar 24, 2015 12:36:50pm

re: #208 CuriousLurker

Eww, that’s soooo gross. I feel sorry for the workers who have to clean it up.

I’m thinking we could construct containers for toxic waste out of it …

214 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 12:37:53pm
215 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 12:38:37pm

re: #202 Justanotherhuman

It wouldn’t fucking matter, Ryan, you idiot.

Off to see my legal eagle and try to get those specious charges out of my hair.

Good luck.

216 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 12:38:47pm

re: #8 freetoken

I thought Goddard got banned by Twitter?

Anyway, Cruz keeps reciting satellite measurements of the upper atmosphere (from his friend and Bible thumping denier in Alabama.) It’s an intentional diversion from the dozens of differents types of measurements of the climate.

The masses believe the satellite measurements to be more accurate than surface measurements because they don’t know they aren’t direct measurements and that Watt’s & sycophant’s attack on the ground based temperature stations is based on bullshit assumptions that don’t pass testing.

217 FemNaziBitch  Mar 24, 2015 12:39:20pm

re: #148 HappyWarrior

I’m convinced more than ever that there’s something wrong with that guy. He actually has his delusional belief Obama being like Hitler furthered by visiting the Holocaust museum? And I hope the interviewer pointed out to him that Gates who he preports to like as Defense Secretary was retained by Obama. This guy has no business running for any office let alone one like the presidency.

Yes , something is not right with him

218 FemNaziBitch  Mar 24, 2015 12:40:51pm

Bbl

219 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:41:16pm

re: #217 FemNaziBitch

Yes , something is not right with him

I mean at first I thought like Cruz, the guy was a classic case of a panderer who will say anything but I think Carson actually believes the crap he espouses. Whoever told him to run for president is either equally delusional or playing a mean trick on the guy because it’s clear from his statements and rhetoric that he shouldn’t be an elected anything.

220 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:42:19pm

It really is though amazing that someone can be a brilliant neurosurgeon but so damn dumb elsewhere.

221 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 12:43:58pm

re: #15 lawhawk

Umm, even that chart shows warming. The green line is the smoothed average, and it increases throughout the entire period.

If there was no change, there’d be a perfectly straight line, but seems to show an increase around 1998, then in 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2014.

The smoothed average from RSS shows no significant increase in mid tropospheric temperature trend and no significant decrease in trend.

However, the satellite temperatures are not direct and not of surface temps so they can’t take into account surface temps from the land and subsurface temps of oceans. It give a less accurate account of temperature activity where we live than surface temperature stations.

222 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:44:38pm

re: #220 HappyWarrior

It really is though amazing that someone can be a brilliant neurosurgeon but so damn dumb elsewhere.

Maybe he isn’t brilliant, just very lucky.

223 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:45:52pm

re: #222 Nyet

Maybe he isn’t brilliant, just very lucky.

I have no idea honestly but just reading him through his words he strikes me as very unintelligent and someone who doesn’t think before he speaks.

224 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 12:46:01pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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Goddard is a joke with people in the science community.

225 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 12:46:48pm
226 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 12:46:54pm

re: #191 Dave In Austin

227 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:47:25pm

re: #226 Kragar

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Zing.

228 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:47:25pm

re: #223 HappyWarrior

I have no idea honestly but just reading him through his words he strikes me as very unintelligent and someone who doesn’t think before he speaks.

That’s why I doubt he’s some kind of a genius.

229 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:47:49pm

re: #226 Kragar

Where do I send your internet?

230 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:47:57pm

re: #225 Lidane

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It’s tough to figure out which one is more unlikable. Probably Cruz but you could change my mind.

231 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 12:48:03pm
232 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:48:49pm

re: #228 Nyet

That’s why I doubt he’s some kind of a genius.

Yeah I have to agree with that.

233 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 12:49:07pm

re: #226 Kragar

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234 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 12:49:09pm

re: #226 Kragar

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Boom.

235 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 12:49:15pm

re: #230 HappyWarrior

It’s tough to figure out which one is more unlikable. Probably Cruz but you could change my mind.

Definitely Cruz.

Rand Paul has what I call the Five-Minute Rule. He sounds reasonable for the first five minutes you listen to him, but at 5:01 you realize he’s completely full of shit. Ted Cruz is an asshole from the first word.

236 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:50:51pm

re: #235 Lidane

Definitely Cruz.

Rand Paul has what I call the Five-Minute Rule. He sounds reasonable for the first five minutes you listen to him, but at 5:01 you realize he’s completely full of shit. Ted Cruz is an asshole from the first word.

A good point. Plus I personally see Cruz as someone who was intelligent enough to get into Harvard while not being part of the good boy network but acts dumb. Cruz actually reminds me of Bobby Jindal in that way. He may not be stupid but he loves acting the fool.

237 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 12:53:19pm

Don’t know if anyone has posted this yet—he seems nice:

Meet Ted Cruz’s Karl Rove: “He Leaves a Path of Destruction”

It was no surprise on Monday when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) formally announced his presidential bid. By last summer, he was making key hires for his campaign crew. And this included recruiting a controversial Missouri-based political operative named Jeff Roe, who is known for his ruthless, bare-knuckled style and who has recently been in the news due to a tragic death. […]

238 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 12:55:35pm

re: #199 FemNaziBitch

Posting from my phone…

Lookup “fatburg”. Just learned about it from NPR in the car.

Oy

eeeeeeeeeee

239 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 12:55:53pm

re: #197 The Mother Of All Pies

Obama’s paternal grandmother once said he was born in Kenya.

are they sure she was not talking about barrack obama, senior, who definitely was born in kenya?

240 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 12:56:16pm

re: #237 CuriousLurker

Following the apparent suicide last month of Missouri state auditor Tom Schweich, who was a Republican gubernatorial candidate, Republican legislators and party elders in the state denounced the toxic culture within the state GOP and pointed to it as a cause of Schweich’s death. And some cited Roe as a prime purveyor of the political hardball and scorched-earth tactics that have transformed many Missouri elections into mud-drenched campaigns of personal destruction. There’s no evidence linking Roe to the anti-Semitic “whisper campaign” that seems to have deeply troubled Schweich in the days prior to his death. But Roe’s merciless style has been legend in Missouri for over a decade. And now he is poised to practice his brand of political blood sport against Cruz’s 2016 rivals.

A guy linked to a scandal which drove a man to suicide?

Seems like a perfect fit for Ted

241 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 12:56:24pm
242 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 12:57:56pm

For those who have not kept up on the latest beauty pageant scene, the past week or so the xenophobes in Japan have been having a harrumph over their new Miss Universe Japan:

Miss Universe Japan Facing Backlash at Home From Those Who Object to Biracial Beauty Queen Taking the Crown: Get the Details

[…]

Japan’s newest Miss Universe contestant broke barriers when she was recently chosen to represent her country. But because the 20-year-old is the daughter of a Japanese woman and an African-American man from the United States, some are questioning whether she is Japanese enough to hold the title.

According to Japanese websites, comments on Twitter ranged from, “Is it okay to select a hafu to represent Japan?” to “Because this is Miss Universe Japan, don’t you think hafu are a no-no.” “Hafu” (from “half”) is a Japanese term used to refer to someone who is biracial.

[…]

I wonder if she is Asian enough for Babycakes to like?

243 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 12:58:06pm

Wait. What?

I believe the term is schadenfreude?

244 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 12:58:25pm

re: #238 #FergusonFireside

eeeeeeeeeee

…

245 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 12:58:27pm
246 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 12:58:43pm

re: #237 CuriousLurker

Don’t know if anyone has posted this yet—he seems nice:

Seems like he reserves his worst for fellow Republicans who cross his way- the story about him going after the guy who lost his best friend in a tragic accident. There’s a special place for people like him, Karl Rove, and Lee Atwater. Not surprised at all that Ted Cruz hired such a figure.

247 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 1:01:01pm
248 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 1:01:32pm

re: #240 Kragar

A guy linked to a scandal which drove a man to suicide?

Seems like a perfect fit for Ted

He also spread lies about a tragic accident in which another man’s best friend was killed. And these two were both fellow Republicans. Seems to me that guys like Roe, Rove, and Atwater do their most scummy tactics against fellow Republicans i.e. Rove’s involvement in the attacks on McCain in South Carolina.

249 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 1:02:29pm

re: #242 freetoken

For those who have not kept up on the latest beauty pageant scene, the past week or so the xenophobes in Japan have been having a harrumph over their new Miss Universe Japan:

Miss Universe Japan Facing Backlash at Home From Those Who Object to Biracial Beauty Queen Taking the Crown: Get the Details

I wonder if she is Asian enough for Babycakes to like?

She’s beautiful. And a much better person than those bigots.

250 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 1:03:09pm

re: #248 HappyWarrior

He also spread lies about a tragic accident in which another man’s best friend was killed. And these two were both fellow Republicans. Seems to me that guys like Roe, Rove, and Atwater do their most scummy tactics against fellow Republicans i.e. Rove’s involvement in the attacks on McCain in South Carolina.

This asshole practically has “stripper related incident” written on his forehead.

251 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 1:03:18pm

re: #246 HappyWarrior

Seems like he reserves his worst for fellow Republicans who cross his way- the story about him going after the guy who lost his best friend in a tragic accident. There’s a special place for people like him, Karl Rove, and Lee Atwater. Not surprised at all that Ted Cruz hired such a figure.

I didn’t think things could get uglier than they did when Obama was running, but it looks like they just might. Ugh.

You’re right though, at least he’ll be going after other GOP candidates since there aren’t any Dems that have announced.

252 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 1:03:34pm

re: #249 HappyWarrior

…

253 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 1:03:49pm

re: #243 lawhawk

Wait. What?

[Embedded content]

I believe the term is schadenfreude?

It’s so awful and we need to repeal every last word of it but I’m happy to take it for me and my family. Man what an ass. So typical though of his ideology and party to do this though.

254 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 1:06:04pm

re: #251 CuriousLurker

I didn’t think things could get uglier than they did when Obama was running, but it looks like they just might. Ugh.

You’re right though, at least he’ll be going after other GOP candidates since there aren’t any Dems that have announced.

Ted’s gotta get the nomination first thankfully. But honestly even if he is going after fellow GOPers, all of whom as we both know have their own scum, those two bits really make me wonder what he’s going to do. I’ve seen CCJ post an unsubstantiated story about Jeb Bush being adulterous around. and I totally expect him to make hay of the fact that Rand Paul makes no secret about his past usage of marijuana.

255 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 1:06:29pm

re: #245 Charles Johnson

Everyone has a climatologist in their back pocket. Just whip ‘em out. /

I’m sure Phil Plait would probably wipe the walls with him, though he’s an astronomer, not a climatologist.

But not everyone has a Koch in their back pocket, and many of these global warming deniers are linked with the energy companies, including the Koches.

256 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 1:06:53pm

How exactly does one become an Atwater, Rove, or Roe anyhow? I am not sure if there’s such thing as a tangible soul but I do believe in the concept of a conscience. Guys like that. Man.

257 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2015 1:08:17pm

re: #256 HappyWarrior

How exactly does one become an Atwater, Rove, or Roe anyhow? I am not sure if there’s such thing as a tangible soul but I do believe in the concept of a conscience. Guys like that. Man.

First you agree to sell your soul to the devil…

258 gwangung  Mar 24, 2015 1:08:24pm

re: #255 lawhawk

Everyone has a climatologist in their back pocket. Just whip ‘em out. /

I’m sure Phil Plait would probably wipe the walls with him, though he’s an astronomer, not a climatologist.

But not everyone has a Koch in their back pocket, and many of these global warming deniers are linked with the energy companies, including the Koches.

Moreover, you don’t DEBATE. You use research and data.

Cherry picking dates is not a good place to start.

259 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 1:10:46pm

re: #243 lawhawk

Wait. What?

[Embedded content]

I believe the term is schadenfreude?

That’s pretty weird, if true. They could afford a direct family plan as an investment in his campaign. If he has a campaign.

260 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 1:15:29pm

Regarding that story of Miss Universe Japan, the Breitbrats are as classy as usual:

Loretta Vincent • 20 hours ago
Probably a tranny.
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semperfipar Loretta Vincent • 20 hours ago
Oh come on.. She is pretty and does not have man brows, man head, man shoulders, man hands, adams apple or a bulge in her dress in the wrong place like like… Michelle Obama.

—

alistz FauxScienceSlayer • 18 hours ago
What’s surprising about this is that somehow the Japanese let Jews judge their beauty pageant .

—

Dutch Venter • 11 hours ago
“Megumi Nishikura, who helmed the film Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan, told NBC that Miyamoto’s selection as Miss Universe Japan is a huge step in the right direction for the country to redefine what it means to be Japanese”
Blacks rape everyone’s ethnic identity. They’ve done it to various European ethnicities and now they’re doing it with the Japanese.
Notice however, that only Zulus can be Zulus. Even though millions of non-blacks live in South Africa.

—

… and so forth.

261 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 1:15:58pm

re: #255 lawhawk

Everyone has a climatologist in their back pocket. Just whip ‘em out. /

I’m sure Phil Plait would probably wipe the walls with him, though he’s an astronomer, not a climatologist.

But not everyone has a Koch in their back pocket, and many of these global warming deniers are linked with the energy companies, including the Koches.

Goddard has been at Open Mind (stats site) several times and been trounced. He’s also ventured over to Real Climate (climate scientist site) just to be humiliated.

That’s why he’s hoping for a debate with a non-climate scientist scientist.

262 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 1:22:13pm

re: #260 freetoken

Regarding that story of Miss Universe Japan, the Breitbrats are as classy as usual:

ODS? Check.
Racism? Check.
Antisemitism? Check.
Islamophobia? I’m sure I’d find it in there somewhere if I cared enough to go look, but I don’t. They’re pathetic.

263 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 1:42:28pm

re: #262 CuriousLurker

ODS? Check.
Racism? Check.
Antisemitism? Check.
Islamophobia? I’m sure I’d find it in there somewhere if I cared enough to go look, but I don’t. They’re pathetic.

Pathetic just like Andrew was. Carrying on his torch of being dicks to anyone who isn’t a white conservative.

264 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:06:05pm

re: #210 Romantic Heretic

What happened to Lyta made me hate the Vorlons even more.

I do love, though, that the Shadow War ended with philosophy rather than weaponry.

Who are you? What do you want?

265 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 2:09:46pm

re: #243 lawhawk

Wait. What?

[Embedded content]

I believe the term is schadenfreude?

266 ssnbbr  Mar 25, 2015 7:54:15am

Does he include the Dixie Chicks???


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