I don’t usually bother with liberal left bloggers who waste their time slagging me. (Too many, for one thing.) But sometimes, one just has to make an exception.
“Lisa” of In The House And Senate didn’t think much of Alan Mutter’s post comparing the traffic SDA sent to his blog vs that sent by several major US media outlets;
The post that caused so many to link to SDA had to do with the neo-cons jumping all over a report that challenges some popular theories on climate change. It has a poorly executed, hazy pic of of a dino lying in the sand with a caption – “Not Waiting For The Asteroid.” The comments consist of the usual incestuous discourse of Flat Earthers, climate change deniers, and creationists mocking those who are foolish enough to believe the thousands of reports that challenge the one McMillan alludes to. You know, those of us who actually studied evolution, genetics, physics, climatology, and those of us who read in-depth on these issues, analyse and compare reports, and apply logic rather than the teachings of a religious text.
K. Mc’s was not a brilliant post, or a well researched piece. It simply offered a bad picture, a handful of right-wing comments making fun of people who actually understand evolution and believe in it, and a link to a report by a scientist.
Here’s the “poorly researched” post she speaks of: Not Waiting For The Asteroid. The opening of that it links to reads as follows:
News stock slide accelerates
The publicly held newspaper stocks lost another $2 billion of value in the first six months of 2007 on top of the $13.5 billion decline they suffered in the prior two years.
That’s right. She wrote two full paragraphs referencing global warming and evolution to critique a post designed to draw attention to the falling values of newspaper stocks.
Wait! It gets better. (You knew it had to).
Lisa’s profile?
Just had to punch the link and go view the train wreck. Liberal… wall… splat!
She is the one who “actually studied evolution, genetics, physics, climatology…”. The crash must have dislodged her Mensa logo from her home page and it rolled under her ego, to be lost forever.
What I witnessed does beg the question: isn’t there some law about self-abuse of the learning-impaired?
“900 ft Jesus” is offensive let the Human rights complaints begin….
Lore Weaver wrote: ” Why can’t those enviro-freaks target actual pollutants, like Sulfur, Methane, Mercury, Cyanide compounds, or any of the myriad of other horrible things we don’t naturally exhale.”
>>>> Because witch hunting a colorless minoe inert gas means you never have to address real problems while at the same time not be held accountable for your theories.
It also means that with a nebulous demon to hunt you can spread guilt and accusation for profit without providing conrete evidence.
GHG GW is about shaking down emitters of a naturally occurring gas which is the product of living…think of the potential…we are all guilty and all suspects so we are all liable to pay penance to the CO2 witch hunters.
“The crash must have dislodged her Mensa logo from her home page”
Excellent point! I’ve often thought Kate should make that symbol bigger – if I had me one of them I’d tattoo it somewhere on my body. Like, my forehead. Hey, maybe I’ll do it anyway…
Such a tool!
You know, just this morning I had a visit from a real, live, Jesusland dweller. Jehovah’s Witness no less, that’s hard core Jesusland!
Nice older guy, he fell in love with my rusty old COE in the driveway. Sure sign of quality in a gentleman. ~:D
On the one hand, he had some funny ideas about the way the universe in constructed. On the other, I’m pretty sure you could trust him not to steal from the till if he worked for you.
On balance, I’d put up with the denying of evolution part just to get the not-stealing part. Hard to find that these days, particularly in the college educated crowd.
I compare this earnest guy to 900 Ft. Lisa, who doesn’t even read the post properly before reaching for the flamethrower.
Lisa, baby, you aren’t looking good in this comparison. Witness guy with his funny ideas at least tries to lead by example, you and your Lefty crowd skip that completely and go straight to the bile every time.
So in honor of the sheer guts this old guy has to walk around my yuppie neighborhood with a Bible in his hand, I’m going to hang up my flamethrower a while. Just to see what happens.
Wow! she has “studied evolution, genetics, physics, climatology”…and apparently political science or some such thing as well. How many degrees does this lady have?
How the hell can you be employable as a “media analyst” when you have the reading comprehension skills of a turnip?
Absolutely terrifying and hilarious. at once.
It was bad in America when you couldn’t criticize the Iraqi invasion without being branded a traitor.
Now, in Canada, you can’t post a dinosaur picture without being branded a climate-change denouncer.
That comment some dictator made about the “useful idiots” in Western society haunts my mind whenever this kind of situation arises.
Phantom: Cool post. A most inciteful observation. Poetic even.
Thanks MND. This is hard though. My fingers are itching for the flamethrower already.
Maybe beer will help. Mmmm, beer….
I’ve got it. She missed the underscored “*” of Kate’s post and went straight to the climate change post immediately below it.
She missed the asterisk.
As an evolutionist, she should have known that the lowly asterisk holds the key to language and literary life. From the asterisk (which spontaneously generated itself one day), all letters evolved; from the letters, rudimentary words, and then, over endless generations, the rules of syntax and grammar finally emerged — unplanned, undesigned — from which all human thought and speech emanates.
Now that’s a scary thought.
*** ****’* *** *** *** **** *******.
Them are tricky, them asterisks, eh?
First she missed an asterisk.
Then, she missed a period.
Simply evolutionary!
Uh-oh…