Does the state of Oklahoma get Federal Tax credits for "hiring" the mentally challenged?

I'd just add one small detail: Senate Republicans got together and made James Inhofe their top member on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He was, in fact, the chairman of the committee when there was a Republican majority in the chamber.

In short, Republican = Stupid.

Seriously, if Democrats were better at PR we'd be working to evolve the language right now.

A "bear" market would be a "bush" market.

A woefully ignorant policy statement would be a "republican" policy statement.

An unthinkable act of personal cruelty committed by a government official would be a "cheney".

An attempt to rig elections through quasi-legal tactics would be a "delaymander".

Employing a wide range of propoganda techniques while pretending to be objective would be a "murdochism".

And so on.

Cool:

And the term for the process itself: "limbaughing". :)

Not that it diminishes the stupidity of this remark, but I cringe when I hear lay people who are advocates for the concern about climate change publicly saying similar things when it's warm out, or about a single hurricane, etc.

I mean I certainly make those dumb comments, but I'm not on TV trying to convince people there's a problem.

Vermonter:

But how often, in your experience, do people cite anecdotal evidence to suggest the existence of climate change, as compared to people who cite anecdotal evidence to deny it? In my own experience, it's no contest.

What kind of campaign did he run, and who the hell bought it? He either gets a lot of "ear marks" to his constituents, or his base is the 6000 year old earth crowd.

A very serious man.

Inhofe and his ilk need to publicly and repeatedly embarrassed for trying to govern while stupid, or for willfully lying to the public. Call him out MSM!! Oh "liberal" CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC (other than the 2 progressive exceptions, Kieth and Rachel), where are you??!! How can anyone listen to him and not want to ask him how long ago he graduated from 3rd grade? Seriously, my 5th grader knows more about ecology and climate change than this typical knuckle-dragging idiot.

cool: You are sOOO right. The repigs do it ALL - THE- TIME, and their use of language works to engage and sway. 'Liberal' is somehow a bad word? Democratic is now Democrat (sounds a lot like bureaucrat,doesn't it?), etc. Unfortunately, they redefine words, and try to do the same to history, as well as facts themselves. We need to apply a little 'reality' to their crap by showing them, in an amusing way as you suggest, that the redefinition game works both ways. Only the DemocratIC way is both accurate and humorous.

As my mom used to say, ignorant people make fun of things they don't understand. The current crop of Republicans certainly prove this to be true. It would be nice to have a two (or three) party system that can converse and debate issues but as it stands now, I don't see this happening anytime in the near future.

Maybe I should have stated "intelligently" converse and debate issues....

It was the biggest March storm only if you live in the Panhandle. Last time I looked, essentially no one did.

And Pokeybob: A: Dirty, called his opponent gay;
Inhofe is an earmark factory;
There are large numbers of flat earthers in OK, also out of wedlock and teen pregnancies, meth, child abuse and other strongly correlating indicators of conservative "christianity".

Inhofe: "I won't get into the science thing, because even though the science is mixed on this, even though there are quite a number of scientists that say there's not that relationship....(blah blah blah).......nonetheless, for sake of the debate on global warming we could concede the science, even though the science is not there......"

I'm sorry, Ihhofe, but a group of pseudo "scientists" from the Heartland Institute spewing drivel doesn't qualify as "mixed science". These are the same scientists that believe cigarettes don't cause lung cancer.

By the way, Republicans, your're getting way past the point of the 'doubt' global warming phase. Time to kick in phase 2 and 3. It's time for you to feign concern about the problem (phase 2) and then start arguing how to best slow...I mean 'debate' the solution (phase 3).

If only Will Rogers were still here to skewer the Ignorhofes of his state.

That the Republican Party as a whole pick a freak like Inhofe to head and now be their rep for such a Committee, shows that they are institutionally corrupt and evil. IOW, it can't just be passed off as, "Oh, there's a lot of freaks (like Bachmann, Inhofe, etc.) but the Party is still an essentially good-faith operation" etc." No further proof is needed.
BTW, water freezes at 32° F which is not all that cold (and higher up, it can be colder too.)

No one knows for sure whether the climate is changing, but we do have strong evidence that belittling others' religious beliefs will cost the Democrat party at the polls. Obama is too smart to pile on Shimkus and now Inhofe. Let's hope he has a moderating effect on his party, or I fear things will be grim for the Dems in 2010 and 2012.

Inhofe isn't stupid. He's a greedy liar, a bought-and-paid-for shill, reading from a script provided by the fossil fuel corporations.

The best part of this is that January and February were both warmer than normal (at least for Oklahoma City).

Has Shimkus legally changed his name to Dimkus, yet?

OKDem and other okies in here, do you remember March 1998? Here in Oklahoma City, we had 12 inches of snow; while there was 18 inches in northern Oklahoma where my in-laws live; and if I remember correctly, even southern Oklahoma where my parents live there was at least 6 inches of snow. I remember this because we were trying to go to Missouri to trout fish. Now that was a huge snow storm! I think bigger that last Friday and Saturday.

SecularAnamist, he really is an idiot. He is also all the things you said, but he is also an idiot.

Inhofe believes the sun going down at night proves global warming isn't real. So there ya go.

That people like Inhofe are in positions of power is why I was so happy to hear that the White House has decided to stop worrying so much about 'bipartisanship', because it's clear the Republicans aren't participating in good faith. Some of knew they wouldn't, but I don't fault Obama for trying, since it seems like he's not going to waste more than a couple months on it.

When the ship is sinking, it's pointless to spend time trying to 'compromise' with people who are denying there is an iceberg staring them in the face, complaining that abandoning ship is "socialism", or moaning that taking to the lifeboats will condemn our children to years of rowing.

Dear Inhofe the Stupid,

More snow in a snowstorm requires that there be more moisture in the air. The warmer the air, the more moisture it can carry. The less snow and ice there is on the surface, the more heat that can be absorbed, which in turn warms the air.

Enjoy the really big snowstorms while you can, because when the weather warms up in the latter part of spring and into the summer, your state will be visited by really big tornadoes (ever see an F-6? Neither have I---but you can tell everyone that the demonic communi-islamo-fascist-atheist-gay treehugging Liberals caused it, right?), lots of dry lightning, and a drought that you'd swear was on steroids.

MatthewRQuarreler
"but we do have strong evidence that belittling others' religious beliefs will cost the Democrat party at the polls."

Who has "belittled" Inhofe's religious beliefs? His mental capacity and political motivation, but not his spirituality.

"No one knows for sure whether the climate is changing"

The mainstream scientific consensus by a wide margin is that global warming is occurring and doing so by man made carbon emissions.

Of the leading dissenters:

Timothy Ball is a geography professor who said temperature is going up, then 2 months later said temperature hasn't gone up, then six months after that argued that temperatures cooled between 1940 and 1980.

Vincent Gray is a coal chemist that started a
"climate science coalition" and argues that the IPCC rejects normal scientific procedures and is fundamentally corrupt. He offers the evidence that for 8 years, measurements in China & the U.S. haven't warmed ,and that 2008 was set to be a cool year.

This is an example of the "mixed" science, that Inhofe is talking about.

I think it's time to stop pretending Inhofe is an idiot. Yeah, it's fun to laugh at him and all, but no one is this stupid, even in the Senate.

He's merely a POS dirtbag who's willing to risk the lives of millions, and consign thousands right now to the agonies of asthma, bronchial, cancer, just to pick up a few bucks from his sponsors in the pollution industry. He's no different from a hitman who'll take $100 to kill your family.

He's garbage, and it's time to stop laughing.

Blizzards in North Dakota? In March? Surely the next ice age is upon us.

Inhofe misses the point: the fact that it was the biggest ever recorded.

Simple question for the press to ask anyone who denies Climate change....
"Do you still believe the Earth to be flat, also?"

Political Correctness was invented as a way to honor the minority opinion, without insulting anyone. But the folks who needed to be forced to respect VALID minority opinion now use PC as a way to invoke these insane, baseless viewpoints as equal arguments.

Just like the TV evangelist, who use sattelite technology, while denying evolution.

Hardly 3" here in NE Iowa all month. That's also unheard of. Huge snowfalls for state basketball tournaments are almost guaranteed in the upper Midwest.

Listen Inhofe (and other religious nuts are denying the climate change), why do you want to destroy the gift that God gave you? God gave you this earth to take care of it, didn't He? Why would you even risk damaging it even a little bit? Why do you rape and pillage it every day? Why would you, as a God-fearing person, Jim Inhofe, show such disrespect for God's gift? Why, since you profess to love God, would you destroy his most precious gift to you?

Because you love money more than God?

A few quick notes on science. In science you do not prove things are true (it is considered impossible in science). You can demonstrate things are false. In addition, a single event can be linked to global warming especially in a statistical manner (e.g., 0.1% chance of event X occurring in a non-warmed climate vs. a 45% chance of event X occurring in a warmed climate would be strong evidence to suggest the event resulted from a warmer climate). Usually this cannot be done for a given event but it is possible and single events have been attributed in a valid scientific way to climate change.

To Kristin Chenoweth: Please move back to your native Oklahoma and run for Senate as a Democrat. With Americans' love for celebrities, you may be our only hope.