tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post2620912041760221776..comments2024-03-28T15:15:44.686-04:00Comments on Progressive Eruptions: GOP Censors Tell Pentagon and CIA to Stop Talking About Climate ChangeShaw Kenawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-26833274966386829472015-03-21T11:12:18.797-04:002015-03-21T11:12:18.797-04:00"So much is at stake with climate change that..."So much is at stake with climate change that we can't afford to be silent."<br /><br />No, we can't be silent, but right wing governors are trying their damndest to stop any discussion on climate. They are beholden to the energy lobby and they will do its bidding even at the expense of future generations.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by, Ahab.Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-3198028901715314572015-03-21T10:37:00.651-04:002015-03-21T10:37:00.651-04:00If the far right is trying to stifle discussion of...If the far right is trying to stifle discussion of climate change, we have an even greater responsibility to talk about it. So much is at stake with climate change that we can't afford to be silent.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-13225387494542533402015-03-19T22:10:42.817-04:002015-03-19T22:10:42.817-04:00Not uncommon.
A seismologist at the University of...Not uncommon.<br /><br />A seismologist at the University of Oklahoma (Inhofe's state, surprise) published a paper linking earthquake activity to fracking and a bunch of big oil university boosters had the university president tell him to shut up.<br /><br />Academic freedom and free speech are optional concepts in right wing world.<br /><br />Go Friars !Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-5462057601186311202015-03-19T19:42:20.397-04:002015-03-19T19:42:20.397-04:00In the fog of Tea Land and the GOP god always trum...In the fog of Tea Land and the GOP god always trumps science. It is what gives them comfort, placing mysticism over science, reason, and reality.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-43283045375215780062015-03-19T15:34:15.488-04:002015-03-19T15:34:15.488-04:00Rusty,
This time I let Governor Grifter off the ho...Rusty,<br />This time I let Governor Grifter off the hook and blame voters from the orange concentrate state of Florid-Duh! <br /><br />Four years ago, they knew Scott was a Medicare fraudster; yet they elected him. Last year, they re-elected him. They elected Marco Rubio of Cup-o-Water fame. In 2000, they bumbled us into a stolen election. <br /><br />Voters put the DUH in Florid-Duh. Blame them!(O)CT(O)PUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-91954744029015154142015-03-19T15:33:10.663-04:002015-03-19T15:33:10.663-04:00Inhofe has been a slow, constant burn of stupidity... Inhofe has been a slow, constant burn of stupidity, a landfill of derp for so long that his histrionics don't get as much attention anymore. That being said, he's still an original shitmuffin if not THE original senate shitmuffin...Clearwater, Floridahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01496904136781957785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-40504887708491717842015-03-19T14:51:52.615-04:002015-03-19T14:51:52.615-04:00They're good at whipping the country into a fr...They're good at whipping the country into a frenzy of stupid.Frank J.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-11056795010840501982015-03-19T12:50:23.989-04:002015-03-19T12:50:23.989-04:00This is from the Miami Herald link on Florida Gov....This is from the Miami Herald link on Florida Gov. Scott:<br /><br />"Bill Taylor was the assistant district right of way manager for the Florida Department of Transportation's District 4 office in Fort Lauderdale. He retired last year after 19 years with the DOT.<br /><br />He said he was told not to use certain terms during a meeting of district managers.<br /><br />“It was at a routine meeting in probably 2012 or 2013,” Taylor said. “At one point, <b>it was mentioned very casually that in our future dealings with the public, we were not to use the terms ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming.’ But it was OK to talk about sea-level rise, because for some projects that had to be taken into consideration.”</b><br /><br /><br /><br />Don't forget Florida's twice elected governor Scott’s prior tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA about a decade ago, when the hospital company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud.<br /><br />Scott started what was first Columbia in 1987, purchasing two El Paso, Texas, hospitals. Over the next decade he would add hundreds of hospitals, surgery centers and home health locations. In 1994, Scott’s Columbia purchased Tennessee-headquartered HCA and its 100 hospitals, and merged the companies.<br /><br />In 1997, federal agents went public with an investigation into the company, first seizing records from four El Paso-area hospitals and then expanding across the country. The investigation focused on whether Columbia/HCA had committed Medicare and Medicaid fraud.<br /><br />Scott resigned as CEO in July 1997, less than four months after the inquiry became public. Company executives said had Scott remained CEO, the entire chain could have been in jeopardy.<br /><br /><b>During his 2010 race, the Miami Herald reported that Scott had said he would have immediately stopped his company from committing fraud -- if only "somebody told me something was wrong." But there were such warnings in the company’s annual public reports to stockholders -- which Scott had to sign as president and CEO."</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />So the Repubes supported a governor who as a CEO of a medical company oversaw the biggest Medicare fraud case in the country and who now presides over a state government that forbids the use of the words "climate change and Global warming."<br /><br />But Obama's destroying the country?<br /><br />Doctor Tomatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10836154395383490830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-85036551139510998312015-03-19T12:22:00.181-04:002015-03-19T12:22:00.181-04:00Are the Goopers planning on putting duck tape over...Are the Goopers planning on putting duck tape over the mouths of 97% of climatologists? Or will they just march them off to re-education camps?<br /><br />Everything the crazies on the right accuse liberals of doing, they engage in themselves. PC indeed. They hate it unless THEY DO IT.<br /><br />PS. Ted Cruz is an attention whore who knows better but loves playing the rubes for their votes. They think he's brilliant when in fact he laughs at them behind their backs.<br /><br />Ronnie's Raygunnoreply@blogger.com