According to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, climate talks are simply evidence of the “arrogance of man.” It is expected that next week Palin will announce her campaign to dismantle all dams, re-irrigation programs, and forest fire suppression programs in part of her “de-arrogancing of man.”
This signature tweet from Palin came on Saturday. Here is what she wrote:
Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature’s ways.MUST b good stewards of God’s earth,but arrogant&naive2say man overpwers nature
Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng
I am glad that someone has the courage to fight efforts to deal with weather changes. I am personally appalled by the widespread us of clothes. It is clear from the Bible that God never intended us to have clothes in the first place.
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6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
Everything I see people wearing clothing or umbrellas to protect them from nature, I share Palin’s disgust.
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How about you stuff telling me what to do, bdabigot.
You have one option to get us off your back and spamming a distraction tactic ain’t it, sport.
Please stay on topic, Sarah Palin or Global Warming
If not move along please
Pay no attention to the troll behind the curtain.
“Please! Watch me! I’m just a copy paster! See! I’m not what I just got busted being! A hate troll! Really! I’m not! I’m just a climate denier troll not a bigot! I didn’t mean it when I called someone a Christ Killer! Really! I just hate Al Gore!”
Dance, dance, dance. Just because you are doing the two step doesn’t mean either step is in time or in place. You’re a really bad dancer on top of it all.
Tootie,
Since at this point, I’m pretty sure that you live in an universe with an alternate time-line than the one the rest of us are in, I’ll skip over your historical inaccuracies.
You do know that in this context Fundamentalism refers to the literal interpretation of holy texts right? Unless there’s a universal “anti-Fundamentalist Christian” holy text out there, you’re wrong in referring to Mespo as a Fundi.
Let me introduce you to the logical fallacy of Equivocation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
“Wunderbar!”
Buddha,
Don’t forget about Madeline Khan, she’s in that scene, peeking out over Slim Picken’s Shoulder occasionally.
Man, do I miss Slim Pickens and Harvey Korman. Those cats were funny.
Tootie,
“They are the worst among us. Yes, worse than drug dealers, thieves, hookers, porn producers, trolls, con men, and rappers.”
What about people who kick kittens? Where do Ivy League graduates rate against kitten kickers? (Rappers, seriously?
I’m mildly surprised Ivy Leaguers got left out of “The List” (Warning: The clip contains what FFLEO might call “rough” Language):
mespo:
You wrote”
“‘Ivy League grads,’ as you call them, have defeated two fascists bent on world dominion…”
It is the Ivy league types who were clearly fascists last century and we have only to look at Obama and Bush to see a continuation of that theme.
What you refer to as our having “defeated two fascists bent on world domination” is best described as the clash of fascists (US fascists versus European ones).
World War I was of no concern to us. There was no threat to American citizens if all of Europe went fascist.
SO WHAT!
Even Churchill complained that the USA extended World War One just at the point when it was about to end. Nice going President Wilson, you Ivy League (what is now Princeton) nincompoop lawyer.
Churchill (CHURCHILL!!) blamed WW2 on the US (until he was on his knees because of Hitler) and said if we hadn’t gotten involved in WW1, WW2 might not have happened.
It was because the foolish English elites (like Churchill) had a pathological hatred of the Germans and stupidly vowed to protect Poland if it was attacked, that Hitler was drawn westward. If Columbia attacks the US, you can be sure we will be drawn southward.
The English provoked Hitler to move west.
Now, that is Churchill, not me.
It was Kennedy (Harvard) who put boots on the ground in Vietnam (which was no threat to Americans). That cost us tens of thousands slaughtered sons (mostly) and provoked a cultural upheaval from which we have not recovered. We carpet bombed civilians for crying out loud!
You said “advanced science to the point where life spans have dramatically increased, cured diseases such as polio and small pox, made our country the envy of the world and the cultural center of civilization…”
I’m not criticizing scientists or doctors here. And Harvard isn’t the only place where great ones are produced. I’m criticizing lawyers, historians, political science majors, and all other “scholars” who don’t have to be smart or logical to get to good grades or get to the top of the pile. They just need the name of the school attached to their resume.
In fact they can be dumb as dirt, and evil, and arrive at the pinnacle of power all shiny and clean to command life, death, peace, or prosperity.
Then, you wrote in your standard intolerant fashion that it was the “fundie Christian crowd who thinks that we are a doomed, loathsome species, unworthy of anything unless our fantasy Santa Claus in the sky gives it too us.”
Well, it seems to me that it the non-fundies (Wilson, FDR, and Kennedy) who were the ones who had the “we are a doomed and loathsome species” view of the world overseas because they couldn’t help but bomb the hell out of it.
For your information and further enlightenment, it is godless heathens like Al Gore who think we are doomed and use junk science to prove it. Christians believe the earth is eternal (or will be more so some day) and that God thinks we humans are worth saving even though we are woefully corrupt. And the reason Christians evangelize is because they agree that people are worth it.
If you think fundie Christians are wrong about the nature of the human race and its fallen status, I would like to submit to you and before an imaginary court of the universe, that the entire history of the human race is evidence that the race is stark raving mad despite its occasional forward momentum.
It even tried to annihilate itself last century.
Last century alone over 100 million innocent civilians (Rummel’s numbers) were slaughtered. Who did that, fundies? No! Government! And it was mostly pagan, heathen, or atheist government.
I don’t think this is a good resume for the human race. And if we are to take the evidence and compare it to your view or the fundie view, it appears that the fundies have the better claim.
And if I look at the world the way you do, I’d say you are fundamentally opposed to fundamentalist Christians.
Therefore, my dear, you are a fundie.
bdman:
I have learned to be wary of the man of a thousand defenses.
Just over a month after Climategate started, we have breaking news from Climate Audit
Met Office and CRU Bow to Public Pressure: Publish Data Subset and Code
The UK Met Office has released a large tranche of station data, together with code.
Only last summer, the Met Office had turned down my FOI request for station data, saying that the provision of station data to me would threaten the course of UK international relations. Apparently, these excuses have somehow ceased to apply.
Last summer the Met Office stated:
http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/22/met-office-archives-data-and-code/