Your Daily Louie
Okay, so Congress held a hearing on climate change and Louie Gohmert was delighted to be able to question one of the 3% of scientists who don’t think climate change is real. John Christy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville testified that humans are not causing climate change.
Well, boy howdy!, Louie jumped on that like white on rice.
His voice a’quiver with pure delight to be able to show off his book learning to a fancy college professor, Louie cleared his throat and began …
You ever feel like Galileo? You remember Galileo? The overwhelming amount of science was against Galileo, and the other side of this got money from the Church, they got money from the government from their research opposing Galileo, and yet Galileo was right.
Well, no. Actually, NO is more correct.
Science was on Galileo’s side. And let me see here, who exactly is on the church’s side because I forget …
However, instead of getting money from the church, this inquisition gets money from big oil. So, Louie actually got all this reversed. However, it is said that he pronounced Galileo’s name correctly. He’s got that going for him.
Yes, they said Galileo was crazy. You know who else they said was crazy, Louie? Crazy people.
But, thank for trying, Louie. We did get value for our entertainment dollar. Maybe next you’ll explain one of Newton’s laws for us. Hey, I’ll buy a ticket for that.
Thanks to Tina for the heads up.
Louie would probably be proud to be on the side of the church in that fight: massive ignorance in the face of facts. He’d have been the dinosaur saying, “Meteor? What meteor? And who cares anyway?” Except in this case we can do something about the meteor before it really hits, but Louie doesn’t want to.
They laughed at Galileo, Louie, and they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
1For those of us fans of the band Devo, Louie is a classic case of Devolution. Or is it the Peter Principle?
History is written by the winners, so if you get that wrong, does that make you a loser?
Best wishes for the weekend 🙂
2“Maybe next you’ll explain one of Newton’s laws for us. Hey, I’ll buy a ticket for that.”
I’d sponsor a couple of tables for such an event as Louis Gohmert taking on any of Newton’s Laws. In fact, I think this would interest HBO in a PPV event. Better and safer for all of us, as Louie demonstrates his skills at a remote location with HBO cameras, while we enjoy the show safely away in a secure ballroom.
3Louie would have to triple his IQ to get even close to stupid!!
4EVERYTHING in his statement is wrong!
Any way we can get Louie in the Repub primary? I realize he’s not running, but most of the ones who are aren’t any more credible.
5Here’s what Louie and politicians like him actually believe in!
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6Christy admits that the climate is warming, and in fact his method of satellite measurement of temperature, once all the variables had been accounted for, does indeed show we are warming.
So in terms of data gathering, he’s pretty top notch. He’s even been forced to admit that he agrees a growth in greenhouse gasses maybe has something to do with it, but that there’s very little humans can do one way or another to affect the whole atmosphere.
So, in terms of data interpretation, why does he suck so bad? Well, after getting his math degree and before getting his techie graduate degrees, he stopped off and got a Master of Divinity at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, whose motto is “We disapprove.”
So really, his world view is even LESS like Galileo’s, because he’s on the side that believes in magic.
7Goober was probably thinking of Robert Sungenis, who is actually peddling a book called “Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right,” and even has a movie to go with it:
https://southernbeale.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/the-unenlightenment/
Just can’t make this stuff up. Seriously, where’s the guy to claim that gravity isn’t real?
8He might know who Wayne or Billy Newton are. (i googled singer newton, since I didn’t figure Louie would know who the other Newton was.) Yeah, get us a busload of tickets. And Sungenis? He won’t put up with that any more? Sheesh. I think I’ll go clean the garage or something.
9If Christy is parsing his data by selecting data that support his hypothesis while excluding qualified data that does not support his hypothesis, he is not a scientist nor is he practicing science.
Any graduate student caught willfully and continuously doing this would not be allowed to graduate and would be dismissed from any credible graduate program.
This practice ranks right next to fabricating data.
In non-scientific terms, its lying by omission.
10Louie is truly loopy! It is difficult to not laugh at him, while being astonished that people actually vote for this person.
11While Gohmert’s scientific and logical illiteracy is a given, John Christy is shamelessly pandering to Big Oil and Big Theocracy, despite his scientific training. These are the people who prevent our country from moving to renewable energy and allow idiots like the south Carolina governor to ban even the mention of climate change. We are back in the Dark Ages, people.
12“We are back in the Dark Ages, people.” We aren’t yet, but we could be heading that way. It’s nice to think that history keeps moving upward, more or less, but there’s no good reason to think so. If we keep letting morons like Louie and corrupt rich buggers like the Kochs run things in their greed and ignorance, making serious problems into major calamities instead of working to solve them, we could easily be heading for another dark age. It’s happened repeatedly. The only difference is that now there are 7.2 billion of us and we’re affecting the whole Earth, not just a region or two.
13Louie really, really needs to be back in a very, very small town where they can take proper care of him such as let him walk around in public a bit and when he tries to buttonhole somebody in the local Dairy Queen with one of his word salads, some nice person will gently take him back home so sweetly that he won’t even know he’s moving until he’s been locked back in the attic. I’ve noticed that really small towns are like that with such people. Real gentle. Totally unremarkable. So discreet. Actually saw this happen with someone in a little squeak of a place in Michigan. Makes me want to sigh.
14Rhea, here’s some reading you might enjoy: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/22/the-sobs-of-wichita-the-koch-brothers/
Chin up good friend, as the author says, “they” are less than 1%, we have the numbers.”
15The overwhelming amount of science was against Galileo
If by “science” you mean a bunch of superstitious cardinals believing in the Sky Fairy.
16maggie, you remind me of someone who said that Dan Quayle was like Robert Redford’s kid brother that they kept up in the attic and he got out somehow. (Anybody remember him? There was a rumor that if anyone had shot President Papa Bush, the Secret Service had orders to shoot VP Quayle.)
PKM, thanks for the link. I couldn’t read a book about the Kochs; my blood pressure would skyrocket. I bought several books on what SOBS the Reagan and Baby Bush administrations were, but later got rid of them because I couldn’t make myself read them.
17Good grief.
18I really love Louie, cause he lives in Texas. If he was here in Florida, Gov. Cueball would appoint him as his spokesperson.
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