I Knew It! I Knew It! Barbra Streisand Is Causing Global Warming!
Oklahoma doofus James Inhofe is going to head the Committee on the Environment in the United States Senate.
He honestly believes that Barbra Streisand made up global warming to “advance her radical environmental agenda” and fooled 97% of the world’s scientists into believing it.
Holy cow. He’s serious.
At a climate concern gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, Inhofe was questioned by a reporter.
That these people who have traveled from all points of the globe to be here are victims of a well-orchestrated hoax?
Yes, he said, still smiling.
That’s some hoax, I countered. But who has engineered such a scam?
Hollywood liberals and extreme environmentalists, Inhofe replied.
Really? I asked. Why would they conspire to scare all these smart people into believing a catastrophe was under way, when all was well?
Inhofe didn’t skip a beat: To advance their radical environmental agenda.
I pressed on: Who in Hollywood is doing this?
The whole liberal crowd, Inhofe said.
But who?
Barbra Streisand, he responded.
I nearly laughed. All these people had assembled in Copenhagen because of Barbra Streisand. A singer and actor had perpetuated the grandest con of the past 100 years?
That’s right, Inhofe said, with a straight face. And others, he added.
Well, I guess it’s a good thing that Barbra didn’t do it alone.
Big oil has given Inhofe enough money to buy Barbra Streisand. And others.
Well, at least Inhofe’s office is another place we can check off the list on the hunt for the University of Texas missing brains.
Thanks to Fred for the heads up.
I swear the repubs deliberately look for the total polar opposites to put on congressional committees as if they’re daring anyone to question their selections.
1The late Noah’s Ark, now known as the US Senate, where a man with the head of a turtle appoints the man with the head of a cabbage as head of the Committee on the Environment. A world wide search would not locate a man less qualified than In-huffer.
2People
3People who drill crude oil
Are now the luckiest people in the world
OOOOk-lahoma, where the wind sucks Texas from the bay ….
Sorry Mrs. B., Rick made me do it.
4Feelings of immense depression. This is not funny, although humorous. My grandchildren and their children (we are very fertile family line, sigh…I had four pregnancies on four different kinds of birth control) will face such horrors of food shortages (a huge dust bowl effect when the aquifer under our biggest grain producing states is gone) and other nightmares if we don’t stop laying waste to our planet.
5Truth isn’t just stranger than fiction–it’s stupider.
6Seriously, I would volunteer to shoot this a*****e for the good of the world even if I had to go to prison for life, if I didn’t know that he’d be replaced by others only marginally less fanatical.
I wish he could made to go off somewhere and play with the toys in his head and leave sane people to run the world.
And for everyone who said “Voting doesn’t matter, they’re all alike”– here’s the punishment for all of us that your ignorance earned.
7It is truly embarrassing for America that we are sending idiots like this to represent us on the world stage. Just how can the GOP leadership not see how inept and just plain STUPID we look to other countries? While President Obama represents us with class and grace, he cannot do it all by himself. Inhofe is a disgrace to America!
8With guys like this Texas is never gonna shake the Baja Oklahoma label. I’d trade him even for Zombies. Least you can kill them without anyone raising a fuss.
9Of course he said that with a straight face! He’s the one who actually believes that rain makes applesauce. Now if someone would just kindly guide him to a quiet room somewhere . . .
10James Inhofe is to science as Louie Gohmert is to intelligence.
11How in the world do these creatures live, breathe, or sit up to take nourishment?
Rhea … I think a lot of folks would either visit or write to you while you do the time for taking Inhofe out … and I don’t mean to the neighborhood bar for a damn drink!! In fact, there’d be a lot of folks who know nothing, saw nothing, would say “Rhea who?” Honey, you’d do the world a favor and, if you could, take Loopy Louie out as well!!
12Zombie travel agents do not tout Oklahoma.
13The world is on course for the hottest year ever in 2014, the United Nations weather agency said on Wednesday, heightening the sense of urgency around climate change negotiations underway in Lima.
Preliminary estimates from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) found global average land and sea surface temperatures for the first 10 months of 2014 had soared higher than ever recorded….
“Fourteen of the 15 warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century,” said the WMO’s secretary-general Michel Jarraud. “What we saw in 2014 is consistent with what we expect from a changing climate.”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/03/2014-set-to-be-worlds-hottest-year-ever-climate-change
Man, that Barbra has got some pull.
14James “Wingnut” Inhofe as the next chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Honestly, you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
15Now now. Rain DOES make applesauce if you just sort of skip everything between dropping an apple seed in the ground and the apples that are picked and made into applesauce at the other end. See? Kindergartners are smarter than that.
16I can’t wait! Inhofe chairing the Committee on Environment will be the greatest senatorial travesty for Republicans since Joe McCarthy headed the notorious “Army-McCarthy” hearings in the 1950s, when he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations. If Inhofe reiterates during hearings his belief in biblical history – his conviction that the earth was created 6000 years ago – I can’t wait to see what transpires.
17Unfortunately, kindergartners are not eligible to run for Senate.
18Further proof there is not requirement to have a working brain to serve in Congress.
19When Democrats sit on their a$$ instead of voting, this is what happens.
Who knew Barbara Streisand had all that power. And this is the guy who will be in charge of funding the EPA. We can look forward to increased violations of existing clean air and water regulations and probably nullification of any progress made in this century. The inmates have taken over the asylum.
20Monty, I know which. Cry, not laugh. We needed effective action on climate change 30-40 years ago. Lasting damage has already been done and will only get worse.
Umptydump, you could also compare it to when the Emperor Caligula named his horse Incitatus as consul. At least if Incitatus left a steaming pile of manure on the Senate floor, he couldn’t help it.
21I guess Dems will have to blame all the problems on conservative C&W artists. Never did like Toby Keith anyway.
22Got this from one of my Facebook friends:
After this story was published, Streisand issued the following statement: “This would be hilarious if it weren’t so frightening. I thank Senator Inhofe for singling me out as a voice against the perils of climate change! But I’m just a small part of millions of voices, who are informed and alarmed, including 97% of all climate scientists! God help us! This man is going to head the Committee on the Environment in the United States Senate. It’s like giving a fox the keys to the chicken coop.”
So true, Barbra, so true!!
23I just want to say that I have always had a massive crush on the lovely Ms. Streisand.
Let’s not talk about “taking anyone out.” That sounds too Palinesque
24At least Incitatus ‘s manure could be composted and used to grow food
25Does singing really increase the temperature due to the warm air released when we sing?
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