Y.G.B.S.M.
And I thought I had seen everything until now. I truly did. But I was wrong…so completely wrong….so unutterably wrong that if I said I had a pet trilobite named Bert, I could not be more wrong, because Bert would be a fossil. Bert would, therefore, be my pet rock.
When I went snooping around over on WattsUpWithThat, I came across an article in which it is reported that three senior House Democrats (shown in the photographs in the linked article) want a book trashed because it challenges the environmentalist view of global warming/climate whatever. This is the same mindset that wanted people who disagree with that view prosecuted under the RICO Act. Remember that? Yeah, me, too.
Here’s the article from WUWT. It is well worth your time to read it, because it has several good points. The comments kind of speak for themselves.
Since there is a high probability that not one of these Congress critters has read the book itself, this appears to be a ‘jump on Johnny and pound him’ sort of thing. As someone interested in how tax money is being spent on twaddle in Foggy Bottom, I find it appropriate to ask bluntly if any of these three congressional twits have even read this book itself, and whether or not they can read past the 4th grade level.
It’s nice to see our tax dollars being put to such wonderful use, isn’t it? Intolerance of opposing views speaks for itself. Troyfim Lysenko must be so proud!!
Trash that book, huh? Why not just hold a book burning? Make a real serious statement. Get the kids to pitch in, just like in the Old Days in the 1930s! And let’s not stop there! Let’s blow up libraries, too, because they might have even more dangerously mind-boggling stuff like this sitting on their shelves! The horror!
That’s one way to get some PR going on your current project, which appears to be thought control and brainwashing school children to me.
What happens when they grow up, defy Mom and Dad by joining the military because the uniforms are so cool, find a copy of this dreadful book, which opposes the current climate fad, in the library and realize that, after reading other stuff like it, they were lied to their whole lives until they had enough sense to get out on their own?
I think I’ll see if I can get a copy of this book. I’m always interested in the opposing view of a current fad in science.
Category: Congress sucks, Global Warming
Pretty pathetic when all you’ve got to defend your indefensible position is one book….. I’ve got another book here that proves Noah took dinosaurs on the ark.
Nice job missing the whole point by miles, Joey. Don’t you have a rock to hump?
Everyone knows that banning books, even one book, is a great idea if those books don’t comply with the currently accepted politically correct narrative. Banning books has worked before, and it could certainly work again. After all, if we could just get everyone thinking correctly and the same way, it would enable us to get out there and really get things done for our society with a minimum of friction and resistance, as determined by those enlightened elites who possess the correct education and acceptable perspective to lead us into a bright new age. What could possibly go wrong?
Along those lines, here are some heart-warming memories of a book burning that took place on 10 May 1933:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHCmiWaHUCw
Like I said, what could possibly go wrong by banning books that we don’t agree with?
If it ain’t banned in Boston, it ain’t any good.
Yet another brilliant comment from Joe…
Geezo Pete, Joey, do you have to get blind and high before breakfast? It cuts your comprehension skills lower than they already are, which is below zero. Give up the tokes, willya?
I figured all three would be on the congressional black caucus, but only two are. Also thought Hank Johnson would be among them. Grijalva is a La Raza Reconquista type and all three of them are prime examples of Stalin’s useful idiots.
What, them have a political agenda????
That’s nothing. Are you not aware that under the Democratic Party Platform, Democrats want the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute climate ‘deniers’?
Under the heading of Securing Environmental and Climate Justice
“Democrats also respectfully request the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies accused of misleading shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change.”
https://www.democrats.org/party-platform#environment
Yes, I sent Jonn an article about that kind of thing last year. http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=65551
The RICO 20, as they are getting to be known, were investigated themselves and AG Lynch had to back down from that.
The Dems will probably pound this drum for a while to come, but that is to get attention for themselves and cash for their ‘war chests’ (really, bank accounts) – cynic, that I am.
Hey, Ex, you ever start feeling like Guy Montag?
Montag? Well, he was raised in a culture that prohibited literacy and went to great lengths to destroy it. This ‘trash the books, persecute the opposition’ is losing its charm, starting to make the people who do and say these things look ridiculous.
In this case, I think they are only after the TV cameras and money.
Ideas should be attacked lest people are. There is nothing harmful about any opinion or convention of thought and the idea that there is, well, is childish that devolves to the churlish. I submit to you for proof; the Modern [sic] Progressive [sic] Democratic [sic] Left [sic].
From last year:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/22/portland-public-schools-ban-textbooks-that-cast-doubt-on-climate-change.html
Ah! And there’s old Gabby Gore himself, right in the thick of it. Man, does he get around, or what? I wonder how much jet fuel he burned to be in that picture.
Don’t forget old Tipper loved to torch stuff she didn’t like hearing too. I may have agreed the stuff she was burning was trash but that is no reason set it on fire.
Those are the kind of people that cause “Fahrenheit 451” to be put in the science fiction section rather than the fantasy section—possible but (hopefully)unlikely vs. only in your dreams.
I’m trying to remember if Heinlein wrote a story in which only the ‘elites’ were literate and learning was prohibited to everyone else. It may have been someone else.
I don’t remember RAH putting that type of society front and center in any of his books. But I think he did refer to that type in passing in “Time Enough For Love”, the place/society where he bought “The Tale of the Twins Who Weren’t”.
(I had to refer to Wiki, I’m at work/lunch).
I want to take “Fahrenheit 451” and put it into the History book section…..after practicing it on these Kongress Kritter Bottom Feeders. Where are those fire-starting Firemen when you need them?
Coming from a family of firemen, and later growing up to be one myself, that book probably disturbed me more than most when I read it in high school. Suffice it to say, the idea of my family’s traditional profession being twisted into a tool of fascism didn’t sit well with me.
That might have something to do with why the Oath to uphold and defend the Constitution I signed when I got my badge (no ceremony, just signed on paper) is something I take so seriously.
TOW, in 1965 John Lennon made the unfortunate statement that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. It upset a huge lot of people who decided they should burn the Beatles’ albums, which were vinyl LPs.
There were pictures of that in the papers and Life Magazine, and all I could think about was the toxic substances released when vinyl burns.
People say and do stupid things over what is nearly nothing. That book in question is available at Amazon for about $6+ shipping. The more people like this see an opportunity to stir the pot, the more they fill it for the other guy.
Raul fuckin’ Grijalva. De Facto leader of the Tan Klan. Cares more about Illegal aliens than the lockstep-marching liberal fools that keep voting him in. His family is so entrenched in Tucson politics that there are quite possibly multiple RICO violations. Should’ve known his grubby fingerprints would be all over this. Fat bastard needs to be beaten with a rolled-up copy of the United States Constitution.
“Fat bastard needs to be beaten with a rolled-up copy of the United States Constitution.”
Wrapped around an axe handle.
Al Gore’s crack team of movie makers has made a ‘sequel’ to An Inconvenient truth. It’s supposed to show how close we are to a ‘Real Energy Revolution’.
I saw the trailer listed in imdb.com. No, i did not watch it. Like the Kardashians/Jenners I refuse to give anything associated to Al Gore a click.
Did you say his team was on crack? Just tryin’ to understand here.
They are perfectly within their rights to ban books and even burn them. But, don’t ever equivocate what they do to the Nazis.
Why? Because only Conservatives can be Nazis. If a Democrat does something similar to a Nazi, it is because Republicans drove them to it and the end justifies the means.
So what you are saying is that Dems can actually become Nazi’s for real and it would still be the Repub’s fault?
If were to toke some Colorado Rocky Mountain High I could totally buy that.
Who to believe, who to believe – Ex-PH2 or like 98% of the world’s climate scientists. I think I’ll side with actual scientists. I guess that means I’m brainwashed, huh PH?
“I guess that means I’m brainwashed,”
Naaa, it just means you swallow.
Well, Joey, since you are functionally illiterate, I’ll use small words for you.
1 – This article was about members of Congress wasting time and money to get attention, not about climate science.
2 – You have a problem with understanding what you read.
3 – You really should eat something before you smoke dope, not afterwards.
4 – Keep on doing your best to let us know that you don’t understand simple things.
Don’t you have a boulder to hump or something?
Complete sentences are voodoo for Joe.
Groovy, man! Joey was born in the wrong century. 1967 was so much more exciting than 2017. It’s like, hey, man, just chill…..
I wonder if they also “trash” books about phrenology and alchemy? Cuz you know the whole subtext of Ex-PH2’s opinion piece is that the idea of man made climate change is a hoax, which has about as much credence as the science of astrology
When you have to “adjust” the data every year to keep the model and theory in sync
When you have to ignore prior much warmer periods of the medieval and “classical” eras, and their only-slightly higher seas
When you repeatedly “overlook” the historic CO2 curve -lagging- temperature by up to -centuries-
When your tree ring study is based on a handfull of trees in a remote place, and you wont disclose them “to protect them”
When no one is permitted to dissent from or make challeng to the Orthodoxy of your belief
When for some reason all your proposed solutions wind up as “state control of the means of production”
Well
You might be practicing something, but it is not Science.
So you lead by example and sacrifice what for the planet Joe?
Well, Joey, I see you still do not understand plain English, because you are a complete moron. Getting high doesn’t help your comprehension, either.
Since you don’t understand the word ‘intolerance’, it means that you only accept one point of view, and also, you are so dumb, you’d swallow Lysenkoism by the gallon, thinking it’s just fine.
When people are persecuted for having an opposing view and publishing it, which is what these jackasses really want, they violate the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution, you fucking asshole.
If you think that’s okay, then you can just hike your sorry ass off to North Korea and stay there.
Ach du lieber, was ist los mit die arseholes… Hitler is among us…
Dumbocrats at it again… but it’s OK to promote their agendas… “Heather has Two Mommies”