Open a fucking book, plz.

We elect these people, so today's post title is a reminder to us all, not just the fucktards we put in positions of influence and power.

Global Warming Denier Shimkus Hoping for Top Spot on Energy Committee

Sublinks:

It's plant food ... So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere? ... So all our good intentions could be for naught. In fact, we could be doing just the opposite of what the people who want to save the world are saying.

Yeah, idiot, because plants never existed before humans came around and figured out how to work fossil fuels. Nevermind that fossil fuels are buried remains of ancient plants that have been transformed by heat and pressure into coal and oil. Nevermind that all this bullshit about how we should continue to rape the land for our own benefit is the only way to ensure our quality of life (for how long?) and for our own wallets.

Capitalism, baby!

Why search for better? We're fine just where we are. Anything else is just elitist (that's asshole for "educated").

Even his Bible says otherwise, as to when plants were formed with relation to when humans were formed. WTF?

Oh, but his Bible comes in handy elsewhere:

"The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood."

I don't even know where to begin, but I know he isn't the only one sitting pretty in this particular and rather convenient belief. Forget about being stewards of the land--though maybe his interpretation is different. God bless interpretation. Sigh.

And as far as no climatic changes after THE FLOOD, wha?

I don't get this shit. THE FLOOD wasn't a climatic change. It was punishment from God, his wiping out all but one family for the world's unrighteous behavior. God had had enough, so he killed them all. One flood, one month, poof! Hardly a climatic change. Natural disaster, maybe. But as far as we can tell, it wasn't a worldwide event.

The problem is that this sounds completely rational to those who have voted for him. It makes people feel better, I assume, to think they shouldn't have to take jack shit for responsibility for their actions.

I have to wonder if this particular politician believes anything he says. It's akin to my hunch about Sarah Palin: she's not so much stupid as she is conniving. He knows who voted for him. He knows the political demographics of his state, what words would benefit him most for job security. This doesn't make him any better, but I do wonder.

In the end, these people want us to sacrifice for the ginormous deficit by way of cuts to education and whatnot (which is an investment with a return), but they won't fucking cut their own interests. We sacrifice, they don't. We are taxed, they aren't. They want to encourage the fuck up of our world because their God is totes cool with it. They refuse to consider what is best because that takes work and compromise and a goddamn release of their own stubbornness and pride. We're supposed to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, but don't ask them to. They're not there to work. They're there to make ridiculous postulations about things they know nothing about to satisfy their base and special interests in order to secure their job once elections roll around again. Money, honey.

Also, South Park may make fun of hybrids and "smug" (they are no respecter of persons when it comes to satire), but I cannot tell you how many people I know and love who laugh at that because it's so true. In the interest of disclosure, I laughed too. But I laughed because it's fucking South Park and "smug" never got anyone anywhere. But that's not to say everyone concerned about the environment is smug. Just trying.