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September 09, 2013

Bill Moyers Show: Syrian Civil War Was Probably Caused by Global Warming
— Ace

#SmartTake.

I think one of the cobs sent this yesterday. Or someone. Maybe it was in the comments. So here's Bill Moyers.

Or it's his website, "Bill Moyers & Company." Some doofus named John Light wrote it.

Drought Helped Spark SyriaÂ’s Civil War Â— Is it One of Many Climate Wars to Come?
September 6, 2013
by John Light
Climate change is already hurting the worldÂ’s most vulnerable populations. Those who live in areas hit hard by drought, severe storms or rising seas and canÂ’t relocate because of economic or social factors bear the brunt of our planetÂ’s increasing volatility.
One way the changing climate has already made itself known is through a devastating drought Â— and ensuing food shortage Â— in Syria; it created a powder keg, and played a significant role in sparking the countryÂ’s civil war. We can expect to see similar scenarios unfold in the future.
Moyers & CompanyÂ’s John Light spoke with Francesco Femia, co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security Â— a think tank with an advisory board consisting of retired military commanders and international affairs experts Â— about how climate change serves as a Â“threat multiplierÂ” in volatile regions such as Syria, Egypt and Pakistan, and what AmericaÂ’s role should be in a world in which climate change increasingly exacerbates Â— and causes Â— international crises.

This expert goes on to say:

Francesco Femia: Essentially, a massive, five-and-a-half-year drought. From 2006 to 2011, 60 percent of SyriaÂ’s land experienced, in the words of one expert, the worst long-term drought and most severe set of crop failures since agricultural civilizations began in the Fertile Crescent many millennia ago. That, on top of natural resource mismanagement by the Assad regime Â— subsidizing water-intensive wheat and cotton farming and unsustainable irrigation techniques Â— led to a large amount of devastation.

Eh. If you missed it yesterday, Andy sounded the Alarm Bells over global warming's insidious role in increasing Arctic ice cover by 60%.

Posted by: Ace at 12:41 PM | Comments (185)
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1 Nothing a new tax can't fix .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at September 09, 2013 12:44 PM (0iJzo)

2 Let's be fair. These troglodytes are correct. Check the 1970s.

Global Cooling...The next Menace!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 09, 2013 12:44 PM (gqgiP)

3 My work is important, Dad!

Posted by: John Light at September 09, 2013 12:45 PM (ELdpj)

4 Syrian Civil War Was Probably Caused by Global Warming Gol danged yankees! Wait. What? Syria? Uh, nevermind.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2013 12:45 PM (ix+5k)

5 Bill Moyers belongs in jail for this fraud.

Posted by: Vic at September 09, 2013 12:45 PM (zZbNF)

6 Climate change is also causing your wife's boobs to sag. Science!

Posted by: wooga at September 09, 2013 12:45 PM (yCocp)

7 Global warming kicked my dog and then STOLE MY BIBLE

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 09, 2013 12:46 PM (8sCoq)

8 Science is Magic! You just have to Believe!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 09, 2013 12:46 PM (ZPrif)

9 OT: Don't know if mentioned on other threads but "Kaboom" entry in Wikipedia apparently has been edited by a Moron to reflect Ace's musings

Posted by: MM at September 09, 2013 12:46 PM (ZMhO7)

10 "Global warming" is what historians will look at when they need to pinpoint the exact era the hard sciences got taken over by the literary theorists across the quad.

Posted by: Cameron at September 09, 2013 12:46 PM (SqzLe)

11 spoke with Francesco Femia, co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security

There's no way this guy would be interested in scare-mongering to drum up some more funding. He sounds like an Honest Science-Type-GuyÂ™.

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 09, 2013 12:47 PM (uYaYO)

12 >>>OT: Don't know if mentioned on other threads but "Kaboom" entry in Wikipedia apparently has been edited by a Moron to reflect Ace's musings

awesome. What a Monday.

Posted by: ace at September 09, 2013 12:47 PM (/IWYB)

13 Climate change. What can't it do?

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 12:47 PM (3Mz5/)

14 Well shit, if drought causes war, Texas should be kicking everyone's ass on a yearly basis.

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at September 09, 2013 12:47 PM (GrtrJ)

What's really astounding is that are people out there who don't just start laughing when they hear this type of thing.

Posted by: Austin in TX at September 09, 2013 12:47 PM (GBY9g)

16 It's gonna be fun come this winter when all the global alarmists have to backtrack. Since about July 15th, when my summer in SE Pennsylvania ended, I could offer about 100 instances of anecdotal evidence.

Mainly?
No day has seen temps 90 degrees or above since.
Crop failures, mainly rotting on the vine.
Massive cloud cover, day after day.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 09, 2013 12:48 PM (U2UQk)

17 Pretty sure Syria has been a freaking desert for my whole life, but I could be wrong. Fertile Crescent Moon for the win!

Posted by: t-bird at September 09, 2013 12:48 PM (FcR7P)

18 "Well shit, if drought causes war, Texas should be kicking everyone's ass on a yearly basis" Soon.

Posted by: Texas at September 09, 2013 12:49 PM (ELdpj)

19 I believe the AoSHQ Style Guide recommends that you refer to the subject of this post as "Bill Moyers, The Guy Hunting Gays for LBJ."

Posted by: Chelsea Dagger, formerly The Q at September 09, 2013 12:49 PM (rahQh)

20 Globalfukkinwarmin'; the universal leftard bogyman. Is there nothing it can't do?

Posted by: maddogg at September 09, 2013 12:49 PM (xWW96)

"Well shit, if drought causes war, Texas should be kicking everyone's ass on a yearly basis."

Yeah, we get a little dry down here sometimes but it doesn't really make me want to kick anybody's ass so much. A drought feels kind of like a hangover. That's all.

Posted by: Texas at September 09, 2013 12:49 PM (LA7Cm)

22 I'm pretty sure Syria's been in a drought for a few thousand years.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 12:50 PM (3Mz5/)

23 Ugh. Tracy Morgan. Where's the vomit bucket?

Posted by: red sweater at September 09, 2013 12:50 PM (Djwm9)

24 12 "What a Monday."

RACIST!!!!!111!!!!111!!!1

Posted by: Chelsea Dagger, formerly The Q at September 09, 2013 12:51 PM (rahQh)

Global warming. That's thinking outside of the box.

Me, I would look to the history of the area and the fact that since the time of the Hittites there has been fighting through that part of the fertile crescent and just say it goes with the terrirtory.

But then I'm not a nationally recognized pundit.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Fall Obstreperousness has arrived! Get Yours Today! at September 09, 2013 12:52 PM (hLRSq)

26 Cavuto is doing Bible Prophecy on his show?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 09, 2013 12:52 PM (0axsw)

27 22I'm pretty sure Syria's been in a drought for a few thousand years.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 04:50 PM (3Mz5/)

Oh fuck no, Dude. Don't you know Syria was a fucking rain forest only a hundred thousand years ago? Fucking cave men and their fires.......

Posted by: maddogg at September 09, 2013 12:52 PM (xWW96)

28 "Well shit, if drought causes war, Texas should be kicking everyone's ass on a yearly basis." The Texas-Oklahoma War during the Dust Bowl was epic.

Posted by: t-bird at September 09, 2013 12:53 PM (FcR7P)

29 Just who is this Bill Mohel jackass anyway??

Posted by: Emilt Litella at September 09, 2013 12:53 PM (jvd3N)

Syria was a fertile area with loads and loads of annual rainfall, right?

Right?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 09, 2013 12:53 PM (0HooB)

31 This so-called expert Femia isn't even a scientist. His degree is in European politics. His organization is affiliated with the Tides Center.

Posted by: Deanna at September 09, 2013 12:53 PM (QrtJS)

32 That's it. There's the answer. Valerie! I need you to go out and buy one million balloons. We're going to water-bomb Syria.

Posted by: Baraka O'Preezy at September 09, 2013 12:53 PM (3Mz5/)

33 Of course, if in the next couple of years it rained and rained on Syria, guess what would be blamed for the flooding?

Idiots...

Posted by: HH at September 09, 2013 12:54 PM (XXwdv)

34 Global warming is like that hair that has failed to grow on my palms, it's a letdown

Posted by: The Jackhole at September 09, 2013 12:54 PM (nTgAI)

35 Just so long as it is the fault of real civilizations (and not generalized muz and ME barbarity), although I am beginning to have my doubts about what remains of Western civilization!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 09, 2013 12:54 PM (XdnQT)

36 Wait. We'll have to delay a bit. Rain just started up.

Posted by: Texas at September 09, 2013 12:54 PM (ELdpj)

37 Big oil blamed for Syrian swamp.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 09, 2013 12:54 PM (0axsw)

38 Rich left-wing scum who spend their entire lives trying to impoverish the peasants with unaffordable energy. In other words, Democrats.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 09, 2013 12:54 PM (ZPrif)

"We're going to water-bomb Syria."

Never go Full Biden. Just sayin' it.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Fall Obstreperousness has arrived! Get Yours Today! at September 09, 2013 12:55 PM (hLRSq)

40 The Guy Hunting Gays for LBJ."

Posted by: Chelsea Dagger, formerly The Q at September 09, 2013 04:49 PM (rahQh)

I read that as "The guy hunting Gays for BJs."

A somewhat different meaning......

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 09, 2013 12:55 PM (gqgiP)

41 The Texas-Oklahoma War during the Dust Bowl was epic.

Posted by: t-bird at September 09, 2013 04:53 PM (FcR7P)

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It's re-enacted every October in a bloody, drunken two day event.

Posted by: Baraka O'Preezy at September 09, 2013 12:55 PM (3Mz5/)

42 Andy swears it will all be fixed soon!

#twoweeks

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 09, 2013 12:56 PM (gqgiP)

The Texas-Oklahoma War during the Dust Bowl was epic.
Posted by: t-bird at September 09, 2013 04:53 PM (FcR7P)

Still doesn't match the Michigan-Ohio Toledo War.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Fall Obstreperousness has arrived! Get Yours Today! at September 09, 2013 12:56 PM (hLRSq)

44 Slimeball sock off

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 12:56 PM (3Mz5/)

45 Posted by: Deanna at September 09, 2013 04:53 PM (QrtJS)

Oh, credentialism bothers you?

Welcome to the moronosphere.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 09, 2013 12:57 PM (gqgiP)

46 All the Syrian govt has to do is blame the "chemical weapon deaths " on global warming. The heat got to them, you guys. Then no missiles from Barky just green energy loans. Problem solved.

Posted by: wierdflunkyonatablet at September 09, 2013 12:57 PM (X+nFp)

47 Global Warning killed my daddy
and left my poor mama all alone.

Posted by: RolandTHTG at September 09, 2013 12:57 PM (QM5S2)

48 Wielding the hammer of global warming, they say everything is nails.

Posted by: D1st at September 09, 2013 12:58 PM (VuhK0)

Still doesn't match the Michigan-Ohio Toledo War.

Did Georgia threaten anybody last year?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 09, 2013 12:58 PM (0HooB)

wow.just.wow

Posted by: joeindc44 at September 09, 2013 12:59 PM (BQNsA)

51 This makes sense to me. Global warming made the air hot and Assad a little prickly, so he did bad things to his own people. They were then forced to go to Al Qaeda for help. This caused a civil ware, therefore, global warming caused a civil war.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at September 09, 2013 12:59 PM (QR7wx)

They counted the rings. Must be true. Saturn is moist and cooling because more rings. Singing about five gold ones gets a church Really, Really Globally-Warmed.

...because rings.

Posted by: Slapweasel at September 09, 2013 12:59 PM (lq3Ak)

53 I hope Halliburton doesn't have any air strikable assets in Syria, cause you know who is gonna get bombed.

Posted by: maddogg at September 09, 2013 12:59 PM (xWW96)

54 Global warming resulted in the deaths of about 6 million Jews in Europe between 1938 and 1945, although experts concede that organized extermination by Nazis may also have played a role.

Posted by: John Light at September 09, 2013 01:00 PM (8ZskC)

55 Does global warming cause stupidity or does stupidity make you believe in global warming?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at September 09, 2013 01:00 PM (/Crba)

56 Global warming melted the red line.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 09, 2013 01:01 PM (IItfz)

57 Does this get me off the hook too? I just needed a cool Russian winter to take of my heat rash.

Posted by: Adolph Hitler at September 09, 2013 01:01 PM (SO2Q8)

58 Global Warning killed my daddy and left my poor mama all alone. Global Warming cause a moose to bite my sister once. Syrial you guys!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2013 01:01 PM (ix+5k)

59 Global Warming burned down our Embassy in Benghazi and ass raped the ambassador.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 09, 2013 01:02 PM (0axsw)

60 is there a place on earth that has had noticeably increased temperatures.

Posted by: joeindc44 at September 09, 2013 01:02 PM (BQNsA)

SCOAMT and the gang viewing Russia's proposal with skeptisism. Said there was no mention of confiscating all the Mercedes cars.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 01:02 PM (3Mz5/)

62 I'm old enough to remember when Global Warming had to wear dime store shoes to school ... and a burlap sack dress ...

Posted by: Back in the Day ... at September 09, 2013 01:02 PM (j/FJV)

Syrian Civil War Was Probably Caused by Global Warming

and George Zimmerman,,,,,,,,,,,,somehow!!

Posted by: TMZ watching dumbass at September 09, 2013 01:03 PM (W0OIP)

64 Islamists hate us so much because we have air conditioning, thereby saving ourselves from the worst part of global warming...body odor.

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at September 09, 2013 01:03 PM (GrtrJ)

65 Still doesn't match the Michigan-Ohio Toledo War.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Fall Obstreperousness has arrived! Get Yours Today! at September 09, 2013 04:56 PM (hLRSq)

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Meh..... none of those states got nuthin in the Kansas-Missouri rift. Only two states STILL fighting the civil.

Posted by: fixerupper at September 09, 2013 01:03 PM (nELVU)

66 Ok global cooling started American civil war. Man then kicked mother earths ass and we got global warming. Bring it on deniers, lol

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 09, 2013 01:03 PM (HVff2)

67 Don't forget us, Global Warming caused us too!!!

Posted by: The Vikings at September 09, 2013 01:03 PM (SO2Q8)

68 Just a reminder that the arctic ice pack is notoriously racist.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at September 09, 2013 01:03 PM (zxrQh)

69 60is there a place on earth that has had noticeably increased temperatures.

Posted by: joeindc44 at September 09, 2013 05:02 PM (BQNsA)

I doubt it but I heard that when the threw old Fat Ted on the fire down in Hell the temperature went up 20 degrees F.

Posted by: maddogg at September 09, 2013 01:04 PM (xWW96)

70 Meh..... none of those states got nuthin in the Kansas-Missouri rift. Only two states STILL fighting the civil.

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the civil WAR.

Frickin ENTER key.....

Posted by: fixerupper at September 09, 2013 01:04 PM (nELVU)

71 60 is there a place on earth that has had noticeably increased temperatures. Posted by: joeindc44 at September 09, 2013 05:02 PM (BQNsA

Democrats' pants every time they open their mouths?

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at September 09, 2013 01:04 PM (GrtrJ)

72 Some jerk cut me off on the Beltway this morning. I'm pretty sure he was driven to it by global warming.

Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 01:04 PM (6TB1Z)

63Syrian Civil War Was Probably Caused by Global Warming

and George Zimmerman,,,,,,,,,,,,somehow!!

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Nah, it was the Red Hispanics that done did that.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at September 09, 2013 01:04 PM (SO2Q8)

74 The idiots are building outdoor swimming pools all over Britain.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 09, 2013 01:04 PM (0axsw)

75 Some jerk cut me off on the Beltway this morning. I'm pretty sure he was driven to it by global warming. Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 05:04 PM (6TB1Z) Was that you?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 09, 2013 01:05 PM (jE38p)

76 GW had it a nice 90 degrees in OBX today. Moar please.

Posted by: RWC - MΩRΩΠ LΔβΣ at September 09, 2013 01:05 PM (NLTDQ)

77 Meh..... none of those states got nuthin in the Kansas-Missouri rift. Only two states STILL fighting the civil. Damn Jay-Hawkers.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2013 01:05 PM (ix+5k)

78 Climate change also caused Z and Shellie's divorce.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 01:05 PM (3Mz5/)

79 The idiots are building outdoor swimming pools all over Britain. aka, Ice Rinks.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 09, 2013 01:06 PM (ix+5k)

80 Get away. I feel a nasty population bomb coming on.

Posted by: Dr. Paul Ehrlich at September 09, 2013 01:06 PM (8ZskC)

Climate Change cased the end of Kaboom.

Cereal, you guys.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 09, 2013 01:06 PM (0HooB)

82 "We're going to bomb you no matter what, we just wanted to be sanctimonious about it"

Kerry Tells Lavrov Chemical Disarmament Demand Was "Rhetorical", Not Meant To Be Proposal

http://tinyurl.com/otpx2w8

Posted by: kbdabear at September 09, 2013 01:06 PM (/9IC1)

83 I do not believe in global warming. I know someone who takes it as gospel & I can't get away fast enough when he starts with the bull.

Posted by: CarolT at September 09, 2013 01:06 PM (aKkNH)

84

Global warming causes TWERKING.

...swearsies....

Posted by: fixerupper at September 09, 2013 01:07 PM (nELVU)

85 Climate Change...is there anything it can't do?

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at September 09, 2013 01:07 PM (GrtrJ)

86 I have it on good authority that the Wars of the Roses were due primarily to plate tectonics.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 09, 2013 01:07 PM (8ZskC)

87 Kerry tells Russia his Syria comments were not meant as a proposal Published: 09.09.13, 23:46 / Israel News US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov his comments about Syria averting a US military strike by turning over its chemical weapons within a week were rhetorical and not meant to be a proposal, a senior US Official said on Monday. Well see then maybe you should have keep your horse face mouth shut, because now that your actually Sec Of State and not just some 2 bit Senator what you say seems to count. I mean not to me of course

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 09, 2013 01:07 PM (jE38p)

88 83 Global warming causes TWERKING. ------ Wel it makes me da hawt.

Posted by: Miley Cyrus at September 09, 2013 01:08 PM (Aif/5)

Why are we discussing climate change when we should be discussing Syria.

........oh, wait.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 01:08 PM (3Mz5/)

90 Global Warming behind French defeat at Agincourt?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 09, 2013 01:08 PM (0axsw)

91 Oh, credentialism bothers you?

Welcome to the moronosphere.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 09, 2013 04:57 PM
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Yeah I know. I'm just pissed because this idiot is probably making ten times the money I am. And I'm not talking about Moyers who is a disgusting hack posing as a journalist, which is really the bottom of the barrel.

Posted by: deanna at September 09, 2013 01:08 PM (QrtJS)

92 The morning WaPo had an article about the unbearable heat wave across the country this summer. When?

Posted by: RWC - MΩRΩΠ LΔβΣ at September 09, 2013 01:08 PM (NLTDQ)

93 75 Some jerk cut me off on the Beltway this morning. I'm pretty sure he was driven to it by global warming.
Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 05:04 PM (6TB1Z)

Was that you? Posted by: Nevergiveup

Oh, it was a fellow moron? Never mind, you just go right ahead.

Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 01:08 PM (6TB1Z)

94 Wel it makes me da hawt.

Posted by: Miley Cyrus at September 09, 2013 05:08 PM (Aif/5)

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**ppssstttttt..... no.it.doesn't.

Posted by: fixerupper at September 09, 2013 01:09 PM (nELVU)

95

"Come back Zinc! Come back!"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 09, 2013 01:09 PM (kdS6q)

96 When will people wake up to the real threat of Global Worming? Do you need giant nightcrawlers clogging the highways before you stop using known giant-earthworm-causing toxic materials like carbon!?!?

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 09, 2013 01:10 PM (ZshNr)

97 Kerry tells Russia his Syria comments were not meant as a proposal
Published: 09.09.13, 23:46 / Israel News

Reset, reset dammit! What's wrong with this button?

Posted by: John Francois Kerry, Worthy Successor to Hillary! Clinton at September 09, 2013 01:10 PM (8ZskC)

98 Dr. Spaceman is the Joe Biden of physicians.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at September 09, 2013 01:10 PM (+lsX1)

99 Well see then maybe you should have keep your horse face mouth shut, because now that your actually Sec Of State and not just some 2 bit Senator what you say seems to count. I mean not to me of course Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 09, 2013 05:07 PM
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Kerry's "red line" moment. This administration all needs to stick to the teleprompters.

Posted by: deanna at September 09, 2013 01:10 PM (QrtJS)

100 Eaten alive by huricanes......global warming.........no hurricanes.....global warming. Same difference, the science is settled.

Posted by: maddogg at September 09, 2013 01:10 PM (xWW96)

101 Global warming made me speak rhetorically.

Posted by: John Kerry at September 09, 2013 01:11 PM (8nunQ)

102 LEAVE GLOBAL WARMING AAALLLLOONNEE!!!

Posted by: Mikey Man, mewling under the bedcovers at September 09, 2013 01:11 PM (0HooB)

103 Didn't they just release data showing that the polar ice shelf is 60% larger than it was this time last year, or some such? Global Warming. Epic. Fail.

Posted by: © Sponge at September 09, 2013 01:11 PM (xmcEQ)

104 The morning WaPo had an article about the unbearable heat wave across the country this summer. When?

Last week, continuing through this Friday.

I'm surprised WaPo mentioned it, since it's only in the parts of the country that don't count.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 09, 2013 01:11 PM (/kI1Q)

105 Global Warming / Climate Change is a cargo cult---without the cargo

Posted by: Pepe Loco at September 09, 2013 01:11 PM (omBWL)

106

You would at least think this liberal would have taken in the Broadway play, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Posted by: polynikes at September 09, 2013 01:11 PM (m2CN7)

107 Oh....I guess if I actually read the post.....Heh.

Posted by: © Sponge at September 09, 2013 01:12 PM (xmcEQ)

108 OT: After his racist / horrific comments, I sent Reince Priebus an email telling him just what I thought of him and that I wouldn't be donating another penny until he apologized and withdrew the comment (yes, I know he was misquoted on the racist part). Apparently any communication with these monkeys puts you on their mailing list, because I get a solicitation almost daily from that little tool. I may have to get creative in my vocabulary.

Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 01:12 PM (6TB1Z)

109 It's all gone crazy. All of it.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 01:12 PM (3Mz5/)

110 For his next trick, Secretary Kerry shall abrogate the Law of the Sea Treaty entirely by stamping his foreleg.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 09, 2013 01:13 PM (8ZskC)

111 I read "Bill Maher" instead of Moyers.

Meh. Same difference. They're both leftist tools.

Posted by: cool arrow at September 09, 2013 01:13 PM (WMsq+)

112

Posted by: John Light at September 09, 2013 05:00 PM (8ZskC)

Too much VX gas put into the atmopshere will do that.

Posted by: Qatar and KSA at September 09, 2013 01:13 PM (kl3xJ)

113 Still doesn't match the Michigan-Ohio Toledo War.

So I take it that Ohio lost that war.

Posted by: phreshone at September 09, 2013 01:13 PM (Pr6hk)

114 I voted Aye before I voted Neiiiiggghhhh.....

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 09, 2013 01:13 PM (ZshNr)

115 It's global warming's fault I'm so damn ugly.

Posted by: Lurch Kerry at September 09, 2013 01:14 PM (WMsq+)

116 Kerry says,

Wait, you thought I was serious? Ya gotta know I have a sense of humor"

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2013 01:15 PM (cGaIx)

117 Where can I get me one of them buckets of oats?

Posted by: John Kerry at September 09, 2013 01:15 PM (8nunQ)

118 If Syria gives up control any subsequent usage of WMD can be tied directly to the al Qaeda led insurgency. What does the regime say then?

Posted by: Exasperated Expat at September 09, 2013 01:15 PM (gkfSV)

119 You'd think that swiftboat Kerry would have been in the Cavalry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 09, 2013 01:15 PM (0axsw)

120 So the Joooo's are creating globul warming to starve out their enemies?
Did I get that right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (dEC8z)

121 Eaten alive by huricanes......global warming.........no hurricanes.....global warming. Same difference, the science is settled.

Posted by: maddogg at September 09, 2013 05:10 PM (xWW96)

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Tornados during the springtime in Oklahoma! OMG! We're all going to die!

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (3Mz5/)

122 Bill Moyers had a nothing position {press secretary} in the JOHNSON administration WTF is he famous for? What exactly are his accomplishments that warrant his opinion being given any weight at all? Hey Bill, howzabout you have a nice steaming mug of STF up?

Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (6TB1Z)

123 Lurch Kerry walks into a bar.

The bartender says "Why the long face?"

Posted by: Sophisiticated Political Satire Inc. at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (WMsq+)

124 foreleg. ha

Posted by: nip at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (jI23+)

125

global warming caused yesterdays Chicago-cincy game

cause DA BEARS lit them fuckers up!!!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (1MCcX)

126 World War I was caused by climate change, right?

Posted by: dantesed at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (9nLXu)

127 Climate Change caused SHARKNADO! didn't it?

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (GrtrJ)

128 In other words, Man. Caused. Disaster.

Posted by: © Sponge at September 09, 2013 01:16 PM (xmcEQ)

129 The morning WaPo had an article about the unbearable heat wave across the country this summer. When?

I'm about 60-80 miles away from DC and my electric bill(s) have been a couple hundred dollars under average all summer(?). It's kinda nice to have that money, but I would have rather had the usual couple hundred dollars of fresh fruit and vegetables I usually grow. Everyone in the area says the same thing. The soil temp is downright cold.

The past couple of years we've had snow before Halloween, which is astonishing. I'm guessing this fall is gonna be one for the record books.

There's a reason Al Gore got a C- on Earth Science in college.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 09, 2013 01:17 PM (U2UQk)

130 Bearnami about to strike Charleston.

Posted by: Lindsay Graham at September 09, 2013 01:17 PM (0axsw)

131 Has the report on Benghazi been released yet???

Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at September 09, 2013 01:17 PM (Pr6hk)

132 I really wish I was a kid today. Think of the great excuses you could use. "But mom, global warming made me so hot I had to skip school to go to the pool." "Mom. global warming will melt this snow so I don't need to shovel the driveway."

Posted by: deanna at September 09, 2013 01:18 PM (QrtJS)

133 At least Incitatus didn't start a war.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 09, 2013 01:18 PM (8ZskC)

134 World War I was caused by climate change, right?

I'm a fair guy, but this heat is making me absolutely crazy.

Posted by: Gavrilo Princip at September 09, 2013 01:18 PM (uYaYO)

135 John Kerry was mistranslated by the press.

Four stamps with the left hoof meant "rhetorical," four tail swishes meant "proposal."

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at September 09, 2013 01:19 PM (GrtrJ)

136 Climate Change caused this. http://tinyurl.com/pbaddjt We're gonna need a lot more melted butter.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 09, 2013 01:19 PM (g1DWB)

137 The morning WaPo had an article about the unbearable heat wave across the country this summer. When?

We ran the air for about a week in August. And now today 93 degree and tomorrow forecast is 97 degrees. By Friday we'll be lucky to bust 70.
It's No. Ill.
It is what it is when it is.

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2013 01:19 PM (cGaIx)

138 This proposal gets my stamp of approval.

Posted by: John F'n Kerry at September 09, 2013 01:20 PM (0axsw)

139 Posted by: SchrÃ¶dinger's cat at September 09, 2013 05:17 PM (U2UQk)

I'm 20 miles outside of DC and it's the same here. I bought a somewhat over the top snowblower last year and hardly used it. I'm looking forward to moving some serious snow this year. Global cooling? BRING IT ON!

Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 01:20 PM (6TB1Z)

140 OT..... the kickstands are going up for the 2 Million Biker Ride to D.C. God Bless the bikers!!

Posted by: madamemayhem at September 09, 2013 01:22 PM (S2RnE)

141 Everybody really knows it was the hole in the ozone layer.

Posted by: Libra at September 09, 2013 01:22 PM (GblmV)

142 This proposal gets my stamp of approval.

Posted by: John F'n Kerry at September 09, 2013 05:20 PM (0axsw)

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Looks like ole Leatherface is starting to feel his oats.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 01:22 PM (3Mz5/)

143 "Bill Moyers Show: Syrian Civil War Was Probably Caused by Al Gore, Barack Hussein Obama, and the House of Saud, but Mostly the Last Two"

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:22 PM (GJ8w3)

144 2nd Generation* Kaboom eater bites boyfriends penis after he refused sex...

http://tinyurl.com/o7fgtvu

*cause we know the real effects of kaboom are seen in the offspring.

Posted by: Tocquevillian at September 09, 2013 01:22 PM (iuY0Y)

145 137 Climate Change caused this.

I, for one, welcome our new crustacean overlords.

Posted by: pep at September 09, 2013 01:22 PM (6TB1Z)

146 Bill Moyers might very well be a card-carrying member of CPUSA. And PBS < CPUSA anyway.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:23 PM (GJ8w3)

147 ohn Kerry was mistranslated by the press.

Four stamps with the left hoof meant "rhetorical," four tail swishes meant "proposal."
Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at September 09, 2013 05:19 PM
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I heard that John Kerry calls Obama 'Wilbur' when they're alone.

Posted by: deanna at September 09, 2013 01:23 PM (QrtJS)

148 Syria's civil war was caused by agitators, community organizers, agents of foreign powers, trouble makers, aided and abetted by the Obama Administration. Encouraged by Saudi agents who whispered sweet, sweet things into Obama's ear, who sold him and his advisers the myth that separating Syria from Iran's influence would be a good thing for world peace and Obama's prestige. Just like Kissinger did to Nixon about the Chinese. Obama's place in History would be epic. All he had to do was sell those captured Libyan weapons to Syrian 'rebels'.

Or perhaps it was the Europeans, the French who stroked Obama's ego, begging him to save the world from the evil Assad. Or it might have been the CIA responding to one of Obama's plans for ideas. After all, it's what the CIA does.
When did this Syrian adventure idea begin? It was Panetta wasn't it?

The weather had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Pascal's Confusion Engine at September 09, 2013 01:23 PM (APs4d)

149 Here where I'm at, it just feels like it's been a lot cooler this year than last.

For one, you didn't feel like you were taking a bath when you jumped in the pool, the water was actually cool.

It's either cooler or I just forgot what normal is like given the blast furnace heat of the last two years of drought--20+mph winds at 100+ degrees with 5% humidity is like opening the oven.

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 09, 2013 01:23 PM (VjL9S)

150

I blame Big Rain for artificially causing the drought.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 09, 2013 01:24 PM (BAS5M)

151 "Those who live in areas hit hard by drought, severe storms or rising seas and canÂ’t relocate because of economic or social factors bear the brunt of our planetÂ’s increasing volatility." Did "drought, severe storms or rising seas" exist before Global Hope and Change?

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:24 PM (GJ8w3)

152 It's really too bad for Kerry and Barky that certain Democrats undermined US efforts in Iraq... And imagine if those Democrats hadn't prevented the US from building a permanent military base in Iraq, because then Assad might have behaved, or at least a the necessary ground troops would be in the theater to enact an actual regime change. Yeah, its unfortunate that certain Democrats behaved poorly by putting their political ambitions above that of the country.

Posted by: phreshone at September 09, 2013 01:24 PM (Pr6hk)

153 In my bones, I feel a damned cold winter coming.

What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say?

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 09, 2013 01:24 PM (VjL9S)

154 Speaking to the AFL-CIOÂ’s 2013 Convention in Los Angeles on Sunday Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Â“Look at the increasing corporate capture of the federal courts. According to a recent study, the five conservative justices on the United States Supreme Court are in the top ten most pro-corporate justices in half a century. And Justices [Samuel] Alito and [John] Roberts Â— are you ready? Â— are number one and number two. The most anti-consumer justices in this entire time.Â” Why is it that Democrats seem to want to undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court? I mean Chief Roberts is an asshole, but I don't doubt his legitimacy, just he intelligence.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 09, 2013 01:25 PM (jE38p)

155

It works like this:

1) Idiots believe in global warming and insist on moving us to biofuels.

2) Biofuels suck up food, causing food prices to rise significantly.

3) Food prices spike, and poor, desert areas like Syria are forced to try and grow more of their own food. This means increasing efficiency (break up small farms, grow more wheat) and try and grow more value added crops (like cotton) to sell for food.

4) Poor farmers, starving, forced off the land rebel.

So you see, clearly global warming is the cause of the Syrian rebellion.

Posted by: TVland at September 09, 2013 01:25 PM (Jye7B)

156 I heard that John Kerry calls Obama 'Wilbur' when they're alone. Posted by: deanna at September 09, 2013 05:23 PM (QrtJS) They used peanut butter to get Mr. Ed to talk. Now they, well, it was a much simpler time.

Posted by: RWC - MΩRΩΠ LΔβΣ at September 09, 2013 01:26 PM (NLTDQ)

157 What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say? Posted by: RoyalOil at September 09, 2013 05:24 PM (VjL9S) Cold. And lots of it.

Posted by: © Sponge at September 09, 2013 01:26 PM (xmcEQ)

158 In my bones, I feel a damned cold winter coming. What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say? Posted by: RoyalOil at September 09, 2013 05:24 PM (VjL9S) Take the Skins and the points tonight

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 09, 2013 01:26 PM (jE38p)

159 "Climate change is already hurting the worldÂ’s most vulnerable populations. Those who live in areas hit hard by drought, severe storms or rising seas"

Did I miss something? Where are these "rising seas"? And if true, I thought the Won was going to fix this...

Posted by: chewydog at September 09, 2013 01:26 PM (BUY7X)

160 >>What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say? It says your bones are correct. They are predicting that it will long, cold and dark and you will die alone. Well most of that.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 09, 2013 01:26 PM (g1DWB)

161 Global warming is the new "the Devil made me do it".

How are these people any better than any other primitive superstitious group?

Posted by: typo dynamofo at September 09, 2013 01:27 PM (URNUb)

162 "Moyers & CompanyÂ’s John Light spoke with Francesco Femia, co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security Â— a think tank with an advisory board consisting of retired military commanders and international affairs experts Â— about how climate change serves as a Â“threat multiplierÂ” in volatile regions such as Syria, Egypt and Pakistan," What Syria, Egypt and Pakistan have in common is that Syria and Egypt have been Dechristianized, and Pakistan was never Christian. " and what AmericaÂ’s role should be in a world in which climate change increasingly exacerbates Â— and causes Â— international crises."" Christianizing/Westernizing some or all of them? Or barring that, leaving "poop-eyed, poop-skinned" people alone instead of constantly meddling in their affairs for no good reason. And always in bad faith/ideology.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:28 PM (GJ8w3)

163 Leftists don't call it "global Warming' so much anymore. They call it "Global Climate Change". That was whether it's hotter than usual or colder than usual, less snow or more snow all bases are covered. They can continue to assert that human beings can take actions that will avert a climate catastrophe and in the process will enrich the coffers of whomever is promulgating these doomsday scenarios

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2013 01:28 PM (N0aPW)

164 What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say?

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 09, 2013 05:24 PM (VjL9S)

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Chili today, hot tamale.

Posted by: Soona at September 09, 2013 01:29 PM (3Mz5/)

165 154 What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say?

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 09, 2013 05:24 PM (VjL9S)

Cold and snowy for the East Coast.

Posted by: Vic at September 09, 2013 01:29 PM (zZbNF)

166 Four stamps with the left hoof meant "rhetorical," four tail swishes meant "proposal."

And a big ol' road apple if I just don't understand WTF is going on.

Posted by: Jon Karry what served in Vietnam at September 09, 2013 01:29 PM (Dwehj)

167 Muslim dictator vs. Muslim fundamentalists. Never heard if it.

Posted by: Bill Moyers at September 09, 2013 01:29 PM (Kyg4f)

168 Leftists keep modeling human beings as animals, bereft of ideas. If Sunni Syrians believe that killing Assad will put more food in their stomachs, that's an idea. An idea they have in their minds. People are motivated by ideas any way you look at it.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:30 PM (GJ8w3)

169 Is there anything it can't do?

Posted by: steevy at September 09, 2013 01:31 PM (9XBK2)

170

154 What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say?

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 09, 2013 05:24 PM (VjL9S)

Annnd a blizzard for NYC Super Bowl weekend. (Couldn't happen to a nicer place.)

Posted by: Qatar and KSA at September 09, 2013 01:31 PM (kPeSM)

171 damn off sock!

Posted by: wrg500 at September 09, 2013 01:32 PM (kPeSM)

172 But the reason modeling people as animals seems somewhat plausible is because pretty much everyone is pretty much completely historically ignorant/"'tarded" and stuck in the moment/present. And when one's looking at such a tiny part of the human experience, it's easy to draw erroneous/imbecilic conclusions.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:32 PM (GJ8w3)

173 Drought in Syria? Where's my topographical map, hon? what's that covering 1/3 the country, hon ? That thar' is what ya call, the Syrian Desert.

Posted by: Harry Lime at September 09, 2013 01:36 PM (/0B8l)

174 What's the Old Farmer's Almanac say?

Cold as a witches tit. There's another clue, supposedly, something
to do with spiders building webs. My entire fucking house is encased
under about 100 spider webs. I feel like 'The Fly' -- 'Help Me!

You can't walk ten feet without wiping spider jizz off your chin.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 09, 2013 01:36 PM (U2UQk)

175 But if Global Hope and Change really is messing the Sunni Syrians up (and it isn't), then here is a list of people who should apologize: - The Oil-Rich Sunni Petrol States who keep pumping and selling that shit to the West - The Western upper classes who have an enormous and profoundly-unequal "carbon ass print" - The Red Chinese who are pumping carbon into the atmosphere as if it were opium - The Indians, who are trying to keep up with the Red Chinese

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:36 PM (GJ8w3)

176 But of course, the upper classes keep blaming the middle class. Because #waronthemiddleclass.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:37 PM (GJ8w3)

177 "Carbon equality" might be an idea whose time has come. Upper-class people should reduce their carbon ass print to something comparable to that of middle-class people.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:39 PM (GJ8w3)

178 Carbon justice! Do it, mother fuckers.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 09, 2013 01:40 PM (GJ8w3)

179 'climate change serves as a Â“threat multiplierÂ” in volatile regions such as Syria, Egypt and Pakistan,"

and Mexico

Well, no it wasn't climate change as much as it was the US Federal Reserve dumping hunert dolla bills into the world economy by the fricking truck load.
That and ethanol subsidies for corn.

Well, that and governments that subsidize food consumption rather than food production, but that's just a quibble.

Posted by: Creative Destruction at September 09, 2013 01:40 PM (APs4d)

180 If you want to see climate change that leads to wars, wait until we have another Ice Age. Actually, this is fairly un-original. It's an axiom of Liberalism that the world must be managed by our betters to make it safe for idiots. Idiots can't adapt to changes in the climate, so we must exhaust every resource ("It's not MY money!") to keep the climate from changing. This is why you find so many idiots/Liberals in San Francisco where the temperature varies barely 20 degrees the whole year round: They'd have died of exposure long ago anywhere else.

Posted by: Socratease at September 09, 2013 01:41 PM (3V4IJ)

181 As long as we have faces, we'll have something to eat.

Posted by: Residents of Florida at September 09, 2013 01:47 PM (3Mz5/)

182 I'd have gone with Sam Kinison because #caring.

Posted by: Soylent Green at September 09, 2013 01:55 PM (wK/XI)

183 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA

Posted by: Soylent Green at September 09, 2013 01:56 PM (wK/XI)

184 AGW is also responsible for those Jooo sharks munching on our tourists.

Posted by: Action Noose Egypt at September 09, 2013 02:29 PM (dvRYt)

185 The Toledo War was different because while Ohio was a state, Michigan was a territory when it went to war with Ohio.

That's right - Michigan wanted to fight a state and thus the United States while still under the administration of the United States. And Michigan won! Ohio got Toledo and Michigan got the U.P.

You're next Wisconsin!

Posted by: Mikey NTH Spittle-Flecked Diatribes Now 25% Off! at September 09, 2013 07:13 PM (gmoEG)

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