stark ranting

This Fox News alert just in: outgoing Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works James Inhofe informs us that global warming is caused by the sun. But not to worry, God's still up there. One piece of advice for God, you might want to do something about it sooner rather than later, because it'll be a real bitch to re-genesis all those lost species.

INHOFE: Now look, God’s still up there. We still have these natural changes, and this is what’s going on right now. New science comes out. I had a news conference yesterday, Brian, and the reason I did is because we were going to go over to Nairobi, take a bunch of scientists to get the true science over there, only to find out that the registration had dropped off. Almost no media was over there. So we had the same news conference yesterday right here in Washington, D.C.

We had all these scientists and all of them came to the conclusion, yes, part of the globe is warming. Let’s keep in mind, now, the southern hemisphere has never been warming and changing in the last 25 years. The last time I checked that’s part of the globe.

But if the northern hemisphere is warming up, it’s not due to manmade gases. And that’s what these people all come to the conclusion. And yet the other side, the far left, the George Soros, the Hollywood elitists, the far left environmentalists on the committee that I chair — all of them want us to believe the science is settled and it’s not.

By the way, there’s all kinds of new things. Gretchen, you’ll enjoy this. Get your violin out and get ready. They came out with a great discovery just a few weeks ago. And this came from the geophysical research letters and you know what they said? Hold on now! They said the warming is due to the sun. Isn’t that remarkable?

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And Jon Stewart reminds me once again why he's my favorite TV personality, in an interview for Rolling Stone.

Dowd then launches into personal profile-mode, painting Stewart as an "intense Manhattan smarty-pants" with a dry wit born of Jewish angst and Colbert as the family-loving "meticulous sprite" whose status as the youngest of eleven children lets him easily play Harpo to Stewart's Groucho. Then, rather than going for, say, a few questions on how both men plan to cover the midterm results on election night, she reaches for the existential with the following:

A fake news show, "The Daily Show," spawned a fake commentator, Colbert, who makes his own fake reality defending the fake reality of a real president, and has government officials on who know the joke but are still willing to be mocked by someone fake. Your shows are like mirrors within mirrors, using a cycle of fakery to get to the truth. You've tapped into a sense in society that nothing, from reality shows to Bushworld, is real anymore. Do you guys ever get confused by your hall of mirrors?

To which Stewart fittingly responds, "I didn't know we were going to have to be high to do this interview."

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