Conservatives blame gays for OK storm

Sounds like you don't like my reasoning here, which under the circs seems pretty strange.

 

The approach that works just fine for you in Davey's, "One Of The Liberals [sic] Heros Has Fallen!!", becomes not simply objectionable when I adopt it, but "one of the dumbest things" I've ever said. What constitutes a perfectly acceptable form of argument for you in one instance becomes just the opposite when the names are changed. Going by your reaction here, I'd suggest that you avoid mirrors.

 

Do you really think Phelps "speaks for me"? Really? As I pointed out, it's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.

 

Agreed...now her "logic" would hold if the majority of Christians celebrated the deaths of soldiers (as the majority of liberals celebrate late-term & partial-birth abortion) but obviously they do not so the analogy she drew is a fail.

 

You're just making yourself look silly. I think you knew what my point here was from the beginning and if you didn't post #42 should clue you in.

In answer to your question, no. But I would not be so confident in saying that about ummm... Davy for example. Just a feeling.

The whole Phelps thing is really pretty interesting. I think that their sin in the eyes of many Christians is not so much what they believe, but the impolitic way in which they express that belief. But that is for another thread.

By the way, why the "sic" in the quote in #43? Did I do something wrong there?

 

One might as well say, "If you're straight, Anita Bryant speaks for you" or "If you're an athiest, Madalyn Murray O'Hair spoke for you". Making assumptions like that is just, well, dumb.

 

You're so out of your league here. It seems to have fallen mainly to Clembo and Joe to periodically wipe the floor with you. Any more would be overkill. Isn't there a spaghetti feed or something at Our Lady of Perpetual Denial that you should be at? Raising money for court costs and settlements and the like.

 

I knew all along what you were talking about, but I wanted you to come out and say it. Thank you.

I apologize for the "sic". I read it too quickly and didn't notice the plurality of Phelps. I interpreted it as "Phelps" instead of "the Phelps's [of the world]".

 

Gee, maybe we should call you the "Lady of Perpetual Denial", huh? I get that you & your ilk want to distance yourselves from what gosnell has done but you really can't. If you advocate for the late-term & partial-birth abortions to be legalized you're going to have some people performing them.

 

Then maybe you could convince Davy to stop doing it. In avoiding dumb he needs all the help he can get. And you might clean up your act too mister. I don't think you were exactly at your best in the thread n question. I will work on myself as well. Must keep the temper under control. If you ask me we have all sinned and fallen short.

 

You just can't stop proving me right can you? Now off to the church social with you. Spit spot.

 

David speaks for himself. Why would I try to convince him of anything?

I speak whatever I feel like speaking. If people don't like it or if they disagree with it, that's what makes the world go 'round. What fun would this forum be if all of us agreed with each other?

I didn't know I got your temper up. My intent was to make you think.

Amen.

 

Awwww, little missy wants to call me names....how sweet. Bless your heart.

 

You mean, spit-spot? (I should have hyphenated it) That's not calling you names. It means, hurry up. Get moving. Don't delay. Does Little Missy have to explain EVERYTHING to you?

 

lol...quite possibly the truest sentence ever published here.

 

I would bluntly state that Fred Phelps Jr. is an idiot but I have to consider who his dad is and how he was raised.

A preacher tends to be a powerful man after all; and being raised by one (even if he's an idiot) can influence your views (whether or not you really believe in them) or they have any actual merit or factual basis other than your own beliefs.

On the other hand.

Idiotic statement and I'm fairly certain that Jr. is an idiot.

 

Scientist Corrects Gullible Reporter: ‘Climate Change’ Not Causing More Tornadoes​

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Occasionally, we hear from people who believe that liberal media bias isn’t really that big of an issue because most people don’t really trust reporters to tell the truth. While public trust in the media is at an all-time low, that hardly means they lack the power to shape opinion.​

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A perfect case in point is the notion popularized by environmental alarmist Al Gore that the Earth is experiencing more severe weather events supposedly caused by “climate change.” Like his earlier debunked claims that global temperatures were increasing, this statement is also false. But many people are simply unaware of the facts.​

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That is understandable given that most people are not interested in keeping tallies of the number of hurricanes and tornadoes. Being uninformed about the facts, they are easily susceptible to having their opinion influenced by the media’s love of disaster coverage and also of extremists like Gore making false claims about severe weather phenomena.

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One such person who appears to have been influenced in this way is Los Angeles Times reporter Stacey Lessca. ​

Fortunately for her, yesterday she received some much-needed education during an interview with a scientist working for the National Severe Storms Laboratory. After discussing some of the particulars of the recent tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, Lessca shifted her questioning toward environmental orthodoxy (to watch, fast-forward to the 11:20 mark), asking research scientist Robin Tanamachi if there really were more tornadoes happening thanks to “climate change:”​

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“It seems like there’s been more severe weather, it seems, it just feels like hurricanes are getting worse. Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast. This tornado now has killed 24 people in the town of Moore. Do you think that more severe storms are becoming the norm, and do you think that they are directly related to climate change?”​

Tanamachi answered that this was not the case whatsoever and that people who thought otherwise were likely being influenced by the media’s continual reporting on weather events:​

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Well the statistics don’t bear that assertion out. What we’re finding is that people’s perception is that severe weather has increased. That perception is largely based on media presentation and that an event like the Moore tornado is now broadcast worldwide within moments of its occurence. And so it can seem more local to people than it is.​

But as far as the number of tornadoes, we haven’t been able to discern an increasing trend. As far as the number of hurricanes, we haven’t been able to discern a really solid increasing trend with that. So it’s just a matter of people being aware of those events when they occur and being aware of them almost immediately after they happen.​

This is not the only issue where the media have influenced the public into believing something that is false. As Geoffrey Dickens noted earlier this month, a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that only 12 percent of Americans were aware that gun violence has decreased even though the drop has been quite significant. By contrast, a majority, 56 percent, believed incorrectly that gun violence had increased. This misperception was almost certainly created by the press which has been feverish in its coverage of mass shootings and in its advocacy for anti-gun laws.

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Side note: The idea that human wickedness has some sort of effect on climate has long been a staple of some religious thought and it is yet another way in which modern environmentalism is actually similar to a religion. Both Al Gore and your garden-variety End Times lunatic believe that humans are being punished for their sins with more extreme weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes. It is sad reflection on modern society that the former is on his way to becoming a billionaire while only the latter is dismissed as a crank.​

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Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/05/25/scientist-corrects-gullible-reporter-we-are-not-having-more-extre#ixzz2USsdbcXE​

 

I almost have to agree with conservatives. I mean, I can't sleep. Lesbians might need me. Who wants to sleep with that hanging over your head!

Oh wait, that was a dream.

 

It's truly a shame that the tornado didn't knock out CoinOKC's access to the internet

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...imate-change-oklahoma-science-global-warming/