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Dinosaur Farts Are Responsible For Global Warming

Or so Congressman Dana Rohrabacher suggested the other day. Dana is one of the majority of Republicans who do not believe that global climate change is caused by human activity, despite tremendous evidence that it is indeed the case.

The video on ThinkProgress of the event is amusing to say the least. Rohrabacher cites his fact-checking skills as a former journalist who doesn't automatically believe a story even if the vast majority of people say that it is the truth. Well bravo Dana, bravo! Then he suggested that Dinosaur flatulence might have caused temperatures to rise in the past somewhat comically. I can hear you laughing now, though hopefully it is laughing at him for being a tool of the right and not because his joke was funny.

From ThinkProgress:

Presumably, Rohrabacher was referencing a period known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Then, as in now, “sharp rises in temperature were initiated and driven by large spikes in greenhouse gases. … It took over 100K years for the ocean, atmosphere, and temperatures to return to their previous state. The result was a mass extinction event that took millions of years to recover from.” But scientists believe that massive methane releases from the ocean floors — not dinosaur farts — were the cause.

In sharp contrast to Rohrabacher, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered an opening statement recommending mandatory caps on global warming pollution and calling out conservatives for rejecting science. “For twelve years, the leadership in the House of Representatives stifled all discussion and debate of global warming. That long rejection of reality is over, to the relief of Members on both sides of the aisle.”

Thank our lucky stars that morons like Rohrabacher take a back seat in the House along with the rest of Republican congressional delegation. Their tired old views and rejections of reality deserve to be put in the back as the Democratic majority conducts the American people's business in this new 110th Congress.

The Daily Show's 'Competition'

No one does fake news better than Comedy Central's hit 'The Daily Show' and recent addition 'The Colbert Report.' The duo have been so successful and influential that right wingers have taken note of it and are trying to copy the wit and humor of the left for the nefarious purposes of the right.

From ThinkProgress:

Fox News is prepping a new late-night talk show called “Red Eye” hosted by Greg Gutfeld, the former editor of UK Maxim (and Huffington Post blogger) who previously led a web-based chat show for FoxNews.com.

In a clip of “Red Eye” that was leaked online, Gutfield leads a discussion about Sen. Joe Biden’s (D-DE) racially-insensitive claim that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.” In the clip, Gutfield calls Biden “my favorite person in the world,” and asks, “Isn’t [Biden] saying what every liberal is thinking,” that “Obama is acceptable because he’s…a non-threatening black man.”

Gee golly, didn't hear the racism in that one. You can see it even better in the video that you can access by clicking the Think Progress link above. What a pathetic attempt to be funny by using stereotypes and innuendo that is only humorous to those that love a good racist joke at the expense of some minority that they abhor coming into contact with. God forbid they interact with people that aren't as white as them and get a reality-check.