INHOFE using Michael Crichton's fiction book as fact on the Senate floor

[Khephra]

"THE STATE OF FEAR"

(It's about there being no global warning and eco-terrorists using a weather weapon to kill people and set a world agenda.)

As I type (4:10PM ET)
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He's talking about the groups in the book as being the same groups that exist in the real world.

What next? The LEFT BEHIND books being used in the Senate opening prayer?

[Stephanie]

1. which one?

[Canuckistanian]

2. The one with the green sky, I believe.

[Khephra]

3. "The State of Fear"

I added that to the original post.

He's off the book now and onto trashing Kyoto countries.

[shraby]

5. He was the one at the torture hearings

who was outraged by the outrage about the torture. This man is deranged.

[yellowcanine]

4. Didn't Dan Quayle once use a Tom Clancy novel to justify Star Wars missile

defence? I guess pubbies will take their "facts" anywhere they can. George Will creamed in his pants over the fact that Michael Crichton had real graphs in his book of fiction. There is no way to argue with such foolishness.

[damntexdem]

6. The question isn't 'what's next?'

Because this fits right in with what already happens: lies by Swift-Boat Veterans, use of the religious ideology behind the Left Behind books to support U.S. policy, claims that the Constitution's Establishment Clause was not meant to mandate separation of church & state, and so on.

This is just the latest example, not just of the idiocy of the yahoos in the Right Wing but of the idiocy of the Bushistas' policies.

[bobbieinok]

7. Inhofe within the last 4 years lectured the senate on Israel's 'right'

to land.......he used passages from the OT

pray for us in OK who have Inhofe and Coburn as senators

during Inhofe's campaign for senate, the OK Observer, an alternative weekly published by 'Frosty Troy', ran a long article about Inhofe's being sued by his family and his church because of his 'mismanagement' of funds

Frosty said no paper in OK would publish even LTTEs discussing this info

Frosty talks to teacher groups, etc, around the country.....I believe he's been personally attacked by Dobson on Focus on the Family broadcasts

after the 2000 debacle, I heard him speak to the Tulsa county dems...he pointed out he and his wife are in their 60s and that there appears to be no replacement in sight for his paper (the only source for alternate news in OK)

he had really frightening things to say about the religious right takeover of the OK repub party.....the incredible amount of money, the meticulous organization, the almost total dominance of the OK college scene, etc....and that much the same had happened or was happening all across the country

[Z_I_Peevey]

8. Inhofe is such a little dweeb.

He does not have the brain power to blink on demand. He probably believes the work of fiction is real science.

Another deeply ashamed Okie.

[satori]

9. World renowned scientist-The Earth as a weapon in 21st Century of Wars

After the Bhopal disaster in 1984, Dr. Rosalie Bertell (a biometrician and environmental epidemiologist) directed the International Medical Commission investigating the effects of the Union Carbide chemical spill that contributed to some 15,000 deaths.

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http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/hawa2.htm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/envronmt/weapons.htm

Third World Network

By Rahab S Hawa

While scientists, governments and concerned groups worry about increased industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and its effects on the planet, the role of the military in climate change has been ignored.

‘When environmental crises occur, it is usually only the civilian economy that is called upon to rectify the balance, while military programmes are rarely taken to task,’ says Dr Rosalie Bertell, renowned scientist and nuclear activist.

At the Peoples’ Health Assembly in December 2000 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dr. Bertell revealed to a shocked and incredulous audience that ‘the latest weapons in the arsenal of the US military is the Planet Earth itself ... and weather will be one of the worst destructive weapons by the year 2025’.

Dr. Bertell was referring to how engineered earthquakes and tornadoes could wreak havoc on populations and nations.

[Khephra]

10. I have no opinion on that type of weather working, but the novel

has the technology being so advanced that you could evidently cause earthquakes under specific cars and lightning to hit specific people. (or so the reviews say)

I'd believe that weather weapons could be created. I don't doubt that. What I doubt is that type of a use. I doubt a weather weapon could ever be that specific. It would be more like a arson. You'd "set the fire" and never know exactly what's going to happen with a 100% accuracy.

[saltpoint]

11. I'm pretty surprised.

I didn't even know Inhofe could read.

[Downtown Hound]

12. Man, I'm sorry I ever liked Crichton

what an idiot. I wonder what happened to him, he never seemed like such a clueless fundie before.