I think there's a belief that if all jim ever gets here is opposition and pushback, eventually he'll slink off to more accommodating sites, but evidence would suggest that it is the attention  he gets via engagement  - no matter how negative - that keeps him coming back.

I'm guilty of getting sucked into the quagmire, so I have no real room to talk, but there's something about standing back and reading the discussion all of a piece that highlights how easily we allow him to push our buttons.

Really????? Excuse my giggling but that doesn't pass the stupid test.

And yes. Time and again when someone claimed about it being cold they were told it was WEATHER and had nothing to do with GLOBAL warming.

So please don't try to parse your way out of it.

The dog won't hunt. In fact, it won't get off the porch... too cold.

Wonder where lies on the droughts in the state he represents, Oklahoma:

What's more ironic is that the Senate's leading climate denier bailed on the annual Heartland climate science denial conference this morning -- saying "I am under the weather" (!) -- just as his home state is being slammed by a record-smashing heatwave and a drought more severe than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

There will always be scared little chicken hawks around the globe, like Jim & the past two administrations, who have no regard for human life, putting winning at all costs the only goal of warfare.

But the rest of us, the ones with souls, realize that winning at all costs is how savages operate and I would like to think most people are not OK with the over the top brutality and killing of civilians, especially children.

Governments, sans a few with questionable motives, are stepping in and saying 'enough' with Israel, not because their leaders oppose war(funny), but because the citizens are appalled by Israel's tactics they see on the TV every night.  And maybe it won't make a difference right now, but Israel, much like the US is losing it's moral ground, and that, at some point, will have an affect on their future.

But I agree, the people with the greatest desire to kill and maim always seem to float to the top in governments/militaries using fear and xenophobia to enact their fantasies of stomping out the 'enemies' in real life.  No level of technology will ever dissuade people who have no humanity, like Jim.  For them, it's blood and guts for all who don't buy into their moronic saber-rattling.  And much like Jim, they have never seen warfare, but love it to death.  They sit back and direct others to die for their own self gratification, going as far as to take pride in the number of kills they designed and executed.  Putting death above the welfare of the very citizenry they claim to protect.

IOW, soulless cowards with big guns, who haven't won anything since before most of them were even born.  For all his blather, Jim and most hawks can't remember a time when America actually won at war, but hot damn if they don't know that killing women and children is no big deal so long as it means 'winning', too bad every single one remains winless at war.  Yet, the people they tromped over with the promise of a win, are still dead.  And the truly pathetic blame the folks who never wanted war to begin with, for their own inadequacies and failures as war 'masters', and as human beings.

The really sad part is these are people who, as a whole, generally believe in some divine being that is going to judge them for their deeds while on Earth.  I don't know much, but any being worthy of worship isn't going to like the promoters, the planners, the profiteers, and the people who design machines that have only one purpose, mass death of their very beings their deity created, very much.  Especially the destruction of ones who have nothing to do with anything, and are, by all accounts including the hawks, innocent victims of their blood lust, paranoia, and greed.

But the chicken hawk brain, while incapable of winning at war in 70 years, even with tens, if not hundreds, of trillions of hard earned tax dollars, has an almost limitless capability to rationalize every single bad deed, even the ones, like torture, that are illegal and immoral by any definition beyond the perpetrators own warped view of what it is to be a human being.  The deity is gonna come knocking and for folks like Cheney and Jim, it's gonna be sooner than later and Fox & Friends ain't gonna be there to spin all their bad deeds.  And that for me, is some very small sense, is satisfying.  To know people who spend their who lives hating and destroying might be judged without prejudice or the spin machine dismantling the truth.

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