In the great Republican tradition of white people telling black people what racism is, or congressional committees run by men setting policies on women's health, the Natural Resources Committee held a very important hearing on the politicization of science last week. To keep the testimony untainted by bias, subcommittee chair Rep. Louie Gohmert
"Jay Gould had just then reversed the commercial morals of the United States. He had put a blight upon them from which they have never recovered, and from which they will not recover for as much as a century to come. Jay Gould was the mightiest disaster to ever befallen this country. The people had desired money before his day, but he taught them to fall down and worship it. They had respected men of means before his day, but along with this respect was joined the respect due the character and industry which had accumulated it. But Jay Gould taught the entire nation to make a god of the money and the man, no matter how the money might have been acquired. In my youth there was nothing resembling a worship of money or of its possessor, in our region. And in our region, no well-to-do man was ever charged with having acquired his money by shady methods.
The gospel left behind by Jay Gould is doing giant work these days. Its message is “Get money. Get it quickly. Get it in abundance. Get it in prodigious abundance. Get it dishonestly if you can, honestly if you must.” - Samuel L. Clemens
[optimist because he thought it would only take a century]
too many echoes . . . nobody could get a sound system working in there . . . roomy though.
It's got electrolytes!
please, that's 'shaved apes'
"...subcommittee chair Rep. Louie Gohmert..." is the scariest thing I've heard all week...
or from that noted optimist
"Jay Gould had just then reversed the commercial morals of the United States. He had put a blight upon them from which they have never recovered, and from which they will not recover for as much as a century to come. Jay Gould was the mightiest disaster to ever befallen this country. The people had desired money before his day, but he taught them to fall down and worship it. They had respected men of means before his day, but along with this respect was joined the respect due the character and industry which had accumulated it. But Jay Gould taught the entire nation to make a god of the money and the man, no matter how the money might have been acquired. In my youth there was nothing resembling a worship of money or of its possessor, in our region. And in our region, no well-to-do man was ever charged with having acquired his money by shady methods.
The gospel left behind by Jay Gould is doing giant work these days. Its message is “Get money. Get it quickly. Get it in abundance. Get it in prodigious abundance. Get it dishonestly if you can, honestly if you must.” - Samuel L. Clemens
[optimist because he thought it would only take a century]
we are through the looking glass, down the rabbit hole and watching the tea party make a mess.
Marblehead?
[kinda round and highly polished]
there's moss growing outside my window that's smarter than gohmert.
[i've scraped shit off my shoe that's smarter than gohmert]
take that all the way to 'counterproductive' and you're still good.
If he had only been able to work in "government teat" he may have been able to perform for his wife that night...
unless they've renamed a few we've still got
113 - Uut - Ununtrium115 - Uup - Ununpentium117 - Uus - Ununseptium118 - Uuo - Ununoctium
Sorry, my bad. Gotta go set up a superpac for my banana slug......
they tried loosening the tie but his head just went 'thptpthpthtphtphtphthpthp' and flew all over the room.
No more puns or I'm calling the coppers.
the Gohmert is not a constant . . . it is always increasing in magnitude . . . but it does represent an upper (or lower) bound.
[it seems to have something in common with entropy that way]
prescient