Badges? The "We don't need no stinking badges" contest

Joanie says:
June 28, 2010 at 8:25 pm
F. Ross, you get the award for persistence!”

Thanks for that.
Typing seems to be all bassackwards today.

Here’s mine.
http://tiggerstestblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/very-cold-smiley.html

I for one am GLAD to see somebody rightfully comparing the publication of this paper in PNAS to the treatment of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany (and occupied territories).
For instance, this paper was published in PNAS, so has very high impact and anything it had to say about climate skeptics/”denialists” was read by a large audience. Similarly, thousands of Jewish infants were taken from their mothers’ arms and thrown alive into the crematoria.
This paper called attention to recorded public statements of scientists that had taken a public position about human influence, or lack-thereof, in contributing to climate change. Likewise, Dr. Mengle would administer toxic substances to Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz, to determine how quickly and painfully those substances caused death. He also couldn’t help but sewing people together, due to his fascination with Siamese twins (these artificial pairings always died, of course, but not after an extended period of suffering).
This paper leaves the names out, though they’re easy enough to find given public records. In almost exactly the same way, the Nazis forced tens of thousands of Jews to dig mass graves, then lined them up and shot them, filling the graves. They gassed millions of Jews and burned their bodies entirely (a holocaust) in the constantly stoked, constantly working crematoria. They exterminated whole Jewish families, communities, and nearly entire countries’ worth (only 3% of Poland’s 3.5 million Jews survived) leaving no one–no one!–to bury them, to say kadish for them, or even to remember that they existed.
The Nazis and their collaborators enacted the most heinous campaign against human beings that has ever occurred. No torment, no torture, no unnatural death was spared for the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis. The only thing that could possibly be spoken of in the same breath, if one has not only a sense of decency, but simply perceptive observation, is another actual genocide. The genocide in Rwanda could be compared with the Holocaust, or that in the former Yugoslavia, or that in Cambodia, or perhaps the Chmielnicki pogrom in the Ukraine (also waged against the Jewish people).
So wear the yellow badges, and wear them proudly, but don’t, for heavens sakes, pretend that they have anything to do with a yellow Star of David, or yellow handkerchief, or yellow belt such as those used to single out Jews historically for harassment, assault, torture, murder, and extermination. When your babies are being tossed alive into furnaces, when your parents, wives, and children are tortured and killed before your eyes, when your brethren are placed on cattle cars and sent to the mass graves, the gas chambers, and the crematoria, then you may properly equate your badge to one of the ones forced on the Jews. Until that day, pray that it will never come, it is utterly foolish to compare the treatment of climate skeptics, denialists, whatever-shamacalits anywhere today to the treatment of the Jews in Nazi occupied Europe. If the two seem in any way similar to you, reexamine how you think.
Best,
Chris