Story by Eric Worrall
In their quest for ever more bizarre reasons why we should care about climate scare stories, alarmists have truly scraped the bottom of the barrel – their latest effort is to suggest we should care, because the late actor Robin Williams thought climate change was a problem…in 2002.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/12/3470324/robin-williams-global-warming/
Many of us loved Robin Williams the performer, or at least appreciated his world class acting abilities and his skills as an entertainer. But do we really have to care what his opinion on global warming was? I mean, I know he sadly suffered from depression, and ultimately committed suicide, but does this tragedy make Williams’ views on climate change more credible?
Once again the alarmists have demonstrated they speak another language to the rest of us, and that there is no depth they won’t plumb in their search for emotional leverage and credibility.
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sturgishooper says:
August 18, 2014 at 3:47 pm
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I clearly stated that I disagree with Obama on many things so calling me names doesn’t help your case. Also can you please not derail this thread any further.
Slade says:
August 18, 2014 at 4:05 pm
You are the liar, but maybe just out of ignorance. That is Obama’s name in Arabic, the language of his religion. “Bin” means “son of”, so is used in family names. “Al” means “from”, showing the country of his citizenship. Are you actually so ignorant as not to know that his given middle name is “Hussein”? Unless you think that all Arabic speakers are terrorists, your ignorant spew is an outrageous lie.
Obama is manifestly not doing his job and has repeatedly acted criminally. That the despot was elected doesn’t mean he can’t be a tyrant, riding roughshod over the laws he swore to uphold and faithfully to execute. I’m glad that it’s still possible in this country to state those facts, but at the rate our tyrant is going, it might not be much longer.
BTW, what did you say when so many of your fellow Loony Left nut jobs repeatedly called Bush the world’s worst terrorist and wanted him tried for war crimes?
http://www.rense.com/general57/bushs.htm
Slade says:
August 18, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Lots of Loony Leftwing whack jobs disagree with Obama. So what?
sturgishooper says:
August 18, 2014 at 4:14 pm
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I am not going to argue with you anymore. It would detract from this thread and I have made my point if all you can do is spout rhetoric and call names you obviously don’t have a very strong case.
Slade says:
August 18, 2014 at 4:24 pm
My reply to your scurrilous lie is held up in moderation.
I have provided you with a source for some of the administration’s high crimes and misdemeanors which somehow have escaped your attention, so you have spouted yet another lie.
sturgishooper says:
August 18, 2014 at 4:13 pm
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In answer to your rant I will only say that Obama is not Muslim he is christian and he is not from the middle east so you using the Arabic pronunciation of his name is clearly an effort to link him to terrorist.
Slade says:
August 18, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Only in your mind does using his Arabic name mean I labelled him a terrorist. His East African family is Muslim, and his name would be about the same in Swahili, the lingua franca of his father’s part of the world (though he was a Luo). I can’t help it if his name is Hussein.
Obama is no kind of Christian. His “church”, Trinity United, is for people who subscribe to Farrakhan’s message of hate, but don’t want to join the Nation of Islam. It’s only nominally Christian, as it preaches a non-Christian message of group and national hatred.
In his youth, Obama was a Muslim. In Islam, there is no going back.
Obama is not Muslim
So he claims. But what of the sermons he spent so many years “not” listening to in Rev. Wright’s “church”?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/17/jeremiah-wright-can-sink-obama/
Furthermore, Mr. Wright says Mr. Obama possessed an “Islamic background” and despite his conversion to Christianity has never abandoned his Muslim roots. In short, Mr. Wright appears to be confirming what I have argued for years: Mr. Obama is a cultural Muslim whose Christianity is deeply tied to black liberation theology – the belief that America and the West have an evil, imperialist civilization bent on oppressing the Third World.
M Simon says:
August 18, 2014 at 6:09 pm
As I point out in my comment still under moderation, Obama was a devout Muslim in his youth. In Islam, once in, never out. Hope the whole comment will be approved.
Thanks, mods.
Slade says:
August 18, 2014 at 4:56 pm
It’s not a matter of pronunciation. All three of Obama’s names are Arabic & Muslim. Barack is from the Arabic for “blessed”, cognate with Hebrew Baruch.
Hussein, obviously is an Arabic & Muslim name. It is the diminutive of Hassan, ie “good”, & was not used in pre-Islamic Arabic. Its first recorded use was by the prophet Muhammad, in naming his grandson Husayn ibn Ali (who became the first imam of Shi’a Islam), allegedly under orders from Archangel Gabriel.
Obama is a not uncommon surname among the Luo of Kenya. The name comes from Swahili, referring to members of the tribe who converted to Islam.
sturgishooper
If your use of President Obama’s Arabic name was a sign of respect and not an attempt to associate him with middle east extremist then I apologize. It’s obvious that between us we’ve managed to thoroughly sidetrack this thread so why don’t we agree to disagree and try to get back to the topic of this thread.
Slade says:
August 18, 2014 at 7:35 pm
Most certainly not a sign of respect. I have no respect for the totally corrupt, gangster, dictatorial, anti-American, Marxist, Red Diaper Baby, Mansourian Candidate at all, except maybe when he took his kids trick or treating.
But my emphasis on his Islamic background didn’t imply that I consider him a terrorist.
Not to feed the troll or anything, but – point of order. A formal investigation of Black Liberation Theology by a Catholic Cardinal (later to become Pope) declared that it was NOT Christianity.
TomB says:
August 19, 2014 at 12:12 pm
Pretty sure that most Protestant and Orthodox denominations would concur.
I would have to say that Joe Romm was topped by Rush Limbaugh’s claim that Robin Williams’ depression was caused by his progressive politics.
Only a few days later did we learn that Robin was in the early stages of Parkinson’s which itself can precipitate chronic depression.
Robin Williams was a comic genius and a brilliant actor. I didn’t have to agree with all of his beliefs to appreciate his talent. He was also intelligent, thoughtful and from what I can tell, modest and unflashy as a person and the people who worked with him, loved him.
Unfortunately the recently and famously deceased are often fodder for loudmouth knownothings like Romm and Limbaugh who want attention no matter how negative.
@John A – can you link to the Limbaugh quote where he did the linking? Since his shows are all transcribed on his site, you should have no problem finding it. However, I must have missed that segment.
John A says:
August 19, 2014 at 12:37 pm
Robin got on well with his formerly vindictive ex-wives, but only after giving them about $35 million.
His death might have been accidental, despite his chronic depression. He apparently practiced autoerotic asphyxiation.
I remember that old Joseph Campbell line about a midlife crisis. He quoted Heinrich Zimmer who commented that many men spend their whole life climbing the ladder of success only to find that it is against the wall. While many will simply talk about depression being the cause of the suicide it might be worthwhile to think if some of that depression came from a realization that many of the things that Williams believed were pure BS and not justifiable by logic. With Obama and Gore turning out to be such frauds, and the growing realization that manbearpig was not real it is easy to see how reality may have intervened and put extra pressure on the poor man.