Rick Perry selected for Energy Secretary

[Gulo Blue]

This article says his track record isn't the worst, considering he's a climate change denier.

https://thinkprogress.org/rick-perr...te-on-the-environment-17ab37ac21d7#.ju8dz29yt

But still, a climate change denier.

 

[Michchamp]

He's smart enough to do the job, now that he started wearin' glasses.

But Wasn't the DOE one of the Federal agencies he wanted to cut back when he was a candidate? Yes. Yes it was

 

[Michchamp]

he's also on the board of Energy Transfer Partners, the company building that contested pipeline through Native American lands, and... obvious conflict of... ah fuck it.

 

[Gulo Blue]

He's smart enough to do the job, now that he started wearin' glasses.

But Wasn't the DOE one of the Federal agencies he wanted to cut back when he was a candidate? Yes. Yes it was

Not just cut back. Eliminate.

Fortunately, Energy is the one he couldn't remember for a while, so maybe he doesn't want to eliminate it as much as the 2 other agencies.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Not just cut back. Eliminate.

Fortunately, Energy is the one he couldn't remember for a while, so maybe he doesn't want to eliminate it as much as the 2 other agencies.

How do you know it wasn't the Department of the Interior he couldn't remember that night?

In the link MichChamp posted, he had Interior, Commerce and Energy, but left out Education, which he did remember in his gaffe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uvmKnFY4uk

 

[tigermud]

The climate changes everyday, I can't say I know anyone whom is a climate change denier.

 

[Michchamp]

The climate changes everyday, I can't say I know anyone whom is a climate change denier.

urrr hurr!

good comment. really makes ya think...

 

[byco42]

If we eliminated all them gubmint agencies, then no one would never have to remember them. Prob. Solved.

 

[biggunsbob]

Perry is just another in a long line of swamp critters. Probably just another 'Yes Man' that will bend the knee to Donald.

 

[Gulo Blue]

How do you know it wasn't the Department of the Interior he couldn't remember that night?

In the link MichChamp posted, he had Interior, Commerce and Energy, but left out Education, which he did remember in his gaffe...

"About 15 minutes later in the debate, Perry said he meant to say that the Department of Energy is the third agency he wanted to eliminate."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/rick-perry-forgets-agencies_n_1085249.html

 

[Gulo Blue]

The climate changes everyday, I can't say I know anyone whom is a climate change denier.

Weather changes every day, not climate.

 

[Gulo Blue]

The climate changes everyday, I can't say I know anyone whom is a climate change denier.

If there were any truth to this, it would suck for farmers.

 

[tinselwolverine]

"About 15 minutes later in the debate, Perry said he meant to say that the Department of Energy is the third agency he wanted to eliminate."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/rick-perry-forgets-agencies_n_1085249.html

But was he really sure he remembered correctly what he had meant?

 

[tigermud]

Weather changes every day, not climate.

i'm a man bear pig skeptic, bill nye wants to send me to the reeducation camps

 

[Gulo Blue]

But was he really sure he remembered correctly what he had meant?

Oh. Good question. I hope his mind changes like that. Maybe he's moved on from that idea by now.

 

[Gulo Blue]

i'm a man bear pig skeptic, bill nye wants to send me to the reeducation camps

Shhh, Quiet. Listen!

A whale is in danger.

I have to go.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Weather changes every day, not climate.

I wondered if weather is what tigermud meant...or if in fact, he was referring to the infinitesimal incremental changes that occur during any process of change...like when a child, or a puppy or a plant or a tree grows...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iPp6yn0hw

 

[Gulo Blue]

I wondered if weather is what tigermud meant...or if in fact, he was referring to the infinitesimal incremental changes that occur during any process of change...like when a child, or a puppy or a plant or a tree grows...

Yeah. That thought crossed my mind. But I feel like it's once of those pedantic technicalities I occasionally get unfairly accused of being in favor of.

 

[Michchamp]

Yeah. That thought crossed my mind. But I feel like it's once of those pedantic technicalities I occasionally get unfairly accused of being in favor of.

Yes, please do not get into pedantic technicalities today.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Yes, please do not get into pedantic technicalities today.

Well, I had the same thought too...I don't think it was a pedantic technicality. I thought it was a pretty reasonable interpretation of what daily climate change might be thought to mean.