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Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 23, 2009 1:27 PM

One State! One Country! One Chief! Franco! Franco! Franco!

I wish George Will would stick to baseball. At least he's marginally knowledgeable there.

Posted by: chancelikely | July 23, 2009 1:29 PM

In other news, Joseph Ratzinger describes himself as "a lifelong Catholic".

Also, bears defecate in forested areas.

Posted by: Glen Davidson | July 23, 2009 1:33 PM

He's always been good on evolution, so why he's such a crank on global warming seems on the surface to be an incongruity.

I think, though, that it's explainable by the fact that rich friends of his, and perhaps his own portfolio, might "suffer" (lose a bit of money that could be had from trashing the planet, IOW) if something is done.

Deny the science that might cost you, seems to be the rule.

Glen Davidson
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

Posted by: Naked Bunny with a Whip | July 23, 2009 1:55 PM

Also, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Are you sure? Have you seen his long-form death certificate? Huh? Huh?!

Posted by: El Guerrero del Interfaz | July 23, 2009 2:07 PM

Have you seen one of the "Torrente" movies by any chance?

Because that's almost the only place where yhou can see mentions of the old dictator nowadays.

I migrated to Spain shortly before his (extra long and delayed) demise and it was the best decision of my life. Watching the old regime loosing it while the country was waking up and emerging into the present was something I would hate to have missed. And seeing the state church losing its privileges and influences little by little was even more enjoyable :-)

Libertad, libertad sin ira libertad
guárdate tu miedo y tu ira
porque hay libertad, sin ira libertad
y si no la hay sin duda la habrá

Posted by: NewEnglandBob | July 23, 2009 2:28 PM

George Will. Won't. Can't. Typical conservative. He lies then ignore the responses. He is a pissant.

Posted by: Didac | July 23, 2009 2:40 PM

It's very discouraging seing people defending things they do not want to understand and applying simply the catchwords of their political tendency. That applies, of course, both to liberals and conservatives, libertarians and collectivists. Of course, there are independent-minded conservatives, liberals, libertarians or collectivists that try to read, to learn, to study, before making any statement. On the contrary, most "ideological" people tend to read only works confirming their own "ideologies". And let me say that ideology is very like as religion. Everybody needs axioms such as "all people are equal in dignity" or "murder is bad", or some others. But a lot of acritical people take dogmas, no matter religious or political. Left-wing people assume the dogma of assigning any natural disaster to global warming. Right-wing people assume the dogma of no global warming is possible through human (involuntary) agency. There are also cases of cherry-picking. Normally, conservatives denies not only anthropogenic global warming but also long-term trends in oli prices. On the contrary, the British Nationalist Party picks the global warming denial but assumes a peak oil crisis as imminent. Some right-wingers (and left-wingers alike) assume the existence of a Jewish conspiracy. Some others believe Israel is the last bulwark of Western Civilization. It is plainly impossible to discuss with dogmatic people. For them all it is Black and White. They are sad, angry people. Convictions! We need perhaps two or three convictions. More than three conviction is a burdensome weight.

Posted by: varlo | July 23, 2009 2:57 PM

Basil Fawlty (to Manuel): You do have rats in Spain, don't you, or did Franco have then all shot? As for Will, he cannot be of biological origin. No human can go for decades with never a solitary hair out of place. But unlike some of the corporate sponsored professional denialists I suspect that Will really believes his claims.

Posted by: pascalle | July 23, 2009 3:12 PM

WTF is a frelling commercial for good news magazin doing on Seed?

Posted by: Andyo | July 23, 2009 3:53 PM

El Guerrero del Interfaz #10

Have you seen one of the "Torrente" movies by any chance?

Because that's almost the only place where yhou can see mentions of the old dictator nowadays.
I'm sure you have heard Adivina Adivinanza?

BTW, re: Torrente, I'm sure you've also heard Sabina's song with the very Torrente? It just blows my mind how someone can write such elegant verses about ANYTHING the same time as well as Sabina.

Posted by: Mystyk | July 23, 2009 4:18 PM

You want a bad one when it comes to Global Warming? Check out the distilled BS put out by my paper's resident libertarian, Vin Suprynowicz of the Las Vegas Review Journal:

"If earth were warming, it would save a lot of lives" - 24MAY2009
"A loony sect of modern flagellants" - 19JUL2009

Posted by: eddie | July 23, 2009 5:17 PM

The head priest of the parish has gone to visit the vatican so the junior cleric is standing in at confession. To avoid mistakes, his superior has left him with a list of sins and the appropriate pennance for each.
All is going well untill an altar boy comes in and says; "Bless me father for I have sinned. I've been giving out blow-jobs in exchange for sweets". The junior priest is lost, reading and rereading the list he was given with no luck. Finally, he snaps: "You're an altar boy. What does the priest usually give for a blow-job?"

Wait for it...

"Two mars bars and a curly-wurly".

Ka! to tha Ching!

Posted by: eddie | July 23, 2009 5:32 PM

Apologies for the mis-post, but Bennet Cerf was a much better pundit than Will could ever be. And his baseball stuff was better too.

Posted by: amphiox | July 23, 2009 7:26 PM

"fact-checking on multiple levels"

And I suppose those levels would be "shallow," "very shallow," "mind-blowingly shallow," and "hovering five feet in the firmament."

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage | July 23, 2009 8:10 PM

The spring chickens on the list will not recognize the reference. Whipper-snappers.

Back in the days when Saturday Night Live was funny.

Posted by: DLC | July 23, 2009 9:30 PM

I wonder sometimes what would happen if the world were turned upside down and the AGW-Denialists were proven right.

In a similar vein I wonder sometimes what I would think, do or say were there to be an event that proved or seemed to prove the existence of a deity. It's a flight of fancy I sometimes allow myself.

Posted by: Rey Fox | July 24, 2009 1:11 AM

As long as we're talking Franco, Spanish bombs in the costa rica, I'm comin' over on a DC-10 tonight!

Oh my corazón!