Senator Debbie Stabenow, speaking to the Detroit News:
Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying.
via DETNEWS | Weblogs | Henry Payne’s Sketchbook.
(This one had to be entered into the record.)
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Maybe stabilizers on the broomstick.
I guess it’s not just Bachmann, but her also.
Michigan flatworms aught to be crawling across the border.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Maybe mixing gin with vodka.
August 13th, 2009 at 2:50 am
I am sure that quote was taken out of context.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:50 am
nkh: It was. Of course, as you’ve probably guessed, the context
makes it worse:
August 13th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Nkh: I see your sporting “Vera’s a Possum” as your gravatar. Niiiiiice!
As to Stabenow, maybe she means market volatility, which explains why the stock market is up.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Global warming causes hot flashes in certain non flatworms to increase in severity, intensity, and frequency. This is subjectivly experienced as “volatility.” It May be related to the increased ambient temperatures.
Come to think of it, global warming really is a crisis. We’re doomed!
Steven from Indiana
August 13th, 2009 at 10:49 am
@Peter Shalen – re: context makes it worse: I was just going to say that without even looking up the context. Some things are entirely predictable.
I bet you flatworms thought you were going to have a thread all to yourselves. You all are clearly not at the top of your game without the higher organisms to keep you tuned up. For instance, flatworms don’t crawl: they are aquatic. “Non-flatworms” is hyphenated. And comment number one should read “ought.”
Now, I am not a flatworm, but I am not a non-flatworm. But I understand the temptation on your part to blame the rampant, raging ignorance on the part of some non-y-chromosome-bearing legislators to The Change. Resist that temptation at all costs. You might end up on the wrong end of some fairly intelligent if estrogen-deprived but completely justified comeuppance. Remember: you all have never had estrogen in appreciable amounts, so you have always had the short end of that stick, so to speak. And Margaret Thatcher had lots.
Anyway, I think Debbie Stabenow is just stupid. I don’t think women have a monopoly on that.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
During one of my busy periods away from ZC, I seem to have missed the origins of “flatworm”. I feel like one of the uncool kids, like Anthony Michael Hall’s character in Sixteen Candles
August 13th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Uninspector Barbara of the Planaria Patrol is back, kicking chromosomes and taking names.
She may not be right about all flatworms being aquatic, but she’s never wrong.
We indeed ought to know that.
August 13th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
“Aquatic” meaning that they need a, um, moist environment.
Bruce, in the Zombie parlance, the Y-chromosome bearers call themselves flatworms to flag threads that they think might cause some women to be upset- you know, like that woman who felt sick when Larry Summers said that there are fewer women in the sciences and math. Conservative women, however, tend to think that these little tweaks are flirtatious. Exhibit A: fuster. Has the total hots for me. You can just tell. At least until J.E. gets back.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
@Barbara – Had we but world enough and time…. then worms shall try…
August 13th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
@fuster – If e’er there were a time for that worm to turn . . .
August 13th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
fuster…The truth is that flatworms have no chance against those who are capable of multiple orgasms per session vs. per year.
Steven from Indiana
August 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I say let’s go down fighting.
Better to die on our bellies then to live on non-existent knees!!!
August 14th, 2009 at 12:31 pm