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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:38 PM Dec 2015

Jeff Sessions: No Major Hurricanes In Ten Years 'Thank The Lord'

Dismissing the threat of climate change yesterday, Sen. Jeff Sessions declared that no devastating hurricanes have hit the U.S. since Hurricane Katrina, “thank the Lord.”

The Alabama Republican appears to have forgotten events such as Superstorm Sandy, the 2012 hurricane that resulted in 285 deaths, and Hurricane Ike, which left 195 people dead, including at least 112 Americans, in 2008. After Katrina, Sandy and Ike were the second and third costliest storms, respectively, in U.S. history.

Sessions made his remarks on “Washington Watch,” the program hosted by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. Discussing the upcoming climate change summit in Paris, Sessions insisted that there’s been “almost no warming” in the last 25 years and contested claims that climate change will increase the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.

“Neither have we had more hurricanes,” he said. “We remember Katrina, I know you do and I do too being from Mobile, but we haven’t had a major hurricane hit the United States in a decade. Unbelievable. Thank the Lord. The predictions were we’d have more hurricanes and more devastating.”

Maybe Sessions doesn’t consider Sandy a “major hurricane”: After all, he voted against disaster relief aid to the people in affected areas, even though he has a record of requesting aid for his home state of Alabama.

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Jeff Sessions: No Major Hurricanes In Ten Years 'Thank The Lord' (Original Post) n2doc Dec 2015 OP
I thought The Lord was preoccupied with touchdowns in Al Abama underpants Dec 2015 #1
He knows that not all hurrincans hit the US, right? Takket Dec 2015 #2
God loves Merica, cuz we loves God. Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #8
even if he knows (doubtful), pretty sure he wouldn't give a damn. niyad Dec 2015 #9
I am thankful that atlantic hurricane season 2015 is officially over. niyad Dec 2015 #3
I guess that rita and wilma, amoung others, don't count? niyad Dec 2015 #4
This kind of idiocy is dangerous. ananda Dec 2015 #5
I guess that means that The Lord is conclusively in favor of marriage equality Orrex Dec 2015 #6
Two places NEVER learn about science: 1) Congress, 2) church. Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #7
like this image: niyad Dec 2015 #10
I LOVE this! Le Taz Hot Dec 2015 #25
I heard this once Mendocino Dec 2015 #26
both work. except that yours contains larger words--more difficult for them to understand. niyad Dec 2015 #28
Going to need Mendocino Dec 2015 #29
that too! niyad Dec 2015 #30
Is he the snowball dude or was that someone else? 47of74 Dec 2015 #11
No Senator Snowball is Jim Inhofe Glitterati Dec 2015 #12
These people parade their ignorance treestar Dec 2015 #13
They reinforce and embolden the stupidity of their herd even more. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2015 #15
folks assume that their United States Senator is intelligent and well informed. spanone Dec 2015 #14
I don't. 47of74 Dec 2015 #22
Hurricane Sandy??? Botany Dec 2015 #16
It wasn't a 'major' at landfall. nt B2G Dec 2015 #17
The death toll in the U.S. and Canada was low because of the prep work done by P. Obama and others Botany Dec 2015 #18
Yes, I followed it B2G Dec 2015 #19
What the actual fuck? I guess if you vote against funding the relief, the event never happened. Glassunion Dec 2015 #20
In English: "No hurricanes have hit Alabama in 10 years, thank the Lord." jmowreader Dec 2015 #21
Shouldn't he be thanking Pat Robertson? KamaAina Dec 2015 #23
By saying these things, these religious nuts reveal that their god is a sociopathic Arugula Latte Dec 2015 #24
Maybe he doesn't remember any after Katrina because they lacked the epic clusterf$ck tanyev Dec 2015 #27
So, there are no serious hurricanes if they don't strike the United States. Got it. nt ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2015 #31

Takket

(21,424 posts)
2. He knows that not all hurrincans hit the US, right?
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:44 PM
Dec 2015

"Early on October 23, Hurricane Hunters revealed the storm to have acquired record maximum sustained winds of 200 mph (325 km/h); a subsequent recon mission found a record low pressure of 879 mbar (hPa; 25.96 inHg)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Patricia

niyad

(112,434 posts)
4. I guess that rita and wilma, amoung others, don't count?
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:50 PM
Dec 2015

jeff, you clueless, fucking idiot, do us a favour and shut your ignorant yap.

Orrex

(63,084 posts)
6. I guess that means that The Lord is conclusively in favor of marriage equality
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:51 PM
Dec 2015

Thanks for confirming, Jeff!

Mendocino

(7,430 posts)
26. I heard this once
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 05:14 PM
Dec 2015

in a slightly different version:

Don't teach creationism in my school and I won't preach evolution in your church.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
13. These people parade their ignorance
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 02:07 PM
Dec 2015

If you're going to speak on national TV, inform yourself. Too much to ask of Republicans.

spanone

(135,633 posts)
14. folks assume that their United States Senator is intelligent and well informed.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 02:08 PM
Dec 2015

dear folks.....not. so.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
22. I don't.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 03:45 PM
Dec 2015

Here in Iowa we have Senator Chuck "Lawn Mower" Grassley. That's from a few years ago when he put on an ad about how he was such a genius about mowing the lawn.

Then of course we also have Senator Joni Breadbags McCutyernutzoff Ernst. The reason I wish to the Good Lord Jesus Christ Senator Harkin had put off retirement a few years.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
18. The death toll in the U.S. and Canada was low because of the prep work done by P. Obama and others
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 02:56 PM
Dec 2015

From wiki:

Hurricane Sandy (unofficially known as "Superstorm Sandy&quot was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, and the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.[1] While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)).[3][4] Estimates as of 2015 assessed damage to have been about $75 billion (2012 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.[5] At least 233 people were killed along the path of the storm in eight countries

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
24. By saying these things, these religious nuts reveal that their god is a sociopathic
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 04:05 PM
Dec 2015

mass murderer. The conundrum of monotheism is that you have One "Loving" God who has the power to cause/allow/prevent everything from Susie getting an A on her math test to a particular sports team winning to Bob getting a cancer diagnosis to thousands of babies dying of famine to catastrophic natural disasters. That is one fucked-up belief system that puts all its eggs into the basket of one evil/loving bipolar deity who smacks humans around depending on its whims and the "prayers" of the species of hairless apes who currently dominate the planet.

Maybe that's why the dinosaurs went extinct -- they didn't pray enough.

tanyev

(42,358 posts)
27. Maybe he doesn't remember any after Katrina because they lacked the epic clusterf$ck
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 05:20 PM
Dec 2015

of incompetence of the Bush administration's response.

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