An Oklahoman Apologizes for Oklahoma's Politicians

[Chuck Bao]

This is a blog and should be taken as just one person's opinion. Nevertheless, it is being picked up on a lot of websites.

The fact is that it is an opinion that I also share. That is except for the Dan Boren comments. I like Rep Boren and wish him well when he retires from politics. I'm a proud Okie and always will be one. I'm just not so sure that our Oklahoma politicians are at all thinking or not thinking about all of us.

Oh yeah, I loved her dig at Texas. That was funny.

This is the blog from Sarah Burris that is being quoted.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/04/13/on-behalf-oklahoma-politicians-an-apology


Dear Americans,

On behalf of the great state of Oklahoma I want to take this opportunity to apologize. Wednesday evening, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart interviewed our Senator Ralph Shorty, the architect of the Oklahoma Personhood bill intended to declare a fertilized egg a person. Shorty explained that he couldn't add Senator Constance Johnson's "Every Sperm is Sacred" Amendment to his bill controlling women's bodies, because her amendment was an effort to control men's bodies. Senator Shorty will control women's bodies, but control of men's bodies Is. Not. Allowed. I promise you not all of our elected officials are this hypocritical, and most Oklahomans absolutely are not.

While I'm at it, I also want to apologize for all those oil companies encouraging Sen. Inhofe to declare global climate change is fake. You see, Oklahoma is where the oil comes from. We horde it like dominated squirrels so when we suck the Middle East dry everyone at home becomes a billionaire. I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I'm so, so sorry about Senator Sally Kern. I really don't know what her problem is. She just seems to hate it when people are happy. I would psychoanalyze her, but she's blocked me from asking these questions on Twitter. To be fair, though, she's originally from Arkansas, so maybe that's what it is.

I apologize to Arkansas for that last remark. You're not any better or worse.

Governor Mary Fallin really just can't help herself and I'm profoundly sorry for her. It isn't that she's a super religious, pro-family values person; I mean… obviously, it's just that she'll say anything to get elected, even if it's a lie or it's hurtful. It's just politics, you know?

And finally I want to apologize for the most conservative Democrat in the US Congress, Dan Boren who really only votes with Republicans a majority of the time. I don't know what to say. His district isn't that conservative, his father wasn't that conservative, he's just …. I don't know. I'm really, really sorry for Dan Boren, and want to apologize especially to Leader Pelosi. At least he voted for her for Speaker in 2006. At least I think he did.

Oklahoma isn't a bad place. We're the home of Will Rogers, Garth Brooks, and Kane (from Project Runway). Of the wild and crazy weather that spun off the cult classic Twister! We bring you juicy steaks and when there isn't a drought, we bring you the stuff to make bread. We're so beautifully culturally diverse - despite our resistance to diversity. And, while some might exhibit CGB-like ways, bless their hearts, they're not evil people; they sometimes just don't understand. Some just don't know any better.

So it's our responsibility as progressives, as women, as LGBT persons, as environmentalists, as "rest-of-the-week" people of faith, to explain that what Oklahoma conservatives are actually doing has lasting cultural, economic, and quite honestly emotional impacts on all of us. Plus, it makes the state look like crazy town, and if there's one thing Oklahomans can all agree on, we don't want to end up looking like Texas.

I do not apologize to Texas for that remark, because I'm an Oklahoman, damnit.

So, I'm sorry. On behalf of all thinking and non-thinking Oklahomans. On behalf of moderate Republicans who are disgusted by their party and Democrats who've just thrown up their hands. On behalf of women who just roll they're eyes and assume the courts will protect them. On behalf of the young gay teens who somehow make it through high school while just trying to live their lives. I apologize. I'm so, so, so very sorry. Please, forgive us.

Signed,

Sarah Burris

On Behalf of Oklahoma

[LiveLaughLove]

This is a blog and should be taken as just one person's opinion. Nevertheless, it is being picked up on a lot of websites.

The fact is that it is an opinion that I also share. That is except for the Dan Boren comments. I like Rep Boren and wish him well when he retires from politics. I'm a proud Okie and always will be one. I'm just not so sure that our Oklahoma politicians are at all thinking or not thinking about all of us.

Oh yeah, I loved her dig at Texas. That was funny.

This is the blog from Sarah Burris that is being quoted.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/04/13/on-behalf-oklahoma-politicians-an-apology

It must be miserable to be a liberal demagogue living in the great state of Oklahoma.

Her "points" aren't even worth acknowledging. There are so many leftist fallacies and outright lies, it would be hard to know where to begin.

I guess the best I can say, trying to be positive about it is, it's one persons opinion.

[Sooner_Bob]

I'll agree that some of our politicians aren't the sharpest tools in the shed . . . . but we have had a few decent ones.

[Midtowner]

It must be miserable to be a liberal demagogue living in the great state of Oklahoma.

Her "points" aren't even worth acknowledging. There are so many leftist fallacies and outright lies, it would be hard to know where to begin.

I guess the best I can say, trying to be positive about it is, it's one persons opinion.

What fallacies? Shortey wants to control women's bodies, not men's. Fallin will say anything to be elected. She actually believes in none of it (see her affair). Kern just nuts.

[picasso]

So there's a problem with an abortion bill controlling women's bodies and yet there's no problem with Obamacare?

Nice effin logic.

[yermom]

she sounds like a moron

[okie52]

A lesbo anti oil environmentalist that for some strange reason doesn't agree with okie politics....go figure.

[Midtowner]

So there's a problem with an abortion bill controlling women's bodies and yet there's no problem with Obamacare?

Nice effin logic.

Nice non sequitur.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Nice non sequitur.Nice spin...

[LiveLaughLove]

What fallacies? Shortey wants to control women's bodies, not men's. Fallin will say anything to be elected. She actually believes in none of it (see her affair). Kern just nuts.

Well, a FERTILIZED egg is not an equivalent to a sperm. A FERTILIZED egg to very many of us a human being. A sperm can never be a human being. A sperm left to incubate is still a sperm. A fertilized egg, a human being.

No one wants to control a woman's body, we just don't want her killing another human being. She is free to do whatever she wants with HER body, just not the other persons.

Global warming is NOT settled science regardless of how many times people say it. In fact, if it were we would be underwater now. Hasn't happened, not happening. Inhofe is on the right side of the issue, figuratively and literally. The longer we go, the more we find that it was never settled science, it was fabricated political science.

I don't know anything about Sally Kern beyond her name.

Fallin will say things to get elected?! I'm shocked! Democrats NEVER do that! puh-leeze.

"Oklahoma isn't a bad place". Well, how condescendingly magnanimous of her. I guess we just don't measure up to NY or Cali. I notice those states are losing population while Oklahoma, Texas and the south overall is growing.

"makes the state look like crazy town". Only in people like her's sad pathetic little eyes. This is God's Country, and I would not wish to have born or raise my family anywhere else.

"On behalf of the young gay teens who somehow make it through high school while just trying to live their lives." Yes, Oklahoma is so bad to live in for gays. It's a horror show a day. Can we get any more drama in here? Drama please, entre' stage left!

She can stuff her apology the same as Obama can stuff all of his that he loves to do.

[Midtowner]

Well, a FERTILIZED egg is not an equivalent to a sperm. A FERTILIZED egg to very many of us a human being. A sperm can never be a human being. A sperm left to incubate is still a sperm. A fertilized egg, a human being.

No one wants to control a woman's body, we just don't want her killing another human being. She is free to do whatever she wants with HER body, just not the other persons.

What if she doesn't want that other person in her body? Guess she's not so free then?


Global warming is NOT settled science regardless of how many times people say it. In fact, if it were we would be underwater now. Hasn't happened, not happening. Inhofe is on the right side of the issue, figuratively and literally. The longer we go, the more we find that it was never settled science, it was fabricated political science.

Okay, you've disproved it. Please write your paper, submit it for publication and collect your Nobel Prize. Easy money!


I don't know anything about Sally Kern beyond her name.

Fallin will say things to get elected?! I'm shocked! Democrats NEVER do that! puh-leeze.

Faith/family/freedom. She won on those three words and nothing else and won. Truly the most cynical and vapid campaign I can remember.

[ictsooner7]

What fallacies? Shortey wants to control women's bodies, not men's. Fallin will say anything to be elected. She actually believes in none of it (see her affair). Kern just nuts.

I'm sorry, i was done with the ignorance on here but this is just too good to pass up. So................conservative Governor fallin had an affair BEFORE being elected governor. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and you conservative idiots knew about it and STILL voted her into office. What a f'in joke. Add her to all the other its ok when you're a republican republicans, but have a democrat do it and lets impeach him. Not only did it cost the guy his job and her marriage, talk about needing to defend traditional marriage, she also hid behind her kids and CHRISTMAS so she wouldn't have to tell the truth. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A PIECE OF ****! What a bunch of idiots for voting for her. HAHAHAHAHA Nice way to end it.



http://www.okpns.com/2006/05/31/ok-political-news-service-flashback/


OK Political News Service Flashback!

Lt. Gov’s bodyguard quits amid allegations of affair

December 8, 1998 AP

OKLAHOMA CITY

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol bodyguard for Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin has resigned after admitting ”unprofessional conduct” amid allegations by her estranged husband that she had an affair with a bodyguard.

Mrs. Fallin, a Republican who was elected to a second term last month, filed for divorce last week. At a hearing, Fallin’s attorney raised an allegation about the lieutenant governor having an affair with an unidentified bodyguard.

In a statement Monday, Public Safety Commissioner Bob Ricks said rumors surfaced in early September about ”alleged unprofessional conduct between a member of the executive security detail and the lieutenant governor.”

The statement said the trooper first denied the allegations, but was again questioned late last month and ”admitted to unprofessional conduct and was permitted to resign. That resignation was accepted last week. His admission did not indicate that sexual activity was involved.”

The trooper was not identified and Ricks was reported unavailable for further discussion of the matter.

Lana Tyree, Mrs. Fallin’s attorney, later issued a statement saying the lieutenant governor would have no comment.

”Out of legitimate concern for the privacy and welfare of her minor children through the Christmas holidays, Lieutenant Governor Mary Fallin, having denied the allegations, will not respond to or debate these issues in the media and will make no further public comment,” the statement said. Mrs. Fallin, 43, and her husband have two children, ages 11 and 8.

In court, Mrs. Fallin had said the allegations of an affair with a bodyguard were a rumor started by her husband. At last week’s hearing, District Judge Jerry Bass prevented Fallin’s attorney from pursuing questions about an alleged affair.

In response to a question from his wife’s attorney, Mr. Fallin said he had hired a private investigator to follow her.

Another hearing in the divorce case is set for next Monday.

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

I'm sorry, i was done with the ignorance on here but this is just too good to pass up. So................conservative Governor fallin had an affair BEFORE being elected governor. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and you conservative idiots knew about it and STILL voted her into office. What a f'in joke. Add her to all the other its ok when you're a republican republicans, but have a democrat do it and lets impeach him. Not only did it cost the guy his job and her marriage, talk about needing to defend traditional marriage, she also hid behind her kids and CHRISTMAS so she wouldn't have to tell the truth. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A PIECE OF ****! What a bunch of idiots for voting for her. HAHAHAHAHA Nice way to end it.



http://www.okpns.com/2006/05/31/ok-political-news-service-flashback/


OK Political News Service Flashback!

Lt. Gov’s bodyguard quits amid allegations of affair

December 8, 1998 AP

OKLAHOMA CITY

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol bodyguard for Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin has resigned after admitting ”unprofessional conduct” amid allegations by her estranged husband that she had an affair with a bodyguard.

Mrs. Fallin, a Republican who was elected to a second term last month, filed for divorce last week. At a hearing, Fallin’s attorney raised an allegation about the lieutenant governor having an affair with an unidentified bodyguard.

In a statement Monday, Public Safety Commissioner Bob Ricks said rumors surfaced in early September about ”alleged unprofessional conduct between a member of the executive security detail and the lieutenant governor.”

The statement said the trooper first denied the allegations, but was again questioned late last month and ”admitted to unprofessional conduct and was permitted to resign. That resignation was accepted last week. His admission did not indicate that sexual activity was involved.”

The trooper was not identified and Ricks was reported unavailable for further discussion of the matter.

Lana Tyree, Mrs. Fallin’s attorney, later issued a statement saying the lieutenant governor would have no comment.

”Out of legitimate concern for the privacy and welfare of her minor children through the Christmas holidays, Lieutenant Governor Mary Fallin, having denied the allegations, will not respond to or debate these issues in the media and will make no further public comment,” the statement said. Mrs. Fallin, 43, and her husband have two children, ages 11 and 8.

In court, Mrs. Fallin had said the allegations of an affair with a bodyguard were a rumor started by her husband. At last week’s hearing, District Judge Jerry Bass prevented Fallin’s attorney from pursuing questions about an alleged affair.

In response to a question from his wife’s attorney, Mr. Fallin said he had hired a private investigator to follow her.

Another hearing in the divorce case is set for next Monday.
At first I thought "wow, an ictsooner post I can actually read". Then, I realized you just had copypasta of some article, and your usual drivel is unreadable as always.

[LiveLaughLove]

What if she doesn't want that other person in her body? Guess she's not so free then?

She is free to control her body and not get pregnant. She shuld not be free to murder someone for her convenience' sake. Life either begins at conception or at birth. Anything in between is arbitrary bunk. Liberal California charged Scott Peterson with TWO murders, his wifes, and his unborn babies.




Okay, you've disproved it. Please write your paper, submit it for publication and collect your Nobel Prize. Easy money!

Nah, my proof is we are still here. The water hasn't risen past Gore's new Florida beach front mansions driveway, let alone his whole house. Easy breezy.




Faith/family/freedom. She won on those three words and nothing else and won. Truly the most cynical and vapid campaign I can remember.

You may not believe this, but I have no reason to lie. I didn't follow the governor's election at all. This is my first hearing of Fallin's cheating on her husband. My step Mother knows her and didn't care for her, so she was not my pick, but I did vote for her over the Obama surrogate and would do so again.

For ict, likening perjury to infidelity is a little out there, even for you. Clinton was not impeached for indiscretion. It was the lying during the cover up, but you know that.

[Sooner98]

Not only does Sarah Burris not speak for any Oklahomans besides her sad little self, her persecution complex, fear-mongering, and demagoguery are reaching levels that I have never personally seen. The sad thing is, we can probably expect to see more and more of this from the left as November approaches.

[Midtowner]

She is free to control her body and not get pregnant. She shuld not be free to murder someone for her convenience' sake. Life either begins at conception or at birth. Anything in between is arbitrary bunk. Liberal California charged Scott Peterson with TWO murders, his wifes, and his unborn babies.

But she is. And personhood bills will not reverse Planned Parenthood v. Casey. They'll just raise arbitrary possibilities as to things which could be considered crimes, e.g., stem cell research, just about any physician assisted fertility, etc. could be potentially illegal here. I'm not really worried. Due to the arbitrariness of everything, the Oklahoma Supreme Court will likely just strike it down.


Nah, my proof is we are still here. The water hasn't risen past Gore's new Florida beach front mansions driveway, let alone his whole house. Easy breezy.

I can see you've followed the concept closely.


You may not believe this, but I have no reason to lie. I didn't follow the governor's election at all. This is my first hearing of Fallin's cheating on her husband. My step Mother knows her and didn't care for her, so she was not my pick, but I did vote for her over the Obama surrogate and would do so again.

Askins as an Obama surrogate? Surely you jest. She's a smart and capable woman who runs a very profitable business, has been a judge, a legislative leader and Lieutenant Governor. She's definitely right-of-center though. Not too many liberals from Duncan.

The stupidity of party-line votes is the only reason Fallin was elected.


For ict, likening perjury to infidelity is a little out there, even for you. Clinton was not impeached for indiscretion. It was the lying during the cover up, but you know that.

Well.. they're both still crimes! Aside from that, Clinton is a lawyer who perjured himself. I don't have a bit of use for a lawyer who lies under oath. No doubt Clinton is a smart guy and was a capable President, but he has zero moral integrity.

[Chuck Bao]

Not only does Sarah Burris not speak for any Oklahomans besides her sad little self, her persecution complex, fear-mongering, and demagoguery are reaching levels that I have never personally seen. The sad thing is, we can probably expect to see more and more of this from the left as November approaches.

Sarah Burris spoke well enough for me and almost exactly mirrored my own embarrassment with the Oklahoma legislature.

Are you really sure you want the Oklahoma Personhood bill passed into law in our state?

As far as I'm concerned, this is not fear-mongering. As this bill and others like it makes it clear, there is indeed legitimate fear that our freedoms and rights will be systematically taken away by a pandering legislature to the religious right demagoguery. I happen to think that we are better than that.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Sarah Burris spoke well enough for me and almost exactly mirrored my own embarrassment with the Oklahoma legislature.No. Way.

[OU_Sooners75]

What if she doesn't want that other person in her body? Guess she's not so free then?

Then maybe she should have used birth control or condoms? If she is turned off by a baby being inside her, then maybe, just maybe, she should have known the consequences of the act of intercourse?




Okay, you've disproved it. Please write your paper, submit it for publication and collect your Nobel Prize. Easy money!

Prove that it exists?


Faith/family/freedom. She won on those three words and nothing else and won. Truly the most cynical and vapid campaign I can remember.

Well, it sounded good to Okies....and better than "Hope and Change," now doesn't it?

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

Prove that it exists?
Proof? I just need faith, personally

[OU_Sooners75]

Proof? I just need faith, personally

Thats what I am saying.

This "Global Warming" crap is just that, crap! Science on the other hand has documented evidence that the earth goes through warmer and colder cycles.

[Midtowner]

Prove that it exists?


It's been done. Denying it puts you on par with folks who think the world is flat or that the Sun revolves around the Earth.

[StoopTroup]

Thats what I am saying.

This "Global Warming" crap is just that, crap! Science on the other hand has documented evidence that the earth goes through warmer and colder cycles.

Here's some navy crap...

Navy Releases Roadmap for Global Climate Change


By Bob Freeman, Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, released an overarching roadmap on May 21 that will guide Navy policy, strategy and investment plans related to a changing global climate.

Entitled the U.S. Navy Climate Change Roadmap, this guidance was developed by the Navy's Task Force Climate Change, a matrixed organization that includes representatives from various naval staff and program offices and the operational fleet, with the close collaboration of the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"We must ensure our Navy is fully mission-capable and ready to meet national requirements in the future. That responsibility includes anticipating the impact of changing climatic conditions on mission requirements, force structure and infrastructure," explained Rear Adm. Dave Titley, director of Task Force Climate Change and Oceanographer of the Navy.

The Climate Change Roadmap is intended to be a companion document to the Navy Arctic Roadmap, released in November 2009. While the Arctic Roadmap serves to promote maritime security and naval readiness in a changing Arctic, the new Climate Change Roadmap examines the broader issues of global climate change impacts on Navy missions and capabilities.

"We issued the Arctic Roadmap first because that is where the most significant evidence of climate change is occurring," Titley remarked, "but the Arctic is not a vacuum. The changes that are occurring there, from both an environmental and political standpoint, reflect changes that will occur in the rest of the world."

The roadmap lays out a chronological approach divided into three phases.

Phase 1, focusing on near-term goals, includes defining the requirements for improved operational and climatic prediction capabilities through cooperative efforts within the U.S. government and scientific and academic communities.

Phase 1 also calls for inclusion of climate change impacts on national security in Naval War College coursework and in strategic "table top" exercises.

Phase 2, which is targeted for fiscal years 2011 and 2012, identifies as a priority the development of recommendations for Navy investments to meet climate change challenges. These challenges include protecting coastal installations vulnerable to rising sea levels and water resource challenges and being prepared to respond to regions of the world destabilized by changing climatic conditions.

Phase 2 also calls for the formalization of the cooperative relationships defined in Phase 1, and targets incorporation of climate change considerations in strategic guidance documents and fleet training and planning.

Phase 3, looking out through fiscal year 2014, addresses the execution of investment decisions and the initiation of intergovernmental, multilateral and bilateral activities with various partners to better assess and predict climate change, and respond to the military impacts of climate change.

"Climate change will affect the type, scope, and location of future Navy missions, so it's essential that naval force structure and infrastructure are delivered at the right time and at the right cost," Titley explained. "That will depend upon a rigorous assessment of future requirements and capabilities, and an understanding of the timing, severity, and impact of the changing climate, based on the best available science," he added.

The Roadmap, which incorporates guidance from national maritime and defense strategies, will be updated to reflect future guidance after the next Quadrennial Defense Review.

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=53562

[StoopTroup]

Here's some stuff from some guys almost as smart as you...

Hey maybe they are just crazy...

March 29, 2012



Lee Gunn -- "Lee" is how he introduces himself, although most people call him Admiral Gunn, in deference to his 35 years as a U.S. Naval officer -- does not look like a Prius driver, much less a tree-hugger.
Which is why many people do a double take when the Pontiac-born Gunn tells them that global warming is the most serious national security issue confronting the U.S. -- or, as he puts it, " the existential threat to America and its influence in the world" as humanity's appetite for energy mushrooms.
You just don't expect a self-described ship driver who spent his career on vessels that average "about 12 inches to the gallon" to be obsessed with fuel economy -- or U.S. dependency on foreign oil, or public-private initiatives to develop renewable energy.
But the 70-year-old Gunn is deeply concerned about all these things -- which is why he is touring the country with another retired admiral from Britain's Royal Navy, telling governors, state legislators and editorial boards that they'd better get busy about developing new sources of energy or resign themselves to the end of America's economic and military supremacy.
Gunn is the president of the Institute for Public Research at CNA, a 70-year-old Virginia-based research organization that also includes the Center for Naval Analyses.
CNA began staking out a prominent role in the renewable energy debate five years ago, when its Military Advisory Board ("mostly retired three- and four-stars or flag officers") issued a widely circulated report called "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change."
The report, which described climate change as a threat multiplier in some of the world's most politically volatile regions, startled official Washington with its assertion that global warming had important military ramifications as well as environmental ones.
Since then, Gunn and his colleagues have published additional research reports asserting that reducing consumption of fossil fuels is critical to U.S. military security, and that the Department of Defense (which accounts for 2% of the nation's energy consumption) should be a leader in developing a clean-energy economy.
Now they're telling state policy-makers they cannot wait for the federal government to articulate a national energy policy before launching their own renewable energy initiatives.
"There needs to be urgency about finding new ways to satisfy our energy needs," Gunn said. "If they're paralyzed in Washington, then states like Michigan and California need to lead the way."
Gunn and his retired naval colleagues have spent much of this week talking to Republicans in the state Legislature and the Snyder administration, whom they describe as genuinely interested in pushing beyond the partisan gridlock between drill-baby-drill Republicans and tree-hugging Democrats.
Many have expressed particular interest in hyper-local initiatives that use anticipated savings to finance capital-intensive conservation projects in municipalities, central business districts, or even a single manufacturing plant.
Jeremy Kalin, a "recovering state legislator" from Minnesota who accompanied Gunn on his mission to Lansing, said the pair has eschewed diversionary arguments about the causes of climate change or which energy technologies are the most promising to emphasize that Michigan should be aggressively making use of all energy sources, with an eye to reducing environmental and national security risk and averting "bad consequences" in the future.
When I asked them their posture toward a nascent public initiative to mandate that Michigan derive 25% of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2025, they declined to endorse the initiative but commended its organizers for pushing the energy discussion to the front burner.
Above all, Gunn and his fellow retired officers want to convince Americans who have not been energized by environmentalists or rising energy costs that they, too, have an urgent stake in the clean-energy revolution -- a revolution they are convinced will either catapult Michigan and other manufacturing states to new economic heights, or trample them underfoot.

http://www.freep.com/article/20120329/COL04/203290455/Brian-Dickerson-Global-warming-biggest-threat-to-U-S-security-retired-officer-says

[diverdog]

Here's some navy crap...

Navy Releases Roadmap for Global Climate Change


By Bob Freeman, Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, released an overarching roadmap on May 21 that will guide Navy policy, strategy and investment plans related to a changing global climate.

Entitled the U.S. Navy Climate Change Roadmap, this guidance was developed by the Navy's Task Force Climate Change, a matrixed organization that includes representatives from various naval staff and program offices and the operational fleet, with the close collaboration of the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"We must ensure our Navy is fully mission-capable and ready to meet national requirements in the future. That responsibility includes anticipating the impact of changing climatic conditions on mission requirements, force structure and infrastructure," explained Rear Adm. Dave Titley, director of Task Force Climate Change and Oceanographer of the Navy.

The Climate Change Roadmap is intended to be a companion document to the Navy Arctic Roadmap, released in November 2009. While the Arctic Roadmap serves to promote maritime security and naval readiness in a changing Arctic, the new Climate Change Roadmap examines the broader issues of global climate change impacts on Navy missions and capabilities.

"We issued the Arctic Roadmap first because that is where the most significant evidence of climate change is occurring," Titley remarked, "but the Arctic is not a vacuum. The changes that are occurring there, from both an environmental and political standpoint, reflect changes that will occur in the rest of the world."

The roadmap lays out a chronological approach divided into three phases.

Phase 1, focusing on near-term goals, includes defining the requirements for improved operational and climatic prediction capabilities through cooperative efforts within the U.S. government and scientific and academic communities.

Phase 1 also calls for inclusion of climate change impacts on national security in Naval War College coursework and in strategic "table top" exercises.

Phase 2, which is targeted for fiscal years 2011 and 2012, identifies as a priority the development of recommendations for Navy investments to meet climate change challenges. These challenges include protecting coastal installations vulnerable to rising sea levels and water resource challenges and being prepared to respond to regions of the world destabilized by changing climatic conditions.

Phase 2 also calls for the formalization of the cooperative relationships defined in Phase 1, and targets incorporation of climate change considerations in strategic guidance documents and fleet training and planning.

Phase 3, looking out through fiscal year 2014, addresses the execution of investment decisions and the initiation of intergovernmental, multilateral and bilateral activities with various partners to better assess and predict climate change, and respond to the military impacts of climate change.

"Climate change will affect the type, scope, and location of future Navy missions, so it's essential that naval force structure and infrastructure are delivered at the right time and at the right cost," Titley explained. "That will depend upon a rigorous assessment of future requirements and capabilities, and an understanding of the timing, severity, and impact of the changing climate, based on the best available science," he added.

The Roadmap, which incorporates guidance from national maritime and defense strategies, will be updated to reflect future guidance after the next Quadrennial Defense Review.

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=53562

I remember sitting in on an intel briefing clear back in 1995 and the military was worried about global warming. The biggest issue was water and how it would affect nations with limited resources. They saw wars developing over water and mass migrations of people to other nations that had water. The military felt that the lack of water would be incredibly destabilizing in Africa. Ironically, they were also worried about AID's and its affects during the same time frame.

[sappstuf]

Here's some navy crap...

Navy Releases Roadmap for Global Climate Change


By Bob Freeman, Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, released an overarching roadmap on May 21 that will guide Navy policy, strategy and investment plans related to a changing global climate.

Entitled the U.S. Navy Climate Change Roadmap, this guidance was developed by the Navy's Task Force Climate Change, a matrixed organization that includes representatives from various naval staff and program offices and the operational fleet, with the close collaboration of the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"We must ensure our Navy is fully mission-capable and ready to meet national requirements in the future. That responsibility includes anticipating the impact of changing climatic conditions on mission requirements, force structure and infrastructure," explained Rear Adm. Dave Titley, director of Task Force Climate Change and Oceanographer of the Navy.

The Climate Change Roadmap is intended to be a companion document to the Navy Arctic Roadmap, released in November 2009. While the Arctic Roadmap serves to promote maritime security and naval readiness in a changing Arctic, the new Climate Change Roadmap examines the broader issues of global climate change impacts on Navy missions and capabilities.

"We issued the Arctic Roadmap first because that is where the most significant evidence of climate change is occurring," Titley remarked, "but the Arctic is not a vacuum. The changes that are occurring there, from both an environmental and political standpoint, reflect changes that will occur in the rest of the world."

The roadmap lays out a chronological approach divided into three phases.

Phase 1, focusing on near-term goals, includes defining the requirements for improved operational and climatic prediction capabilities through cooperative efforts within the U.S. government and scientific and academic communities.

Phase 1 also calls for inclusion of climate change impacts on national security in Naval War College coursework and in strategic "table top" exercises.

Phase 2, which is targeted for fiscal years 2011 and 2012, identifies as a priority the development of recommendations for Navy investments to meet climate change challenges. These challenges include protecting coastal installations vulnerable to rising sea levels and water resource challenges and being prepared to respond to regions of the world destabilized by changing climatic conditions.

Phase 2 also calls for the formalization of the cooperative relationships defined in Phase 1, and targets incorporation of climate change considerations in strategic guidance documents and fleet training and planning.

Phase 3, looking out through fiscal year 2014, addresses the execution of investment decisions and the initiation of intergovernmental, multilateral and bilateral activities with various partners to better assess and predict climate change, and respond to the military impacts of climate change.

"Climate change will affect the type, scope, and location of future Navy missions, so it's essential that naval force structure and infrastructure are delivered at the right time and at the right cost," Titley explained. "That will depend upon a rigorous assessment of future requirements and capabilities, and an understanding of the timing, severity, and impact of the changing climate, based on the best available science," he added.

The Roadmap, which incorporates guidance from national maritime and defense strategies, will be updated to reflect future guidance after the next Quadrennial Defense Review.

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=53562

If you are looking for cutbacks in the Naval force, I think I found a good starting point..

[Whet]

She is an Obama blogger - leftists, progressive pusher of their dogma. So, whatever she writes is part of that stream of scat.

[TitoMorelli]

I'm sorry, i was done with the ignorance on here but this is just too good to pass up.

Yes, we noticed that you had apparently taken your ignorance elsewhere. And appreciated it up till now.

[AlboSooner]

She is an insecure person if she feels the need to apologize because Oklahoma has politicians that are not liberal. There are conservatives even in Jon Stewart's New York. I don't see Jon apologizing for them.

[Mississippi Sooner]

The waitress asked what I wanted. I said, "bacon, egg and cheese on toast."

About twenty minutes later, she brought my order. I looked down to find that I'd be dining on bacon and eggs...and cheese on toast.

I figured, oh well, it's still breakfast.

[Bourbon St Sooner]

So there's a problem with an abortion bill controlling women's bodies and yet there's no problem with Obamacare?

Nice effin logic.

Pay 'tention. They don't want the gubment to tell them what to do with their bodies (more appropriately a seperate human life growing in their body), but they want to tell the Church what they should believe in.

[Midtowner]

Pay 'tention. They don't want the gubment to tell them what to do with their bodies (more appropriately a seperate human life growing in their body), but they want to tell the Church what they should believe in.

Naw... they just want to subject the Churches to the same labor rules and regulations as other employers. What they believe is their business. Whether they are going to comply with an even-handed law whose purpose isn't to discriminate against religion is another thing entirely.

[KantoSooner]

Yeah, I feel for the Catholic Church. It's so persecuted.


Why the broader society even wants the priests to stop raping children! (And generations of boys school grads will tell you that there's no big deal out of being sodomized in your teens by men in their sixties. Hey! It's an old tradition!)

The sheer gall of those radical secularists stuns me.

[Chuck Bao]

Naw... they just want to subject the Churches to the same labor rules and regulations as other employers. What they believe is their business. Whether they are going to comply with an even-handed law whose purpose isn't to discriminate against religion is another thing entirely.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think we are talking about churches but church businesses and some of them are very big businesses, like universities and hospitals, with employees and students/patients with a broad cross of religious backgrounds. They all get state/federal funding either directly or indirectly. I would hate to see Baylor University start firing gay employees or expelling gay students.

As a funny aside, do you remember when Playboy was doing their spread of girls from the now defunct Southwest conference? The Baylor president at that time was quoted as saying that if there are any bare Bears, they wouldn't be a Baylor Bear any longer.

We have come a long way from that and I hope we don't return.

[jkjsooner]

What fallacies? Shortey wants to control women's bodies, not men's.

I think this is a wrong interpretation. A woman can destroy every egg in her body. She can masturbate 24 hours a day like a man if she likes. She only loses some control when she is carrying another human life.

Most people outside the Catholic church don't think a sperm or egg are sacred or represent a living person.

I'm not saying this to change anyone's mind on abortion. I'm just pointing out that I don't think this argument is valid.

[Midtowner]

I think this is a wrong interpretation. A woman can destroy every egg in her body. She can masturbate 24 hours a day like a man if she likes. She only loses some control when she is carrying another human life.

Not much. Go check out Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The only time the states can impact a woman's right to control her own body is if the child is capable of surviving outside the womb--and that's only when the health of the mother isn't at risk, which is really an exception that eats the rule.


Most people outside the Catholic church don't think a sperm or egg are sacred or represent a living person.

I'm not saying this to change anyone's mind on abortion. I'm just pointing out that I don't think this argument is valid.

Shortey wants to pass obviously unconstitutional laws in order to make a point. He will potentially cost the state hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to score political points with his knuckle dragging constituency who also is unconcerned with the state wasting its time passing unconstitutional legislation. More than likely, this, like all of the other bills will be struck down at the District Court level and the AG will have the good sense not to pursue it beyond that point.

[Bourbon St Sooner]

Naw... they just want to subject the Churches to the same labor rules and regulations as other employers. What they believe is their business. Whether they are going to comply with an even-handed law whose purpose isn't to discriminate against religion is another thing entirely.

Eh, I know the rationale. I use hyperbolic statements from time to time to get in the spirit of ObamaFest.

But again, there's a long history in the country of conscientious objectors being allowed to abstain from certain activities, such as the draft. The Church isn't asking to be relieved for observing anti-discrimination laws. They just don't want to be forced to pay for something they have a moral objection to. If the Gubment wants to tie its financing to observance of this rule, then that's fine. But that would be defined by Congress, not the Administration.

BTW, Catholic hospitals are non-profits. In the health care debate thread all I hear is now profit in health care is so bad. So why do you want to drive out non-profits?

[Midtowner]

But again, there's a long history in the country of conscientious objectors being allowed to abstain from certain activities, such as the draft. The Church isn't asking to be relieved for observing anti-discrimination laws. They just don't want to be forced to pay for something they have a moral objection to. If the Gubment wants to tie its financing to observance of this rule, then that's fine. But that would be defined by Congress, not the Administration.

Ehh.. not really. The administration does have a lot of discretion in some areas.


BTW, Catholic hospitals are non-profits. In the health care debate thread all I hear is now profit in health care is so bad. So why do you want to drive out non-profits?

Is it cheaper to go to a Catholic Hospital as opposed to a for-profit one? Not really. These are multi-billion dollar businesses. These are secular, not holy pursuits they're being asked to play by these rules in. Nuns are not being forced to take birth control. I don't really buy the church's argument.