State GOP Chair Wants to Sprinkle Nuclear Waste From Airplanes

[KamaAina]

What state, you ask? Texas? Florida? South Carolina, perhaps?

Nope.

Oregon.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/08/oregon-gop-art-robinson-nuclear-waste-airplanes

After months of in-fighting, the beleaguered Oregon Republican Party elected a new chairman last weekend. His name is Art Robinson, and he wants to sprinkle radioactive waste from airplanes to build up our resistance to degenerative illnesses. Robinson, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress against progressive Rep. Peter DeFazio in 2010 and 2012, took over after the previous chair resigned in advance of a recall campaign over her alleged financial mismanagement....

On nuclear waste: "All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean—or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases." And: "If we could use it to enhance our own drinking water here in Oregon, where background radiation is low, it would hormetically enhance our resistance to degenerative diseases. Alas, this would be against the law."...

On AIDS: "There is a possibility that the entire 'war' on HIV and AIDS is in error. U.S. government AIDS programs are now receiving $6 billion per year and are based entirely upon the hypothesis that HIV virus causes AIDS. Yet, the articles referenced above and numerous additional publications by scientists who have become involved in this controversy state that: attempts to cause AIDS experimentally with HIV have completely failed; thousands of AIDS victims are HIV-free; and HIV shows none of the classical characteristics of a disease-producing organism. Moreover, AIDS is not a unique disease—it is an increased susceptibility to many ordinary diseases presumably as a result of depressed immune response. This depressed immunity can result from many other factors including those especially prevalent in the AIDS afflicted population—drug abuse and unhygienic exposure to very large numbers of different disease vectors. Moreover, large numbers of HIV carriers who are symptom-free are being treated by powerful life-threatening drugs that kill people in ways very similar to AIDS."...

On diversity: The white-male imbalance at his alma mater, Cal Tech, Robinson argued, was due to the fact that "its applicants are weighted toward those who seek severe, difficult, total-immersion training in science—an experience few women and blacks desire."

[MineralMan]

1. Wackadoos abound!

This one's a big-time wackadoo.

[brer cat]

2. Every now and then

we need to totally redefine "stupid".

[FiveGoodMen]

3. We're living in OnionWorld

[Brigid]

9. I admit it: I checked to see if this was from "The Onion."

I seem to be doing that a lot lately.

[Demo_Chris]

34. Me too :(

[longship]

13. Nathan Poe lives.

Poe's Law:

Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.

Of course, this works both ways. Extremists are self-parody.

[valerief]

29. I believe you've hit the nail on the head. nt

[Rex]

4. I'm speechless.

nt.

[hobbit709]

5. I got a better idea: Let him camp out for a month at either Chernobyl or Fukushima.

[dickthegrouch]

35. A month isn't long enough

He needs to bathe in and drink the water in Fukushima.
I hope he's spawned all the little Homo Ignoramuses he wants.

[onehandle]

6. And they say that science is dead. nt

[NV Whino]

7. I have abetter idea

Let's put in his back yard and he can build up his own tolerance.

Where do these people come from? Jesus H.

[Vincardog]

20. +1 Let's put in his back yard and he can build up his own tolerance and the rest of the GOP too.

[Brigid]

8. OK, dumbass GOP chair.

But only if we get to sprinkle nuclear waste on your house first.

[hollysmom]

10. Ow ow ow

this man makes my head hurt.

[polichick]

11. I think Republicans have already been sprinkled with something.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Did they leave out the part where he says the earth is flat?

[sarisataka]

14. Ok, but given

an anatomically correct doll, can he find a vagina?

[Tomica]

15. Granted, only restricted to Republican areas ONLY.

And they must accept it at will.

Freedom! and all that.

[KamaAina]

16. Unfortunately, that's most of the state outside the Willamette Valley (Portland to Eugene).

I'd hate to think of sprinkling nuclear waste on all that beautiful scenery and wildlife.

Welcome to DU! I'm honored that your first post was in my thread!

[Tomica]

26. And hope to be a part of many more :)

Mahalo, my friend.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

41. don't forget Corvallis and Benton County. VERY liberal county compared to surrounding ones

[Downwinder]

17. I would suggest that we have done that.

Look at the cancer rates for the last 75 years and see the effect.

[Archae]

18. Back in 2010, this guy was on the Rachel Maddow show.

And he made an absolute ass of himself.

[SummerSnow]

19. You know what... these Republicans are fucked up.Their logic boggles the mind.

Then they try to make you think you're crazy when they are trying to make sense of their fucked up minds

[cascadiance]

25. The fight over this change is just now heating up in the Oregon GOP (new story today)...

Oregon GOP party officials are challenging the election voting him in now...

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/election_of_art_robinson_as_or.html

[walkerbait41]

21. Can we get all dem`s out of the south

And let him sprinkle away. but only in the south

[KamaAina]

23. Where would we move? Oregon?

This lugnut is the chair of the Oregon repuke party. I purposely left that out of the header, because I knew people would just assume it had to be in the South.

[walkerbait41]

27. I`m sorry I know what I said was dumb

I`m just so fed up with republicans. If you want I`ll take down the post

[cascadiance]

22. I think we should tell him to move to the state of Washington to ENJOY living near Hanford!!!

... and ENJOY all of that nuclear waste that's leaking out of containers up there. Doesn't he need more of that for his health as he gets older?



Also, Pete DeFazio is laughing hard. His son ran as a Democrat in the primary against DeFazio before he ran against DeFazio in the congressional election in 2012. A pretty nutball family at that!

My earlier post on this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1073665

[left on green only]

33. They don't have street lights in Hanford

They don't need them because most of the people glow in the dark.

[PowerToThePeople]

24. We have to do better at teaching Science in the USA. n/t

[Gman]

28. Cal Tech???

WTF? How did this idiot graduate, or did he?

[KamaAina]

31. He used to teach at UCSD!

[Motown_Johnny]

30. Dr. Maddow covered this Monday.

It starts at about 1:30 into the clip.




http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#52740698

[kiranon]

32. Still lower form of GOP leadership discovered

in Oregon. Is this all the GOP has to offer - radiating all of us? As noted above, it's hard to believe this isn't an Onion story.

[Heywood J]

36. I see he feels the need to compete with the big states in the crazy department.

Maybe he only drinks rainwater and pure grain alcohol?

[appleannie1]

37. Corbett wants to spray used radio active fracking brine on PA roads in winter. They're all nuts.

[DEMTough]

38. I Remember seeing Rachel Maddow Interviewing this Wacko a few years ago.

It's a two-parter, Rachel's handling of it is great.

[LeftishBrit]

39. How on earth did HE get accepted at Cal Tech?

'Severe difficult total immersion training in science' certainly didn't work with him! What an anti-science nutcase!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

40. this jackass sent his son out to run against DeFazio in the Democratic primary

reason being...to soften him up? I don't know. Then old Art Robinson was going to win the general. Well, Mr. Art Robinson ran into Lane County and a bunch of really together Oregonians that aren't going to elect such a crackpot as dog catcher let alone US Congressman.

He is the epitome of the wasteland that is GOP in Oregon. LOLOLOLOL.