COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Saturday, December 05, 2009

More Self Delusional Nonsense on Green Building

Go to the 25 second mark and look at what is going on in the background while this clown is talking about this project.




Radio Netherlands

China’s certainly going to be under discussion at the UN Climate Change Summit, which kicks off in Copenhagen next Monday. For years China has been coming up with plans for sustainable cities and green villages – but until recently none of them got off the drawing board. The much-heralded plan for a green city near Shanghai for instance, drawn up by British company Arup. Other projects like the green village developed by the famous American environmental architect William McDonough were a failure. The houses were much too expensive for the villagers and it also transpired that few of the houses were actually built following the original plan.

Hopes are now settled on a joint Chinese-Singaporean plan on the Bohai Sea. Top political figures are involved in this projected green city and construction work has already begun.

Close to the area where this project is underway, the Dutch engineering firm DHV is quietly working on another green neighbourhood: a series of artificially created islands in the sea to house 20,000 people in an environmentally friendly fashion. But again the question is, just how green will this green city turn out to be?



127 comments:

  1. Green is often more expensive especially when it involves planning and development. In this country, LEEDS and new urbanism are the buzzwords. The Leedites have managed to affect building codes and have driven the cost of buildings higher.

    "New Urbanism" promotes a return to prewar (pre suburbia) building codes featuring more walkable communities. This is a good idea but the execution has resulted in very costly houses. Maybe that will change now that we have entered the an era of less materialism.

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  2. In order for green development to be successful there must be a balance of profitability and philosophy, otherwise fuggedaboutit.

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  3. Curtis LeMay had the solution.

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  4. That's hilarious. Lipstick on a pig indeed.

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  5. ...he'd drop something else.

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  6. Bloomberg may be the only politician weirder than BHO, Pelosi, and Reid.

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  7. Max Baucus recommended his girl friend for US Attorney post, aide says.

    Baucus Boinks Bimbo

    "In his statement, Mr. Matsdorf said Ms. Hanes was recommended for the United States attorney position solely on the basis of her credentials."

    And those credentials are? Hopefully, they are on a par with those of Rachel Uchitel.


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  8. "Reid's fellow Nevadan in the Senate, Republican John Ensign, continues to enjoy high marks from voters, with 53 percent viewing him favorably and 18 percent unfavorably."
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    A philandering Friend Fucker outpolls the walking corpse!

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  9. Interesting Factoid:

    Rachel Uchitel's Fiancee perished on 9-11.
    Worked on floor 104.

    Fiancee's Father says she's not the gal that was gonna be his son's wife.

    Shit Happens.

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  10. "Pelosi rejects plan to impose 'war tax' for troop increase

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday scuttled a proposal to create a "war tax" to finance the increased troop deployment to Afghanistan, an idea that had come from her closest allies in the Capitol.

    House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) and others have suggested a temporary tax on workers who earn as little as $30,000 a year to fund the effort. President Obama has pegged the cost at $30 billion...

    In rejecting Obey's tax, Pelosi did not offer other ways to finance the stepped-up war effort... Pelosi joins Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) in opposing that plan..."



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  11. Socialist Pelosi shits on socialist David Obey's dream.

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  12. I want a can of shrimp I know wasn't raised in a cesspool. But I can't find any.

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  13. Farmed Salmon tastes worse than shit.

    ...a shiteater from wayback.

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  14. The problem is; We're broke!

    Sure, upgrading and retrofitting sound like good, money saving, sustainable things to do, but we're broke. Sorry, I guess we'll be forced to drive older cars and pay exorbitant energy bills a while longer.

    Not everyone can put solar panels on the roof or a Prius in the garage. The politicians better realize that their brilliant carbon taxation schemes could abort their brilliant political careers.

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  15. I predict, Dirty Harry is goin' down in Nevada next year.

    Damn near anything would be better.

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  16. The problem isn't liberal media incompetence, it's their constitutional negligence and willful duplicity.

    Like Pravda and Izvestia, the MSM is ideologically invested in liberalism and the Democrat party.

    This is a dangerous time for truth and the Constitution.

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  17. Shrimp in a can? Settle for sardines.

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  18. And, as soon as I make my prediction American Thinker Backs Me Up On Dirty Harry



    King Oscar's, whit, is good, I used to buy that a lot.

    But I'm dying for a good shrimp salad.

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  19. "Like Pravda and Izvestia, the MSM is ideologically invested in liberalism and the Democrat party."

    True enough but you leave out half the equation if you leave out the "current" GOP and especially its leadership.

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  20. Times are hard for everyone.

    One of my wife's NYC friends wanted a Rolls but had to settle for a new Benz. What with the market turndown and maintaining three domiciles, (Westchester, Manhattan and Florida) plus timeshares elsewhere, belt tightening was in order.

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  21. Those king sized fresh shrimp you can buy at Albertson's--a lot of people use that as bait when steelhead fishing around here. Not sure where those come from either.

    I want that old Louisiana shrimp that came in a can, but it can't be found anymore.

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  22. That's been my trouble, trying to choose between the Rolls and the Benz.

    My solution was just to put the purchase off till another life time.

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  23. Everyday, it gets harder to glean and discern the truth.

    Another one of my wife's liberal friends recently remarked to her that 2009 was shaping up to be the hottest year on record.

    The internet puts a whirled of information at our fingertips yet we are becoming dumber by the day.

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  24. For those who hate Bush, you can probably get some usable dirt, whether true or not, tonite on C2C--


    Bush Family Secrets
    Ian Punnett welcomes award-winning investigative reporter Russ Baker, who will discuss shocking disclosures about various Bush family elders, as well as startling evidence that sheds new light on the JFK assassination and Watergate.


    During the first hour, former State Department counter terrorism special agent Fred Burton will talk about the Fort Hood shootings.

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  25. Let me get this straight.

    You want shrimp salad and can get jumbo shrimp "off the ice" in Albertson's yet pine for the canned stuff?

    bob, bob, bob...

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  26. Maybe she was talking about her sex life, whit. She might be telling the truth.

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  27. You got it. I know it sounds irrational, but I don't like those huge shrimp on a salad. I'm looking for Louisiana in a can.

    Every man for his own shrimp.

    Besides, whoever heard a a large shrimp?

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  28. Speaking of getting dumber by the day. A Leviton phone board is whipping my "ashcan" this morning. I recently had a business line disconnected and am trying to connect that phone and fax to my residential line.

    You would think it would be so simple in my Leviton Integrated Home System on the Leviton Phone Board...BUT NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

    I would like to dump it all.

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  29. Why don't you dice the jumbos into canned-size pieces?

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  30. dice, cut, slice, whatever.

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  31. "Climategate is a big deal, but we should be clear: It's not why cap-and-trade should be scuttled, and it's not why Copenhagen will produce nothing, save enormous expense-account submissions for cookie-pushing climate diplomats. (Plus a massive amount of greenhouse gases: The UN estimates the 12-day "green" confab will produce 40,584 tons of CO2 equivalents, roughly equal to Morocco's carbon footprint in 2006)."

    Copenhagen

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  32. This one's for Ash,


    "It's not just the nasty countries. Canada, the Dudley Do-Right of the international community, insists on exploiting its vast and dirty oil reserves in the "tar sands" under Alberta. The intro to an article by British eco-scold George Monbiot declared: "Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling." If Canada, which has long been the UN's Richie Cunningham, won't play ball, does anyone think the Chinese, Indians or Brazilians will?"


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  33. That's okay, Quirk. The ruling and academic elites are allowed to release massive amounts of carbon and have their private retreats in the middle of our National Parks or their dachas in the country.

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  34. Here's one for Bob to research:

    "Investigators shocked Peruvians last month when they announced the arrest of three members of a gang they said killed as many as 60 people this year to sell their liquified fat. Police branded the alleged ring the "Pishtacos," after a mythical Andean figure that killed travelers to steal their fat."

    Fat Pluckers or Death Sqauds Living Phat?


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  35. Should be "Death Squads"

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  36. Constitution. What constitution?

    There's No Place Like Home - Literally

    "The court's majority ruled that as long as the government takes from the poor and gives to the rich in the hope of collecting more taxes, anything goes..."


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  37. From the Voice of the Martyrs:
    Muslim rioters looted and burned Coptic Christian businesses on Nov. 23 in the village of Abou Shousha, according to Assist News Service (ANS). The Middle East Christian Association (MECA) reported that at least three large Coptic stores and a pharmacy were looted and burned.
    According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, "The terrorized Coptic inhabitants of Abou Shousha have stayed indoors; their shops are closed and their children are being kept out of school. They fear a repeat in their village of the Muslim violence which engulfed the nearby town of Farshoot less than 36 hours earlier. It is estimated that over 80% of Coptic businesses have been destroyed in Farshoot."
    The violence in Farshoot was prompted by reports that a 21-year-old Copt had violated a 12-year-old Muslim girl on Nov. 18. Many Copts believe the incident is being used by Muslims as a pretext for violence against them.

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  38. "Muslim rioters looted and burned Coptic Christian businesses on Nov. 23 in the village of Abou Shousha, according to Assist News Service (ANS)..."

    Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

    (Those who complain about the Palestineans who have been kicked out of Jewish occupied territories since 1967 oft fail to mention the approxiamately 1 million Jews who have been forced through persecution and/or intimidation to exit Muslim countries in the same time period. The same has been/is happening to Christians.)


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  39. yeah, Canada is no angel climate wise. The big vast unpopulated areas serve as a handy excuse for many. The other biggie excuse used by soooo many is 'but, but it'll cost money'.

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  40. Right on Ash.

    Money? Hell, all you got to do is print it.

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  42. heh, heh, you're learning, Q, yer lernin'!

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  43. Never give up.

    Cincinnati just came back from being down 31-17 to defeat Pitt, 45-44.

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  44. Slice, dice a jumbo shrimp? Whit, you can't be serious. There are taboos, you know. Things you just don't do

    Wal=Mart time, X-mas tree bulbs.

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  45. Besides that sounds like a lot of work, dicing shrimp. Then these big ones here are raw too, you got to cook 'em.

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  46. In re your Va Tech post:

    Ultralight backpacking, Linear. You'd not believe the stuff they have out there now for devotees of it (or even just for those looking to lighten the not-so-ultralight load). Or maybe you would.

    Some years ago we did seven days in north central Pennsylvania. Saw one other human being on the entire loop.

    Didn't do the ultralight, though my pack didn't feel particularly heavy starting out. Of course not.

    By the third day, I was like Katz in Bryson's A Walk In The Woods (which encouraged me to agree to do this with my husband in the first place). Trudging along behind in a kind of half-mad, just-shoot-me-please delirium. Unlike Katz, however, I didn't simply in pain and frustration start chucking valuable and potentially life-saving supplies off the mountain. No. I did what any good wife does: Started handing shit over to him to carry on his back. And kept handing it over.

    I at least lived up to my promise to myself: At no point would he actually have to carry my pack.

    Hah. : )




    Oh, and by the third day, I also refused to dig a slit trench to go potty in. By the fifth day, I couldn't even be bothered to kick a few leaves over it - and believe me you, wasn't walking very far for the privilege either.

    Such joyful and hygienic company I was.

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  47. just be cognizant of the wind direction and your good to go!

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  48. Such joyful and hygienic company I was.

    I noticed early on during my backpacking days that the distance between companions as we hiked along the trail was proportional to the number of days we'd been out. Freeze dried dehydrated rations leave ya with a particular aroma perhaps known only to backpackers.

    Grizzly bears in Glacier Park occasionally added the pungent fragrance of fear to the mix. I once came to a halt along the trail and gestured to my friend that there was something rooting about over in some brush about 25 feet off the trail. He didn't understand my silence, and when he came up he asked in a normal voice, "...what's up?" The critter bolted toward the trail we were on, and when he/she broke out of the brush, turned right and disappeared in the direction we were heading. Had he/she turned left, we'd have had a closer encounter, being either trampled or perhaps eaten.

    Don't ever think you could outrun a bear.

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  49. "I want that old Louisiana shrimp that came in a can, but it can't be found anymore."
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    It can be canned but it can't be found?

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  50. "I want that old Louisiana shrimp that came in a can."
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    I prefer mine packed in water.

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  51. Ahh, Quirk, the questions you do not address:

    Were the Jews pressured out of those countries by government actions that were subsidized by the United States?

    Was the pressure on the Jews sanctioned and subsidized by the US funded United Nations, as it had been with regards the Palis?

    Are the Copts being pressured by the government of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak rather than public sentiment and pressure?
    If so, I would advocate cutting all US funds and subsidies to that government. If that was not enough to modify behaviour, begin forced divestiture of private US economic interests from the Egyptian economy.


    You are trying to compare apples to oranges, across time.

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  52. Did the United States declare those actions to be illegal acts of persecution and a violation of international law, as it has in reference to the Isreali settlements, since the annexation in 1968?

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  53. The A-rabs and the World would have been better off if we had not let them have the oil.

    Guys like the Saud Royals and Saddam would never have become feasible without oil money.

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  54. The same type of sanctions that I have advocated to be used with regards to Iran.

    We should be strangling their cash flow, rather than financing water treatment infrastructure facilities for them through the Whirled Bank.

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  55. Those were calls made by both FDR and Ike, doug.

    Mostly by FDR who, by happenstance, was the grandson of the Russell Company CEO.

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  56. If the United States did not so declare, as to the Jewish expulsions, then obviously they did not rise to the level of National Interest that the illegal annexations have.

    Who was President back when these expulsions occurred?

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  57. FDR, Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, 41, Bubba, W,
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  58. Now, Quirk, from your brief statement, it would seem that FDR was President during these expulsions of Jews, from Arab lands.

    The same FDR that formalized relations with King Saud and whose political party, the Democrats, enjoy en bloc support of over 73% of the US Jewish community.

    If the lack of US interest in these expulsions was a major issue for that community, well then, you'd figure they'd not support the politicos that turned a blind eye to it, while recognizing the legitimacy of Sauds.

    This support of the Democrats by the US Jewish community, despite the Democrats historic embrace and subsidy of the Saudi monarchy and the Presidency of both Sadat and Mubarak, indicates this issue is of little import to that community.

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  59. Out here in the Frank Church Wilderness Area there's all sorts of rules about takin' a crap, too.

    But I don't understand it. It's supposed to be a Wilderness Area, and I can't imagine our paleolithic ancestors digging a little trench every time they took a crap, when passing through.

    Encamped, that's something else.

    Our new kitty, now grown, is very good at digging a little trench when he does his do do. Covers it up, too. Not like us filthy homonids.

    And, by the way, why do cats do that? Where did this behavior pattern come from, the African plains? What purpose? I thought they marked their territory by pissing.

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  60. Crap stinks,
    Bury it and lick your ass clean, I say.
    Go Cats!

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  61. Crap is a health hazard.
    Stinkum ain't.

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  62. Well, to me there's something a little odd about The King of Beasts out on the African plains, digging a trench to take a crap, then delicately filling it in.

    But, maybe they do.

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  63. Bears don't, I'm certain of that.

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  64. (can't let a day go by without taking at least one shot at Ash)

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  65. desert rat said...
    Now, Quirk, from your brief statement, it would seem that FDR was President during these expulsions of Jews, from Arab lands.

    ATTENTION BAR MEMBERS THE "RAT" IS ATTEMPTING TO DISCUSS JEWISH THINGS...

    THIS IS AKIN TO A KLANSMEN TELLING FOLKS ABOUT WHAT'S BEST FOR THE BLACKS...

    WARNING, DISCUSSING JEWS, ISRAEL OR ZIONISM WITH THE "RAT" IS SPITTING IN THE WIND

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  66. Don't ever think you could outrun a bear.

    Sat Dec 05, 06:43:00 PM EST

    We've had a black bear encounter, husband, son, dog, and I. On the AT on our last camping trip. My quick intake and lightning reflexes being what they are, it was all over before I even had time to process son's idle comment: "Hey, bear scat."

    My fondest memory of our backpacking in PA was the night a heavy storm came up and our gear had to be tarped. Must have been shortly after midnight and my husband was up like a flash, in boots, headlamp, and not a stitch else, securing our stuff. Naked Man of the Wilderness.

    Laughed. My. Ass off.

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  67. Little Richard recently had a hip replacement.
    ...and they say old folks ain't worth new parts now and then.
    ...jeesh

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  68. Ever listen to Cousin Brucie out of New York, Trish?

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  69. You have often spoke of these expulsions, man of "misdirection", so now that the topic is engaged, it becomes verboten?

    Anti-semitic?

    You do not really want to be taken seriously, do you.

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  70. Take a free test ride:

    http://www.sirius.com

    http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=ChannelLineup&cid=1218563499691&pid=SIR_IP_EVT&catid=all&utm_source=REMKTSIRCHGD&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=REMARKET2009&flash=noflash

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  71. And no, "misdirection" it was not a discussion of things Jewish, but of things American. Referencing the actions of the United States with regards to these expulsions you have so often written of.

    Now you want to run from the subject, now that the light of interest is being shined upon it.

    Why?

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  72. desert rat said...
    You have often spoke of these expulsions, man of "misdirection", so now that the topic is engaged, it becomes verboten?

    Anti-semitic?

    You do not really want to be taken seriously, do you.


    There is no discussing anything concerning Jews, Israel or Zionism with you.

    Period.

    You're an asshole on that subject.

    So to discuss those topics with you is stupid, foolish and childish

    Want to talk about smoking brisket, best alternative fuel, blondes, redheads or glocks help yourself..

    but to discuss anything to do with Jews, Israel and Zionism with you is a waste of time and energy

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  73. You won't get me out there naked in the angry elements, should every last bit of gear be in danger of being carried away in the torrent. Pitch black and not a soul around for miles and miles and I would still be reaching for underbritches and windbreaker - taking a good fifteen minutes to locate either in that teeny tiny tent.





    "But I don't understand it. It's supposed to be a Wilderness Area, and I can't imagine our paleolithic ancestors digging a little trench every time they took a crap, when passing through."

    We're being infantilized, bob. That's all there is to it. It's all a part of The Plan.

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  74. It is not me you sould be trying to convince, "misdirection", it is the thousands that read this little blog each day.

    That is the audience that needs convincing, that needs the facts, that just may care.

    They can read my factual analysis or your rants, then come to their own conclusions, as they will.
    One way or another, based upon what is presented and the tone that the facts are presented with.

    Amigo.

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  75. desert rat said...
    It is not me you sould be trying to convince, "misdirection", it is the thousands that read this little blog each day.
    That is the audience that needs convincing, that needs the facts, that just may care.
    They can read my factual analysis or your rants, then come to their own conclusions, as they will.
    One way or another, based upon what is presented and the tone that the facts are presented with.

    Amigo.




    Wow...

    This comes from someone who CHOOSES to spell Israel as isreal.

    The 1000's of people who read this blog understand that when it comes to Jews, Israel or Zionism your an asshole

    I will discuss Jews, Israel and Zionism with anyone else at the bar, but with you?

    naw....

    you're a bigot...

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  76. Not at all, "misdirection" I am a disinterested observer of the situation.

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  78. You are the bigot, without a doubt or equivocation.

    You are the one that has called for genocide against the Arabs, not me.
    Called for attacks upon Saudi Arabia, because of the religious shrines there. Iran because of their energy and defense policies.

    I called for free, fair and open elections across the Levant.
    With an International force to disarm and police and defend from internal strife and foreign aggression the entire geographic area that makes up the Levant.

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  79. Leave the field, go hide in the rain barrel, suits me fine and dandy.

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  80. I would submit that Isreal is just another failed attempt at social engineering by the "One Whirled" folks.

    The United Nations.

    Of Global Warming fame.
    Of the failed Piecekeeping operations that are legend across Africa.

    The folks that could not deliver on their promise of peace and security to any of the residents of the Levant.

    Their "Plan" was flawed, as the "Master Planners" almost always are.

    Time to go back to the drawing board, and with input from all involved impose a fair and just solution to the land use challenges.

    One that acknowledges that those settlements on the annexed land must be abandoned and destroyed or shared amongst all the residents, without religious discrimination.

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  81. You probably make more people sympathetic to Israel in a week than I could in a year.

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    Trish, when I was a kid we were camping in Yellowstone, dad had an old trailor that kind of spread out. It had this great big cold box for the food.

    We put it over on the other side of the campfire. Sure enough, deep late at night, there was a hell of a racket, the bears tossed it around till they got the lid open. Then feasted. Stuff scattered all over the campsite in the morning.

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  82. December 05, 2009
    Copenhagen Prostitutes strike back against ban
    Allan Erickson

    "My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference." Harry S. Truman
    Item: Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming [global warming] conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings.

    Prostitution in Denmark is just fine unless the world shows up to talk about non-existent global warming and robbing the U.S. Treasury to pay phony reparations to the Third World, another form of prostitution, political in nature. Only in the latter case people get screwed without satisfaction.

    It is remarkable how much putrid bilge has been allowed to wash over us in the last 15 years. During this time, enormous sums of money through powerful organizations have been squandered to inform us of the 'fact' that human beings are destroying the Earth putting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Our former Vice President Mr. Gore, another piano player, is happy to go to Copenhagen and repeat his lie the debate is over. Gore and the rest of the girls at the Hot Air Hotel insist we shutdown the American and European economies to save the earth.

    Never mind that legions of scientists have for years disputed not only the notion of global warming, but the claim humans are responsible, and that we face catastrophe. For them the jury is still out, pending the engagement of real research instead of speculation based on computer modeling.

    Rather than engage systematic inquiry----you know, that tired old scientific method---Gore and the girls simply tinkle the ivories, twist arms, threaten people, railroad agendas, and destroy the careers of people they don't like, enlisting governments as willing thugs in the global repression of dissent with the smiling approval of the United Nations, and the Obama administration.

    ClimateGate and the revealed emails demonstrate both the conspiracy and the hypocrisy. At least a real prostitute is honest about what she does, who she is, and what it will cost you.


    Story Here

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  83. What is the purpose of the debate, bob?

    Truly, let me know your thoughts.

    That you think folks are really swayed by the name calling, that must be why you engage in it so often.

    To me, it's less than pointless.
    Worse than that, it leaves the oppositions points unchallenged.

    Often because there is no challenge that can be mounted. Remember that allen wrote that he had advised collegians to read this blog, to "learn something".

    Better believe they are.
    Young minds full of mush, as Rush would say. Think inane name calling impresses them?

    Is that why Obama carried that segment of the electorate, too?

    The young and the educated, both demographics that go for the Democrats.

    Why are they not convinced by name calling and fear mongering?

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  84. We've not yet lost a meal to bears.

    Raccoons, now those are the real, no-dicking-around bandits of the wilderness. We were camping at the shore fifteen or so years ago and one of us (I am not naming names) went running off after them into the woods yelling, "Come back with those muffins, you bastards!" Hungarian street thieves aren't as talented.

    A few more years of evolution and they'll be snatching the keys to your truck out of your pocket and making off for a joyride.

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  85. I call for free, fair and open Radio Rock and Roll Across the Universe!

    Ike and Tina doing

    "Get Back"

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  86. The best campsites, by far, that I've ever seen are hunters' campsites.

    They've got the Cabella's Taj Mahal with like the hundred square foot overhang or an old GP Large, and a nice woodstove.

    I used to have a fondness for the cabin-cruiser-length RVs and that sort of thing. But a hunting camp - that's really the way to go.

    Better yet, have a yurt constructed.

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  87. desert rat said...
    You are the bigot, without a doubt or equivocation.

    You are the one that has called for genocide against the Arabs, not me.
    Called for attacks upon Saudi Arabia, because of the religious shrines there. Iran because of their energy and defense policies.

    I called for free, fair and open elections across the Levant.
    With an International force to disarm and police and defend from internal strife and foreign aggression the entire geographic area that makes up the Levant.




    Still jerking off I see?

    What a funny guy you are....

    lol....

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  89. Better:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7huh5Egew

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  91. This dang Christmas tree turned into more than I bargained for, should have stuck with the electric one in the box we've used the last few years.

    First, the tree looked alot smaller out on the lot.

    Had to top and bottom it off a bit to make it fit under the ceiling. Then, the old tree stand was too small, and even with the biggest one at Wal-Mart, twas a struggle to get it to stand straight, not tip over.

    The lights are now on, the candy canes going on, the balls I am putting tie strings on as I blog.

    But, it sure smells nice! And looks great,too.

    Wal-Mart was a mob scene today.
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    My cousin and I had a small tree thinning contract in the CdAlene National Forest one time. Bears would visit out camp every day or two.

    And in the old days, before the landfills and transfer stations, a lot of garbage would be dumped in designated places, a wonderland for the bears.

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  92. I'm for China, India, and Pakistan getting voting privileges and citizenship, we'll change them more than vice-versa, and we'll rule the World.

    Sheik al-Bob's Walmart report seals my case.

    Signed,
    DR

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  93. Think of the clout our social security and Obamacare will have with 3 Billion Citizens!

    Everything will be free!

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  94. "But, it sure smells nice!"

    We're going to miss that this Christmas, bob.

    We could go home for Christmas but I'd just be sending my husband back here to close up shop alone and I don't want to do that. We came together; we're leaving together, by God. So our Christmas-Christmas has to wait until the middle of January. (Or longer. My parents will be in Austria until almost the end of the month.)


    So we put up our little "Kosovo Christmas Tree" in the foyer. It's an artificial, fourteen-inch that the kids and I sent him from Belgium when he was there in, oh, 99/00. It has about twenty little wooden, hand-painted ornaments that we did over a number of evenings in our very, very cold farm kitchen. And a little string of lights and gold garland. And an atrocious gold, plastic star. But it's sentimental.

    There's an apartment about a block from us that has a full-size tree (artificial, of course) with lights, ornaments and all - suspended from the ceiling. It's mesmerizing really.

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  95. As in: Hanging upside down from the ceiling.

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  96. I remember growing up always having a artificial tree. It consisted of blue, red and gold balls. It was trimmed with gold garland and blue lights. Year after year it was the same thing until our basement flooded and the tree was ruined. That was the year my father bought our first real Christmas tree. I don't remember going with him to pick it out but I remember when he brought it home. It's not that big he said, until we got in the house and the damn thing grew three times the size my father thought it was. The trunk was so big that my father had to make his own stand out of wrought iron. We had a triple window in our dining room that the tree hid, from being so big.

    I broke down two years ago and bought an artificial tree. The nice thing about it is it's perfect every year.

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  97. "misdirection" always responds, just never to the point.

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  98. Could you post a pic of the tree in a box?
    ...or at least a description.


    The Little Black Egg: The Nightcrawlers
    Little Black Egg. 2. Basket of Flowers. 3. Sally in Our Alley. 4. Who Knows. 5. Me for Me. 6. If You Want My Love 7. I Don't Remember ...

    Little Black Egg

    I don't care what they say,
    I'm gonna keep it anyway.
    I won't let them stretch their necks,
    To see my little black egg with the little white specks.
    I found it in a tree just the other day,
    Now it's mine all mine, they can't take it away.
    There comes Mary, there comes Lee :
    I'll bet what they want to see.
    I won't let them stretch their necks
    To see my little black egg with the little white specks.
    I found it in a tree just the other day,
    Now it's mine all mine, they can't take it away.
    Oh my, what can I do ? Little black agg's gonna tell on you.
    I won't let them stretch their necks

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  99. I don't care what they say
    I'm gonna keep it anyway
    I won't let them stretch their necks
    To see my little black egg with the little white specks

    Chorus:

    I found it in a tree
    Just the other day
    And now it's mine, all mine
    They won't take it away

    Verse 2:

    Here comes Mary, here comes Lee
    I'll bet what they want to see
    I won't let them stretch their necks
    To see my little black egg with the little white specks

    [repeat chorus]

    Verse 3:

    Oh, goldurn, what can I do?
    The little black egg's gonna tell on you
    I won't let them stretch their necks
    To see my little black egg with the little white specks

    The little black egg... [repeat to fade]

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  100. desert rat said...
    "misdirection" always responds, just never to the point.


    Ah but rat, you're pointless....

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  101. It's not that big he said, until we got in the house and the damn thing grew three times the size my father thought it was.

    Man, that's the truth, Melody. Out on the lot, looked like it would fit right in the corner.

    I could hardly get it through the front door, and it seems to take up half the living room!

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  102. I love to watch National Lampoons Christmas movie..

    To watch our little slice of the suburbs all getting out their ladders, extension cords etc...

    And so the magical lights all go up (some to go down by july/august)

    My home? it's too easy...

    A simple menorah...

    For the gift? very simple, very easy...

    Just waiting for the trash day after Christmas to see all the "made in china" boxes littering the end of driveways...

    For me? I wish if people were giving gifts they would bake more cakes, cookies and such...

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  103. Wal-Mart Artificial Christmas trees

    Can't find ours there, al-Doug. Some of these are quite pricey.

    Ours is white, maybe five or five and a half feet tall, with mostly red lights, branches fold up to store away for another year. Has two sections that screw together half way up the trunk.

    Can't remember what we paid, but it was under $100, maybe five or six years ago.

    Being in the Wal-Mart Christmas section today, I saw smaller artificial trees not listed here. Not being in the market didn't pay attention to what they might cost.

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  104. Was going to mention, these decorative balls I bought are non-shatter. And, the advertising seems true as I just dropped one on a linoleum floor. The old glass balls would have smashed treated like that.

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  105. Artificial XMas trees: No, no, no. Like fake flowers.

    You can go to hell for that, can't you? ; )

    I can understand (kindasorta) opting for the fake tree because year-on-year the real ones can be quite an expense (or as is the case here, they're unavailable). But even so, I say just do what college students have been doing for generations to put them in their shabby, forlorn dorm rooms: Go tree poaching.

    In the event that you go tree poaching, it really doesn't matter how homely the specimen is - or un-Christmasy if you ended up bringing back someone's Japanese maple, say. It's that you managed it in a drunken stupor without dismembering yourself or getting caught.

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  106. That is why, I don't like the holidays. It's not about cookies and cakes and visiting family and friends and the true meaning. It's about what did you buy me. I have seven nieces and nephews. What do you think they would do if, I took articles from around my house and, put together, from my heart, a gift for each one of them?

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  107. I think of my 'Christmas' tree more along the lines of the old world tree, rooted in the fecund deep, bird of spirit on the top, symbol perennial of the mystery of life, reaffirmed the darkest time of the year, when time halts for a break, and the energizing forces of the beyond flow in, to renew life and power it into a new year.

    The Christians were cagey, assimilating the birthday of Jesus to the old pagan traditions. Jesus could have been born on the 4th of July, for all we know.

    The only decoration I have yet to buy is the bird for the top.

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  108. I liked Ernest Saves Christmas

    and anything by Chevy Chase, who said of his movies, "My movies have no meaning whatsoever."

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  109. Best Christmas movie ever (although most of it of course doesn't take place at Christmas): Meet Me In St. Louis.

    It's not even debatable, really.

    After that comes The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and then every Claymation production from the late 60's.

    Stage productions? Forget about The Nutcracker. A Tuna Christmas is the be-all-end-all.

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  110. Auntie Melody, they'd sing your song no more.

    Least for awhile.

    They'd get it when they grew up.

    One of my aunt's always used to give us some 'Christmas spending cash'.

    I think this is what we younger generation really liked best, and, it made her Christmas shopping darn easy. Win, win.

    She'd go to the bank and get brand new money, put in the x-mas envelopes they had.

    You could always count on it, even in the worst of times, at least twenty or thirty bucks from Auntie A!

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  111. If the election had turned out differently, she said, "I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and vice president Biden could be on the road selling his book, 'Going Rogaine.'"

    Palin Roasts Herself--And Others

    Gridiron dinner.

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  112. "The Christians were cagey, assimilating the birthday of Jesus to the old pagan traditions. Jesus could have been born on the 4th of July, for all we know."
    ---
    Nope,
    That day was reserved for the Birth of al-Doug's mother,
    The Virgin Mildred, bless her soul.

    (well, she was when she was born)

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  113. Well, "misdirection"my points always get you to respond, with nonsense.

    Since you always respond, but will never address the issues, it can only be assumed you cannot defend the injustice that the UN foisted upon the Middle East with its acceptance of a Zionist social order and the 60 year conflict that resulted from that poor, poor and misguided and delusional decision to empower one tribe at the expense of another.

    Tribal groupings being the enemy of modern society, everywhere. Andrew Jackson, a great US President, was correct in that regard.

    As was every US President, large and small, that has declared the Isreali occupation and the building of those settlements to be illegal, oppressive and an affront to civilized men, everywhere.

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  114. Or, as the smart and ahead of the curve Swiss have stated, those settlements are a war crime.

    The Zionists doing their best to gain equivalency with the NAZIs.

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  115. desert rat said...
    Or, as the smart and ahead of the curve Swiss have stated, those settlements are a war crime.

    The Zionists doing their best to gain equivalency with the NAZIs.




    ah yes...

    the rat is master baiting again....

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