OT: Recent Politics of the Absurd

  1. Trumpeted shutdown of coal power plants to "stop global warming." But wait, the coal will be sold to indonesia for burning there. This will trash a big part of the US economy. Coincidentally, Warren Buffet's trains will ship the coal, when they aren't shipping oil from Canada. (see blocked pipeline.) Say, do you think the CO2 will leak back here from Indonesia?

  1. Recent repatriation of US soldier from Afghanistan. But wait - This guy had defected to Taliban, he wasn't captured. duh! And the marine veteran in the Mexican prison by accident is ignored. Think someone is laughing?

  2. I'm waiting for 45 mpg cars...
Reply to
haiticare2011
Loading thread data ...

You're missing the Schadenfreude moment here... that class of people who voted for Obama will be economically damaged the most. Elections have consequences. Oh! The Schadenfreude >:-} ...Jim Thompson

--
| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
 Click to see the full signature
Reply to
Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

One can only hope that Darwin wins in the end.

Reply to
Tom Miller

Three cheers for Darwin... he does seem to be winning... you will recall Leno's "Street Walking" where he actually asked questions of our graduating dummies? Now we have "Watter's World"... today we have become a nation populated by phenomenal ignorance :-(

One thing that bugs me... anymore news on the web isn't text, you have to watch some asinine video... but I guess that fits the Obama voter's mental capacity.

However... freedom of the press to be in the tank for Obama is about to get its just deserts... SCOTUS just denied a reporter protection from exposing his sources...

...Jim Thompson

--
| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
 Click to see the full signature
Reply to
Jim Thompson

Probably without scrubbers.

Shipped in huge bulk carriers burning Bunker C.

--
John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com 
 Click to see the full signature
Reply to
John Larkin

What's going on - along with the usual corruption - is that the people doing these things have never done anything in the real world. They've never had a job or had a paper route or fixed a power cord on a lamp. They probably have screwed in a light bulb, put a plastic bag in a kitchen wastebasket, or washed their socks in a washing machine.

But in their make-believe world, it's ideas that are foremeost, not actual experience. Not very deep ideas. That's why academics and students like socialism - it's a superficial philosophy that has never worked out in practice. It's also a humanly passive philosophy - passive sheep - and surprise that's what academics do - they sit in chairs and are "taught" and act like sheep.

In the middle ages, when universities started, the consensus was that a person had to have actual experience at life first, so they refused to teach the young, considering the age of 35 suitable for education. It was Napolean who invented education for the young, to brain wash soldiers for his army. The practice went hand-in-hand with the rise of Nationalism.

jb

Reply to
haiticare2011

Prius. Guy I know gets 5 l/100km regularly (47 miles per US gallon). I'm not convinced it's a good financial trade-off, though it also buys you a pass to use the HOV lanes (you could call that a subsidy or tax relief since you get to use more roads than the guy who's burning gas in a Nissan Micra or Honda Fit).

This is amusing (though preaching to the choir here):-

formatting link

Reply to
Spehro Pefhany

You must be dyslexic or something because US imports coal from Indonesia.

formatting link

China, South Korea, Japan, and India are the biggest importers of US coal in Asia, and the totality of export to Asia is almost negligible compared to US consumption. A 1/3 reduction in carbon emissions isn't going to shut down the industry.

As usual, the U.S. is fighting the wrong people. The Taliban used to be good allies of the U.S., but there's no money in them compared to backing the drug production and global smuggling crowd who pretend they're running the place now.

Reply to
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

Which actually does melt snow (carbon black, etc.).

Cheers, James Arthur

Reply to
dagmargoodboat

Yes. Coal and diesel and wood smoke particulates are indeed pollutants, and affect climate, and kill people, and should be controlled. CO2 is outright friendly by comparison.

People exhale CO2 at high shockingly concentrations.

--
John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com 
 Click to see the full signature
Reply to
John Larkin

Of whom Jim-out-touch-with-reality-Thompson is a particularly fine example. Happily for him, he's so ignorant that he has no idea how ignorant he is. The fact that he kill-files anybody whose ideas he doesn't like is fairly obvious pointer to way he maintains his ignorance.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply to
Bill Sloman

te in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

.com

l

It's working out pretty well in Germany and Scandinavia.

t's

p.

Socialism is fairly active, in that it goes out and makes sure that the chi ldren of the poor get educated - and that their parents get enough out of social security that the kids end up sufficiently well-fed and health to ta ke advantage of that education.

You do have to do a bit of research to find how much is enough. Social Darw inists save themselves the effort by letting them all starve.

Capitalism is more fatalistic, and imagines that the invisible hand of the market will do the job.

Socialists - these days - are fond of relying on the invisible hand of the market when it works, but they aren't as willing as the average capitalist to sit back and tell themselves that it is working when it obviously isn't. The invisible hand of the market didn't stop America's banks from fooolishl y feeding a house price bubble, and the banks threw themselves onto the tax payer when their moronic antics drove them to the edge of bankruptcy in 200

8, after their bubble had burst.

erson had to have actual experience at life first, so they refused to teach the young, considering the age of 35 suitable for education. It was Napole on who invented education for the young, to brain wash soldiers for his arm y. The practice went hand-in-hand with the rise of Nationalism.

Where's your evidence? Students often entered the medieval university at fo urteen to fifteen years of age, though many were older.

formatting link

Newton - who pre-dates Napoleon by quite a bit - was eighteen when he enter ed Cambridge.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply to
Bill Sloman

nd affect climate, and kill people, and should be controlled. CO2 is outrig ht friendly by comparison.

Particulates do get washed out of the atmosphere relatively rapidly. CO2 do esn't. About half of the CO2 we produce a the moment is being absorbed by t he oceans, but as they warm up this proportion will drop, and the CO2 curre ntly dissolved in the oceans will start coming out of solution, as it has d one at the end of every ice age so far.

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations during ice ages are about 180ppm. Once you'v e moved into an interglacial the CO2 takes about 800 years to come out of s olution, but the atmospheric level has always stabilised at about 280ppm wh ile the interglacial lasts.

By digging up fossil carbon and burning it as fuel, we've got the atmospher ic concentration up to 400ppm so far. Of course it contains a lower proport ion of C-14 than it used to, which John Larkin is going to tell us is a goo d thing, rather neglecting the fact that all the C-14 in the atmosphere is formed there by passing cosmic rays, so there's exactly as much there as th ere always was.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply to
Bill Sloman
[snip]
[snip]

I think it's fine that Obama is kissing up to his Islamic base. Loose, they'll terrorize the coasts... inhabited mostly by "progressives", so no great loss.

But we should not close Gitmo... we need it to house the trials of Presidents-gone-rogue >:-} ...Jim Thompson

--
| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
 Click to see the full signature
Reply to
Jim Thompson

speaking of ignorance, what's Walter's World? I am amazed by the "ignorant learned" today.

Reply to
haiticare2011

"Watter's World" is a segment on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News Network show... 8PM Eastern Time... 5PM Pacific ...Jim Thompson

--
| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
 Click to see the full signature
Reply to
Jim Thompson

So says the individual living off welfare water....

Reply to
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

I don't have cable - Walters a liberal idiot?

Reply to
haiticare2011

You're confusing Barbara (Bahbwha ;-) WALTERS (ABC) with Jesse WATTERS (Fox News). WATTERS' World is definitely conservative. ...Jim Thompson

--
| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
 Click to see the full signature
Reply to
Jim Thompson

well.

people

hard

Yes, of course. But in the culture at the time, literacy was greatly prized. Now it is considered a nuisance.

?-)

Reply to
josephkk

ElectronDepot website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.