The "Isn't he just the cutest little thing?" Midweek Memorial Open Thread
'Denied your future' isn't my bailewick, but 'be called cute' and 'patronized' I can do.
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The best part of this is that somebody in the Green movement thought that this was a good vision to produce. They managed to draw from somewhat limited funding to get this video made. They worked on the script, fiddled with camera angles, maybe went through a couple of talking heads before they found the right one. All because nothing says 'responsible' and 'trustworthy' about your movement like 'paying a kid to sneer about how the fish and trees will be gone in ten, fifteen years tops'.
But extra points for the sullen energy. The kid earned his paycheck on animation. 'Course, I'd be shocked if he made minimum wage.
Open thread. But first, go hug a tree. Poor things: their most clingy friends bring with them too much teh drama.
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A classic glimpse into the Leftist Mind.
Maybe these guys can get together with our good friends at AARP, who have that commercial out with the kindergartners badgering the "older generation" for their irresponsibility with entitlement programs. The "money quote" from that one is that girl who says "don't get me started on healthcare". Yes, a very typical quote from a five year old.
It is so revealing that the Left runs these "unimpeachable" victims (and future victims) out to scold us - and do their Socialist Heavy Lifting.
Maybe we can counter with a three year old looking solemnly into the camera and decrying the projected 65% tax rate for 2035 - and how is he going to pay for his kid's college education with that kind of confiscatory policy.
great stuff. the seriousness on this kid's face is priceless.
...is getting really annoying.
The Boomers have gotten their parents'hand-me-down oldmobile, and now they're trying to pimp their ride.
Did someone tell this kid that if he keeps scowling that his face will stay looking like that?
Geez, he looks older than me.
I love that before, the "you're with us or you're against us" argument was so criticized by the Left. Apparently because they hadn't thought of it yet.
And of course no real scientist says ANYTHING is beyond a doubt. In any scientific hypothesis test you test with a 95% certainty or even a 99% certainty if you're feeling bold. But there ARE NO HYPOTHESIS TESTS that have a 100% certainty. Guess if the Greenpeace people didn't cut science class so much they'd know that.
"The pain inflicted by your country's indifference is tenfold that inflicted by your ruthless captors."
Rep Sam Johnson on the House floor commenting on his experience as a Vietnam POW
The Unabomber angle was the first thing I though of as well! Cheers!
Did you not expect an anti-human organization like GP would be working furiously to produce little eco terrorists? Hopefully he is a skilled child actor who will end up doing no more damage than to his wallet in outrageous therapy bills, but it is obviously the intent of GP to create religious zealots willing to do anything to avoid Armageddon.
When I was a child there were no fish (at least ones you could eat) in our rivers and streams that were choked with industrial waste and farm runoff. When I was a child they had just opened a limited hunting season for the deer in Missouri that had been completely wiped out. They were reintroduced in 1950. Before I was a child you couldn’t breath the air in downtown St. Louis because it was so filled with smoke (any building built with porous stone remains blackened due to a century of air pollution). Before I was a kid thousands of people died due to unsanitary and polluted water supplies.
Today you can eat fish out of the great rivers in my state. Last year more than 23,000 deer were harvested out of a population of over three quarters of a million, and the population continues to climb so fast that overpopulation is the real problem. Today the Bald Eagle nests in abundance just up the river in Grafton Illinois.
Even since I was I kid I have seen our environment steadily improve, and the resiliency is simply amazing.
It is a shame that little, self important people need to stroke their delicate egos, and steal authenticity by being anti-human, and indoctrinating children into their sick fantasies. But, it is happening. Protect your kids, and teach them about their environment and our history in it. Teach that they have dominion over all of it, and we all need to be conservationists while rejecting the left-wing wackos who profess their zealotry out of mental illness or ignorance.
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." - President Ronald Reagan
Knows that the environment has improved, not gotten worse. In the early 1970's cars were still running on leaded gasoline and lead paint was everywhere. Smog was rampant and vehicle emissions were horrific. Anyone who ever fixed a 1975 Cadillac engine knows how abortive and Rube Goldberg the Big Three's attempts to control tailpipe emissions were before the age of the cheap microprocessor and closed-loop engine management. Today, it would be very difficult to kill yourself via carbon-monoxide poisoning by locking yourself in a garage with a running car -- the tailpipe emissions of most modern engines are so clean you can breathe them.
Drive on the New Jersey Turnpike today through the Secaucus corridor near Giant's Stadium at the Meadowlands and look around, then flash back to what it looked like in 1979. I remember a time when you had to roll up the windows in the summertime to try and keep the stench at bay. Now you could swim in the wetlands there, and people are building multimillion dollar luxury condominiums on the fringes of all the pristine wetlands.
This is not to say that great problems don't remain. But again you can see the boldfaced lies that are being used to promote the Greenpeace agenda in this video, referring to the U.N. climate report as a "consensus of scientists." Anyone who knows the United Nations knows that it's a consensus of politicos.
You worked on a '75 Caddy engine? What model was the car?
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Even those who learn from history are surrounded by those doomed to repeat it.
With a honkin' huge 8-liter 502CID V8 that was so detuned and emissions-strangled and smothered in the perfidious e-control lashups of the time that it managed to eke out a whole 190 horsepower, for a decidedly wheezy .378 horsepower per cubic inch. And yes, it had an 8-track.
I helped a friend rebuild the engine on one back in high school. BIG car. Very BIG car.
Was the largest and most powerful line production engine ever. Before its 72-72 detuning it could it 550 llbs of torque with no problem. It puts any European or Asian engine to absolute shame. Truely a giant. I almost put one in my 67 Buick this winter but decided to keep it to the Buick 455.
It's detuning, along with those of the Hemi, 454 and the 455's are the biggest factor in my despising of Ralph Nader.
They lowered the compression ratio and castrated the cam timing so much that the starter motor was almost as powerful as the engine itself, and probably more powerful on a pound-for-pound basis.
I still enjoy the little old 327 L-79 in my '68 Corvette, which made 350 horsepower (net) from the factory (11:1 CR) and with a few nice tweaks you can push into the reliable 450 horsepower zone with no trouble. I run a Holley mechanical-secondary 750 on that engine with a couple of little jet tweaks to ease the transition between the primaries and secondaries. Good gas is a must, 91 octane minimum, but boy does that engine spin.
That is a sweet car. The 327 is a nice engine. My dad had a 67 camaro Rs with one that my sister ended up totaling, not a pretty site. You can do alot with them, and they can be wind up prety nice.
My 67 special has the lowly 300, although I am slowly working on the 455 to transplant into it with Th400. I think with the mods I have planned it will easily break 500 in hp and torque, we will see though. That should be with stock heads. Actually all really need is to raise the compression and change the cam and I will be close. But I will probably do someother stuff as money allows.
Because of the bore/stroke ratio and the crankshaft weights it just really loves to spin once you have the reciprocating assembly balanced. In the 'Vette, at idle you can punch the pedal and the engine will just JUMP to 6,000 RPM like it was nothing. And I've had my (carefully rebuilt) version far, far into the red zone, over 6,500 RPM with ease. If you want to get much beyond that, you have to go with a solid-lifter engine like the LT-1 350, but the same friend from high school also had an '70 LT-1 'Vette engine that he transplanted into a Chevy Nova and he scared the daylights out of me with 9,000 RPM on the tach one day during my misspent youth. That car had nitrous and a Powerglide transmission, no interior except for the rollcage and two competition seats, and it would drag the BACK BUMPER on the ground when you hit the nitrous button.
Scary power. I think he was the only person I've ever known who got a speeding ticket plus a summons for doing a wheelie with a CAR in my home town. Never let it be said that those late '60's-early '70's Chevy smallblocks aren't fearsome.
The SBC's are awesome, no doubt. The only problem is the cost of buying a car from that period. Which is why I went to Buicks. My special is an A-body just like the Chevelle or GTO yet probably cost me a third.
BTW I was reading an article, would have to find it, that Buick had a nailhead nearly ready for production in 64 or 65 that produced over 700 hp and close to 800 lbs of torque. I gues it finally threw a rod in testing and decided against it. Supposedly though it would have passed quality control for Chevy, but Buick wouldn't take it. I guess the rear differential designers were very relieved!
I didn't even see you wrote net.
here are some pics, it's not the most update:
Why doesn't anyone design a car that looks like that any longer? They have so much character. Of course, I know why, as an owner of an '87 Audi 5000. But I'd pay a premium for a sedan with lines like that, manufactured to modern standards.
I would buy something that looks that good as a recreational car and then get the latest gizmondo-super-ovoid machine for day to day work. I don't doubt you get compliments on it. Very nice color, too. It really suits the car.
The new camaro is a joke, IMO looks just like a new Caddy. Although I think the new challenger, if it makes it out, is pretty snazzy.
Thanks for the compliments. I love it, it's a member of the family.
The new camaro is a joke, IMO looks just like a new Caddy. Although I think the new challenger, if it makes it out, is pretty snazzy.
Thanks for the compliments. I love it, it's a member of the family.
I didn't even see you wrote net.
here are some pics, it's not the most update:
Not as good as the '74, better than the itty-bitty '76.
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Even those who learn from history are surrounded by those doomed to repeat it.
The great problems that *do* almost exclusively share a common thread: we need *more* energy, less expensively, to solve them. Recycling is energy-intensive. Our reliance on coal will never be changed unless we have cleaner power in the form of fission and fusion, etc.
The last thing we need to do is to start relying on unreliable and temperamental, expensive power sources like wind and solar. We need to increase the central power generation capacity of this country sharply, not decrease it, while using *less* land, not more. The only answer to our problems is forward through better technology, not back to the windmill and the sundial.
There are some encouraging signs that people who know what they're talking about aren't listening to our snide and threating little monster friend here, who reminds me of that episode of Family Ties when Jennifer had a complete freakout and thought the lice were eating her hair extensions and the world was ending, except much more sullen and dismal. Remember that episode? The one where Jennifer had an eco-freak conniption fit and basically couldn't get out of bed?
but I'm not so sure it needs to be central. I think more distributed might help. Even being here in the People's Republic of MD, we lose power a bit to frequently to ice storms and downed trees for my liking. If the generation were better distributed throughout the net, the system would be more resilient. It would also help defend against terrorist strikes. While there would be more targets, taking out any one of them has less of an impact on the grid. It might even help with the pollution end of things. The evnironment can process a fair amount of waste, unless you overwhelm it which is more likely with a central generating station.
Granted it has drawbacks, because it is easier for a small group of people to maintain a powerful central facility, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth looking into.
On the tree hugger front, I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to having systems where you could put solar cell shingles on your roof to generate power, and having a requirement that if there is excess power available it can be fed into the grid. I just wouldn't want to mandate you had to put the shingles on the roof. I have the same thoughts on wind power, but it looks like the eco-nazis are putting the kabosh on that one anyway since it kills too many birds.
Also, some recycling is energy intensive, others is not (think Aluminium). The criteria about what to do should be whether or not it makes economic sense to do it, neither a blanket condemnation nor a blanket requirement to do so (I tend to think of green glass and paper pulp in this category).
According to Greenpeace, the world will be getting drastically warmer (denying these kids the icecaps they need) and it's all our fault.
What could we have done about it, assuming for the sake of argument that AGW is a real thing? Americans could have stopped using oil and coal to make electricity. Even Sheets Byrd could have gotten behind that effort, if we'd only known then what we know now.
But who singlehandedly kept us from developing nuclear power? Let me think ... just a sec, tip of my tongue ....
Not only that, but I want it warm. So there.
The Academy: researching the Illiberal Arts
in the PS3 game AGW III: Heroes of Global Warming. If this is not a commercial for a new console game, and really is a Greenpeace commercial then they have missed the punchline with this apocalyptic little boy.
He should have said:
I see dead hippies.
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that global warming is manmade, if we don't invoke big time global socialism, we all will drown, etc.
the same folks who were ABSOLUTELY SURE that science and technology could never develop a "Star Wars" shield that would provide a legitimate deterrent are now ABSOLUTELY SURE that global warming is the Biggest Threat Facing the Planet
"EARTH FIRST! We'll log the other planets later"
Exploding liberal heads everywhere I go.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
In the '60's, environemental protection was about saving the world with free love, dropping out of college, burning a draft card and a bra, and getting stoned, and "teaching your parents well" but "knowing they love you." And there was a lot more great music, too.
Today, parents are positively frightened of their children, thugs and pimps are heroes, hip-hop sweeps the grammys, Las Vegas can't host an NBA game without being descended upon by an army of gangbangers and criminals, and "environmental protection" means listening to sneering threats from 11 year olds who might come and burn your house down, or pop a cap in your a**. If this kid wasn't filming videos for Greenpeace he'd be knocking over grocery stores and running rock with a Glock in his waistband.
But this is the true face of the Left today, I have to say.
Which is why I keep recommending to people:
Join the NRA. Learn how to protect yourself. And buy ammo.
Is hitting what you aim at.
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-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I was thinking the same thing as I watched the video. You anti gun Greenpeace weenies are threatening me?
Fortuna Favet Fortibus
The Palpatine-style hood and palpable sense of quiet hatred made me think of a young Sith Lord.
Strong in the Dark Side, this one is.
It's attitudes like this that really make me believe even those on the left know AGW is a hoax. No scientist acts like this over the work unless outside forces (ie large amounts of money) are at stake.
I was an Aerospace Engineer at Annapolis, class of '85 (I throw the year in so all you young 'uns can understand this is before we could do computer simulation). We worked with airfoils and we tested them in windtunnels. We made predictions, we experimented, and we got results. We were predicting different things and if the A happened I was right. If B happened, someone else was right. If C happened we had all been wrong. And we all learned. We didn't draw lines in the sand, we didn't fight with each other and we certainly didn't hold onto our ideas when the data proved we had been mistaken.
These true believers have moved past any thought of the science and drawn the 'us against them' line. We have members of the US Senate writing letters telling private companies they can't fund research. We have meteorological organizations threatening to fire anyway who dissents from the company line.
This is no longer science. This is brute force intimidation to get your way. And you don't need to do that if the facts are on your side.
Fortuna Favet Fortibus
I think that there are a growing number of politicians who are finally becoming willing to stand up to this charade. Read my post from yesterday, about Czech President Vaclav Klaus; I'm sure that President Klaus knows the United Nations and its motives as well as any of the Greenpeace thugs do.
This kind of "dissenting voice" -- if the politico thugs and their acolytes really believed in what they profess to believe as far as debate is concerned -- would be given front-page status as a counterpoint in every Western newspaper. But the silence is deafening, because the media in this country is comprehensively owned by people who have a vested interest in seeing Al Gore succeed in his mission.
I didn't come to this. It's a false myth and I think that every serious person and scientist says it. Pointing to a UN panel is unfair. It isn't a scientific institution, it's a political organ. It's like creating a non-governmental organization of green coloring. This isn't a choice of neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists. These are politicised scientists who are coming to this with one-sided opinions and assignments. It is again an undignified slapstick that isn't abided by this panel's May report, but now that there is a fundamental reaction to the political content of this report, when all the "buts," "whens," "ifs" are crossed out and left out, there are simple theses there.
This is simply such an unbelievable failure by all, starting with the media and ending with politicians. If the European Commission doesn't immediately jump on this, it's another huge reason why it should not decide on such a thing and leave it up to individual states.
around nuclear power plants since 1977. My first rule is when the simulation doesn't match the real data, the software needs to be fixed, not the data.
to prove that your model was broken when the data didn't match your model? How odd.
Why didn't you just adjust the data to fit the model, the way things are done now?
Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.
(Not to disparage scientists) but if the power plant dooesn't work, the engineer get's fired, where if the scientist's theory doesn't work (but it fills some political need) he gets a bigger grant to study more.
Let me complain about becoming a battered spouse of the TV series LOST.
When we first got together everything was great, I loved LOST and LOST loved me (season 1 - most Eps were good). After a while the relationship was good, but not as good as it was at first, but I had a vested interest in the relationship, so I stood by it, hoping that things would get better again (season 2 - maybe half the Eps were good). Now the relationship has gone sour, but every once in a while there is just enough here and there to keep me from leaving, and remember the good times (season 3 - maybe 2 shows this season have been good, but they were REALLY good).
I'm glad I have DVR, the 20 mins of commercials are bad enough having to skip through (4 mins of show, 4 mins of commercials sometimes). And the episodes seem to drag on and on - last night was a prime example of this - 40 minutes of show to reveal 2 inconsequential things that could have been thrown into another episode in 2 minutes.
And yet, I'll be running back to LOST at 10pm next Wednesday. UGH, the cycle continues.
Two thirds of the world is covered by water, the other third is covered by Champ Bailey
Since the Democrats are committed to ending (losing) the war in Iraq, and they seem willing to stop fighting the GWOT, they need something new. So they have the new GWGW, the Global War on Global Warming.
"Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments" C.M. Bowra
And think you'll have saved millions of registered voters.
A certain percentage ***cough blue staters cough*** buys these appeals to emotion. I mean look the kids been denied cheeseburgers by AGW. Oh wait GW won't actually do that. Well then GW destroying the rainforests has him upset. Oh wait it would make them bigger. Well he is upset about icecaps being gone because he wanted an arctic vacation.
Maybe he is just upset that people ignored social security to run after pipedream problems
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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