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So Sheryl is using biodiesel which in turn has ratcheted the price of corn up so that poor people in South America can no longer afford corn (grown in the U.S.)
She should have stayed on the bike she was on when she was with Lance…....
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 10 at 10:54 AM • permalinkAll very well for you to say!!
But, I’m not going to take it!! And I’m telling you that for nothing, people!!
You just sit there and don’t give a damn whether Mr “Tim Blair” gets away with this or not!!!!
As we all know now, “Tim Blair” is some kind of outhouse in the bush!!
It’s time to rise up in protest!! Or something….......... whatever
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 04 10 at 11:21 AM • permalink“I feel compelled to do something in my own way, whatever that is.”
Notice that she doesn’t say “do what will actually help” or “do the most constructive thing”. Just “do something”. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? As long as these people are taking some kind of action, it doesn’t matter how pointless or even harmful it is. They’re doing something, so they can feel virtuous!
That also seems to be the message of the entire global-warming campaign. Things are so bad, they tell us, that we can no longer afford to spend time collecting data to actually make sure we understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what the best response is. No, we must act now. It doesn’t really matter what the action is, as long as it’s something.
I feel like I’m watching a revolution by an army of headless bodies. No thinking is required, just mindless, random action.
(Tuesday morning in the Excecutive Office Building, within a stone’s throw from the White House)
Oh god. Wouldn’t you know it. Just when I have a few minutes peace and quiet, Blair issues a coded message.
Well, where’s the code book?
(wronwright rifles through books, pamphlets, various papers on his desk and book shelves. He stops to think)
d - s - j
(wronwright ponders the meaning)
j. j, again. The last time Tim invoked j, it meant—invasion.
(wronwright opens file cabinets, throwing whole drawers of top secret papers onto the floor. He stops, frozen in thought.)
But wait. This time j was preceded by s. And s was, in turn, preceded by d. Why? What’s going on?
(wronwright shakes boxes of precious irreplaceable medieval folios, looking for code book)
But the d, it has a colon. Yes. And the s, it has a period behind it. This is serious, I can sense it. I better have the Birds of Prey warmed up with photo topedos fully loaded. Just in case.
(wronwright begins searching secret library of books of magic stolen from the Papal Vault during the 16th century French invasion, throwing them hinter and yon)
Fuck. Just fuck. Just when I need it I can’t find that son of a bitch.
(wronwright frantically walks into MarkL’s work cubicle)
MarkL, have you seen the secret VRWC code book? You know, the one Karl said we will be subjected to Knight Templar-like tortures if we lose it?
(MarkL moves his ham sandwich off a thin booklet)
Uu mean mis mon?
Aeeyyyyy. Gosh dern it, you have mayonnaise on it. You just better hope for both our sakes I can read the code.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 10 at 11:49 AM • permalinkOld Tanker, corn costs are driven up by ethanol. Bio-Diesel is generally food waste (fryer grease). Bio-diesel is a neat, cheap alternative fuel (don’t know about how much cleaner the emissions are) for hobbiests. It probably would only take a tiny fleet of bio-diesel vehicles to put a crunch on supply.
Crow plays a short set every night, which also includes a talk by David, segments of Al Gore’s environmental film An Inconvenient Truth and “humorous clips from top comedians”.
Two things:
1. No matter how short Crow’s set is, it’s not short enough. I still have nightmares about the Primary School concert where I was forced against my will to stand on stage in front of a whole bunch of people and sing that stupid song “Everyday is a Winding Road”.
2. These “top comedians”. Who would they be? Everyone knows there’s only four top comedians on the planet.
I feel like I’m watching a revolution by an army of headless bodies. No thinking is required, just mindless, random action.
I think you are referring to the Brownian Movement, sundog.
;-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 10 at 12:39 PM • permalinkHas 1.618 been drinking again :-)
With all due respects to 1.618 - sorry, I just couldn’t resist :-)Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 10 at 12:45 PM • permalink#21 Don’t you mean Brownian motion. Isn’t a brownian Movement more like a good crap?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 10 at 12:53 PM • permalinkAn interesting comparison chart from Popular Mechanics on alternative fuels can be found here (note: pdf file).
The main problem I’ve found with biodiesel is that it’s, well, diesel. And most vehicles ... aren’t. They were always the Betamax of engines, with the added downside of aggressive eco-campaigns against them (you can’t even buy a diesel car here in California, for example). Saw a greener-than-hell diesel-electric hybrid at the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Expo last week, but it’s auto-non-grata in my oh-so-eco-conscious state. Ahh, irony.
#19 aaron
I stand corrected, I shot off at the keyboard before checking to see if it was loaded.
heh, who knew McDonalds fries would end up helping out dependence on foreign oil, eat up everyone!!!
Where does the fryer grease come from….it’s not CANOLA is it??
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 10 at 02:04 PM • permalinkDo the letters in your post have anything to do with Australian Rules football?
Posted by Tai Chi Wawa on 2007 04 10 at 02:08 PM • permalink(Ash looks in Human-to-Moonbat dictionary)
Hmmm, gerbil (small animal doomed to die from global warming)... germ(small organism doomed to die from global warming)... Germaine Greer (organism trying to save feminists from global warming)... glue (great to sniff to relieve worries about global warming)... Oh, hang on, I passed it… ‘ere we go… Global warming (rapid heating of the planet Earth, located in the Milky Way, caused solely by greedy humans. Natural Earth cycles have been proven, by concensus, to not have had any effect on creating global warming.)
There you go, RebeccaH. Global warming is our fault and we must repent immediately.
Or not. Whatever you like.
Laurie David has her own cross to bear: the knowledge that when Larry David, her billionaire husband developed a new sitcom in which he plays Larry David, billionaire sitcom developer, he gave himself a wife who is younger, cuter, smarter, and doesn’t seem to give an organically-raised, shade-grown sustainable-agriculture fig for global warming.
Re #24, didn’t click on the link, eh? In any case, your interpretation is equally valid. :-D
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 10 at 02:38 PM • permalinkIf she lived in a mud hut with no candles it would help.
Less press releases = less energy = less hot air,.....
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 04 10 at 03:00 PM • permalink#37, the grease is still vegetable based and where demand is increased….......
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 10 at 04:01 PM • permalink#34
Laurie David has her own cross to bear…
Damn. I guess so. That’s just cold.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 10 at 05:32 PM • permalink#38 Old Tanker, here in Oz, bio-diesel is made from used cooking oil which would otherwise be dumped.
A friend, who makes his own, goes around the fish and chip shops and collects the used oil for free.
AFAIK, there is no move to grow more canola just to make bio-diesel because the economics of it require that you get the oil for free.
However, there have been moves to apply the usual fuel taxes to bio-diesel and it will probably then become uneconomic.For those who forgot to ask, may I offer you: Bio-Willie.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 04 10 at 05:47 PM • permalinkO/T Alan Jones blamed for stirring up the Cronulla riots.
Poppycock.
Who under 35 listens to Alan Jones?
OT again, but true fans of crap journalism should hasten to crikey for a breathless story about where Planet Ark washing powder comes from.
Apparently it never occurred to the author to ask Planet Ark for the answer to his question, or to crikey not to publish this astonishingly asinine piece about what the author doesn’t know.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 10 at 07:11 PM • permalinkIn related stupid-rockers-against-gerbil-worming news, Hish High Coldness The Goracle moves his concert to New Jersey
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 10 at 07:53 PM • permalinkDrat - that should be “His,” of course - perview is my fiend.
Somebody needs to warn the NJ residents to break out the thermal underwear and space heaters for July 7, as it’ll be the coldest day in the state’s history.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 10 at 07:55 PM • permalinkWhy no capital letter at the start of each sentence?
Do they use more CO2?
Posted by manbag's bagman on 2007 04 10 at 08:05 PM • permalinkEveryone relax, the drugs have been delivered.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 10 at 08:11 PM • permalinkWhat an insightful post!
It’s about time Margo Kingston worked out to hijack this site.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 04 10 at 08:25 PM • permalink#61, #65
Isn’t “hish” how you say “his” after you’ve tipped a few?
;^)
I’d certainly need a few if I had to sit through the Goracle “in concert”...
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 10 at 08:28 PM • permalink#25—Based on my experience, the Folk Song Army has decayed to the point where they know two songs, This Land is Your Land and This Train is Bound for Glory. Ask them for Joe Hill or Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley and they get an attitude…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 10 at 08:35 PM • permalinkI wrote: “I feel like I’m watching a revolution by an army of headless bodies. No thinking is required, just mindless, random action.”
. . . and TheRealJeffS replied: “I think you are referring to the Brownian Movement, sundog.”
That’s a good analogy, but I’ve just figured out that I was doing something else: unintentionally plagiarizing Ayn Rand. That phrase “a revolution by an army of headless bodies” was too good an image for me to come up with on my own. Thinking about it afterward, I thought it was probably something I half remembered from one of Rand’s essays. So I went and pulled a couple of books off my shelf, and after a turning some pages, I found this passage:
In the name of reality, the proclaimed the moral supremacy of “instincts”, urges, feelings—and the cognitive powers of stomachs, muscles, kidneys, hearts, blood. It was a rebellion of headless bodies.
That’s from an essay titled “The Cashing-In: The Student ‘Rebellion’”, written in 1965 and reprinted in Rand’s book The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.
Rand’s phrase perfectly fits what I was trying to say—but I didn’t realize I was borrowing it without acknowledging the source.
#69 Very good Kae.
Dagny and the metal business are keeping me busy!
Have you witnessed a beardless John Quiggin lately?Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 04 10 at 08:47 PM • permalinkWell, I had been hanging onto this, but it seems like the appropriate thread:
Screw You Hippy
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ooO OooIf you’re going to lecture on global warming, you need to do it in style, like John Travolta:
But although he readily admitted: “I fly jets”, he failed to mention he actually owns five, along with his own private runway. Clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions – nearly 100 times the average Briton’s tally.
Check out the vintage 707 in period livery. Magnificent. Then there’s the hog:
Travolta made his comments this week at the British premiere of his movie, Wild Hogs. He spoke of the importance of helping the environment by using “alternative methods of fuel” – after driving down the red carpet on a Harley Davidson.
He’s thinking outside the square:
Travolta, a Scientologist, claimed the solution to global warming could be found in outer space ... “It [global warming] is a very valid issue,” Travolta declared. “I’m wondering if we need to think about other planets and dome cities.
Is he a hypocrite? Or just a realist?
Travolta’s five private planes – a customised £2million Boeing 707, three Gulfstream jets and a Lear jet – are kept at the bottom of his garden in the US next to a private runway.
And sanctimonious little hand-on-heart greenies out there are motoring around in Toyota Priuses and think they’re saving the planet.
O/T Mercy Mission, Ridley and Phillips. Bolt’s column today makes interesting reading.
O/T
Anyone follow this in the business news?
Celebs sink BHP plans for LPG terminal off Malibu
AUSTRALIA’S hopes of the US West Coast becoming a major LNG export market are in tatters after the California State Lands Commission, by a 2-to-1 vote, rejected an application by BHP Billiton to build the Cabrillo Port receival terminal.
The $US800 million ($980 million) proposal had attracted major opposition from celebrity residents of the Beachside suburb of Malibu, who claimed the offshore terminal would be environmentally dangerous, pose a possible terrorist target and damage their property values.
NIMBYs
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 10 at 09:39 PM • permalink(yawn) ANOTHER ‘celebrity’ who has just about reached its use by date, getting on to the Globula Warming mass-debate. These people never go away and leave us with fond memories of their talents (if they really had any). They just pop up in another role, to fester on the public physic. Didn’t Jane ‘Hanoi’ Fonda start all this crap?
Though a lot, are not endowed with great thinking abilities, do they know that their egos are being massaged and that they are being manipulated for other peoples ends?#75 Thanks for flashing your “Y” at us, Dan.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 10 at 10:44 PM • permalinkAll I wanna do is be a bore
I got the fever from Al the moany Gore
All I wanna do is be a bore
A propa-ganda star in the climate war
All I wanna do is be a bore
I’ll do it my own way without any per- sonal sacrificePosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 04 10 at 10:45 PM • permalink#70 richard - Back in the 1960’s, Tom Lehrer summed up the “thinking” of the Folk Song Army perfectly:
“They may have won all the battles, but we had all the good songs.”
Nothing’s changed. May the lot of them burn in hell.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 04 10 at 10:52 PM • permalinkIf coal is so evil then why are so many coal ships waiting to get into newcastle?
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,1658,5444775,00.jpg
#82 At this link
“Natural gas is by far the cleanest of fossil fuels; generating electricity from it emits a mere 40 percent of the carbon dioxide produced by generating juice from coal.”
I wonder if the same celebrities who campaigned about this also expect to be taken seriously about global warming?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 10 at 11:16 PM • permalinkBlue State Sil—Gotta hold the world’s biggest tailgate party outside the stadium, with as many charcoal and gas grilles as can be trucked in…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 10 at 11:21 PM • permalinkWell. I am officially torn. Sheryl Crow is a very righteous babe, from my home state, who makes great music, and as a girl with mid-western values and valuing her Missouri home & family has been a well-grounded celebrity. And I admire her as a cancer survivor as several of my siblings are. And did I mention, she is one righteous babe?
This is the first idiot thing I have seen her do. Anyone who does not have the IQ to judge the science and see that the global warming crap is just that really goes down in my opinion. But did I mention what a righteous babe she is and makes great music?
Sheryl Crow is a very righteous babe, from my home state, who makes great music…
It’s fair to say we would never marry twins or share music collections. But hey, one man’s trash is anothers treasure.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 04 10 at 11:32 PM • permalink#92 richard mcenroe
Absolutely - the bigger the grills, the better for roasting huge hunks of tasty animals. The added benefit would be the opportunity to watch as assorted greenies and PETA freaks have meltdowns. There should also be a bunch of those portable firepits (bonfires would be better, but the stadium management might frown upon the damage to the asphalt) and tons of fireworks.
That really would make a great RWDB gathering, wouldn’t it?
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 11 at 12:23 AM • permalink#91 Margos Maid
Good point and thanks for that link
I think it was more about property prices than saving the world - and with some free publicity
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 11 at 12:23 AM • permalinkTrue bumper sticker I saw the other day:
I beat up five hippies and all I got was this fucking Prius…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 11 at 12:59 AM • permalinkThe main problem with leftoid celebs is that nobody ever asks them “Do you actually believe all that shit?” to their faces. Their paramount impulse is to be liked; if they were actually confronted with the fact that great numbers of people (even among their fans) think they’re clueless morons, you might see a quick turnaround, albeit one that would be just as phony as their current stances.
Biodiesel can also be made from waste animal fats and waste vegetable fats. For example animal tallow, and vegetable tallow which are both waste products as far as I know, animal tallow from basically any abattoir, and vegetable tallow from who-knows-what. The meat industry produces a massive amount of animal tallow that unless made into biodiesel is just nuisance waste.
Economically, what is starving the third world is that subsidised agricultural exports from rich nations are so cheap that third world nations can’t profitably export an agricultural surplus and so never even make it to “square one” (ie, being able to feed themselves) let alone begin to create the basic infrastructure for wealth creation. Combined with indiscriminate foreign aid you get a kind of national level welfare dependence. The idea that the world has too little food is Malthusian garbage in point of fact and is article of faith in the simplistic socialist zero-sum worldview, wherein Westerners get fat by starving third-worlders, the rich exist because others are poor, and governments can only hold power by systematic suppression of freedoms.
Anyone who tells you corn prices are related to food prices is talking shit. There’s about 4c worth of wheat in a loaf of bread and I’d bet my legs that about the same ratio holds true for corn. Ethanol production basically cannot drive up the price of food. Also there’s a LOT of digestible waste left over from processing corn for ethanol, and that can be used to grow beef… which is food.
Wreck, Love your second paragraph. How do they think we got to 6 billion people in the world if there’s all this famine? I marvel sometimes that Malthus continues to live. Can’t people see?
But I’m gonna talk some shit here! The price of corn has a large effect on the price of any feedstuff I use, and a large effect on my overall expenses. It’s the basis by which any starch-related feedstuff is priced and, by pulling acreage into corn and out of soy or anything else, it drives the price of those up, too. Byproducts are used heavily in animal ag but their price is influenced by the price of corn, and demand for them is driven up by the high price of corn. Barley, oats, and almost any animal feed are being pulled up by the price of corn. Is it catastrophic? No, but it’s significant. But in the end, high prices will cure high prices.
“This shows that the commission cares about far beyond the stars in Malibu, and that they were thinking globally,” Malibu activist, Keely Steele-Brosnan, told local reporters.
Oh right. Isn’t having to save the planet conveeenient. This is the same crowd that thinks Malibu should be off-limits to the hoi polloi (all beaches in California are public and required to have public access) because their celebrity, by its very nature, creates special problems and unique needs. As far as I know, they’re getting away with that, too. Celebrats.
I’ve read that California’s San Joaquin valley has the capacity to grow crops in sufficient quantity to feed the entire planet. We’d probably have to go real heavy on basic crops like soy beans, but still…
I don’t know if she’s a righteous babe, but I like Crow’s music. Talent and brains must be incompatible. Or so it seems.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 11 at 10:14 PM • permalink
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Crow said: “I am here because the more I learn about global warming, the more I feel compelled to do something in my own way, whatever that is.”
That exactly how I feel! Normally it involved electricity/petroleum related products used for the single purpose of making me feel good about how far we have advanced despite these Gore worshipping idiots!