South Bruce Peninsular - Idling - Comments

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vinylgirl — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:08:38 -0400

Anthropomorphic, is a such a zany word. I had to use it to describe a pair of happy banana vintage salt shakers which I sold on ebay. There is an underground movement of anthropomorphic collectors out there, even in the fruits and vegetables realm :)

Mixed That One Up

Dodge — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:52:56 -0400

I have made the correction thanks. I think anthropomorphic is used to describe human attributes in animals which is your "human form". Glad to have you aboard.

anthropomorphic

mxyzptlk — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:06:06 -0400

hi dodge, sorry to be a nitpick but 'anthropomorphic' means human looking or of human form, like a robot with a head, arms and legs. 'anthropogenic' is the adjective i think you wanted, as it means caused by humans.
cheers
kltpzyxm

An Inconvenient Goof

Dodge — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:22:00 -0400

The National Post is running a series of articles which serve to point out that at least some well accredited folks do not join in the anti CO2 hysteria that seems to grip some of the people who live among us. I am constantly amazed by the number of people who do not realize that the largest and most effective of the greenhouse gases is water vapour.

Do not read through this if you think Al Gore is safe enough to present to high school and elementary students without some other balancing material. You are too far gone to save.

"scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science. Here is the series so far ..."
Read all about it: Climate change: The Deniers

We have some few Al Gore trained politicians in our midst between Saugeen Shores and Owen Sound. One result is a spate of opinion pieces that pretend to be aligned with the best of current science on the subject. They are usually far from it. Here is one way to sort out the wheat from the chaff: If the article assumes that climate change and anthropogenic activity (it means generated from human activity) have a direct cause and effect relationship, that is a dead giveaway you are dealing with the hysterical faction.

On the subject of this thread those of us who heat our homes with wood heat just have to laugh at the anti idling nonsense.

"as "dixie" softly plays in the background

wayne tanner — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:14:25 -0400

Hey BOY... don't you be a messin with the Nascar ( cut to image of man spitting on the ground)
Whe I retire I wanna be able to drag my 79 foot trailer with the pickup truck hooked on behind ( with the hemi in it of course) pull into the middle of a mile and 1/2track and find my spot amongst the thousands of other trailers. put up my favourite racers flag on a 40 foot pole and site with my cooler and BBQ. and watch the race on TV
I wanna hear the thunder of 700 horse powe and breath in the smoke and the carcinagens of burning rubber as the cars go around. And not some mamby pamby wussy hybrid electric thing purring around the track. I what my chest to hurt from the acoustic concussion as the cars roar by and smash around and catch fire.
If this enviro thing keeps gaining speed like it is things are gonna get out of control and then what. turn the infield of the Brickyard into the largest cricket field in the world.... just another prespective...
BTW what happened to ACID RAIN buzz or was it pre ozone which seems off the radar. :)

Weather Mythologies

garym — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:59:48 -0400

Funny you should mention myth, because word is slowly leaking out all over the place, in the National Post, in the braver scientific journals and especially in the blogspace, and take note too that the politically correct term is "climate change" ... because, as Prof. John Brignell of the U of Southampton (the other Southampton) explains, the doomsayers have reason to be hedging their bets over which way the wind will actually blow ...

Global Warming has become the core belief in a new eco-theology. The term is used as shorthand for anthropogenic (or manmade) global warming. It is closely related to other modern belief systems, such as political correctness, chemophobia and various other forms of scaremongering, but it represents the vanguard in the assault on scientific man.

... Only the relatively elderly can remember the cynical haste with which the scaremongers dropped the "coming ice age" and embraced exactly the opposite prediction, but aimed at the same culprit - industry. This was in Britain, which was the cradle of the new belief and was a response to the derision resulting from the searing summer of 1976.
[ Conspiracy Times ]

Seems Willie isn't the only source of meterological mythinformation!

I suppose now is not the time to mention that our solar system is just now leaving the sheltered leeward face and about to enter the hot windward side of the galaxy ...

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

snowbirds

mxyzptlk — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:04:31 -0400

hi garym i had to read it twice as i at first thought of all those snowbirds traveling back and forth to florida each year. your comments seem to support my notion that protecting the environment and reducing co/co2 emissions is only paid lip service and most people dont care enough to be inconvenienced. maybe they will get rained out. or maybe global warming is just a myth.

Idle Dreams

garym — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:44:43 -0400

I know pubescent boys love to see loud long shiny high-speed fuselages thrusting over and over at willowy clouds, but tell me, compared to the sum total fossil fuels burned annually by all the cars in all the drive-throughs in the entire Georgian Triangle, how much petro-carbons does just one Snowbird dump out on a single take-off? For 'entertainment'. Isn't the elation over this news just a tad contradictory?

The Snowbirds will be coming to Owen Sound after all ... The official announcement came late yesterday from 15 Wing in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan where the aerobatic team is based.
[ Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation ]

The mind reels at the fuel bill to run these things from Moose Jaw to here and back, and causes me to pause to wonder who it is that pays for all that biodiesel.

And likewise I pause to wonder, since the no-idle rules are obviously not intended to curb local C0/CO2 emmissions, then just what are they wanting to accomplish with the ban?

Worth remembering too, as every NASCAR fan does on every race, that the racecars have been under the gun to mind their emissions for over 30 years now. The fools never realized they could beat that ban by simply extending and rounding the shape of their vehicles, and maybe add some hoops, or a long tunnel ...

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

Idling

mxyzptlk — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:09:00 -0400

i have to laugh at some of the letters to the editor i have seen recently regarding drive-thru's and idling bylaws. rather than create another bylaw, why don't people just stop using drive-thrus?