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Greenfield: The Environmental Apocalypse
Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ^
| Thursday, August 01, 2013
| Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 08/01/2013 5:48:58 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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The flat earthers are the mindless enviro fanatics who are oh so firmly committed to a return to feudalism. Their breathless, witless, fascist preachments are the stuff of nightmares and monsters. Avoid them, at all cost.
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:51:57 AM PDT
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Louis Foxwell
(This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Dirt worshipers.
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posted on
08/01/2013 5:59:07 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Louis Foxwell
We should not rob from the gleaners.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:04:00 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Louis Foxwell
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:04:30 AM PDT
by
babble-on
To: babble-on
Describe what is stupid about the article.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:10:18 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
To: Louis Foxwell
...the sweating slave and the stench of Babylon...The rich love the poor but hate the middle-class.
Nothing makes the mountain feel magnificent more than a deep valley.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:22:15 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Behavior Insights Team Exigency Monitoring Executive (BITEME))
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:28:35 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: listenhillary
it moves with dazzling incongruity between a couple of specific cases (misleadingly described at that) to sweeping idiotic generalizations that are neither proven nor even illustrated by the examples given.
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:31:18 AM PDT
by
babble-on
To: Louis Foxwell
He didn’t mention the bicycles, so I will.
Bicycles are cool. I rode bikes for years and was one of the original Boston Bicycle Messengers (and WHAT a figure I had back then! LOL!).
That being said, “Bicycles” are a tremendous symbol of what he is describing in the article. When I see a bunch of elite snobs hogging the street their $1000+ bicycles, with their skin-tight spandex racing clothes (covered in advertising logos) made in polluting, exploitative, slave-labor factories in China, and their sneering, I’m-so-superior attitudes, I just wanna puke at their hypocrisy!
Dan is not decrying proper stewardship of the earth’s resources. He is lambasting the hypocrisy that masquerades as it.
:-)
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:32:20 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: left that other site
I rode a 10 speed Schwinn Varsity at college. Good exercise, free parking and cheap to own. I think I paid $90 for it brand new in 1969.
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08/01/2013 6:41:57 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Louis Foxwell; sickoflibs
"Microlending and financial literacy what is this really about?" Buffett asks. "People will certainly learn how to integrate into our system of debt and repayment with interest. People will rise above making $2 a day to enter our world of goods and services so they can buy more. But doesnt all this just feed the beast?" To the slum dwellers, the beast isn't capitalism, it's that gnawing feeling in your stomach when you haven't eaten for a day. But Peter Buffett, who lives a life almost as privileged as Prince Charles, bemoans the idea of getting people to the point where they aren't worried about where their next meal is coming from because it just turns them into capitalists and consumers. And before you know it, they're buying big screen televisions and writing op-eds in the New York Times on the futility of philanthropy.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if for one week - just one week - liberal elite blowhards could live at the dump outside Managua Nicaragua and 'pick' along with the folks who live there?
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:55:04 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Sob stories make bad law...)
To: Louis Foxwell
Greenfield is brilliant. He has an eye for the important issues. His level of analysis is remarkable. He is an excellent writer. He does this almost every day. The man is amazing.
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08/01/2013 6:55:11 AM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Liz; abb; Fred Nerks
Communist modernism was a Potemkin village, a cheap tacky curtain and behind it, the sweating slave and the stench of Babylon. The modernism of the progressive the same facade covered in sociology textbooks, New York Times op-eds and teleprompter speeches. Behind it lie the ruins of Detroit, tribal violence in the slums of every major city and an economy in which there is no more room for the middle class except as clerks in the government bureaucracy. New York Times won a Pulitzer for covering up this horror...
Ping
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posted on
08/01/2013 6:59:59 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Sob stories make bad law...)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Now THAT’S Bicycling, for real.
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posted on
08/01/2013 7:59:03 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: Louis Foxwell
The liberal billionaire who clamors about sustainability likes progress. What he dislikes is the middle class with its mass produced cars and homes, cheap restaurants full of fatty foods and television sets and daily deliveries of cardboard boxes full of stuff and shopping malls. He thinks, in all sincerity, that they would be happier and more spiritually fulfilled as peasants. It's not an original idea. Feudalism never really went away.
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posted on
08/01/2013 8:01:37 AM PDT
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TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: GOPJ
Elite snobs do not need to share the plight of the poor from their limos. They need to be impoverished, starving, without friends or support. They must be genuinely poor. I believe that can be arranged.
A culture committed to morality will not support the purveyors of vulgarity. That will end this ridiculous reign of blathering imbeciles who want only for the culture to grind down to their level.
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posted on
08/01/2013 8:22:58 AM PDT
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Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell
This is perhaps tangental to the essay, but I would like to see the development of 3-D printing to the point that goods sent even from one city to another in-country could be reduced to a computer file sent via Internet, and hard goods then produced locally. It would cut down the amount of traffic, fuel use and emissions from truck hauling.
Of course, it would put a lot of the truck-stop prostitutes out of business... hard to imagine them congregating outside the 3-D printshop... :-)
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posted on
08/01/2013 8:40:50 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: left that other site
The Varsity had cheaper, slightly heavier tires and rims allowing curb jumping if need be. Toe clips were a $3 option.
The salesman said, “To be cool, you gotta have toe clips.”
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posted on
08/01/2013 9:35:03 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
For an Inner City Bicycle Messenger, toe-clips could spell the difference between jumping off the bike before the bus hits it....or NOT. :-)
My Territory was Boston, Cambridge, and The North End, with $1.00 extra if i had to go to the DMV...just because of the aggravation. The Episcopal Archbishop registered a complaint against me because my hot pants were too SHORT. LOL
Sometimes i would see white outlines of people on the street, and it was a few years later i learned what that MEANT! LOL
Ahhhhh...those were the days!
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posted on
08/01/2013 9:50:00 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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