tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post3441992444167556688..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: Logical Fallacy: Argument From MOMCOMUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-20242687641478171122011-04-08T08:25:44.808-05:002011-04-08T08:25:44.808-05:00Good post at Huffpo, the crucial line being "...Good post at Huffpo, the crucial line being "<b>they refuse to do it</b>" ... <br /><br />They could but they won't ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/we-are-not-being-told-the_b_846445.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a>Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-71952988999294907572011-04-07T13:00:13.683-05:002011-04-07T13:00:13.683-05:00Yep,
Experts are great, but the expert card is o...Yep, <br /><br />Experts are great, but the expert card is overplayed for sure. <br /><br />The most often quoted song lyric by the U.S. Courts in times past is "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" ... (Bob Dylan)<br /><br />See <i>64 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 531</i><br /><br />There are signs up along the coast of Japan, some 600 or so years old, that say do not build houses below this rock:<br /><br /><i>"High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants," the stone slab reads. "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."<br /><br />It was advice the dozen or so households of Aneyoshi heeded, and their homes emerged unscathed from a disaster that flattened low-lying communities elsewhere and killed thousands along Japan's northeastern shore.<br /><br />Hundreds of such markers dot the coastline, some more than 600 years old. Collectively they form a crude warning system for Japan, whose long coasts along major fault lines have made it a repeated target of earthquakes and tsunamis over the centuries</i>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.argus-press.com/news/international/article_8c24b313-d5c6-5ad6-bc8c-a13e176621fb.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a><br /><br />Modern Civilization is going down for ignoring the fact that we do not need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, we just fear that we do.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-46344300209715046892011-04-07T09:29:22.558-05:002011-04-07T09:29:22.558-05:00Carl Safina puts it mildly:
Here's what won&#...Carl Safina puts it mildly:<br /><br /><i>Here's what won't happen: An oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Contamination of drinking water from "fracking" for gas. Nuclear meltdown in Japan. Radioactive contamination of food from said meltdown, and any of that contamination reaching the U.S. That's what they told us would never happen. Of course, they were wrong.<br /><br />Turns out they're wrong about a lot of things. And who's "they"? Why, look!; it's Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Money ... <b>So why should we listen to them when they say we can't have clean energy? We shouldn't</b>. </i><br /><br />(<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-safina/what-wont-happen-on-energ_b_844949.html" rel="nofollow">Huffington Post</a>, emphasis added).Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-50259549874056685202011-04-07T08:46:25.062-05:002011-04-07T08:46:25.062-05:00Speaking of WikiLeeks, there are still leaks in th...Speaking of WikiLeeks, there are still leaks in the Gulf ... <a href="http://blog.al.com/live/2011/02/wells_still_leaking_in_gulf.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a>Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.com