tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post8294442478177008061..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: Natural Economy vs National Economy - 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-75332985771725064812011-03-02T11:52:10.171-06:002011-03-02T11:52:10.171-06:00The Devil's dictionary (link upthread) has a r...The Devil's dictionary (link upthread) has a relevant definition for our current politics:<br /><br />CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-4437359856583895692011-03-02T09:51:28.907-06:002011-03-02T09:51:28.907-06:00Great post today. The LA basin in particular is a...Great post today. The LA basin in particular is a picture post card example of an unsustainable culture and lifestyle. The water is pumped in from the Sierras (Owens <i>Dry</i> Lake (it's dry because the water's been diverted into the aqueduct), the subject of much of the album art on Pink Floyd's <i>Wish You Were Here</i>), the electricity and some more water is pumped in from Hoover Dam/Lake Mead (which also enables the abomination that is Las Vegas), the petrol to power the world's grandest freeway system comes from our friends in the middle east (the basin's once considerable underground reserves long since exhausted), the cars are pumped in from everywhere, but fortunately, the wind, the smog, the fires, the earthquakes, the crime, and the pampered Hollywood celebrities are all native to the region. LA will be one of our epic fails in due course, a monument to the excesses of American 20th century imperialist capitalism.NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-45210547840140335032011-03-02T08:43:27.170-06:002011-03-02T08:43:27.170-06:00How about the sustainable economy vs the future ec...How about the sustainable economy vs the future economy? Is plate tutonics along with climate dynamics calving California, the future of which is an island off the coast of Nevada.Kathyhttp://shadowrag.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-44265991239237623622011-03-02T08:37:56.515-06:002011-03-02T08:37:56.515-06:00Rush Limbaugh is calling leftists "cockroache...Rush <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/02/951587/-Limbaugh:-Leftists-are-cockroaches" rel="nofollow">Limbaugh is calling leftists "cockroaches"</a> like the radio operatives in Rwanda did before a million Tutsi people were murdered.<br /><br />Maybe environmentalists will be the next "cockroaches" because they expose the establishment for the death-bound machine it really is.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-2446615220242716712011-03-02T07:51:49.659-06:002011-03-02T07:51:49.659-06:00The double-speak dictionary MOMCOM uses to define ...The double-speak dictionary MOMCOM uses to define "natural" has been around a long time: <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dictionary" rel="nofollow">The Devil's Dictionary</a>.<br /><br />Remember when they said oil is "natural" and the spill will be good for the Gulf?<br /><br />That must have come from The Devil's Dictionary too.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.com