Website Sneers Down a North Carolina Town For Rejecting Solar Energy Out of "Fears" The Solar Panels Would Suck All the Energy Out of the Sun

So, the first question one has to ask about any media story: Are they just lying?

Well, it may bear on this question that the site's source for this story is a story by.... drum roll... The Huffington Post.

Andy McCarthy looks into it and discovers it's yet another Big Media Lie. The town refused to re-zone the area to allow solar farm over questions about how it might impact their home values. One single dummy at the open hearing expressed this dumb "suck the energy out of the sun" idea.

That became, through progressive propaganda magic, the concern of the whole area. In a way that that Congressman's fear that Cuba might "tip over" if too many people got aboard it did not become the fears of the whole Democrat party.

McCarthy concludes, as he's concluded a lot lately:

It is not news any more. It is just narrative, written for the entertainment of like-minded narrators. That’s why increasing numbers of turned off Americans no longer turn it on.

I don't think that word "narrative" is strong enough. It's a codeword that only some people understand.

What this is is a tribal truth, a cult dogma. It's not a real truth -- it's a "truth" that is insisted on being true by the cult believers, because the cult believers need to demonize the non-believers and elevate themselves into the circle of the anointed.

Very little of what we talk about in "news" is actual "news" anymore. The newspapers are just the newsletters of a large and very intellectually insecure cult.

Correction: This wasn't the Washington Post. Sorry, I misread -- McCarthy said it was the Washington Examiner, but it wasn't that; it was the "DC Examiner," which is basically an open forum for imbeciles.

Sorry for the mistake.

That said, my mistake is only one of timing: I bet you any number of dollars that the media will be picking up on this lie soon enough.

Posted by: Ace at 12:51 PM

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1 Interesting thoughts. I hope we keep ourselves from always searching for our own narrative instead of the truth.

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 12:53 PM (0eidE)

2 Cletus and his redneck friends will have to move their moonshine distilleries elsewhere.

Posted by: The Washington Post at December 15, 2015 12:53 PM (Agn5J)

3 Guam, not Cuba.

Not that Hank Johnson could find either on a map.

Posted by: Guvnah at December 15, 2015 12:53 PM (dH9N5)

4 I believe it was Guam that was the tippy island.

Posted by: flmomof4 at December 15, 2015 12:54 PM (bEXWJ)

5 The only problem is that otherwise smart people buy into this narrative, because they don't have the time/inclination to look every single thing up for themselves. They still believe the media can't lie to them, or something.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 15, 2015 12:54 PM (i2Lsf)

6 It is not a lie if you make yourself believe it!

Posted by: The State Media at December 15, 2015 12:54 PM (5LOno)

7 Washington Examiner, according to the link, not Washington Post.

Posted by: mumboJumbo at December 15, 2015 12:54 PM (zS9gG)

8 Well, once all the sun's energy is gone the whole town will probably tip over into the ocean. t's just common sense.

Posted by: johnd01 at December 15, 2015 12:54 PM (ukNFU)

9 We don't refer to our positions as lies. We prefer "unknown truths."

Posted by: The Washington Post at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (Agn5J)

10 Screw Guam and their coconut crabs. Let it tip over.

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (0eidE)

11 The truth is what we want it to be...

Posted by: The MSM at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (vBeA5)

12 sorry, Examiner.com, not WashExam

Posted by: mumboJumbo at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (zS9gG)

13 Hating on Southern Whites is culturally approved.

Posted by: DFCtomm at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (LSU8V)

14 I once had coconut crabs. They were itchy.

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (Agn5J)

15 It was that intellectual 'giant' Hank Johnson and Guam. He feared being overshadowed in the IQ Bowl by the woman who thinks there is a flag on Mars.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2015 12:57 PM (n48LL)

16 Nothing I like better than being condescended to by the lowest intellectual denominator of any college.

After all, if you're too uncoordinated for a phys-ed degree and too dumb to get into teacher's college, there's always a journalism degree.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 15, 2015 12:57 PM (DLu2s)

17 >> So, the first question one has to ask about any media story: Are they just lying?

Do bears deposit coprolites and congress with DiCaprio in the woods?

Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at December 15, 2015 12:57 PM (nSW/N)

18 I once had coconut crabs. They were itchy.
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (Agn5J)

Dammit Charlie, this is serious business about narratives and Guam capsizing.

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 12:57 PM (0eidE)

19 FIRE CAN'T MELT SOLAR PANELS!

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 15, 2015 12:58 PM (Agn5J)

20 One e-mail sucked all the students out of the LAUSD.

Posted by: German Pranksters at December 15, 2015 12:58 PM (msPO3)

21 Cuba is attached to the seabed by giant cables. Guam just floats.

Posted by: Soledad O'Brien's Earpiece at December 15, 2015 12:58 PM (8ZskC)

22 Preznit Jugears believes that if too many cows fart too often the energy-sapped sun will sear us sumbitches.

Posted by: Sphynx at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (OZmbA)

23 So, the first question one has to ask about any media story: Are they just lying?

WaPo lies about everything.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (t2KH5)

24 DFCtomm @ 13 beat me to it. Yankees gotta puff themselves up by trying to make all Southerners look bad.

Posted by: elaine at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (Y0Piu)

25 That must be a very very very old bear to shat corprolite aka fossilized poop.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (n48LL)

26 Big pharma is using solar panels to kill you!

Posted by: Jenny McCarthy at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (LYCUN)

27 22 Preznit Jugears believes that if too many cows fart too often the energy-sapped sun will sear us sumbitches.

But enough about Michelle

Posted by: Barry Obama at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (Agn5J)

28 What this is is a tribal truth, a cult dogma. It's not a real truth -- it's a "truth" that is insisted on being true by the cult believers, because the cult believers need to demonize the non-believers and elevate themselves into the circle of the anointed.

It's almost as if our elites were attempting to dehumanize us to make it easier for others to deal with us harshly. But when has that ever happened?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (RD7QR)

29 It's like they are all one big self affirming echo chamber that likes to project all their fears and inadequacies onto the "other" that being us.

Posted by: brainpimp at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (zosQc)

30 Guam, not Cuba.

Not that Hank Johnson could find either on a map.

FYI, Guam is right next to the Maldives, which is claimed by Argentina.

Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at December 15, 2015 01:00 PM (8ZskC)

31 WaPo lies about everything.
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM (t2KH5)

Do we lump Volokh in with WaPo? Or keep reading and hope they make good money?

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:00 PM (0eidE)

32 Yeah, Maldives; I caught those, too.

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at December 15, 2015 01:00 PM (Agn5J)

33 The problem from the left's perspective is that the real world and leftwing ideology are drifting more and more apart.

You can see this with global warming.

There was a real increase in temperature for a number of years...and the left built this into a theory that would mandate their complete control of the economy.

But then the warming stopped. So first the left argued that global warming could make things hotter...and no one believed that.

Then the argued that the heat was ...hiding... under their beds, or maybe in a part of the ocean no one was looking at...but no one believed that either.

So they just faked the data and suddenly global temperatures have been going up...no pause honest!

The left doesn't really believe in reality as an objective construct anyway, so changing the narrative to them is the same as changing the facts.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2015 01:00 PM (5LOno)

34 This just shows your ignorance, Ace. Cuba is perfectly stable, thanks to Castro's progressive leadership, it's Guam that's dangerously unbalanced.

Posted by: TallDave at December 15, 2015 01:01 PM (74ZYB)

35 It's almost as if our elites were attempting to dehumanize us to make it easier for others to deal with us harshly. But when has that ever happened?

Caricatures are easier to round up and move into camps.

Posted by: Josef Goebbels at December 15, 2015 01:01 PM (8ZskC)

36 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at December 15, 2015 01:02 PM (GwIKd)

37 Somewhere a bear is crying on his bed, listening to Dashboard Confessional with a picture of Leo.

Posted by: bourbonchicken at December 15, 2015 01:02 PM (W1UqD)

38 Once you turn a person or a people into a label, far easier to commit atrocities against them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2015 01:02 PM (n48LL)

39 Cuba was never at risk of tipping over. Guam, on the other hand...

Posted by: Hank at December 15, 2015 01:02 PM (Zbx06)

40 Gun control works in California

Posted by: Brabra Boxer at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (3mTyP)

41 This is, frankly, THE biggest problem facing this nation in 2015. It's one thing to pit Democrats vs. Republicans, but entirely another to put the entire force of the mainstream media, intentionally twisting facts and spinning lies to support Democrats.

The playing field is tilted significantly to the left.

I have no idea how to fix it, but the only salvation for this country runs straight through that fix.

Posted by: deadrody at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (W15tP)

42 39 Cuba was never at risk of tipping over. Guam, on the other hand...

Denise Richards on the other hand...

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (Agn5J)

43 >> That must be a very very very old bear to shat corprolite aka fossilized poop.

I prefer the term 'grizzled'.

Posted by: The Bear at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (nSW/N)

44 The left also believes that DNA doesn't determine one's gender or race.

Biology begs to differ.

Posted by: elaine at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (Y0Piu)

45 And mumboJumbo is right, it's Washington Examiner, not WaPo.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (RD7QR)

46 Dude.

All that effort to describe what kind of "truth" it might be and all that's needful it to name it what it is. A bald faced lie.

They,ALL the left, are either pathological liars and straight up sociopaths when it comes to pushing their agenda, or brain dead idiots without even a hint of critical thinking skill.

Posted by: Grimmy at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (uUsh9)

47 I bet they verified that the guy that said it was white before they ran the story.

Posted by: brak at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (xwPSp)

48 NIMBYs will say anything to stop a project they don't want. Been through it many times.

Having never developed anything, I can see why journalists and other coastal (wannabe) elites would sneer at this. They just don't understand what's going on. They're provincial. Insular. Ignorant.

Posted by: forest at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (lcz8X)

49 I don't speak Austrian but I do know what a corpse man is.

Posted by: Barack at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (LYCUN)

50 So this is all about The Crusades?

Posted by: Yo! at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (GwIKd)

51 The media never mocks the stupid democrats in the house or senate, there is so much material there

Posted by: The Jackhole at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (3mTyP)

52 "One single dummy at the open hearing expressed this dumb "suck the energy out of the sun" idea."

Well, apparently there are people concerned that a 1.5 mile long rock 30X as far away as the moon will cause "gravitational disturbance and earthquakes" on Earth.

Innumeracy is a real problem.

Posted by: despair at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (VrdxH)

53 I don't think that word "narrative" is strong enough.

The word you're looking for is "propaganda."

Posted by: elaine at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (Y0Piu)

54 Yankees gotta puff themselves up by trying to make all Southerners look bad.

Posted by: elaine at December 15, 2015 12:59 PM

Yesterday, my Facebook "newsfeed" was full of reposts of the article. All the Bernie Sanders fans were having a big teehee about the stupidity of them redneck Southron crackas.

They never cease to amaze me.

Posted by: MrScribbler at December 15, 2015 01:05 PM (ykopX)

55 I have no idea how to fix it, but the only salvation for this country runs straight through that fix.
Posted by: deadrody at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (W15tP)

Probably have to give our traffic to more honest media and leave behind the liars. It's probably similar to how the media was partisan before and during Teddy Roosevelt's time. I read an interesting book call the Bully Pulpit about how people didn't trust the media or government then either. It's probably cyclical.

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:05 PM (0eidE)

56 You know the biggest problem with those damn solar panel farms? They run night and day!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:05 PM (NeFrd)

57 Innumeracy is a real problem.

Posted by: despair<<

That like math?

Posted by: Sphynx at December 15, 2015 01:05 PM (OZmbA)

58 So this is all about The Crusades?

Posted by: Yo! at December 15, 2015 01:04 PM (GwIKd)

Yes, the muslims are killing everyone else again and we need to kill them.

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:05 PM (0eidE)

59 American imperialism has led us to a tipping point.

Posted by: Hank Johnson D-GA at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (FkBIv)

60 In the WaPo's defense, NE NC is a depressing area. Called the Black belt because it was once huge cotton growing area. Now mostly no jobs, but lots of hope and change.

There are some seriously stupid people up there.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (jJRIy)

61 Never used to be so windy.

But since they put those wind farms in on the front range, it never stops blowing.

Posted by: Nebraska at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (/M9zY)

62 Resisting green energy in North Carolina "Stupid Hicks". Doing the same in Cape Cod "Crickets"

"Sen. Ted Kennedy and many residents who own coastal property from where
they could see the wind turbines on a clear day oppose the project along
with some environmental groups concerned about disrupting the patterns
of migratory birds and the potential effect on local sea life."

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hcarak5

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (XtAzU)

63 From the comments there, you also learn that the sneer is also racist.

"67-32% Obama over Romney. The demographics of that county are 58% black.
The "retired science teacher" has been a registered Democrat since
1991."

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (fQ/0p)

64 The media lied about me too.

Posted by: Honey Boo Boo at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (msPO3)

65 Denise Richards on the other hand...
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at December 15, 2015 01:03 PM (Agn5J)

I'd love to cry on her pillows....

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (0eidE)

66 4 I believe it was Guam that was the tippy island.
Posted by: flmomof4 at December 15, 2015 12:54 PM (bEXWJ)

Cuba is much larger, and thus more stable.

Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2015 01:06 PM (zoehZ)

67 Tingles McNazi-hair Matthews once laughed hilariously at the very idea that a muslim group would attempt to form a "Caliphate"

Posted by: Sphynx at December 15, 2015 01:07 PM (OZmbA)

68 The media lied about me too.
Posted by: Honey Boo Boo

I'm here for you, Honey.

Posted by: Yogi Bear at December 15, 2015 01:08 PM (FkBIv)

69 Guam, not Cuba.

Not that Hank Johnson could find either on a map.

---
forget it, he's on a roll

Posted by: Otter at December 15, 2015 01:08 PM (/eTPT)

70 "You know the biggest problem with those damn solar panel farms? They run night and day! "

And the noise. So loud.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 15, 2015 01:08 PM (LA7Cm)

71 So is negative regional bias categorically different from racial or ethnic bias?

Posted by: Komissar Vladimir at December 15, 2015 01:08 PM (7NboP)

72 Here's an idea. Instead of sucking all the energy out of the sun, we could aim all the solar panels at a gigantic light bulb on top of a post.

Posted by: Bobby Mann at December 15, 2015 01:08 PM (8ZskC)

73 Liberals think all Conservatives are knuckle dragging idiots...now normally I take that as an compliment, but that is how they look at us... And of course their shit does not stink.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 15, 2015 01:09 PM (gf8BH)

74 If they could only harness the incredible power of Southern Butthurt.

Posted by: Garrett at December 15, 2015 01:09 PM (/M9zY)

75 Layers of fact checkers.

Top. Fact. Checkers.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Happy Hysteria-days from teh Outrage Outlet! at December 15, 2015 01:09 PM (hLRSq)

76 Ever notice that the prose of the average 5th grade educated Civil War soldier is far more eloquent and thoughtful than our highly "educated" elite media types?

Posted by: maddogg at December 15, 2015 01:09 PM (xWW96)

77 So they just faked the data and suddenly global temperatures have been going up...no pause honest!

The left doesn't really believe in reality as an objective construct anyway, so changing the narrative to them is the same as changing the facts.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2015 01:00 PM (5LOno)

Economy? same deal... they changed how they measured the economy to make it appear like we were doing better...

When in reality of a % of people are working, at jobs paying less...

The plan is to make the dollar worth less, but hide that devaluation from the Cost of Living increases, so the Government will appear to have less debt... which is why I predict interest rates will NOT go up tomorrow... (it would dramatically increase the amount the US Gov owes on interest)...

Its like the recent changes to Military retirements... which they bill as good for the troops... yet the Troops will get $1-2 Billion per year less...

Its Lies.... all the way down..

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 15, 2015 01:10 PM (f7rv6)

78 Wouldn't it make sense to suck out just enough of the sun's energy to counterbalance the devastating effects of man-caused global warming. Determining just how much to drain it sounds like a perfect job for a bureaucrat.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:10 PM (NeFrd)

79 The citizens of this town are being greedy for worrying about their property values rather than the good of the rest of us. So it's okay to make shit up that makes them look bad. Really they were asking for it.

Posted by: spongeworthy at December 15, 2015 01:10 PM (WrzSn)

80 Look, if we're prepared to take Hank Johnson's remark about Guam turning over, or whatever, seriously, then they're entitled to take this one seriously.

They're both nonsense, and probably said in jest.

Posted by: JEM at December 15, 2015 01:10 PM (o+SC1)

81 Stupid hicks.

Hey, hand me my chakra crystals and that box of homeopathy pills.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 15, 2015 01:10 PM (9YDUz)

82 Boy, those rubes is sure ignorant, huh?

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 15, 2015 01:10 PM (BlCZ6)

83 I can still remember when I lost interest in the media, around the mid 90s, that was when I couldn't pretend that my local newspaper wasn't just a regurgitation of whatever the AP had vomited out. That's all the paper was, and is, combine that with the truly alternative at the time Fox News and the emerging broadband and there was, and is, no reason at all to pay attention to classical media.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 15, 2015 01:11 PM (RQzjb)

84 I bet those ignorant rubes also think fire can melt steel.

redneck idiots.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 15, 2015 01:11 PM (BlCZ6)

85 Actually, I think it is the media that tilts so far to left that it may capsize.

still working to spot the downside to that.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 15, 2015 01:12 PM (/eTPT)

86 Maybe he was confusing it with windmills that can reduce the amount of wind. It would be nice if the sun could only throw its heat at us and conserve the rest. It would last longer that way.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:12 PM (E5UB0)

87 This is to our betters-

We here in NC are a backwards lot, if you do not want to get infected by our retard cooties please do yourself a favor and stop moving here. Seriously stay in NY NJ or whatever enlightened non-hellhole you live in.

Signed, NC morons.

Posted by: traye at December 15, 2015 01:12 PM (JA6q4)

88 I shouldn't laugh but 'sucking energy out of the sun' is giving me the giggles this morning. It sounds like a wonderful premise for a cheap horror flick.

Posted by: IC at December 15, 2015 01:12 PM (a0IVu)

89 Not all unpersoning leads to pogroms, but all pogroms are preceded by unpersoning.

Posted by: ZBBMcFate at December 15, 2015 01:12 PM (k7D+q)

90 And this is unpersoning.

Posted by: ZBBMcFate at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (k7D+q)

91 Gee, we NEVER heard such scientifically illiterate fear mongering about nuclear plants.

Posted by: Thatch at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (pBZp4)

92 There is video to help you decide, Jem.

Posted by: bourbonchicken at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (W1UqD)

93 My, local newspaper, let's call it a "spews"paper, is just a daily compendium of current leftwing and progressive obsessions, a handy guide for LIVS to peruse and get their water cooler talking points. Today it's the "first black woman congressman", the "first gay judge", the ongoing Muslim "backlash", how special schools are sufferering due to "mean" and "draconian" GOP cuts, why "sensible" gun control is needed NOW, the latest cop shooting on an unarmed black somewhere in the lower 48, how Trump is "destroying" the Republican Party yada, yada, etc. etc. ad infititum....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (lRebH)

94 stupid hicks

Posted by: Lady Spraying Vinegar at contrails at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (BlCZ6)

95 WaPo lies about everything.

True, but according to the article, this was the Washington Examiner.

Ace's layers and layers of fact checkers should climb off of each other and start checking some actual facts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (8ZskC)

96 Yeah, when I saw that going around yesterday, it made me roll my eyes. This was a straight up issue of zoning and concerns about land values dropping. That's why it was rejected.

That's not speculation, I know this for a fact from people who live in the area.

Also, apparently the developers were condescending dicks to those poor hicks and that went over about as well as you'd expect.

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (mf5HN)

97 Look, if we're prepared to take Hank Johnson's remark about Guam turning over, or whatever, seriously, then they're entitled to take this one seriously.

They're both nonsense, and probably said in jest.
Posted by: JEM at December 15, 2015 01:10 PM (o+SC1)

yeah, NO....Hammering Hank is a US Congress critter and is actually paid to say stupid shit like that. And by the way he never said it was in jest.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (gf8BH)

98 Wait wait per Ben Ks post this am, UK had >40,000 deaths from lack of heat last year alone

Isn't that more than the gunshot deaths in US?

And now they're planning to outlaw natural gas for heat and food prep

And WaPo finds nothing to report in that

Like dilbert guy asking How many lives are a fit sacrifice for your goal
Of course zero
But for the Maoists of Modernity it's unlimited since list lives are a double bonus to them-
Holdrenesque depopulation targets, less lives on NHS (Liverpool pathway gonna git ya anyway)
Plus less pesky older generations with 'troublesome nationalistic thoughts and mind crimes)

And media mirrors that as correct way of thinking
God Save us

Posted by: ginaswo at December 15, 2015 01:14 PM (qxNrP)

99 The best part of Hank Johnson's speculation about tippy Guam's proposed base relocation was the look on the face (and the measured response) of the military officer who assured hank that it was unlikely to be a problem.
http://tinyurl.com/p2562q3

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at December 15, 2015 01:14 PM (dQJCS)

100 Here's an idea. Instead of sucking all the energy out of the sun, we could aim all the solar panels at a gigantic light bulb on top of a post.
Posted by: Bobby Mann at December 15, 2015 01:08 PM (8ZskC)

Have you heard of the solar tower idea where mirrors are used to super heat a vat to make power?

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:14 PM (0eidE)

101 One question:

What is dumber: One hayseed's tossed-off tongue-in-cheek comment about solar panels sucking all the energy out of the sun?

Or the common lefty belief that somehow the sun has nothing to do with the temperature of the earth?

Posted by: Sharkman at December 15, 2015 01:14 PM (2RVA8)

102 The Head of the LA School System...classy guy ha? showing up in a sweat suit and silly hat? Gotta love them LA Liberals

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 15, 2015 01:14 PM (gf8BH)

103 You seem very interested in hurt butts. You should give me a call.

Posted by: Reggie at December 15, 2015 01:14 PM (LYCUN)

104 Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (lRebH)

Sounds like another quality product of Gannett publishing.

Posted by: maddogg at December 15, 2015 01:15 PM (xWW96)

105 I can still remember when I lost interest in the media, around the mid 90s, that was when I couldn't pretend that my local newspaper wasn't just a regurgitation of whatever the AP had vomited out.

Plus valuable coupons!

Posted by: The Greensheet Shopper at December 15, 2015 01:15 PM (8ZskC)

106 If Baltimore burns itself down after the Porter verdict I'm sure the W Post will sneer at all the lawless idiots who don't understand due process.

Posted by: Ex NYC Peasant buying dried foods at December 15, 2015 01:17 PM (k8tEg)

107
Very little of what we talk about in "news" is actual "news" anymore. The newspapers are just the newsletters of a large and very intellectually insecure cult.

If I had a dollar for every time I've literally laughed in the face of someone who tells me their source for something is the NYT, the WaPo or LA Times, I would be a very rich man.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 15, 2015 01:17 PM (X6fMO)

108 The Democrats are the party of the metric system. They had a presidential candidate that said so.

The Democrats call New York Hymietown. They had a presidential candidate that said so.

The Democrats believe Bashir Assad is a reformer. They HAVE a presidential candidate that said so.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 15, 2015 01:17 PM (659DL)

109 Media think we can control the temperature of the world
they need to look in the mirror before they mock anyone

Posted by: ginaswo at December 15, 2015 01:18 PM (qxNrP)

110 Have you heard of the solar tower idea where mirrors are used to super heat a vat to make power?

Heard of it? If you drive from L.A. to Vegas you can't miss it. And if you've never seen a bird vaporized in mid-flight, you won't soon forget it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:18 PM (8ZskC)

111 *couriers to AlextheChick a Hate Shake*

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2015 01:18 PM (n48LL)

112 >> Plus valuable coupons!

Plus fish wrapping and bird-cage lining!

Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at December 15, 2015 01:19 PM (nSW/N)

113 104--her's the funny thing though. Most of the older white demographic who still reads the local paper--people like my sainted parents--do so to read the obituaries and clip out the coupons....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:19 PM (lRebH)

114 You don't get it. They're southern white people, the worst people on earth! Who cares if its true or not?

Posted by: Legacy Media at December 15, 2015 01:19 PM (39g3+)

115 The Obama administration is waging a quiet effort on Capitol Hill to restore U.S. taxpayer funding for a United Nations organization that has long been accused of having an anti-Israel bias, according to State Department funding requests obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The State Department earlier this month petitioned Sen. Patrick Leahy , a member of the Senates appropriations committee, to consider restoring funding to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, otherwise known as UNESCO.

Taxpayer funding to the organization was cut in 2011 after UNESCO accepted Palestine as a member state, a move that violated U.S. law barring the funding of any U.N. group that skirts the peace process by prematurely admitting Palestine as a full member nation.

The cutoff in U.S. contributions, which totaled around $80 million annually, brought UNESCO to the brink of financial collapse and sparked further consideration of actions deemed by critics to be anti-Israel in nature.

In its petition to Leahy, the State Department asks for a funding waiver in the 2016 appropriations bill that would allow the U.S. government to restart yearly payments of $76 million to UNESCO. The administration also is seeking authority to give the organization up to $160 million to help erase outstanding debts.

Let's see if the RINOs sell us out on this one also while they also gut the Military Health and Commissary systems

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 15, 2015 01:20 PM (gf8BH)

116 FYI, Guam is right next to the Maldives, which is claimed by Argentina.

Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at December 15, 2015 01:00 PM (8ZskC)

Argentina claims Margaritaville? Hillary Clinton sold out Jimmy Buffet!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Happy Hysteria-days from teh Outrage Outlet! at December 15, 2015 01:20 PM (hLRSq)

117 Somebody get on ace's twitter feed and tell him it wasn't WaPo.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at December 15, 2015 01:20 PM (RD7QR)

118
So National Review's Andrew McCarthy writes an article critizing the media for not checking their work, and cites the wrong source in the very first sentence. First three words of the first sentence, no less.

Top men.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 15, 2015 01:20 PM (kdS6q)

119 I will agree with Rubio when he said that the biggest PAC for the Democrats was the MSM.

Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2015 01:22 PM (oiNtH)

120 one nut might have said that ... or they revised what was really said, or it was a leftist plant, or they just made it up.

yet the global warming nuts believe the sun variations have nothing to do with "climate change", almost as stupid. It is man's CO2 that has caused all climate change for all time, because Big Fat Al says so. 10,000 years ago the glaciers retreated because of the industrial revolution. They don't know history or science.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 15, 2015 01:22 PM (26Yu7)

121 They should seek out any town that votes down a green proposal, and just make up this story out of whole cloth, or plant one guy to suggest it. The end justifies the means for them.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:22 PM (E5UB0)

122 Heard of it? If you drive from L.A. to Vegas you can't miss it. And if you've never seen a bird vaporized in mid-flight, you won't soon forget it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:18 PM (8ZskC)

Ooo, I had no idea that they had them out there, cool. Most of the ones I read about are in Australia and Spain doing power generation research.

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:23 PM (0eidE)

123 So National Review's Andrew McCarthy writes an article critizing the media for not checking their work, and cites the wrong source in the very first sentence. First three words of the first sentence, no less.

Per the link within the link, the source of the story was the Washington Examiner (examiner.com). Andrew McCarthy was correct.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:23 PM (8ZskC)

124 It's propaganda designed to denigrate those who don't buy into their bullshit. It appeases their likeminded followers who get to view people that don't agree with them as less and reinforces the idea that anyone who doesn't agree with them doesn't have a legitimate opinion.

Posted by: SomeSay the Strawmarian at December 15, 2015 01:23 PM (yoy3R)

125 At sunset the solar panels turn over and become lunar panels.

True fact.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Happy Hysteria-days from teh Outrage Outlet! at December 15, 2015 01:23 PM (hLRSq)

126 Somebody get on ace's twitter feed and tell him it wasn't WaPo.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at December 15, 2015 01:20 PM (RD7QR)

If only Ace read the comments section as well as we read his posts....

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:23 PM (0eidE)

127
And the original source, linked. Because while we made not have gone to Haaaaavard, we didn't just fall off the pickle wagon coming into town:

Roanoke Chowan News-Herald
http://tinyurl.com/h64up7c

Bobby Mann said ... the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland.

-30-

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 15, 2015 01:24 PM (kdS6q)

128 If you bing this story, there are many outlets covering it. They all repeat the same lie, that it was the whole town.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:24 PM (E5UB0)

129 Solar farms are fine except that the harvest season gets very noisy since the tractors break up all the glass.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:24 PM (8ZskC)

130 93 My, local newspaper, let's call it a "spews"paper, is just a daily compendium of current leftwing and progressive obsessions, a handy guide for LIVS to peruse and get their water cooler talking points. Today it's the "first black woman congressman", the "first gay judge", the ongoing Muslim "backlash", how special schools are sufferering due to "mean" and "draconian" GOP cuts, why "sensible" gun control is needed NOW, the latest cop shooting on an unarmed black somewhere in the lower 48, how Trump is "destroying" the Republican Party yada, yada, etc. etc. ad infititum....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:13 PM (lRebH)

Huh... You must live in my town.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 15, 2015 01:24 PM (MZk6F)

131 I'm surprised that the town betters actually didn't shove this boondoggle down the citizens throats.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 15, 2015 01:24 PM (voOPb)

132
Somebody get on ace's twitter feed and tell him it wasn't WaPo.
Posted by: joncelli

If only Ace read the comments section as well as we read his posts....
Posted by: Draki

As soon as HotAir notes the error, he'll update.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 15, 2015 01:25 PM (kdS6q)

133 Here's the bitch about Tribal Truths, and Tribal Politics, and all other manner of Tribal this and Tribal that found to be so damn distasteful by the Ewok ...

... Tribes are effective. Tribes win. History is literally full of bigger and badder Tribes running over their weaker neighbors.

Remember this, the next time you feel "above" all this silly, misguided tribal bullshit. Because if you don't ... sooner or later the only thing you'll find yourself "above" is the trapdoor of a Tribal Gallows.

Pick. A. Tribe.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:25 PM (c04Om)

134 124--they basically use the same models that advertisers do to make you feel like a loser if you don't buy their products, only they are "selling" a talking point that you should have if you don't want to be viewed a loser.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:25 PM (lRebH)

135 It's almost as if -- get this -- the media are dishonestly spinning stories in an attempt to help Democrats and screw over Republicans. What I can't understand is why the Fourth Estate would risk their vaunted Constitutionally protected position as public watchdogs by sacrificing their journalistic integrity like that. I never would have believe it possible until today.

Posted by: Blacksheep at December 15, 2015 01:25 PM (CHnn3)

136 It's funny to me that one guys idiotic question gets turned into a smear of an entire community......BUT YET WE CANT CONNECT THE FUCKING DOTS ON RADICAL ISLAM EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF EXAMPLES NO NO WE CANT THERE MIGHT BE A BACKLASH

Posted by: SomeSay the Strawmarian at December 15, 2015 01:26 PM (yoy3R)

137 119 I will agree with Rubio when he said that the biggest PAC for the Democrats was the MSM.
Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2015 01:22 PM (oiNtH

Broken clock.
Blind pig-acorn

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 15, 2015 01:27 PM (voOPb)

138 Pick. A. Tribe.
Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:25 PM (c04Om)

I'll tell you the same thing I tell Boy BFF when he's whinging at me about how I'm supposed to be on his team.

I'm on your team. Except for when your team is being stupid.

Yeah, I have no obligation to be on any team that's being idiotic. Other than Team Mommy which is always right and never wrong and is awesome in all of the waves.

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 01:27 PM (mf5HN)

139 If only Ace read the comments section as well as we read his posts....

Posted by: Draki at December 15, 2015 01:23 PM (0eidE)

He would be far smarter and probably better looking.

Posted by: jwest at December 15, 2015 01:27 PM (Zs4uk)

140 The difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives didn't elect Bobby Mann to Congress.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:27 PM (8ZskC)

141 130---it could be any town, anywhere in any place. any day of the year. It's all the same.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:27 PM (lRebH)

142 I shouldn't laugh but 'sucking energy out of the sun' is giving me the giggles this morning. It sounds like a wonderful premise for a cheap horror flick.

"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun." -C. Montgomery Burns

Posted by: gewa76 at December 15, 2015 01:28 PM (9MbCY)

143 Actually... enough solar panels worldwide could cause climate change.... colder.

The Suns energy being converted to electricity would no longer be absorbed by the Earths surface, thus cooling it.

A slightly colder surface would then conduct less energy back into the atmosphere.... thus a very slight cooling trend...

Over time, with enough Solar panels being used worldwide, this net drain of Heat Energy being siphoned off for other purposes, could impact our environment.

Anyone up for a Solar Panel induced Ice Age????

(yes, over the top rhetoric, just like the Warmists.... LOL)

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (f7rv6)

144 Here's the bitch about Tribal Truths, and Tribal Politics, and all other manner of Tribal this and Tribal that found to be so damn distasteful by the Ewok ...

... Tribes are effective. Tribes win. History is literally full of bigger and badder Tribes running over their weaker neighbors.

Remember this, the next time you feel "above" all this silly, misguided tribal bullshit. Because if you don't ... sooner or later the only thing you'll find yourself "above" is the trapdoor of a Tribal Gallows.

Pick. A. Tribe.
Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:25 PM (c04Om)

Lemme guess, your tribe is the stalwart Gopey Republican Party?

No thanks, I'm off that bus. I wait for the next one to come around.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (Dj0WE)

145 Sucking the Energy Out of the Sun was the original title of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (lRebH)

146 What does this red button that says "emergency stop" do?

*Pushes button*

Posted by: Eleanor Norton Holmes at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (LYCUN)

147 Don't make me turn this thing off.

Posted by: Apollo at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (zgHLA)

148 Funny how this little local story made it big.

The DHS not looking at foreign social media doesn't make it to the news

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (voOPb)

149 Alex ...

... I do believe we're to come to a point, in our lifetime, where we'll be forced to pick the side that offends us the least - simply to survive.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:30 PM (c04Om)

150 And that solar power test farm in SoCal that vaporizes birds has, as far as I know, never been fined for cooking endangered species.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2015 01:30 PM (n48LL)

151 Other than Team Mommy which is always right and never wrong and is awesome in all of the waves.
Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 01:27 PM (mf5HN)

-----

..... and NO WIRE HANGERS!!!!! How MANY time do I HAVE to tell you NO WIRE HANGERS!!!!

Now, git in that closet before I BEAT the cute off of you.

Posted by: Joan Crawford at December 15, 2015 01:30 PM (8XRCm)

152 Has the Mars rover found the flag we planted there yet?

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at December 15, 2015 01:31 PM (LYCUN)

153 145 Sucking the Energy Out of the Sun was the original title of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon....
Posted by: JoeF. at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (lRebH

Or Sheila Jackson Lee's thesis paper for 1st grade graudation

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 15, 2015 01:31 PM (voOPb)

154 Remember this, the next time you feel "above" all this silly, misguided tribal bullshit. Because if you don't ... sooner or later the only thing you'll find yourself "above" is the trapdoor of a Tribal Gallows.

Pick. A. Tribe.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:25 PM (c04Om)

Hmmm.... can I choose a Jefferson Tribe?

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 15, 2015 01:31 PM (f7rv6)

155 Reporting from NC, Goober says hey.

Posted by: George Tirebiter at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (/zyrl)

156 I think there really may be some merit to running the solar farms only at night. That would cut down on the distracting glare for the neighbors.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (NeFrd)

157 Now don't be messin' with me.

Posted by: Sol Invictus at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (8ZskC)

158 No Burt ... Not hardly. Don't read my posts much, I see.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (c04Om)

159 I think there really may be some merit to running the solar farms only at night. That would cut down on the distracting glare for the neighbors.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (NeFrd)

Was it in Spain that one utility got busted meeting the solar energy output requirements by turning huge spotlights on the panels at night?

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (mf5HN)

160 Yeah, I have no obligation to be on any team that's being idiotic. Other than Team Mommy which is always right and never wrong and is awesome in all of the waves.
Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches

*sighs*

Posted by: Team Daddy at December 15, 2015 01:33 PM (1xUj/)

161 Our ports seem to suck a lot of toxic harvested and manufactured shiite out of China. This person may be onto something.

The increased demand for the energy of the sun will lead the hidden hand of the Whole Wide Universe to increase the supply of the energy of the sun in response. As a result, the average global temperature will increase negating all the accomplishments of the the recent climate summit.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 15, 2015 01:33 PM (NUqwG)

162 And that solar power test farm in SoCal that vaporizes birds has, as far as I know, never been fined for cooking endangered species.

Nor the Slap Chop Wind Farms.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2015 01:33 PM (mZLmb)

163 People want to believe the lies the media is selling. That's why this is possible.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (E5UB0)

164
It's almost as if -- get this -- the media are dishonestly spinning storie
Posted by: Blacksheep

Dishonesty, I can work with. Bias? Same thing.

It's the lack of basic competence that bugs me. You know, the Five Ws and don't bury the lead, high-school level newspaper skill-craft that the modern journo lacks.

If you write for a living, at least be a craftsman, if not an artist.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (kdS6q)

165 The other thing we should seriously consider is to send an energy-collecting spacecraft to explore the dark side of the sun.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (NeFrd)

166 Speaking of dumb asses at open hearings, this hardy perennial deserves a link:

#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgFIKXKFkc#

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (oKE6c)

167 The solar panels are going to suck all the money out of the town, unless they get that golden subsidy money ... welfare for municipalities.

At least BigPharma cranks out some pretty good drugs, but Americans pay out the arse. BigAg cranks out a lot of food and Monsanto designed "Golden Rice", which is pretty awesome. But the Solyndra style crap is mostly payback to Obama bundlers. The bird choppers (wind generators) are ugly and not cost effective. Go nuclear and clean coal and forgetaboutit. CO2 is good.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (26Yu7)

168 I think there really may be some merit to running the solar farms only at night. That would cut down on the distracting glare for the neighbors.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (NeFrd)

They could specialize in dark energy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (8ZskC)

169 The truth is that South Carolina residents sit in rocking chairs, rifle and ammo close by, some in blue thong underwear. Saw it in the news.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (7v/r5)

170 160 Yeah, I have no obligation to be on any team that's being idiotic. Other than Team Mommy which is always right and never wrong and is awesome in all of the waves.
Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches

*sighs*

Posted by: Team Daddy at December 15, 2015 01:33 PM (1xUj/)

Team Daddy is only right if they are not in opposition to Team Mommy...

Somehow this change was implemented in the 60's....

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (f7rv6)

171 165 The other thing we should seriously consider is to send an energy-collecting spacecraft to explore the dark side of the sun.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (NeFrd)

And go at night, amirite?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 01:35 PM (oKE6c)

172 No Burt ... Not hardly. Don't read my posts much, I see.
Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (c04Om)

Is there any reason why I should?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2015 01:35 PM (Dj0WE)

173 169 The truth is that South Carolina residents sit in rocking chairs, rifle and ammo close by, some in blue thong underwear. Saw it in the news.
Posted by: free range jihadist at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (7v/r5)

Vic sternly denies that his thong is blue. Or something like that.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at December 15, 2015 01:35 PM (RD7QR)

174 Bobby Mann, universally respected researcher for his Brother Michael Mann, Climatologist and renowned Scatologist extraordinaire.

Posted by: maddogg at December 15, 2015 01:35 PM (xWW96)

175 At least BigPharma cranks out some pretty good drugs, but Americans pay out the arse.

--------------

Because sick Americans pay for all RD costs, so sick Europeans can get a free ride.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 01:36 PM (oKE6c)

176 The Greenies here in NC are playing Defense, a couple weeks ago a story broke that the Apple facility that has been advertised as 100% Renewable energy for years, garnering awards, etc. actually used a lower percentage of renewable energy, 0% seems to be the correct figure. Attempt at link in name

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 15, 2015 01:36 PM (2cS/G)

177 154 Remember this, the next time you feel "above" all this silly, misguided tribal bullshit. Because if you don't ... sooner or later the only thing you'll find yourself "above" is the trapdoor of a Tribal Gallows.

Pick. A. Tribe.

Posted by: Irony

If you pick The Tribe, does it still count as chosen?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2015 01:36 PM (mZLmb)

178 Intellectually bankrupt and, in most cases, just plain propagandist. There is nothing good about the left.

Posted by: MTF at December 15, 2015 01:36 PM (TxJGV)

179 Wouldn't sucking the energy out of the sun be beneficial for the Great Global Warming Menace!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 15, 2015 01:37 PM (fWAjv)

180 The truth is that South Carolina residents sit in rocking chairs, rifle and ammo close by, some in blue thong underwear. Saw it in the news.

Bobby Mann offered his comments in between taking potshots at his neighbors, the Hatfields.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:37 PM (8ZskC)

181 Rush is crushing it. Again.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 15, 2015 01:37 PM (MZk6F)

182 Alex ...

... I do believe we're to come to a point, in our lifetime, where we'll be forced to pick the side that offends us the least - simply to survive.
Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:30 PM (c04Om)

Simply to survive... those are some telling words. One would logically conclude from this statement you are suggesting people align themselves with one of two "sides."

Politically, and logically, there really are only two sides.

Dems and Gopey Republicans.

Are you sure you read your OWN posts??

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2015 01:37 PM (Dj0WE)

183 Has the Mars rover found the flag we planted there yet?
Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at December 15, 2015 01:31 PM (LYCUN)

---------------------------------------------------------

So, Sheila Jackson Lee is a werewolf. We could harness lunar power by forcing her to run on a treadmill, when she turns.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:38 PM (E5UB0)

184 And go at night, amirite?

Posted by: Jay Guevara

****

Well of course, so you can get there first thing in the morning!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:38 PM (NeFrd)

185 Bobby Mann offered his comments in between taking potshots at his neighbors, the Hatfields.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:37 PM (8ZskC)

----

My fucking third cousin is still blinded by the light....

Posted by: Manfred Mann at December 15, 2015 01:38 PM (8XRCm)

186 "Tribes are effective. Tribes win."

Tribes try to get other tribes to feel guilty about their success, but that would never work in America.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 15, 2015 01:39 PM (26Yu7)

187 Meanwhile, President Obama has stopped the oceans from rising, so we've got that going for us. And Liberals believed those horse feathers when Obama puked them.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at December 15, 2015 01:39 PM (AVGPm)

188 Heard of it? If you drive from L.A. to Vegas you can't miss it.

Was at the opening.

Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at December 15, 2015 01:39 PM (ucB75)

189
Funny how this little local story made it big.

The DHS not looking at foreign social media doesn't make it to the news
==========
One story makes them feel good about themselves.

One . . . does not.

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 15, 2015 01:39 PM (fQ/0p)

190
Per the link within the link, the source of the story was the Washington Examiner (examiner.com). Andrew McCarthy was correct.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

Washington Examiner <> Examiner.com

WashEx is kinda a paper, kinda.

Examiner,com is an aggregator, like Huffpo or Alternet:

http://www.examiner.com/About_Examiner

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 15, 2015 01:39 PM (kdS6q)

191 Team Daddy is only right if they are not in opposition to Team Mommy...

Somehow this change was implemented in the 60's....
Posted by: BB Wolf at December 15, 2015 01:34 PM (f7rv6)

Dude, I don't know how things work for your family, but I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Team. Mommy.

I was using the puppets the other day to explain to my father that if he just nods along with Mommy, life will be way way way way better for him. He chose not to heed my sage advice which means I got a phone call later that week that began "Do you know what your father did?"

I was all hey now you married him! Your husband! Don't blame him on me!

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 01:40 PM (mf5HN)

192 Simply to survive... those are some telling words. One would logically conclude from this statement you are suggesting people align themselves with one of two "sides."

Those WITH ammo and those without.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2015 01:40 PM (mZLmb)

193 OT: CNN just cut away from an interview to cover a candidate arriving live at the debate stage.

And they were slow with the chyron. So I didn't know, was this Gilmore, Gilroy, is he still in the race? Who is this human and why is he invited to the debate.

Turned out to be Pataki and I have the same questions.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at December 15, 2015 01:41 PM (1xUj/)

194 IIRC there was a Daw science fiction novel where aliens have come to our solar system to steal the Sun. They start by shrinking things.

Oh Empress did you see the story about the asteroid that will pass by the Earth on Christmas Eve?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2015 01:41 PM (n48LL)

195 >> Bobby Mann, universally respected researcher for his Brother Michael
Mann, Climatologist and renowned Scatologist extraordinaire.

>> Sucking the Energy Out of the Sun was the original title of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon....

Blinded by the light,

revved up like a deuce,

another runner in the night.

Posted by: Manfred Mann at December 15, 2015 01:41 PM (nSW/N)

196
Yes, dear.

You're right, dear.

I'm sorry, dear.

There's a reason I been married 29 years.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 15, 2015 01:42 PM (8XRCm)

197 I'm going to go see if I can sell Al Gore some photon credits.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:43 PM (NeFrd)

198 In a way that that Congressman's fear that Cuba might "tip over"

That was Guam, iirc.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 15, 2015 01:43 PM (r9tFS)

199 "Tribes are effective. Tribes win."

But not since 1948.

Posted by: Indians Fans Everywhere at December 15, 2015 01:43 PM (TxJGV)

200 It is obvious. Solar panels steel light from the god Helius, so Helius is punishing the Earth via "global warming".

Clearly we must smash all solar panels to calm this might god.

Posted by: Science, bitches!!1! at December 15, 2015 01:43 PM (vBeA5)

201 But not since 1948.

Posted by: Indians Fans Everywhere at December 15, 2015 01:43 PM (TxJGV)

Tell me about it. That damn kid, Mays.

Posted by: Vic Wertz at December 15, 2015 01:45 PM (MZk6F)

202 Posted by: BB Wolf at December 15, 2015 01:29 PM (f7rv6)

I think it's the opposite. Only 10%-20% is converted to electricity. The panels are basically black, and so the other 80%-90% is converted into heat, warming the air, like an asphalt road.

Let's get some money for a joint research grant.

Posted by: despair at December 15, 2015 01:46 PM (VrdxH)

203 *sigh

Posted by: Aimee Mann at December 15, 2015 01:46 PM (BlCZ6)

204 13 Hating on Southern Whites is culturally approved.
Posted by: DFCtomm at December 15, 2015 12:55 PM (LSU8V)

It isn't just about Southern folk. Anyone who lives in a small town is somehow suspect. Denizens of NYC in particular, and also LA or Chicago, tend to look at folks who refuse to live in their human sewers and assume they lack any sense at all. And yet, I can go my entire day without watching a single homeless person piss in public, and when I go to bed, I don't have to listen to endless emergency sirens or street parties.

The assumption continues that those who live in the sticks must also be idiots, incapable of intelligent thought, and completely unphased by "culture." Heaven forbid they should have actually attended or graduated from college, or hold jobs that require anything more then moving a part from this place to that place.

You know, a bunch of dumb hicks.

/rant off

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2015 01:46 PM (+YMhA)

205 " with enough Solar panels being used worldwide, this net drain of Heat
Energy being siphoned off for other purposes, could impact our
environment."

ummm ... not a physicist, but I think there is some conservation of energy thingy here. Those black panels give off some heat, for one thing, and the electricity when used generates heat. If anything, the black panels absorb heat so less is radiated back out to space. The oceans will boil any day now. heh

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 15, 2015 01:46 PM (26Yu7)

206 Haven't you all heard of a "zero sun game"?

Posted by: torabora at December 15, 2015 01:47 PM (Fpiw/)

207 Don't worry about declining sunlight! And especially don't worry abut solar panels sucking the sunlight out of the world. As long as I'm around the earth will always have a source of warmth and light, as the sun shines right out of my ass.

Posted by: Hillary! at December 15, 2015 01:47 PM (TxJGV)

208 Parole Board Member #1: "You're not just telling us what we want to hear, are you, Hi?"

Hi: "No, ma'am, no way."

Parole Board Member #2: "Cuz we just want to hear the truth."

Hi: "Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear."

Parole Board Member #3: "Boy! Didn't we just tell you not to do that?"

Hi: "Yessir!"

Parole Board Member #3: "Okay, then."

Posted by: JohnJ at December 15, 2015 01:47 PM (TF/YA)

209 I was using the puppets the other day to explain to my father that if he just nods along with Mommy, life will be way way way way better for him.

You know that works well on paper, but what you may not know is that males have internal organs that rupture and produce bile and hairballs if they "put up with" more than their constitutions can stand.

There may not be an ICD-10 code for it, but it's very, very real.

Posted by: Team Daddy at December 15, 2015 01:48 PM (1xUj/)

210 ISIS supporters happy about LA School closing...

''Thanks God, they are panicked of everything. The soldiers of the Caliphate will look after you until the world will be under the rule of Allah,'' wrote one supporter. Another responded with, ''Oh God, never make them safe. Put panic in their hearts.''

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 15, 2015 01:48 PM (7v/r5)

211 If we bleed off enough energy now, we can prevent the sun from going Red Giant in the future.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2015 01:48 PM (8ZskC)

212 He chose not to heed my sage advice which means I got a phone call later that week that began "Do you know what your father did?"

So your dad has a functioning pair, a spine, and some self respect left? Good for him.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 15, 2015 01:48 PM (39g3+)

213
Team. Mommy.

I was using the puppets the other day to explain to my father that
if he just nods along with Mommy, life will be way way way way better
for him. He chose not to heed my sage advice which means I got a phone
call later that week that began "Do you know what your father did?"

I was all hey now you married him! Your husband! Don't blame him on me!

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 01:40 PM (mf5HN)
My wife's #1 rule in the house: keep your hands to yourself.My #1 rule? Respect and obey your mother. Woe unto the child who decides to break this rule. To be fair, they've learned pretty fast not to go there much anymore because, as they've found out, nothing makes me angrier. So you could say I'm on Team Mommy, too. Oddly, the wife is completely on Team Daddy. Or maybe it's not so odd, since we're still happily married.
Of course, no mention of happy couples would be complete without mentioning this story again: http://goo.gl/01wBtB

Posted by: physics geek at December 15, 2015 01:48 PM (MT22W)

214
Correction: it was the "DC Examiner," which is basically an open forum for imbeciles.

Hey! We have feelings too, you know.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 15, 2015 01:49 PM (kdS6q)

215 >> I think it's the opposite. Only 10%-20% is converted to electricity.
The panels are basically black, and so the other 80%-90% is converted
into heat, warming the air, like an asphalt road.

In the end, there can be only one.

Posted by: Entropy at December 15, 2015 01:49 PM (nSW/N)

216 There may not be an ICD-10 code for it, but it's very, very real.

Posted by: Team Daddy

*****

I'm on it.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:49 PM (NeFrd)

217 They should figure out a way to chemically alter trees in order to generate small amounts of electricity. The problem would be how to collect it.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:50 PM (E5UB0)

218 You know that works well on paper, but what you may not know is that males have internal organs that rupture and produce bile and hairballs if they "put up with" more than their constitutions can stand.

That's how mister hand turns into mister fist. I don't support domestic violence and its wrong for a man to hit a woman but some women seem to think a man's patience and willing to suffer indignity is infinite.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 15, 2015 01:50 PM (39g3+)

219 192
Simply to survive... those are some telling words. One would logically
conclude from this statement you are suggesting people align themselves
with one of two "sides."

Those WITH ammo and those without.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2015 01:40 PM (mZLmb)

Lest we forget, the gubberment has bought billions and billions of rounds for all its agencies.

Posted by: torabora at December 15, 2015 01:51 PM (Fpiw/)

220 They should figure out a way to chemically alter trees in order to generate small amounts of electricity. The problem would be how to collect it.

Yeah. Monsanto could just put some electric eel DNA in them!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 15, 2015 01:51 PM (8ZskC)

221 They should figure out a way to chemically alter trees in order to generate small amounts of electricity. The problem would be how to collect it.
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:50 PM (E5UB0)

----

They already did.

"Lightning" is what most of us call it.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 15, 2015 01:51 PM (8XRCm)

222 I think there was a scene filmed for the original "clash of the titans" where Ursula Andress was caught sucking the energy from Helios

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2015 01:52 PM (HkY2y)

223 Now Rick makes an excellent point. When the shit hits the fan - and I'm way past if - smartly worded essays and a firm command of legal theory won't account for shit compared to proficiency with a long gun.

But what happens after that ?

I have a really hard time believing that what ultimately comes out of such chaos would be another Jeffersonian Democracy.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:53 PM (c04Om)

224 221 They should figure out a way to chemically alter trees in order to generate small amounts of electricity. The problem would be how to collect it.
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at December 15, 2015 01:50 PM (E5UB0)
--------------------------------------------------------

I wonder if maple tree sap collection technology could be adapted.....

Posted by: Matt Yglesias at December 15, 2015 01:54 PM (TxJGV)

225 Ace: as others have mentioned, it was the Examiner, not the Post that McCarthy was writing about.

I first saw this story the other day on SlashDot, complete with the sneering:
http://tinyurl.com/ncujoqv

They linked to an Ars Technica piece, which in addition to the other sneering, also added some more sneering about a woman worried about her property values. She was worried because she was being surrounded by solar farms. Ars Technica helpfully put up a Google map showing no solar farms anywhere close to the woman's property.
http://tinyurl.com/jjvhds6

What Ars Technica did not mention is that although there are no other solar farms near the woman's property yet, several have been issued permits.

They did provide a link back to the local paper, The Roanoke-Chowan News Herald, where more of the facts are available.
http://tinyurl.com/p38cwto

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 15, 2015 01:54 PM (IN7k+)

226 I have a really hard time believing that what ultimately comes out of such chaos would be another Jeffersonian Democracy.

Of all the thousands of revolutions in human history, its extremely rare that the following government is better than the previous. And only once did we get the great American experiment.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 15, 2015 01:55 PM (39g3+)

227 A student was killed crossing the street after LAUSD closed all schools today. LATimes

Great job guys

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 15, 2015 01:55 PM (fWAjv)

228 Wonder if they remember Jane Fonda's infirmed opinion that we should cancel the Space Program because we would "pollute outer space"...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 15, 2015 01:55 PM (Kucy5)

229 South Carolina does theatrical brow wipe .
At least it's the old north state gettin' it this time. Georgia better stop snickering , your time is coming soon .

Posted by: awkward davies at December 15, 2015 01:55 PM (mP1RE)

230 The sweet, sweet, deliciously sweet part of these warm temps is that they're breaking records not seen since the 80's.

1880's that is.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 15, 2015 01:55 PM (7v/r5)

231 ...what you may not know is that males have internal organs that rupture and produce bile and hairballs if they "put up with" more than their constitutions can stand.

There may not be an ICD-10 code for it...

****

Not a single code, but I think we can combine the following:

ICD-10-CM Code P59.1 - Inspissated bile syndrome

ICD-10-CM Code T18.2 - Trichobezoar (hairball)

ICD-10-CM Code Z63.0 - Problems in relationship with spouse or partner

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 01:56 PM (NeFrd)

232 >> There may not be an ICD-10 code for it, but it's very, very real.

Z63.1: Problems in relationship with in-laws.

Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at December 15, 2015 01:56 PM (nSW/N)

233 1880's that is.

Yeah, that's just it: they're arguing that global warming was around... over a century ago. This does not exactly fill me with dread.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 15, 2015 01:57 PM (39g3+)

234 Was it in Spain that one utility got busted meeting the solar energy output requirements by turning huge spotlights on the panels at night?
Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 01:32 PM (mf5HN)

That's awesome.

Similar nonsense is what many people like myself completely cynical on recycling. (my college was caught tossing recycling in the regular trash).

If you just let tech catch up, the market will embrace technology that is truly energy efficient. If you don't, you get a bunch of nonsense like this.

Posted by: Lea at December 15, 2015 01:58 PM (lIU4e)

235 That's the kick in the balls, Chris.

Before the Progressives are finished, I think we'll make our own damned Nationalist State - and welcome it, as a relief from those crazy bastards.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 01:58 PM (c04Om)

236 Not a single code, but I think we can combine the following:

Consider me impressed.

Posted by: Team Daddy at December 15, 2015 01:59 PM (1xUj/)

237 ThecWasington Examiner is a conservative publication it is also the dc examiner
The per capita income of the town of Woodlawn (pop809) is 12,600$
Ace you missed your chance to slime the Dems! Woodlawn is in a strong Dem county

Posted by: Righter at December 15, 2015 01:59 PM (S7x7a)

238 The Donks should take those solar panels and shove them where the sun don't shine. You know, for the children.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 15, 2015 01:59 PM (Nwg0u)

239 Any woman who feels the need to make everything a federal case in her relationship with a man deserves to be left alone for a very long time.

And any man who allows her to be so damned dramatic on his dime and time needs to grow a spine and teach her a thing or two, damn the consequences.

Men were meant to keep order, and women were meant to humanize men. We are programmed to curb each other's excesses. Any relationship that doesn't do that is doomed from the start.

Ergo: "homosexual" marriage is a farce.

Yeah, I went there. Oops.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2015 02:00 PM (+YMhA)

240 227 A student was killed crossing the street after LAUSD closed all schools today. LATimes
Great job guys
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 15, 2015 01:55 PM (fWAjv)

In a drive-by? I guess the gangbangers really were paying attention in that intro to vector analysis.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 02:00 PM (oKE6c)

241 AP, I did see about the asteroid, thank you.

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 15, 2015 02:00 PM (mf5HN)

242 Re: Team Mommy

Have distilled things down to a few simple laws.
For the chill'uns, (1) Keep Mommy happy, (2) Don't get Dad mad.
For Daddy (1) If she likes it, I like it
(2) If I like it and she doesn't like it, I actually really didn't like it that much either
(3) If I like it and she likes it, well that's just because she's been educating me all these years and even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile

Posted by: random lurker at December 15, 2015 02:01 PM (+tRIN)

243
So..... the 1880's were actually the "hottest temps ever recorded"?????

How does that hockey stick work again Mr Mann???

Posted by: fixerupper at December 15, 2015 02:01 PM (8XRCm)

244 Any woman who feels the need to make everything a
federal case in her relationship with a man deserves to be left alone
for a very long time.

And any man who allows her to be so damned dramatic on his dime and
time needs to grow a spine and teach her a thing or two, damn the
consequences.

Men were meant to keep order, and women were meant to humanize men.
We are programmed to curb each other's excesses. Any relationship that
doesn't do that is doomed from the start.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2015 02:00 PM (+YMhA)
The ultimate example of that is described in "The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders," a book featured in the Sunday book thread. /shudder

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 02:01 PM (oKE6c)

245 Ergo: "homosexual" marriage is a farce.

Yeah, I went there. Oops.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2015 02:00 PM (+YMhA)

Of course it is. For so many reasons.

"Let's pretend we're normal."
"OK."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 02:02 PM (oKE6c)

246 Men were meant to keep order, and women were meant to humanize men.

-----

.... and make sammiches.

You forgot sammiches.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 15, 2015 02:02 PM (8XRCm)

247 "figure out a way to chemically alter trees in order to generate small
amounts of electricity. The problem would be how to collect it."

Growing plants is perhaps the best way to do solar. Corn is not the greatest at conversion to ethanol, but not bad. They really are coming up with better ways, or better plants. A storable fuel is better than trying to store electricity. Coal stored a lot of energy from plants ... we are the Saudi Arabia of coal.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 15, 2015 02:02 PM (26Yu7)

248 "The surface of the solar panel consists of a series of circular areas filled with fine granular particles. When direct rays of sunlight strike the surface of the panel hundreds of thousands of tiny sun fleas emerge from the periphery of the circles, spreading out onto the sandy surface, absorbing the warmth of the sun. After applying tanning lotions and basking for several minutes the sun fleas turn over in order to get an even all over tan. The rotational energy of the fleas turning over is transmitted to micro-turbines at the upper and lower ends of the panel, resulting in the production of energy. The biggest loss of efficiency in this process occurs if the sun fleas happen to turn in opposite directions, therby canceling each other out. A well regulated sun flea population is necessary for the efficient production of solar electricity."

- True Facts You'll Never Hear From The Legacy Media

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 02:03 PM (NeFrd)

249 AlextheChick, I aim to please. And boy are there some scientific Meatheads fearing it will cause gravitational issues like earthquakes.

This is not Thundarr the Barbarian. I hope.
https://youtu.be/4I9blXQEHyw

Oh to the Moron of the Horde who bought Golden Isis yesterday. Thank you. My depleted bank account thanks you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2015 02:04 PM (n48LL)

250 Lest we forget, the gubberment has bought billions and billions of rounds for all its agencies.

-
But we're running out of bombs for ISIS.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 15, 2015 02:06 PM (Nwg0u)

251 That town is half black
NOW can we laugh at their ignorance ?

Posted by: Righter at December 15, 2015 02:06 PM (S7x7a)

252 In a drive-by? I guess the gangbangers really were paying attention in that intro to vector analysis.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 02:00 PM (oKE6c)

Hit by a service truck while crossing the street

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 15, 2015 02:07 PM (fWAjv)

253 Growing plants is perhaps the best way to do solar. Corn is not the greatest at conversion to ethanol, but not bad. They really are coming up with better ways, or better plants. A storable fuel is better than trying to store electricity. Coal stored a lot of energy from plants ... we are the Saudi Arabia of coal.

Burn liberals for energy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2015 02:07 PM (mZLmb)

254 New York schools received similar email as LA and applied something called logic and reasoning...

The NYPD began an immediate investigation with the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI. Bratton said one indication that the email was a hoax is that Allah was not spelled with a capital ''A.''

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 15, 2015 02:09 PM (7v/r5)

255 " because the cult believers need to demonize the non-believers and elevate themselves into the circle of the anointed."

It is also method of recognizing fellow travelers, much like a secret handshake. (Nudge nudge. wink wink)

Posted by: Gulermo, (sure go wth that one) at December 15, 2015 02:09 PM (ymhTd)

256 Families of the children who had missed meals due to LA school closing are being given restaurant gift cards.

Nah. But I can imagine it.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 15, 2015 02:10 PM (fWAjv)

257 Re: Team Mommy

Have distilled things down to a few simple laws.
For the chill'uns, (1) Keep Mommy happy,

Things I learned in the corporate world for dealing with the CEO & his wife.

If momma ain't happy, ain't no one happy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2015 02:10 PM (mZLmb)

258 If someone ever bio-engineers a scaleable crop that actually yields more energy than the extraction process requires ...

... environmentalists will oppose it. Mark my words.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 02:11 PM (c04Om)

259 (S7x7a) - Ummm, you've coded yourself wrong. I revised it to the correct code:

ICD-10-CM Code F73 - Profound intellectual disabilities

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 15, 2015 02:11 PM (NeFrd)

260 Families of the children who had missed meals due to LA school closing are being given restaurant gift cards.

One catch. You have to go to the closed school to get it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2015 02:11 PM (mZLmb)

261 If your entire family revolves around trying to keep mom from blowing up and screaming, that's one messed up family.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 15, 2015 02:15 PM (39g3+)

262 ... and you know, upon further review, the North Carolina skeptic may be onto something. Bear with me.

If solar ever becomes scaleable AND portable, Progressives will oppose it. Can you imagine them being happy with your ability to live off the grid, anywhere you want, with true energy independence ?

Hell no you can't.

So, what will be the rationale to oppose it ? How about the yet undiscovered delicate balance between heat loss from Gaia into space ... which, conveniently enough, is perfectly balanced by the transfer of thermal energy into the planet itself via sun rays ? So - by erecting solar panels - one would actually be stealing the thermal energy meant for Mother Earth.

Or ... In layman's terms ... sucking all the energy out of the sun.

Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 02:19 PM (c04Om)

263 In fairness to the HuffPo, Northampton County did vote for Obama by a 2-1 margin, so it's reasonable to believe the citizens could be this stupid.

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/north-carolina/

Posted by: bdenbrough at December 15, 2015 02:20 PM (XH5/l)

264 This LAUSD story just keeps getting better.

"Sexual harassment claim against L.A. Unified Supt. Cortines refiled"

http://tinyurl.com/jf4gv88

So on top of everything else, Cortines - who replaced John Deasy, who got rung up in his own right - is a shirtlifter.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 02:21 PM (oKE6c)

265 So on top of everything else, Cortines - who replaced John Deasy, who got rung up in his own right - is a shirtlifter.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 15, 2015 02:21 PM (oKE6c)

-----

Gay Harassment.

It will never see the light of day. Case....... dismissed.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 15, 2015 02:25 PM (8XRCm)

266 It was GUAM that was going to tip over...not Cuba.

Posted by: raynman at December 15, 2015 02:31 PM (zI0aN)

267 Posted by: Irony at December 15, 2015 02:19 PM (c04Om)

I don't claim to have any clue of what im talking about, but the suns rays are either reflected or absorbed as far as I know, so solar panels would just be an efficient form of absorption, they can't suck rays out of the sun, they simply take what the sun gives them.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 15, 2015 02:33 PM (RQzjb)

268 "If someone ever bio-engineers a scaleable crop that actually yields more energy than the extraction process requires"

good grief ... that is one of the oldest lies, that it "takes more energy to produce ethanol than it can generate", or some such. It's true there is conservation of energy, but most of that energy is solar, for corn. It is almost competitive with gasoline, which also takes energy to extract and produce.

Hearing Levin spout so much nonsense about ethanol yesterday was disappointing. A mandate does kinda suck, but it is a use for the abundance produced, and helps stabilize our food producers. But maybe all farms should just go corporate, and we can import the third world to do the work for cheap?

Saving farm communities (all that red on those red/blue maps) is not the same as subsidies for Solyndra or carbon credits.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 15, 2015 02:41 PM (26Yu7)

269 May I suggest the term "cargo cult journalism" to describe formulation of published content that has a passing resemblance to news reporting, but lacks any grounding in anything besides the prejudices of the "reporter"

Posted by: Steve Poling at December 15, 2015 02:58 PM (hXqFq)

270 ''Thanks God, they are panicked of everything.

English is evidently not the first language of soldier boy for the Caliphate, eh?

" The soldiers of the Caliphate will look after you until the world will be under the rule of Allah,'' wrote one supporter.

Look after me? Does that mean you'll pay my next oil heating bill or buy my groceries, solder boy for the Caliphate? I will never be under the rule that has Mohamed as a prophet

Another responded with, ''Oh God, never make them safe. Put panic in their hearts.''

No panic in my heart, soldier boy for the Caliphate.
I know who I belong to. It's not to a religion that has Mohammed as a prophet, you little murdering coward.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2015 03:06 PM (No/ki)

271 "an open forum for imbeciles."

Do I even need to say it?
And yes I include myself.

Posted by: Xavier at December 15, 2015 03:40 PM (v9NIm)

272 The articles also didn't note that the town voted 2:1 for Bronco in the last election.
Or that it just over 50% "non-white", said "non-whites" being 49% blacks below the poverty level.
So just who were those "hicks" with strange ideas about light absorbing solar panels and such?

Posted by: Sam at December 15, 2015 04:00 PM (x15d2)

273 If algore told them to use wind generators because they insure that the earth would spin a a constant speed the progs would clap and smile.

Posted by: Buffalbob at December 15, 2015 04:46 PM (8nL8o)

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