tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4962308810245123250..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Smoked-Out CoastThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-16458182626655176362019-05-06T14:34:54.986-07:002019-05-06T14:34:54.986-07:00BM I hope MOS doesn't consider your comments &...BM I hope MOS doesn't consider your comments "a screed".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-18333030075994529592019-05-05T21:08:14.668-07:002019-05-05T21:08:14.668-07:00And not a government adds in the CO2 and toxins an...And not a government adds in the CO2 and toxins and particulates from "wildfires" into their GHG budget. Oh that's just nature, dontcha know. I've been banging the drums on this subject for years, got roundly criticized for even bringing up the topic by "progressives" on Canadian Dimension. My brother left Penticton and came home to Nova Scotia after 40 years because of smoke.<br /><br />Trying to convince a majority of Albertans that they're mad dawg crazy about the tarsands issue is like talking to a brick wall, so-called progressives included. Why, Queen Rachel was all for it after all, stamping her tiny feet in favour of poison and getting Canada to buy her a pipeline. Kenney is concerned that unless Bill C-48, Bill C-69 are rescinded and a pipeline built that investors will shun the place. Exactly, you Conservative Visigoth! That's the point. No more poison is needed and what's being mined should be stopped. It's not as if Alberta is even growing rich producing this shit with pitifully small royalties. Someone somewhere else is benefitting monetarily, ever more CO2 is produced somehere else and all Alberta gets is navvy jobs on the "oilfields". The bitumen region is ruined ecologically, freshwater used in irreplaceable quantities and everyone cheers. Kind of like a successful virus killing off its host as it celebrates its own demise.<br /><br />Perhaps a bad BC fire season will blanket Alberta in SMOKE and screw up the steak barbecue rituals. They might notice that; probably not. It would spoil the myth of rugged cowboys for them to be concerned, like Rodeo King body-builder Stevie harper and steer 'rasslin' champ Pugsy Kenney. Lookit them Stetsons! McDonalds gets grumpy old Alberta ranchers to lie in TV ads about their cattle methane production, saying it's gone down 15% since sometime or other. Wow! The supercow has landed! A genetic freak for these trying times. Eat a burger with clear conscience. I bet there are more cows and greater absolute amounts of emissions since whenever, than those grumpy old men claim. The difference between per capita and gross is deliberately not mentioned. It would ruin the fairy story.<br /><br />BC itself might want to tone down the earthquake-generating fracking for shale gas and pipeline to energy-guzzling liquification at tidewater. The province isn't the complete put-upon little innocent environmental angel; Alberta isn't the only villain in this doomsday scenario we're facing. And I heard SchMoe of FlatEarth Canada interviewed today. As the Brits used to say, "We've got a right one here, Eddie! Call Matron!" Or Harris in Barney Miller: "Call Bellevue." Another complete doughhead, brought to you by the Canadian electorate.<br /><br />I dunno, should I blow my retirement income on bacchanalian pursuits like expensive French wines and half a pint of Highland Park Special Private Barrel malt whisky a day? A dozen stunning silk cravats a month? Italian loafers of buttery Poltrona Frau leather? Swallow $45 three inch burgers swimming in the finest artisanal bubbling cheeses? Cram down fries morning, noon and night, drive a RAM 3500 dually pickup truck to the store half a mile away and thrice on Sunday? Run three snowmobiles in winter, three ATVs in summer and sweep down the lake in overpowered speedboats under a scorching sun? Perhaps that's the mindset out there. Things are too far gone to save, so act like a complete idiot and hasten the ruin. But I don't think it runs that deep. People are fundamentally not that bright and easily led by con-men to their doom. As the Reverend Jones discovered - here's a nice glass of KoolAid, friend. Drink deep.<br /><br />BM<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-70393031511236108122019-05-05T13:26:01.616-07:002019-05-05T13:26:01.616-07:00Nice screed, Anyong.
Nice screed, Anyong.<br /><br />The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39932096378819329162019-05-05T12:58:56.480-07:002019-05-05T12:58:56.480-07:00In China in 2007, the air quality was three times ...In China in 2007, the air quality was three times this picture,. It was as if a blue-gray scrim hanging in front of your face. It also made ones mouth very dry and one could taste chemicals on the air. Then there were the days when you could not but see only a few feet in front of you. I now have an English cousin who works in the same community I did. The Chinese have clean up the air considerably and planted millions and millions of trees. Huh! What did you say? No! We Canadians aren't doing any such thing. We haven't reached that point of intelligence yet. AnyongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com