Reply With QuoteSame guy who made "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill".Originally Posted by Tilted
Do you like South Park? Lewis Black? Idiocracy is stunningly funny if you get a kick out of our strong need for stupidity and self destruction. It is simply painful if you lament how stupid we tend to be as a society. And it is boring as hell if you don't like that sort of thing and are insistent that 'that could never happen'.
Put another way, if you are on the Titanic, would you be scrambling to find a way, kicking women and children aside to save yourself? Don't go watch it.
Would you grab a cocktail and go listen to the band, notice how lovely the stars are? Go see it.
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Same guy who made "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill".
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong". Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Speaking of fracking.....some win here:
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-env...-fracking-bans
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If all you are gonna do is give me grief about what I post DON'T READ IT Heh? Have a nice day :-D
I'm inclined to believe that part of the objection is that it is a technique --
That has a name.
Seriously.
Because otherwise, how on earth would these same folks be able to claim that any kind of oil drilling should not ever be done? I'd hazard a guess that they're opposed to any oil drilling. One of the objections I've read in the past against Keystone was that the oil extraction done in the oil sands of Alberta was a terrible thing, and by opposing Keystone - - well, it doesn't make sense from there. I don't believe for a minute that opposing Keystone would ever have the slightest effect on oil sands in Alberta. None.
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong". Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nearly all success in electoral politics boils down to convincing people that you recognize that they are not the problem, that someone or something else is.
More on the rogue EPA...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/wlf/2016.../#3ec004077f9e
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. -Frank Zappa
The problem with fracking is that it brings up a great deal of energy that is not being bought from the Middle East. People sympathetic to, or otherwise under the control of, the serious sheiks over there tend to find reasons (read: "made-up problems") with the United States or other major world powers not getting their energy supplies from predominantly the Middle East.
So, here's the deal; in 2013/2014, the Saudis lowered the cost of oil in an admitted effort to limit or extinguish investments in other energies or other producers of oil. Venezuela has gone under because of it, but the Saudis really don't care. Other OPEC producers are PO'd, but the Saudis really don't care. Once the competition and thought of need for future exploration is significantly reduced, prices skyrocket again, putting Saudi as a larger world leader, where people really need them in a huge way.
There's nothing wrong with fracking. There's nothing wrong with the United States being energy-independent. But, it IS a free market, and so long as it is not profitable to do so it is unlikely there will be a drive for other sources of energy. By making frackers be held up in courts, regulations, red tape, marketing campaigns to show how they're not the devil, etc., there is less interest in companies getting into fracking, or funding research into better/cleaner/safer ways to get energy. Note, when natural gas prices fell so hard and so fast, all of the new-nuclear dried up. This is the same idea with Middle East oil.
There are only two possibilities; one is that we are alone in the universe, the other is that we are not.
Both are terrifying.
I have a childhood friend whose daughter now works on oil rigs - she actually travels constantly and is often a good source of knowledge about oil and gas.
While I thought fracking was a technique that's been around fifty years - she says it's more like a hundred or more.
The big difference recently is it is being used to get shale oil.
Despite sensational news - it's impossible for it to pollute ground water, and it's been proven way beyond any reasonable doubt.
If the left wants to call the right science deniers, here's a clear case of them doing the same.
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong". Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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