tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post7385491173411929244..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: The Dark Ages (Redux)AndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39168336092266530582009-09-04T10:30:19.537-04:002009-09-04T10:30:19.537-04:00You're welcome Alvaro. Right now is a time th...You're welcome Alvaro. Right now is a time that we all need to pull together to defend the freedoms that took 200 years to build. Thanks for commenting.<br /><br />I'll have to run over to BH and check that out -- I've been kind of swamped lately and haven't had a chance to get over there.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-63349529470331336602009-09-04T10:08:47.943-04:002009-09-04T10:08:47.943-04:00You're absolutely right, Andrew, and isn't...You're absolutely right, Andrew, and isn't it unfortunate that it's happening right here. What's even scarier is that people are not only allowing it to happen before their very eyes, many are facilitating it. I just posted a painting this week on BH that I did in 2000 and commented about it. Without ignorance, this cannot take place. Yet, here it is-happening in the freest country the world has ever know with all the information at our fingertips. Yes, those in charge are despicable human beings-too bad for all concerned! Again-thank you guys for doing this blog!!!alvarohttp://www.studioartservices.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-17235238211042861012009-09-04T09:24:20.883-04:002009-09-04T09:24:20.883-04:00Alvaro, it is creepy isn't it that a country w...Alvaro, it is creepy isn't it that a country would do something so obviously bad to it's people. It really tells you something about the ruling classes.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-14981726270357173972009-09-04T00:33:54.973-04:002009-09-04T00:33:54.973-04:00I was shaking in my boots until you mentioned thei...I was shaking in my boots until you mentioned their Plan Quixote-that warmed me up a bit. Ah, laughter!alvarohttp://www.studioartservices.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-2521121872524164272009-09-03T18:44:22.427-04:002009-09-03T18:44:22.427-04:00Or presumably vice versa. . . though I'm not s...Or presumably vice versa. . . though I'm not sure that would trouble me all that much. I hear tigers can't resist the great taste of ex-KGB.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-25271820102922992392009-09-03T18:40:46.495-04:002009-09-03T18:40:46.495-04:00Perfect. As long as Putin doesn't slay the tig...Perfect. As long as Putin doesn't slay the tiger.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-90387009099341534052009-09-03T18:38:25.528-04:002009-09-03T18:38:25.528-04:00A little red convertible with a tiger in the passe...A little red convertible with a tiger in the passenger site, the Siegfried and Roy GTI. :-PAndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-62262214650510742542009-09-03T18:34:23.314-04:002009-09-03T18:34:23.314-04:00LOL...or he's going through a mid-life crisis....LOL...or he's going through a mid-life crisis. Putin would be better off getting himself a red convertible.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-89565856435451476072009-09-03T18:29:21.712-04:002009-09-03T18:29:21.712-04:00I think he's pretty creepy looking too. And, ...I think he's pretty creepy looking too. And, frankly, I think it's strange that he needs to have himself photographed doing all kinds of "masculine" things like shooting tigers. Sounds like he's either compensating for something or. . .AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-80245907802175287462009-09-03T18:26:29.661-04:002009-09-03T18:26:29.661-04:00Andrew, I'm sure Putin believes he's quite...Andrew, I'm sure Putin believes he's quite the stud. To me, he just looks creepy.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15017531463234842932009-09-03T18:15:15.913-04:002009-09-03T18:15:15.913-04:00Bev, I like the idea of putting them into hampster...Bev, I like the idea of putting them into hampster wheels and letting them generate electricity for the rest of us!<br /><br />In terms of invention, I don't think it's a good idea to make your people suffer in the off chance that someone invents something to stop their suffering. . . but that's just me.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-10949651952405886452009-09-03T18:14:15.056-04:002009-09-03T18:14:15.056-04:00Writer X, You don't think that's a good lo...Writer X, You don't think that's a good look for Putin? Putin thinks it is. . .AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-34655300112469179412009-09-03T17:32:41.835-04:002009-09-03T17:32:41.835-04:00Look on the bright side - as "they" say,...Look on the bright side - as "they" say, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention". Thoughout human history, when we got too cold or too hot, too hungry or too tired, someone always came along to invent something to ease our suffering. I have hope that there is someone like that now. <br /><br />If not, I am with WX and Tennessee - lets just burn the envirnomentalist for warmth,or better yet, put them in giant hamster wheels and make them run until they drop...either way, I want marshmallows.BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-17155437831780882992009-09-03T17:17:10.442-04:002009-09-03T17:17:10.442-04:00Hopefully they'll start by burning the environ...Hopefully they'll start by burning the environmentalists, including Al Gore, at the stake. Don't forget the marshmellows. And I'm with Patti: What's up with Putin and his GQ photo shoot? Not attractive.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-52536438061790131572009-09-03T14:50:31.174-04:002009-09-03T14:50:31.174-04:00Scott, the laws of physics are against you. That&#...Scott, the laws of physics are against you. That's the problem. There are only two ways to make energy (excluding fusion) -- either (1) release it by burning something or blowing it up, or (2) collect it.<br /><br />The "environmentalists" (and I put that in quotes because I think they care less for the environment than they seek to control the rest of us) want us to switch from releasing energy to collecting energy.<br /><br />The problem with that method, however, is that the collection methods available are highly inefficient (meaning most of it is lost) and unreliable. The one exception is hydropower, but the environmentalists don't want us damming rivers.<br /><br />Also, and let me just throw this out there, it's not at all clear that you don't do an equal or worse harm by collecting the energy. Consider hydropower, for example. To collect the energy in the water, you actually remove it from the river. This has a dramatic effect on the river and basically calms the river -- unless it can pick up more energy down river again. Do we know that the same thing won't happen if we start taking energy out of the wind or the sunlight?<br /><br />P.S. Nice joke!AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-27991627123851594182009-09-03T14:29:56.426-04:002009-09-03T14:29:56.426-04:00Damn, I'm gonna have to watch TV by candleligh...Damn, I'm gonna have to watch TV by candlelight!<br /><br />(That's not my joke... unless you liked it in which case, it was.) :-)<br /><br />Anyway, it sounds like a nice opportunity for some enterprising eco-minded entrepreneur to step in and solve the problem with a little bit of ingenuity... or is that too naive?ScottDSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-25566275591962180792009-09-03T14:14:50.365-04:002009-09-03T14:14:50.365-04:00Jed, I'm all for exploring the uses of Al Gore...Jed, I'm all for exploring the uses of Al Gore as a form of alternative energy.<br /><br />I would suspect that we won't fall for this, but then who knows. Team Obama might be up for this stupidity. They do seem to like repeating historical mistakes. Also, they have spoken repeatedly about killing the coal industry.<br /><br />So maybe in a few years, we'll be reading at night by the light of an Algore Candle?AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-57637470082530178112009-09-03T13:55:30.096-04:002009-09-03T13:55:30.096-04:00Reading your piece brought to thoughts immediately...Reading your piece brought to thoughts immediately to mind, Andrew. First, it gives new meaning to the old saw "look before you leap."<br /><br />Second, if that happened in over here, at least we could have burned and eaten Al Gore. He is so "ginormous," he could provide fuel long enough to produce sufficient windmillsTennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-35548580529615919622009-09-03T13:54:02.924-04:002009-09-03T13:54:02.924-04:00Lawhawk, Yeah, I was going to suggest that the Rus...Lawhawk, Yeah, I was going to suggest that the Russians won "the cold war" after all, but I thought better of it.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-79321867530463718132009-09-03T13:53:37.508-04:002009-09-03T13:53:37.508-04:00Patti, I think that's his Planet of the Apeski...Patti, I think that's his Planet of the Apeski's pose. Any minute he comes to a large statute of Lenin burried in the ground and he drops to his knees and says: "You finally did it tavarishes, damn you all to hell!"AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-42662778730584968052009-09-03T13:51:28.227-04:002009-09-03T13:51:28.227-04:00is putin (yes, i laugh EVERY TIME i say/hear/read ...is putin (yes, i laugh EVERY TIME i say/hear/read his name...the best joke in the world!)riding the great unicorn there? and seriously, i haven't had lunch yet. PUT ON A SHIRT.pattihttp://www.notawonk.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-9222648941185081112009-09-03T13:45:36.861-04:002009-09-03T13:45:36.861-04:00Andrew: I lived through the period of watching ma...Andrew: I lived through the period of watching masses of Brits on TV parading in the streets against Western military defense. Their cry was "better red than dead." It looks like they may have won after all, just a bit belatedly and not in exactly the way they intended.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-60260677229855344232009-09-03T13:32:23.358-04:002009-09-03T13:32:23.358-04:00Stan, I come from the school that says sometimes y...Stan, I come from the school that says sometimes you have to let people suffer the full consequences of their stupidity as a warning to them and others. This is one of those moments.<br /><br />And it's not like the consequences weren't obvious. . .AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-4724623570901947542009-09-03T13:29:50.384-04:002009-09-03T13:29:50.384-04:00Andrew, I guess I have a mean streak, I think it’s...Andrew, I guess I have a mean streak, I think it’s funny. Unfortunately this is the only way to get rid of these creeps or at the very least render environmentalist and leftist irrelevant. Nothing clears the mind like freezing your ass off, spending long nights in the dark clutching your copies of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring, and Owlgore’s “Earth in the Balance.”StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.com