Davenport said: “I’m going to head off The Phantom here, who doubtless will show up shortly with some rant about how this is all FEMA’s fault.”
You really are DENSE woman. FEMA, while it is a clusterfrig of titanic proportions, could not cause this much misery on its own. Although they FAILED to have emergency generators at key fuel distribution points (read gas stations) and although they FAILED to have any kind of plan to move food and fuel to the affected areas, and although they FAILED to even have a forward based supply of bottled water and ran out last Friday, even these gold plated MORONS couldn’t have frigged things up this badly alone.
Do you want to know why the power is STILL off on Long Island, Davenport? Read this here: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Sandy-LIPA-Outages-Power-Long-Island-Defense-Military-178115341.html
In it you will find reference to a report from 2006, SIX YEARS AGO, which found that Long Island Power Authority had not done the basic maintenance required to secure the power grid from weather damage. The maintenance they’re talking about here is tree cutting mostly, and replacing bad power poles.
I lived in New York in the 1990’s. I could have written that report. The f-ing power went off every time it snowed because they didn’t cut trees and the trees ripped the lines down. They also didn’t plow the roads, but that’s a story for another day.
You want to know why they don’t cut the f-ing trees Davenport? It isn’t because they are stupid, it isn’t because they don’t know, it isn’t because private enterprise is inherently corrupt, it isn’t even because union workers are a bunch of rent-seeking layabouts. Its because every time they go to cut down a tree, some local Greenies get up a petition or a court order to make them stop. So they stop. So the trees break and knock down the power lines. Same thing all over the North East until you get up into snow country, where even the f-ing tree huggers know better.
Well -this- time it all came home to roost the same day, and every overhanging branch from New Jersey to Connecticut took out a line.
But don’t get me wrong, there’s a ton of corruption and scamming going on too. Paying off inspectors, hockey tickets for town council, that sort of thing. That’s why all those flooded switching stations were within reach of a flood in the first place, because the money to move them was skimmed off by graft. That’s why FEMA didn’t have any forward located stuff, because it all either vanished or was never there to start with except on paper.
But now that there’s been a disaster the LIPA wankers are screaming for crews. And they aren’t getting them. You know why Davenport? Because volunteer crews from as far away as Florida showed up Monday -before- the storm and cooled their heels until Friday, didn’t get any assignments because they WERE NOT UNION, and then those volunteer crews went the hell back home.
And FEMA didn’t say jack about it, did they? Nor did anyone else. One phone call from Barack “The Golfer” Obama to the head of the union could have fixed that. Just one, single phone call. Didn’t get made, did it? He made a speech on Wednesday and then flew to Vegas.
Some of the people displaced by the flooding are still in tents. FEMA is supposed to find or make housing for these people, its been a week and a half now, and they are in tents. Looked out the window today? Its cold. People are going to -die- in tents this time of year. It is reported today that some of these cold tent dwelling people started calling the news media, and the FEMA types running the camps started confiscating cameras and refusing to charge up cell phones. No power, they said.
The only organizations in this whole farce that showed up like they meant it have been churches. Not seeing much of that covered in the MSM are we?
But the crowning touch Davenport, the cherry on top of it all that just makes it all the more outrageous and mind numbing is that New Yorkers voted for MORE of it on Tuesday. More graft. More incompetence. More better and bigger Big Government. Gimme my Obama phone.
Say, d’ya think LIPA and ConEd will be laying off because of Obamacare? I bet they will. I bet they lay of a thousand guys right before January first.
I prophesy this: until people like YOU, Davenport, stop actively sabotaging everyone who’s trying to make our civilization work, there’s going to be ever-increasing numbers of people dying of exposure in tents waiting for help from Big Brother that never comes. I also predict that the ones who survive are going to be p1ssed.
As my parting shot, I want you to think about Toronto for a second.
Did you know that thanks to the Liberal Party of Ontario and -decades- of stunning stupidity, there are two (2) main power lines that come in to downtown? Yep. Both running at the edge of melting most of the time. And did you know that most of your power comes from far away places like Nanticoke, Darlington and Bruce? Did you know that outside of Pickering there is no generation in the GTA at all?
Did you know that gas stations almost never have an emergency generator, even around Toronto?
I want you to think about Toronto after two solid weeks with no power. In November. Nice eh? Now try February. Hope you stocked up. On insulin. ‘Cause there won’t be any.
And remember. YOU voted for this. You did. Not me. I voted to fix it, you voted for the stupid short sighted @ssh0les who broke it.
You don’t even know how close to the edge you are, yet you argue with me for telling you. Wake the hell up and LEARN something before Bad Things happen.
Dang Phantom, that b!tch slap is going to leave a mark!!!
“…that b!tch slap is going to leave a mark!!!” No. No it won’t. And that is tha sad part. As correct and a justified as Phantom is, Davenport and that ilk of blame ing freeloaders will never accept resposibility for their choices or actions. As long as we play in the same sand box, it will always be a our fault.
There is only one choice, ask youreslf, “who is John Galt”. The answer is you, and act accordingly.
Wonderful post.
Regarding Toronto. The lack of redundancy in the grid is a real vulnerability.
It isn’t sexy, like subways or burying the Gardiner, two other things that never get done but at least they are talked about. And yet the mcguinty government was willing to spend three quarters of a billion dollars to not put a generation plant in the suburbs.
Fixing the switching needs to be done. They do trim trees here though.
“…that b!tch slap is going to leave a mark!!!” No. No it won’t. And that is tha sad part. As correct and a justified as Phantom is, Davenport and that ilk of blame ing freeloaders will never accept resposibility for their choices or actions. As long as we play in the same sand box, it will always be a our fault.
There is only one choice, ask youreslf, “who is John Galt”. The answer is you, and act accordingly.
Posted by: Chris at November 11, 2012 6:26 AM
As long as we play in the same sand box, it will always be a our fault.
Ahhhhhh.There is your problem,chris.It is not your fault,nor Phantoms,nor mine.Refuse to play with the leftard beaytches,and give them nothing.When they come crying,boot them out.And they will be crying when there are no free phones,or power,or welfare,or food.And the right is also to blame for not raising a stink about fradulent elections.PMSH has got my concerns,and hopefully the next step will be to ignore the USSA,and find markets elsewhere.
I’m convinced lefty brains are hard wired different. In the prelude to tropical storm Sandy high wind warnings were issued here in Ontario.
I called a lefty neighbour to remind them to fill their bathtub with water so in the event of a power failure they would still be able to manually fill the toilet tank and flush and have water available to wash their hands.
They started complaining that the water would be cold to wash their hands in.
This rant should go viral. It is the best rant I have heard against a moocher for a long time.
Bravo Phantom.
Its not just lack of redundancy that’s a problem. its also the huge NIMBY factor that has evolved from a media that’s long on rhetoric and short on facts, hyping for market share over civic obligation, and featherbedding politicians as a derivative. It’s not just Liberals; they’re all complicit. I’s just that the left tend to set the standard for stupidity.
In my real life, on my own dime and time, I’m part of a disaster response structure that provides core communications capability off the grid. When most of you are hunkering down, I’m preparing to get my feet wet. I know what will happen to the GTA in a real SHTF scenario in the winter: Get your affairs together and be prepared to die.
It’s not only power. Because of the intransigence of the city of Toronto to not develop its internal transportation corridors, choosing, with provincial complicity, to usurp the provincial highway system instead, it will take only the compromising of about 4-6 overpasses in Toronto’s transportation corridors to COMPLETELY gridlock the city. No ambulance, fire trucks, supply trucks will move. A power failure will do the same.
A little story: some years ago, those of you from the Hamilton area will remember, Hamilton had a little fire in a factory in Hamilton’s north end, called the Plastimet fire. Toxic smoke, proximity to a hospital and nearby residential areas, set up a high probability that a mass evacuation was going to be needed. We (civilian, not institutional) activated an alternative comunications protocol at 6am the morning of the fire, and its a good thing we did. By 10am, Hamilton’s phone networks were jammed solid, and the phone system was unavailable for emergency responders to communicate. We handled critical communications for the city, fire, transportation and NGOs. Cell phone systems have helped since (they were in their infancy at the time, but they are capable of being overwhelmed too.) Of the approximately 20K $ I have personally invested in my response capacity, none of it was paid for by any governmental structure. Governments are too short thinking to save your butt on the long term. Only you can do it. That’s why, Davenport, continued supporters of rent-seeking politicos have a death wish. You literally can’t get out your own way. When you surrender your day to day existence to someone else – you’ve surrendered your day to day existence.
Most liberals I know, literally, don’t have a clue about what goes on in the background to keep their silly asses safe. They’re perennial children always running to mom for a bandaid.
Romney lost the election the day after Sandy hit. God handed him a political gift and the incumbent won it by default. Instead of running around the midwest preaching mostly to the already converted, he should have mobilized his resources and hustled his ass to NY and NJ and got generators and crews into the area. He should have put a media crew on full press showing him with his sleeves rolled up getting dirty, getting help to people in trouble. The major public role a president does is lead by example. He didn’t. Every ad marketer knows that in a product ad, if you don’t make sure the product name is out in front, the market leader gets the benefit of your ad. QED.
When I read this comment, I c&p to a document for my favorites folder. I find a report stating that housing people in a prison ironic. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/arthur-kill-correctional-facility-staten-island-prison-displaced-sandy_n_2103795.html?utm_hp_ref=hurricane-sandy-2012
Well done, Phantom.
And how many years ago,and the Yanks still haven’t learned…Among the American public as a whole, the Irish Catholics and the German Americans were intensely opposed to the Treaty, saying it favored the British.[34]
After Wilson’s successor Warren G. Harding continued American opposition to the League of Nations, Congress passed the Knox–Porter Resolution bringing a formal end to hostilities between the U.S. and the Central Powers. It was signed into law by Harding on July 21, 1921.[35]
And regardless of your political bent,let us Remember on the 11th hour,of the 11th day,of the 11th month,those who laid down so much for us,to have the freedom to use this forum called SDA.
May this site,Kate,Lance,BM,Phantom,the pups,and even davenport,Queerbec,and iberia,have the freedom to chat,rant,digress,argue,profane,discuss,etc,that so many,on both sides,died for in their prime.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Phantom’s comments are 99% to the point and accurate, this one hits at 100%.
The only thing here is that it is futile in case of Davenport. The character has no capacity to think about, contemplate and absorb any point of the comment. If he can’t feel it, it does not happen.
On another point,
You see, Sandy was a natural disaster. Natural disasters don’t follow rules, of anybody, of anything; it just does what it does. Nature in fact is that way, it destroys and it creates.
There is not much, however much, that human can do, the nature will always throw a curved ball, it’s been around for a long time.
People at best, can mop up and get on their way. In case of Sandy, it seems that there are way too many wise guys from Harvard talking one over the other looking for a medal, instead of one guy with common sense giving orders. Look at New York’s mayor, looks like some kind of bimbo.
A natural disaster is a real life stuff. Super “civilized” New Yorkers, see things like that on TeeVee, they have no concept of nature. Seem as though they think that everything should work and appear as on TeeVee, much like Chauncey Gardiner did.
This is not going to leave a mark. These are not rational people. Like a buddy of mine in Milwaukee said to me the other day,”If you say one word of disagreement they start calling you a racist.”
I see very smart people, accountants and engineers, that have butt-chugged this kool-aid and it scares the shyte out of me. I listen to them recite the MSM garbage at me and dismiss anything that does not fit with it. It’s like some really bad Star Trek episode.
I have stepped back and examined my position. I think it is healthy to do that occasionally. I really do not see any upside in trusting these people. I think an earlier posting, months ago, about how after hospital administrators had their bonuses tied to super bug outbreaks, suddenly super bug out breaks dropped like a stone. Before that they just let people die in their hospitals.
It is the fact that these people, everyone in the political class, are not accountable. And even the people that hurt don’t seem to want to have them accountable. They have more of an incentive to have you die in a tent than to help you. There is no downside for them.
Instpundit had some great advice on home generators earlier this week. I suggest that those that have not loaded up do so.
If I might add a thought… Another thing we did not see were a flood of New Yorkers who lived north of the damage, coming to the aide of the rest. They had stuff to do. Can’t miss the BBall game.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Regarding Toronto’s electricity supply, the two gas fired powerplants that were cancelled before the last Ontariowe election were going to be built in the Toronto suburbs are now going to be built in Sarnia and Bath, 100 and 200 miles away respectively. Sarnia is on the south end of Lake Huron in the snow belt and the transmission lines from Bath (near Kingston) will run along the north shore of Lake Ontario in another snow belt. Both transmission lines will be vulnerable to another ice storm. But hey, McGuinty got his majority, and that’s all that mattered to him.
Great comment Phantom and to add to what you wrote remember the roof collapse at Elliot Lake and our premier “begging” those in charge to do something? Well the inquiry has started :
http://www.elliotlakeinquiry.ca/index.html
And it won’t bring about one bit of common sense.
Long Island is a disaster zone and the newly minted POTUS is playing golf. The optics are as bad as it gets.
This can’t be. The MSM and Christie told me Obama fixed everything last weekend.
Everything that needed to be said, was well said Phantom, the only thing is, your trying to reach the cuckoos nest. The people that vote for failure consistently, are failures in their own lives, they love govt. handouts while puffing up about big corporations wrecking the environment. They are to stupid to even check out the donor boards at hospitals arenas etc. and see the names of the “rich” people and corporations who donated to better the community, this small exercise alone would help them grow up, but now I’m preaching. The useless and stupid of society have the same 1 vote as the informed, and therein lies the problem with democracy, once you have enough davenports news and las-es on your dog whistle speed dial dopey liberal vote, from your constant Robin Hooding of the builders creators and “rich” of society, shazam we all become Chicago or Toronto, well take a good look at Greece and every other Buttistan you lefties like, cause it’s coming down the track.
Sorry Phantom. I agree with bartinsky you cannot persuade ET or davenport or other limp-wrist, lily-livered, lickspittle liberals or greens of their error(s) – scoffing, smug, sneering, stupid ignorami that they are. It will probably take the end of civilization as they know it to change their minds, but I wouldn’t bet on it, when it will be far too late.
Iggy slanter, I agree entirely, but this is not only true of politics, but every field of human activity. The only question is can you make money betting against them.
Any place where the Democrats Machine runs the roost is a group cluster f@ck waiting to happen.
Katrina was painted on Bush by a gleeful media but it was decades of Louisana Democrat corruption that was the issue, the same issue we are watching live on Long Island.
Using a prison to house displaced victims?
Hmmm…
Here come the FEMA Camp advocates.
You’re wrong about the GTA generation. Portlands (550MW) & Goreway (875MW) are both in the GTA while Halton Hills (683MW), much like Darlington, is on the border.
Otherwise, nice rant.
Sounds as if a poorly maintained distrubution grid is a perennial make-work project for the unionized zombies sucking the profits out of the the E-distribution biz. If that is a fact then Southern Ontario is safe in these storms, they have wind-gen back up – hmmm, did anyone notice if the wind mills were running in those high winds? D’ya think they could handle the load/demand? (Tongue planted firmly in cheek)
B-R-A-V-O-!-!-! The Phantom.
That, I do believe, is the finest comment I’ve read since coming to SDA in 2004.
And a special commendation for your remark about your “odd” sort of mind which sees and points out the obvious and the related observation about Davenport’s simultaneous cleverness and stupidity. Tho you perhaps sell yourself short here: while many of us are intimately familiar with your argument we don’t all (I certainly don’t!) have an adequate command of the nuts and bolts of the matter at hand.
There WAS a time when I would have immediately forwarded this to all my liberal acquaintances but, having descended into a state of despair over the possibility of turning liberals, I shall demur.
oldfart: You’ve made a ghastly error including ET in that 9:59 comment. While I agree that ET is sometimes naive and sometimes lacks “street smarts” (which The Phantom owns in virtual steroidal proportion) she’s no liberal and would almost certainly agree with every letter, word and punctuation mark of The Phantom’s splendid essay).
Well said Phantom.
MND, agree about ET and about trying to turn liberals. Liberals can not be persuaded by facts or logic…they have to wake up themselves apparently…and some do.
If your waiting for the government you’ll wait, starving, cold,sick and perhaps dying.
But folks who have 3 months /a years worth of food and meds are just plain nuts right….
Call me crazy, me and my flour, beans ans rice, powdered milk, amish wood cook stove that everyone thinks is so pretty and quaint. My family will be feed and warm as long as the grasshoppers don’t steal it all.
Well said Phantom!!!
The “Davenports” are driving us into the Third World on the crazy train, full speed with no brakes; it’s time to stand up.
oldfart
U are a class example of what is wrong with society today, U don’t agree with someone and U denigrate them, how liberal of U, as someone pointed out, ET lacks street smarts, but she doesn’t lack smarts. Also she is several rungs up the IQ ladder from U, so grow up and try understanding “why” U and her hold different perspectives on some issuse
and spot on THE PHANTOM
I admire a man who can say “F&CK OFF” appropriately, in so many words. I salute you sir!
As for his knowledge to do so: GOOGLE is your friend. This “stuff” has been out there in the MSM, but it isn’t fitting with the agenda, so they don’t flog it like they do dead horses. The media can’t seem to join the dots very well.
Need to point out one thing: LIPA is a public benefit corporation owned by the state of New York. It is NOT a private company. It has 15 directors, 9 appointed by the governor and three each by the senate majority leader and the speaker of the assembly. The governor is a D and has been since Pataki left office. The speaker of the assembly is a D and has been for decades.
Knight 99:
One of the few upsides to the third world is street justice. Full speed ahead!
Great rant Phantom.
On the positive side, we’re all getting a view of the future, you know, the one devoid of modernity. See, it seems that almost everybody – and I really mean %70+ are in favor of choking off power. Look at your company’s ‘green’ policies. Look at your city’s ‘sustainability’ laws. Look at your state’s ‘renewable minimums’ laws (that you people voted for!). Suicide is what does us in.
Gotta love the Phantom! It’s been a tough few days coming to grips with the fact that more voters want stuff than want liberty. Unfortunately, I have no real compassion for the moochers and the ill-prepared in the wake of Sandy. Lived through 2 (two) hurricanes in 2 1/2 weeks when our family lived in Florida. September 2004. North side of Hurricanes Francis and Jeane tore our town apart, displaced many, power was out a week, at least, each time. We evacuated, came back, cleaned up (and cleaned out the frig), rebuilt, and didn’t seek help from FEMA or anybody outside of neighbors and friends. Had friends that lost their home just a quarter mile south of us in a different neighborhood. Others with severe and devastating property loss, flooding. We had part of the back of our house rip off. Pool enclosure totaled. We ate bagels And peanut butter, water with no ice. 2 young children with one on the way. Don’t want to hear the complaints. Grow up people. Take care of yourselves. Quit expecting someone else to do it for you. Have a nice day.
Although I agree with just about everything in this response, I think that its really missing a big issue.
Ever consider why other countries like the UK, France, Spain etc. don’t suffer huge power outages and storm related problems? Its not because they don’t have storms.
For a visitor from England (for example) one of the biggest surprises when arriving in the USA/Canada is the amount of crap hanging off poles. Everywhere you look.
In the UK, the ONLY power lines above ground are large (grid) transmission lines, which are way above the trees, and even those are becoming rare.
The wind can blow, and trees can fall, but the power lines rest safely in their underground conduits.
Flooding is mitigated by NOT BUILDING ON FLOOD PLAINS — even thought he land is cheap.
Where required, real flood control is in place – not just piles of earth alongside a river, but real embankments built to not fall apart if they should ever be topped. They are NOT built to the (ridiculous) “99 year storm” level, knowing full well that to 100 year storm will overwhelm them – and that “100 year” storms can occur without having to wait 100 years.
Where required, tidal storm surge is dealt with (e.g. Thames barrier). These are built to more like the 1,000 year storm specification.
Trimming trees is NOT the answer. Burying power lines is.
Piling up dirt along side a river or at the back of a beach is NOT the answer, proper building codes proper construction is.
Ouch. Poor Davs.
well..it’s not every comment that gets an Instalanche…good job
let me just add one minor point to the tree branch thing. We had this happen several years ago in an ice storm…some people didn’t have electric for 10 days…in the winter. The tree thing was an issue…and part of the reason was the board that regulates electricity rates of the evil utilities are easily cowed by poor people who don’t want to pay more for electric.
so no people to cut branches…i guess poor people and their advocates want people to cut branches for Free…like everything else.
Yes, Philip, the Euros are so much better. Until the weather gets a bit too warm; then they die like rats.
Geography and distances and geology are different in the US. There may be places where buried lines make sense; in many they won’t.
Romney lost the election the day after Sandy hit. God handed him a political gift and the incumbent won it by default. Instead of running around the midwest preaching mostly to the already converted, he should have mobilized his resources and hustled his ass to NY and NJ and got generators and crews into the area. He should have put a media crew on full press showing him with his sleeves rolled up getting dirty, getting help to people in trouble. The major public role a president does is lead by example. He didn’t. Every ad marketer knows that in a product ad, if you don’t make sure the product name is out in front, the market leader gets the benefit of your ad. QED.
No… You forget that they willfully voted for incompetence. Romney’s assistance would have been turned away. The MSM would have called it self-serving.
Hey, where is that stuck on stupid guy from New Orleans? He is needed in New York.
“Long Island is a disaster zone and the newly minted POTUS is playing golf. The optics are as bad as it gets.
Posted by: Liz J at November 11, 2012 9:42 ”
Unfortunately, optics don’t count for much when no one sees what’s going on. Normally, this is where I would throw in a sarcastic “Heckuva’ job, MSM!” except I would be inadvertantly praising them. They ARE doing a heckuva’ job -at insulating Democrat politicians from negative coverage and consequences. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. It is, after all, what they do best.
Hey, where is that stuck on stupid guy from New Orleans? He is needed in New York.
Hey, where is that stuck on stupid guy from New Orleans? He is needed in New York.
Hey, where is that stuck on stupid guy from New Orleans? He is needed in New York.
Black Mamba >
“Ouch. Poor Davs.”
You shouldn’t pity these people regardless of how pathetic they appear; they are killing little black babies in freezing tents as we write.
Kate, thanks for the feature and thanks all above for the kind words. If it wasn’t for Small Dead Animals, I’d still be yelling at the TV.
This isn’t about poor old Davenport really, its just that her doctrinaire Lefty response to this very real emergency pushed all my p1ss-off buttons at once.
As many have said above, the reason people are still suffering in NY and NJ with no food, fuel or electricity is THEFT and INCOMPETENCE. Someone above said the infrastructure has been -looted-, and that is exactly what has occured. We know that LIPA has run out of -poles- no less, despite the fact that one phone call could have whole rail-cars full of poles shipped to them from WITHIN New York state. Or it could if all the other power utilities in NY hadn’t been looted too.
Then there’s the incompetence. It is huge and obvious. No fuel gets delivered, then it does get delivered but given away free so there’s a riot, then its delivered but crooked city workers steal it, etc. Still no generators at private gas stations, but there are generators available from rental companies all up and down the state. A high school kid could get that done.
The fundamental issue which has caused the majority of damage is the looting. Large private companies which have been looted internally fall apart. See Enron. Large companies which have allowed layer upon layer of superfluous management bureaucracy and excess employees, even though they are honest, also fall apart. See IBM in the 1990’s.
Government run institutions however DO NOT fall apart. They keep going, because they can appropriate more funds to cover up the inefficiency and especially the -theft- of time and materials. They just keep growing. No one can look at the hospital system in Ontario, for example, or the electrical grid in Ontario, and deny that reality (One word: windmills.)
No one except a Liberal/NDP voter. Which is roughly half the voting population.
This is the fundamental issue of our times. Entire swaths of our society are not only ignorant of the institutions and mechanical systems that sustain our very lives, they are WILLFULLY ignorant. Indeed in Davenport’s case she is -militantly- ignorant. Can’t be bothered with the truth because she’s too busy trying to beat me up.
Willful ignorance p1sses me off. Hence the rant.
I’m at a total loss as to how to fix it. Some of the people I’ve talked to these last twenty years on the Intertubes about things as diverse as windmills, doctors and gun control are completely immune to facts, numbers, sometimes even getting mugged. I see no way to drive a fact into some of these heads short of a near-death experience.
Therefore I think it is incumbent upon us all as reasonable people to focus our efforts on the majority who are merely not paying attention, and abandon the adamantly dis-informed to the inevitable consequences of their own actions. Perhaps a whole winter of freezing in the dark and eating their belts and boots will shift voting patterns in some of these liberal enclaves like NYC.
Its not what I want, but I’m pretty sure its what’s going to happen in the USA.
PB mentioned there’s a couple of generating plants inside the GTA, specifically Goreway and the Portlands. I didn’t know about those, so thanks for the heads up. I do know that they need about four more like that just to keep up with increased demand in the summer.
oldfart mentioned ET as unconvincable in the same breath as Davenport. Not piling on here oldfart, but the truth about ET is she’s an extremely high-end theorist in the field of human (and non-human!) interaction and systems. Where I am at the lead-pipe level she’s arguing nuclear physics. Many of her arguments require a -lot- of background reading, some of which I’ve done so I can kind of follow along and sing the chorus type thing.
OTOH I can probably weld better than she can, so I’m all proud and stuff about that. ~:D
Skip @ 8:41AM had an -excellent- comment regarding the Plastimet fire in Hamilton. I had relatives involved in that fire, they said what Skip said, that it was a clusterfrig from start to finish. Here’s a link to some info about the fire: http://www.esemag.com/archive/0997/fire.html , I encourage people to read up and experience the essential fragility of modern cities from another angle. Failure points are many and not obvious.
Many thanks again and keep your powder dry.
I’m working on a solution
email me.
It’s dead simple, no rocket science. You just identify all the infrastructure, their state of readiness, who is responsible, and create a system where you type in an address and you get an individualized report.
No winger is going to dare protest against it. This is all public record. What will happen though is that everybody will know before, during, and after the disaster who fouled it up and who you have to vote out to get it fixed.
You’ll then be able to read the names at the funerals because let’s not kid ourselves, inaction on keeping civilization going kills people.
Some fitting quotes from Heinlein:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.