43 Replies to “Mad Mike”

  1. I’d use the term “bat-sh!t crazy” to describe this guy, but in our post-Charlie-Sheen world, it’s become such a cliché…

  2. Yeah well fear does that….
    While this guy is a fictional extreme, he is not alone in unquestioning belief of the warmist propaganda.
    It is not difficult to encounter true believers in this insanity. Indeed they have such an emotional investment in this, they appear on the brink of violence to defend their new-age cult.

  3. Our trees are going to keep falling in ways we’ve never seen before.
    He’d better put on his tin foil hat as well.

  4. Crazy people everywhere, this guys name could be Al Gore Raj Sherman, or Charlie Sheen, or David Suzuki. Loons everywhere are now given podiums on the biggest stages, witness Lady Gaga. This SCAM has stolen trillions, this will not end well, electricity rates are jumping quicker than little girls at a Justin Beiber concert, and these gasoline prices will throttle the economy if they stay here or go up, food prices have just started to soar. Thanks Maurice, I hope you get whats deserved of your type.

  5. Yeah , for sure, The reason EVERYBODY changes their locks and bars the window of their indoor grow-op is because,….it’s lettuce.
    Cops knocking in 3,2,

  6. You’re doin’ just fine, lad. Just keep listening to those Nature of Things re-runs and reading National Geographic…

  7. He may be crazy but he might not be too out there with the backup generator idea.From the Daily Telegraph:
    “The days of permanently available electricity may coming to an end, the head of the power network said yesterday.
    Families would have to get used to using power only when it was available, rather than constantly, said Steve Holloway chief executive of the National Grid.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/04/the-empire-strikes-out/#more-35251

  8. It’s true. Before 1970 there were no floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves, cold spells, or any other weather or climate anomalies.
    None. Scientifically proven.

  9. I have a nice vegetable garden in the back yard and enough guns and ammo to arm the neighbourhood. I even have a bee hive. None of that make me ready for armageddon, though. Do you know how much land does it take to feed one person? About an acre. Does this fruitcake really think a few tomato and lettuce plants grown in his basement will stave of starvation? If the warmists are going to go all SHTF they better get a little more serious about it, I think.

  10. My Dear Rat,
    I agree, It is almost impossible to feed your own family come SHTF. YOu need a community of like minded individuals who all have different strengths. Growing food is a LOT harder to do then most folks think. One bad growing season to starvation…not good.
    May I suggest the following book? How to grow more fruit and vegetables then you ever thought possible on less land then you can imagine. An excellent resource.
    http://www.amazon.com/How-Grow-More-Vegetables-Possible/dp/0898154154

  11. Another 1970’s educated city boy wakes up to the notion that the world is not a safe place. Wowzers.
    Are Greenies going to be the next wave of freeze dried food hoarding survivalist whackjobs? After thirty years of trying to bring down Western Civilization, now that it looks like it might actually be teetering a bit, they freak out?
    The irony here is practically killing me.

  12. Whew, thank god I have an acre of herbs, veggies and orchards. I’ll be okay but I think I’m going to need razar wire to keep the starving progressive’s out of my patch.

  13. guy needs some protein, stat. A good old-fashioned Angus steak otta do the trick….

  14. and there may be food riots, but it won’t have anything to do with climate change

  16. Lettuce in cages!!!!! That’s unsanitary, and a very mean and despicable thing to do to the lettuce. I say we boycott all lettuce grown in cages! Down with the vegetable abusers!

  17. The new gold standard of crazy is what I have named CSC (Charlie Sheen Crazy).
    It replaces shit-house rat and bat-shit.

  19. I grow a huge (for one, fully employed guy with hand tools) vegetable garden every year. I rent the property from the city of Toronto through their community lease garden allotment program, and I also stuff containers on the home balcony.
    I don’t even come close to providing for me and my wife.
    I do also service the lowlifes that help themselves to my cabbages, onions and leeks whenever they want and seemingly every buck toothed goofy squirrel within 2 miles, but even with the “shrinkage”, I wouldn’t come close.
    Last year was my all time best harvest.
    You’d need your own tractor and probably 3 hydro burning chest freezers for that kind of scale.

  20. Well, you can bet I will be deadbolting my chicken coop from now on. I had no idea what a threat my neighbors were.

  21. I e-mailed Tidwell (his address, shown at the bottom of his article, is mikewtidwell@gmail.com )and challenged his on his hypocrisy and motivation for his writing. his response was “I confess, I’m a hypocrite AND a writer who is prepared to write whatever it takes to draw a paycheck.”

  23. Putting everyone in a cat-like sate of readiness is a surefire way to keep them under your thumb. How else could someone like Kim Jong-Il keep his starving people ready for a war with the “imperialist” USA and Japan? Now, there’s a starving country.

  24. Carrot juice is murder. (I hear the scream of the vegetables…scream, scream scream).

  25. Lettuce has very low nutritional value.
    Maybe the lettuce is to feed his rabbits.
    I wonder what his carbon footprint is, growing veggies indoors like that?
    Want a really nutritional crop that doesn’t take up much space compared to other food plants?
    Sweet potatoes is the way to go.

  26. Potatos, yup, that’s what the Irish had to do with ever decreasing plots of land under the British penal laws to maximize food value. It works until you have an entire island in mono-culture and a blight happens along. Then you’re kinda pooched.

  27. Lettuce has practically no nutritional value. This is true of both the caged and uncaged varieties.

  28. As someone who has grown vegetable gardens, I am always amused at the lefty /greenie attitude.
    Its not just the garden,its harvesting,storing,having facilities to store and deal with everthing,canning equipment,freezers,root cellars,etc.
    They think its easy and it’s always drive me nuts.
    I half hope for some sort of apocalyptic turmoil just so I can watch the greens blunder away in thier “gardens”.

  29. Tin-foil combat helmets in preparation for the AGW apocalypse.
    Tin-foil hard hats for when the trees fall in new ways.
    I gotta get these on eBay; a guy could make a killing.

  30. Its just all falling apart and the sky could be falling.

    WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time in two years, a rocket glitch sent a NASA global warming satellite to the bottom of the ocean Friday, a $424 million debacle that couldn’t have come at a worse time for the space agency and its efforts to understand climate change.

    Oceans starting to boil,
    seas rising beyond their bounds,
    cats, dogs, and baby seals sleeping together.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtPRnbSIkjk
    Frigging Mass Hysteria.

  32. Every time I decide to go on a lettuce diet my wife locks me out of the bedroom. Sheeeeesh!

  33. Really. What do you expect from a resident of Takoma Park? Enter those last two words and outlawed outdoor smoking, and see what hits come up. ‘Sanctuary city’, except to leaf blowers. Heh.
    In consideration of the fact he’s in an urban area, I assume he envisions playing Omega Man, hoping to sell his story to the other zombies.

  34. Agree that the only crop that would provide enough calories to make it worthwhile growing is potatoes. The biggest problem I find with my garden is that everything seems to need harvesting at the same time. At the end of the summer I pig out on tomatoes every day and my attempts at freezing them haven’t worked out very well. Have raspberries until November and ridiculous quantities of apricots on a good year (they can be sun dried and last for a long time after that). Still, don’t even come close to feeding myself on my 1/3 acre yard. Maybe if it was all garden I might be able to do it.
    There are some Italian families in the neighborhood who are very serious about urban farming with front yards full of tomato plants and peppers and no square inch of the yard uncultivated. They’re into furious canning in September and can probably live off their harvest for the winter.
    Lettuce is something I don’t even bother with. My substitute is young opium poppy plants which grow in profusion everywhere around here (I can see why they’re considered to be a weed in Australia). They look just like lettuce and taste like lettuce when they’re small. There are some other edible weeds that I use in salads. I let some garlic go to seed and now have garlic sprouting all over my garden and someday have to try to get more control over the plants.

  35. Give credit where credit is due. The political upheaveal in the middle east was started by food prices. Al Gore with his ethanol subsidies and Ben Bernanke with his “quantitative easing” may bring down more governments than Joe Stalin.

  36. The really telling point in this whacko’s entire story is the GASOLINE POWERED GENERATOR.
    First he believes in AGW and puts in Solar Panels to generate power:
    “Ten years ago, I put solar panels on my roof”
    Now if Solar panels were all the eco loonies say they are in the power generation department why does he need:
    “a new Honda GX390 portable power generator in my garage, ready to provide backup electricity.”
    Seems his Solar panels should be all he needs he doesn’t need that that GX390. Besides he believes that fossil fuels are bringing about the end of times, so he buys a fossil fueled power generator to survive it?
    ” I still work overtime to promote clean energy”
    Sure you do. That is why your new Honda GX 390 engine (It’s the engine model number not the Power Generator Model number) doesn’t allow you to use the new EPA allowed 15% adulterated gas, Nope it must use the real unleaded gas or up to only 10% ethanol adulterated gas. It also does not allow you to use the so called eco friendly E85 alternative fuel:
    “Gasoline is allowed, by regulation, to contain a variety of additives. The same regulation limits how much of some additives, such as alcohol, can be included in the fuel and still be sold as gasoline. If you look in a Honda product owner’s manual, you will see that a maximum of 10% ethanol is allowed in gasoline (other oxygenates are also listed). Honda engines are designed for good performance and efficient operation using gasoline containing from 0 to 10% ethanol.
    E85 is an alternative fuel. It is not gasoline. It is made by combining 85% ethanol with 15% gasoline. Honda engines are not currently certified or designed to run on E85 or any other alternative fuel.”
    http://engines.honda.com/parts-and-support/fuel-recommendations

  37. Wanna grow a decent garden? Do what people during WW11 did. Check out Victory Garden. Good yield for smaller plots. You won’t get fat from the produce but you’d be surprised at the results if done properly.
    Now, this food shortage is just so much horse-pucky. The Left has always needed crises to promote their agendas. Always a war against something.
    War on Cancer
    Flu pandemics
    War on poverty
    Cancer battle ( no one ever gets cured anymore, they are a survivor)
    etc. etc etc.
    I wonder what colour the ribbon is going to be in this battle against food shortages?

  38. I recall an associate from the USSR….
    It seems the workers on collective/state farms were allowed to have a garden plot each and sell the produce. During WW2 these had gradually expanded and at the end of the war they were harshly curtailed, resulting in a food shortage.
    Small plots can yield more than large acreages but they are massively labour intensive.
    Organic produce? Easily identified….it’s the withered stuff with the hair on it.

  39. The “even” is what separates a liberal “man” from a conservative one, to whom the addition of that qualifier would never occur.
    Notice he can’t even bring himself to call himself a “man,” merely a “person.”
    Note to his wife: you might “even” want to get your own gun, babe.
    The funny thing is: this guy probably hates Glenn Beck, unheard. But Beck has been telling listeners to do mostly the same stuff for the last year.

  41. loki @12:02 – Italians? Fuggedaboudit. You should have seen my Ukrainian baba in Edmonton. Her back yard was a smallish but highly productive farm – I am not exaggerating, I said farm – and that was into her ’90s. She bottled, canned and stored everything. Because the Poles might be coming – or the Germans, or even the Russians… and you need to be prepared.
    Tim Blair is the Greatest Living Australian.

  42. Haha .. the take I geet on this dumb@ss is how the progressive mind analyzes the nature of threats and rationalizes solutions.
    As opposed to those much maligned “suvivalists” who the like of Mr. Dumb@ss have often held up to be loons and incompetents.
    You will note that those “right wing nuts” actually created workable communities with the ability to be self sufficient in every way.
    The dope who wrote the article goes from being the sort who pretends to have “solidarity” with his fellow many … but gets more than a little shaken when faced with depending on that brothery love or actually being self reliant.
    I’ll bet the dumb@ss has even expressed love for “anarchist” ideals….

  43. Notice he can’t even bring himself to call himself a “man,” merely a “person.”…
    Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at March 5, 2011 10:57 AM
    Ah yes, a symptom of sexual confusion/repression. Glad his closet has a window in it…

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