US town: Solar panels 'suck up all the energy from the sun'

[seattle smitty]

A hidebound conservative fundamentalist from the Deep South had begun as a poor farm boy but had worked hard and risen in life to his present exalted position as a senior state senator. This day he was meeting with a young but very savvy lobbyist about an upcoming vote on additional funding for the state university. The senator was undecided, the lobbyist was arguing against the spending bill . . .

"Senator," said the lobbyist, "are you aware that at the university it is common practice to give each student a syllabus at the beginning of each year?"

The senator, looking concerned, said, "Oh, really?!!"

"Yes, and what's more, did you know that the young male and female students matriculate together??"

"WHAT, I had no idea!!"

"And that's not the worst; do you know that a professor can order a girl student to show him her thesis?!!"

"NO!! That does it, by God; I won't vote 'em a damned cent!!!!"

[seattle smitty]

There wouldn't be so many of those jokes and stories, RDJ, if there were not considerable evidence for credibility.

A friend of mine up here, a graduate in Oceanography with a career in environmental work, was called on to help out with cleaning up the huge British Petroleum undersea oil well blow-out in the Caribbean in 2010. Craig, a fine sailer and sail-racer, was assigned to join the crew of a workboat operating out from the coast of the state of Mississippi (I forget what his job was).

I ran into him a few months later when he had got back here. I knew that going down, Craig hadn't expected to be dealing with sophisticates, but even so he was taken aback by what he found. "Smitty," he exclaimed, "You would not believe how ignorant those people are! In fact, nobody on the boat, INCLUDING THE CAPTAIN, knew how to tie a bowline (the most basic of boaters' knots)!! I had to teach them all, just unbelievable!" Then he added, "Oh, but don't try to argue with them about anything to do with football; they all know everything there is to know about that."

So while the solar panel story, which I like, did sound far-fetched, still I wondered how much might have been true. Thanks for clearing it up.

[Voltaire]

When trains were invented in England early 18th century, people were suspect of going in the carriages in case all the air was sucked out once they got moving.
Guess their families moved to North Carolina...

[BMWST?]

Well cars were once limited to walking pace fue the the unknown affects of higher speeds

[pete376403]

Nothing surprises me about the Republican US states when you see things like this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...ducation-panel

[awa355]

Nothing surprises me about the Republican US states when you see things like this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...ducation-panel

Well, when she replaces a chap with the name of 'Flake' that really says it all.

[awa355]

Now, this I can agree with, from the same website quoted in Pete's post.

http://www.maxworkouts.com/lp/worst-...-middle-age-p1

[seattle smitty]

Pete, the irony is that when I was a kid in the Fifties and early Sixties, it was the Republicans who were warning of the dangers to the environment of overpopulation and pollution. "Conservation" (of natural resources and wild places), as environmentalism was called in those days, was of little interest to Democrats. My own political conservatism, or what's left of it, came from THOSE conservative Republicans. I detest today's so-called conservatives, those styling themselves "Reaganites" and "neo-cons" and the Tea Partiers, and above all George W. Bush, worst president of modern times.

Oh wait, this is a humor column. Okay, here's a Dubya joke.

the scene is a staff meeting:

President: "Guys, we gotta keep the Ruskies off balance, make 'em think that if they get too far outta line, we always have the nucular option."

Advisor: "Uh, Mr. Presdent, that's "nuclear" . . .

President: "Oh yeah, Laura keeps bugging me about that, right, noo-clee-ar!!

Advisor: "Anyway, sir, we're all proud that you intend to pursue a muscular foreign policy with the Russians!

President: "Uh, that's "musclear" . . . .

[husaberg]

Nah, that's bullshit - it's a conspiracy by the US media to avoid the low educational standards of the poor South becoming known to the world - and particularly Islamic State....Who could be scared of people as reported ?

That's more like it GrumphyKatman.
Now all you need to do is tell anyone that's asks for any actual evidence of this theory that they are moron and then beg them to suck your cock via the rep system.

[Grumph]

That's more like it GrumphyKatman.
Now all you need to do is tell anyone that's asks for any actual evidence of this theory that they are moron and then beg them to suck your cock via the rep system.

Aside from an affinity with old Suzukis I have nothing in common with that prick thank you.....Please do not confuse my joking attitude with his ingrained permanent one.

[husaberg]

Aside from an affinity with old Suzukis I have nothing in common with that prick thank you.....Please do not confuse my joking attitude with his ingrained permanent one.

I did pick up on the joke but still remain suspicious of the Suzuki thing though

[Katman]

Aside from an affinity with old Suzukis I have nothing in common with that prick thank you.....Please do not confuse my joking attitude with his ingrained permanent one.

Perhaps you should learn when to mind your own fucking business then.

[Grumph]

Perhaps you should learn when to mind your own fucking business then.

Perhaps you should quote the correct person who has upset you...I see by your sig line you already know who that is.
I suspect neither of us like being compared. I can live with it however.

[Katman]

Perhaps you should quote the correct person who has upset you.

Dude, we have only ever had a couple of exchanges on here.

If you can't figure out what my previous post alludes to, that's your problem.

(And if you can't find it, ask husaberk - he's good at going back through my previous posts).

[husaberg]