03-27-2011, 03:01 AM
OMG!!
You've got those blinkin' @#*%@ down in Oz, too!
They won't be happy until we all live in caves and eat foraged berries and tree bark and the overpopulation of predator animals eat us!
I must admit they are the source of some amusement, though!
They spend years bringing the California Condor back from the "brink of extinction" ...
They cause land development to be blocked because the area is native habitat to some obscure rodent.
They cause the diverting of water to some of the country's most furtile farmland to be halted, turning it into a dust bowl, and causing food prices to rise ...
... and forcing many farmers into financial ruin and hundreds of farm workers into the unemployment lines,
all because of some tiny fish that isn't even native to the area!
They campaign obnoxiously for "alternative green power" ... so an "environmentally correct" windmill farm is constructed at a cost of several million taxpayer dollars ...
... and birds fly into the spining blades and are killed by the hundreds ...
... and the noise created by the turbines is so annoying to residents,it causies them migrane headaches and nights of lost sleep ...
... and so an ordinance is unanimously passed to shut the thing down at wind speeds over 23 mph ...And the windmills' turbines don't hit peak proficiency until 35 mph!!
You can't make this stuff up!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln