Kennedys must take a higher road

Cape Cod Times ^ | January 5, 2006 | SOLON ECONOMOU

[george76]

Within the space of a single week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sen. Edward Kennedy have managed to mangle reality with op-ed pieces in two of the nation's leading newspapers.

''As an environmentalist, I support wind power,'' began RFK Jr.'s op-ed piece in the New York Times, ...

Then he proceeded to once again propagate the inaccuracies repeated like mantras by those opposed to the Nantucket Sound wind farm.

''The noise of the turbines will be audible onshore. A transformer substation would house...40,000 gallons of potentially hazardous oil...

The Humane Society estimates the whirling turbines could every year kill thousands of migrating songbirds and sea ducks.''

If RFK Jr. had taken the trouble to join me and others last year in Denmark... he would know that the ''noise'' of modern turbines can't be heard even at the base of the towers, much less ''onshore.''

The ''hazardous oil'' in the transformer is mineral oil.

Our mothers gave that to some of us as a laxative when we were kids.

If, by some astronomically impossible chance, a meteorite from outer space happens to penetrate the triple-hulled substation Cape Wind has proposed for Nantucket Sound, we might get a bunch of fish with diarrhea.

And, if RFK Jr. really cares about birds, let me set his mind at ease. The ''whirling turbines'' don't whirl; they rotate slowly and gracefully in the wind.

A week later, in an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe on Dec. 22, Senator Kennedy repeated the hoax that ''a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he went to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's 'Communist Manifesto'.''

Er'...'¦Senator, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote ''The Communist Manifesto.''

Mao's book is ''Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung.''

[Mo1]

They are Hypocrites

[george76]

Yes...Day and Night.

[TankerKC]

The ''hazardous oil'' in the transformer is mineral oil.

Mineral oil may be as hazardous as Dihydrogen Monoxide

[Man50D]

Kennedys must take a higher road
Ted Kennedy has taken the road so low he ended up going off the road and into the drink at Chappaquiddick. He's been there ever since.

[TankerKC]

The ''hazardous oil'' in the transformer is mineral oil.

Mineral oil may be as hazardous as Dihydrogen Monoxide

[george76]

[goodnesswins]

THEY think THEY are ROYALTY....and as such, not subject to the same rules as we "commoners."

[Howlin]

``Senator Kennedy repeated the hoax that ''a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he went to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's 'Communist Manifesto'.''
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he is obsessed with library books............wonder what he's been checking out

[RTINSC]

"But both Kennedys need to take a higher road, and be true to themselves, their families, and the American people, by just sticking to the facts"

They just need to get off the road..

[yldstrk]

These are folks who live easily with contradictions....heh...heh...

[Lady Jag]

Bad to the bone

[Mo1]

he is obsessed with library books............wonder what he's been checking out

Not sure .. but in the papers around my way, I keep hearing about all the preverts down loading porn

[Fintan]

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Kennedy Courage©...since 1861.

 

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Communist Goals 1963 Congressional Record

[Doogle]

Kennedys must take a higher road

..it's hard for snakes to fly

Doogle

[Xcoastie]

You couldn't be more correct...

Wind turbines kill as many birds as your home's sliding glass door. Probably less because the mere motion of the 12,000 lb blades is enough to deter the birds and slow enough not to endanger.

If you see wind turbines that spin quickly those are the much smaller, obsoleted units, that we would be well served to replace with the newer 1 megawatt or larger units. This would also result in a lot more power per sq area of wind farm with fewer units... or in Kennedy's lingo... a lot less endangered horizon imparing energy generation.

[Mad_as_heck]

It official. After today's fireworks at the Alito hearing I'm willing to say it out loud: I hate the entire Kennedy family.

Curse the day that Joe Senior crawled out of whatever gutter spawned him. That man and his useless offspring have done inestimable damage to this country and continue to do so.

[george76]

[headstamp]

Heck, if they go for these turbines off shore, maybe they can disguise the off shore oil rigs to look like them also.(grin)

These two jerks are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. Especially the younger joker that has absolutely no idea what he is talking about 99% of the time.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!