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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The color of the paint on the neighbors' house is visually overpowering. We need to force them to change it. I don't like the color of their car, either. Those colors are lowering the value of my place. The color of paint is actually regulated in some HOAs and counties. One HOA that I know of does not allow white or other reflective paint jobs (only nature colors allowed--dark brown, for example).

[Little sarcasm and irony there.]

Are PV panels any prettier? Some people are off of the power grid and in windy places. Others are off of the power grid in sunny places. Some people have much wind and sun. Busybodies who claim to be environmentalists are trying to stop people in places off of the grid from generating their own power. The false enviornmentalist busybodies are doing so for the purpose of devaluing and buying the properties of others cheap to make way for their big developer friends.

If you want to regulate all of the scenery around you, buy property all the way to the horizon, IMO. If you don't own it, don't try to control it.


13 posted on 02/05/2007 2:40:01 AM PST by familyop
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To: familyop
If you want to regulate all of the scenery around you, buy property all the way to the horizon,

You got that right.

L

16 posted on 02/05/2007 2:50:38 AM PST by Lurker (Europeans killed 6 million Jews. As a reward they got 40 million Moslems. Karma's a bitch.)
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To: familyop
None of the "examples" you mention come even close to approximating the negative visual impact of wind farms. I've been to the area around Livermore and Altemont Pass in California where there are lots of (useless) windmills, and they are visually overpowering and just plain UGLY.

Build five nuke plants and have a better energy source. Wind farms are definitely "for the birds".

33 posted on 02/05/2007 4:08:04 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: familyop

If you want to regulate all of the scenery around you, buy property all the way to the horizon, IMO.

That's the American way.

Too bad this country is getting short on Americans.


47 posted on 02/05/2007 5:00:37 AM PST by sergeantdave (Consider that nearly half the people you pass on the street meet Lenin's definition of useful idiot)
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To: familyop
The color of the paint on the neighbors' house is visually overpowering...

Presumably you understand the difference between a 2-story house and a 400-foot windmill?

79 posted on 02/05/2007 7:00:10 AM PST by gogeo
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To: familyop

[If you want to regulate all of the scenery around you, buy property all the way to the horizon, IMO. If you don't own it, don't try to control it.]

Well said.


130 posted on 02/05/2007 10:09:29 AM PST by backbencher (Nancy Pelosi sends her regards to the non-voting "real conservatives".)
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To: familyop
If you want to regulate all of the scenery around you, buy property all the way to the horizon, IMO. If you don't own it, don't try to control it.

I wonder... do those who agree with both sentiments above - the general "buy it" one as well as the Bolded one - then apply it universally?

Do anti-abortion people agree with... If you don't own it, don't try to control it.?

Do those who applaud the govt's Forward Thinking in banning smoking in eateries agree with... If you don't own it, don't try to control it.?

Do those who cheered the liberation of Iraq agree with... If you don't own it, don't try to control it.?

While the rancher's story is designed to get a response, have you asked what the Details were? How big is his ranch, or the ranch that houses the windmills? How close to his fenceline - or living quarters - are these windmills? The answers that are needed before being able to make a more-informed decision on the validity of his complaint.

I post the above not to Troll but to simply make you wonder IF you - and You is the generic You - who agree with "If you don't own it, don't try to control it." apply it equally throughout your life or belief system, or only selectively.

138 posted on 02/05/2007 12:06:30 PM PST by Fluke Codewriter (Democracy is a mob-rules mentality, it's like 100 wolves and 1 sheep fighting over what's for dinner)
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