Posted on 07/31/2011 4:19:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Bump
“Sorry if I bang on about wind farms”
Don’t apologize. Windmills are indeed emblematic of the dippy, insane dreams of the self-annointed world rulers. Windmills work against ecology by killing endangered bird species. Ecological worship is one of the tenets of the New World Order religion. Their idiocy works against their own idiocy!
Not so much anymore, James. Not so much anymore.
dont forget, he comes from the UK. Compared to them, we have a small government.
But he should wait til after the next election. If Obama get re-elected, he might want to pick a more stable country, like Brazil.
Nice article. One thing that stood out for me was his assertion that Britian’s newspapers are so much more readable than America’s. Sooo true. The worst thing about American media in general isn’t its left wing bias, bad as that is, but its overwhelming insipidness.
BTW, if you’re anywhere near London, you certainly miss out on the beauty of the English countryside. As a coworker said of visits to an English subcontractor, “It’s an entire country that looks like Sommerville.” Sommerville, Massachusetts, generally called Slummerville, was at one time the most densely populated city in the World, more densely populated than New York or Tokyo. And not in a good way.
...and yes, the camera does not do the scene justice.
I’ve had the good fortune to visit London and drive around the country. One visit was during the “Hoof and Mouth” cull and on Easter Sunday they were in the pews, praying.
placemarker
“I’ve been racking my brains to think what it is that we can still do in Britain which the Americans can’t do just as well or better, but it’s really very hard and the list is getting shorter by the day.”
Literature, drama, television; rugby, cricket, football (soccer), beer..
Don’t be too jealous of America’s greater personal and social freedoms; under the pressure exerted by socialists, one-worlders, big government types, tax and spenders, and a variety of environmental and personal control freaks and do-gooders, it may not be all you hope.
Not any longer.
A very funny statement, that unfortunately is way too close to being real here as well. These things are being subsidized everywhere in the US, along with solar panels that add nothing to our electric grid, nor save any fossil fuels.
I do hope James is right about us, that we have the ability to step back, have the ability to overcome the socialist nonsense that has taken us so far from our roots.
I love Delingpole.
They will never admit it but statists/environmentalists (possibly redundant) love wind farms precisely BECAUSE they blight the landscape. It’s the ultimate middle digit and symbol of control extended to those with the sense and/or ability to live outside liberal enclaves.
I had the “good fortune” of being locked up for about an hour in the British Museum’s gift shop because of a terrorist scare in 1991. I was getting paid and if you have to be locked up somewhere, the British Museum gift shop is a good place to do it. (I was getting paid because we were supposed to have a meeting with the U.S. Navy personnel and our British subcontractor and the Navy was AWOL, claiming they had unexpected delays. I went to the British Museum to kill time. Imagine my surprise, later that day, when I ran into our Navy contacts coming out of Harrods, ladened to the Primsol line. Luckily for them, that didn’t make it into my trip report.)
I have to admit, I did fully and totally love and enjoy London and England, but the countryside near London is not in the least attractive. (Greenwich is pretty.)
For all the good they do, they’re nothing but pinwheels.
Of the 13 shown, at least one and more likely 2 are inoperative.
In my study of wind mills on the west Texas hills like those shown, in Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho, for every count, between 10 and 15% were not functioning
Amen.
Anyone concerned with the dumbing down of America should start with its 5th-grade-reading-level newspapers. 'AP style' is an article of faith with even the most humble local rag despite its stilted, unchanging, uninteresting, unnatural meter to say nothing of the AP's genetic tendency to deliver opinion poorly disguised as fact.
Britain has no AP (although each paper or parent company may have a wire service) and thank God for that.
Makes me sick every time I get on Rt 50 and think “nice views from here...” suddenly the turbines appear - most of them moving very slowly or not at all. What a waste.
The ones pictured are north-west of Elkins.
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