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Prince of Wales says he has been abused for his green views
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| Feb. 4, 2010
| Louise Gray
Posted on 02/05/2010 10:47:18 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Doogle
Looks like it’s a little shallow at his end of the gene pool. Twit. Excuse me - royal twit.
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posted on
02/05/2010 10:59:59 AM PST
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: La Lydia
I agree with him on all the architecture stuff.
Turns out, it's an enormous solar oven. Without air conditioning, you could literally cook hot dogs in the place just by setting them on the window sills. So the entire building is air conditioned to the max 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.
In principle, I am in favor of "eco-friendly" architecture, but in actual practice, anything designed to make a politician feel good will probably have negative unexpected consequences.
The best arbiter of how "eco-friendly" something actually is, is cost. The less something costs, the less land, labor and capital it took to produce that thing. So you could create an "eco-friendly" building simply by asking for the one which would cost the least to build and maintain for 20 years, than you could with 10,000 pages of regulations about window panes and toilet seats and such.
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:00:57 AM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
To: La Lydia
I agree with him on all the architecture stuff.
In Phoenix, we have a courthouse that was built to be "Green". It is designed with lots of windows to let in the maximum amount of natural light, so that it uses fewer light bulbs.
Turns out, it's an enormous solar oven. Without air conditioning, you could literally cook hot dogs in the place just by setting them on the window sills. So the entire building is air conditioned to the max 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.
In principle, I am in favor of "eco-friendly" architecture, but in actual practice, anything designed to make a politician feel good will probably have negative unexpected consequences.
The best arbiter of how "eco-friendly" something actually is, is cost. The less something costs, the less land, labor and capital it took to produce that thing. So you could create an "eco-friendly" building simply by asking for the one which would cost the least to build and maintain for 20 years, than you could with 10,000 pages of regulations about window panes and toilet seats and such.
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:02:10 AM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
To: Free ThinkerNY
No Charlie, you have been abused because you could not keep “the Royal Scepter” in the “Royal Knickers”
To: Question Liberal Authority
He’s been getting an earful, has he?
To: Free ThinkerNY
Grab a tissue....pulllleeeeze.
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:09:44 AM PST
by
cranked
To: Question Liberal Authority
Referring to a proposed modern extension to the National Gallery: "What is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend." Prince Charles
"It would seem, however, that the emergent climate-change agenda seems to have offered licence to another generation of architects and designers bent on further divorcing us - through random and untested building shapes and types - from our deeply-rooted connection with Nature's ordering systems which remain true to the rule of climate and season." Prince Charles
"Why, I must ask, does being 'green' mean building with glass and steel and concrete and then adding wind turbines, solar panels, water heaters, glass atria - all the paraphernalia of a new "green building industry" - to offset buildings that are inefficient in the first place?" Prince Charles
"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that." Prince Charles
One of my favorite architecture quotes, but not Prince Charles: "In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture." Nancy Banks Smith
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:12:12 AM PST
by
La Lydia
To: Free ThinkerNY
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. - Proverbs 17:28
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:13:06 AM PST
by
Gideon7
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:22:09 AM PST
by
Harpo Speaks
(Honk! Honk! Honk! Either it's foggy out, or make that a dozen hard boiled eggs.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Chuck is an idiot. No wonder the Queen is trying to groom William as her successor.
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:26:11 AM PST
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: Gideon7
Royal blood lines have narrowed the gene pool for intelligence so much there weren’t any ‘smart DNA’ left for Chuck.
To: Free ThinkerNY
It’s funny the way inheritance sometimes works. Queen Elizabeth is an admirable woman. Intelligent, hard-working, sensible. Charles’s sons also seem to have their heads screwed on straight, so they evidently inherited some of their grandmother’s gifts of character.
As for Charles . . . .
Did he do LSD or something?
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:26:46 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Loved the picture of the Clown Prince.
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:31:28 AM PST
by
kiltie65
To: Free ThinkerNY
Oh pooor poor Prince! GEEZ, grow up dude. The first rule of public life is that if you put yourself out there and air your views someone is not going to like them. Two choices: get over it or shut up about your views.
To: Free ThinkerNY
You’re abused, Chuck, because millions of people recognize you as a clueless moonbat.
You married a woman you didn’t love (Diana), played with that young girl’s affection and used her as a baby factory and then tossed her aside after she gave you two sons, while you carried on with that creepy Camilla.
I’m surprised the British tolerated Chuck all these years.
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posted on
02/05/2010 11:57:16 AM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(The first American Revolution started in Massachusetts. So did the second one, on January 19, 2010!)
To: Mobties
the only thing more ludicrous than limousine liberal is a Gulfstream environmentalist Rich people like Prince Charles know that conservatives won't loot their stuff in anger and kill them in spite, it's the Democrat mob voters they need to appease and pay lip service to. And the rich like that Democrats are willing to don knee-pads and give homage to keep free trinkets coming.
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posted on
02/05/2010 12:07:27 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: Reeses
He is being treated as the foolish and pompous inbred twit that he is.
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posted on
02/05/2010 12:47:25 PM PST
by
dtrpscout
(A bad dog is better than most good people.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
While struggling by on the income from a BILLION DOLLAR estate one can just imagine how he suffers while living his sustainable, green, holistic, lifestyle.
Not a bit of it, Charles!
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posted on
02/05/2010 1:18:15 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I hope you don’t ride in limosines or fly on airplanes Chucky.
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posted on
02/05/2010 1:23:26 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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