The Isolated Blurt Thread XXIX: No Whining

[Aglaopheme]

Seriously, how do you leave your 15 month old twins in a hot car in GA in August?

That's horrid. I would have definitely called the authorities.

I leave no one or any pet in the car during the summer. Once the car stops and the AC is off, everyone gets out. My car has a dark interior and tons of windows, the temperature in there rises very quickly. I don't want anyone in there.

Minnesota is one state where you can legally bust out a car window if there's an animal left in a car.

 

[Noor]

That's horrid. I would have definitely called the authorities.



Minnesota is one state where you can legally bust out a car window if there's an animal left in a car.

or a person of any age.

 

[islandman]

Cold feet.

Will wake one up.

Faster than a smack to the balls.

At 12:20am, that's a fucking haiku.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Seriously, how do you leave your 15 month old twins in a hot car in GA in August?

Some people are just born stupid. How many news stories do we see locally every year about kids and pets in locked cars during the summer months? Do these people never read a newspaper or watch the news? Are they that ignorant of the dangers, the contempt society will rain down on them or the charges the police will levy?

Last week a couple left a kid in the car in Markham (Toronto burb) while they went into a Costco.

A long time ago there were only 3 TV channels available. With news at 6 and 11 that was two hours of prime time TV taken up by the news. Now we have so many channel choices you can easily watch something else besides the news.

We may have been actually more informed on certain local issues when we had less choices to watch.

 

[Bacigalupo]

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/mafo3kqcl7ibjvhlswoc.JPG

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Love it when basement-level basics I never hollered at before suddenly wanna get extra crispy three piece special with me but never stick around for the crunch.

http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6d1dfjjK71qcvaxho1_500.gif

 

[Conager]

That particular one has been picking mindless quarrels since 21 S J St, Cleveland, OH.

Lately criticizing every picture in all the picture threads.

I think I recognize the voice but the presentation is 180. Last time, they were a congenial, restrained in discourse man who came off as not, in my view, unmanly...just not riding that testosterone bull for the 8 second ride. She decloaked as CIS female, and I thought nothing different about my first impressions.

I could be wrong as wrong here, but if it's the same poster, it is some kind of misunderstanding about how men posture and square up, you know?

As you know I have no hate for exploration and self-discovery, but this effort, unlike (if true) the last one seems cringe-inducing try-hard.

 

[removed9556]

 

[Saint Peter]

The ants seem to be enjoying the Borax and powdered sugar snack I provided for them.

Eat up, bitches.

 

[removed9556]

 

[Saint Peter]

A day that will live in formic infamy. Never forget.

It is like giving the little fuckers herpes.


"Take this to the queen."

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[yossi]

The whole of the day off; I could lounge in bed for hours.

 

[yossi]

Or I could be productive, I suppose.

 

[yossi]

 

[trysail]

Section 526 – for a “Green National Defense”

August 4, 2016
by David Archibald

“Men” said Charles Mackay in 1841,”go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Recovering from groupthink is a slow process, as evinced by Section 311 of the National Defense Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2017 which was passed on 18th May, 2016.

Section 311 on page 139 simply says:

Rule of Construction Regarding Alternative Fuel Procurement Requirement

This section would amend section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–140) to clarify that this section shall not be construed as a constraint on any conventional or unconventional fuel procurement necessary for military operations.

The Section 526 referred to says:

“Prohibits a federal agency from entering into a contract for procurement of an alternative or synthetic fuel, including a fuel produced from nonconventional petroleum sources, for any mobility-related use (other than for research or testing), unless the contract specifies that the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and combustion of the fuel supplied under the contract must, on an ongoing basis, be less than or equal to such emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel produced from conventional petroleum sources."
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This section was included in the 2007 bill largely to thwart the Defense Department’s intentions to acquire coal-based jet fuels. So a bill with a title that suggests it is about promoting energy independence and security was doing the opposite of that. Section 526 was the work of Congressman Henry Waxman representing California’s 30th District. Wiser heads wanted to repeal Section 526 straight away via amendments to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Bill. That didn’t happen. Efforts to repeal were ongoing and the White House noted the totemic importance of Section 526 in 2011.

Back in 2011 the oil price might have been conducive to a synthetic-fuel-from-coal effort. A cheap start might have been to convert the Great Plains synthetic natural gas plant in North Dakota to making diesel and jet fuel. Instead that plant is now being converted to make 380,000 tpa of urea. Now a synthetic liquid fuels plant will have to be built from scratch with the big capital cost items being the liquid oxygen plant and the coal gasifiers.

Nevertheless, Section 526 has been repealed after eight years of trying. A couple of other attempts in the National Defense Authorisation Act of 2017 to undo the madness of prior years did not get up. Roll call vote no. 2 (page 644) would have:

“Description: Prohibits funds for executive order mandates from 2013 and 2015 related to green energy benchmarks, climate change boards, councils, and working groups and inclusion of climate change review throughout DOD operations, acquisition, logistics, and planning."
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That was lost 29 to 30. Roll call vote no 3 (page 646) would have:

“Description: Prohibits DOD from using FY17 funding for the construction or refurbishment of a biofuels facility, subject to a national security waiver."
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That was lost 29 to 32.


The good news is that attempts to undo the damage are ongoing. This is in an environment in which President Obama has directed that commanders of naval bases be rated upon how much they promote global warming in their commands. And there are also reversals in the march of progress. In Australia the government-funded CSIRO had fired 61 climate scientists because “the science was settled” and therefore there was no use for them. The recently re-elected government has ordered the CSIRO to rehire 15 of these witchdoctors. Geopolitical events might sweep all such nonsense away before the year is out.

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[phantom4533]

This a very ripe mango.

 

[yossi]

There's an iyengar workshop in September. I might just have to attend that one.

 

[Adjudicator]

Why do I bother? He or she or it is a thick twat.

 

[pete]

Or I could be productive, I suppose.

masturbation is very productive, some would say.

some = me.

i say.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

 

[Lorilei]

That's horrid. I would have definitely called the authorities.



Minnesota is one state where you can legally bust out a car window if there's an animal left in a car.

Oh, I definitely would have. Hell, I would do that for a dog. Unfortunately, the children died.

 

[Disgustipated]

Considering I can't stand Drake and dig me some Em.

Drake half-challenges Eminem to rap battle, internet fully reacts (27 Photos)

Poor Drake.

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/screen-shot-2016-08-04-at-11-57-06-am.png?w=600&h=486

 

[HarryHill]

Holy shit! no rain this am

 

[RobDownSouth]

There's an iyengar workshop in September. I might just have to attend that one.

RIP yossi's joints