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[Galen]

(09-10-2016, 03:00 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote:

(09-10-2016, 02:26 AM)Galen Wrote: In the case of the bicyclists they seem to think that they are saving the planet and never stop telling you about it. I have been threatened with every possible end of the world scenario and none of them have been even remotely true. 

They ARE true. If we don't stop using fossil fuels, we literally are toast.

The Earth's temperature has varied by far more than the global warming people are whining about long before man ever showed up on the scene.  In the seventies no doubt you were whining about the impending ice age that everyone was predicting that strangely never happened.


 
The funny thing about this graph is that the phrase global warming was replaced with climate change.  The policy prescription is always the same no matter what is used to make people panic: tax and regulate the shit out everyone.  

(09-10-2016, 03:00 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote:

(09-10-2016, 02:26 AM)Galen Wrote: The other thing bicyclists do is ignore traffic laws.  It wouldn't be so bad except they like getting out in the middle of the road and obstructing traffic.  They got the previous Mayor to ignore road maintenance in favor of building bike paths.  During Monsoon season many drivers like to see if they can drown cyclists by driving fast through puddles to thank them for all they have done.

Then THEY are the mean idiots. I hear that your fellow conservatives down south hate bicyclists and chase them down and attack them. And if we had more bike paths, they would get in drivers' way less often. It's a great investment.

You are an idiot if you think that pushing people around isn't going to generate this kind of response.  Add some economic stress and it gets even worse.  I have known quite a few southerners, nice people in general until you start fucking with them.  I don't recommend you going there because they will not react well to your smug self-righteous attitude.

I don't agree with them in many respects but they aren't a problem because I don't do things to them for their own good and I don't treat them like idiots the way you would.  Funny how easy it is to get along with people who mind their own business.

(09-10-2016, 03:00 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote:

(09-10-2016, 02:26 AM)Galen Wrote: The vegans also go on about saving the planet and how cruelty free they are.  As a consequence they are even more smug about it.  The Seventh Day Adventists do vegetarianism right but they have been at it since at since the mid-nineteenth century.  Many of the vegans look very unhealthy because they don't know what they are doing. 

Bike riders here in the capitol of Silicon Valley almost never get in the middle of the road and obstruct traffic. Drivers are polite to them too. On the other hand, we have some streets in which bikes are allowed and encouraged to ride in the middle of the road. You wouldn't like that! Fortunately it doesn't happen too often; I still ride on the side on those streets. Not that trusting. You never know, a Galen might be driving behind me. Just kidding, I'm not attributing that to you. I hope I'm right.

I haven't ran over any cyclists nor do I try to. On the other hand the cyclists don't seem to understand physics.

(09-10-2016, 03:00 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: I think vegans should brag about how healthy and cruelty free they are. I suppose they can do that without insulting non-vegans, even if some don't. Vegan has much to recommend it, although lots of folks can't or won't join them. Including me, so far. They may not do it "right," but at least they are making the attempt. But I don't live in the People's City of Portland. But I hear it's perhaps the most livable city in the country; probably rivalled only by Seattle. Having lots of vegans and bike riders around just might be a sign that this is true. People like that and similar folks care about the things that make a city livable, too. It just goes with the territory. People who care about health, and the health of the planet, care about making a city livable too, and they do it!

The militant vegans have problems with Christianity as so many on the left do and so will not take advice from the Adventists. Which is why so many of them fuck up their health in the way the Seventh Day Adventists don't. Seattle is crowded and expensive, approaching San Franciso and Los Angles levels. The Tri-County area is rapidly heading that way for much the same reasons with the added attraction of the Urban Growth Boundary. It really isn't all its cracked up to be except the crime rates are relatively low because of the concealed weapon permit holders. The muggers and car jackers hae a pretty hard time of it these days.