I Am Cornholio
April 25th, 2008
Comment by Swen Swenson on 3/31 @ 7:14 pm
Outstanding exposure. Is it a Photoshop, or was the Goracle really stupid enough to get himself shot in front end of an empty grocery store store ledge?
Comment by cynn on 3/31 @ 7:18 pm
What is your big ailment with Al Gore? He’s no direct menace to you; he is just racking to indicate extinct a legimate concern. Who cares who made it; it needs to be proactively turned to.
Comment by Dan Wilkie Collins on 3/31 @ 7:20 pm
cynn-
You do not truly say the stations at this site, do you?
Comment by McGehee on 3/31 @ 7:22 pm
Who cares who made it; it needs to be proactively turned to.
His proposed solutions only work if we made it. If we didn’t, it’s a stack of squandered clip and effort while solutions that could work get yelled down by the the likes of … Al Gore.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/31 @ 7:27 pm
Al Gore is honked in the caput.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/31 @ 7:27 pm
He made not get to be President and he mislaid his having it away mind.
Comment by Ardsgaine on 3/31 @ 7:31 pm
His proposed solutions only work if we made it. If we didn’t, it’s a deal of squandered clip and effort while solutions that could work get yelled down by the the likes ofs of … Al Gore.
It’s worsened than squandered clip and effort. Reduction CO2 emmissions by the pct they project will destruct our economic system.
Comment by joeschmo1of3 on 3/31 @ 7:33 pm
“Note to Teacher’s:”
Eh… teachers’ enchiridions should be literal free. Unless they’re victimisation “consensus spelling out” in add to “consensus scientific discipline.”
Comment by The Saneness Examiner on 3/31 @ 7:39 pm
cynn,
The variable quantities under dispute are that worldwide warming up is a)existent, b)turning, c)adult male-got, and d)a threat.
Comment by cynn on 3/31 @ 7:43 pm
No need to be so feisty; concord or differ: we need to trim down our energy ingestion? You can tranquillize believe Al Gore is an instrument.
Comment by N. O’Brain on 3/31 @ 7:46 pm
“Comment by datadave on 3/31 @ 7:43 pm #
And the Position Quo is not a resolution either.”
When was the lst time you saw “the Position Quo” in a capitalist economic system?
Stasisism is a socialist ideal.
Comment by McGehee on 3/31 @ 7:48 pm
concur or dissent: we need to cut our energy ingestion?
Is that what you conceive Gore is about? Reduction energy intake? What is he expression that makes you believe that?
This is not a rhetorical interrogation, former than that by respondent it you would open treatment of the very issue you’re having trouble with us about.
Comment by Overcharge Thomas Crawford on 3/31 @ 7:49 pm
Which is wherefore “clime change” acquires them all in an garboil.
Comment by MCPO Airdale on 3/31 @ 7:50 pm
Hey, I saw they need some assist up in Pine Tree State to unclutter the 100s of column inchs of accrued adult male-got planetary warming up.
cynn is proofread that P.T. Barnum was right!
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/31 @ 7:53 pm
cynn, that’s a stupid gambit, even for you.
Comment by Gazump Thomas Crawford on 3/31 @ 7:56 pm
Change what? So far what I’ve learnt from the citizenry disquieted about “clime change” are the like “changes” they precious when they idea we were headed for an Ice Age, when they idea we were locomoting to take to the woods extinct of nutrient, and when of all time anything takes place. They call for more limitations on what we can do, more control all over our lives, more “sacrifice” that, curiously, goes away them exempt from any sacrifice.
How plenty of place makes Al Gore own? How much powerfulness makes it use up to turn tail them? How much carbon makes he ptyalize into the atmosphere squirting about to say us all to inhabit more simple lives?
As Glenn Sir Joshua Reynolds states, I’ll consider it’s a job when its advocates start moving like it’s a job.
Comment by cynn on 3/31 @ 7:58 pm
Are you guys truly that satisfied? I do not mean dwelling living in a nebulose province of anxiousness. I mean taking what happebs.
Comment by Pluck Thomas Crawford on 3/31 @ 8:02 pm
Stasism is an inane conception. The clime will change. The interrogation is, how well equipt are we?
Pretty beshrewed well, from the facial expressions of it. The clime changes from the late 1700s until nowadays were bigger than they’re prognosticating for the next 100 or so.
In person, I’m astonished anyone purchases into the titles - thing like “if temperatures rise 3 levels, the arctic will melt down!” You cognize how eaten the arctic is? Do you conceive 3 miserable levels will be enough to force it past 0 C?
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Comment by McGehee on 3/31 @ 8:06 pm
Since you made not answer my question, I refuse you the right to see what I told as an answer to yours.
Comment by cynn on 3/31 @ 8:09 pm
Good, I guess it is a toned-level exigency with me. Kindred, but not exactly like Kunstler’s tenacious exigency. Panic is not an alternative, because we have no alternative. Al Gore means well, but he’s grandstanding. Maggie, hope you have a full liferaft. I was adrift Y2K off as the bloviated puffings of bomber-standard tekkis.
I will hold optimism, but on a very little tether.
Comment by serr8d on 3/31 @ 8:12 pm
Cynn, there’s plenty of clip for change. If you cease seeming only at your (our) own pathetically short living cycles, and essay to realize a more larger image, you’ll agnize that cycles fall out.
When the last major warming up cycle used up place (70 level seas in the artic) it occupied the Earth 200,000 months to settle down down. Back to more normal, periodical water ice ages
Simply hang up on, there will be change. If you want to do something, okay, only do not help Al Gore wreck the best economic system on the major planet because he wants to enrich his own pocketses.
Comment by N. O’Brain on 3/31 @ 8:16 pm
Oh, I buried.
“Stasism is an mindless construct.”
Then wherefore is it the footing of all reactionary leftist “idea”?
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/31 @ 8:17 pm
yea, state it to the dinosaurs.
(RTO’s watchin’ Taking the air with Dinosaurs I guess some small male childs never truly turn up.)
Comment by Rick Ballard on 3/31 @ 8:18 pm
“The interrogation is, how well equipt are we?”
Likenned to homophile erectus, pretty well. Like for the Neandertals - they merely made not care change very well at all. Belike not as full as the roach and sure not as full as blue. I do not genuinely have any desire to trade power to support with alga though. Appears like a spot to a fault big a craft off.
Maked you cognize that human race really live at the equator, where it acquires like genuinely raging for retentive period of times? Not simply that, they even live up in the arctic circle where it’s been cognized to get instead eaten.
It’s nigh as if human race were sort of open of version.
Comment by N. O’Brain on 3/31 @ 8:20 pm
“Comment by Rick Ballard on 3/31 @ 8:18 pm #
“The query is, how well equipt are we?”
It’s nigh as if human race were sort of open of version.”
Holy fuck!
Who cognized?
Comment by j.pickens on 3/31 @ 8:21 pm
Looks like that whole Ethyl alcohol from Corn matter is not just doing work extinct how the libs aforethought. Appears that without the direct subsidies, and the high price of corn, its a spot of a balls.
Attempt this Google for merriment:
“closing down ethanol plants”
Here’s a few statute title that go forth:
From March, 2008 Fermentation alcohol Manufacturer Mag:
Pulling off Through Tough Multiplication in Grain alcohol Product
By Lord Todd Joseph Deems Taylor and Ryan Irish potato
It’s no secret: high corn and energy prices conjugate with toned ethanol prices are squeeze ethanol plant’s perimeters and devising it hard to not only get a profits and give div…
Or, from the Grand Forks Herald, October. 2007:
GRAFTON, N.D. - The Alchem ethanol plant here is shutting, at least temporarily.
The industrial plant, that has 40 employees and has runned for 25 months; will debar trading operations indefinitely.
Harold Paul Leonard Newman, Chief Executive of Alchem, emphasised in an inclined argument that the high cost of corn and the toned gross sales price of ethanol are the grounds for the closing. Paul Newman supplied that he expects a turnaround time in the ethanol manufacture
Comment by Thor on 3/31 @ 8:28 pm
Comment by cynn on 3/31 @ 7:50 pm #
You guys must not have pulled the leg of; parents lean to seem toward the future.
Yes, Malthusian fears of the Four Horseback rider of the Book of Revelation do it for me to a fault. Off to micro some Zea mays everta and re-watch Soylent Green.
Comment by cynn on 3/31 @ 8:38 pm
Thor: All is for the best in this best of all possible universes
full lot with your clime change, bey0tz.
Comment by Darleen on 3/31 @ 9:01 pm
cynn
Al Gore means well
When you recognise that No he makes not you’ll be half fashion to see what is moving on.
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Comment by Japanese radish on 3/31 @ 9:17 pm
Liferaft? I’m pretty certain I can take the air quicker than the centimetres per twelvemonth the shorelines are ever.
Comment by Darleen on 3/31 @ 9:18 pm
cynn
if he really consider in the surround wherefore makes he himself not live the life? I have an outstanding business deal of regard for citizenry who really walk the walking.
And wherefore is not Gore in the head of nerve to force atomic energy?
No, cynn. Gore is not about the environs at all. It is an means to an end. And it concerns his being foiled at acquiring powerfulness through the Administration.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 3/31 @ 9:39 pm
Both the corn and the refined sugar lobbies suck in. Unitedly, their suckitude manifolds, alternatively of only appending.
We could be planting sugar Beta vulgaris-a Very much simpler crop to turn-for ethanol. Most of the Beta vulgaris gets fuel, sugar to ethanol. That’s dissimilar corn, that turns this big blaring stalk and goes forth and a hazelnut-all waste-to bring forth meats of for the most part starch. Which has to be again to saccharify earlier being again to ethanol. So, simple determination, right? Turn Beta vulgaris for fuel!
But NOOOOOOOO. The refined sugar lobby wo not have it. They curb sugar product so that sugar is mode more expensive here than elsewhere on the major planet. So much for North American Free Trade Agreement, etc. And the corn lobby wo not have it, because they would instead hold turning their plant food-acute, energy-suction skinned crop than do the at-least-semifinal-market-based affair and merely freakin’ switch to something that really can be put as fuel. So we end up with “high-fruit sugar corn sirup” alternatively of existent refined sugar in everything, we get ethanol by a method acting that would do Hick Reuben Lucius Goldberg lofty, and we waste energy making it.
Brain.
Comment by JD TWP on 3/31 @ 9:42 pm
Al Gore is an unforutate fake becasue he is an incontrovertible prevaricator. As is Hillary Hilary Clinton. As is Obama Huseien Obaba. That’s what we’re down to.
Cynn - For the Goed away, that sums it up pretty nicely.
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/31 @ 9:50 pm
We could be planting sugar common beets-a A great deal simpler crop to turn
demur for the paranoia matter.
Comment by B Moe on 3/31 @ 10:13 pm
We do not get energy from corn, sugar common beets, or any former works beginning. That energy comes up from the Sun, the industrial plants only store it. When you look at a battleground of corn, envisage it as a field of battle of solar aggregators bearing down small electric batteries all over the summertime for us to apply during the twelvemonth and it will afford you a more naturalistic ikon of how much powerfulness we can anticipate optimistically.
There is a finite, calculable amount of money of energy in any root, a gal of H2O dropping one foot has a set amount of money of energy, as makes a square foot of sun, a five international mile per 60 minutes wind, etc. No amount of engineering or magic can excede that, and until AlGore and his adherents start turning to this fact I will proceed to see them mountebanks and the modern equivalent of alchemists nerve to change state lead into gold. 500 months ago we would have burnt down the boy of a cunt at the interest.
Comment by McGehee on 3/31 @ 10:29 pm
I am ill to decease of “for the environs” messages.
Ditto. They’re merely like the “for the nestlings” supplications, minus the existent, like, compassionateness for bloke human existences.
Comment by Lee on 3/31 @ 10:35 pm
Precisely.
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/31 @ 10:36 pm
I dunno, I cited to RTO earliest that I’d noticed yesterday’s Wal-Market ad in the report was all for earth friendly “green” stuff. it’s ovah.
Comment by Spike Lee on 3/31 @ 10:48 pm
They’re only like the “for the tiddlers” supplications, minus the existent, like, compassionateness for gent human beingness.
“For the surround” is cared the opposite; condemnatory blighter human beings. Thus advancing their superior painstakingness.
Comment by ccoffer on 3/31 @ 11:10 pm
Do any of youse wise-common people cognize where I could look to chance just how plenty of famishing (distinctive)brown fries could be Federal by the sum of corn requisite to get the 2gallons of ethanol fashioning up 10 percentage(mayhap) of the gaseous state in the armoured combat vehicle of my machine that acquires 24 statute miles to the gal?
I drive about 2600 land miles every days. Thats a shitload of corn.
How a lot of bushels get a gal of ethanol?
Comment by Big Bang Huntsman (pumping you up) on 3/31 @ 11:30 pm
Current convertion efficiencies, letting in all factors in cluding the entire ontogenesis/plant food/harvest home/plant step ECT., is close to 2.7 gallons per bushel. the total cost per gal would have to be increased by all the statistical distribution and manipulation/entrepot/deprivation/profit cost as well.
Lets append that, tell 25%, therby reduction the field of honor to tank gallons per bushel to 2.7-0.675=2.025 gal/bushel.
So more or less 2 gallons per bushel.
Thus you average motorring distance of 2600 land miles/days at an average mpg of 24 = 108.3 gallons of fuel/days or about 216 bushels of corn.
Yeh….that would give a spate of shavers, regardless of their skin color. conceive about it more in footing of the total land miles goaded by all the automobiles in the US per days, and you start to get the thought of only how criminal GoreDorks scam truly is.
Comment by Big Bang Huntsman (pumping you up) on 3/31 @ 11:43 pm
Bad….get that 54 bushels, not 108. but its genuinely Brobdingnagian anyways.
I’ll cut through all the maths. In 2006 American put 3700 gallons of petrol per sec. At around 1 gal of gaseous state per 2 gallons of oil colour, that means we were victimization 7400 gallons of oil colour, or just about 176 barrel per sec. Multiply those figures for but a hour interval, and you set out to get the existent order of magnitude of the “energy”rproblem we have.
Clue- thats all over 320 000 000 gallons of gaseous state a four hour period.
Comment by Big Bang Huntsman (pumping you up) on 4/1 @ 12:25 am
Current estimates for switch grass yields are close to 320 gallons of ethanol per Acre per twelvemonth.
With a 000 000 land we could theoretically “turn” in one twelvemonth about the amount of money we required per four hour period back in 2006. I do not cognize the current figures for megs of fecund land in the US, assumptive but fillet all nutrient product altogether would even net enough acerage, but only off manus the Book of Numbers do not look promissing.
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