Comments on: The Not-So-Green Olympics http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:30:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bruce Padgett http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-86135 Bruce Padgett Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:06:07 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-86135 China'a Billionaires which for the most part are like the other Billionaires around the world should get together for a summit and actually change the "party", and the New World Order "Bush/Cheny" Cheny's been there since Nixon. As this planet get's hotter we have the technology for solar and alternative energy soucres. The other Bruce Padgett's never been to China and met the wonderful people of it's country who are still oppressed like the middle class of America. The leaders of the US, the Phillipines, Singapore and Europe, along with the billionaires can change this if they wanted to share some wealth and get rid of the greed. Absolute power absolutly corrupts. China’a Billionaires which for the most part are like the other Billionaires around the world should get together for a summit and actually change the “party”, and the New World Order “Bush/Cheny” Cheny’s been there since Nixon. As this planet get’s hotter we have the technology for solar and alternative energy soucres. The other Bruce Padgett’s never been to China and met the wonderful people of it’s country who are still oppressed like the middle class of America. The leaders of the US, the Phillipines, Singapore and Europe, along with the billionaires can change this if they wanted to share some wealth and get rid of the greed. Absolute power absolutly corrupts.

]]> By: Hell_Is_Like_Newark http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-81288 Hell_Is_Like_Newark Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:26:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-81288 My wife's company imports garments from China. Production has come to a halt due to the lack of electricity (all those coal burning plants being turned off). Production is now being shifted to Indonesia, India, Vietnam. Not sure if China will get the business back. Meanwhile, a lot of Chinese are out of work. I wonder how much the average Chinese citizen is paying to host this event? My wife’s company imports garments from China. Production has come to a halt due to the lack of electricity (all those coal burning plants being turned off). Production is now being shifted to Indonesia, India, Vietnam. Not sure if China will get the business back. Meanwhile, a lot of Chinese are out of work. I wonder how much the average Chinese citizen is paying to host this event?

]]> By: Zach http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-79512 Zach Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:36:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-79512 To answer the last question (and of the top of my head): banning DDT, smog-reducing summer blend gasoline in California that contaminates groundwater, banning forest management that allows for major wildfires rather than small controlled fires and cutting, mandating corn ethanol that encourages more land to be converted to agricultural land, etc, etc. Environmentalists don't seem to understand the law of unintended consequences. To answer the last question (and of the top of my head): banning DDT, smog-reducing summer blend gasoline in California that contaminates groundwater, banning forest management that allows for major wildfires rather than small controlled fires and cutting, mandating corn ethanol that encourages more land to be converted to agricultural land, etc, etc.
Environmentalists don’t seem to understand the law of unintended consequences.

]]> By: pch1013 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-78647 pch1013 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:48:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-78647 "<i>It wouldn’t be pajamas media without an uniformed shot at environmentalism.</i>" Or an anti-Muslim diatribe. I can't believe Roger actually green-lighted this piece (pun intended); Dee missed a golden opportunity to equate the green of noxious algae with the green of radical Islam. “It wouldn’t be pajamas media without an uniformed shot at environmentalism.”

Or an anti-Muslim diatribe. I can’t believe Roger actually green-lighted this piece (pun intended); Dee missed a golden opportunity to equate the green of noxious algae with the green of radical Islam.

]]> By: Bruce Padgett http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-78640 Bruce Padgett Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:29:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-78640 We're taking the Olympic "party" to a country who still uses imprisonment and firing squads for dissenters, has no regard for the world's future except for lining their pockets, and sucks the oil out of Africa while watching the locals butcher each other. So, do we patronize this farce by attending with Mr. Bush? We’re taking the Olympic “party” to a country who still uses imprisonment and firing squads for dissenters, has no regard for the world’s future except for lining their pockets, and sucks the oil out of Africa while watching the locals butcher each other.
So, do we patronize this farce by attending with Mr. Bush?

]]> By: kabud http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-78568 kabud Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:10:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-78568 Suzanne Pomeranz: west is scared, you and readers here may be not informed but believe me THE RULERS of this country knows but are hiding the truth from us: Asian communism has no remorse to kill all of us http://en.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-8/31055.html Suzanne Pomeranz:

west is scared, you and readers here may be not informed but believe me THE RULERS of this country knows but are hiding the truth from us:

Asian communism has no remorse to kill all of us

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-8/31055.html

]]> By: Boris http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-78547 Boris Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:10:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-78547 "But how many times, over and over, are we finding that these stupid, idiotic, painful, and expensive ideas that the greenie (greedy) environmentalists concoct and force us into actually do more harm to the environment than help it??" It wouldn't be pajamas media without an uniformed shot at environmentalism. “But how many times, over and over, are we finding that these stupid, idiotic, painful, and expensive ideas that the greenie (greedy) environmentalists concoct and force us into actually do more harm to the environment than help it??”

It wouldn’t be pajamas media without an uniformed shot at environmentalism.

]]> By: CaptDMO http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-78524 CaptDMO Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:08:37 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-78524 Trying to appear "green"? I think not. I suspect that hoards of international athletes crumbling to the ground as their bodies revolt from lack of oxygen as they try to compete at their highest level is to be avoided. I predict that the cold smoke stacks, restricted auto traffic, additional buses (from where?) at discounted rates, and currently locked-out factory worker <em>event supernumeraries</em> will all vaporize as fast as dukats, and closeting services, for the homeless after the Democratic Convention in Colorado, when all the private jets and "news" trucks move on to <em>greener</em> pastures. I could be wrong. Trying to appear “green”? I think not.
I suspect that hoards of international athletes
crumbling to the ground as their bodies revolt
from lack of oxygen as they try to compete at their highest level is to be avoided.

I predict that the cold smoke stacks, restricted auto traffic, additional buses (from where?) at discounted rates, and currently locked-out factory worker event supernumeraries will all vaporize as fast as dukats, and closeting services, for the homeless after the Democratic Convention in Colorado, when all the private jets and “news” trucks move on to greener pastures.
I could be wrong.

]]> By: Suzanne Pomeranz http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-78471 Suzanne Pomeranz Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:47:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-not-so-green-olympics/#comment-78471 It's, of course, way past time to cancel these Olympic Games and let China know that it was a HUGE mistake to even give it the possibility of hosting them. From human rights abuses which continue in the shadows of preparations to bad water to the earthquake(s) - which need the Chinese government attention much more than the Olympic games - to quick & possibly poor construction, etc. etc. etc. - China is NOT the right place for these games or any other such world event. suzanne It’s, of course, way past time to cancel these Olympic Games and let China know that it was a HUGE mistake to even give it the possibility of hosting them. From human rights abuses which continue in the shadows of preparations to bad water to the earthquake(s) – which need the Chinese government attention much more than the Olympic games – to quick & possibly poor construction, etc. etc. etc. – China is NOT the right place for these games or any other such world event.

suzanne

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