Cat fight.
I know, I know. “It does no good to stand and yell “You’re stupid!” at the village idiot.” You aren’t helping the idiot, and you make yourself look silly, yelling and being useless.
See, Tam, at View from the Porch, decries Liberty Girl‘s post about “The Day The Earth Got Slightly Dizzy.” Tam, on “Just when you think you’ve heard the dumbest thing ever…“:
Folks, I think we’ve finally found people who are actually too dumb to qualify for a new career as Soylent Green.
The topic: Electricity generating windvane farms. Specifically – opponents. Liberty Girl is ridiculing health concerns, Tam is amazed at the lack of insight, lack of fact, and lack of knowledge in Liberty Girl’s passionate rebuttal of detractors of her, apparently beloved, windvane farms.
My own understanding is that, after federal subsidies for windvane generators run out – they barely pay for themselves, mostly. Like many enterprises, some few are cost effective most of the time.
Back to the flying fur. Read Liberty Girl’s piece, it looks almost reasonable, if snide, arrogant, and disrespectful of opposing opinions. I am sure you have seen similar pot shots taken in sound bites on the news, many times.
I am not a scientist. There are a few points that I disagree with Libery Girl about. About a comment of the wind vanes through the sun could cause seizures:
Oh. Mah. Gad.
First off, what kind of a moron is standing there watching turbine blades going around?? A work-shirking Class Two moron, that’s what kind.
I believe the condition is called “photo-triggered epileptic seizure”. Flashing lights, early video games first started identifying people that had been blissfully unaware they had epilepsy. Who knew. Remember those annoying blinking ads we used to see on so many sites? TV found they weren’t allowed to discount the photo-triggered seizure thing, and follow guidelines to avoid causing the seizures. So I think on this point, Libery Girl is not just insensitive, but quite firmly – wrong. Good call, Tam.
On Liberty Girl’s other pointed critique, the report she cites discusses sub-sonic sound effect on people. I had understood that subsonics triggered everything from feelings of terror and paranoia to panic attacks. Apparently Liberty Girl didn’t bother checking on this line of concern, either.
Yeah, not so much. Just a work-shirking moron of a doctor and his cohorts, all who appear to have waaay too much fucking Intertubes-surfing time. If I were the administration of that hospital, I’d be Asking Some Questions.
I am not sure why Liberty Girl was so troubled by the SunJournal article. The article lists some expressed concerns about a new project near Roxbury, ME, and how state and local authorities have responded so far.
Liberty Girl just looks so silly, standing there yelling “You’re stupid!”, not helping those she yells at and looking useless. I question her ability to identify the village idiot, too, but that is just me.
If you missed Tam’s reference to Soylent Green, this is the company / substance / food at the heart of the classic 1973 Charleton Heston movie – it is processed dead people (and some just considered “extra”).
The most effective discussions I have seen take each point, point by point and address them with merciless precision.
Yelling, screaming and generalities usually do just what you said – waste time and don’t change anyone’s opinion.
Loving Annie – Some days I notice the the yelling. Other times .. I wallow with the rest of ‘em.
Tam is colorful at times, clear and consistent with her views, and fun to read. Although, I hadn’t associated Green Energy with Soylent Green before.. lo!