That is an actual story in The Daily Telegraph.

You know, there was once a time when civilization was growing and invention and the human condition were leaping and jumping down the road of life like happy little kids.

Back before governments turned the generation of electricity into communal Public Utilities the private enterprises that created the industry were doing everything they could, in competition with each other, to invent better ways to generate electricity and deliver it. It was getting so inexpensive to generate electricity that one executive with Edison even thought they might have to start giving away free electricity to people and make all their money off of electrical appliances. That's what freedom in the market place does. There is constant innovation. But then governments turned the industry into a Public Utility and basically fossilized it. Because they said the industry was too important to be subject to the market place and it was wrong to make big profits off of it.

Without the profits, investment dried up. With profits dictated by government, or Utility Boards, there was no money to do anything other than maintain the kind of systems that were in place when the industry was made a Public Utility. The government did the same thing to the railroads in the early part of the 20th century, restricted their profits, and the railroad industry found itself without enough money to innovate or, in many cases, even to maintain it's rails and rolling stock.

The Progressives have ruined whole industries and made all of our lives poorer. They've been doing it for over a hundred years and it is time to call an end to their madness. Our world and our civilization is a mere shadow of the world we could have been living in had the Left not infested civilization. Our world is a stilted stunted thing because of them. They aren't just now destroying things, it's been going on for generations.

When I was a child my friends and I would look up at the stars and wonder how far we would go in our life times. We had no idea that we'd been born at the high-tide of civilization. Im not ready for these lousy power mad collectivist scumbags to turn off the power. They can go to hell.

You know what the most ironic part of that article was? This quote: "As a society, we all need to be clear about what we can and cannot afford." As if that ever stops a Progressive. The UK probably can't afford the wind farms it wants. It can't afford its healthcare. It probably can't afford half of the government programs it wants. And the same goes for us stuck in the USA.

Why don't we follow that guy's advice and reduce our government?

<THWACK!!!> <BANG!!!>

Ha! Finally got that filthy inner capitalist! I need to find a decent place in this brain to stuff and mount him as a warning against thoughtcrime.


Oh, and $.$. Halliburton, you are a racist. Details are forthcoming in the next New York Times.

My, aren't you a little ray of sunshine beaming through the holes you made in the ozone layer with your obscene oil refineries, and all that stuff made of oil that you sell to the masses to feed the addiction you keep them hooked on. What a shame you're too selfish to use your little ray to fire up a few solar panels that could save our planet; but no, you refuse to invest in them because you'd rather hoard our planet's most important resource of all (according to Michael Moore): YOUR money!

Considering your mood, this may not be a good time to point out that it's that time of year again. Earth Hour's a'comin'.

https://www.earthhour.org/

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Considering your mood, this may not be a good time to point out that it's that time of year again. Earth Hour's a'comin'.

https://www.earthhour.org/

Comrade Commissarka Most Wondrous Pinkie, I am thanking you for the glorious reminder.

Last year for "Earth Day" I was possessed by the evil spirit of Ronald Reagan and was forced against my will to fire up the outdoor barbecue, hop in an SUV, and drive around and around the neighborhood, cutting down trees all up and down the block with my trusty Stihl chainsaw, while a Close Personal Friend heaped mounds of innocent dead cow flesh on the BBQ and prepared our evening repast in my absence. And at Earth Hour - well, as you can imagine, things were pretty well lit up at my house, including yours truly. The wattage and the lumens thereof were spectacular.

This year, it will be different, I promise you - I have seen the error of my capitalist scourge of the Earth ways; I have witnessed - with my own no-longer-Reagan-possessed eyes - the egregious and possibly permanent damage we unbelievably selfish humans have done to our Mother, the Earth - and I have repented my evil ways.

This year - starting Next Tuesday - things will be different.

I shall plant a tree in your honor, Commissarka. Thank you. Thank you so very much.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:My, aren't you a little ray of sunshine beaming through the holes you made in the ozone layer with your obscene oil refineries, and all that stuff made of oil that you sell to the masses to feed the addiction you keep them hooked on. What a shame you're too selfish to use your little ray to fire up a few solar panels that could save our planet; but no, you refuse to invest in them because you'd rather hoard our planet's most important resource of all (according to Michael Moore): YOUR money!

Considering your mood, this may not be a good time to point out that it's that time of year again. Earth Hour's a'comin'.

https://www.earthhour.org/

Comrade commissar, is the Earth Hour kind of like "don't buy gas day"? When everyone participates, then uses more energy than they did during the time they weren't using it in order to catch up? This is such beautiful logic.

Racist, kapital junkie $$, you are denounced!! This is a glorious article, reminding us of the progress we have made in bringing the Kollektive further back to the Stone Age. We shall just have to make sure no so-called entrepreneurs find a way around the resulting lack of luminescence. Bloody geeks.

Yes, my dear Tsarevna, you have the right correctness of it. You turn off your lights for one hour on a Saturday night to call the world's attention to the little known, oft-ignored issue of climate change. We've been celebrating it every year here at the Cube:

https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/earth-hour-an-hour-of-north-korean-style-conservation-t1845.html


Now, science was not one of my better subjects in school, so any of you comrades please correct me if I'm wrong about anything here:

Electricity is powered by fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels, fostered by humans, are to blame for global warming because they spew out tons of carbon dioxide, making for less oxygen without which most life forms cannot survive.

We are encouraged to cut back on electricity and use candles instead.

For candles to work, you must light them with little flames of fire.

Fire requires oxygen, or it won't burn. The burning, in turn, releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

If they REALLY wanted to call the world's attention to the urgent issue of climate change, they'd do like Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still and turn EVERYTHING off at noon on a weekday, instead of just the lights at 8:30 pm on a Saturday night.

But as any good prog will tell you, just one person can make a difference simply by flipping a single light switch for an hour.

That's why they're still doing this three years later.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote: That's why they're still doing this three years later.

Except for AlGore, of course. And who can blame him? When your meager home is 9000 square feet, can you imagine how long it would take for the light to catch back up if you turned all the lights out for an hour?!? The power that would be consumed, the carbon dioxide that would be released, the dams that would have to be built and new windmill farms created, just so those billions and billions of lumens could catch up - within the mansion and on the driveway and trees, lit by floodlights - my good Pinkie, those poor little lumens would NEVER catch up.

Which is perfect example of why AlGore is leader in fight to save Mother Earth - progressive off-of-the-shovel thinking like his is sadly lacking in so many today. Thank Obama we have such a glorious example, shining in the darkness, as it were, to guide us this coming Earth Hour!

Gosh, when we get those "smart grids" that produce electric power only when they feel like it, won't that wreak a bit of havoc with the schedules on the brand-new super-duper hi-speed choo-choo trains we're gonna build?

I can see it now:

The Boston Glob (one day in the future) wrote: A three-hour hi-speed rail trip from North Boston to South Boston is now in its third day thanks to a slowdown in average wind speeds passing thru local windfarms and a Harvard-educated "smart grid" routing all remaining available electric power to keep the computerized Ted Kennedy robot exhibit at Hyannisport operating.

They may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston, they're the train that never returned.

Opiate, you have misunderstood the advertisements for the chop choo. It will indeed go very, very fast, but that doesn't mean it will go a long way at a time. People should be grateful for the hard work of labor building the train. Who cares if it still takes two days to get from Chicago to Seattle.

Царевна wrote:Who cares if it still takes two days to get from Chicago to Seattle.

Two days? You must be one of the Party Elite that gets to ride the express.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Yes, my dear Tsarevna, you have the right correctness of it. You turn off your lights for one hour on a Saturday night to call the world's attention to the little known, oft-ignored issue of climate change. We've been celebrating it every year here at the Cube:

https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/earth-hour-an-hour-of-north-korean-style-conservation-t1845.html


Now, science was not one of my better subjects in school, so any of you comrades please correct me if I'm wrong about anything here:

Electricity is powered by fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels, fostered by humans, are to blame for global warming because they spew out tons of carbon dioxide, making for less oxygen without which most life forms cannot survive.

We are encouraged to cut back on electricity and use candles instead.

For candles to work, you must light them with little flames of fire.

Fire requires oxygen, or it won't burn. The burning, in turn, releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

If they REALLY wanted to call the world's attention to the urgent issue of climate change, they'd do like Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still and turn EVERYTHING off at noon on a weekday, instead of just the lights at 8:30 pm on a Saturday night.

But as any good prog will tell you, just one person can make a difference simply by flipping a single light switch for an hour.

That's why they're still doing this three years later.

Glorious News Pinkie!

The candle problem is fixed! Create your own VIRTUAL lantern!

Yes!

You could even pick the shape of the lantern and the color of the flame on the candle!
Well, being the Made Prog™ that I am, I choose to kill two birds with one stone kill two infidels with one stoning and made mine with the crescent moon and a bright green flame to honor not only Earth Hour but The Religion of Peace too!

Of course this will require electricity to run your computer to do this....but our comrade engineers will have that problem fixed by Earth Hour (or they'll be shot).

https://www.earthhour.org/kids/MakeALantern.aspx

Opiate of the People wrote:

Царевна wrote:Who cares if it still takes two days to get from Chicago to Seattle.

Two days? You must be one of the Party Elite that gets to ride the express.

Once I'd shown myself to be a true party player, willing to denounce my family and provide free sex comfort and solace to the revolutionaries, they agreed to let me keep some of my princess privileges as well as my title.

The Virtual Lantern. That'll come in handy at night when I'm camped outside some government office so I can be first in line next morning to apply for one of Obama's Virtual Shovel-Ready Jobs, or to collect my Virtual Obama Money and get my Virtual Free Gas and Virtual Free Mortgage that he promised me.

Or how about we offer The Virtual Lantern as a free gift just for buying Carbon Credits?

How about Virtually Buying™ some Carbon Credits?

I just bought 10,000 shares with $£OPM™

I really wish I could comment in character on this, but I just can't. Energy rations shouldn't happen, not in the society we live in (yes, I know this is an article from England, but the same could be said of America in a few years).

I see a glimmer of hope with these new electorates at both state and federal levels in America, but either it will be stopped short because of differences in the Republican side (not necessarily RINOs) or the electorate will shift to the Left and they will at least undo the Right's progress.

I'd like to think if someone here in America made a comment like that they'd get laughed off the stage, but a) he'd be preaching to followers and b) I feel he'd be telling the truth.

Bankrupt the coal industry, then eliminate the gas industry, replace with unreliable stuff like wind and solar, and America will see energy rations (and even go so far as to see no energy one day).

As we say around here, they will no always be an England. I'd go so far as to ask, can the same be said of America?

If you need a virtual lantern for Earth Hour this year, or if you simply need virtual light while you wait in que for your free government virtual shovel free-ready stuff, you need to go to the People's App store and download the new virtual


Light The Way
Cube Lantern App

now Light The Way Cube Lantern app for the CubePhone, CubePad, and CubePod