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From the The so stupid it burns files.

A town council in North Carolina rejected plans to rezone land for a solar farm after residents voiced fears it would cause cancer, stop plants from growing and suck up all the energy from the sun.

Two citizens reportedly made the allegations at a Woodland Town Council meeting in Northampton County, northeastern North Carolina, on Wednesday.

Bobby Mann said the farm would "suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland," the Roanoke-Chowan Herald-News reports.

Retired science teacher Jane Mann feared the proposed solar ranch could hinder photosynthesis -- the process of converting light energy from the sun into chemical energy for fuel -- in the area and stop plants from growing.

She added that no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sol ... 92150e5d66

These people are allowed to vote!

TrueTexan wrote:

Retired science teacher Jane Mann feared the proposed solar ranch could hinder photosynthesis -- the process of converting light energy from the sun into chemical energy for fuel -- in the area and stop plants from growing.

She added that no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sol ... 92150e5d66

These people are allowed to vote!

These people are apparently allowed to teach our children science.

Wow that is as bad as some of the folks I have heard complaining about how daylight savings is bad because the "extra" sun burns the paint off of their cars!

What kind of 'science' did this person teach!

WTF!!!

Bleeped.

CDFingers

All the science I need can be found in The Book

TrueTexan wrote:From the The so stupid it burns files.

A town council in North Carolina rejected plans to rezone land for a solar farm after residents voiced fears it would cause cancer, stop plants from growing and suck up all the energy from the sun.

Two citizens reportedly made the allegations at a Woodland Town Council meeting in Northampton County, northeastern North Carolina, on Wednesday.

Bobby Mann said the farm would "suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland," the Roanoke-Chowan Herald-News reports.

Retired science teacher Jane Mann feared the proposed solar ranch could hinder photosynthesis -- the process of converting light energy from the sun into chemical energy for fuel -- in the area and stop plants from growing.

She added that no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sol ... 92150e5d66

These people are allowed to vote!

OMG, if this was not real, it would be hilarious.

I immediately thought of this, from the "that's not how any of this works" files: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/201 ... ork/93506/

At least the science teacher was sort of right in that plants will have a hard time growing in the shade under the panels.

SmokeFan wrote:I immediately thought of this, from the "that's not how any of this works" files: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/201 ... ork/93506/

On her defense, she is a politician. They are not expected to know anything. The other was a "science teacher" she is suppose to have some kind of an education..


I do love Diana Degette's comment though.

"“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those know they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.”

Yeah, that'll work



The " What they meant to say " response is almost as good on dumb double down.


---DeGette’s spokeswoman Juliet Johnson issued a statement Wednesday, saying the congresswoman mispoke.

“The Congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault magazine ban for years, and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism,” Johnson said. ---


Funny, I reuse clips all the time for SKS, Mauser, M1, Springfield , etc...

She is right about you thing: You can't tell her otherwise. Next thing you will want to tell her is the sun doesn't move around the earth. Where did she teach science? There is a group-apparently a large group-of people with an alternate view of science. Noah refused dinosaurs passage, earth is only a few centuries old, if it's in the book it must be true.

To be fair, it seems only a few people got most of the attention. Others had concerns about property values being depressed by a large commercial eyesore, and others were concerned about financial things-costs to the town, where the profits were going, what was in it for them. Media may have concentrated on the unusual and humorous and overlooked the mundane everyday concerns of real people.

SmokeFan wrote:I immediately thought of this, from the "that's not how any of this works" files: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/201 ... ork/93506/

WTF?

The only thing I can think that would be comparable is if a Conservative proposed legislation on family planning that included a provision for tax credits for building accessible chimneys, because how else are the storks expected to deliver the babies?

senorgrand wrote:

SmokeFan wrote:I immediately thought of this, from the "that's not how any of this works" files: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/201 ... ork/93506/

WTF?

The only thing I can think that would be comparable is if a Conservative proposed legislation on family planning that included a provision for tax credits for building accessible chimneys, because how else are the storks expected to deliver the babies?

senorgrande wins two internets for that comment!

Your comment took the hurt right out of my brain which does not want to process the stupidity exposed in this thread.

dandad wrote:

SmokeFan wrote:I immediately thought of this, from the "that's not how any of this works" files: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/201 ... ork/93506/

On her defense, she is a politician. They are not expected to know anything. The other was a "science teacher" she is suppose to have some kind of an education..


I do love Diana Degette's comment though.

"“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those know they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.”

Yeah, that'll work



The " What they meant to say " response is almost as good on dumb double down.


---DeGette’s spokeswoman Juliet Johnson issued a statement Wednesday, saying the congresswoman mispoke.

“The Congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault magazine ban for years, and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism,” Johnson said. ---


Funny, I reuse clips all the time for SKS, Mauser, M1, Springfield , etc...

What do clips have to do with anything anyhow? They were always just a way to speed loading into magazines. Someone ought to take that poor woman to a range and show her at least which way you point a gun before she hurts herself...

Heh. Just had a vision of a 30 rnd clip..

Did anyone worry that Okinawa might capsize if too many Marines are on one side..?

rascally wrote:Did anyone worry that Okinawa might capsize if too many Marines are on one side..?

No, but Guam may sink since the DoD is going to build more military bases there. With Guam we don't have foreign governments to worry about, we own it.

If Guam goes underwater, we could probably build a base on the floating snake corpses...

TrueTexan wrote:From the The so stupid it burns files.

A town council in North Carolina rejected plans to rezone land for a solar farm after residents voiced fears it would cause cancer, stop plants from growing and suck up all the energy from the sun.

Two citizens reportedly made the allegations at a Woodland Town Council meeting in Northampton County, northeastern North Carolina, on Wednesday.

Bobby Mann said the farm would "suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland," the Roanoke-Chowan Herald-News reports.

Retired science teacher Jane Mann feared the proposed solar ranch could hinder photosynthesis -- the process of converting light energy from the sun into chemical energy for fuel -- in the area and stop plants from growing.

She added that no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sol ... 92150e5d66

These people are allowed to vote!

The words and phrases needed to describe what i just read, have yet to be invented, and i pray that they never are, so that i may retain what little sanity i have left.

Must check... Nope, not The Onion...

TheViking wrote:Must check... Nope, not The Onion...

It is getting harder to tell anymore if its parody or real. The lines are blurring.. and glasses wont help

dandad wrote:

TheViking wrote:Must check... Nope, not The Onion...

It is getting harder to tell anymore if its parody or real. The lines are blurring.. and glasses wont help

And that, my friend, is what Poe's Law is all about.

Wurble wrote:

dandad wrote:

TheViking wrote:Must check... Nope, not The Onion...

It is getting harder to tell anymore if its parody or real. The lines are blurring.. and glasses wont help

And that, my friend, is what Poe's Law is all about.

Maybe Edgar Allen Poe's law .. As its scary as hell.

But I would bet Parkinson has a law for this too. I'll have to dig up his book and take a gander.

Poe's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

"Without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extreme views will be mistaken by some readers for sincere expressions of the parodied views."

Or another way of saying it is that "Extremism is indistinguishable from parodies of extremism."

If these idgits are real they may be plants from Duke Power.


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Can't... Process... Fatal error: "Reasoning" executable not found... Stupid... is just too great.