UPDATED: Napoleon’s Children Attack Natural Gas Bonanza
There are some interesting parallels between a TV episode of Bonanza and many natural gas opponents. The latter often represent superb examples of “Napoleon’s Children,” a group of spoiled youths with no cause other than self-glorification and no commitment to anything but outlandish behavior that costs them nothing.
UPDATE: Right on cue, Chip Northrup included this appeal for “prank assassinations,” as Earth First describes them, on his Shaleshock Media blog post:
Promised Land has been screened to a friendly audience of fractavists, some of whom were apparently disappointed that Mr. Damon did not undergo a transformation on the road to Damascus “turn Bourne” and take out a few of his former fellow frackers with some anti-fracking polemics, if not a sniper rifle. Sort of like Josh Fox with an AK-47 instead of a banjo. Apparently no such luck.
Read on to see what I mean.
Relaxing during the holidays, I turned on the television to see if something might be worth watching. One of those upper channels was playing old Bonanza shows so I tuned in to watch a 1967 episode entitled “Napoleon’s Children.” Like most of those programs, it was a simple story with a moral theme. Ben, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright saved the day, yet again, by bringing to bear a combination of common sense and good will to expose the real character of a self-important gang leader who had targeted Ponderosa and Virginia City.
A little later I was perusing some of my favorite blogs and came across this story about the activities of Earth First, the extremist group that sets itself above the law in defense of what it perceives are threats to the environment. It turns out some of the kids at Earth First have set out on a campaign of “prank assassinations” to let certain people know “they are vulnerable, and well hated—even that we wish they were dead.” They provide the names, addresses and phone numbers of the assassination targets, the top ranked target on the hit list being Chesapeake Energy’s CEO, Aubrey McClendon.
Reading the antics of Earth First and, in particular, the childish language employed by its adherents, it all became crystal clear; many of the natural gas opponents we deal with every day are modern day versions of “Napoleon’s Children.”
Here’s the basic plot of “Napoleon’s Children” as described on Fandango:
Virginia City finds itself under siege from a group of highly organized juvenile delinquents, all guided by a disturbed young man who calls himself Napoleon. Raised by his dissolute uncle, a professor with a drinking problem, the boy knows his history well, and plans to terrorize the countryside in the course of making himself master of his “army” of delinquent teens. Standing in his way are the Cartwrights, who keep interfering with his plans — and caught between the two sides is Donny, a fatherless teenager, friend of Ben Cartwright, and one of Napoleon’s new recruits, who is tired of being treated like a boy by his mother but who also doesn’t want to see anyone hurt.
This description leaves outs two important parts of the story, though, including the motivation of the Napolean character and the nature of his demise as leader of the band of delinquents. The motivation was simple. There was no real cause other than the personal aggrandizement of the kid who called himself “Napoleon.” The mission was but a facade for the ambition of the leader, who longed for the glory of another. The demise is captured in this ending, schmaltzy to be sure, but still instructional:
“Napoleon” was exposed in the end as a coward; one who talked sacrifice and claimed a willingness to die for his cause but who, when put to the test, didn’t dare make a move for the gun. Neither he nor his followers had anything in the game but their egos and they collapsed like a sand castle when the tide changed.
The parallels with Earth First, and so many of the natural gas opponents we write about, are striking. Read the Earth First description of their “prank assassination” initiative. Their loose talk turns out to be nothing but some grandiose prattle about how they imagine themselves, as warriors in some galactic battle for control of the universe. When we get to the bottom of things, however, we see they think glory can be had for the price of daring to engage in acts such as these:
These could range from the classics, like flaming-####-on-the doorstep or a strategically placed dollar bill covered in #### on the facedown side, to the new fangled hacker-style #### all up in their internet profiles, and a million things in between… (of course, the more feces the more better.. just remember security culture, and use non-identifiable ####.)
The Earth First knockoffs of “Napoleon’s Children” apparently think martyrdom is achieved by wiping their behinds with dollar bills and leaving them for others to pick up. Yeah, that’ll get them into the history books. It’s the kind of commitment one expects from a bunch with nothing at stake – the sort of folks who on depend on their parents or their trust funds for income or the kind who are otherwise freed from responsibility by the nature of their employment in careers where they can’t be fired.
We see the same sort of braggadocio from others, some of whom are even regular readers of this blog. Here’s a sampling of writings we’ve seen over the last year from the other side. Take my word for it, because I’m not going to give them the publicity they crave by identifying their names. Some will recognize their words, no doubt, and seek to identify themselves, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.
“2013 will see resistance to this atrocity that will make 2012 look tame.”
“In the shadow of the gallows
We have sworn a solemn vow,
That soon Thomas and his henchmen
Will lie still beneath the plow.”“Since we last met on this day in 2007, the lust for money at the expense of the innocent has risen anew in the hills and valleys of Pennsylvania. And our government has once again accepted money to look the other way. Power is fleeting. So is life. When the new day of reckoning arrives, it is our hands that will be on the lever.”
“Cuomo will not issue one permit. Unless he wants a civil war. The Elders have been meeting. We are all preparing.”
“If you think you’re going to drill, you’re going to have to hang me.“
“You’ll know who I am when you’re meant to know who I am .. and don’t worry, you WILL know who I am when it’s your time.”
“The only answer to this GREED will eventually be ‘Domestic Terrorism’ against the actual sites.”
“Lawyers will probably come to represent people who have been charged with vandalizing property or trespassing if they’re on property trying to monitor gas drilling activity. There are all sorts of ways lawyers will be useful, but they’re tools…[and the] muscle of activists is necessary to drive those tools.”
“Go burn their trucks at night. I’m done with this [expletive deleted].”
“Or some anti-natural gas industry activists, frustrated with the federal government disenfranchising them from the process, may decide to embrace various forms of direct action to stop natural gas development.“
“This course will study instances of such violence, and explore why violence has been seen as an acceptable or sometimes the only way to achieve a desirable end.”
Interestingly, two of these statements were from lawyers, which raises a host of additional issues, but we’ll save those for another day. The key point is simply this; such babble bears a striking resemblance to that of a silly character from a Bonanza episode of 45 years ago. The individuals involved, despite their varying ages, would have been good candidates to audition as “Napoleon’s Children.” They’re a group of individuals with no real stake in the matter; whose incomes are derived from sources that aren’t threatened by much of anything they do; and who seek attention for being outlandish as a substitute for being brave or actually giving up anything for their cause. They are absolutely convinced of their superior intellects and morals, and intolerant of any opinions but their own. They are, in a word, spoiled – spoiled children, “Napoleon’s Children.”
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Now who’s using “fear tactics” and quoting without any references those who want to use violence to stop the pollution of their land and lives. NYers have a strong base of resisters and opposition to this dirty gas fuel and they are landowners, working class, business people besides those with extra money and influence.
I consider NY the Capital of the World and there are too many people opposing this polluting gas industry and will not let them in.
Gov. Cuomo knows he will be committing political suicide if he opens the borders.
The Gas Industry will not be let in. Too much is known now about the problems and contamination by the industry and more keeps coming out.
Vera,
You’re just angry I quoted all your friends and not you, aren’t you?
No one I know or deal with is advocating violence and you are spreading false innuendos to bolster your fear tactics since you are in desperate straits waiting over four years to allow gas drilling and all your information has not melted the borders.
Indeed, they are. Some of your close friends are quoted.
This is right out of the anti handbook
Paragraph 2.3: Turn it around onto them when they uncover what were about. Lies work on the ignorant so LIE LIE LIE….
Hey “Vacuous Vera”……just what is a “false innuendo?”
Vera
Just what exactly do you cook …heat your home and use to travel with? I dont imagine you have a totally green home course I could be wrong. And…I’ll bet if you had minreal rites on a few hundred acres you would be singing a different tune :-)
I denounce any and all violence in our Resistance. It is not necessary or needed. Ghandhi brought England to its knees without violence.
This industry will come down by truth and non-violent resistence . The truth will reveal this dirty industry and bring it down. It’s just a matter of time, short time…
Well, start telling the truth on Franklin Forks and Dimock.
.Spot on Tom……
I was at a anti civil disobedient training session in which the young speakers were advising the anti leadership to rally old women and men to chain themselves to gates and equipment because by doing this they said” authority is less apt to act on it’s elders. and if they do it’s great press for our cause” Seems to me like they are already sacrificing their old to save there own skin. I hope if a drill access road goes on my property these anti’s show up to protest. I have a non violent plan to disperse them should they that includes pig manure and cattle guts
Sounds like a good anti event for me to make it a point to attend. Those of us who have actually done plenty of handling, unlike you, of pig manure and cattle guts, won’t be deterred nor dispersed an iota thereby.
Dear Facebook friends and fellow anti-fracking activists:
Today is a special day.
The folks at Energy in Depth (Marcellus) have made a decision for me. They have banned me from posting on their Facebook page. This is not because I have threatened anyone (this is something I have never done and would unequivocally never do). This is not because I have been mean to anyone. It’s not because I smell (I might very well smell–but you can’t tell from such a distance).
It’s because the propaganda drones at EID are cowardly. I was getting real and disturbing traction on their FB page. Folks were posting me to ask questions about fracking. Some folks were turning on EID. Some of their supporters were rethinking their pro-frackism.
EID cannot abide that. They’re a propaganda machine devoted to an entire campaign built on deception, exaggeration, fabrications, distortion, and omissions. I had become an unremitting stinging gadfly on their fracking billboard.
I want their motives to be plainly clear: such a strategy of control is dictatorial. In the truest, most uncluttered sense of that term, their refusal to brook ANY criticism, ANY unsupportive fact, ANY argument which did not conform to their profiteering worldview epitomizes not strength but fear–terror, even. EID is terrified of the possibility that people might really begin to review their decisions to lease their land in light of the facts about contaminated water, air, and soil, about gross social injustice meted out by the corporations, about obscene profits at the expense of the public health.
As Dory Hippauf rightly puts it, EID is a PR firm. Indeed, but they are more. EID is a hit squad devoted to stamping out opposition, and in that they are not merely a PR firm, their attack drones are fracking-foldiers–snipers–dispatched to cauterize the enemy. And the enemy is anyone who gets in the way of the land grab that IS the fracking boom.
Perhaps they think that by burying their collective head in the sand about one of their opponents, that she’ll be silenced. This is not only wrong–it’s asinine. Now EID just won’t know what I’m up to–but I, like so many of us in this movement–will keep working to gain the attention to the issues from rational folks. And the EID folks will discover that putting their head facing toward the sand is naught but a prescription for silicosis.
Energy in Depth effectively fancies itself as the National Rifle Association of fracking. They will stridently defend the rights of their “members” to destroy water, soil, and air in much the same way Wayne LaPierre defends the “right” to purchase assault weapons. EID is every bit as much a front for the fracking corporations as is the NRA a front for the gun manufacturers–the members of both profiteer from a “product” that endangers the lives and health of others. That the NRA’s is an assault rifle and EID’s is a chemical cocktail exploding under the ground makes little difference. Both involve explosions. Both threaten the welfare of anyone within their range. Both advertise for companies that make enormous profits at the expense of those endangered by their “product,” and both are manifestly opposed to unions and collective bargaining rights. Both are supported by the Koch Brothers, Freedom Works, and the far right wing of the Republican Party.
Both must be challenged and exposed.
So here is my New Year’s 2013 resolution: Fight Harder. Fight Smarter. Fight for the Good: Clean Water, Clean Air, Social and economic justice.
Our movement demands but six things from any of us: intelligence, objectivity, a moral compass, compassion, a sense of fairness, and courage.
Unlike our adversary who has but money, we have these six things in immense abundance.
Wendy Lynne Lee
Below is the link to the offending post–a report that EID clearly did not want its members to see:
http://frackingfreeireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NTN-CSG-Report-Sep-2011.pdf
http://frackingfreeireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NTN-CSG-Report-Sep-2011.pdf
frackingfreeireland.org
You did get banned somehow, Wendy, but it wasn’t me and apparently was unintentional by whoever did it. I simply don’t know how it happened. Regardless, I unbanned you immediately when I saw this comment. I wouldn’t want to deprive our readers of your tirades, which are always wildly entertaining, this one included. My apologies for temporary depriving you of the ability to yell at us. We do sometimes ban folks who try to turn the site into one of their own or cross some line or another but you’re not one of those, at least not yet. Even those folks often get unbanned after a period and I took the opportunity of doing a few of those when I corrected whatever happened in your instance. Sorry, I know you love playing the martyr, but we love engaging you, so we’re not giving you this badge to wear.
Oh please re-ban me there; I was enjoying the time-saving.
Wendy
Being barred from a website is not the worst thing that can happen to you trust me. I was posting on Texas Sharon and was amazed to find out after returning to my post on a Chip Northrup blog that I was not banned but worse…. Chip being the coward he is and unable to face facts took my post down and re worded them with things I never would write… I suddenly went from being for natural gas developement to being against it… my signuture on his words… talk about the ultimate insult. the easy fix is not to visit his blogs anymore….
BTW…. you get anymore benzine loaded tattoo’s?
Wendy’s banning was inadvertent. We’re not even sure how it happened. Regardless, she’s unbanned. Her martyrdom was short-lived (less than an hour I think).
[EXPLETIVE DELETED], tom
I think you just proved my point. You give a fake name, throw out an obscenity and swell your chest at somehow having done something righteous, when all you did was display your cowardice and lack of ability to fashion an intelligent argument. Thank you for this powerful illustration.
well tom.,, as we have seen in the past, if i were to actually try to spread the truths about the very real and documented cases (along with scientific evidence) that fracking pollutes the earth and water supply and is a serious threat to people and animal’s health – - – - you would delete it anyway. BTW: EID ohio is struggling, incase you don’t already know: i have heard (and seen) first hand that there are more people OUTSIDE your secretive meetings chanting then inside listening to your groups BS. Regards, please come back to coshocton. I will be here waiting for you.
You’re quite a storyteller for someone without the courage to EvEn give your real name. Here’s how one of our Ohio associates describes things:
“I have only seen protesters once in Coshocton when I was speaking to group of about 50 community leaders. There were two guys walking around with signs and shouting nonsense while going into the local gas station to get warm.”
Sounds like you were one of those two people.
“Ragin’ Chicken Bourbon”
1 hour of Ingraffea presentation plus 1 lbs. Panama Red
1/2 keg blended Omega Beer
1/2 cup Heinz Foundation Grant
4 years of Park Foundation finances
2 teaspoons Liquid Smoke (old bong water)
1 speech by Sue Rapp
2 Hours of O2E
In a trance like state combine Ingraffea, Sue Rapp Speech and any O2E Bill Huston Presents episode” Drink bourbon to get through it”. Turn your thought process to medium low and drink the 1/2 keg of Omega Beer. Add Ketchup and remaining ingredients. Stir it around in your head until all is well blended. Get Heated by reading your own blogs and believing them for about 15 – 20 minutes. You want to make sure the alcohol Takes Effect.
You Should do this(drink heavy and smoke pot) as a basting sauce prior to going to a civil disobedience course or anti drill meeting at any VeRSE or NYRAD event. Be sure to dress in costume so your employer won’t recognize you, (Hazz-Matt suits or Bannana costumes are best. After the event where perhaps 50 to 100 people show up go to a blog site and write “Thousands were there” Tell untruths and show pictures of well mishaps in other countries stating they are in Pennsylvania.
You are now a Raging Chicken blogger and supporter “However” and if you don’t quit the bourbon and stop drinking the Omega beer soon you may become a lead activist due to a failing liver you can falsely blame on fracking and ask for a health study. You may even get your name added to the “List of the Harmed” even if you live in a state where drilling is not taken place because the list is a canvassed list and the only requirements is that some point in your life your caught a cold or broke out in hives.
Next Week The Recipe for “Brain Cheese” and Cayuga Whine dishes
I like Wendy Lee posting, shows people the legnths anties will go to use opinions and call them facts!
Us, too!
[Posted to Facebook]
While I accept Mr. Shepstone’s claim that he does not know how I was banned from the EID Marcellus Facebook page, there remain at least two things left unresolved:
(1) How I was banned in the first place–That Mr. Shepstone apparently exercises this little control over the managerial aspects of his staff’s actions is not reassuring. After all, it’s not merely arbitrary banning of folks EID doesn’t like that’s at issue. His staff can ban, and they can also, say, alter text, use poster information to spam, or worse. If Mr. Shepstone’s primary paid job here is to administer this site and its related FB adjunct, he’s not done a very good job. It bespeaks the level of competence we have come to expect from workers in the Marcellus–not well-safeguarded, and not well done.
(2) Mr. Shepstone is also engaged in hypocrisy. Here he claims the following:
“You did get banned somehow, Wendy, but it wasn’t me and apparently was unintentional by whoever did it. I simply don’t know how it happened. Regardless, I unbanned you immediately when I saw this comment. I wouldn’t want to deprive our readers of your tirades, which are always wildly entertaining, this one included. My apologies for temporary depriving you of the ability to yell at us. We do sometimes ban folks who try to turn the site into one of their own or cross some line or another but you’re not one of those, at least not yet. Even those folks often get unbanned after a period and I took the opportunity of doing a few of those when I corrected whatever happened in your instance. Sorry, I know you love playing the martyr, but we love engaging you, so we’re not giving you this badge to wear.”
In other words, banning me was an accident, but of no real import because unintentional, and would have been justified anyways even if it had been intentional since all I do is engage in tirades, yell, and play martyr. So, sorry–but not really. Moreover, the only reason EID un-banned me, says Mr. Shepstone, is so I can’t wear the badge of having been banned.
Put more pointedly: If we thought we could get away with banning you and not have you expose that fact, we would have. But we can’t so we don’t.
Compare that comment with the following sent to me by email, again, unedited:
“I don’t know how you got banned. I checked with everyone on our team and no one else does either. Regardless, I unbanned you immediately upon learning of it. I also posted your comment on the blog and answered it. We make it our business to engage folks on the other side and, frankly, your one of the more interesting conversationalists among those we do engage.”
Here, Mr. Shepstone is clearly trying to perform damage control. I am now an “interesting conversationalist” as opposed to a yelling, tirade-mongering martyr. But these two things are obviously very different. Which is it, Mr. Shepstone? In the first, Mr. Shepstone is writing FOR his EID audience–and trying to look all the tough PR administrator that he pretends to be. In the second, he strikes a far more conciliatory tone as if he were trying to make sure I let this banning go–to make sure I don’t yell at EID for this lapse of adequate monitoring. Why the two very different posts? Why go to all the trouble to appease me in the second (and this did appear SECOND)?
Mr. Shepstone tries too hard–he didn’t need to go all the way to my email to “make amends,” but he did. Why? Could it really be true that he doesn’t know how this banning happened? This seems wholly unlikely. Having some administrative privileges on other websites, I can say with experience that THIS can’t really happen without there being a trail to follow. Perhaps Mr. Shepstone doesn’t want to know who among his staff at EID usurped his authority, but it is unlikely that he could not find out. It’s either that, or Mr. Shepstone doesn’t have the administrative authority he says he does–both make him look incompetent. Someone DID something.
As Dory Hippauf points out, EID is a PR machine. As I argue, they fancy themselves as something more: rhetorical snipers whose job it is to silence the enemy by any rhetorical means necessary–ridicule, personal attack, name-calling. When Mr. Shepstone claims that EID values the point of view of the other side, he is speaking disingenuously. Were this true, he’d not allow anonymous posters (from either side) to simply fire at will. Apparently someone at EID takes their “stamp out the enemy” charge just one step further, banning those who would challenge the organization’s reason for being–and this too that someone thinks they can get away with anonymously.
Such a strategy may feel to its executor like power–but its motive is nothing but fear.
I’ll no longer be posting on the EID Facebook page. And this is a loss for EID whose ill-informed members have bought the pro-fracking horn-swaggle as cover for their own avarice-driven objectives. Some of these soldiers for Big Gas are particularly ugly, and clearly enjoy assault for its own sake. The anonymous Stage Coach Inn, for example, is not merely an advocate for fracking, but effectively a soldier of fortune for sheer meanness. His/Her posts are largely generic (they could be an assault on anyone on any topic) and brutal without even pretense to an argument. Mr. Peckham hurls naught but invective and insult–but at least he uses his name. Tim/Kay insists that He/She has always posted anonymously as if this were some justification for hiding behind a pseudonym–but that’s like the parent who says “Well, since my daddy used the strap, I’ll use the strap.” History is virtually never its own justification, and anonymous postings are almost never justified. I not only use my name but am wholly transparent about my affiliations, my work place, my motives. I can be googled–the anonymous cannot–and THAT is a difference of great magnitude.
I point this out because it casts a particularly stark light on the “banning instance”–as Mr. Shepstone likes to put it. Banning someone who posts anonymously might at least be effective. After all, the anonymous potentially risk the exposure of their identity if they raise a ruckus over being banned. I, on the other hand, face no such dilemma. Mr. Shepstone had to know I’d make any such move public.
Hence, he could not ignore it, and he had to respond as quickly as he did. But this is no indication of integrity or “making it a point to engage folks on the other side.”
This is just damage control, and thus further evidence that we “on the other side” are making inroads behind the walls of the EID cyber-fortress.
Whoever hit the “ban” button knew this. So does Mr. Shepstone. But now, the EID drones will simply have to stalk me, because I’ll not be making their sniper attacks as convenient as surveying their own FB pages.
And this brings me back once more to the comparison of EID with the current incarnation of the NRA: both are nothing more than paid propagandists for a product–fracking in one case, assault rifles in the other. That they’re paid makes ALL the moral difference in the world because their agents don’t have to believe one word of their own propaganda. In other words, Mr. Shepstone and company needn’t believe that fracking is safe, that it creates jobs, etc. All they have to believe is that “money to be made” is its own justification–just like the gentlemen sitting in front of Congress defending cigarettes in the face of definitive evidence that cigarettes cause cancer and just like Wayne LaPierre who insists that putting armed guards at elementary school doors will protect children.
Every one of these claims would be laughably false did people, their lives, and their property not stand to be so damaged if not destroyed. Mr. Shepstone may believe every word he says in defense of fracking–but the point is that it doesn’t matter. he’d say it all anyways because he is PAID to say it.
And this distinguishes the EID/Tobacco/NRA agents in copious moral magnitude from, for example, the Park Foundation whose aims are explicitly philanthropic–and not profiteering.
So, this post is as long as it needs to be to make its philosophical and moral point: banning is certainly morally troubling–but it pales in comparison to the effort to adjudicate it with faux-apologies in the interest of saving face for an organization whose reason for being is mercenary propagandizing for an industry whose history is the incubator of climate change, and with it the famines, migrations, and ultimately wars that may kill us all. In a world strewn with nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenals, in a world of folks who think men like Wayne LaPierre evince reason, this is not hyperbole. A war over WATER is a war over life–and THAT is a prescription for suicide.
Wendy, this is a hoot. I reach out twice to make sure you know we didn’t intentionally ban you and you turn it into a grand conspiracy, complete with psychobabble that will impress no one but your closest allies. You know we have published everything you’ve ever wrote except for deleting long quotes that were available by link. Your decision not to post is your loss and proves you were only after martyrdom and eager to have an excuse, as I earlier suggested. Best wishes.
Also see:
http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/12/27/being-banned-for-about-a-half-a-minute-from-energy-in-deaths-depths-facebook-page-a-new-years-resolution/
Wendy Lynne Lee
Already saw it and responded. Glad to see your back after 1 hour and 8 minutes.
Wendy is like the girlfriend you tell it’s over….. and she keeps asking why?
Excuse me? I HAVE removed myself from the EID FACEBOOK page–not from the EID website. Two different things. And why on EARTH would I remove myself from Shaleshock? Mr. Shepstone–perhaps you need a vacation.
Oh, good. Where did you get the idea I thought you had removed yourself from Shaleshock. Perhaps you need the vacation.
So, Wendy, when are you coming up with the information on who replaced those comments on Shaleshock Media, which I’m sure you’ll agree is a far more serious matter than some temporary and inadvertent banning from Facebook commenting.
What am I missing? Why isn’t this author from Earth First getting a visit from the FBI? In our civilized society you cannot create an inference to assassination and simply say you didn’t mean it “that way”. As far as I am concerned this is grounds for imprisonment. If my name were on this list, there would be an attorney on it and right quick. If the it were the other way around, rest assured there would be cries from the liberal media in a nanosecond.
You are so correct.
I say ban her…. were so tired of her philosophical I am better then you attitude… She couldn’t be more pompous if she were to have an air pump connected to her ear canal.
Indeed, please do: BAN ME.
To parody, “EID couldn’t be more pompous than were Mr. Furman directly channelling Wayne LaPierre’s insipid plan to make yet more money for the Assault Weapons Industry by insisting that we put armed guards at public schools.”
Too bad the rifles can’t keep out the silica dust!
And, Mr. Furman, it’s “I’m better thAn you.” You should strive for the use of proper grammar if you’re going to spew invectives.
Perhaps you should both be spending more time at your new play-place: The Real Promised Land Facebook page.
I’m afraid it’s not faring very well.
That’s right Wendy… Avoid the question “any new benzene loaded tattoos?”
I am humbled before you as you are better then I ….
faults are not something to point out…but something that must be fixed from self awareness. In order to see those faults we must first remove our heads from the sand
Can’t anybody here spell? Napoleon with an “O.” Otherwise perceptive post.
Some youth at $50,000 per year Swarthmore want to prohibit the school endowment from investing in companies that deal in carbon… as they Tweet their indignation from their BMW’s!
Good catch. Poor spelling on my part! Corrected.
BMW’s Damn I cant even afford a ford
Increased natural gas energy efficiency = Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
Increased natural gas energy efficiency = Reduced global warming
Increased natural gas energy efficiency = Water conservation
Increased natural gas energy efficiency = Reduced utility bills = Profit
What natural gas is not wasted today wioll be there to be used another day.