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(WorldNetDaily) Hero Dear Congress: If you don't get us more oil I will personally stomp each and every one of you headfirst into the ground in the Alaska National Wilflife Refuge. Love, Chuck Norris   (worldnetdaily.com) divider line
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2wolves [TotalFark]
2008-06-09 3:35:06 PM  
Dear Mr. Norris,

I hope you enjoy an institutional diet.

Sincerely,

The FBI
 
Lundah
2008-06-09 3:37:28 PM  
Dear Mr. Norris,

Can we build a refinery in your backyard to process this new supply?

Sincerely,
Exxon/Mobil
 
Cyberluddite [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-09 3:39:02 PM  
Average Americans are literally driving to the poor house on financial fumes.

Chuck Norris is literally an asshole.
 
what_now
2008-06-09 3:40:53 PM  
Dear Mr. Norris,

The United States Congress does not take advice from fundamentalist C-list actors with an amusing cult following.

Signed,

The Rest Of Us.
 
Blues_X
2008-06-09 3:41:46 PM  
And if Chuck would STFU and run for congress, he might make something of himself other than a B-grade martial arts actor and an internet meme.
 
Blues_X
2008-06-09 3:42:36 PM  
what_now: Dear Mr. Norris,

The United States Congress does not take advice from fundamentalist C-list actors with an amusing cult following.

Signed,

The Rest Of Us.


You are correct... I graded him too highly.
 
zorgon
2008-06-09 3:42:50 PM  
I frequently hear better reasoning from five year olds who want a second serving of ice cream.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 3:43:46 PM  
ooo shiat..don't want to piss of Chuck Norris.
 
what_now
2008-06-09 3:44:56 PM  
You know, I was going to post a rant about how Norris doesn't even consider conservation or alternative energy, and how insane it is not to bring these issues up, but then I saw this add in the middle of the article:

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And remembered that we're dealing with people who think you can reverse 50 years of damage to your heart with a "miracle pill" that your doctor doesn't know about.
 
truth_is_stranger_than_fishin
2008-06-09 3:45:42 PM  
Dear Chuck Norris,

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GaryPDX
2008-06-09 3:51:47 PM  
what_now: And remembered that we're dealing with people who think you can reverse 50 years of damage to your heart with a "miracle pill" that your doctor doesn't know about.

Just like some people think the government has all the secret "magic pills" of only they could be in power.
 
kimwim
2008-06-09 3:52:09 PM  
Dear Mr. Norris

Someone should tell your hair stylist to use the same color each time he does your hair.
Someone should tell the tape editor to check the color of your hair in each of the shots in your commercials to make sure they match.

signed,

The rest of us.
 
what_now
2008-06-09 3:53:15 PM  
GaryPDX: Just like some people think the government has all the secret "magic pills" of only they could be in power.

No. No one thinks that. Fail.
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-09 3:53:29 PM  
How much energy has been wasted making DVDs of "Invasion: USA" or "The Octagon?"
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 3:55:49 PM  
what_now: GaryPDX: Just like some people think the government has all the secret "magic pills" of only they could be in power.

No. No one thinks that. Fail.

haha. Sure they do, all the technology needed is on the shelf, are people doing? Nooooo. They are hoping the government will miraculously save them. Everyone knows how important "Early Adopters" are in creating an industry. Where are they? They're hoping the government will keep their little toes..toasty..:)
 
whidbey
2008-06-09 4:05:52 PM  
Dear Chuck Norris:

STFU. Tough guy.
 
what_now
2008-06-09 4:11:27 PM  
GaryPDX: haha. Sure they do, all the technology needed is on the shelf, are people doing? Nooooo. They are hoping the government will miraculously save them. Everyone knows how important "Early Adopters" are in creating an industry. Where are they? They're hoping the government will keep their little toes..toasty..:)

Look, Gary, while I think it's possible you're a least a little insane, I do respect your biofuel position, and the fact that you actually *have* cut your petroleum use down. However, there simply are not massive biofuel refineries, and you, Gary, can't supply the demand if it were to triple overnight.

There are real problems to using biofuels, including the cost of transportation, which would be made simpler by some significant government involvement, or at least an influx of capital cash.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-09 4:11:31 PM  
I thought it was the oil companies' job to get us more oil. We've done our part by invading Iraq. Looks like Exxon Mobil isn't holding up their end.

I bet if we send their entire board of directors to Iraq until the oil situation improved, it would improve almost immediately.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 4:18:05 PM  
what_now: GaryPDX: haha. Sure they do, all the technology needed is on the shelf, are people doing? Nooooo. They are hoping the government will miraculously save them. Everyone knows how important "Early Adopters" are in creating an industry. Where are they? They're hoping the government will keep their little toes..toasty..:)

Look, Gary, while I think it's possible you're a least a little insane, I do respect your biofuel position, and the fact that you actually *have* cut your petroleum use down. However, there simply are not massive biofuel refineries, and you, Gary, can't supply the demand if it were to triple overnight.

There are real problems to using biofuels, including the cost of transportation, which would be made simpler by some significant government involvement, or at least an influx of capital cash.

You're not going to achieve perfect alternatives unless we start doing instead of talking. Just think about it a minute..did early adopters say no to broadband?..see what I'm saying?..people have to start doing it even if it's not very efficient right now and expensive. That will get better when companies start reacting to the demand.

It starts right there..start doing it.

/that's all I'm saying
//yes I'm crazy..:)
 
whidbey
2008-06-09 4:19:48 PM  
what_now: However, there simply are not massive biofuel refineries, and you, Gary, can't supply the demand if it were to triple overnight.

I'm not the biggest proponent of continuing to feed our combustible engine addiction, but the point could be easily made that biofuel refineries/stations could be built and maintained locally enough that people could simply drive their cars to that location when needed.


There are real problems to using biofuels, including the cost of transportation, which would be made simpler by some significant government involvement, or at least an influx of capital cash.

Oh no, you just said that dirty word that starts with a "G." You're in for it now!
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 4:20:32 PM  
what_now: oh..and let me tell you this. I switched off oil 2 years ago with transportation. Next is housing. I can't do it in Portland BECAUSE of Liberal restrictions. I have to move away from Portland to accomplish off grid status.

It's about doing it, mang. Just do it.
 
what_now
2008-06-09 4:21:34 PM  
GaryPDX: You're not going to achieve perfect alternatives unless we start doing instead of talking. Just think about it a minute..did early adopters say no to broadband?..see what I'm saying?..people have to start doing it even if it's not very efficient right now and expensive. That will get better when companies start reacting to the demand.


I get that. I haven't owned a car in 10 years. I'm heavily invested in a company that produces bio-degradable (non petroleum based) plastics. But a lot of people aren't and this is one of those situations where we WILL need to force people off the..what is it you call it...black tar tit? Demand alone can't do it. We don't have TIME for the market to take effect.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-09 4:21:43 PM  
GaryPDX

I can't do it in Portland BECAUSE of Liberal restrictions

They won't let you live off-grid if you're not liberal?
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-09 4:22:35 PM  
what_now

We don't have TIME for the market to take effect

What time is that?
 
whidbey
2008-06-09 4:22:50 PM  
GaryPDX: Next is housing. I can't do it in Portland BECAUSE of Liberal restrictions

1. What "restrictions?"
2. You don't have to capitalize it, you know...;)

I have to move away from Portland to accomplish off grid status.

You won't. You're just as much of a consumer as the rest of us. It amuses me that while you reap the benefits of this society, you somehow feel you either aren't a part of it, or that by hiding from society you're somehow "exempt."
 
what_now
2008-06-09 4:23:42 PM  
GaryPDX: Next is housing. I can't do it in Portland BECAUSE of Liberal restrictions.

Portland won't let you have a wood stove? And before you biatch about the cold, I grew up in New Hampshire with nothing but wood heat.
 
whidbey
2008-06-09 4:23:59 PM  
what_now: We don't have TIME for the market to take effect.

Agreed. This is about the deepest hole we've dug ourselves in yet.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 4:24:21 PM  
whidbey: GaryPDX: Next is housing. I can't do it in Portland BECAUSE of Liberal restrictions

1. What "restrictions?"
2. You don't have to capitalize it, you know...;)

I have to move away from Portland to accomplish off grid status.

You won't. You're just as much of a consumer as the rest of us. It amuses me that while you reap the benefits of this society, you somehow feel you either aren't a part of it, or that by hiding from society you're somehow "exempt."

Land use restrictions. I can't put the power plant I want in the back yard and it's too expensive to rebuild with the proper materials for thermal dynamics.
 
whidbey
2008-06-09 4:25:23 PM  
GaryPDX: Land use restrictions. I can't put the power plant I want in the back yard and it's too expensive to rebuild with the proper materials for thermal dynamics.

Like you'd have any luck if you had a Republican mayor.

Seriously quit putting the "liberal" label on everything you dislike. It's rather childish.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 4:27:43 PM  
whidbey: GaryPDX: Land use restrictions. I can't put the power plant I want in the back yard and it's too expensive to rebuild with the proper materials for thermal dynamics.

Like you'd have any luck if you had a Republican mayor.

Seriously quit putting the "liberal" label on everything you dislike. It's rather childish.

I need rural space, I can blame Liberals here because they are in power here. If they were Republicans and still had the same restrictions, I'd biatch at them too..government..holding me up..errrg!!
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 4:30:44 PM  
whidbey: You won't. You're just as much of a consumer as the rest of us. It amuses me that while you reap the benefits of this society, you somehow feel you either aren't a part of it, or that by hiding from society you're somehow "exempt."

No..good grief man. I'd like to just get things done.
 
whidbey
2008-06-09 4:31:32 PM  
GaryPDX: If they were Republicans and still had the same restrictions, I'd biatch at them too..government..holding me up..errrg!!

I somehow doubt that. Which party did you vote for in your last local/state/national elections?
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 4:38:37 PM  
whidbey: GaryPDX: If they were Republicans and still had the same restrictions, I'd biatch at them too..government..holding me up..errrg!!

I somehow doubt that. Which party did you vote for in your last local/state/national elections?

Dude..listen. Some years ago I saw it coming about oil. I made a conscious decision to move off it and I adopted "hippy" techniques with some modifications. I want to get it done..I feel sleazy using oil based systems. I saw the folly and I made up my mind. Now the local/state/fed is in my way of getting there. We all make choices, you chose to live in Seattle, I am choosing to go where I can get this done.

That's it.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-09 4:43:20 PM  
GaryPDX

I saw it coming too, but instead I just filled up a pair of 275 gallon tanks with 87 octane at $1.50 a gallon.

It'll be gone soon, and then I'll be sorry. I'll have to get one of those electric cars and charge it up from my local coal fired power plant. Same as the heat pump I got last year.
 
whidbey
2008-06-09 4:43:24 PM  
GaryPDX: I made a conscious decision to move off it and I adopted "hippy" techniques with some modifications.

Hippy?

You removed the Liberal elements with a sophisticated filtration system? ;)

I want to get it done..I feel sleazy using oil based systems.

It sounds to me like you're just prolonging an inevitable. It's far better to keep your eyes and ears open for progressive solutions, and throw your support to them, like wind and solar power, and using your voice as a citizen to make it known that we're sick of petroleum being such an almighty economic god.

You can't do that if you're sticking your head in the sand.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 4:46:19 PM  
whidbey: You can't do that if you're sticking your head in the sand.

If people just start doing it, we don't need to wait for the government. The demand will create an industry. I'm doing it, my housing and transportation dollars are paying for it. The products are there. Why should I wait for the government? You don't have to..none of you have to. Move as one..start doing.
 
veedeevadeevoodee
2008-06-09 4:47:31 PM  
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GaryPDX
2008-06-09 5:42:48 PM  
Well that was fun
 
jake_lex
2008-06-09 5:54:36 PM  
They should take Norris' column away and let Floor Humpin' Dude write a fitness column for them.
 
Geologist
2008-06-09 5:58:29 PM  
GaryPDX: whidbey: You can't do that if you're sticking your head in the sand.

If people just start doing it, we don't need to wait for the government. The demand will create an industry. I'm doing it, my housing and transportation dollars are paying for it. The products are there. Why should I wait for the government? You don't have to..none of you have to. Move as one..start doing.

At the risk of being marked as a loony toon, I'm with Gary on this one. My wife and I are building offgrid, and doing what we can to reduce our petroleum dependence. The more we can work from home and produce our own, the less we have to drive.
 
burndtdan
2008-06-09 6:00:26 PM  
what_now: You know, I was going to post a rant about how Norris doesn't even consider conservation or alternative energy, and how insane it is not to bring these issues up, but then I saw this add in the middle of the article:

And remembered that we're dealing with people who think you can reverse 50 years of damage to your heart with a "miracle pill" that your doctor doesn't know about.

your post was owned by adblock.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 6:08:38 PM  
Geologist: GaryPDX: whidbey: You can't do that if you're sticking your head in the sand.

If people just start doing it, we don't need to wait for the government. The demand will create an industry. I'm doing it, my housing and transportation dollars are paying for it. The products are there. Why should I wait for the government? You don't have to..none of you have to. Move as one..start doing.

At the risk of being marked as a loony toon, I'm with Gary on this one. My wife and I are building offgrid, and doing what we can to reduce our petroleum dependence. The more we can work from home and produce our own, the less we have to drive.

Before the black out a few minutes ago I was also going to make the point that issues of this magnitude would take the government at least a decade to sort out..their magic "comprehensive" bullshiat. If we all just did it..the markets would react a LOT faster.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 6:12:38 PM  
Geologist: At the risk of being marked as a loony toon, I'm with Gary on this one. My wife and I are building offgrid, and doing what we can to reduce our petroleum dependence. The more we can work from home and produce our own, the less we have to drive.

Are you using the "earthship" design for your dwelling?
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-06-09 6:15:54 PM  
What's "Wilflife?" Wildebeest I'd Like to Fark?
 
Dancin_In_Anson
2008-06-09 6:16:28 PM  
Lundah: Can we build a refinery in your backyard to process this new supply?

Sincerely,
Exxon/Mobil

I'm cool with that.
 
Geologist
2008-06-09 6:22:10 PM  
GaryPDX: Geologist: At the risk of being marked as a loony toon, I'm with Gary on this one. My wife and I are building offgrid, and doing what we can to reduce our petroleum dependence. The more we can work from home and produce our own, the less we have to drive.

Are you using the "earthship" design for your dwelling?

Nope, we are doing a geodesic dome over a daylight basement. As much as I would love to go earthship, I still don't trust them fully in earthquake country, and I am still clinging to the awesome view that we lose out on by doing the project "right".

Doing it "right" would be an earthship on the south base of our ridge. That would give us the solar gain we need to skimp on heat (solar radient infloor heat primary, wood secondary, propane backup) and probably cut our building costs in half.

Doing it the way we are (dome on top of the ridge, view facing the NW) gives us an unobstructed 30* view 15 miles up the vally, with a 330* view of the rest of the mountain side around us at 6500'.

Basement has a concrete roof though, making a slab floor for the rest of the house. Come the end of the world, we can live quite comfortably in the basement alone, and have a north facing earthship.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 6:25:16 PM  
Geologist: Nope, we are doing a geodesic dome over a daylight basement. As much as I would love to go earthship, I still don't trust them fully in earthquake country, and I am still clinging to the awesome view that we lose out on by doing the project "right".

Doing it "right" would be an earthship on the south base of our ridge. That would give us the solar gain we need to skimp on heat (solar radient infloor heat primary, wood secondary, propane backup) and probably cut our building costs in half.

Doing it the way we are (dome on top of the ridge, view facing the NW) gives us an unobstructed 30* view 15 miles up the vally, with a 330* view of the rest of the mountain side around us at 6500'.

Basement has a concrete roof though, making a slab floor for the rest of the house. Come the end of the world, we can live quite comfortably in the basement alone, and have a north facing earthship.

I'm doing the earthship design but I'm going to use AAC Concrete big Block for the tire based elements. It's significantly more stable.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 6:27:01 PM  
oh..and better insulated..that AAC Concrete..I love that stuff.
 
GaryPDX
2008-06-09 6:35:56 PM  
I think Chuck Norris should hook up with Willie Nelson. That would be a winning team.
 
Kome
2008-06-09 6:55:38 PM  
Norris is slowly revealing himself to be a bigger and bigger dumbass every month.
 
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