Didn’t your mother ever teach you not to laugh at crazy people?
In their desperation to block Gov. Cuomo from giving the okay for fracking in New York, die-hard opponents of the natural gas drilling technology are floating laugh-out-loud-funny health and environmental threats.
Most hilariously, the enviro-activists have demanded that state officials explore an alleged link between fracking and — we kid you not — syphilis.
They argue that a drilling boom would draw an influx of male workers from other states who would engage in activities of a kind that would spread sexually transmitted diseases.
They also contend that a boom would trigger a housing crunch, adding to homelessness and the health ailments that go along with it.
And that increased truck traffic would not only lead to more road fatalities, but would also — again, no kidding — discourage people from getting the outdoor exercise they need to stay fit.
This is absurd. If New York starts saying no to entire industries on the grounds they might trigger population changes, rising home prices and truck traffic, it might as well turn out the lights.
Have the people pushing these theories considered the health effects of unemployment and poverty — which are all too common in the parts of New York targeted for drilling?
This is a real breakthrough. Just think of the stuff we could ban just by using a little imagination in contemplating the deleterious effects of just about anything:
1. We could ban Obama from speaking. Every time he opens his mouth, he causes a significant rise in blood pressure among sane people and paroxysms of joy among the crazies. Clearly, it is too dangerous to human health to allow President Obama to speak in public.
2. Ban all organic vegetables. Those who eat them are so insufferably arrogant and go on and on about how superior they are to the rest of us for eating so healthy, they are likely to put most of us to sleep, thus causing a dramatic drop in productivity and a rise in unemployment.
3. Ban anti-whaling activists. Whale oil will be necessary to light our houses in the near future if Obama is re-elected so we should get a head start by making it possible for whalers to ply their trade unencumbered. That, and have you ever had a whale steak? Yum. Much healthier for you than the “other red meat” from cattle.
4.Ban environmentalists. Because they come up with laughably ridiculous reasons not to allow fracking.
I’m sure you can come up with your very own bans and use much better logic than the greens who can’t get out of the way of their own stupidity.
Wow. Looks to me like carbonphobia, to coin a term, a subset phobia in a complex generalized anxiety disorder over climate change. And why just narrow in on the fear of syphilis? How about, say, the fear of HIV, or would that particular STD pander to homophobia?
I think they’re confusing fracking with frakking. Frakking has been know for a long time to cause syphilis.
‘Flukeing’ has been know for a long time to cause syphilis.
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Actually, the environmentalists came up with some “good” reasons to ban immigration in general, if you thnk about it. Not quite what they had in mind, probably. Or given the anti-human slant sometimes prevalent, maybe it was.
No fracking, fuel is expensive or unavailable, people stay home, freezing in the dark, unable to get food all winter, unable to keep their iPhones charged.
Manhattan is invaded from across the river where the Republican-lead hordes are fat (!) and happy, and soon Snookie is the Queen of Central Park, Harlem is bulldozed and planted with alfalfa, corn and pumpkins, the tall buildings downtown are cleared out and replaced by real bulls and cows.
Is this really what they want?
I suspect that real environmentalists do not object to drilling for natural gas, because the gas is clean burning. The spokesmen for this movement, the people behind the memes, are not actually environmentalists. They just wish to deconstruct America.
Someone at PJM wrote an article about what to call these guys, because they do not fit all the previous labels. One could call them destroyers or Statists, but I suggest we call them the New Commies, because they hold a lot of the same criticisms of Capitalism and such, but without all the specific beliefs of the Communist organization. They are more like fascists with Commie thinking mixed in. They are a real mess that way. New Commies. It seems accurate and a label people can understand.
Except that hardly anyone under 40 or so knows anything about communism or why being a “commie” of any sort would be a bad thing. We have our first cohort of voters this year who were born after the collapse of the Iron Curtain and most anyone that age if they know anything at all about US relations with the former USSR thinks were were sports rivals or something. My daughter and my step kids range from 40ish down to mid-20s and absolutely everything they know about that era or the issues with communism/socialism was learned at home; they had NO exposure in school.
call them “En-liar-mentalists” because they tell little green lies.
“hardly anyone under 40 or so knows anything about communism or why being a commie of any sort would be a bad thing.”
Does that mean we are doomed to repeat it?
Ban Morons! — No reasons or logic required, as per definition!
I have had a 37 year career in drinking water supply and treatment. I just returned from a state conference of the American Water Works Association, and 3 days of seminars and workshops. I had my suspicions confirmed that today’s “environmentalists” don’t give a tinker’s damn about the environment.
The WHO has declared there is no safe of lead in drinking water. Result? All brass plumbing pipe and fixtures that come in contact with drinking water must have less than 0.025% lead in the alloy as of Jan. 1, 2014. Price increase – 40%. Public health benefit – zero.
“Wild” river enthusiasts in our Pacific states are tearing down hydroelectric dams and building a new flood control, drought storage, or hydro dam anywhere in the country is virtually impossible. Result – triple the cost for electricity and one town of 20,000 in Texas is actively pursuing direct recycling of sewage to the drinking water plant.
Hexavalent chromium is not a proven carcinogen. However, because some pinhead fed lab rats enormous dosages of hexavalent chromium for a few months, and observed elevated tumor occurences our glorious EPA is going to regulate the stuff as a “suspected” carcinogen. For crying out loud, if ingest a gallon of tequila in 4 hours, I’ll most definitely croak!
Cost-benefit matters not to these clowns. They are emphatically not pro-environment. They are however, radically anti-economic growth, anti-population growth, anti-everything that means an improved quality of life. When the old Soviet Union died, the American communists fled to the radical environmental movement. They are killing our economy and our way of life, and I for one am just about ready to start some pitchfork and torch parties in response.
you kant denie that frakling cud crak a whole on the botum of the erk an drane all the watur out. then were wud we bee?
I choose a safe water system over a radioactive one
I think these enviros have not watched enough episodes of “Dirty Jobs” and other similar shows that show manly men doing manly labor. These enviros probably faint whenever a sweaty plumber comes over to fix the sink.
Hate to break anyone’s bubble, but there are a lot more men employed in real work like drilling, construction, and trucking, than in any of the weenie jobs like community organizing/activism. Real men doing real labor are who keep this country running. Most guys I know in these fields are hard working family men just trying to pay their bills.
Just because you can get quoted in the NY Daily or the NYT, doesn’t mean that you really have anything to say.
In Manhattan, thanks to histrionic preservation, we have neighborly fecal matter back flowing making drinking water unpotable unless extensively purified and these idiot hypocrites complain about fracking? They should be made to pay for the ridiculous environmental mandates they impose on others by finally building their own Manhattan Bruce Gilchrist Chappaqua water purification system instead of keeping Westchester under environmental occupation so that they and not upstate has the right to police their drinking water. Think of all the green jobs building a New York filter? Why is that bad and all the solar panels good? What good are all the new engineering schools if they can’t purify the water. Look how Poland is overpowering Russia with fracking. Don’t be a prissy cuomolectual!