Given some of the diatribes and arguments on this board, we're already in trouble.

Best thread for "diatribes and arguments"....go to the articles on "First Read" and see if you can even get past the first post.

Sounds like life in the north east several years ago. So what else is new. Stretch a rubber to far and it breaks . Same goes for electrical grids .

bob

Just wait. It's only a matter of time before someone blames Obama for this. And then of course after that someone will blame Bush for it.

Actually, I'd focus more on the "confused" the motorists part. And unfortunately, that happens here in the States. Too many idiots that don't know the rules of the road. At an intersection usually controlled by a signal (i.e. traffic lights) if the lights aren't working, the intersection is to be approached as if it is a 4-way stop. But then again, people also don't seem to know "keep right except to pass." Or my personal favorite, the people near me who pull into the ONCOMING lane of traffic to make a left turn! If there's a minimum height requirement for riding on a roller-coaster, there should be a minimum IQ requirement for getting a driver's license. But alas, too many seem to get them as a prize from the bottom of a cracker-jack box.

Then you add in ALL the illegals with NO licenses, that can't read english, so they can't read the signs. We are lucky it's not worse then it is.

Ido - well said... Everyone should be told that the FR threads have no monitors to enforce newsvines CofH. Must be like the old west, almost anything goes.

bob1/28: please leave contraception out of this discussion. It upsets some people!

(Humorous comment!)

Bill

I'm Truly sorry about that ! I left out the word Band . I type slower than I think . It should have read RUBBER BAND .

bob

Letusreason#1: If what you say is true, then we are all shot to hell.

We are separated from barbarity only by a prolonged blackout. Even animals will look at us and think "what the f is wrong with them?"

@what_the_81: Animals do that anyway. I looked up a tree the other day and a squirrel sh^t in my face.

Yeah, its bad when anger is the first or most overwhelming response. It's the emotion that tends to surface when all your other emotions are supressed. My concern is what causes emotional development to be arrested in the first place. Anger can be revealing if you have an outlet but it's a social taboo to be angry even with good reason. Maybe we should stop telling other people how they are supposed to feel.

@what:

Given the state of the global temperment, I don't think we would even need a "prolonged" anything to throw us all back to the Stone Age. We're basically there.....but with really 'nice' toys.

The whole of Cyprus woke up without electricity

Just who do they think they are..........Afghanistan?

Lol ooomy, it's not even the Illegals that drive the worst so who cares? Go to Russia if you wanna complain about terrible driving.

If there is a countrywide outage where are the motorists going anyway? Hope they were going home. LOL

We are like labrats who have been trained to do the same thing over and over to the point that even if there is no electricity and all businesses are closed you would find that there are many people out on the streets looking for a open coffee shop etc in this country. LOL

Anyhow, we shouldn't gloat because the same thing could happen here in the USA as our grid need to be upgraded and quickly too, as well as our bridges, roads, levees, dams, wireless etc. Seeing that corporations are not going to take the risk of rebuilding these infrastructure on spec the govt will have to front the money for this.

But seeing that there are those amoung us who do not think that govt have any place in our lives.....and govt should be minimized into irrelevance, I suppose we really are on our own after all....with our rugged individualism. LOL

Better stock up on those oil lamp etc. Hope you all like warm beer, cause that beer fridge is not going to work without juice.. LOL

One other thing, considering that many folks in the T'repcondino party seem to want govt out of our lives.... why are they complaining that the govt should do something to lower gas prices? Wouldn't that be socialism? LOL

Peace.... upwards and onwards.....

The Turkish half of the island is a different country and has its own power-grid...

I wonder what the birth rate was 9 months later.

had to give you an up arrow for using etcetera instead of etc.

I wonder what the birth rate was 9 months later.

the rate was approximately one baby per pregnant woman.

oomy, I'm not worried about the illegals with no licenses, I'm worried about the citizens who ignore red lights and try to run them. I was almost hit about a month ago when I decided to stop at the light which was red for the traffic to stop and for me to walk across. If I had put a front of the car which was speeding, I would have been killed. The woman driving would have killed me and when she noticed the light was red, she slammed her brakes and stopped in the intersection. This was a white woman. BTW, this is a place where there are always wrecks because people do not pay attention to the lights, especially red lights. At green lights people just stop and stare at the pretty color.

That's only because people in San Diego know how great they have it and appreciate it. I miss California's laid back, take it as it comes, roll with it attitude!

But still smaller than a Super WalMart.

The loss of electricity probably set Cyprus back 20 years.......

CPO Sharkey

The loss of electricity probably set Cyprus back 20 years.......

what country wouldn't be set back 20 years with loss of electricity?

Yeah, they can televise that message..wait, no...email that message...wait, no...they can call home phones...wait,no....

You say that like a government run utility is a bad thing. A government run utility is owned and managed by the people who pay the rates, the citizens that are served. Therefore, when the users pay their utility bill, their money is invested into their own future services. It goes to their friends and neighbors. Their money is not going to a greedy corporation with faceless stockholders who only care about profits, not the neighborhood you live in. If you don't like the way your publicly owned utility is managed you need to go to their regular public meetings and voice your opinion.

Yeah, those evil profits! You're right government run utilities are much better...with the corruption, ineffeciencies, lack of accountability, poor management, bad customer service, black-outs, brown-outs, etc, etc. Just like all the mean and lean government operations such as Social Security, Medicare, postal service, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae...they do a fantastic job.

Again, if you don't like the way your public utility is run, go to some meetings, get on an operating committee, and change the way it's done. Quit complaining and expecting everyone else to do the work for you. People always want the benifits of public services without any of the sense of community effort that should go into running them.

Wow, it didnt take me as long as I expected to find some jaska$$ to blame Obama...

Don't forget the very large percentage of tax we pay on the Gas as well, that goes to both Fed and State.

It should be called an "African-American Out". The term "Blackout" is too racist, you Honkies!

Why would we have a 'black-out' if nobody (allegedly) can afford electricity? Then maybe they/we live beyond our means??? In too big a house, thermostats too low in summer, too high in winter? I think the way it works is, the power is shut off when you fail to pay the bill...black-outs and brown-outs happen when there is too much demand and too many customers needing (and capable of PAYING for) what power is available.

But true, the frivilously wealthy with their low tax rates and offshore accounts and tax-shelters, the overpaid CEOs, the SPECULATORS (the ones with too much money on their hands that they 'INVEST' in oil contracts) are taking their loot out of the 99.5% working stiffs pockets to ensure their wealth keeps growing even in bad times. Notice how the rich got richer, even when crap hit the fan???

That of course has nothing to do with Cyprus (a small country of 800,000), where a huge explosion of a ship-load full of IMPROPERLY STORED, confiscated Iranian munitions blew up spontaneously in the storage area near the power-station several years ago, and the infrastructure damage was never completely fixed...

All the illegal Executive orders signed behind his constituents backs? If only that were true . It would mean something was being done in Washington. Unfortunately it is not true. As usual the right is making it up as they write. Or you can list a few of those orders, that only you are privy to. I sometimes wonder if the folks on the right even read what they write. I am sure you are proud to be an American , in this country even the uneducated can express their views. OPPS, excuse me, not if you live in Arizona and they are an implied threat.

I was a life-long Democrat and proud of it. Until I helped vote Obama in. I still am Democrat as defined 20 years ago. Today, Republicans AND Democrats are 1 single party with 1 agenda.

Of course you will defend the new and improved NDAA and HR 347 which Obama refused to veto, so let's begin with this:

Executive Order 13575. That should keep you busy for a while. When you are finished let me know, I'll throw some more out there since MSM will not.

Ron! Paul! 2012!

Oh, and I'll give you a little heads up:

Executive Order 13575, signed into law by Barack Obama, is a "federalized" version of United Nations Agenda 21. The reason UN Agenda 21 was not yet instituted to supersede our Constitution is because Obama wants to make sure that he remains "electable". If he wins this November, you remember this conversation that we just had. Fair enough?

Ron! Paul! 2012!

Viclock,

"in this country even the uneducated can express their views"

Yes. You are proof of that. And that is why our nation is failing.

Ron! Paul! 2012!

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It is true Viclok, and if you weren't so ONE sided you'd know it.

The LOST treaty now giving all US soverign waters and waterways including the Great Lakes over to the UN. Executive order 13547. 13575 is the "Rural Initiative' which has every agency of the Federal Government now in charge of rural lands, people and the products coming from there, fiber, food.

Interesting how many of his executive orders fall into an Agenda 21 enforcement code and nobody is awake at the switch. MSM isn't going to say anything, they want a public only concerned with American Idol, sports and Dancing With the Stars. As to the article, I first read the headline and thought it was an actual country, not that the folks living in Cyprus don't consider their country a country but it's like Monaco losing power.

Cyprus has a blackout ----> US politics

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Too bad there's voter fraud, otherwise Ron Paul would be the clear winner in ALL PRIMARY POLLS

Viclock, here is another one:

Remember SOPA? It gets worse.

Obama is now pushing hard to get CISPA passed:

rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa-internet-175/

Vote Ron Paul for Freedom!

Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night. I know June, it won't happen again.

Your right, too bad one part of our Nation doesn't lose power......for good.

ooomy: too bad you lost the power - to spell!