Ted Kennedy Defeats Cape Cod “Wind Farm”

This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am. You can leave a response.

18 Responses to “Ted Kennedy Defeats Cape Cod “Wind Farm””

1. englishqueen01
   October 19th, 2007 at 3:09 pm

   As if anyone here needs me to say this, but here goes:

   AND THESE FOOLS WANT US TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING????

   I mean, come on. They whine and moan about carbon footprints, fossil fuels, Hummers, SUVs, and b**** that they was US to reduce, reuse, recycle and conserve while they fly around the country in private jets or large, SUV-laden motorcades.

   I’m officially done with the global warming loons. They had little credibility with me to begin with, and this destroyed that.

   Global warming is not about saving the planet, anymore than it’s about preserving the planet for our chlidren (the very same children liberals have no qualms about killing via abortion). It’s about a group of liberal elitists who want to practice their socialistic, self-centered beliefs at our expense. They want to control us, not protect Earth. They want to take from us and keep living like kings.

   They clearly aren’t concerned about alternative sources of energy - just limiting energy use to themselves and their elitist friends while the rest of us do without because, after all, it’s for the planet.

   Global warming as they preach it is a myth. And I’m not buying it.

   And I find it highly ironic that Ted Kennedy is concered about protecting the water…

2. sheehanjihad
   October 19th, 2007 at 4:30 pm

   The only water Ted Kennedy wants to protect is the .0002% he has with his scotch.

3. bousquem
   October 19th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

   I’m sadly from Massachusettes, though the western end, and it really yanks my chain that people complain about we need to find “alternative” energy sources but when it does happen, the same yuppies and loons say we can’t build said alternative energy sites. I want to know is where are they going to get put. Its always a “not in my backyard” mentality. I bet they would love the windfarm to be in some isolated place with no impact on the enviroment that the people on cape cod would never have to see but the result of that would be the wind farm not making a profit and/or no getting the needed winds. I find it really hard to say, but I actually agree somewhat with the greenpeace nuts in that the windfarm should be built. Teddy is just interested in what all the big money owners in the cape cod and martha’s vineyard/nantucket have to say; green energy but not where we might see it.

4. Warmonger Infidel
   October 19th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

   Not true sj….he also wants to protect any water that may be located next to isolated roads. You know, just in case he ever has to swim in it again.

   This drunken sot POS knows no limits of absurdity when it comes to taking care of #1 and #1’s cronies. Remember when JohnBoy and his wife crashed his plane off Cape Cod? The entire U. S. Navy on the east coast was mobilized to look for them and when they did finally find them, a U. S. Navy ship was dispatched to perform a burial at sea ceremony. Why? JohnBoy didn’t serve. As far as anyone knew, JohnBoy may have hated the U. S. Navy/Military. He was a flaming liberal wasn’t he? Hell I’m retired from the Navy and if I crashed and burned I promise you the Navy wouldn’t be mobilizing to look for me…nor would I expect them to. No, this drunken power whore thinks the world exists to service him and his “beautiful” people. As far as I’m concerned, the sooner he crashes and burns the better for the population of the entire planet.

5. AmericanIPA
   October 19th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

   How many birds and “sea life” could possibly be harmed by big propellers? So do we now do the most sensible thing and go nuclear? No way says Teddy, he saw a scary movie about it once.

   I have to think if these same propellers were in the middle of some trailer park, Teddy wouldn’t mind as much. But that is modern environmentalism for you: I love to save the Earth if it doesn’t inconvenience me and the other pretenders. Kind of makes you think it might be political rather than environmental. Nah, couldn’t be.

6. Warmonger Infidel
   October 19th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

   Being very familiar with wind farms, the do kill birds, but so what? We’re probably only talking about nasty stink’in seagulls here anyway. But sea life? Flying fish? Hmmmm…..me thinks Teddy been hallucinating from the Jamisons again.

7. texaspsue
   October 19th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

   I would love to see the sea life that could jump that far!

   The environmentalists are trying to halt construction of the wind farms here in Texas, too. But, it’s a little too late as we have many.

   http://www.windpowertrail.com/

   http://www.infinitepower.org/reswind.htm

   http://www.awea.org/projects/texas.html

   http://tinyurl.com/2v3r6c

   http://tinyurl.com/yf3gys

   FWIW If you want to see some homemade ideas……..there are some great ones (no, not mark levin) on youtube:
   (My husband, who is an inventor type that has been tinkering with different ideas for wind energy, found the info.)

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=

8. DEZ
   October 19th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

   Yup, That’s a liberal for ya, Clean energy is bad if you can see the results.
   They would rather have smog than windmills.
   And just a minute, Wouldn’t this slow the global warming monster that threatens the planets migratory birds and fish?
   Moonbat guano!!!

9. capful of ember
   October 19th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

   New state motto:
   “Massachusetts - Come for the Kennedys’, stay for the taxation!”

10. BillK
    October 19th, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    Environmentalists have long been trying to shut down the Altamont Pass wind farm in California:

    Wind turbines at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) kill more birds of prey than any other wind facility in North America, due to their location on a major bird migratory route in an area with high concentrations of raptors, including the highest density of breeding golden eagles in the world. Research by raptor experts for the California Energy Commission (CEC) indicates that each year, Altamont Pass wind turbines kill an estimated 881 to 1,300 birds of prey, including more than 75 golden eagles, several hundred red-tailed hawks, several hundred burrowing owls, and hundreds of additional raptors including American kestrels, great horned owls, ferruginous hawks, and barn owls. These kills of over 40 different bird species are in violation of federal and state wildlife protection laws such as the Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle Protection Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and several California Fish and Game Code provisions. …

    http://www.biologicaldiversity.....amont.html

    They’ve also opposed wind farms near the Horicon Marsh area in Wisconsin for the same reasons.

    Here’s a quote from one web site devoted to opposing wind farms:

    Industrial-scale wind energy is widely promoted as a clean and sustainable source of energy. It brings, however, many adverse impacts of its own. Of most immediate concern for communities targeted for wind power facilities is their huge size, unavoidable noise, and strobe lights day and night, with the consequent loss of amenity and, in many cases, health.

    For people concerned with the environment, the negative impacts of the giant machines and their supporting infrastructure on bird, bats, beneficial insects, and other wildlife — both directly and by degrading, fragmenting, and destroying habitat — are a growing concern.

    Considering these and other impacts, the construction of industrial wind energy facilities in most places cannot be justified.

    In fact, the claims of their benefit of reducing pollution or greenhouse gases appear to be greatly exaggerated. Despite decades of experience and substantial installations in Denmark, Germany, and Spain, the giant turbines have not been shown to reduce the use of other fuels on the electric grid — such as coal and nuclear — let alone gasoline for transport and oil for heating. For this reason, their ability to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming or pollutants that cause acid rain and health problems such as asthma is doubtful, despite their size and extent.

    This site provides the resources that promoters of industrial wind don’t. Armed with unspun information, you can decide for yourself whether the elusive benefits of large-scale wind energy development are enough to justify the further destruction of communities, the environment, and individual lives. …

    http://www.wind-watch.org/

    It would be fun to watch enviromentalists fight themselves if it weren’t for the net result that no new power generation can be built, and in fact the enviro’s attitude has been that no more plants should be built and we should all just conserve instead…

11. Liberals Make Great Speedbumps
    October 20th, 2007 at 2:32 am

    Just how do windmills kill birds? All of the units I’ve seen rotate so slowly that I can’t understand how the birds, especially raptors, are not able to avoid them? I’m assuming that the blades are what is killing the birds, so correct me if I’m wrong.

    WI, I was watching the History channel this morning and the episode was about the USS Grasp. They covered when the Grasp recovered John-Boys plane off of Marthas Vineyard. I agree with you that that was BS deploying a Navy unit to recover that idiot. He was a typical Kennedy, in that his arrogance outweighed his abilities. His overconfidence in his flying skills caused Lauren and Carolyns deaths. What is it about Kennedys with women in their vehicles.

12. bigoak
    October 20th, 2007 at 9:51 am

    A typical Kennedy ploy.He is nothing but a gas bag drunken pond scum

13. Warmonger Infidel
    October 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am

    LMGS…..

    Birds actually fly into the rotating blades. The slow moving blades that you’re talking about are the newer, higher Megawatt systems. Some of the older low MW systems with smaller blades spun pretty fast. Birds seem to be attacted to them because of the sound, some think, or because the movement makes predators think they can attack for a good meal. Hey nobody said birds are smart. I worked for a company that did some work at Alatmont Pass in the early ’90s when all the units were the older models. We would find dead birds every day during the migratory times. Didn’t bother me much but some people get all hooey over them. Kind of like “Ellen” and the puppy dog meltdown.

14. Liberals Make Great Speedbumps
    October 21st, 2007 at 1:36 am

    Hey WI,

    Thanks for clearing that up, I didn’t know that. I guess that I’ve never seen the older systems. I’m not getting “hooey” over the poor birds but I do hate to see unnecessary death of any innocent animal. Couldn’t we find a pitch that attracts liberals?

15. Greg England
    October 21st, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    I’ve heard of environmentalists opposing nuclear power, and hydroelectric power.
    But if they are going to oppose windfarms …

    There’s a cartoon in the latest Private-Eye magazine on radical environmentalism:
    http://www.private-eye.co.uk/s.....s&

    So true!

16. rakkasan
    October 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pm

    I lived near four wind turbines before, and I think they look pretty cool. They also have a big windfarm in southern Minnesota, and I think it makes the horizon look interesting. Then again, I am not a Kennedy on Cape Cod so I could be wrong.

17. Warmonger Infidel
    October 21st, 2007 at 5:25 pm

    They are cool looking rak. Especially the larger farms, like Altamont in northern CA and especially on a clear moonlit night. But……they are noisy as hell when the wind is really whipping and they have them all in the spin position. Still no excuse for the sot in MA opposing them. He isn’t ever there anyway.

18. 1sttofight
    October 21st, 2007 at 5:38 pm

    Uh, Isn’t it Teddy and his spawn who are always saying we need to get away from coal and gas fired electrical generation and move toward other sources such as WIND POWER?

    Cut the power off to his freaking house, with the amount of gas he spews, he sure as hell can generate his own.

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