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		<title>By: Flession</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-company-fines-employs-for-emissions#comment-162308</link>
		<dc:creator>Flession</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ladies and gents, welcome to the future of our country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ladies and gents, welcome to the future of our country.</p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-company-fines-employs-for-emissions#comment-162306</link>
		<dc:creator>proreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Plus he exhales a lot more carbon than he would riding the tube.  

One more rider on the tube would increase the tube&#039;s carbon creation by about 1 of his breaths, if that.

But logic and common sense have nothing to do with it.

He feels good about sacrificing himself to demonstrate his solidarity with the liars who have conned him into worshipping them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plus he exhales a lot more carbon than he would riding the tube.  </p>
<p>One more rider on the tube would increase the tube&#8217;s carbon creation by about 1 of his breaths, if that.</p>
<p>But logic and common sense have nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>He feels good about sacrificing himself to demonstrate his solidarity with the liars who have conned him into worshipping them.</p>
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		<title>By: Petronius</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-company-fines-employs-for-emissions#comment-162297</link>
		<dc:creator>Petronius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Mr McLachlan tried to cut his carbon footprint by buying a bike and cycling 12 miles to work from Richmond, Surrey, to Chancery Lane, in Central London.&quot;

Richmond is smack dab on the District line near Kew Gardens.  By transferring to the Piccadilly line at Earl&#039;s Court, it is a straight shot to the Holborn Street station in Chancery Lane.

Thus, by using the London Underground, McLachlan&#039;s commute can be accomplished in about 30 minutes at the nominal cost of a couple of pounds per day round trip.  Instead he spends £350 on a bike which he rides 12 miles each way, rain or shine, through London&#039;s heavy rush hour traffic.

Madness.  Madness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Mr McLachlan tried to cut his carbon footprint by buying a bike and cycling 12 miles to work from Richmond, Surrey, to Chancery Lane, in Central London.&#8221;</p>
<p>Richmond is smack dab on the District line near Kew Gardens.  By transferring to the Piccadilly line at Earl&#8217;s Court, it is a straight shot to the Holborn Street station in Chancery Lane.</p>
<p>Thus, by using the London Underground, McLachlan&#8217;s commute can be accomplished in about 30 minutes at the nominal cost of a couple of pounds per day round trip.  Instead he spends £350 on a bike which he rides 12 miles each way, rain or shine, through London&#8217;s heavy rush hour traffic.</p>
<p>Madness.  Madness.</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty Shackleford</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-company-fines-employs-for-emissions#comment-162289</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Shackleford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Martyr bombers, so I&#039;m led to understand, use &quot;Earth-friendly&quot; explosives that only kill infidels while releasing limited amounts of greenhouse gasses.  This, I suspect, is why the lunatic-fringe lefties don&#039;t complain too loudly.  If they did, the heaven-bound-bombers might take up a more carbon-rich type of bomb, which would be bad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Martyr bombers, so I&#8217;m led to understand, use &#8220;Earth-friendly&#8221; explosives that only kill infidels while releasing limited amounts of greenhouse gasses.  This, I suspect, is why the lunatic-fringe lefties don&#8217;t complain too loudly.  If they did, the heaven-bound-bombers might take up a more carbon-rich type of bomb, which would be bad.</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty Shackleford</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-company-fines-employs-for-emissions#comment-162288</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Shackleford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Why would any private company willingly board this insanity train and why would any employee agree to go along on the ride?&quot;

Companies, on the one had, get on board with the socialist dogma to stay in business.  

Employees, on the other hand, ride the &quot;guilt express&quot; and either they go along to get along, or, actually do feel compelled that they are &quot;saving the planet&quot; by &#039;appropriately&#039; allocating their money.   Do you not see this comrade Sanddog?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Why would any private company willingly board this insanity train and why would any employee agree to go along on the ride?&#8221;</p>
<p>Companies, on the one had, get on board with the socialist dogma to stay in business.  </p>
<p>Employees, on the other hand, ride the &#8220;guilt express&#8221; and either they go along to get along, or, actually do feel compelled that they are &#8220;saving the planet&#8221; by &#8216;appropriately&#8217; allocating their money.   Do you not see this comrade Sanddog?</p>
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		<title>By: Sanddog</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-company-fines-employs-for-emissions#comment-162286</link>
		<dc:creator>Sanddog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why would any private company willingly board this insanity train and why would any employee agree to go along on the ride?

I believe in paying my employees the best wage possible for the work they provide.  What they do with that money isn&#039;t my concern.  I&#039;m not their parents.  They are adults and if they weren&#039;t capable of managing their own lives, they wouldn&#039;t be working for me in the first place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why would any private company willingly board this insanity train and why would any employee agree to go along on the ride?</p>
<p>I believe in paying my employees the best wage possible for the work they provide.  What they do with that money isn&#8217;t my concern.  I&#8217;m not their parents.  They are adults and if they weren&#8217;t capable of managing their own lives, they wouldn&#8217;t be working for me in the first place.</p>
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		<title>By: BillK</title>
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		<dc:creator>BillK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Britain was also the home of the idea of the Carbon Credit card, where your CO2 emissions of your home and vehicle would be debited from your card and you would not be able to purchase fuel or heat or cool your home until you purchased more &quot;credits.&quot;

Further, any travel by air would also be debited, so you would have to choose between heating your home, driving to travel, or taking a plane.

Except of course for folks like U2, who I&#039;m sure would get some type of humanitarian &quot;pass&quot; for their efforts.

Really, are these schemes or Muslim extremists the bigger threat to the UK?

Somehow I don&#039;t think your average martyr bomber is concerned about their &quot;carbon footprint.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Britain was also the home of the idea of the Carbon Credit card, where your CO2 emissions of your home and vehicle would be debited from your card and you would not be able to purchase fuel or heat or cool your home until you purchased more &#8220;credits.&#8221;</p>
<p>Further, any travel by air would also be debited, so you would have to choose between heating your home, driving to travel, or taking a plane.</p>
<p>Except of course for folks like U2, who I&#8217;m sure would get some type of humanitarian &#8220;pass&#8221; for their efforts.</p>
<p>Really, are these schemes or Muslim extremists the bigger threat to the UK?</p>
<p>Somehow I don&#8217;t think your average martyr bomber is concerned about their &#8220;carbon footprint.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: ONail</title>
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		<dc:creator>ONail</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is &quot;Cap n&#039; Tax&quot;, folks.  The next item after ocare that our statist-in-chief and his dem congress have on their agenda of hopey/changey things to ram up our butts.  Bend over.  It&#039;s coming.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is &#8220;Cap n&#8217; Tax&#8221;, folks.  The next item after ocare that our statist-in-chief and his dem congress have on their agenda of hopey/changey things to ram up our butts.  Bend over.  It&#8217;s coming.</p>
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		<title>By: Reality Bytes</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-company-fines-employs-for-emissions#comment-162247</link>
		<dc:creator>Reality Bytes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Call it the &quot;Fart&quot; Tax. The great profit Melman Brooks predicted this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Call it the &#8220;Fart&#8221; Tax. The great profit Melman Brooks predicted this.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs</a></p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
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		<dc:creator>proreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;inspired bureaucrats&quot;

Who, just by coincidence, live like princes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;inspired bureaucrats&#8221;</p>
<p>Who, just by coincidence, live like princes.</p>
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		<title>By: Arctain</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arctain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The individual is not moral, the state is the ultimate morality and individuals are merely armatures for the directives of inspired bureaucrats. For the sake of the people. And the accumulation of funds.&quot;

Dead-on analysis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The individual is not moral, the state is the ultimate morality and individuals are merely armatures for the directives of inspired bureaucrats. For the sake of the people. And the accumulation of funds.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dead-on analysis.</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty Shackleford</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rusty Shackleford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yarddog 1 said: &quot;When, oh when, will rational, hard working producers grow a set of balls and say “enough is enough”? The entire world seems to be going through a period of complete and utter insanity and lunacy. People of all countries have abandoned any sense of self preservation and allowed the brainless special interests to usurp any semblance of rational thinking. Tolerance of diverse thinking is one thing – allowing complete idiots to ruin one’s life is quite another&quot;

----I blame television.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yarddog 1 said: &#8220;When, oh when, will rational, hard working producers grow a set of balls and say “enough is enough”? The entire world seems to be going through a period of complete and utter insanity and lunacy. People of all countries have abandoned any sense of self preservation and allowed the brainless special interests to usurp any semblance of rational thinking. Tolerance of diverse thinking is one thing – allowing complete idiots to ruin one’s life is quite another&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8212;-I blame television.</p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
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		<dc:creator>proreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Somebody else (maybe several) have reprised this old Khruschev quote recently:

&quot;We Will Defeat You Without Firing A Shot&quot;

At this point in time, it looks like he was right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somebody else (maybe several) have reprised this old Khruschev quote recently:</p>
<p>&#8220;We Will Defeat You Without Firing A Shot&#8221;</p>
<p>At this point in time, it looks like he was right.</p>
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		<title>By: beautyofreason</title>
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		<dc:creator>beautyofreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s going to get to the point where looser restrictions and freer capitalist markets in less developed countries drive investors and businesses out of first world countries with excessive regulation and taxation. 

Nobody wants big brother - except big brother. 

&quot;WSP is planning to expand its rationing scheme next year to cover 3,000 employees in offices around the world.&quot;

We are helping you make the right decisions for you. Since premarital sex and showing too much skin are bad, we are going to send morality police to fine, beat, or execute people of the opposite sex found alone in a room together or improperly dressed (Iran). Or to charge families with dead relatives in the election crisis a &quot;bullet fee&quot; to release the bodies to them (Iran). Since waste is bad, we are going to restrict the size of rubbish bins that a single family can fill up, and extort money from those who go over (Britain). Since carbon is bad, we are going to raise money by taxing the excessively flatulent, etc, etc.  

This kind of thinking is totalitarian, as it puts government in charge for making individual decisions of the people, in the name of helping them, and is perhaps a common link between leftist environmentalism and fundamentalist Islam. *You* can&#039;t make the decision for yourself, so we are going to do it for you. The individual is not moral, the state is the ultimate morality and individuals are merely armatures for the directives of inspired bureaucrats. For the sake of the people. And the accumulation of funds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s going to get to the point where looser restrictions and freer capitalist markets in less developed countries drive investors and businesses out of first world countries with excessive regulation and taxation. </p>
<p>Nobody wants big brother &#8211; except big brother. </p>
<p>&#8220;WSP is planning to expand its rationing scheme next year to cover 3,000 employees in offices around the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>We are helping you make the right decisions for you. Since premarital sex and showing too much skin are bad, we are going to send morality police to fine, beat, or execute people of the opposite sex found alone in a room together or improperly dressed (Iran). Or to charge families with dead relatives in the election crisis a &#8220;bullet fee&#8221; to release the bodies to them (Iran). Since waste is bad, we are going to restrict the size of rubbish bins that a single family can fill up, and extort money from those who go over (Britain). Since carbon is bad, we are going to raise money by taxing the excessively flatulent, etc, etc.  </p>
<p>This kind of thinking is totalitarian, as it puts government in charge for making individual decisions of the people, in the name of helping them, and is perhaps a common link between leftist environmentalism and fundamentalist Islam. *You* can&#8217;t make the decision for yourself, so we are going to do it for you. The individual is not moral, the state is the ultimate morality and individuals are merely armatures for the directives of inspired bureaucrats. For the sake of the people. And the accumulation of funds.</p>
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		<title>By: Yarddog1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yarddog1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When, oh when, will rational, hard working producers grow a set of balls and say &quot;enough is enough&quot;? The entire world seems to be going through a period of complete and utter insanity and lunacy. People of all countries have abandoned any sense of self preservation and allowed the brainless special interests to usurp any semblance of rational thinking. Tolerance of diverse thinking is one thing - allowing complete idiots to ruin one&#039;s life is quite another.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When, oh when, will rational, hard working producers grow a set of balls and say &#8220;enough is enough&#8221;? The entire world seems to be going through a period of complete and utter insanity and lunacy. People of all countries have abandoned any sense of self preservation and allowed the brainless special interests to usurp any semblance of rational thinking. Tolerance of diverse thinking is one thing &#8211; allowing complete idiots to ruin one&#8217;s life is quite another.</p>
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