How Long Will Greta's Followers Put Up With This Lifestyle?

From a Facebook post:

After our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she became angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years.”

So, we decided to help her prevent what the girl on TV announced of “massive eradication and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.”

We are now committed to give our daughter a future again, by doing our part to help cool the planet four degrees.  

From now on she will go to school on a bicycle, because driving her by car costs fuel, and fuel puts emissions into the atmosphere. Of course it will be winter soon and then she will want to go by bus, but cycling through the freezing builds resilience.  Of course, she is now asking for an electric bicycle, but we have shown her the devastation caused to the areas of the planet as a result of mining for the extraction of Lithium and other minerals used to make batteries for electric bicycles, so she will be pedaling, or walking.  

Which will not harm her, or the planet. We used to cycle and walk to school too.

Since the girl on TV demanded “we need to get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels” and our daughter agreed with her, we have disconnected the heat vent in her room. The temperature is now dropping to twelve degrees in the evening, and will drop below freezing in the winter, we have promised to buy her an extra sweater, hat, tights, gloves and a blanket.

For the same reason we have decided that from now on she only takes a cold shower. She will wash her clothes by hand, with a wooden washboard, because the washing machine is simply a power consumer and since the dryer uses natural gas, she will hang her clothes on the clothes line to dry, just like my parents and grandparents used to do.

Speaking of clothes, the ones that she currently has are all synthetic, so made from petroleum. Therefore on Monday, we will bring all her designer clothing to the secondhand shop.  We have found an eco store where the only clothing they sell is made from undyed and unbleached linen and jute. Also can’t have clothes made on wool, because the emissions from farting sheep are supposedly causing bad weather.  It shouldn’t matter that it looks good on her, or that she is going to be laughed at, dressing in colorless, bland clothes and without a wireless bra, but that is the price she has to pay for the benefit of The Climate.  

Cotton is out of the question, as it comes from distant lands and pesticides are used for it. Very bad for the environment.

We just saw on her Instagram that she’s pretty angry with us. This was not our intention.
From now on, at 7 p.m. we will turn off the WiFi and we will only switch it on again the next day after dinner for two hours. In this way we will save on electricity, so she is not bothered by electro-stress and will be totally isolated from the outside world. This way, she can concentrate solely on her homework. At eleven o’clock in the evening we will pull the breaker to shut the power off to her room, so she knows that dark is really dark. That will save a lot of CO2.

She will no longer be participating in winter sports to ski lodges and resorts, nor will she be going on anymore vacations with us, because our vacation destinations are practically inaccessible by bicycle.
Since our daughter fully agrees with the girl on TV that the CO2 emissions and footprints of her great-grandparents are to blame for ‘killing our planet’, what all this simply means, is that she also has to live like her great-grandparents and they never had a holiday, a car or even a bicycle.

We haven’t talked about the carbon footprint or food yet.  Zero CO2 footprint means no meat, no fish and no poultry, but also no meat substitutes that are based on soy (after all, that grows in farmers fields, that use machinery to harvest the beans, trucks to transport to the processing plants, where more energy is used, then trucked to the packaging/canning plants, and trucked once again to the stores) and also no imported food, because that has a negative ecological effect. And absolutely no chocolate from Africa, no coffee from South America and no tea from Asia.

Only homegrown potatoes, vegetables and fruit that have been grown in local cold soil, because greenhouses run on boilers, piped in CO2 and artificial light. Apparently, these things are also bad for The Climate. We will teach her how to grow her own food.

Bread is still possible, but butter, milk, cheese and yogurt, cottage cheese and cream come from cows and they emit CO2. No more margarine and no oils will be used for the frying pan, because that fat is palm oil from plantations in Borneo where rain forests first grew.  

No ice cream in the summer. No soft drinks and no energy drinks, as the bubbles are CO2.

We will also ban all plastic, because it comes from chemical factories. Everything made of steel and aluminum must also be removed. Have you ever seen the amount of energy a blast furnace consumes or an aluminum smelter? All bad for the climate!

We will replace her memory foam pillow top mattress, with a jute bag filled with straw, with a horse hair pillow.

And finally, she will no longer be using makeup, soap, shampoo, cream, lotion, conditioner, toothpaste and medication. Facewashers will all be linen, that she can wash by hand, with her wooden washboard, just like her female ancestors did before climate change made her angry at us for destroying her future.

In this way we will help her to do her part to prevent mass extinction, water levels rising and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.

If she truly believes she wants to walk the talk of the girl on TV, she will gladly accept and happily embrace her new way of life.

Whose Logic is This?

1. America is Capitalist and greedy – Yet half the population are subsidized.

2. Half the population are subsidized – Yet they think they’re victims.

3. They think they’re victims – Yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government – Yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer – Yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about – Yet they seem to want America to be more like those other countries.

Go figure.

Yep - that's who I thought!!!

I'm a San Diego Oldtimer Now...

A Facebook friend posted this - thank you Margaret!

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN OLD -TIMER FROM SAN DIEGO WHEN ~

1. You can correctly pronounce Tierrasanta, La Jolla, Rancho Penasquitos, San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Jamul, Jacumba, and El Cajon - and know where they are.

2. There are four distinct seasons: Summer, Not Quite Summer, Almost Summer, and "Oh, hey look, it's Summer again."

3. Your high school had a surf team.

4. Insane Diego and Chulajuana are real towns. So are San Yskidrow, Venereal Beach, and International City.

5. Your house is worth more than some small countries.

6. You know what IB, MB, OB, and PB stand for.

7. Every street name is either in Spanish or Spanish related, and you're surprised when other areas don't have this.

8. You can determine the accuracy of someone's "I'm ghetto" a claim by knowing their high school. For example El Camino High School or Crawford High.

9. You see weather forecasts for four different climate zones in the same county – and aren't remotely surprised.

10. You've gone to Mt. Helix in July and know you still need a jacket (60 degrees is COLD!).

11. You remember going to "The Cross" on Mt. Helix for Easter services.

12. You've tailgated at Qualcomm Stadium, and for bonus points, also tailgated when it was Jack Murphy Stadium. [(Extra bonus points for Balboa Park/Chargers and/or Westgate Park/AAA Padres!]

13. You know that "Charge!" doesn't refer to a credit card.

14. You remember going downtown via Federal Blvd. before Hwy 94 was built.

15. You remember when Hwy 94 was two lanes in each direction and Bonita Road was one lane in each direction.

16. You've been on a field trip to see an Imax movie at the Reuben H. Fleet Space Center.

17. You still call it the Del Mar Fair. [They call it something else?]

18. You say "I'm going to the track!" and people know what you are talking about.

19. You say "I'm going to the park!" and people know what you mean.

20. You remember when Lemon Grove, La Mesa, Spring Valley, 

and El Cajon were "out in the sticks."

21. You remember the El Cortez as the city’s tallest building.

22. You understand what "May-gray" and "June-gloom" means.

23. A famous skateboarder/surfer lives in your town.

24. There's "North County," "South County," and "East County" but no "Central County."

25. You know what it means when a girl in a short skirt is walking on El Cajon Blvd.

26. You know what "the merge" is, and you'll plan your entire day around not being on it during rush hour.

27. You know the difference between Clairemont Mesa, Kearny Mesa, and Mira Mesa.

28. You've stayed home from school or work, because "It's raining!"

29. You've gone to Sea World on a warm day and sat in the first few rows at the Shamu show to get cooled off.

30. You've been delayed at the border checkpoints at Tijuana and/or Tecate.

31. Your house doesn't have or need air conditioning – unless you live in East County.

32. No matter what the weather is, there is always someone walking around in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops.

33. You've been to the desert, the mountains, and the beach all n one day.

34. You know that Santee and Lakeside are where the 'cowboys' live.

35. You know why Hillcrest is known as 'The Swish Alps.'

36. You hate tourists and their bad driving (but you don't know how to drive in the rain).

37. You've gone to the Zoo just to hang out.

38. You know someone who doesn't own long pants.

39. You know what a 'Santa Ana’ is, and you know it has nothing to do with the city of Santa Ana.

40. You know what 'real Mexican food' tastes like.

41. You remember when 'Mission Valley' was cow pastures, carrot farms, and dairies (oh...to have bought some of that land then!). Ditto with Coronado.

42. You remember when Lemon Grove had "the cows."

43. You remember when Chula Vista was a small town and all that was east of it was miles of Otay Ranch before Otay Lakes.

44. You remember the Big Sky, College, Harbor, and South Bay drive-ins.

45. You remember when real sports teams played at the Sports Arena.

46. Escondido was a long way off and there wasn't anything in between.

47. There wasn't an I-805, I-8, I-15 or I-5. You went on Highway 80, Highway 395 and the Pacific Coast Highway (especially to get to Disneyland).

48. National City stunk.

49. The Navy and the tuna fleet were THE big employers.

50. Getting to Coronado [or away] was a boat ride or a long trip in the car.

Ah, the memories.  I even went to Lane Field to see the Padres in the early 1950s.  

You Never Know...

when opportunity knocks.

Is that the father's gravestone they are on?  Revenge?  Or just opportunity.

I wonder if this cemetery knows that this happened.  It's kind of like Google Street View or Satellite View seeing things, isn't it?

Nice stones, though (says the genealogist in me!).

Climate Predictions

Updated...

Trumpian Baltimore

Baltimore Bernie

America Needs Socialism

The Free Speech Cafe

This is so right on -- it will not end well for them.

It only took 18 Years...

There's a message here for the USA...

Dead Penguins

Thank you, Helen!

Best of the Fake News Cartoons 2

They left off many of my favorites.  Who the heck is Molly McKew?  Where is James Comey on this list?

I pick Michael Avenatti as worst of the worst over John Brennan.

Best of the Fake News Cartoons

Yep, all the fake news fit to print!!!

Heh.

Hooters

Two men grow up together, but after college one moves to Maryland and the other to Texas. They agree to meet every ten years in Florida to play golf and catch up with each other.

At age 32 they meet, finish their round of golf and head for lunch.

“Where you wanna go?”

“Hooters.”

“Why Hooters?”

“They have those servers with the beautiful bosoms, the tight shorts, and the gorgeous legs.”

“You’re on.”

At age 42, they meet and play golf again.

“Where you wanna go for lunch?”

“Hooters.”

“Again? Why?”

“They have cold beer, big screen TVs, and side action on the games.”

“OK.”

At age 52 they meet and play again. “So where you wanna go for lunch?”

“Hooters.

“Why?”

“The food is pretty good and there’s plenty of parking.”

“OK.”

At age 62 they meet again.

After a round of golf, one says, “Where you wanna go?”

“Hooters.”

“Why?”

“Wings are half price and the food isn’t too spicy.”

“Good choice”

At age 72 they meet again.

Once again, after a round of golf, one says, “Where shall we go for lunch?”

“Hooters.”

“Why?”

“They have six handicapped parking spaces right by the door and they have senior discounts.”

“Great choice.”

At age 82 they meet and play again. “Where should we go for lunch?”

“Hooters.”

“Why?”

“Because we’ve never been there before.”

“Okay.”

Bud The Montana Cowboy

 A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana   when suddenly a brand-new 2015 BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man named Cliff in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

 Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?" 

 The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Apple iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on  his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. 

 The young man then opens the digital photo  in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.  Within seconds, he receives an email on his Apple iPad® that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then  accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Galaxy S5® and, after a few minutes, receives a response. 

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the  cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves." 

 "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud 

 He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. 

 Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I  can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?" 

 The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?" 

 "You're a Congressman for the  U.S.  Government", says Bud. 

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?" 

 "No  guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a  question I never asked You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know sh*t about  how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a  herd of sheep”

Calling a PCUSA Pastor Takes Awhile

We are members of the Chula Vista Presbyterian Church in the San Diego, California Presbytery, a PCUSA denominational church.

Our pastor, Rev. Bob Davis, has been called to the Carson city, Nevada Presbyterian Church, and preached his last sermon on Sunday, 10 February.  We had a celebration of his service after the worship service on 10 February.

Many people have asked me "what do we do now?  How do we select another pastor?"

The CVPC website has an article about the process in Announcements, copied below:

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Steps In Transition

 1. Congregational Meeting: the congregation will vote on the motion to concur with the pastor’s request to dissolve the pastoral relationship. (January 27, 2019 at the annual meeting.)

2. Last Sunday preaching: (February 10, 2019).

3. Last day in the office: (February 14, 2019)

4. Temporary pastor (preaching only) that the leaving pastor will have arranged. (February 17 and 24.)

5. Session meets. The Committee on Ministry will assign a moderator for that meeting. The clerk of session should contact the Chair of the Committee on Ministry to make sure this detail is covered. (February 26)

 a. Session will begin discussing the selection of an Interim Pastor Nominating Committee (IPNC), job description and compensation package. This discussion begins after the last Sunday that the leaving pastor is in the pulpit. The COM will have to approve the job description and compensation package before the IPNC begins interviewing potential Interim candidates.

 b. They will also discuss the formation of a Mission Study team.  The completion of a mission study is a mandatory step in the process.

6. Temporary pastors are normally arranged by the leaving pastor for one or two months; after which the Committee on Ministry will assign until an Interim has been selected and a contract established.

7. Session meets. The Committee on Ministry will assign a moderator for that meeting, again, contingent upon an Interim being selected and a contract established. A Mission Study Team should be elected. (March 26)

8. April 7, April 14 (Palm Sunday), April 18 (Maundy Thursday), April 21 (Easter) – The Committee on Ministry will assign temporary pastors from this point until (or unless) an Interim is selected.

9. Going forward:

 a. The Mission Study needs to be completed. This team will work with a liaison from the Committee on Ministry (Chris Lenocker). The liaison will guide them through the process. After the Mission Study is complete, it is submitted to COM for approval.

 b. A Pastor Nominating Team will need to be elected. The slate for the Pastor Nominating Team will be presented by the congregation’s Nominating Committee because it is an action of the congregation (in contrast to the IPNC, which is a function of the session).

 c. The Pastor Nominating Team will translate the Mission Study into the Ministry Information Form (MIF) required for posting on the denomination’s Church Leadership Connection (CLC). The MIF is submitted to COM for approval prior to posting.

 d. Once the MIF is posted, the PNC operates as a search committee. They receive Personal Information Forms (PIF’s) which are the Presbyterian version of resumes or curriculum vitaes.

 e. When the PNC has narrowed the candidates down to a few, they will contact COM for preliminary vetting. The PNC is likely to view candidates in a neutral pulpit. 

 f. When a candidate is identified, a call is extended including job description and terms. When the candidate accepts, COM will have representatives meet with the individual to “credential” them. That will take place prior to the individual preaching a candidate sermon. (The “credentialing” is waived if the candidate is already a member in good standing of San Diego Presbytery.)

 g. The candidate is presented to the congregation. The candidate preaches a sermon for the congregation. A congregational meeting follows to vote on the candidate and the terms of call.

 h. Upon approval of the congregation, the candidate is presented to the presbytery for examination. (This takes place regardless of whether the candidate is a member in good standing of San Diego Presbytery).

 i. The final step of the process is the installation service for the called pastor. The installation is an act of San Diego Presbytery. An administrative commission is formed by recommendation of the called pastor, presented to Presbytery for approval by the Committee on Ministry.   

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So how long will this take?  

I was the chair of the Pastor Nominating Committee that called Associate Pastor Jim Rauch to CVPC in 1987.  That took at least two years.

I was a member of the Pastor Nominating Committee that called Senior Pastor Paul Fisher to CVPC in 1998 (?).  That took at least two years.

Two to three years seems to be the norm for this process.  The Mission Study takes awhile (6 to 12 months), the PNC process takes another year or two.  

New Global Warming Standard Unit - the CFU

Another Way to Calculate Pi

A fascinating video:

Ten Years Ago I Was a Regular Person ...

I WAS A REGULAR PERSON

 I used to think I was just a regular person, but I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist & responsible for slavery.

I am a fiscal & moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a fascist because I plan and support myself.

I went to HS, worked through college, got a degree and have held a job, & am here not because I earned it but because I was advantaged.

I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a homophobe.

I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and ally of big business.

I am not a Muslim, which labels me as an infidel.

I believe in the 2nd Amendment, which makes me a member of the vast NRA gun lobby.

I am older than 65 and retired, making me a useless old man who doesn't understand Facebook.

I think and I reason, so I doubt what the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, making me a xenophobe.

I value my safety & that of my family, and I appreciate the police and the legal system, making me a right-wing, cop loving extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

I believe our system guarantees freedom of effort - not freedom of outcome or subsidies which must make me a borderline sociopath.

I believe in the defense and protection of America for and by all citizens, now making me a militant.

I am proud of our flag, what it stands for, and the many who died to let it fly so I stand and salute during our National Anthem, taking me back where I started - I must be a racist.

Please help me come to terms with the new me because I'm just not sure who  I am anymore!

I thank my friends for sticking with me through these abrupt, new-found changes to my thinking!

I just can't imagine or understand what's happened to me so quickly!

Funny - it all took place over the last 9 or 10 years!

If all this nonsense wasn't enough to deal with, now I don't even know which restroom to use, and I gotta go...........FREQUENTLY !!!!!!!!

On top of that  now I find out it is immoral  to be rich and someone in authority  needs to determine just how much you  should have.

Getting Old is Great...

GETTING OLD

I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now. 
Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers. 
I didn’t make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row. 
I decided to stop calling the bathroom the “John” and renamed it the “Jim”. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning. 
Old age is coming at a really bad time. 
When I was a child I thought “Nap Time” was a punishment. Now, as a grownup, it feels like a small vacation. 
The biggest lie I tell myself is ”I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it." 
I don’t have gray hair; the very few hairs I have are "wisdom highlights"! 
If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would’ve put them on my knees. 
Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven’t met yet. 
Why do I have to press one for English when you’re just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway? 
Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice. 
At my age “Getting lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for. 
Actually I'm not complaining because I am a Senager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don’t have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew. I have a driver’s license and   my own car The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant. And I don’t have acne. 
Life is great. 
I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names. 
Now, I’m wondering: did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?