If it isn’t immediately jumping out at you why this is stupid, realize that people with solar panels on their homes sell power to the utility at wholesale prices, who turn around and sell it to someone else at retail prices, guaranteeing a profit without burning any fuel. The “people with solar panels are freeriders on the grid!” argument fails, and fails hard.
What I really want to know, though, is why do conservatives hate Jesus?
It’s a lot of jesus statues and early Old Testament stuff.
Genesis through Deuteronomy is pretty much as far into the Bible as most of them have bothered to read. Going to church is so the man in the dress can read the book for them. Why read it in your spare time? That’s a god-awful waste.
Some Leviticus. Not the weird stuff, about not eating shrimp or cheeseburgers. Just the “thou shalt not” stuff. Dunno why, but something about forbidding shit really guns their engines.
I’m giving them credit to read as far as Deuteronomy, since Leviticus is a couple of books before Deuteronomy.
As a guy who has sat down and read the thing, it is a tiresome pointless random nonsensical contradictory slog, and definitely a book unworthy of being called holy by anyone.
Leviticus is just rules and Numbers is boooooring, lists of people and animals. But after Deuteronomy the action picks up with the wars and the killing and the gnashing of teeth!
Numbers 31 isn’t boring at all. Israel fights against Midian, and the Israelites kill all the Midianite men, but not the women and children. Moses, whom Jerry Falwell called “a man of peace” when contrasting him with that mean old Muhammad, is furious that they didn’t kill all the male children, and all the women who weren’t virgins, so he orders them (verse 17) to massacre them immediately. But they can keep the virgin women as spoils of war. Verse 35 says that there were 32,000 virgins, which means the number of women and male children captives slaughtered after the battle was probably twice that.
Operation American Spring expects to get “10 million to 30 million like-minded Americans to join them Friday in the nation’s capital for a rally patterned after Occupy Wall Street and “Arab Spring” protests” this week. But why?
What is amusing is that they plan on those numbers and refused to set up any porta-potties, instead insisting that local eateries and hotels’ bathrooms will do just fine:
Hmmm…10% of the US population drops everything and hangs out on the streets of D.C. for some unknown period of time. I’m pretty sure they haven’t thought this through (yeah, I know, that goes without saying). But the economic implications are interesting. First of all, it costs a pretty penny to travel to D.C. and live in what is a rather expensive city. So even if you assume penny pinching on everyone’s part (sharing gas and RV’s), I bet it’s still going to average 500-1000 dollars per person. So that’s going to pump $30 billion dollars back into the economy. Meanwhile, while these folks are idling on the streets of D.C., presumably their employers will be hiring replacements. So the unemployment rate will drop to essentially zero, as all the protesters will be assumed to have voluntarily having stopped working. So big gains for the states and the Feds not having to dole out unemployment compensation.
Meanwhile, I assume that if D.C. becomes too fetid, what with the logjam of R.V.s and lack of water and sewerage, then I assume the actual government will relocate to any of a number of backup sites while the protesters slowly expire from cholera and typhoid.
