August 14, 2003

[james_davis_nicoll]

On this day in 2003, shoddy American infrastructure caused a blackout across the Northeast. As Americans raced to perjure themselves blaming Canada for a calamity caused by the Americans themselves*, Canadians reacted as unruly mobs have through history when faced with a sudden and unexpected infrastructure collapse, which is to run out into the streets to direct traffic.


* See also the US custom of falsely blaming Canada for letting the 9/11 hijackers in the US. In defense of the people who claim this, many of them cannot tell truth from lies.

Comments

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Well geez guys, you don't have Jane Fonda and Al Gore working for the Saudis up there, so why not build a couple more reactors instead of relying on a country you consider unreliable?

That being said, even if the murderers had come through Canada, and were wearing Islamic Genocide Jihadist official team jerseys, in what alternate history would it be Canada's job to stop them from leaving Canada? I mean, my God, look at the lowlifes America used to export northward. When they committed crimes in Canada-- which according to Canadians I had to listen to who discussed it with me in the 70s, was often-- the Canadian authorities dealt with them capably. The accusation that Canada "let them in" would be meaningless even if it had been true. It's just an excuse for the FBI not pulling up its own socks.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Really can't help yourself, can you? Pathetic.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Cute answer.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Dude. You think the cure for cancer was discovered in 1971 and that BIG CANCER keeps it suppressed.

To put it into small words so that you can understand: You are dumb. We laugh at you.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

This from a guy who tried to blame me for something which, if it ever existed, couldn't have been done by anyone but you.

That is just amazingly cute.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

--Oh, and, for the record:

I know that you are perfectly aware that what I actually said bears no resemblance to the lie you just told. Trying to make me waste my time repeating it to someone who already knows is also cute.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

And you're a nut. But you knew that.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

E pur si muove.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

That's #35.

Of course, you wrote a book with #36 as your wank. Spooge!

[florbigoo.livejournal.com]

Carlos, the twit is getting off on your disdain.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Nah. Have you checked his LiveJournal? He's posting crazy screeds about how this terrible person is libeling him.

It's wonderful.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

Hey, carloshasanax, where and how have you been?

Also, too, what you said.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been around. A nice summer, homemade pulled pork, some old movies, and smiting the wicked.

If you read his LJ and his "secret" forum (hint: Google "mjhfinder"), you'll see how his medical crankery is adversely affecting his health. If he had good qualities, it would be rather sad.

But since he doesn't, let me quote his co-author: "Think of it as evolution in action."

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 23, 24, 26, and 33 I leave to you.

Strangely, Baez seems to have omitted "citing sources you have not read" and "hiding your identity on grounds that you will be persecuted", but I guess those behaviors are too obvious to be mentioned on his list.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Canada exports electricity on a net basis; the issue is not reliance on imported power, nor domestic capacity, but with instability within the receiving system of the recipient. It is similar to a waiter being vomited on by a drunken customer.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh kaythen, that is going to stay with me long after my shower and change of clothing.

Nevertheless, thanks for clearing that up.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

They did build a couple more reactors, or at least brought some existing mothballed reactors back into operation. Ontario now generates all of its baseload with nuclear (about 6GW) and hydro (variable between 4 and 6GW). They've got a couple of gas plants in case of shortages but they don't run on a regular basis and they're adding a biomass-burner option to one of them. The result is no coal generators anywhere and functionally zero-CO2 production of electricity, better even than France.

http://www.opg.com/power/

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the reactors!

Now annex the US so we can stop choking to death.