The conservation group Greenpeace has criticized Facebook for using coal-derived power at its planned Prineville data center instead of more Earth-friendly alternatives. This week The Bulletin fired back with a defense of Facebook, noting that Greenpeace’s power isn’t 100% green either.
“Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which provides energy to San Francisco, including Greenpeace’s office, gets the largest amount of its energy from natural gas, another nonrenewable resource,” said a story on the front page of Thursday’s Business section.
I guess it’s fair to point out that Greenpeace doesn’t always completely practice what it preaches, but comparing its power use to Facebook’s is quite a stretch. I’ve seen the Greenpeace HQ in San Francisco, and I doubt it uses as much power in a year as Facebook’s mammoth server farm will consume in a day.
On Friday, The Bulletin followed up its story with an editorial headlined: “Greenpeace red in the Facebook.” Cute headline, but if anybody should be red-faced over this story it’s The Bulletin.
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I hope this won’t become permanent: While watching the Winter Olympics, I heard some commentators using the word “podium” as a verb, e.g., “He’s expected to podium in this event” – meaning he is expected to stand on the podium after winning a gold, silver or bronze medal.
What would the past tense of the verb “to podium” be? “Podiumed”? What would the present participle be? “Podiuming”? Try wrapping your tongue around that one.
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Karl “Turdblossom” Rove will be coming to The Riverhouse in Bend on April 16 to speak at a $50-a-plate fundraising dinner for something called “Oregon REAGAN PAC.” Tim Knopp, chairman of Oregon REAGAN PAC, said the event would be “a tribute gala to President Ronald Reagan.”
It’s understandable that Republicans want people to remember Reagan (their last more-or-less successful president) and forget the two Bushes – especially the second one – so I have to wonder why Knopp wanted to bring in Rove instead of somebody from the Reagan administration.
More than any other individual, Karl Rove was responsible for putting The Worst President in History™ into the White House. He took George W. Bush, a blueblood New England preppie educated at Andover and Yale, and remade him into an ersatz cowboy – even arranging for him to buy the “ranch” in Crawford that provided the setting for so many rugged, manly photo ops. (The transformation of The Shrub into a faux Reagan could go only so far, though: While Reagan was an expert horseman, Bush was afraid to get on a horse.)
Rove also was the principal architect of the divisive “if-you-don’t-support-Bush-you-hate-America” political strategy the administration followed through its two terms. In gratitude for his services, Bush gave Rove the endearing nickname of “Turdblossom.”
I guess Knopp is counting on people to have amnesia about the decade between 1999 and 2009.
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This guy makes more sense to me than a wanna be Karl marx. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYHNg20MkRk&feature=related
The Worst President in History™ into the White House. Well mr miller who was the best president in history according to you?
“Well mr miller who was the best president in history according to you?”
Lincoln
Bruce Miller is like a liberal Rush Limbaugh.
Well, there you go again, HBM (to coin a phrase). Not doing your research again. But I forgot, you’re “not paid enough to do any investigative reporting.” (Your quote, not mine).
I noticed you used the trademark TM symbol after “The Worst President in History”. Did you have to pay a royalty to your mentor, Jimmie C, to use that moniker? I thought so.
BTW, W was raised in Midland and Houston, TX. Went to public schools in Midland until they moved to Houston. Hardly seems to be New England blue-blood through and through. He finished high school at Phillips and went to Yale. Also graduated from Harvard Business School (which you forgot to mention; oh but then you would had to look this up, sorry).
If you think Rove was responsible for our worst president, then you have to give him credit for our best president….Dick Cheney.
And BTW, Pacific Gas & Electric had the 2009 #1 Green rating for all utilities from that bastion of liberal group think, no not the NY Times, but Newsweek. As for Greenpeace, the pollution spewed by its fleet of six ocean going vessels dwarfs that of Facebook and all its locations. But again, I had to “investigate” the internet for about 5 minutes to learn this.
figures, looking at the short takes i can see this. you are an environmentalist that doesn’t like republicans, and doesn’t know were to stand. that looks way to far into the past for guidance. ha ha i thought this is funny.
“The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion” Veteran reporter John Lawton speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists, 1995.
I find it doubly ironic that almost all of the posters on this website don’t even recognize opinion–let alone uninformed opinion–whether it’s theirs or that of others.
Mister: I’m inferring that you don’t agree Lincoln was our greatest president. Who would your choice be?
Wait, wait, let me guess — his initials are RR. Right?
“Also graduated from Harvard Business School (which you forgot to mention; oh but then you would had to look this up, sorry).”
Didn’t have to look it up; already knew it. Yes, The Shrub went to Hahvahd Bidness Skule. Didn’t appear to do him much good.
well i think Lincoln did some awesome things for this country, but did he have to deal with global issues, such as WMD’s as nukes that could destroy the planet, in which R R had to deal with? all depends on how one looks at what each one had to deal with.
‘well i think Lincoln did some awesome things for this country…’
If Lincoln had been less than the president he was, there would be at least two countries where there is now one, slavery would have existed for many more years than it did, Jim Crow would still exist south of the Mason Dixon, and Ronald Reagan would have had to dealt with a lot more than he did.
‘did he have to deal with global issues, such as WMD’s as nukes that could destroy the planet’ If that issue made RR a great president, then every president since Roosevelt was a great president, since they all dealt with the issues as well.
Only slaves to a dogmatic ideology would minimalize Lincoln’s accomplishments as ‘awesome’ and put RR’s accomplishments (many though they are) on the same level.