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There is currently something of a debate about the ethics of the oil sands. I’m not talking about whatever idiot celebrity has hitched their wagon to the issue, since they generally are only doing so to attempt to be down with whatever cause celebre is currently seen as ‘cool’. They’re mostly fame mongering whores to begin with, and they aren’t worth the scorn.

I’m talking about the overall ‘Ethical Oil’ movement as a whole. Look, I haven’t exactly been shy in the past about asking questions about oil sands development. And I certainly do believe that we need to start spending some time and money and energy on developing other sources of energy, but that’s for the future. It simply isn’t realistic on any major scale NOW. So NOW we have to deal with oil.

The oil sands are messy. There IS a lot of pollution involved. There IS a lot of ground torn up through what really is strip mining. Such a concentration of industry in one area DOES lead to problems with everything from crime to transient workers to housing and infrastructure. So protesting against that isn’t necessarily evil, BUT…

…by arguing against oil sands development, you are also essentially arguing for other sources of oil. It has to come from somewhere, so if it isn’t from the oil sands, it’s from somewhere else.

And if you genuinely think that replacing that with the alternatives is more ‘ethical’, you are a fucking moron.

There is nothing ethical about massive expansion of oil extraction through major increases in off shore derricks and pipelines and refineries. You wanna complain about oil sands pollution and ecological devastation? This option would dwarf that on a massive scale.

And there is certainly NOTHING ethical about pumping more money in to horrific regimes in the Middle East, Central Europe, Asia and North Africa so that they can turn up the speed on the pumps.  Yeah, let’s give the Saudis more money they can throw in to oppressing anyone who isn’t outright Wahhabist Sunni…that’s certainly ‘ethical’.

Where else you getting the oil? Are you going to start ripping up ground in Siberia? Give more money to Hugo fucking Chavez to start tearing in to the Venezuelan oil sands?

Wake the fuck up, you simplistic idiots : THERE ARE NO ETHICAL SOURCES OF OIL. Stop playing pretend and grow the fuck up. The ONLY ethical way for any of this to go down is to start figuring out where we go from here in a realistic fashion. And it would be nice if you used that time and energy that you to maybe promote something actually GOOD and, you know, ETHICAL.

 

 

Up until an hour ago, I was totally unaware of some horrible, monstrous yuletide thing that is apparently a tradition for lackwits and freaks. Then my sister Pam sent me an email linking to a stupendous mom rant about this ridiculous thing. The name of this denizen of Hell? The Elf on the Shelf. The premise of this horrendous shitball of stupidity is that you put this in your house so that your children will [...]

 

I’m a sports fan. Not really a shocking statement. I also enjoy coffee, beer and steak. WOO! Mind blowing revelations! So yeah, sports. Good stuff. Entertaining. But there comes a limit when fandom ends and reality has to enter the equation, or you’re just a complete fucking loon. There are a lot of complete fucking loons at Penn State University. Turns out a long time assistant coach (Jerry Sandusky) has been indicted for sexually assaulting [...]

 

Okay, not all of you deserve that. But some of you are complete and utter failures, and I hate the fact that you exist. Let’s paint a little picture for everyone. I’m at Toys R Us, doing some Christmas shopping. Yes, I’ve started…I actually started a week ago. It beats the shit out of waiting until the last minute. Okay, so I’m shopping for the nieces and nephew. Hey, Toys R Us is having a [...]

 

That’s either the name of a hipster Country & Western duo, or the title of some sort of animated series on Nickelodeon. Or it’s the title of this blog post! A tiny window in to what may be the slightest bit of promise : I actually received some emails this week from SAP tech support. I’d already solved all of the issues myself, but I noticed that the people sending each of them (and it [...]

 

Yes, it’s more work stuff. You have been warned. -Today, we were each handed a 4 page booklet promising to ‘keep you informed with the latest information as Cameron deploys Optimus’. Unless this is the release of a heretofore secret plan to build and employ our own force of Transformers, I am unimpressed. Can’t hire extra support staff…but they can mass produce fancy bullshit like this in full color. What a fabulous use of resources. [...]

 

Every morning, one of us from the warehouse team will head to Tim Hortons on the way to work, proving that we’re clichés. We wait in line, grab coffee for ourselves and the others, then head in to work. Earlier this week, it was my turn once again. I was standing in line (I’ve found that, even if there is a line, it goes through a lot faster than the drive thru line-up does) with [...]

 

It’s the topic that just keeps on giving me material. the thing is, it isn’t funny anymore. It was kind of darkly amusing for awhile, but we’re well beyond that place now. Then it was sad and disappointing. Now it just makes me angry. -Turns out that the rare time we do get parts in and receive them, they are ‘locked inventory’ until Quality Assurance clears them. QA has nothing to do with these parts…most [...]

 

Google + came out not all that long ago, and almost immediately essentially all of the talk about the entire platform revolved around whether or not people could access it via their phone. The same thing happens with every other available network application. People are constantly updating their Facebook status, checking Twitter, blah blah blah. And not just people on the bus or whatever…people who are ostensibly at ‘work’ are pulling their phone out every [...]

 

So, another day, another need for a post. But what to talk about? I can’t be this uninspired by day THREE, can I?! Oh hey, what’s this news video from the UK? Oh really? Um. Okay then. Rage…growing… Yeeessssss….that’s the ticket. Suddenly I feel…inspired.

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