Here’s your chance to throw horseshoes, eat tofu dogs and meet a true American dissident. This Saturday, the Green Party of Essex and Passaic Counties holds a fundraiser in Ted Glick’s Bloomfield backyard to raise money to fight a coal plant from being built in Linden. Glick, as you may recall, faced the possibility of a three-year prison sentence for unfurling a banner in the Hart Senate Office Building last September. In the end, he got probation.
In addition to vegetarian fare, Saturday’s party, which kicks off at 3 p.m., will feature old-fashioned entertainments like badminton, croquet and hammock lounging. Donations of $10 are requested. Full details here.
Tofu dogs? That would surely turn me green!
This would be a great project for the state of NJ by not employing people but using new technolgy to capture and trap the carbon having no impact on the enviroment. Lets hope it comes to fruition.
I had tofu turkey once..It was really fowl. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist).
No impact on the environment? You’ve got to be kidding. This is a totally unproven technology with a huge downside risk.
http://www.southorange.org/Environment/documents/PurGen_facts_090827.pdf
The oil industry has been using this capture and trap the Co2 for years.
That is not correct. This technology is being used only one other place in the world in Norway. The Norway project is 1/10 the size of the proposed project in Linden, and its failing. There are reports of leaking and other problems. The link I posted with facts about this disaster waiting to happen is 100% sourced.
http://www.precaution.org/lib/factsheet_sources.htm
where do you get your information? the oil or coal industries?
Looks like a screengrab of Cops
Allow me to fantasize about how this social function will go. Balding guys with grey-hair in ponytails! Socks with sandals! Frumpish Indian cotton dresses! Tofu, lots and lots of tofu! And of course earnest-sounding “It’s all Bush’s fault”-type rhetoric, bushels and bushels of it. Perhaps even, if the gathering is extreme enough, the somewhat recently departed from these precincts lasermikey. (Well, he always did identify himself as Bloomfield resident.) Then, everybody will leave by around 7PM to go home and catch some CNN. (Certainly not either ESPN or Fox news.)
This, uh, “bash” will surely appeal to some. But as for yours truly, to quote the great, wise Sam Goldwyn, “Include me out.”
(And couldn’t you find a better photo of the probationary Mr. Glick? His scowl and ratty-looking, faded t-shirt make him seem as pictured like someone who would indeed blow up an energy facility in search of the “greater good.” I realize that’s unfair, he may be the very reincarnation of William Penn melded to Kahlil Gibran for all I know, but this is also exactly what the image of him you folks use conveys. Here, image really is everything, ya know, Baristas?)
Vegetarian fare does not have to = bland, unappetizing food.
That being said, my co-workers are wondering at what I am chuckling so loudly. Thanks, Cathar!
All kidding aside, Mr. Glick may be to the left of my political sensibilities but he is right on this one. Breathing burning coal residue is hazardous to one’s health.
cathar i just cracked up. thank you.
baristas, i am very disappointed that you didn’t end this with a comment about the types of people that would attend. Remember your racist comments about the tea party goers being all angry white males?
Cathar, when you have no legitimate argument in favor of a coal plant in our backyard, of course you attack the messenger. Most environmentalists today are scientists, or possibly idealistic kids, not the pony tailed hippies of your fantasies.
I wouldn’t want to be at one of your parties either.
“Remember your racist comments about the tea party goers being all angry white males?”
These will be angry white males, too. But angry white males with bald pates and ponytails.
This man should be given a ticker tape parade down the canyon of heroes. Carbon capture and storage is a hugely risky technology for the thousands of species of microbes that live in the ocean off NJ, where the gases would be sequestered. This brave man is sticking up for the least powerful among us. What right do we have to endanger the lives of even single-celled creatures simply because we like air conditioning and lights in the evening? If we did with less, there might be room on this small planet for each living thing.
That you are clearly humorless, bannerchemical, is, one must suppose, to be expected from your, uh, “crowd.” (Compared to you, the incomparable mathilda is Jackie Mason or Dane Cook.)
But it also appears that you’re witless, which is just saddening.
Nevertheless, cheer up and cease your frothing! I’ll happily invite you to my next auto da fe’. Please do come.
NJohn (and politely), you’re very mistaken. I have never posted with knee-jerk disparagement of the Tea Party folks as “angry white males,” with either long gray ponytails or the furry sideburns that both rednecks and Elvis impersonators affect. That would definitely not be me. So perhaps you’re instead referring to, say, one Spiro T. Quayle, who naively imagines himself a political wit in this vein (and thus probably spends a lot of time pondering why Arianna Huffington does not personally call to offer him a column). Try checking your erroneous accusation again.
See, I just barely mention her and there the fair maid of environmentalism is! Hello, mathilda.
It’s sort of like summoning Billy Jack (speaking of crazo enviromentalists, come to think of it). You just think of her and have real need of her and presto, she magically appears! (But do promise to bathe first, lass, should we ever be share a cell post-demonstration.)
These will be angry white males, too. But angry white males with bald pates and ponytails
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And socks with sandals..Let’s not forget the socks with sandals.
I’ve been laughing at cathar’s post all afternoon..
And patchouli!
I love comedy, however unlike Nellie I don’t find you funny. I think you’re a pompous windbag with a very high opinion of himself.
There’s something for everyone at this party-extraordinare…I want a green t-shirt so I can wear it and look mean…
cathar, many thanks for keeping my name in circulation, although, alas, I lack a ponytail, and (shocks of shocks) my wife does not own a frumpy Indian dress. ( how could that be? )
I will admit that my wife keeps does keep trying out new tofu recipes, but I don’t care for the stuff, even though she thinks it great.
Should I sportingly mirror your fusty fantasies and assume you are keen on high fat and sugar recipes, that you wear a buzz cut, that you prefer (and need) Haband elastic waist trousers, and that your wife ( if any ) wears a “respectable Republican cloth coat”?
by the way, cathar,
I am mildly insulted and consider it a considerable affront to my family honor that you have been delinquent in posting a warm congratulatory message to my distant cousin,
Ben Quayle,
a young man of your political inclination,
who, as you know, has just been declared a victor in Arizona’s 3rd congressional district elections.
Spiro, you can cathar are killing me today…
Haband…EWWWW!!!!!
How does Cuz Quayle spell potato?
“I love comedy”
Now, that made me chuckle!
You’re wrong on all my particulars, Spiro. (Anyway, I always preferred Sansabelts, partly because QB John Brodie endorsed them.)
Whereas I’m right that you daily and pathetically and always unsuccessfully try to show yourself off as a wit. It was also thee who so typified the Tea Party crowd yes? It sure sounds like your weaselly form of prose.
But I also suspect you have far more sense (and no such desperation) than to show yourself at what is sure to be a stunningly turgid social ordeal in Ted Glick’s back yard. And according to this item they’ll be playing horseshoes. Probably pulled off the hooves of some environmentalist’s very own pair of dray horses, too!
(As for your supposedly distant relative, Spiro, I’m sure you could use any bit of reflected glory you can scrape up. But still, I have not followed the guy’s successful primary campaign at all.)
How do you all know cathar is of the male variety?
Too bad, cathar. Ben ran a very interesting (and somewhat sophomoric IMHO) TV commercial in Phoenix. Mr. Quayle looks directly into the camera and earnestly notes, “Barack Obama is the worst president in history…” I’m sure the ad is available on YouTube, among other places. And I suspect his distant relative Spiro has a differing viewpoint on the worst president in history. Arizona politics is never dull.
I’ll admit I had to Google Haband and discovered that they make a men’s pant called “Fit-Forever, Stretch-Infused Trousers.” Nuff said. LOL!
How does one infuse “stretch?”
How do you all know cathar is of the male variety?
The only way to know for sure is to use the Crocodile Dundee method.