The obvious thing about Kiln Ovendoor's Talking Point about cutting down half the trees on the block is this:
Show of hands -- who doesn't have curtains or blinds on their bedroom windows?
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She came in through the bathroom Ken Avidor
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
It's curtains for the propagandist
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She came in through the bathroom Ken Avidor
Rep. Bachmann gets a promotion
She's now Senator Bachmann. The jump-up is courtesy of Kennel Ration, the Minnesota anti-PRT propagandist. Would I lie to you?
In Minnesota, the biggest supporters of PRT are the usual anti-rail transit suspects: Senator Michele Bachmann, Rep. Mark Olson (16b), Phil Krinkie.... and Dean Zimmermann [ellipses in original]. Source
Too bad no other Los Angeles Times readers know or care who Olson, Krinkie or Zimmermann are. People less concerned with Guilt By Association and more into finding additional transit alternatives probably care more that PRT has been endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund* and the EU.
* Click Skycab thumbnail
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Ken Avidor, the human cut and paste hot key
Monday, September 08, 2008
Missed it by THAT much
Post #200!
What is the margin of error for the Minnesota anti-PRT propagandist? For instance, one of his 'proofs' that PRT is a hoax and a scam is that a felon proposed a PRT test track before he was a felon. Well, ATS proposed and built a test track in Wales, for a PRT system that is now under construction at Heathrow -- was that test track a scam too? Did ATS succeed in hoodwinking Cardiff County, the UK government and the EU into funding . . . . something that proved PRT works?
So no -- proposing a PRT test track does not prove PRT is a hoax or scam.
That's a pretty huge error though. Has Roadkill Bill International no Quality Control Division?
Here's another one, it comes from that golden age of anti-PRT propaganda known as 2004. It concerns this infamous piece of disinformation:
Truthtellers have long since debunked it based on what can actually be seen in the image. First, the 'ugly' guideway is the late-90s Raytheon version that was canceled years before Ovendoor created the image. Therefore, he was asking people to judge PRT on the basis of how it was not going to look.
Second, Wikipedia editors determined he was showing the guideway disproportionately large -- out of scale. Meaning he was asking people to judge PRT on the basis of how it was really not going to look!
Despite these truths he keeps on using this image. Hey Kenwood: repeating something over and over until the truth sinks in, catapulting the propaganda, doesn't make something true. Until now, the PRT community's counter-propaganda troops have relied on these facts to Fight The Photo.
But recently some additional facts emerged. Thanks to Google Maps and its Satellite and Street View functions, plus my experience in aerial photo interpretation, "PRT Is a Joke" IS A JOKE has determined that the photo was taken at the corner of 36th and S. Grand in Minneapolis. The business at left is a laundromat, and the one in the center is Present Moment Books & Herbs.
By itself, the location is immaterial. However if we look at what Labridor wrote about PRT and this particular location, it becomes yet another example of how you can't trust anything he puts out. Here's what he wrote in Wikipedia:
The illustration shows an actual PRT guideway (Raytheon) on an actual street in Minneapolis (where Dean Zimmermann and the CPRT propose to build a PRT system) Source
Now here's a map of said Zimmerman/CPRT proposal -- with a special enhancement!
Can you spot the enhancement? It's the Green Arrow. If you follow that arrow off the edge of the map and go another 3-and-a-half blocks, you'll come to 36th & Grand.
THAT'S RIGHT: Humidor was claiming Zimmerman/CPRT wanted to PRTify a place that no one was talking about PRTifying.
Kenjob should not take this as a total defeat though -- I've shown that Hippy Paradise is not in danger.
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Ken Avidor is the world's longest underwater tunnel
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The fibber's latest fibs
Bon jour gadgetbahners, I have indeed returned from a great holiday in France. So you can understand if I look down the list of the Minnesota anti-PRT propagandist's smelly output of the past two weeks, and simply smile at how trivial it (and he) is.
Ken Avidor has been a busy boy though. For entertainment purposes, the most fruitful of his prating have got to be his contributions to the Action Alameda News blog. The blog about life in that San Francisco Bay Area community1 had a post about Peter Calthorpe's pitch for redevelopment at Alameda Point (a, b; also here), and Avidor had to chime in with his usual Talking Points.
I'll skip over the old ones that have already been debunked, and focus on two interesting New Fibs. They are just as lame as New Coke.
1. Kenny-Boy wrote a letter to Action Alameda News, and signed it "Ken Avidor, Alameda." He lied so his smear job would gain the added legitimacy of local relevance. What do you call that -- a sock puppet address? But maybe he's really moved there! It's possible I guess. Advice: It's California, Kenwood, wear your sunscreen!
2. After his Minnesota residency is exposed by Atren, the Action Alameda author is intrigued enough to do a follow up. An interview with Ken is recounted, in which he talks about the origin of his PRT hatred:
...says that his opposition to PRT is rooted in his experience in 2004, watching the City of Minneapolis approve a study of a PRT system. Source
Interesting and moving, except for one thing: one of Kennel Ration's biggest claims to infamy, his seminal anti-PRT fearmongering cartoon, dates from April 23, 2003.
But wait -- on his own website, Kenwood wrote:
I first encountered the strange world of PRT in 1989, two years after I moved to Minneapolis from Manhattan. SourceC'mon Ken, which is it -- 1989, 2003, or 2004? Pick one and stick with it. Or are you doing that time-distortion thing you do so well???
Archives: He's ready for warmer climates in his Sonny Crockett blazer --
Related: Some of what I saw in France (@Viropop)
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Ken Avidor puts the IN in 'inaccuracy'
1. Hey Ken, have you picked up on the fact I was in the East Bay area in mid-July? Coincidence???
Thursday, July 24, 2008
See his Right-Wing Connection V: His newest fans
Hey PRTistas, take a gander at who's copying the moves of the Minnesota anti-PRT propagandist this time.
Birds of a-feather Photoshop together!
Yes, the right wing Death Star has looked at the contents of Ken Avidor's toolbox, and likes what it sees.
Also today: Q- "Who Will Stop Rep. Mark Olson?"
A- Apparently not the Dump Mark Olson Blog!
And...
Look who's Bachmann-bashing is #1! (hint: it's ours)
A- Apparently not the Dump Mark Olson Blog!
And...
Look who's Bachmann-bashing is #1! (hint: it's ours)
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Dare we hope Fox is planning a new show -- "Avidor & Colmes"?
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Like a Pig in Slop, and other bliss similes
Kiln Ovendoor the Minnesota anti-PRT propagandist must be in heaven. Not only has his new "Personal Rapid Transit is Bogus" blog rocketed to the top of the Google hit parade, but recent news has given new energy to the guilt-by-association side of his anti-innovation campaign. It's going to be an anti-PRT Surge (©Resmuglican National Committee)!
1. Kenwood has been getting in touch with his inner parole officer, tracking the release status and whereabouts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) of former Minneapolis councilman Dean Zimmermann (G-Your Hair Smells Terrific). As long as Kenmore is on the case, we can be sure Zimmermann will not be able to hold a job or live within 1,000 feet of a school -- because isn't bribery the kind of offense you should have to pay for the rest of your life?
2. State Rep. Slappy Olson (R-16 Candles) has decided to go for a promotion to the State Senate -- good news for Labridor's dusty Dump Mark Olson blog, which therefore gets a new lease on life. May that blog's record of accuracy live long and prosper!
Yes, the Zimmermann and Olson PRT-smear threads survive for another election cycle! If Humidor continues to be as successful as he has been at dumping Michele Bachmann, in a few months we should be saying a big hello to Mayor Zimmermann and Senator Olson!
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It's 11 pm -- do you know where your Ken Avidor is?
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Pics of the Day - "Skyweb Express" is all wet!
"Craig Horsfield’s Skyweb Express, USA655 at the St. Francis YC dock after winning the first West Coast Mini 650 Offshore Race. Congrats to Craig and his crew Tom on their achievement!"
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