Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Mark Steyn: Happy Earth Day!
"Happy Earth Day! April 22nd is the day when President Obama and the rest of the gang demonstrate their commitment to saving the planet by flying in to plant a tree somewhere. And say what you like but, when you're looking for fellows who know how to dig a huge hole, Obama and Harry Reid are pretty much at the top of the list. My township in New Hampshire is 90 per cent forested, but you can never have too many trees, so on Earth Day I always like to plant a couple more, get the tree cover in my town up to 97, 98 per cent, whatever it takes to send climate change into reverse. Of course, it's always a big pain in the neck the morning after Earth Day, when the holiday's over, and it's time to take down the trees. So these days I generally just plant artificial trees with the nice silvery tinselly branches, and then you can just take them down and put 'em in the attic till next year's Earth Day."
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The End of the World/Humans are a Insect Plague crowd will be in their element today in Woodstock.
I'm going to enjoy a 10 mile bicycle ride and rehearse later with my kid band.
Steyn is fun to read, especially when he rats out this pseudo-religious cult.
No mention of Jesus, God, Christianity, etc., etc. allowed in Government schools on penalty of expulsion, but you can bet they're forcing our kids to celebrate the hell out of this pagan, pseudo religion today. Green, Eco-anything, Solar, Wind, Sustainable, Bio et al are the new religious terms that shall not be questioned.
They want a theoretical paradise for plants and animules that would take us (but not them) back to the 18th Century.
It's Earth Day for me all year long because all year long I have to police-up my property, plus all the secondary roads in my vicinity. Why? Because if I (and the other evil meany property owners) didn't, the Obama voters, who consider it their right to litter the countryside by throwing anything and everything out of their cars, would turn the earth into DRECK in no time flat if their "oppressors" didn't clean up after them. But don't hold your breath waiting for environmentalists to point a finger at the noble poor.
Happy Earth Day!
If I tried what that obnoxious broad does in that video my teeth would be knocked out in no time flat. I don't get it how some folks get in other folks' face without consequence.
I watched an episode of Cosmos last night. It dealt with two subjects, uranium-lead dating and lead in the environment, tied together by a single researcher who was involved with both issues.
I expected preaching but was a little shocked by the blunt object to the head nature of the propaganda. The villains were corporations and the heroes were the noble independent researcher and the government, in particular, Ed Muskie.
Admittedly the environmentalists got one right on removing lead from gasoline, but my disgust was with the heavy handed propaganda techniques they used to make that point.
They used animated cartoons - I suppose in an appeal to younger viewers - to tell their story. The corporate researcher and bigwigs were portrayed as evil-eyed men with bad intent while the noble independent researcher and Muskie were Disneyesque heroes defending the world against the greedy, murderous corporations.
The message was clear but subtlety and objectivity were completely lacking. It was probably effective in pushing the agenda they wanted to push - an agenda which had nothing to do with environmental lead.
Re: Steyn
"I'll have the rhino" is a great line.
Rabel, the New Cosmos lost me on episode one. That is Game of Thrones and Mr. Selfridge night anyway.
Gaia is religious and yet, it's cool. Mother Earth is your friend until she isn't.
On Earth Day, I try to pee outside for most of the day. Just bought a 12 pack, so, here, we, go...
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