Posted on 04/22/2009 7:28:21 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
As I sit here in my idling SUV (just kidding), I’d like to mark this day by honoring those individuals who have made actual positive differences in the world. These people have made indelible marks on human life. Yet, due to the new world radical religion of “environmentalism” which has infiltrated our schools, stores, media, and government, their contributions have been minimized, ignored, condemned, or denounced.
First and foremost, I’d like to recognize is a brave Polish Catholic woman named Irena Sendler. A nurse in Nazi-occupied Poland, Ms. Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi death camps by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and transferring them to Catholic families to raise as their own. Even though Ms. Sendler was ultimately arrested by the Gestapo for her actions and suffered bone-breaking beatings, she did not give up her struggle. Even though most of their parents were exterminated in the camps, the children she saved grew up, most likely, to become parents themselves. Irena Sendler’s story is so compelling that this past Sunday CBS aired a movie about her, starring Anna (“X-Men”) Paquin and Goran (“E/R”) Visnjic.
You might be thinking at this point what the heck a nurse from WWII Poland has to do with Earth Day. I’m getting to that.
In 2007 Irena Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Surely, few would disagree that this prize was tailor-made for a person who exhibited this level of bravery and moral courage during one of the darkest eras of world history. But Ms. Sendler went to her grave last year at age 98 without the Nobel Peace Prize. The person she lost to was none other than … wait for it … Al Gore. The Nobel
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thanks for the interesting historical note!
Ira Einhorn, Earth Day’s Dirty Secret
http://www.magic-city-news.com/Editor_s_Desk_34/Ira_Einhorn_Earth_Day_s_Dirty_Secret_57095709.shtml
“You won’t find Ira Einhorn’s name listed in any of the Earth Day promotional literature, as the organizers have taken great pains to distance themselves from this man, at least since he became better known for composting his girlfriend in a trunk in his closet for a couple of years in the late 1970s.”
On Earth Day, this documentary should be “mandatory viewing” by everyone.... LOL...
It’s one thing to gripe and complain about these things and disagree with it, but it’s quite *another* to convince your friends and neighbors and relatives and coworkers...
THEREFORE..., it’s also absolutely necessary for people to know the information in the following documentary. If there were simply *one* video that you could see and/or show people you know... this would be the *one*...
The following is an *excellent* video documentary on the so-called “Global Warming” I would recommend it to all FReepers. It’s a very well-made documentary.
“The Great Global Warming Swindle”
If you want to download it, via a BitTorrent site (using a BitTorrent client), you can get it at the following link.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3635222/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
[this is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size...]
It’s worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.
Also, see it online here...
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/great_global_warming_swindle.php
[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course...]
Buy it here...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WLUXZE
[this one would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...]
For your Earth Day entertainment: a cutaway view of the Orion space battleship, an actual 4,000-ton nuclear-powred space battleship design from the real world created in the 1960s that could have actually been built. This baby had three 5" guns, three CASABA-HOWITZER nuclear cannons, and a whole crapload of nuclear missiles. It would have made the United States an invincible power, and could have carried a crew of a hundred or so to Saturn and back in a year or so.
The Orion program was canceled in 1965.
Image ©2009 Scott Lowther. All rights reserved.
I’m celebrating Earth-to-Environuts Day.
I’m going to White Castle. I’m going to sit in the drive-through line with the engine running (my ULEV Honda Element won’t do much damage, but I’ll be spewing alot of water vapor out there!) while I order 25 or 30 sliders.
I’ll be polluting the air BIG TIME tomorrow.
You’ve been warned.
Happy birthday Vladimir Lenin!
Earth day? When is it NOT earth day? I guess we live on MARS the other 364 days....
The Late George Carlin said it best:
I’m tired of f’ing Earth Day, I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a s—t about the planet. They don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are f’d. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We’ve been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we’re a threat? That somehow we’re gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floatin’ around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!
Wow.
You guys/gals all crack me up! Carlin, (White) Castle, and Clubbing. I love this FR! - ETR
1.Take the family for a LONG joy ride -just for the heck of it.
2.Come home, turn on ALL the electrical things in the house and see how fast you can make the meter turn.
3.Get the kids a bunch of cans of ‘Silly String’ to play with.
4. Eat microwave dinners. -you know, the ones with in plastic trays...
5. Get your cars oil changed!
6. Have a fine cigar.
“The Great Global Warming Swindle”
On Earth Day, this documentary should be “mandatory viewing” by everyone.... LOL...
The following should be mandatory reading for anyone who would consider "The Great Global Warming Swindle" a reliable source of scientific information:
PURE PROPAGANDA - THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE
"On March 11 the Observer published a letter from a group of climate scientists responding to Durkin’s film: “This programme misrepresented the state of scientific knowledge on global warming, claiming climate scientists are presenting lies. This is an outrageous statement... “We defend the right of people to be sceptical, but for C4 to imply that the thousands of scientists and published peer-reviewed papers, summarised in the recent international science assessment, are misguided or lying lacks scientific credibility and simply beggars belief.” (Alan Thorpe, Natural Environment Research Council, Brian Hoskins, University of Reading, Jo Haigh, Imperial College London, Myles Allen, University of Oxford, Peter Cox, University of Exeter, Colin Prentice, QUEST Programme, letter to the Observer, Sunday March 11, 2007)
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