...so this is the guy worried about Americans consuming too much??? BWAHAHAHAHA.
Posted on 12/09/2007 5:12:23 PM PST by chardonnay
Seattle - In an open letter to Santa last week and a speech to children at Seattle’s Annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Westlake Center, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels last week offered a Grinch-like tone, grumbling about climate change threatening Santa, telling kids “I hope the reindeer can swim,” and blaming them and their energy-sucking video games for melting Arctic ice.
As Nickels spoke, his assistants handed out stickers admonishing the crowd to “Save Santa.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpolicy.org ...
http://www.seattlechannel.org/news/detail.asp?ID=7946&Dept=40
This guy really believe this.
Good Lord, talk about forcing your religion on others...
“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”
- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day 1970
I get my newspaper by snail mail.
I TIVO the news & wait a week to watch it.
I stay on dial-up, so even my FreeRepublic gets here late.
“In an open letter to Santa last week and a speech to children at Seattle’s Annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony...”
It seems like a violation of the separation of Church and State to me.
Did he really say that? Nice one.
Let me know when it is time to start marketing my ‘Al, I still believe!’ bumper stickers...
I think it’s all about selling those light bulbs. Laurie David peddles them too.
I worry about the mayors mental health.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a “socialist scheme” designed to suck money out of rich countries...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/30/harper-kyoto.html
Didn't the northwest have like 110 mph frigid bone chilling winds last week?
Where was “climate change” as a mainstream issue just a few years ago?
Oh, so all of the sudden it’s upon us? The natural forces at work must’ve just happened overnight. I mean, look how everyone’s just gotten on board in such a short time. Even the Seattle mayor now. Gotta be real, right? Can’t possibly be some self-serving politician’s fictional issue.
Oh...Maybe this is caused by global warming...Er climate change...Or Atmospheric Suction and Syphon or “ASS”.
ID10T
Only a liberal (read: demented sociopath) would ever insert politics into something like this.
NOTHING is sacred to these people.
YEs, it was 30 degrees or so, and snowed here last Saturday, then, sunday it rained like heck and melted the snow, flooding all of Lewis county, closing I-5 for a week. Monday it was 58 degree’s. Currently 36 degrees.
on a side note, the ice in Antarctica is growing, so it’s not like Santa will be homeless. maybe he could use his magic and bring up the MV Explorer.
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Way to go, Gregory. Congratulations. Using the tree lighting to scare children was just brilliant. “I hope the reindeer can swim.” That was really appropriate, huh? Scaring children at Christmas and making them worry that Santa’s reindeer could drown was quite a way to make a political point.
I hope someone has that on film. You really deserve to be mocked in a short documentary film. If given the opportunity, it would a labor of love for me to produce it and stick it to you with a YouTube.
How about this message next time? Warn the children that they might be killed by an illegal alien in your sanctuary city as was Rebecca Griego. Her relatives need to sue your city into bankruptcy.
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Upland, CA
*snort*
Tell me this is a joke........please.
Do you remember the environmentals that went up to the north pole in May of this year?....it was 125 below zero and they froze their butts off!
Also on the weather page of the Wash post earlier in the year they asked this question:
“When was the last time the temperature at the north pole was above freezing”?
The answer was “never since we have been recording temperatures”.
Boy did they slip up!
Isn't that the truth!
...so this is the guy worried about Americans consuming too much??? BWAHAHAHAHA.
No. You're being too conservative. They had gusts as high as 129 MPH. Global warming. CAT 2 hurricane force winds blowing off the Pacific ocean onto the Oregon coast.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty248.htm
As to Seattle’s sanctuary law, Tina Griego suffered violent and unprovoked death by a gun toting illegal alien Jonathan Ghulam-Nabi Rowan. Rowan, a British subject was in the U.S. illegally. Police arrested him for drunken driving June 30, 2006. Seattle City law prohibits Seattle police from asking about immigration status.
“The Northwest has a particular problem with violent illegal aliens,” added CCRKBA ( Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms ) Executive Director Joe Waldron. “The last three peace officers killed in eastern Washington all died at the hands of illegal aliens. An illegal alien named Hector Francisco Diaz killed a man in Everett, WA last November. Prosecutors in Snohomish County won’t charge him with murder because they believe he acted in self-defense, but he remains in jail on drug-trafficking charges.
“These are the kinds of people that Seattle’s sanctuary law ultimately protects,” Waldron stated. “It’s a disgrace that the privacy of foreign criminals is more important than the safety of citizens.”
“Gun control fanatics like Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels often advocate ridiculous laws to inconvenience law-abiding firearms owners; you know, American citizens,” Gottlieb said, “on the grounds that ‘if it saves just one life, it’s worth it.’
Seattle’s sanctuary law cost Rebecca Griego her life
If Seattle’s city council does not repeal this law, they send a signal that protecting criminals who are here illegally has a higher priority than protecting innocent lives.”
We MUST stand up and demand that our media services report the whole truth; In ‘incidents’ (NOT”accidents”) such the one in Virginia Beach, VA— thirteen U.S. citizens per day (4,745 per year) are killed by illegal aliens in towns across the U.S. — “vehicular manslaughter,” and no crime-preventation enforcement.
Illegal aliens have killed 10 times the numbers of Americans here that we have lost in the war on terror in Afganistan and Iraq....the weather is more important, however to the left.
The dollar cost to take careof illegals may be more than $1 Trillion per year. Tennessee just reported almost a $300 billion annual cost to take care of illegals. We will be murdered, slaughtered and bankrupt for sure.
Anyone watch “King of the Hill” tonight. It was a classic. Playing on the idiocy of feeling guilty for all past wrongs.
Hate to say it, but no surprise. Seattle is the epicenter for liberalism in this state. People living on the east side of the Cascade mountains talk about becoming their own state. Can’t say that I blame them. The worse part is that the ‘rats are in complete control and have been for years.
How about doing something about the homeless littering the streets, mayor? What about the horrendous traffic problems in/around Seattle?
This guy is a world class idiot.
Mayor Greg is an idiot, and he only looks sane because his predecessor was Paul Schell.
Homeless folks defecating in front of my (rather high rent) apartment complex, heroin addicts panhandling and hustling for sex in broad daylight, mentally ill folks scaring the children at Seattle Center, more dogs than children, etc. Seattle is a smug place that does not see that it has no clothes.
“Seattle is the epicenter for liberalism in this state.”
You forgot to mention it’s the only place on the planet where you can still see a statue of Vladimir Lenin. And its loved by it’s Seattle residence.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WASEAlenin.html
Gee, I wonder if he shares these same thoughts with the stoners on the 8 year college plan who sink hours into gaming to help them 'deal' with the 'stress' of carrying 12 credit hours? No?
And, curious how Santa is ok to mention and not a figure tied to a - gasp! - religious holiday? Oh, wait, he was using Santa disparagingly, so that's ok.
This guy really believe this. Good Lord, talk about forcing your religion on others...
Well, he just wants to help us, his is the one true religion, you know, earth first and all the tree hugging.
Stench of dead fish. I remember that. I remember learning these things in grade school for earth day in the 1970s.
” We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic socialism and environmental policy.”
- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
How proudly they push socialism - then and now. And that’s the real progress, isn’t it? Whether or not there’s global warming, well, frankly who among them really cares? It won’t impact them. But in 30 or so short years, socialism is all over the place. And, at least tacitly, accepted by many.
Global Warming is a political movement designed to make al gore and friends lots of money...
plus to raise our taxes for spending on their liberal projects.
email the Mayor a picture of the growing ice in the South Pole. You better attach directions.
And yes, Seattle is a scary place to take your kids. We’ve had several policemen killed by gang bangers, and early release felons. Go to Pike Place Market and you’ll see drunken bums everywhere.
-BUT-
The worst area by far is the Rainier Beach area. There was a story last week about two kids badly beaten on a metro bus, then dragged off the bus and beaten some more. The driver did nothing!!!!
A King5 TV reporters mom was killed crossing the street. Hit-n-run. No one stopped to help the little tiny woman.
but Nickels spends his time worrying about light bulbs.
it’s sickening.
We need “Seperation of Earth and State”
I read something about environmentalism being like a religion or cult.
but we all knew that. I actually have always thought it was derived from native americans and their spiritism. And that goes hand in hand with Paganism and their Winterfest, and lallapalooza, crap.
Libs dream about frolicking braless in the parks. LMAO.
I just sent an email chronicling proof that Global Warming is a socialist scam to the mayor, the entire city council along with copies to Drudge and Oreilly.
;-)
I can see that. I thought of it as more of a kind of old Celtic paganism. But even so, I think they still only derive it from that, i.e., some who practice Celtic paganism or Native American spiritism may find it mutated and changed from it's intent to fit the enviro-whacko needs. For example, I'm thinking of the ELF(?) member who didn't lament her dead friend, killed in an act of enviro-terrorism, but rather urged us to lament the trees killed and the species being sent to extinction. (looking for link)
The mutation makes it hard for most to argue with and allows them to give it, artificially, a kind of purpose, sincerity and/or legitimacy that it really doesn't otherwise have.
Libs dream about frolicking braless in the parks. LMAO.
LMAO, indeed! Oh, now I have that imagery in my head.
I have vivid childhood memories of women, even in my small town, urging women to fight the oppression and burn their bras (and servitude). The neighborhood teenage boys would play guitar and sing 'Puff the Magic Dragon' to their child audiences. Ya can't make this stuff up! Oh, the 70's.
Yeah, algore's not getting any slimmer or poorer.
And it helps us see the need for and importance of a Global governing body - you know, to save us from ourselves.
I’ll paste mine next to my “Clap if you believe” sticker.
If a Democrat wins the presidency Global Warming stories will disappear.
Notice how there are no “homeless” or “middle class is struggling” stories in the mainstream media during Democratic presidencies?
chronicling proof? but the conversation is over...they’ve decided. Rudolph is going to drown.
do libs have ANY stories of hope?
Thirty years ago...Seattle would have been a great place to retire to. The town had a good bit going for it. But since the mid-70s....this is one of the towns I’d put real low on the retire-to list.
left coast, why am i not surprised
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