i think i'll burn the trash tonight just for them...
Posted on 06/29/2010 12:47:40 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Apparently the "rockets' red glare" isn't "green" enough for some environmentalists.
Fourth of July fireworks displays have been deemed "ecologically hazardous" by some eco-warriors, who are urging environmentally-conscious Americans to shun the tradition.
[F]ireworks shows spray out a toxic concoction that rains down quietly into lakes, rivers and bays throughout the country," wrote the Mother Nature Network's Russell McLendon on June 30. "Many of the chemicals in fireworks are also persistent in the environment, meaning they stubbornly sit there instead of breaking down."
McLendon suggested avoiding fireworks and finding other ways to celebrate Independence Day. "The most eco-friendly alternative to fireworks is to forgo explosions altogether - go to a parade, go fishing, grill out, or help out," he wrote.
According to the writer, those stubborn traditionalists who insist on seeing "the sky festively illuminated" can always "try a laser light show" - which McLendon says is the eco-friendly - albeit, lame - way to celebrate the Fourth....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Why do rational people still live in California? I say we leave to the fruits, nuts, illegals, peacecreeps and that crew. Let them completely ruin it and we’ll go back in in a generation or so and reclaim it.
*sigh*
It can't be.
Red is from strontium, Green is usually from barium.
Just you wait until 0bamaCare is in full swing.
They aren’t going to let the American slaves do ANYTHING that they deem too costly to their socialized medicine. And it is THEIRS, it isn’t yours—you will be a line item, a loss...just a drain on their resources.
Woohoo! Most of you have absolutely NO IDEA of what is heading your way.
Fireworks will be the least of your worries.
These a-holes won’t be happy until we’re all back in caves, wearing grass skirts, eating roots and tubers, and scratching for lice.
When we used to make our own fireworks, we used copper sulfate for green.
The globalists must eliminate all acts of patriotism.
To hell with these people. They are the reason BP had to drill in 5000 ft. of water. I’m not ever listening to them.
Funny, they don’t sue to stop chemtrails.
i think i'll burn the trash tonight just for them...
Always winter, never Christmas for the libs. What killjoys.
Always winter, never Christmas for the libs. What killjoys.
I'm not foregoing anything. I'm going to shoot off ALL the fireworks I want to AND I'm also going fishing, grilling out, and whatever else I want to do that's non-green. The green nanny-state types just need to shove it. In fact, I think I'll shoot off a few extra really smokey ones just for that crackpot.
Can some FReeper let me know when I slipped through the mirror and into No-So-Wonderland? If you would have told this story to my 21 year-old self, I would called the men in the white suits for you.
Oh...GO....AWAY...you fools!
I believe they actually signed the Declaration on the second or third. It took until the fourth to have it printed.
They don’t want people to be able to enjoy ANYTHING.
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