Hill Dems say Republicans are trying to give them cancer -- with Styrofoam cups...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/148027-dems-congress-styrofoam-cups-could-cause-cancer ^

[Billthedrill]

The letter asks Boehner to reconsider the switch away from recyclable...

WHAT??!? Switch away from recyclable? These monsters are deliberately trying to kill us all with global warming and turn Mother Gaia into a trashpile! They're killing the polar bears, that's what they're doing!! They're evil, slimy KKKorporate operatives in bed with Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Union Sanitation Engineers!!!

I'm oppressed.

But I had this idea, see...we make plates and cups out of, oh, I dunno, fired clay, and after we use them we wash them. It's sustainable, guys. Sustainable.

[MaxMax]

Gee, who is paying for what goes in the cup?
I say cut all freebies to RATs, WE WON!

[raybbr]

Pelosi needles GOP over return of styrofoam cups

The top Democrat and former Speaker said that the House will now send 535 more tons of waste to landfills due to a change in policy under the GOP-held House.

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Five hundred and thirty five tons of Styrofoam works out to 138,961,038.96 cups based on 3.5g/cup.

That works out to 259,740.25 cups for each member of Congress.

I get the feeling she's exaggerating.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

A group of Democrats complain Styrofoam cups in the House cafeteria could contain carcinogens.

Mindless superstition, as are many environmentalist concerns these days.

[Jim Robinson]

These freaking dimwits can't even manage their own coffee breaks, yet they want to micro-manage every aspect our lives.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? ~~Ronald Reagan

[kcvl]

If they are whining about such insignificant crap can you imagine what will happen if there are REAL CUTS?!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Somebody tell these dimwits not to eat the cups.

No, tell them that paint chips make a tasty desert...

[kcvl]

She is lying!

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Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” Initiative Turns out to be Massive Waste of Resources

The LA Times has an excellent report detailing the miserable failure of Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative which involved using “cornstarch-based knives, forks and spoons” instead of plastic. Per all supposed “green initiatives,” rather than save resources, it wasted them, en masse.

It turns out that the composting program not only cost the House an estimated $475,000 a year (according to the House inspector general) but actually increased energy consumption in the form of “additional energy for the pulping process and the increased hauling distance to the composting facility,” according to a news release from Lungren.

As far as carbon emissions were concerned, Lungren concluded that the reduction was the “nominal ... equivalent to removing one car from the road each year.” He plans to switch the House to an alternate waste-management system recommended by the Architect of the Capitol, in which dining-service trash would be incinerated and the heat energy captured.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=34537

[chris_bdba]

Hint to the dems...BRING your own cup! DUH

[hattend]

Dems, bring your own cups from home and we, the taxpayers, will stop buying styrocups for your cafeteria...how about that?

[MaxMax]

This probably a planned first stage as an attempt to scare the Repubs.
It worked before which is why most here call them cowards.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

A true environmentalist would bring his own washable cup.

And would use several quarts of water to do it, flushing detergent into the sewer system and increasing energy usage by turning on the hot water tap. That's how most true environmentalists roll.

[jazusamo]

That works out to 259,740.25 cups for each member of Congress.

I get the feeling she's exaggerating.

Good one, it would seem so. LOL!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Boehner should just walk over and blow a little cigarette smoke in their faces...

[SMM48]

I guess the Dems think that's the biggest problem facing the country.

Must be nice to live in their world.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I suggest any concerned Libs BRING THEIR OWN FREAKING GLASSES!!!!!

[BuffaloJack]

The dems probably don’t know that styrofoam was originally invented to insulate heat sensitive components in the first hydrogen bomb.

[Nebr FAL owner]

LOL well done & very funny if it weren’t so close to reality.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

This is beyond ridiculous. Why don’t they take they’re thug unions and mob corruption and savior THEY were waiting for:Obama and start their own communist country.This divide of good people and independents vs radical commiecrats has gone too far.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I suggest they switch to paper products made by Georgia Pacific. :D