EDITORIAL: The hippie holiday--Humanity haters bemoan life on Earth Day

The Washington Times ^ | April 20, 2011 | Editorial

[jazusamo]

Tomorrow is Good Friday, the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified. More important to many is that it’s also Earth Day, the annual gala that’s taken on the trappings of a pagan religious holiday. At some level, it’s good to celebrate Earth, the source of life and home of humanity. After all, we have to live somewhere. Environmentalists, however, seem divided between those who venerate the planet as a deity and those who think it’s so fragile that it must be saved from everyone but themselves.

Newsweek magazine dismissed the first Earth Day in 1970 as “a bizarre nationwide rain dance.” The only difference between then and now is that the rain dancers moved into the government and pushed their views on impressionable school children around the world. The Environmental Protection Agency website encourages kids to “Join with other teens to green your energy scene,” because nothing says “cool” quite like earning the EPA’s coveted title of “Climate Ambassador.” Instead of a “rain dance,” kids can help save the planet by downloading a rap tune by bureaucrats with inspiring lyrics like:

The USA is where we are to kick a new trend and to raise the bar.

The climate is changing and that’s a fact,

Bears don’t know when to take a nap,

On top of that it won’t be cool when the flood waters rise and mosquitoes rule.

It’s time to get off the couch and start to move.

Honestly, the lame song keeps going like that for five minutes...

[theDentist]

Tomorrow is Good Friday, the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

Ummm, tomorrow is Thursday, the day before Good Friday.

[PuzzledInTX]

Tomorrow is NOT Good Friday, rather Holy Thursday.

[screaminsunshine]

Obamas America will end up like a giant “Hog Farm” like the one in Taos in the 60’s. If anyone is old enough to remember. I wonder if LSD has somehow mutated genes that have passed down through the DNA chain?

[BykrBayb]

Doesn’t Good Friday usually fall on a Friday?

[jazusamo]

It’s the way The Washingtion Times releases their editorials.

[jazusamo]

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[newfreep]

earth day was chosen on the 100th birthdate of Vladimir Lenin.

Not a coincidence.

[PuzzledInTX]

Earth Day is Thursday, April 21. No way is it on Good Friday, April 22. This is an error, not an early editorial release.

[IronJack]

I use Earth Day as the day in which I dump all my old paint, solvents, herbicides, and toxic stuff into the nearest "wetland." It's my way of giving back to Mother Nature, who has given me so many hippies, tree-huggers, and job-killers.

Of course, the surreptitious nature of my celebration dictates that it be more of an Earth Wee Hours of the Morning.

[jazusamo]

I wonder if LSD has somehow mutated genes that have passed down through the DNA chain?

LOL! If it does there's a lot of offspring from the hippies of the 60's that are in trouble. :-)

[jazusamo]

This is supposed to be tomorrows editorial.

[trisham]

Doesn’t Good Friday usually fall on a Friday?

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LOL! Unless it falls on a Thursday, apparently. I'm not sure how that works. :)

[Berlin_Freeper]

Table Lamp Day.

[jazusamo]

PS

My calendar says Earth Day is Friday.

[PuzzledInTX]

I understand what you are trying to claim, yet

Tomorrow is Good Friday, the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified. More important to many is that it’s also Earth Day

The author is stating that Good Friday = Earth Day, which is incorrect.

[BykrBayb]

I guess if retailers can have Christmas in July sales, there can be a Good Friday on Thursday.

[dead]

Doesn’t Good Friday usually fall on a Friday?

Friday

[pnh102]

I will not tolerate this shoving of dirt-worship religion down my throat.

[PuzzledInTX]

Perhaps because the original Earth Day of April 22, falls on a holiday, our company is 'celebrating' Earth Day on April 21. I googled the date for 2001 and have not found an official date. No worries. I just wondered if the editiorial staff was indeed editing.