Posted on 04/19/2009 7:51:44 AM PDT by lakeprincess
Hug a tree. Recycle. But don't forget the biodegradable "green" poop bags to ensure your dog has a small carbon pawprint. Yes, Earth Day has come to this.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
You can also buy a bamboo toilet seat for your potty training baby, it is packaged in recycled cardboard also....
label says GO GREEN EARLY...
just one catch.....it is made in China...LOL
Isn’t Earth Day also ...... Lenin’s Birthday?
And I feel like the Romanov family being led to the cellar.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities— his eternal power and divine nature— have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator— who is for ever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worth while to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practise them.
I guess I will celbrate by getting into my V8 truck and driving a couple of hundred miles over Mother Earth. Maybe I’ll buy a gun while I’m out.
Oh why, oh why do I hate those cloth shopping bags?
There are those who tout both the use of cloth shopping bags and the proposed 10-cent-per-plastic-bag surcharge for those who want to “buy” plastic bags.
And they tout the reasoning as being “more green” and “more environmentally friendly.”
Really? Not hardly. If you look at what a typical shopper actually buys, based upon what stores actually sells, we will see that this is nothing more than a scam...and that the plastic bags make up very little of the plastic that shoppers actually buy — and later throw away or recycle. In fact, the plastic bags make up so little of the plastic shoppers buy, that it is silly to think in terms of vilifying plastic bags as being an environmental villain.
Here’s a very partial list of all the plastic shoppers buy: Milk is bottled in plastic bottles. Soft drinks are bottled in plastic bottles. Motor oil is bottled in plastic bottles. Bottles of shampoo? Plastic.
Conditioner? Plastic. Tubs of margarine? Plastic tubs. How is meat wrapped? Plastic wrapping. Some magazines have plastic wrapping. Small alarm clocks are made of plastic. Various foods for human and animal consumption are canned in plastic.
One of my plastic favorites: A ten-pack of disposable razors made out of plastic that are wrapped in plastic.
Baby oil comes in plastic. Hand lotion comes in plastic. Mouthwash comes in plastic. Toothbrushes are made entirely of plastic. Dental floss comes in plastic boxes and the plastic box is wrapped in plastic.
Now consider the typical computer, stereo, TV, and car. Lots of plastic.
Some cars are touted as having mostly plastic body panels (dent resistant).
But let’s limit our discussion to all the plastic a typical grocery store shopper buys and discards/recycles and not all the plastic that may eventually enter our landfills.
Take a real look at all the plastic used to bottle, can. and wrap all the various items in a grocery cart — many of which, like razors and toothbrushes, are themselves made of plastic.
Realistically, a plastic bag can hold a plastic tub of margarine, a plastic bottle of shampoo, a ten-pack of plastic razors wrapped in plastic, a plastic toothbrush, and a pound of plastic-wrapped meat.
But guess what the villain is in all that plastic? The plastic bag.
And guess what cloth-bag-advocate frown upon as they fill up their cloth bags with plastic things, tubs, bottles, containers, and wrapping that the typical person, including many cloth-bag advocates, will simply throw away without a second thought? The plastic bag.
Let’s be realistic people. Unless the cloth-bag advocates are next going to suggest that everyone bring in their empty plastic shampoo and plastic milk bottles to be re-filled from a giant barrel in the store (we buy gas from a hose; why not milk and shampoo?), both they and us have to use common sense and realize that the plastic bag is not the real problem here. The plastic bag doesn’t even rate a “minor-problem” status.
The plastic bag is a miniscule problem. Miniscule because the amount of plastic in plastic bags is dwarfed by the amount of plastic used to make/package the stuff that goes in the bag. And it is miniscule because people like me save and reuse those convenient plastic bags.
And unlike cloth-bag users, I don’t have to waste water washing them.
And how many pandas have to suffer for just one privileged American baby bottom????/s
Isn’t Hitler’s birthday around the same time?
This earth day stuff is sounding more and more like “ Wiccan Worship “
Yes, and the first Earth Day in 1970 was on Lenin’s 100th birthday.
My goodness - thank you!
Well thought out, written cogently and to the point, on topic as well.
So, you don’t stand a chance as a MSM reporter...... and that’s out gain! Thanks again.
Good point! I go to a food co-op ( hippy store) to buy some bulk food items and it always cracks me up that they have 3 different sizes of plastic bags and containers to put your stuff in.
Many environmental laws expand government, (with its bureacracy rules and regulations,) over land and water use for economic purposes. The costs of permits and studies themselves are helping to eliminating small business operators, let alone the regulatory affects of rules on where one can operate, at what season and how. These regulations are often used to reallocate private property to others. For instance, long-held water use rights are allocated to fishing or “environmental” use.
Statewide environmental regulations are being used to change our system of government by imposing unelected “regional” bodies such as integrated regional water management groups. Statewaide “watershed initiatives are being used to cut out locally elected County government and over-ride them with state controlled initiatives and policies. The State is regionally imposing such regulatory schemes as “Smart Growth.” The State is importing European social models of resource management processes. (See California Water Plan.) These emphasize that the “community” through guided visioning will decide how privately owned resources will be developed and used.
Unelected agencies such as the regional water quality control boards are imposing more and more extensive regulation on water and land use, touching every aspect of activity with control - on top of other layers of regulation by the Dept. of Fish and Game, Dept. of Geology and Cal-Fire (Dept. of Forestry.)
We import more and more of our raw products from other countries as we are no longer able to produce them ourselves. Our basic economic infrastructure is being destroyed. For instance, three more timber mills have closed just this year.
There is no mistake, the Green movement is a movement to a political, economic and social system which is directly in opposition to a free land where individual liberties are protected by government.
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