INTRODUCTION OF THE FLUSH TOILET DEPLORED AT EARTH SUMMIT

CNSNews.com ^ | 8-30-02 | Marc Morano

[KLT]

Since I've gotten my Clinton Toilet, it overflows all the time...Can't handle any toiletpaper...What a joy!

[KLT]

Ping y'all

[lsee]

The Story of Thomas Crapper

[Desdemona]

What next? The shower? Jeez, these people need to get a life.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why did I know Bill Moyers would be involved in this farse ?

[KLT]

These environmentalist wackos are trying to put us back a thousand years...they're nuts!

[Desdemona]

I do know people who comb salvage places for 3.5 gallon toilets. If it takes 3-4 flushes in a 1.6 gallon, isn't that defeating the purpose?

[Drango]

Why did I know Bill Moyers would be involved

Your TAX dollars at work...

[Prodigal Son]

I read an article yesterday where one of these green nuts were saying the Africans shouldn't have electricity either- said it destroyed their culture. It looks like to me the greens are not really interested in helping the poor African so much as sentencing him to eternal suffering.

[irish guard]

We live in the country and my kids (they are all boys) rarely use the inside toilet, unless it is dinner time or bedtime. when they are outside during the day, my wife catches them using the woods all the time. Does that make my family a bunch of lefty tree huggers like the Earth Summiteers?

[KarlInOhio]

The remark prompted an associate of Smith, CEI's Chris Horner, to ponder what alternative the woman would suggest. "Presumably the preferred solution to human waste problems is now abstinence," Horner quipped.

Considering that most attendees are full of crap up to eye level, I don't thing that abstinence is going to work much longer. BOOM!

[.38sw]

Yes, the shower would be next. When I was in college, I had to take Biology 101, which was primarily an "ecology" course. The professor who taught the course started the harangue on the wasteful ways of the US. He believed that we should scale back on our "amenities", which included how often we showered or bathed. He thought once a week was probably adequate. EEeeeeuw. As a side note, my roommate was in the dental hygiene school, and this professor came in for a cleaning. She said (I know, she shouldn't have told me) his tooth were horrible - it appeared that he rarely brushed, and certainly never flossed. Just doing his part to save the planet by conserving toothpaste and all of that water he'd use in brushing.

[hellinahandcart]

I've changed my mind. There should have been wall-to-wall network TV coverage of this summit, 2/4/7. Unedited. Everyone in the world needs to see this crap for themselves.

[Uncle Miltie]

"A female panelist from India complained that the flush toilet encourages excessive water consumption around the world and is not ecologically friendly."

On the other (that would be your left) hand, cholera, amoebic dysintery, giardia, and hepatitis are epidemic where flush toilets are not available.

Having used toilets and toilet paper in the U.S. and remained healthy, and my hand in Nepal where I contracted dysintery, I will stick with the cr*pper.

[cajungirl]

Astounding. The potty practically stopped fecal borne diseases. I guess their vision of africa is everyone with dysentery, sitting in the dark, poor but feeling oh so one with nature. These people are going over the edge,,sort of fun to watch!!

[hellinahandcart]

And boy did you fool me. When I saw the title, I thought you were posting another BSNN parody.

[Black Agnes]

Now we know why the eckowackos always *smell* to high heaven!

[Desdemona]

"Does that make my family a bunch of lefty tree huggers like the Earth Summiteers?"

No, but you're out in the country. When members of my circle are in the country, it's the same way.

For those of us who live in cities, this would be a huge mess. Sanitation-wise cities would revert back to disease centers. Before decent sanitation, every city had regular epidemics of cholera and legioneers. The flush toilet helped rid us of losing a quarter of the population every few years.

[07055]

I guess they think we should all do what the "indigenous" people do---defecate in the river upstream from your village.

[Desdemona]

"Does that make my family a bunch of lefty tree huggers like the Earth Summiteers?"

No, but you're out in the country. When members of my circle are in the country, it's the same way.

For those of us who live in cities, this would be a huge mess. Sanitation-wise cities would revert back to disease centers. Before decent sanitation, every city had regular epidemics of cholera and legioneers. The flush toilet helped rid us of losing a quarter of the population every few years.