'Hope everyone had a Nerf Day of fun....
Posted on 04/22/2012 5:33:01 PM PDT by Freemarkets101
Just about every web story reporting on Earth Day is published with the picture of a tree, which I find rather sappy. Sorry, bad joke. It's worth the few chuckles though.
In case you forgot (not that I'm passing any judgement), today is Earth Day, the holiday when self-righteous greenies have fun being all self-righteous and stuff.
And, apparently, we are supposed to turn off our lights and televisions for the day. Fat chance.
Earth Day organizers have called on people worldwide to pledge "one billion acts of green." Those pledges range from residents turning off lights in their homes, to using mass transit for travel to work, to eating locally grown food. ...
What's funny is, a good portion of these environmental do-gooders are going to be Facebooking and Tweeting about how they are abstaining from electronics for the day.
Much has changed in the U.S. since the first Earth Day 42 years ago - a time when many factories still were allowed to belch considerable amounts of smoke and pollutants into the air, and cars burned fuel containing lead, a dangerous automobile-exhaust pollutant. Over the following decades the nation's Environmental Protection Agency was established, and federal and local jurisdictions enacted many laws protecting air and water supplies, and endangered species of animals and plants.
I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or not, but it just so happens that Vladimir Lenin's birthday falls on Earth Day, which means he was born precisely 100 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated.
This puts things into perspective.
'Hope everyone had a Nerf Day of fun....
One of the funniest things I can remember was about 5 years ago and one of our members ran an ebay ad asking people to bid to save his trees. If not he was going to burn them in honor of “earf-day”. He showed a picture of some trees and was threatening to pull the baby tree up by the roots! It was a hoot!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Every month on a Sunday night they are out there making noise and kicking up the dust and making every dog in town bark its head off at the incessant local roundy round race track....
...but tonight, I praise and encourage them to burn gas to their hearts content.
It’s Earth Day and once again time for the commie left to wish Vladimir Lenin a happy birthday.
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