The Greenest Show on Earth: Democrats Gear Up for Denver

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 06/25/08 | STEPHANIE SIMON

[GOP_Lady]

The Greenest Show on Earth: Democrats Gear Up for Denver From Organic Fanny Packs to 'Pure' Trash, Party Planners Face Logistical Nightmare By STEPHANIE SIMON June 25, 2008; Page A1 DENVER -- As the Mile High City gears up to host a Democratic bash for 50,000, organizers are discovering the perils of trying to stage a political spectacle that's also politically correct. Consider the fanny packs. With biodegradable balloons and organic snacks, Denver Democrats hope to stage the "greenest convention" ever. See examples. The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.

[GOP_Lady]

[PeteB570]

I bet it would be hard to find a large order of fried chicken gizzards anywhere around the joint.

Chicken Gizzards with a dash of hot sauce - finger food for when I’m driving.

[GOP_Lady]

"Convention organizers hired the first-ever Director of Greening, longtime environmental activist Andrea Robinson. Her response to the mayor's challenge: "That terrifies me!'"

[Man50D]

Will they be travelling to Denver by horse and buggy?

[GOP_Lady]

An official “carbon advisor” was hired.

Also, no fried foods.

[GOP_Lady]

“To test whether celebratory balloons advertised as biodegradable actually will decompose, Ms. Robinson buried samples in a steaming compost heap. She hired an Official Carbon Adviser, who will measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed. The Democrats hope to pay penance for those emissions by investing in renewable energy projects.”

[clintonh8r]

This is going to be so much fun to watch....too bad Hillary won't be a major player to stir things up.

I pity the citizens of Denver (at least the few conservatives who live there).

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Decked out in (brown) shirts, 900 volunteers will hover at waste-disposal stations to make sure delegates put each scrap of trash in the proper bin. Lest a fork slip into the wrong container unnoticed, volunteers will paw through every bag before it is hauled away.”

Trash Nazis, LOL!

[GOP_Lady]

Dennis Prager had fun with this on his radio show today:

http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&ContentGuid=6ede98f5-b904-44b2-9196-8eed36eff232

[clintonh8r]

I guess a smoke-filled back-room would be out of the question, then.......

[GOP_Lady]

Well, Diana, luckily chocolate is not on the ban list IF they can get it locally. LOL.

[Man50D]

They can prove their dedication to environmentalism by holding their convention in a compost heap.

[GOP_Lady]

Indeed, the best place for RATs. :-)

[thefactor]

i read this. can you post the picture of the girl who is in charge of the event? she is smokin hot from the pixelated WSJ photo!

[GOP_Lady]

Ahhh, can I think on that one?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This is going to be quite the spectacle. The only thing that could make it better for me would be if ‘The Beast’ shows up with a cadre of lawyers and ruins all the fun. :)

[thefactor]

here she is! hottie!

[Mr_Moonlight]

organic snacks

Always puzzles me how there can be any distinction between "organic" food and its so-called nemesis "inorganic food" .... ALL food is organic in one sense or another, unless one eats rocks only for nutrition, then it would be "mineralic" or whatever.

What pure nonsense, to corrupt use of the word "organic" to mean only food that is elitist. PC run amok again.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, this will sell well to the tired, pissed off parent who comes home and is trying to figure out how to feed their kids something filling because they just spent too much of their food budget to pay for the $4.50 a gallon gas they need to get to work, then tunes in to this psychotic farce to listen to this gaggle of matriarchal social engineers tell them that 'drilling is not the answer' and they'll have to submit to The Nanny State's will if they want a mind-numbed delusion of a comfortable existence.

My self-control is reaching critical mass.

[GOP_Lady]

[GOP_Lady]

“Coors Conflict

But it’s almost inevitable that principles, politics and profit will conflict. To wit: Coors Brewing Co., in Golden, Colo., will donate biofuel made from beer waste to power the convention’s fleet of flex-fuel vehicles. A green star for the convention — but it has rankled die-hard liberals, who boycotted Coors in the 1960s and ‘70s to protest hiring practices that they said discriminated against blacks, Latinos, women and gays. Heirs to the Coors fortune have long been active in conservative causes and Republican politics.

Convention officials say Coors is a good corporate citizen. And a Coors spokeswoman says the donation was a gesture of civic pride, not politics.”

[EGPWS]

As the Mile High City gears up to host a Democratic bash for 50,000, organizers are discovering the perils of trying to stage a political spectacle that's also politically correct.

That's easy for a liberal.

At the risk of helping them with their cause, I would recommend "Fiji bottled water", only allowed female delegates to be single and pregnant, they ALL (no matter where they reside) walk or jog to get there without help of EVIL fossil fuels (crawl if they can't walk for the cause....) take a bike but stay off of evil oil generated bituminous roads and maintain a steady diet of alfalfa sprouts for sustenance.

Please don't show this to a liberal to give them any idea's.

[thefactor]

here is the real one. looks even better! i'd let her run my convention.

[GOP_Lady]

She looks a little “GREEN” to me to be running a national party convention!

[GOP_Lady]

[listenhillary]

The Coming Fascist State

http://constitutionclub.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/the-coming-fascist-state/#comment-16668

Discussed here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036305/posts

[GOP_Lady]

Thanks!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

It would be quite apropos if their delegates arrived via mass transportation:

[clintonh8r]

Um, Andrea....could you “green” this for me. please?

[ThomasThomas]

If they were serious they ban all private jets to the convention.

[GOP_Lady]

Hey, they don't have to be, but we do. Why can't they use GoToMeeting.com?

[Humble Servant]

I hate organic food. My wife keeps putting “organic” this and “organic” that on the shopping list. I refuse to buy it. It takes more acreage to produce the same amount of food, resulting in starvation for the poorest people in the world, and is vastly more expensive than modern farming, yields a product that is smaller, less attractive, more perishable, and doesn’t taste as good. All at an increased shelf cost of 20-70%, (only 30% of which I’m guessing can be production-related expense—everything else is the same), in return for NO BENEFIT WHATSOEVER, except for making her feel like she’s some kind of Superior Being for being “or-GAN-ic!”. It’s as big a fraud as Global Warming, and I refuse to go along with it.

Grrrrrrr....

[maine-iac7]

"Director of Greening"..."official carbon advisor”

Hilarious...at first.

And then you realize: If obamama get's into the WH, these new positions will be coming to your town in the not to distant future.

After all, the obamama has already warned us: "You can't eat as much as you want to."

So will he tell us. not only how much we can eat, but WHAT we can eat?

I do believe that would perfectly reasonable in the minds of these totalitarians.

[GOP_Lady]

AN UNRELATED STORY: I was at my dentist. The dental assistant says, “My daughter is painting her room green.” I asked why, and she said something about the planet. I shook my head and said, “Don't let them brainwash your child.”

I was at a mall. The kids made huge paper globes. One globe had signs on it saying, “NO HUNTING” and “NO FISHING.”

What are they teaching the children?

[GOP_Lady]

Indeed. He’s telling us exactly what he will do.

[maine-iac7]

from the pixelated WSJ photo!

It isn't pixelated - it's a pen and ink rendering in a style called pointillism.

[GOP_Lady]

She should be photo-shopped with GREEN hair and teeth. Can you do that for us?

[GOP_Lady]

Well, I’m doing my part — I have GREEN EYES! :-)

[Enchante]

YUM..... the only good thing about an Obama presidency could be if she is appointed Director of the EPA.

On 2nd thought, or trying not to “think” with my other “brain”...... any Democrat socialist is a terrible choice for EPA, no matter how nice her molecules may look to me..... :^)

[GOP_Lady]

GREEN PING!

[Mr_Moonlight]

Global Warming™, and its subsidiary Climate Change™ are also based on a corruption of language which pits all life forms against that dreaded awful poison: CARBON !!!

Well, here is some awful news for all those anti-carbon purveyors on late night television and all over the internet: Carbon, if you haven't heard, is the basis for ALL forms of life! Yessiree, add a bit of Carbon to some other stuff, mix well, ask for God's help, and voila! .... LIFE. Ain't that amazing?

[GOP_Lady]

Oh, and I'm wearing my GREEN hoodie. That means I DOUBLE CARE! (I feel so much better now.)

[maine-iac7]

It would be quite apropos if their delegates arrived via mass transportation:

More apropos by "Donkey" cart - of course, the donkey's would have a problem with all the baggage the dimRats carry...

[Mr_Moonlight]

Yeah, this will sell well to the tired, pissed off parent who comes home and is trying to figure out how to feed their kids something filling because they just spent too much of their food budget to pay for the $4.50 a gallon gas they need to get to work, then tunes in to this psychotic farce to listen to this gaggle of matriarchal social engineers tell them that 'drilling is not the answer' and they'll have to submit to The Nanny State's will if they want a mind-numbed delusion of a comfortable existence.

OK ... now tell us how you *really* feel ... please, don't hold back ..... /grin

[GOP_Lady]

Viking 2002 needs to “sharpen those horns” of his. :-)

[crude77]

“large order of fried chicken gizzards”

Ah yes, one of my favorites. Don’t know where you are from, but I am having trouble finding really good ones here in Texas. They are always machine processed everywhere I see them-I like the hand prepared ones best.

[SERKIT]

They should ban all carbon life-forms from the Denver DNC convention.

[BatGuano]

And, just like the circus that the convention will surely be, there will be those suckers (born every minute) clamoring to be a part of the show. Pray that their defeat will be so overwhelming that the Dems will never again give the American voters the worst candidates/candidate in the history of our republic. A woman President? Sure but not that horrible woman. A black President? Sure but not that Marxist, black empty suit.

[maine-iac7]

Well, I’m doing my part — I have GREEN EYES! :-)

Gosh, me too! Here I've been green all these many decades. I wonder if that will be a point in our favor when the "Director of Greening" knocks on the door?

[Mr_Moonlight]

Coors Brewing Co., in Golden, Colo., will donate biofuel made from beer waste to power the convention’s fleet of flex-fuel vehicles.

Oh my, so their gonna drain and reuse 'beer waste' from the urinals? Words escape me ........ /laughs