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EDITORIAL: The hippie holiday--Humanity haters bemoan life on Earth Day
The Washington Times ^ | April 20, 2011 | Editorial

Posted on 04/20/2011 2:59:33 PM PDT by 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...


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: earthday; environazis; environmentalism
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1 posted on 04/20/2011 2:59:37 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Tomorrow is Good Friday, the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

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

2 posted on 04/20/2011 3:02:11 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: jazusamo

Tomorrow is NOT Good Friday, rather Holy Thursday.


3 posted on 04/20/2011 3:02:50 PM PDT by PuzzledInTX
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To: jazusamo

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?


4 posted on 04/20/2011 3:03:53 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: jazusamo

Doesn’t Good Friday usually fall on a Friday?


5 posted on 04/20/2011 3:04:20 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: theDentist; PuzzledInTX

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


6 posted on 04/20/2011 3:05:17 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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7 posted on 04/20/2011 3:06:15 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
earth day was chosen on the 100th birthdate of Vladimir Lenin.

Not a coincidence.

8 posted on 04/20/2011 3:06:33 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: jazusamo

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


9 posted on 04/20/2011 3:07:10 PM PDT by PuzzledInTX
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To: jazusamo
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.

10 posted on 04/20/2011 3:08:34 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: screaminsunshine
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. :-)

11 posted on 04/20/2011 3:08:46 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: PuzzledInTX

This is supposed to be tomorrows editorial.


12 posted on 04/20/2011 3:10:26 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: BykrBayb
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. :)

13 posted on 04/20/2011 3:10:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jazusamo
Table Lamp Day.
14 posted on 04/20/2011 3:12:52 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Whether they want to admit it or not, everyone knows Obama is hiding his bc.)
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To: PuzzledInTX

PS

My calendar says Earth Day is Friday.


15 posted on 04/20/2011 3:12:59 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
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.

16 posted on 04/20/2011 3:14:22 PM PDT by PuzzledInTX
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To: trisham

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


17 posted on 04/20/2011 3:17:02 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb
Doesn’t Good Friday usually fall on a Friday?

Friday

18 posted on 04/20/2011 3:17:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: jazusamo

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


19 posted on 04/20/2011 3:18:30 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: jazusamo
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.
20 posted on 04/20/2011 3:18:46 PM PDT by PuzzledInTX
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