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 ...
The Hog-Farm....I believe the hippie-in-charge was Wavy Gravy.
You got it. That is where we are going.
Good post. I hang around Yahoo Answers and try to insert a bit of common sense into the brainwashed public school kids who post warming nonsense. I was pleasantly surprised by home-schoolers who also post there. You parents who are home schooling should be proud. Good on you.
I read that book- I believe it is part of a trilogy by Conrad Richter: the trees, the forest, the fields ?
Anyway, the forest canopy, which kept out all direct sunlight, did cause people to go crazy.
And the work described in clearing a simple field is almost unbelievable. They were very strong people, those people who made the fields of America. They'd sure not think much of us today, I'm afraid.
A women in a parking lot outside the Super Walmart was upset and crying. I asked here if I could help. She told me she could not get into her car, the doors would not unlock. I took her key, inserted it into the driver door, opened the door and told her to change the batteries in her remote. True story.
You are right. They were strong; unlike the little green wimps of today.
Another related book is “Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back” by Eleanor Agnew - a woman who went with her family to the land, how it collapsed, and coming back to the real world, along with interviews of others in the same situation
So you and I have met the two stupidest people ever. I laughed at the girl when she asked me, but alas she was serious.
Wow, just wow.
I’m guessing the internet gets the Thursday print edition the night before.
Ping!
Usually; but remember: Friday the 13th came on Wednesday this month.
indeed!
Do they have a Fourth of July in England?
TODAY is now the tomorrow you replied about.
Thanks for enlightening me on the difference between sound resistance and extremism. I wasn't exaggerating or anything ...
Predictions from Earth Day 1970
Reason.com ^ | May 2000 | Ronald Bailey
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 3:24:30 PM by thought
oldie but a goodie...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401662/posts
IMHO, your best work.
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