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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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To: screaminsunshine

The Hog-Farm....I believe the hippie-in-charge was Wavy Gravy.


41 posted on 04/20/2011 4:30:03 PM PDT by LeavingNewYork (We are at war with Oceania; we have always been at war with Oceania.)
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To: LeavingNewYork

You got it. That is where we are going.


42 posted on 04/20/2011 4:39:38 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: jazusamo

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.


43 posted on 04/20/2011 4:45:55 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization and must be outlawed)
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To: freekitty
There is a book called “Trees” written years ago. I don’t even know if you can get a copy. It describes the early settlers and the problems they had living in so called pristine locations. The trees without enough sun caused deep depression among other problems.

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.

44 posted on 04/20/2011 5:24:24 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: svcw
Last year when I was shopping a young woman asked me if I knew what day the 4th of July was celebrated on.

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.

45 posted on 04/20/2011 6:23:02 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: Red Boots

You are right. They were strong; unlike the little green wimps of today.


46 posted on 04/20/2011 6:31:50 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Red Boots

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


47 posted on 04/20/2011 6:57:51 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ScreamingFist

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.


48 posted on 04/20/2011 7:36:41 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: theDentist

I’m guessing the internet gets the Thursday print edition the night before.


49 posted on 04/20/2011 9:41:05 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: newfreep

Ping!


50 posted on 04/20/2011 11:23:53 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: BykrBayb
Doesn’t Good Friday usually fall on a Friday?

Usually; but remember: Friday the 13th came on Wednesday this month.

51 posted on 04/21/2011 4:20:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BykrBayb

indeed!


52 posted on 04/21/2011 4:23:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: svcw

Do they have a Fourth of July in England?


53 posted on 04/21/2011 4:24:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: elpadre

TODAY is now the tomorrow you replied about.


54 posted on 04/21/2011 4:25:33 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: conservaterian
LOL! Yeah, I usually back up a dumptruck full of methyl benzene and pump it into the local swamp. Then, if I'm lucky, it catches fire and I roast snail darters and spotted owls over the flames.

Thanks for enlightening me on the difference between sound resistance and extremism. I wasn't exaggerating or anything ...

55 posted on 04/21/2011 4:26:18 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: jazusamo

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


56 posted on 04/21/2011 7:35:40 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: dead

IMHO, your best work.


57 posted on 04/24/2011 4:20:32 PM PDT by Yossarian (Heartfelt thanks, Tea Party Patriots! Despite slander and muck, you pulled through!)
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