Posted on 08/30/2002 7:22:01 AM PDT by KLT
I too enjoyed our "Commando FReep," I am not sure but I think I coined a phrase... I mean you were there and we went in and we were out in almost seconds!!
We shook 'em up and we got out alive, in a SEAL Team that is a successful mission!!
And further what about the 7 Nuclear Submarines have been lost in the Atlantic?
Just got to love those bombsight toilets.
My first one was at a power station in Taiwan. God Bless Thomas Crapper, even if he is an urban legend.
One of the panelists taking part in a television special on the Earth summit complained about the "pernicious introduction of the flush toilet," ...The TV special, hosted by hosted PBS's Bill Moyers, was taped... It was unclear whether the remark will make the final edit of the PBS program "NOW with Bill Moyers." ... "The Earth Debate," a special 90-minute program taped at the United Nation's World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Horner said the program panel was stacked against those who questioned the green movement... said suggestions such as doing away with flush toilets "certainly are consistent with the massively increased privation that the Greens' agenda would ensure." ...Earlier this week, Gar Smith, the editor of the Earth Island Institute's online journal "The Edge," lamented the introduction of electricity. "I don't think a lot of electricity is a good thing. It is the fuel that powers a lot of multi-national imagery," ... "I have seen villages in Africa that had vibrant culture and great communities that were disrupted and destroyed by the introduction of electricity," ... A critic of the green movement, Danish author Bjorn Lomborg, told CNSNews.com , "Changing how we flush toilets is not going to change water supplies." ...According to Lomborg, household water consumption worldwide constitutes only 8 percent of total usage... Agriculture accounts for 69 percent of water usage, while industry uses 23 percent... Lomborg, once a committed member of Greenpeace, became disillusioned with the green movement because of what he considered its distortion of eco-science... This is not the first time that flush toilets have generated controversy. The U.S. government federally mandated the use of low-flow, 1.6-galloon toilets in 1995 as part of the National Energy Policy Act. The new, water-conserving low-flow toilets replaced 3.5-gallon models. The low-flow toilets were championed by former Vice President Al Gore and other environmentalists, but many consumers disliked them, complaining they required a second flush... the older, high-flush-capacity toilets are now sold on the black-market, sometimes smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada... Patrick Moore, head of the environmental advocacy group Greenspirit and a former founding member of Greenpeace who left after becoming disillusioned with the Green movement, believes those who would do away with electricity and flush toilets hold a "naive vision of returning to some kind of Garden of Eden, which was actually not that great because the average life span was 35... The environmentalists try to inject guilt into people for consuming, as if consuming by itself causes destruction to the environment. There is no truth to that. You have the wealthiest countries on earth with the best-looked-after environment."
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