Environmentalist slams 'lunatic fringe'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, July 12, 2002 | By J. Zane Walley

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, July 12, 2002

Quote of the Day posted by Silly

[Kay Ludlow]

Good article! Another example of an organization (like some unions) that was relevant at the start, but has moved on to an agenda very unlike that which helped found it.

[The Raven]

My local garbage pick-up service frequently refuses items I leave on the curb. This week it was wallboard scraps (gypsum) and insulation scraps.

Another week it was almost empty cans of paint thinner and paint.

I now have this accumulating pile of "unacceptable trash" and I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do about this.

I know for a fact that there is a sizable portion of the population who have come up with a solution. They either throw it out of the car on a back road, dump it down the drain, or dump it on the ground.

Another environmental policy gone haywire.

[cgbg]

The enviros solution to this pickup in our (and I suspect many areas) is "hazardous waste day".

For those who haven't experienced this joyful day, let me explain the procedure.

Once a year you load up your vehicle with all the stuff the garbage people won't pick up. Then you drive a long way to a nasty industrial section of a nasty town you would never have visited for any reason. You keep your air conditioner on so you don't have to smell the stench.

Then you wait in a line of cars. And wait. And wait. I hope you didn't have any plans that day because we are talking hours here.

Then they look through your car at each station and take the relevant hazardous stuff out of your vehicle.

And the line continues. And you wait. And you wait.....

Eventually you get done woondering how much air pollution you caused while you waited in line for hours!

[FreedomPoster]

"Green Bureau-babble" bump.

I'm glad I live in a place that takes anything from the curb! That doesn't sound like much fun.

[Dan Day]

My local garbage pick-up service frequently refuses items I leave on the curb. This week it was wallboard scraps (gypsum) and insulation scraps.

Another week it was almost empty cans of paint thinner and paint.

I now have this accumulating pile of "unacceptable trash" and I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do about this.

Oh, there's an easy two-step process for that:

1. Find out what bureaucratic idiot is most responsible for the Catch-22 (city commissioner, city council, waste management head honcho, etc.).

2. Drop it off on their porch at 3am some night along with a note explaining why.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump and fyi

[BlueLancer]

BTTT for later reading.

[summer]

Also, note, as some people in power are working to protect rural communities, private property and rural land owners:

Gov Bush Awards Rural Devel Grant to Regional Economic Devel Organization
[How Jeb Helps Rural FL]

[summer]

JH2, I clicked the link in thie article about this person,
but it went nowhere. If you could repost it, I would like
to read it to see what he has to say. Thanks! :)

[summer]

JH2, never mind, I found it in the source link, and the article is HERE.

[summer]

JH2, I am not an environmental expert, but all I can say is a somewhat different view than that in the article linked in my post #11 is presented HERE. This 2000 article sounds closer to what GW and Gov. Bush have been saying.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the link, summer. I'll be checking it out.

[Black Agnes]

Then why'd Jeb sign this one?

Commissioners to take final look at rural fringe growth plan

'Sending areas'...'Receiving areas'...This junk is *straight* from Agenda 21

[sweetliberty]

"the environmental leaders are what could be described as hard-core socialist psychotics"

Good description. But I would suggest that private land ownership is threatened by more than environmentalists. Bureaucracies abound and what was once considered to be the substance of the American dream available to anyone has now become an advanced obstacle course of hoops and red tape and taxes and excessive regulation that is available to some, attainable by less and impossible for many.

[summer]

Again, you always ignore my posts. I spent hours learning this about you one day -- as you well know.

I posted link after link after link to laws signed by Gov Bush to help protect private property owners.

Your response to my dozen plus posts on that thread? NOTHING. SILENCE. NO POST BACK AT ALL.

I can't "debate" with you Black Agnes, because here's how a debate with you goes: you throw out your accusations against Gov. Bush, whether false or not, and then, when my facts hit you in the face, you run away in silnce.

So, no thanks. If you like, link on this thread to the other thread I posted dozen of posts to you on, so everyone can see how you "debate."

[summer]

Re your post #14 - see my post #9. That's all I have the time and patience for; sorry.

[sweetliberty]

"I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do about this."

Well, I would suggest buying a piece of wasteland (no pun intended) and opening a landfill, but then you would be doing 2 of the things they hate most...polluting AND making money and you would, of course, have to be stopped at all cost, so the land wouldn't really be yours.

[summer]

Thanks, JH2. I wish I could tell you: "I am an expert in all environmental matters and know exactly what is best for FL" but the truth is I am not; I am just an average voter, somewhere in the middle who leans right on some issues. And, this Everglades issue, I think, is getting a really bad rap from World Net Daily. I wish I could get someone from FL who knows more about it than I do to write something more factual ini response. Thanks for your post. :)

[sweetliberty]

"Drop it off on their porch at 3am some night along with a note explaining why"

LOL! I like it.