Humans make Earth Day better
From the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a human-centered Earth Day public service announcement:
Make sure to share the vid with your children and help immunize the next generation against enviro-nitwit-ism. Meghan Cox Gurdon surveys eco-fear-mongering in children’s literature:
If you have somehow missed the fact that April 22 is Earth Day, it’s probably because you are grown up. Were you a child, there’s not a chance you’d be allowed to miss the urgent chthonic nature of the day — nor the need to recycle, to use water sparingly, to protect endangered creatures and generally to be agitated about a planet in peril.
Contemporary children are so drenched with eco-propaganda that it’s almost a waste of resources. Like acid rain, but more persistent and corrosive, it dribbles down on them all day long. They get it at school, where recycling now competes with tolerance as man’s highest virtue. They get it in peppy “go green” messages online, on television and in magazines.
And increasingly, the eco-message is seeping into the pages of novels that don’t, on their face, necessarily seem to be about environmentalism at all. Thus children who might like to escape into a good book are now likely to find themselves pursued into that imaginative realm by didactic adults fixated on passing along endless tellurian warnings.
Susceptible children are left in no doubt that we’re all headed for a despoiled, immiserated future unless they start planting pansies in their old shoes, using dryer lint as mulch, and practicing periodic vegetarianism. Not surprisingly, many young people are anxious. The more impressionable among them are coming to believe that their smallest decisions could have catastrophic effects on the globe. This, of course, is nonsense, unless their smallest decision involves tipping vats of mercury into forest streams. But they’re children, for goodness’ sake: They tend to believe what adults tell them — minus the nuance.
It’s working: One in three children fear green apocalpyse.
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The Earth is plenty capable of taking care of itself.
Humans, on the other hand, have some real challenges…chief among them our own governments.
I celebrate “Rational Thought Day” today, and give thanks to the men and women through history that have benefited me with the standard of living I enjoy.
Today I thanked God for creating this Earth and me. He is the one who will decide how it will end.
L
Just one of its many positive points…!!!
I used to, as well. But then I grew up and realized it was all lies.
In the grand scheme of things, the ecosystem of our beloved Earth is extremely fragile and could be destroyed by any number of things. Solar nova could deep-fry the atmosphere, an asteroid strike, shift in Earth’s orbit, or mega-volcano could cause an endless winter, a shift in Earth’s orbit the other way could slowly parboil the planet, or Obama’s climate politicists could poison the atmosphere.
Yes, our Earth is fragile. Turning off the water while you brush your teeth won’t save you.
Much to the chagrin of the algores of the world, God made man and will see our needs are met. Using a CFL lightbulb is not going to change that fact. Granted, there is work to be done but it is not cataclysmic or irreversible. We’ll meet the challenge and flourish, thanks be to God. Our educational system, and it’s masters, is bordering on child abuse.
That’s awfully bias of you to leave the liberals out.
/sarc. off
I liked the video. Instead of going negative it offered a positive message that people are doing right by the earth.
No insults, no inflammatory language, no name calling, just a different way to approach a serious issue.
This should be done more often with many other issues.
Errah, hopefully some liberals will hold their collective breath and not add any more CO2 to the atmosphere, it will make my 65 vette running on 93 octane run that much better. Doin what I can to rid the world of the remnants of the dinosaur and the dreaded fossil fuels.
How are we going to change the planet’s climate without dino poop?
Speaking of water on earth day, I’ll worry about the water supply when Las Vegas shuts down all the fountains.
In a similar spirit, from Human Events:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31548
Excerpt from “7 Conservative Ways to Celebrate Earth Day”
1) Kill something, eat it, repeat as often as sustainable.
2) Build a windmill in Ted Kennedy’s yard.
3) Stop illegal immigration.
4) Build a nuclear power plant.
5) If you love nature, find a use for it. Deer, ducks, perch, bass, mink, quail, elk, moose, rabbits, stripers, walleye, squirrels and other such animals aren’t going extinct anytime soon.
6) Encourage wealth, private property, and capitalism. Poor countries have crappy, sterile, used-up, threatened and poisoned environments. Rich countries have National Parks, State Forests, private gamelands, wildlife preserves, marine sanctuaries and about a million other protected areas set aside for nature.
7) Sprawl out to where nature is, get to know it. This is the residential version of “if you love nature, find a use for it.”
zyzzyg,agreed, it was a very positive message…too bad the LSM won’t pick up on it, not mention the NEA.
Hey enviro nuts, if you are worried about global warming, please move to pluto. It is pretty cold there. And please take Al Gore with you.
Here’s what I don’t get: Earth Day was founded in 1970. I was born in 1971. Why was I never subjected to all this Earth Day crap in school? It seems to me the “movemnet” sure took a while to catch on.
We shouldn’t need all these special holidays to teach kids/people about what’s right and wrong. It should just be everyday learning. I grew up in a “wealthy” suburb that recycled glass bottles (I used to love going with my Mom to throw the bottles in the appropriate bins and hear them smash). I played outside and went on hikes. I grew up appreciating my environment. Maybe if parents just kicked their kids outside more and took them on hikes or to the zoo, they’d appreciate Earth more too.
And you can tell we’re economically spoiled in this country when we urge people to turn off the lights to “save the Earth” instead of to save on the electrical bill.
Petition the elimination of Flouride from you water supply. It is a toxin. Keep CO2, remove NAF.
I am driving around in my hyper polluting (with non functioning catalytic convertor) truck just to stick it to green hippies.
Angry looks I get when it belches out black smoke are priceless
Dear Congress: Climate change is cyclical – i.e., not man-caused! Any “Cap & Trade” or other “Climate Change” or “Green Energy” bill(s) will do nothing to change climate, but only increase the cost of readily-available energy through the roof! No matter what the concensus is inside the Beltway, man can do nothing to change the Earth’s climate, and to posit that CO2 is causing global warming is simply unscientific. Imagine our atmosphere as a football field. Starting from the North goal line, Nitrogen takes us 78 yds to the South 22 yd line. Oxygen then takes us all the way to the South 1 yd line. Only one yd to go, and almost all of that is the inert gas Argon, which brings us to within 3 1/2 inches of the goal line – and ONLY 1 inch of that is CO2. That’s 1 inch of CO2 out of 3,600 ins., i.e., less that 0.00028! So, if you want to reduce CO2 levels in DC, I suggest everyone on Capitol Hill just stop exhaling!
Yep–kids are too young to understand the nuances and various things happening (and allegedly happening) to the world around them. It creates something called “eco-phobia” in which the kids hear so much bad news that they can’t handle it, so they become indifferent to conservation. Not that using a CFL will save the world, but we need people to think how to provide a better living to local people so they stop, for instance, killing endangered animals to make a living–and raising a generation with ecophobia will not help.
And saving water? How necessary is that now? For instance, the water I drink from the tap comes from a river. The water that goes down my drain gets cleaned and returned to the river. This means that even if I do let the water run while I brush, no water (to speak of) is wasted. How many drains in the US take the water to points unknown as opposed to cleaning it up and dumping it into a lake, river, or underground water table? My water is recycled by those downstream from me; what water is not recycled?
If all the libtards dropped dead, that will lower CO2 levels significantly. Please libtards, do it for the earth.
Whenever I hear one of these self-absorbed eco-warriors crowing about “Saving the Planet” I remember, “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind” by Carl Sandburg.
Prelude 3 is a great reminder of how “powerful” we really are.
3
It has happened before.
Strong men put up a city and got
a nation together,
And paid singers to sing and women
to warble: We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation,
nothing like us ever was.
And while the singers sang
and the strong men listened
and paid the singers well
and felt good about it all,
there were rats and lizards who listened
… and the only listeners left now
… are … the rats … and the lizards.
And there are black crows
crying, “Caw, caw,”
bringing mud and sticks
building a nest
over the words carved
on the doors where the panels were cedar
and the strips on the panels were gold
and the golden girls came singing:
We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation:
nothing like us ever was.
The only singers now are crows crying, “Caw, caw,”
And the sheets of rain whine in the wind and doorways.
And the only listeners now are … the rats … and the lizards.
No matter what happens to the Earth, there’s not a thing that liberals can do about it. We could stop all energy extraction tomorrow (no, I’M NOT giving them ideas), and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference. It’s almost comical, in a sad sort of way, that humans of any stripe but liberals in particular, think they can press the reset button on “climate change” or “global warming” when some in this crowd have already pronounced that there’s no turning back.
Carbon Dioxide is a naturally occurring substance that the Earth needs to survive. Think photosynthesis. Stop demonizing it. Instead concentrate on conservation and getting the miscreants in Africa from killing off the rest of the planet’s elephants and rhinos to sell their ivory for weapons to fund another civil war.
How ’bout that for starters, you ecozealots?
We could use another Tambora eruption, to put the human race back in its place, and let the race know who is the real boss of this planet…nature itself. It will happen again, though when is still unknown. At least it will show how little humans really affect this planet, compared to the power it can generate.
Strange the local paper webite wouldn’t post my comment on things to do for Earthday. All I said was murderers should compost their victims in trunks like Earthday founder Ira Einhorn.
Errah, OMSB Hey how’s it goin??!! We’ll be able to “drive you long time”. Once we run out of dino poop we can start with all those sacks of $heite on Capitol Hill and 1600
Teddy Kennedy
A ‘65 Vette? That sends me into uncontrollable drooling.
I want 6 litres or higher. 8 cylinders or more. Real chrome.
Oh, and a pool boy.
I just wonder how many people knew that yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, or how many announcements there actually were to that effect.
Never mind. Silly me, to consider the loss of millions of human lives more important than recycling my water bottle.
That was HARSH…!!!
You a hor-bul, hor-bul man…
MBuck–I ‘celebrated’ Yom Ha Shoah. In Israel, it is a national holiday. I work on a large college campus here in USA, and no mention was made of it at all.
On April 22nd, 2009 at 5:05 pm, Ragspierre said:
That was HARSH…!!!
You a hor-bul, hor-bul man…
I blame it on the excess CO2 produced by Gore and Frank
Now THAT created a truly disturbing visual involving heavy respiration…
We can put the “human activities couldn’t possibly hurt the environment” people together with their “renounce technology and live like our ancestors” counterparts. The lunatic right and left.
The sane 90% of us in the middle understand that we have to be careful of the environment. Without air pollution laws most cities would be unlivable. The “bottle bill” cuts down on litter. Dumping raw sewage and agricultural runoff into lakes and rivers kills fish.
There’s nothing wrong with teaching kids that the environment is delicate. With all that technology your video is so proud of, it’s true — we can spoil the environment. Let’s not.
ok, lgm–but only because you said so….
Psych!
And when the Greenies are dancing around the trees they should remember to sing Happy Birthday Dear Comrade Lenin.
There’s nothing wrong with teaching kids that the environment is delicate.
I have no idea where that coding came from…!!!
The total arrogance of humans to think they can hurt Earth and much less correct perceived issues. One Krakatoa will prove all eco pigs stupid.
That’s over-kill.
Any piddling eruption blows multiples of all historical man-made CO2 into the atmosphere…all at once.
That is what is called a “point-load” in engineering.
By some mysterious process, our planet manages…somehow…to deal with it.
I mean…it’s almost like it was designed to do that…
Spooky…
Oh on earth day I will turn on all the lights in the house, put the car in the driveway with motor running and lights and signals blinking. I will light a fire in the fireplace(I have a real wood burning fireplace) and wash the outside of the house with gallons of water because it hasn’t rained in a week. Then I will call Al Gore and ask him how much I should pay for my carbon footprint!
Ragspierre, I understand your point, but overkill is all they will understand, true?
Remember to smoke a good pre-S-CHIP cigar, too.
I don’t have confidence they choose to understand anything.
But I do get that over-kill is kinda the default setting for Marines, god love you.
Oh, going to light a good Cohiba in a few hours after my VFW meeting, good thought,. Doing my part to pollute, dontcha know….lol
MNUSMCDavid said (#39):
Cars did more damage to the LA air than Krakatoa. Humans can indeed hurt the earth, at least the air in LA — no brag, just fact. They also can kill off most of the fish in large parts of the Gulf of Mexico, poison the water in the Hudson river, cause flash floods by removing water restraining forests, and foul the internet with stinky conservative arguments that we are glad aren’t real.
lgm,
you have posited lies… there is no truth that cars did more than Krakatoa…… Krakatoa affected the entire earth you moron and in three months. Fishing is fine off the Gulf,water is cleaner than ever and we conservatives will purge your pollution in the end. Oh, how about the forests… more trees than since the Revolution. Clam beds in the Atlantic growing… more species found than ever go extinct… stop smelling the patchouli
Bon apatite. Nothing like a good cigar after meeting with your fellow “domestic terrorists”…
Please express my thanks to your fellow vets for their service.
Rags
Would be my pleasure…. will do.
Wasn’t it lefties who insisted tap water wasn’t safe? And drank water from plastic bottles that are hard on the environment?
And yeah, let’s not pollute. Though I miss Lake Erie spontaneously combusting.
Aloha,
I watched a debate between an “environmentalist” and an economist about three decades ago.
The economist pointed out that recycling glass bottles in the Intermountain West would be a net negative, as their were no refractories near.
The “environmentalist” responded that it didn’t matter: a law had to mandate recycling.
That’s when I knew it was a religion…detached from any rational underpinnings.
Yeah let’s all celebrate a day that some scumbag murderer started.
Speaking of volcanoes and their effect on the Earth, does anyone remember how and why the novel, “Frankenstein”, was written, by Mary Shelley?
Lgm said:
No one wants black lung or lands stacked up with garbage or poo water to drink.
I am all for reduce the use, and conservation (which includes hunting). However, I don’t agree with “laws” dictating who can drive what at which time and where. Especially when this hysteria is coming from a bunch of zombie-green-weenies telling us WE are the cause of global warming and that WE are the cause of the earth’s ultimate demise. There are bigger things at work here than lil’ ol’ us. New species pop of every day and others become extinct. Circle of life.
Lgm…how do you feel about nuclear power? Ever heard of MTBE?
I compost and recycle and reuse plastic bags and tubs. I do this because it is cost effective and because I hate waste and I would like to keep my garbage going to landfills at a minimum – its how I was raised. But I’ll be damned if the government is going to come charging in and tell me I have to adhere to their laws while they fly on private jets and live in huge homes using up more energy in one month then I do in an entire year (or keep the Oval Office up at 80 degrees)..and then attempt to make me feel guilty or shamed for not buying an energy efficient bulb at three times the price.
And no, I dont think Global Warming is man made. I think its Gore-made, so he and his band of merry band of green thieves can bamboozle a bunch of useful idiots into forcing us into squalor, taking away more of our freedoms and ripping us off under the auspice of passing “environmental protection” laws in order to line HIS own pockets.
To the Greenie-Dweebs – Go seek self intimacy elsewhere.
Ummm…filthy lucre…?
Partial credit…???
A friend told me about the Ira Einhorn/Earth Day connection the other day. He’s right down there with the scumbag who founded Kwanzaa.
It’s funny, but I was actually thinking of doing the same thing even before I read this thread! I thought of going to a public spot and lighting up a big stinky cigar. It might look a bit strange for a white-haired grandma to be puffing on a cigar, but if anyone asked, I would just say, “I’m celebrating Earth Day.” Trouble is, I quit smoking 25 years ago and a cigar would probably kill me.
In observance of
EarthSustainability Day my school has a bunch of displays from different groups/vendors set up outside. My favorites so far…1. Waste Management – they drove a empty garbage truck 40 or so miles each way as a really expensive backdrop for table with a laptop and some pamphlets.
2. Teepee – they have a teepee set up for some reason. It arrived in a trailer towed by a F250 dully.
3. Reusable water bottles with school logo – causes several other “vendors” to go berserk warning students with them how the plastic will give us cancer. I toss mine in the trash.
I did not see one vendor arrive in a Hybrid. The smallest was a Civic with most small SUV’s and medium-large sedans or minivans.
For some reason they get really defensive if you question them. So much for reducing their carbon footprint.
Update…
Light rain, actually a few sprinkles, causes 90% of the vendors to stuff their goods in their non hybrid car/SUV/van or old UHaul box truck for the “organic tye-dye t-shirt” guy. It lasted a couple hours before the earth caused them to flee.
Most of the students seemed to be less than interested, except the one involved who got mad when I asked them tough questions on say CFL’s and Ethanol.
Just like a Obama rally they had a bad ad DJ to make people actually want to stop by. Even then most people wandered off quickly. But it was good reminder for me to fill up my SUV.
Oh, no, Scrappy…
you don’t inhale a cigar.
Just nice, savoring puffs, about a minute apart.
Taste the wonderfullness…
Thanks for the advice! Actually, I knew that, but even putting a cigar to my lips would be enough to take me out. My brother smokes cigars and loves them. But I have never understood the pull of these strange smelling things. I still love the aroma of cigarette smoke. But cigars are a whole different ball game. I would enjoy seeing the looks on people’s faces if I lit one up. But it ain’t gonna happen.
“A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)
April 22, 2009
From Glenn Beck…
On Today’s Program
Earth Day!
Glenn takes some callers eager to celebrate Earth Day by cutting down trees live on the air. There’s nothing better than the sound of a good chainsaw blazing away on Earth day. Check out this call from Tim in Cleveland, who is cutting down trees in Ohio.
Mike in Tulsa celebrates Earth Day by running all of his lawn equipment at the same time.
Oh, “lgm” (sigh) GET A LIFE -
See:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31548
6) Encourage wealth, private property, and capitalism. Poor countries have crappy, sterile, used-up, threatened and poisoned environments. Rich countries have National Parks, State Forests, private gamelands, wildlife preserves, marine sanctuaries and about a million other protected areas set aside for nature. They have clean water. They dispose of their waste properly. They enforce the laws they pass because they can afford to. They don’t barbecue the last Mountain Gorilla because they need the $3 it will bring. Compare Texas to Ukraine to see what private property preserves and “common” property destroys.
Please spare us your pseudo “caring” and grow up.
To go along with this, wasn’t it the environuts that also said that the plastic grocery bags were the way to go? Now they are out to get rid of those also.All along there was nothing wrong with the paper bags but the EVIL people that used them are planet haters.
Now you have to have a reusable cloth type of bag.The gall of these morons is beyond belief.
It’s only going to get worse with the cap and trade that is on the horizon.
I left out the shipping from France on sludge burning freighters…then rail, then truck…
If you’ve ever been to Evian, you know it’s water from the earth, just like from your tap…in fact, they have taps so you can bottle your own.
happyscrapper
One of my fondest memories involved a Sunday morning after church. The non-smoking section was full of families so we were delegated to the smoking section. On a shelf behind me was a pipe stand with a humidor of tobacco. In came a little ol’ lady with a walker and plopped herself down in the booth over. Asked me to scoot the pipe stand over. I did. She lit up and turned out it was the same tobacco my dad used to smoke in his pipe. I grinned all day. She was precious and somewhere near 90 yrs. old.
Speaking of that piece of trash. Anyone else notice how the Earth Day entry in Wikipedia has been scrubbed of any reference to him?
Erf Day. What a joke!
Whatever happened to Arbor Day? Whatever happened to Smokey the Bear? Whatever happened to “Give a Hoot. Don’t Pollute”?
Indoctrination.
Why, I’m going outside to throw trash in the street.
Or better yet, one of those green bulbs Glenn Beck talked about today.
Gee whiz, where to start?
I was in high school back in 1970 when Earth Day first got started, and one of my elective courses was studying the environment. Back in those days, a tributary of Lake Erie, the Cuyahoga River, actually caught fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Erie
I remember that I did a class report on the refuse which was collecting in the San Francisco Bay. I would have to admit that some good things have actually resulted from the environmental movement over the years. I live in California’s Central Valley, and any reasonable efforts that result in clean air are appreciated.
That having been said, I feel that the environmental movement has been hijacked by extremists whose concern for the environment is questionable. From the beginning, I have been very doubtful about man-made global warming. I find that many fads of liberal environmentalists have had unintended consequences (the addition of MTBE to gasoline, growing of corn for ethanol which is leading to increased runoff of fertilizers into rivers feeding into the Gulf of Mexico, etc.). Far too many of the environmental activists do not practice what they preach (Al Gore being the supreme example, flying around in a corporate jet and using ten times the electricity in his mansion than an average Tennesseean). When I go backpacking, some of the groups which are the worst at leaving messes are Sierra Club sponsored groups.
When I drive by myself, I generally travel in my VW New Beetle. I ride my bicycle to work on occasion. I recycle. I like to consider myself an active environmentalist, as opposed to an environmental activist. But I do these things on my own free will, and although I would like to see others do so, I would never want to compel them to do so.
While I believe that there have been some good things which have resulted from the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, I believe that they, as well as any legislation which is passed, should have a ten year limitation on it, and that after ten years, start over again on new legislation.
As with everything in life, there needs to be the proper balance.
If Government is sooooooo serious about all the GREEN how come they are allowing Tijauna to spew MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF RAW SEWAGE into the Ocean Coast of San Diego for the past TEN YEARS or more????…
oh wait they have a committee (doing nothing).
google Tijuana sewage
The report I received from Mary Bono was SOP Gov. do nothing BS.
My daughter came home from school today and after a couple of hours she mentioned it was Earth Day (because she knew what was coming). I argued with her that it wasnt, so she had to prove me wrong. My bad.
She said that her school has been celebrating ED all day long and that all they are studying in all of her classes is related to ED.
So, then I flipped out, turned on every light in the house and launched into my usual ‘Liberals are Idiots’ rant. I had forgotten about Ira… I knew there was a reason I hate Earth Day.
Did anyone else watch Cavuto today when he was cornering that guy on Global Warming?
I celebrated earth day by recycling some misguided trees and bushes back into the environment so they can be reborn as something other than weeds in my yard.
To most folks this is known as setting the burn pile on fire.
I find it amusing that a “top” show on Discovery/Science Channel, “Life After People”, which is the Greens’ fondest wish to “save the planet” by making all humanity disappear overnight so that forest and jungles can reclaim and digest cities, is what nature naturally does if you don’t do some chopping and sawing and cutting. Ask anyone who lives near the woods or forest. So why all this “save the planet” alarm that humanity’s killing off oh-so-frail nature?
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
Happyscrapper, when and if we meet, I’d be proud to light up beside you, if not for only one time. Oh, the meeting went well, I gave Ragspierre’s wish to my members and smoked my Cohiba…. WOW what a Night!
Which, as few people seem to know, expels EXACTLY the same components (except a few tars converted by combustion) into the atmosphere as would decomposition.
Funny…a rotting tree and a burning tree = more CO2 in exactly the same quantity.
Damn, subversive trees.
Earth Day was founded by Gaylord Nelson……
Get them out of the Public Schools-Get them into Church and Sunday School.
My niece is married to a career Navel Officer and was SURE the schools in that Navy town were first rate. When her oldest daughter came home from school one day convinced her father was a murderer for flying jets that little notion wore off. The schools response for terrifying an eight year old? Guess-you are right. A junior officer, even with flight pay, does not make all that much. But with family help those children are NOT in the public schools.
A parents FIRST responsibility is their childrens well being–protect them from Leftist drivel as you would protect them from fire or flood. The one can only kill the body-the other kills the soul.
Be it environmentalism or any other issue the goal is the same–power. And they will destroy who and what they need to destroy to get there.
Hopefully-we shall see. We have a President who refers to the Constitution as a Bill of Negative Rights, an Attorney General and Secretary of Home Land Security who seem to agree as do all too many Representatives and Senators such as McCain and of course those Important People on the Bench and Bureaucracy.
But irritating the sheeple and Self Proclaimed Important People is indeed fun.
I would be the proud one, David! Maybe at the next rally!
They’re not. They’re serious about what being “green” can do for their power base and wallets.
Tijuana is part of another nation, so…
But Queen Of Frequent Fliers Pelosi is certainly spewing both CO2 in immense quantities with every shuttle between DC and CA, and preaching to us peons about how we should be Green.
I have to admit…she does have the effect of making me green frequently…along with bilious.
Regarding church and Sunday School…my very liberal moonbat brother has two daughters. Both of them had very rough teen years, both experimented with drugs, both had teen pregnancies. My one niece has 3 children by 3 different fathers. She is now finally happily married, but it took her many years to get her act together. My liberal brother married twice and is now single. His first wife remarried 4 times! The point of all this? One day my brother asked me how we raised two such great daughters who never gave us any grief. That is a fact. I told him that we brought them up in the church, Sunday School, Bible study, church camp, morals, values, etc. and it took hold. That kind of shut him up and he never asked again because his two were products of a broken home and an athiest father. I’m not saying it is a guarantee that your kids will stay trouble-free. Some kids just won’t, no matter how much you try. But their odds are so much better!
Sorry people: Post 78 should not exist-I was using Foxfire for spell check–bad day at Black Rock as we say here
happyscrapper I am glad that worked out for you and yours–of course if your children DID NOT do drugs, spawn responsibility and have 6 abortions-each- before dropping out of school to go on welfare YOU just might be a Right Wing Bible Thumper! Eidleweiss will not be happy
Yes even the best parents-if there are any-can have problem children. Hopefully they will return-I believe most do.
Interesting factoid you can see on google Earth Lenins Birthday message that was made out of trees
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=ru&ie=UTF8&ll=54.468142,64.79923&spn=0.007021,0.022745&z=16
Well, if you follow the eco-Nazis “rationale,” the human race is a blight that needs to be thinned out by about 5-to-6 billion, or perhaps entirely, for the good of all other species. According to them making the Earth a better place for humans is evil.
If they lead by example, I’ve got no kick…
Of course they are talking about the “riff-raff,” when they talk about those who need to go. They do not identify with the rest of us. THEY are so far above us, you know. Who else would propose social policies if THEY were to bump themselves off?
Lets help them out.
I can help out about 15 of them per magazine.
Just kidding. sorta..
The groaning hypocrisy of these people beats all. Gore is their poster-boy. He’s a scientific idiot who has amassed a fortune, acclaim, and a status as an “expert” on the absolute snake-oil he peddles. He lives a life-style that I would blush at, and he’s Mr. Green.
Makes you shake your head.
Good gun control…
1. If you have issues with the Roman curriculum, then why allow Caesar to educate your children? The onus of educating and discipling children is on parents, especially fathers, regardless of what Hillary has to say about it.
2. “Liberal” logic amazes me. So, we should plant a tree, but kill babies? We should outlaw some “unhealthy” foods, but think nothing of recreational sex with multiple partners? We should outlaw smoking, but legalize weed? Because we all weren’t created equal (in their eyes), we must actively incorporate the Harrison Bergeron method into our society? This is their idea of a “utopia”? Try Vulgaria or Tophet.