Y2Kyoto: We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans Day

I had to vote in this poll. My little vote pushed the 'nothing' segment up to 83%. It's now at 84.
NeilD

Here is a nice CTV earth day headline
Reports of wind farm health problems growing

Yes we don't need no stinkin' giant fans

My vote for "nothing" made it 85%.
But that isn't quite true.
Back on Earth Hour I took the notion to burn plastic...and it upset some people that I was polluting burning at low temperatures...so for Earth Day I'm burning plastic again only this time I put diesel fuel and a tire on it. Boy!! It's burning good and hot this time. Thanks greenies for the heads up!

Montrealers beat you!
CJAD Question of the Day
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Are you doing something extra to mark Earth Day?

No 84%
Yes 16%

Oh, oh! That was before I read NeilD's comment ...

As an aside, why are you paying $0.91 cents a litre in the land of black gold when we pay $0.909 down home in NS? And please don't point out to off shore drilling here because it is a drop in the bucket of what is used here.

p.s. Our lobster is cheaper too.

One of those leftard greenies called into an Ottawa talk show this morning to alert us to the fact that they are cutting down a boreal forest the size of Texas to develop the oil sands in Alberta. Huh? Can some of you lads up there look out a window and let us know how far away the nearest tree actually is.
I've seen animals with rabies with more sense than those foaming at the mouth lying enviro-nuts.

I was looking for "you're kidding, right?" in the list. Nickelodeon is telling the kids to shut the lights off for 1 minute......yikes

After very little thought,the current future ex and I decided to turn down the lights and get dirty to celebrate 'Earth' day...Video at 11.

cbc Wpg had a call-in contest to see who was the 'greenest'...the prizes were Suzuki dvd's.I didn't call in,I was too busy driving my gas-guzzling suv.

The Aunty-dOte to Utopia's Earff Day:

Get the women folks in their Fatty Choo-0-Choo boots* to do all the weeding.
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"One incident is telling because it concerns the relation of utopianism to the market.

When the utopians try to make a start on agriculture, the question of raising “early vegetables for the market” comes up.

{>>>>]“We shall never make any hand at market-gardening,” says Foster, “unless the women folks will undertake to do all the weeding.” Foster reasons that: “We haven’t team enough for that and regular farm-work, reckoning three of you city folks as worth one common field-hand. No, no; I tell you, we should have to get up a little too early in the morning, to compete with the market-gardeners around Boston.”

Coverdale now wrestles with a deep-seated reflex provoked by Foster’s invocation of competition and the market: “It struck me as rather odd, that one of the first questions raised, after our separation from the greedy, struggling, self-seeking world, should relate to the possibility of our getting the advantage over the outside barbarians in their own field of labor.” Hawthorne has struck at an essential element of all ideologies that unites the socialism of the French Révolutionnaires with victim-cult in contemporary North American politics: profound resentment against the self-motivated industry of free people whose un-coerced negotiations with one another result in the constant general increase of total wealth and in its fair distribution among the willing participants in the system. Fourier himself (1772-1837) equated what he sarcastically called “the noble art of lying” with “the art of selling.” He recorded how once, as a child, he “swore eternal hatred of commerce.”"

Ideology and Literature: Hawthorne’s Blithedale
Romance (1852) and Dick’s VALIS (1981)
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3880

*Wearing her finest Jimmy Choo boots, Mrs Obama broke the ground on her vegetable plot on the White House lawn last month, enlisting the help of local schoolchildren to help make a point about the need to tackle childhood obesity."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235360/posts

wallyj: you done it bud! The only things I see here that would actually reduce BS GW are NOTHING and PLANT A TREE. Everything else uses energy. (I'm told by reliable sources that a modern car produces less pollutants than 2 people walking.)
The Moonbats are so enamored with this New Found Religion they simply can't comprehend the facts. And they seem to be setting policy; perhaps because we, the non enlightened rabble are too silent.

I voted and pushed "nothing" up to 86%. Maybe I should have voted for "driving less" as I didn't leave the house today but I'm pretty sure that's not what they meant.

I just voted and it's up to 86%.

I put it over 87%

87% @ 8:16

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! Each of us have an obligation to the earth and future generations to help reduce our footprint. Many, have too much hubris to think of the consequences their actions have on this planet. Many refuse to change behaviors, that is why more governments are looking at carbon taxes and carbon cap and trade. One way to change a person's or corporation's behavior is to tax it.

For some reason they did not like the comment about co-founder Einhorn composting his girlfriend. Ok don't beat on me I know it was bad but every now and then you gotta own up to the heritage.

87% @ 8:31.
As one commentator said,most of us all ready do most of this stuff(excepting plant a tree) daily,just to save some bucks. It has F'all to do with the eco-cultists and their phony religion.
So the obvious choice(which wasn't there) was carry on saving bucks,but hopefully the cultists won't figure that out, and all their heads will explode at all the "nothing" answers, thereby helping to depopulate the earth even more!C'mon eco-nuts!! Do it for your gods, the Goracle,Fruitfly,and Gaia!

"T"
And one way to change government is to throw it out on its arse along with their useless policy.
Like what happened to Steffi.

I had to post the truth,I'll be driving less, because the transmission broke down on my car, and all I have left is my work truck, so, until I get another non-gas eater,I'll DRIVE LESS!

Boy, it sure feels good to do my part in saving the planet! (insert retarded smiley here)

To honor Ghia and respect the solemnity of Earth Day, the boys and I fixed (read hammertacked) petroleum soaked organic fiber strands (read tarpaper) to a structure formed by dead Boreal forest(read house) with petroleum based sheathing (read vinyl siding).

We managed to cover about 1500 square feet before semi-frozen sheets of Global Warming (read rain, sleet and snow) alerted us to the dangers of global warming.....er...Climate Change.

A twelve inch aluminum plank gets a little greasy under these conditions.

We retreated home and I have decided that for penance I'll spend the rest of the evening burning the flyers that The Herald sends out with their free rag.

Amen

Syncro

Thanks for the lecture, T.

I have always reduced and re-used for two reasons. The first is that I'm a world-class cheapskate and refuse to spend money needlessly; the second is that I'm a conservationist which, come to think of it, is an extension of cheapskatedness. All you Johnny-come-latelies to the conservationist point of view are more than welcome to the club (no dues but also no secret decoder rings) but please keep your self-righteous smugness to yourselves.

As for carbon taxes or cap and trade, don't delude yourself into thinking that governments are doing it for gaia because they're not. They want the money for their endless idiotic ideas and any scheme to get misguided fools to gladly hand over more cash is a good scheme.

It was already gone by the time I got to it. Oh well, it didn't have "urinating on eco-tards" as a choice.

On another note, more proof of the link between consuming tofu and cerebral necrosis. The new claim from the far left is that overeight and obese people are causing global warming.

Where's the 'Burning tires in my back yard' button?

I was looking for "you're kidding, right?" in the list. Nickelodeon is telling the kids to shut the lights off for 1 minute......yikes

Funny that they didn't tell the wee darlings to turn off their television sets. :)

Amen to that Kathyrn. Being brought up 'dirt poor' back in the days before remotes and 'feelings' were so damn important or even existed,one learned basic 'green' behaviour. Don't waste,re-use,and never,ever waste food. I have memories of mum sprinkling sugar and a bit of water on white bread and that was our dessert.It gives me shivers now.This new enviromentalism has some merit,but it is as shallow and empty as the smug polished faces that spew the nonsense.

It's at the very bottom of the page. It's 0ver 88% for nothing right now.

willyJ

exactly.

Syncro

On this non-holiday, we threw a birthday party for our mum. Why should her birthday be pre-empted because a bunch of eco-snobs think they are saving a bit of dirt?

Yesterday I filled the tank on my pickup.... 83 liters.
Today I used my command start to let the truck warm up and burn the frost (-3) of my windshield.

After 56 years of actually living by the creed of waste not want not. I think I'm entitled to these little indulgences without a twinge of guilt.

And besides I really hate being nagged by ignorant little hypocrites and preachy know-nothings about how to live my life.

The Chronical Herald's poll and CTV's poll were almost as good when I clicked them this afternoon.

Should go check em now.

My comment at the Herald in the story was to the effect that I felt no need to celebrate Lenin's birthday. Gotta check what the response was to that! LOL.

why wasn't "celebrating" Vladimir Lenin's birthday by killing something, or by wasting anything for part of the socialist "gift" to modern society one of the choices? perhaps pouring oil directly into the river in light of so many other communist enlightenments could be one of the choices...
idiots.

happy b-day Vlad.

At this time I see the pole is down to 82%. When I voted it was 84. I obviously had my head stuck in the sand (earth). I could be using less energy at home if I drove to the pub and had supper there, and what a wonderful greenie I'd be

AtlanticJim: The Chronically Horrid seems to have taken your comment down.

Planting a tree? It's a little early for that yet.. ground is still frozen and the PFRA hasn't shipped yet.

btw, since planting a tree is considered special can I expect some sort of award for planting 1600 for my shelterbelt this summer? ...or am I still considered an environmental demon for driving a >10 year old vehicle and not turning off my lights for an hour during the last earth hour?

It's at 90% now. I think it is approaching a reflection of reality.

We aren't doing anything different today. The lights that aren't necessary are off and we remembered to turn off the stove elements when we were done cooking.

Two days ago I casted grass seed on my lawn where our over zealous peeing dog spent her time this winter.

We aren't watching the CBC like usual, but for some reason their carbon footprint still exists thanks to the government.

Tomorrow we have decided to stop breathing since our personal exhaust has been deemed a pollutant. It's been nice knowing all of you, but we can't live with ourselves knowing that our very life on earth is killing it. I was hoping living a conservative life was good enough, but obviously there is no such thing as "good enough". Living completely off the land is just invading on wilderness, and living in the city is pure evil.

The real answer to earth day is for everyone to sip the kool-aid and repent for our sins. We didn't choose to be born, but we can make the "green" choice to die.

The day after tomorrow I will remove my tongue from my cheek and blow a nice raspberry at Suzuki and Gore since the electric car(actually it's a V10 work truck) in my garage could not "emit" us to death.

Hmmmm? electric vehicles, where do they actually think the electricity is going to come from??? I hope the greenies are prepared for nuclear energy.

To be completely honest with you all, I am just going to go to bed and try and make a second child with my gorgeous wife.

Joel

Kate's radio station link is censoring comments too. All I suggested to the page bottom commenter about four hours ago was that he should be dead by now as all of the original Earth Day founders said we were all going to be dead in 5 to 30 years if changes weren't made immediately, and gave the names for readers to Google and it never made it up.

Looks like the voting is closed ... didn't get to vote. Shit!

Oh well, I did drive around for not good reason today and I used my BBQ to cook Steaks for supper. I cranked the heat and will light the fireplace as soon as I chop some kindling.

Life is good. No guilt, it's my planet too.

To quote the late Great Jimi Hendrix "I live my life the way I want to".

At 73, Lloyd Robertson still has not lost his zeal for reporting on the wonders — and horrors — of Craig Oliver.

Robertson, CTV’s chief boat anchor, is regularly asked about when he plans to retire as the longest-running national television news anchor in North America. Craig Oliver is the only one who cares. No one else does.

He’ll let you know. After he's left the country. With Sandy Rinaldo. In an alligator bag.

As long as he continues “getting his kicks’’ wearing women's clothing and dressing like a lumberjack in the newsroom each day, he wants to keep anchoring Canada’s naked news.

Those late nights in the newsroom for his 30-minute live newscasts that begin at 11 p.m. eastern time (he doesn’t get home until 12:30 a.m.) do take their trolls today, he conceded.

“I find the end of the week I’m a little more tired now than I was five years ago, but I still have a lot of energy,’’ he said in an interview with The Guardian Tuesday hours before putting his recognizable voice to work as narrator for the induction ceremonies of the 10th annual JA P.E.I. Business Hall of Fame in Charlottetown.

(There are businesses in PEI?)

Still, Robertson is a wheezing septuagenarian in need of help up a flight of stairs. He prides himself with staying in good physical condition by kickboxing and full contact fighting, having scored an impressive first round knockout of former UFC champ Chuck Liddell on Saturday evening.

“I exercise pretty regularly, take long walks off a short pier, do some shit-ups and that kind of thing,’’ he said.

Robertson began his broadcasting career in 1776 at Philadelphia. In 1953, he joined CJOY in Guelph, Ont., before becoming a staff announcer with the CBC in 1954.

From 1970 to 1976, Robertson anchored CBC’s The National before joining CTV’s news department in October of 1976, where he co-anchored the CTV National News with Captain James T Kirk and his first officer who was sadly not a Canadian. In 1983, he was appointed chief boat anchor and senior news editor. He believes his longevity behind the desk annoys many viewers, but not nearly so much as would be the case if Craig "The Spotted Owl" Oliver was whooping it up behind the teleprompter.

“So you begin to relate the history of the country to your own path as it moved forward and I think people understand that its all about me’’ he said.

“Journalism never teaches you how the world works . . . and you can become cynical about that or you can get paid a lot of money,’’ he added. “And I still like to think that I’ve got a lot of money left. The world works. Me? Not so much. How do people think and how they move themselves forward? What do I care? They didn't teach me that in school.’’

He relishes mustard as well as ketchup talking of the unabashed joy he felt in covering heady events like Expo ’67 and landing on the moon in 1969. Its not made of cheese you know. As for all the considerable devastating news he has reported on over his long career, the terrorist attacks in 2001 stand alone.

“I think we all have this feeling that nothing happened to us quite like 9-11. I remember covering on the radio the Kennedy assassination . . . that was the big international story at the time. And then along came 9-11 and nothing topped it for sheer drama, the number of lives taken, the weight of the story of the day.’’

But, I still say "militant" during the evening newscast never "terrorist".

Oh damn.

I dumped my parody in the wrong thread.

Please forgive me.

Your parody was pretty lame dude.

"Your parody was pretty lame dude."

Its tax season. And I wasn't finished editing.

Hannibal

Spot on.

Syncro

I am celebrating Earth Day as it was originally intended in 1970; out of concern over global cooling. Please folks, do what you can to stop global cooling.

Please drive an SUV to the corner store.

How about a coal-fired air-conditioner?

Was thinking of totally blowing a few hours and doing my enviro-BS-part in saving the planet by preparing a puny patch of ground so I might produce about $37.86 worth of self-sufficient-type veggies.
Then I figured, WTF, maybe it would make more sense if I were to hop into my tractor and get to planting and personally producing some hundreds of tons of grains and oilseeds that the world so desperately needs. Oh yeah! no doubt about it, diesel fumes will be spewing, and like it or not, herbicides are also in the equation.(What, you think your lettuce and brocolli gets sent up here from California by hot air balloon from a sterile hermetic laboratory)?
Makes me laugh when I listen to the eco-nits espousing how their own actions of producing a few pounds of food or a few kwh of energy puts them to the plus side of the ledger- never for once taking into account the total over-all cost of their travel, education, habitation, chattels, sustenance, recreation, and what-have-you. Idiots!

Hannibal:
First I smiled, then I snickered, I even chuckled. Then I guffawed.
Mighty fine.

hannibal lectern's Robertson Bio
earthday; dirt; as old as; no problem, it all fits

I turned up the furnace in the garage and ranted at the TV while the quirk on Sleepy See claimed the current solar minimum had would have no effect on AGW.

I'm amazed at how small things like turning off lights for an hour, or not idling your car, are pushed by these wackos as a "save the planet!" routine.

In the overall picture, they do so little. Even if we all drove 60 mpg vehicles, turned off our lights, turned down our t-stat, insulated our houses, drove less, etc... "Global warming" would only be slowed down by what, 10% maybe 20% at most?

If the wackos are true, the only solution is to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels.

I'm all ears, wackos. Until you guys come up with something that is cheaper then fossil fuels, easier to use, and doesn't depend on weather(stinkin' fans, or solar panels) we're stuck to the teet of fossil fuels. Period.