Tomorrow is officially Earth Day, a holiday for Gaia worshippers traditionally marked by obligatory cover stories in TIME and Newsweek. This is particularly true in an election year, as both magazines run their usual campaigns on the crisis of global warming.
Yet a March NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found only 4% of respondents said they thought “the environment and global warming†should be the federal government’s top priority. The latest Gallup poll shows that the number of people who worry a great deal about global warming has not changed significantly in 19 years. Indeed, global warming does not even rank high on Americans’ list of environmental concerns.
However, the effort to whip up global warming hysteria led TIME to offend Iwo Jima veterans and others. So they accomplished something this year.
I wonder what it will take for the MSM to acknowledge that AGW is a farce.
I think it’s only fair to accompany Earth Day activities with a column written about the Greenest President Ever.
So why is it that a 4% popular issue is one of the primary platform issues of the press and *all* the pres candidates? Hmmmm? (Can you say Liberal Fascism? I thought you could…)
I’m looking for suggestions at my blog for good ideas on how to celebrate Exploit the Earth Day instead.
Considering the efforts to make vegetarianism the new environmentalism, I’d say the best celebration would be to eat large helpings of red meat.
Living in Cow-Eater County like I do, I’ve been celebrating Exploit the Earth Day 24/7/365 for eight years and change.
Oh, and Ardsgaine’s post on same is here on his blog, not at that CapMag site.
Ards – tear the exhaust system off your Hummer, and leave said Hummer running in idle all day long. While the evil SUV burns gas and emits a toxic cloud, drive another SUV around town throwing non-biodegradable products out the rear window, fart a lot, and order a side of fresh beef from the local butcher. Go to the local earthy crunch restaurant and order caged oppressed chicken and foie gras. Raw lamb and Kobe beef should push them right over the edge.
Fuck that. No really. I’m not having it.
Well, that cover is one of the most offensive things I’ve ever seen.
McGehee: Cow-Eater County
EAST ATLANTEAN!
I think that TIME should do its part to help Mother Gaia and just shut down completely.
It’s for the children!
Mission accomplished!
Which means, naturally, that we’ve won in Iraq, for all time. Just to be consistent and all.
I left this at Ardsgaine’s blog but just felt the need to share here. I’ll be having an expanded version of my Exploitive barbeque.
You are all invited to an Exploit the Earth Day barbecue.
I plan to exploit the earth through my liberal use of MENU ITEMS!
I’ll be holding a barbecue for one hundred people. All of the food will be cooked over rainforest wood fires sprinkled with high sulphur coal for that smokey texture.
First up will be braised medallions of Spotted Owl served in Ivory Tusks swimming in a glace of Trans Fat.
Next, fire braised polar bear paws and penguin wings marinated in red squirrel compote and served piping hot with a garnish of Panda ears.
For dessert a lovely iced dolphin blubber cake with a rich topping of fire braised hummingbird eggs and bumblebee wings.
Afterwards we’ll throw PCP’s, Benzine, pressure treated wood, more high sulphur coal and all the paper garbage and wet leaves that we can haul, along with the rest of the clear cut rainforest wood, into our big, roaring bonfire. Then we’ll all join hands and rhythmically pass gas to the tune of “Smoke on the Water.”
Bring your own breathing masks and Al Gore voodoo dolls.
Yeah, why doesn’t TIME stop publishing entirely if it wants to save the earth so bad? It’s wasting glossy paper and pc pixels. Down with TIME!
I wonder what it will take for the MSM to acknowledge that AGW is a farce.
Never’ll happen. Think of the most recent few months in the battle for Iraq. When Reality doesn’t conform to The Narrative, when it makes The Narrative look bad: they stop talking about the whole thing. Unless or until Reality looks like it’s going to change or at least can be mangled into conformance.
That’s the best any of us can ever expect.
Fuck that. No really. I’m not having it.
As with most things, it’s in the finer details. Public sacrifice is an excellent way to help the planet. All of those people who want to lessen their eco-footprint please climb to the top of the pyramid and see the guy with the obsidian blade.
BJ, that may be how they do it in Texas, but down in Florida it’s Manatee on a Spit.
Thomas: I’m in PA and we couldn’t get the Manatee poached in time.
Yup, it was a oversight. However we have added the Blow Methane Gas Bubbles and Set Them on Fire game for the kiddies. We’ll even provide the fire gel!
Down here in PC-land, those have been officially renamed to “personatee”.
Slart: *sigh*
Teh Patriarchy: IT IS EVERYWHERE!!!11???11!!!
BJ, what part of PA? I’m in NE OH, I figure to pull my weight I can light a couple of gas wells on fire to cook over. Things taste better when cooked with gas. If you’re in western PA you could always use an oil well to supplement your wood fire. It leaves a slight aftertaste but remember, It’s for the Envrionment ™.
My littlest one came home all worried that I might fell another tree in the back yard. THEY GOT ME THROUGH MY CHILDREN!!
Totally Vickian, dude, and a line worth filching.
Turtle walks! Gimme my sand wedge and those baby turtles won’t have to walk.
ccs: Unfortunately I’m about 30 miles west of Philly and thus lack both oil and gas wells. Neither Excelon nor Texas Eastern (for reasons that are unclear to me) will allow me to shunt direct from one of their active gas lines.
Buncha piker exploiters, those two!
dude – it’s about time the Earth warmed up a little bit… she’s a frigid bitch… a tease really.
From the Time cover piece:
Step 1A: charge people for breathing. Well, not breatihing, specifically, because that’s a “right.” But exhaling is about to get costly.
No, your other left.
Atlantans consider Cow-Eater County to be in East Alabama.
Isn’t that a Prince song?
AAAAOOWWW
Baby turtle sandwedge? With mayo?
Slart: I gots ya *rimshot* riiight hee-ya!!
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Do y’all suppose the outrage mightn’t be better directed at the cover of that magazine, and the irreducible idiots that comissioned that offense to every Marine that fought at Iwo Jima?
Ezra Klein has a post today about pay-as-you-drive auto insurance. The goal is to discourage people from driving and the discussion of the actual purpose of auto insurance is apparently unnecessary.
Everything is about altering our behavior in Green World.
Karl:
Comments:
Me:
I blame myself.
I notice that the media has gone all AGW all the time. The Home and Garden network is doing Green houses. The National Geographic channel has gone totally eco-apocalyptic and Gore’s advertising campaign to enlist a 10 million strong eco-army is in full swing. This may be the biggest propaganda surge since WW2.
If the reaction of the American public remains essentually blase in the face of this blizzard of behavior altering media manipulation, my basic optimism of essentual wisdom of John Q. Public will be vindicated.
While I’m still a bit dubious about this, it is POSSIBLE that John Q. Public has indeed figured out that this AGW drivel is nothing more than a political ploy by the Marxists to bring Western Civilization (and the US in particular) down. Which indeed it is.
Not that this is going to stop the LSM from hyping it as the end of the world unless us e-vil Americans bow down before the mighty Algore and his Proggie minions.
Hey, irongrampa. Methinks the mighty Slartibartfast covered your question.
And you are right; that cover was indeed an insult to every Marine who fought on Iwo. But hey, this is TIME we are talking about here…
Some of you might have caught this from Tim Blair. Some AlGore accolyte started a blog and this is what happened:
I love the “…I didn’t believe a word of it…”
– Good news everyone. For any of the pw readership suffering from “carbon footprint remorse”, we will be offering registration in “Club baby seal” on a first come first served basis through the month of May. This is a golden opportunity to do your part in saving an Eskimo from slow but sure starvation, and eradicating eco-activists from the Arctic ice flow.
– The first 100 regestries will recieve an exclusive invite to a reception and kick-off Whale whacking party aboard the Northern Albatross cruise line, along with an entry in the “seal slaughtering” contest. Seal skins will be donated to the Bradbury Lampshade corporation, and the meat will be distributed to starving Eskimos and their families.
– Reservations are limited, so get your registration in early. For more information contact Rosie at the Skagway “T-Hual” queens highway truck stop, 907-EAT-SEAL.
(All proceeds go to the Alaska “Jail an ECO-freak” fund.)
NUKE THE WHALES is an oldie but has always held a special place in my heart.
Atlantans consider Cow-Eater County to be in East Alabama.
AKA Auburn
– “CLUB BABY SEALSâ„¢, the other white meat!” will be available at the North American NRA pavillion.
I’m not a “skeptic” of your stupid theory. Let’s be clear about that. I’m flat out not fucking having it you gay-assed brainwashed socialist fuck.
– Feets. I was about to chime in with the time honored “give Socialists a bad name….” pleat, but then that would be redundent.
Kelly – isn’t it ridiculous – “gee, you know, they have a command of the facts and I don,t, but if course I didn’t believe them.”
I mean, WTF?
As isn’t it bad enough that the right-wing party in the US is lumbered with the left-wing color, now the watermelons are flinging “pinko” at us?
WTFAOA?
I swear, if you catch a liberal off-guard and ask them where Earth is, they’d point up.
@ #40
Hey, watch it there.
PT
Hey PT is the Supper Club still there?
Oh yeah. It’s still there. Went by – simply for old time’s sake and not because of the smokin’ hot coeds, of course – when I was down for the Iron Bowl last year. Hadn’t changed in fifteen years.
“Cold Beer. Hot Rock. Expect No Mercy.”
PT
Semper Fidelis
Hadn’t changed in fifteen years.
Glad to hear it, you just can’t buy ‘ambiance’ like that place has.
Pains me though it does to say it, Jordan-Hare is one of the finest places to see the finest conference play football.
Global warming could lead to higher rates of skin cancer by amplifying the harmful effects of the sun’s rays, scientists said.
New evidence suggests that the same amount of sunshine becomes more likely to trigger cancer as temperature rises.
well, I never go outside during the day. so. problem solved!
Or, as people are unwarantedly frightened to expose themselves to the sun, their tollerance for it diminishes over time and when they do go out they are more likely to suffer dammage, including cancer, from it.
The pronunciation of the place, though, makes French look rather phonetic.