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jrnj5k
04-22-2009, 09:43
Happy Earthday to everyone here! I think we should all be extra thankful today because after all it is the outdoors that has brought us all together.

Jester2000
04-22-2009, 09:44
I'm planning on celebrating Earth Day by visiting Earth. The flights are cheap this time of year, and it's not overrun with tourists.

Lone Wolf
04-22-2009, 09:45
just back from turning in my recyclables, planted a tree. gonna go hack and join in on the drum circle soon

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 09:47
just back from turning in my recyclables, planted a tree. gonna go hack and join in on the drum circle soon

yea right:D

jrnj5k
04-22-2009, 09:48
how can we celebrate?

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 09:49
We are packing up food bags and getting gear together to join Matthewski, Bearpaw and Johnny Thunder on the trail.
For Earth Day, i didnt flush the toilet. Hey its water conservation!

Lone Wolf
04-22-2009, 09:51
how can we celebrate?

i'm gonna celebrate by mowing and weed whacking 2 lawns today. i love the smell of 2 stroke exhaust. then gonna burn some hi-test gas while riding my harley. yay fossil fuels! :banana

wakapak
04-22-2009, 09:51
We are packing up food bags and getting gear together to join Matthewski, Bearpaw and Johnny Thunder on the trail.
For Earth Day, i didnt flush the toilet. Hey its water conservation!

he never flushes the toilet....its Earth Day everyday round here :D

Reid
04-22-2009, 09:54
Must see -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUDEmMjC-c

Lone Wolf
04-22-2009, 09:56
Must see -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUDEmMjC-c

they're set up perfect for kicking

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 09:58
he never flushes the toilet....its Earth Day everyday round here :D

:jump:clap:bse And you said yes when I asked you to marry me!

jrnj5k
04-22-2009, 10:00
im cleaning up garbage on the trail today

snowhoe
04-22-2009, 10:00
Bring me to the toilet so I can throw up!

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 10:01
:clap:clap:clap

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 10:01
Bring me to the toilet so I can throw up!

Make sure you recycle

Dr O
04-22-2009, 10:08
Must see -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUDEmMjC-c

OMG***!?

Are they for real?

snowhoe
04-22-2009, 10:09
dont worry I wont flush today:)

Jayboflavin04
04-22-2009, 10:14
he never flushes the toilet....its Earth Day everyday round here :D

If it's yellow let it mellow....If it is brown flush it down!

Happy Earth Day!

JAK
04-22-2009, 10:17
I'm picking up my daughter after school at 3pm.
I have the minivan so we can drive some place and do something special for Earth Day.

JAK
04-22-2009, 10:26
Seriously though, I will ask Margaret what she thinks about Earth Day.
Maybe we will plant a tree or something, or maybe just go on a hike.

Usually though she has some angle that involves inviting a friend over, 'cause Dad is boring.

zoidfu
04-22-2009, 10:32
I'm going to spike some trees.

Save the earth, maim a logger!

TrippinBTM
04-22-2009, 10:33
I'd ride my bike to work today, but it's cold and kinda nasty weather, snow rain mix.

Oh well.

Happy Earth Day, everyone.


If it's yellow let it mellow....If it is brown flush it down!

Or as Homer Simpson said of Springfield's drinking water: "If it's brown, drink it down, if it's black, send it back."

Jester2000
04-22-2009, 10:44
I'm going to spike some trees.

Save the earth, maim a logger!

"Hug a logger -- you'll never go back to trees."

Pootz
04-22-2009, 10:45
Going to see a dramatic presentation about Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau is famous as America's mid-nineteenth-century apostle of the wilderness, social critic, and political thinker.

The earth first people should be a little more quiet when in the woods. Nothing worse that people screaming and crying while I am out hiking. And when not in the woods they should seek therapy.

wrongway_08
04-22-2009, 10:53
Must see -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUDEmMjC-c

Holly crap - FREAKS OF NATURES!! One toooo many organic pine needle enamas or something :confused:

zoidfu
04-22-2009, 10:56
Going to see a dramatic presentation about Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau is famous as America's mid-nineteenth-century apostle of the wilderness, social critic, and political thinker.

The earth first people should be a little more quiet when in the woods. Nothing worse that people screaming and crying while I am out hiking. And when not in the woods they should seek therapy.

Logger's chainsaws ought to be a little more quiet while they're killing habitat.

What's "earth first" ?

JAK
04-22-2009, 10:57
Pissing down rain last night and all day today. Love this time of year.
Takes a really hard long rain to really get the Frost beaten down and away.
Grass should really be starting to turn green now. Pussy willows are out.

Life is good.

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 11:01
Pissing down rain last night and all day today. Love this time of year.
Takes a really hard long rain to really get the Frost beaten down and away.
Grass should really be starting to turn green now. Pussy willows are out.

Life is good.

Huh huh you said pussy willow:D

Nearly Normal
04-22-2009, 11:03
By the signs, it's not a good day for planting above ground crops or transplanting. Plant below ground crops today.
Wait till the 30th to set out a tree.

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 11:11
By the signs, it's not a good day for planting above ground crops or transplanting. Plant below ground crops today.
Wait till the 30th to set out a tree.

Are you quoting the farmers almanac?:p

grquinn
04-22-2009, 11:32
Screw Earth Day. Hunt the Whales!

Yukon
04-22-2009, 11:45
I'm going to spike some trees.

Save the earth, maim a logger!

Are you serious? Maim a logger? What a stupid statement...

Engine
04-22-2009, 12:09
I just saw a WalMart commercial that ended with a tagline of "Products you can afford that are good for the environment" (slightly paraphrased, my memory sucks). I am guilty of shopping at WalMart frequently, so I'm not on some high horse, but WalMart is anything but environmentaly friendly! 90% off the products they sell are made in China and we all know how wonderful their environmental record is. :(

End of rant...

Nearly Normal
04-22-2009, 12:18
Are you quoting the farmers almanac?:p

Nope, but that is a basic guide to get started understanding sign and how our earth works and fits in with the rest.

Chaco Taco
04-22-2009, 12:22
Nope, but that is a basic guide to get started understanding sign and how our earth works and fits in with the rest.

I was joking:D

zoidfu
04-22-2009, 13:32
Are you serious? Maim a logger? What a stupid statement...

I know. There are very few cases of loggers getting maimed by spiking.

Pootz
04-22-2009, 16:16
Are you serious? Maim a logger? What a stupid statement...

I agree that this is a stupid statement unless you live in a world free of any wood product.

My friend was a logger that was killed when his chainsaw hit a Spike put in by some tree hugger. Actually He was not killed, he is not even a logger and he does not know how to even run a chainsaw. If you would ask him he would say that he is not even my friend.

The statement is still stupid.

I do not plan to flush today either. Taking my little orange shovel outside and digging a 6 inch hole. Hope my neighbors don't see me.

TrippinBTM
04-22-2009, 20:16
Logger's chainsaws ought to be a little more quiet while they're killing habitat.

What's "earth first" ?

Agreed. Always disturbs me to hear chainsaws/logging while I'm in the woods. Almost as bad as walking into a clearcut.

Earth First! (with the exclamation point) is a radical environmentalist group, much influenced (founded?) by Edward Abbey and his book Monkeywrench Gang. I don't even know how much of a group they really are, kind of a loose affiliation of tree huggers, sitters, and spikers, and other defense of the environment. They have a terrorist wing called ELF, that is, Environment Liberation Front. Earth First! claims they have nothing to do with them.

Egads
04-22-2009, 20:27
Screw E.D. Just have respect for others, clean up after yourself, don't be wasteful and be a good steward.

snowhoe
04-22-2009, 20:45
Dont like loggers than wipe with your hand! Thats where most trees end up in toilet paper and I know that zoidfu probably is not using recycled tp.

kolokolo
04-22-2009, 21:00
Today, just by chance, UPS delivered 2 apple trees that I ordered back in January. I planted them. Happy earth day!

In a couple of years, I might get some apples.

Egads
04-22-2009, 21:03
Put it in a pipe and smoke it

Squinty
04-22-2009, 22:49
Here's the response from the Florida legislature:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/22/Fla-panel-passes-offshore-drilling-bill/UPI-10501240430705/

zoidfu
04-22-2009, 23:07
Dont like loggers than wipe with your hand! Thats where most trees end up in toilet paper and I know that zoidfu probably is not using recycled tp.

You "know that I'm probably not" LMAO... whatever that means. And you'd be wrong, I do used recycled TP not that wood use is even the issue here.

JAK
04-23-2009, 03:33
The sign all week said Earth Day Children Under 12 Free. But the zoo was closed at 4pm when we got there. Idiots. So we drove to Wilburs and the girls ran around all the herbs and annual and perrenials and stuff and each picked out a couple of plants, and I also picked up two oval planters for them and a bag of potting soil and a packet of Lavender and Rosemary and we went home and watched the Tails of Despereau while mixing all the Lavender and Rosemary seeds so they could each plant them all together. Who knows what might come of this.

Egads
04-23-2009, 07:17
Here's the response from the Florida legislature:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/22/Fla-panel-passes-offshore-drilling-bill/UPI-10501240430705/

Great news...thanks for sharing

Yukon
04-23-2009, 07:47
You "know that I'm probably not" LMAO... whatever that means. And you'd be wrong, I do used recycled TP not that wood use is even the issue here.

By your ridiculous statements, I'm actually surprised you know how to wipe...

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 08:56
zoidfu you seem to be a pretty smart guy but I dont believe that you dont know what toilet paper is made of. In case you didnt know its made of wood. Wood comes from trees and loggers have to cut down the tree so it can be made into toilet paper. This is also how "rolling papers" is also made. I also find it hard to believe that you REALLY do use recycled tp. But if you Really do good for you because in the U.S. last year only 450,000 rolls of toilet paper were used. So the chance of you actually using it is very slim. Hey did I see you in that extreme tree huggers video?:)

mister krabs
04-23-2009, 09:16
Here's the great video response to the extreme tree buggers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQLccLYOYY

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 09:21
Thats funny! The guy is reading why he like trees and he is reading it from paper. Thats funny.

budforester
04-23-2009, 09:52
OK, I understand a little better: I hadn't been able to figure why my question about "Earth Hour" was too inflammatory to post on WB. Happy day- after- Earth Day.

mudhead
04-23-2009, 09:53
Nope, but that is a basic guide to get started understanding sign and how our earth works and fits in with the rest.
I am waiting for dandelions to bloom so I can plant some taters.

Screw E.D. Just have respect for others, clean up after yourself, don't be wasteful and be a good steward.

She is a babe, but Hill has not asked me.

Good steward. Works.

TrippinBTM
04-23-2009, 10:36
zoidfu you seem to be a pretty smart guy but I dont believe that you dont know what toilet paper is made of. In case you didnt know its made of wood. Wood comes from trees and loggers have to cut down the tree so it can be made into toilet paper.

The problem is not wood use, but the way the wood is harvested. Clear cuts and such.

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 11:52
If the problem was not wood use then we would not have clear cuts.

DAJA
04-23-2009, 12:03
If the problem was not wood use then we would not have clear cuts.

Where does this zero sum line of thinking come from? Why is it when someone raises a valid point questioning or commenting on the way we currently do things, someone has to make some extreme point, usually suggesting the questioner should move back to a cave?

For you zero sum folks, realize that there are many many successful ways of doing nearly everything we do now.. The difference is doing something to minimize the negitive impacts vs the profit.. Yes clear cutting will produce tremendous profit, but not sustainably.. On the other hand, you can still harvest wood using sustainable methods and make a nice profit...

Stop using the dollar as the messure of success...

zoidfu
04-23-2009, 12:13
To be fair, I didn't exactly raise my point in a valid way. I was using parody and satire and it wasn't as funny as I initially thought... I don't think anyone got it either...:-? Oh well, you can't always strike gold... and then I made things worse by actually trying to debate something I don't really believe in just because I can't resist a debate.

Gray Blazer
04-23-2009, 12:15
I was using parody and satire and it wasn't as funny as I initially thought... I don't think anyone got it either...:-?

Libs aren't funny.:D

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 12:17
Its all about the C.R.E.A.M. C.ash R.ules E.verything A.round M.e If there is a better way then why have we not changed in like 150 years the way we harvest a REnewable resource. Not trying to be not nice just wondering.

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 12:22
zoidfu I hear you. I have been sucked into debates where I was trying to be funny but instead my post got thrown into left field and I then had to stand behind it because people blew it all the wrong way and that makes you mad and you end up in a pissing match. Cant lie I still thinks its kinda fun and funny. Because I know someone some where is fuming while they are sitting behind a computer screen trying to think of a good come back. Its like one of those momma joke shows.

JAK
04-23-2009, 12:35
Its all about the C.R.E.A.M. C.ash R.ules E.verything A.round M.e If there is a better way then why have we not changed in like 150 years the way we harvest a Renewable resource. Not trying to be not nice just wondering.Because we haven't had to yet.

Real conservatives are conservative, not irrational.

the goat
04-23-2009, 12:42
To be fair, I didn't exactly raise my point in a valid way. I was using parody and satire and it wasn't as funny as I initially thought... I don't think anyone got it either...:-? Oh well, you can't always strike gold... and then I made things worse by actually trying to debate something I don't really believe in just because I can't resist a debate.

i got the original point. later, i knew why you were debating it too. damn, i'm good.:sun

Cannibal
04-23-2009, 12:43
Real conservatives are conservative, not irrational.
An almost extinct breed, sadly. Neocons rule that brand now and irrationality is their mantra.

Clear cutting is just an evil plot to keep the hammock hangers down.:-? It's a conspiracy I tell ya!

Yukon
04-23-2009, 12:45
I can't resist a debate.

I hear you there...

JAK
04-23-2009, 12:54
The pinko commie socialists are trying to hijack the environmental movement, when its clear they're only real motive is anarchy and social revolution. The only real environmentalists are conservatives. Sustainability and environmental conservation will soon be restored and protected once we get all the peasants back working in the fields where they belong. Of course us decendants of the United Empire Loyalists will need all our land in the United States back also, since we are the only real conservatives that know how things ought to be run. That's what started all this mess. Damned Yankee Ingenuity. ;)

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 12:59
preach on brother jak!! Wow there are some big words in your post. I had to sound out a couple of them.

superman
04-23-2009, 13:01
Libs aren't funny.:D

That's very insightful. I thought the same thing but I didn't say it because I figured it might bump me out of my middle of the road position.:D

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 13:19
Sorry I wasn't here on Earth Day........was out hunting baby harp seals..........

They're super soft.........

JAK
04-23-2009, 13:22
preach on brother jak!! Wow there are some big words in your post. I had to sound out a couple of them.I was joking of course.
Next time I will joke with smaller words just for you.

superman
04-23-2009, 13:23
Sorry I wasn't here on Earth Day........was out hunting baby harp seals..........

They're super soft.........

Is it true that they taste like chicken?:)

JAK
04-23-2009, 13:24
preach on brother jak!! Wow there are some big words in your post. I had to sound out a couple of them.Real conservatives use big words. :D

JAK
04-23-2009, 13:26
Is it true that they taste like chicken?:)
Actually. No.
Tastes more like liver.

Gray Blazer
04-23-2009, 13:27
Is it true that they taste like chicken?:)
No, they taste like a cross between bald Eagle and manatee (with a little spotted owl thrown in for good measure).

JAK
04-23-2009, 13:32
No really. Seal meat tastes like liver, and its actually quite lean, being beneath the blubber.

superman
04-23-2009, 13:36
No, they taste like a cross between bald Eagle and manatee (with a little spotted owl thrown in for good measure).

At least the seals pups aren't endangered. I think there are herds of them on the great Swedish glacier.:)

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 13:46
At least the seals pups aren't endangered. :)

They are after yesterday........I tagged a butt load of 'em.

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 13:47
Thinking about reupholstering my Hummer with them.........

Cannibal
04-23-2009, 14:05
Thinking about reupholstering my Hummer with them.........
LOL! :D :clap

Gray Blazer
04-23-2009, 14:11
Thinking about reupholstering my Hummer with them.........
........but what about your corporate jet?

JAK
04-23-2009, 14:29
A group of seals is a pack, not a herd. :rolleyes:

JAK
04-23-2009, 14:31
They are after yesterday........I tagged a butt load of 'em.There you go. Now yer talk'n. :)

JAK
04-23-2009, 14:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24rGJpjMoY

JAK
04-23-2009, 14:44
Danny Williams calls it a seal herd, so there you go, I stand corrected.

JAK
04-23-2009, 14:49
More Danny Williams vs the McCartneys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24rGJpjMoY

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 15:09
........but what about your corporate jet?

Had to sell that..........times are tough.

Besides, that was upholstered with manatee leather.

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 15:10
There you go. Now yer talk'n. :)

Batter UP!!!

JAK
04-23-2009, 15:13
I'm in favour of a controlled seal hunt but I don't believe in making too many jokes
about it. These animals deserve some respect, as do the seal hunters and their families.

If you are against the seal hunt, I can understand making jokes I suppose.
If your in favour of a controlled and humane hunt, thanks, but you shouldn't joke about it.

DAJA
04-23-2009, 15:18
Its all about the C.R.E.A.M. C.ash R.ules E.verything A.round M.e If there is a better way then why have we not changed in like 150 years the way we harvest a REnewable resource. Not trying to be not nice just wondering.

Wow, it's funny, though I recognize the reality in CREAM, it really creeps me out to believe people could except comfortably. I wish I could remember a day when money was simply a means to an end and the end itself... Another sad example of how we've gone astray..

Sustainable logging is not uncommon at all, it's just that you don't see it because it doesn't envolve clear cutting an entire forest, which is kind of my point... And the reason big operations use clear cutting methods, is they are more concerned about money in their pocket today rather than a sustainable future for their industry... It's the same logic that destoyed the east coast fishery...

When I began building my house, I purchased a small healthy mixed woodlot to mill my own lumber for the house, and also for firewood. It's been roughly 4-5 yrs now, and you'd never know i've removed a tree... I suspect that little 20 acre plot will last my entire lifetime... Like I said, there are better ways, but the big company's wouldn't be happy unless they can ram a $100 grand machine through the forest knocking down everything standing in their way..

JAK
04-23-2009, 15:29
Good on ya DAJA.

I think the problem is that the rhetoric gets extreme, and so many actually start believing in the extreme rhetoric at its face value, rather than its bluff value. Either that or some people understand it is more important to take sides than anything else, and where politics has become so polarized today if you are on one particular side than you somehow need to buy into all the nonsense that currently goes with that side, and not accept any views from the other side even if it isn't the more extreme nonsense from that side.

We have to work with industry and within industry, but we have to do it responsibly.
That doesn't mean being wasteful and boastful and living in denial just because you support one industry or another on one or all issues. As I said, real conservatives are conservative, not irrational. We need to get back to that. People have to get over alot of the nonsense of the past 30 years and move on.

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 15:46
I'm in favour of a controlled seal hunt but I don't believe in making too many jokes
about it. These animals deserve some respect, as do the seal hunters and their families.

If you are against the seal hunt, I can understand making jokes I suppose.
If your in favour of a controlled and humane hunt, thanks, but you shouldn't joke about it.

I just like the batting practice.........

Engine
04-23-2009, 15:50
...Sustainability and environmental conservation will soon be restored and protected once we get all the peasants back working in the fields where they belong...

Obama just TRIPLED the funding for AmeriCorp so it won't be long now. :cool:

take-a-knee
04-23-2009, 15:51
I just turned my clothes dryer, heat pump, and everything electrical I own wide a$$ open to celebrate. I think I'll go rev the engine in my truck also.

Engine
04-23-2009, 15:52
I'm in favour of a controlled seal hunt but I don't believe in making too many jokes
about it. These animals deserve some respect, as do the seal hunters and their families.

If you are against the seal hunt, I can understand making jokes I suppose.
If your in favour of a controlled and humane hunt, thanks, but you shouldn't joke about it.

I'm totally in favor of a controlled human hunt...oh wait you said humane...never mind.

JAK
04-23-2009, 15:53
Well I guess if I'm the target and not the seals or the seal hunters I guess anything is fair game. :)

Pootz
04-23-2009, 15:55
Thinking about reupholstering my Hummer with them.........


Finally something that made me laugh on this post.

THANK YOU !!!

JAK
04-23-2009, 15:56
I can understand some of you, if you've never had a real hummer, ya gotta go out and buy one.

Engine
04-23-2009, 15:57
I was ribbin ya Jak. If there is a sustainable population of seals and there is a legitimate need for that resource then I have no problem with a humane harvest of the resource. I personally know so little about the subject that any opinion I did hold would honestly be worthless...

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 15:58
Take-a-knee that just made me laugh out loud! Thats the funniest thing I have heard all day!

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 15:58
http://americandigest.org/sidelines/folio_baby_seal_cover.jpg

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 16:01
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3468/244876-warrenties_super.jpg

JAK
04-23-2009, 16:14
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/02/killing-that-little-monkey.html

JAK
04-23-2009, 16:23
Oops. Just meant to find someone killing a monkeyboy and that came up.
Forgot about that controversy. No offence intended.

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 18:50
No one is going to post after that one hey?! HA HA HA

Bearpaw
04-23-2009, 18:52
Those in the know know that "MonkeyBoy Rules The Board!":banana

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 18:54
WEEELLL, I dont know, had not heard a thing from him.:)

Cannibal
04-23-2009, 18:55
The Shadow knows.

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 18:58
cannibal, serously I am so scared of ghosts and ufo's. Not cool to be messing around like that.

Cannibal
04-23-2009, 19:06
Whoops, sorry bout that.

Oh yeah...BOO!

Dr O
04-23-2009, 19:09
cannibal, serously I am so scared of ghosts and ufo's. Not cool to be messing around like that.

I wonder if aliens have ghosts?

snowhoe
04-23-2009, 19:11
Dr OHHH!!! dont do that to me and also like someone said earlier happy day after earth day!

take-a-knee
04-23-2009, 20:22
I'm going to spike some trees.

Save the earth, maim a logger!

Some of them may not mind, then they could draw a disability check to go along with the welfare check Bill Clinton put them on. Parts of Oregon now look like, well, Pennsylvania.

Skidsteer
04-23-2009, 20:56
Y'all are sick.

Now I remember why I hang out here so much.

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 22:58
Those in the know know that "MonkeyBoy Rules The Board!":banana

........and don't you forget it, either.........

Monkeyboy
04-23-2009, 22:59
Y'all are sick.

Now I remember why I hang out here so much.

Birds of a feather.......

vamelungeon
04-23-2009, 23:13
I can understand some of you, if you've never had a real hummer, ya gotta go out and buy one.
Do you mean a Hummer or a hummer?

zoidfu
04-23-2009, 23:41
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3468/244876-warrenties_super.jpg

You've still got it, monkeyboy:D

zoidfu
04-23-2009, 23:42
Why pay for a hummer? One's free and the other's worthless.

JAK
04-24-2009, 07:37
New junk food snack on the International Appalachian Trail.
"Hey, you put monkeyboy on my seal flipper"
"Hey, you put seal flipper on my monkeyboy"

Rhesus Seal Flipper Pie.

Monkeyboy
04-24-2009, 08:24
There no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.............

Monkeyboy
04-24-2009, 08:25
You've still got it, monkeyboy:D


Just be careful.........it's contagious.

Monkeyboy
04-24-2009, 08:26
Why pay for a hummer? One's free and the other's worthless.

One's sometimes free and the other's useful for seal hunts.....

JAK
04-24-2009, 08:32
OK, I understand you can sometimes win a SUV
but how does a blow job help you with a seal hunt?

JAK
04-24-2009, 08:34
Are all Earth Day threads this bad, or only on WhiteBlaze?

Nearly Normal
04-24-2009, 08:39
Predictions from Earth Day 1970

The following predictions were made during the first Earth Day:
Denis Hayes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Hayes), the chief organizer for the first Earth Day, wrote, "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Senator Gaylord Nelson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson), the founder of Earth Day, stated, "Dr. S. Dillon Ripley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Dillon_Ripley), secretary of the Smithsonian Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institute), believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Texas_State_University), stated, "... by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.... By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Paul Ehrlich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich), author of The Population Bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb), predicted that between 1980 and 1989, 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would starve to death. [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Life Magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Magazine) wrote, "... by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Ecologist Kenneth Watt stated, "The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age)." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Watt also stated, "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)

I was lead to believe we would all have jet packs by now too.

Gray Blazer
04-24-2009, 09:09
Predictions from Earth Day 1970

The following predictions were made during the first Earth Day:
Denis Hayes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Hayes), the chief organizer for the first Earth Day, wrote, "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Senator Gaylord Nelson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson), the founder of Earth Day, stated, "Dr. S. Dillon Ripley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Dillon_Ripley), secretary of the Smithsonian Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institute), believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Texas_State_University), stated, "... by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.... By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Paul Ehrlich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich), author of The Population Bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb), predicted that between 1980 and 1989, 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would starve to death. [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Life Magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Magazine) wrote, "... by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Ecologist Kenneth Watt stated, "The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age)." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Watt also stated, "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)

I was lead to believe we would all have jet packs by now too.

I guess it is a good thing they started earth day to prevent all those disasters. :rolleyes:

Monkeyboy
04-24-2009, 09:28
Predictions from Earth Day 1970

The following predictions were made during the first Earth Day:
Denis Hayes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Hayes), the chief organizer for the first Earth Day, wrote, "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Senator Gaylord Nelson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson), the founder of Earth Day, stated, "Dr. S. Dillon Ripley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Dillon_Ripley), secretary of the Smithsonian Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institute), believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Texas_State_University), stated, "... by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.... By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Paul Ehrlich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich), author of The Population Bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb), predicted that between 1980 and 1989, 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would starve to death. [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Life Magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Magazine) wrote, "... by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Ecologist Kenneth Watt stated, "The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age)." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)
Watt also stated, "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil." [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#cite_note-Reason-12)

I was lead to believe we would all have jet packs by now too.


So by now.......80% of animals have become extinct.....everyone is starving to death......and we live in the dark........with lots of snow.....and no oil.

Man..........this sounds vaguely familiar.

Nearly Normal
04-25-2009, 11:30
I am waiting for dandelions to bloom so I can plant some taters.

Cultivate/ add organics to your patch on May 21,22.
Plant your taters on May 27,28.
They'll:jump

Jester2000
05-02-2009, 17:54
I guess it is a good thing they started earth day to prevent all those disasters. :rolleyes:

Well, in a certain sense they might have, although it's obviously easy to overstate the impact. Many of the actual predictions are couched in terms of "at the present rate . . ." and "if we fail to act . . ."

That the creation of both the EPA and the Clean Air Act can be directly traced to the first Earth Day tells me something, although, again, there's admittedly no correlative proof.

superman
05-02-2009, 18:45
I've killed a helluvalot more trees in my life time than I planted. I'll bet there are more tree killers than planters.:welcome