Good, bad, or ugly what does Earth Day mean to you????

Question

Good, bad, or ugly what does Earth Day mean to you????

Answer 1

It is neat to see how people blame environmentalists for the high price of gas when Exxon made around $40 billion in 2006.  They are also fighting the U S government who is planning on recinding some major tax breaks for oil giants(around $18 bln(and people are mad that alt energy is recieving about $1 bln in the same time period)).  Exxon has still not paid up on the court ordered penalty for the Valdez spill and are aggresively fighting it in court.  Makes sense to blame the hippies for the high cost of transportation!  Do you people read real news or just watch Fox and listen to Rush Limbaugh.

Answer 2

Not a thing in the least.  Its just one more day, where gas now costs 3.50 bread 2.00 a loaf, and milk is now reaching 5. 00 a gallon, why?  because nut case environmentalist prevent our nation from using our own source of energy.  So we are selling ourselves to the Arabs.

Answer 3

I do the "clear stream" program for a section of the Little Blue River I'm especially fond of. Today I'll be doing a little caretaking of a small patch of God's good earth I currently call home. Thank you for letting me use it God.

I live in a very historic part of my country. It was a stop on the voyage by Lewis and Clark to explore the "Louisiana Purchase", and later when Clark became Missouri's first Governor, the first permanent settlement by the USA west of the Mississippi. The landscape is littered with beer bottles, old plastic bags, condoms and used syringes. Sometimes I just feel like picking some of it up and fill a few sacks on my own. There are several nice little parks but they discontinued trash pickup quite a while ago, so I have to put the stuff in with my own trash. Where are all those Super Patriots when you need them? I remember showing a guy from Germany around my home town of St. Louis. He was so impressed by the stately brick buildings, but his comment was "You have such good stuff, why is it that you don't take care of it?" I confess I didn't have an answer for him, and I still don't have one today.

I can't help remembering the first Earth Day. I was 23, 4 months out of the Army. Viet Nam. Another capitalist escapade disguised as patriotism. We were making sure the promises Franklin Roosevelt made to Joseph Stalin at Yalta would not be kept, and we did a fine job. Made the world safe for the heroin trade, we did.

My wife made a little button to wear to work that said "Take a Tree to Lunch". First wife, but who's counting? They made her take it off. Too radical. Might offend someone. Had she been a guy, they'd have probably just beat the c**p out of him. You had to be brave back then. The young deniers would have loved it. People like Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater were firmly in control. No dissent permitted. The land of the free, and don't question it or you go straight to jail.

Of course d**k and Barry would be called "Lefties" or "Communists" by the ones who post here today. That leads to an interesting train of thought. The denieristi like to call themselves "conservatives" but they aren't. Goldwater and Reagan were conservatives. Pat Robertson and Newt Gingrich are conservatives. When you hear somebody attack someone both as a communist and as a religious person in the same sentence, the person talking is way, way to the right of the religious right, which is where the boundary marker used to be for the extreme Right, back on the first Earth Day. Out beyond that point the company thins out. Mainly the fellers we fought in Europe during WWII who hated the Commies AND the Church.

What these latter day Franco's might consider is every time the boundary marker for the Right gets moved a little farther to the Right, the boundary marker for the Left automatically moves a little farther the other way. That's just how things work. New things become possible that weren't intended. The resurgence of Communism that's happening right now is worrisome to me, remembering the real deal back then. We owe that to these Neo-whatever-they-are's. Communism isn't all that attractive, it's just the only known antidote to Fascism.

I'm putting a link to the cover of Time Magazine back on that first Earth Day. You won't see Earth Day mentioned. What is mentioned is that it's Lenin's birthday. Happy birthday, Vladimir! Many happy returns. I kind of think the people who started Earth day picked it as a little joke...sort of a time capsule for the people who hated them so much, with the message "Do you get it?" The answer, I'm sad to say is, "Not yet".

Peace.

Answer 4

earth day means to me as a day when you celebrate what the earth means to u but to your question earth day means to me as a good thing because u are in formed about what are the bad things like global warming are taking place!!

Answer 5

Just another reminder of how the environmentalists have ruined our economy as well as the environment we love so much.