Take Your Earth Day and Shove It!

April 22 is "Earth Day", a day of demagoguery for smug self righteous global warming scammers, leftists, nanny staters and the useful idiots who they have duped.

Photo from Cryptcl Idiot Savants

April 22, 2011 also is Good Friday for Catholics, but this year it is eclipsed by the propaganda of the eco-commies, as is Easter. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air points out how the media coverage has been going for these events this year:

It’s Holy Week for the world’s Christians, leading to the most significant event on the calendar, Easter Sunday.  How does the national media cover such a significant week?  The Media Research Center took a look at the media coverage from last year’s Holy Week and compared it to coverage of Earth Day.  Who did better, Jesus or Gaia?

Media Undermine Christian Holiday: Nearly two thirds of all stories about Easter were negative (22 out of 34).
Easter Used to Attack Catholic Church: Ninety-one percent of the negative Easter stories were about the pedophilia scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.
Love That Mother Nature: 100 percent of Earth Day stories were positive. RTR

Earth Day is not some benign holiday about conservation, its origins are dark and creepy. The Lesbian Conservative has a terrific post from last year which shines a light on one the leftist radicals credited with founding Earth Day, Ira Einhorn, also known as the Unicorn Killer:

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 during the heyday of the drug-infested counter-culture, just when the depiction of America as Archfiend was grinding into high gear.

That first Earth Day celebration in Philadelphia was organized by Philly’s own local counter-cult icon, Ira Einhorn.  Einhorn was an anti-establishment celebrity wannabe who rubbed shoulders with Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, two of the notorious Chicago Eight radicals that led the Yippie demonstrations at the 1968 Democrat Convention.  Einhorn later claimed to be the creator of Earth Day, attempting to capitalize on all the save-the-earth euphoria. On that first Earth Day in Philly’s Fairmount Park, Einhorn served as Master of Ceremonies.
In 1977, Ira Einhorn murdered Holly Maddux, a former lover, who had broken off their relationship and moved to New York. Einhorn lured Holly back to Philadelphia by telling her he wanted her to remove her belongings from his apartment. Holly left for Philadelphia and was never seen alive again. Eighteen months later, Holly’s body was found decomposing in a trunk in Einhorn’s apartment. Einhorn was then charged but released on a reduced bail at the request of his attorney, Arlen Specter, the current Democrat Senator for Pennsylvania. Just days before the start of his trial, Einhorn skipped out on his bail and fled to Europe.
The saga that ensued in tracking down this Left-wing murderer and heaving his butt back to the US took 20 years. Einhorn was sheltered and protected by every Left-wing do-goody in Europe and in the US. RTWT

Why April 22 for Earth Day? Alan Caruba explains at Warning Signs in the post, What Greens Really Believe. The whole thing is a must read, but here's an excerpt:

It is no coincidence that Earth Day is also the birthday of Vladimir Illich Lenin, the founder of the former Soviet Union and devotee of Karl Marx, the creator of Communism. The Communist revolution worldwide led to the murder of an estimated one hundred million throughout the last century.
At the heart of environmentalism, aside from its wish for far fewer humans, is a hatred of capitalism. The failures of communism and socialism everywhere attest to the way state control of all aspects of life is ignored by Greens.
David Foreman, founder of Earth First!, said, “We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, hold dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wildness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settle land.”
Thus, agriculture, the key to civilization, is decried as harming the Earth and all manner of business and industrial enterprises, dependent on the provision of energy, is regarded as evil. READ THE WHOLE THING

Now, if you like your truth about Earth Day with a fresh hot dose of awesome and a generous helping of righteous profanity on the side, I highly recommend that you click on over to TheSwash.com and read Earth Day is Anti-Human, Eco-Fascist Bullshit. You'll be glad that you did.

Light bulbs are a perfect illustration for why all this environmental yammering is irrelevant to reducing pollution and more about controlling people's lives and wallets. The government tells us that we can't have old fashioned incandescent (and cheap) light bulbs anymore, citing "environmental" reasons, and that we are to use the expensive, unattractive and impractical CFC bulbs instead. Those have poisonous mercury in them. If you break a regular light bulb, you clean it up with a dustpan & it takes a few seconds. If you break one of those so called "environmentally friendly" CFC bulbs, it's an entirely different matter - here are the cleanup guidelines from the EPA's website:

Before Cleanup
    * Have people and pets leave the room, and avoid the breakage area on the way out.
    * Open a window or door to the outdoors and leave the room for 5-10 minutes.
    * Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning (H&AC) system, if you have one.
    * Collect materials you will need to clean up the broken bulb:
          o Stiff paper or cardboard
          o Sticky tape (e.g., duct tape)
          o Damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes (for hard surfaces)
          o Glass jar with a metal lid (such as a canning jar) or a sealable plastic bag(s)

Cleanup Steps for Hard Surfaces
    * Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place debris and paper/cardboard in a glass jar with a metal lid. If a glass jar is not available, use a sealable plastic bag. (NOTE: Since a plastic bag will not prevent the mercury vapor from escaping, remove the plastic bag(s) from the home after cleanup.)
    * Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder. Place the used tape in the glass jar or plastic bag.
    * Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.
    * Vacuuming of hard surfaces during cleanup is not recommended unless broken glass remains after all other cleanup steps have been taken. [NOTE: It is possible that vacuuming could spread mercury-containing powder or mercury vapor, although available information on this problem is limited.] If vacuuming is needed to ensure removal of all broken glass, keep the following tips in mind:
          o Keep a window or door to the outdoors open; 
          o Vacuum the area where the bulb was broken using the vacuum hose, if available; and
          o Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister) and seal the bag/vacuum debris, and any materials used to clean the vacuum, in a plastic bag.
    * Promptly place all bulb debris and cleanup materials, including vacuum cleaner bags, outdoors in a trash container or protected area until materials can be disposed of properly.
          o Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your area. Some states and communities require fluorescent bulbs (broken or unbroken) be taken to a local recycling center.
    * Wash your hands with soap and water after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing bulb debris and cleanup materials.
    * Continue to air out the room where the bulb was broken and leave the H&AC system shut off, as practical, for several hours.

Cleanup Steps for Carpeting or Rugs
    * Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place debris and paper/cardboard in a glass jar with a metal lid. If a glass jar is not available, use a sealable plastic bag. (NOTE: Since a plastic bag will not prevent the mercury vapor from escaping, remove the plastic bag(s) from the home after cleanup.)
    * Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder. Place the used tape in the glass jar or plastic bag.
    * Vacuuming of carpeting or rugs during cleanup is not recommended unless broken glass remains after all other cleanup steps have been taken. [NOTE: It is possible that vacuuming could spread mercury-containing powder or mercury vapor, although available information on this problem is limited.] If vacuuming is needed to ensure removal of all broken glass, keep the following tips in mind:
          o Keep a window or door to the outdoors open;
          o Vacuum the area where the bulb was broken using the vacuum hose, if available, and
          o Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister) and seal the bag/vacuum debris, and any materials used to clean the vacuum, in a plastic bag.
    * Promptly place all bulb debris and cleanup materials, including vacuum cleaner bags, outdoors in a trash container or protected area until materials can be disposed of properly.
          o Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your area. Some states and communities require fluorescent bulbs (broken or unbroken) be taken to a local recycling center.
    * Wash your hands with soap and water after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing bulb debris and cleanup materials.
    * Continue to air out the room where the bulb was broken and leave the H&AC system shut off, as practical, for several hours.

Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rugs: Air Out the Room During and After Vacuuming
    * The next several times you vacuum the rug or carpet, shut off the H&AC system if you have one, close the doors to other rooms, and open a window or door to the outside before vacuuming. Change the vacuum bag after each use in this area.
    * After vacuuming is completed, keep the H&AC system shut off and the window or door to the outside open, as practical, for several hours. 

Not exactly the type of cleanup procedure one would think of needing for an "environmentally friendly" product, is it?

If you happen to come across one of those Earth Day festivals that spring up all over the place this time a year, take a look at the litter these people leave behind and then maybe you'll understand why I say that they can take their "Earth Day" and shove it!


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