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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Teresa Heilevang on April 25, 2011, 10:54:58 AM
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I know Earth Day has passed but, I couldn't let this story and video go unnoticed... our 21st century hippie's at work:
Anarchists, Wild-Eyed Vegans, and High Hippies gather in Santa Cruz, California for Earth Day. Author and radio talk show host Brian Sussman goes undercover to grab some eye-opening interviews:
Earth Day Idiots Exposed
by Jason Mattera
04/19/2011
Just suck on the exhaust pipe of a gas-guzzling SUV and get it over with already, you eco-princesses!
Hey, if the self-appointed Captain Planets of the globe really wanted to expunge the world of “dirty” carbon dioxide, perhaps they should start by permanently ending the “deadly” fumes they exhale daily, no?
It would be one thing if these "environmental" activists expressed their undying love for the Earth by only stuffing their pants with a month’s supply of Kashi bars before chaining themselves to oak trees across the country.
I can live with that. The fewer Kashi bars in supermarkets, the better.
But we know that liberal granola crunchers don’t keep their obsession with the climate to themselves—they attempt to impose their bizarre way of living and caveman worldview on the rest of us, in the name of saving the planet.
To wit, over the weekend our friend Brian Sussman from KSFO attended an early Earth Day festival in Santa Cruz, Calif., capturing on film all the Woodstock retreads adorned with their flip-flops, long beards (men and women), and Hula-Hoops—each one attempting to outdo the other on who can say the most preposterous thing on camera.
“What we can do as individuals is to first have smaller families,” one aging hippie noted. “Smaller families live better. And, second, is to support family planning all over the world.”
He added: “Because each person contributes a certain amount of carbon dioxide every year, and a certain amount of every other resource, so by keeping the population more stable we can reduce those problems.”
Good. Start with your family, champ.
VIDEO:
Now how about deep thoughts on the composition of modern-day slavery?
“If there are fruit trees everywhere, then it helps liberate people from the money-slavery system so they can do less working for money and more unpaid charitable voluntarism that really inspires their heart,” said one dude whose grungy facial hair was definitely home to a variety of insects.
This guy really, really liked fruit trees by the way: “I’ve even lived in Santa Barbara, California, and climbed barefoot into certain kind of fruit trees—figs or persimmons—and eat the fruit straight from the tree when it's fully ripe because then it has vital life-force energy.”
I’m not sure what that even means, but okay.
Seriously, you really gotta watch the entire video, and then thank the Good Lord that His grace has steered you away from being the one who was wasting his Saturday afternoon fantasizing about “terraforming” the universe.
Yes, “terraforming,” as in “planetary engineering,” as in, “I’m a loser who reads comic books at the entrance of Whole Foods but doesn’t go in because I have no money.”
Said this Earth Day stoner: “The one thing that we really can do because the Earth is going to die eventually is to start ‘terraforming’ other planets, which is not immediately a possibility, but we need to work towards that goal.”
Naturally, vehicles of any size were verboten amongst this crowd.
“I have a very low impact. I don’t own a vehicle. I use Rideshare,” one chick bragged. “I’m hitchhiking around the country trying to get people to share their vehicles and share their gas.”
Actually, thumbing a lift was encouraged by this California Earth Day crowd, as one of the eco-warriors implored us to “find a way to do anything but drive your car...live near work, walk to work, get a bicycle, ride your bike, take a bus. Find another way.”
And capitalism? Well capitalism is like deodorant at these "environmental" demonstrations: despised.
“Traveling and buying new things, that’s actually part of the problem,” said one self-described anarchist. “That is the problem. We’re addicted to it, and we are capitalist creatures. We have to realize that and kind of wean ourselves from that.”
Moral of the story: As this Earth Day approaches on April 22, be on the lookout for smelly hitchhikers who will simultaneously ask for a ride while they condemn us for owning a car, as we get lectured on the evils of big families, carbon footprints, and running toilets, before we’re treated to a mind-altering conversation about the vital life energy that’s contained in fig trees.
You’re looking forward to the philosophizing dirty hippie bumming a ride, aren’t you? Be honest.
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The brilliance abounds.
Nothing that a few hundred wal-mart sacks and a roll of sturdy duct tape won't cure.
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Love this Brian Sussman
What a bunch of loonies
love his other vid
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Makes me so proud to
be have moved from the Bay Area.
Only problem is it's not just there. The oldest comes home regularly with classmates and teachers that make the same un-educated/misinformed comments. She's gotten to the point of ignoring it since it's fuitile to have a rational debate with irrational people. Besides if you point out the flaws in their logic they just say "You're stupid and don't know anything."
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Makes me so proud to be have moved from the Bay Area.
Only problem is it's not just there. The oldest comes home regularly with classmates and teachers that make the same un-educated/misinformed comments. She's gotten to the point of ignoring it since it's fuitile to have a rational debate with irrational people. Besides if you point out the flaws in their logic they just say "You're stupid and don't know anything."
Which is why I have stopped trying to change minds. As soon as you challenge them intellectually, and they cannot back up their argument, they will run straight to the personal attacks. This is when I walk away. The way I see it, as soon as you stop debating the issue, and start tearing after the person, you've lost the argument. If you can't support your position with facts, then maybe you need to take another look at the issue.
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Flip side of all of this is that if you attend an event like this and loudly denounce "the man", you can be pretty much assured of getting some free beer and getting laid. Not that I EVER did anything like that in college. ;D 8)
FQ13
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Which is why I have stopped trying to change minds. As soon as you challenge them intellectually, and they cannot back up their argument, they will run straight to the personal attacks. This is when I walk away. The way I see it, as soon as you stop debating the issue, and start tearing after the person, you've lost the argument. If you can't support your position with facts, then maybe you need to take another look at the issue.
Paraphrasing Herman Cain:
When a liberal tries to reply to a question posed by a conservative, he commits a SIN. SIN is an acronym and I'll explain what the letters stand for.
"S" stands for "Shifting the blame." When a conservative points out something that the Obama Administration does is wrong, or what Congress did is wrong, a liberal is quick to shift the blame. "If it weren't for the mess that Bush left us...."
"I" stands for "Ignoring the facts." That's the next step in a liberal's argument. The liberals say that Bush raised the National Debt by $3.2 trillion, but there were two wars being fought and this increase happened over the course of 8 years. Obama will have raised the National Debt by 1.2 Trillion on the healthcare bill alone. He's only been in office less than a year!
"N" stands for "Name calling." Finally, when liberals see that they're getting nowhere with their conservative friends, they resort to name calling. Fear-mongerer, war-mongerer, greedy-capitalists.....
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Flip side of all of this is that if you attend an event like this and loudly denounce "the man", you can be pretty much assured of getting some free beer and getting laid. Not that I EVER did anything like that in college. ;D 8)
FQ13
Do they make body condoms?
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Free fruit trees.....I should have thought of that....
And free cattle herds and vegetable gardens...
All where no one has to work...
We can all just spend our time eating the free food since none of us have to work and do good deeds....like feeding the poor...nooo...we all have free food...
Let's see..t.here must be a good deed left to do...minimum wage....noo...that is out too...
sigh...help me someone...
Wait!! maybe we can butcher and cook the food for anyone who doesn't know how.
Is there anyone here who knows how to do that?
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To paraphrase Tam,
The finest wine is made from the tears of hippies..
If that troll looking guy climbs up in my fruit trees I'll pepper his ass with birdshot.
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Here's my idea of an Earth Day celebration.
http://www.onelapofamerica.com/Home.do
Good luck to Team Elmo!
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If that troll looking guy climbs up in my fruit trees I'll pepper his ass with birdshot.
My reply to him would have been a simple "So you steal fruit from other people's trees? That is what you just admitted to on tape." and watch the back-pedalling.hopefully over a bloody cliff