The American Spectator

Michele San Pietro| 3.25.10 @ 6:49AM

Greens are usually arrogant and intolerant here in Europe, too. In Italy they are violently opposed to the building of a railroad (!) toghether with other extreme-left groups.

Brian Mc| 3.25.10 @ 7:09AM

My father-in-law never fails to make some off-the-wall and yet, colorful racist remark that leaves all in attendance speachless each and every time we show up for Sunday dinner. With that said, I would bet my mortgage, double or nothing, that he voted for the O.

Galen| 3.25.10 @ 7:31AM

My pro-New Deal Father oft said," I never knew a communist who treated hi maid well!"

justamom| 3.25.10 @ 7:33AM

This proves that the green movement really is a religion. We have the "sin Saturday-salvation Sunday" church groups and they have the "waste today-save tomorrow" greenie weenie groups.

Roger| 3.25.10 @ 9:02AM

"Earth First! We can stripmine the other planets later." That's my favorite bumper sticker to put on my car when I am in Madison WI. Of course it's on a sheet magnet so I can remove it when I park at Trader Joe's for my free range chicken.

Tom in Michigan| 3.25.10 @ 11:29PM

Madison's a gas. I got my ME there and, my oldest son still lives there. I went to a street fair there a couple years ago and was confronted by some hairy undergraduate who thrust a flyer in my face with a "What do you think about Bush militarizing the border!?" to which I replied, "About blankin' time!" Oh yeah, the Christian booth at the street fair had to be outside the wires. Beautiful town. Wacked out people. Can't wait to go back.

Tenn SLim| 3.25.10 @ 9:07AM

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Well, from the EPA Green front, that article gave me a good belly laugh.
But seriously folks, the EPA Green Front is alive and well. Serious controls on such mundane things to a farmer, as How and Where to re plant trees, How and When to control Mid Field run off of pasture water so as not to disturb the wildlife habitats, etal are right up there with who stole my BBQ plate at the local diner.
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Point is, the EPA Greenies are indeed, deadly serious. They give the appearance of frivolity but make no mistake, when it is YOUR pasture in question, they are there with their boots on.
Folks, we do have a problem. EPA Greenies have the Mission, the Means, the Motivation and Desire to end this Norman Rockewell USA and are hard at their mission.
WE will prevail
Semper Fi
end

Matt Morehouse| 3.25.10 @ 9:27AM

There is a book waiting to be researched and written about the real cost of recycling. I'll bet my next helping of feedlot finished prime beef that the cost far exceeds any benefit.

jim| 3.25.10 @ 10:02AM

In Ft Worth TX, the reddest of the red we have mandatory recycling. We went from having one garbage truck going down our street one time with a driver and two helpers to the GREEN way. Two trucks, two drivers. Equipment can only pickup from the right side of truck so, each truck, garbage and recycling pickup, has to go down each street TWICE. Then, the real fun starts when a bunch of people, paid more than minimum wage I'm pretty sure, have to stand for hours sorting GARBAGE--I'm sorry, recyclables. Then retrucked to the different processors. All a huge waste. Check out Penn & Teller's Bulls*** episode on the topic for more.

Tom in Michigan| 3.25.10 @ 11:33PM

We have two garbage trucks too. Recycling is not yet mandatory but having two clanging trucks at 6:00 a.m. apparently is. I think the answer to the environmental problem is; we should eat the Greens (full disclosure. I am a biologist - as well as having a Master of Engineering - and, I attest as an educated scientist, the more "Green" the less educated in real science).

c. j. acworth| 3.25.10 @ 5:04PM

Depends what you're recycling. There's a scrap metal yard down the way from me that gladly takes a pickup load of steel, aluminum, or what have you in exchange for cash. That is the way recycling has been done for years, and it is definetly worth doing. It's a sure bet that if you have to force people to do it, you are wasting money, and if you're wasting money, you are wasting resources, since money is resources in a form you can fold up and put in your pocket. Therefore, if your recycling is not profitable, you are actually harming the environment. Wish I had a nickle for every tree-hugger I've tried to explain that to.

Alert1201| 3.25.10 @ 9:47AM

This is the same principle that allows terrorists to get lap dances the night before they blow up buildings. It is sick and pathetic.

Judoe/Christian ethics teaches that because our God is good we should be like him and do good and doing good means we avoid all hypocrisy, lying, cheating and stealing or what we use to call sin.

owyheewine| 3.25.10 @ 10:28AM

I actually feel a moral superiority to greenies, as I drive my full sized vehicles to the store to buy prime beef, fruit imported from South America, good wine from non green wineries and bag my purchases with plastic and paper because I know the science and I don't bother to consider the foolishness they espouse. My only regret is not having one of those trucks with 8 foot high wheels to run over the nearest Prius.

RT| 3.25.10 @ 10:29AM

I noticed that those who support Global Warming and Obama, (bumper stickers on large SUV proclaiming their support) are often the less considerate. Taking 1 1/2 parking space in the mall or stopping in the middle of the residential street to chat with friends etc.

I don't need a research finding to inform me of this tendency among the self-righteous. I can see it with my eyes.

Richard| 3.25.10 @ 10:48AM

Environmentalists and leftists in general are narcissistic whose ethical and political decisions are determined by whether they make them feel good. They yearn for the pleasure that comes from self-righteousness. Legitimate ethical systems recognize that the self--for many reasons-- is not to be surrended to but overcome, just the opposite of leftists.

Petronius| 3.25.10 @ 11:49AM

The one thing about environmentalism that never gets exposed is their ultimate goal: no commerce in natural resources. They cannot stand to see me, or anybody else making money by investment or dealing in these commodities which are necessary for modern life. The bottom line: These people are Bums. They don't want to have to get a job to pay the utility bills. They don't want western forests logged. It's where they grow their weed. As a carbon based life form I'll plant my footprint where I damn well please. Get out of My way!

Frog in Uniform| 3.25.10 @ 11:52AM

It's funny to see the Green bugs are the same on both sides of the Big Pond. In France we have Nicolas Hulot, an environmental activist with no scientific background whatsoever, who built his fame and fortune flying airplanes and helicopters in eeach and every TV show he directed! The man has a huge influence on our president Nicoleon Sarkozy and is considered as a Green guru. We also have Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a talented photographer with no scientific background in climate science, who spent 3 years in helicopter, shooting a movie about global warming and making a living out of the thousands of beatiful pictures he took from up above...
I'm sick and tired of the Cult of the Green Pilots who want us to travel by bicycle, while they wave at us from the sky.

Tom in Michigan| 3.25.10 @ 11:41PM

Al Gore has no scientific credentials whatsoever (except one climate science course - taken in 1967. Laurie David's Wikipedia (I do not support Wikipedia as a source of information generally but, this is just to much frickin' fun!) bio begins, "While not possessing higher education in the environmental or scientific fields..." Big Al's Wikipedia bio reads, "He was not tremendously engaged in his studies...." These people are ALL such FRAUDS!

Dagny Taggert| 3.25.10 @ 12:36PM

Can't remember where I saw it, but I like:

Greens are too yellow to admit they're reds.

Brian Mc| 3.25.10 @ 6:04PM

I like it, Dagny!

Another one to ponder that had me howling...

"Save the Planet
KILL YOURSELF"

John Navratil| 3.26.10 @ 12:58PM

My favorite: Vegetarians eat vegetables. I'm a humanitarian.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.25.10 @ 1:25PM

Being a 6th generation Texan, you guys will know how much I enjoyed a bumper sticker I saw here recently:
I* can't recite the hilarious exact words, but:

"Let the cows do the hard work...I will eat THEM."

BJB57| 3.25.10 @ 2:32PM

Whenever I go see my kids' classrooms I think about how the ACLU would go absolutely ballistic if each of the posters promoting environmentalism was replaced with a likeness of Jesus Christ. Environmentalism is the state-established religion of our country.

MikeBee| 3.26.10 @ 12:02AM

BJB57,
Oh, the environmentalists absolutely HATE Jesus Christ. You see, He didn't even have the decency to let His body decompose and give back to Mother Earth. Instead, He came back, took it, and took off!

DiscerningReader| 3.25.10 @ 3:59PM

In related news: "Study finds players of the video game "Grand Theft Auto" are psychopathic killers!" :-)

I found Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong's paper here http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/.....oducts.pdf

Without going into their study itself, their starting-point and inferences they make from other studies are easy to take apart. Here are the first two:

1. "Monin and Miller (2001) found that a previous gender-egalitarian act licensed subsequent gender-discriminatory behavior."

That study http://jonathan.mueller.facult.....ptions.htm asks "does establishing moral credentials cause the release of true sexist attitudes?" and then goes on to prove its authors don't understand causality, when they observe that sexists tend to preface their remarks with evidence of how they are not sexist. - Following intent, and since no-one likes a label, it should be obvious that the desire to espouse gender-discriminatory behavior CAUSES the cushioning remarks, not the other way around (even though they come first in the sentence)!

2. "Sachdeva, Iliev, and Medin (2009) found that reminding people of their humanitarian traits reduced charitable donations."

Probably true, since guilt and fear of social stigma of not giving is a big driver in charitable giving (proof: Is it hard to say no to the $1 donation at the checkout? Yes!)

But the authors then link charitable giving in a confrontation (will you give?) with people buying green products in the safety of their own aisle. Hopefully people aren't buying green just to impress the checkout clerk.

KyMouse| 3.25.10 @ 4:11PM

This discussion reminds me of a friend from my college days. She went to a liberal college, and I went to a fairly conservative one. We got together on a spring break and she told me that she and her college friends had gone with out lunch one day so that they could give the money to feed poor people.

Then, with her next breath, she told me about the fancy stereo system she had just bought. I asked her why she didn't at least buy a less-expensive system and give the difference to feed poor people, or skip the stereo system altogether for their sakes. All she could do was glare at me and change the subject.

That's a liberal to me.

Whitehall| 3.25.10 @ 4:41PM

Once I was seated in an airplane for a business trip. I was telling the young lady next to me about my new V-8 car (OK, braggin' a bit!) She scolded me about being such an evil person for wasting resources.

Turns out, she was flying from California to the French Riveria for two week vacation on the beach. She could have driven 30 miles to Santa Cruz and found a better beach too.

It never dawned on her about her hypocracy either.

emo| 3.25.10 @ 6:20PM

I had a liberal tell me once he was a better citizen because he earned more and thus paid more taxes

spawn44| 3.25.10 @ 6:39PM

Thanks to the emails the writing is on the wall for the socialist frauds that inhabit the MSM, academia and government. These drones have no facts to back up any conclusions they have formed in their minds. Take a look at the total collaspe of the AGW scam when given just the slightest scrutiny. Everything these frauds believe falls apart when exposed to the real world.

Cris Worth| 3.25.10 @ 6:46PM

I remember the first Earth Day - the May Day of the green movement. Coincidentally the first Earth Day was April 22, 1970...Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's 100th birthday, just happenstance? I don't think so.

VinnieCCT| 3.25.10 @ 7:09PM

I always crack up when I see these greens driving Suburu Outbacks (there are many in the Pacific Northwest) because in the tv commercials you see peaple ripping through the wilderness trashing the place and then washing all the mud off into the street.

Martin Owens| 3.26.10 @ 4:19AM

Dear Mr Orlet:

Liquid hand soap. That's the answer to your liverwurst problem. A thin coating of liquid hand soap won't be detectable if you use enough mayo, mustard etc. But it will, definitely, give the thief a digestive upset he'll never forget. A six on the Richter scale at least. It'll put him off liverwurst for life, but hey, tough.

justamom| 3.26.10 @ 9:56AM

Mr. Owens,

Very devious. It makes it easy to identify the culprit as their face grimaces from the taste. It punishes them for being a thief. It deters them from doing it again. All without confrontation or physical harm, just some discomfort.

We need tactics like these to deal with the greenie weenie idiots. Even though they would claim the discomfort is torture.

Too bad we couldn't use something like wasabi instead of hand soap!

brutus6| 3.26.10 @ 1:16PM

Justamom, a frowny face from unpleasant taste is not the unhappy result of eating Mr. Owens' liquid soap-laced sandwich. The ultimate consequence is much more significant, much more, shall we say, violent?

Mr. Owens' idea for revenge on Mr. Orlet's sandwich stealer reminds me of a great little book called Horsing Around: Contemporary Cowboy Humor, Kenneth Davis & Lawrence Clayton editors.

One story in there told by a newly hired young cowboy who was assigned to work out of one of the far flung cow camps on a large ranch. The other cowboys told him how lucky he was to get that assignment because the old cowboy he'd be working with in that cow camp was a great cook.

When the new cowboy arrived and met the old cowboy, the older man laid down the law: "I do the cookin', you do the dishes.", to which the new cowboy gladly agreed.

But the new cowboy discovered the older cowboy was an unbelievably terrible cook. How could someone cook a stip of bacon, burning it to blackened charcoal on one end, and raw on the other? As he gamely ate the horrible food, the new cowboy realized he was being played by the older one.

So he used Mr. Owens' idea to get revenge on the older cowboy. Each time he washed dishes he failed to rinse the soap off the plates the old cowboy would use, stacking those plates so they would dry with an invisible soap film.

After a while of these soap coated plates, the young cowboy rode up to a windmill watering tank and found the old cowboy dismounted there, naked from the waist down, washing the diarrhea out of his pants, out of his boots, off his saddle...

The older cowboy called a truce. The new cowboy agreed, and from there forward the new cowboy ate the best grub he'd ever had before or since.

justamom| 3.26.10 @ 6:17PM

Oh! I didn't know hand soap would do that. I thought it just upset your stomach because it tasted bad i.e. "I'll wash your mouth out with soap if you say that again!".
Well, I guess something a little milder should be used the first time and the soap saved for the second time. If the thief hadn't learned their lesson by then, that's when they should get the wasabi.

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Sean| 10.23.11 @ 1:27PM

What is wrong with attempting to protect the environment? Why does the right try so hard to vilify those who are trying to protect our habitat? I see nothing in this article besides purpose built examples of a hand full of hypocritical "greenies" in order to create a stereotype of "greenies". From what I can see, most of the people commenting on this article are being just as hypocritical and judgemental as the "greenies" you despise so much. Environmentalists are trying to save the planet because without the soil, water, and delicate balance of gases in our atmosphere(which eons of undisturbed biodiversity has worked so long to create), we would cease to live. Do you have kids?