Environmentalists vs Illegal Immigration

I am so dense, I never thought of it.

Why are the Leftie EcoNazis not screaming about all these new exploiters of Mother Nature being welcomed into our country?

Aren't they worried about the water, the air, the sky, the forests, the...

Aren't they worried about more air pollution? Water pollution? More people using  electricity, power, natural gas, gasoline, spray deodorant...

...that will cause irreparable greenhouse earth warming (or climate cooling...or something)?

Obviously first-world, upper middle-class, over-educated, vegan, hipster/hippie, latte & green-tea sipping Mud-Lovers don't know that poor, illiterate, foreign, non-English-speaking, criminal aliens don't give a shit about "nature", "the environment",  water quality, air pollution, global-warming, climate-change, or land conservation...and that they will despoil it any chance they get?

Have they seen the trash, litter and crap they dump along their illegal passage into the USA?

It's a fair question, don't you think?  Where are the EcoNazi voices howling in defense of Environmentalism and Global Warming/Cooling and against this invasion of hundreds of thousands more people to strain and poison our already endangered resources?

...crickets...

It might lead some to believe they don't really mean it...that it's just a TACTIC to us against those they hate.

Here's where I got the idea:

"Here's another debate topic that will leave a Leftist speechless...ask them about the impact of mass immigration on the environment.

The radical eco-Marxists are always lamenting our consumption of natural resources (water, land, wood (trees), etc), our need to reduce energy consumption and the use of fossil fuels, etc. but they're absolutely silent on the matter of immigration which will only fuel demand for resources.

I read an article just yesterday about how Lake Mead, water source for Las Vegas, is approaching historic lows. Yet there is no commentary on what millions more water consumers will do to water sources like Mead.

The environmentalists need to be challenged on their silence." --disqus-monuh2udyh

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From the Mailbag

BEING GREEN!

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.

She was right - our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the 'green thing' back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings.  Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the 'green thing' back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the 'green thing' in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our  clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the 'green thing' back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and   stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the 'green thing' back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the 'green thing' back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the 'green thing.' We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the 'green thing' back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

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Snotty little shits.

/gun

Nail. Coffin. Warming.

We all knew it, but it's nice to see that final nail in its coffin:

The Meltdown of Global Warming

What does the best evidence now tell us? That man-made global warming is a mere hypothesis that has been inflated by both exaggeration and downright malfeasance, fueled by the awarding of fat grants and salaries to any scientist who'll produce the "right" results.

The warming "scientific" community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other's papers -- and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train.

Such behavior is perhaps to be expected from politicians and government functionaries. From scientists, it's a travesty.

This is one to carry around in your pocket, to shove in the face of the next asshole who prisses about plastic bags, disposable diapers, oil companies, coal or recycling. (After you kick their ass.)

Oh yeah...be sure to send a copy to your "representatives" too.

The Gunslinger

Perspective. I has it.

Earth Day My Ass

Well.  "Earth" Day.

Let's be clear: It's just a cover. It's Lenin's Birthday.

The guy who established "Earth Day" is a big fat communist, in love with Vladimir Lenin...the Russian Dictator. And on the 100th anniversary of his birth created the tissue thin excuse for us all to celebrate Lenin's Birthday, called "Earth Day".

Love that we celebrate that in America...and American Schools.  Yeah?

David Ziemer writes about it.

April 22 is Earth Day. Very appropriately, and not by any means coincidentally, Earth Day is celebrated on the birthday of the socialist tyrant Vladimir Lenin.

It's appropriate that the two are celebrated on the same day, because there is no relevant difference between the socialist and environmentalist agendas in this country. Saving the environment is simply a euphemism for eviscerating the rights of property owners and creating a dictatorship.

Alexander Marriott at Capitalism Magazine also comments.

Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier after Joseph Stalin, decided in 1955 that the country should celebrate their national political philosophy, communism. He chose as the day, April 22, Vladimir Lenin's birthday, a tribute to the founder of the Soviet Union. When environmentalists decided that the Earth deserved a day of celebration in 1970, they could have picked any day of the year, as no one knows the exact day date of the Earth's birthday. They chose Lenin's birthday, just as Khrushchev had done. Was this just a coincidence? I think not.

Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail has some interesting old quotes from the hysterics of the 70's. Turns out they weren't all that prescient. (D'oh!)

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," Hayes said.

"Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: 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."

He needs to stop going to that gypsy fortune telling machine at the carnival for his forecasts.

The Gunslinger
(I don't celebrate Lenin's birthday—no matter what they call it!)

Saving the Earth

If the Liberal Environmentalists are so interested in saving the Earth from human beings, what are they interested in saving the Earth for?

According to their theory, Man is not supposed to leave footprints on the Earth. Why do they never demand that Earth not leave footprints on Man?

Why doesn't anybody complain that "Nature", whenever given the chance, slaughters us by the millions, and with gusto. What are viruses, drought, disease, germs, famine, storms, floods, fires, earthquakes, frostbite, heatstroke, allergies, colds, flus, cancer, wild animal attacks? They are Earth's TITANIC FOOTPRINT on Man's back, crushing the life out of him!

I don't think I'm being overly HomSapCentric to suggest that Earth's greatest claim to fame is being the source/home/cradle of that completely amazing thinking animal, Homo Sapien. Honestly, one lifeless, mindless planet more or less in the universe can hardly make much difference. Earth without Man wouldn't even rate honorable mention in the Planet Hall of Fame.

I think it's about damn time she started appreciating us!

The Gunslinger

(Originally posted on Gunslinger's Journal Novermber 2, 2007)

Religious Persecution

Can we call it what it is?  Religious Persecution.

The Left are persecuting others in the name of their Religion, their MYTHOLOGY...of Extreme Environmentalism.

They are Religious Fanatics.

I think it might help us clarify the issues if we used that vocabulary...against them.

Science simply does not validate their beliefs.

Indeed, as opposed to other religions—Christianity for example—about which science has very little to say and has proved nothing, the Religious tenets of Extreme Environmentalism have been overwhelmingly shown to be false by real Science.

In other words, Extreme Environmentalists believe things that just aren't true!

Is there a better description of Superstition? Or primitive mythos?

Of course, this wouldn't be a problem if they lived and practised their "antescience" lifestyles personally,  and kept to themselves. They'd be no more dangerous or offensive or objectionable than the Amish.

But of course they do not, and are not.

They seek to use the gun of the State, exactly like the Muslim extremists seek to use the Sword of Allah, to force others into obedience to the tenets of their Religion.

Environmental Extremism is the sister Religion to Islamic Extremism...just dressed up in slightly more "modern and compassionate" sounding rhetoric. But the difference is one of style, not substance:

Both religions have strict dietary prohibitions.
Both religions have strict dress codes.
Both religions indoctrinate the young with propaganda rather than Science or Logic.
Both religions demand "faith" rather than "reason" from their adherents.
Both religions demonize the "other", the outsider, the "infidel" as sinful, immoral, unworthy, subhuman.
Both religions have used lethal terror, persecution, bombs.
Both religions seek to tax, fine, or otherwise financially punish non-believers.
Both religions are more interested in political power than spirituality.
Both religions believe that ANY behavior is justified if it advances their goals.
Both religions believe that what is good for their religion is "good", and what's bad for their religion is "bad" regardless of any objective standard of virtue or goodness, or decency.
Neither religion recognizes the right of individuals to reject their "faith".
Neither religion believes there is any limit to the amount of control they should exercise over others.

So....can we please call it what it is? The attack on our culture by the Extreme Environmentalist is RELIGIOUS PERSECTION  by a cadre of cultists who would condemn Prometheus for bringing humanity FIRE (which after all began the murder of trees for firewood...and led to all the other "unnatural" tools and uses of nature through which we have dragged ourselves out of the caves.)

Extreme Environmentalism is a primitive, tyrannical Religion, with an ignorant, superstitious priesthood that demands the return of humanity to the pre-enlightenment dark ages.

Let's not allow ourselves to be tyrannized by a gaggle of witchdoctors who read the future in the entrails of  "protected species."

The Gunslinger, EOTIS
Para Bellum

Random Thought

If using electricity is as evil as the EnviroStasi insist, why are they pushing electric cars?

The Gunslinger
Para Bellum

Dunderheaded Aristocracy

Stop Eating Meat....for Mother Earth.*

This from the same morons who are in conniptions over the (false) endangerment of the Polar Bear, those well known vegetarians.

I can't WAIT until all humans are limping around with crusty, pasty skin, stringy hair, and muscles half the size of their ancestors.

I say we convince the Terrorists to do it; but let my canine teeth do what God intended: tear flesh.

That's it. My eyes are rolling too far back in my head for me to see the screen sufficently to write a longer post. 

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Stupid Imperial State

*One assumes the "Lord" responsible for articulating this poppycock is a hereditary one—in whose family the genes have obviously gone entirely to pot.

The Leftist BBC Finally Admits: NO Global Warming

What Happened to Global Warming?

Right there on the front page of "Science and Environment" of the BBC web page. While our gummint morons are working hard to pass "Cap & Trade" to destroy our economy and quality of life in the name of a "emergency" that doesn't exist.

But that of course, is their M.O. If there isn't a "crisis", invent one, and then snatch as much power as possible...on their march to Fascism.

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.

Well. Duh.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

Turn Out the Lights

It's hard to believe, but apparently, the Democrats' Senate Cap and Trade bill is worse than the House's.

Leaders of a Major Party are working hard to destroy American enterprise, economy and prosperity and by extension, American freedom. And lecturing us as they do it.

The Liberal members of the "greatest deliberative body" in the world are behaving like community organizers, grabbing power and money at the expense of the people they are supposed to be "helping".

Time for another round of furious Protests against these corrupt, un-American villains, vampires and vipers.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

The Difference...

This is a photo of the aftermath of Saturday's 9-12 "March on Washington"


Remember this? This is the aftermath of the Øbama inauguration.


(Notice the same landmarks in both photos.)

I don't know. It just seems like this should end the argument. Who do you want running the joint? People with the character and judgement and decency to leave things better than they found them? Or a mob of filthy slobs who despoil and litter the same area with disgusting filth...leaving it for others to clean up.

Why are we even having this discussion? This should end it. This is all anyone should need to see.

For a similar take on the subject, here's David Steinberg at Pajamas Media September 12, 2009: John Locke's Woodstock.

He's got a lovely photo of the what the guttersnipes did to "The Earth" they love so much at the first Woodstock. Strangely, it strikes a cord of similarity to Øbama's January posse.

These are the people who want to run our country. These disgusting, filthy, loathsome, despoilers of beauty and "Mother Gaia".

Can we please start using this in-your-face evidence against them?

The next time some enviroStasi starts talking to me about saving the earth, I'm going to savage her with this REALITY.

I might just start carrying these pictures in my pocket.

The Gunslinger

Enemy of the EnvioStasi of the Imperial State

Vampire Hunte/Ulfhednar

What is the guy smokin'?

Okay people, can we agree that Mark Holdren is a nut—by which I mean a goofy fringe weirdo?

If you thought his idea that animals and pets should have legal standing to take you to court, and have a right to appointed human counsel...that's actually not the weirdest thing he's come up with.

Apparently, this wise thinker, at least at one time, thought TREES ought to have equal rights too. By which I don't mean he made some weird reference to it in some long forgotten speech, or conversation...I mean he thought it through enough to publish the idea in a book.

Holdren, who is the new director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and President Obama’s top science advisor, made the comments in the 1977 book “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment.”

I know you think I'm making this up. Because, well, it's impossible that the Science Czar at the White House, in the halls of power, should be this off-planet, right.

You'd be wrong. Check it out.

The Gunslinger

ELF - Loving the Earth - Hating People

I'm not sure, but was ELF listed in that Homeland Security report on domestic terrorists?

Or was it just us Right Wing extremists, veterans, Ron Paul supporters, people who don't like the IRS and the FED, and anyone who flies the "Don't Tread on Me" flag or is pro-life?

And...does blowing up radio towers qualify as "terrorism", Ms. Napolitano? Or is it a given that if the name of your organization includes the word "earth" you are automatically immune from prosecution.

Oh, does that magic work with the word "black" too...as in the Black Panthers?

I think I'm detecting a pattern here. Is it just me?

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State (EOTIS)
Wolfpack

Hillary Gets Into the Great Apology Act

"We acknowledge now with President Obama that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem that we face with climate change," she said. "We are hoping a great country like India will not make the same mistakes."

Of course, India cares about its people, not the blather of the pinheads in Washington, D.C., so they completely and adamantly refused to even consider crippling them with the idiocy of any form of Cap & Trade.

There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have been among the lowest emissions per capita, face to actually reduce emissions,” Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister told Mrs Clinton. “And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours.”

Not everybody in the world is as stupid as the new American Imperial State.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

Grazing not Surfing

These people are entirely insane. This is down-the-rabbit-hole crazy. And they're entirely unaware how weird they are.

It's the typical Cult thinking—paranoid thinking, in which everything that exists relates in some way to your own pet hysteria.

The Greens are now worried about how much CO2 you're "emitting" while you are online.

First the cars, then the lights, then the computers. Then the guns, of course.

Hope you're practicing with that spear. And learning how to make fire with flints.

Never mind, killing animals and fire will be illegal. We can join the cattle in munching grass...

...we just won't be allowed to fart.

Welcome to the Brave New Green World.

The Gunslinger

Pyrrhic Victory?

On Fox News Panel tonight, Nina Easton of Fortune Magazine says that the tempest in the House over the Cap and Tax bill is a lot of noise over nothing very much.

She says this is going nowhere in the Senate.

She claims that regardless of the other and ostensible arguments for and against it, the bottom line is that this bill is a Carbon TAX, and with the current state of the economy, the Senate is simply not prepared to pass the biggest tax bill in the history of America. Not even Democrats.

(Apparently she believes there are Democrats in office capable of rationalizing such a complex thought—I applaud her optimism though I don't necessarily share it.)

I mention this as preface to reporting that the House has, indeed, passed this monstrosity that virtually none of them has read (1500+ page bill and a 300 page amendment dropped on their desks within a few hours of the vote).

And according to preliminary reports the amendments—concessions & giveaways to special interests and industry, farmers, coal companies, energy companies & donor constituencies does undermines the very stated purpose of the bill...to lower carbon emissions.

The biggest winner, according to Ms. Easton is....Wall Street!

They will have a new market in trading "carbon credits", which are "energy derivatives" . If this sounds familiar, it's because it was what Enron was involved in. They were big supporters of a Carbon Credit market, and lobbied heavily for just such a bill as this before they became the poster child for financial fraud.

So you know it must be a good idea. Right?

Charles Krauthammer says the bill is a monstrosity and a mess. He says it is a job killer, a huge tax hike on consumers.

House vote: 219 - 212. With all the heavy lobbying, personal phone calls by Øbama, threats and bullying...Nancy could only pull out a 7 vote victory.

I get that a win is a win...and that the ZerØ Zømbies will claim it a victory - as will Pelosi, but I think we all know better. The Progressives put everything they had into this fight...and they very nearly came up short.

As someone on the losing side...that's the best comfort I can take.

We're making progress. I believe a few months ago, it would have passed by a much bigger margine. The blush, as they say, may be coming off the røse.

I can only hope Ms. Easton is correct, and that the Senate will kill this abortion before it hurls us into the abyss of utter ruin.

Lobby your Senators starting Monday. They are the last stop before Armageddon.

The Gunslinger

Last Chance at the House!

Heritage Foundation on the Cap & Tax bill.

Later today, the House of Representatives is slated to vote on the most convoluted attempt at economic central-planning this nation has ever attempted: cap and trade. The 1,200-plus page Waxman-Markey climate change legislation is nothing more than an energy tax in disguise that by 2035 will raise:

• Gasoline prices by 58 percent
• Natural gas prices by 55 percent
• Home heating oil by 56 percent
• Worst of all, electricity prices by 90 percent

I don't think they've voted yet. You may still have time to contact your representative!

Next stop...Senators.

Even if the idiots in the House approve this monstrosity, we must not allow it to be passed in the Senate.

"Hope" is all we have left...and perhaps miracles. Common Sense and Good Government are obviously not in the offing.

The Gunslinger

Off With Their Heads!

Will the Congress be stupid enough to vote to ruin the economy...in a recession?

Will Nancy Pelosi —who is anxious to pass Cap & Tax—pay for this stupidity?

Will the vile Progressives, both (D) and (R) be cast out of office once people figure out that their outgo has doubled while their incomes have stayed the same...if they're lucky enough to be still working?

Heritage Foundation estimates that household electric bills will go up by 90% percent.

That's DOUBLE. And, of course, every single other industry's bills will go up just as much or more. Of course they'll pass the costs onto their customers...right on down the line under it ends with us lucky consumers.

Oh...one more thing.

Ethanol farmers will be exempt.

Think that one through for a minute.

If farmers grow corn as food for human beings (or livestock) they will be shafted by taxes. If they grow corn for fuel (a fuel that doesn't work) they will be exempt from taxes.

What do you suppose corn farmers will choose to grow?

What do you suppose wheat farmers will choose to grow? Remember, wheat farmers won't get an exemption either, or barley farmers, or soy bean farmers, or...

What will the Fed's do when no farmers grow food crops?

Well, they'll either let the jackboots force the farmers to do as they are bid by the House of Lords, or they'll get their exemptions, too.

And the rest of us will have to make up the difference....

This is out and out citizen abuse. This is assault and battery. This is outright tyranny.

If they pass this monstrosity, I want every one who voted for it clapped in irons.

Enough is enough.

Secession.

July 4. Tea Party. Independence Day.

Oh yeah...

The Gunslinger

STOP THE ENERGY BILL - FRIDAY!

The House is going to vote on Cap & Trade (CAP & TAX) on Friday, June 26, 2009.

If this passes, it will be the biggest tax hike in the history of America.

But...but....Øbama PROMISED that 95% of Americans would never see a tax increase!

Yes...his lips were definitely moving...and you know what that means!

This will ruin America.

Stop them.

Get on the phone. Get on email. Flood them with protests!

The Gunslinger