It Ain't Easy Being Green - Tales from Tree Hugger Hell!

I think it is reprehensible that cities across the US are actively laying off firemen and police because they can't afford to pay them - yet they spend millions on "recycling" programs that don't have any economic value, don't "save the earth", don't create jobs and make things more expensive.

Perhaps they are influenced by the smarmy marketing that the greenie weenies use to promote their cause.

"Why it's a Smart car" meaning that mine is a "dumb car" I guess, and I'm a dumb driver who hates mother earth. Or "Smart Thermostats" or even my favorite "Sustainable living". Like me eating a steak or regulating the temperature in my house is "unsustainable". Putzes.

It goes back to the silly leftist mindset that wealth isn't created, but taken - usually off the backs of the "working class". In their gray, hopeless world, if I am comfortable, it isn't because I worked for it, or that I deserve it and it is my choice, no, it is because I must have "stolen" it from someone less fortunate.

Environmentalism plays well in this new socialist order - and underneath it all, is just a new way to extract guiltly penance from those that have and redistribute it to those that cannot manage on their own.

Environmentalists are against growth and prosperity. Power is power - and they resist any kind of effort to create better, cheaper and safer power supplies. Heck - they are even against wind and solar energy when push comes to shove.

If we give into this guilt trip we won't be so "Smart" after all. I just turned my AC down a couple degrees. I find cooler temps improve my productivity.

And I'm eating a baby seal sandwich. Yum.

Boehner Roswell UFO Connection - the truth finally comes out!

Well - the truth is there is no connection. I'm new to this online journo stuff, but I am getting it figured out. It's kind like plastic surgery - flashy title attracts the readers, sexy intro gets them to linger, but the inside of the twinkie can be somewhat off-white!

Anyways - wanted to comment on local news reporting. Has anybody noticed the desperation of the local major networks 6 oclock newscasts recently? Forced to compete with a 24 hour news cycle and access to international stories at the drop of a hat - the local news either has to sex up the banal local stories or pretend that they matter by offering "opinions" on national issues.

Honest to god - last night my local news was interrupted by a "BREAKING NEWS FLASH" - and a cut away to a helicopter shot of a story about 3 people that were rescued while swimming in a lake. No fatalities, no injuries and the shot was of the lifeguards packing up their floaties. In fact, the victims were waving at the helicopter. Last week it was a horse trailer that lost a wheel on the highway. No horses in it though, no major trafiic delays, just an old guy trying to change a wheel on the I-10.

Even the weather isn't immune to these fools - and I quote "will a dangerous wall of monsoon storms hit the valley tonight" as the teaser. Upon return, they said "no, probably not".

The truth finally comes out.....