So who did what for Earth Day?

[David LaPell]

I went to the local range and reintroduced lead back into the Earth.

 

[David LaPell]

I went to the local range and reintroduced lead back into the Earth.

 

[nitesite]

I set an old tire on fire.

 

[NFrameFred]

I composted pictures of Nancy Pelosi.

 

[NCTexan]

Actually I am just plumb tuckered out from all my Earth Day 2009 activities.

A "leftie" friend of mine "inspired me"... and I made a commitment to turn my life around and give my Mother Earth the respect and praise that She deserves.

I set my TV to wake me before dawn to Planet Green. They gave me some real neat ideas on recycling and less selfish toilet habits.

Later I went to a full day of Earthy events where we learned to reduce our carbon footprint by slow shallow breathing... cutting down our emissions of those newly declared pollutants.

However the evening prayer ceremony was very confusing to me. I fully understood the Earth prayer... but I got confused when it morphed into the repeated mantra of something that sounded like Oh-Bom-Ahhhh... Oh-Bom-Ahhhh. They called me Grasshopper and told me that I have much to learn.

Anyway, I capped off the evening with my first tattoo at age 62. Can you believe it? It really did sting my face!

BTW What do you think of my new tat design?

 

[venomballistics]

same thing I do every earth day
grab anything that will shoot and drop as many critters as I can till sunset. after that I call up my friend and compare body counts and we email the results to a libtard we like to break it off in

 

[mtb1bkr]

Didn't even know it was earth day until today, so I can remember what I did, must have forgot it's importance.

Bill

 

[Smithfan]

I acknowledged that special Earth Day atmosphere by playing "pull my finger" several times with small kids. We both thought it was hilarious in each case, and in the true Green conservationist spirit, it served a dual purpose as my critical commentary on all Earth Day proceedings.

Bill

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I composted my feces

 

[gunsmith11]

I didnt have to do anything, my wife leaves all the lights on all the time, I just did not go around turning them off

 

[scoutsdad]

I walked the homestead looking for rattlesnakes to shoot.

 

[MR .44 Spl]

I left every light in the house on, took an extra long shower, and flushed an entire roll of toilet paper without having gone to the bathroom. Oh and I had them double bag my groceries, just to offset the hippie in line behind me with her reusable tote bags.

Earth first......we'll log the other planets later!

 

[3rd Gen Neal]

I left every light in the house on, took an extra long shower, and flushed an entire roll of toilet paper without having gone to the bathroom. Oh and I had them double bag my groceries, just to offset the hippie in line behind me with her reusable tote bags.

Man it's funny you say that..I sometimes stop at this market on the way home that is in an artsy fartsy tree hugger liberal 'hood and I always see those stupid tote bags. Just beyond lost in space those people are.

 

[cusingeorge]

I sat at an intersection gunning my engine while a Prius was behind me.

I then ran over a possum.

 

[31 Pump]

I let my diesel pickup idle in the driveway for the whole day, turned every light on in the house while I was gone, and turned the air conditioner down so low that I had to put on a sweater.

Glenn

 

[FrankD45]

I went to the range and introduced a new shooter to the world of earth lead replenishment.

Seriously, I took my sister in law, who just moved here from New Jersey, to the range and put her through the NRA First Shots program. Her first shooting experience was with my Ruger Mark 2 which she did very well with. At her request we then escalated to a Model 67-1 with 148 gr DEWC over 2.7 of Bullseye. She kept asking for more and I took her through full bore 158 gr JHP in the 38, a 9mm Kimber, and finally my S&W 1911 in 45ACP. She loved it all and is now considering buying a Commander sized 1911. What better way to spend Earth Day?

Frank

 

[NFrameFred]

The reason you should laugh at "EARTH DAY IDGITS" in 2009

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular I thought everyone should get to appreciate it as I have . . . .

For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom & Gloom Extravaganza.

Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be.

Need proof? Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Stanford's Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.

Stanford's Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live.Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009.

 

[creedekid]

I smoked a good cigar, but I let the ashes go back in the ground.

 

[Spotteddog]

That's why for the day of, I always uncork a can of my now going for $65.00 a pound R-12 to chill a Martini glass with. I consider it my duty to the ozone layer. As well as to Fred's article (above) about all the bat s**t crazies that have written what they have about all of it over the years!
PUDKNOCKERS!

 

[red14]

Went to the range, the wife and I shot 100 rounds, went to shop, picked up 200 more.

Took her to a great Italian restauraunt. Plan to have fire in back yard this evening.