Gummint Cheese Collaboration w/ R Bryan T. Rex.

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I may be to blame for the destruction of mankind.

If you believe what the anti-plastic-bag people tell us, plastic bags could lead to the end of the world.

It must be true, then, that there is somewhere a "tipping point," one bag before which mankind can recover, and one bag beyond which the human race is doomed.

Yesterday, when planning our little Daily Venture Out Among The Humans, I realized I needed some cans of soda. We'd get lunch first and stop at Lane's grocery afterward.

I dug my little Bag To Save The Universe out and laid it on the table, intending to put it in the backseat of my car as we went out.

Halfway through lunch, I realized something. "Dammit," I remarked to my mother, "I left my little hippie bag on the kitchen table."

We went on to Lane's and got the sodas. We had to put it in two plastic bags.

When I got back out to the car, I was getting ready to put the bags in the back seat when something black caught my eye. It was the little Bag To Save The Universe.

Instantly, I now remembered taking it out to the car and putting it in the back seat.

So I wasted two bags. And those may be the two bags that push us beyond the tipping point and doom life on earth. I am a horrible person.

What's the line from the Borg Queen? Watch your future's end.

I hate how sluggish my mind is this time of year.

Global Warming? Blame Canada!

Canadian beer drinkers, specifically.

It remains to be seen whether or not Al Gore will advocate a full-scale invasion force to go into Canada and seize their beer fridges.

[H/T 2 memeorandum.]

Lamest Eco-stunt Ever.

[H/T 2 memeorandum and myself, who witnessed the unfortunate incident.]

Suprisingly, there IS global warming,

at least above the hibachi!

Not only did [temperature monitoring] sites fail to meet the NCDC's requirements, but encroaching development had put many in ridiculously unsuitable locations -- on hot black asphalt, next to trash burn barrels, beside heat exhaust vents, even attached to hot chimneys and above outdoor grills.

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Soon thereafter, a Seattle radio station interviewed the head of the NCDC, Dr. Thomas Peterson, informed him of the effort and quizzed him about the problems. Three days later, the NCDC removed all website access to station site locations, citing "privacy concerns." Without this data (which had been public for years), the validation effort was blocked. No more stations could be located.

And they wonder why so many don't believe the global warming hype.

[H/T 2 Boortz and Anchor Rising.]

I say trap 'em and turn 'em loose in downtown Little Rock.

From our Animals Are More Important Than People desk . . .

But some government agencies haven't appeared to be concerned with the principles of being a neighbor or looking after the health of the neighborhood.

We've listened to landowners complain for a decade that elk were destroying their gardens, trampling fences and eating crops. The complaints started on Gaither Mountain and have reverberated down the Buffalo River into Searcy County.

The landowners are powerless to confront or control their neighbors. Game & Fish authorities ban residents from shooting nuisance elk, regardless if the "game" animals are destroying their livelihood.

Wasn't this a mediocre movie where Matthew Broderick kissed Marlon Brando?

Gore serves up endangered fish at daughter's nuptials.

At least in The Freshman the mobster only defrauded people into thinking they were eating endangered species; he was really serving them chicken.

Spin: "I did not have ingestual relations with that fish!"

By "encourage," Brit Brother means "force."

Secret plans by British government to "encourage" citizens to go vegan.

It's FISH and chips, people, not TOFU and chips.

Eat a burger today, while you still can.

[H/T 2 The Jones Report.]

Damn heterosexuals.

I knew it! Global warming is not caused by SUVs and oil companies -- it's all the breeders' fault!

Why do you hets have to ruin things for the rest of us?

The paper doesn't go into whether or not increased use of lubricants would cut down on the heat produced by friction, thus reducing global warming.

[H/T 2 Drudge.]

Suffer from migraines?

(Or an aversion to mercury poisoning, for that matter?)

Then start hoarding incandescent lightbulbs now!

For those of you who don't know, fluorescent lights often make life a living hell for migraine sufferers who work under them.

Now, it seems, a coalition of lightbulb makers has sold out the American consumer and is moving to muscle out incandescents.

In March, Philips Lighting Co. and several environmental agencies announced
a coalition to phase out incandescents, saying that by the end of a 10-year
transition period the U.S. could save $18 billion a year in electricity bills
and the energy output of 80 coal-fired power plants.

Yeah, but will that $18 billion be offset by the cost of doctor's visits by migraine sufferers?

I'm not anti-fluorescent; I've got a bunch of them in my house. But I *am* pro-choice when it comes to lighting. Why remove the incandescent option, if fluorescents are indeed the second coming of the Messiah? If they are so gol-darned spectacular, wouldn't people choose to buy them?

If you have to tamper with the market, the way to do it is this -- impose a small tax on each incandescent lightbulb sold to fund a small subsidy on each fluorescent sold. Or provide a $10 million X-Prize-type reward for the first company that can mass produce fluorescent bulbs at a cost of less than the average incandescent. That would remove the price disparity between the two, and more people would choose fluorescents.

Not to save the planet, but to save money.

No Impact Man.

What does it say about a man when his highest goal is to have no impact whatsoever?

In other words, to be totally irrelevant.

P.S. He obsesses about wiping his butt. And no, not in an OCD "I can't get it clean enough" good sort of way.

These are Al Gore and Ralph Nader's followers.

She was a sensible Missouri girl until the Hollywood Lefties got to her.

Sheryl Crow calls for rationing toilet paper.

No, not just "rationing."

TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE RATIONING!

Crow has suggested using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required".

And what is Sheryl Crow doing while she expects you to wipe with one square of toilet paper?

Riding around in her air-conditioned, fossil-fuel-burning tour bus.

I propose rationing tour buses to travelling one mile or less per day.

[H/T 2 memeorandum.]

UPDATE: Sheryl Crow now claims that the toilet paper suggestion, like the entirety of the Left's intellectual ability, is a joke. If this is true, it says much about the environmental movement that their positions are so absurd they are indistinguishable from parody. But I doubt that it was a joke. Because aren't jokes supposed to be, well, funny? And why the serious link to StopGlobalWarming?

More likely she was earnest in her ridiculous suggestions, then started receiving flack for it, and thought she better cover her ass with "I was only kidding!"

Does it rise to the level of the Fat Chick from the Dixie Chicks? No.

But it does serve as a reminder that we don't want our politicians to sing, and we don't want our singers to politic.

Just FYI: This week is the 32nd anniversary of the publication of "The Cooling World," which predicted global cooling, in Newsweek.

Remember when the Environmental Left hailed plastic bags because they would prevent millions of trees from being murdered?

Well, now apparently they are for the murdering of trees.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Paper or plastic? Shoppers may get a twist on that old checkout line question if the city approves a ban on plastic grocery bags.
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The measure would require grocery stores that do more than $2 million in sales a year to offer customers bags made of recyclable paper . . .

Not "recycled paper," mind you. Recyclable.

All paper is to some extent "recyclable." That is is able to be recycled does not necessarily mean that it ever was recycled or will be recycled.

And so the genocide of our barky brethren begins . . .

Columbia's smoking ban is bad for the environment.

Lauren Schult points out:

Since Columbia’s smoking ordinance took effect in early January, more cigarette butts have been showing up on sidewalks and streets as smokers have been forced outside. The litter is not only unsightly — it’s a source of water pollution as the butts wash down storm drains that flow into streams.

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The most environmentally hazardous part of a cigarette butt is the filter, which is made of condensed cellulose acetate, a mass of plastic fibers thinner than sewing threads that doesn’t decay easily.

Experiments with the crustacean Daphnia (often called a water flea) concluded that the toxic chemicals in cigarette filters dissolve in water and are lethal to the freshwater crustacean, which is a crucial link at the lower end of the aquatic food chain.

Where are all the Greenies with their protests on THIS one?

On a related note, 'burber and business owner Karon Rowe gets a boost from tobacco refugees and makes a business decision to stay outside the city limits.

Apparently, we were mistaken . . .

. . . because Big Brother tells us it's not the shooting of the birds that's bad for them; it's the lead.

I'll have to paraphrase . . .

. . . but recently one of the DJ's on Kkountry95 made a good point about the Grammys.

How many trees died to provide the paper for what seemed like a ten-minute confetti shower?

And what did eco-advocate Al Gore do? Congratulate the music industry for their support of eco-causes.

Of course, this is the same Inventor Of The Internet who scolds us about global warming while he and his entourage ride multiple SUV's to go a couple of blocks.

Apparently, consistency is not a strong point with the Environmental Left.