Okay. Here it is. The long-awaited "Blog Action Day" post.

1) Plant a tree.

2) Give yourself a hug.

Don't you feel better?

Blog Action Day (BAD) Reminder

Today I received an email from "The Blog Action Day Team" (BAD Team) Now Blog Action Day (BAD) is up to "over 7,500 bloggers!" so i guess it really is officially a "movement".

The email contains a link to another Blog Action Day (BAD) video and a "What Type of Blogger Are You? " quiz.

Here is my badge for taking the quiz




It says I'm a "Purist" b/c I have no ads (i'm in this for the sheer joy, not the money) an "Expert" b/c I've been doing this over a year and I'm involved in more than one blog and "Undiscovered" because I don't have 1000's of readers.

This is so par for the course. The fact that it's only a "quiz" (not a test) let's you know this is gonna be pretty unscientific but the fact that the answers are given as extremes is exactly what one would expect from alarmist environmentalists who would rather "have a movement" than pay attention to the facts.

A few facts:

On at least two occassions (one known as the Medieval Warm Period and one as the Holocene Thermal Maximum ) the planet has been significantly warmer than it is now. And you know what? The polar bears did just fine. (they're still here, aren't they)

Oh well, if you're still having trouble sleeping because of your imagined "environmental guilt" then go buy yourself some Carbon credits.

(um, if buying Carbon credits actually helps you sleep better then maybe you need some professional help :-)

Illegal Immigration and the Environment

I would like to post a slew of pictures of the littered Arizona border and the other evidence of "destruction of the environment" that I have seen at times on the net. Unfortunately, it seems that I'm not hitting the right search terms today.

Here is one interesting pic that I was able to find (found it here - Coalition Against Illegal Immigration CAII). Can you see where the man is pointing? It says

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"All persons and vehicles must enter the United States at a designated port of entry only. This is NOT a designated port of entry. Any person or vehicle entering at this point is in violation of 19 USC 1459 and or 19 USC 1433 and is subject to a $5,000.00 penalty".

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And then the whole thing is written in Spanish. I can't see the whole sentence before "U.S. Customs Service" (the man's arm is in the way) but the translation of the Spanish is

"All vehicles and merchandise that enter here will be confiscated"

So, according to this, the minimum penalty for illegal border crossing is five grand plus you lose your vehicle and any stuff that you are carrying.

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Now I know they'll never pay the fines but just for fun let's do the math. $5000 times 12 million illegal aliens (conservative estimate) works out to $60,000,000,000.00 - that's sixty billion (yes, with a "b") dollars. So even if only 12 million of all the illegals currently in the country paid the fine, that would go a healthy distance toward off-setting some of the free goods and services that they are receiving, thanks to our tax dollars. Good grief, healthcare and education alone have to be astronomical costs.

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Oh look, I hardly even mentioned the poor 'ole little "environment". Too bad.

Environmental blogging - 2nd Amendment Style

Well let's see how this "environmental" stint goes. I'm going to try to write blog entries (for a few days at least) about "the environment" but put my own "2nd amendment spin" on it. Now that I think about it, the phrase "Second Amendment Spin" sounds like a fun way to say "rifling".

In just a few minutes (with the help my favorite search engine) I located this shocking evidence of environmental pollution.

Air pollution Senegal, 2005

The is a horrible example of wanton disregard for public safety (in the form of air pollution and toxic gases) in the Phillipines, 2007.

This is a picture of children in Sri Lanka in 2005 being encouraged to build fires and create unhealthy air pollution.

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This is air pollution in Uganda. Note that several of these fires have not even been "contained" in a fire retardant bunker but have merely been set ablaze where a child could easily run into them.

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This smaller picture (the tower of burning guns) is more air pollution in Rio de Janiero.

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But if anybody should be outraged over all this needless air pollution, it should be the people of Cambodia.

Air pollution Siem Reng, Cambodia

Air pollution Kampon Thon, Cambodia, 2004

Air pollution Stung Treng, Cambodia 2003

Air pollution Kampot, Cambodia 2003

From

http://www.iansa.org/

"[Locals surrendered] weapons to the local authorities in exchange for 20 community-owned water wells."

The iansa (International Action Network on Small Arms) has been a long time supporter of the "air pollution for clean drinking water" exchange program. Even when not using some excuse like "clean wells" the iansa has been working hard to spread air pollution to many third world countries.

Haven't these people ever heard of Al Gore? Put out the fires already, the planet is hot enough!

Of course I am expressing my opinion very tongue in cheek. I am much more worried about an international organization that wants to take away a woman's right to defend herself (iansa) than I am about a little air pollution. And the whole "guns are evil" idea does nothing to help us teach the next generation about personal responsibility.

Thank God for the Second Amendment, I'll see you at the range!

Blog Action Day (BAD)

Just in case you haven't heard yet, let me tell you what's going to happen on October 15.

Its the First, Annual, International, BLOG ACTION DAY. What is Blog Action Day (BAD) you say? I'm so glad you asked. This is when everybody who participates in the whole ever lovin' blogosphere is supposed to get our collective knickers in a knot about the [insert favorite adjective] environment. Right now they claim to have 6,475 blogs with a "readership" on this issue of over 4.4 million people. Using their exact numbers I crunched it and got just a hair over 690 readers per blog. Interesting...

When you go to pretty much any place on the blogosphere, what do you see but links and links to other blogs. And what are many blog posts about? Reading other blogs! So how many "unique" readers do you think we're actually talking about? More on that later.

On the Blog Action Day (BAD) websites ( http://blogactionday.com/ and http://blogactionday.org/ ) they give you an opportunity to participate. They encourage you to "Register your Blog". Ostensibly this would be so that you (as a "concerned blogger" or some such rot) could be kept "in the loop" with new and exciting "blog action items" on the environment, right? Nah, it says right on the page where you register that

The readership figure is purely for the purpose of generating an exciting statistic!

In other words pay no attention to these statistics - they're meaningless! WHAT???? Environmentalists with meaningless statistics???? Frankly, I'm shocked.

[If you haven't picked up on my sarcasm yet then I'm just not trying hard enough]

But even a cynic like myself has to admit that these Blog Action Day (BAD) people are thoughtful. Why they've even included a way for me to prove my "personhood". Right on the form to register it says

Are you human? Please type '210'

And let's not forget the importance of "warm fuzzies". These Blog Action Day (BAD) people know how important the environment is to me - the button at the bottom of the registration page doesn't say "register" or "submit" - no no - it says "Make a Difference". So, in some inexplicable way, just by giving my email address to the Blog Action Day (BAD) people, I have "Made a Difference" [i think i feel a tear welling up]

And, gosh those Blog Action Day (BAD) people are tech-saavy. They even have a Blog Action Day (BAD) video posted on youtube. click for BAD video

Al Gore, living proof that the Oscars are motivated by art, not politics (HAHAHAHA - well I tried to say that with a straight face) must be very proud of his Blog Action Day (BAD) friends. They are working so hard to make everybody get really "conscious" about the environment.
Now those of us who were too young to "make a difference" at the original (1970) Earth Day can be on the ground floor of a "movement".

This will really give me a chance to stretch my satirical muscles, so to speak. There is so much raw comedic material to work with - I think I'm going to enjoy this ;-)