Get The Lead Out!

Environmentalists seriously want to get the lead out.....of bullets! This is as bad as the no smoking out of doors do gooders. Can lefties ever be happy if they are not controlling everything we do, say or think? This is beyond absurd. 

Hunters are up in arms over an Arizona-based conservation group latest bid to get the federal government to ban lead bullets, which the environmentalists claim contaminates the food chain.
The Center for Biological Diversity, which claims 220,000 members, has sent a petition  to the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of nearly 100 groups in 35 states asking the agency to regulate lead right out of ammunition. It's the second time the group has attempted to get the EPA to take up the cause, and the group is currently suing the federal agency for rejecting the previous bid.

Get the lead out? Do the environmentalists actually care about the environment, or do they have an agenda to stifle any activity they don't agree with? Can you imagine the number of hurt, and wounded animals this ban would create? They don't care, they think lead, a naturally occurring metal, is going to ruin the environment, and they go crying to their best friend the EPA to get what they want. 

 

Funny how they think the light bulbs with mercury in them are superior to regular light bulbs. 

 

Funny how they are okay with wind turbines killing hundreds of thousands of birds and bats. 

 

Funny how they think that flying thousands of miles in planes to get to all those hot vacation destinations for their love ins are justified because they are green. 

 

Funny how they think scientists who are caught lying about global warming are victims.  

Funny how they think flooding vast areas of land to build a dam is okay, because that form of power is non-carbon intensive. 

Funny how they think a lead battery for eco-cars is okay, but lead bullets aren't. Where is that lead battery going to end up? 

Hunting groups scoff at the Center's claims that lead left in the carcasses of animals they shoot but don't collect harms the food chain and that spent casings can contaminate groundwater. They say the group has long sought to curb their rights to hunt and own firearms.
“They are like a woodpecker without any wood. They just keep pecking away,” Lawrence Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation told FoxNews.com. “It’s clear that their motivation is to end hunting in the United States.”

Can the greenies get any more ridiculous?

Eco-Nuts And Our Governments!

I wonder how our governments got so side tracked on fighting actual pollution. We used to be concerned about polluted lakes and rivers, smog was a big problem, but that's all changed, and our governments at all levels are forcing us into stupid programs that cost us extra money and do nothing to actually clean up pollution.

Case in point, those squiggly bulbs that contain mercury, are legal, the old fashioned bulbs with no mercury are soon to be illegal. Who is going to profit from this change, GE for sure, they can charge more. How safe are these new bulbs? Here are two bulbs that recently burnt out in our house. Look closely at them.



Notice that the one on the left has been burnt, also notice the black smoke residue on the bulb. Safe?? No, it's actually very scary! The other bulb has a tiny bit of smoke residue as well, so that is two for two. A clear fire hazard, but because it is supposedly eco-friendly, we have to live with them. We also have those two bulbs hanging around because of the mercury, they can't go into the landfill. How many people just toss them out with their regular garbage? Right, probably 98%.

On the municipal level, we have an uber-lefty on city counsel that wanted us to only idle our cars for 3 minutes. So, in 40 below weather, we would only be able to warm up our cars for 3 minutes then we would have to drive them. Idiot, your windshield would be frosted up! He also is proud that the only thing he did before getting elected was to set up a plan to make all university students pay for those who ride the bus. Socialism par excellence!

At the provincial level we are finally getting some response to the Alberta Bashing that Ontario and Quebec did in Copenhagen.

One of Mr. Morton's jobs will be to inform Ottawa that Alberta is unwilling to continue paying billions of dollars into the equalization program at the same time it struggles to get its own budget back into balance.

"Our contribution -- this last economic downturn, the worst year since the 1930s -- was well over $21-billion and that cannot continue and we have to have that discussion in Canada," the Premier said after unveiling his new Cabinet.

This is a smart move by Stelmach, putting Morton in charge of the budget. We will have to see how that turns out. If Morton fails, Stelmach can blame him, but I suspect that voters will just switch to the Wild Rose Alliance. We are too far away from an election to predict anything yet.

What I do know is that Alberta better fight back. Understand that no matter what we do for the environment, it will never be enough for the eco-nuts. So, stop trying to please everyone and start supporting our oilsands. Iggy supported them more the other day than our own Premier ever has, and that needs to change, or voters are going to send a message next election.

Are The Greens Really Green?

The greens talk a lot about the environment and climate change, but are they themselves green? We already know that Al Gore has his mansions paid for with carbon credits, and Suzuki has two houses on the beach (thought beaches were going to disappear because of global warming?) paid for by taxpayers because of his CBC shows and appearances, so the two head honchos in North America are not green, but how about green organizations?

I started thinking about this because of this article:

The price is fright

OTTAWA -- While the world has slumped into recession, taking the price of oil down with it, the sudden rise in the cost of food is hitting Canadians when they can least afford it.

And experts predict there will be no sudden drop in prices at the grocery store cash register like there was at the gas pumps at the beginning of the economic downturn.

A comparison of food prices tracked by Statistics Canada shows that from January 2008 to January 2009 food bought from Canadian stores rose by almost 9%. Fresh fruit went up by 16%, vegetables by 20%, breads and cereals by as much as 11% and non-alcoholic drinks by 12%.

"Food prices rose dramatically around the world last year and there is no one simple answer to it," said John Scott, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers.

Isn't this what the little green guys have been warning us about? Are we not supposed to buy our food within a 100 mile radius? Are we not expected to spend more and buy organic food? I expect the greens to be on this like wheat in Alberta, it's right up their alley, right? Well a google search turned this up:



No Pembina Institute, no Suzuki Foundation, just one guy who wants Obama to grow his own food. So, what are the greens doing?

Well, Pembina is sucking up donors money and getting in the media to ....well blast politicians. They do have clients (not revealed), who I suspect pay them money, and they talk a lot about sustainable development, but they do not DO anything. They tell us what we should DO, but greenies don't seem to be organizing any projects, just protests. Earth4Energy wants to SELL you the secrets of creating your own solar panels, saving you hundreds of dollars, nothing about growing your own food.

Could it be that there is NO money to be made in organizing community gardens? I did check out this promising site, Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables, all of their external links are to universities, oh, and they have some books to sell you too! Environmentalists, appear to be in it for the money, not the earth, not to improve our lives, but to improve their bank accounts.

We hear about wind power, as if that is a new concept.



We also hear that we shouldn't flush unless it's brown. Do they want us back to this?



Environmentalists are not forward thinking, they want us to go backwards. They do not start programs, other than those that brainwash our children, they do not actually show those children have to plant a garden, weed it and harvest it, that would be too much work. They are not over in Africa, helping the people there to grow their own food? Nope they are protesting genetically modified food, that seed that produces more, can be made drought and disease resistant, it's a seed, how can modifying it be bad? We couldn't grow wheat in Alberta if we didn't modify the seeds for our shorter growing season. Don't even mention nuclear energy to these nuts.

From the Pembina website:

Research to date concludes that no other energy source combines the generation of a range of conventional pollutants and waste streams — including heavy metals, smog and acid rain precursors, and greenhouse gases — with the generation of extremely large volumes of radioactive wastes, that will require care and management over hundreds of thousands of years. The combination of these environmental challenges, along with security, accident and weapons proliferation risks that are simply not shared by any other energy source, place nuclear energy in a unique category relative to all other energy supply options.

So is Pembina outright lying about the EXTREMELY LARGE volumes? It appears so:

Almost all activities, from making dinner to driving cars,
produce “waste”, i.e. undesirable material left over. The
use of nuclear energy is no different, except that the
amount of waste is small and, while potentially hazardous,
it is very well managed........

In contrast, toxic heavy metals such as mercury and
arsenic, which are emitted from coal-fired plants and
various industrial processes, last forever.

So, you know those energy efficient squiggly light bulbs that contain MERCURY, ask your favorite environmentalist about that environmentally friendly "waste" product!! While you are at it, ask them to explain how CO2 is so bad if plants need it to grow, and ask them how to plant a vegetable garden. I predict you will get blank stares and you will be told that "the science is settled".

Personally, I like CO2, it keeps my plants happy and my house gets fresh oxygen, even in winter. Oh, and if you greenies need to learn how to grow vegetables, come on over to my house this spring, I'm planning an edible front yard!!

Grab Your Kids Because....

It's time for a holiday in Antarctica! Yup you got it, Antarctica is warming! Well, maybe by one teeny tiny degree, but maybe not, depends which scientist you ask. That doesn't stop the MSM though, heck no, when they are on a global warming mission, nothing will stop them from using any report, no matter how they make up facts to prove their point.

Study says Antarctica is seeing global warming

"Contrarians have sometime grabbed on to this idea that the entire continent of Antarctica is cooling, so how could we be talking about global warming," said study co-author Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. "Now we can say: no, it's not true ... It is not bucking the trend."

That wouldn't be the same guy who distorted previous data called the Hockey Stick now would it??? So now he is making up data?? How believable is this study? It doesn't matter because if the MSM says it's true, it must be.

The researchers used satellite data and mathematical formulas to fill in missing information. That made outside scientists queasy about making large conclusions with such sparse information.

"This looks like a pretty good analysis, but I have to say I remain somewhat skeptical," Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an e-mail. "It is hard to make data where none exist."

Did you catch that, using mathematical formulas to fill in missing information, and presto, the Antarctica is melting!!! Oh, but they can't blame it on man-made global warming. Canada gets a say in this too:

The study has major ramifications for sea level rise, said Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria in Canada. Most major sea level rise projections for the future counted on a cooling -- not warming -- Antarctica. This will make sea level rise much worse, Weaver said.

Nice scare mongering there, sea level rises......oh scary. Funny I looked this guy up and look what I found:

Keeping our Cool: Canada in a Warming World

He's got a book out, and guess who endorses it. Right you are, our own Suzuki, master of fruit flies and global warming BS.

So, pack up those kids, it's time to play with the penguins, in -47C weather!

While we are skiing with the penguins, we might have to use these bulbs to improve our tans!

WINNIPEG — The federal government is reviewing the safety of energy-saving light bulbs, responding to concerns the low-cost green alternative may emit potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation.

Yikes!!! Mercury and now harmful UV rays?? Antarctica warming and eco-fuels that cause food shortages...those eco-nuts sure have the science down. Down the throats of the MSM.