Here is Glenn Beck cheering on the tree chopping. Apparently it was on his radio show. Holy shit Glenn Beck is an idiot.

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/22/earth-day-glenn-beck-celebrates-by-cutting-down-trees/

[edit] Just after this, I found it posted here on videosift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Glenn-Beck-Celebrates-Earth-Day-by-Cutting-Down-Trees

Non-corporeal nerve endings produced specifically for eternal pain. I like that idea. ...God is a sadistic fuck.

>> ^honkeytonk73:
Hell is located under the ground. Very very deep under the ground. It is hot there. There is a 'lake of fire'. Well, actually a lake of superheated plasma, because as we all know.. fire cannot be a liquid. This then means that hell is under extremely high pressure, otherwise the plasma which the 'lake of fire' contains could not exist. This obviously makes sense... being underground. DEEP underground. I assume the devil as well as the 'doomed' are non-corporeal in nature, otherwise such high temperatures and pressures would make it impossible for them to exist. That would then imply that non-corporeal beings have nerve endings for the sake of enduring pain, and as a result can suffer eternal torture. Makes perfect sense to me.
Oh. Also snakes can talk.
A whale swallowed a man whole, then he survived.
The Earth was COMPLETELY inundated by water during the floods. Then the water just receded. Where the water receded to... I have NO IDEA. Magic I guess. Conservation of matter simply does not apply. It up and vanished. I wonder if the additional mass affected the Earth's rotation (slowed it down), and increased the gravitation field. Adding matter in such a large scale would without a doubt have such effects. Did the Earth Day get ever so slightly longer as a result? I wonder.

Hell is located under the ground. Very very deep under the ground. It is hot there. There is a 'lake of fire'. Well, actually a lake of superheated plasma, because as we all know.. fire cannot be a liquid. This then means that hell is under extremely high pressure, otherwise the plasma which the 'lake of fire' contains could not exist. This obviously makes sense... being underground. DEEP underground. I assume the devil as well as the 'doomed' are non-corporeal in nature, otherwise such high temperatures and pressures would make it impossible for them to exist. That would then imply that non-corporeal beings have nerve endings for the sake of enduring pain, and as a result can suffer eternal torture. Makes perfect sense to me.

Oh. Also snakes can talk.

A whale swallowed a man whole, then he survived.

The Earth was COMPLETELY inundated by water during the floods. Then the water just receded. Where the water receded to... I have NO IDEA. Magic I guess. Conservation of matter simply does not apply. It up and vanished. I wonder if the additional mass affected the Earth's rotation (slowed it down), and increased the gravitation field. Adding matter in such a large scale would without a doubt have such effects. Did the Earth Day get ever so slightly longer as a result? I wonder.

Is giving away these SUVs part of F*uck the Earth day?

>> ^residue:
damn! beat me by 1 minute, 3 seconds!!


Well make earth our bitch and go pour some oil on a duck.

They had Earth Day in the UK, where everyone was encouraged to limit their consumption of electricity for a day or something, reports showed that the net effect was negligible even though the event was heavily sponsored and publicized.

Every Day's a Holiday (1965)-Clive Westlake wrote the lyrics, but Cab does the best version-
There are 4th of Julys in both of your eyes & a Easter Sunday too
'Cause every day is a holiday since the day that I found you
Each heaven on earth day is like a birthday, a May day rendezvous
'Cause every day is a holiday since the day that I found you
They ought to hang the flags out, they ought to close the bank
And though it's not November still I feel like giving thanks
You're a happy new year, a movie premiere, you're a Christmas present too
'Cause every day is a holiday since the day that I found you

@ previous comments about how this video was produced:

Its not pictures taken with a digital camera launched through the air with a catapult. Its fucking NASA.

Look at the third comment from the top, by T-Man. Admittedly the details seem a bit complicated if glossed over, but basically this is composited data from a satellite that every earth-day recorded very small wavelength ('microwaves' at 89gigaHertz) electromagnetic energy that is bounced up into space as the satellite scans whats below it on its orbit. Specifically they're showing data about water temp. and ice presence from the north pole. This microwave energy is hardly effected by atmosphere and clouds, thus producing a data set without clouds, and producing a clear set for each day. The data is then used to make the illustration of the data above. I certainly think the illustration is more powerful than them just telling me the gist of the situation.

Here's a picture of the project team; http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/

Just a regular bunch of old nerds!

Agree ain't the point, the content is less imporatant here than the dynamic, the mechanism, and the delivery system.....this guy is a tool for every divertive special interest..
Divertive by this definition
2. draw attention from something: to take somebody's mind off something and draw attention to something else
...this something else being how nice and friendly we can all be to the Planet every day....the kind of non-nutritive snacks that some folks seem to lap up like a cat under a leaking radiator....the same effect, though it takes much longer for domesticated primates, the cat will die from eating the sweet-tasting, green (how appropriate here) liquid...

Answer this Earth friendlies out there??? If in fact, there are alternatives to fossil fuels, (which there absolutely ARE) and if there is even a hint of suspicion that the powers that control these fossil fuels and regulate their necessity and prices, that these persons have colluded to corner a market and indenture the masses to pay them for destroying the atmosphere or worse, make us modern-day putties, THEN SHOULDN'T THE BULK OF FOCUS BE SHIFTED TO THIS INSANITY, and not how imporrrrrtantit is that we should recycle, buy fuel-efficient cars and re-newable crap, and use bicycles and skateboards to go to work????

This world is fucking itself into a corner, and blaming the inaction on the part of the oil industry, her puppets and politicians, on their own ignorance, and ineffectual focus.


FUCK EARTH DAY! Fuck the democrats, fuck the republicans, the moderates, the issues that mean nothing in the grand scheme of civilization's demise....the focus should be on Getting The Users Of Imformation And Men Off The Planet......

then, perhaps we can survive the sun's effect on the planet, as IT causes the effects of global warming, along with the cyclical dance of the Earth and her position in the solar system.....

oh, did I forget Global Warming, FUCK THAT, TOO.....

From George Carlin:

We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet?

I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!

We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.

You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...asshole.

So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now. And I think that's begun. Don't you think that's already started? I think, to be fair, the planet sees us as a mild threat. Something to be dealt with. And the planet can defend itself in an organized, collective way, the way a beehive or an ant colony can. A collective defense mechanism. The planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet? How would you defend yourself against this troublesome, pesky species? Let's see... Viruses. Viruses might be good. They seem vulnerable to viruses. And, uh...viruses are tricky, always mutating and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed. Perhaps, this first virus could be one that compromises the immune system of these creatures. Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus, making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along. And maybe it could be spread sexually, making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.

Well, that's a poetic note. And it's a start. And I can dream, can't I? See I don't worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we're part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand. A higher order. Call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. The Big Electron...whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is. And so are we. For a little while.