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Rush Limbaugh on environmentalists and animals:
I mean it’s tough for you to get your arms around this, they really do believe that the primary problem the planet has is us. Humanity. The rest of all lifeforms on this planet are au natural. They are perfectly justified in being. They are unassailable in what they do and how they live, from a tree, to a snail-darter, to a lizard, to a shark, to a lion, to a tiger, they are the essence of perfection. You will never ever hear the environmentalist wackos criticize what lions do. Or criticize what parakeets do. Pick an animal…
Only one response to this is possible:
From the Talking Heads Album Fear of Music -- , “Animals”
They say they don't need money
They're living on nuts and berries
They say animals don't worry
You know animals are hairy?
They think they know what's best
They're making a fool of us
They ought to be more careful
They're setting a bad example…
Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
It’s barely worth a response, of course, but, for the record, last week we were at the Sydney Botanical gardens where my husband and I got to watch some “environmental wackos” catching flying foxes so they could figure out how to get a large flock of them to stop defoliating trees in the park.
(Just thought I’d gently work our recent visit to Australia into the conversation.)
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More advice from the talking heads ...
Date: 18/5/12 19:26 (UTC)"Nothing But Flowers"
Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it's nothing but flowers
There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers
you got it, you got it
We caught a rattlesnake
Now we got something for dinner
we got it, we got it
There was a shopping mall
Now it's all covered with flowers
you've got it, you've got it
If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower
you've got it, you've got it
Years ago
I was an angry young man
I'd pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now it's only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it's nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong
Once there were parking lots
Now it's a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it
This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it
I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it
I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it
We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it
This was a discount store,
Now it's turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it
Don't leave me stranded here
I can't get used to this lifestyle
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Date: 18/5/12 19:36 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18/5/12 20:41 (UTC)True Story
Might post it up here when it's done
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Date: 18/5/12 20:50 (UTC)Humans are just the species that has the ability to make a conscious change to fix or destroy the environment.
Who doesn't believe in adaptation? That sounds an awful lot like a conservative...
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Date: 18/5/12 21:31 (UTC)http://www.worldwildlife.org/home-full.html
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Date: 20/5/12 19:28 (UTC)The environmental wackos he's talking about, the Huffington-Puffington Post the World Wildlife Fund, these people, they really do believe -- I mean it’s tough for you to get your arms around this, they really do believe that the primary problem the planet has is us. Humanity. The rest of all lifeforms on this planet are au natural. They are perfectly justified in being. They are unassailable in what they do and how they live, from a tree, to a snail-darter, to a lizard, to a shark, to a lion, to a tiger, they are the essence of perfection. You will never ever hear the environmentalist wackos criticize what lions do. Or criticize what parakeets do. Pick an animal…
Do we really need to diagram the sentences for you?
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Date: 18/5/12 21:49 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 18/5/12 22:49 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/5/12 09:03 (UTC)Good thing that that isn't the complaint then.
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