I shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya to learn that storm water holding ponds are actually collecting debris and pollutants. Simply amazing.

The local neighborhood pond fringed with spring green looks attractive, but its muddy bottom is loaded with contaminants.

Metro communities from White Bear Lake and Maplewood to South St. Paul are discovering that their storm-water ponds are chemical soups of pesticides, fertilizers, pet wastes, oil, grease and other contaminants.

With an estimated 20,000 public storm-water ponds in the metro area, and thousands more privately owned by industries and homeowner associations, state pollution officials say they expect the problem to be widespread.

“It took us aback, frankly,” said Mark Burch, White Bear Lake’s public works director. “Especially when we figured out how much it would cost” to clean up.

Being someone who had to spend years and tons and tons of money appeasing our watershed district for a project here at work, I can tell you that I happen to know that these ponds are pretty much suppose to collect this sort of stuff. And as for cost, well, yes environmentalism is incredibly expensive. I’m sure the “engineers” who mandated these ponds and rain gardens have friends who will be happy to come clean this up…. for a hefty price.

Maybe we should all just go back to hugging trees, it would be so much cheaper.

Anoka’s used windmill is finally spinning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pop the champaign corks and get ready to invite Al Gore in for the ribbon cutting ceremony. Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boondoggle mandate FAIL fears are finally over.

Backstory: A Windfall Of FAIL

T Boone (Obama lover) Pickens may have forget to get a deposit on that government mandated get rich quick scheme before he invested.

HOUSTON – Plans for the world’s largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he’s looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.

Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall — taller than most 30-story buildings.

“When I start receiving those turbines, I’ve got to … like I said, my garage won’t hold them,” the legendary Texas oilman said. “They’ve got to go someplace.”

Would we have to bail him out in case no one wants the useless monstrosities next to them? 

For some reason I hope the guy can’t find anywhere to put them. Really, I’d feel terrible about the billionaire’s lose. 

Ohhhhhhhh, maybe he can put them all in front of Al Gore, he has enough hot air coming out of his mouth….

He’d call the TV Execs at ABC and try to get this show pulled. Therefore we need to make sure this new show sticks around. 

Director Mike Judge’s new animated television series “The Goode Family” is a send-up of a clan of environmentalists who live by the words “What would Al Gore do?” Gerald and Helen Goode want nothing more than to minimize their carbon footprint. They feed their dog, Che, only veggies (much to the pet’s dismay) and Mr. Goode dutifully separates sheets of toilet paper when his wife accidentally buys two-ply. And, of course, the family drives a hybrid.

[...]

Much as Mr. Judge’s series “King of the Hill” finds humor in the dramas of a working-class Texas family, “Goode” lampoons a liberal Midwestern household. In “Goode,” the characters are often mocked for being green just to fit in with their friends and neighbors. They are a perfect target for the 46-year-old Mr. Judge and his two longtime co-writers, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, who have made careers out of finding humor in the follies and pretensions of everyday people.

[...]

“The Goode Family” came from an idea that Mr. Altschuler had while on vacation. Mr. Altschuler’s wife observed how difficult it was to “be good”—i.e., environmentally responsible. That became the central premise for the Goode Family. Mr. Judge, who says he was inspired by the mellow tones of National Public Radio hosts, provides the voice of the bicycle-riding college administrator Mr. Goode.

Oh dear lord this looks like it could be a great show. We may all have to drive p the ratings so the Lunacrats see that there are a lot of people who think they are clearly nuts. 

I am proud to say I am n ot at my house, but I have left just about every light on.

It has been a pretty tough day. Here’s something to make you smile that not everyone is nuts.

FAIRBANKS — Al Gore can thank the Nobel Committee for honoring him with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

He can also thank Fairbanks businessman Craig Compeau for what could be the farthest-north likeness of the former vice president: A 5-ton ice sculpture of a “shivering” Gore, created during a recent spell of bitterly cold weather in Alaska and aimed at confronting global-warming theories.

 

No you moron, that’s what we call American history. 

We’re gonna save the world, one skidmarked set of your Uncle’s tighty whities at a time!

Coeds Take Off Underwear to Be ‘Green’

MEADVILLE, Pa. —  A group of western Pennsylvania college students are hanging 350 bras, underwear and socks as part of an environmental message.

The environmental science students at Allegheny College in Meadville are hanging out the undergarments as part of their “350 Project” meant to raise awareness about the danger of carbon emissions.

The project represents the number 350 parts per million, the level of carbon emissions the atmosphere can handle before it suffers irreparable damage.

Part of the message is that even something as simple as hanging out clothes to dry can be helpful.

The students say they initially planned to hang bed sheets, but had trouble collecting 350 sheets, so they moved to undergarments.

And unsuspecting frat boys were disappointed when they discovered ……….   AAA’s internal filter is going to stop this one. 

Why the next thing you know, they will try to take away indoor plumbing. 

I’d be more than willing to build this for these budding young Earth lovers, as long as someone else will help me get it from the Twin Cities to Pennsylvania. Of course we’ll leave off the names on the doors.

Bette Midler Quits Touring To Help Save The Planet…

Rumors she’s building a 15,000 seat arena addition to her California mansion are, as yet, unfounded. But John Edwards’ architect was spotted in Malibu last week.

Have you ever done any political polling or calling and reached someone while trying to find out who they’d vote for, and had them tell you that it was none of your damn business? I have, and it seems most people agree that one doesn’t have to divulge who they voted or will vote for if they don’t want to.

Then why should I have to feel compelled to wear my greenyness on my sleeve in today’s America?

Seriously, people wear this eco-friendly BS on their sleeves like is a badge of honor and look down on anyone who dares to live however they damn well please and drive whatever they damn well need, or [shudder] want.  (gulp)

And now the media is on a full scale operation to guilt everybody to think green or feel guilty if they don’t.

It is pathetic and I am growing very very tired of what the nanny state envirofascists are trying to do to this great country.

And if I see one single sign of this green BS down at the Republican Party of Minnesota state convention in Rochester this weekend, so help me God, or so help the pathetic shill for Al Gore who dares to ask me if I am taking steps to reduce my carbon footprint

You have been forewarned.

After bombing out (compared to Al Gore) on his first documentary attempt with his 2004 DNC video, Sen. John Kerry is just going to preach to newspaper editors how they should cover the subject of Global Warming. 

… May 29, 2008 Editorial Board/Op-Ed Page Editor Briefing … 

ED BOARD/OP-ED PAGE EDITOR BRIEFING TO FEATURE SEN. JOHN KERRY, NRDC 
ON LIEBERMAN-WARNER CLIMATE BILL DUE FOR SENATE ACTION ON JUNE 2ND

WASHINGTON, D.C.///NEWS ADVISORY///A briefing for America’s editorial board members and op-ed page editors on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Bill (SB 2191) will take place via phone (with full Q&A) at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT on Thursday (May 29, 2008).

With Senate action expected on the key global warming bill on June 2, 2008, the briefing will feature Senator John Kerry, Dan Lashof, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Climate Center and Tufts University economist Frank Ackerman. The speakers will address the prospects for Senate action on global warming and the environmental/economic implications of doing so. 

The bipartisan Climate Security Act is sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut and Sen. John Warner, R-Virginia.   

Also Thursday: NRDC will launch its new “CO2MediaGuide.org” Web site outlining the facts that all reporters covering climate and coal issues should understand … as well as the pitfalls to be avoided in doing such stories.

News event speakers will be: 

* Dan Lashof, director of the Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council; 

* Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts; and

* Dr. Frank Ackerman, senior economist, Tufts University.

TO PARTICIPATE: You can join this live, phone-based briefing (with full, two-way Q&A) at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT on May 29, 2008 by dialing [redacted]. Ask for the “climate bill ed board/op-ed briefing”.

CAN’T PARTICIPATE?: A streaming audio replay of the news event will be available on the Web at http://www.nrdc.org as of 6 p.m. EDT/3 p.m. EDT on May 29, 2008.  The new CO2MediaGuide.org Web site will be available online as of 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT on May 29, 2008 at www.CO2MediaGuide.org.

I don’t know how I got the email, but this is pretty interesting. 

Wouldn’t it be fun to post the phone number so we could cram the lines with “flat Earthers” and make fools out of these useful idiots.