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To the Editor: Save the Earth, get rid of trappings of Christmas
By The Post-Standard
December 02, 2009, 6:50AM
In today's Post-Standard, one reader says Christmas traditions do harm to our planet:
To the Editor:
I believe we should think about doing away with Christmas. Our planet is in big trouble, and giving up Christmas would help to save it in many ways.
Not having to do extra driving, looking for gifts, would save on gas and therefore on carbon dioxide emissions.
Millions of trees would not be cut down, allowing them to grow large and to eat up the carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming.
The land normally used for Christmas tree farms could be planted with fast-growing hardwood forests to suck up even more CO2.
No Christmas lights or decorations would mean fewer utilities would be used, therefore saving on our natural resources.
There wouldn’t be so much stuff to swell our already fast-expanding landfills.
I think people would be calmer, happier and less stressed if they didn’t have to deal with the holiday. Many who live alone or have no family ties get depressed around Christmastime. There are even increased numbers of suicides. Not celebrating Christmas would mean folks could save money and not go further into debt buying presents that the recipients didn’t even want or need.
Those wishing to celebrate Christ could have their religious and/or family get-togethers and remember Him for whom Christmas was named. It seems like we’ve gotten rather far away from that.
Mary Armstrong
Cazenovia
Horror Movie Scene Prompts Police Response
WCCO/CBS News
Dec 3, 2009 2:19 pm US/Central
COLOMA, Calif. (CBS) - Bloodcurdling screams and a violent attack caused a Coloma resident to call authorities, but when police arrived on the scene, they discovered the disturbance was just the filming of a horror movie, CBS station KOVR-TV reported.
The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office sent at least eight units to the Coloma Club off Highway 49 early Wednesday morning after receiving a 911 call reporting that a woman was being dragged through the parking lot.
"They were alarmed, certainly, when they showed up," said Josh Cumby.
The situation was defused quickly when authorities found out that it was just actress Ann Hensen and a movie crew filming a scene where she was being dragged away by the living dead...*snip*
History 101
For those that don't know about history ... Here is a condensed version:
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers.. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. Those became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democrat voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud or Miller. They eat red meat and still provide for their women.. Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively.. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing..
Here ends today's lesson in world history:
It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off.
And there you have it.
Let your next action reveal your true self .
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online
A 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler.The bear made his stop Thursday night at Marketplace Foods in Hayward, walking through the automatic doors and heading straight into the liquor department. The bear calmly climbed up 12 feet onto a shelf in the beer cooler where it sat for about an hour while employees helped evacuate customers and summoned wildlife officials...*snip*
H/T to Rodger, 
