Earth Day (spit)

To be perfectly clear about this Earth Day nonsense , I haven’t sipped the environmentalist’s Kool-Aid, I’m not wearing biodegradable underwear and I still use my pickup truck to run locksmith calls instead of riding a bike to jobs.

“April 22, 1970, Earth Day marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement.”

If you want that translated into English, “April 22, 1970, Earth Day marked the day when we turned over a perfectly good Republic to a bunch of crazy environmental socialists intent on destroying the free market system and anything which might remind the “sheeple” that our nation was founded on Christian principles and values.”

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“Founded by the organizers of the first April 22 Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide. Earth Day Network is a driving force steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day Network, activists connect change in local, national, and global policies. Earth Day Network’s international network reaches over 17,000 organizations in 174 countries, while the domestic program engages 5,000 groups and over 25,000 educators coordinating millions of community development and environmental protection activities throughout the year.” (emphasis in italic added)

Promoting progressive action worldwide is one of those not so subtle ways of saying their efforts are intended to promote socialism through forced policy changes such as the most recent efforts to saddle the United States with Cap and Trade Limits .

I find it mildly amusing, (spit), how we celebrate all that God has given us, the abundance supplied through the earth’s resources, by tying it in with godless social revolutionaries who hate the foundations upon which our nation was established, hate our freeways and the use of fossil fuels which power everything from industry to our family sedan or pickup truck. Were it not for living in a land which has been so blessed these moronic malcontents would still be living in tents or caves and bathing only when the rivers were not covered with ice.

These pictures are of the tomato plants which I finally got into the garden along with two that are in planter bowls. Having a garden doesn’t make me a member of the global warming ecological whacko religion any more than believing in the Constitution and conservative values makes me a terroristic threat .

The cool weather made picking a date to plant rather interesting this spring because up until 2 weeks ago the temperatures were still dipping down into the mid 30’s. I’ve gambled with cold weather before and found my tomato plants never quite made a come back if they got nipped; a waste of money and time. This year I got lucky and a friend of mine had hundreds of extra Roma Tomato plants he was giving away; Thank You Roger Lyon. We transplanted 18 of his tomato plants into our limited growing area and, as they say, “We shall see what we shall see.”

I put two established store bought tomato plants in portable planters to see if moving them around might protect them from the hot sun months from now; extend their productivity even if for just a couple of weeks. Now that Lucy has become proficient in canning we’re hoping to have plenty of tomatoes for making spaghetti sauce; she put up twenty pounds of fajita seasoned pork yesterday to go along with all the fajita seasoned chicken she did last week.

I also purchased some very hazardous material to spread over my yard, insect killer designed to wipe out fire ants, ticks, fleas and cutworms. I’m sure any points I scored with the Earth Day crowd just got removed when I destroyed the environment with insecticides that might seep into the sewer and be flushed into the marshlands where an exotic endangered tree toad might ingest the toxic water.