Quote of the day

posted at 3:20 pm on February 5, 2007 by Allahpundit

“This is an exciting time for all of us who care about our environment. Imagine us growing our food in our own waste, powering our elevators with our StairMasters.”

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This is a joke, right?

JetBoy on February 5, 2007 at 3:23 PM

The Rick Moranis by-line made me think this was satire.

Valiant on February 5, 2007 at 3:24 PM

“Honey, I shrunk the carbon footprint!”

JetBoy on February 5, 2007 at 3:28 PM

growing our food in our own waste

I’m way ahead of the curve on this. I’ve been pinching loaves in the produce section of Kroger for years.

natesnake on February 5, 2007 at 3:32 PM

…and we can raise fresh trout in the rainwater collection barrels and use their excretement to feed the crawdads in the bottom of the tank and grow fresh algae on the top of the tank for salad dressing! Then we can fish for the trout with the excess worms in the herb/worm gardens!

serenity on February 5, 2007 at 3:33 PM

Just like the line, “Think of the children!”, this Global Warming non-sense has wore very thin with me.
Screw the children and screw the enviroment!
I don’t give a rats backside about any of it. Damn those nanny state socialist pinko bastards, they need a new hobby.

chilipequin on February 5, 2007 at 3:33 PM

From the Moranis article:

I’ve spoken to Time Warner about whether their coaxial and fiber optic cable can be restrung laterally across the courtyard for laundry drying. Needless to say how much energy this will save.

ROFL!

RushBaby on February 5, 2007 at 3:34 PM

growing our food in our own waste

Not if it’s being grow where Ted Kennedy can see it!

Dread Pirate Roberts VI on February 5, 2007 at 3:36 PM

natesnake, that was you!?!?!?!!!

bloggless on February 5, 2007 at 3:38 PM

(Magda was on hold for hours, though she has extra time now that I’ve stopped her doing the towels every day)

Yes, people with maids are complaining about waste.

Esthier on February 5, 2007 at 3:41 PM

Gee, what makes anyone think that the stuff we eat grown or made in countries outside the USA don”t use human waste?

I say go with candle power, burn your books. Stop your newspaper and magazine subscriptions and throw the television out the window. We should all walk to work, grown our own wool and cotton and make all our own clothes.

If we are going to do this, let’s do it right. No more MSM waste of good trees and energy just to watch.

Give me a break!!!

sharinlite on February 5, 2007 at 3:42 PM

no that’s not exciting you dumb SOB!
that sounds like a miserable anti-western way to do it all

Defector01 on February 5, 2007 at 3:47 PM

“Lovey…….. can you please have Magda stop flushing the toilet, we are going to start collecting everyone’s crap in trash bags in the lobby…..”

You have to be kidding me,….. this is a joke, isn’t it?

ISN’T IT?!?!?!?!

God help you in New York.

PinkyBigglesworth on February 5, 2007 at 3:49 PM

Was that an attempt at humor? It failed miserably.

JammieWearingFool on February 5, 2007 at 3:51 PM

Having a bowel movement carbon footprint?

Inconvenient, but true.

Plop plop fizze fizze Oh whata relief it is!

Kini on February 5, 2007 at 3:57 PM

Hey, it’d be great for boosting our immune systems!

(polio,typhoid,cholera,hepatitis,bacterial dystentry, amoebic dysentry, stomach ulcers (H. pylori) stomach cancer, giardia, e. coli … etc. etc. ad nauseum — get it … ad nauseum)

naliaka on February 5, 2007 at 3:58 PM

Soylent Cowpies are made out of people… it’s people!

Watcher on February 5, 2007 at 4:00 PM

Plop plop

Kini on February 5, 2007 at 3:57 PM

Teehee!

Savage on February 5, 2007 at 4:08 PM

anyone think this life being described is the type of life that people had in the ‘old country’ and to avoid it they came here?

Defector01 on February 5, 2007 at 4:12 PM

“As you know, Bob and I have canceled our annual post-holiday trips to Anguilla and Taos in order to reduce our personal carbon footprints”, Lydia Katherine Powell-Watley Pathetic, this is a wink of-a peek inside the lives of RICH LIBERAL women. It never felt so good as now to be a working class American, thank you Jesus!

mimi on February 5, 2007 at 4:16 PM

The Rick Moranis by-line made me think this was satire.

Valiant on February 5, 2007 at 3:24 PM

He forgot to include that they could further reduce their carbon footprint if he and his brother Doug stop drinking imported Canadian beer. Take off, eh!

Mallard T. Drake on February 5, 2007 at 4:17 PM

powering our elevators with our StairMasters.

I’m going to invent something that combines the benefits of both of these. The ability to go up, and to exercise. I call it… STAIRS!

RightWinged on February 5, 2007 at 4:28 PM

I don’t know Mr. Rick Moranis but I hope he posted this as a parody, and not as a clarion call to the environmental ‘war’.

Either way it is one of the most entertaining pieces in a looong time.

Most laughable:

- post-holiday trips to Anguilla and Taos
- Bob’s deals, especially (heavily gov’t substituted) ethanol…
- Magda, and best of all
- “ta, ta, I’m off to, of all places, Bedford, because one of our mares is foaling”.

And this elitist doesn’t realize the irony of starving the poor in S. America, if we don’t buy the flowers.

These are the people who wish to lead control us.

Preaching drinking water, while drinking wine:

…murmurings of the little harp-girl’s song in Heinrich Heine’s 1844 poem “A Winter’s Tale”

I know the authors, I know the tune,
I know it line for line
In public, water is all they preach;
While in secret they guzzle wine.

Reality check!

Entelechy on February 5, 2007 at 4:30 PM

I’ve spoken to Time Warner about whether their coaxial and fiber optic cable can be restrung laterally across the courtyard for laundry drying.

Bob says we shouldn’t do this until well after the Final Four.

Brilliant.

Tanya on February 5, 2007 at 4:40 PM

More great ideas from the Left. Let me guess, these are new proposals for Hillary’s campaign for conservation and energy independence, right?

omegaram on February 5, 2007 at 4:40 PM

Tanichka!

Allahpundit on February 5, 2007 at 4:42 PM

What? is RICK MORANIS (whoever he is) poking fun at the wacko leftist greens …. or what ?

Maxx on February 5, 2007 at 4:52 PM

I’m pretty sure Mr Moranis is mocking the enviro-whackos:

from rickmoranis.com

Like many Americans, and other resident alien Canadians, I’ve been watching those Chevy Silverado truck commercials play over and over and over again during NFL games. And it’s made me realize not only how much I love America, but how much I’d love my truck, if I had one.

Then it occurred to me: Chevy really is on to something with these commercials. America isn’t just a great country. America is a great truck.

jdpaz on February 5, 2007 at 4:52 PM

Tanichka!

Allahpundit on February 5, 2007 at 4:42 PM

?

RushBaby on February 5, 2007 at 5:06 PM

This reminds me of an old political cartoon of Agnew pedaling a stationary bike which was hooked up to a generator powering the White House as part of Nixon’s energy conservation program.

Funny how things never change.

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GT on February 5, 2007 at 5:10 PM

?

RushBaby on February 5, 2007 at 5:06 PM

Diminutive or endearing for Tanya.

Entelechy on February 5, 2007 at 5:13 PM

You folks are training me to check the byline.

But still, I would have liked to read the NYT report on 1A about a cascade of terraces ripped from the 814 Park Avenue Building because the environuts living there allowed a dunderhead to collect two tons of water in tank on it.

Dusty on February 5, 2007 at 5:14 PM

Thanks, Entelechy.

{E}

RushBaby on February 5, 2007 at 5:15 PM

Does Gozer have a vote on the homeowners association board regarding these issues?

Mallard T. Drake on February 5, 2007 at 5:28 PM

Sounds more like MORONis to me.

silenced majority on February 5, 2007 at 5:29 PM

In related news, finally a lawsuit is being foisted on the TRUE culprit of Global Climate Change! Read for yourself here. I’m sure glad activist lawsuits are out there to get Mother Earth’s back.

NTWR on February 5, 2007 at 5:34 PM

I felt sorry for the other neighbors when she said she’d be around until March…I’m guessing in March, Carbon footprints don’t do as much damage?

Pam on February 5, 2007 at 6:00 PM

Wait a minute… are you trying to tell me that the New York Times actually ran an op-ed making light of the environmental movement? That is hard to believe. That would be some kind of news-history. Its easier to believe the editor glanced the article over too quickly and didn’t realize it was satire. Or … considering how far left the NYT is, he may have thought it was all great advice. I know the Global Warmers have been having it rough lately and are worried they are not going to get their global tax. But I would think that would cause the Times to just beat the drum harder.

Maxx on February 5, 2007 at 6:27 PM

This was clearly a parody by Rick Moranis, otherwise known as “Dark Helmet” from Space Balls and that nerdy guy from Ghost Busters.

EFG on February 5, 2007 at 8:01 PM

“Magda????????……… Magda????????? Lovey, where is Magda?????……. the trash bags are starting to pile up at the door, and they are starting to have the most unplesant odor….. by the way, are those mosquitos on the standing water on the ballcony??? Magda???? Lovey??????”

PinkyBigglesworth on February 5, 2007 at 10:50 PM

Imagine us growing our food in our own waste

What is it that makes the eco-wakos so deathly afraid of personal hygene?

Wolfman on February 6, 2007 at 2:48 AM

Helloooo, folks–Rick Moranis is a comedian. This “article” was absolutely priceless. If you’re not familiar with Rick Moranis, I sorta feel sorry for you. YIKES!

robblefarian on February 6, 2007 at 7:45 AM