BTW, weren’t these plastic grocery bags invented because the tree-huggers told us we needed to save more trees?
Del Dolemonte on March 29, 2012 at 6:47 PM

You, are absolutely correct! That IS how how the nifty little plastic bags came about. Now, the environmentalists aren’t happy, AGAIN! Save the trees, save the earth, save this, save that…

Why don’t we worry about trying to save the economy right now, and not so much about the earth at this point. It’s killing my finances trying to follow the lefties rules in this economy.

The government already takes steps to reduce how much an earth scorcher like you pollutes with a far ranging number of standards and regulations that affect much of your daily life.

Go ahead and burn your tires like a pouty little child.

Dave Rywall on March 30, 2012 at 3:34 PM

Yes it does. And we don’t like it. Push anyone too far, and there will be blowback.

Why didn’t you respond to this post, btw?

EasyEight on March 29, 2012 at 5:47 PM

Just for you, I AM going to burn a tire. Maybe two.

cptacek on March 30, 2012 at 3:14 PM
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The government already takes steps to reduce how much an earth scorcher like you pollutes with a far ranging number of standards and regulations that affect much of your daily life.

Go ahead and burn your tires like a pouty little child.

If you had read my post, you would see that I am not fighting garbage bags or sh.it bags.

I am opposed to plastic shopping bags when a reusable bag will do.

Over a billion plastic bags did not go into a landfill in Canada over the past two years thanks to bag bans or 5¢ bag fees.

That people are pantspissing over the laughably minimal effort it takes to create less garbage is truly amazing.

That people are crybabying that this is some outrageous act of nanny stateism is beyond stupid.

Dave Rywall on March 30, 2012 at 2:43 PM

If you had read everyone else’s posts, you would see that we don’t believe the government should be able to tell us if we can use plastic bags or not (or even if it legally can that it shouldn’t). If you want to go to minimal effort to create less garbage, have at it. But you want to force me not to as well.

Just for you, I AM going to burn a tire. Maybe two.

Hey DRywall is here fighting for this, cool.

I have a cat, the litterbox scoopings go into those bags. Hard to carry waste in a reusable environmentally sound cloth bag; so I kind of need something disposable. I’m sorry that using the ones with the smallest environmental footprint is still offensive to some.

I’ve got an alternative now that DRywall is here. You come over and clean my cat’s litterbox with your hands and take the waste out of my home in your pockets.

What, you want to restrict access to these bags, and clearly don’t want me using larger and more environmentally unsound trash bags as that would be worse.

So come carry out my cat’s crap in your pockets; or do your part to destroy the environment yourself.

gekkobear on March 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM
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If you had read my post, you would see that I am not fighting garbage bags or sh.it bags.

I am opposed to plastic shopping bags when a reusable bag will do.

Over a billion plastic bags did not go into a landfill in Canada over the past two years thanks to bag bans or 5¢ bag fees.

That people are pantspissing over the laughably minimal effort it takes to create less garbage is truly amazing.

That people are crybabying that this is some outrageous act of nanny stateism is beyond stupid.

Hey DRywall is here fighting for this, cool.

I have a cat, the litterbox scoopings go into those bags. Hard to carry waste in a reusable environmentally sound cloth bag; so I kind of need something disposable. I’m sorry that using the ones with the smallest environmental footprint is still offensive to some.

I’ve got an alternative now that DRywall is here. You come over and clean my cat’s litterbox with your hands and take the waste out of my home in your pockets.

What, you want to restrict access to these bags, and clearly don’t want me using larger and more environmentally unsound trash bags as that would be worse.

So come carry out my cat’s crap in your pockets; or do your part to destroy the environment yourself.

I had the clerk triple bag my groceries last night. Just for backwards Luddites like you. Your religion has been proven a joke, and it’s dying – I bet is pisses you off to know that you are irrelevant and your simpering eco-marxism will never again be given any significant traction.

I am going to burn a tire for earth day. And there is nothing you can do about it maggot.

SilverDeth on March 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM
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Hey little girl, how’s your fight to get your local building code revoked?

I mean, how dare they tell you how much insulation to put in your walls?

You’re a f*cking clown of breathtaking proportions.

Might I suggest burning a car tire on Erf Day, which is right around the corner?

I’ve missed only a few years of my annual celebration of flaming rubber since 1990. It warms my heart to see the black pall floating through the sky!

Dack Thrombosis on March 29, 2012 at 6:31 PM

Why, I have a shed full of old tires. I might have to throw some on the ol’ burn pit on Erf Day. Hope someone reminds me when that day is, because it means nothing to me otherwise.

AMERICA AND HOTAIR: FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO POLLUTE

Dave Rywall on March 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM

You didn’t get the memo – throw-backs such as yourself don’t get to inhabit the moral high ground.

I had the clerk triple bag my groceries last night. Just for backwards Luddites like you. Your religion has been proven a joke, and it’s dying – I bet is pisses you off to know that you are irrelevant and your simpering eco-marxism will never again be given any significant traction.

I am going to burn a tire for earth day. And there is nothing you can do about it maggot.

SilverDeth on March 30, 2012 at 10:03 AM
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AMERICA AND HOTAIR: FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO POLLUTE

In the UK and Canada, everyone BRINGS their reusable shopping bags with them to the grocery store.

Is America too stupid or lazy to do this?

Or you all just don’t give a flying f*ck.

Dave Rywall on March 30, 2012 at 9:47 AM

We are just better than you are. Deal with it.

Is America too stupid or lazy to do this?

Or you all just don’t give a flying f*ck.

Behold it’s beauty… and despair…

I am a backwards, knuckle dragging mid-evil era reject who wants to burn our children at an alter or maybe tear out their hearts Aztec style, to appease the earth spirits. I subscribe to discredited earth worship and seek to bring us back to an era of desolation and darkness.

bayam on March 29, 2012 at 8:53 PM

Fixed it for you ya backwards troglodyte. Your religion is a sham, and you are worthy of nothing more than derision – liberals by definition can never inhabit the moral high ground, and the only proper response to a gutter-rat like you, feasting off the corpse of this nation, is to step down on your skull, and apply pressure till it splits.

Got it vermin? You won’t be debated. You will be abused, because your every position, your every argument, is disingenuous on it’s face, and rules and decorum for slime are nothing more than stalling tactics and delaying actions employed until your kind has gained enough power to bring out the long knives and usher in the next dark age.

No more. You will be stopped.

As was stated by Crown – You are not my countrymen; you are an animal who happens to walk upright and make noises that approximates speech. You are below human in my eyes, and you can take your garbage junk science, your quality of life destroying farce of a religion, and go strait to hell with them – and we will celebrate your having taken up residency there.

Decorum and debate with someone like you is wasted. Perls tossed before swine, as you are both too stupid, too disingenuous, and too belligerent to be argued with. Worse, if appeased, or given even the slightest leeway, your ilk will usher in a hell that will rival North Korea – all for our own good of course – no animal – you are a disease to be stamped out, a hyena picked at the leavings of lions. You will be treated in a manner exactly as you deserve, and any attempts at playing the wounded killdeer or appealing to your inner virtue will be brushed aside as the complete farce that they are.

Got that you sloped forehead throwback?

Good.

Oh, and we also have a burning ban, which I understand in some ways; there have already been a few arsons here and there of abandoned properties. But the town next door allows burning two days per week, in an “approved” receptacle, of course. I’d just like to be able to create a bonfire with the plethora of junk mail I get instead of going through the tedium of running everything through a shredder.

I am a conservative, and I support local efforts to ban plastic bags.

You are a sub-human, who deserves nothing more than ridicule, derision, and to be treated like the helmet clad throw-back to the dark ages that you are.

SilverDeth on March 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM

Dark ages? It’s always amusing to hear right wingers champion their advanced and modern thinking. Yes, those idiot liberals are really holding you back… the ones who brought you the internet, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and about every other technology you interact with.

Damn liberals- you were perfectly happy with your manual typewriter when you could commit all your brilliant scientific insights to paper without intertubes getting in the way.

As I said originally, Hawai’i is the most remote island mass in the world…. Even your own link calls Midway island “one of the most remote islands, not the most remote island.

No one said it is, why do you keep repeating yourself? Hawaii is one of many examples.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14859155

If you knew anything at all about Hawai’i, you would know that for centuries, the residents of those islands used many of the beaches as open garbage pits. In addition, for centuries all of the ships at sea simply dumped all of their garbage (and their human waste) overboard into the ocean.

Throw-away plastic hasn’t existed for centuries and glass is non-toxic. You’re as much an expert on Hawaii marine biology as Sarah Palin is on Russian foreign policy.

Dack Thrombosis on March 29, 2012 at 6:58 PM

Yeah, we’re supposed to have died horrible deaths from several different self-inflicted environmental disasters by now. Go figure.