A Green Christmas?
What’s the most surefire way to ruin the Christmas season for me this year? Is it the music and decorations that go nonstop from November (October in some stores) through January?
No.
Is it the maniacal shoppers and store hype?
No.
What about the politically correct push to turn “Christmas” into “holiday” and “Christmas trees” into “family trees?”
Close, but there is something far more sinister that’s destined to ruin Christmas this year… And that, my friends, is the green craze.
With everything from Barney’s in New York pushing “Green Holiday” and replacing their once standard window nativity scenes with “green scenes,” to Portland promoting “green Christmas trees” (seriously)… Green is invading our holiday, and how!
But the real icing on the cake is right here in good ol’ Minnesota, where the local media is going ape over the St. Paul city Christmas tree. The media around here is so bored, and so obsessed with green that they even figured out the carbon footprint of the Christmas tree (it’s apparently 18.7 tons of carbon for the five weeks it will be lit). The Star Tribune even went so far as to refer to the tree’s energy usage as “environmental damage.”
Merry ‘effen Christmas, eh?
Is it so hard for these people to just enjoy the season without having to fall back on the green hype? This is bullshit of epic proportions:
- From the Star Trib: St. Paul’s giant tree: a bright and shining energy waste?
- From WCCO (CBS): St. Paul tree will use more energy than NYC
- From KSTP (ABC): Downtown St. Paul tree using a lot of energy
- From KARE (NBC): Saint Paul tree as bright as New York’s, but uses more energy
And on and on and on… But my favorite is from the Pioneer Press, because Joe Soucheray slaps them around a bit, which is a breath of Christmas cheer:
“When I drove by the Rice Park tree Tuesday morning, I expected to see blocks of carbon dioxide, Buick Roadmaster-size blocks of crud lingering in the air…
I do believe a great many reporters have sipped from the poison tea and have bought so wholeheartedly into this climate change nonsense that they are discovering new ways to try and save us from ourselves.
That’s why reporting that 18.7 tons bothered me so much. It is a meaningless statistic. It can’t save anybody from anything. In fact, it is so meaningless that the only possible reason for reporting it would be to scare people. Tons. Locomotives weigh tons. The steel they carry on flatbeds weighs tons. Semi trucks weigh tons…
Plus, if we look at it like a house, it is a house that disappears from the grid in five weeks. It is a nonfactor. Enjoy the tree. It is beautiful. You won’t get hit on the head by anything when you stand under it to gaze at its splendor.”
Agreed. It is a nonfactor. Enjoy it. Enjoy Christmas. Enjoy the beauty of the sparkling lights!
Carbon footprint. You have got to be kidding…
on November 28, 2007 on 8:10 pm
You seem to be really worked up over this green craze huh? Not that it isn’t a valid argument and not that I don’t agree that the scumbags in charge of the craze aren’t using the short-sighted minds of the media and society to push their efforts to make more money. But this, us, the probably miniscule percent that is realizing this bullshit, will never be able to sway the publics view-point of this craze; mostly because the crazes’ supporters will just turn it around us and say we’re the cause of all this global warming and that we’re evil.
I think that instead, for those of us that agree that the Green Craze is bullshit, should just be the more mature child in this game, and conserve our money and resources and lifestyle, and stay dormant, like a turtle, and return from the ashes once all these green crazed zombies fuck themselves in the ass and screw themseleves over, which they will.
I don’t know, it seems that once a liberal is set on their viewpoint, they will stick to it no matter how retarted it is, even if they realize it is to.
on November 29, 2007 on 7:12 am
Yeah, I’m pretty fired up over the green thing. I am going to put it away for a while though, You’re right, you can only do so much. It’s not going to change people’s minds. Once they get this sort of thing lodged in their brains, it festers and rots and you just can’t get it out short of major surgery.
It just drives me nuts that it is invading our lives to the point where the media now is even trying to scorn Christmas over global warming issues. That[’s why I like Joe Soucheray’s article so much, because he essentially told them to shut up and enjoy it.
I think I would find the green thing much more tolerable if they were a) honest about their intentions, and b) kept it to themselves and stopped trying to invade our lives and our homes with their bullshit. The problem is (and this is the honesty thing) that they think that they are morally right which leads them to believe that they can transcend all decency and reason in what they do. It just makes me want to pull my hair out sometimes.
on November 29, 2007 on 5:29 pm
It seems that liberals are just miserable people and they can’t stand to see others enjoying themselves, therefore they have to try to bring them down by being negative about everyting. Christmas is a time of joy, yet to these people it is a lousy time. So instead of enjoying the season they trump up another reason why Christmas is bad. They want to make us feel guilty for being happy. This whole green movement may have some basis in that regard.
on November 30, 2007 on 5:53 pm
Shoot – it just makes me want to go out and buy another dozen strands of lights for the house. Now, should they go in the trees or on the fence….decisions, decisions…
LL
on December 1, 2007 on 6:44 am
The libs ARE miserable people, and it seems that in this case, misery certainly does love company! For whatever reason, they cannot allow themselves to enjoy anything and strive to find fault in everything… And they want to make sure that the rest of us feel bad about it. Bah!
And as for you, LL, I think you should do the trees AND the fence! You might as well go all out and make up for our green, liberal neighbors who won’t be putting any lights up. Call it… Offsetting! hehe
on December 2, 2007 on 8:34 pm
I know ! (uh oh)
The greenies can make these butt plugs for themselves that are like little lite bulbs with the bottom cut off.
They can stick them in their asses. and then they can hold a flint to the bulb when they fart.
Environmentally safe christmas lights !
I can see the parade now.
That would give Rudolph some competition, or confusion.
on December 3, 2007 on 6:48 am
Yeah, I wonder what Rudolph’s carbon footprint is? Or would that be a methane footprint? Either way. Actually, everybody has proven now that methane is way worse for “global warming” than carbon… So we should be methane-taxing reindeer. Santa drives 8 reindeer all around the globe, can you imagine the methane footprint that he creates in just that one night?
on December 3, 2007 on 9:10 am
Yea, but if Santa would slim down he would only need Rudolph.
That solves that problem, for a minute or two.