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Our church teamed up with the local public schools to run a day camp this summer. They ran the curriculum and supplied the teachers and funding. We supplied the facilities and administration. What we ended up with with an environmental cook's dream. My boys came home and started packratting capri sun juice box garbage to make one of those stupid "upcycle" bags.

It took me 3 weeks to deprogram them from all that. The result, our church will not be working with the school system again. Lesson learned.

Utterly nauseating. It reminds me of my last trip to the zoo where you can't just enjoy the animals, you have to be lectured on how every animal in there is on the brink of being wiped from existence and millions of acres of it's habitat is raped and turned into Wal-Marts hourly.

Well done air2air.

I don't know how civilly I'll be able to react to this crap when my kid goes to school. Hopefully the backlash against this vain eco-totalitarianism is in full swing by then.

If any of these brats complained, I hope the government ships them off to re-education camps. No questioning authority. No dissent. Obama knows what is best for all of us.

Happily drove my daughter to school today on "Walk to School Day." We'd have walked if the campaign was meant to promote a little exercise or was, say, a walk for the troops. But alas, it was all about enviro-socialism laced with all manner of nonsensical ecobabble.

Search the Moonbattery archives for Penn & Teller's piece on recycling. Hilarious.

Read about one of those school science text books that was urging kds to boycott McDonalds over this rainforests junk Then there THE KIDS ENVIROMENT BOOK,A EARTH BOOK FOR KIDS and 50 SIMPLE THINGS KIDS CAN DO TO SAVE THE EARTH I mean its getting worse the way these wretched eco-freaks are brainwashing the kids with this GO GREEN crap Like TED TURNER brainwashing kids with CAPTIAN PLANET,NETWORK EARTH,NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER

A shopping mall where water is used in the restrooms and resturants?!???!!!??? Oh, the humanity!!! What do they want, a third world country village where raw untreated sewage runs in rivers in the streets? And a restaurant where water is used for, oh, silly things like washing dishes in scalding hot water in the rinse cycle in the dishwasher. Naw, just scrape 'em off with your hand and give a quick dash under the cold water, that ought to do it!

Teaching school kids to not litter and to be good citizens is one thing, but this eco-brain washing is stupid. Teaching kids about the wonders of our natural world is fine, but keep the guilt tripping eco-egos out of the way of learning. Couldn't they at least provide real recycling bins? The plastic ones that can be closed up when full and have the well-known recycling emblem on them. But a trash can, bucket and a couple of photocopy paper boxes? Can't they do better than that? Yeeesh.

I tried using one of those eco-freaky recycled plastic shopping bags. I used five days a week for work to carry my lunch bag, sunglasses in a case, cell phone, hats and gloves in the winter and audio books. With in a feew weeks it began to literally come apart at the seams and tear. I put it away in a closet and found another bag I had forgotten about made out some sort of super industrial strength material--codura nylon or something. It will probably last until I retire in about 12-14 years.

I would have walked over to the trash can, thrown ALL of my trash in it, and God help the jackass who had the nerve to say anything to me.

You know what...if it's so goddamn important to you to seperate my trash, then you go ahead and do it.

It kills me how these ecofreaks have so late come to their epiphany. Guess it is because THEIR parents and grandparents are the ones that have been abusing the earth God gave us. If they'd get their heads out of their asses they'd see that living responsibly and WISELY has been what Americans alwayd did and still do. Not their selfish and prideful Americans of course. REAL Americans who have been following the correct practices of recycling everything from Christmas wrap to chicken bones for centuries. Conservation is taught in our homes while your homes teach evil and you pridefully and stupidly think you are on some sort of cutting edge, when you are in fact FAR BEHIND the times are have been THE PROBLEM in the first place. Time for you tofu eating jerks to wake the heck up. Idiots.

Ditto dave. My mother refused to use Pampers when they first came out because she was smart enough to know that the plastic would be a real problem to get rid of. Not good for nature. So she used real cloth diapers which were never a picnic to deal with but were good for baby and for the earth. The neighbors of course all ran for the disposable plastic diapers. I'm pretty sure it is their children who now beat the drums. They should. It is their parent's fault in the first place.

Can't just throw your garbage away anymore. "You can't do that! This isn't a free country, you know!"

One of the things that bothers me most about these kooks is that they convince these kids (and gullible adults) that things are getting worse when that's obviously not the case. There are more trees, more wildlife, less air pollution and less water pollution now than when I was a kid. It's not even a close call where I live. And things were cleaner when I was a kid than they were when my parents were kids. A hundred years ago, the mountains were pretty well clear cut, and they had to import deer into PA to build viable herd. Now there's more tress than you can shake a stick at, and deer are so plentiful, they are becoming a nuisance. Bears are acting like raccoons is suburban areas when they used to be rare. It just goes on and on. The eco-kooks are completely clueless or they are lying.

i have the sudden urge to go burn some styrofoam...

Paul - "It took me 3 weeks to deprogram them from all that. The result, our church will not be working with the school system again. Lesson learned."

Our kids' teacher was equally horrified, because she had signed up with the County for this "Science" trip. She left public teaching and came to work at our private school for this exact reason; she couldn't live with what she was forced to dish up to her public students.

Anonymous - "...the zoo where you can't just enjoy the animals, you have to be lectured on how every animal in there is on the brink of being wiped from existence and millions of acres of it's habitat is raped"

My wife and I are board members of a nonprofit tiger sanctuary that rescues big cats from illegal ownership. Our biggest enemy is PETA, who have even broken in and tried to "liberate" 400lb. tigers from their enclosures.

Forest - "I don't know how civilly I'll be able to react to this crap when my kid goes to school."

Yeah I was holding my tongue because you will just look like a jerk if you say something, and you'll have time afterward to say to your kid, "this is what some people believe."

lvb-rocks - "Search the Moonbattery archives for Penn & Teller's piece on recycling. Hilarious."

I was sorely tempted to recite a summary of that terrific episode.

keepthechange08 - "I would have walked over to the trash can, thrown ALL of my trash in it, and God help the jackass who had the nerve to say anything to me"

I was mulling that exact question and decided on the same thing. I was tempted to recite the whole Penn and Teller episode However I waited until all the kids were done with the 20-minute trash brouhaha. The Education Department Moonbats were watching of course but didn't say a peep. I think they are smart enough to know their bill of goods only works on the young and impressionable.

If I were there I would have dumped all the chips into one bucket and set them on fire.

The kids of today must thinks the 3 Rs mean REDUSE,REUSE,RECYCLE they have even written a stupid song about it I mean its a wonder they havnt come up with a stupid RIDE YOUR BIKE TO WORK DAY

Saw one of some GREENPEACE idiots in russia dressed as a goofy looking trashcan the russies stuffed the trashcan guy in their paddy wagon

On my balcony at home today, I have big piles of separated plastic, metal, glass, cardboard, and styrofoam waiting to be transported to the recycling center.

And I'm seriously considering dumping it all into the nearest dumpster instead, as a protest against the environazis.

Saw one about in a book where one parent took their kid to see these clouds the kid says LOOK AT THE POLUTION another kid was crying becuase they had killed the trees to make her bed all this from this GAIA crap their shoving in kids heads

They tell kids farms are bad for the enviroment without telling them where their food comes from typical of these eco-freak weirdos Like the kids book BROTHER EAGLE SISTER SKY A MESSAGE FROM CHEIF SEATTLE the book was lies from cover to cover just like SILENT SPRING by RACHEAL CARSON was and like AL GORES books EARTH IN THE BALANCE and ASSUALT ON REASON and his junk science ego-trip A INCONVENT TRUTH

No wonder the rest of the world is ahead of us. While kids in other countries are studying science, algebra,geometry and calculus, our kids are playing Greenpeaces' version of Candyland. If we had continued with the math and science push we had been startled into with Sputnik, who knows where we'd be.

I,ll bet even MY WEEKLY READER and HIGHLIGHTS have gone green

In another life not too long ago, I was School Board President of a suburban public school district, Kindergarten through high school. We had a recycling program in which the teachers and students dutifully separated their recyclables into the various containers. Then, after everyone had left for the day, the custodians would empty ALL of the recycling containers into the same dumpster, thereby recombining everything. The Principals and the Superintendant knew this was happening, yet insisted that it continue so that the children learn to be ecologically friendly or some such thing. Your tax dollars at work. Sheeh....

No wonder the rest of the world is ahead of us. While kids in other countries are studying science, algebra,geometry and calculus, our kids are playing Greenpeaces' version of Candyland. If we had continued with the math and science push we had been startled into with Sputnik, who knows where we'd be.

Heh. Reminds me of my visit to Uganda - yes, Uganda. As in, dirt-poor sub-Saharan African country.

Trash everywhere. But we visited a private, Christian high school in the national capital. The buildings were crudely built of bricks and the windows didn't even have glass in them. They're using fifty-year-old desks and the blackboard was barely usable.

Yet the students. Crisply dressed, clean, attentive, well-behaved.

A thirteen year old girl asked me a two-part question about economics, that would stump a college grad here in the US.

Here, see for yourselves.

http://www.christianlifeministries.org/photos.html

Scroll to "stadium" then look at the photos of the students who are dressed in purple uniforms. That's the school.

A Third-World country is putting us to shame. That's how far it has gone, folks.

Great post, Cylar.
It's important to remember that how these kids are raised and what they are taught to believe is very, very important.
I'm convinced that the modern humanist view of charity and morality will lead to disaster.

The modern concept of Western charity sees humanity as basically good by nature and no moral guidance or discretion necessary.
What a catastrophe this is in the making!
I was recently approached for a donation by an African charity in my local shopping mall.
They had a table full of photos of African children, perfectly presented to tug on heartstrings.
When asked to donate my question was:
How do I know that these children won't grow up to murder my relatives; what are they being taught to believe; how are they being raised; do they believe in the Golden Rule,(ie. treat others as you would have them treat you)?
Stunned silence in response.

Cylar please email your story to vanhelsing@moonbattery.com. That would be just terrific for all of us to get better details from.