Earth Day

[will]

   I hope everyone gets their cars out tomorrow for Earth Day. Nothing like tire smoke and unburned hydrocarbons for the masses.   

[Kern Dog]

The Earth is far more durable and self healing than it gets credit for being.

[b5blue]

Yea yet humans are NOT! 

[John_Kunkel]

The Earth is far more durable and self healing than it gets credit for being.

[Kern Dog]

I'm not wrong.

[lloyd3]

Dang it, forgot it was Earth Day yesterday somehow (& w/me being a former "government scientist" [& even serving as an USEPA employee]...absolutely sacrilegious!). 

Do we have an effect here, absolutely. Is it permanent, well...likely not. In the short term (which is properly measured in human lifetimes) if you're living downstream of a polluting industry (think Bhopal, India) then it is a real problem.  The emissions from the tailpipes of my old Dodge do not amount to a hill of beans (to quote Bogart) when compared to any volcanic activity on this planet, but if you lived in the Los Angeles basin in the 1970s and 80s, you could see (and then taste) the effect of burned hydrocarbons (and the products of their incomplete combustion) in the air there on a daily basis. Here in Denver we had a similar problem in the 1980s and early 90s (the now infamous "Brown Cloud"). 

Newer cars are clearly cleaner (& safer) and for very good reasons(!). However, we generational Americans (in many cases, multiple) are becoming an overly-surly crowd (at even our best) as we don't take very-well to some geeky and largely-phony government-types telling us what we can or cannot do (or even possess) as we view many of these things as to being our "birthrights" here in the "good 'ole US of A". However, because the bedamnedable "Nanny State" has become such an overly-dominant force in all our lives anymore, to the point where it has become noticeably oppressive, I would have driven my car yesterday as a symbolically fully-extended "middle finger" to all of that nonsense.

I might even drive it today, now that I think of it (I might even have a big boozy Margareta to celebrate that fact with lunch).

Live dangerously before you no longer can.

[John_Kunkel]

I'm not wrong.

In the eyes of those who spout the party line, they're never wrong.

[b5blue]

Tell that to the dead and dying from Love Canal.

[Kern Dog]

When the two worthless idiots of the forum join forces, anything they rail against is something that is worth supporting.

[b5blue]

wut?

[John_Kunkel]

When the two worthless idiots of the forum join forces, anything they rail against is something that is worth supporting.

As opposed to those who ALWAYS support the party line like a programmed robot.

[Kern Dog]

When you stand for nothing, you fall for everything.

[John_Kunkel]

When you belong to a religion or a political party give up their right to think.

[Kern Dog]

When you belong to a religion or a political party give up their right to think.

Read what you wrote. You leave words out but we are supposed to look to YOU for guidance on how to think?
It is obvious that you take some pride in thinking that you are somehow better than others. It is a sham to prop up your fragile ego.
I've read your idiotic responses at Moparts where most of the members see you as a bitter old fool.
You probably have never participated in team sports, never served in the Military, never had any long term friends either. When was the last time you made someone smile other than when you were leaving?
Loners are often loners because they feel that nobody would want them around. I'll agree with you there, nobody wants a bitter complainer that thinks that he is better than everyone else.
Go back to responding to tech topics. You had value there and few people could match your knowledge.

[John_Kunkel]

When you belong to a religion or a political party give up their right to think.

Read what you wrote. You leave words out but we are supposed to look to YOU for guidance on how to think?

Never said that, never would. What I said was some insecure people like you look for guidance from sources other than within themselves as to what to think.

It is obvious that you take some pride in thinking that you are somehow better than others.

Nope, merely that I think for myself rather than following the herds that are guided by religion and political party dogma.

It is a sham to prop up your fragile ego.

From the poster boy for inflated egos. 

I've read your idiotic responses at Moparts where most of the members see you as a bitter old fool.

"Most of the members" being right-wing zealots like you, that doesn't say much. I consider disdain from pathetic followers like you as a badge of honor.