Stoopids rool!

Some nuggets mined from Sierra magazine, September/October 2009:

1. Bristol Palin told People magazine, "If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex. Trust me, nobody."

Hmmm. Methinks this is a young mother mourning her lost childhood. Maybe if she had been provided some real sex education...


2. The EPA has declared a public health emergency in Libby, Montana because "hundreds of people have died from lung disease caused by asbestos from a mine operated by W.R. Grace and Company."

I've long argued W.R. Grace is an irresponsible outfit!

3. Twenty-five years ago, the EPA declared a 197-mile stretch of the Hudson River to be a Superfund Site. Just now dredging has begun to dig out 124 tons of "highly toxic PCB" dumped in the river by General Electric over a period of 30 years. The company is paying for its removal.

4. "The Supreme Court rules that the Clean Water Act allow Couer Alaska's Kensington gold mine to dump its toxic tailings in Lower Slate Lake, killing everything in it." Yikes! Hey, that's Palin's Alaska for ya!

5. Joe Barton, a U.S. Repugnican representative from Texas (naturally!) wants people to believe that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. I mean, how could it be, "It's in your Dr. Pepper"?

What a mental wizard. Must have graduated from Texas public schools where they now teach about the Bible and god and stuff.

6. According to a telephone survey by Rasmussen Reports, "40 percent of Americans think global warming is caused by 'long-term planetary trends.'"

And a bunch of that 40 percent serve in the U.S. Congress, where STOOPIDS ROOL!

7. "Of the 17 major countries in National Geographic's 'Greendex' survey of sustainable consumption, the United States ranks dead last."

8. Daryl Hannah, famed Hollywood actress, and James Hansen, famed climate scientist got themselves arrested while protesting mountaintop-removal coal mining close by a Massey Energy plant in West Virginia.

"The Supreme Court rules that a West Virginia judge, whom Massey Energy spent $3 million to get elected, should not have been allowed to overturn a $50 million verdict against the company."

You think?

West Virginia has declared that coal it is state's rock!


STOOPIDS ROOL! (But we know that. They elected Georgi Bush and Dickie Cheney twice!)