Beware the Earth Day Scam
by Jeffrey Jena
I am sure you have received e-mails from scam artists around the world telling you that they have something of value they want to bring to the United States. If you would just be so kind as to help them your life will be improved too! If you have fallen victim to one of these scams you know that you got nothing and some of your money ended up in a foreign country.
Today the granddaddy of all financial scams will be launched again. It is known as “Earth Day.” Do not fall for this scam! This con game may seem like a new idea, but it’s been around since the seventies, just like Mr. Obama’s “new” idea about saving the country by building some light rail. This scam seems to pop up every Spring in one form or another. This scam has also been circulated under the names; “Global Warming,” “Climate Change,” “The Green Movement,” and “Ecology.” Recent variations have used the names “Carbon Credits” and “Cap and Trade.”
Over the years the “Earth Day” scam had warned its victims that failure to act would bring about various evil ends like, a new Ice Age, over population, famine, drought, burning skies, rising oceans and death to animals and children. None of this has ever happened but these dire consequences make the scam seem more plausible. The “Earth” grifters know that fear can make normally sensible people fall for their scam.
They promise rewards for those who participate. Clean air and water are just a few dollars away! We have so much, is it horrible to share? Those who get drawn in forget that we already have the world’s best water supply and excellent air quality. They say pitching in for the “green cause” will help your kids but the result for falling for this will be a lot of your money ending up either in foreign countries or under government control.
The scam pretends to be based on science but a close examination shows that is not true.
Unlike other Internet scams the group that tends to fall for this scam most often are the young and well educated. Beware of this scam! It has powerful friends. Do not attend the rallies for this scam which may be promoted by seemingly legitimate agencies like television news outlets or newspapers and magazines that have fallen victim to the scam and are now under its influence.
If you receive an e-mail under one of the titles mentioned above please do not open this document! Delete it from your computer and take your kids fishing!
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Dude i'm sorry but the Nice internet man is going to make me a Nigerian Prince. You you can take your cynicism and blow it out your ear.
Hoax? not a chance. It was on the interwebs, and Al Gore knows the interweb, so it has to be true.
Oh and manbearpig is real too, cerally.
Here's a little insight into Earth Day. Pass it on:
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/22/top_sto...
Man, that's a particularly good picture of a helpless ursus maritimus (aka 'sea bear' aka 'polar bear) you've got there. Where do I send my money?
It's a big annual event for me. I save up my plastic all year long, then throw it out onto the street from the roof of my building. On a windy day like today, it could make it all the way to the Wharf.
That polar bear looks really delicious, and the fur would be so nice and warm on my living room floor on a cold San Francisco night.
They like to trot out that polar bears on a shrinking iceberg picture every year. It's almost 10 years old. But it's "proof" that the polar bears will all drown!
I'm old enough to remember when Earth Day started. Now all the TV networks celebrate it with propaganda PSAs. Worse than those lame "scare" films they showed in school back in the 70s.
If there are fewer polar bears, does that mean the sea kittens will be saved?
I celebrated Earth Day today with a nice leisurely drive through the mountains in a 1970 Porsche with a pair of huge carburetors, extra large valves, headers and a lovely Supertrapp muffler with 8 diffuser rings (for the noise pollution).
This car is very fast, gets HORRIBLE gas mileage when you open up those big Webers, and I could never get it to pass emission testing (thankfully the county I live in decided to opt out of the emission testing program) So I imagine the carbon footprint of this car would make a Hummer owner weep.
Oh and by "leisurely" I mean balls out … we have some great curvy mountain roads around here, TONS of fun.
(some of the smarter kids just figured out my screen name)
i once dumped 7500 gallons of jet fuel across an alaskan volcano on earthday in 1990, so there!
Funny, but Earth Day was actually the brainchild of convicted murderer Ira Einhorn. The posterboy for the new website – hipples gone wild. A kindred spirit of Chuck Manson, Bill Ayres – special consultant to the President, Abbie Hoffman, good ole Ira ran off to france after offing his fiance. He now sits in the can, planting petunias and crocusi – I wonder why their isn't more protest for his release?
I'll toss a cigarette butt out of the window in commemoration.
*Sigh* You make living in San Fran sound like fun. I never have the opportunity to torment the eco-nuts like that.
So the Nigerian scammers are behind Global Warming? Why does that make sense?
Just don't eat the polar bear's liver. It's toxic to humans…just sayin'!
Those things are tasty! Much better than panda, which is too gamey.
And it's no co-inky-dink that it just happens to fall on Lenin's birthday either…. (which I didn't know until today.. hey, celebrating birthdays of communist despots was never high on my list…. maybe i should go get buzzed on Vodka tonight?)
I remember it too. It seemed kind of harmless at the time. Should have known.
Or red-bull.
My family and I have a longstanding tradition – we take some styrofoam plates and cups out to our outdoor fireplace and burn them up. It gives us a warm feeling just to know that somewhere some econut is crying. It is a beautiful sight, and my kids look forward to it every April.
And yet somehow there is no SF police unit assigned to watch your house 24/7?
Oh….OK – we're not supposed to honor Earth Day but we ARE suppposed to believe in:
Weapons of Mass Destruction…
Mission Accomplished …
No child left Behind…
the insipid Patriot Act abolishing all civil freedoms….
Terror color warnings…
Guns for everyone on the planet…
Haliburton…
a FAILED global economy based on Reaganomics…
It will be 86 F in April on the East Coast this Sunday ! — that's not enough for you losers that
Global climate change is real? Guess when you believe in the GOP the sun shines out your arse!
Look at the TOXIC Chesapeake Bay – am sure you idiots think there is no need to clean up the waterways
or pay attention to pollution????. . . PATHETIC!
but wait isn't that bear perched on the last piece of ice in the artic?
TOO MUCH RETINOL!
I know of a German woman who might be interested in adopting one.
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I think journolist just leaked into this forum
I told you I have low friends in high places. I've infiltrated every liberal bastion in town.
Every time you try to talk to a left winger it is just like this.
a topic comes up, the system scans the if/then programming and spits out one of the above topics
or an epithet that would cut them to the core, so they think it will cut us.
If you mention Obama they will say Bush
if you say Biden they will say Quayle.
it is impossible to try and actually have a discussion. I'd love for them to explain how i'm wrong, and to take the opportunity to educate me, but they seem incapable of getting outside the programming.
What ever happened to the happy leftist: hands across America, We are the World, Dionne Warwick and Friends. Weren't your spokespeople more fun when they were happy?
This article basically boils down to:
Yo.. the earth sucks and stuff.
A lot of heartless people on this board. Sad.
PATHETIC right back at you troll boy. And I'll raise you an "IRRATIONAL". Idiot.
I smell stinky Birkenstocks!
I don't know if you're a sport fisherman, but those adorable little baby polar bear cubs make wonderful live bait if you're angling for shark…; – )
Actually, the sun does shine out my ass (we're in America, not the UK). I save alot of money on night lights, and that's my contribution to greendom.
Thanks for sharing "john" aka "Let's do nothing". Nice to see that they let retards on the internet now.
That's not ice, that's styrofoam.
True, but I still prefer using baby harp seals. Those sweet eyes draw sharks like nothing else.
don't those two things normally go together?
Write your comment here…
Weapons of Mass Destruction- HIllary Clinton and Nancy P bought it too
MIssion Accomplished- Major MIstake, how about just a little credit here, even Bush admited he made a mistake with that
No Child Left Behind- Supported by many Liberals still in the Obamanation today!
Patriot Act- I challange you to name one person who was hurt by it…..I'm waiting! As opposed to Janet (Reno) Napolitano warning and getting ready to spy on anyone who doesn't shake hand with Chavez. BTW Was it Bush who had Men Women and Children incinerated at Waco on bad intel…..Hummmm let me think it was….can you think of who?
Guns- For Amreican Citizens only please! If you don't like the constitution get a few pinko friends and try to change it…but don't forget we have guns…HAHAHAHAHHA
Haliburton… you forgot to chant Bush.Chaney first…please get the mantra correct… I could go on but I'm late for my root canal
Who's to say there isn't!
I have a heart.. I keep in a glass jar on a high cupboard shelf, so the dogs don't knock it off
Doesn't anyone get the fact that polar bears swim really well. No one ever says that. They are like furry land dolphins.
Last year I received an email that must qualify for a special hall of fame "Scam Award".
I was informed that a long lost relative in Russia passed away and left me his entire $35,000,000 fortune, and that all I had to do to claim it was send them a money order in the modest amount of $3,500 for "estate tax"…! LOL
I would join you, but in a bad fit of inattention, I sacrificed my Porsche to a tree a few years back. The Humboldt redwoods will never be the same. Ausgezeichnet !
Furry Land Dolphins: best band name of the day!!
BevFrom NYC everybody!!
Do nothing! It;s good you're starting to see things clearly ! Now quit breathing man it's Earth Day, ye…ha!
done…
You're absolutely right about the greater effectiveness of using baby harp seals to draw the sharks, BUT the polar bear cubs are much hardier creatures, and as a result one can revel in their pitiful struggles and screams much longer than those of the baby seals- who die way too quickly to provide suitable entertainment.
I suppose it's possible. It just seems to me that if the locals know about Lawhawk's views, they would surround his house with torches and pitchforks and practice a little urban renewal with extreme prejudice.
Maybe auntie could bake us some delicious Sea Bear pie, yummy!
to celebrate earth day, i waited in the bank drive-thru for 15 minutes, idling and running the air conditioner (with my window down) the entire time while listening to sean. it filled my extremist heart with glee. To you good earth, and your tiny iceberg climbing (gosh, I hope that's what it's doing….gulp) polar bear friends!!!
Da tavarish.
Wow. Being liberal really DOES suck out your critical faculties,
if that's all it "boils down to" for you. REALLY sad.
I really don't think Auntie can bake. Maybe if they have microwaveable ursus maritimus.
My uncle was taken in the middle of the night because of the Patriot Act. Never mind, that was the meth lab he had going in his basement. But I get your point. Maybe Tim Robbins was the one he was referring to being affected by it? They made him stay with his grandmother, I mean wife.
Yes!
Bear pie – yum. Hope Auntie makes it like my grandmother used to. I used to get the wing.
Now that CO2 has been declared a pollutant by the propeller beanie wearing geeks on the supreme court we should take the next logical step and declare O2 a pollutant. Then we should spend hundreds of Trillions to curb shadows and sunshine.
By the time these lunatic green goose-steppers are done we'll all be wearing loin cloths, burning dung for heat and travelling by donkey.
You guys are evil! I'm calling Algore!
I'll keep that in mind, particularly since the white dove population here seems to be decreasing.
It's been a long time since I had bear wings! LOL!
It's been a long time since I had bear wings! LOL!
I have secret intimidation methods which I will not reveal on a public forum.
"It will be 86 F in April on the East Coast this Sunday ! — that's not enough for you losers that
Global climate change is real? "
And it will be 69 degrees in Los Angeles in April (BELOW the norm BTW). It was 100 degrees in L.A. yesterday.
It's not Climate Change, you moron, it's called WEATHER.
Picard, I like your assessment of the troll as well "if/then programming"! LOL!
I'm sending a gift of polar bear liver to G-Beast666 with a surrender note. Since it's toxic to humans, do you suppose it will work on her?
you could write a 'how to' series about how a sane and rational person can successfully navigate
Northern California and relate to how conservatives are fine in Carmel but not in SanFran… that would be both helpful and lucrative.
I'm going to enjoy John's criticism with a spotted owl pot pie tonight. Thanks for helping me celebrate humans being mightier than mother nature.
Always made me wonder… why didn't Coke jump on the "anti-global warming" bandwagon? They're the ones with Polar Bears in their commercials… so the warmer it gets, the more coke the polar bears would drink, right?
John quit crying like a little girl and have a laugh. Oh that's right, you libs are too serious to laugh with all the injustice in the world. Like on this board. Hee-hee.
What is this "Weather" thing you speak of?
that is so true
no sense of humor with them. even their commedians aren't funny.
Ya know, the real answer is California is at least four states. The immediate San Francisco Bay Area. The rest of Northern California north of the Tehachapis. The metropolitan Los Angeles area. And the rest of Southern California. Broken down that way, you would have two blue states and two red states, and the whole thing would be a helluva lot easier to explain to normal people.
that's a great return on investment. What are you stupid? go for it.
I took this approach in a company wide e-mail thread. Someone actually felt the need to warn me it was a scam and to be very careful. Alas, so many people are literalists.
Until two months ago we had a huge white dove population here in New Jersey, but it seems that Obama ordered them all to be purchased with stimulus funds, and then shipped to Iran with cute little notes like "I heart Mohammad" attached to their legs as a gesture of reconciliation and abject apology.
Upon arrival however, the Iranians quickly replaced those notes with C-4 and biotoxins, and set them loose over population centers in Israel (excuse me, "Criminal Zionist Entity") in the hope that they'd land on the roofs of hospitals and nursery schools and then detonate. Unfortunately for them, the plan failed, but the international media got wind of the plot just in time to suppress it, as it might have proved embarrassing to both Obama's and Ahmanutjob's administrations…
Careful or he will taunt us a second time. I live by Seattle and the people with the Kucinich stickers look like the least humorous people. Maybe it's because they are ticked off that they can't find the soap or shower for that matter? But I'm generalizing, I'm sorry.
It's because they spent all of their sense of humor in picking a candidate.
You can thank Al Gore for that. He brought techology to these guys and see how they thank him. By talking incoherently into their empty Coke bottles.
Sounds like you guys are one earthquake away from becoming a red state?
They blew out their funny fuse. Maybe they have buttocks where their heads should be? I'm betting I'm right on this one. Look at DiCaprio.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is very dangerous, not quite as dangerous as cupcakes but definitely something we should flush a Trillion dollars down the drain over.
Let’s just get it over with and ban life.
Well, what I did was sell my rights to that $35,000,000 to my next door neighbor for $10,000. He's one of those poor pathetic seniors who lost his entire pension in the economic crisis, and was reduced to bagging groceries at the supermarket despite his diabetes, parkinsons and alzheimers. Seeing as how he's a very feeble and sickly 93 and a partial invalid, I don't have to worry about retribution, and I now have a cool $10k extra to spend on frivolous crap.
So who are you calling stupid…?
See–that means that the Hollywood burka babes actually accomplished something in Iran. They got Ahmadinajacket so distracted that he didn't see the dove huggers coming.
We can only hope
Now that you mention it, they do seem to need to lean sideways to smile. . .
Quit, you're making me cry now. I'm still at work and get out to contribute to the killing of the planet.
I'm not sure but that bear looks a bit annoyed. The caption should read "Do ya mind? That last seal constipated me."
Thanks for adding that article on the murderer Ira Einhorn, one of the Earthday founders…he is a scumbag but he only murdered one, Al Gore and the other enviro-reds have and are likely to murder millions by their false scams! Think of malaria and the banning of DDT.
Perish the thought! I'd be isolated in the People's Republic of San Francisco. Well, they probably would trot out their anti-religious crowd and call it the People's Republic of Mr. Frank (that's a twofer, since they could also announce their solidarity with the People's Republic of Massachusetts).
Maybe we could all chip in and buy and earthquake machine?
P.S. You know that one of our trolls will now run back to Hufpo and tell them that we're planning to destroy parts of California. They have no sense of humor. . . and we have no earthquake machine.
Line-o-da-day, green goose….
And the PATRIOT ACT is still in effect. Dems have control of both houses of congress and the White House, yet they haven't abolished this gross affront to our civil liberties. Why not? Because it works, and because most Democrats voted for it to begin with!
How is it possible to look at Kucinich and not laugh? He is one freaky little man.
Photoshop a magazine into his front paws and the picture would be perfect!
Uh huh. Furry land dolphins that happen to be the largest land carnivore on the planet. But I'm up for a trophy.
Hey!! where were you this morning! I just sent 3 billion dollars to a guy named Ahmed in Nigeria. He sounded like a very nice and pious man.
We'd get you out before we turned on the earthquake machine. . . not that we have one.
ENVIRONMENTALISM IS THE SINGLE GREATEST THREAT TO HUMAN FREEDOM EVER DEVISED!!!! A STATE OR SOCIETY THAT MAKES THE ENVIRONEMNT IT'S PRIMARY CONCERN MUST, BY DEFINITION, BE OPPOSED TO HUMAN LIBERTY AND THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL!!! There – It's been said. Why aren't more people saying it? For me the logic is inescapable. If human beings are the greatest threat to the stability of "the planet" then human beings must be absolutely controlled. Such control must, by it's very nature, extend to every aspect of human behavior. If the simple act of being alive produces effluvia that is harmful to the environment (CO2, bodily wastes, the detritus of everyday living) then everything that is connected with "being alive" must by necessity be subject to official sanction. This includes thought, speech and expression since these activities may lead to action which may impede th environmental movement in it's missiion.
It's a religion. The left decided that they can never get Christians into their camp, so they started their own religion, complete with its own set of Commandments and dogma, it's own Pope (Al Gore), and it's own set of scary plagues and pestilences that shall be brought down upon you should you sin against them. Best off all, they can ignore "Separation of Church & State" and preach their religion in our schools, indoctrinating our children into their faith.
Mr. Jena, I would bring up the hundreds of tons of yellowcake that WERE FOUND (some of which was enriched) but the troll's head would spin off his shoulders like a Blackhawk on dust off. Oh wait…..let me check the radar.
so we're waitig on using it? but i thought…Oh, sorry.
PIE!
Three words:
Medieval
Warm
Period
Look it up, enviro whack-jobs.
Very few SUVs in the 10th century.
Climate change happens, and there's not a damn thing we can do about (except turn up the heat or the AC, depending on the circumstances).
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