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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Pardon Me If I Don’t Celebrate Earth Day


 The revisionist history of Earth Day claims that the first one was on 22 April 1970 and was started by  Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, as a wonderful day to focus on cleaning the environment.
Fact is Nelson was a fan of the Viet Nam war protestors and modeled an environmental protest after the demonstrations. He called them teach-ins.
One of the main speakers at that first demonstration was none other than Ira Einhorn—a leader of the drug, and free-love movements in the 1960s.
Why is Earth Day celebrated on 22 April each year? Kathleen Rogers, president of Washington, D.C.-based Earth Day Network, which was founded by the original organizers of Earth Day, claims 22 April 1970, was chosen for the first Earth Day in part because it fell on a Wednesday, the best part of the week to encourage a large turnout for the environmental rallies. “It worked out perfectly, because everybody was at work and they all left,” she said.
Well, again the revisionists have worked hard to alter history.  John McConnell first introduced the idea of a global "Earth Day" at the 1969 UNESCO Conference on the Environment. The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto on March 21, 1970. Celebrations were held in various cities, such as San Francisco with a multi-day street party.
UN Secretary-General U Thant supported McConnell's global initiative to celebrate this annual event; and on February 26, 1971, he signed a proclamation to that effect, saying: “May there be only peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life”.
Why March, because it marked the precise moment of astronomical spring in the h0orthern hemisphere. An equinox where the sun is directly above the Earth’s equator, which happens around the 20th of March and the 23rd of September each year.
So why was it changed to 22 April, many believe that it was because 22 April was the birthday of none other than Vladimir Lenin. Lenin’s goal was to destroy private property, a goal obviously shared with all the radical tree hugging dirt people.  
The United Nations secretary-general Kurt Waldheim observed Earth Day on the March equinox in 1972, and the United Nations Earth Day ceremony has continued each year since on the day of the March equinox but also works with organizers of the April 22 event.
Margaret Mead added her support for the equinox Earth Day, and with a very revealing statement in 1978 declared:  "Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.”
This is one of the Earth Day Anthems
Our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl
the most beautiful planet in the universe
our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl
all the continents and the oceans of the world
united we stand as flora and fauna
united we stand as species of one earth
black, brown, white, different colors
we are humans, the earth is our home...
Do I want clean air and water of course, we can’t live without them. I am disgusted by people trashing up the planet. The problem is I abhor even more the idea of the government taking private property to protect some animal or insect that is very capable of surviving on its own. Worse yet is diverting water needed by humans to protect a non-essential organism. From the beginning of time to today there has been a constant extinction of animal species and the discovery of new species. God created all that is and none it, after Adam messed up, is intended to last forever, not even humans.     

So Earth is not my home, I’m just passing through and Jesus The Christ is my recognized God, He sacrificed for me, not the dirt I walk on. All that was created is intended for man to use not to worship. God is the Father but the Earth is not my Mother. 

16 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you Mr. barrett for the enlightening comment. God has been diluted even by many Christians to only being a word that isn't as important as things.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The earth probably doesn't care. All you have done is raise hell the whole time you have been on it. Only an idiot would let something stupid get in the way of celebrating something so beautiful.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 5:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

5:50 Ha, ha! Two comments before you have to attack Mr. Barrett. You should have bothered to read his post. Earth Day is only beautiful to uninformed idiots or the property grabbing socialist/communist types. Which one are you?

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 10:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have to agree with those who see this whole earth day thing as simply a day of worship for the radical environmentalists.

Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We can have an earth day, but no day of prayer!

Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

boo f'n hoo 10:29. I said Earth is beautiful, moron. It would be better if most of you idiots posting on this blog weren't walking around on it.

Thursday, April 24, 2014 5:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, it sure doesn't take much to get the dumbass trolls active on here, does it? I agree, 5:58, it would be much more pleasant if you weren't walking around on it. Fools breed fools so I truly hope you don't have any children.

Friday, April 25, 2014 4:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why did you get so offended about the comments made at 5:58, 4:05? Do you feel that you are an idiot or a moron? You kinda told on yourself by reacting the way you did. Happens too often on this blog.

When is someone gonna start the discussion about all the good coming from the school board and superintendent? You guys sure don't mind bashing them, but you shut your mouths when all the bitching backfires.

Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you want a topic I'm sure Mr. Barrett would put it on here he's done it before, just write out the topic and ask him.

Saturday, April 26, 2014 8:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is no difference in worshipping the earth as there is in worshipping any other rock or man made object.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:03:00 AM  
Blogger Allen Barrett said...

Anytime a poster has a topic they want added to the blog I will be more that glad to post it. Simply send me an e-mail or post the statement you want used as a topic and if it's acceptable by the rules of the blog I will post it.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think they already said what the topic should be.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 4:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

4:20 What was it? I haven't seen anything about what it should be.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 6:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you stupid, 6:40? It appears to be about all the good that is coming out of the school board and the superintendent.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:02 How sweet and polite you are.

Why can't the school be discussed on this thread:
"Friday, January 10, 2014
Should The County Borrow Ten Million Dollars For Proposed School Improvements?

Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:02 Needs to grow up. Saying someone is stupid don't make a person look big, sweet or nice. Shows their raising and not a good example.

Monday, April 28, 2014 9:04:00 PM  

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