I'm really getting sick of hearing about being "Green."

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"I'll Be Just Fine, Says Planet"


THE planet Earth has dismissed claims it is in danger from global warming, stressing the worst that could happen is the extinction of the human race.

The Earth spoke out after a series of books, television programmes and environmental campaigns urged people to do everything in their power to 'Save the Planet'.

Earth, 4,000,000,000, said last night: "I'll be absolutely fine, seriously. I might get a bit warmer and a bit wetter, but to be honest, that actually sounds quite nice.

"Try living through an ice age. Pardon my French, but it's absolutely fucking freezing."

The planet, based 93 million miles from the Sun, said it was 'sick and tired' of being drawn into arguments about human behaviour.

"Look, I'm just a planet doing its thing, alright? If you want to live on me, that's your business, but I've got important planet stuff to do, okay?

"Try being in elliptical orbit for five minutes, or balancing your gravitational pull with a medium-sized moon. Let me assure you, it's no fucking picnic."

The planet said environmental campaigners should change their slogan from 'Save the Planet' to something more relevant such as 'Save Your Sorry Arse'.

Earth added: "Okay, so there may come a time when, for a variety of reasons, I am no longer able to support pandas, polar bears, and humans, but you know what? Life goes on.

"Who knows, I might end up being a haven for toads." 

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Two things:

One, I cannot get over the media and Obamania's World Tour (don't forget, he's scheduled in Germany still). I have been avoiding watching the news because I can't stand how they're worshiping him and every camera angle features The Messiah and at least eight-dozen media, cameras-a-flashing. Ugh.

Two, as I was driving home from work tonight and listening to J.D. Hayworth, he brought up a story about a local Mexican-to-American immigrant who changed his name from "Juan" to "John" as a sign of his assimilation. This man is campaigning to be put on the ticket as a Democrat spot for a position in one of the precincts here. He's doing what we always tell people to do: if you don't like things, run for office and change them and I have to say that takes guts. He gave a little introduction speech, which was played on the radio, where he outlined his life story and his ambitions should he make it to office. I noted that he's been here 15 years, yet his accent is still so thick I could barely understand him. The real kicker here, and this will knock your teeth out, is that when it came to his Q&A session on his stance on the issues, he asked for an interpreter because he felt more comfortable answering the questions in Spanish.

W. T. H.

This man isn't able to communicate effectively in English, the language of our government, yet he's running for office? He shouldn't even be up for consideration, yet there is a good possibility he could get on the ticket, such is the climate here. This is why we need to have an official language (not just a "national" language) and we must mandate than anyone who wants to hold public office must be fluent and able to conduct all business in English. Yet, we don't. And here it is - a man whom the majority of the citizens in this country cannot understand having a decent shot at public office. Its a small and relatively insignificant seat, to be sure, but everyone starts somewhere. Oh, and of course he's an open-borders advocate, too, so he'd be working towards getting more of the same. Had I been at that forum (it was open to the public), I would have interrupted it the minute he started speaking Spanish and made my case.