Thread: Happy Earth Day!

Originally Posted by Uncensored2008

That boy has NEVER done a days work, has he? Hold the hoe like that, his back will be out in 10 minutes.

Psuedo black or not, Obama is as much a pampered elitist as any Kennedy.

that sonofabitch is trying to rest his left elbow on his knee as he scrapes the dirt. you know hes ballless or hed put his ass into it.

Originally Posted by Uncensored2008

That boy has NEVER done a days work, has he? Hold the hoe like that, his back will be out in 10 minutes.

Psuedo black or not, Obama is as much a pampered elitist as any Kennedy.

FYI, that is a pick-axe, not a hoe, but you are right, it sort of does look the same as when he's latched onto his ho.

Originally Posted by Lummy

FYI, that is a pick-axe, not a hoe, but you are right, it sort of does look the same as when he's latched onto his ho.

sorry. its a maddox.

Originally Posted by jebe

sorry. its a maddox.

That's it. I knew it wasn't a proper hoe, but couldn't remember the right name. It sure the hell ain't a Pick-Ax.

Originally Posted by Uncensored2008

That's it. I knew it wasn't a proper hoe, but couldn't remember the right name. It sure the hell ain't a Pick-Ax.

they come in real handy to pull the taters outa the ground.

I am familiar with this phenomena. I call it the 'Diet Coke' syndrome. I know that drinking a sugary Coke is bad, so I also drink a Diet Coke (which is good) to balance it out. The fact that I now have twice as much caffiene and the same amount of sugar in my system is irrelevent to my spiritual well being.


Don’t pat yourself on the back too hard this Earth Day — it could be bad for the environment.

That is: If you’re too-well-satisfied that you’re a good greenie, you’re more willing to cut yourself slack when you hurt the environment.

Call it the Al Gore’s Giant Fraggin’ Mansion Effect.

According to a new study in Psychological Science, humans engage in a process called “moral self-regulation.” Basically, we’re constantly calculating the trade-off between being able to see ourselves as good people and the cost of engaging in all that non-advantageous goodness.

You might expect that being prompted (primed) to think of yourself as a good person would make you more altruistic or moral — but, in fact, the exact opposite appears to be the case. Primed to think about what a good person you are, your most likely reaction is to think you’ve paid your morality dues and go on about your business.

The researchers tested it this way, as recounted by Neuronarrative:

In the first experiment, participants were asked to write a self-relevant story using words that referred to either their positive or negative traits. After finishing, they were told that the research lab was interested in supporting social awareness and usually asks participants if they would like to make a small donation to the charity of their choice. Participants were told they could write down the charity and the amount they wanted to donate (note, they were not aware of any link between the story they wrote and the charity donation). The result: participants who used positive words about themselves in their stories donated one fifth as much money as those who used negative words.

In a follow-up experiment, subject were asked to pay to control pollution from a manufacturing plant. As in the first experiment, those primed with positive words about themselves chose the less-altruistic option: to pollute and maximize profit. . . .

Now, I’m of the opinion that most “green” personal choices are already completely about moral vanity — their scale makes them meaningless while endowing the environmentalist with a great sense of self-worth. So, the real effect of Earth Day, I think, is for this smugness to get a significant one-day boost. Which, the research would suggest, gives the green-conscious an internal license to be total bastards in some other area of their lives.

Happy Earth Day!


Neuroworld Blog Archive The Al Gore’s Giant Fraggin’ Mansion Effect A True/Slant Contributor

WE MADE IT! 100 DEGREES F AT 5 PM!!!! (NWS)

Originally Posted by Kleinbok

WE MADE IT! 100 DEGREES F AT 5 PM!!!! (NWS)

Was it a contest?....What did you win?

Originally Posted by percysunshine

And drive gas guzzling cars. When the Neo Ice Age starts, we will need all the greenhouse gasses we can muster. Otherwise no trees will grow.

This would have happened any ways? and when you say neo ice age are you referring to neoconservatives? Because this is caused by thousands of years of human destruction.

Originally Posted by Fixxxer

Because this is caused by thousands of years of human destruction.

Your brain damage and delusions were caused by thousands of years of human destruction?

And here I thought it was just all the pot you smoked and LSD you dropped........