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Earth Day Quips & Comments 2002 Monday, April 22, 2002

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April 22, 2002

Happy Earth Day! A day when barrycrimmins.com acknowledges the Court-appointed Bush Administration's attempts to:

•-make oil derricks more prevalent in national parks than slot machines in Las Vegas...

•-renew construction of nuclear waste production facilities, although they were patently unsafe even before it became obvious that they're easier pickings for terrorists than the buffet table in Osama bin Laden's cave....

•- and have environmental laws written by the very eco-criminals those laws should be jailing.

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The Court-appointed Bush Administration is the immoral equivalent of litter strewn from coast-to-coast.

Cash is all that's green that matters to Bush and his cronies

Bush cares even less about the environment than he does about democracy in Venezuela.

I wonder how many billions of gallons of gas Americans will burn driving SUV's to Earth Day events this year?

As an Earth Day surprise, Bush will announce the installation of dehumidifiers in wetlands.....

Nuclear-powered dehumidifiers.

Bush plans to make an Earth Day appearance in New York's Adirondack Mountains. When informed of the visit, Mother Nature responded with last Saturday's Adirondack earthquake.

Bush's Adirondack visit rates among the all-time worst aftershocks.

Bush will promote his "Clear Skies" plan at the New York event. Apparently skies without an ozone layer are much clearer.

Upon returning from the Adirondacks, Bush will celebrate Earth Day with a Caribou barbecue at the White House.

Earth Day reminder: Militarism is the enemy of the environment. It's Mother Earth or Fatherland.

An environmental disaster rocked Earth Day Eve in France: The French presidential runoff was polluted with a major strain of toxic political effluence when extreme reactionary Jean-Marie Le Pen finished second in the French Presidential runoff and will now run in the general election.

"Le Pen" is both his last name and what he belongs in.

Commenting on the Middle East, Le Pen said, "I hate Sharon's religion but I love his tactics.

"Le Pen is much like America's Le Pat ... Buchanan.

Which is to say Le Pen's slightly to the left of most Court-appointed Bush administration officials.

In a move meant to aggravate both Ariel Sharon and US attorney general John Ashcroft, Hamas is said to be training assisted suicide bombers.

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This is a wonderful day to declare a new war on terrorism -- a war on the environmental terrorism of the Court-appointed Bush Administration.

What colossal gall Bush has to even pretend he cares about the environment considering his Energy Secretary is an oil-addicted, pro-nuke, corporate lackey from Michigan; his EPA chief is the former governor of New Jersey -- a superfund site in drag as a state; and his Secretary of the Interior is a protege of James "Armageddon out of here" Watt.

And then there is his Prince of Environmental Darkness Vice President, Dick Cheney.

For the sake of the planet and ourselves we must vow to run George W. Bush and his environmentally criminal cohorts from power. And we must vow that never again will any member of the Bush family be recycled into any position of authority.

Now please go out and pick up all the litter you see! And please keep doing it each day until you see no more.

2002 Barry Crimmins