Being Green

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have

this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f
or future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.

: Obama even more spineless than we thought

WRITTEN AS HOW WE SHOULD ALL FEEL....
September Surprise: Obama even more spineless than we thought
By Curt Dale

So, we have a big September Surprise, and it is that BH Obama is even more cowardly, spineless, inept and disconnected with reality than even the most critical of us ever thought. A bunch of Islamic terrorists, in an act of war, killed Ambassador Chris Steven, his bodyguard, ex US Navy

Seal Glen Doherty, and two other diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, Almost simultaneously, an Islamic Terrorist attack our US Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, essentially destroyed it, another act of war. Coordinated? Who cares? (Well the White House wants to deal with minutia and prove it was not coordinated or preplanned. But I don’t care. Both were acts of war against the United States.) It’s Muslim Jihad, plain and simple. The US Flag was torn down, desecrated, and replaced with a form of the Taliban/Al Qaeda flag. Both of these terrorist groups who attacked us are the very terrorists Obama, by leading from the rear with complicity, put into power about a year ago. He assured us they were not Islamic Brotherhood and that they would not be a radical Muslim Terrorist regime. Well, he was wrong—I take that back—I don’t think he was wrong because think he knew they’d be radical, and that’s just fine with him.

Today, in Golden Colorado, Obama said, “I know it’s unsettling to see these images on television.” Mr. Obama, is “unsettling” the very best you can gin up to describe the Ambassador you appointed being brutally murdered along with the dedicated former Navy Seal, and two other diplomats? Those aren’t “images,” Mr. Obama! They were red blooded Americans, serving you and your Administration on “American Soil” in our embassies: they were fathers, husbands, and patriots. And you go so far as to say the images of their deaths unsettle you? Our Cairo Embassy is essentially destroyed by another group of Islamic Terrorism, another act of war by terrorists, rubbing our nose in the dirt in their celebration of 9/11, and you are “unsettled,” Oh, my!

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney dared to show the temerity to question the total lack of significant reaction by the Obama White House, pointing out the obvious, that this is an act of war and that the President needed to react to it in a strong way. He was reacting to twice release apology from the United States Embassy in Egypt. That’s correct! The Terrorists attacked the Embassy. And the United States Embassy in Egypt apologized for any offense a private movie may have caused to Muslims. What did Obama do? He attacked Romney for his comments. He said Romney was given to doing “Ready, fire, aim. Now isn’t that cute of the President to revive the Jimmy Carter old-saw. The problem is that Romney is correct; while Obama’s Administration was in the apology mode—to the terrorists—and Barack had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton parroting his stance, Barack remained silent. Almost makes me feel sorry for ol’ Hil. He left her to try to mop up the mess that he’d so blithely let happen over the past couple of years. Our Ambassador and 3 staff members were dead in Libya and our embassy completely trashed in Egypt. Clinton was telling the American people that this was the act of a small, radical group and had nothing to do with al Qaeda. Naw! It was a highly organized, well planned and precisely carried out attack on American soil. She went on to literally blame the US, too, profusely apologizing to the terrorists for the act (some innocuous YouTube video on internet) that is credited with setting off the terrorists. The video is simply a handy excuse to attack us. And isn’t it convenient that it gives Obama and Clinton a line for deep apology to the terrorists. Their condolences to the families of our dead came as rather an afterthought.

This reaction by Obama and his Administration is reprehensible. Yes, this was an Act of War against the United States. But that means nothing to Obama. It was an inconvenience to him, and he has dismissed it to his lower levels to handle while he is in the election campaign mode, raising money. Frankly, it is exactly what we can expect from this totally narcissistic man. (I hardly knew what it meant until I heard it applied to Obama. I looked it up.) No wonder I never knew exactly what it meant. I never knew anyone so totally into “me!” Now, in that light, just think of what he did. He had the flags brought to half mast and put the nation into mourning by presidential decree, the obligatory thing to do. He then quickly loaded up and headed for Las Vegas to do a huge re-election fund raiser. How long ago was it that he told us that we should not go to Vegas and spend money down there, suggesting we tighten our belts. But he is above all of that. He can go down and hobnob with those big donors to the wee hours, reap their money and adoration, and just leave the mourning for his Ambassador and diplomatic staff to us.

This very morning, Obama gave what he must think was a powerful response. He said, "We will work with the Libyan Government to bring the people (note that he didn’t say ‘terrorists) to justice. “ Oh, wowzie! That’s just an overwhelming posture. And even in that speech, which was a campaign stop, he put in a thinly veiled apology to the offended terrorists. Think of what Ronald Reagan did to bring the Libyan government in line when Colonel Muammar Qaddafi got too big for his britches. Reagan defied all of Europe, did what was right, and sent FB-111s over to the Libyan capital and blew the front porch off of Muammar’s palace. We didn't hear any more from ol' Muammar until the Obama Administration came into "power," (if we can even use the term power in reference to anything about Obama).

An explicit example of the Obama supporters outlook happened today. In a campaign speech today, Mitt Romney called for a moment of silence for those killed in Libya. As soon as the moment of silence was supposed to start, heckling Obama backers ruined the solemn moment of silence. I have no tolerance for such disrespect. In the world I’ve grown up in, such horrible behavior would have been considered insanity. But in the insane world of Obama, I suppose it’s just about standard operating procedure.

Can we just face the fact that we have a totally failed President in Barack Hussein Obama? Our nation is declining at a horrifying pace under his incomprehensible Administration. Nothing he does makes any sense. So, a happy, spineless September Surprise to you all, courtesy of Barack, a partyin’ kinda guy.

Colonel Curtis D. Dale, PhD, USAF (Ret)