Now The ********** Are Against Fireworks, Too

[Todd]

Censored for Lavenders pleasure

As if the **************** didn't have enough to do already...next New Year's Eve and next July Fourth, they'll be harping on the dangers of fireworks. They're dangerous to more than just the person who lights them--they're dangerous to the environment, too.

Some researchers in India examined air quality after nationwide celebrations last year. They found that fireworks lit during the festivals released a burst of ozone. Ozone is toxic to plants and aggravates respiratory problems in humans.

Then there are the doctors. The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to ban the sales of fireworks to consumers in order to reduce fireworks-related injuries to children. Doctors told the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday that professional displays and even sparkler smoke can trigger asthma attacks.

Will the **************** ***** ever be satisfied with Americans' way of life? Our cars are too big and get too little gas mileage. We're eating too many genetically modified foods. We're depriving animals of their homes and consuming precious resources to build our homes. We don't conserve enough. It seems we can't even break wind these days without someone to warn us we're producing "greenhouse gases."

Now, I'm all for protecting the environment...but there has to be a point where Americans put their foot down and say enough is enough.

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/7/4/122159

 

[Guest]

Now, I'm all for protecting the environment...but there has to be a point where Americans put their foot down and say enough is enough.

So the Author doesn't mind the proliferation of greenhouse gases, Genetically modified foods, is for the destruction of Animal habitats and is anti-conservation yet somehow is "all for protecting the environment" ??????

What, exactly, doesn't he do that makes him such a friend of the planet? If he wasn't "all for protecting the environment" would he himself personally chop down trees that weren't needed? Start the Whale of a burger fast food chain? Fire nuclear weapons at birds that adorned the tree in his front lawn? Go out and break the legs of cute puppy dogs?

 

[Weevil]

I for the most part agree with Unregistered but I wonder how Todd can really post this stuff.

Should there really be a point where Americans say "We don't care what your "scientists" or "Doctors" say. If we want to destroy the world we can. Why? Cause we can kick the ass of people who say we shouldn't. We can launch nukes at cuba tommorow if we feel."

 

[WriterDom]

Fireworks to the general public should be outlawed. They were as long as I remember in Georgia, but we lived on the border of SC and could get all we wanted.



4th of July a busy day for emergency rooms

'No firework is 100 percent safe'
July 3, 1997
Web posted at: 9:38 p.m. EDT (0138 GMT)
From Correspondent Rhonda Rowland

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Health records indicate that there were 7,600 fireworks-related injuries reported last year in the United States, 40 percent of them to bystanders.

Which means that while the 4th of July is one of the noisiest days of the year in the United States, it is also one of the busiest for hospital emergency rooms.

CNN's Rhonda Rowland reports
2 min., 17 sec. VXtreme streaming video
A typical example is Johnna Eberle, who at 10 years old was blinded when she was hit in the eye with a bottle rocket.

"I believe it did shoot up," she says now, "but then, watching it, it just came back."

One of every five fireworks injuries are eye injuries. In fact, according to Dr. Harvey Cole, an oculoplastic surgeon in Atlanta, fireworks can be more dangerous to the eye than being hit by a baseball.


"The eye is protected by the bones around the eye" when a baseball approaches, he says. "When a firework comes in, you've got a missile coming in at speeds up to 200 miles an hour going directly into the eye."

Bottle rockets are the most dangerous and next, believe it or not, is the humble sparkler.

Sparklers get HOT
"A sparkler can heat up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit," he says. "That's hot enough to melt gold, so it certainly can melt the cornea, which is the front part of the eye."

"No firework is 100 percent safe," says Ann Brown of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. "The most dangerous are the illegal fireworks -- the M-80s, the M-100s, the cherry bombs, the salutes. The reason these are illegal is because they are highly explosive."

Dr. Cole says there are ways to minimize the possibility of harm if you feel that setting off a few explosives is your patriotic duty.

"A person should wear safety glasses at all times when they are using fireworks," he says. "And bystanders should stand at least 50 feet away from the fireworks if they're observing."

"You don't want to have an eye injury," says Johnna Eberle. "It's not something you can deal with and be done with. It's something that's going to effect you the rest of your life."

 

[Mischka]

Fireworks to the general public should be outlawed.

Oh, but they fuel so many Darwin Awards.

 

[Todd]

at the rate that the **** ********* ************** are going the only thing that any of us will be allowed to do is sit in a field naked with a gag, butt plug and bladder plug and a clothes pin on our nosae cause anything else we will do will harm the environment

 

[Problem Child]

Are the fireworks we shoot off on the 4th and New year's eve really going to destroy thr environment and doom us to extinction?

How about a little common sense? Yes, our cars are too big and inefficient. Requiring a 1 mpg increase the fuel economy of all new cars would help the environment ten billion times more than banning fireworks.

sheesh.

Why do you guys rag on Todd about how stupid he is and then give equally ludicrous and totally sarcastic rebuttals?

 

[Problem Child]

at the rate that the **** ********* ************** are going the only thing that any of us will be allowed to do is sit in a field naked with a gag, butt plug and bladder plug and a clothes pin on our nosae cause anything else we will do will harm the environment

Shut up Todd. You're your own worst enemy.

 

[Problem Child]

A typical example is Johnna Eberle, who at 10 years old was blinded when she was hit in the eye with a bottle rocket.

"I believe it did shoot up," she says now, "but then, watching it, it just came back."

duh.

Sparklers get HOT
"A sparkler can heat up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit," he says. "That's hot enough to melt gold, so it certainly can melt the cornea, which is the front part of the eye."

duh.

 

[Laurel]

Oh, but they fuel so many Darwin Awards.

LOL! Take away guns & fireworks and the Darwin Awards would have no updates.

Fireworks are illegal where I live because they've been the cause of some rather nasty & destructive brush fires.

 

[Mustang Sally]

EBW, that's it exactly. Reminds me of Dennis Leary's rant at the end of "Asshole":

"You know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Caddilac El Dorado convertible - hot pink! with whaleskin hubcaps and all leather cow interior and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights. And I'm gonna drive around in that baby at 115 miles per hour, getting 1 mile per gallon, sucking down quarter-pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old-fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers and when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers I'm gonna wipe my mouth on the American flag and then I'm gonna toss those styrofoam containers right out the side, and there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it. You know why? Because we've got the bombs, that's why. Two words, nuclear-fucking-weapons, okay?? Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want, they can have a big democracy cakewalk right through the middle of Tiananmen Square and it won't make a lick on difference because we've got the bombs, okay??? ..."

 

[lavender]

 

[Laurel]

****************


I'd like to buy a vowel please.

Umm.... E.

 

[Problem Child]

PC is on the rag today.

As if you've never been.

 

[Problem Child]

Folks, I’d like to sing a song about the American Dream
About me, about you
About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests
About that special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts
Maybe below the cockles,
Maybe in the sub cockle area,
Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys,
Maybe even in the colon, we don’t know

I’m just a regular Joe, with a regular job
I’m your average white, suburbanite slop
I like football and porno and books about war
I got an average house, with a nice hardwood floor
My wife and my job, my kids and my car
My feet on my table, and a Cuban cigar

But sometimes that just ain’t enough to keep a man like me interested
(oh no, no way, uh uh)
No I gotta go out and have fun at someone else’s expense
(woah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah)
I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane
While people behind me are going insane

I’m an asshole (he’s an asshole)
I’m an asshole (he’s an asshole, such an asshole)

I use public toilets and I piss on the seat
I walk around in the summer time saying “how about this heat?”

I’m an asshole (he’s an asshole)
I’m an asshole (he’s the world’s biggest asshole)

Sometimes I park in the handicap spaces
While handicapped people make handicap faces

I’m an asshole (he’s an asshole)
I’m an asshole (he’s a real fucking asshole)

Maybe I shouldn’t be singing this song
Ranting and raving and carrying on
Maybe they’re right when they tell me I’m wrong
Nah

I’m an asshole (he’s an asshole)
I’m an asshole (he’s the world’s biggest asshole)

You know what I’m gonna do
I’m gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldora do convertible
Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps
And all leather cow interior
And make brown baby seal lions for head lights (yeah)
And I’m gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour
Gettin' 1 mile per gallon,
Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald’s
In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers
And when I’m done sucking down those greaseball burgers
I’m gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then I’m gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side
And there ain’t a goddamn thing anybody can do about it
You know why, because we’ve got the bombs, that’s why
2 words, nuclear fuckin’ weapons, OK?
Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want
They can have a big democracy cakewalk
Right through the middle of Tinian Square and it won’t make a lick of difference
Because we’ve got the bombs, OK?
John Wayne’s not dead, he’s frozen, and as soon as we find a cure for cancer
We’re gonna thaw out the duke and he’s gonna be pretty pissed off
You know why,
Have you ever taken a cold shower, well multiply that by 50 million times
That’s how pissed off the duke’s gonna be

I’m an asshole (he’s an asshole)
I’m an asshole (he’s the world’s biggest asshole)

A-S-S-H-O-L-E
Everybody
A-S-S-H-O-L-E

I’m an asshole and I’m proud of it

 

[Mustang Sally]

Yeah, that's the one.

 

[crystalhunting]

PC is on the rag today.

Does anyone else think Todd's censored for lavender thing is a bit over the fucking top?

Lavender...Todd just wants to portray himself as a victim as usual,its all a ploy.


As a general rule....Christians in the USA and elsewhere have pooh-poohed eviromentalism,because of the verse in the bible that says earth belongs to them.

Then it got worse,when some Christians used it as an exscuse to be wastefull because they think Jesus will come again and rebuild the world,thus relieveing them of any responsibility to preserve the enviroment are even try to save certain species marked for a quick exstintion if nothing is done.

I myself heard ol Pat Robertson say that he didnt care about the eviroment,as far as he was concerned the "bunny huggers" could have it.Jesus would give him and his followers a new world.


As to fireworks....well it is a National tradition to celebrate the 4th with Fireworks....I think perhaps a certain moderation would be a better idea.


CH

 

[Andra_Jenny]

I'm so confused

I thought we had an ozone hole that we were concerned with. So of course, something that creates ozone must be bad. Just shoot them higher.

A local Olathe mall had a fireworks display (15 minutes worth) go off in as one witness described, "the most intensive 15 seconds of fireworks I've ever seen," when the first shell went haywire.

There were no reports of ozone deaths!

 

[Thomas Paine]

This is another steaming load on the order of the "watermelons (environmentalists) who hate rich people for having SUV's." Apparently the trained chimps who type out stories at newsmax.com deal with slow news days by extracting whole stories from their rectums, giving them the sniff test and, if they're rancid enough, uploading them to the website.

Let's see, researchers in India find fireworks displays to be damaging to the environment, so let's take a gigantic llllleeeeeaaaapppp of logic and claim that Democrats are taking it up as a campaign plank. Pure sheepdip.

And then there's those enemies of freedom, the doctors, especially those damn kiddie doctors. Imagine them wanting to stop having to repair mangled hands and put in glass eyes just because a kid has a few pounds of gunpowder on the 4th of July.

The balance of the article is just too foolish for comment.

I didn't think it was possible, but the stuff Todd posts gets dumber by the day.