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2008-09-08 Terror Networks

Found this via Curmudgeonly and Skeptical.

Emotional Hippies crying over dead trees. Note that this is an Earth First! group.

Read some of the comments....

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-08 01:01|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Obama can fix it.

Posted by gorb 2008-09-08 01:29|| 2008-09-08 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The Onion now has a video outlet. Who knew?

Posted by Thrusoper Jones1634 2008-09-08 08:15|| 2008-09-08 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Please stay out in the woods and leave the rest of us alone. Thank you.

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-08 09:48|| 2008-09-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Those poor trees! They must have been terrified by those people!! I have a nightmare like that: frightening experience and, try as I may, I can't run away.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-08 10:17|| 2008-09-08 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't want them out in the woods. That's where I go to get away from nutballs like this. I do doubt that they were very far out in the woods, though. Probably at some roadside park where it's not scary.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2008-09-08 10:30|| 2008-09-08 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Horticultural Psychoanalysts around the world today expressed alarm at the damage being caused by groups such as these expressing themselves in the forest. "The trees simply don't understand. They 'hear' the screaming and it simply stunts their growth. In essence, these groups are, in fact, killing the very trees to which they are grieving. Yes, we promote 'talking to nature' to stimulate growth, but this is pure herbicide"

And so new light is shed on the cause of the mysterious blight in forests around the world.

And they said it was global warming...

Posted by logi_cal 2008-09-08 11:04|| 2008-09-08 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 'Nother form of idolatry. Tree and rock worshipers. Interrestingly many of the peoples in Asia that were idolatry worshippers a thousand years ago were wiped out by invading legions of... Islamists, the greatest antagonists of idol worshipers.

Posted by Snosing and Tenille9185 2008-09-08 11:43|| 2008-09-08 11:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Their screams of pain sear my soul... I have always choked up not over trees, but of little John Barleycorn.. If it wasn't mid morning on a Monday, I'd go and grab a beer:

Lyrics to John Barleycorn (Must Die) :
There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn must die
They've plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in
Threw clods upon his head
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn was dead

They've let him lie for a very long time, 'til the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprung up his head and so amazed them all
They've let him stand 'til Midsummer's Day 'til he looked both pale and wan
And little Sir John's grown a long long beard and so become a man
They've hired men with their scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee
They've rolled him and tied him by the way, serving him most barbarously
They've hired men with their sharp pitchforks who've pricked him to the heart
And the loader he has served him worse than that
For he's bound him to the cart

They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til they came onto a pond
And there they made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn
They've hired men with their crabtree sticks to cut him skin from bone
And the miller he has served him worse than that
For he's ground him between two stones

And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl and his brandy in the glass
And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last
The huntsman he can't hunt the fox nor so loudly to blow his horn
And the tinker he can't mend kettle or pots without a little barleycorn

Posted by Capsu 78 2008-09-08 12:32|| 2008-09-08 12:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Nature Worship is the earths oldest religion. Maybe these people are just 'old skool and keepin it real'.

Reminds of the movie with the guy that took video of bears in Alaska until one ate him and his girlfriend. There's a scene in that movie where the guy actually cries over a dead bee. Says something like "I love you little bee" while crying like it was his favorite puppy.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-08 14:28|| 2008-09-08 14:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Nature Worship is the earths oldest religion. Maybe these people are just 'old skool and keepin it real'.

Reminds of the movie with the guy that took video of bears in Alaska until one ate him and his girlfriend. There's a scene in that movie where the guy actually cries over a dead bee. Says something like "I love you little bee" while crying like it was his favorite puppy.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-08 14:28|| 2008-09-08 14:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Ima do that twice more and get triple double, then I wins the game.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-08 14:30|| 2008-09-08 14:30|| Front Page Top

#12 There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream "Oppression!"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

Posted by spiffo 2008-09-08 14:53|| 2008-09-08 14:53|| Front Page Top

#13 great poem. Where did it come from?

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-08 22:55|| 2008-09-08 22:55|| Front Page Top

#14 I believe that (#12) is the Lyrics for 'The Trees' by Rush.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-08 23:46|| 2008-09-08 23:46|| Front Page Top

#15 YouTube video - The Trees by Rush.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-08 23:52|| 2008-09-08 23:52|| Front Page Top

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