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The Green Movement Posted on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 11:23am This (or a variation) is currently making the rounds on the internets. I dug through Google and found what I think is the original source, at least as far as the internets go. It's quite appropriate to what we do here at e-Cycle, and so I pass it along for your enjoyment. 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 clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for 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 recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. 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 throw-away 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 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza 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? ...		e-Cycle Blog Items Appointment Find Us Contact FAQ

You know what? Fuck Aung San Suu Kyi and fuck the Dalai Lama. What do those people actually do? For anyone; their people or anyone else around the world not even remotely connected to their plight?

At this point they're simply famous. Aung San Suu Kyi is famous for being locked up basically indefinitely by her government, and the Dalai Lama is famous for going around the world giving speeches (in increasingly horrible English...can anyone understand that guy?). If they are actually doing anything for their people then it's entirely lost on me, especially since the media (any media, including the lefty "independent" outlets) only portrays these people independent of their greater relevance to a bigger cause other than their own vanity (if there is one).

In any event, how does their plight affect mine? Why should they matter to me at all? Or you? Or anyone (other than those who profit from their promotion)?

It doesn't.

Nothing about the outcome of whatever quest they are on will bear any effect for me, especially since I have my own errant government to worry about. They were never anything other than distractions, to sink the energy of those who were otherwise mostly content with something to rally over, absorbing any excess potential for domestic political dissent, or to at least keep it to a manageable level.

Now that the corruption in our own rebellious government is rife, too obvious and too rampant to quell with silly cult-of-personality distractions, the People are beginning to take note. I hope the reader is among those who are awake.

Do not be fooled by bread and circuses, more contemporaneously known as loan modification plus 99 weeks of unemployment insurance and MTV plus CNN. Our government is in rebellion against its Master, We the People.

A guy just came in and dropped off another 6 gutted monitors.

Six!? You think it's the same guy that was leaving that shit after hours a few weeks ago?

Naw, I asked him if he'd been here before and he said no. I bitched a little about it and he said he could just take them to the "other" place, but I said it was OK. At least we'll still get a few pennies for them.

Yeah, but I bet our buyer will be pissed. I hope they don't think we're the ones picking off all the good stuff and giving them the dross.

What do you mean? All the electronics and copper wire is gone but the tube is still there, and there's some plastic.

Whoopdeefuckingdoo. The plastic and the CRT are the least profitable parts of the unit. In fact, it costs to get rid of the tube. They'll get reimbursed by the State for taking the thing (as will we), but they won't make anything on the glass. They have to pay to get rid of it.

So why don't we just refuse to take them?

Well, we don't want to be assholes, at least not overtly. And we still make the same money, whether its gutted or not (just less when it's gutted--less pounds, less pennies). But our buyers will eventually get annoyed if we start bringing them more CRTs in this condition. They'll probably either refuse to accept them anymore, or they won't pay us for them. It'll almost be as bad as having a pallet of spent fluorescent lights.

That would suck.

Yes, it would suck...for people wanting to recycle their monitors for free, because we'd just have to start charging for them.

Indeed.

Yeah.

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"Overheard in the Breakroom" is a regular series of fictional conversations based on factual peeves that the good folks at e-Cycle experience on an unfortunately all too regular basis from customers who just don't understand that just because it's "free" to them doesn't mean it doesn't cost us anything to properly recycle their crap. Have some respect. Don't take advantage of us. Our ministry does not profit from this work, we only sustain. We're providing this service to the community out of the goodness of our hearts, but we still need to eat and we have bills to pay, too.

Judge Napolitano breaks it down for us:



I object to one not-so-small detail, your Honor: we do not give our Rights to government, we merely lend them, and that loan can be revoked at any time.

I do not consent.

That's what Adam Kokesh says in a recent interview with Judge Napolitano. He's talking about the police. Here he's referring directly to the US Capitol police who--he not resisting in the least--picked him up and literally slammed him to the ground from about four feet and then put him in a one-handed choke-hold.

What heinous crime did Mr. Kokesh commit to deserve such abusive treatment at the hands of the authorities? He had the audacity to silently dance in front of the statue of Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Monument in Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States of America.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who has realized that there is no rule of law in America. Many people scoff at the very idea. How dare me! America is a FREE COUNTRY, sir! Well, tell that to Adam Kokesh, who just wanted to celebrate his freedom by silently dancing in front of the statue of the man that literally secured that freedom for him.

The nation's police at all levels are being militarized, as if preparing for a war...but against whom? From the ample evidence available it would seem that the answer is...you. That the police are increasingly not here to "protect and serve" but to fine and deter should be pretty obvious by now. Sure, things might seem OK from where you're sitting, but just wait until you get ticketed for a law you've never even heard of (because cops are apparently authorized to make up new laws on a whim nowadays), let alone arrested for it.

The latest example of our streets being taken over by armed gangs of badge-wielding thugs is this young woman who was arrested for standing on her own front lawn videotaping the shenanigans of her local American Values enforcement wing executing a stop-and-harass on a random black dude, the favorite pursuit of bored boys in blue across the nation. She was charged with "obstructing governmental administration", which is the formal charge for the crime of "seem[ing] to be very anti-police" in the words of Officer Friendly. God forbid anyone obstruct governmental administration.

What is this shit?

God Bless Emily Good, the woman arrested in the video above. There are far too few Americans like her who choose to exercise their Rights and suffer for it, and far too many who don't want to be inconvenienced should they come under fire (in some cases literally) for the simple act of going about their business, and would rather trade away their rights for privileges controlled by a punk with a shiny badge. In fact, the only difference between that uniformed goon and common street trash is an oath the former took under perjury to "preserve, uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America". Talk is cheap, whether in the form of an oath or an order to comply.

What's wrong with this nation is quite simple to diagnose. Looking over our shoulder at history, we review this dusty old document, which states:

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Somehow, the bailouts and government fraud that permeates our fractured and decaying society has trickled down to us lowly scrap handlers and we are no longer able to accept common alkaline batteries for recycling.

So this means, no AA, AAA, AAAA, C, D, 9-volt, etc. batteries will be accepted by e-Cycle for recycling any longer. None. Nada. Blame your local politician. It's their ignorance and blind belief in a corrupt system that benefits a few elites at the top that is at fault.

On the bright side, we still accept rechargeable batteries of any type. So lithium (Li), nickel-cadmium (NiCd), lead (Pb) and other rechargeable type batteries are A-OK to bring in, and of course, free of charge to recycle.

Where should you take all of your other alkaline or other non-rechargeable batteries? That's also a question for your local politician. You voted them into office (I didn't, because I don't engage in silly charades done just for pomp and ceremony since I have stuff to do and value my time) to solve all your problems, go ask them. I'm sure they will institute some incredibly inefficient program that erects additional barriers (and more middlemen to overcome them), while simultaneously tacking on silly new fees and raising your taxes to address the "problem" of common household batteries.

Yes, the Common Household Battery, that scourge of the environment. These alkaline batteries contain the terribly poisonous and highly toxic elements Zinc (Zn) and Manganese (Mn), which are also found in your morning multi-vitamin pill. Yes, I can hear the gasping and the choking on morning coffee from all the way over here. You mean my vitamins contain hazardous toxic metals? Well, yes, according to the braintrusts that decided alkaline batteries were no longer fit for simple metal recycling. No, now you must obtain a hazardous waste storage permit once your kid's toy car or your wife's vibrator runs out of juice. And don't even think of driving them around unless you apply for a separate hazardous waste transport permit, the fees for which have all gone up recently in order that government worker pensions can remain safe at their presently bloated levels.

So rejoice! We have turned everything around us into potential poison and hazard--if in name only--all so that a few elites in the upper echelon of society (those of the top 20% that retain 80% of the wealth) can mug you for more of your money and push you further down into the mire of the 80% of us who are broke fuck dog dick ni&&ers.

And beware of those vitamins: they just might migrate their poison into your aspirin, and then what are you going to take when you get a headache?

There is a solution, however: don't buy batteries. Or if you do, buy rechargeables. Once sales are significantly down, the Disposable Battery Lobby will certainly go buy off a Congressbitch or two in order to save their business. Batteries will then be OK to throw away again, but your vitamins will still be considered poison. Oh well, you can't have it both ways.

I just wanted to point out the following paragraph from this article:

There are few builders left, while millions of burners lurk behind every bush. First it will be Korans and Mosques. Then it will be bibles and churches. Then it will be libraries. Eventually it will be your house. America was built by those who cherished liberty, freedom, responsibility, knowledge, and truth. A fog of complacency and malaise settled over America in the last six decades. It is almost as if Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 were used as instruction manuals rather than warnings by our society. The worst aspects from all three of these dystopian novels have been adopted or implemented in present day America. The citizenry has become dependent upon the state for information, direction, support, and protection. The unquestioning obedience toward the faceless, nameless, hapless state bureaucracy will lead to tyranny. The state will demand your compliance. The state will monitor your thoughts and movements. The state will tell you what to believe. The state will brutally punish anyone who attempts to think or question. The match is lit. The books are piled high.

Much of this is already our present. If we continue to ignore the real problems confronting our American society, how much more can we give before everything just breaks down, like a bridge in Minneapolis, or a gas line in San Bruno?

Submitted without commentary on this fine "Labor Day".

This Is Why There Are No Jobs in America
By Porter Stansberry
Saturday, August 21, 2010

I'd like to make you a business offer.

Seriously. This is a real offer. In fact, you really can't turn me down, as you'll come to understand in a moment...

Here's the deal. You're going to start a business or expand the one you've got now. It doesn't really matter what you do or what you're going to do. I'll partner with you no matter what business you're in – as long as it's legal.

But I can't give you any capital – you have to come up with that on your own. I won't give you any labor – that's definitely up to you. What I will do, however, is demand you follow all sorts of rules about what products and services you can offer, how much (and how often) you pay your employees, and where and when you're allowed to operate your business. That's my role in the affair: to tell you what to do.

Now in return for my rules, I'm going to take roughly half of whatever you make in the business each year. Half seems fair, doesn't it? I think so. Of course, that's half of your profits.

You're also going to have to pay me about 12% of whatever you decide to pay your employees because you've got to cover my expenses for promulgating all of the rules about who you can employ, when, where, and how. Come on, you're my partner. It's only "fair."

Now... after you've put your hard-earned savings at risk to start this business, and after you've worked hard at it for a few decades (paying me my 50% or a bit more along the way each year), you might decide you'd like to cash out – to finally live the good life.

Whether or not this is "fair" – some people never can afford to retire – is a different argument. As your partner, I'm happy for you to sell whenever you'd like... because our agreement says, if you sell, you have to pay me an additional 20% of whatever the capitalized value of the business is at that time.

I know... I know... you put up all the original capital. You took all the risks. You put in all of the labor. That's all true. But I've done my part, too. I've collected 50% of the profits each year. And I've always come up with more rules for you to follow each year. Therefore, I deserve another, final 20% slice of the business.

Oh... and one more thing...

Even after you've sold the business and paid all of my fees... I'd recommend buying lots of life insurance. You see, even after you've been retired for years, when you die, you'll have to pay me 50% of whatever your estate is worth.

After all, I've got lots of partners and not all of them are as successful as you and your family. We don't think it's "fair" for your kids to have such a big advantage. But if you buy enough life insurance, you can finance this expense for your children.

All in all, if you're a very successful entrepreneur... if you're one of the rare, lucky, and hard-working people who can create a new company, employ lots of people, and satisfy the public... you'll end up paying me more than 75% of your income over your life. Thanks so much.

I'm sure you'll think my offer is reasonable and happily partner with me... but it doesn't really matter how you feel about it because if you ever try to stiff me – or cheat me on any of my fees or rules – I'll break down your door in the middle of the night, threaten you and your family with heavy, automatic weapons, and throw you in jail.

That's how civil society is supposed to work, right? This is Amerika, isn't it?

That's the offer Amerika gives its entrepreneurs. And the idiots in Washington wonder why there are no new jobs...

Regards,

Porter Stansberry

I mean, this is just obnoxious:

"Okay, I was coming home to Baltimore, Md., from Siesta Key, Fla., and I was with my friend and her parents and I was going to this airport security check.

I put my bag through, and they pulled me aside and told me to go over here. I thought it was some high-tech scan and I walked right through it and this lady said 'Hold on, you can't just walk through this thing. Put your feet on the yellow footsteps and make a triangle above your head.' I guess it was so they could see my whole body."

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