Hey it's March outside.

What do the following things have in common? Out-of-control forest fires, infestations of mosquitoes, hundreds of millions of deaths from diseases that were almost eradicated, skyrocketing gasoline prices, pets being eaten alive by fleas and ticks and the inundation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina?

OK, time's up!

These catastrophes were all brought to you courtesy of your friendly neighborhood environmentalists.

Proper management of forests has been stymied by the Sierra Club and others so that logging and clearing of undergrowth has been forbidden in most areas. That is why we now have superfires every year that consume everything in their paths. Never mind that the spotted owl we are supposedly protecting is being fried right along with everything else.

Fleas, mosquitoes, ticks, lice, cockroaches and flies are responsible for millions of deaths each year as the carriers of such diseases as malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, bubonic plague, typhus, Lyme's disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Chagas disease and asthma. These diseases are back to their historic highs of pre-World War II, and they're beginning to ravage the United States. How can that be?

It's possible because we have let ourselves be bullied by a small group of vocal, self-righteous, wrongheaded eco-terrorists.

Starting with Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich in the 1960s, we have let ourselves be conned into believing that pesticides were going to kill all the birds, along with the oceans, that life expectancy in the U.S. would only be 47 years by 1980 and, now, that the Earth is going to be incinerated by man-made global warming. So far, these doom-and-gloom specialists have been spectacularly wrong.

Carson and her ilk on the left claimed that the most effective pesticide in the history of the world, DDT, was thinning bird's eggshells and killing them by the thousands and that it was toxic to humans. Studies have disproved these and other claims about DDT.

And DDT is not only safe, it is cheap, long-lasting and one of the world's best insect repellents. But you can't buy it in this country because the eco-terrorists have succeeded in having it banned throughout most of the world.

What about Hurricane Katrina? During the 1970s, environmentalists saw to it that proposed giant flood barriers could not be built. It is believed these would have prevented the surge from the ocean into Lake Pontchartrain.

And who has been responsible for the liberals in Congress who won't allow oil and gas exploration in 90 percent of our federal lands and off much of our seashores? The same eco-terrorists who have prevented the building of new refineries and nuclear power plants in this country for more than 30 years.

Voila! Skyrocketing oil and gas prices, electric brownouts and a constant money stream to the jihadists who want to murder us!

It is past time for America to ignore the extreme agenda of the environmental movement and return to sane methods of protecting our natural heritage. And to minimize their damage to our great country, we must not elect their enablers from the far left of the Democratic Party to public office. ."

Finally someone with a brain.

Keep up the good work Common sense!

Common sense,
I would have disagree with you especially on your point made about forest fires. Sure the reason that there are huge forest fires every year in the western US is due to large amounts of undergrowth which fuel fires. However, forest fires are a natural, healthy, and rather usual event for the environment. The problem could be dealt with by logging an entire area, but what is the good in that when it benefits only one thing, people(mostly lumber companies, but also those people who would be affected by the fires do to where they live.) The most responsible way to prevent forest fires are controlled burns that take out the underbrush, preventing larger fires, and benefiting the forest by supporting new growth and the people. Also, the argument that is made for those people who could be affected by fires do to where they live, in my opinion that is a risk you take when you decide to live in an area that is surrounded by trees. We are all affected by natural disasters in some way, if you want a beautiful view everyday there are risks you take. The same could be said for people who have ocean front property on the east-coast. If you're not willing to accept the consequences don't take the chance.

"Common sense",
If you have such a need to post partisan screeds, please have the decency to give the source you plagiarized them from:
"John Kollias is a local businessman and radio talk show host."

Regardless of my personal beliefs I have one word, what is it?
OK, time's up!
BUSTED!!!!!!!!!

This is my school, well not the middle school. But I was in it at one point. I have to find the weather channel video!!

Note to "Common Sense":

LIBERALISM IS THE WAY OF THE UNIVERSE!!!

CONSERVATISM IS THE DIRECT ROUTE TO HELL!!!

One more reason why I back Barack Obama. If Hillary wins the nod, the chance that I may vote RALPH NADER this November increases markedly!

The blame for these disruptive meteorological events rests squarely on the shoulders of those right-wing folks who continue to push our car-happy, SUV-happy economic setup and who insist on destroying our bike trails and hiking trails in order to do such things as widen I-66 inside the Beltway! (Note: Right wingers such as "Common Sense" are also largely to blame for these huge rain/wind/severe weather events which have a KNACK for timing themselves precisely when I'm trying to get to the Clarendon Ballroom to enjoy my Tuesday night swing dance!)

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