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<strong>Filibuster Cartoon</strong>
<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="http://www.filibustercartoons.com/archive.php?id=20070601" target="_blank">Muscle Beach</a> (click to view)
<strong>Date: </strong> June 01, 2007

Californian Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Canada this week as part of a \"green tour\" across the country. Mr. Arnold is very proud of the California government\'s recent environemantal reform iniatives, and his trip north was supposed to be something of a summit with like-minded green leaders in my country. <br> <br>However, as many Canadian pundits have quickly pointed out, Schwarzenegger\'s iniatives, which include a firm promise to reduce greenhouse gasses by 25% over the next 13 years and implement strict new restraints on car emssions, represent a far more progressive agenda than anything currently being done by any leader in Canada- conservative or liberal. Prime Minister Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty have come under particular fire for contrasting negatively with the Republican governor, as their administrations have both been rather foot-draggy on the whole \"reducing emissions\" front.

[Kjorteo]

I'm not normally the world's biggest Schwarzenegger fan, but I can't argue with the message here. I dig the cartoon, too. Hehe.

[Psudo]

Woo! Working comments link!

Past that, I have no comment. You already know my environmental beliefs.

[Calbeck]

Speaking as someone who opposes Kyoto strongly, I also strongly support Arnold's initiatives. Like Perot, his populist support is based on a combination of moderately-liberal social policies combined with conservative fiscal ideals. Radicalism has a voice in America, but only with the fringes.

[Arctic_Menace]

It sucks that environmentalism has become a fad. A majority of people wouldn't recognize or want to be part of some serious environmentalism even if it bit them on the ass.

[Clogeroo]

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It sucks that environmentalism has become a fad. A majority of people wouldn't recognize or want to be part of some serious environmentalism even if it bit them on the ass.

The only serious environmentalists were really the Indians everyone else is mostly a hypocrite.

[Kjorteo]

A lot of politicians conveniently start paying attention only when the issue becomes popular. That's just a fact of life. Personally, I think it's awesome that environmentalism is growing popular enough for the politicians to take notice.

[sasquatch2]

There is a "GLOBAL" difference to being concerned about the environment and being a CO AGW leftist sheeple.

CO2 AGW theory ignore/approves INDIAN/CHINESE pollution and Brazilian rain-forest clearance to support a leftist world governance agenda.

[Calbeck]

Clogeroo wrote:

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It sucks that environmentalism has become a fad. A majority of people wouldn't recognize or want to be part of some serious environmentalism even if it bit them on the ass.

The only serious environmentalists were really the Indians everyone else is mostly a hypocrite.

Anyone who knows anything about Native American history knows that's bunko. The "in-tune-with-nature" stereotype is just as bad as the "frothing-at-the-mouth-savage" stereotype.

There was never any such thing as ONE Native American culture. There were hundreds of different cultures, all with different views on how to deal with nature. Most did just the same as everyone else: Kill, Eat, Crap Downwind, and Make Whoopie.