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Title: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Tess Anderson on November 29, 2012, 08:40:09 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018244543

is this Sarah's troll account?:

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Thu Nov 29, 2012, 04:53 AM
 darkangel218 (1,974 posts)

Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?
A plastic tree would do just fine, I personally don't see the purpose of this slaughter. Even if they were grown in " nurseries " for just this purpose, it really saddenes me to see such beauties dying stocked up in supermarkets or someones living room.

 

Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Skul on November 29, 2012, 08:41:05 PM
Every year, just like clockwork.  :banghead:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on November 29, 2012, 08:47:07 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018244543

is this Sarah's troll account?:



I don't take animal rights advice from pro-aborts and I damned sure don't give a shit about what they think of plants, either.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Chris_ on November 29, 2012, 08:49:32 PM
Kroger was selling these midget trees, about two and a half feet tall.  They're perfect for people like me who don't like decorating.

I think I'm going to pick one up this weekend.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: IassaFTots on November 29, 2012, 08:50:56 PM
For F's sake.  Really????

Sometimes I really hate people.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Freeper on November 29, 2012, 08:51:11 PM
And they wonder why their families don't enjoy having them around.
They bitch and moan about everything.

Wouldn't the petroleum used to make the plastic trees hurt mother earf?
I thought they were against using cheap stuff made in China.

Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Duke Nukum on November 29, 2012, 08:51:24 PM
Real trees are a part of the tree union and they need those jobs at Christmas time. Plastic trees are scabs.

Leave it to a DUmmie to compassion a working tree out of work.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Freeper on November 29, 2012, 08:52:11 PM
For F's sake.  Really????

Sometimes I really hate people.

Me too.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: J P Sousa on November 29, 2012, 08:53:34 PM
I don't take animal rights advice from pro-aborts and I damned sure don't give a shit about what they think of plants, either.

Yes, the warped mind of a DUmmie.
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Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Dori on November 29, 2012, 08:56:16 PM
Hey DUmmie....did it ever occur to you that the Christmas trees we cut down would never have existed in the first place?  Just think of them as tree abortions and rejoice.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: MrsSmith on November 29, 2012, 09:16:26 PM
Hey DUmmie....did it ever occur to you that the Christmas trees we cut down would never have existed in the first place?  Just think of them as tree abortions and rejoice.
Exactly.  They are planted ONLY because they are worth so much money several years later.

We are going to cut down one of our own trees this year, for the first time ever!   :yahoo:  I found a small stand of junipers all crowded together, so we're going to start thinning by taking one to decorate this year.  I am so excited.   :-)
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Zeus on November 29, 2012, 09:31:43 PM
Hey DUmmie....did it ever occur to you that the Christmas trees we cut down would never have existed in the first place?  Just think of them as tree abortions and rejoice.

100% bio degradable. Totally earth friendly.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Zeus on November 29, 2012, 09:38:34 PM
Exactly.  They are planted ONLY because they are worth so much money several years later.

We are going to cut down one of our own trees this year, for the first time ever!   :yahoo:  I found a small stand of junipers all crowded together, so we're going to start thinning by taking one to decorate this year.  I am so excited.   :-)


On one of the outer edges of my families home place farm is a strand of about 8 Blue spruce trees my dad started decorating for Christmas yrs ago. They can be see for miles coming down the highway. Over the yrs folks have donated lights,power cords etc to keep the trees lite. Even the local power company started to donate the power used to light them for up to 30 days.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Dori on November 29, 2012, 09:48:38 PM
I love Christmas lights.  One year I had them in all the trees and bushes outside. The meter dial on my electrical box was spinning like a top. 
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: LC EFA on November 29, 2012, 09:59:34 PM
Plastic trees huh ?

The same inorganic plastic trees that are produced with the rich black ooze that's torn straight from mother earths rent breast by the hated oil companies and fed through a murder mill by another giant capitalist pig company , before being sold by yet another capitalist pig company ?

The same plastic trees that will end up in one of those poison pits known as a Landfill  ?

Oh most sacred mother Gaia and fellow earth soldiers ! Won't someone please think of the enviromenths !

Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: GOBUCKS on November 29, 2012, 10:17:50 PM
That's nothing.

I weep over cornstalks.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Big Dog on November 29, 2012, 10:35:30 PM
darkangel218 is the Lorax, she speaks for the trees...

(http://d22r54gnmuhwmk.cloudfront.net/photos/1/rp/ho/tUrpHOJRhKeIRcq-556x313-noPad.jpg)

But she's also in charge of the brown Bar-ba-loots, who played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suits.

(http://sidestreets.freedomblogging.com/files/2012/04/bar-ba-loots.jpg)

Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 30, 2012, 04:41:51 AM
Real trees are a part of the tree union and they need those jobs at Christmas time. Plastic trees are scabs.

Leave it to a DUmmie to compassion a working tree out of work.

 :lmao: :rofl: :rotf: :lmao: :rofl: :rotf:

H5 FTW!  You put it in a way that maybe the DUmb****s will be able to understand.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: MrsSmith on November 30, 2012, 04:45:06 AM
100% bio degradable. Totally earth friendly.
100% renewable, also.   :-)
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: JohnnyReb on November 30, 2012, 05:36:05 AM
SAVE THE GRASS

ABORT A TREE
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Karin on November 30, 2012, 08:06:34 AM
Ugh, that Lorax is Hopehoops avatar.  I'm become allergic to it, the same way with Sabrina's iceskates. 

The DUmmies head would have exploded had she had the same job I did at a groundwood papermill.  The tree is snipped from the ground, cruelly taken from its home to a belching factory.  There it is waterboarded.  Then, it is callously tossed into a huge drum with its brothers and sisters, where they are spun and tossed around and the very force of their colliding skins them alive!!  Then they're ground up into pulp, further refined, and then baked alive on a paper machine!!

Then, it's turned into Christmas wrapping paper.  Merry Christmas! 
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on November 30, 2012, 08:09:17 AM
Let the ritual tree holocaust begin!

 :evillaugh:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Undies on November 30, 2012, 08:39:30 AM
That's nothing.

I weep over cornstalks.

Oh how I love this.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: franksolich on November 30, 2012, 08:54:46 AM
Let the ritual tree holocaust begin!

 :evillaugh:

Arbor genocide happens right in my own backyard every year, and as long as Mother Nature exists, there's not a damned thing one can do about the massacre of trees.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/dummiedestroyer/elkhornspr.jpg)

Too bad for the trees, but what can one do?
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: JohnnyReb on November 30, 2012, 09:07:39 AM
Arbor genocide happens right in my own backyard every year, and as long as Mother Nature exists, there's not a damned thing one can do about the massacre of trees.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/dummiedestroyer/elkhornspr.jpg)

Too bad for the trees, but what can one do?


Pull that poor drowned tree out of the river, cremate it and spread the ashes in your yard....it's the least you can do for the poor thing.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Skul on November 30, 2012, 09:13:25 AM
I happen to have a tree crematoriam in my livingroom.
It gets used quite a bit in the winter.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: JohnnyReb on November 30, 2012, 09:19:10 AM
I happen to have a tree crematoriam in my livingroom.
It gets used quite a bit in the winter.

I'm cremating a tree right now.....and it feels good. :-)
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: dandi on November 30, 2012, 09:25:10 AM
Reminds me of one of Jack Handy's "Deep Thoughts":

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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 30, 2012, 09:30:25 AM
I'm cremating a tree right now.....and it feels good. :-)

My next tree (oak, AFAIK) cremation ceremony will commence at 0530 tomorrow, in my living room. :fuelfire: :yahoo: :whistling:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: BigTex on November 30, 2012, 09:31:36 AM
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darkangel218 (1,985 posts)
16. I just dont think we should grow and kill life just for amusement

Growing and killing fetuses on a whim is ok but better not do it to a tree. How can these people even reconcile those two things
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Wineslob on November 30, 2012, 09:33:45 AM
I've heard they have many, many plastic trees at.........................WALMART.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Splashdown on November 30, 2012, 09:37:00 AM
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Wait Wut (4,926 posts)
11. True, but...

...not sure the tree appreciates it. The husband doesn't get the whole fake tree thing, so we get real ones. We all thank the tree before it's put up and then again when it is taken down. He thought it was silly at first. Now, he gets all emotional just like his wifey


(http://files.sharenator.com/wtf_tree-s600x480-31576.jpg)
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Karin on November 30, 2012, 10:03:09 AM
Oh my God.   :thatsright:  I can't see your pic, but I can just imagine.  Just shoot that poor guy now. 
 ::)  This is why I have no moonbat friends.  I just cannot take this kind of stuff. 
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: RobJohnson on November 30, 2012, 10:10:34 AM
[youtube=425,350]G880gxjj9dI[/youtube]

 :lol:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: dandi on November 30, 2012, 10:14:54 AM
[youtube=425,350]G880gxjj9dI[/youtube]

 :lol:

I remember that one. A classic!

 :rofl:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Splashdown on November 30, 2012, 10:20:55 AM
Oh my God.   :thatsright:  I can't see your pic, but I can just imagine.  Just shoot that poor guy now. 
 ::)  This is why I have no moonbat friends.  I just cannot take this kind of stuff. 

It's a tree with knots that look like a face saying WTF?
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: RobJohnson on November 30, 2012, 10:31:22 AM
The parody

[youtube=425,350]MmQLccLYOYY[/youtube]
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Chris_ on November 30, 2012, 10:39:50 AM
The parody
Holy crap, that's too funny.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: USA4ME on November 30, 2012, 10:50:43 AM
If tress could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?  We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

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Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: GOBUCKS on November 30, 2012, 11:06:20 AM
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Thu Nov 29, 2012, 08:52 AM
pipi_k (14,846 posts)
8. I get almost

physically ill when I see trees get cut down.

Doing it for Christmas is just horrendous, IMO.


When I see a giant redwood, I think of how many great decks it could build, and all the barbecues and deep-fried turkeys we could have on those decks.


 
 
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Wineslob on November 30, 2012, 11:16:45 AM


When I see a giant redwood, I think of how many great decks it could build, and all the barbecues and deep-fried turkeys we could have on those decks.


 
 


 :rofl:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: vesta111 on November 30, 2012, 11:48:29 AM
Why kill the trees ??????   For the same price or close to it one can buy a 2-3 foot spruce tree with root ball and bring it in side, decorare it and later take it outside and plant it in the yard.    No yard, then sell it for half price to a coworker friend of family that has a place for it.  Or give it away, after all if it was dead it would just be thrown out.

Been trying for 20+ years to get hubby to do this, ----He reminds me of Fiddler on the Roof---TRADITION----darn it all.

Neighbor did this about 15 years ago, he went out and dug a hole for the tree when the ground was still soft not frozen.    When I visited them they had the tree with root ball and dirt in a very large pot in his front window all decked out in lights and decorations.  Only a bit less then 3 feet tall and a beauty.    After Christmass he moved the tree to his back porch and wrapped it up in plastic and newspapers and there it sat until March.  He then moved it to it's new home and today it is a good 12 feet tall.  All toll he planted a good 7 of the trees , when his wife died and he moved those trees still remind me of him and wife.--------His home lot was 1/4 acre and became a wonderland of trees.

Trees add to the value of property, even if one lives in a run down trailer park, the first beat up old home to be sold is the one with the most trees and the most cared for shrubs.    

The only dead or dieing trees I buy are lumber.  
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Wineslob on November 30, 2012, 02:32:47 PM
Why kill the trees ??????   For the same price or close to it one can buy a 2-3 foot spruce tree with root ball and bring it in side, decorare it and later take it outside and plant it in the yard.    No yard, then sell it for half price to a coworker friend of family that has a place for it.  Or give it away, after all if it was dead it would just be thrown out.

Been trying for 20+ years to get hubby to do this, ----He reminds me of Fiddler on the Roof---TRADITION----darn it all.

Neighbor did this about 15 years ago, he went out and dug a hole for the tree when the ground was still soft not frozen.    When I visited them they had the tree with root ball and dirt in a very large pot in his front window all decked out in lights and decorations.  Only a bit less then 3 feet tall and a beauty.    After Christmass he moved the tree to his back porch and wrapped it up in plastic and newspapers and there it sat until March.  He then moved it to it's new home and today it is a good 12 feet tall.  All toll he planted a good 7 of the trees , when his wife died and he moved those trees still remind me of him and wife.--------His home lot was 1/4 acre and became a wonderland of trees.

Trees add to the value of property, even if one lives in a run down trailer park, the first beat up old home to be sold is the one with the most trees and the most cared for shrubs.    

The only dead or dieing trees I buy are lumber.  



I tried that, it still died. I didn't cry.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: andhe78 on November 30, 2012, 04:54:57 PM
Treehuggers= :loser:


I cut and kill trees every day for nothing more than a paycheck, so no, I have nothing against Christmas trees at all.  We enjoy a recently deceased tree every year.
It is kind of amusing being an arborist this time of year, cheap people will snag any thing with needles that we put on the ground.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Mr Mannn on November 30, 2012, 05:34:56 PM
We kill trees for our amusement, yes.


But the trees were really asking for it!
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Undies on November 30, 2012, 05:39:09 PM
Is it cruel to let the tree die, or is it cruel to deny the tree its destiny?
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: GOBUCKS on November 30, 2012, 07:10:37 PM
During the drought this summer, I swear I could hear the weeds moaning.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: LC EFA on November 30, 2012, 08:03:16 PM
During the drought this summer, I swear I could hear the weeds moaning.

Should hear em squeal when you dose em up good with the RoundUpâ„¢.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: BlueStateSaint on December 01, 2012, 06:35:42 AM
Is it cruel to let the tree die, or is it cruel to deny the tree its destiny?

I want y'all to know that the oak tree cremation started a tad late, but is proceeding nicely at the moment.  Oreo has plopped down about two feet (literally) from the fireplace.  Both my lovely wife and The Heiress are enjoying the cremation as well.

Also, we're going to get one of these:

http://www.gratewalloffire.com/S-4-Fireplace-Grate-16-Wide_p_1.html

And, one of these:

http://www.gratewalloffire.com/RF-4-Reflective-Fireback-16-Wide-38-Thick_p_96.html

To further aid our tree cremation process.  We figure that it'll throw a bit more heat into the living space.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Mr Mannn on December 01, 2012, 08:04:46 AM
Is is really tree cremation? or is it a tree lynching?  :fuelfire:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: BlueStateSaint on December 01, 2012, 08:09:04 AM
Is is really tree cremation? or is it a tree lynching?  :fuelfire:

Cremation, IMHO, because all you're left with (if done properly) is a pile of ashes. :tongue: :fuelfire:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Ballygrl on December 01, 2012, 08:36:47 AM
:hi5: to the person who brought up the abortion analogy.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Revolution on December 01, 2012, 10:33:43 AM
Real trees are a part of the tree union and they need those jobs at Christmas time. Plastic trees are scabs.

Leave it to a DUmmie to compassion a working tree out of work.

Funniest thing I've heard all day. I haven't read pages 2-4, but I'm hoping someone already posted the video of the wackos from ELF crying at the "murder" of their beloved trees.

I want to MOOOOOOOOOOURN!"

Oh, and Hi5, Duke.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Skul on December 01, 2012, 10:40:23 AM
Funniest thing I've heard all day. I haven't read pages 2-4, but I'm hoping someone already posted the video of the wackos from ELF crying at the "murder" of their beloved trees.

I want to MOOOOOOOOOOURN!"

Oh, and Hi5, Duke.
Comment #33, by RobJohnson. Page 3
The video that will never die. :rotf:

To warm out right now to proceed with cremations.
Now I have bodies stacked up outside like cordwood, waiting for cooler weather.
At least they don't stink.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on December 01, 2012, 11:05:27 AM
Impale a liberal and hang ornaments from their flesh.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Mr Mannn on December 01, 2012, 11:43:45 AM
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnh1m3jgjRY[/youtube]
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Splashdown on December 01, 2012, 02:52:25 PM
Should hear em squeal when you dose em up good with the RoundUpâ„¢.

Chemical weapons?

Plant Nazi!








 :rotf:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Big Dog on December 02, 2012, 10:39:28 AM
Plant Nazi!
 :rotf:

(http://www.littleriverrailroad.org/images/PhotoAlbum/LogTrains/3469LogTrainElkmontOwnby.jpg)
Lumber trains, on their way to the "camps".

(http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1359/801567038_2f71ee8aaa_z.jpg)
Seig Heil!
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: dandi on December 02, 2012, 01:26:01 PM
Oh they'll be comparing fireplaces to the ovens at Auschwitz soon enough, mark my words.

 :mental:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: RobJohnson on December 02, 2012, 01:53:27 PM
(http://www.djelloulmarbrook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bonfire-jpg.jpg)
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: DLR Pyro on December 03, 2012, 11:49:30 AM
pssst, hey DUmmies, your false god has no problems killing trees just for decorative purposes...

Amazing how a reelection can reshape an incumbent's thinking about many things. Now safely ensconced in the White House for 49 more months, the Obamas have decorated the place with 54 Christmas trees this year.

Even allowing for the usual Washington excesses with taxpayer money, that's a whole grove of Christmas trees.

"We have 54 trees in the White House," an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. "54!  That’s a lot of trees."

In fact, the Obamas' 54 trees this year are almost 50% more Christmas trees than last year. That was during the campaign before Obama whispered a reminder to the Russians that he had to be careful until Nov. 6, when a victory would give him more "flexibility."

Now, how much carbon do you suppose those 54 trees could be sequestering had they not been chopped by this green president?


 (http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/120312-635425-fiscal-cliff-talks-stall-as-obama-white-house-erects-its-own-tree-grove.htm?ven=rss)
 :ownit:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Karin on December 03, 2012, 12:23:01 PM
Are they going to haul out the Mao Tse Tung ornaments for this year?  Might as well throw in some Stalin, Lenin, and Pol Pot ones, too. 
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: shadeaux on December 03, 2012, 12:49:10 PM
LOL, this thread is so funny !!

I know you're supposed to recycle those real trees after Christmas but my husband sure gets a kick out of lighting our tree on fire in the ditch.   :rotf:

Yes, I cry.   :lmao:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: formerlurker on December 03, 2012, 01:02:05 PM
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According to notices distributed to residents of an exclusive waterfront neighborhood in Hawaii, they can expect to enjoy restricted access and other inconveniences to their homes and normal lives from Dec. 17 through Jan. 6. That's about a 50% longer holiday vacation than last year.


The gaudy excesses no longer needing to held back.


Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: J P Sousa on December 03, 2012, 01:38:54 PM
pssst, hey DUmmies, your false god has no problems killing trees just for decorative purposes...

Amazing how a reelection can reshape an incumbent's thinking about many things. Now safely ensconced in the White House for 49 more months, the Obamas have decorated the place with 54 Christmas trees this year.

Even allowing for the usual Washington excesses with taxpayer money, that's a whole grove of Christmas trees.

"We have 54 trees in the White House," an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. "54!  That’s a lot of trees."

In fact, the Obamas' 54 trees this year are almost 50% more Christmas trees than last year. That was during the campaign before Obama whispered a reminder to the Russians that he had to be careful until Nov. 6, when a victory would give him more "flexibility."

Now, how much carbon do you suppose those 54 trees could be sequestering had they not been chopped by this green president?


 (http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/120312-635425-fiscal-cliff-talks-stall-as-obama-white-house-erects-its-own-tree-grove.htm?ven=rss)
 :ownit:

Only 54 ? I thought there were 57 states that would be represented at the WH.  :-)

.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on December 03, 2012, 02:54:34 PM
54, huh?

Up 50% from the previous year?

I got a dollar that says a dem campaign bundler owns a pine forest.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 03, 2012, 04:32:24 PM
People used to take their old Christmas trees and weight them down with cement blocks and throw them in the lake to make fish habitats.....you aren't allowed to do that any more....the game wardens frown upon it.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Chris_ on December 03, 2012, 04:55:27 PM
[youtube=640,480]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kicdSI_-XpE[/youtube]  :lmao:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: thundley4 on December 03, 2012, 06:24:44 PM
People used to take their old Christmas trees and weight them down with cement blocks and throw them in the lake to make fish habitats.....you aren't allowed to do that any more....the game wardens frown upon it.

They still do that here, it makes good habitat for Crappie and Bass.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: J P Sousa on December 03, 2012, 08:59:53 PM

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  Thu Nov 29, 2012, 04:53 AM
 darkangel218 (1,974 posts)

Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?
A plastic tree would do just fine, I personally don't see the purpose of this slaughter. Even if they were grown in " nurseries " for just this purpose, it really saddenes me to see such beauties dying stocked up in supermarkets or someones living room.
 

Um, I think the DUmmies are having a brain freeze or they are not up on their eco-friendly practices.  :-)

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  Fake Christmas trees might be convenient and seem eco-friendly at first glance, but their environmental costs—measured in greenhouse gas emissions and landfill space—far outweigh their benefits, say conservationists who urge consumers to "stay real" this holiday season. 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111212-real-christmas-trees-save-water/

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  Buy a Real Tree For a Green Christmas
Real trees provide wildlife habitat and sequester carbon, while providing employment. 

http://news.discovery.com/earth/christmas-tree-farms-artificial-green.html


For the record, I like real trees but I don't like the clean-up later, at least that's what my wife says.  :-)
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Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: RobJohnson on December 04, 2012, 01:37:33 AM
They still do that here, it makes good habitat for Crappie and Bass.

We put them on top of the lake.

Of course the water was still frozen.

Worked out great.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 04, 2012, 05:52:09 AM
We put them on top of the lake.

Of course the water was still frozen.

Worked out great.

Another thing they don't allow anymore. Used to nail the beads together on old tires, cut a hole in the tread portion of the tire and sink them in shallow to neck deep water. Go back in a few days and pick them up and pour out catfish.....and the occasional snake.
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: Karin on December 04, 2012, 07:51:09 AM
 :rotf:  You're such a redneck!  And I mean that in the most affectionate way possible.   :blowkiss:
Title: Re: "Anyone else against cutting & killing the trees just for decorative purposes?"
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 04, 2012, 09:52:37 AM
:rotf:  You're such a redneck!  And I mean that in the most affectionate way possible.   :blowkiss:

Survival of the fittest....and it would appear that rednecks are the fittest. :-)

.....and they have all the recipes for everything from persimmon beer to white liquor. ....and with a little time and a small chunk of charred white oak thrown in a quart jar of white liquor, you get some culture, some refinement, fine sipping whiskey for the demanding, civilized, rednecks.