The Glade 4.0

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Gia to get representation at the UN, children of Gia werewolves celebrate! Black Spiral Dancers and Pentax leave in protest!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

UuuuUUUUUuuuuuuaaaaaaaaagggghhhhhh.......

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

So the UN has descended to the same level as the US Senate now? (aka we've got nothing "more pressing" to deal with so let's grab some headlines with some stupid non-binding ****?)

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Fairly certain the U.N. invented that level of uselessness.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

More than that. The Senate may be at rock bottom, but the U.N. has long since started to dig, and apparently just got itself a steam shovel.

If you read further into the article it quickly becomes evident that it has little to do with "rights" for earth or bugs or trees or wht the **** ever. It's really about giving special rights to certain activist groups and more importantly to indiginous people, based on their religions.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The fact that you married a tree-hugging hippie makes this even funnier. Just for making fun of my people, I am going to cook something with tofu and beansprouts and tree fungi for dinner tonight.

PS--I also would like a video montage of apologies from all men for cutting down trees and building useless things like houses with the lumber.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Kate, those people aren't hippies. Our parents may have been hippies. (One of mine was, the other not so much). Those people are **** nuts.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Hahaha, yeah Coro, I'm aware. I spent half my life in Oregon....there are people EVERYWHERE, especially in Eugene, that are just like the people in the video. I've been around folks like that for years...they really do get that upset over anything that has to do with nature. I was leaning a bit towards that way myself until I moved to Mississippi.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Did you eat lots of granola?

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Granola is awesome. In fact, granola tastes its best when you're field dressing some sort of 4 legged deer or deer relative while crying hippies argue with you.

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Well, granola was the "crunchy" part of "earthy crunchy" girls, according to an ex of mine. "Earthy crunchy" conjured a specific image that I don't think she intended, given the context. Suffice to say, her clarification didn't help much, and I've always wondered wtf "earthy crunchy" girls are.

However, if Kate was also a granola eater, it may all finally be coming together.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Those people are why pot needs to be legal - they need to be smoked up all day to the point they don't realize they are burning a plant.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

The first 30 seconds of so of this video reminded me of that fake group of Avatar LARP'ers...I had to stop the show when the screamer starting mourning at the top of her lungs, not sure where it went from there.

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In time, this too shall pass.

So you traded those crazies for these ones?

Had no clue what the **** the OP was about until I realized that "Gia" was supposed to be "Gaia."

Yeah, I was a bit confused at first too, but it became clear once I saw a picture of the new ombudsman:

Truth.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Wonder which poor dumbass country gets to be Ma-Ti (with the power of heart! WTF.).

Do they weep over the pot before or after they smoke it?

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During

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

What country was Ma-Ti from? The brown funny accent nation?

They may be a bit nutty, but it's a mistake to take them too lightly or you'll end up going to jail for cutting down a tree in your yard or maybe shooting a vicious dog near your kids. Some people believe that an animal dying is just as bad a a child...

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Wwen, you have a point. There really are some people that react emotionally to the death or mistreatment of an animal like they would a person...I had a neighbor kidnap my dog one time and refuse to give it back to me because I didn't have it on a leash in my yard. He said I was abusing and neglecting the animal because there was a busy highway nearby. I actually had to call the sheriff (it was out in the county), who was right in the middle of a murder investigation, to come out and get my dog from this guy's house. (That was a disturbing murder...it was right down the road from me. One college kid murdered his roomate, tied him to a computer chair, cut him up, and wrapped him in saran wrap.)

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Brazil

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