posted April 24, 2014 10:32 PM            

This is representative of America gone mad...as in insane!

April 24, 2014
Burning aborted babies for electricity? Happening right here in the USA
Rick Moran

British Columbia authorities admit that they are sending the remains of aborted babies to Oregon so that they can be burned to generate electricity.

British Columbia, April 23, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia Health Ministry has admitted that the remains of babies destroyed by abortion in B.C. facilities are ending up in a waste-to-power facility in the United States, providing electricity for residents of Oregon.

The province’s Health Ministry said in an email to the B.C. Catholic that “biomedical waste” shipped to the U.S. to be incinerated includes “human tissue, such as surgically removed cancerous tissue, amputated limbs, and fetal tissue.”

“The ministry understands that some is transferred to Oregon. There it is incinerated in a waste-to-energy plant,” the email stated.

The ministry said that contractors handling the province’s “biomedical waste” follow “health and safety protocols, as well as federal, provincial, and local regulations.”

Kristan Mitchell, executive director of the Oregon Refuse and Recycling Association, told the B.C. Catholic that the “biomedical waste” likely ends up at the Covanta Marion waste-to-energy facility in Oregon since it is the only facility that uses waste to power the grid. The facility confirmed that it still receives and incinerates B.C. medical waste.

The power facility, located in Brookes just off the I-5, burns waste in two massive boilers at a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat transfers into water tubes, which creates steam to drive turbines. The turbines generate electricity.

A 2007 article about the Marion waste-to-energy facility that appeared in the Willamette Live — ironically titled “Burn, Baby, Burn” — stated that at the time the incinerator burned about 800 tons (1,764,000 pounds) of medical waste per year.

“Medical waste is brought to the facility in sealed boxes and is carried to the furnace on a conveyor belt which layers it with the rest of the solid waste being processed,” the article states.

Locals at the time protested the “importation and burning of medical waste,” expressing concern about breathing “toxic emissions.”

Nauseating. I don't have much to say about it - any commentary would be superfluous anyway. Have at it in the comments.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/burning_aborted_bab ies_for_electricity_happening_right_here_in_the_usa.html

Dan -- the Conservative one! > justavenger • 7 hours ago
Is it fanaticism to value human life above all other life? Is it fanaticism to do unto others as you would have them do unto you? Is it fanaticism to expect respect for the founding (Christian) principals that made this Nation the greatest nation of all? If it is, then the word has no meaning at all!

More like 1909.....for decades. In the schools, the media, the government, the churches, the arts, the sciences. You name it, they are desecrating it.

justavenger > alogger • 10 hours ago
We can only dream

Conservat1ve • 12 hours ago
It's a growth industry for the leftist rank-and-file. Just wait until the death panels kick in full force...
Jerry_Rigger > Conservat1ve • 11 hours ago
How long before they are burning Granny and Gramps after they receive their lethal injections to "humanely" end their useless lives?

O+Tamandua > Jerry_Rigger • 11 hours ago
And I wonder how many people on the left think that's a really cool idea? (But wouldn't that still leave a "carbon footprint"?)

Monstrous, indeed.

MXLord327 > Jerry_Rigger • 8 hours ago
Yup, the lethal injections poison the meat so they can't be turned into Soylent Green!

Mr.+FreeMarket > MXLord327 • 6 hours ago
Naaa.... the lethal injections only stop the heart from pumping and/or the lungs from moving. There are no "toxins" introduced that would prevent Granny or Gramps from being turned into tasty treats.

Eat up, kiddies. Satan laughs.

Klasko • 12 hours ago
I weep for our nation. May God have mercy on our souls.

Enderr • 13 hours ago
Well it is the liberals wet dream to be just like Europe, congratulations.

willmay > Enderr • 11 hours ago
Yep. and they'd scream to high heaven if their Starbucks coffee were sourced other than from whatever is the politically correct source of the week.

Electricity harvested from incinerated human babies to run the tv, fridge, air con. . . no problem.

numbatdog • 12 hours ago
There comes a time when you take an honest look in the mirror and gasp in disbelief at what you have become.

This is just such a moment. We have become monsters.
Mr.+FreeMarket > numbatdog • 6 hours ago
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States."

Congratulations, Dear Leader. Mission Accomplished.

Ampull4th • 13 hours ago
Electricity is PEOPLE!!!

FreedomRings_CA > Ampull4th • 10 hours ago
Soylent Green for the 21st Century.

posted April 26, 2014 09:32 AM            

Surface thinking leads to the belief that the so called "Greens" are trying to save the planet when that's as far from the truth as it's possible to get.

Economics
Greens Are Reds
And Republicans need to prove it to voters.
Stephen Moore
May 2014 issue

I would like to modestly propose that it is time for conservatives to combat the most economically dangerous and statist movement in the world today, and it is not socialism. It is the modern-day green movement, which is not run by people who primarily want to keep the air we breathe and the water we drink clean, or safeguard endangered species like tigers and bald eagles, or prevent urban blight—every sane person is for those things. Its guiding principle is instead to impede economic growth, material progress, and capitalism.

As the saying goes, green is the new red. The environmental movement has been hijacked by those who worship the created and not the creator. They regard industrialization as retrograde, resource extraction as evil, and human beings as net destroyers of the planet. I remember several years ago reading an article by a prominent environmentalist who said Earth’s greatest problem is that mankind has no natural predator. In other words, it is a global curse that human beings sit atop the food chain.

Just in February, leading environmental groups held a rally against liquid-natural gas terminals and the Keystone XL pipeline, both of which are necessary to export natural gas. Groups like the Environmental Defense Fund argue out loud that America would be better off keeping its resources buried in the ground, even though the shale gas revolution has done more to reduce U.S. carbon emissions than all of the windmills built since the Middle Ages.

The greens are, in short, against almost all forms of electric power, except those that are prohibitively expensive. They are against oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, and hydro, which together account about 90 percent of our electric power production. They want wind and solar energy, which produce about 3 percent of our electricity and aren’t even green. We’d have to pave over entire states and vast stretches of desert with solar panels to produce enough electricity to power our $18 trillion economy. We’d have to drop windmills—whose blades already Cuisinart more than 83,000 hunting birds, such as falcons and eagles, every year—on every hill, plain, and coastline. The entire wilderness would be industrialized with these inefficient contraptions.

But somehow it’s “cool” to be green. Half of Fortune 100 companies advertise how green they are, because executives think it makes them “good corporate citizens.” Even the oil and gas companies, such as Chevron and BP, polish their images, talking about anything but oil and gas. Instead of defending their product, which provides the power that makes everything else—cell phones, microwaves, automobiles, hell, all of modernity—possible, they blush and look the other way. Maybe they should start warning Americans, especially young ones, about what could happen if the green lunatics get their way, when rolling blackouts make the lights and iPods go dark.

They’re not likely to do this, which is why conservatives should do it for them. In reality, green is not cool; green is retrograde. The greatest empowering, life-saving, and prosperity-creating invention perhaps of all time, electric power, is a blessing, not an evil. Saying otherwise is the rhetoric of lunatics and dingbats. Enviros often hold rallies asking Americans to turn off all their electric appliances and gadgets for an hour. Sure. Fine. But they’ll never abstain from those crucial devices for longer—say, a day, or a week, or a month.

So how can we awaken Americans to the insanity of modern greens? The best line of attack might be to expose them as power-grabbing elitists, whose policies would do grievous harm to the poor and disadvantaged that they pretend to care about. Let me explain: The dirty little secret of the modern environmental movement is that it has become a luxury good for the uber-rich. Its policies—from carbon taxes, to renewable energy standards, to crushing regulations on coal plants—would impose high costs on the people who can least afford to pay the green tab.

A Pew Research Center poll released in March offered further confirmation of this truth. It found that only two major voting groups oppose the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline: Democrats who make more than $100,000 annually and Dems with a college or advanced degree. The latter group opposes the pipeline by a 51-35 percent margin—further evidence that a Ph.D. is negatively associated with economic common sense. Keystone won’t benefit millionaires or university professors much. Lower electric utility costs and hiring from the oil and gas drilling bonanza throughout North America hasn’t materially affected their lives. Few lawyers or community organizers will ever deign to stoop so low as to take one of these blue-collar jobs.

This is a huge and problematic fault line inside the usually unified Democratic Party. For working-class, hardhat Democrats, a construction project that would create about 5,000 jobs with salaries of $70,000 or more, reduce American dependence on Middle Eastern oil, and cut our trade deficit is close to being a no-brainer. Among Americans outside the White House and the headquarters of the Environmental Defense Fund, supporters of the pipeline outnumber opponents by more than two to one. One study found that the natural gas boom has saved low-income families more than $4 billion a year in utility and heating costs. For the financially pinched poor and middle class, drilling is a godsend—and they want more of it.

One wonders whether wealthy liberals even understand that the green diktats they favor regressive taxes on the poor. Do they care? Environmentalists used to fantasize that their policy mandates would lead to “green jobs” for working men and women, but that bubble popped awfully fast. Just ask the Germans, who are ditching expensive green wind and solar projects as fast as they can to save their flagging economy.

The Left’s opposition to domestic energy production in America—and more broadly, a carbon-based industrial economy—offers conservatives and Republicans a once-in-a-generation opportunity to win back the old Reagan Democrat swing voters, perhaps for the long haul. These are middle-class, blue-collar workers who care about their families and their jobs, not the snail darter or the prairie chicken. They have no interest in closing down steel plants and coal mines and oil operations just to send all these jobs to India, Russia, and China. The jobs that the greens are trying to outsource are their jobs. What Nancy Pelosi and her Sierra Club friends don’t understand is that after five years of Obama’s green “investments” and nearly 20 million unemployed or underemployed, most Americans are much more interested in saving their jobs than the planet.

posted April 26, 2014 10:12 AM            

Yesterday we reported on the British Columbia Health Ministry's admission that it was sending the remains of aborted babies to a waste-to-power facility in Oregon. Disgusted by this practice, the Marion County Board of Commissioners has put a halt to all burning of medical waste while the situation is investigated:

“We are outraged and disgusted that this material could be included in medical waste received at the facility,” said Commissioner Janet Carlson. “We did not know this practice was occurring until today. We are taking immediate action and initiating discussions with Covanta Marion to make certain that this type of medical waste is not accepted in the future.”

Marion County Chair Sam Brentano says if that is the case it cannot be tolerated. He immediately stopped the burning of all medical waste while the county looks into the report. An emergency commission meeting was scheduled for Thursday morning.

“Bottom line I’m not going to facilitate abortion,” said Brentano. “It’s the ultimate disrespect to innocence.”

We can only hope that their statements are sincere and that this will stop. Someone, somewhere knew that this was happening, and they should be removed immediately. Medical personnel and everyone else at facilities such as these should not be so naďve to think that aborted waste is treated humanely.

Keep in mind that in Canada all human flesh is required to be incinerated, including aborted babies as long as parents do not object for religious reasons:

Human anatomical waste, consisting of human tissues, organs, and body parts, but excluding teeth, hair, and nails, must be incinerated in a biomedical waste incinerator or destroyed in a crematorium incinerator.

Note: For religious or ethical reasons, human anatomical waste consisting of organs or body parts may in some cases be buried with human remains in a cemetery.

It is unclear how much of the incineration is done in order to heat homes or provide electricity.

Investigations into other facilities should continue to ensure this is dealt with and ended.

posted April 27, 2014 02:45 PM            

[more ludicrous; most ludicrous]

: very foolish : ridiculous