{"id":1193,"date":"2009-07-27T22:36:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T03:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2009-07-27T22:36:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T03:36:50","slug":"george-carlin-on-saving-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"George Carlin on Saving The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video clip is a bit dated, but considering more and more stores in Canada are starting to charge 5 cents for plastic shopping bags, I feel it is very appropriate.  Al Gore and his environmentalistas could use a bit of good old fashioned George Carlin realism.  Here is a perfect dose..<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of charging for grocery bags, I have to say that I am all for minimizing garbage.  But realistically, I can buy 100 Kitchen Catcher(tm) bags for about $5.00, or I can bring home plastic grocery bags for a nickel each.  In either case I have trash bags for my kitchen for the same price.  I just hate the fact that some stores are going to take the 5 cents per bag and donate it to charities that I may not want to support like the World Wildlife Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it is these same stores that send you half a pound of flyers in the mail twice a week without a single iota of environmental conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Now THAT&#8217;S OfficiallyScrewed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WARNING:  THE VIDEO BELOW CONTAINS COURSE LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR SOME VIEWERS.  IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY COURSE LANGUAGE, DO NOT WATCH.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eScDfYzMEEw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eScDfYzMEEw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>H\/T:  Nick V.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video clip is a bit dated, but considering more and more stores in Canada are starting to charge 5 cents for plastic shopping bags, I feel it is very appropriate. Al Gore and his environmentalistas could use a bit of good old fashioned George Carlin realism. Here is a perfect dose.. On the subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,19,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-environment","category-officiallyscrewed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}