Taking on the Liberals at The College of Charleston
Yesterday, my Alma Mater, The College of Charleston held its second ever "Trash Audit." So, I wrote a snarky little blog about it because it was such a disgusting, ridiculous thing. Apparently, I made some people angry, and they decided to attack me on my blog and Twitter, calling me a pig, and telling me I was brainless. However, some people actually responded with a level head and we got some good discusion going. It seems my blog has affected the College of Charleston "Alliance for Planet Earth," and they want me to come and speak about my point of view. I am a little skeptical of this seemingly polite invite.
Here's what I wrote that caused so much controversey:
Imagine walking down the sidewalk at your local college and walking past a huge pile of putrid smelling trash that stretches across a common area that thousands of students use to get from class to class. Now imagine people accosting you as you walk by saying, "This is your trash! No, this is OUR trash. This is only four days of trash."
This is the annual College of Charleston "Trash Audit." And this is quite possibly one of the most unintelligent and unsanitary things I have ever heard of, but all in the name of saving the environment. Give me a break. Stacks of used, disgusting cups with all kinds of people's saliva on them from the dining hall are stacked, heaven knows what kind of nastiness in the trash bags from the dorms left over from the wild Halloween weekend (let your imagination run wild and free), and people are taking bowls of "trash juice" (gag) and walking down the halls of Maybank and flushing it down the toilet or pouring it down the sinks in the public restrooms. Students are guilt-tripping other students to come help and sort through the trash so that it may be properly recycled. (Recycling can actually be quite harmful to the environment, actually, particularly plastics... but you don't hear that on the news.)
This kind of extreme sensitivity to how much we humans are destroying the earth is getting annoying and it's actually quite dangerous. Imagine all the germs and all kinds of infectious diseases and pathogens that those people were releasing into the atmosphere. Not to cause a scare or anything, but H1N1 has been going around campus.
This monstrous pile of trash was causing students to have to crowd into small areas to get to class because there was hardly any space to walk. For a school to allow this type of unsanitary behavior and public harassment to occur is an embarrassment for an institute of supposed higher learning. How degrading and revolting it is to ask people to stand in the middle of other people's filth and sort through it! It's not the solution to any problem, whether or not you believe that "global warming" is going to destroy us all. It's this type of extreme brainless hype and liberalism that is partially to blame for our country throwing freedom away.
I think I'm going to hold a public Freedom Audit at the College of Charleston and force all these bleeding heart liberals to see what this kind of agenda is actually costing them. These guys have got to stop drinking the Al Gore Kool-Aid and start using some good old fashioned, and yes, all natural (not harmful to the environment) common sense. I hear it's recyclable and is , in fact, a renewable resource.
(so, maybe I was a little harsh...)
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Later, I wrote this in response to the responses I got:
Hey, guys and gals of the College of Charleston Trash Audit!
First, I would like to thank those of you who responded to my blog with a level-headed response instead of personal attacks. I enjoy good discussions and think that they are one of the best ways to accomplish things and get along. I honestly wasn't expecting my blog to get this much attention over what I said yesterday, but if it helps address an issue that needs addressing, then I'm more than happy to oblige.
Agendas and politics aside, through at least one of your comments, I was made aware of the problem that some (or all-- it's hard to tell why some were there, at least based on a pretty harsh comment about my intestines burning one day because of global warming...anyway...) were trying to use the Trash Audit to make students aware of, and that would be the problem of the Charleston landfill, well, filling up.
While I'd like to do a little more research in the area of our local trash and waste problems myself, I am a huge fan of political activism and getting people involved in a cause. I do not believe that spending a bunch of time sifting through nasty trash is the best way to help make the changes that you believe should be made. Most likely, the only people who would be interested in helping sort through trash would be those who are already aware of the problem, and the rest were turned off by the idea. There are much better uses for your time, through educating others in ways that are far less intrusive and unsanitary, holding petition drives, and contacting local officials about your concerns. These are things that, in my experience, are the most effective and time efficient ways for accomplishing goals.
I hope you'll think about what I have to say! I'm retiring from the Trash Audit subject for a while I hope, and getting back to freedom and the Constitution. :)
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Who knows, maybe some people started thinking a little about what they are doing. I could sure use their zeal to help with AUDITING THE FED!!!! I may have to recruit some of them for the cause! AUDIT THE FED and NOT THE TRASH!
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