Being an early riser, I often switch on the TV to catch Fox News or CNBC first thing in the morning. Usually the TV is tunes to channel 483 or whatever we were watching the night before, and early morning TV is a wasteland of 30-minute infomercials selling Rock Hard Abs! or No Money Down Real Estate! (My personal favorite is the seemingly ubiquitous Is Colon Detox Hype?, but that’s the subject of another diary on another blog. You’re welcome.)
This morning, however, instead of TMI! relative to John Wayne’s terminal blockage, there was an infomercial I hadn’t seen before: these kind folks are selling a book (“Not available in stores! As seen on TV!”) with the title The Green Millionaire, subtitled “A Practical Guide to Achieving Real Wealth While Helping to Save the Planet”. By following its easy steps, you can:
- Learn how to keep your gas tank full for free.
- Get big dollars to “green” your home, even if you rent.
- Get your share of the billions that will go unclaimed in Government “green” money.
One of the “tips” they offered for free: You can save money while saving the planet by not buying bottled water! Who knew?! Of course, saving the environment is not without its risks.
Most people talk big about being “green”, but they feel they’ve done their part toward saving the planet if they let a hotel guilt trip them into using the towels twice.
Bottom line, this is just another “get rich quick” scheme a la Matthew Lesko, or even the Nigerian 419 scams, but with a green twist. Government money is not “free money”, no way, no how.
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
The Green Millionaire sounds like an Algore biography
peg_c (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:26PM EST (link)Then again, he just spouts green gas. But he’s rich!
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
There will be plenty that Get Rich with the Green scam
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:39PM EST (link)it won’t be any of the folks that buy that book however… Ask TBP (T.Boone Pikens boondoggle – TBP blows wind, not harnessing it) as he learned the Lib’s weren’t going to let him in on the Govt. largess to Richness club they are reserving for only Democrat cronies in the Climate $cam.
related reviewable:
Climate $cam – Climate $cam
+GreenCzar:VanJones – summing up Van Jones – Throwing Radicals at the Wall to see Who Sticks, those that don’t fall under the Bus
+Wildfires – Wildfires and Environmentalists
+Cycles/Shift – Climate Cycles/Shifts
+AccuWeather cool trend – AccuWeather COOL trend
+Another Liberal Schmuck recognizes, too late, Failed Democrat Enviro-Terrorist policies – Comedian Paul Rodreguiz’s Family Farm dying of Man-Made (read: Dem. Policy imposed) Drought and here
+C&T excuses – How/Why MI Officials spin CAT being “okay”
+Polar Bear myth – Political Class’ diary: Polar Bear population
+Militarized Oil Drilling – using the Military to Drill (Natl. Defense Strategic issue)
+China projects – China gets the Flood/Drought Cycles preperation right
+tidal-gen – Tidal power generation (finally)
+Earth 2100 – Earth 2100 TV special (Liberal propaganda)
+Mileage Taxes – Vehicle Mileage Tax – Incremental implimentation (Electric cars only FIRST!)
+T.Boone Pikens boondoggle – TBP blows wind, not harnessing it
+GM literally goes Green? – GM to literally go Green? (Post Bankruptcy WA$TE)
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Al Gore has amassed $100 million under the scam
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6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 4:01PM EST (link)We all know what happened next.
FWIW, two main street commercials that are indulging in absurd green imagery are
1. The investment mgmt ad (Franklin/Templeton?) showing wind farms while touting the firm’s ability to spot value (ever been to Spain?)
2. The commercial attempting to associate America with innovation while the speaker holds up a mercury-containing “eco-friendly” lightbulb. (Does no one notice that the Emperor has no clothes?)
I'm holding out for the return to Lead based Housepaints
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 4:09PM EST (link)in the name of Saving Energy
lol
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
new "Green bulbs" versus Terrorist threat...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 4:16PM EST (link)A man threatening to break glass containers with Mercury in them to potentially harm Americans would be considered a BIO-HAZARD TERROR THREAT while Liberals pushing those same (smaller scale) items to light homes and risk accidents (with the countless pages of REQUIRED clean-up procedures if they break) is ECO-FRIENDLY… I think these bulbs were invented by ELF.
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Lol on the hotel guilt trip
matt_in_fl (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 4:43PM EST (link)I know exactly what you mean. I stayed in a hotel in Orlando in March and they try to get people to thing they’re “going green” and that people should do x, y, and z to chip in. Never mind that it’s just a ploy to help them save on their utility bills. I certainly don’t have a problem with businesses saving money – lower costs for them, lower prices for me – but don’t feed me some b.s. about saving the world by taking a shorter shower.
The best thing about freedom is that you can, within reason, do as you please. The worst thing about freedom is, so can everybody else.