July 28, 2017 Politadick

July 28 at 9:27am Alaska "The Green Thing" Politadick

THE "GREEN THING"

Checking out at the local store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my day."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation didn't care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized and refilled, so they could use the same bottles over and over. Yes, they were recycled.

Grocery stores used brown paper bags that were reused for numerous things. The most memorable (besides garbage bags) was the use of book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) wasn't defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

We used the stairs because we didn't have escalators in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store instead of climbing into a 300-horsepower machine to go a few blocks.

We washed the baby's diapers. We dried clothes on a line (come to think of it, wind and solar power really did dry our clothes!). Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their older siblings, not always brand-new clothing.

We had one TV or radio in the home--not in every room. And the TV screen was the size of a handkerchief. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand. When we packaged and mailed a fragile item, we used wadded-up newspapers, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working instead of going to a health club to run on electric treadmills.

We drank water from a fountain or a hose instead of a plastic bottle that gets thrown away. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying new ones, and replaced razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

People took the streetcar or bus. And kids either walked or rode their bikes to school instead of riding in the family's $40,000.00 SUV or van.

We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances.

We didn't need a computer gadget that received a satellite signal 23,000 miles in space just to find the nearest burger joint.

Isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

***Something to really think about***

July 28 at 10:48am Alaska ADN Democrats urge investigations into Trump administration efforts to pressure Murkowski Top Democratic congressmen asked the Government Accountability Office and the Interior Department’s independent Inspector General to launch… Some Democratic lawmakers became unlikely allies of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski after a report of pressure that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was exerting on Murkowski on behalf of President Trump.

Once again Murkowski fails to stand on the principles that got her elected.....

I do not want to label her a Rino, but it's clear that is what she has become....

President Trump is right, she did break her promise...

Murkowski is in a hard spot to be in.... Due to Governor Walker unilateral decision to expand Healthcare in Alaska without the people who live here's consent.

She, if voted yes on this, would half to explain why the expansion need to be repealed here and that 34,000 people would need to find jobs and not abuse the system like they do.

But if she voted yes, it would mean that her one Priority, Planned Parenthood would be defunded.

Her big donor would half to find money from someplace other then the federal government.

Her vote had nothing to do with the state of Alaska's people and Everything to do with Special Interests.

On the other side of Planned Parenthood, their Healthcare coverage in Alaska is unique, compared to the other states. If only they would eliminate abortions to be funded, Lisa Murkowski would have voted yes a long time ago....

Now She could have been a shining example of taking a stand against the overspending habits of our local government and help force reforms in their abusive spending habits!

Glad to see Dan Sullivan Made the right choice for Alaska and voted yes

Must read about Murkowski, by all accounts she has betrayed us Alaskans that voted her into office and the 51% that voted for President Trump.

https://www.facebook.com/politadick/posts/1462386480489035

Hypocrite.... Here is her record on Obamacare over the years...... Now she has opposite views against what she once stood for....

https://www.wsj.com/…/notable-quotable-lisa-murkowskis-obam…

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July 28 at 10:55am Alaska Daily News Miner Report: Interior chief warns Alaska senators on health care WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called Alaska's two Republican senators and warned of repercussions for the nation's largest… The Alaska Dispatch News reported Thursday that Zinke called Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and complained that Murkowski's vote against proceeding on legislation to repeal "Obamacare" had put Alaska's future with the administration in jeopardy. Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie to advance the measure earlier this week.