Gan-"Green" Advertising Is In Need Of Amputation Stat!

Is it just me?

Nah... It can't be... Is it?

I'll tell you, I am absolutely sick of seeing any sort of advertising utilizing "Green" terminology. Sick of it!

Perhaps I'm the only one, and if so, then the world can read along and see this as the delusional writings of some insane nobody who is so far removed from what's 'really going on'.

Here's the problem: whether you believe in anthropogenic global warming, climate change or any other newly created iteration in this realm or not (Disclaimer - I DON'T) do you care if company's are acting in a manner that supposedly has less of an impact on whatever thing it is you believe in than they previously did? If you do, do you want them advertising the crap out of it every possible chance they get?

I don't care if the bus is running on 'clean fuels'
I don't care if the curly lightbulb lasts 8x longer when it costs 20x as much as a regular one
I don't care if there's a reduction in CO2 emissions from one thing or another
Carbon footprint... what? Carbon footprint?!?
Al Gore - umm, nothing else to say here... well, maybe hypocrite...

To all the company's out there who think this is helping to generate business - it's not. At least not from my wallet. I'm so sickened by the connotations with 'green' now that I actively avoid products and company's who use this as a platform to market products. Advertise to me all you want. Track me all over the web and target market things to me. But please, please don't integrate any more 'green' crap into these campaigns. I promise I won't by any more of your products. By that, I mean I won't purchase personally for myself, I won't purchase for friends and family and I'll advise friends and family to avoid them as well. That's all.

Next top tech invention: Anti-Green advertising plug-in

*** For those interested in learning why I have these 'crazed and delusional' ideas, take some time to read this well researched, thorough, objective and easy to understand work on Anthropogenic Global Warming by a former Atmospheric Physicist

Look Out! Barney Frank Is At It Again!

It doesn't take long folks.

While the US and the rest of the world are coming to terms with the depth and magnitude of the current economic downturn, Barney Frank is looking to see if he can reload the tube and torpedo any recovery yet to come.

It's no big secret that a major impetus to the latest changing of gears in the economic cycle was due to the massive over-extension of credit which resulted from relaxing lending guidelines from their traditional risk models. Essentially, the rules were loosened to the point where those who formerly didn't qualify for even a standard fixed rate/term loan were all of a sudden qualifying for complex lending instruments. This was due in large part to efforts from people like Barney Frank who 'fought for the little guy' to insure they could buy a home. I guess the key word here is 'buy'. They may have initially been able to buy a home, but 'owning' one wasn't in the cards.

The ink isn't even dry on the Notices of Default arriving at many of the 'little guys' homes now and Barney Frank is trying to get lenders (who, naturally in reaction to the utter collapse of their portfolios tightened guidelines across the board) to relax lending parameters on condos. In Barney's mind, gone are the days are saving up to put money down on a home. No longer should anybody have to work hard and try to piece together 20% of the purchase price of a reasonable home. It's so 1950's and doesn't buy you votes.

Will Barney's efforts get legs under it and be the 'Green Shoots' of the next housing bubble? Hard telling, but if history is any gauge it certainly looks good for Senator Frank and friends.

How soon we seem to all forget how these things happen.