Pelosi Wants Banana Peels for Capitol Compost
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol green campaign is gunning for banana peels. Congressional offices are being encouraged to use compost bins to collect veggie and fruit peels for later use in Capitol gardens. The Architect of the Capitol wants a bin in every office kitchen. Some staffers are holding their nose. "Imagine that smell in the kitchen as meeting attendees walk by," says a Senate Democratic aide. "Lovely."
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While everybody is sleeping the boats put out to sea
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It seemed the answers were so easy to find
Too late, the prophets [profits] cry
The island is sinking let us take to the sky
Called the man a fool striped him of his pride
Everyone was laughing up until the day he died
And though the wound went deep
Still he is calling us out of our sleep
My friends we are not alone
He waits in silence to lead us all home
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Compost
Composting does provides green jobs as mentioned, and it also provides an important agricultural soil amendment that can reduce our dependence on fossil-fuel based fertilizers and pesticides, which is important not only for national security but for our food security. So quit sniping all you naysayers and start taking responsibility for the waste you generate every day. If you don't compost it yourself, then at least take advantage of the programs in your area which can divert that material to good use.
recycle the hot air
How about recycling all that hot air from those gasbags?
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