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Dems seek biodegradable fanny packs.

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Rupert Murdoch, a devout greenie himself, owns the Wall Street Journal, which reports that it's not easy being green. The WSJ tells us those Dems planning the Denver mob event convention "are discovering the perils of trying to stage an event that's also politically and environmentally correct."

The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.

Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: "That just doesn't exist."

Ditto for the baseball caps. "We have a union cap or an organic cap," Mr. DeMasse says. "But we don't have a union-organic offering."

They blame Denver's Dem Mayor John Hickenlooper, who is both named 'Hickenhooper' AND has challenged the Dems to organize "the greenest convention in the history of the planet." So the Dems hired an environmental activist to be their first-ever Director of Greening. I'm not making it up.

Now, she must pull it off.

To test whether celebratory balloons advertised as biodegradable actually will decompose, Ms. Robinson buried samples in a steaming compost heap. She hired an Official Carbon Adviser, who will measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed. The Democrats hope to pay penance for those emissions by investing in renewable energy projects.

Perhaps Ms. [Greening Director Andrea] Robinson's most audacious goal is to reuse, recycle or compost at least 85% of all waste generated during the convention.

How does one reuse… oh, never mind. These people are freaks.

Read On…

The greenieness will affect the diets of the Dem rioters conventioneers:

Among them: No fried food. And, on the theory that nutritious food is more vibrant, each meal should include "at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white." (Garnishes don't count.) At least 70% of ingredients should be organic or grown locally, to minimize emissions from fuel burned during transportation. "One would think," says Mr. [Republican Convention spokesman Matt] Burns, "that the Democrats in Denver have bigger fish to bake -- they have ruled out frying already -- than mandating color-coordinated pretzel platters."

Freaks, I tell you.

But what if the "wrong people" which to help with the greening-down of this mob scene convention?

But it's almost inevitable that principles, politics and profit will conflict. To wit: Coors Brewing Co., in Golden, Colo., will donate biofuel made from beer waste to power the convention's fleet of flex-fuel vehicles. A green star for the convention -- but it has rankled die-hard liberals, who boycotted Coors in the 1960s and '70s to protest hiring practices that they said discriminated against blacks, Latinos, women and gays. Heirs to the Coors fortune have long been active in conservative causes and Republican politics.

Convention officials say Coors is a good corporate citizen. And a Coors spokeswoman says the donation was a gesture of civic pride, not politics.

No matter, grumbles Anna Flynn, a longtime union member from Denver who objected to the donation. "Any way you put it, it's still Coors," she says.

Thirty-years-ago, Coors Brewing Co. might not have hired the people the freaks wanted them to hire, which could well have been a bad thing despite the looneys, and these folks still feel a need to vent frustration?

Freaks, I tell you. It's not like they're making a deal with Annheiser-Busch. (No prob. They won't be rioting in Missouri.)

What impact will this Green Convention have on the environment? None. It's a gimmick, a little fake imagery to allow the media to claim that the Dems have made a point. The GOP is doing some greenery at their convention, but nothing to the extent of the Dems' freakishness.

Now, although the term "freak" and its derivatives, I use in a pejorative sense; the Obamakins, on the other hand, or so wrapped up in their evanescent message of hopechangehope that the null seems natural. It makes sense to use biodegradable fanny packs because… well, the gimmick is the message. The gimmick is all in the campaign they support.

But the WSJ piece tells us that they could not find fanny packs which met the requirements of greeniosity, so I suppose they await a ruling from Lord Al on how many carbon credits they have to purchase with the money left over after they retire Hillary's debt. But carbon credits, you might be thinking, are a gimmick.

Indeed. Hopechangehope out.