Funny Friday - Teen Almost Wins

A teenage boy called Joel had just passed his driving test and asked Dad when they could discuss his use of the car.

Dad said 'Ill make a deal with you Joel, You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut. Then we'll talk about the car."

The boy thought about that for a moment, decided he'd settle for the offer, and they agreed on it.

After about six weeks his father said, "Joel, you've brought your grades up and I've seen that you have been studying your Bible. But I'm disappointed you haven't had your hair cut."

"You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that, and I've noticed in my Bible studies that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair, and there's even strong evidence that Jesus had long hair."

"Joel, did you also notice all those people walked everywhere they went?"

Blue Whales Want to Be Extinct

The Onion does it again, great article!

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN—Claiming that their miserable lives had become too depressing to endure, the world's remaining blue whales surfaced Monday and desperately pleaded with environmentalists to immediately cease all conservation efforts so the species could "just be done with it and finally go extinct."

The planet's last few thousand blue whales gathered around the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in the Bering Sea at approximately 9:45 a.m., thanking the activists on board for their good intentions, but also stating that the oceans had become so polluted, they had decided it was simply not worth going on.

Read the entire article here.

Green Cars from the UK

Nice look at green cars from the Brussels Auto Show

Crazy Way to Crush a Car

It is amazing that this guy walked away from this crash!

Here comes a brand new Go Green Portal

I was cruising the net looking for cool gadgets and other important things like new xbox releases and stumbled upon a great little green portal, you can see recycling news, read a blog, surf the directory or hang-out with like-minded folks on the forums. Worth a peek if you have the time and are a 'green' lover.

Cash for Clunkers Program is Running on Empty

I was just perusing one of my favorite green blogs and it seems the cash for clunkers program AKA CARS is completely empty of its 875,000,00 million dollars. That was fast!!! But here is some hot news off the press. Another 2 Billion would be great!

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told colleagues Friday morning that the House will vote today on a measure to transfer $2 billion from the stimulus to replenish the depleted cash-for-clunkers program, which has run out of money in its first week.

Under the fast-track bill, Democratic leaders will use funds from a renewable energy loan guarantee included in the stimulus, according to the bill text, obtained by POLITICO.

The bill would extend the program through Sept. 30, 2010. Democrats have portrayed the run on cash for clunkers cash as a great success for the $1 billion program, which allows car owners to turn in older, less fuel efficient cars for a $4,500 rebate to purchase higher gas mileage vehicles.

“Cash for Clunkers may have run out of cash, but America’s consumers haven’t run out of clunkers. We’re going to work with the Obama administration to keep this wildly successful program going until it reaches its goal of helping consumers take 1 million gas guzzlers off the road,” said Rep. Ed. Markey (D-Mass.), who co-authored the legislation.

What is Going On with Cash for Clunkers

If you are like me and try and keep up with all the biggest 'green' initiatives then you should keep a close eye on the cash for clunkers program, which is now being named CARS and that stands for Car Allowance Rebate System. You can check the .gov site often but for some real insight you can visits sites like Cash for Clunkers Blog.