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Sheryl ‘Single Sheet’ Crow should jump right on this.

Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper

Soft Toilet Papers Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative?

By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 24, 2009

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — There is a battle for Americas behinds.

It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for “soft” Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective.

Its a menace, environmental groups say — and a dark-comedy example of American excess.

The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods.

via Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper – washingtonpost.com.

Here’s pretty much everything I ever wanted to know about toilet paper.

This may be the best measure yet of the Boy King’s determination to destroy this country.

Europe’s Lesson

Investor’s Business Daily – Opinion
Posted 06/08/2009 07:38 PM ET

Stimulus: With the votes tallied from a weekend election, it’s now apparent that the European Union has taken another step to the right. There’s a message in this for both the White House and the U.S. Congress.

Results from the vote for the EU Parliament showed huge disaffection among Europeans for state-directed answers to the economic crisis — specifically, for the kinds of massive stimulus programs pushed by the U.S.

Parties allied with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy — who have both made a point of opposing any kind of U.S.-style stimulus — made big gains. Even Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, embroiled in a scandal in his home country, saw his party increase its strength in the Euro Parliament…