Metchsedes Ramirez(ph) explains in Ketchua, the indigenous language, that he's performing a ritual honoring the Earth mother.
It's time to "turn up the political heat in Washington so we can turn down the heat on Mother Earth, " Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, told the crowd.
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Indians, once fixed in the American mind's eye as bands of howling savages bent on doing no good to John Wayne, are nowadays more often seen as the devoted children of Mother Earth, determined to preserve the planet for future generations.
Shalene Flanagan set an American record earlier this year, and interestingly enough, in the early '70s, her mother was the first woman on Earth to run under two hours and 50 minutes in a marathon.
Forget the economics and look at the pitiful amount that Mother Earth has left us to play with.
This nonsensical yearning for the Good Old Days of naturally bleak weather, famine, and the Black Plague has its roots in the near-religious myth that anything humans do to affect the natural course of Mother Earth is evil and wrong.
When Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was born one fifth of the Earth's surface was covered by the British Empire.
His mother saw America as the one place on Earth where her son could do anything he wanted.
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As Dolly, Laurie has been saddled with too many saintly attributes, but she makes her character an ethereal earth mother, giving her the weight to carry her head-in-the-clouds lines, and delivers a remarkable performance.
But he never told his mother he was working a half mile under the Earth's surface.
In any case, old Mother Earth can finally begin to relax in the secure knowledge that her medical needs are being addressed by the U.N. and ObamaCare.
Today is Earth Day, and it is very likely that the fact that abundant fossil fuels like oil, natural gas and coal, are natural resources, and gifts to humanity from Mother Earth herself will be lost amid all the frightful doom and gloom predictions that will be launched by environmental activists and repeated by various media outlets.
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That looks like a win for Mother Earth, until you step back and look at the big picture.
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