link Israeli MP plans popcorn law for movie munchers.
Israel, which is threatened with nuclear annihilation every day and which suffers the odd rocket attack in the suburbs, has finally got around to addressing the great ill facing their society. Yes, overpriced popcorn. On the one hand the epitome of insouciance, on the other, a severe case of nothing better to do.
Who among us has not fretted over the looney tunes price of popcorn at the movie concession stands, where the price of a bag comes close to the price of admission. Have we not all cried quietly to ourselves as we are compelled to buy popcorn against our will in order to simply watch some forgettable flick? If only popcorn and movies didn’t go together like fish net stockings and sex.
Come to think of it, this all makes sense now. Movie makers spend some nominal amount of money to make a film, hype it up and then use that as a conduit for popcorn sales! Track the activities of James Cameron thoroughly enough and I bet you’ll find the hand of Orville Redenbacher at work. Don’ t forget when you consume popcorn, you are also required to drink drum sized containers of soda pop, which also costs about an hour of minimum wage work, gross of taxes.
Finally, someone looking out for the regular folk. The minister Shama says:
“…We have to put an end to this. The public should not have to mortgage their houses for a soft drink and a snack…”
While I have frowned on using this kind of hyperbole a million times, the minister is showing that he is doing some public good and is deserved of office. He would fit easily into Canadian society. As an example, I’m not saying that a beer and a hot dog are expensive at a hockey game, but it seems like too much of a coincidence that a pawn shop has opened up in the arena next to the cash machines. Just saying.
BBC News – Today – Lovelock: ‘We can’t save the planet’.
Well finally, something sane from a person reasonably familiar with the whole climate change debate. While it was this scientist who expressed that people were too stupid to do anything about climate change, he now expresses his belief that:
“… the earth’s climate will not conveniently comply with the models of modern climate scientists. As the record winter cold testifies, he says, global temperatures move in “jerks and jumps”, and we cannot confidently predict what the future holds…”
In addition:
Prof Lovelock does not pull his punches on the politicians and scientists who are set to gain from the idea that we can predict climate change and save the planet ourselves. Scientists, he says, have moved from investigating nature as a vocation, to being caught in a career path where it makes sense to “fudge the data”.
Let’s get real here. The planet has been around a long time and will continue to be around long after the current hysteria of doom wears off. It’s as if after millions of years of existence, man’s effect on earth over the past 100 years will doom all life forms. There have been ‘end of the earth’ guys around forever because I suppose it sells newspapers. It’s truly ironic that with the supposed increase in access to information afforded to all in the modern age, there has not been the commensurate uptick in common sense. Perhaps it’s the phenomenon of too much information and people are lazy and prefer to have it distilled for them. So we can’t blame it all on the people with their hair on fire, people have to blame their own naivete. As an illustration of this, John Stossel, a consumer reporter, ex of ABC and now with Fox News went around New York recently with a petition in hand to solicit people to ban “di-hydrogen oxide”. This product was odorless and tasteless but was pitched as a danger to mankind.
As you can guess, he was able to sign up almost everybody he asked even though the product he was referring to was H2O, which is of course, water. The issue going forth is how to push back against those who are deeply mired in the global warming crap and feel they must dig deeper in order to save face. This professor Lovelock has done that to his credit. Will Gore and the gang put down their shovels? Methinks not. He will continue to dig.