link Spanish Woman Claims She Now Owns Sun.
I guess it rings hollow to claim that I thought of this years ago. It took this shrewd, lucid woman to grab onto something so obvious. Many will undoubtedly chastise themselves for not thinking of it first like the pet rock. Of course, the really difficult part is not claiming ownership, it’s collecting the royalties. I’m sure she’s thought out the logistics of having meters installed on top of every living thing on the planet which benefits from the sun’s rays. No doubt she’s been planning this for years, possibly cornering the meter market. Naturally, there will be those scofflaws who refuse to pay, but I’m sure most will be happy to at last have someone take charge of solar radiation. At the very least, when it’s cloudy or cold, you have someone to lodge a complaint with.
If I were her, I’d start gathering a crack team of lawyers because it’s only a matter of time before the global warming crowd are going to try to pin that on her property. As far fetched as it seems now, the sun may have some role to play in this.
But suffice to say, the warning volley has been fired, the gold rush is on. There are millions of obvious things that have yet to be claimed. The atmosphere for instance. Or water. Fire; now there’s a good one. As for me, I think I’ll put my claim in on the number “0”, the color green and the expletive “oh f**k”. Those that refuse to pay me royalties on these items can live a life of paying 9 cents plus 1, having no green on any of their landscapes and having nothing to yell in pain when they smash their thumbs with a hammer. I’m also thinking of claiming the most common punctuation point, the period, as well. Without proper licensing of periods, the world would be subject to run-on sentences without conclusion. Royalties from these few items should keep me in champagne and caviar for a few decades, minus of course the royalties payable on these piddly items. Capitalism and brains; just can’t beat the combo.
Next big battleground: the ownership fight for gravity.
link UN calls for higher taxes to combat climate warning.
In the classic 1976 horror/suspense teen movie Carrie, an otherwise improbable story is made even more ludicrous when at the end, a hand reaches out from the grave and grasps at the heroine, just when everyone thought the story was over.
The slight ebb in the stupidity which is global warming seems to be making a zombie like comeback a la Carrie. The U.N. which itself is a parasitic leech on nations is calling for another 100 billion dollars or so of taxes in order to fund the fairy tale. While a hundred billion dollars may not be as much as a year ago before the devaluation of the dollar, it’s still a lot of hooch to throw down the bottomless pit of global warming initiatives. If we spent that towards let’s say, global hunger, I might buy it.
It’s not good enough that the west is abstaining from personal washing, re-using shopping bags, driving electric skateboard-like deathtraps and recycling eggshells. Only through imposition of taxes can the imminent destruction of earth be avoided. More research is needed to find the root causes and find ‘sustainable solutions’. In point of fact, they will determine that since man (especially western man) is the root cause of warming, they must be eliminated or reduced. They have to eliminate man to save man. Hmmm. More than enough evidence has emerged which pushes back at the credibility of the doomsday claims of the movement that sane rational people should at least be skeptical of the ongoing bleating.
My suspicions are that the movement is being funded by the travel and hospitality industries which have much to gain from ongoing conferences in exotic locales. If someone decided to tally up the benefits to airlines, taxis, limos, hotels and bars which service this industry, I”m sure we’d understand the need to keep the debate alive. To say nothing of the millions of chickens sacrificed as dinner for these earnest conventioneers. Next thing you know, someone will link the decline of the chicken population to global warming. That would be hard to argue. Naturally, that would be a government funded study. Please let the Zombie die already.