Open Thread

Something to cheer you up on a rainy day.

George Harrison & Paul Simon – Here Comes the Sun

This is really beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utg9inWsSlI&feature=related

Dave, that’s too much to read at this hour. Summary?

Under the heading “You Can’t Make This Stuff
Up,” the Copenhagen climate summit is in full swing
and the delegates are leaving a “footprint” bigger than
“Sasquatch” if we are to believe the reports there. The
Telegraph in London reports that a record number of
limousines have been deployed to and will be used in
Copenhagen this week by the delegates to the
convention. Those in the business of leasing
limousines in the city were expecting an increase in
demand of course, but the increase has gone beyond
their wildest imagination. The head of one company
had expected that perhaps 200 limousines would be
needed this week, up from Copenhagen’s regular
demand for perhaps 50 on any given day. However,
the demand has risen to more than 1200, and as one
company owner said
We haven’t got enough limos in the country to
fulfill the demand [so]…we’re having to drive
them in hundreds of miles from Germany and
Sweden.
When asked how many of the delegates had asked for
a “hybrid” fuel driven limousine, the same company
owner said
Five. The government has some alternative
fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel.
We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark,
unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on
those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s
very Danish.
So in two swift statements, this limousine company
owner has exposed the utter and complete hypocrisy
of the climate change crowd and has exposed the
idiocy of Danish taxation, and has given us a good
laugh at the expense of the climate changers.
Further, and leaving even bigger carbon footprints, we
are told that the local airport is expecting 140 extra
private jets during the peak period of landings and
take-offs. This is so far above the airport’s capacity
that the planes are being diverted to other regional
airports, requiring that the limousines drive much
farther than had been expected to pick up their
passengers and transport them back to Copenhagen.
Which will then, of course, require that they be ferried
back to these same regional airports in the same fuel
using limousines when the passengers/delegates in
question fly home. You can’t make this stuff up. You
just can’t! Sometimes it’s just too easy

“because their dress is offensive – the girls wear skimpy outfits and we don’t like to look at them – its no good”

SIMPLE then, DON’T LOOK.