• February 15, 2012

COPENHAGEN LEADERS MAKING INSANE AMOUNTS OF PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: “Breaking news: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak announced Wednesday the United States would provide $1 billion over the next three years to preserve tropical forests overseas.” Global temperatures have already dropped ten degrees! [Washington Post]

{ 27 comments }

Suds McKenzie December 16, 2009 at 2:18 pm

I assume that billion is for that Avatar jungle place.

Doglessliberal December 16, 2009 at 2:20 pm

That parrot is mesmerizing.

iwillsavethispatient December 16, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Hey everyone! Looks like we’re all getting Mahogany Tables for Christmas 2012!

ChernobylSoup v2 December 16, 2009 at 2:23 pm

This won’t help Iowa farmers at all. Vilsak is doing this agri gig all wrong.

Green Balloons December 16, 2009 at 2:24 pm

That should make up for the $200 billion we will spend napalming the shit out of other forested areas.

magic titty December 16, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Why don’t we just bomb the rainforests for $20 billion over the next year and save negative $19 billion dollars?

Extemporanus December 16, 2009 at 2:25 pm

We are funding them there so that we don’t have to AAARRRGGGHHH!!

Did anyone just see that?! The parrot fucking moved,, man!

THERE! SEE? IT JUST DID IT AGAIN!!

WHAT THE FUCK YOU GUYS?!

chascates December 16, 2009 at 2:25 pm

Wait till Lieberman hears about this deficit-buster.

JMP December 16, 2009 at 2:25 pm

Cue Republicans who support the Bush tax cuts and wars whining about the deficits in five minutes.

TGY December 16, 2009 at 2:26 pm

iz in ur conference, giving away ur munneys

Gopherit December 16, 2009 at 2:27 pm

Wow…..one billion. That’s maybe 1/10 of what indonesian loggers bring into their economy. That’ll really fix the problem.

comicbookguy December 16, 2009 at 2:33 pm

It’s socialism I tells ya. Redistribution of wealth! I’m staging a die-in in the middle of a third world rain forest, to protest. Everyone send a bag of rock salt to that parrot.

hockeymom December 16, 2009 at 2:36 pm

There’s no global warming in my house. It’s minus 70 zillion because my cheap-ass husband turned down the thermostat again.
If I didn’t love him so much, I’d move to DC and get gay married.

Jim89048 December 16, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Here in the middle of what was once the mighty Mojave National Forest, we sold out for a lot less than $1B. Just sayin’.

Hamster December 16, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Don’t we spend a billion dollars on like, 1 fighter jet?

Extemporanus December 16, 2009 at 2:40 pm

[re=479649]Extemporanus[/re]: The parrot stopped moving now.

He’s dead.

the problem child December 16, 2009 at 2:41 pm

The parrot appears to approve. But parrots have no idea how much it costs to keep them in birdseed. It will cost a lot to stock all those parrot feeders in the rain forest and there won’t be any money left over to prevent the trees they prefer from being knocked over, by chainsaws, to build environmentally sustainable parrot feeders.

WarAndG December 16, 2009 at 2:41 pm

$1 billion?! Do you know how many assault helicopter programs we could buy with that (Oh, probably one)? Anywho, now what will we use so kill our Chinese commmunist, US national debt financiers, if we need to…ah..kill them someday? Because now we’re using our precious hard earned “fruits of my labors” taxes to save some type of endangered flying tree otters and yellow jungle dung beetles. Christ, how many Chinese bad guys and “the terrorists” can we kill with parrots and rubber trees? None you granola chompin’ libtards! None! What a socialist waste. The Founding fathers are rolling around in their graves (again) because of this nanny state hoax called “so-called global warming.”

the problem child December 16, 2009 at 2:43 pm

[re=479674]Hamster[/re]: Your avatar is not a hamster. But it does want to kill you.

V572625694 December 16, 2009 at 2:44 pm

[re=479674]Hamster[/re]: Ha! Fighters (F-22 “Raptor”) are cheap at $361M per copy. How many shall I put you down for?

SayItWithWookies December 16, 2009 at 2:46 pm

Saving the rainforests is a hidden tax on industry. It breeds a culture of dependency — how are rainforests ever going to grow up to become factories and cities if they keep depending on handouts from the US? Rather than these outrageous experiments with socialism, we should try a commonsense approach. I propose we initiate a program of tax cuts and tort reform.

Lionel Hutz Esq. December 16, 2009 at 2:46 pm

As long as I have my piña colada, can global warming really be that bad?

Hamster December 16, 2009 at 2:47 pm

[re=479686]V572625694[/re]: Oh, sorry, 3 fighter jets. …I was going to get one at walmart on Black Friday but my panhandling didn’t go so well that week.

Extemporanus December 16, 2009 at 2:49 pm

[re=479691]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I blame ACORN.

JMP December 16, 2009 at 2:52 pm

[re=479675]Extemporanus[/re]: No he isn’t; he’s just pining for the fjords.

(Sorry; that was obvious).

Extemporanus December 16, 2009 at 3:06 pm

[re=479708]JMP[/re]: As was the set-up.

So, do ya…do ya wanna come back to my place?

comicbookguy December 16, 2009 at 5:01 pm

[re=479691]SayItWithWookies[/re]: You fail the Reaganoid purity test you socialist! Instead of tax cuts and tort reform, you should be demanding tax cuts, tort reform, tax cuts, tax cuts, spam eggs and tort reform.

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