Political Humor

Last time we checked in on Britain’s favorite moonbat monarch Prince Charles he was the recipient of Mommy’s Little Gardener Award. Now he’s become a “expert” on flowers and Climate Change .

According to the man who might-not-ever-be-King Charles, we only have until July, 2017 before Global Warming, that made-up scientific “theory” that stopped happening a decade ago will kill all of us:

The heir to the throne told an audience of industrialists and environmentalists at St James’s Palace last night that he had calculated that we have just 96 months left to save the world.

This was surely based on his scientific credentials. What, he isn’t a scientist? Sorry my bad.

I meant to say that Charles, England’s answer to Al Gore based this on computer models. What, he used a dartboard to come up with 96 months?

And in a searing indictment on capitalist society, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and that the “age of convenience” was over.

This coming from a guy who hasn’t cooked a meal or ironed his own clothes his entire life. How about you make your own dinner without the help of your servants Charles before you preach convenience to the rest of us who actually have had a paying job at least once in our lives?

Most of us actually have to pay for our energy usage after all. We do not have the luxury of having our royal palace foot all our bills. Or do our laundry for us.

The Prince, who is advised by the leading environmentalists Jonathon Porritt and Tony Juniper, said that even the economist Adam Smith, father of modern capitalism, had been aware of the short-comings of unfettered materialism.

Smith himself never expressly stated this viewpoint*. The idea that he argued against unfettered materialism was something his peers and colleagues surmised from his writings. Sure, he wasn’t a big fan of monopolies but it takes two to tango. In order for there to be unfettered materialism there has to be the demand on the consumer end as well.

Without it there is no materialism.

Geez, there I go injecting reality into all this. My bad again. People are actually forced to buy things they can’t afford.

That evil Capitalist system!

Did I mention Adam Smith was a Scot? Hundreds of centuries ago the Brits looked to breeding to wipe out Scottish intelligence. Today I guess all Buckingham Palace can do is to tarnish the legacy of one of Scotland’s greatest economic minds instead.

What was the old saying about straws and grasping?

The bright spot is the Prince of Wales has reduced his own carbon footprint by 30%. I would be more impressed if he killed himself and saved the full 100%.

In fact let’s kill off all the environmentalists. They say humans are the problem so I say they go first since they are the ones pressing the issue.

This is like people who say we need higher taxes. Those people should pay more in taxes since they advocate it.

Is putting our money where their mouth is too much to ask from the moonbats? I mean this rhetorically of course because there is no answer.

*If someone can point out where Adam Smith expressly warned against unfettered materialism I will be happy to print a retraction. Good luck.

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Chris Cameron writes this political humor every week here at Radioactive Liberty. You can also read his own unfettered comedy at his humor blog Angry Seafood.

Fear Over Cuba Travel Ban Lift

The AP wonders if Cuba can handle an “onslaught of Americans“:

“A push in Congress to do away with U.S. travel bans on Cuba could set off a flood of American visitors to the long-forbidden island.

But many wonder if a country where foreigners have long complained about lousy food, sluggish service and iffy infrastructure is ready for an onslaught of Americans unseen since the days of Meyer Lansky and Al Capone.”

In other words don’t go to Cuba because it sucks and is a hangout for the mafia. Good to know because I was planning on going there for vacation despite the fact it is an impoverished country.

And who are “the many” who wonder?

It reminds me of a kitchen manager at a place I worked at a few years ago. A cook would do something wrong and he would ask him who told him to do that. The cook replied: “They did.” The kitchen manager retorted: “Who’s they? I’m they!”

The story wasn’t done slamming the country however:

“Cuba has about as many hotel rooms as Detroit…”

Oh man, not a comparison to Detroit. That is the tourism kiss of death.

This Isn’t Star Trek

Now the government wants to play God with the weather:

“Tinkering with Earth’s climate to chill runaway global warming – a radical idea once dismissed out of hand – is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president’s new science adviser said Wednesday.

That’s because global warming is happening so rapidly, John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month.”

How you get a rapid warming trend from falling temperatures is beyond our comprehension I guess. We must not be smart enough to realize that cooling means warming.

Duh.

None the less,  Holdren wants to implement geo-engineering, the imaginary concept of using technology to manipulate the climate of a planet on purpose just like in Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan.

They called it the Genesis Project or something like that in the movie. It also brought Spock back to life a sequel later.

It was also fiction much like the belief in Global Warming as well as this awful analogy:

“Twice in a half-hour interview, Holdren compared global warming to being ‘in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog.’ “

Hmm how do we know Holdren didn’t buy a GM-made car?

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RL Political Humor Quick Hits is written by Chris Cameron every Tuesday exclusively for Radioactive Liberty. You can also read his own odd posts at his humor blog Angry Seafood.