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2008-05-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Prince Chuck: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster
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Posted by john frum 2008-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1  I would be a blinding idiot if I had not learnt a bit by now

Yes, you would, O Prince of Whales. Yes, you would.

I don't know about you guys, but somehow I feel vaguely cheated when the objects of our mockery besnark themselves like this.
Posted by SteveS 2008-05-19 01:14||   2008-05-19 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Prince Chuck likes to play fast and loose with everyone's money but his own. Put yer poke where yer mouth is, or shut yer gob.

There are other ways of protecting the forest besides throwing money at it. Geeze Louise, I am sick of this over capitalized welfare case.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-05-19 01:32||   2008-05-19 01:32|| Front Page Top

#3 TOPIX/RUMORMILLNEWS > TREMORS/AFTERSHOCKS PERSIST IN CHINA QUAKE ZONE; + WIRED > TWO-MILE HIGH URBAN TERMITE MOUND TO HOUSE MANKIND'S SWIRLING HUMANITY. ALso TREE/FLORA, etc. = NATURE-inspired designs. The JETSON'S SKY CITY(S) = SKY APT(S) BUILDINGS RISETH???

I like CLOUDS, didn't everybody??? One of these days GEORGE LUCAS and I need to have a long talk on FUTUREWORLD, + wid MICHAEL MOORE vv 9-11!?
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-19 03:48||   2008-05-19 03:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Once upon time much of Britain and Europe was forested. Perhaps the prince would do something about that, eg starting with the royal acres. If he applies to the American Forests Global ReLeaf program, they should be able to provide him with trees native to his area at about a dollar each, plus the Americans will organize getting them planted. They've already managed projects in Siberia and Versailles, amongst other places, and had planted over 25 million trees in the U.S. and around the world as of two years ago. Besides being climate altering for Britain, think of all the wildlife habitat that would be created, resulting in an increase in wildlife population.

But that would force him to admit that the issue can be addressed without everyone except him reverting to the lifestyle of medieval peasants.

Really, the man isn't fit to reign!
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-05-19 04:54||   2008-05-19 04:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Being an American (now) I have little warrant to comment on the British succession, but since Charley himself does not hesitate to run his mouth about things that are not his affair, I will do so as well:

If it were my call, he could still be king if he does the following:
-Gives away his Arab costumes
-Gets Camilla's teeth fixed
-Makes her promise not to wear a weed in her hair again
-Dresses in sackcloth and ashes and conducts a pilgrimage; barefoot and carrying a cross; to the site of Winston Churchill's grave at Chartwell, there to lie prostrate for 40 days and 40 nights as atonement for his many acts of adultery, dhimmitude, and general moonbattery.

After that, we might talk about the crown, assuming his mum does not outlive him, which is actually fairly likely given the family history.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-05-19 05:57||   2008-05-19 05:57|| Front Page Top

#6 In an interview on Radio 4's Today programme, the Prince disclosed that he had raised his concerns with the White House, Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, and President Sarkozy, of France. He said he had pressed Barclays, Shell, Goldman Sachs and McDonald's to join his campaign.

He is said to be in contact with the Federation of Planets and the Fremen of Dune as well.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-05-19 06:01||   2008-05-19 06:01|| Front Page Top

#7 This man is no King.

Prince William shall be King.
Posted by newc">newc  2008-05-19 06:36||   2008-05-19 06:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Charles shows the inevitable result of centuries of royal inbreeding.
Posted by RWV 2008-05-19 07:29||   2008-05-19 07:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Chucky has enough dough to set up an endowment that would pay off that kind of money. If its a life and death scenario, why doesn't he front us the money and be the savior of the entire human race??????
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-19 07:42||   2008-05-19 07:42|| Front Page Top

#10 I bet Chuck and Al Gore get secretly married in California. Too wierd and too gay to be leaders.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-05-19 08:57||   2008-05-19 08:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Great call TW.
Posted by Broadhead6 2008-05-19 10:17||   2008-05-19 10:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Psst! Hey, Brits! I got a phrase for you to start with!

"When in the course of human events..."
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-05-19 10:34||   2008-05-19 10:34|| Front Page Top

#13 You know, he's probably got tens of thousands of acres of open parkland mown daily by groundskeepers. He could always turn those back into royal forests.
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2008-05-19 10:54|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2008-05-19 10:54|| Front Page Top

#14 The case against inbreeding.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-05-19 11:15||   2008-05-19 11:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Every time I read about him the inner American in me feels an urge to turn towards Philadelphia and recite: "God Bless George Washington! God Bless Thomas Jefferson! God Bless the Constitution! God Bless the Declaration of Independence! God Bless the Republic!".
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-05-19 11:54||   2008-05-19 11:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Someone's finally broken the long standing record of the "stupidest environmental prediction award". Actor Ted Danson has been clutching the award for the last 9 years. His 1988 prediction that "the ocean would be dead in 10 years" and that "human life would be dead shortly after that" didn't come to fruition by 1998. He has laid claim to the award ever since.
Posted by Intrinsicpilot 2008-05-19 12:08||   2008-05-19 12:08|| Front Page Top

#17 JFM, when are you moving over?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-19 12:37||   2008-05-19 12:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Hey, Chuck, I gotta' deal for ya'. For each $5 you send me, I'll plant 2 trees somewhere here in the USA. That's right, $5=2 live trees planted! Over the course of a month those 2 trees will create more oxygen and recycle more CO2 than all the hot air you spew over the course of your entire life.

BTW, that bit about "The number of birds, animals, marine and freshwater creatures in the world has dropped by almost one third, according to the WWF conservation organisation. It found that between 1970 and 2005 land-based species fell by 25 per cent, marine species by 28 per cent and freshwater species by 29 per cent." is total horseshit. If the total number of land-based organisms had really fallen by 25% in the last 35 years, everyone on the plant would know it becasue, guess what, we're land-based organisms too!

What a load...(if anyone wants to send me $5 I really will plant 2 trees though - I need a carbon credit website).
Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2008-05-19 14:48||   2008-05-19 14:48|| Front Page Top

#19 So he's going to pay those people not to farm? Sounds like the USDA.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-05-19 14:59||   2008-05-19 14:59|| Front Page Top

#20 How about if he gives 'em some condoms while he's at it?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-05-19 15:05||   2008-05-19 15:05|| Front Page Top

#21 He's way wrong. We only have 3 hours and 47 minutes. Never mind, break out your pith helmets or long-johns depending on your local weather.
Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-19 19:20||   2008-05-19 19:20|| Front Page Top

#22 DEAR PRINCE CHUCK,

I AM A FORMER CHIEF OF THE GLOBAL WARMING MINISTRY OF NIGERIA. I AM IN POSESSION OF 120 MILLION EUROS WORTH OF CARBON OFFSETS. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HELP ME GET THIS PROPERTY OUT OF THE COUNTRY, I WILL SPILT THE PROCEEDS WITH YOU. IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE TRANSFER OF THE OFFSETS, I WILL NEED TO OBTAIN FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF ...

:~)
Posted by Barrister Florong Bucket 2008-05-19 21:35||   2008-05-19 21:35|| Front Page Top

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