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posted at 11:30 pm on March 21, 2007 by Allahpundit
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“So save a tree or help heat the world, your choice.”
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Killing trees for fun and profit!
lorien1973 on March 21, 2007 at 11:40 PM
A moonbat trying to make money with threats.
Amazing how he takes no responsibility for what he’s going to do with the trees, but directs it to all non-buyers.
These people were really not brought up well.
INC on March 21, 2007 at 11:44 PM
…erm,….OK…..
james hooker on March 21, 2007 at 11:49 PM
Allah you need to put up a spew warning. One that cautions us to swallow our beverage before viewing. That made me laugh out loud but nearly soaked my monitor in the process. That person has a unique sense of humor – but then, I love wicked comedy.
thedecider on March 21, 2007 at 11:50 PM
Uh, INC… read the text on the auction. Unless I’m totally missing something, this is a joke to MOCK global warmists.
What pisses me off is that he’s got a bid, and no one bid on the “snow on my car” I tried to sell after the Valentines day blizzard literally completely buried my car. (And yes, I really did list the “snow on my car” on eBay, just to see what happened. Nothin! And this guy gets a bid!? Blast!)
RightWinged on March 21, 2007 at 11:58 PM
Hmmm…wonder how much I could get for the shrubbery outside my apartment?
Pay up or the trimmers come out!!!! Muwahahahaha.
Wind Rider on March 21, 2007 at 11:59 PM
When I saw this come over the transom, Allah, I really really hoped you’d post on it. You didn’t disappoint.
Bryan on March 22, 2007 at 12:02 AM
Heh, that was pretty good. Nice find Allah.
Bad Candy on March 22, 2007 at 12:06 AM
Click on the small thumbnail pic with words (if you didn’t already). It’s hilarious.
thedecider on March 22, 2007 at 12:07 AM
Have mercy.
lowandslow on March 22, 2007 at 12:12 AM
RightWinged,
You’re right. My /sarc meter wasn’t working. All I can say in my defense :-) is that I have gotten so used to libs saying the most outrageous things in all seriousness this slipped right by me!
INC on March 22, 2007 at 12:18 AM
Take a look at the stuff this guy buys.
GUN PRON!!
AND he sold a magic wand!!
lol
csdeven on March 22, 2007 at 12:23 AM
INC, don’t feel too bad, these days its a razor thin line between parody and reality when it involves the left.
Bad Candy on March 22, 2007 at 12:23 AM
I think the thumbnail pic needs to be censored.
infidel on March 22, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Heh. You didn’t need to wait for me, y’know…
Allahpundit on March 22, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Bad Candy, too true. Scott Ott must have an easy time finding copy.
INC on March 22, 2007 at 12:32 AM
How much do we need to send him to ensure every tree is killed?
F15Mech on March 22, 2007 at 12:35 AM
One of the few things I learned from “Envirothon” in High School . . . A pine tree (usually is what’s used in paper manufacturing) produces more oxigen in the first five years of its life than id does over the rest of its lifespan. Oh, and recycled paper polutes WAAAAAY more than virgin paper in its creation.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 22, 2007 at 12:42 AM
One of the “related” links provided by eBay suggests the following:
Hey, send me $50 bucks and I’ll promise to seed my yard every year. You can even drive by and see the beautiful lawn you’ve helped create.
Yes, we’re…so…*cough*…desperate for clean air *gasp*.
Try puttin’ the bong down sweetheart and maybe take a walk.
thedecider on March 22, 2007 at 12:43 AM
the decider beat me to it.
But, here’s the link to the Moonbattery.
Nethicus on March 22, 2007 at 12:48 AM
This guy’s a genius.
*clears throat*…and send me money now or else I kill this puppy!
I”m gonna do a weed ‘n feed tomorrow on my lawn, that’s gotta be worth something right?
Mojave Mark on March 22, 2007 at 12:50 AM
Imperialist trees…i like to cut them and let their sap run out on my pancakes. With a nice Chianti.
ronsfi on March 22, 2007 at 12:51 AM
What was your sales pitch? You probably would have sold it if you would have put on there that this may be the last real snow you see because of the upcoming eternal inferno due to global warming.
Hmmm, now I know how I can sell the pile of tires I have in my backyard. Buy a tire or it goes up in smoke and giant hurricanes will wipe out the eastern seaboard.
Rick on March 22, 2007 at 1:04 AM
I didn’t need to wait. I wanted to.
Say, you’ve seen the big maple trees in my yard. Think I can get some moonbat to pay me a few bucks to leave them standing?
Bryan on March 22, 2007 at 1:06 AM
PayPal – This item is covered up to $2,000 See eligibility.
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If I read that correctly PayPal is actually insuring extortion payments for hostage trees?
JayHaw Phrenzie on March 22, 2007 at 1:07 AM
Do you all understand what an opportunity this is?
Take a picture of a tree outside your house, if you don’t find one, download a nice one from the internet.
Go on E-Bay and sell “Carbon Credits”….. using the picture of your tree.
Offer, for payment, a “Carbon Crdit Certificate” that you can re-sell if your “Carbon Footprint” exceeds your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly allowance from the High Priest Gorbacle…..
Tell them they can always come back and purchase more, since such trees are being “planted” in a “Carbon Credit” forest…….. in……….. Carbon Credit Land, who cares, make up a name, and if they wish, they can always try to sell their “Carbon Credit” back to the wasteful populous.
You can sell as many pictures of trees as you can, never having to deliver a seed, just a photo shop certificate……. and that is another opportunity!
Let’s all start creating “Carbon Credit Certificates” to sell to the “Carbon Credit Land”, who will then sell them to the “Carbon Credit” recipients?
Ladies and Gentlemen…… we only have a few years before this hits the fan, but in the mean time, we can make Millions!
TradeMark.. PinkyBigglesworth!
Anyone else want to join in, or have I just unleashed the hounds????
PinkyBigglesworth on March 22, 2007 at 1:15 AM
Make your money off this now before the Dems push the carbon tax through and the government is the only one making a profit on this.
Rick on March 22, 2007 at 1:19 AM
A very interesting take on the topic. How long before the government wants a piece of the carbon-credit action? Is it currently tax-deductible? Are these “charities” recognized by the IRS? The Goracle could be an even bigger hypocrite than we realized.
thedecider on March 22, 2007 at 1:25 AM
Pinky,
When I first read the article I was thinking the same thing.
F15Mech on March 22, 2007 at 1:29 AM
I love the entrepreneurial spirit!
Coyote D. on March 22, 2007 at 1:31 AM
I’d put money on that bet. Make sure you really threaten them. Post a picture of you with a chainsaw standing next to them. That’ll open some wallets.
thedecider on March 22, 2007 at 1:34 AM
Reminds me of http://www.savetoby.com/
Bad Candy on March 22, 2007 at 1:37 AM
Heh. Heh-heh. Heh-heh-heh-heh.
Look what Mr. “TREE KILLER!!!!” recently purchased…
100 Washington Hawthorne seeds
100 Ponderosa Pine seeds
100 Dawn Redwood seeds
I’m in the wrong business. Maybe “tree extortion” is .com boom of the future!
mojojojo on March 22, 2007 at 1:44 AM
Damn! Where were you a couple weeks ago to be my auction advisor Rick?
Yeah, I caught it. Whoever came up with this is hilarious, and frankly I’m jealous.
RightWinged on March 22, 2007 at 1:50 AM
HA!
I actually thought about doing almost exactly the same thing a couple of weeks ago.
Why Should Al Gore and his buddies make all the money off this ‘carbon offset’ scam?
Too bad that darned honest streak of mine got in the way.
LegendHasIt on March 22, 2007 at 3:03 AM
Oh the humanity.
hillbillyjim on March 22, 2007 at 3:19 AM
Maybe we should create a “Hot Air” “Co-op”, collect millions of virtual trees to sell them, create the “certificates”, use our own websites to distribute, have a “legal disclamer”, use individual Pay-Pal accounts per site…………
(mmmmmmmmmwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
We could even be wealthier than Al Gore and Silky Pony combined……… Who’s with me?
Sorry, I am a greedy Republican, I have already started……
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, Thanks AL!
PinkyBigglesworth on March 22, 2007 at 3:48 AM
I recently went to 3 or 4 different websites to calculate my carbon footprint. The numbers varied widely. It is incredible that people are this stupid.
bopbottle on March 22, 2007 at 5:40 AM
Too damn funny.
Alden Pyle on March 22, 2007 at 6:17 AM
AP, no hat tip to FR or PTM? I’m so hurt ;)
TheBigOldDog on March 22, 2007 at 7:41 AM
Just. Too. Funny.
That guy is brilliant. (And if you you took him seriously … get a humor transplant. Quick.)
Capitalism wins once again.
Didn’t these goofy liberals stop and think about WHO would eventually start profiting from their stupidity?
Guys like this, of course. Smart, conservative capitalists. Find a demand, meet the need. Idiot liberals demand “carbon offsets?” You want to pay us to do, well, nothing?
Fine. Send money now.
Brilliant.
Hippies lose. Again.
Professor Blather on March 22, 2007 at 8:53 AM
As satire, that auction puts a charred wooden stake through the heart of carbon offsets.
Kralizec on March 22, 2007 at 9:33 AM
If we’re talking now about the people who will get real profit from real carbon offsets, I disagree with the designation, “smart, conservative capitalists,” as being too restrictive. It was Gore and his cronies who were some of the first to leave the starting line, and the Left leadership in general isn’t shy about making money or being rich. As nearly as I can tell, the leaders of any political group tend to become well-off eventually, whether in accord or discord with the moral teaching of their politics.
Kralizec on March 22, 2007 at 9:52 AM
Smokey the Bear: Only you, can prevent
forestfiresyour carbon offset credit from going up in smoke!mrfixit on March 22, 2007 at 4:26 PM
Not possible. He’s very close to the head of the list, right behind Shrillary and, umm, I guess Darwin.
A couple of decades ago an environmental foundation began offering a certification to corporations who offset their pollution impact on the world. Unlike Gore’s blatant hypocrisy, this setup is about actually planting new trees or doing other active, positive things that help make up for pollution. Now I’m not one who cares one way or another about all that. I believe we shouldn’t unnecessarily harm the planet, but I also believe that all of humanity would have a real hard time doing truly serious harm to God’s creation.
Anyway, all of that to say this. To date, only one corporation on all of planet Earth has done the work to earn this (non-)coveted Climate Neutral Certification.
Has the Goracle mentioned this, the one poster-biz for doing things his way? Of course not, because they aren’t buying indulgences from him in the form of phony “carbon offsets”. Instead, they paid to replace kerosene lamps and diesel generators with solar powerplants in Sri Lanka. They converted all of the diesel-burning buses in the San Bernardino, California school system to bio-diesel (used cooking oil). They planted over a million new trees in Asia in the 1980s, and are in the process of planting a million trees in Africa. There is one, and only one, large-scale American corporation honoring the spirit of combating human pollution as the folks like Gore would wish, and they aren’t being heralded as an example that it can be done. I can only wonder why.
Freelancer on March 23, 2007 at 8:06 AM
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