Iowahawk Mocks "Carbon Credits" Mercilessly...Much Hilarity Ensues

Iowahawk doesn't post nearly as much as I'd like, but when he does, he's generally pretty good for some laughs and for demonstrating as razor sharp a wit and vicious disdain for the idiocy of fools as any blogger I know. In this post, he uses the gift of mockery to lay waste to the idiocy of the concept of "carbon credits", whereby one can purchase these mythical credits from God knows who in exchange for the "right" to "pollute the air" in a corresponding amount. The sad part is that Al Gore and his "Inconvenient Truth" Kool-Aid drinking cohorts actually believe and espouse this nonsense. That scariness is only eclipsed by the growing number of drooling idiots behind the levers of power who are buying into this claptrap, because unlike Gore and his band of brain-bereft buddies, they actually have the power to mandate such stupidity into law and help tank the economy of the United States in the process. Read the whole thing, just don't have anything to drink in your mouth when you do, lest your screen and keyboard end up drenched in your beverage when the inevitable gales of laughter overtake you.

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