Alms for a lepper?
Won't you please help? The C.E.I. just lost some major funding!!
Well now that Exxon has to wipe the egg off their face and no longer fund climate change "Skeptics" we have to look at the ramifications of this on some near & dear colleagues. And I propose we raise some fund for them so they can continue their important [sic] work. I mean think of poor Fred Singer, its not like he can go back to big tobacco and get back on their dole, and what about poor Patty Michaels? He's used to mainlining that oil cash, I mean he's used to being well funded to add that line of reality to the climate debate (well at least until the peer reviews kick his work to the curb, which they often do). But most importantly, what wll become the CEI when they loose their Exxon ducats? They have been raking in $250K a year from the eX with a guarantee that at least $180K will be spent on "climate skepticism" they can't do that anymore.. so will Exxo even want to give them the balance of $75K if they can no longer pay for them "CO2, some call it a poison we call it life" commercials? I mean really, Lee Raymond oughta know his bang for buck is pretty weak there, and that money would be put to better use with advertising saying how the Valdez spill was great for the Alaskan economy or something. Come to think of it, the CEI would probably be willing to do those commercials (anything for a buck!)
I've been reading this book called "Eco Freaks" written by John Berlau and the cretins at the CEI (the competitive enterprise institute) and it's a sickening tome full of hate and venom. It's about how all environmentalists are these "Animists" who worship trees and want only to see people get killed so that the violent nature can have her way with us. He's really full of it (hate and venom), but I have been spending my nights taking notes so I can clarify a few of the details. Because people ought to know that this disinformation is going on (really he blames environmentalists for killing birds, trees, people, for taking down the WTC and for hurricane Katrina among other things). Truly vile his manipulations of the fact....
And so i decided that what we really need to do is have a bake sale for the CEI. Those poor bums would be on the street if it weren't for the corporate handouts (they rake in $3M a year, Exxon is only a little piece). And since everything they do, they claim is in our best interest, I thought it only befitting that we raise a little scratch for these doods. They need it. And the worst part is, if we let them look for their $$$ elsewhere, they will no doubt find some poison manufacturer or some union carbide or other slovenly planet-killer and sign up a new cause celebre... so we have to raise them some cash before they go out and do it again!!!!!
won't you help?
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