Once in a while you run across something so stupid, so venal, so outrageous that your blood heats up and your mouth goes dry. That just happened to me.
Everybody here is familiar with carbon offsets, the effort to try to be at least carbon-neutral in one's daily life by financing beneficial projects, mostly tree planting, to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Does some good and certainly can do no harm, right??
Follow me across the jump and I'll introduce you to perhaps the titular Stupidest Sonsofbitches Alive, I'm just not sure which involved party wins the title.
Meet Carbon Credit Killers, whose avowed purpose is:
We are on a mission to take away every one of Al Gore's meaningless carbon credits by simply providing carbon debits. Help us make this dream a reality by purchasing one of the packages below. Don't let Al Gore assuage his guilt with meaningless penance, heap it back on with carbon debits – every one of which we will let him know about.
Why do they want to do such a stupid thing, you might ask?? They will happily tell you:
The reason we sell Carbon Debits is simple – we want to take away the pathetic excuse of Carbon Credits from those liberals who hide their shame filled lives behind money-bought lunacy. Carbon Credits are simply a way for the rich (Al Gore) to continue to hypocritically live lives that look nothing like what they try to enforce on everyone else in society. We want to take away those excuses.
Our goal is to completely wipe out every Carbon Credit ever bought by selling their nullifying opposite – the Carbon Debit. The guilt and shame that caused people to buy Carbon Credits in the first place will be placed back on them as we let them know that their actions caused us to nullify their credits. They are the cause of us killing trees; they need to face up to their guilt.
This message is important for one reason – Far Left Liberals are lunatics that operate solely on shame of themselves, their success, their country, and their wealth. It is time to expose their ideas and self-defeating idiocy – and selling Carbon Debits is the best way to do that.
If they are to be believed, they have actually sold 8,327 of these "carbon debits" at $5 each. In reality, what I'm sure is happening is they are ripping off people too stupid to be allowed to run loose with money to begin with, and the "executed" trees are simply being harvested in normal timber or clearing operations.
Which brings me to my dilemna: Who is stupider, the asshats behind this effort or the truly stupid bastards who actually send them money??