Apparently, Prince Charles recent pronouncement has created a riff in space-time, and an irony meteorite was ejected, striking the prince in the head. A photo follows.
From Raw Story: Prince Charles criticizes ‘corporate lobbyists’ and climate change skeptics for turning Earth into a ‘dying patient’
“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem,” he told an audience of government ministers, from the UK and abroad, as well as businesspeople and scientists. “A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can’t wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there.”
He added: “The risk of delay is so enormous that we can’t wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”
Apparently, second opinions aren’t allowed by Royal medicine. The Daily Mash has the story of the irony meteorite.
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The beneficiary of the queen’s death was criticising climate change scepticism when he was struck on the forehead by a large, possibly homeopathic, chunk of irony.
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Health and safety consultant Nikki Hollis said: “Science is pretty sturdy and can generally cope with a person warning about CO2 emissions whilst being chauffeured around in a big fuck-off Bentley.
“But if you start using a doctor analogy like Charles did, when you’re convinced a £20 bottle of ghosts is the best treatment for serious illness, something’s bound to give.”
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Full story here
Marc Morano quips:
Prince Charles is well known for his views on architecture, or to put it more bluntley, his obsession with poking, prying, interfering and meddling in planning decisions on developments he finds not to his taste, to the point of actually sabotaging several projects worth billions in London. This blatant interference reached such a scandalous stage that he lobbied Parliament and managed to get the Freedom of Information Act changed so as to exclude all royal correspondence from FoI requests in order, it was said, to “preserve the privacy of the monarchy”.
And all this from someone who’s life ambition is to become a tampon.
Oh God Sasha did you have to remind me of the tampon incident. How gross.
I can’t stand the thought of that idiot becoming King. The day Charles becomes King will be the day I become a Republican.
But at least he opposes wind farms….
Ironically, I believe his father may be a bit of a climate sceptic.
Chris
“The day Charles becomes King will be the day I become a Republican”
Why bother waiting? I was impressed by his mother’s decisive (in)action when it came to a whole parliament being caught with its fingers in the till. She can’t act as the snouts will tell you; she has no mandate from the people.
In England democracy is little more than a word.
Charles Windsor (nee Hanover) is a sanctimonious hypocrite who has brought shame on his family and shame on my country.
He is a descendant of a family of debauched half wits who between them managed to cause turmoil in Europe and Russia.
The idea that someone should gain power because of the bed they were born in is anti democratic.
D Johnson says:
May 10, 2013 at 7:09 am
The prince’s argument would make more sense if his “doctors” weren’t prescribing blood-letting for the supposedly dying planet.
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Blood-letting sounds very appropriate.
That’s what the system is doing with the war on carbon and cap and trade.
cn
John B says: May 11, 2013 at 2:51 am
Oh God Sasha did you have to remind me of the tampon incident. How gross.
No, just a case of a man wanting to be in the right place at the wrong time.
He does his bit for the enviroment.
He recycles Tampons
The silliness never ends. During a “safety meeting” (basically you sign-in and ARE TOLD that if you fall and hurt yourself, you can claim benefits. Well sort of. If you’ve read and signed the form, the legal department can always say,”Injured Person X was made aware of the dangers of the possibility of sticking a coffee stir stick in their eyeball. Move to dismiss.
A great one from yesterday was, “Remember to blink.”
If you don’t, what happens, this?
http://drbristol.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/marty-feldman-young-frankenstein.jpg
Despire getting the best education money can buy, the Prince’s ability at science was proven by exam to be non-existent. No need to say more.
Yes but he only got a degree because most of the study was of his family possessions which he had seen around the house since birth.
Nice article about the useless arsehole who says we sceptics are destroying the planet:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323121/Charless-mobile-throne-Princes-favourite-silk-cushions-flunkie-races-seat-uses.html
Ivor Ward
vukcevic says:
May 10, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Did you mention homeopathy?
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CHshow.htm
Thanks for the link vuk!
Anthony Bremner says:
May 10, 2013 at 8:21 am
… A carbon tax is like applying leeches to a patient with a fever.
Exactly!
If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there.”
Exactly, even not knowing what the patient has, apply leeches, he will be cured.
Oh, what would we do without his guidance, the stupid of us we want to know what the patient has, as we have the feeling the fever diagnose is totally wrong.
A child with fever?
If it would be a child and the temperature would rose from 36.6°C to 36.8°C in three hour, and if we do nothing and if it rises at the same pace it would rise to 42 withing the next 3-4 days, but maybe it will not, there is no reason to despair based on this slight temperature variation… No we do not want to apply leeches!
But the stupidity that burns is that nobody can control Earth temperature through applying leeches on the human society. There are so many problems to solve, nobody does need the additional leeches and the additional pain.
And when talking to the plants maybe he should try to listen to them. What do plants tell about CO2? Yummy Yummy!
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/plantgrowth.php
Patrick Henry, 1776: “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell, and George III ” … here arose cries of “Treason!” … “may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.”
Anent Bonnie Charlie: This be indeed stupidity– make the most of it.
I cannot believe the dreadful comments about Prince Charles. He is a decent, sensitive man and has been a wonderful father to his two sons. He has had a rather sad life; was grossly neglected by his parents as a young child; was forced to attend a school he hated and let’s not forget, he does have a degree from Cambridge. Do any of the other Royals?
He was pushed iinto marryingLady Diana – they both wanted to back out I believe. He is now happy with Camilla and I think he will be a good king, a very different monarch from his mother and tht’s not all bad!
PARICIA REEVES
Spare us the privileged sob story, please.
It is entirely appropriate to criticise him for the simple reason that he insists in meddling in the democratic process. If he wants to take up politics, he can do us all a huge favour and abdicate.