How to: spend your carbon tax rebate

My cousin emailed me this. No idea where she stole it from, because for once it didn’t have a hundred thousand email addresses in the forwarding history:

The provincial government is sending each of us a $100 Carbon Tax rebate.

If we spend it at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China.

If we spend it on gasoline, the money will go to the Arabs.

If we purchase a computer it will go to India.

If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.

If we purchase a good car, it will go to Japan.

If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan,

and none of it will help the B.C. economy.

The only way to keep the money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes, weed,

beer and tattoos since these are the only products still produced in British Columbia.

Thank you for your help and please support B.C.

Piering

A picture too good to pass up.

Pier by Andy Bell

One of Andy Bell‘s gorgeous landscapes at DeceptiveMedia

Arthur C. Clarke, Cephalopodcaster

Enjoy this fine, fine television programming from the golden days of the Seventies: so much to mock, so much to adore. Charlie’s Angels. Watergate. Jethro Tull. Fat Ties. Fat Lapels. Fat Elvis.

Arthur C. Clarke.

Chariots of the Gods.

Sea Monsters!

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eye of the storm

rainbow in Palm Springs

stolen from The Guardian

and a few lines from Julie Williams’ Coming Up Into the Light

You can only hunker down so long & then the wind dies

or rushes on to some other place to do its damage…

Or, you can think out of the box.

flying penguins!

Bet you haven’t seen that before!

via The ARK