Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, Greg, you're too late. Dick Cheney already has a secret plan for a bloodless invasion of Newfoundland. The objective is all those icebergs so beautifully illustrated in Greg Locke's photos. Halliburton already has the strategy in place. Large ships will drag the icebergs to the Gulf coast of Texas, where they will be floated into giant drydock pens and the salt water pumped out. The icebergs will naturally melt in the ungodly Texas heat. The resulting fresh water can then be pumped out, bottled and sold at a price that will drive Evian, Crystal Geyser, and especially Perrier out of business. Canada will officially protest, but will secretly tell the U.S. that all will be forgiven if it would also kindly take Quebec. Phase II will be the establishment of a similar facility in Kuwait. It will process icebergs harvested by another U.S. colony established by similar means in Tierra del Fuego. The resulting water will be traded, barrel for barrel, for oil from the usual Mideast suspects. These countries will be in no position to bargain, as the deliberate acceleration of global warming created by U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will have driven these countries into drought so severe that they'll have no choice. This will have the double benefit of eventually erasing the U.S.'s trade deficit and allowing Halliburton to finance the R&D to develop a Hydrogen monopoly that will kick in once the oil runs out. :-) :-) :-) --Peter, who can't believe he actually joined this thread. At 09:39 PM 10/15/04 -0700, GREG LORENZO <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote: >Well I believe we are going to have the last laugh on Free Trade soon. >With 20% of the world's fresh water located right here in Canada, I'm >making to plans to get into the fresh water business when I decide to get >out of the oil business.