Homeless Man Denies Global Warming – Given One Million Dollar “Think Tank” Grant by Big Oil Magnates
Charles and David Koch have given Chicago homeless man, Leroy Brown, a one million dollar grant to set up a Climate Skepticism Foundation at the University of Chicago.
The golden-voiced Leroy Brown was featured on a YouTube video huddling against a cold March wind off Lake Michigan and saying: “Global Warming, My Ass!”. The video has over 8 million views in the last two weeks.
The Koch brothers recognized that they needed a new pitchman after Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project went off message at a Congressional hearing on climate science earlier this week. The Koch brothers are still investigating how their man could be swayed by actual evidence rather than financially contextualized evidence.
Unlike many Koch funded climate skeptics who do not have scientific backgrounds, Mr. Brown does have a a Masters Degree in BioEthics and blames the uselessness of that degree on his inability to find a job and his subsequent methamphetamine addiction. Mr. Brown says he will use the grant to partially pay off his student loans. When asked to sum up the perspective he will bring to the new foundation, Mr. Brown replied: “It’s a cold world, bitch.”
“Bad Bad Leroy Brown”
Well the south side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there you better just beware
Of a man named Leroy Brown
Now Leroy’s more than trouble
You see, he stand about six foot four
All those down-town ladies call him treetop lover
All the men just call him Sir
And he’s bad, bad Leroy Brown
Baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog
Now Leroy, he’s a gambler
And he likes his fancy clothes
And he likes to wave his diamond rings
Under everybody’s nose
He’s got a custom Continental
He’s got an El Dorado, too
He’s got a .32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe
Well, Friday ’bout a week ago
Leroy shootin’ dice
And at the edge of the bar sat a girl name Doris
And, oh that girl looked nice
Well, he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And Leroy Brown learned a lesson ’bout a-messin’
With the wife of a jealous man
Well, those two men took to fightin’
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone
Yeah, he was badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog
Cool on nailing the reference, Jasmine T. Wicked song. Jim Croce was badder than old King Kong Kochs…