Pandagon: Al Gore’s Entitled to His Enormous Eco-Footprint Because of the Good He Does
Ecotality: What A Gargantuan Hose Job
Forget Gorbacle. It’s Whoracle.
WARNING: Reading the comments to the first of these posts can make you dumber
Also, a PLEA FOR HELP from this post on Jeff’s HOA:
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!I been having trouble with this old lady because
when i fiirst moved in i didnt put my dogs on a leash any way shes been out
to get me ever since.yesterday i recevied a certified letter stating i HAD A
BEER IN 1 HAND AND HAD MY SIDE ARM IN THE OTHER UNHOLSTERED RUNNING AROUND
FLASHING IT AT PEOPLE!!!its the old lady she called the mang.(hoa)but didnt
call the police ….if i saw someone in front of my place waving a gun i
would not hessatate calling the 5-0 also it says as soon as I noticed
someone saw me i ran to my car and took off!!!LIES LIES LIES my girl was
there and this never happened SO HOW OR WHO DO I CONTACT TO PRESS
CHARGES?????
I don’t know why I bothered to torture myself this way, but I read all of the comments in that Marcotte thread.
I am now dumber for having read them, and may God have mercy on my soul.
I had to double check about halfway through Marcottes post to make sure alphie wasn’t guest blogging. That was an impressive bit of idiocy even for her.
Whoracle.
Don’t ever let anyone say that you don’t have a way with words Monsieur Goldstein, for that term is quite perfect, I must say.
Thanks, Tman, but I really am Dan Collins. Jeff’s out getting scotch and a DVD. In the snow. In bare feet. Being chased by Nazis.
Uphill.
Apologies Dan, that was pure genius. I stand corrected.
Good DAY sir.
I thought the whole point of the environmental hysteria was that people need to REDUCE THEIR CARBON BOOTPRINTS or we’re all gonna die..??
But suddenly it doesn’t matter anymore? It’s just the principle of the thing? They don’t really care if nobody takes their dire predictions to heart??
I’m so confused.
No, silly, it’s not the principle of the thing at all. It’s the principal of the thing.
And the interest, of course.
Dan ,
Forget about Kerfuffle Watch Credits after reading that post , there IS a much better way .
Bill, you’ve got that right.
And it makes the comparison with indulgences that much more delicious. The COG.
The illogic of it all nearly made my head explode. Fortunately, my puppy wanted to play and distracted me.
WARNING: Reading the comments to the first of these posts can make you dumber
I figgerd i had smarts too spare but i wuz rong dont make the same mistak i did save yerselfs and please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard
Ahem. Actually, it was more illuminating than anything. Apparently, individuals can’t really do anything about global warming, so why bust your ass trying? I didn’t want to risk an aneurysm by reading all the comments, but I am left to conclude that only the Bushitler can actually affect global warming. A little guy like Gore just doesn’t have a chance.
For my semi-annual stab at fairness, I’ll note that somebody there suggested that Gore’s house is actually a farm. A farm would use more electricity than a regular dwelling.
Treacher also wonders what he’s been using the electricity for: Is he a Terminator from the future and requires constant recharging? (That would explain pretty much everything.)
I say he’s building Internet II: Electric Boogaloo, and we should just back the hell off.
Oh no, you missed the key phrase, the one moment of honesty among all the obsfucation, when the need for collective action was mentioned.
Collective action meaning ‘we anointed few harnessing the almighty power of the State to bend the will of the ungrateful heathen masses to suit our heart felt beliefs and desires’ aka ‘just do as we say, not as we do,’ yeah that kind of collective action…
One of his houses, actually a couple of his houses are on a farm. The house in question, however, is in a very rich suburb in Nashville. It would be interesting to see the footprint of the farm, and I have been trying to find out if the strip mine on the farm, which Al also owns a big chunk of, is still listed as one of the states worst polluters of trout water. It was for several years.
That Ecotality post rocked. I’ve been wondering exactly who Gore was buying these “Carbon offsets” from, and, I did suspect the answer. I figured they were BS.
I have the solution.
Gore should change his name to “Nehemiah Scudder”.
You may now amuse yourselves by tracking down why that would be appropriate.
Regards,
Ric
Heh.
Farms don’t tend to have pool houses. At least, none of the ones I was ever on did.
And out-buildings tend to be poorly heated or un-heated. We had six outbuildings—barn, corn crib, chicken coop, store room w/ storm shelter, a weather shelter for cattle out in the field, and a stripping room. The only one with heat was the stripping room—and it had an old coal stove.
I’m sure there are farms with heated barns and the like. But they wouldn’t be found in a high-price neighborhood.
Well, we’re going to have to do something, if this goes on…
It’s another case of “fear the narrative”.
If Amanda found some supposedly-Christian preacher fulminating against homosexuals from the pulpit and cruising the gay bars at night, she’d come down on him like a ton of bricks. And she’d be right.
He would probably have a bunch of brainwashed followers who would bleat that his ministry did a lot of good and he should be excused his weaknesses of the flesh, and Amanda would be downright caustic in characterizing them. And she’d be right.
This is not different in any way. It’s just that now it’s Amanda who’s the brainwashed follower, making excuses for the Great Man and being ridiculed by his critics.
Regards,
Ric
But that would make Tipper Laura Scudder.
Think Locally, Wait Around for the Government to Tell You What to Do Globally.
If emissions reduction is just a dry policy issue, private action is futile, and all the hairshirt stuff is just something Christofascists have erroneously imposed on the issue, then why is Laurie David always trying to shove people into Priuses?
Neighbors of Al’s farm have learned to be out of town on the days when the hired hands muck out the manbearpigpen.
…then why is Laurie David always trying to shove people into Priuses?
Because it distracts the appropriate people from her 6-foot-long barbecue station, stone-and-concrete bonfire pit, and outdoor theater on an environmentally sensitive patch of [her] 14-acre North Road property without the proper permits?
Hubby Larry claims they were scammed.
As Ace would probably say, “It’s old, but it’s one answer.”
That’s 26-foot-long barbecue station, Scott.
I can only imagine the laughs that I would create by putting “Raised awareness” anywhere on my resume.
Actually, I think I’m going to start using that phrase in my daily life.
Wife: Honey could you come here and help me with this?
Me: Sorry, can’t, I’m busy raising awareness.
Yep, I think this is going to work out well for me.
Police: Sir, why aren’t you wearing any pants?
Me: Well, you see officer, I’m raising awareness…
It’s a keeper.
Ric,
You, Sir, have slandered the, relatively, good name of Nehemiah Scudder.
Compared to the Gore-bot ol’ Nehemiah was a saint and a real stand up kinda guy.
Just passed this info about the Goron to a friend of mine who wrote back this:
“Gore for One and All For Gore!”
Sums it up rather nicely, I think…