The power of the press! Maggie Katzen points me to this post at Soldiers’ Angels Germany, pointing out that Dana Priest’s articles about conditions at Walter Reed began publication one week before the results of this nine-month internal investigation of conditions was released.
Meanwhile, the Senate springs into action, flush with its newly minted oversight powers.
Silly Space-Time Continuum! You have no power over the Press! Any mad versions of your animadversions will be revealed as unpatriotic by the all-knowing Gleen and his sockpuppet Carl Levin! Facts are for puling imbeciles! We have trooth!
RELATED: Taxi driver of unknown religious affiliation allegedly attacked Lutheran, Catholic students with vehicle over religious dispute regarding Adolph Hitler, wisdom of wholesale liquidation of Jews. (h/t Reynolds)
MOREOVER: Goldstein not liable for feelings hurt by his commenters. Pain and suffering will continue, Blatant Beast still on the loose.
More Goracle Kicking. Gore purchases carbon offsets, pays someone to supply his service in Civil War. (Reynolds again)
By Jupiter! (sidebar ad: Buy Jupiter!)
sleazyCruise! Do I smell a PW convention?
Scott Burgess on the dimwit Inuit who’s coming to tell us we’re evil.
The chronicle of my elder son’s misadventures abroad may be found here.
FLAMING ARMADILLO:
Now, somebody ought to make a movie about Al Gore. I would call it ”An Uncomplaining Life.”
. . . . .
With an Oscar in his fist and triumph on his face, Al Gore is a man you can tell your kid about.
Is that an Oscar in your fist or are you . . .
Thanks to mojo comes this link.
Wastefulness Proves Al Gore a Human!
Right-Wing Smear Machine Utilizes Facts
To Undermine Heroism of Self-Made Hero
But guess what? We’re going to fight back. All of us.
Why? Well, first of all, Al Gore turning his lights on doesn’t make him a hypocrite, it makes him a human.
Second, we’ve seen this game a few too many damn times. The trick is for them to create doubt and distraction. They need to create doubt all around the country about Al Gore. But there is no doubt.
Al Gore is a hero.
Even heroes need help – join us, add to the comments, let’s find out everything we can about these guys and stop them in their tracks. Now.
NOTE: this post is a work in progress and will be updated frequently.
I tremble! We are destroying him–and he’s human! This Swiftboating will not be tolerated! You forgot to mention Protein Wisdom! Bastards!
Oh, Lawdy! Algore responds.
Global warming: A huge, dangerous critical ecological crisis, which some how we can buy our way out of. Through carbon offsets. And no, this isn’t a wealth redistribution scheme. Nosiree bob.
As for #1, If Algore’s house is so green, why is it still sucking 20000+ kWh/month?
Aha! Do I know what I’m talking about or what. Can’t drive, can’t vote, can’t figure out if the fries come with the burger when you order the combo meal.
Dan, Just going through the Gore stuff alone is like eating a chocolate cake without the cakey bits. Too rich for one sitting.
The man is clearly a stupendous hypocrite, although perhaps that is a given with a politician.
But the twisting of some of his supporters, who posted justifying Gore’s gargantuan appetite for electricity, gas, jet flights and similar swine-like behaviour, would have made Orwell choke over his manuscript.
We can’t buy our way out of this, but they can.
I hadn’t noticed that film stars had stopped paying top dollar for Malibu beachfront property that will soon be covered in ocean.
They pay extra as a carbon offset. They are really doing the rest of us a favor, holding back the ocean from overrunning the rest of the country.
PEOPLE!……………………people……..
When you’re fat, you need more square footage than the average person. The Moore/Gore Body Odor Dissipation Model clearly shows that for each extra cubic inch of subcutaneous fat on the homeowners body, an extra 10 square foot of living space is needed to allow for funk-drift. This is, of course, a crude estimate as it does not factor in any smegma multipliers.
Next week: sewer gas
You just know it’s a disaster in the movies when you see the HOLLYWOOD hill sign ruined. You bastards!
The ultimate untapped alternative energy source.
Oh, we understand them all right. We just don’t think they mean anything. Heck, some of us think of them as indulgences for the neo-pagans.
They certainly have as much effect as the original indulgences.
Carbon offset? Is this the staart of the Protestant Reformation for Gaia Worship? Who will nail the text of the Reformation to Al Gore’s
doorforehead?Because I’ve got some three and a half inch commons I don’t need anymore.
Best use a masonry nail.
My nuts haven’t thawed out yet. My nuts were literally frozen during the last 2 week stint of temperatures averaging 20 degrees lower than the norm. So when someone gets in my face about global warming, I just hit them upside the head with a bag of frozen nuts. It leaves a bruise that looks like the number 8.
Don’t know if that means anything
Y’know Hitler only had one ball.
See, this is what happens when you download directions from Yahoo!…
Hey, at least they’re not trying to get a look at…
Neptune.
TW: movement. Wow. This thing’s creepy sometimes.
“Is George Bush a closet Green?” Yes. Will he ever get any credit for it from the left or the MSM? Of course not.
The Bushes have been restoring native prairie on their ranch. Native grasslands are much more endangered than “rainforests”. Laura Bush has been involved with ecological restoration projects since she was Texas’ first lady.
Lefties don’t know this, and they wouldn’t understand it anyway, since, while many of them fancy themselves to be “environmentalists”, they are for the most part ecological illiterates, with little understanding of science.
That’s where you miss the point Stace. George and Laura did not configure their modest Crawford home to be environmentally efficient to save energy. They did it to save money. Their energy bill is probably 100 times less than Al Gore’s and they will take that money savings and wave it in the faces of poor people and say “Look, we’re rich and you’re not. We’re getting richer too, because our house is green and it doesn’t cost as much to run. Oh and you’re still poor.”
While Al Gore pays too much to run his house AND he pays carbon offsets, so he says “Look, we’re rich and all, but we’re literally throwing our money away. We’re trying to make ourselves poor like you people. It’s hard though. Don’t forget to put on a potato sack and turn your thermostat down.”
Don’t you see? Gore is better. It’s a moral question.
This from a group that can’t seem to wrap their minds around the concept of a carbon market. Christ. Talk about hypocrisy.
Are you being deliberately funny, or can’t you help yourself?
Very persuasive argument. But I’m going to have to here more before I’m totally convinced.
Wasn’t it the greenies who first howled in indignation at the idea of using market solutions to deal with environmental challenges? Solutions that were proposed by … (ominous chords) … CORPORATE AMERICA???
Hmm… Did someone say that you are qualified to judge what’s funny? They lied to you.
Protein Wisdom : Persuasive Arguments. AND IRONY.
Did someone say that you are qualified to judge what’s
funnyhypocrisy? They lied to you.Bullshit, heet. We’re rightists, remember? Capitalist exploiters of the working class, with boots in the faces of the Poor?
We know all about markets. We run markets. We participate in markets. Markets are what we’re all about—and, as a result, we know that “carbon market” is bullshit, a gimmick for wealth transfer from producers to parasites papered over with Dr. Feelgood soma-analogs. Hell, Kyoto specifically denies that increased forestation sequesters carbon, as yet another slam at the United States, the only developed nation that is increasing its tree cover—yet the primary source of retail carbon credits for rich assholes is people who promise to plant trees. And there isn’t even any method of auditing to see that they did plant the fucking trees!
We know markets. We also know scams. Al and the Carbon Credit Salesmen are scamming you like old ladies needing roof repairs, and we’d be laughing our asses off if you and the rest of the Warmist Faithful weren’t so intent on sending goons around with guns to suppress the infidels. We are laughing our asses off in private at your credulity.
Regards,
Ric
Would you guys please go fart outside if fart you must?
BTW, the primary cause of global warming? Heet.
Well. And in public, too.
Okay. Now I get it. You’ve used the name “heet” to show that when you’ve introduced yourself into this thread it’s like global warming. The more heet, the less chance the thread has to survive, due to heet coming in and lowering the overall intelligence. Feel free to send me a check for your Stupid Offsets. 20k should cover it for your first installment.
I do not listen to “global warming” scaremongering by groups that can’t wrap their minds around the concept of ecological restoration. Over the years, lefty writers have made fun of Bush’s brush cutting activities on the ranch, not realizing that it’s part of the wildlife habitat restoration project.
Writers like that are obviously ignorant, so why in the world should I listen to them on any environmental issue? They only care about politics, or about maintaining the appearance of moral superiority.
Stace! We’re not talking about Texas. We’re not talking about Ohio. Do people even live there? They didn’t even show Indiana in The Day After Tomorrow. New York is in danger due to global warming and it has big buildings that when knocked over by big waves will land on people that matter – New Yorkers. Brushcutting? Texas? Geez.
Oh, the bruschetta!
Of course you are right, alppucino. If it’s not on the Upper East/’West side, inside the Beltway, or on the Left Coast, it doesn’t exist. Duh.
It’s cold in here. Who turned off the heet?
And the penultimate GW source? This, obviously.
Number 3 is cow flatulence, so be sure to buy some carbon credits to go with your next glass of milk.
easyCruise: “We’re easy, not cheap.” (see also: floating petri dish)
By Jupiter: Lemme know if they stumble over a huge domino, huh?
Tipper and I have been bottling our farts for years now. Every time one of us feels like we need to toot, we grab the hose from the modified propane tank, insert it into our rectum and let’r fly. Tipper loves that hose……….anyway, by the end of the year we save enough gas to grill a couple of 2 inch thick filets and bake a couple spuds. Being green is a lot easier than you think. Now where is that hose…..scuse me.
I buy my carbon at the market. Usually it’s contained inside my food, but sometimes I go for the pure stuff and get briquettes.
Did you know that polar bears are carbon based?
Not possible. They’re white.
But, did he have a bat?
Hmmmm????
This is gonna sound weird, but I’m leaving now to go help plan a local fundraising event for a group that promotes the conservation of bats. This is a big deal here in central Texas. You know what one of the biggest new threats to one of the species of endangered US bats is? Yes, it’s those giant f**king windmills. A nice old-fashioned pumpjack is much less dangerous for our little insect-eating buddies.
I’m all for clean energy when feasible, but the issues are much more complicated than the Laurie David crowd allows for.
Holy Batastrophe!
Okay Collins, how many humor offsets did you pay for that one?
I didn’t have to, alp. I was wearing my Boy Wonder costume when I typed it.
Savvy.
The HuffPo weinies get, well, huffy regarding St. Alphonse’s penchant for indulgences.
Whoa. The electric bill apparently doesn’t include heating, cooking, hot water, clothes drying and more, because:
Holy crap!
aaaahhhhh!
I want to read that link to the stuff on the nutty cab driver, but it doesn’t work anymore…anyone got another link??
Why were they fighting over Hitler? GAH !
Link’s working for me, PC.
Gore’s escalating gluttonies only seem hypocritical to the simpleminded who fail to account for the offsetting effects of his career-long devotion to policies of black impoverishment.
Think of all the ghetto apartments that sit without power every summer because of economically unnatural food-or-lights choices forced on the working poor by market distortions caused by the myriad agricultural and utility subsidies Gore voted into law. The saintly kilowatt glow of Gore’s mansion doesn’t hold a candle to all that eco-friendly darkness.
Before he became a barnstorming apocalyptic preacher, Gore–prophetically, some might say–had already offset the carbon footprint of his jet-set lifestyle by voting for public transport subsidies that bred today’s perverse urban planning incentives that complexly intertwine to make travel outside the confines of their neighborhood bus lines financially impractical for all but a few of the children of the Freedom Riders. No one’s driving to the Hamptons or flying to Cannes from a bus stop on MLK Boulevard.
Though only a minor footnote in his career, the Gore-spearheaded blank media tax alone prevents the purchase of untold millions of cheeseburgers by aspirant urban rappers and their demo-buying fans, and from the looks of him, he’s only eaten a few hundred thousand of those orphaned cheeseburgers himself.
(And so on.)
Think, wingnuts!
Hmmmm.
Global Warming is destroying the lifestyle of the Inuit?
So is there really a positive in this? Where living in some place so damn cold your balls would literally freeze off?
Wouldn’t they want it warmer?
As your heart rate increases, you burn more calories and therefore you need more fuel for your body (like bacon, which you would find in a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich)
The more fuel you need, the more CO2 is produced to process that food. Al Gore has committed himself to a life of limited physical activity and therefore he only needs to eat one XL pizza per hour to maintain his figure. But it goes deeper. If you’ve ever been able to listen to Al Gore for more than 30 seconds without losing conciousness, you’d know that he’s doing his part to slow the heart rates of all who are within earshot.
I understand it perfectly, rich people pay poor people not to pollute for them.
My thoughts exactly.
I hate being average so my goal is to get my carbon footprint over 100 this year. Plants will love me.
FOR THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS!
hmmm, B Moe, this makes me wonder what those poor poeple are then going to do with that money. burn it for fuel, I’m sure.
Since you fascist bastards have no sense of humour or irony, and wouldn’t recognise satire if it leapt up and bit you in the nads, I have decided to stop posting here in my “heet” alter ego.
You brought it on yourselves.
tw tool7. oh, very clever, Mr Turing.
If I can get some, I know what I will spend it on.
I mean, I live in a tiny apartment and don’t own a car, where the Hell’s my money, Al?