Is it “Cap and Trade” or “Cap and Rough Trade”?
Will Al Gore now be the butt of more jokes than anyone who ever lived?
Well, not quite, but it was always easy enough to make fun of Al — that blowhard who claimed to have helped create the Internet (tell CERN) and that his marriage inspired Love Story. But no one could have anticipated his never-to-be-forgotten June of 2010, a month that would give even the strongest of us a migraine for life. And everything seemed to be going so well for him in May with the announcement of his purchase of a nine-million dollar ocean front home in Montecito.
Well, that place may have had a carbon footprint the size of Indiana, but we’re used to the hypocrisy of the supposedly green-minded. It comes with the territory.
But then came June. First the end of the “Love Story-ed” marriage with Tipper, then the putative affair with Laurie David and now this — sexual assault allegations. (That last appeared in the National Enquirer — as we know, a newspaper with one of the greatest track records for accuracy of any publication in our country. I’m serious. If not for them, John Edwards might be vice-president right now. Think about that. And, NE is backed up by police reports, etc.)
Whoa … Forget the migraines. Think seppuku.
But what does this all mean in the real world? Al Gore has already made a mockery of the Academy Awards and the Nobel Peace Prize, not that these organizations’ voters didn’t make a mockery of themselves and not that the latter wasn’t already a self-parody of monumental Orwellian proportions.
Any reasonable human who has had the month Al Gore has had would feel a tad chagrined. Maybe even (gasp!) a little humble. Not much chance of that with Al. As our first enviromental pope he is beyond such petty human conceptions as embarrassment and self-examination. In a way though he remains the perfect poster child for the “green” movement. Like most of his followers he remains smug, self-satisfied, poorly informed and totally unconcerned about the effect his policies will have on real people in the real world. He remains the perfect fusion of sanctimonious eco-gasbag and grasping politician and his enablers in the media will continue to be his palace guard.
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In 2000 when Al was running for president he refused to allow Bill Clinton to campaign for him because of his moral outrage over Monica Lewinsky. Or so we were told. Bill’s got to be laughing it up somewhere. Probably smoking a cigar too.
Now that the dam seems to have burst regarding Mr. Gore, one wonders how many more similar stories will be coming out of the woodwork? Could it be that he is as randy as his old boss, Bill Clinton?
His masseuse claims to have kept her unwashed clothing from that night, which contains Gore’s “body fluids”. If this is true, let’s have them DNA tested.
Obviously our American media zealously sees itself as Gore’s personal protector and publicist. Honesty, integrity and credibility are laughable concepts to them. They are truly and utterly disgusting.
Al, obviously, is a vicitm of GonadalWarming.
Al Gore, the person all environMentalist emulate:
Environmentalists are invariably people that want others to use less energy!
If Obama/Gore really believed global warming, they would talk non stop about lowering speed limits to 50 and demand that Americans stop jack rabbit starts and stop racing to lights that are red.
Virtually no Americans believe it either; just look at the fuel wasting driving habits; that also fund the other sides war against us! If you believe the hurricane may kill you/your family: you leave. The driving habits prove no one believes it.
The congress/press are selling a scam, for profit, not seen since the middle ages; The cap and trade scam is a variation of the “indulgences scam” used, among other things, to man the crusades/get bad people to go somewhere else!
Post the data showing the randomly selected locations where temperature and snow pack are documented for 1 million years and that will tell the tale. Select locations that meet your agenda: liars figure but figures do not lie!
Earth wobbles, sun spots, ocean currents/temperature, volcanoes, solar storms/winds et al;
I blame it on global warming!
I know the story about the “massage” is true. How do I know the story is true? Because of all people Phil Bronstein of the SF Chronicle wrote about it on his blog. Now if you read the Chronicle you will know that they seldom print anything negative about Democrats. For example they nave yet to do any reporting on the House Ethics Committee investigation of eight sitting members of Congress in spite of five of them being Republicans. So my keen powers of deduction tell me that if Philbabe writes about “Operation Sex Poodle” there’s something to it. Now that something might be the Obamanauts clearing the board of potential rivals but there are those pesky police reports.
That police report was written on October 24, 2006, a few weeks before Election Day. I remain unconvinced that a MSM outlet would have held this story back if it involved a major Republican figure! The Democrats were emphasizing their alleged virtues to the voters during that particular election cycle. Try to imagine the possible difference the Al Gore scandal could have made. There is also one fact that is apparently dispute: this woman massaged him in his hotel room—alone. Does that not sound a little strange?
A LITTLE strange? How about the documented $540 that Al Gore paid for his massage? If that’s all he got for that much cash, Al must be even dumber than he looks.
I’ve read the police report, interview, etc., and really, Al is some weird dude. OK, let’s say he’s a naif, just in from Albania, and of course, “masseuse” is just another word for “prostitute.” But beyond that little misunderstanding, the guy GIGGLED, and YELLED and ROARED, and couldn’t take a “hint” from the lady (ie, I want to go home now, sir, please let me go). He really is disgusting through and through.
It isn’t surprising that the ‘media’ didn’t pick this up either, their Godling is a God, and that masseuse, well we know what THOSE women are!!! I can see why she didn’t follow up her charges, because she knew how her ‘feminist’ friends would react.
Anyway, this is just another reason to thank God (the real one) that Gore didn’t become president of the USA
I don’t think you should underestimate how dumb al gore is. Yes, he does look dumb but he is far dumber than he looks. As for the money he paid, well when you make millions selling a lie whats $540?
“… you should(n’t) underestimate how dumb al gore (AKA Al-Fredo Gore-leone) is. Yes, he does look dumb but he is far dumber than he looks.”
Years ago, in some capacity or other, the second-generation traitor, Gore, was visiting Denver and had a scheduled meeting at the offices of The Denver Post. Gore’s advance gang tried to order the Post’s board-room’s hundred-odd years-old rectangular table to be replaced for the meeting because “mr gore wants it to be a ’round-table meeting.’”
It’s not strange at all. Most upscale hotels list “spa servoces” that include in-room massage. The hotels contract with outside LMT’s, who come in with portable massage tables give legitimate massages. It is extremely common.
What is “strange” is Al Gore allegedly thinking it was fine to grope and sexually assault the woman. If you check into the Pierre in New York or the Beverly Wilshire and order an in-room massage, would you assume the masseuse was going to provide a “happy ending?” Only if you were a rube or a boor. There are other agencies you can call for such things, of course, but not off the in-room spa services menu.
I have been a regular massage client for many years and gotten in-room massages at hotels, as well as visiting their in-house spas and so on. In every single case, there was not one speck of ambiguity about the LMT’s professionalism. There was no sexual vibe at all. Gore should have picked up on that, if he were an ordinary human being observing normal social cues.
I will take your word for it. The services provided by elite hotels are something outside my everyday experiences. Sigh, a $29.95 per night room barely fits into my budget. I will, though, continue to argue that a MSM outlet would have almost certainly reported the story immediately after obtaining a copy of the police report if the allegation concerned a high profile GOP figure—especially roughly two weeks before Election Day.
My Take:
http://www.bloggybayou.com/2010/06/al-gore-and-masseuse-inquiring-minds.html
Cheers
Stop the snake oil spill!
I’m looking forward to hearing what portion of the blame for this episode is assigned to President George W. Bush. That part of the game is always a little confusing to me, so it’s fun to watch them blamument (blame and “document”) the connection.
Emma: that’s wonderful. Of course, it’s Bush’s fault because he won the election, Gore didn’t and Gore has been pouting ever since…. see?
The green Reverand has been fleecing the flock and now the wheels fall off his chariot.
Dishonest people have it exposed in various parts of their world.
Simon writes, “Only it’s for real. Some people — notably many in authority — still do think AGW is “settled science” and they do so, largely, because they were inspired by Al Gore.”
100% of those in authority who advocate AGW (that is pretty much the same % of Leftist in authority, or leadership positions, or influential positions such as academia, UN etc.) do NOT think AGW is ‘settled science”. They SAY so. As a very potent and ingenuous tool to achieve their Leftist fanatasies of absolute power.
It is, on the contrary, those who are not in authority, the Leftist sheep, who actualy BELIEVE in this life—and they, too, are obviously not THINKING. It’s just a matter of religious fantacism for these clueless ‘useful idiots.’
Meanwhile, it is we, the people, who must decide what we are going to DO about this most insidious threat to humanity. I mean the AGW bandwagon which is still chanting ‘climate change!’ while dancing naked around the altar where they are preparing to slaughter the mankind.
Repeat: What are we going to DO about it?
(hint: Nov 2010, Nov 2012, are not among the answers.)
Actually, I’ll go you one farther. Nobody thinks AGW is real. A whole bunch of people say it is, feel it is, and believe it is, but not a one of them thinks it is.
Because a few moments actual thought brings you to the conclusion that the data is too fubared to support AGW and that the chemistry and physics behind the CO2 theory are questionable at best.
Hmmm. A massage with not quite the “happy ending” he was hoping for..?
You probably don’t get quite the service, when your wife is known as the Tipper, however.
I have read something about a Tennessee Titan cheerleader, and also something about Al’s inability to Curb his Enthusiasm for a certain actress, …but,…none of this seems to be quite as interesting to our crack members of the media, who ran several dozen stories about a guy name Sanford…who did NOT win a Nobel Prize for any fraudulent global scam nor an Academy Award for any crapumentary…titled something about “truth”…an elusive concept for leftists, apparently.
When it comes to the port side of the political spectrum, asking our entrenched media to do any real drilling…well, let’s put it this way…well, they are no Petrobras.
And, Petrobras seem to be the only one that Al and his fellow leftists… isn’t trying to unhook.
The writers here have a strange fascination with Al Gore. I do not really get it, but seems to be some kind of personal vendetta. Also, writers here abuse the term Orwellian; Someone needs to reread 1984.
Not at all. Principal characteristics of Orwell’s dystopia was the redefinition of words to mean their opposites: war is peace, freedom is slavery, Ministry of Truth; and the practice of simply repeating the most blatant and transparent lies as fact: Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, 2 + 2 = 5.
Compare “green jobs”, “scientific consensus,” “the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods never happened,” etc.
Oh, and the Two Minute Hate- demonization and slander are essential components of Big Green propaganda, generating the desired irrational responses in the public.
Gore keeps forcing himself into the news. So it’s natural he will get talked about.
I know he’s a total embarassment to your side, but that’s your problem for having promoted him in the first place.
Regardless, coming from people who’s first reaction to any criticism of Obama is to scream that Bush did it first, complaining about talking about Gore is really strange.
Well, it feels pretty personal when you are on the receiving end of the demagoguery and vilification people like AL Gore direct at us “nonbelievers.” He wants to punish anyone who disagrees with or even questions him. He wants us all to live immeasurably impoverished lives, while he lives lavishly and without meaningful restraint (we now learn, in more ways than one.) His contemptuous rants, dismissing our sincere and well-founded criticisms of his wildly deceptive world campaign are directed at us. So, yes, we take him a little personally.
I am never happy to see a bad person taken down for the worng reasons. I would far prefer a renaissance of principled science and jouirnalism to shine the light on the preposterous hoax that Gore has promulgated on us these years. I would far prefer to see his humiliation result from the utter discrediting of his lies and exaggerations. And that day is coming, albeit all too slowly.
Yes, Big Al will get his comeuppance, “albeit all too slowly”, but if a juicy sex scandal helps speed up the process, the Grand High Exalted Mystic Pooh Bah of Global Warming will just have to take the heat.
Brian N – I was thinking the same thing about the use of Orwellian but not just here – all over the Internet. Yes, there is plenty of doublespeak and newspeak around now but it was a telling feature of Orwell’s vision of a dystopia, not his own language.
The Oxford defines Orwellian as: “relating to the work of the British novelist George Orwell (1903-50), especially the totalitarian state depicted in Nineteen Eighty-four.” So yes, that is what is has come to mean but maybe we need to add some praise for Orwell’s insight into the officious and totalitarian mind. See also Orwell’s essay Politics and the English Language. He was a genius and saw right through all the bull.
From the Left’s impenetrable dike we hear……
drip, drip, drip, drip.
God save our Republic.
So Rosie O’Donnell is talking about Al’s attempted affair with her?
Wow, wait until a certain Poseur Principal hears about this. Kick is away!
The Lord works in mysterious ways!
You beat me to it…
What’s truly goading is the claim that “settled science” says AGW is an **existential risk not only to the human race but the planet**.
Al should have finished Divinity school. Proof would not be required to expound on matters of faith.
Mark said, “Proof is not required for matters of faith.”
While theologians have meta-physical claims, as do scientists (“the universe is all there is”), serious religions have a historical basis. For instance, orthodox Christians accept the authenticity of the canonical books (i.e. John the disciple actually wrote the gospel of John), whereas liberal Christians claim they are 4th century fabrications and the Gnostic gospels (e.g. gospel of Thomas) are authentic. This is an objective historical question, quite apart from interpretations of the documents in dispute.
It is interesting that disputes concerning interpretation of the traditional canon are relatively “minor” by comparison (not that combatants would agree), whereas the drastic shift to liberal Christianity requires a corresponding change in source documents. There is only so far you can go with the “John was smoking something when he wrote this” premise.
A fragment of the Gospel of John has been found that has been carbon dated to the early 2nd century.
Most Biblical scholars believe that John was the last Gospel to be written.
Unless one assumes that the fragment that was found was actually from the first copy written, this fragment comes pretty close to proving that all 4 of the Gospels were written within the live span of the apostles.
I have it on Very Good Authority that Al Gore is claiming that his divorce was the basis for Kramer vs. Kramer.
PajamaMedia needs to pull its head out of the thick clump of myth and urban hypnosis which surrounds it. Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet, for example. Perhaps a strict diet of facts would help your head lose some of that excess fatty tissue.
Actually, you have a point there, AHJ. I am repeating a canard. Gore did not say specifically that he “invented” the Internet. He took credit for “creating” it or some such, again more than a little bit pompous and self-serving. Indeed, there is a long list of such self-regard. And a complete mashing-up of science.
But I stand corrected in my over-statement.
I believe he said something like, “When we were creating the internet.” And he was apparently a key player in the government funding of some of the early internet. He did apparently play a genuine and useful role.
But he greatly exaggerated his own role in the process. As he greatly exaggerated his role in many other things. Remember how this was an important issue in the 2000 campaign? His serial exaggerations and even lies? “Al Gore invented the internet” has become a shorthand way of alluding to his career as a fabulist, the most extreme and damaging example of which has been his campaign of lies and exaggerations about AGW. Most people who pay attention know this. No need to retract.
I was no fan of Al in the 1990′s and find his AGW and political activities in the 2000s quite literally reprehensible, but I would never argue with someone saying AL never claimed to invent, create the Internet
I’m going to go by memory here and not refresh by google as I go along, but I believe that taking into account context, Al gore was not claiming that he himself invented or created the Internet. He was was referring to the fact that the enormous expansion of the WWW into every part of the economy with all the enormous advantages occurred during the 1990s while Bill Clinton was in office and by association, some of that reflected on Al Gore.
And in some sense, Al is correct. The Clinton Administration could have made multiple moves that would have stifled or at least slowed the growth of the WWW. Bowing to early pressure and putting in place restrictive regulations in order to mine Internet transactions for taxes early on would have really slowed WWW growth for example. The fact that they let the WWW be may have been serendipity rather than foresightedness, but the end result is the same.
The other matter Gore was referring to was that it WAS in the US and it was under the watch of the Clinton administration that the WWW took off. What Gore was talking about when he reffered to ‘creating the net’ was ARPNET. That was a US DoD initiative to link together computers in universities, defense establishments, and defense contractors. CERN did originally come up with the concept answering a need for a network of a hundred or so, (give or take), different labs, separated by at most several miles, to share data and results realtime. They worked out the software and switching etc. CERN implemented it at one single complex outside Geneva. ARPNET took the concept and made it work over thousands of miles.
Gore is a dirtbag and a poseur and his bragging about the Internet in connection to the Clinton adminstration a blowhard’s move, but his pride in the role of the US in developing the net justifiable.
FYI, That would be ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), not ARPNET.
Right. Thanks. Shouldn’t have gotten that wrong, considering my first emails were sent using ELM and PINE.
If Al Gore were not the serial exaggerator/liar he is, over many years, this one would not have become the joke/myth it has. It has had legs for the simple reason that Gore constantly inflates himself and his exploits, well beyond the mere puffing expected of any politician.
No argument from me. Man’s a blowhard.
Perhaps you can enlighten us hicks as to what “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet” actually means.
I don’t know how it’s possible to distort such a statement into a claim that ManBearPig invented the Internet. Or was it a matter of Wolf Blitzer coming on like a crazed sex poodle and Gore just lost his head and started babbling?
‘Perhaps you can enlighten us hicks as to what “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet” actually means.’
Certainly.
It means that Al Gore is a pathological liar (aka a Lefty).
As others have pointed out, Gore helped (perhaps even “took the initiative”) to procure Federal funding for the early development of the internet. The context of his comment, however, implied that he was somehow involved in the technical development as well.
Usually, I’m all over the “liberal media bias” angle. But didn’t we all throw up a little in our mouths, reading about Algore and the masseuse? Too much information.
Jeannette: No I did not “throw up a little in my mouth” reading about Albert Gore, Jr. and the masseuse. “Too much information”? I look forward to much more information, as more women have the courage to step up and report this self-important, belligerent, bullying ignoramus to police departments from Maine to California, and Alaska to Hawaii. Incidents such as this don’t occur once in a lifetime.
But how many women want to sit at the prosecution table in a criminal trial which would be the hottest ticket since OJ, or at the plaintiff’s table with Gloria Allred at their side in a civil trial? Most women on whom creeps like Gore & Bubba hit are working wives and mothers who cannot afford the time or the lifetime of trouble that follows brave women who come forward and report scumbags like them. It may come as a shock to TV viewers, but not all women want to be in the spotlight as whistle-blowers on ass-holes, and who can blame them? I can’t. But I do hope this episode brings more women on whom Gore has forced his odious self into the open. Their complaints will help to delegitimize Gore and all he personifies: narcissistic entitlement at the top of the long list of his overflowing cornucopia of obnoxiousness. One of them, if she comes forward before the statute of limitations runs out, might even succeed in putting him where all powerful men who thrust themselves on less-powerful women belong: in jail with the rest of their stinking ilk. Gore might even discover there what he failed to learn in the House Gym, the Senate Gym and the White House Gym: how it feels to be raped by a man more powerful than himself.
And one more thing. Since writing my comment, I’ve read http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062501709.html
in which Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post’s media columnist writes, “According to a source friendly with the Gores, Al Gore confirmed he received a therapeutic massage in his hotel room that night, and likely from the therapist making the accusation. But, the source said, Gore remembers getting a massage without incident and the therapist leaving on good terms.” This is classic. There are no italics on the comments page so I am unable to italicize this: the therapist or the waitress or the secretary or the executive assistant (here’s where there’d be italics) always “leaves on good terms.” Always. What many people do not know is that these women have to pick up their children from the baby-sitter, go grocery-shopping, go home and make dinner, put their children to bed, get into bed with their husbands. They don’t all want to be in the media spotlight. They certainly don’t want to yell at Al Gore and slam the door on his dick. Of course Gore “remembers getting a massage without incident.” The masseuse, like all hit-upon women, just wanted to get away. And he’s big—both politically and physically. How many non-martial-arts-savvy women want to get in a wrestling match with a 250-pound lug like Gore? None, that’s how many. So she leaves and he thinks, “No incident there. I tipped her. She’s happy. I’m happy.” Of course he thinks she “left on good terms.” That was so she could go on with the rest of her day without a black eye. I hope I’ve made the situation clear. This is how the “leaving on good terms” makes its inaccurate way into The Washington Post, “(a)ccording to a source friendly with the Gores.” Sources friendly with the masseuse would surely see it differently. For Gore, it was “without incident.” For the masseuse, it was with incident. Big time.
Belladonna, you are so right!! Congratulations for your comments.
BRAVO
Belladonna — Your emphasizing the words “without incident” seems to be coming from personal experience — as if you have had some close calls with men advancing themselves on you. There were a couple of incidences that I can recall as well. As a smaller woman, who finds herself in a situation where she doesn’t want to be raped, getting away as calmly as possible is the only way to handle it. Yes, it apparently conveyes to the man that they did nothing wrong, and the woman left “without incident”, but to the woman — she just escaped being raped. Well done.
Mom in Wisconsin
To Mom in Wisconsin:
The way the “thread” works prevents me from replying to you under your comment, so I am responding to you above your comment: Boy, did you ever hit the nail on the head. Yes on all counts. And yes, the goal is to (italics:) get out of the room, office, car, wherever you are safely, without a black eye, a rape, or any other assault. It can be done, but only by being careful not to rattle the narcissist in his cage. Your goal, in fact, is for him to believe the whole episode took place “without incident.”
I wish you and all others of bothl genders safe escapes from being cornered, grabbed and assaulted by the likes of Albert Gore, Jr.and his ilk.
Rightminded Mom: I was able to respond to you under your astute comment, after all.
Thank you, all three, for your comments.
AHJ: Did Gore come on to you as well?
I must say that the National Enquirer is the only media outlet that seems able to learn a lesson. After the Carol Burnett libel verdict, the NE clamped down on its reporting. The NE also seems to be one of the few outlets that actually requires multiple sources of less than thoroughly disreputable character. Apparently getting slapped with what was a huge verdict at the time worked.
When the John Edwards Baby Mama stories started to show up, I wondered if the Nat’l Enquirer was getting ready for “Carol Burnett, Round 2″…obviously NOT! Unlike government, when a business gets hit in the pocketbook, it usually learns a lesson. I guess NE knows what it’s doing since the MSM is now “squealin’ on a pal” & following NE’s lead on this Gory Story.
That isn’t global warming Al, it’s just a ‘dry heat’.
Will Al Gore now be the butt of more jokes than anyone who ever lived?
Not necessarily. It’s been more than ten years, but I still hear Monica Lewinsky jokes. (The Lorena Babbitt jokes have more or less died down by now.)
Speaking of which — I’d love to be able to listen in to a conversation between Mr. Gore and his former boss, Bill Clinton. “You did WHAT, Al? Did you learn NOTHING from me?”
I’d like to say the Mr. Gore’s career in the public eye is now over. But one should never underestimate the public’s willingness to forget, or the ability of a motivated person to make a comeback. We did eventually have Dick Nixon to kick around again, didn’t we?
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
“Al Gore jumps twenty-five sharks”… and the twenty-sixth took a good chunk off his rear-end!
But seriously, guys. The only “Inconvenient Truth” that counts here is that Al Gore is a hypocrite and a creep.
CERN invented the web, but not the internet.
The link is to the “History of the Internet,” including ARPA, CERN, UCLA, et al. Mentions just about everyone but Al G.
Roger — I’m second to nobody in my scorn for Al Gore’s AGW stances, but his claims about the Internet are reasonable. In Congress, he was at the forefront of making sure this type of networking research was well funded, and most critically, he made one round of funding contingent on making the various then incompatible networks interoperable with each other. This created the true onset of the Internet.
You can read about it in the book “The Dream Machine” by Mitchell Waldrop.
http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Computing/dp/B00008MNVW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277494044&sr=1-2
Of course, Gore wasn’t actually writing the code that implemented this, but it takes other contributions as well to create something like this.
24 enowning is right. The web (HTML language) was developed at CERN. The Mosaic browser developed at Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is really what made the web popular. The internet (TCP/IP protocol, email, ftp, etc) was originally developed for the US military (originally called ARPANET). I started using email and ftp in in the early 80s. I credit the engineers with inventing the internet. They did the work.
If “The Dream Machine” by Mitchell Waldrop says something positive about Al Gore, it’s a safe bet “Mitchell Waldrop” is Gore’s nom de plume.
Hilarious.
Big Al’s hotel room masseuse describes him as a “crazed sex poodle”. And I always thought he was “Man-Bear-Pig”. Turns out he’s just a pig.
I wish folks would leave us bears out of this. We’re always polite; we’ve no need to be any other way.
Overheard in the hotel room: “Its an inconvient truth that I have an erection.”
lol
i don’t know if it is true or not, but i do know one thing: its hilarious.
Maybe now we can put Al into that lock-box he promoted
Unfortunately, I don’t see that, “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (You lie about one thing, you lie about all),” is a helpful or realistic principle to apply to men lying about their sexual proclivities. We may discover that Albert Einstein cheated on his wife and then lied about it, but I don’t see how this would be relevant to disproving the theory of relativity. Science does not stand or fall on the ability of scientists (or politicians) to keep their pants zipped — and thank goodness, or we would have made very little progress in the last two centuries.
I don’t have much hope that Al’s travails will much influence our congress-critters, for a couple of reasons:
1) most are lawyers, who nullified “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”, at least in their own minds, by creating the Severence concept in contract law – i.e. the clause that says if one part of this contract/law/whatever is judged unenforcable, it doesn’t affect any other part. Kinda undermines the importance of getting all of anything right, including an AGW argument.
2) For a non-scientist, the issue comes down to “which group of scientists do I listen to?” Congress-critters are used to giving the most weight to the loudest special interest, whatever the merits… and all the non-climatoligist activists, some with many letters after their names, who have amplified the AGW argument, make for a loud special interest indeed.
> Some people — notably many in authority — still do think AGW is “settled science” and they do so, largely, because they were inspired by Al Gore.
I recently attended a University graduation and heard
the guy currently in charge of the entire Smithsonian say,
I kid you not, “Global warming is for real.”
That a supremely educated man can still say that after all that
has happened in the last year showing what a hoax AGW is is
most troubling.
“…still do think AGW is “settled science” and they do so, largely, because they were inspired by Al Gore.”
To be fair, they were not inspired by Al. They were inspired by their leftist supporters who wanted to use any excuse to control other people, and make big bucks for themselves. These people have no marketable skills and too lazy to earn an honest living, but have an outsized ego that they are born to rule.
“To be fair, they were not inspired by Al. They were inspired by their leftist supporters who wanted to use any excuse to control other people, and make big bucks for themselves”.
Who cares if Al’s the inspiration, he sure got in on the “make big bucks” part, didn’t he? With the revelation of his massage-related antics, the only “settled science” is why he bought that $9 million love nest on the Pacific.
The emerging stories are so bizarre, no one could possibly be making them up. As is pointed out here – Al Gore the blowhard who claimed to have invented the internet and that his marriage inspired Love Story – this is quite the irony for the global warming religion (and it is a religion). Their all-knowing (“the argument is over”) Messiah OwlGore is nothing but a fraud, a shyster, a flim-flam/shakedown artist, a philanderer/adulterer, and now we learn, a sexual predator, and not even a very good one. What’s next? Gore coming out as a bi-sexual transvestite? At the rate new stories are erupting, I wouldn’t doubt it.
There is no worse ball-busting a man can endure than being exposed by the National Enquirer. Although there are many more similar episodes by celebrities in the past, (and very few, if any, seem to learn from past history) Gore should’ve taken a hint from the tawdry John Edwards on getting busted by the NE. Edwards, though (Gore may make the same fatal error) denied, denied, denied, until the hard evidence surfaced and the lamestream media could no longer stand to be upstaged by the lowly (but accurate) Enquirer. If I were advising Gore, I’d tell him to get it over with & admit everything, and the resulting damage will be far less. The American people are generally pretty forgiving of sexual misdeeds, but they’re generally unforgiving of being lied to about them.
The D after the names of so many of the Democrats seems to stand for Degrade, Demean and Dismiss. The D supporters are either dishing it out or are, themselves, of such low self esteem, that being degraded, demeaned and dismissed is the natural state of their psyches. That “big tent” the D’s refer to is becoming a very scary place. Enter at your own risk.
You forgot Dependent.
“Some people — notably many in authority — still do think AGW is “settled science” and they do so, largely, because they were inspired by Al Gore. Well, until now!”
What is wrong with us (to include U.S.)? Have the majority of Americans completely lost touch with reality? Are we beyond the tipping point with a critical mass of stupidity? Objective (read non-government grant funded) science favoring AGW is virtually non-exisent. At best, any small warming period 10 years ago was cyclical.
Why do so many Americans (forget about the world) allow these greedy, filthy, lying pigs in progressive socialism to rob us of our freedom, liberty and personal property to line their greedy, filthy, lying pockets?
Cap and trade (based completely on the lies of AGW)is the ultimate insult to my intelligence!!! It should really be titled ALGW (Anthropomorphic Lies on Global Warming)!
It makes me want to scream when I hear Hillary preaching to Pakistan that they should creat more tax revenue since (paraphrasing)… in America, if it moves we tax it and if it doesn’t move we tax it until it moves!!!! Aghhhhhhhhh!
Al Gore, bore, snore, whore is nothing more than the Dr. Suess version of all these frightening, dangerous, progressive quacks! That’s how I really feel! Whew!
Gore is a truly odious man, who seems to be getting his just deserts.
His attack on real science and promotion of the scientific fraud of Global Warming is one of the horrible lessons of the last decade. ‘Settled science’ indeed.
Tar is too easy. Boiling oil maybe.
He thought she was his piece prize.
That last appeared in the National Enquirer — as we know, a newspaper with one of the greatest track records for accuracy of any publication in our country. I’m serious. If not for them, John Edwards might be vice-president right now. Think about that. And, NE is backed up by police reports, etc.)
As a journalist Roger, the sad part to me of this whole thing is that it takes the flipping National Enquirer to break these stories. What’s even sadder is that were it any other publication they would have won the Pulitzer.
The state of my profession saddens me deeply.
Patrick
Congratulations, Patrick! Admitting on PJM you have ANY connection to the “journalism profession” is the 1st step in your recovery.
“that blowhard who claimed to have helped create the Internet”
The internet part is not BS. He really did help create the internet. CERN created the network tecnology, hyper text markup and the www extension. But Al Gore played a huge part in building the back bone infrastructure. He was Vice president from 1992 and during the first years he made a big push for what he called the “Information superhighway”. The giant fiber optical cables in the ocean. Expanded deployment of communication satellites etc. It was the Clinton administration that made this happen and Al Gore was the main force behind this. I remember it clearly. I don’t have to google it. It was prominently featured in business newspapers, the same way they are writing about smart phones, G4, ipad etc. today. And being a sucker for computer technology, I followed it closely.
Is it really so hard to believe. The man practically singlehandedly made global warming the huge movement and political force it is today.
I remember AlGore’s INOFROMATION SUPERHIGHWAY as well.
At the telecom company I worked at during the time, I was pressured to buy tickets for a speech he gave about it; that was even before he was VP.
It’s a good story. Only problem with it is that Al’s plan was for the government to build all that stuff. And that never happened.
All the stuff you mentioned, undersea cables, satellite, etc. were all built with private investments. And you can also add “overbuilt.” A lot of that fiber was never lit. This helped bring on the Internet buble burst of 2000/2001.
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Cheers
This is the kind of stuff that really brings countries together. Now they’re mocking Gore in Taiwan & it’s so funny it needs no translation. Thanks, Al…”you’ve come a long way, baby”!
Mr. Simon:
“Will Al Gore now be the butt of more jokes than anyone who ever lived?”
Mmmmm, could be. But no-one should be particularly proud or pleased to do so.
I mean “hunting” dairy cows with your deer rifle might be kinda entertaining, but it’s not so challenging that you’re going to have Bossie’s head mounted and hung in your den so that you can brag about it, right?
Mr Simon: Can AlGore become the Pee Wee Herman of global warming, or is this wishful thinking? BTW, didn’t Gore get a Divinity Degree from Yale? Weren’t his grades in other subject matter too low to get into and graduate from any other corriculum? Didn’t he get whacked at Yale Law?
He CHOSE to flunk out of Harvard Divinity. Their standards were too high a hurdle for him (breathing, maintaining a temperature, etc…) He eventually had to settle for a J-school degree, which they gave to any filled seat as well as assorted rocks and stumps just to goose the grad rate.
Al Gore FLUNKED out of divinity school. BTW, I heard an interview once with someone who worked in Washington during the Clinton administration, and apparently that was a running joke among people “in the loop” that Al Gore was the dumbest man in Washington. What say you’all?
The global warmer has no clothes.
Everyone knows all Gore’s problems are Bush’s fault.
“Messiah OwlGore is nothing but a fraud, a shyster, a flim-flam/shakedown artist, a philanderer/adulterer, and now we learn, a sexual predator, and not even a very good one. What’s next? Gore coming out as a bi-sexual transvestite?”
You forgot to mention Al’s also (& this could be the worst of all)….a Democrat!
Oops, sorry ’bout that. I guess I presumed everyone visiting this site would perhaps know that, but I seem to have inadvertently committed the same crime the national media does (theirs isn’t inadvertent) – never mentioning the party when it’s a Democrat who falls from grace. I
No problem, RockThisTown. Here in NJ last year, when over 40 state & local officials were arrested in a corruption case, practically no one mentioned they were all Democrats. It’s up to the sane among us to make sure the big “D” is always prominently affixed.
I don’t understand what you are all going on about… it is obviously all George Bush’s fault.
Hi Roger,
Re jumping sharks…
Do you remember that posting back in April where you cited Andrew Bolt citing Steven Goddard?;
… and no one noticed that “normal” was a point half-way down a declining slope. You claimed that this short-term squiggle was evidence against the declining slope…
… and spoke ahead of time…
… but nature took a cruel turn. I was wondering, given that you are really interested in the science, now that the data for April and May are in will you, as a good scientist would, consider revising your opinion in light of the new data? Do the satellite data show that arctic sea ice is “purportedly” or actually disappearing, and do they show that climate science is “farcical”?
There remain a disturbing number of “intellectuals” wedded to the environmental movement and hell bent on having their names engraved on the “We Saved the Planet” headstone that Al Gore’s fall from grace will be a non event. The Commie, Socialist dictators are chuckling up their collective sleeves and offering a helping hand as the Greens attempt to ingratiate themselves by demonstrating their independence from and hatred for, the “most evil Capitalist system” that ever was……and that would be America, ironically the country that gives them the freedom and the platform to open their stupid, irresponsible mouths and pontificate, the environmental sermon from the mount. Our envious antagonists around the world need not worry. We are hell bent on self destruction.
Roger writes,
I wonder if he read the ruling…
Roger writes,
Actually, Roger, if you go to Google Scholar, click on advanced search, enter Lindzen for author and 2009-2010 for publication date, and click on the first result you’ll find…
Lindzen, R. S., and Y. Choi (2009), On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data, Geophysical Research Letters, 36(16), doi:10.1029/2009GL039628.
… a paper often cited by denialists because it claims a low climate sensitivity of 0.5°C, compared to the consensus lower confidence limit of 1.5°C and ‘most likely’ estimate of 3°C. Note that it was published in the peer-reviewed literature which apparently never publishes skeptics’ work, and that if you read the bottom of page five you’ll find the work was funded by the “Global Warming Machine” [of doom]…
How much work do you do?
Roger! Lazar! Put down the dueling pistols, give your egos a rest & stop making things so damned complicated. Al Gore, The Wizard of Warmers, bought a $9 million love nest on the CA coast which, according to the Al’s “best science available,” should be underwater before he gets his next massage. I doubt he spent millions of bucks to literally “live in a fishbowl” so we can finally close the case on this “inconvenient scam” known as climate change.
Good point, Carolannie! I wish we could close the case on AGW and watch algore float away on an ice flow, never to be heard from again, but that’s probably not going to happen. There are millions of dollars begging to be scammed from the all-too-willing Obamaite regime and their sycophantic “We’re Saving The Planet” minions.
I think that the AGW scam will fade, but there will always be those few who will believe that mankind is destroying the planet and demanding we turn everything over to the government (and them!) to run the show. They are the same people who don’t believe we went to the moon, that Bush/Cheney planted explosives in the WTC, that the Freemasons are secretly controlling everything, etc.
We’ll never be completely rid of them (the media loves the fringe elements!), so they’ll continue to be comic relief while the rest of us do the grunt work and REALLY save the planet.
Big Al may remind us, “there is NO controlling legal authority!” There never is
with effete snobs such as he. Thank God this phony lost the gold ring in 2000 or
we would be hoarding our peat bricks in our cellars, dreading the knock at the door
by the EPA chimney-sniffers at 3:00am.
It does seem that finally accepting foreign help for the oil spill, on what, day 70? of the most horrific environmental disaster in history, through true man made incompetent blundering, is the real eco-global problem here. This gem of buffoonery executed by that other Nobel Prize winner Barak Obama.