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A Huge Surprise

Yep.  Award-winning climatologist and former veep is running for the office that Dubya stole from him.  Not officially, of course.  The idea is to make it somehow appear as though a grand chorus of voices are chanting across the land, "Run, Albert, Run"!

Hi.  Those are some nice shoes.  They call me Forrest.  Would you like a chocolate?  My mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates.

I'm happy to see that you're sitting here, waiting for a bus.  Because you know, it's the right thing to do.  Did you know that you're reducing your cabon footprint?  We all have carbon footprints, you know.  Some folks will tell you that carbon dioxide is insignificant as a greenhouse gas, but I don't believe them.  Do you?  Are you sure you wouldn't like a chocolate?

Do you make $30,000 a year?  Oh, I'm sorry.  That was rude.  Mama would have said that, and she'd have been right.  I spend $30,000 a year just on natural gas and electricity for my humble home office.

I try to cut back, but it's really difficult.

You probably know that we're all going to die because of global warming, but did you know that You Can Save The Planet?  Oh, it's true.  Sure you don't want a chocolate?  Oh well, then...

You Can Save The Planet if you'll just quit driving, and use mass transit.  Recycle.  Use compact flurorescent bulbs.  Take only cold-water showers, and only for thirty seconds, once a week.  I learned about this latter approach while I was helping to invent the internets, and it seems like a promising approach for you.

I'd do it myself, except that I have so many awards to claim that my timelines are really tight, and you know what that does to a manly body. 

I've spent most of my life either in or in close proximity to hot water, and while there has never been any assertion of any controlling legal authority in this regard, it seems only reasonable to note that I have, as yet, never been burned.

How Hot Is This?

Wow, some scientist folks have recommended a global temperature "ceiling" and a "carbon tax".  Amazing.  Makes you wonder just how large the rocks are that they have to pull these folks out from under.

Panel member John Holdren of Harvard University...Holdren, however, says even these measure will achieve very little unless they are accompanied by a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions.

So the distinguished perfesser advocates a tax on water vapor?  Because that is, after all, the number one "greenhouse gas" in play.  How would this work?

Presumably, equatorial countries would have to pay huge taxes, because of the water vapor released down that way by evaporation.  Oh, wait...

Doing The Jobs Americans Won't Do

Jump the border.  Pump out a kid.  Sell it for a down payment on a car.  Yep, they're only here to do the jobs that Americans won't do.  It'll be really nice when Bush, Gonzales, and Gordon Smith are gone.  Because we really can't do much worse when it comes to illegal aliens and national security than these bozos have managed "on our behalf".

Bush and Gonzales are pretty much timed out.  But el Gordo could be in the Senate for a long time.  Unless, of course, voters choose to send him back to his illegal-alien-friendly pea-packin' plant.  And it's way past time to do just that.  Gordo may be addressing the Dorchester Conference this coming weekend, but Gordo's no Republican.

Four Legs Good; Two Legs Bad

If you don't get the line, then you need to go to a library and pick up a copy of "Animal Farm".  Don't worry - it's a short read.  But it illustrates exactly what "Global Warming Authorities" like AlGore and company are trying to do to you.  All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others.  This is why AlGore and his lovely wife, Tipper, can drop thirty thousand dollars a year on natural gas and elctricity for their modest home offices in Tennessee and fuel their private jet for flights to important destinations - while telling you that you need to cut back on your lifestyle, because Global Warming is real, it's happening, and It's All Your Fault.  Wake up and buy a clue:  it's not about science; it's about control.

There was more energy consumed in the manufacture, construction and maintenance of Leonardo DiCaprio's Malibu home than is needed to light the entire city of Albuquerque, where there are surely several men who can actually act. But he has solar panels to warm his house six degrees on chilly Malibu nights.

We're supposed to believe AlGore and his pals?  Sheesh.  Whatever happened to "Global Cooling"?   35 years ago, that was all the rage.   We were supposed to have glaciers extending to the equator by now.  That was All Your Fault, too.

Ever get the feeling that perhaps the whole deal is to come up with ways to scare you to death?  Well, why would anybody do that?  One word:

Control.

Greenhouse skeptics?

Well, how can this be?  It's been frequently claimed that the debate is over, and of course, globally-acclaimed atmospheric chemist AlGore (who also helped to invent the internets) has had awards heaped upon him for his role in producing one of the poorest science-fiction movies of all time.  Nonetheless, it appears that there are skeptical scientists out there (rarely if ever publicised, of course).  "Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States"...

Dr Jensen, a nuclear physicist, has said he is not convinced that human activity is responsible for global warming.

In an interview with The Age last month, Mr Evans acknowledged that last September's visit by former US vice-president Al Gore to promote his Oscar-winning global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth had helped generate a lot of publicity on climate change.

But he described Mr Gore's film as "bullshit from beginning to end".

We're All Gonna Die! Part...um, whatever

Really, you can't keep track of it.  We're all gonna die because of Global Warming and it's All Your Fault, and you need to reduce your "carbon footprint" and yadda yadda.  Well, you've doubtless already seen some of the hypocrisy of AlGore and his fellow wealthy followers, so you understand that Global Warming is a new religion, or more accurately, a new cult.  The leaders are much like Bagbalm Shree Rajneesh, who had around a hundred high-end cars to drive while preaching a minimalist lifestyle to his followers.

Like Bagbalm, AlGore is revered by his devotees, and they ignore his excessive lifestyle.  As the leader of the cult, it is only his due.  It seems likely that if AlGore told his acolytes to drink the Kool-Aid, they would willingly do so.  But the wooden man is a little smarter than Jimmy Jones was.  He wants to keep living high on the hog, while proposing that everyone else make do with less.  And so unlike Jimmy, he needs to keep his followers around.  Jones was willing to die with his followers.  AlGore doesn't see a lot of personal benefit to that.  And in that, he's correct.

It's best to keep himself and his acolytes alive, so that he can continue to enjoy his (energy-inefficient) opulent lifestyle.  Not that it's a problem - he can afford to pay his $30,000 plus a year for gas and electricity.  That's fine.  It just seems a wee bit hypocritical for him to intone that the folks who make around that amount of cash in a year of work should have to "cut back" and  "reduce their carbon footprint".  All talk, no walk: AlGore.

Uh-Oh!

The famous Aerial Tram shut down today for a bit, because wind gusts occasionally hit 40 miles an hour.  Who'd ever have thought?  We almost never get wind gusts that high, sitting here at the mouth of the funnel that is the Columbia River Gorge.  Fire up the buses, boys!  You'd almost think this ski-lift was thought up by the same folks who bring you light rail - because we never get ice storms here.  Oh, wait...

Now they want to sell you a bridge, for only <snicker> $6 billion.  Like our $15 million tram?  Oh, never mind the cost overruns.  That tram thing ran close to $60 million, but hey.  But some guy came up with a great idea: forget the super-bridge - build 40 or 50 trams to carry traffic between Portland and Vancouver.  The idea has great potential.  Less expensive, and would take thousands of cars off the freeway.  Unless it gets breezy.  As Ted Kennedy might say, "We'll drive off that bridge when we come to it".

Master Of Hypocrisy

Wow.  Famed atmospheric scientist AlGore was at the Oscar thing last night.  Flew in on a private jet.  Do As I Say, Not As I Do.  Global Warming: the new religion.

Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

The War On Terror

Has it ever occurred to you to wonder why Bush opts for the "open border" strategery during a time of war?  It's pretty straightforward, really:  He talks about "fighting them over there" - but the whole idea is to bring them over here.  They don't know our terrain like we do, and so we gain an automatic upper-hand.  Add to that the fact that we afford easy access to things they've never had a chance to experience: alcohol, dancing, women not covered head to foot, Wal-Mart.  Once they're over here, they're overwhelmed.  It's like shooting fish in a barrel.  When you look at it, the strategery is pretty darned impressive.

On Education

Here in the USA, the concept of education has largely been replaced by "vegetation".  Our schools have been overrun by vegetators who appear to believe firmly that science and math, reading and composition, and other mundane educational goals are vastly overrated.  More important, they believe, are "multiculturalism", self-esteem, and sexual "education".  This is a prescription for disaster.  As a direct result of the efforts of these vegetators, we are not raising the next generation of innovators - but a generation of restroom attendants.

In India and in China, vegetation is not encouraged as it is in the USA,  They value education as American institutions do not.  And if we don't remove the feel-good vegetators with actual educators, America will drop like a rock tossed into a still pond.