$70,500.
By on May 30th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
$70,500.
Average gross per screen for An Inconvenient Truth over the holiday weekend, the highest average in the nation.
View Most Popular
Advertisement
What We're About
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting Against
Featured
Subscribe to the Progress Report
Topic CloudView topics sorted by popularity
Afghanistan
Bachmann
Beck
Boehner
Business
Cheney
Civil Rights
Congress
Corporate Ethics
Dobbs
Economy
Education
Election
Energy
Environment
Ethics
Fox News
Gingrich
Glenn Beck
Global Warming
Health Care
Immigration
International Relations
Justice
LGBT
Lieberman
Limbaugh
Media
Military
O'Reilly
Obama
Palin
Pelosi
Politics
Race
Radical Right
Religion
Sports
Steele
Stimulus
Tea Parties
Tea Party
Terrorism
Veterans
Women's Rights
Visit Our Affiliated Sites
Reports
In-depth studies on select topics
Got a hot tip?
Have a hot news tip? We'd love to hear from you. Use the form below to send us the latest.
ArchivesBlog Roll
This truth is going to become very INCONVENIENT for the RNC!!!
May 30th, 2006 at 3:51 pmnearly 3 times higher then the next closest, and over 7 of the 3rd highest, sounds a bit far fetched. And only open in a fraction of the theaters? Sounds like maybe it was targeted just for areas that have large support for Mr. Gore.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:53 pmUh, if I’m reading this right it’s only on 4 screens.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:54 pmIt played in 4 fricking theaters! And where? L.A. and New York. Wait until you see how it plays in red state America, if it even does.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:54 pmSpielberg doesn’t have anything on Al Gore.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:55 pmThis will probably bomb in RedState America just like Brokeback Mountain did. Wait a minute… /sarcasm
May 30th, 2006 at 3:56 pmThe bottom line is – don’t get your hopes up with Al. Remember what happened the last time you did.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:56 pmWho else are we going to get our hopes up with Randy? Republicans? Not bloody likely…
May 30th, 2006 at 3:59 pm#6 – You’re right, DrSinker, “bomb.” It took 6 weeks for Brokeback Mountain to get within 100 miles of my town in Idaho, but it ended up staying in the local theater until the weekend before it came out on DVD. An Inconvenient Truth will probably do just as badly. ;)
May 30th, 2006 at 4:00 pmHa, just you wait. You’ll try and convince us with all yer book-larnin’ and science fact-a-ma-jiggers, and we’ll just stay as ignorant as we always were. And then we’ll laugh at you!
Gobal warming? Take THAT, hippies!
May 30th, 2006 at 4:02 pmOf course it won’t do as well in the states where people won’t go to see just because…. But hopefully people will realize this is not a political issue. The temperature and sustainability of the Earth doesn’t care if Bush is president. And if that means whipping up super storms to use up the energy that will be captured by the atmophere filled with pollutants then that is what it will do.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:04 pmbtw, that was sarcasm, but I see we have trolls like Randy here to reinforce the redneck stereotype. You know, the kind who won’t listen to liberals because I hate you, and would rather tear down the republic than see another point of view represented in government, and like to laugh at the suffering of those we deem “commies.”
May 30th, 2006 at 4:05 pmAnd they’ve partnered up with MYSPACE!
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/05/inconvenient_myspace.php
May 30th, 2006 at 4:09 pm#12 – Was there actually any doubt you were being sarcastic?
May 30th, 2006 at 4:10 pm“redneck hick” — I love that name.
rh,
I am not a redneck. I am a very educated individual with an MBA who does care about the environment. I just don’t want to see a bunch of liberals hijack the situation who really do not care about global warming just to get their power back. I am for alternative sources of fuel. I am for expanding current sources of fossil fuel until we can develop alternatives. I believe in driving more fuel efficient cars. At least I am not a hypocrite like the limosine liberals I see in the media saying one thing and doing another. If Al really cared about global warming, why doesn’t he fly commercial instead of using private jets. Why did his entourage have to ride in their limos 1000 meters at the Cannes film festival rather than walking? This movie will not play in the red states. Brokeback did well due to the undeserved Oscar nods. I just don’t think thats the case here.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:13 pmRedneck,
I hope that even hicks like you, who paint their cars only with primary colors, will find the cash to see Al Gore’s movie.
I know times are tough. You voted for a chimp, when you were without a job, and you’re still without a job. Why? Because the chimp lied to you. Slowly, you are realizing this, that maybe Rush and O’Reilly are complete idiots. It’s disappointing, we know, but it’s the truth.
See the movie by the anti-chimp. Sneak in if you have to.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:15 pm#15 Randy,
Do you think the scientific community is composed largely of “limosine liberals”? Not too many of us them anything beyond a beat-up old civic, trust me. They’re not trying to hijack anything.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:18 pmHa, that’s an oxymoron. We fire people with MBAs all the time. A degree doesn’t make you smart.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:19 pmIf Al really cared about global warming, why doesn’t he fly commercial instead of using private jets. Why did his entourage have to ride in their limos 1000 meters at the Cannes film festival rather than walking?
May 30th, 2006 at 4:21 pmThat didn’t happen…stop taking Drudge as gospel. Second the story said 500 meters and they were cars not limos. Third….again that didn’t happen.
Doesn’t Bush have an MBA, too?
May 30th, 2006 at 4:23 pmSo are the big oil companies. That is why they have stopped ever bit of research into alternative fuels, so they can continue drilling for oil.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:25 pmI realize that this source is “Left-wing,” (we must keep up our delineations, mustn’t we) but Think Progress had already debunked this rumor that was propagated on the web by Matt Drudge.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Randy, you say nice things about yourself, but your earlier comments paint a more telling picture. You are clearly against doing anything about cleaning up our planet. Your own statements, say as much.
Just like bushco, watch what they do, not what they say.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:40 pmI am a very educated individual with an MBA who does care about the environment. I just don’t want to see a bunch of liberals hijack the situation who really do not care about global warming just to get their power back.
–Randy
Yeah I see the republicans are all over this issue. They have been working hard the last 5 years to protect our environment. They have done a bang up job after Katrina too. Yeah RIGHT!! =P
Name one thing this republican congress has actually done to protect the environment. And I mean in reality. Just 1
Looks like you need to ask for a refund for that MBA, since your thinking skills learned have much to be desired. You can always go back to school and get a real degree, its never too late
May 30th, 2006 at 4:41 pmRandy,
May 30th, 2006 at 4:43 pmThey walked
Christ, you probably believe Jesus was gay.
Why do you hate religion?
At least I am not a hypocrite like the limosine liberals I see in the media saying one thing and doing another.
You mean that liberal Denny Hastert who recently drove away from a gas station in a hydrogen-powered car because he cared so much for the environment, and stopped a few blocks from the Capitol and hopped into a Chevy Suburban for the remaining trip back. Check the link below for a really neat picture catching him in action.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/27.html
May 30th, 2006 at 4:54 pmWow. What a success for Al.
It’s amazing what happens when you put a movie in so few theaters that liberal tree-hugging freaks are forced to pack themselves into the few shows available.
Do a general release on this dog and you’re getting about $1.25 per screening. Regardless, the theaters made more on popcorn and Junior Mints when Fat Al went to see Brokeback Mountain.
May 30th, 2006 at 4:55 pm#18 you beat me to it. An MBA is a joke. An MBA teaches you enough to play boardroom buzzword bingo. When I think “educated” I think of the scientists who got their PhDs in hard sciences, completed a postdoc, and publish in peer reviewed journals.
You know, them liberal commies.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:02 pmHighly educated liberal commies?
Aren’t they the ones who have yet to realize that socialism doesn’t work and are still smarting because we won the Cold War?
Geniuses….
So sad for them that reality routinely kicks their utopian theories right in the jewels…
May 30th, 2006 at 5:09 pmRandy, why do you care who gets their power back? Are you deciding based on who they are, as opposed to who is right, or who has the best solution? Because I see two sides: One wants to drill more and drive gas guzzlers and fight wars in the mideast for our national interest. The other wants to spend that money on research for alternatives, and dial down our consumption to give us more time to find that solution. You realize, of course, that if supply dwindles faster than we can find alternatives, then we’re sunk as a civilization, right? Is the defining issue for you really whether libersls “get their power back?”
And if you think an MBA makes you educated, you need to educate yourself. I know plenty of smart people with MBAs and they’ll be the first to tell you an MBA is nothing but a cursory overview of business practices. Two years covering every topic in management, not much in the way of specialization or depth.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:13 pm#29 Mike Reaganite, reality is kicking your utopian jewels all across Iraq right now. And my Gore-hating conservative heartland relatives are hurting bad with these gas prices. The liberal commies with their hybrid cars and mass transit aren’t hurting so much. People like Gore who walk will do better in the coming years than fat slobs like Hastert who need 8mpg to push their fat asses around town.
If socialism doesn’t work, someone better tell Bush to repeal his medicare bill.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:17 pm#29 Mike-
The reality is that the “permanent Republican majority” is not long for this world. How’s that for a kick in the face?
May 30th, 2006 at 5:20 pmCan’t you get an MBA in like 2 hours online?
Univ. of Phoenix, class of May 3oth, 11 a.m. section!!
May 30th, 2006 at 5:20 pmWay to go redneck! Don’t expect a response from Mike Reaganite anytime soon. He’s still smarting from that swift kick in the jewels you just gave him! Ha!
May 30th, 2006 at 5:23 pmWe won the cold war how? You mean symbolically when they tore down the Berlin wall? Or do you mean the fact that CHina and Russia are best friends and are now best buddies with Iran. You know Iran right? They are that big country next to Iraq that controls 1/4 of the oil in the world.
Yeah, we won alright. Where do I get my trophy?
May 30th, 2006 at 5:33 pmMost of Iraq is quite passive, there is a democratically-elected government taking the reigns of power… You sound like Cronkite when he became the North Vietnamese MVP right after we mopped the floor with communists during Tet. Al Quaida knows it can only win in the propaganda war…. mainly due to liberal “Hate America First” boneheads.
I find it interesting that it appears to be the fault of Republicans and conservatives that gas prices are so high. We must mot be stealing enough gas from Iraq (the real reason for being there, right?). Or maybe it’s the onerous regs for building new refineries. Wait, wasn’t that the Dems? Or perhaps it’s because we’re so limited in our ability to exploit our own supplies. ANWR anyone? No doubt that was Dubya also…
BTW, fat asses? Apparently his walking isn’t enough to keep him from pushing 3 bills every time he steps on the scale. Perhaps he doesn’t walk as much as you think. It may be from limitations due to lung damage from all the blunts he sparked up while failing out of divinity school. Or was that law school? Or both? Or while inventing the internet?
May 30th, 2006 at 5:33 pmSome get the garden hose on DrSinker before he makes a mess on redneck’s leg.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:36 pmMike – de Nial is not a river in Egypt. Most of Iraq is quite passive – that’s great. Tell the folks in Baghdad to move where everything’s quiet. Brilliant.
You sound like Rush when he’s pumped up on drugs.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:37 pmDr. Sinker: Given the awe-inspiring ability of the Democratic Party to blow elections, don’t hold your breath. Actually, come to think of it, go right ahead and hold away…
May 30th, 2006 at 5:40 pmIt should be clear by now based on Mike’s comments that he’s in the closet of denial right there with Mr. Tom Cruise.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:40 pmActually what’s been awe-inspiring is the Republicant’s ability to spend our money Mike. Doncha think?
May 30th, 2006 at 5:42 pmI thought liberals were supposed to be the hippy pot smokers.
Dude, put down your bong, turn off Fuax News and get educated.
First of all, it is AL QAEDA. Second of all, al Qaeda are NOT the insurgents. They are terrorists. The insurgents are Sunnis who want power back. Al Qaeda is no longer in Iraq. They are plotting to blow up you house right now. Hurry run to your bomb shelter chicken little hawk.
We find that quite interesting also.
Oil production is lower than pre-war, thanks to the insurgents.
But, that has nothing to do with the fact that Big Oil drills a barrel of oil for 20 bucks a gallon, then sells it back to themselves for 80 bucks. Moron.
Actually Big Oil has 50 refineries in working condition that were shut down to artificially raise the price of gas in the ’80s. They could be brought online, but that would cut into Big Oil’s profits. Idiot.
ANWR is un needed. As George Bush’s best buddy in Saudi Arabia has already said twice, “There is plenty of oil”
You don’t solve an addiction by going to a new dealer.
I can’t believe you even brought up this overly debunked bullshit factoid.
But, once again, Gore didn’t say he invented the Internet, he pushed for funding to get the Interet to your piece of shit house.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:53 pmSince I’m on a liberal website, I think I should live by the old saying “When in Rome…”.
Therefore, I’m going to check the latest polls before formulating my responses to you all…. I’ll be open-minded, of course. Heck, by the time I’m done, I’ll believe Kerry truly would have been the better commander-in-chief (despite a 20-year track record of defense and intelligence cuts), that Islam really is a religion of peace and that Kennedy’s are great drivers.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:53 pmIt’s kind of sad that Gore was bi-partisan. Otherwise he could have just provided internet to the educated (Liberals) and let the knuckle dragging, bible thumpers live in their 14th century utopia.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:56 pmOkay, then I will act like a republican:
Anne Coulter is hot and so smart.
I think I just threw up in my mouth. Ewwww.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:57 pmThe spelling of the name of the aforementioned terrorist group varies. That happens when translating from another language that uses a totally different alphabet.
Idiot.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:57 pmWow. our little Reaganaut spewed more talking points per square inch than anyone recently. So let’s just say: Most of Iraq is NOT passive, not the part with people in it. Their democratically elected government is not taking the reigns or reins of power, it’s police are getting chewed up worse than anyone. Boneheads like you cheer when so many people get killed. Apparently, strong on defense means more willing to kill. A President who, after getting 18 soldiers killed, fires his Sec of Defense and gets our boys out is a wimp. But the President who sticks to his guns after getting 3,000 killed, he’s a real man isn’t he?
Gas prices are high because redneck hicks didn’t want to conserve or spend any money building non-combustion alternatives. Think of oil as a jumping-off point. It’s a pool of cheap energy to get us to a a sustainable source. Republicans pretend oil is the power source for all eternity. The reason we haven’t built new refineries is because — listen now because Bush won’t say this — it is cheaper to expand the existing refineries. Refining capacity since the 1970s has kept up with demand and will continue. Building a new refinery is a waste of money when it is cheaper to expand existing capacity. But the way Bush says it makes it sound like we have not increased our refining capacity, not true. As for ANWR, a 1% increase in world supply, if you can do the math, won’t do much. We could decrease demand 10% easily, but that would violate your ideological principles, wouldn’t it?
I don’t care how much Al Gore walks, as long as he’s working towards a solution, and not throwing insults like conservatives are right now. And what Al Gore said about the Internet is 100% true, ask anyone who was there.
So why vote Republican? Strong on defense means getting more people killed for no benefit? Because they say small government but really want big government? Because they talk about freedom like this: “You can’t enjoy freedom when you’re dead?” If there were Republicans at the Alamo, Tejas would be the largest state in Mexico.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:58 pmWell Mike, at least that would be an improvement from believing everything is OKey-Dokey in Iraq. Sheesh.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:58 pmI wonder if any of you would have the stones to match wits with Ann Coulter. What a massacre that would be, LOL….
May 30th, 2006 at 5:59 pmAnne Coulter is hot and so smart.
I think I just threw up in my mouth. Ewwww.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — May 30, 2006 @ 5:57 pm
She has got to be the ugliest person on the face of the planet, that is next to Babs Bush! She looks like she is sucking a lemon!!
May 30th, 2006 at 5:59 pmAnd no Reaganaut, I didn’t check a poll before answering. Did you check the conservative think-tanks for your answer?
May 30th, 2006 at 6:01 pmIt only varies for idiots such as yourself. Moron.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:01 pmWould she debate reality or the republican dreamland?
May 30th, 2006 at 6:02 pmMike we are doing about as well in Iraq in our fourth year as the Soviets were doing in Afghanistan in their fourth year…and we know how that turned out don’t we?
May 30th, 2006 at 6:04 pmI wonder if any of you would have the stones to match wits with Ann Coulter. What a massacre that would be, LOL….
Comment by Mike Reaganite — May 30, 2006 @ 5:59 pm
I would pay to see her bitchiness in a debate with Randi Rhodes. Randi would mop up the floor with her. She wouldn’t know the truth if it hit her in that HUGE ugly face. (I gusee that is redundant, not knowing the truth and being republican)
May 30th, 2006 at 6:05 pmAnn Coulter. Jesus H Christ.
Why would it take any guts to “match wits” with her? Reading from Rove’s talking points doesn’t require any more wits than being able to read.
She’s got stones alright. But only because she’s a man Mike, you realize this, right?!?! What has she actually done that takes any real guts?
May 30th, 2006 at 6:05 pmI agree Mike, Anne Coulter does have large balls, but I heard she’s a grow’er, not a show’er.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:06 pmAnn Coulter is a big hit with today’s white supremecist groups.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:07 pmRepublicans at the Alamo?
Which better describes then men at the Alamo?
A) Self-reliant Southern, God-fearing men who carried guns and fought an oppressive regime.
B) Limp-wristed Northeastern milquetoast self-described intellectuals who would have used moral-relativism to convince themselves that Santa Anna was really the good guy.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:08 pmThe Alamo?
Talk about pre9/11 mentality.
Besides, it was a bunch of guys that got killed by the Mexicans for taking what was not theirs. Jim Bowie, Daniel Boon and John Wayne. All thieves. I thought you said you were highly educated. Oh wait, you said you have an MBA.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:11 pmNo mikje the chiocken-hawks we havew now who couldn’t find the testicular fortitude to go and fight when they had the turn buit wail away for others children to do so now…BTW have YOU volunteered?
May 30th, 2006 at 6:11 pmOK folks – time to stop feeding the Reaganite troll. There’s nothing to see here. Time to spit out the 31% backwash.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:11 pmSo Mikey…if you think carrying guns and fighting an oppressive regime is so very manly, why are you here and not in Iraq? Oh, cause you are a coward!! Yes, admit it, like all true republicans you are deep down a coward who would prefer to have some poor inner city kid fight the battles while you sit at home screaming about your 2nd amendment rights!!!
May 30th, 2006 at 6:12 pmCome on Mikey your among friends we won’t outy you to Chicken-hawk central er I mean the GOP, you can tell us of your military service…
May 30th, 2006 at 6:15 pmMike we are doing about as well in Iraq in our fourth year as the Soviets were doing in Afghanistan in their fourth year…and we know how that turned out don’t we?
Comment by Clif
Huh? Please explain this one. You must be joking. Present day Iraq and 80s Afghanistan are not remotely similar.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:16 pmThe movie will not be released in my neck of the woods until Friday. I cannot wait to see it.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:17 pmHuh? Please explain this one. You must be joking. Present day Iraq and 80s Afghanistan are not remotely similar.
Comment by Mike Reaganite — May 30, 2006 @ 6:16 pm
And present day US and the Alamo are? Just like a repug, flip-flop!!
May 30th, 2006 at 6:19 pmOnly to a neophyte like you mikey…to the insurgents they are almost the same…a foreign occupying force which they will use non traditional war techniques to attack and harass the enemy..ie the soviets in Afghanistan..and the US in Iraq..and they are having about the same amount of success, Iraq has a divided ethnic population which makes any attempted settlement much more complicated or us, but with the ethnic cleansing and sectarian violence the Iraqi’s are separating into distinct camps which could very well end up like Yugoslavia where each ethnic sectarian region breaks off and forms an independent autonomous region which would lead to further destabilization of the region given that neither Turkey nor Iran would permit a separate independent Kurdish region…but you say things are going SOOO well how about elaborating for all of us here….
May 30th, 2006 at 6:26 pmI admire and appreciate those in our military. And I bet I’m one of the few, and perhaps the only one, here who would rather thank them for their service than spit on them and call them baby-killers.
The modern-day liberal would have found a way to stay out of WWII and used moral relativism to claim we have no right to judge the likes of Hitler or Stalin just as they prepared to attack us. “Peace in our time”. Fools.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:27 pmIsn’t Ann Coulter at the very least a transvestite? Or had one of those operations to change from a man into a woman? EWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2006 at 6:29 pmThank you mike for your appreciation, as I aam a veteran of Desert Storm..now how about your erudication on the complkexities of the Iraqi situation given the sectyarian tensions and the historical relationship between Iraqi forces and the west..you could start with why the zBritish got to draw the boundries of IRAQ not any Arabs….
May 30th, 2006 at 6:30 pmMikey – as usual you would be wrong. Many of the posters here at TP have served. We support our troops that is why we believe Bush is wrong to put them in harms way so his buddies could get richer.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:33 pm#59 I’d say B) describes Republicans pretty well, just Connecticut Yankee Bush or his soul-mate Putin, or Reagan’s buddy Saddam. Remember, Reagan was making movies in WWII, what a friggin wimp.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:36 pmSince FDR is claimed as the father of modern day liberalism…mikey you sound quite stupid with your post
The modern-day liberal would have found a way to stay out of WWII and used moral relativism to claim we have no right to judge the likes of Hitler or Stalin just as they prepared to attack us. “Peace in our timeâ€. Fools.
Comment by Mike Reaganite — May 30, 2006 @ 6:27 pm
And it was the for runners of the repugs who wanted to be isolationists..expect for the ones like Presscott Bush who aided the Nazi’s along with GWB’s other grandfather..until the federal government seised the bank they were using…
May 30th, 2006 at 6:36 pm#69, Mike Reaganite, in case you haven’t looked, most of the draft-dodgers are NOT liberals, but members of the Bush administration, GOP Congressmen/Senators and their talking head radio talk-show supporters. Bush(deserter), Cheney(5 deferment Dickhead), Ashcroft(7 deferments), Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Abrams, Limbaugh, Kristol, Hannity, Hastert, Frist, O’Reilly, to name a few. Link to for a full listing
May 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pmCorrection to #75, Link should be to chickenhawks/New Hampshire Gazette.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:40 pmReaganaut gives us a good perspective into the right wing mythology (FDR was a conservative, Charles Lindburgh was a liberal, Bush is not a limp wristed milquetoast from the East with a fake drawl, supporting our troops means getting them killed, anyone who disagrees hates America, etc). We should thank him for that. Now back to the topic. Congrats in order for Al Gore.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:41 pmI am well aware of the ethnic difficulties faced in Iraq.
And despite them, Iraqis are forming a democratically-elected government with a constitution. And their police and military forces are growing and taking on more and more responsibility for their own defense.
But why look at the bright side of democracy and freedom and a lack of attacks on our soil when we can use the situation to attack a sitting president not of our party or ideology? Much better to leave while the terrorists and insurgents (many of whom, as I understand it, are not even Iraqis) still might have a shot at reclaiming power and establishing another anti-American regime. Great.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:43 pmJust like the US used to have in 2000?
You mean like forming militias that track down and kill opposing religious sect?
Once again, the terrorists, known as AL QAEDA, are NOT Iraqis. They are from all around the world and have left Iraq to plan terrorist attacks on the US. That is what they are after they want to blow us up. That is why we shouldn’t be wasting, time, money, energy, resources or one god damned more life, fighting a useless war for oil, because you like it.
The insurgents are Sunni Arab IRAQIS. They want power back and are willing to kill every Shiite to do it.
The Shiites are forming militias to kill off the Sunnis, so they can’t take back power.
The Kurds are just sitting around, waiting for the Sunnis and Shia to kill each other off.
The US is only bringing more tension to the region.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:53 pm#26,
I’m not much of a Denny Hastart fan either, however, the few hydrogren vehicles actually in use are not privately owned, and the owner does not want anyone taking them home and really using them. So Denny had to give the hydrogen vehicle back, and consequently get back in his Suburban.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:53 pmThe police and nmilitary are full of the sectarian militias..here about the Kurdish battalion that fought another battalion of a different ethnic makeup…and the Sunni Battalion that revolted when they were told they would be sent out of their home district…but ON papaer it all looks so good unless we compare the paper army and police foprces with the actualities on the ground,, then IT do not look so good…Basara is sliding out of control..and the fight is between two shite factions…thus it is not just differences between Sunni..Kurds..and Shites but differences with in the different sectarian factions…but since it is on paper it looks so good….Hell Saddam held elections they do not show much unless the people are willing to stand up and back the government which they do not seem to be willing to do…they still rely on the militias with in each particular sectarian area and drive the minorities out…thus you have shites running to baghdad and Basara..Sunni’s running from shite held territory and kurds wanting to keep the autonimus rergion they have had since 91 in their region…not a good formula for a sucessful launch of a national government ..one which must hide in the green zone for fear of attack by fellow Iraqi’s.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:54 pmTo be fair, I’m sure Reaganaut was singing the praises of Clinton when we went 7 years without a terrorist attack on our soil between 1993 and 2001. Right?
May 30th, 2006 at 7:02 pmMikey – as usual you would be wrong. Many of the posters here at TP have served. We support our troops that is why we believe Bush is wrong to put them in harms way so his buddies could get richer.
Julie: I find it unbelievable that people would seriously accuse our president of killing young Americans to enrich his friends. Ever hear of taking the fight to our enemies? The best defense is a strong offense? Apparently not. How nauseating that you find it so easy to think the worst of the president and deny any possible good that he may be doing.
Liberals are the very folks who scream bloody murder about some phone calls being tracked, but would be the first to point fingers at Bush if he didn’t do it and an attack happened that could have been stopped by just such intelligence activity. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:06 pmAnd Conservatives are the only group of people I know that would attack another group of people without having the slightest clue as to who those people are. Jerk.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:11 pmOh, I sang Clinton’s praises for finally trying to do something about Al Qaida (actually guys, I understand this is actaully a more accurate spelling) in order to divert attention from his sploogie stain in Monica’s dress. Good old Slick Willie. Master politician.
Maybe you should ask the families of the victims of the several attacks that happened around the world on Willie’s watch which he did bupkus about. Including the 9/11 attack that was planned mostly under his watch.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:12 pmLiberals are the very folks who scream bloody murder about some phone calls being tracked, but would be the first to point fingers at Bush if he didn’t do it and an attack happened that could have been stopped by just such intelligence activity. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
Comment by Mike Reaganite — May 30, 2006 @ 7:06 pm
Thanks for your somewhat coherent point. However, the whole point is pointless if I feel their is no real terrorist threat, and its all a ruse. And I am sorry to burst your bubble, but “our President” is not interested in the well being of average Americans, and doesn’t give one iota about soldiers dying. If you were faced with the undeniable reality of what “our President” and his buddies are really up to, it would shatter your world to the point to which you would go jump off a bridge. It’s unbeleivable that people are still as naive and gullable as you are. Like my relatives said a while ago “he’s the president, he doesn’t lie, he’s supposed to tell the truth”.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:16 pmSo Mike,
You take everything at face value? If you can see it with your eyes it must be true then huh? You poor thing, living in the land of the fooled and the blinded. When I was a kid I bought into the “gee we are really great”, and “Things work the way they are supposed to” mentality. Then I grew up.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:22 pmMikeyt if you wanted to get the attackers of 9-11 would you pull the most expierenced special forces groupo out of the country which he HID in to attack another which did not have anything to do with the attacks, to get the president of that country because you WANTED to…
May 30th, 2006 at 7:23 pmMike, if you were more familiar with this site, you would realize that the majority of posters, just like the majority of Americans, would have no problem with LEGAL means of tracking terrorist phone calls. However, the sneaky, illegal way in which Bush/Hayden etal have conspired to get around the current laws in order to spy on Americans implies that we are ALL possible terrorists. And in Bush’s eyes, that means that Americans have lost any and all constitutional rights.
By the way, how did that whole ‘trickle-down economics’ go for you? Anything trickle down?
May 30th, 2006 at 7:23 pmOnly if you are a red neck idiot that thinks everything should be Americanized. I could have sworn earlier in this thread that you said you were educated, but with a dumb statement like that, you sure do seem educated.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:25 pmMikey is losing his A$$ on his posts about fighting the terrorists in IRAQ so he tries to change his tact to the NSA ILLEGAL spying on the US citizens…..nice tactic..learn it in the KKKarl school of moral delinquents…or is it a natural repug idiosyncrasy
May 30th, 2006 at 7:28 pmHere, try this.
Go to Google.
Type in “Al Qaida”
What is the first thing that is on your screen?
“Did you mean Al Qaeda”
May 30th, 2006 at 7:30 pmGeez, if I hear one more thing about that f-ing blue dress, I’m going to go batshit! Clinton got a blow job–Bush lied about everything, got us into a pre-emptive war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, screwed New Orleans, stole our privacy and our civil rights, hasn’t got the brains of an earwig…FORGET CLINTON!
See you all tomorrow!
May 30th, 2006 at 7:31 pmHere, try this one.
Go to Wikipedia.org
Type in Al Qaida
You will be redirected to the Al Qaeda page.
May 30th, 2006 at 7:32 pmHere’s Reaganuts’ profile, in a nutshell:
1. Graduate of the Karl Rove Academy of Politics, Obstruction, Lies & Absurdity, otherwise known as KRAPOLA
May 30th, 2006 at 8:07 pm2. Frat boy turned 7/11 worker. Nickname “Meat”.
3. Took a job in NYC after 9/11, yet tells everyone he was there for the attacks
4. Kicks his dog before getting into his gargantuan SUV in the morning, where he listens to Rush during his two-hour commute into the city.
5. Smokes like a chimney. Doesn’t believe in the whole lung-cancer “story”.
6. Is twice as old as most of his coworkers, and half as hip
7. Tivo’s Faux News during the day
8. Believes Iran-Contra was a big lie.
9. Thinks Clinton “got lucky” his presidency was so easy
10. Thinks O’Reilly is looking out for him
I certainly plan on seeing it. It’s about time people in this country hear the truth about global warming. Those who deny it are fools.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:15 pm$70,000 per theater in only 4 theaters for a documentary film on global warming quite an impressive debut. I saw the film, it wasn’t what I expected but I enjoyed it. I hope other people will go out and see it as well.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:36 pmIran-Contra wasn’t a lie, it was Ollie’s patriotic duty to sell weapons to America’s enemies just to cheese off the liberals!
May 30th, 2006 at 10:12 pm#98 too bad the one he really cheesed off was Saddam Hussain who must have figgered out we were playing each side against each other in the Iran-Iraq war…
May 30th, 2006 at 10:19 pmHey redneck , that is so stupid , 269 americans were killed in a lebonon because of these shady deals , you should be smacked at the very least .
May 30th, 2006 at 10:26 pmI guess red state America is not on the same planet, Randy. It would be nice if everyone gets what they deserve but unfortunately we are all in this together. Red states could use education on the topic and should watch this presentation. If it wasn’t for A/C, half red states won’t be livable a decade from now. That may be a good thing.
May 31st, 2006 at 12:16 am” If Al really cared about global warming, why doesn’t he fly commercial instead of using private jets.”
Gore does not use private jets. He flies commercial and he is carbon neutral.
How do you think he ended up in this situation?
Ex-VP no airport VIP
Gore searched twice during Wisconsin trip
By KATHERINE M. SKIBA
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Last Updated: June 13, 2002
Washington – Midwest Express Airlines boasts the “best care in the air,” but Air Force II it ain’t.
Private citizen Al Gore learned that last week – not once but twice.
Traveling to Wisconsin, the former vice president was pulled aside for random security screening at Reagan National Airport before boarding the 7:15 p.m. flight to Milwaukee on Friday.
http://www2.jsonline.com:80/news/nat/jun02/51090.asp
Surely he could make a start by flying less? “Beginning two years ago, I made a decision to live a carbon-neutral life,” he says, explaining that his family and businesses now do all they can to reduce their emissions and to “offset” the rest by giving money to carbon-reduction schemes in India and eastern Europe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1786437,00.html
Come up with a better lie.
May 31st, 2006 at 1:42 amFor the idiots who still have no idea what Gore did for the Internet:
This is from someone who was actually there, unlike the moron rednecks.
Al Gore: Internet Pioneer
By Jaron Lanier
Washington Post, April 21, 1999
Al Gore did not say he “invented the Internet.” That’s media hype.
What he said on CNN was, “I took the initiative in developing the
Internet.” Anyone in my world knows that is an accurate statement, and
the media only showed their own techno-illiteracy in not bothering to
investigate, let alone explain, the reality to readers. He deserves
bragging rights.
I knew Al Gore in the 1980s, and I can attest to the fact that he “got” the Internet even before it was understood by much of the mainstream of computer science. It’s hard for us to remember now how alien the Internet used to be. Back in the ’80s, Mr. Gore was the only national political figure who understood what the Internet could mean to America’s future. He introduced Senate Bill 2594, the Supercomputer Network Study Act, in 1986, when forward-looking companies such as Apple still didn’t even have e-mail.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/40735631.html?dids=40735631:40735631&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Apr+21%2C+1999&author=&desc=Al+Gore+–+Internet+Pioneer
Now go and thank Al for working to make the Internet that you redneck asses are using now. Because it’s sure if it was still where it was before 1990 you couldn’t sit in front of your screen an send all your nonsense to this board.
May 31st, 2006 at 1:53 amAnd by the way, who cares what red states do? They are not America. Just part of it. A minority.
May 31st, 2006 at 2:05 amThe final box office for the 4-day Memorial Day weekend was $367,311 in only four theaters in New York and Los Angeles. The per screen average was a record-breaking $91,827. Total box office to date in the first 6 days is $490,860.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=inconvenienttruth.htm
May 31st, 2006 at 2:56 amRun, Al, Run. (..just promise not to pardon Bush, Cheney, or Rumsfeld)
May 31st, 2006 at 6:51 amI find it unbelievable that people would seriously accuse our president of killing young Americans to enrich his friends.
Maybe you should ask the families of the victims of the several attacks that happened around the world on Willie’s watch which he did bupkus about. Including the 9/11 attack that was planned mostly under his watch.
Comment by Mike Reaganite —
To Mike R.
May 31st, 2006 at 7:31 amEver hear of all the no-bid contracts Halliburton–the company Cheney used to run and still has stock options with–has received since Bush has been in office, despite the many times it has been cited for bilking the government and taxpayers?
As for the 9/11 attack which you claim “was planned mostly under Clinton’s watch,” outgoing National Security advisor Sandy Berger warned incoming Condie Rice that she would have to spend a lot of time on Al Qaeda, but she chose not to. Moreover, Bush’s first Attorney General Ashcrap even had the terrorist watch budget cut at first. And then there is the report Bush received in August titled “Al Qaeda determined to attack inside the USA” along with warnings from FBI agents about a suspicious number of Arabs enrolled in US flight schools who weren’t interested in learning how to land airplanes–just fly them.
Of course, it’s Clinton’s fault that Dumbya didn’t feel such warnings were worth giving his 5-week vacation up for, right? And incidentally, one of those FBI agents, Colleen Rowley, who admits to having voted for Bush in 2000, is running for Congress this year as a Democrat. Gee, I wonder why.
Highly educated liberal commies?
Aren’t they the ones who have yet to realize that socialism doesn’t work and are still smarting because we won the Cold War?
Comment by Mike Reaganite —
Ps., Mike R.,
May 31st, 2006 at 7:38 amYou already lose the argument when you resort to the favorite con cliche of calling all liberals “commies.” The liberal/progressive posters here are not calling for an end to private property; that’s just your unsubstantiated fantasy.
I’ll be open-minded, of course. Heck, by the time I’m done, I’ll believe Kerry truly would have been the better commander-in-chief (despite a 20-year track record of defense and intelligence cuts), that Islam really is a religion of peace and that Kennedy’s are great drivers.
Comment by Mike Reaganite
Pps. Mike,
May 31st, 2006 at 7:48 amAre the Kennedys worse drivers than Laura Welch Bush?
from nndb.com:
“On the night of November 6, 1963, 17-year-old Laura Welch ran a stop sign in the family Chevy at the intersection of State Highway 349 and Farm Road 868 near Midland, Texas. She plowed into a Corvair sedan, killing its driver — classmate (and purported boyfriend) Michael Dutton Douglas. “
Hey -Back off on the MBA-bashing. Not everyone with an MBA is a repugnican. I’m not quite done with mine and I’ve learned a great deal. But, it all comes down to how you use what you learn. There’s nothing wrong with socially responsible business – in fact I, hopefully, like to think it’s the future. Gore & Feingold 08!
May 31st, 2006 at 1:59 pmHey Mike, if Iraq’s going so swimmingly, then it shouldn’t be any big thing for you to go on over and wander around in Baghdad
OUTSIDE the Green Zone, lightly armed and unguarded, just like the Iraqis have to
Here’s your chance to disprove all those “ChickenHawk” labels rightly tossed your way
And what’s even more amusing?
These lackwits who blast global warming as a theory with no scientific basis behind it
Because unless they’ve got infinitely self-sustaining escape pods to leave the earth behind, their worthless asses are subject to the very same forces of physics and nature everyone else is
But other than your obvious lack of logic and reality, Mike, great job all the way around there lil’ trooper
May 31st, 2006 at 4:10 pm