Gore to receive award at International Emmys.
By on Nov 18th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Gore to receive award at International Emmys.
On Monday night at the 35th International Emmy Awards, Robert DeNiro will present Al Gore with the Founders Award. The honor is not only “in recognition of his role in raising the alarm about global warming, but also for his efforts in launching the interactive Current TV.” Earlier this year, Gore also won an Emmy award for the global television network, which allows viewers to “create and influence what airs on TV.”
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Is W at all jealous now?
November 18th, 2007 at 7:35 pmoh, his (preznitial seal enhanced) knickers will be in the proverbial knot!!!
November 18th, 2007 at 7:44 pmha ha!
elspeth
More stuff that the jealous right will claim Gore invented! If they weren’t so busy peaking through keyholes at Clinton’s dick, they would have accomplished something besides destroying the USA. Let this be a lesson to rightards: do something besides killing strangers and stealing their resources!
November 18th, 2007 at 7:53 pmEat your heart out Georgie!!! Go Al!!!
November 18th, 2007 at 8:03 pmLook for the Supreme Court Justices to step in and give all the awards that Al Gore has earned and give them to George W. Bush as he’s done nothing. Remember how Bush got in office he didn’t earn that either. Baby George can only be given something by those his Daddy paid off. Poor baby George is waiting for his award of the worse President of the United States of America.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:12 pmHeh. Suck it, trolls. :-D
November 18th, 2007 at 8:32 pmI’m sure the right-winger reality-deniers would prefer to see DeNiro do his Al Capone impersonation on Gore (think baseball bat), but this is, never-the-less, a well-earned honor on Al Gore’s part. Congratulations, Mr. Former President-Elect.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pmHeh. Suck it, trolls. :-D
Comment by Zooey
They are running to bathroom stalls worldwide.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:00 pmTap, tap, tap…
:-D
November 18th, 2007 at 9:03 pmWell go figure, we support what is right and good, nothing that the RiechWingers know anything about.
Buck Fush
November 18th, 2007 at 9:05 pmCongrats to AL.
If I may go OT for a moment. The AFP is reporting up to 10,000 dead and “millions homeless” in Bangladesh. It sure would be nice if the U.S. still had the resources to help them in a meaningful way.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:12 pmIt sure would be nice if the U.S. still had the resources to help them in a meaningful way.
Comment by pete — November 18, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
it would be nice also if we had a government that gave a shit.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:13 pmhallo my POPSTAR!!!!
:D
whatsa goin on?
oh, and he mic’s on…
November 18th, 2007 at 9:48 pmooh, I guess everyone went to bed.
Chuck Norris doen’t go to bed, the bed goes to Chuck Norris.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:49 pmguess so….
:(
WTF?!?!?!
November 18th, 2007 at 10:01 pmComment by Beefeater — November 18, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
Your wish is their command.
“Relief aid is pouring into Bangladesh as rescue teams battle to reach remote areas devastated by the country’s worst cyclone in a decade, amid fears the death toll could be much higher than the official figure to date of 2,300.
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross, warned the toll could hit 10,000 once rescuers reach outlying islands.”
November 18th, 2007 at 10:16 pmmetal of honor anyone???
November 18th, 2007 at 10:23 pm#20
AS usual the hateful troll is making things up.
A.P. Reports:
A U.S. military medical team is already in Bangladesh and two Navy ships — the USS Essex and USS Kearsarge — each carrying at least 20 helicopters and tons of supplies, will be made available if the Bangladesh goverment requests them, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:45 pmso, what, it’s a religion of war then?
November 18th, 2007 at 10:45 pmhmmmmm, why do the crusades suddenly come to mind…
November 18th, 2007 at 10:45 pmSt Paul’s version of Jesus and the Essenes is a violent religion, which inspired the Inquisition. Oh…..it’s called The Bible, especially that Revelation 8 section.
On another note, of course the Neo-Cons hate Gore getting any recognition. Strangely silent in all of these awards is Alex Jones, Mike Rivero of Whatreallyhappened, Jeff Rense, Ron Paul, and all of the “Libertarians”. They still keep saying, “Al Gore wants to take away our land, F-150s, Ford Explorers, and replace them with Sissy Cars like Tesla Motors Lithium Ion Powered Electrics”. If those guys stuck with 9/11 and the police state, I would respect them more.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pmRe troll blather at #20:
I like how rightards will predict something that aligns with their myopic worldview:
the mullahs will warn their flock that the US has poisoned the food with pork products.
And them criticize the predicted response:
F-ing backwards religion of peace.
I guess it’s too much to ask for them to actually criticize real decisions and actions, instead of the ones they imagine. Ah well, they never WERE that big on the reality-based world.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pmI’m sorry I brought it up. In my defense I didn’t think even a troll would use my heartfelt wish that we could do more as an opportunity to condemn an entire religion. Of course I should have known that one of our hateful, bigoted, ignorant, inbred, morally bankrupt, sh!t-stains would do so. I promise I won’t do it again.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:02 pmYou forgot to mention that the “aid pouring in†was arriving on two American ships with more on the way. And if history is is followed the mullahs will warn their flock that the US has poisoned the food with pork products. F-ing backwards religion of peace.
Comment by Beefeater — November 18, 2007 @ 10:38 pm
Can anyone remember the last time American aid poured into a Middle East country to help out the civilians? I think they nicknamed that one “Shock & Awe”. Just doing their best to help the world. GWB has made America proud!
November 18th, 2007 at 11:03 pmRalf, have you checked out the Tesla roadster? If I had 100k to spend, my name would be on the waiting list.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:05 pmThe Tesla roadster has a top end of130mph and does 0-60mph in about four seconds. It has a range of 250 miles, takes three hours to recharge the lithium ion batteries and costs a penny a mile to operate.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/the_tesla_roads.php
The tesla post was for Brain From Planet Arous
November 18th, 2007 at 11:07 pmCan anyone remember the last time American aid poured into a Middle East country to help out the civilians?
I can remember when it was offered; after the Iranian city of Bam and the region was hammered by an earthquake.
As for Algore, now that he has an Emmy to add to his Oscar, I suppose we need to accept that it is time to walk everywhere, eat grass and live in pre-fab tenements. Its the only way to save the earth.
On the other hand, how many of us will fit in his mansion, ya think? I call dibs on the south wing!
November 18th, 2007 at 11:10 pmI can remember when it was offered; after the Iranian city of Bam and the region was hammered by an earthquake.
I remember when Iran helped the U.S. with Afghanistan. Mortal enemies eh? Or just when convenient…. kinda like the U.S. shipping Maher to Syria for “questioning”. Who would have guessed they would torture the poor Canadian?
You continue to ignore Global Warming. I don’t see what the upside is for you though. I assume you just hope it’s a hoax or that no matter what you do the earth will do whatever it will do. Sounds like a lazy attitude to me. Mind you, you support war with Iraq but you’re too lazy to serve so I guess you’re consistent. I imagine in 2 years all of you GW deniers will come around and suddenly this will all be your idea.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:15 pmI don’t see what the upside is for you though.
Comment by Dave C — November 18, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
That is the great mystery. The only people who could possibly gain from the neocon position are those who make their money from current energy sources. Heck, they are even managing to lose some of the “religious right” on this issue.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:26 pmSure would be nice if the oil rich islamic nations would help out their muslim brethren, f-ing religion of peace my ass!
Comment by Beefeater — November 18, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
It’s so hard to understand what “beefeater” **cough… cough** is saying when he’s always got his mouth full.
Would this dingdong have any PROOF one way or another as to what the other Muslim nations are or are not doing? Like for instance, what are the Bushes’ close friends, the Saudis, doing? Anyone know, factually?
Glenda Beck sez “kill ‘em all… every… last… one…”.
Religion of peace, indeed!!!
November 18th, 2007 at 11:29 pmMortal enemies eh? Or just when convenient
Both, for both us and them. Wait, dont tell me, you believe that other nations dont keep their own national interests first?
As for the rest of your post, Im not exactly sure how you gleaned so much from my last posting; is it magic or wishful thinking?
Where did I say I was ignoring global warming? I simply commented on Algore’s celebrity status, a status that obviously allows him the right to live as he wishes while preaching to me that I must change my entire lifestyle.
Maybe if I get an Emmy then I too could fly in a Gulfstream while expecting others to bicycle from New York to Los Angeles.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:29 pmThe tesla post was for Brain From Planet Arous
Comment by troll buster — November 18, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
Thanks for the correction, TB. I have been following the Tesla Roadster for awhile now, and they are talking about two more versions coming out……One in the $50,000 range, and one below $20,000. The only thing that could compete with it is something based on Bacteria-Produced Hydrogen Fuel, which would eliminate the petrol involved in the processing.There’s even a song about the Roadster.
http://www.noble-gas.com/drive-a-cleaner-wave.mp3
November 18th, 2007 at 11:30 pmMaybe if I get an Emmy then I too could fly in a Gulfstream while expecting others to bicycle from New York to Los Angeles.
Comment by Minotaur — November 18, 2007 @ 11:29 pm
Just ONCE, why don’t you bring some “facts” to the table and leave the hysterical hyperbole home, little girl? Yer jes’ embarrassing yerself.
Now, hush, the grown-ups are talking adult things.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:32 pm“… and live in pre-fab tenements. Its the only way to save the earth.”
Comment by Minotaur — November 18, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
BTW, the proper usage is “it’s”, dumdum.
As for a pre-fab tenement, I have to assume you’d be delighted. It’s definitely a step up from the crawl space under Mom’s double wide, no?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:35 pmComment by Minotaur — November 18, 2007 @ 11:29 pm
Change your entire lifestyle? What a joke. There are many, far too many to enumerate, ways to change the way we produce energy without changing our lifestyle. Are you not paying attention?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:37 pmComment by The Republic of Stupidity — November 18, 2007 @ 11:32 pm
When Algore eschews his extravagant lifestyle and lives by his own mantra, perhaps then I will take him more seriously. For now, for me, the man is nothing more than a snake-oil opportunist desperately clinging to his fading limelight.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:38 pmListen up Republicans/Neocons/Conservatives/Right-wingers:
Y’all got nothing. Nothing! You and your perverse ideology(ies) have been proven null and void. You are jesters on the world stage, quickly making your way to the dustbin of failed political ideologies.
The Bush Administration has proven once and for all that Republicans are incapable of governing wisely or honorably. Republicans are buffoons. They are spendthrifts and thieves.
You losers actually threw Gore to the side to elect a feckless, thieving, war criminal and his cabal of war profiteers. America will pay the price for your idiocy in treasure, instability, and blood. Seen the value of a dollar lately? The economy is so fundamentally screwed-up that a larger war will be the only way out. I don’t think you’ll be gettin’ a deferral on this one.
You could have had a very intelligent patriot, a man who can understand the complex interactions of a globalized community and economy. Instead, you chose an incompetent boob who believes he is doing god’s work while steadily waging war and paying off his cronies.
Remember when Bush was touted as America’s CEO President? Whadda’ ya’ think now that he’s looted the treasury and wiped his fascist ass on your Constitution? He’s a bungler.
Even your majority Congress betrayed the values you elected them on: smaller government and lower taxes. That’s a hoot. It turns out, Republicans couldn’t manage a popcorn stand without running a deficit and stealing from the till.
And y’all had the freekin’ audacity to belittle Al Gore (a real soldier, BTW – not like your poseurs Bush and Cheney).
Y’all got NOTHING!
And while I’m at it, why don’t y’all lay off bashing all the gays. Hell, your party has more freaky sex fiends than the internets tubes. Talk about throwing stones at glass houses! Jeeeeeezus!
Did I mention, y’all got nothing.
And, another thing: why did you vote for this system in the first place? Are you wealthy? Do you own a corporation? Do you make over 250K a year? If you answered no to these questions, you voted against your own best interests, and that’s just stupid.
Did you vote against abortion and/or stem cell research and/or Terri Schiavo and/or the War on Yacksmas? If you did, that moves you beyond the realm of stupid and into the category of fools. Do you honestly think that any of your leaders – including your religious leaders – give a damn about an aborted fetus? Well, they don’t. They care about picking your pocket with one hand and wanking you with the other. Aborted fetuses, my ass.
Y’all got nothing. No. Thing.
Al Gore, is basically a good person, a smart person, and a patriot – these facts alone stand in stark contrast to the filth y’all drug in.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:39 pmMaybe if I get an Emmy then I too could fly in a Gulfstream while expecting others to bicycle from New York to Los Angeles.
Comment by Minotaur — November 18, 2007 @ 11:29 pm
I know this a point of contention for Gore doubters, but if we drive a car, then we are being also somewhat hypocritical. The best any person can do is to be as green as they possibly can, and be aware of the impact our actions and their consequences on the world around us. When electric and hydrogen fuel cars are plentiful, then perhaps we can be a step closer to being 100% real environmentalists.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:40 pmChange your entire lifestyle? What a joke. There are many, far too many to enumerate, ways to change the way we produce energy without changing our lifestyle. Are you not paying attention?
Like what, windfarms, solar panels and ethanol? Can I include nucyaler to the list too?
Fine, cool with me, as long as we understand that it wont happen overnight, that we still need to burn coal and oil for now and that certain ecogroups have decided that the really effective forms of alternative energy dont jive with THEIR worldview.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:42 pmComment by whiteyfresh — November 18, 2007 @ 10:01 pm
Sorry I missed you, whitey!
November 18th, 2007 at 11:43 pmFor now, for me, the man is nothing more than a snake-oil opportunist desperately clinging to his fading limelight.
Comment by Minotaur — November 18, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
Oscar, Emmie, Noble Peace Prize all in a row. You have a very strange idea of what constitutes a “fading limelight”.
Now, if you took a closer look at Brusch’s reputation and “legacy”, I think you’d find that “fading limelight” you’re so desperately looking for.
Oh wait… I get it. Yer a comic, trying out fer the Half-Hour News Hr.
Oops!!! Too late!!! It’s already gone. But keep tryin’. You’ll be the next Dennis Miller yet! Talk about “fading limelights”…
November 18th, 2007 at 11:45 pmThis isnt about world view – it’s about taking a dump in the village well.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pmWhen electric and hydrogen fuel cars are plentiful, then perhaps we can be a step closer to being 100% real environmentalists.
Great, put me on the list for an electric truck that can carry fifty bags of quickrete while towing a trailer loaded with fifty sheets of rock.
All those electric vehicles need to be charged, where do you plan on getting the juice? Last time I checked, the idea of european-style nuclear plants wasnt all that popular here along with every other source of power.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pmMarcus Aurelius, You know, I think Repubicanism is like a traffic light or dish washing machine being controlled by software. No matter what you do and update, the machines only do one thing. Progressives tend to be like PCs (or Macs or Unix/Linux), that software can access different pieces of hardware, and are not “hard-wired”.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:47 pmThis isnt about world view – it’s about taking a dump in the village well.
We have to get the power from somewhere and until the ecogroups figure out how to produce high voltage from thin air, we will have to consider alternate sources.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:49 pmAll those electric vehicles need to be charged, where do you plan on getting the juice? Last time I checked, the idea of european-style nuclear plants wasnt all that popular here along with every other source of power.
Comment by Minotaur — November 18, 2007 @ 11:46 pm
Glad you asked. Tesla Motors already have contracts with this company to recharge the LithIons, and the Bacteria Produced Hydrogen would have enough torque to power anything diesel could.
http://www.solarcity.com/“
November 18th, 2007 at 11:52 pmComment by Brain From Planet Arous — November 18, 2007 @ 11:47 pm
_____________________
That’s right. if conservatives had their way, we wouldn’t even have airplanes. The old saying, “if god wanted man to fly, he’d have given him wings.” is as conservative as it gets. Conservatives are afraid of the future and change, Progressives try to find new and better ways to do things, so that we move forward.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:52 pmOscar, Emmie, Noble Peace Prize all in a row. You have a very strange idea of what constitutes a “fading limelightâ€.
Yep, fading. Until he latched onto this faux crisis, Algore wasnt on anyones screen; if it wasnt for global warming, he would be chairing roundtable discussions of the Ogonquit city council.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:53 pmComment by Brain From Planet Arous — November 18, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
Not bad, not bad. Do they make a LithIon powered airplane?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:56 pmActually, my only concern with nuclear power is the American penchant for skimping on safety, for profit margin, and giving incompetent boobs important jobs.
As for electric vehicles, electric motors have better low end torque than just about anything else. Thats why trains have diesel-electric drives. Simply replacing drive shafts and transmissions with cables and drive motors (which we are moving towards with “hybrids”) would save gobs of wasted energy.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:59 pmThat’s right. if conservatives had their way, we wouldn’t even have airplanes. The old saying, “if god wanted man to fly, he’d have given him wings.†is as conservative as it gets. Conservatives are afraid of the future and change, Progressives try to find new and better ways to do things, so that we move forward.
Comment by Marcus Aurelius — November 18, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
Got that right!! The name “Progressive” means exactly what it says. Geesh, these De-evolutionists think the world started in 4004 BC.
DEVO was right. We are going back to brain-eating Cro-Magnons bashing the heads of Neanderthals. In fact, I would like to add to that. Perhaps the history of humans was always two genes/programming modes fighting for dominance. One basically agricultural, scientific, cultural, and nurturing, and the other dominating, lazy, paranoid, and religious. We all have both in us, and we all tend to have one or the other in the dominant role.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:59 pm#54 “Yep, fading. Until he latched onto this faux crisis”
Ignore the troll, if he is too blind to see the crisis we are facing, he is hopeless. I have read all the crap he has posted here the last couple weeks and it is obvious he is here only to hijack the thread.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:01 amComment by Brain From Planet Arous — November 18, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
Not bad, not bad. Do they make a LithIon powered airplane?
Getting closer. This is a start.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/world-record/hydrogen-fuel-cell+propelled-airplane-breaks-world-record-318203.php
November 19th, 2007 at 12:02 amComment by troll buster — November 19, 2007 @ 12:01 am
To be fair, I was the first to hijack the thread. I am duly embarrassed.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:03 amAnd you think we’re too stupid to do this? What do you think would have been more conservative: Spending a Trillion dollars on a 5-year national campaign to discover alternative energy resources and develop more energy efficient technologies (similar to Kennedy’s race to the moon), or spending a Trillion dollars on a 5-year war to gain a foothold over a dwindling resource that, if used in its entirety, will poison us? If your’re truly conservative and if you have a capitalist bone in your body, you’ll choose the former, for obvious reasons.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:04 amComment by pete — November 19, 2007 @ 12:03 am
That is true but I’ve never seen you foul any threads with troll dung.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:05 amThat is true but I’ve never seen you foul any threads with troll dung.
Comment by troll buster — November 19, 2007 @ 12:05 am
Nope! But, I do indulge in the occasional anti-troll dung. Usually that means I’m bored or a bit tipsy. Generally I treat humans as humans, trolls as trolls.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:09 amSpending a Trillion dollars on a 5-year national campaign to discover alternative energy resources and develop more energy efficient technologies (similar to Kennedy’s race to the moon), or spending a Trillion dollars on a 5-year war to gain a foothold over a dwindling resource that, if used in its entirety, will poison us?.
Comment by Marcus Aurelius — November 19, 2007 @ 12:04 am
What would Mr Spock choose? Well, we know the answer to that.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:09 amA great comment from another blog:
The normal state of Earth’s climate, i.e. average climate is a snowball, much colder than today. Been this way for the last 4,000,000 years, roughly 100,000 year ice age cycles. The Holocene climate optimum, the maximum if you will, occurred at about 6-8,000 years ago, so it is expected we should be going down in temperature about now — and we are. The current warm period began about 11-12000 years before present time — We may be now headed towards a new ‘Dalton Minimum’ or worse. The average duration for interglacial periods, what we are in now, is 10,000 years. We have about overstayed our welcome.
The last time CO2 went up, it was about 20 times today’s values, the last time the temperature rose, many degrees higher than today, the net effect was lots of big plants grew quickly. You see, plants and all the things that depend on them, do really well when it’s warm.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, about that CO2 thing, CO2 lags temperature, does not force temperature. CO2 is a minor trace gas in the atmosphere. About 95% of all greenhouse effect on Earth is caused by water vapor. Without the greenhouse effect, think Mars — No carbon life forms.
The hysteria is about the UN wants your money, so they can pretend to control the weather — Here is a question you should ask yourselves before forking over the money — how will you know what they are doing with the money, what effect it’s having, or how well things are going? They want with it, no strings attached, including making it theirs — Just like Oil For WMDs program they ran for Iraq, remember that?. Nothing new here.
BTW, the UN IPCC says that if they implement all their recommendations, it will do nothing to change the climate. Yep zero, or so close it won’t matter. Ask them.
Link
November 19th, 2007 at 12:10 ammuckdog,
***yawn***
November 19th, 2007 at 12:12 amThe U.N. wants our money? Well, once the neocons are done, there won’t be anything to worry about.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:19 amI’d love to live long enough to see duckmog’s grandkids gleefully pissing on his grave for not doing anything to stave off the disatrous climate they find themselves bequeathed.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:22 ammuckdog, Mars has plant-based and perhaps organisms life as indicated by the Martian Meteorite found about 10 years ago, and the changing seasons. 11,000 years ago did not hydrocarbons accelerating the greenhouse effect as we have today.
UN controlling the weather is Exxon/Mobil contrarians, and people like Alex Jones and Mike Rivero. Also, controlling the weather, and effecting climate change are two different things. the phenomena known as “Chemtrails” or as the government and Colin Powell says is “Aerosol Mitigation”. that’s a whole other topic, and not worth going into much detail now.
On your theory of water vapor, here is a comment:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/06/a-saturated-gassy-argument/#more-455
November 19th, 2007 at 12:26 amA minor point. The data used by the IPCC comes from many independent sources. One fact is certainly not in dispute. That is; CO2 levels are higher than any in 700,000 years according to the oldest ice cores we have found.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:34 amWell if you saw the movie “Idiocracy†it offers one scenario where that could happen. All the inbred types kept reproducing, while the smarter folks did other stuff until the world fell into perpetual stupidy.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — November 19, 2007 @ 12:29 am
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Isn’t that what is happening now? There is something else that flies under the radar. Have you ever heard of the Life Extension Foundation? They are cutting edge doctors and scientists who are searching for cures of diseases. Did you also know that the two biggest opponents to the LEF were evangelicals like Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberson, as well as the expected pharmaceuticals and FDA. If people were to Increase their intelligence and live long and happy, that would put religion and drug companies out of business.
BTW, I love the concept of “Bizarro World”. When we were growing up, it was my favorite Superman stories. It wasn’t until the 60s, that I finally realized that it was closer to the truth. Trick Dick winning his second term finally convinced me.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:37 amComment by Brain From Planet Arous — November 19, 2007 @ 12:37 am
It’s “institutionalized ignorance” that frightens me. The effort to “debunk” climate science by non-scientists is a prime example. As is the insane attempts to introduce creationism as “science”.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:46 amBut we’re not quite there yet. But yea, just like in Idiocracy, to the right wing its “gay†to be smart.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — November 19, 2007 @ 12:41 am
Hmmmm…….I think using the Right Hemisphere more often, which triggers more spacial and creative thinking is what they would refer to as “gay”. Ever wonder why nuns in Catholic school would smack the hands of kids using their left hand? Right Wingers are simply Uni-Cameral thinkers, using only their left hemisphere. Progressives tend to be Bi-Cameral, utilizing both sides of our brains.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:51 amComment by BARTLEBEE — November 19, 2007 @ 12:50 am
I think they did it in “Land of the Lost”.
This thread has reminded me of a famous quote from Mark Twain:
“Politics, like religion, attracts two kinds of people; fools and damnable fools”
November 19th, 2007 at 12:53 amAnd on the Flintstones.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — November 19, 2007 @ 12:55 am
I can’t believe I never “grokked” that one before. Have they, indeed, achieved the dream of “Bedrock on the Potomac”?
November 19th, 2007 at 1:03 amYep, the “creation museum”. What a cruel joke. BTW, have you seen the video, by one of the creators(?) of the museum where he uses a banana to prove that God created humans and bananas as our food? Well, here’s the kicker.
The “Chiquita” in question is a man-made hybrid? I laughed so hard I nearly plotzed.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:07 amI wonder if the author considered that since Bananas grow only in certain tropical regions, what the other 3 quarters of the globes population were supposed to eat?
Comment by BARTLEBEE — November 19, 2007 @ 1:12 am
Be nice. “Wondering” isn’t in their programming. I think you can find the video on YouTube if you search “Banana Creationism”. I’d search for it but, alas, it’s time for this “naked ape” to go to bed.
G’night humans.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:15 amYou too trolls.
Well, now we know the source of information our little troll muckdog relies on to expand his knowledge of global climate change: Anonymous posts in some random website, no evidence or citations needed. I am still LOL’ing after following his silly link.
And that is the problem with the pinheaded reichwingers: They think a scientific debate on climate change is simply about opinions, and that their uninformed opinion is about as good as the opinion of thousands of climate scientists who have spent -quite literally- their entire lives studying our planet’s climate.
It would seem conservatives in the US have little choice but to be anti-science, you know, reality having a well-known liberal bias and all….
November 19th, 2007 at 1:16 amgore sucks
November 19th, 2007 at 1:19 amAL Gore gives the green movement a bad name. He’s capitalizing on an honest movement. And his wife loves censoring artists. Total slime bags.
Not to mention as president of the senate he didn’t challenge the obvious dubious results of the floritda vote in 2000.
Anyone who supports Gore is a sell out.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:21 amComment by old_hack — November 19, 2007 @ 1:21 am
I am not really sure what your peeve is, but helping raise awareness of a very important issue is hardly “giving it a bad name”.
Gore’s wife “loves censoring artists”? What in the world are you talking about?
November 19th, 2007 at 1:26 amI’m so sick of neo liberals. You guys cant be challenged without immediatly thinking of right left ideologies. I’m a liberal. I’m not one of those that blindly supports anything thats affiliated with liberalism. That’s neo liberalism. which is just blowback from neo conservatism. We’re not supposed to become more liberal to combat radical conservatism. We need to just stand our ground and be the section of this country that uses common sense!
Americans have lost their minds.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:28 amAll Al Gore had to do is sign the deed that the house put forth challenging the results and the supreme court. And he didn’t do it. you stfu and quit being such a pundit man.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:10 amoh and do you like having warning labels on cd’s? do you like your first amendment right being rewritten and dictated to you by lame ass disney types? You’re not much of a liberal if you dont live and die for the right to free speech.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:12 amyou folks dont know how to take criticism very well. I’d say that makes you the extremists. Not me.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:13 amSo I wonder how many Rethuglican heads will explode as a result?
Hehe….
November 19th, 2007 at 6:01 am.
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Why should he be? W wanted to be Prez. Gore wanted to be a rock star.
They both got what they wanted.
Comment by O. Bigfoot — November 19, 2007 @ 8:07 am
How little you know. W was never president, and still isn’t. he’s a petty tyrant, manpulated at at every turn, a lazy, indolent tool of those who hate americans, including his biggest supporters, the terrorist-enabling Saudis. He has taken America to it’s loest point in its history, while Gore shows the world what the Republican antiAmerican machine stole from the American people and the rest of the planet: a real man, with real ideas, and a real brain. You Bush fellators will be the future’s “Good Germans” of this era, this gullible, misled, fearsome chickenhawks who helped weaken the greatest nation on earth, turning it into a cheap whore for oil. that’s the history we will write, bigass, you can bet your life on it. Even though you won’t, cowardly as you are.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:15 am#105 – “All Al Gore had to do is sign the deed that the house put forth challenging the results and the supreme court. And he didn’t do it.” Comment by old_hack — November 19, 2007 @ 2:10 am
How little you understand of the process.
It required, at the very least, one member of the House AND one member of the Senate before the challenge could go forth.
Not one member of the Senate would sign on, so VPres. Gore had no choice but to allow the Supreme Court to select Pres. Bush in 2000.
If the recouring efforts had gone foward in Florida, 6 out of the 9 possible recounting scenarios would have awarded then-VPres. Gore with the Presidency, and he would have won both the popular vote as well as the electoral vote.
It’s rather ironic that the recounting efforts that then-Gov. Bush was pusing for (all districts in the entire state) would have awarded the Presidency to VPres. Gore!
November 19th, 2007 at 8:42 amI’m so sick of neo liberals. You guys cant be challenged without immediatly thinking of right left ideologies. I’m a liberal. I’m not one of those that blindly supports anything thats affiliated with liberalism. That’s neo liberalism.
Comment by old_hack — November 19, 2007 @ 1:28 am
Actually, neo-liberalism is structural adjustment-based economic policy, not a political movement. Neo-liberalism is the type of policy promoted by the IMF during the 1980s and 1990s persuading governments to open up their markets, privatize their industries, deregulate their banking sector, and constrain government spending. It was a dismal failure that has increased poverty worldwide.
I, too, am so sick of neo-liberals.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:25 am