Gore is famous for his tedious expostulations about the consequences for the Earth’s temperature of burning oil and coal. Yet when it comes to his own stock holdings the environment can take a running jump. In a few months Occidental is due to start drilling for oil in the Samore field in Colombia. Standing in Occidental’s way are the U’wa people, a remote Colombian Indian tribe inhabiting the country’s rainforests in the northeast, who do not want to leave their ancestral land. They promise to walk off a 1400-foot cliff in the Andes if Occidental begins drilling for oil. Predictably, Gore has said nothing. He has not protested Occidental’s mining decision, or threatened to dispose of his stock or rallied fellow stockholders on behalf of the U’wa.

There is one thing the Clinton administration has done. It proposed recently to step up aid to the Colombian military to the tune of $1.3 billion. Ostensibly the money is to fight the “drug lords.” In reality, it is to make sure that Al Gore’s oil wells and pipelines are firmly protected.

WHY would any SANE person want to perpetuate the mc/bush/clinton DYNASTY? Wake up – VOTE FOR CHANGE.

McCain is only pandering.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html

If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama

If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com

Obama Supporters:

Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy…

Clinton Supporters too …. !

It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !

Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…

“The market in carbon was worth $64bn (€40bn, £32bn) last year and is forecast to be worth $3,000bn by 2020 if the US joins it,”

…support the setting up of an emissions market in the US –- a policy vehemently opposed by Mr Bush -– has come as a relief to carbon market investors.”

Were the boo’s in Bali really because the people there thought the planet was getting warmer?

“The market in carbon was worth $64bn (€40bn, £32bn) last year and is forecast to be worth $3,000bn by 2020 if the US joins it,” the Times adds. The fact that the three candidates are “willing to negotiate a new [climate change] treaty and support the setting up of an emissions market in the US –- a policy vehemently opposed by Mr Bush -– has come as a relief to carbon market investors.”

Obviously, the only motivation someone could have for supporting climate change policy, is to avoid global warming.

“The US is very promising. All three [presidential] candidates are interested in climate change, all three want international engagement, all three favour a cap-and-trade approach [on emissions], which augurs well for the continuation of the carbon market,” said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the parent treaty to the Kyoto protocol, in an interview with the Financial Times.

Okay. The executive secretary of the parent treaty to the Kyoto protocol is cheerleading for the 3 trillion dollar carbon market of 2020, but we should should only question the motivations of skeptics in the climate change debate?

If we disregard skeptics on climate change, by charging they are shilling for ‘Big Oil’, why do we give those shilling for ‘Big Carbon’ a pass when they promote the idea of climate change?

Is carbon money somehow less influential (or corrupting) than oil money?

My Dear Sir,

I would continue with our little repartee but my Dear Departed Daddy taught me never to join in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Sayonara, Chickenshit.

Don’t worry about it, you can’t even spell your own name right, much less his….

…and from what I’ve “read”, the shorties are better suited for said endeavour.

So you’re only 5′3″ I take it?

Actually, I prefer the seated position for all my bodily excremental moments, but I gather you’re familiar with your proposed quandary?

Please tell us you didn’t drink from the urinal…

Sorry, Shorty. Better luck next time!

I read once about the dilemma you face. Standing before the little boys urinal you are faced with the problem: “Am I too short or too tall?” If we were talking about your brain power there would be no problem, you is way too short!

Well, I never was able to self-felatiate either. Perhaps you have some inside info you’d like to share?