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Well, well, well, well.....
It seems I don't pay enough attention to the popular media. Becky just informed me that one Al Gore made a documentary film of some sort and won an oscar for it. Evidently it had something to do with the former myth called "global warming." Timing is everything......in Hollywood, as elsewhere, it would appear. Of course, everyone has heard of it now that it has become real......in the past six weeks or so......but very few people probably know that global warming was an extremely popular (among a certain credulous portion of the population) theory about how the planet has heated up in the past century or so, supported by little more than a few billion data points consisting of recorded temperatures around the world over the course of the last three centuries......well, that and a few niggling tens of thousands of climatological studies encompassing pretty much the entire spectrum of scientific technology and the accumulated knowledge of the past two millennia. Anyway, it seems this Gore fella (who, it should be pointed out for the benefit of those few benighted souls who are STILL ignorant of ancient history, also singlehandedly invented something called the internet) has capitalized on the agonizing scholarship of our beloved POTUS (who, it will be remembered, has recently singlehandedly demonstrated that the eggheads made an unaccountably lucky guess) and stolen a march by saying "yup" just a few months before the fact. Hey, nobody can make this **** up.......right? Truth is indeed stranger than friction.......ainna? ![]() Wolfgang oh, and by the way, it appears that melissa etheridge also won an oscar. hey, i don't live in a ****in' cave or sumpthin'......OF COURSE i know who melissa etheridge is. um......well, i knew the name, anyway. becky had to play some of her stuff for me to recognize the voice. i don't recall whether she came up on the terrific female vocalists thread a few weeks back. she certainly should have. one of the most distinctive and moving voices in the generally vomitous puddle that is popular music today. |
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Wolfgang wrote:
Well, well, well, well..... Wolfgang oh, and by the way, it appears that melissa etheridge also won an oscar. hey, i don't live in a ****in' cave or sumpthin'......OF COURSE i know who melissa etheridge is. um......well, i knew the name, anyway. becky had to play some of her stuff for me to recognize the voice. i don't recall whether she came up on the terrific female vocalists thread a few weeks back. she certainly should have. one of the most distinctive and moving voices in the generally vomitous puddle that is popular music today. Well, well, well, . . . ah crap. Amen to the above. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On Feb 26, 8:12 pm, 13thchoise wrote:
Wolfgang wrote: Well, well, well, well..... Wolfgang oh, and by the way, it appears that melissa etheridge also won an oscar. hey, i don't live in a ****in' cave or sumpthin'......OF COURSE i know who melissa etheridge is. um......well, i knew the name, anyway. becky had to play some of her stuff for me to recognize the voice. i don't recall whether she came up on the terrific female vocalists thread a few weeks back. she certainly should have. one of the most distinctive and moving voices in the generally vomitous puddle that is popular music today. Well, well, well, . . . ah crap. Amen to the above. -- Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37905 " Thanks to that pesky Freedom of Information Act, we discover that, last August alone, Gore used 22,619 kWh - more than an average American family uses in a year. Accepting his Oscar last week, Gore said: "It's not as hard as you might think. We have a long way to go but all of us can do something in our own lives to make a difference." Gore is reportedly installing solar panels on the roof of his mansion. How much bloody electricity can one man use, for God's sake? He may have invented the Internet, but it now looks as if he's running the whole thing from his house." :-), - Ken |
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On Feb 28, 11:48 am, " wrote:
Gore is reportedly installing solar panels on the roof of his mansion. How much bloody electricity can one man use, for God's sake? He may have invented the Internet, but it now looks as if he's running the whole thing from his house." Well, the facts are that he does, in fact run his business from offices in his house, as does his wife. Throw in the energy demands for security requirements, etc. and you have a clearly above-average electricity demand, even for a quaint little 20-room mansion. Comparing Gore's electricity usage to an average family house is nothing short of stupid. Add to that the fact that Gore buys his energy (it's right there in that FOIA thing) from "green" producers at elevated prices and buys carbon offsets for the energy he uses, and you're left with the inescapable fact that Mr. Gore does indeed "walk the walk" where CO2 emissions are concerned. Those who try have tried to use his utility bill alone while obfuscating the rest of the story to paint him as some sort of hypocrite are fundamentally dishonest IMHO. $.02, Joe F. |
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On 28 Feb 2007 09:16:00 -0800, "rb608" wrote:
On Feb 28, 11:48 am, " wrote: Gore is reportedly installing solar panels on the roof of his mansion. How much bloody electricity can one man use, for God's sake? He may have invented the Internet, but it now looks as if he's running the whole thing from his house." Well, the facts are that he does, in fact run his business from offices in his house, as does his wife. Throw in the energy demands for security requirements, etc. and you have a clearly above-average electricity demand, even for a quaint little 20-room mansion. Comparing Gore's electricity usage to an average family house is nothing short of stupid. Add to that the fact that Gore buys his energy (it's right there in that FOIA thing) from "green" producers at elevated prices and buys carbon offsets for the energy he uses, and you're left with the inescapable fact that Mr. Gore does indeed "walk the walk" where CO2 emissions are concerned. Those who try have tried to use his utility bill alone while obfuscating the rest of the story to paint him as some sort of hypocrite are fundamentally dishonest IMHO. $.02, Joe F. I'm shocked! SHOCKED! /daytripper (!) |
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rb608 wrote:
" wrote: Gore is reportedly installing solar panels on the roof of his mansion. How much bloody electricity can one man use, for God's sake? He may have invented the Internet, but it now looks as if he's running the whole thing from his house." Well, the facts are ... WHOA !!! Hold on just a goddamned minute here, where in the hell do you get off ruining a perfectly ridiculous right-wing rant with *facts* ? Sweartagawd Joe, that kind of pathetic liberal behavior is just what we've come to expect from the loonie left. -- Ken Fortenberry |
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On Feb 28, 12:51 pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote: WHOA !!! Hold on just a goddamned minute here, where in the hell do you get off ruining a perfectly ridiculous right-wing rant with *facts* ? Sweartagawd Joe, that kind of pathetic liberal behavior is just what we've come to expect from the loonie left. Even if Steven Colbert fades into oblivion, I think his one quote that will endure will be that "reality has a well-known liberal bias." :-) Joe F. |
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![]() " wrote in message ps.com... Thanks to that pesky Freedom of Information Act, we discover that, last August alone, Gore used 22,619 kWh - more than an average American family uses in a year. Accepting his Oscar last week, Gore said: "It's not as hard as you might think. We have a long way to go but all of us can do something in our own lives to make a difference." Gore is reportedly installing solar panels on the roof of his mansion. How much bloody electricity can one man use, for God's sake? He may have invented the Internet, but it now looks as if he's running the whole thing from his house." Well, wouldn't ya just know it. Global warming was a colossal hoax for decades......and then Al Gore single-handedly causes it to become real in less than two months. Talk about yer irony! Moron. Wolfgang |
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rb608 wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote: WHOA !!! Hold on just a goddamned minute here, where in the hell do you get off ruining a perfectly ridiculous right-wing rant with *facts* ? Sweartagawd Joe, that kind of pathetic liberal behavior is just what we've come to expect from the loonie left. Even if Steven Colbert fades into oblivion, I think his one quote that will endure will be that "reality has a well-known liberal bias." :-) Yep, a classic line. Here's a good one: http://www.unitedmedia.com/editoons/...ich/index.html -- Ken Fortenberry |
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![]() do you get off ruining a perfectly ridiculous right-wing rant with *facts* ? Sweartagawd Joe, that kind of pathetic liberal behavior is just what we've come to expect from the loonie left. So let me get this straight: as long as you got the means, you can simply _buy_ your way out of modifying your lifestyle for The Cause? To a true leftie I would think _that_ explanation would be just sooo right-wing. There ain't a single rational universe in which Al Gore can claim to live a "carbon-neutral" life. Jon. |
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