Category — Al Gore

Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and “we weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point”.

Mr Obama was asked by George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “This Week” programme whether he’d ever thought about military service and replied: “You know, I actually did. [snip]

“And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”

Phew!

All male American citizens are legally required to register for Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birthday.

Mrs Palin’s eldest son Track, 19, is due to leave for Iraq on Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the September 11^th attacks on America and exactly a year after he joined the US Army as an infantryman.

John McCain’s youngest son Jimmy, also 19, is a lance-corporal in the US marine corps who served in Ramadi, deep in Iraq’s Sunni triangle, last year. His other son Jack, 21, is currently training to be an officer at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Beau Biden, 39, elder son of Senator Joe Biden, Mr Obama’s running mate, is scheduled to go to Iraq early next year. Beau Biden is attorney general of Delaware and a captain in the legal corps of the US Army’s National Guard. [snip]

Biden’s job is to prosecute any trooper that locks and loads before coming under automatic weapons fire.

Voters often fault Democratic candidates on issues of patriotism and support for the military. Bill Clinton was vilified by Republicans as a Vietnam draft dodger, though he defeated two Second World War veterans, President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and Senator Bob Dole in 1996.

But Al Gore, a US Army journalist in Vietnam, (Gore served in the Conex Corp) and John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who won a Silver Star while serving in patrol craft on Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, both lost to George W. Bush, who avoided active service in Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard.

Mr Obama is more vulnerable than most Democrats on the patriotism issue because of his exotic life story, his past radical associations, his previous refusal to wear an American flag pin - though he has since relented and is now seldom seen without one - and inaccurate smears that he is a Muslim. [snip]

(Obama speaking to Stephanopoulos) “Let’s not play games,” he said. “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come.”

The Illinois senator’s maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham served in the US Army in Europe during the Second World War.

His maternal great uncle Charlie Payne helped liberate Ohrdruf, a part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network - though he was criticised for misstating this on the campaign trail as an uncle who liberated Auschwitz. [snip]

Note to Obama, this stuff doesn’t rub off, you got to do it yourself.

But these military connections pale in comparison with Mr McCain’s fabled biography as the son and grandson of admirals who spent more than five years in the Hanoi Hilton prison after his jet was shot down over Vietnam.

Mr McCain took as his Republican convention theme the slogan “Country First” and both Mrs Palin and Rudy Giuliani, the former Republican mayor of New York, mocked Mr Obama’s time as a “community organiser” in Chicago when he was in his twenties.

Hillary Clinton, who Mr Obama defeated in the Democratic primaries, was ridiculed in 1994 for stating that she tried to join the US marines in 1975, the year she married, but was rejected because she was too old and had poor eyesight. Her husband Bill said this year that she had tried to join the US Army.[snip]

Probably she did, in what country?

 ”Understand what I did as a community organiser. When I got out of a college as a young person, 24, 25 years old, I moved to Chicago and worked with churches, who were dealing with steel plants that had closed in their neighbourhoods, to set up job training programmes for the unemployed and after-school programmes for youth.”

He also tried to “deal with asbestos in homes with poor people - community service work - which John McCain has been talking about, putting country first and extolling the virtues of national service”.

According to Obama, he had to make a steep dive in, level out and zig-zag to the buildings while receiving fire from asbestos junkies in an armed ‘hood. “They had everything but tanks.” “This is why I believe in the 2^nd Amendment but only if no one has guns.”
The only salvation for these people is Elijah Muhammad in the guise of BLT.

All make sense doesn’t it? Reading the entire article just roils the mud.

Go back in time, feel the wind in your face and everywhere else in the exciting all-new 2008 Barackmobile SE.   Made in the US by UAW serfs. 

Model shown with standard lateen rig - available spinnaker for highway speeds and mushroom anchor for school zones.    Citizens of the world, this is your time, this is your car.

(Caution.  Barack Motors assumes no responsibility for possible broaching on grooved pavement, chronic mal de mer,  pitching and yawing due to driver error, or use of this vehicle in high winds.)

Gore sets ‘moon shot’ goal on climate change

[snip]…Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace. [snip]

Here Gore peers out at his small gathering of moonbats as he drones on about his megalomania.

Rarefied atmosphere in which he lives.

They say that even the blind squirrel can find a nut. Illustrating that axiom is Al Gore’s endorsement of the only remaining candidate in the Democratic presidential race today. I’m sure that Barack Obama was sitting on the edge of his seat wondering who Al might select. Hint: It was going to be the Democrat.

Al says Barack is “clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America.” What kind of change we aren’t sure. What problems he’s solved before nobody knows. But Al wants you to pull the straight Democratic ticket without thinking about those things. Too bad Al never finished that law degree because Barack might have appointed him to the Supreme Court for that cogent and timely endorsement.

What the right wing media didn’t tell you

Perhaps it has slipped past everyone’s perspicacity about the tribulations in the Midwest.
It seems no one perceived that Bushitler moved Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin together so they are subjected to reprisal more easily. This amalgamation of states votes Donkey with regularity. Just how did they get a communal border? Bush had Rove move them last month.

For pure malice, look for Karl Rove’s surreptitious weather manipulation; who else commands these satanic elements. Having Cheney weaken the levees with his stents was brilliant.

What is surprising is Bushitler hasn’t renamed Cedar Rapids to Cedar Lake or Great Cedar Pool. He still has time.

Criticism from the Liberals is forthcoming. If Bush wants to show he truly understands the nature of the problem, they articulate, he’ll demand the UN take over, while we ply them with our national treasure, a sort of a Universal “Food for Less Water” schema under their auspices.
In exchange for the world’s help, a few maidens of select young citizenry are offered to prevent the Blue Beret from pillaging our countryside.
Reid, Dirtbin, and Pelosi surely will be glad to act as disinterested parties. Following the Obamadhi’s lead, this troika will dole out a variety of adjunct jobs at high salaries, to deserving Donks for showing up.

The front-runners for profit in this are Big Corn and Big Oil. Foodstuffs and biofuel prices will spike. Women and children are the first to starve, then the poor die since they use only fossil fueled vehicles. Big Corn has no heart.

Your redemption occurs when you drive your alternatively fuel vehicle to the store to fight for that last bag of flour. At least, you can bake it in your alternative oven, probably fueled by dog dung.

Thanks to the Eco-nazis for their help with this predicament, particularly the Sierra Club, The World Wildlife Fund and Al Gore. Please join us in a light Sudanese brunch of mealy bugs and grass stems.

Jump on your G-V’s; fly down for the festivities.

Perhaps the courts are a place to crush this bit of silliness. That cuts out the media and Hollyweird along with most of the pinkos in congress.
The destruction of the world’s economy through burning food as fuel combined with strangling fossil fuel production is here. Witness $4/gal gas, corn and wheat prices and a serious spike in stupidity in politicians.
This makes for interesting reading as well as enlightenment. Of course, there are some who prefer to sit in dark closets.

Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. [snip]

Most of the clowns running for office have this climate nonsense hook firmly in the gullet. Help them get it out by voting them out of office.

Don’t you just hate this when it happens

Mud, snow to greet Memorial Day hikers

At 5 p.m. Tuesday, 18 inches of snow remained on the ground near the top of Mount Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak. The snow cover includes some of the 3.5 inches of fresh fluff that descended on the mountaintop Monday. More light snow is likely over northern Vermont summits today and Thursday, the National Weather Service in South Burlington said. [snip]

No snow will fall in the valleys this week, meteorologists said. Instead, chilly rain showers are forecast with temperatures in the low- and mid-50s. That’s about 15 degrees colder than normal for this time of year.

So how is Algore going to fix this?

 This article isn’t long; it is based on science with none of the fearmongering of the GW idiots. Go here for the article.

THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. [snip]

For the Gorbots, this isn’t good news, no not at all. For the sane among us this is a very interesting site. Here’s one photo from the past few days.

The image of the Earth added to give scale to the size of the sunspot.

I visit this site every day, have seen many photos of the sun; this spot is small compared to others.

Well, this turned into a fizzle.

Credit the public with sense. Earth Hour, hysterically promoted by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, SBS, Sky News and the federal and state governments, resulted in no significant fall in power usage.

 Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate

Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.

Gore hasn’t this money, what countries are fronting this amount of loot?

You can read the whole article here, it isn’t too long. The schadenfreude quotient in this piece is delightfully high.
By the way, why haven’t we seen his fat face anywhere, pontificating his point of view?

Climate facts to warm to

CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: “Is the Earth still warming?”

She replied: “No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.” [snip]

If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting.

A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.

With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along. [snip]

THE Age published an essay with an environmental theme by Ian McEwan on March 8 and its stablemate, The Sydney Morning Herald, also carried a slightly longer version of the same piece.

The Australian’s Cut & Paste column two days later reproduced a telling paragraph from the Herald’s version, which suggested that McEwan was a climate change sceptic and which The Age had excised. He was expanding on the proposition that “we need not only reliable data but their expression in the rigorous use of statistics”.

What The Age decided to spare its readers was the following: “Well-meaning intellectual movements, from communism to post-structuralism, have a poor history of absorbing inconvenient fact or challenges to fundamental precepts. (emphasis added)[snip]

The missing sentences do not appear anywhere else in The Age’s version of the essay. The attribution reads: “Copyright Ian McEwan 2008″ and there is no acknowledgment of editing by The Age.

Why did the paper decide to offer its readers McEwan lite? Was he, I wonder, consulted on the matter? And isn’t there a nice irony that The Age chose to delete the line about ideologues not being very good at “absorbing inconvenient fact”?

With all the above going on, we get these fools:

At island retreat, Branson and friends seek to save a world ‘on fire’

“So, do we really think the world is on fire?” Branson, the British magnate and adventurer, asked several guests, as a manservant scurried off to fetch him another glass of pinot grigio. [snip]
Branson does - and so did most of his guests. So on this recent weekend on his private hideaway in the crystalline waters between the islands of Tortola and Anegada, they tried to figure out what to do about it and perhaps get richer in the process.

Yeah, like with the Gorbot, it is all about money.

Every time you turn around, Al Gore, the self-appointed planetary protector, is involved in another shameless cash grab. This time Mr. Gore plans to take his Emmy winning Current TV channel public.

Mr. Gore describes Current TV, which gets content from viewers, as a “true participatory media”. But that’s where democracy abruptly ends at this company. Gone is politician Gore who argued for counting “all” the votes in the 2000 presidential race. Businessman Gore set up his own Electoral College with class B shares designed to lock the IPO stockholders out of the corporate decision making process.

This sweetheart deal gets even better for Gore. He took home $1,041,677 in salary and bonuses last year. With that kind of salary, you’d think Current TV was a cash cow, but think again.  It lost $31.5 million over the last 3 years. Maybe Barack and Hillary, ever concerned about excessive executive compensation, should give Al a jingle and have a talk.

Add it all up, and I’ll be skipping the Current TV IPO. This thing has Air America written all over it.

Peggy Noonan’s interesting article explores Democratic and Republican infighting.  She argues the Clintons are fracturing the Democratic Party along gender and race lines.  But more interesting from my standpoint is the person held culpable for fracturing the Republican Party:

George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues. 

Amen, Peggy.  But sadly, conservatives, myself included, brought this pox on our own house.  We supported President Bush even though we knew he wasn’t conservative.  The main arguments for electing him came down to name recognition and he wasn’t a Democrat.  Sounds an awful lot like the argument being made for John McCain, no?  McCain will probably pick a token conservative vice president too.

McCain might be most “electable”, but is 4 more years of compassionate conservatism really winning?  It’s more like losing a bit slower.

A cold spell soon to replace global warming

[snip] Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.

This is my point, which environmentalists hotly dispute as they cling to the hothouse theory. As we know, hothouse gases, in particular, nitrogen peroxide, warm up the atmosphere by keeping heat close to the ground. Advanced in the late 19th century by Svante A. Arrhenius, a Swedish physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner, this theory is taken for granted to this day and has not undergone any serious check. [snip]

Let me be one of if not the first to say that Algore will announce his solitary role in planetary salvation by claiming for himself the mantle of Gaia’s eunuch.

If “Allie Boy”, the Bozone King, had not recognized the immediacy of the peril, the UN and the Legion of Barking Moonbats would have no reason to exist.

Gorbot will tell the globe, “I SAVED THE PLANET.”

Redeem your carbon credits for a chance to bask in my glow.

Think not?

Al Gore’s picture must be right next to the dictionary definition of “conflict of interest”:

That’s the $1 billion investment company Gore started three years ago in London with David Blood, the former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, to analyze and invest in publicly traded “sustainable” companies.

What a humanitarian, eh? There’s nothing like cultivating your image as a concerned environmentalist and global warming expert while trying to profit on the backend. But don’t expect any enterprising media members to look into Saint Al’s venture capital work. He’s just doing well by doing good, right? They could care less if he’s lying because lining Gore’s pockets is a small price to pay for a cleaner, more socialistic planet.

Gore claims his environmental work isn’t politically driven. Given his profit motive, maybe he was telling a half truth.

I report, YOU decide!

Fred Phelps, another DEMOCRAT GONE WILD!