This actually is pretty funny --- "George Bush thinks ‘Kyoto' is the guy his father threw up on."
Posted on 09/11/2005 11:56:58 PM PDT by doug from upland
The year was 1967 and I was going into the Army as my cousin, with whom I had grown up, with was going into the Peace Corp. I was off to SE Asia to kill godless commies and he was off to Bolivia or Peru to do coke.
He was already a member of the Sierra Club and was part of a radical fringe that was developing within it, among other notions, the elimnation of the internal combustion engine. Now mind you, this was from a fella that drove a FIAT 650 coupe.
I went to one of their meetings while we were both home, coincidently, on leave. I listened for awhile to these idiots discussing appropriating private beach front for 'people's parks' in the Santa Cruz area. Finally the rants started in on cars and their filth-spewing IC engines. I thought to myself, Aha! I've got the hypocrties!
I pointed out to them that almost all of them had arrived, mostly by themselves, in various automobiles. Why didn't they start their crusade with personal examples of non-car use behavior. Weren't they all hypocrites?
They very condescendingly and smuggly explained to me that they couldn't fight for the cause if they couldn't have the benefits of transportation etc. and that when the struggle was won they, along with everyone else, would then be on foot or on bike. They would have to compromise their principles for awhile only to finally overcome oppression, the man, the sinister forces of capitalism, the industrial-military complex, etc.
Your report certainly points out that not much has changed with these fools in 40 years.
Excellent work Agent D.
I will have an Arianna picture when it is emailed to me.
Al actually looked as if he might have lost a few pounds. And he did not use a lisp or his preacher cadence. Except for the content, you might have been mildly impressed. It was not the screaming, insane Algore we've seen after Recount 2000.
It was just Arianna and her driver. She had no need for that car. She could have arrived in a Prius.
PLEASE SPARE US!
This actually is pretty funny --- "George Bush thinks ‘Kyoto' is the guy his father threw up on."
I still remember her at the gubernatorial debate..."Ahnuld drives a Hummah - I drive a hybrid!"
dem/lib/socialists = HYPOCRITES
>- the real highlight was Arianna Huffington...after she gave her speech and came out of the building she walked right by me...I had heard about her vehicle before the speech, and when I saw her leaving, I raced to borrow a camera...from across the street I managed to take some photos of Arianna and her driver in a gigantic gas guzzling planet-killing Chevy Suburban<
Pictures! We want pictures! (They'd be a hoot to caption.)
Great job doug. I'm sure you took a well deserved long shower when you got home......
Glad you got through to Tony....
Is that Arienation Huff 'n puff?
That's her. I think she went nuts after her husband and senate candidate from California left her for his more attractive gay lover.
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Will Arianna's own numbers crumble when her supporters learn that, after she gave her speech about saving the planet at the Sierra Club Summit in San Francisco, her driver didn't whisk her away in a Prius. Her driver took her away in a gigantic gas guzzling planet-killing Chevrolet Suburban. Great hypocrisy, Arianna.
Posted by doug from upland at September 12, 2005 11:49 AM
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