Posted on 02/08/2007 4:30:49 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
As of today, three of the biggest panic-inducers for the theory of man-made global warming are Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi.
If we dont do something, and now, were doomed. Forget about that coming ice age you heard about in elementary school this time the wannabe scientists, and just plain scientists are right. We know this because they tell us so. Forget for a moment one of my new favorite quote, which is in William F. Buckleys book Miles Gone By, and cited a writer for National Review back in the 50s whose name escapes me, who wrote, Scientists are often people who first build, and then buy, the Brooklyn Bridge.
When discussing human-induced global warming, many detractors of the theory often point out the hypocrisy that we often see in those who spread the fear of environmental catastrophe if we dont dramatically but back on fossil fuel emissions.
The hypocrisy is there, to be sure. You know Al Gores story on global warming. We made it through the eight years Gore was actually in a position of power where he could do something about this, but instead got nothing but Als wife, Tipper, going around slapping warning labels on everything except where they really belonged on Gores bosss pants.
Gore says he believes that global warming is a threat greater than terrorism, but doesnt dump his familys large stock holdings in Occidental Petroleum or sell one or more of those homes; a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom (yes, but theyre econo-flush toilets) home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va., and a third place in Carthage, Tenn. Gores self-described carbon neutral lifestyle also includes a private jet to fly around promoting his film An Inconvenient Truth. God help us if Al Gore falls off the carbon neutral wagon hell suck up more energy than a black hole full of Oreck vacuums and the rest of us will be reading his apocalyptic warnings by candlelight.
Then theres Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House who pledged last month to stop global warming. Pelosi has said that she needs a personal shuttle A private Boeing 757 to be exact to go between Washington, DC and her home in California, which would cost John Q. Taxpayer $300,000 a pop. Oddly enough, one of Pelosis top contributors is Occidental Petroleum. The last time I checked, Occidental hadnt forgone the oil biz to go into Tofu peddling and hybrid vehicle manufacturing.
Im not writing this as much to dispute what Gore, Pelosi, et al, are saying as much as to offer them advice that is well known in the advertising community: If youre pitching Nike on a daily basis dont get caught wearing Adidas especially Adidas that burn energy at a furious pace but never get anywhere, like Michael Moore trying to do a sit-up.
Could it be that these people arent willing to give up their hog-wild-users-of-energy lifestyles because they know their theory is full of more crap than a Woodstock Port-O-San?
Theres one certainty about politicians and other egomaniacs: They value their own skins above all else. Thats why theyre always the first into the bunker when the siren sounds a bunker built with your money but that youll never gain access to. If these people believed there was indeed any truth to their dire warnings and that all our lives were in danger, they might be at least a little more inclined to walk the talk.
If Gore, Pelosi and the rest really do believe in what theyre saying, then theyre resting the hope of saving civilization on controlling what the rest of us do, and history books will ironically record that those who were the most vocal about saving the drowning planet were the very people throwing it anvils. Either way, they come off looking like asses. But what else would we expect from the party of the donkey?
The energy-crazed lifestyles led by proponents of the global warming theory is the worst enemy to their cause, and is the best indicator yet that this danger is agenda, and not fact, driven.
By the way, we often hear, We need to Its important to remember the definition of the word we in the liberal dictionary:
We: (pronounced wee). Plural pronoun meaning everybody but me.
"As of today, three of the biggest panic-inducers for the theory of man-made global warming are Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi. "
Three?
Bull. Whether they believe it or not, the ruling elite will have to make any sacrifice. That is for the plebes.
will not have to, I mean.
Al Gore invented the new math.
That's fair. Just change it to "four"!
The "chicken-little" shams of the left. They just keep heaping it on. And our clean, ethical SOTH is going to champion another lie of the left.
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