Posted on 12/07/2007 8:19:24 AM PST by rightinthemiddle
Green has traditionally been the color of the deadly sin of envy. But this year, a trendy upstart mounted a serious challenge to envy’s claim.
Here are green hypocrisy’s top 10 poster children for 2007.
1. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Lifestyle. While the former veep and nouveau-$100 millionaire jets around the world squawking about the “planet having a fever” and demanding that we all lower our standard of living, his own personal electricity use is 20 times the national average, including an indoor pool costing $500/month to heat.
While Gore deflected criticism of his inconvenient electric bill during March congressional testimony by saying he purchased “green” electricity, the truth is, he didn’t start doing so until 2007.
2. Google’s Sky Pig. A photo-op of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plugging-in a hybrid car was part of the search engine giant’s June announcement promising carbon neutrality by 2008. But how this PR-fluff squares with the so-called “Google party jet” — Page and Brin’s gargantuan personal Boeing 767, which burns about 1,550 gallons/hour — is any one’s guess.
3. RFK Jr. Tilts at Windmills. Outspoken global warming activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently railed against coal-produced electricity because “climate change is the most urgent threat to our collective survival.”
Meanwhile, Kennedy vigorously campaigns against a proposed Cape Cod wind farm that would generate CO2-free electricity because it would “impoverish the experience of millions of tourists and residents and fishing families who rely on the sound's unspoiled bounties.” Unmentioned in Kennedy’s tirades, however, is the windmill’s unfortunate proximity to his family’s famed Hyannis Port compound.
4. The U.N.’s ‘Bali High’. Early December will witness 10,000 climateers descending upon the paradisiacal island resort of Bali for the 13th annual U.N. global warming meeting. (more)
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1. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Lifestyle.
2. Google’s Sky Pig.
3. RFK Jr. Tilts at Windmills.
4. The U.N.’s ‘Bali High’.
5. Nancy Nukes Nukes.
6. Every home a Superfund site?
7. Doesn’t everyone own a NASA scientist?
8. Like a Virgin’s Carbon Footprint.
9. The NBC Poppycock.
10. California’s Hypocritenator.
1550 gal/hr?
let's see --- that would satisfy our family's needs for about three years --- for each hour's worth.
How can I give these doofuses an inconvenient punch on the nose?
It seems you just can’t contact/complain to Google, unless you want to buy something.
“DoAsISayAndNotAsIDo” ping.
If you are only moderately wealthy, or ..shudder...middle class, you are just there to transfer what you have to the nobility, over time. You go to school, come out, work off a car loan, then a mortgage, if you save anything you live off that til you die, and if you had anything left, it goes to them to distribute to their friend, BIG GOVERNMENT, so that your heirs don't get anything, and your children again start over from scratch, to do exactly what you did. All the while, you are giving taxes to BIG GOVERNMENT so that it can buy votes from the poor and single moms generated by BIG GOVERNMENT so that the new Nobility can continue to run things.
It's not socialism, it's not ideology, it's simple feudalism in which the left is this century's invading germanic tribes.
I agree with your assessment but it leaves out the devaluation of the dollar. Warren Buffet, richest man in the world, is pushing for a new currency - the amero. I am looking for new erosions to my assets. My personal plan is to be debt free in 2-3 years.
Warren Buffet is example no. 1 of the new nobility. He is pushing for reinstatement of the death tax, in fact, I think he wants to make it higher. Meanwhile, he has set up his own children to be rich for life, and in a way that will assure that the family will be rich for generations. Just like the Kennedy’s, they will be a multi-generational dynasty, even as they work to make the rest of us poorer, and do not help the truly poor in the process, only make them dependent.
~~ AGW™ ping~~
I believe that GW is a ruse to kill the middle class, figuratively and literally.
AlGore. What a waste of carbon.
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