Can you sue a snakeoil salesman? Posted on 05/02/2008 6:26:29 AM PDT by mondoreb
Can you sue a snakeoil salesman? Al Gore may be facing a potential lawsuit over Global Warming according to the British newspaper, the Telegraph.
The medicine peddlers used a number of tricks and stunts. The larger traveling shows, employing advance men to herald their arrival, entered town with circus-like fanfare, typically with a band leading the procession of wagons. Skits and other diversions were used to attract audiences, who eventually were treated to the "Lecture" (which, when medicine shows expanded into radio, became the commercial). Assistants who moved through the crowds were often garbed as Quakers to lend an air of moral respectability. Native Americans were frequently recruited to promote the notion of "natural" medicine which was given names like Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, Seminole Cough Balsam, and various Kickapoo cures (Holbrook 1959, 196-215; Munsey 1970). Source - CSICOPAccording to journalist Catherine Elsworth, the former founder of the Weather Channel and meteorologist John Coleman spoke of a lawsuit against Gore during a conference in March, that since then Coleman has received "thousands and thousands of emails with lots of support" and "thousands of these people want to donate to a legal fund to sue Al Gore".
Elsworth noted that Coleman feels the court would be the venue to settle the issues relating to the "hype" of Global Warming, especially those who are involved in selling carbon credits.
Gore's carbon footprint may be the size of Godzilla's, but he eases his conscience with 'carbon offsets.' He buys them from himself. And every time someone else buys them, Big Al gets richer. Source - Investor's Business DailyAl Gore, the Global Warming Messiah, stands to make literally millions of dollars selling stocks in the tax exempt...
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An Al Gore backlash may be starting to finally take shape.
I hope so
ONly the really, really stupid have bought this swindle. Most people with a modicum of greymatter figured out that corrupt lawyer politicians really aren’t weather experts.
Perhaps an action to commit Al to an insane asylum might be more appropriate.
Unfortunately, the elected officials of many nations have bought this hogwash and they can do severe damage to us. And all 3 candidates for USPOTUS have bought into it.
Of course, these are politicians and lawyers and you DID say “the really stupid”...
Yeah. I see W is beginning to buy in.
ie Untold millions.
What a relationship.
Did you ever realize that about 2.5 acres will actually be put to use to pump oil out of ANWR yet the caribou who are to be protected by preventing the drilling already occupy and use a full ONE QUARTER OF EARTH'S LAND SURFACE just to eat and poop!?
Both fraudulent deals ~ protect caribou; sell carbon credits. String 'em all up! Demand a refund while we're at it.
My MIL is a blind lib - all her info is from Newsweak.
When the topic of Algore’s energy usage came up, she declared that he “went green” and “is using solar power” now.
She blanked when I told her that it would require about a city block of solar panels to power OUR house, & obviously 12 times that for Algore’s house. You can’t get around the math.
It is about time somebody grew a pair!!!!
I think that is the key, the people who listen to the MSM and still believe everything they read, still believe globull warming is a fact. (misspelling is deliberate)
The MSM and most Democrats say that those who dissagree with global warming are like holocaust deniers only worse. Almost all the top Democrats and many Republicans(John McCain, George Bush) have bought into global warming and are already proposing government programs to combat it. Those scientists who oppose it are losing funding and being silenced. The UN is recommending global warming policies. Global warming theory is false but Gore and the global warming people are winning.
“Crestfallen” was the term that came to mind when I told her that recent data actually shows the earth cooling toward a new mini-ice age due to decreased solar activity.
Of course she denied that it was true, but the look on her face was the same as if I’d shot her favorite puppy.
ManBearPig is coming for you Al....excelsior!
where did you get the notion that Al Gore is a lawyer?
If algore disappeared right now ... just poof ... and every gorebull warming attendee also just poofed ... there are enough brainwashed with enough legislative power, that carbon credits and green technology would continue, and we'd ultimately be taken over.
(Illustration: For those in states that demand an emissions test for their automobiles ... you voted for that, didn't you?)
I most certainly will contribute generously to such an effort. No problem!
That asshat has MUCH to answer for.
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