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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Always remember; If it seems to good to be true, it’s probably not! But I sure hope it’s true.
I DID say that she didn’t have anything to worry about,
because whether it was a coming Ice Age or Global Warming,
the solution is always the same:
Less individual freedom, more government control, a reduced lifestyle, and global socialism.
Since all she reads is Newsweek and believes whats in it, get her the old Newsweek about “The Coming Ice Age” and she should be easily converted.
Hey Al...just think of it...if you get sued and lose it all, you finally can reduce your carbon footprint and you’ll no longer be a hypocrite
you’ll have to live poor, which you don’t know how to do.
It's nothing but a scam by corrupt lawyer politicians to get as much control over the people and amass as much personal power as possible. Ain't nothin' new, just another way to get it.
True, which makes this lawsuit even more important. Time's running out.
Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???
I think Bush has limited his involvement.
“”where did you get the notion that Al Gore is a lawyer?””
Sorry, I forgot he flunked out of Vanderbilt law school. thanks for the correction.
I want to see that pile of dung living in a van down by the river...
Arctic, the main location of any sign of GW:
The forecast by researchers at CU-Boulder’s Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research is based on satellite data and temperature records and indicates there is a 59 percent chance the annual minimum sea ice record will be broken this fall for the third time in five years.
Excellent. His use of the styrofoam glacier scene from the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” in his idiotic slide show may be adequate to get a fraud conviction. He lobbied to have his slide show shown to schoolkids across the country and touted it as “settled” science.
“An Al Gore backlash may be starting to finally take shape.”
Tar, feathers, rope!
Now that IS cause for concern.
We need to release more CO2!
Would you want to do a daily thread, and simply have that days picture as the post, instead of a news article?
If you do, please ping me.
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All the rest are minor in comparison.
I suggest we drop him and his kayak in the Pacific, blubbering moron!
But what if Manbearpig really does exist? Do you really want to take that chance?!
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