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We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared to a capacity audience of 900 MBA students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the impact of humans on the earth’s ecosystem. “But the biggest challenge we face,” he said, “is changing the way we think about our relationship with the environment.” [snip] If price tags are the only tool used to measure value,...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Al Gore is garnering wide praise following his documentary's win at last night's Academy Awards -- even from White House Press Secretary Tony Snow. Asked in a press briefing Monday what he thought about Al Gore's documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," winning an Oscar, Snow said, "I'm happy for him," and mused, "It's good to have a second career."

NEW YORK (AP) -- Al Sharpton, who was previously in talks with CBS to star in a sitcom, says he's not interested in being a TV star after all. "I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom," Sharpton told the News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., in Tuesday's editions. The Democrat, who has run for president, mayor of New York and the Senate, was earlier this month reported to be working with CBS on a pilot tentatively titled, "Al in the Family" -- an allusion to the Archie Bunker classic `70s show. "I'm not interested in...

he Rev. Al Sharpton will not eat at KFC and he doesn't think you should either. Starting today, Mr. Sharpton is joining forces with the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to urge a boycott of KFC, which is owned by Yum Brands of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Sharpton and PETA want the fast food chain to require its chicken suppliers to put in place new standards for the treatment of the 750 million chickens they process for KFC every year in the United States. The rap mogul Russell Simmons is also joining the Sharpton campaign. "If...

Rev. Al Sharpton arrives at the annual Independence Day 'White Party' hosted by Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs at the PlayStation 2 (Estate in Bridgehampton, N.Y., Sunday, July 4, 2004. To commemorate the significance of the Fourth of July, Combs stressed the importance of voting in this year's election. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek)

“It is now clear that Al Gore is insane," John Podhoretz wrote in his New York Post column last week, after Gore's recent anti-Bush administration tirades. "I don't mean that his policy ideas are insane, though many of them are. I mean that based on his behavior, conduct, mien and tone over the past two days, there is every reason to believe that Albert Gore Jr., desperately needs help. I think he needs medication, and I think that if he is already on medication, his doctors need to adjust it or change it entirely." John is not a physician, but...

AL GORE AND THE DEMOCRATS--A JYB WEBAD The JYB has entered the political ad fray. Below is our first effort. It's an avi file and about 2.3 megs. Here are a few screenshots: Set your connection on its highest setting, and commence downloading: Al Gore and the Democrats Posted by B. Preston at 11:56 PM

Something to Yak About – Al Gore, Film Critic Former Clinton veep Al Gore seems to have found a couple of new pastimes to while away his idle hours; reviewing wacky disaster flicks and pounding Republicans. After heaping praise on the movie The Day After Tomorrow, a cinematic tour de force on preposterous ‘global warming’ nonsense, Gore said Tuesday that we humans are “conducting an uncontrolled experiment” on the planet and warned of possible catastrophe. Egad… dial it down a notch… Al Gore, Policy CriticWhen Al Gore isn’t reviewing crazy disaster movies, he’s reviewing government policy. Seems Gore has teamed...

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton (news - web sites) is making plans to meet with both the Haitian president and rebel leaders in an effort to help stem the violent unrest in the country. Sharpton said Tuesday the Haitian consul general told him the president is willing to meet with him. "If by the end of the day there's no agreement between the rebels and the government, I'm definitely going," Sharpton said in a telephone interview shortly before meeting with the consul general, Harry Fouche, at the Haitian consulate in New York. Sharpton, a minister who has advocated...

<p>On a rainy morning in March 2002, three buses of African-American protesters emptied in front of the headquarters of Charter Communications Inc., a cable-TV operator, in suburban St. Louis. Soon a limousine pulled up, and the Rev. Al Sharpton stepped out to lead the demonstrators in chants of "No Justice, No Peace."</p>

[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 11/12/03 ] AJC.COM SPECIAL   On many points, Sharpton's not so sharp"Forced to publicly defend him, black leaders privately groused that he made them look like idiots." By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSONDemocratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton is shooting from the lip again, and it doesn't help his cause or his constituency. Sharpton's gibe that Howard Dean is anti-black is ridiculous even by his loose standards. The same goes for his charge, made in a speech in Connecticut, that Jesse Jackson Jr., a Dean supporter, and other blacks who endorse white candidates are Uncle Toms.What did Dean say...

This really must be a Democrat operation, the trick is to register and then start sending/keep reqesting provisional ballots since most email provdiers are counting them as spam.Go Al Go! By what ever means necessary-Remember if Crazy Al gets 50% of the vote or more the Move on.ORG crazies have pledged to fund millions of contribution dollars for that campaign.

The Reverend Al Sharpton is the latest of the Democratic candidates for President to announce plans to attend America's Hometown Forum on Saturday June 21.As a condition before accepting the invitation, Sharpton will be allowed a portable spa, complete with pumps, chlorine and fresh water.Fourum planners have purchased additional supports and extra lighting in order to accomadate the Reverends unusual request.The 2000 gallons of water required to fill the spa will be trucked in the night before.Due to prior committments, Connecticut United States Senator Joe Lieberman so far has declined his invitation to the town hall meeting.However, he says he...

Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) appeared on Crossfire last night to discuss his endorsement of the 'Reverand' Al Sharpton. CNN's Paul Begala: 'Congressman Serrano, are you presently under a doctors care or on medication for any reason? I mean are you nuts , sir? As a Democrat who loves his party, are you our of your mind?Serrano: 'I could be, due to the fact I am appearing on this show talking to you, but other than than I am doing fine.' Tucker Carlson: Have you taken a lot of grief from your fellow Democrats for your heroic actions? (endorsing 'Crazy Al')Serrano:...

Witness last weekend's big Labour rally in Iowa featuring seven major Democratic candidates.New York Reverend Al Sharpton was tops in several catagories. He had the best fiery crowd pleasing lines.He was the leader in crowd applause and ovations.And Rev. Sharpton along with Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio scored the highest ratings from a focus group of Labour attendees.The Democratic Labour activists loved him the most.

The Reverend Al Sharpton could barely contain a smile Thursday when he visited the tomb of Robert E. Lee'I want people to see that if I will go to Robert E. Lee's tomb, I will go anywhere!!' [to become the 2004 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States] He then added: 'I wonder how this will play in Harlem?' Reverend Sharpton paid his respects at the end of another improbable campaign day appearance at Washington and Lee University.Neither Sharpton nor student leaders expected a meeting of the minds. It was more like a marriage of convenience.Washington and Lee students...

As the lone African American running, the preacher carries a lot of clout in the Democratic Party. By Steven Thomma Inquirer Washington Bureau The Rev. Al Sharpton, a Democratic presidential candidate, speaks at the Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal Church in Corpus Christi, Texas. He has never won an election. DES MOINES, Iowa - He isn't the only man running for the Democratic presidential nomination who seems destined to lose, but no one stands to gain quite as much in defeat as the Rev. Al Sharpton of New York. The 48-year-old preacher, who has never won an election, is already being...