Do they … have any fertilizer applied?

en: You’re talking about the largest depository of BS east of Chappaqua, New York!

I appreciate the truth coming out about Al Gore, to bad know one really listens. Keep it coming, and I will continue to read and pass it on.

Again keep it up!

True Blue

Maybe Al Gore belives that global warming can be solved only through collectivist and government-sponsored actions, and not through convincing John Doe to carpool to work. Just a thought.

The Saint, Algoreia (a poem)
By C. MacLeod Fuller

I am the Saint, Algoreia,

excélsis Deo Me!

Environmental haystacks

are just my cup of tea.

Once… I was Vice President

but that time is no more;

the scathing proletariat

hath swept me out the door.

Now… I’m the Ebdomadarius[1]

of the environmental choir,

deus ex machina, very lite,

and I order you, “Perspire!”

I am the authoritative throne,

and the U.N. quite agrees;

on matters of environment,

I bring all to their knees.

I am the Great and Powerful Oz!

Intone it acappella.

Doxology before my throne:

“Its hot! Grab an umbrella!”

Our globe is getting warm. I swear!

Our snows are fastly melting.

Ignore white Christmas Malibu

and the frozen mid-West’s helpings.

Ignore that flatulated cows,

prove baneful as we mortals.

A scientific slip of fact –

only the sophomoric chortle.

Ignore Kant’s song! I’m shilling strong.

I promise, the enviro’s dire –

its categorically imperative[2]

for my performance choir.

I am the Saint, Algoreia.

I am the Great Presume.

My really inconvenient truth –

I bear Ozymandius’s[3] tomb.

My environmental fantasies

are luscious algorithms,

for turning viewpoint into cash –

I’m their enigmatic prism.

With California’s hip elites

sewn-up in my chic back-pockets,

(along with Europe’s and New York’s)

I put America on the docket.

Mr. Redford is my friend.

Categorically, there’s no one wiser.

He doffs his Sundance boots to me,

as I play the enviro lyre.

I am the Saint, Algoreia.

Its no confabulation,[4]

and critical that you all accept,

I’m the savior of every nation.

My precepts? They’re unquestionable.

My science? Its uncanny.

My conclusions that the earth is flat

prove Congress the perfect nanny.

And one day, when I’ve saved the earth –

just wait – I’m sure you’ll see;

they’ll take St. Alban’s Abbey

and name it after me.

So, very soon, now just stay tuned,

I’m the one God shall replevin,[5]

He’ll come Himself, while I’m alive,

and entrust my rule with Heaven

Bat One:

There is no reason to doubt that Algore DOES believe that the problem of “global warming” can only be solved by collectivist (government forced) actions.

But the fact that he believes this hardly makes him right in his judgement, and it certainly doesn’t mean that he, or his pronouncements, should be immune from criticism.

Why? If he thinks that the only way to solve global warming is through government legislation, what’s it matter what anyone does before this legislation takes effect? In other words, if the actions of single individuals won’t solve the problem anyway–it will take collective measures–why are we blaming individuals?

For another example… suppose I want to end the war in Sudan. I know it will require our President to send hundreds of thousands of troops there. In this case, should I be criticized for not personally travelling to the Sudan right now with a shotgun?

collectivist and government-sponsored actions

So he wants the govenment to force John to carpool?

electnixon,

I don’t think the Left automatically accepts Algore’s excuse, as you suggest. That’s far too generous. Instead, I think it’s really a tacit acknowledgment that all this eco-friendly bullshit is just that… bullshit.

These people are all about having a cause… a credo… a faith. The actual contents of that faith hardly matters. If Algore were to start hawking “Soylent Green” the lunatic lemmings of the left would be lined up round the block, money (green) in hand, ready to buy.

(east encompasses the entire planet!)

Rob,

Great post! None of us cares how much energy Algore uses, or for what purpose. But when he uses his position of wealth and power to try to impose on the rest of us standards of behavior that he himself is unwilling to adhere to, then, yes, the man is a hypocrite. Period.

Speaking of hypocrites, I notice that the revelation of Gore’s personal power consumption has generated (pun intended) no public backlash from the environmental whackos of the far left. Nor has there been any leftwing commentary noting that President Bush’s more modest Crawford, Texas home, and more modest lifestyle, are both far more environmentally friendly than those of the more flamboyant Algore.

Apparently, the “green” cause isn’t really all THAT important after all. Surprise, surprise!

If he thinks that the only way to solve global warming is through government legislation, what’s it matter what anyone does before this legislation takes effect? In other words, if the actions of single individuals won’t solve the problem anyway–it will take collective measures–why are we blaming individuals?

Dave,

Your argument, that “it doesn’t matter what anyone does before the legislation takes effect” is interesting in that it reverses the Left’s now tedious, anti-war “chicken-hawk” argument… a novel approach to be sure. Since the only thing that will save us is a government-enforced rehab program, why not drink ourselves into oblivion in the meantime. And like most liberal/progressive solutions it has the brazenly seductive selling point of studiously avoiding an sort of personal responsibility.

There are two separate, more fundamental problems with your approach. In the first place, it is far from settled that the “problem” of global warming is of such certainty and magnitude that it warrants a federal legislative solution, much less the more draconian loss of American political and economic sovereignty advocated by Gore and his internationalist congregants. Indeed, that has been the basis for virtually all the public argument to this point.

The second fundamental problem with what you say is that this is definitely NOT what Gore has been advocating at all. On the contrary, Gore has for years cried gloom and doom for us all, and has never once suggested that we all indulge in an orgy of environmental self-indulgence while waiting for the feds to save us from ourselves.

Finally, there is the question of your Sudan metaphor…which is cute, but largely inappropriate. In your example, no one would “criticize you for not personally traveling to the Sudan with a shotgun,” except those loony leftist “chicken hawk” folks mentioned above. But if you were selling AC-130 Gunships and shipping containers of parts, supplies, and ammunition to the Sudanese government on the side, while calling for an end to that war, then yes, you would be criticized… for that would be a far more hypocritical action on your part and far more comparable to the hypocrisy of Algore as well.

Dave,

There is no reason to doubt that Algore DOES believe that the problem of “global warming” can only be solved by collectivist (government forced) actions.

But the fact that he believes this hardly makes him right in his judgement, and it certainly doesn’t mean that he, or his pronouncements, should be immune from criticism.

Al “risky scheme” Gore is not exactly notorious for his veracity (Love Canal, Father of the Internet), nor for his judgment either (“no controlling legal authority”). His current status as Grand Pooh-Bah of environmental snake-oil salesmen merely proves the point.