Goracle: Why aren’t kids forming human chains around bulldozers to stop them from building coal plants?
posted at 6:12 pm on August 17, 2007 by Allahpundit
Answer: They’re too busy forming human chains around bulldozers building nuclear plants.
Update: When the world hands you melting glacier lemons, make lemonade.
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Strong words from a man whose home uses 20 times more energy than the average home in America.
SoulGlo on August 17, 2007 at 6:18 PM
Answer: in many of the places they’re still building coal plants, significant chunks of the populations have no food, no employment, unclean water … and either no power or undependable power.
When you can’t wash your clothes in a washing machine or run an air conditioner or turn on the lights, faux sincere liberal propaganda is a little annoying, Al.
Considering you can’t even stop jetting around in your private plane and burning enormous amounts energy in your palatial home … it seems a little unfair to demand that the poor people in underdeveloped countries do what YOU and your elitist friends in America refuse to do.
This is no different than environmentalism that killed 30 million Africans by insisting they not use DDT to control mosquito-borne malaria.
Liberal sissiness may fly in the United States – it doesn’t work where people are dying for want of the basic necessities. A little coal pollution doesn’t matter much to people who have no power.
If you and your ilk would let underdeveloped countries expand their economies … soon enough, they’d be wealthy enough to spawn their own effete liberal sissies … and then you’d have some protesters. I promise.
But as long as you let people starve and die … they’ll be protesting the things that are starving and killing them.
Coal plants? Not so much protesting.
Get a clue, Al. You silly, silly carbon emitter.
Professor Blather on August 17, 2007 at 6:20 PM
If this clown had carried his home state of Tennessee, the Floida vote would’ve been irrelevant. President Gore. Life as we know it would have changed dramatically.
volsense on August 17, 2007 at 6:20 PM
I propose we get a chain of people surrounding his jet, limo, SUV, etc…
jediwebdude on August 17, 2007 at 6:21 PM
OT: Allah, check out this post by Ace. Apparently, Edwards owns $16 million in a company that’s foreclosing sub-prime mortgages, including Katrina-ravaged houses.
amerpundit on August 17, 2007 at 6:22 PM
On Topic: It’s a blessing this man wasn’t elected President.
amerpundit on August 17, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Silly rabbit. Physical exertion=higher carbon emissions. Much better to slowwwwly email ur concerns.
What are you doing to help? Personally, I don’t wash my WAR IS NOT GREEN T-shirt that often.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Sent Bryan an email re. this hours ago with links to WSJ and Am. Thinker articles. Also mentioned on Rush today.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 6:24 PM
You first Al.
WisCon on August 17, 2007 at 6:26 PM
Why aren’t people forming a human bulldozer to push your fat ass back in the fu*%$ng ocean? You latently homosexual ass-clown.
Sorry, but this moron just gets to me.
TheSitRep on August 17, 2007 at 6:30 PM
I wish I had words.
*sulks in his 1300sf house pondering when he will replace his incandescent light bulbs.
On-my-soap-box on August 17, 2007 at 6:33 PM
Lucky bastard
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Michelle covered it on her site
William Amos on August 17, 2007 at 6:56 PM
That wave was freakin sweet!
BadgerHawk on August 17, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Great video, may melting glacier boarding should be an Olympic sport one day. Meanwhile, back home, right around the corner from the Gores….they are currently employing a cast of thousands for the work they’re doing on their Nashville home to put a geothermal system to work and landscaping to bring mature trees in from the far corners of the earth to plant. Traffic and parts of the city have been tied up for weeks while the Goracle attempts to erase his mega-carbon footprint.
But I wonder, has he ever heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
Webutante on August 17, 2007 at 7:04 PM
So, Carbon Rage Boy is at it again…
’nuff said before I get banned…
Catseye on August 17, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Dude, surfers for global warming!
On-my-soap-box on August 17, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Yes, Gore first needs to turn that AC off in his home and only use mass transit (his bicycle or horse and buggy is also allowed). Then maybe he might have a shred of credibility.
Remember when Al Gore was Vice President and he thought low-flow toilets were such a great idea? Those toilets you have to flush 3 times or more? And what about the hours you have spent unclogging them if someone puts more than two squares of paper in the toilet? I would personally like to send Gore a bill for time and pain and suffering and plumbing and water bills.
We had a plumber tell us a few months ago that he has seen some real problems in commercial buildings because of the low-flow toilets. I would love to see an estimate of the billions of dollars needlessly spent and water resources squandered because of Al Gore.
The man is a menace.
INC on August 17, 2007 at 7:07 PM
Impressive!
On-my-soap-box on August 17, 2007 at 7:09 PM
We have kids. We’ve also lived in houses that flush with barely over one gallon. Those are the worst–the plumber told us they flush rapidly and everything seems OK, but there is not enough water actually going into the pipe to prevent clogs. The plumber says the ones that are about 3 gallons and that flush very slowly are actually better.
INC on August 17, 2007 at 7:13 PM
Local boyz surfin da glacier, read more here
Hey Al, relax. It’s Aloha Friday.
Kini on August 17, 2007 at 7:13 PM
You know,, all these guys,, Al Gore, Hillary, Edwards,, what kind of insane world would we live in should they ever reach their ultimate vision of absolute power for themselves. Mix together the former Soviet Union, China, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under Pol Pot. Throw in a few Sci Fi movies like Soylent Green and 1984,, shake well,, bake until done.
JellyToast on August 17, 2007 at 7:13 PM
Gore can start the chain in front of the bulldozer………..
Defector01 on August 17, 2007 at 7:18 PM
This is one of my pet peeves after some disasters and having to warn guests in our home.
JellyToast, you are right. They are just more equal than we are. Gore, Hillary, and Edwards live in their million dollar homes and I’m sure their staff are the ones personally calling the plumber or dealing with clogs.
INC on August 17, 2007 at 7:18 PM
BRAVO! Well said!
I know he’s an idiot, but even the Goracle has to see the stupidity in asking those who are a job in a coal mine or coal plant away from being in shacks with no running water to forego their means of staying out of that life.
If a bunch of liberal college kids came rolling in to form human chains around bulldozers b/c the Goracle told them to, thinking this makes them seem so enlightened and stopping the production of something that would provide tons of jobs where there were none, I’m sure the unemployed would vastly appreciate it.
This raging hypocrite, who is revered for doing nothing more than talking, really irks me. Guess what AL? None of these people are nearly as impressed with you as you are, they have real things to worry about. These tools just have no grasp on reality. Sorry, rant off.
hollygolightly on August 17, 2007 at 7:19 PM
One craptastic piece of…cake?
On-my-soap-box on August 17, 2007 at 7:20 PM
I doubt you could pry Charleston Heston cold dead hands into doing another environmental exploitation film.
Kini on August 17, 2007 at 7:27 PM
In Dave Barry’s Presidential run:
Australia has problems as well, as of 01/01/07 they have to install low-flow toilets:
INC on August 17, 2007 at 7:31 PM
Hey Guys, The We Pick You Click AP story link on GW takes you to the LA times login page.
I know that shouldn’t happen, right?
Kini on August 17, 2007 at 7:32 PM
I gave up on clicking on those. I have yet to get to a story listed there.
On-my-soap-box on August 17, 2007 at 7:36 PM
Man, between surfer dudes hanging it out on calving glacier waves and Edwards foreclosing on global warming induced hurricane victims, I am really starting to warm up to global catastrophe! Who knew it would be this great?!
As for Silky’s motivations, I can’t believe you, ameripundit. Haven’t you been listening to anything he says? He is foreclosing on poor people through Fortess because he needs to understand poverty better as a President, and what better way to learn about the desperation of poverty than to witness — first hand — the process of residential foreclosure!
Jaibones on August 17, 2007 at 7:46 PM
Two words….Rachel Corrie
The Ugly American on August 17, 2007 at 7:47 PM
There is no Global Warming except Man-made Global Warming and Al Gore is its Profit.
Profaning the Profit(low pressure be upon him) twice !!!111one!! In one day !!!111!!1elven!
No doubt you Hot Air lapdogs shall be handsomely rewarded by your Denialist Entity masters for spreading these blasphemous slanders.
elgeneralisimo on August 17, 2007 at 8:04 PM
He only backed them after his “Poop Credits” idea tanked.
Kowboy on August 17, 2007 at 8:22 PM
Notice how he wants others people to stand in front of danger?
right2bright on August 17, 2007 at 8:42 PM
Notice how he wants others people to stand in front of danger?
right2bright on August 17, 2007 at 8:42 PM
Notice how he wants others people to stand in front of danger?
right2bright on August 17, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Because Global Waming is a sham.
Montana on August 17, 2007 at 8:53 PM
Are we currently building more coal plants ? I hope so. And we need about 20 nuclear plants while we’re at it. Not only would it bring the cost of electricity way down, but we could use the excess power to make Hydrogen, build a distribution network for it and we don’t need oil anymore. An endless supply of cheap clean energy. And another benefit is that it would drive the Goracle over the edge.
Maxx on August 17, 2007 at 9:18 PM
Because even children realize Goracle is a snake oil salesman who takes them for fools.
petefrt on August 17, 2007 at 9:28 PM
So for him we should go back to candles and torches, I’m guessing?
PowWow on August 17, 2007 at 9:31 PM
You wanna know why kids aren’t doing a ‘green’ Rachel Corrie for your sake, Al?
Because even they have figured out that, unlike L’Oreal, you’re (so, NOT) worth it!
Shyster.
Teddy on August 17, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Would I get a carbon credit for pancaking a human chain of protestors?
pedestrian on August 17, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Host: Mr. Caveman do u have a response
Caveman: yeah, I do,,,, WHAT????
gberez on August 17, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Gorebal the modern day Rachael Carson…responsible for deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined..another elitist, environmentalist.
oldernslower on August 17, 2007 at 10:31 PM
“Low-flow”? I don’t like the sound of that.
soundingboard on August 17, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Question: What bulldozer has Gore stood in front of? I guess it’s just not a good idea for statues to do that.
- The Cat
P.S. The surfer is my new hero.
MirCat on August 17, 2007 at 11:47 PM
What does this do besides cause sewage problems? I mean if you don’t pump the water, it just goes on down the river and out into the ocean.
- The Cat
P.S. I couldn’t find anything on YouTube about Rothschild Sewage and Septic Sucking Services, cause trust me I woulda
MirCat on August 17, 2007 at 11:56 PM
Does Gore have a particular bulldozer in mind?
And how would the kids get to it?
If they rode vehicles, wouldn’t that create a carbon problem?
This guy just doesn’t think.
Why doesn’t he have them ring a volcano instead, since they spew more trouble into the atmosphere than anything man-made.
Maybe they could even throw someone in …to appease it?
(I have an idea who might have the girth to plug a smoking crater.)
profitsbeard on August 18, 2007 at 12:49 AM
you know, just keep doing what you are doing.
Any valuable recyclables the end up in the dump will be “mined” eventually.
I was watching a penguin show tonight, and one of the lib spokespersons mentioned that penguins in the Seaworld containment camps didn’t have to worry about “holes in the ozone layer” and it hit me.
The problem with ozone layer “holes” is that the radiation from the sun would make it though the atmosphere and disfigure penguins et al. The problem with this interpretation is that the angle of the sunlight, even on the most direct summer day, is likely to skip the hole altogether!
Think of a sewer worker down in the sewer, and the sunlight peeks through the sewer lid…
AZCON on August 18, 2007 at 2:31 AM
I support the idea of human chains. Maybe one can keep Gore from the buffet line.
madmonkphotog on August 18, 2007 at 9:15 AM
Well, if they’re like Al Gore’s son, they’re too busy living off their parents, getting drunk or stoned, and driving their stupid eco clown cars around looking for a family to accidentally murder. Takes a lot of effort to be a drunken lump offspring; look at how busy Paris Hilton stays.
austinnelly on August 18, 2007 at 10:12 AM
hollygolightly on August 17, 2007 at 7:19 PM
No actually he really doesn’t get it. He is so far removed and so insulated from reality that he really cannot see the hypocrisy of a man who uses 20 times the energy of the average citizen of the most affluent nation on earth telling the poorest citizens of the poorest nations on earth that they have to reduce their energy consumption.
Heh heh heh, I seem to recall something similar to that happening in either Virgina or West Virgina in the early to mid seventies. A bunch of hippie enviropukes came in to a small coal mining town to protest the dirty coal and the towns people, whom the vast majority of which were coal miners kicked the living $hit out of the protesters.
Like I said, the man really honestly cannot see what a
hypocrite he is, like 99.9999% of all politicians he is constitutionally incapable of taking a genuinely honest and morally fearless searching personal inventory of himself.
doriangrey on August 18, 2007 at 11:26 AM
Cowabunga!!!!
The Big Cahuna say Global Warming is a rush, all natural and will get the little hairs on your body to stand up.
Count me in.
Hening on August 18, 2007 at 11:36 AM
But, why do people listen to him? I don’t know if it irks me more that he’s an idiot with power, or that so many people honestly buy his crap and act like he’s a freaking genius and just SO compassionate. UGH!
OT dorian, you’ve inspired me to pick up “The Picture of Dorian Gray” again. :)
hollygolightly on August 18, 2007 at 2:16 PM
Wow, to be young again! Glacier surfing, another benefit to Global Warming!
A 100 years ago, it was hoped that the world would warm up. People in Europe live longer, the growing season is longer further north, etc. Goracle and the U.N., etc. are just taking advantage of a warmer Sun to make a power grab. Jerks, all of ‘em. What’s worse, their misguided policies have the potential to kill a lot of people in the third world if the world is dumb enough to go along…
Ordinary1 on August 18, 2007 at 2:47 PM
Um, I am wonder if the climahysterics could remind me why lower average temps are so great. I history reminds, didn’t we get the Black Death at the beginning of the little Ice Age?
William Teach on August 18, 2007 at 5:09 PM
hollygolightly on August 18, 2007 at 2:16 PM
There are a lot of reasons. Perhaps the two most prevalent are.
1) Guilt, there are an enormous number of individuals in the developed world, i.e. the United States, Western Europe and parts of Asia, where people feel guilty because they have so much more than the majority of the rest of the world.
Even though it’s not their fault for where they were born or the circumstances of their upbringing they feel on a subconscious level somehow responsible for the disparity between what they have and are able to achieve and what the less fortunate of the world have and are able to achieve.
Following after people like Al Gore helps them to reduce their feelings of guilt for being prosperous in a world where so many others are very distinctly not prosperous.
2) Is a combination of arrogance and self inflicted apathetic ignorance and stupidity. Like those feeling guilt their is also a enormous number of individuals who having achieved a very specific and advanced degree of competency in some aspect of their life foolishly and mistakenly believe that this degree of competency in one aspect of their lives automatically translates to anything that they even remotely turn their attention towards.
The arrogant aspect is the obviously mistaken belief that because they have achieved a substantial degree of competency in one field or subject that it automatically translates to any other field or subject. Just because you are a Oscar winning actor or a former Vice President does not automatically make you a Nobel Prize winning scientist.
The self inflicted apathetic ignorance and stupidity occur when having achieved success in one field or subject they turn their attention to another, but do not devote the equivalent amount of time and energy into the new field or subject that was required for them to achieve competency in the original field.
doriangrey on August 18, 2007 at 8:31 PM
I think Al should install the ultimate in low-flow toilets. It’s called an out-house! Now there’s a hot summer’s day experience for ya!
sMack on August 18, 2007 at 9:00 PM
The bottom line is Al Bore (deliberate spelling) doesn’t know what he does not know. He’s merely another pathetic Baby Boomer who’s on a self-righteous crusade for his generation’s newest religion – Environmentalism…
eanax on August 18, 2007 at 9:05 PM
Algore is a complete horse’s ass. For low flow “Gorebot crappers” turn on the sink faucet and the shower faucet, then flush twice. Bugger the Green Gestapo. You won’t have to call a plumber either.
mcgilvra on August 19, 2007 at 1:49 PM
So, where do I donate to help cover Al’s bail costs?
Oh, wait… he wants other people to go to jail for trespassing, etc. He isn’t actually willing to do it himself.
Wow that sounds familiar. Who has had ideas structured around that planning before? Where other people ought to do a bunch of stuff, but the speaker really isn’t applying these rules to himself…
Don’t tell me, it’ll come to me eventually.
gekkobear on August 19, 2007 at 6:21 PM
Who is paying Al Gore to be the Green mouth-piece ? And how much ? Why doesn’t anyone ever ask this question ?
Maxx on August 20, 2007 at 10:24 AM