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"If you haven't found something strange during the
day, it hasn't been much of a day." -- John A. Wheeler
day, it hasn't been much of a day." -- John A. Wheeler
PROVIDING SUBSTANTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
Al Gore: The Man With a Messianic Complex and the
Nobel People Who Love Him
Only in an alternate universe should Al Gore be able to win a
Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless ravings about man-made
global warming and the potential for planetary doom. And
yet . . .
And yet he just did. Well, okay, he won it jointly with the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But c'mon, this is
all about Al because without his interminable climatic
scaremongering, there probably wouldn't have been a UN
panel.
So it goes without saying that the Nobel folks are impressed by
ponderous sounding claptrap such as, "We face a true
planetary emergency. It is a moral and spiritual challenge to
all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global
consciousness to a higher level."
Whatever. But what does his messianic posturing about global
warming have to do with "peace," anyway? As I said when he
was first nominated for the Peace Prize, if he can get some of
the world's most violent people to lay down their arms and live
in peace, then I'm all for it. But the last time I checked, Islamic
radicals don't give a damn about global warming or other such
infidel nonsense. They've got their own apocalyptic scenarios
in mind and if they ever get their hands on a nuclear weapon,
we're all going to forget about global warming so fast it'll make
Al Gore's head spin right off.
If you ever had any doubt that the guys down at Nobel Inc. are
dyed-in-the-wool leftists, that doubt should now be utterly
dispelled. Of course, it should have been dispelled when
Jimmy Carter won his Peace Prize. This is the man who, if he
could, would appease the world's mass-murdering tyrants until
there was nobody left on earth but . . . well, mass-murdering
tyrants and their oppressed subjects. When has appeasement
ever led to "peace?"
Anyway, now, of course, there's fevered talk of Gore using his
Peace Prize as a springboard into the '08 presidential race. He
continues to vehemently deny he has any such plans and I
believe him. I think he would prefer that history depict him as
the man who saved -- or at least tried to save -- the planet and
civilization rather than as just another bad Democratic
president.
Whatever fanciful notion keeps him out of the presidency is
fine by me. I only wish I could be around to see what history
really has to say about him after the earth has clearly gone
back into its next cooling cycle.
Nobel People Who Love Him
Only in an alternate universe should Al Gore be able to win a
Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless ravings about man-made
global warming and the potential for planetary doom. And
yet . . .
And yet he just did. Well, okay, he won it jointly with the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But c'mon, this is
all about Al because without his interminable climatic
scaremongering, there probably wouldn't have been a UN
panel.
So it goes without saying that the Nobel folks are impressed by
ponderous sounding claptrap such as, "We face a true
planetary emergency. It is a moral and spiritual challenge to
all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global
consciousness to a higher level."
Whatever. But what does his messianic posturing about global
warming have to do with "peace," anyway? As I said when he
was first nominated for the Peace Prize, if he can get some of
the world's most violent people to lay down their arms and live
in peace, then I'm all for it. But the last time I checked, Islamic
radicals don't give a damn about global warming or other such
infidel nonsense. They've got their own apocalyptic scenarios
in mind and if they ever get their hands on a nuclear weapon,
we're all going to forget about global warming so fast it'll make
Al Gore's head spin right off.
If you ever had any doubt that the guys down at Nobel Inc. are
dyed-in-the-wool leftists, that doubt should now be utterly
dispelled. Of course, it should have been dispelled when
Jimmy Carter won his Peace Prize. This is the man who, if he
could, would appease the world's mass-murdering tyrants until
there was nobody left on earth but . . . well, mass-murdering
tyrants and their oppressed subjects. When has appeasement
ever led to "peace?"
Anyway, now, of course, there's fevered talk of Gore using his
Peace Prize as a springboard into the '08 presidential race. He
continues to vehemently deny he has any such plans and I
believe him. I think he would prefer that history depict him as
the man who saved -- or at least tried to save -- the planet and
civilization rather than as just another bad Democratic
president.
Whatever fanciful notion keeps him out of the presidency is
fine by me. I only wish I could be around to see what history
really has to say about him after the earth has clearly gone
back into its next cooling cycle.