Posted by
Bert Chapman on Monday, July 09, 2007 10:26:07 AM
Al Gore managed to make it into the news over the weekend by participating in the global extravaganza concert to fight purported global warning. It never ceases to amaze me that jet setting pop stars and politicos, who are not known for their conservative lifestyles, have the self-righteous gall to tell us how we should live our lives, what kind of energy we should consume, how we should travel, and somehow possess the omniscient wisdom to tell us what is the best way to preserve our global environment.
Gore is the absolute master of hypocrisy in this regard. This is an individual who leaves an enormous carbon trail traveling all over the world proclaiming his purportedly transcendental environmental wisdom and being treated like a messianic prophet by degenerate galoots who probably don't know the difference between carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Gore proclaims his environmental wisdom yet maintains an enormous house in the Nashville area whose monthly electric bill was recently revealed to be $10,000. As a basis for comparison, if my wife I had maintained our approximate monthly average electric bill it would take us nearly nearly six years before we paid $10,000. While Gore is jetting the world spreading his "gospel," his namesake son was in the news for yet another arrest for drug possession. For normal people, keeping their children away from drugs and trying to be competent parents would be higher priorities, but not for Airhead Al Gore for whom his sacrosant environmental zealotry is more important than his son's well-being.
Just after being elected Vice-President in 1992, Al Gore toured Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and when shown the statues of a number of important figures in early American history such as Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, George Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, ignorantly asked "Who are these people?" During the 1992 vice-presidential debate Al Gore got his butt spanked by the purportedly intellectually inferior Dan Quayle. Gore refuses to debate prominent Danish environmental alarmist skeptic Bjorn Lomborg who undoubtedly would intellectually take Airhead Al to the woodshed.
Human-caused climate change is a significant personal and public policy issue that needs to be dealt with in a rational fashion and does not mandate heavy-handed governmental regulation as mandated by Gore and his galoots. It would be easier to take Gore seriously if he actually spent less time traveling the world and took more modest steps such as driving a car with higher gas mileage, planted trees in his yard, tried being a competent parent, and quit kidding himself that he was some self-appointed oracle whose raison d'etre was enlightening "ignorant rubes" such as me about ordinary cyclical weather changes. However, Airhead Al is so puffed up with his titanic ego and his global army of sycophantic zealots that I doubt any kind of humility is genetically encoded within him. The best way for Al Gore to fight global warming would be shutting up and encasing himself in a block of ice!