Why yes, this is EXACTLY what I invented the internet for!
(Al Gore)
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Insert evil laugh here.
Quiet chuckle, or bellowing?
Bellowing.
Wuhahaha! Ex-x-x-cellent!
Heh.
I guess I’ll be the first to say that Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. I get the joke, but I had to say it.
Srsly? What did he *actually* say?
That he was an important member of the movement that led to the funding of internet technology by the US military, iirc.
It wasn’t the military as such, it really stemmed from the science and educational institutions which used ‘their’ version which was called arpanet. This was long before Gore was even elected to Congress by the way.
Um, “arpanet” was DOD.
No, it was funded by the DoD but it was used to connect universities. Maybe you should Google the History of the Internet.
wouldn’t googling the history of the internet ON the internet be biased research? just sayin.
oh, and it’s DARPANET for the DOD.
oh, and gore is a tool.
Oh right, I didn’t think about the conflict of interest!
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And yes, Gore is a tool..
“Gore is a tool” comment–Red Alert!! Internet shutdown in 10…9…8…
“It’s a bunch of nerds talking about Star Trek” — Homer J. Simpson
and it’s the source of most of the Great Rev. Lovejoy quotes!
Please click my name for the Snopes article on the subject.
Thank you! I can see the source of the confusion. Isn’t it amazing that Gore will be hounded into the grave with that one comment, whereas “W” is the author of a book full of gaffes, but is only lightly treated as a dim-witted word confuser?
Many Bushisms attributed TO Bush, weren’t originally said by him (and may not have been said by him at all)
The same thing can be said about Benjamin Franklin, Geoffrey Chaucer, the Bible, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Wm. Shakespeare, Yogi Bera and George Carlin, to name a few.
He said (I’m paraphrasing here) that he helped secure funding for the people who invented it, which I’m pretty sure he actually did.
Direct quote: “I took the initiative in creating the internet”
So Gore didn’t “invent” the internet. he “created” it. With a wave of His mighty hand.
Never mind that it had already begin existing before him, and probably would have existed without him. He did indeed “help” popularize it.
BTW, snopes has their noses so far up Gore’s butt they can see his breakfast by 10 AM.
So apparently you get direct quotes from a source material that’s neither official or direct? I’m just curious, because I can’t seem to find a direct quote of Albert Gore’s that is worded as your “direct quote” is. Care to share a link to it?
PortlandMark, not far above, has a link to Snope’s essay on the topic, rising from an interview with Blitzer. The phrase in question is even quoted *in context,* a rarity these days.
Click my name for a link to the official CNN transcript that contains that direct quote.
So why do people keep saying he “invented it” when he didn’t say that and it doesn’t have the same meanings as the word create?
Because it’s a stick to hit him with and people, who mostly have the attention span of a gnat, think in soundbites.
God forbid (somewhere in the Song of Solomon) people think too much or too deeply…
Full quote, taken from the official CNN transcript (with a little extra):
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. ”
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html
Full quote, taken from the official CNN transcript (with a little extra):
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. ”
Click name for full transcript
ughhhh so sorry for double posting -_- This site’s been screwing with me (there may even be a third posting showing up)
Uh duh… I think that’s the point!
What for?
What a douche bag this clown is!
I just don’t understand why republicans hate him so much. What did he ever do to merit such disdain? Was it the Nobel prize?
I think it’s because he seems to be a bit sanctimonious. There’s just something about him that really grates on my nerves, and it’s gotten worse since his whole movie deal. Also, there is still a lot of debate about Global Warming, but he seems to treat it as fact because it supports his agenda.
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On a different note, I’m not opposed to being environmentally concious, but Al Gore is just so.. uhm.. well in awe of himself.
I blame South Park.
Ha, I’s super cereal.
Did you actually watch an Inconvenient Truth? He has a lot of science to back up his claims. I’d rather err on the side of caution than risk the consequences. there’s no downside. We create new industries and have a cleaner planet, even if it’s wrong.
I won’t dispute taking the side of caution. However, there are a lot of scientists, and more then Gore has in support of his cause, that say we are Global Warming is a fallacy. Either way, I do support the Green Inititives and do what I can in that regard. I just have some issues with people like Gore saying something is a fact, when scientifically it hasn’t been proven so.
Click the name. THIS is why most Conservatives don’t care for Gore. Fester may call me a hypocrite, but he has no choice but to call this man one as well, and with much better reason. If you stand for somethng, you need to follow through.
Gore is a politician. He is, de facto, a hypocrite. He occasionally makes some sense, but I’d still fact check if he told me it was raining.
Basically, I find him oily… so, why did you assume I’d be a fan of his.
There are far better examples than HIM!
Rule of thumb… when a politician wraps themselves in the cloths of righteousness, you can guarantee they’re up to something.
I didn’t assume you’d be a fan, but you enjoy throwing the word ‘hypocrite’ around, so I thought I’d give you a better target to throw it at
There’s plenty of hypocrite to go around…
Loads of it. Gore has a energy-hog of a mansion (far less efficient than Bush’s ranch home), but it’s okay, they tell us, because Gore buys “carbon credits” to make up for the excess.
What they don’t tell you (But Penn & Teller managed to find out) is that Gore OWNS the company he buys the carbon credits from. Whee!
Unc, whassup with that “go around” business you wrote? Don’t you Brits usually express such as “go round?” You may need to watch BBC sitcoms on PBS in order to get your lime* back.
*English for “groove”
I’ve worked too much with Americans, perhaps, but go round to me means ti “circunambulate an obstacle”, where as to go around means enough for everyone” and has done since my Lincolnshire childhood.
and @Slaggingham,
I meant there’s enough hypocrisy on PK from all sides to choke a brown dog.
I never realized that distinction, and now I’m jealous. I wish we Americans spoke more English! *sigh*
Reading that story and the one it referenced, I would note the following:
1) The historic mansion is too old to have all the cool green features the Bush house had (good on the Bushes, btw. It’s a very cool house!)
2) The Gores use their house as residence and two office units, since both of them work out of the home. This also reduces commuting costs; granted, however, they travel a lot, so that’s less impacting.
3) The Gore household spends $432 extra per month to purchase their energy from more expensive green sources.
4) The Gores are converting the house to more green energy practices, like CFL lights and solar energy.
Admittedly, they could just demolish the place and start over, but this would be a huge investment in energy anyway, and would take a long time to make back the investment.
Again, though, good on the Bushes for what seems like a very cool and efficient house.
Just to answer #3, they didn’t start converting it or even thinking about converting it until there was an uproar about his house using enough energy to power a small country.
Or, until the energy costs started going through the roof…
Do you think the Gores are sweating their energy bills?
No, and that’s exactly why he didn’t care a whit about how much energy his house was consuming until people actually started LOOKING at it.
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I don’t have a lot of respect for someone who is so casually hypocritical. Most of the biggest, loudest mouths against global warming fly all over the globe in giant airplanes that suck up fuel like there is plenty to spare. If you’re going to do something, DO IT. Be like the actor who won’t attend awards ceremonies overseas because he doesn’t want to fly. (I’ve blanked on his name…..Ed something, I think) I respect the HELL out of him because he has principles. He believes in something, and he follows through!
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And to correct my earlier typo, that was a response to #4, not #3
Ed Begley (sp) is a tree-hugging “Ed” who comes to mind. He has/had a tv show called “Life with Ed,” “Living with Ed,” or some such. That guy has the courage of his convictions, imo.
Citation?
That email reminds me of the one I’ve gotten where it lists
three world leaders and their habits. The first two sound like
crap and were a US president and I think a PM of the UK. The
third choice sounded like an amazing person and ended up
being Hitler. I know this has nothing to do with the topic but
the format of the email on the article just reminded me of it.
Thank you, froofrou! Because of your work, I just removed one pin from my “W” voodoo doll.
leaving some 8609707479409 I’m guessing?
Let’s put it this way, I had to buy a bigger house for it, and my speakers constantly hum.
I am one of those on the skeptical side — leveraging dubious science and offering theory as fact doesn’t work that well on me. I’d rather the tactics be “wouldn’t you prefer cleaner air to breathe and a total lack of garbage and toxic sludge in your lakes and oceans?” Because *I* would…
I’d recommend ‘The Chilling Stars’ as a sorbet to clear the palate.
It’s flawed but there are some interesting points among the usualy hyperbole
As for me, I remember folks predicting an ice age in 1974… The whole ‘Third winter’ theory. Snow fell in the UK in 1975 in July. Then 1976 was the hottest summer on record and they got hotter to 1985. Then it got more unstable.
And the ‘hottest summers ever’ was based on a misplaced decimal point and bad math. I love the fact that wherever Algore goes, winter seems to follow
No, the summer of 76 was the hottest since sometime in the 1700s. I don’t know about the former colony, but being able to swim from a harbour wall in the North Sea is unheard of. It was long and hot.
Problem, the academic is mostly as big a whore as the politico…
Based on the best of the science I’ve read, climate IS changing, and it is getting on average warmer. However, the root cause is debatable in a system in which literally a change in the 4 th decimal place can cause Hell Planet to become Ice Ball. Dynamical systems aren’t ‘bad’ maths, simply unpredictable maths.
I agree: The “publish or perish” atmosphere in university systems has brought much stinkin’ thinkin’ to the fore.
On the other side, I get sick of people saying, “It’s just a theory.” Yeah, well, so is the Theory of Relativity. The common usage of the word “theory” is much less intensive than the scientific use of that word.
Another sickening phenomenon is the fallacy (and if there’s a name for it, I don’t know it) that one need only bring up one anecdotal incident to disprove a trend. UF notes that, despite strange local weather phenomena along the way, the broad climate trend is happening. The scientific community has come a long way in a short time on this one. In the late 80s, Global Warming advocates were largely thought of as employing fringe science. Now, scientists denying the trend are considered to be on the fringe.
Actually, the scientists denying the trend are in the majority. It just sounds the other way because the politicians are running hither and yon declaring that the sky is falling.
The title of the linked Wikipedia article (click name) describes Global Warming as “mainstream,” and lists scientists who do not fully agree. Considering the number of scientists in these fields of study, the lists are short. Those scientists are classified by the different ways in which they differ. One of the lists contends with the human causation element. These scientists do not disagree that the phenomenon is occuring. Neither does the list of scientists that believe there isn’t enough data collected yet. Not nay sayers, these scientists just want more back-up. That’s okay: The science is coming in, and the majority of scientists now accept global warming.
Actually, relativity has been shown to be a good approximation of reality time and time again, from establishing why Mercury orbits as it does without there being an inner planet, to getting the Pioneer and Voyager space craft to reach all their targets. Newton may have been in the driving seat, but Einstein was doing the fine adjustments.
The Theories of Climate Change have been based on models, which as I’ve said before, are critically dependent on measurements taken down
to the 4th, 5th or 6th decimal place. Get one wrong and the model may follow the weather for a while, but the difference in the end case could be Hell Planet (the temperature being so high the oceans evaporate and will not re-condense wiping out all animal life except exremophiles) or Ice Ball (where the oceans freeze to the equator, effectively wiping out all land animals, and most sea vertebrates)
To mention Theories of Global Climate change in the same
breath as Relativity, is specious and as much use as the answer ‘goddidt’
I was mainly drawing the distinction between the common, everyday usage of the word “theory,” and the scientific use of the same word, using the Theory of Relativity as an example. The point that you’ve helped me to form is that the “Theory” of Relativity is not the “Fact” of Relativity for the reason that modern scientific parlance requires some standard of time and replication before “Theory” becomes “Law,” as in Sir Isaac Newton’s case. I agree that the two Theories are not on the same level in their paths to becoming either debunked or Law, and I didn’t mean to imply that they were. That said, the scientific community does not assign the word “Theory” lightly.
Along those lines: it never ceases to amaze me, those who attribute any microscopic fluctuation in weather from “normal” as “proof” of “global warming”. It’s raining more than usual this week: global warming. It’s raining less than usual this week: global warming. It’s a record high temperature for this day! Global warming (even though the previous high, of 0.6 degrees less than today, was set 104 years ago). And so on, ad nauseum.
And then they wonder why no one takes them seriously…
And yes, I have had to put up with people who stated this crap, not only with a straight face, but firmly convinced it was fact…
I attribute it to the “instant gratification” culture we’ve morphed into over the past 30 years — people can’t see things on a long-term scale any longer. It’s no different than the past election — people were actually outraged, that on Nov 5th, things weren’t all rainbows and butterflies all of a sudden. *shakes head*
What about:
South East Australia has had the longest drought on record (more than 10 years).
And the driest first two months of Spring on record here was this year, with roughly half the rain of the previous record (1914).
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I believe that if human influences on climate were removed, then this drought would have still been bad, but not the worst ever. Perhaps just two bad drought split up by a couple of year of average climate
Don’t volcanoes pump out more greenhouse gasses and dust clouds that change the climate than we could ever hope to put out on our own? And yet, WE are killing the planet.
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I have no problem with climate change. I have a problem with thinking that the sky is going to fall because I drive a pick up truck.
And don’t forget the methane that all of those future cheezburgers produce!!11
Damn. Now I have to go shoot my farting cow.
The better trick would be to figure out how to capture the methane of the farting cow to power your house, which it would twice over.
Or better yet, let the damn cow eat grass as God intended. Grass-fed beef cattle fart a whole lot less; it’s the grain-fed ones with the back-talking arseholes.
Have you been to Texas? How many people have the 1-5 acres per cow needed to raise a beef?
@herb I’m laughing at the visual of a bovine methane retrieval apparatus.
Those massive volcano eruptions often actually lower the global temperature for the next year or two because they prevent the sun’s rays from hitting the Earth as much.
A large amount of climate change actually depends on where the greenhouse gasses form in the atmosphere. If they are lower, then there will be a general cooling effect, if they are higher then there will be a general warming effect.
A recent study I read, about humanity’s effect on global warming, said that Antarctica’s temperature would have risen either way, but found that the level it has risen could not be explained by natural causes alone.
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And your pick-up truck is not going to warm the Earth by itself, but if 1000000000 people drive them, then there will be a problem.
And on a related note, having this country go to driving electric cars isn’t going to solve whatever problem there is. We aren’t even the top polluter, if I recall correctly. So everyone running around wringing their hands screaming that Americans are killing the planet is a FAIL on their part, and nothing but fearmongering. We need to look at this problem (which isn’t as big a problem as it’s made out to be…..the planet is constantly changing, with or without us) with a clear head, not from the standpoint of Algore and his cronies.
My link indicates that your assessment of volcanic impact may not be correct.
Volcanic impact as a vector for climate CHANGE, not global warming. The earth does far more to itself than we can. And somehow, it regulates itself. Now, I’m not denying that man as a whole has had an impact, and even a negative one. The part I’m wondering about is how MUCH we’ve actually had an impact on. You can’t take a small number of data over a few years and extrapolate the whole, especially since the climate changes all the time. Someone mentioned polar shift. It’s a fact, and it’s nothing something we can control either way. The ozone is created by the sun, also not something we can control.
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We have an impact. We have to do our part as stewards to make sure the earth is cared for. But running around wringing our hands and screaming that the sky is falling is not the way to do it, nor is legislating that everyone in America has to drive a certain type of car, or use enough ethanol to put a third world country onto the brink of utter starvation. We have to be smart about it.
Hey, wait a minute. You don’t want to drive an electric car when the wind grid–in our state–is up and running? Texas has the most power generating windmills in the nation, and I am certainly proud of the effort our home boy, Boone Pickens is making. I’m excited at the prospect of using 100% renewable energy. Frankly, I’m puzzled that you aren’t. How does it matter whether the US is the #1, 2 or 3 polluter? That sounds like a cop-out to me. I think we pollute the most per capita, but whatever magic number we are, we need to do what we can to look in another direction for energy.
If you want to throw out the entire issue of global impact, our dependence on foreign oil is still unacceptable. ANWR could provide a band-aid for the bullet wound, but it could also buy us time until the other sources are up and running. I’m not sure about that one, frankly.
(I wrote this last post before seeing yours immediately before it.)
I’m all about renewable energy sources. We were talking about global warming
The hybrids are really cool, but still use fossil fuels, AND I can afford them. People seem to think that we can snap our fingers and stop using fossils fuels, and it’s just not going to happen. It’ll take us 20 years or more to really stop using them, and even then we have roads to pave and Tupperware to make that uses petroleum products. You have to think of all the people in my situation who just can’t afford to get a top of the line electric or hybrid car, no matter how much we’d like to. And the government can’t subsidize it, not with all the spending we’re already doing. With the new spending plans that Obama is going to implement and all the debt we currently have, there is NO WAY that the federal government can help me buy an eco-friendly car. Nor would I want them to. I’m all about pulling myself and my family up by our bootstraps. Just don’t set an impossible obstacle (i.e. not using foreign oil in ten years, plus not drilling here) in my path.
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As far as driving an electric car, if they can make an actual electric car that will get more than 40 miles to the charge, AND finance it for someone like me, then I will think about it
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I live in the fricking heart of Texas, literally. We have wind farms all over the place
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A lot of my problems with global warming and its proponents have to do with the scare tactics they use to try to change people’s minds and implement government policy that will negatively affect my life and my child’s life. If I’m forced to buy an eco-friendly car, how am I supposed to put food on my table? We just now got my husband’s truck paid off……I need it to last for a while
The PM of Australia, the august Kevin Rudd, is a proponent of renewable energy and cutting greenhouse gases. All the while he travels all over in his jet plane pushing this agenda. In fact, he recently flew to Japan to deliver a 6 minute speech.
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Talk about not walking the walk. And this is why I have difficulty swallowing the whole global warming manifesto. If the people pushing this can’t be bothered, why should I?
Rudd only says it because it is a rhetoric people want to listen to. I don’t believe he really cares about the environment, if he did then he wouldn’t take as much advantage of his free travel privileges.
Rudd is a politician and a hypocrite (a tautology), but he is miles better than the only current real alternative.
@froofrou I agree with you that the timetable is unrealistic for totally changing over to renewables, and, of course, I understand that we would be lost without Tupperware. I totally understand that conversion costs ATM are not feasable for most. Where we disagree is to the extent scare tactics are used. The sky is not falling (you), but we’re in some serious sh!t (me), and we need to change the way we have been wasting like there’s no tomorrow. I’m glad you’re excited at the solar and wind energy potential we have here in Texas.
I appear to have missed my plurals
gah….. U guys really need to think for urselves. Gobal warming is a NATURAL procces. All humans are doing is slightly speeding it up. I watch too much discovery channel and know that 1average volcanic eruption is equal to all the CO2 given off by humans in 10 years. Besides, we had I mini iceage about 300-500 years ago. I do agree however with being green. Atleast it’ll take slightly longer for the next iceage and it would help lower the cost of fuel if we put solar panels on our roofs to make some electricity. Just plz, stop any forever long arguements about something false
I can’t take credit for this, much as I’d like to, but a very perceptive friend of mine once said, “Poor people don’t hate rich people; they hate smart people”.
Whether or not person A likes person B is admittedly complicated and subjective, but I do think that smart people are often perceived as conceited, and I do think a certain amount of that is coming into play in people’s exaggerated dislike of Al Gore.
I don’t know that I would label him smart. Certainly an opportunist of smart people.
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I worked with someone that held a PhD in Quatum Mechanics. He knew all the in’s and out’s of quarks and could bore you to tears on the subject. Did I hate him because he was smart. I hated him because he didn’t know when to shut up.
punctuation fail – Did I hate him because he was smart? No, I hated him because he didn’t know when to shut up.
Actually, I know exactly what you mean. I flatter myself that I’m a reasonably intelligent person, but some of my former in-laws used to have THE most boring arguments about math or physics or some damn thing, where they would actually start drawing/writing equations:
“No, sorry, it’s the coefficient of Q!”
“Fraid not!”
I refused to listen to an argument that was more boring than my actual life, so I left the room.
Because cushion cover disputes are SO much more interesting…
?? Never having heard, or participated in, a cushion cover dispute, I can’t respond in an informed way, but they certainly SOUND like they’d be boring, at least to me.
Then again, there are probably plenty of subjects that I do find interesting but that others would find boring, so there ya go.
Tessie, don’t worry about UF. His reply was a dig at me. You see, he hates my cushion covers, but he’s too much of a *coward* to say so directly…
Hey Eddie, shut up, already!!
Oh, hahahahaha!
Yeah, but you’re also a smart person, so it sort of doesn’t count.
I’m not even saying that this is necessarily true of all poor people, or all not-so-brilliant people, or any one group in particular, but I have noticed it in my own life. Since I’m a huge egghead and geek(ette), I have encountered plenty of people who think I’m full of myself and/or showing off. I think that using ten-dollar words and living with my head in a book is just the way I am, and I could no more change it, even if I wanted to, than change the color of my eyes.
Actually, I would consider myself average in the area of intelligence, but I appreciate the boost to my ego!
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I don’t know if it would be called hate though. I would think more along the lines of being intimidated by smart people.
“What did he ever do to merit such disdain?”
Maybe, ya think, that hissy fit he threw in Dec 2000?
You don’t think that was merited? What with all of those votes that weren’t counted? You don’t think that GWB would have done the same thing?
The lawsuit brought with regard to this was, in fact, “Bush vs. Gore”.
GWB might have stomped his feet like a two year old had the same thing happened, and he would have been told to shut up and deal with it. More than likely no votes would have been recounted. He also would have gone down in history as the worst. loser. EVAR. and been pratically thrown out of the country. He would have been thought of as a whiner, and certainly wouldn’t have been given the prestige that has followed Algore around like a methane cloud from his ass. No one would have taken him seriously, even if he produced a documentary that proved beyond any shadow of any doubt that Osama Bin Laden was going to blow up the WTC on 9-11-01.
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And while we’re talking about votes not being counted, the disenfranchisement of the voters in Florida and Michigan that happened during the primaries is a travesty, and should be contested even now. Giving half of those votes to Obama instead of to Hillary (who won them fair and square, even if the primaries were held a little too early) is sick, and an obvious manipulation of the rules. They either should have counted, or not. There’s no ‘well, we’ll give some of them here and some of them there to make it fair.” If nothing else, the primaries should have been a re-do.
as a “liberal” (whatever the hell that really means) who dislikes him, I’d just like to chime in. The movie was god-awful, his projections were radically bad (at least what I learned, and the teacher didn’t have a political agenda), he looks to do the right things, but then does stupid things like that movie. For what it is worth, I don’t hate him, but he is just not that great as a scientist or a politician. I do like how he raises interest in issues though. My two cents
For what? To order food online?
Good lord Gore is looking rough.
Yeah, he went downhill after the election. I think they had him on a Candidate Diet or something of the sort. He’s never been the same guy.
After the election he made a concerted effort to hug as many trees as possible, hence his film “An Inconvenient Truth”. It was originally supposed to be about bark burn on the cheeks.
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Maybe it’s just that I haven’t seen a picture of him in a while, but is he helping himself to a couple pecan pies a day or what?
I believe the double chins do give it away…
It’s called “getting older.” Studies show that older people who *haven’t* put on a few extra pounds are at increased risk for mortality.
You won’t look twentysomething forever either. Deal.
I think it also has to do with him not running for public office. He may have been one of those people who always had to fight to stay trim in order to have that “electable look” OR was so busy that it came naturally, but now he has a more normal schedule and likes some pie now and again.
So everybody back off and give the man his pie!
“everybody back off and give the man his pie!”
This pie you speak of… will there be enough for us as well? Hmm?
and it better not have crow.. I hate eating crow!
I want pie… T_T
I was thinking he’d put on some weight…
“Rise Manbearpig! Rise and go forth to destroy the conservative menace! Mwahahaha! You guys are so dead. I’m totally cereal.”
IM SO TOTALLY CEREAL WHY DOESN”T ANYONE WANT TO BE MY FRIEND
I’ll be your friend if you have pie.
Oh, what the heck; even if you don’t.
READY, NORMAL PEOPLE?
READY!
READY!!
READY!!!
UMMMM… SURE!
BUT FIRST, DEFINE NORMAL.
Normal is for people who can’t handle drugs..
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As I’ve always said, “Better living through chemicals”.
Blah drugs are for the people that want to become normal. Wiriting is for those that can’t afford it.
Normal is for people who don’t need drugs.
You missed the joke.. obviously..
My favorite iteration of this slogan is on a coffee mug, accompanied by the chemistry diagram for caffeine.
I’m not sure what caffiene does for a body, but I’m pretty sure that without it, your head explodes.
Caffeine gets your heart started in the morning like those paddles in the medical shows
“Clear!” [bzzt!] “Clear!”
It also improves the will to live.
Caffeine has kept me from a life of violent crime.
Even my driver’s license says I’m not allowed to drive without it.
Thanks to drugs i can hear colors again
Synaesthesia WIN!
Wait! I wasn’t ready!
It’s why you can buy a DVD player for less than $40
Comment stealer. Xd
Hrm, so it seems I missed most of the main discussion already but… I just wanted to add something.
It seems, when you watch the news, etc, that most scientists are biased one way or another. Either they work for “global warming is going to kills us all” group, or the “there’s no such thing!” side. Personally after looking at a lot of things (and my science class had a debate on this sometime ago) that things really are somewhere around the middle.
Global warming is really a misnomer. It’s more of a global climate change. As some of the colder places, are getting colder, and the warmer places are getting hotter. There’s also the fact that we really are in a polar shift, which does have an effect on the climate. However pollution is a very real problem that we have. And said pollution seems to be hastening the changes the polar shift creates. So yes it’s real, but not ALL of it is something we can do anything about. Polar shifts are a natural part of how the earth operates, after all.
However whether you’re an environmentalist or not, here’s I think a more practical way to look at things. The more pollution we create, the more crap we breathe in, and pollutions we intake into our own bodies. And the trees and plants are the LUNGS of our planet. If we keep chopping them all down, and clearing them away, eventually there won’t be enough to produce our life giving oxygen. Which will create a need to have artificial oxygen created. And who do you think will pay for that? That’s right, the public will be taxed, and probably heavily. (Perhaps that’s why so many politicians want to deny the problem, as they see ways to make more money?
) And do you honestly want to pay just to be able to breathe? Heh. Plus any oxygen plants they’d create would be terrorist targets… not looking so good there, is it?
Geezus, but what a fat-ass he’s become.
Like Al Gore or not, he does have some good ideas. I linked an excerpt from An Assult on Reason. It’s a pretty interesting look about how the political machine got to be as screwed up as it is the last 40 years or so.
And we now have one of those Senators who couldn’t be bothered to vote as president. I hope his apathy doesn’t carry over to the White House. For all of Gore’s fluff, you’re right, he makes some interesting comparisons of Congress 30-40 years ago vs. today. I can remember watching the Watergate Hearings daily and was fascinated to watch our Government in action. Now, people (including our elected representatives) couldn’t give a fiddler’s damn what happens in Congress.
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As for Gore himself, he’s still a tool and in to much awe of himself. You would think the light of the universe shines from his ass.
This was actually a reply to minerva, but PK brain farted and my reply got put down here.
FFS.. disregard this previous comment..
Yeah, even if you don’t like him, that’s an interesting book. I don’t have strong feelings about him either way, could take or leave the man. I don’t worship him, but don’t hate him either. Occasionally out of the light from his ass you get some good commentary. You might not agree with his assessment, but it’s a really interesting read. The part about why only rich people can get elected (having to run on tv, etc) anymore is probably on target.
is it me or does he really like that position in which it looks like he’s praying?
Yep, he’s sitting in the Church of Al.