Al Gore Shamed on FrontPage

When he was in office and responsible for protecting us, Al Gore was absent from the war on terror. As Vice President, he was part of an administration that failed to respond to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993; that cut and ran when al-Qaeda ambushed US Army Rangers in Mogadishu; that called for regime change in Iraq when Saddam expelled the UN weapons inspectors but then failed to remove Saddam or to get him to allow the UN inspectors back in; that failed to respond to the murder of US troops in Saudi Arabia or the attack on an American warship in Yemen; that reacted to the blowing up two US embassies in Africa by firing missiles at an aspirin factory in the Sudan and empty tents in Afghanistan; that refused to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden when it had a dozen chances to do so; and that did not put in place simple airport security measures, its own task force recommended, that would have prevented 9/11.
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That is a must read if ever I posted one.

For No Reason at All

Just one artist's rendering of al Gore's testimony before congress:



I would have posted that comic with some commentary last week but I was on vacation. I also never finished my Plame testimony post... I wish I had about 8 more hours in a day.

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From the book of Algore

Then Algore said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of the Climate; yet you must see that the Great Warmening is nigh.

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A second Libby Jurror is causing sane thinking people everywhere to shake their heads in wonder and throw their hand up into the air.

Ann (juror): Yeah, I think in the big picture, um, it kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.
Chris Matthews: Which is the leaking of a CIA agents name.
Ann: Exactly.

The juror who this week judged a man guilty is now calling for the President to pardon Libby, who she says "got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed." Huh?
Check out Hot Air for the video.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is facing allegations of possible sexual harassment.
The Politico reports:

The lieutenant governor of New Mexico, Diane Denish was quoted in the Albuquerque Journal saying she avoids standing or sitting near Richardson because of his physical manner, which she said was not improper but was "annoying." The governor, she said, "pinches my neck. He touches my hip, my thigh, sort of the side of my leg."

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A 24 year old student at San Francisco State who "worked part time as an outreach staffer at a community college television station", operated a blog, and "occasionally sold videotape to news organizations" has been held 6 months in jail for contempt of court for refusing to turn over a videotape of a protest to prosecutors.

It turns out this kid believes he has a "level of trust" between himself and the anarchist group he was videotaping, and he identifies himself as "an artist, an activist, an anarchist, and an archivist" (i.e. the kid is an ultraliberal/moonbat). While I doubt this kid and I would see eye to eye on many things, I at least can say I feel bad for him in this situation. A US Atty has said:

[the kid's] resistance "is apparently fueled by his anointment as a journalistic martyr" and that he needs "to come to grips with the fact that he was simply a person with a video camera who happened to record some public events."

It sounds to me like this US Atty is a jerk who needs to come to grips with the fact that there is nothing more dangerous than overzealous lawyer backed by the full authority of the US Government.
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Novak, the guy responsible for the whole "Plamegate" scandal that ultimately resulted in the miscarriage of justice otherwise known as the Scoot Libby Trial, chimes in on the Libby verdict.

While my column on Wilson's mission triggered Libby's misery, I played but a minor role in his trial. Subpoenaed by his defense team, I testified that I had phoned him in reporting the Wilson column and that he had said nothing about Wilson's wife. Other journalists said the same thing under oath, but we apparently made no impression on the jury.

The trial provided no information whatsoever about Valerie Plame's status at the CIA at the time I revealed her role in her husband's mission. No hard evidence was produced that Libby was ever told she was undercover. Fitzgerald had argued that whether or not she was covert was not material to this trial, and U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton had so ruled. Yet in his closing argument, Fitzgerald referred to Mrs. Wilson's secret status, and in answer to a reporter's question after the verdict, he said she was "classified."

In fact, her being classified -- that is, that her work was a government secret -- did not in itself meet the standard required for prosecution of the leaker (former deputy secretary of state Armitage) under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. That statute limits prosecution to exposers of covert intelligence activities overseas, whose revelation would undermine U.S. intelligence. That is why Fitzgerald did not move against Armitage.

Al Gore’s Personal “Inconvenient Truth” Part II

Mad props to Bill Hobbes for these interesting developments:

As the controversy over global warming doomsayer Al Gore's voracious energy-eater mansion rolls on, there's an angle I think merits deeper investigation than it is currently getting. While much of the focus has been on whether or not Gore is an environmental hypocrite, the story has raised the profile of the role of "carbon offsets" in achieving a "greener," more environmentally friendly world.

In its original story, The Tennessean reported that Gore buys "carbon offsets" to compensate for his home's use of energy from carbon-based fuels.

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So far, so good. But how Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspaper's report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management:

Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe...

Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.
Source.

And this:

Al Gore claims to buy "carbon offsets" from a firm, Generation Investment Management, which he co-founded and serves as chairman. If you visit the firm's website, you will find no mention of carbon offsets . If Generation Investment Management sells them, they don't say so publicly.

So, what does Generation Investment Management do?

... what Generation Investment Management really does is manages investments in a portfolio of companies the list of which doesn't seem particularly "green."
Source.

If this story pans out, then Gore is a bigger hypocrite than we thought.

Global warming: Debate is over? What about Mars? Fall in line!

This past week was an interesting one for those of us who don't buy into the global warming hype.

First off, we hear that that the global warming debate is officially over, and the time to act is now!

Global warming debate over, time to act now: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Declaring the global warming debate over, an international team of scientists urged the world's nations on Tuesday to act now to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe

What better way to silence those who may disagree than to unilateraly declare the debate settled and to plug one's ears and scream "I'm not listening. I'm not listening! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la..."

Then we learn that Mars is concurrently suffering from Global Warming, too many martian driving SUVs I guess.

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
National Geographic News

Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.

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In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.

"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

And finally, the Patron Saint of Global Warming, Al Gore, lectured the media on their biased "balanced" approach, citing their failure to report the "concensus". One blogger points out:

He’s telling the media they have to stop asking questions or reporting dissenting views and simply fall in line.

There is no doubt about it, this has been an interesting week to read about global warming. Why not read some more about global warming?

Al Gore’s Personal “Inconvenient Truth”

This one is juicy:

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average


Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.

In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.


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The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions.

Like we didn't already know this. The guy flys around the world in private jets that omit more CO2 per flight than a fleet of gas guzzling SUVs, then has the nerve to look down his nose at the working class plebs and their awful habit of driving around vehicles large enough to transport their family safely.

Gore: Out in '08

Looks like Al Gore is out in '08.

AFP - Former US vice president Al Gore has ruled out a bid for the White House in the 2008 elections and will carry on his fight against global climate change

At least he still has global warming.