Gore in his speech on Monday: Fear drives out reason. Fear suppresses the politics of discourse and opens the door to the politics of destruction.
Exactly. And who is the greater fear mongerer here? Bush or Gore? With Bush we get a fear of Islamofascism. With Gore we get a fear of Bush AND a fear of global warming.
" There are scientific warnings now of another onrushing catastrophe. "
Seems to me the environmentalists and their fear-mongering are even worse on the Constitution than Bush eavesdropping on people suspected of terrorist ties. Property rights are going down the tube. Not to mention the havoc signing Kyoto would wreak on our economy.
" The Case of the Invisible Salmon. Viola Allen, a 72-year-old widow in Washington, suffers from emphysema that is worsening because of the damp and mildew in her rapidly-deteriorating home. She cannot sell because activists and the government insist a stream on her land is vital habitat for endangered salmon.
Scientific studies do not support this claim. The state has issued a finding that salmon do not, could not, and never have used this stream. Viola is still blocked from selling. "
Just who is it that supposedly cares about the 'little guy' again?
The War on Islamofascism puts global warming way down on the list, where it belongs. Gore's entire raison d'etre the last few years goes with it.
No wonder he's hysterical.
Update: I just went over to the Corner at NRO. It's not a place I frequent--too many messages to skip on stem cells and gay marriage. But I'm rendering a Bryce image and decided to fool around while waiting and clicked on a link for something. And guess what? Iain Murray had the same thought I did and even used the same quotes. GMTA or something, though it's not hard to make the connection between Gore and fear mongering. It's just that most reaction had to do with his own claims back then vs now vis-a-vis presidential powers and such.
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If I could just get a little local warming, I'd be happy.
Remember when Al Gore was supposed to be a wonky, bookish type? That was before his campaign hired someone to teach him how to be an alpha male - an operation that seems to have gone horribly, and permanently, wrong.
Now he's more or less equal parts Fidel Castro, Jesse Jackson, and Eminem.
Remember the little guys living in the squalid hovel on Gore's farm?
The place with the backed up toilet.
...and streams despoiled by tailings, or some such.
Ariana picks Gore over Hillary:
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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON:
Have you seen the coming attraction trailer for "Democratic Presidential Nomination '08:
Al vs. Hillary" yet?
It just opened yesterday, in the dueling speeches by Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.
Full Text Of Al Gore's Speech ...
Ye Gods, how LONG did he blather on?
Syl, it is strange how that happens. I have done the same thing. People sharing thoughts.
Gore is the greater fear monger.
david:
I don't know if that is entirely true. I would say that both sides of the debate are more interested in generalities than individuals. Which side keeps saying there is no right to privacy?
After all some poor old lady who can not breathe would not get help getting her inhaler if it were left to a lot of folks on the right either. She is expendable to some of them too.
BTW I know some folks who bought on old building and were not allowed to tear it down because it had been designated a bat habitat. strange but true.
Environmentalism as a religion with lawyers suing everything in sight and judges using the commerce clause for the silliest things.
I do appreciate our cleaner water and the fact you can see across the street in Pittsburgh now. Stuff like that.
It's just that nobody knows when to stop!
And environmentalism is BIG money! And these groups have to find a 'cause' to scare people or make them cry to get that moolah...and the scientists applying for grants aren't much better in a lot of cases. Jump on the latest bandwagon and you're set for the next year.
I fully agree. Bush was behind 911. It's all perfectly clear.
"Read the Gore speech"?
The very thought makes my eyes start to roll back in my head. Can't I just pretend it doesn't exist?
Following up on Morgan's observation, it's like Naomi Wolf was really a mad scientist. Hired to provide Al with earth tones and alpha-maleness, her experiment ran out of control. He has run amok, ramapging through the lands in search of carbon emissions. Without realizing it though, he spews out more hot air than tailpipes on the LA freeway.
Imagine there's no AlGore...
It's easy if you try...
Well, one never knows *what* a few thousand Dr. Frankensteins will send lumbering forth from the Dem Convention, but the Algore I think is safely wooden-staked, and you probably can pretend he--and his speeches--don't exist.
...her experiment ran out of control. He has run amok, rampaging through the lands in search of carbon emissions...
No comment, just wanted to see it again in italics so I could chuckle some more.
Do you really think the threat of "islamofacism" is greater than the threat industrial states like Nazi Germany and Japan posed with their huge modern militaries? The Soviet Union and it's thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at us for decades? The British Army marching on and burning Washington? Of course not.
Jeez, Mark, try to maintain a grip. No, Islamic fascism isn't a greater threat today than the British marching on Washington in 1814. Nor is it a greater threat than a kilometer scale asteroid strike, a nearby gamma ray burster, a lethal mutation that wipes out the H. sapiens sapiens and lets the H. Neanderthalus win, or invading aliens who have a taste for human tongue.
They sure look like they might be as much of aa threat as the Germans in 1933 or Napolean in 1800.
Wouldn't it have been desirable if we could have handled the threat posed by Hitler and the Nazionalsozialisten before the Anschluss and the invasion of Poland?
Yep, those "freedom fries" were a sure signal that the building gotterdamerung in the mideast was nothing to worry about.
And, brilliant analogy with Spain. Right, had Saddam toppled himself, then we would've had to.
"Illegal spying on Americans"? Is this the new "No WMD"? The latest zombie-maintenance catch-phrase?
Do you realize that words have actual definitions? If the word "illegal" means whatever anyone might feel like it ought to mean, then what word will we use for the meaning of "illegal"?
What happens when we cheapen meanings and definitions past your preferred stop-point (that is, where you can benefit politically without need for 'truth'), and it keeps on falling--as it will, by the law of momentum--to the point that none can know what anyone is talking about anymore?
What if your current favorite word should, at some point in this civilizational nodal-collapse, get applied to you, Mark? To your being? Won't you wish then that you'd been more careful with this human-defining thing called 'language'?
From the leading scientific journals...Global warming is real and is caused by Algore's running of the mouth. Scientists have noted a statistically signficant correlation between temperature increases and Algore speeches. Teams of researchers are fast at work to devise methods to halt his C-oh-two emissions. Current thinking suggests that it might be advantageous to convince him to turn to silent meditation as the most efficient means to quell the ire of Gaia.
Yeh, Mark--per doing business, you're as usual busy criminalizing governance and business and politiking and talking and all forms of engagement--whenever the other side is doing it.
I say 'other side' meaning the GOP, not AQ (I realize that you're confused).
Bush didn't "flount" ('flout') the law (*yawn*). Please, don't you ever READ anything?
Yes, Dick Cheney and a hundred million other Americans--from presidents of oil companies to union pensioners) are or have been or would like to be involved in the world's largest private industry, oil.
You'd rather have a Carter-type running things?
Carter, who was asked (in a televised presser I happened to be watching) about a mkt crash, beamed broadly and announced, "I don't know anything about the markets"? Then fine for you--but not for me.
Maybe because I'm aware of the stakes--for everybody--most especially the average American.
Sorry if I don't like you desire a world depression and chaos in order to boost a few thousand career Dem activists' and pols' careers.
I just assumed the government was tracking these people and I damn well expect them to. If the Democrats try to impeach Bush for this it will come back and bite them on the ass.
Environmentalism has become a business. Like I said the other day this county is poor but the state is going to spend tens of millions of dollars turning farm land into a sawmp. Wetlands and ducks. Sheesh.
Speaking of the Saudis didn't they give something like 25 million to Bills' library.
Democrats need to remember that our relationship with the Saudis, good or bad, goes back for decades and so far as I know the Democrats have never said or done anything to so much as inconvenience them. If Hillary were to become president, I doubt that would change. This stuff about who is friends with who is silly and childish.
PeterUK,
...and with George Soros in the mix somewhere, the algoreisms relate to what particle physicists call "strange attractors" but not "charm".
The Dems either pretend to not know, or just don't care, that the House of Saud is some 30,000 strong--and some of them are at war with others of them--always by proxy, of course. The ruling circle is under attack by AQ. Complex situation? Yes. Do we want AQ in control of OPEC? No.
Mark's blunder-party would doubtless serve up that very thing.
Then we could have another of those World War thingies that the Dems are so good at being surprised by.
...and, "Malice Threw the Looking Glass" ?
Flount?
gHe can't remember if it's "flaut" or "flaunt" so he's trying for half-credit.
"flounce": (verb) to sashay around the saloon trying to get Wild Bill Hickok interested in your crinolined bustle.
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