"For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)
Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.
Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.
But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.
Maybe our very existence isn't threatened."
If only someone could come up with a way to harness all the hot air coming from his big mouth and methane coming from his fat ass.
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Hillarious. And very true of most leftist railers-against-the-machine. Just think of the lefties in your life. They rail against "the system" for its endless "crimes", but:
- Enjoy the low priced items at Ikea and other stores, though they perhaps boycott Walmart, seem unaware that the low prices and wages at Walmart exert substantial downward pressures on the prices and wages at the stores where they do proudly shop. And why not shop at Walmart and tip the staff?
- When tax rates decrease, they don't "do their part" to pay extra to the desearving govt. In fact, they are every bit as determined to find tax shelters and loopholes as the evil supply siders! What are the odds that Gore does as much to minimize his tax liabilities as does the evil Bush and Cheney?
- Do you suppose that lefty anti-voucher advocates are any less likely to send their own kids to private schools?
- Lefties perhaps are more likely than righties to incorporate what I consider to be "smart design" into their lives, which involves organic lawncare (including composting), self-sufficient resourcing (wells for sprinkler systems), vegitable gardening, recycling, insulating, home designs that minimize heating and cooling needs, etc. But plenty of rightists embrace these concepts as well.
- There is very little difference between the shopping and other life habits between me and my lefty friends, including Nadir. And surely in some areas I exceed them in these regards, such as the fraction of my grocery and restaurant bills that come from evil corporate operations.
- Do any of us believe that when lefties renovate their homes that they are any less likely than righties to exploit the workers at Home Depot? Or to hire illegal mexicans to exchange their labor for cash at well-below legal market prices?
- What is the chance that if Nadir had a kid and an illegal mexican lady eagerly offered to stay in their home with the kid everyday 8-5 for $100 cash, that he would decline? Consider this: $100/week is less than what employees of Child Time corporate daycare chain make. But they can't hire the illegal lady, whose alternative is 0$/week. And the lady coming to Nadir's house to watch a single kid is easier work for that lady. If she's willing, and asking, why not?
- If Nadir has some guy offer to paint his home for $200, compared to the $500 estimate he got from a painting company with legal, on-the-book workers, what chance is there that Nadir would refuse this offer?
- How would Nadir respond to proposed legislation requiring all band members to receive a minimum of $200 for each performance?
- Is it legal for Nadir to pay his neice $15 to babysit his kid?
- Nadir today is effectively employing my 12-year-old daughter to babysit his visitting neices, ages 11 and 9. I say "effectively", because the neices are *perhaps* old enough to watch themselves, but hypothetically if they were 9 and 7 they would require my daughter, and the arrangement would be the same, with this wage paid to my daughter: ZERO! This is OUTRAGEOUS! Perhaps Nadir can say that he is paying my daughter by her having some playmates, and he will take the lot of them to activities later. But would Nadir accept Walmart paying its employees in this matter? Me, my daughter, and Nadir have negotiated freely amoungst ourselves to establish a relationship, without government interferance.
- I am involved in producing an independant film. We paid Nadir to compose our music. I don't recall the figure that we paid him, but it was a figure that Nadir feld was worth his time. I am sure that we did not pay him $2,000. I am also sure that if the govt required a minimum of $2,000 for a film score that we would have not scored the film, and Nadir would not have gotten paid!
You guys haven't finished paying me for the film yet, and it was a very low figure that I charged because I am friends with the director and the producers. I also haven't asked for the rest of the money because of that.
For the work that I did and the time I put in for any other client, I would have charged 10 times what I charged, which is much more than $2000. Since you appreciate my work so much and are so grateful, and are willing to vilify my kindness on the Internet, you may pay me in full right now.
I also brought my nieces over to play with your daughter because I thought she was more mature than they were. In fact, they could have stayed by themselves (as they do when they are at home) and been as unproductive as they were yesterday.
I've never liked Al Gore.
That being said, you guys are simply attacking him because you disagree with his stance. We are all guilty of hypocrisy from time to time. It's the American way.
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