It ain't easy being green, and in the case of Barack Obama's inaugural, it seems like he's not even trying to green it up. According to the Institute for Liberty, the Obamathon in Washington will produce about 575 million pounds of CO2 emissions.
In a study titled Carbon Bigfoot, the IFL concludes that the CO2 glut will be substantial. From the global warming wrecking celebs flying all over the place in their many private jets, to the many hundreds if not thousands of vehicles that will be used to get people to and in the midst of the inaugural, the CO2 carnage is at the amazingly high level.
The IFL finds:
- Celebrities, politicians, and bigwigs using 600 private jets will produce 25,320,000 POUNDS of CO2
- Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 POUNDS of CO2
- n the parade, horses alone will produce more than 400 POUNDS of CO2
The IFL also came up with a revealing illustration about what this all means.
It would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of the new president’s housewarming party
Granted the IFL scoffs at the very notion of worrying, as greenwits do, that all this revenue generating travel and commerce is a bad thing.
But, it is interesting that the folks that claim to be the best, most mean and green, tree hugging, global warming priests around are going to be responsible for this conflagration of globalony destruction.
The Obamathon in Washington will be a global warming catastrophe... but here's guessing that no one will say a cross word in the Old Media!
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And what about all those
January 15, 2009 - 09:30 ET by MidAmericaAnd what about all those thousands of porta-potties? These 'facilities' are just open pit cesspools giving off an even worse greenhouse gas, methane. Plus it's highly flammable. If obama tries to sneak a cigarette backstage he could set the whole crowd on fire.
Not to mention that with so
January 15, 2009 - 09:30 ET by SeashellNot to mention that with so many people struggling to stay in their homes or put food on the table, etc., Obama is going to throw huge parties at taxpayer expense. How many people could he help with all that money?
"I'm saying that when the
January 15, 2009 - 09:38 ET by SpaceManSpiff"I'm saying that when the President does it, it's NOT illegal" (or unethical, or immoral, or embarrassing, or politically incorrect, or elitist, or....)
Did Orwell predict the future? Or are the enemies of freedom following Orwell's example?
Same Old Crowd
January 15, 2009 - 09:44 ET by DanoIt's the same old "Do as I say , not as I do" crowd !
Compare this info with the Superbowl
January 15, 2009 - 09:43 ET by volk1970I'm positive there will be 0.0% coverage of this fact in the MSM, but we will see stories of how wasteful the Super Bowl is.
These Obamaniacs don't care about the Planet!
January 15, 2009 - 09:46 ET by PopularTechWhat dishonest hypocrites they are, to think we would get change.
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Will Obama sell his carbon credits to Al Gore?
January 15, 2009 - 09:48 ET by PopularTechMaybe this is just part of Gore's plan, to collect the revenue from all the carbon credit sales once the doped up leftists repent for their eco-sins:
Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns (WorldNetDaily)
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade (Human Events)
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I don't care about any kind
January 15, 2009 - 09:49 ET by marpelI don't care about any kind of carbon foot print since I think Global Warming is a bunch of crap that that money grubbing Al Gore thought up. (not to say we shouldn't recycle)
But, instead of spending a fortune of OUR money on this Inauguration, I think ol' Barack could send every American a check without consideration of income. I made $30 too much last year to qualify for an incentive check....talk about ticked off!!
I make $40K less than I did 5 yrs ago, and I'm suffering....big time.
Recycling has nothing to do with Global Warming
January 15, 2009 - 10:06 ET by PopularTechMentioning recycling is as irrelevant as mentioning you are anti-hunting. Mandatory Recycling is a waste or time and money.
Bullshit! - Recycling (Video) (29min)
Recycling is Garbage (The New York Times)
Recycling Rubbish - Eight great myths about waste disposal (Property and Environment Research Center)
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PT, no need to be rude.
January 15, 2009 - 10:11 ET by marpelPT, no need to be rude.
Marpel
January 15, 2009 - 10:14 ET by choselife3xHave you MET pt? ;-)
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
Chose
January 15, 2009 - 10:16 ET by Free StinkerMarpel is about to get the Crash course "Poptech 101" ;-)
"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media." -- Lowell Ponte
Free
January 15, 2009 - 10:24 ET by choselife3xWe should give Marpel some links. :)
Personally, I don't think it's really rudeness. Poor UNPopTech is just so stunningly socially awkward he makes Al Gore look suave and debonair by contrast. :-O
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
There is a difference
January 15, 2009 - 10:33 ET by PopularTechIt is more like I really don't care about your opinions of me. I am not here to massage your ego or agree with you. Which is why (if you notice) I don't follow you around posting like you do with me.
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He said as he replied to her post
January 15, 2009 - 10:42 ET by choselife3xWhich was not addressed to him. ;-)
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
Chose
January 15, 2009 - 10:39 ET by Free StinkerI don't think that any links will be necessary.
Poptech seems to have volunteered to do provide examples right here on this very thread.
"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media." -- Lowell Ponte
Nope, haven't met him and
January 15, 2009 - 11:16 ET by marpelNope, haven't met him and don't care to. But, I have a brother like him and he finally agreed to get some counseling.
I wasn't
January 15, 2009 - 10:16 ET by PopularTechIt just seems that people have to justify their "greenness". I'm stating it is irrelevant.
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Energy Sucking Hypocrite
January 15, 2009 - 09:51 ET by dboIt would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of the new president’s housewarming party
Or put another way, it would take Al Gore 17 months, 6 days and 2 hours.
Even better...
January 15, 2009 - 15:38 ET by Doc_NavyIt would take 691,176 average households an entire MONTH to equal what Obama is going to do in 5 days.
As for Gore, based on the numbers quoted; and using the KNOWN expenditures for his home in Tennessee:
It would take Gore 2,742.76 years to do what Obama is gonna do in 5 days.
Doc
2008: The year that the great LIE died.
How we know that they know that they are Lying.
Friedrich Nietzsche summed up how I feel about the MSM in this quote:
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
Interesting to push an agenda...
January 15, 2009 - 09:57 ET by OddJobThis from their site...
"This estimate is not intended as a scientific assessment of the output of carbon dioxide or equivalents during the week of the 2009 presidential Inauguration. We have relied on EPA data, supplemental data, and news accounts to produce a conservative estimate. We are forced to rely on attendance estimates, averages for vehicles, and a series of simple calculations.
We do not estimate the carbon footprint of additional food, extended hours at D.C. bars, or specialty products and services created specially for the Inauguration. This should serve to correct for any overestimates in our assumptions and is actually likely to underestimate the full environmental impact of the event.
Further, we compared our figure to the estimated carbon footprint of the most recent U.N. gathering on climate change held in Poznan, Poland. There officials at the December 1-12 conference of approximately 10,000 people estimated the CO2 and equivalent output at 13,000 tons. Adjusting for the size of the events, our estimate is just a fraction of the pro-rated estimate assigned to the Poznan conference.
Taking these considerations into account, we are confident that our estimate is both
conservative and fair."
It sounds scientific enough! At least their confident and proud of what they write about on their blog!
I estimate that monkeys are going to start flying out of their butts at 300 miles per hour on account I'm confident in writing this statement without any factual scientific data to support me!
This is a joke!
Odd Job
Must be a zero-carbon foot print then!
January 15, 2009 - 10:10 ET by PopularTechHere is a new T-Shirt for all attending:
I Love My Carbon Footprint
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Just think of the savings...
January 15, 2009 - 10:20 ET by OddJobThose people will be standing out in the cold...breathing in oxygen and expelling CO2 into the air. At least the extra CO2 will warm them up as the sun rays will be contained just over their heads.
Odd Job
Is global warming only ok when Democrats do it?
January 15, 2009 - 10:25 ET by PopularTechYou don't care about all the global warming this event will cause? So you don't care about the planet?
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Correct...it's not about the planet.
January 15, 2009 - 15:02 ET by OddJobPopularTech,
Hiking into a wilderness area and hiking back out with minimal impact should sum up my thoughts on this subject. Leaving behind a better planet for future generations to survive would be a goal I would support. The Earth does not care one iota if humans were to exist. If every human being ceased to exist tomorrow...the planet would continue without us- of course, how would we know we would be dead. At least, GOD would know, right?
Odd Job
But, but, but there is now
January 15, 2009 - 15:12 ET by celatorBut, but, but there is now a brand new galactic crisis. NASA thinks Mars has a haze of methane on it. Oh no!
Alright. Microbes be darned. We know how this happened.
Who flew cows to Mars? Stand up wherever you are. Come here to the front of the room so we can all see you.
Gore thinks Mars might blow up any second from the methane-induced increasing temperatures. PETA wants to rescue the cows. Just send Gore lots of money so he can figure out how to solve this new crisis.
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
The data says the environment is fine and getting better
January 15, 2009 - 21:58 ET by PopularTechIndex of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2008 Report (Pacific Research Institute)
- People around the world are becoming healthier, wealthier, better educated, more peaceful, and increasingly connected and they are living longer.
- Net forest loss continues to decline globally and has been reversed in Asia.
- Net deforestation in Brazil has fallen by two-thirds over the last four years.
- In the eastern United States, recent EPA data show a 60-percent reduction in sulfur-dioxide levels since the year 2000.
- In Los Angeles, air-quality regulators reported a significant decline in health risk from air pollution.
- The United States is now gaining wetlands.
- Rare fish species have been observed returning to the Detroit River for the first time in nearly a century.
- U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.5 percent in 2006.
Unlike the myths the alarmists spread.
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Funding by Industries...
January 16, 2009 - 15:33 ET by OddJobPopularTech,
You really like to spout the company PR lines, don't cha?
You rail on Gore possibly making some cash on the Green Revolution, yet, you continue with your hypocrisy on tooting industry funded "research" by pseudo-grassroots organizations. What's it going to be? More lists of Gas & Oil Industry PR "research"?
Odd Job
Don't like doing any studying don't cha?
January 16, 2009 - 15:54 ET by Doc_NavyIs that anything like science funded by private enterprises?(Like the Heintz-Kerry Foundation, Tides Foundation, PEW, George Soros, Ted Turner, etc..) Or like science funded by Envirnmental lobbyists and NGO's?(Like Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wecansolveit.org, Etc..) or just plain ol' Govt funded science that happens to be controlled by a single political party?(Like the EPA, Dept of Agriculture, DOE.)
Your intimation is that Corporate, or "industry" funded science is somehow lacking when MOST of the major scientific advancements of our age came from "industry", and "big oil" funded research. Duh.
Like having medicines? (Industry)...How about Plastics? (Big Oil) Maybe you like your shiney new hybrid car, (Industry)... I could go on and on. The fact of the matter is that you are just plain WRONG.
Doc
2008: The year that the great LIE died.
How we know that they know that they are Lying.
Friedrich Nietzsche summed up how I feel about the MSM in this quote:
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
Wrong?
January 16, 2009 - 17:30 ET by OddJobDoc_Navy,
It's one way or the other. My point was made a while ago...you can't carp about Gore receiving money for his position while ignoring the otherside's benefit in trying to prop up their position. The amount of money to be lost by the Gas & Oil Industry if the Government were to choose a greener view would be astronomical. This battle for the hearts & minds of the electorate is huge and being waged as we speak. Obviously, the media is going to report on polarizing issues for more ratings. Just look at the past 8 years of living in Fear of the Terrorists ready to strike at any moment...Ahhhhh, run for your lives the terrorist threat level is Orange!!! Ahhhhhh...!
Understood? As for Industry creating new stuff for the consumer to use...Why not build the Green Industry here in the Good ol' US of A and export our products abroad?!? Or should we just wait and import it when China beats us to the punch?
Odd Job
Gore's Profiteering
January 16, 2009 - 20:38 ET by PopularTechYou have no argument, because your claim of oil industry funding to deny "science" is illogical. Saying that oil companies wish to sentence their hundreds of thousands of workers and families to death for a profit that would not be able to be spent is absurdly idiotic. While the argument against Gore is clear, he is a profiteer on fear mongering:
Al Gore Pushes 'Pollution Tax' (NewsMax)
Al Gore Gets Rich ($100 Million) After White House (ABC News)
Al Gore is criticised for lining his own pockets after £3,300 ($6,757) per-minute green speech (Daily Mail, UK)
Al Gore, Maurice Strong: Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it (Canada Free Press)
Al Gore's Fund to Close After Attracting $5 Billion (Bloomberg)
Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns (WorldNetDaily)
Gore Cashing in on $6 Trillion Energy Business (NewsMax)
Gore investment body closes $683m fund (Financial Times, UK)
Gore makes sustainable investment his business (The Age, Australia)
Gore to Rake in IPO Millions (NewsMax)
Gore Warns on 'Subprime Carbon' Industry (NewsMax)
Global Warming, Inc. (The Wall Street Journal)
Green firm Camco gets Blood and Gore investment (Reuters)
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade (Human Events)
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution
I've struck a nerve!
January 17, 2009 - 12:52 ET by OddJobPopularTech,
Green is green. The Green Revolution has begun. Oil & Gas Industries are trying to get in on the fun, too.
Profiteer of fearmongering?!? Is this similar to corporations profiteering from the GWOT? Raise the threat level,consume more resources for protecting the homeland? That kind of fearmongering? At least for the most part, this discussion about Gore is overlooking the fact he is an American Citizen creating an American Green Industry...Made in the USA. More power to him...especially if it's green!
Odd Job
→ OddJob
January 17, 2009 - 12:57 ET by Cool ArrowOil Companies are getting in on the Green movement because it will be heavily subsidized. It has nothing to do with any altruistic sensibility.
Were it not so expensive, I'd congratulate you on the success of you and your fellow idealogues in plundering the pocketbooks of poor people in America.
Not like we bailed out the banks or anything...
January 17, 2009 - 13:36 ET by OddJobCoolArrow,
And I congratulate you on the success of you and your fellow idealogues in plundering the pocketbooks of EVERYONE in America.
Odd Job
→ Sorry OddJob
January 17, 2009 - 13:44 ET by Cool ArrowI'll forever carry the shame of having voted for Jimmy Carter when I was 22 yrs old.
His Community Reinvestment Act was a Trojan Horse we should never have let into our gates.
Thanks for reminding me.
I feel your pain...
January 17, 2009 - 14:08 ET by OddJobCool Arrow,
Reagan got my first vote and I voted for him again and then Daddy Bush, too...youthful stupidity. Never gonna vote GOP ever again.
Odd Job
Instead you voted for what Obama?
January 17, 2009 - 20:20 ET by PopularTechLMAO! What a delusional fool.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution
So, you voted for a guy that is going to bankrupt the treasury..
January 17, 2009 - 20:27 ET by R D Helm...turn this country into a Marxist hell-hole, and make Jimmy Carter look like an economic genius in the process.
Brilliant thinking there.
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
Oh this is great fun!
January 17, 2009 - 13:03 ET by BlondeThe newest troll boy and Pop are going round and round.
Thanks, troll....for occupying PopTech for us. A welcome relief on the Palin thread.
Palin in 2012!!!
January 17, 2009 - 13:15 ET by OddJobWhat a train wreck that will be!!!
Odd Job
Always
January 17, 2009 - 21:57 ET by Warner Todd HustonYou know, no matter how long I have been on message board type websites, it always amazes me when people bother to engage someone with the obvious lack of intellect as this oddjob character. Just look at the replies oddjob has given. No actual argument, no logic, no grown-up discourse. Just a 10-year-old's level of jabber.
We may not like UnPop Dreck, but at LEAST he acts like an adult when he posts replies! At LEAST there is some there, there even if you don't like his points.
Oddjob obviously hasn't a brain in his empty little head, yet we get a 20 reply segment bothering with this twit? I can only ask... WHY?
Going Green is Bullshit
January 17, 2009 - 20:16 ET by PopularTechBullshit! - Being Green (Google Video) (29min)
Corporations cannot "raise the threat level". Unless of course you are a delusional truther.
Al Gore is a propagadist and a Hypocrite:
Al Gore and Global Warming - Is He a Hypocrite? (Video) (10min)
Al Gore Takes Private Jet (Video) (7min)
Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner (The Wall Street Journal)
- Zero on Zinc: The mining double standard (National Review Online)
Al Gore, polluter? (WorldNetDaily)
Al Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge (US Senate Environment & Public Works Committee)
Al Gore: Occidental Petroleum Connections (The Wall Street Journal)
Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate (CorpWatch)
Al Gore's Inconvenient Stock Portfolio Exposed (The Earth Times)
Al Gore's Inconvenient Toxic Waste Dump (NewsMax)
Bush's Ranch House 'Far More Eco-Friendly' Than Gore's (CNSNews)
- George W. Bush's eco-friendly ranch compared to Al Gore's energy-expending mansion = True (Snopes)
Eco-warrior Al Gore serves up endangered fish at daughter's party (Daily Mail, UK)
Environmentalists Attack Gore's Dishonesty (NewsMax)
Gore and Enron: Controlling Hypocritical Authority (National Review Online)
Gore's Elk Hills/Occidental Oil Scandal: Bigger Than Teapot Dome (NewsMax)
Gore’s Entourage Lincoln Town Car Outside Global Warming Speech Idles w/ AC Cranking for 20 Minutes! (Canada Free Press)
Gore's Oil Money (The Nation)
Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat (Pajamas Media)
Gore home's energy use: 20 times average (WorldNetDaily)
- Al Gore's Inconvenient Electric Bill (FOX News)
- Al Gore's residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home = True (Snopes)
Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite "energy-efficient" home renovations (Tennesse Center for Policy Research)
- Al Gore's Epic Hypocrisy (FOX News)
- Gore's Mansion Uses More Energy After 'Going Green' (CNSNews)
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe (USA Today)
Hypocrite Gore Should Practice What He Preaches (The Tech, MIT)
Integrity in the Balance: Al Gore's Record On the Environment (CorpWatch)
Meet the real Al Gore (WorldNetDaily)
Old-Growth Timber used to Rebuild the Veranda of the Vice Presidential Mansion (Newsweek)
Whose Ox Is Gored? The Former Vice President's Environmental Exaggerations and Hypocrisy (The Wall Street Journal)
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OJ , The green bubble is the next one to pop
January 17, 2009 - 20:51 ET by upcountrywater1.pop goes the greenie
2. green poof
FREEDOM
(D)
Nigel Lawson got published in Time?
January 17, 2009 - 21:19 ET by PopularTechAmazing that even happened.
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OJ...
January 17, 2009 - 14:45 ET by Clear thinker"This battle for the hearts & minds of the electorate is huge and being waged as we speak."
Maybe so, but the people are starting to see through the lies about Global Warming. Even the ecofascists have noticed... Ecofascists Losing War
Science, and common sense will prevail.
Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/
The U.N is funded by oil and gas companies?
January 16, 2009 - 20:20 ET by PopularTech- People around the world are becoming healthier, wealthier,
better educated, more peaceful, and increasingly connected and they are
living longer. - U.N.
OddJob you really make yourself look like a fool.
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You have to understand this is typical Obama
January 15, 2009 - 10:34 ET by PopularTechHe will not care until he gets caught or in this case exposed, just like last time. Obama does not care about "saving the planet", he never has:
Obama talks hybrids, but his ride has a Hemi (Detroit Free Press)
We already know Al Gore doesn't care about the environment, even after he was caught being a hypocrite:
Al Gore Takes Private Jet (Video) (7min)
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To Odd Job
January 15, 2009 - 15:00 ET by Doc_NavyJob,
Apparently you haven't read the latest IPCC Assesment Report. If you think that "Assumtions", "Estimates", "Projections", "Averages", and "Percentage of Confidence" are all UNscientific... well have they got something for YOU!
In fact, I defy you to show me ANYWHERE in the report where the IPCC ~conclusively~ states the warming of the planet is due to Human created CO2. (Hint: It's a trick challenge, because you can't.)
Doc
2008: The year that the great LIE died.
How we know that they know that they are Lying.
Friedrich Nietzsche summed up how I feel about the MSM in this quote:
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
Marpel,
January 15, 2009 - 09:59 ET by KarinMe, too. And I just signed my entire paycheck over to pay the Natural Gas bill. See, global warming hasn't come to my area yet, so we're still freezing our asses off. Don't know what I'm supposed to live on for the next two weeks. Recyclables, I guess.
I know, enough violin music. The wretched excess of the Obamanation, starting with the Hawaii vacation, makes me sick.
I understand. I had to pay
January 15, 2009 - 10:17 ET by marpelI understand. I had to pay $500 toward my utilities this month because I skipped last month to buy food. So, it's going to be peanut butter sandwiches 3 X a day for a while. We're not that cold down here in Texas, but I know some of the northern States are really feeling it. And when I lived up North, I know what it was like to have to pay to get our oil tanks filled. Yikes. Good luck. Try your local "Salvation Army". They give people assistance with their utility bills. I'm beyond feeling too proud to ask for help!
Warner, get someone from NB near the inauguration:
January 15, 2009 - 10:23 ET by PopularTechHave them set up a table and sell this apparel:
I Love My Carbon Footprint
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And have a petition that asks . . .
January 16, 2009 - 11:44 ET by CKA in Red State USA. . . that neither Obama, nor his socialist energy coordinator, Carol Browner, nor the EPA-chief-designate declare that CO2 is a "dangerous" pollutant.
There've been rumblings to that effect.
Drive, he said
January 15, 2009 - 10:28 ET by nkviking75It's currently -23 outside my door. That's air temperature, not wind chill. Our low this morning was -26. As far as I'm concerned, everyone attending the inauguration can drive their cars there, one occupant to a vehicle.
Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!
Hats Off to the Dino Media
January 15, 2009 - 15:15 ET by jdubyaYes, the Old Media.
It will be funny to remember them as a giddy bunch of old seahags in their own sewing circle. I guess we could also apply this to the Free Actors Guild as they will be replaced with computer generated characters. That would be funny! Could you imagine Sean Penn's cranial implosion when he finds out he is replaced by a sock puppet? Or how about Anjolina Jolie's harpy-like shrill when her stereotype is bettered by two water balloons and a windup chattering teeth gag toy?
I am sure if the Algore is present, or prescience, at this claptrap love-in, blizzards will approach, a total eclipse of the sun, and Elvis may occur.
I Love CO2
January 15, 2009 - 15:41 ET by deerjerkydaveI love CO2. It makes my softdrinks fizzy. People drink the stuff everyday by the boat load.
Maybe we should tax Coca Cola for emitting CO2 from their softdrinks.
Fudgesicles
January 16, 2009 - 20:33 ET by CobraManFudgesicles, don't forget Fudgesicles. That "dry ice" (frozen CO2 for those with a public education) keeps my Fudgesicles from melting in the summer. I love my Fudgesicles, to hell with Global Warming!
BTW, this winter is beginning to feel like that dry ice has been spread across the entire northern states. I wonder if that was Gore's idea?
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
→ Confuse me with fudgesicles
January 16, 2009 - 20:40 ET by Cool ArrowI'm trying to follow the "Chocolate DC" thread, and I was wondering how fudgesicles fits in.
Obamasicles?
January 16, 2009 - 20:45 ET by CobraManSilly, Obama like fudgesicles too, which , btw, contains CHOCOLATE! Granted, that chocolate is usually artificial, but, then again, so is Obama.
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
And if that confuses you...
January 16, 2009 - 20:48 ET by CobraMan.. you'll REALLY freak out when you realize that this isn't the Chocolate DC thread. Heh.
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
Hey, what's the problem?
January 16, 2009 - 11:16 ET by CKA in Red State USAAfter all, this is a new day for America, the world.
No matter that this inauguration, at an estimated $163 million, costs about four times what President Bush's last one did, just four years ago. BTW: Bush was criticized for even that amount because, his detractors said, the U.S. was in middle of a couple of wars.
Now, though? I guess that a couple of hundred of million dollars, a chunk paid by us taxpayers, really is insignficant, when bailouts of trillions are being considered.
And certainly the adversary/advocacy media will not criticize their creation and his and his followers' profligate actions.
But here's what Salon.com said [http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/01/20/media_on_inauguration] on Jan. 20, 2005, about the Jan. 2005 inauguration: "Nonetheless, like butter on a humid summer day in Washington, reporters have simply melted away from asking pointed questions about the costly security overkill (nearly 9,000 police officers and military personnel will be deployed) -- a buildup that clearly plays to Bush's political advantage by keeping terrorist threats at the top of people's minds."
Where has this type of criticsim been for Obama?
Right.
Too, with Obama's inauguration and its fiscal and GHG extravagance, there's the glitz of the Left Coast that must be fed, right?
As for GHG burdens, he's just following the example of the High Priest of the eco-religion of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.
After all, Al Gore -- and Democrats, liberals and leftists -- always seem to live in the "Do what I preach or command you to do, not what I actually do" world, don't they?