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ABC News reporter David Wright wonders at those who would defy a small panel of Norwegians:
Even the Nobel Prize is not going to be enough to silence the naysayers ...
It’s called dissent, pal, and for your information it happens to be the greatest form of patriotism. Among the sayers of nay remains Mark Steyn:
A schoolkid in Ontario was complaining the other day that, whatever subject you do, you have to sit through Gore’s movie: It turns up in biology class, in geography, in physics, in history, in English.
Whatever you’re studying, it’s all you need to know. It fulfils the same role in the schoolhouses of the guilt-ridden developed world that the Koran does in Pakistani madrassas.
In the West, they study the Goran.
UPDATE. Rob Read: “Al Gore (Peace Prize be upon him).”
This kind of saturation brain bombing is unhealthy. These kids are going to go through life with their bullshit detectors dialed to 11 and that’s no way to enjoy life…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 15 at 10:54 AM • permalinkThe Goran. That’s hilarious.
It used to be that Earth in the Lurch was the “Goran” and A Convenient Fiction was some sort of “hadith”.
I suppose I need to keep up. :^þ
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 15 at 11:02 AM • permalinkThis guy wants to have it both ways:
[I]n honor of Al Gore’s deserving win, which sends an amusing ‘fuck you’ to the knuckle scraping goons lolling around the White House, here is an excellent Channel 4 profile and interview of Gore. It is presented by the UK’s most savvy US correspondent, Johnathan Freedland.
ABC News reporter David Wright wonders at those who would defy a small panel of Norwegians:
Even the Nobel Prize is not going to be enough to silence the naysayers ...
Well, when you put it like that, I guess I was wrong…...where’s the kool-aid?
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 15 at 11:32 AM • permalink“Charles Gibson teased: ‘Tonight, the man who almost won the White House did win the most-coveted award on the planet.’”
Most-coveted award on the planet? I don’t think so!
#1 This guy beat Tim to it by several months:
here are the Commandments for being a member in good standing of Environ-Mentalism:
3. You must memorize Oscar-Winning Environ-Master Al Gore’s manifesto, “Earth in the Balance,” (a.k.a. “The Goran”) and be able to quote it chapter and verse…
7. Environ-Masters are exempt ... since our exalted positions and responsibilities require us to travel in private jets and stretch limousines around the world we are saving. We also require multiple energy-gorging palatial residences for entertaining other Environ-Masters…Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 10 15 at 12:03 PM • permalinkI don’t give much credence to polls so this is for entertainment value, but the WaPo reports that fewer than 1% of respondents think global warming is the top issue in the 2008 elections.
Thank God.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 15 at 12:45 PM • permalinkIt is written in Sura 9 of the Goran: “And it came to pass that Al-Gore entered Oslo, and in the company of the angel Gabriel ascended to heaven on the back of a winged steed (styled Dark Horse, The Unelectable), where, verily, Gaia presented to him a gold medallion, bearing the likeness of the Father of Suicide Vests, and Lo!, all the prophets who had come before him bowed to Al-Gore and acclaimed him the Chief of all the prophets, and the last prophet of all time. From the celestial heights, he then made a gentle descent down the mountain of his self-esteem and assumed his rightful place at the head of the faithful, acknowledged by believers as the Prophet, in the very teeth of the base nay-sayers to his holiness and in disdain of the falsity of pagan science.”
Quote posted by bovious in #6 above -
[I]n honor of Al Gore’s deserving win, which sends an amusing ‘fuck you’ to the knuckle scraping goons lolling around the White House, here is an excellent Channel 4 profile and interview of Gore. It is presented by the UK’s most savvy US correspondent, Johnathan Freedland.
The UK’s most savvy US correspondent? Wasn’t Freedland one of the effetes that came up with the Clark County, Ohio debacle?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 10 15 at 01:05 PM • permalinkJeeze,Idiocracy seems precient right now. Finding a decent date in Michigan is tough and only looks to get worse, maybe I should give up. Who wants to put up with all these f’ing morons.
And then, maybe Gore is on to something. Maybe he can keep the idiots busy so they don’t breed.
Hindering development for a possible change in uncertainty, not even risk, seems idiotic to me. But then I don’t have Nobel Prize for Politics, so what the fuck to I know.
#22
where, verily, Gaia presented to him a gold medallion, bearing the likeness of the Father of Suicide Vests, and Lo!,
Paq’o ibn, I think that says it all…
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 15 at 01:53 PM • permalink#30 yojimbo -
Yo! Wron! Congrats on your #1 BCS ranking.
Oh no, we’re doomed now.
OT, but has anybody noticed how many University of Florida fans and alumni there are? Those fuckers are all over the place. (wronwright’s eye twitches)
Posted by wronwright on 2007 10 15 at 02:25 PM • permalinkAl Gore (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
You may talk of Howard Dean
And his crazed, demented scream
Moronic pols far as the eye can see
But only one’s at the top
Of this putrid sort of crop
And for that you thank the folks of TennesseeHis name was Albert Gore
The internet, he swore
He had built himself with just his strong right hand
Got elected to the Hill
Then he studied under Bill
Some Buddhist nuns coughed up a hundred grandElect Gore Gore Gore!
There’s more of Bill in store
I really like Kyoto
Recycling in toto
As president I promise you’ll get moreBut blame the hanging chad
For getting Al so mad
The Sunshine State took your chance away
Go off and give some speeches
Like the other political leeches
You’re putting on some pounds, Al, by the wayHe grew a scraggly beard
And brooded for a year
Life’s unfair, as everyone would surely say
I even served in Nam!
I won it all, by damn!
“Earth in the Balance” is selling to this very dayThey said Gore Gore Gore!
They have showed you to the door
You’re just a washed up hack
You won’t be coming back
The world has seen the last of poor Al GoreBut the man he wouldn’t take it
Somehow he’s going to make it
Tipper wants a bigger house and heated pool
The climate’s just the thing
Now I hear it go ca-ching
What’s that they say about money and a fool?His film it did real well
(though few tickets did it sell)
It’s mandatory in our public schools
Then you won’t believe your eyes
But he won the Nobel prize
His fans heat up even while the planet coolsCause it’s Gore Gore Gore!
Nothin’ but a lousy climate whore
A bag of self-esteem
So I won’t be on his team
God preserve us from the likes of Albert Gorerichard mcenroe,
“These kids are going to go through life with their bullshit detectors dialed to 11 and that’s no way to enjoy life…”
I wish I could agree. I don’t meet too many kids, here in Canada at least, that have any kind of bullshit detection system at all. That’s worse, IMHO.
They walk around in Che t-shirts and hate the US because Green Day told them to. Absolutely no ability to form independent thoughts whatsoever.
MB
Posted by Mambo Bananapatch on 2007 10 15 at 03:29 PM • permalinkThere was a line in The Fountainhead that applies: “Do not bother to examine a folly, merely ask what it accomplishes.” Or something to that effect. Since the “cures” that alGore proposes don’t do anything to cure Gorbol Worming, one must go elsewhere to seek the answer to what this folly accomplishes. Ask the Czech president; he knows.
#39 funny you should mention that song. I had it stuck in my head this morning as I ate breakfast.
round and round “...hey mambo! Mambo italiano…”
endlessly.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 10 15 at 05:54 PM • permalinkDo they study the Goran in Croatia?
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 10 15 at 06:25 PM • permalinkAl Gore, in 1999:
“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
Modest, isn’t he? But how is it that tales of the plastic turkey, plastic deputy sheriff and a plastic but dead Nelson Mandela go on and on, endlessly repeated, yet this one rarely appears?
It’s not enough that Gore claimed to have been “taken out of context” (shades of Sheikh Hilaly). If plastic stories can persist, why does’t this one?
And now he’s practically saved the world according to the Nobel Prize Committee.
Mark Steyn is right. If Gore starts to lose weight, he’ll make another run at the Presidency. The Hate Hillary mob are probably talking to him right now.
In other climate-change related news, Tim’s newspaper is now offering an excellent service for those with a competitive bent.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 15 at 07:28 PM • permalinkIt would almost be worth it to see Hillary! and BigWoodenAl go after each other, with Obama and the Silky Pony catching the shrapnel.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 10 15 at 07:43 PM • permalink#48 this carbon footprint stuff is annoying the shit out of me.
Here’s a list of things that are “carbon positive” (ie emit carbon dioxide).whales
dolphins
gorillas
polar bears
sulphur-crested cockatoos
iguanas
canaries
worms
fish
penguins
ants
mosquitoes
bonobos
mushrooms
bacteriaplus… one or two other things that are “carbon positive”. you can add to the list yourself.
A fun exercise for classrooms!Posted by daddy dave on 2007 10 15 at 07:47 PM • permalink#49 egg
Don’t you know???? The Aussies helped relay the signal….....
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 15 at 08:00 PM • permalink“Peace Prize be upon him”,“ecochondriacs”, “Goran”, great stuff.
I saw something interesting when I surfed into PBS the other day. An Minnesota state experimental farm boasting three distinct ecosystems has been examining the possible effects of global warming by increasing CO2 in the atmosphere and nitrogen in the soil. The results? The plants grew faster and were more robust. The project scientists called this an “unexpected result”. Snort.
James Taranto, who reports Democrats are running away from Agore as fast as they can, reprints (via Tom Elia) a great letter to the Austin American-Statesman editor:Doesn’t it seem tragically and hilariously ironic that leaders of countries are salivating at gaining access to crude below the Artic, courtesy of the greenhouse effect, thereby allowing us to add that carbon to the atmospheric soup guaranteeing civilizational collapse?
Lately I’ve had this recurring, disturbing fantasy of Earth finally being visited by aliens, and after sizing up our circumstances, they leave awkwardly and I die of embarrassment knowing we’re the laughingstock of the galaxy.
DANIEL BARRIOS
[email address omitted]
Austin(One can forgive youthful indiscretions, like his 1988 presidential candidacy, when he became the first and only politician in US history to hire a herd of cows for the launch of his campaign, positioning them attractively around him for the photo op at the supposed Gore “family farm”—I did not know this—hilarious)
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 15 at 08:04 PM • permalinkMembers of the Nobel family have some rather idiotic notions of their own.
And don’t forget: December 10th is the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. I plan to celebrate by blowing up my neighbors’ mailboxes with firecrackers.
#56
Apologies for the host’s ignorant conspiracy theory shite at the end; the ABC doco excerpt is very good, however.The Oz site referred in the youtube is very good:
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/During NASA missions (including Shuttle), sensitive (international) Telco equipment would have NASA critical coverage covers (hehe) and we had direct orderwires to NASA Canberra*.
So much for conspiracy theories.*Much the same for the military (Pine Gap, et al) - these bureaucracies are not as autonomous as they may have Joe Public think ...
The Nobel committtee are a bit like a well hung UN committee - you know well endowed.
Not one of their finer moments.
Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 10 15 at 08:38 PM • permalinkTrofim Lysenko and Lysenkoism. Alar Gore, the new name for outrageously fraudulent sciencism.
Hat tip tinga-tinga. A commenter at The Dissident Frogman
Does Wright explain how the Nobel instantly transformed Rigoberto Menchu’s fiction into fact? Or how it made that murderous thug Arafat a kindly old gentleman? Or how it made Jimmy Carter any less of a 24 Karat gold ass?
Dunno, looks to me as if the naysayers have a pretty good track record on this.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 10 15 at 09:24 PM • permalinkHere I am reporting from tropical Far North Queensland (Townsville) and Gabriel Wormypants seems to be noticably absent- it’s been flat our cracking 30 degreed celcius during the day and gets down to about 12-14- barely enough to warrant running a/c but it gets turned on anyway (don’t want all that off-peak excess power leaking into the atmosphere and causing cancer clusters now, do we).
People in this neck of the woods seem blissfully ignorant of T’Goracle and his retinue of dismal jimmies, being too busy drinking to excess, punting (they’re still racing up here, and a mate just won his first group one- $12K in the kick just in prizemoney); an ALP infested coucil illuminates the big ugly rock in the middle of town all night, and has water being sprayed around with gay abandon along the length of the waterfront. Any vehicle with less than 8 cylinders apparently is towed away at night and crushed, thanks to the mining boom, and there’s building going on all over the place, none of which seem to have much in the way of solar panels or other hippy gimcracks; swimming pools are more common than box jellyfish attacks.
I’ve also discovered that thanks to the tireless efforts of dribbling dingbats, we now import collosal volumes of low sulfur diesel to cater for the new generation oilburners so beloved by our mungbean-munchin bretherin, said product having to be shipped from Singapore and Taiwan in rusty tankers belching heavy fuel oil fumes- local refineries aren’t set up to produce this distillate and won’t be for the forseeable future due to the collosal costs of recalibration and modification. Well done, dickheads, it’s the first time we’ve had to import light oil products in fifty years (and is a nice little earner for where I’m lurking at the moment).
I may report the federal election from Redneck central if anyone is interested, as I’m up here until a few days before polling and intend getting totally Helen Kellered in every pub, bar, club and dive between Ingham, Charters Towers and Home Hill.
#64
I may report the federal election from Redneck central if anyone is interested, as I’m up here until a few days before polling and intend getting totally Helen Kellered in every pub, bar, club and dive between Ingham, Charters Towers and Home Hill.
A noble quest Habib. Remember, as to the pubs in TV and surrounds, if you haven’t got a knife or half a house brick, you’re not allowed in.
#15
I’m not opposed to the theory of global warming, and in some of the less hysterical forms it seems quite plausible to me, but what the f*ck does it have to do with world peace?
That’s what I wondered. The only thing I can think of, considering Arafat etc, maybe it’s Blairs Law.
Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2007 10 15 at 10:31 PM • permalink#34 You’d be thinking of gorram which is like Goddamn. I believe it’s a fictional word though. I’d thought exactly the same thing.
Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2007 10 15 at 10:51 PM • permalinkPerhap like Bazza Kosky, he’s concerned about the demise of the nobel savage?
the vice-president’s acclaimed crockumentary
Behold! A new genre is born!
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 16 at 07:04 AM • permalinkIt’s called dissent, pal, and for your information it happens to be the greatest form of patriotism. Among the sayers of nay remains Mark Steyn:
And I s’pose the ‘free speech!’ card grants immunity from penalisation to anyone proposing fucking cretinous things, such as climate change not mattering?
Good to see that a prize panel from an oil exporting country saw fit to go dissident with their choice, though!
Posted by Hideandreason on 2007 10 16 at 10:47 AM • permalinkSteyn is spot-on, but it’s even worse than we think. Just yesterday I heard a passing skater-kid say,
“That’s Goradical, dude!”
Posted by Hi-Infidelity on 2007 10 16 at 11:04 AM • permalinkThe People’s Cube already made a visual of the Goran:
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?p=21800#21800
Posted by Red Square on 2007 10 18 at 06:16 PM • permalink
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