October 12, 2007

Al Gore Scams Nobel Peace Prize


Al Gore by Su Berton ©, originally uploaded by Su Bee.

It's been said before, but I must say it again- Gore is a hypocrite on monstrous scale. He uses more energy than your entire neighborhood He is clearly of the "do as I say, not as I do" school, and many in the environmental movement do the cause no favors by giving a knee-jerk defense of Mr. Gore when his personal carbon footprint is mentioned.

I question the value of this prize. In recent decades, so me of the choices have been bizarre and wrong -Henry Kissinger, Le Doc Tho, Yasser Arafat. War-makers getting peace prizes. Beautiful.

Any thinking person should be an environmentalist, and to try to make some of their choices accordingly. Which does not mean that you can't take a critical eye to all or some of the Global Warming Theory. (There's observed Global Warming on Mars. What's the cause of that?)

And which does not mean you accept as a leader a man who does not personally live an environmentally ethical life. He's the environmental equivalent of Bono, who preaches (government-financed) debt relief in Africa while not paying income tax in Ireland.
(Bono takes advantage of Irish law that exempts artists' income from the income tax. When the Irish government sought to tax one of his companies, he moved the company to the Netherlands.

Gore preaches environmentalism, and burns energy on a manic scale, Bono seeks huge revenue flows for Africa, but makes damned sure that he doesn't pay into it.

I could see these two meeting in some private-jet airport, and winking at one another. They've world champion scammers, and the living is very good.

Image (Al Gore by Su Berton ©)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is going on at that store on Senator Street and 4th Ave ?? Clothes piled high all over the sidewalk? I couldn't get off the B9 bus without fighting thru a crowd of crazed shoppers!! I called 311 to file complaint. It actually made me miss Duane Reade!

The Phantom said...

Have noticed that. I've been off the screen for awhile, but not for long. That store looks pretty shabby but they have certainly drawn crowds

Anonymous said...

I passed by there as well on Sunday, there seems to be a new clothes store where Duane Reade used to be - and it looked really shabby. Not a very good first impression-I think I'll take my business elsewhere.

The Phantom said...

Yea the place is shabby indeed. I had a problem with my camera lens--now that it has been repaired, I will soon be taking some pictures of that place, and posting them.

Anonymous said...

I also wonder if their clientele is largely visually-impaired. It would at the least explain the unbelievably garish signage with the oversized luminescent letters, literally screaming the name of the establishment over and over again.

Anonymous said...

Is this guy Al Gore kidding us?