(2007-02-28) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Al Gore today expanded his call for Americans to reduce their output of greenhouse gases — the so-called carbon-footprint — adding a demand to cut the rate of adult-onset obesity, which he termed “your gluteal fatprint.”
Speaking to fellow Oscar winners who flew in to Nashville last night for a banquet at his 10,000 square-foot residence, Mr. Gore explained that Americans burn too much carbon-rich fuel, and eat too much fatty food.
While conservative groups have attacked Mr. Gore’s “hypocrisy” on the global-warming issue, since his Tennessee home burns 15 times the electricity of the average home and he often flies on corporate jets, Mr. Gore maintains that he lives a “carbon-neutral” lifestyle because he also invests in solar and wind energy projects to counterbalance his own substantial carbon-footprint.
“Many people don’t realize that I also live a fat-neutral lifestyle,” Mr. Gore said. “While the inconvenient truth is that I’ve gained a few pounds since I beat George Bush at the polls in 2000, I also make large investments in companies that produce bran, sprouts and legumes, thereby reducing my “real feel” weight to around 175.”
74 responses so far ↓
1 LeighM // Feb 28, 2007 at 6:43 am
Is he serious? His logic seems a little uh …. flawed? No big surprise there, though.
2 Scott Ott // Feb 28, 2007 at 6:51 am
Gore Lives Carbon-Neutral, Fat-Neutral Lifestyle…
by Scott Ott(2007-02-28) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Al Gore today expanded his call for Americans to reduce their output of greenhouse gases — the so-called carbon-footprint — adding a demand to cut the rate of adult-onset obesity, which he termed…
3 RedPepper // Feb 28, 2007 at 8:09 am
He has also hired the entire populations of several small African villages to compensate for his (and his family’s) over-the-top fat consumption by starving themselves. Aka the “caloric credits” exchange …
4 onlineanalyst // Feb 28, 2007 at 8:13 am
The ethically challenged algore, AKA the Prince of Darkness for putting out the lights all over the free world, is also morally neutral, as is amoral.
What we have here, folks, is more of do what I say, not what I do.
I guess it’s time to use my allotted carbon points by consuming a bowl of cereal. Oh, no! Does that mean that I am cutting into the alternative fuel source? Mea culpa!
5 MargeinMI // Feb 28, 2007 at 8:19 am
Mornin’ all! Let me get this straight. My gluteal fatprint is offset by how many frequent flier miles I don’t accumulate by not flying anywhere; therefore, my real-feel weight is a slender 118! Cool.
Prayers going up this morning for Ms. RW.
6 gafisher // Feb 28, 2007 at 8:29 am
I saw today a new energy-saving technology provocatively named “The AlGorChip.” That made me wonder — does everyone who gets “chipped” with one of these get to wear an EnergyStar tattoo, or do they just lose the use of their frontal lobes like the prototype?
By the way, here’s a little snapshot of Mr. Carbon Footprint himself, only a bit more animated than the man himself …
7 gafisher // Feb 28, 2007 at 8:33 am
LeighM #1, the logic isn’t just flawed, it’s flaccid.
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God Bless America!
8 Right Mind : Gore Lives Carbon-Neutral, Fat-Neutral Lifestyle // Feb 28, 2007 at 8:37 am
[...] From Scott Ott over at Scrapple Face: [...]
9 seneuba // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:05 am
HOMER: Mmmmmmmm……carbon!
10 MargeinMI // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:09 am
So Al’s ‘fat-neutral’ and ‘carbon-neutral’ and neutral this and neutral that. Why doesn’t he just do us all a favor and totally neutralize himself!
gafisher, Your snapshot sssssccccaaarrrred me!
11 boberinyetagain // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:21 am
Funny Scott
Good one by you as well Red!
Thank God for tradeoffs, we can all be gluttenous and vituous at the same time, A,erica, what a country!
12 boberinyetagain // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:21 am
Funny Scott
Good one by you as well Red!
Thank God for tradeoffs, we can all be gluttenous and vituous at the same time, America, what a country!
13 boberinyetagain // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:22 am
more precise the second time, apologies!
14 conserve-a-tips // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:23 am
Glenn Beck had an interesting point yesterday. He said that there is a company called Terrapass that these nutjobs, like AlGore, send money to, in order to assuage their guilt about their size 15 carbon footprints, while the rest of us wear a size 5. Anyway, this company then takes their money and uses it to purchase, say, energy efficient stoves for some never-heard-of country in Africa, in order to offset the energy being used by one of these Marie Antoinette wannabe’s (”Let them drive Yugos”). [sarcastic analogy added] The people in these countries don’t have any food to cook on these wonderful stoves, but the AlGores of the earth feel all good about themselves because they get to use all the fossil fuel they want, comforted by the knowledge that they bought some poor person a stove that doesn’t use much electricity.
Beck compared that to the Catholic religion of Martin Luther’s time. The church was selling Penitence. If you were guilty of something, you paid the priest and got communion and forgiveness and the money supposedly went to the poor to offset your sin. The people in the church got to the point that they could sin all they wanted to, as long as they paid the penitent price. As a matter of fact, the reason that Thomas Campbell came to the US from Scotland, is because the Presbyterian church had started the same practice and he couldn’t take it anymore. His son, Alexander Campbell, is who formulated the movement later known as the Church of Christ (not to be confused with the United CofC or Congregational Church).
To be sure, Global Warmism is another false religion with its false prophets and false leaders. It is meant to enslave the common man and put greedy men in control. We need a new Martin Luther.
15 gafisher // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:24 am
MargeinMI, Tipper said it was “just precioussssss.”
16 onlineanalyst // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:28 am
This newsflash just in from the Borowitz Report: “Supreme Court to Award Gore’s Oscar to Bush”
17 onlineanalyst // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:38 am
And on the non-satirical side, contrast the two lifestyles: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=0510480a-802a-23ad-401c-e362782ce790
18 lgeis // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:57 am
Very funny, Scott!
A couple of terms have come up in conversation that you are welcome to (we’ve been mulling a “Liberal Lexicon”):
Democrap: Definition is obvious and broad…no need to lay it out.
Hype-O-Crat: Hypocritical hyperbole on an issue for the benefit of the Democratic Party.
19 onlineanalyst // Feb 28, 2007 at 9:58 am
Lileks has even more fun at the expense of the meaningless gestures of the Gore-inspired Gaia worshippers.
Truly, the global warming alarmists are their own worst enemies. They cry out for the mockery that they richly deserve. Only the obscenely wealthy could afford the “carbon credits” that allow them to continue their profligate ways.
When science becomes perverted for political ends and as the weapon of the UN, watch out and hang on to your wallets.
20 Shelly // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:00 am
I read about another way these “offsets” work. China announces that it’s going to build a widget factory that will produce a lot of pollution, but benefit their economy. Wimpy environmental whackos in Europe pay China not to build the factory and get to feel good - which of course is the most important aspect of their lives, not benefitting the planet. Several months later, and several miles away from the original planned factory, guess what China proposes?
21 onlineanalyst // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:02 am
Lileks link
22 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:17 am
Jared of Subwayâ„¢ fame had better watch his six, low-fat Goracle will soon want his job, too. NO WAR FOR OLIVE OIL!
23 Just Ranting // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:20 am
I understand he has a bumper sticker on his limo that reads, “Give Pizza a Chance!” There’s picture of a little round peace symbol covered with cheese and meatballs with one of the slices removed.
By his logic Gore could say his weight gain is offset by all the starving people in Somalia that he and Clinton took no action on to save in the 90’s.
24 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:25 am
c.a.t., you and Beck are right, it’s just like the Catholic Church selling indulgences … in fact its exactly like selling indulgences! Global Warmism is indeed a religion.
This is how Global Warmism can make a mint. Come up with some way to capitalize on AlGore’s own lifestyle hypocrisy by turning it into a positive: SAVE THE WORLD: Goracleâ„¢, the last name in Global Warming indulgences!
25 Fred Sinclair // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:28 am
Thousands of years ago God knew all about Liberals and He already has a plan in place for dealing with them! After it’s too late, they’ll no doubt whine “But that’s not fair.” Unaware that God doesn’t have to be fair - only just!
Psalms 36:1-4
(1) The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. (2) For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. (3) The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. (4) He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Heirborn Ranger
26 diamond jim // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:43 am
algore is also keeps the planet brain-power neutral. His reduced use of brain power off-sets the overuse by Ann Coulter, Scott et al.
27 Just Ranting // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44 am
Warmin’ism (or the Church of Latter Day Leftists) is a cult, and Al Gore is their Brigham Young. More like Jim Jones than Brigham Young really, but you get the idea.
28 diamond jim // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:46 am
re 26….keeps should be keeping…my bad
29 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:55 am
Excellent observation, Fred. Liberals have become very adept at calling right wrong, evil good and good evil. It’s okay to murder unborn babies, that’s not a moral issue to liberals. But Global Warming? Now that’s a “moral” issue to these people. Paaaahlease!
From Paul Pringle, Staff Writer of the LA Times:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein offers plenty of tips on how California households can combat global warming, such as carpooling and running only a full dishwasher.
But one bit of information Feinstein declines to share is the number of times that she flew last year on her husband’s Gulfstream jet, which burns much more fuel per passenger-mile than commercial airliners.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also has asked constituents to do their part to conserve energy — including cutting summertime power consumption — even though he takes to the skies on leased executive jets.
Gee, you think there might be just a little self-serving hypocrisy among liberal Donks and RINOs who worship in the Global Warming Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
30 boberinyetagain // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:07 am
Only liberals commit sin, that’s a well documented fact
Gore is a hypocrate without a doubt but to claim any moral superiority of either liberals or conservatives is a laughable as it gets.
Liberals kill unborn babies and the conservatives advocate waiting until they are older then sending them to war to be kill others and be killed themselves. Yep. God likes that plan MUCH better. Just ask him when you see him.
31 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:15 am
32 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:27 am
No bober, we’re all wretched sinners, conservatives and liberals. It’s just that on balance liberals don’t or can’t admit they are sinners. Isn’t that apparent to you by now? Sheesh.
There are two kinds of people in this world, bober, sinners saved by the grace of God and sinners who aren’t. Most liberals I know fall into the latter category.
33 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:34 am
And bober, you’re irrational again. Liberals do engage in their ideological pogram “of choice” which murders the most innocent of humanity, the unborn. The blood of unborn generations is upon their hands.
But as usual you compare apples to oranges. Those who serve in America’s armed forces are volunteers and adults who exercised a choice to serve their country in this capacity. They aren’t sent off to war to die, but rather they are sent off to war to make America’s enemies die for his country/ideology (see General Patton). But the dirty little secret, dear bober, is that in war people do get killed, but POTUS isn’t sending the volunteer soldier off to die, unless you’re now willing to claim the American fighting man/woman are little different than suicide-bombers. Capiche? Now that wasn’t too hard to understand, was it?
34 boberinyetagain // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:37 am
And many profess to be “saved” (and some even believe it to be so) but they continue to sin unabated. There is no “repentance” nor “forgiveness” for those that choose to repeat the same sin over and over (some hope they can see death coming, figure to make everything ok then) but most folks that claim to be saved are nothing of the sort from my observations.
And this is not a “liberal” or “conservative” thing, it’s nearly everyone.
A bunch of hooey in all but a precious few cases
35 Amused Cynic » Blog Archive » Al Gore’s “Gluteal Fatprint”…. // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:39 am
[...] This is why every blog should link to Scott Ott… [...]
36 boberinyetagain // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:42 am
Point taken but sending them to kill others of God’s children is not what God intended. I’m certain that He would prefer us to at least make an attempt to get along.
Speaking of which I see George has done another about face and now seems willing to sit with others in the ME and chat a spell. I’m sure that y’all now think that this is a wonderful idea (since George is now on board) but 5 years ago, or 4, or 3 when it was needed at least as badly as now, it was a lousy idea, right???
37 kajun // Feb 28, 2007 at 12:51 pm
#29:
Diane Feinstein: Keep up the abortions—the dishwasher will never be full; or even half-empty.
38 mig // Feb 28, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I saw a bumper sticker today:
You CAN”T be pro-life and pro-war at the same time.
Like the two are even remotely on the same page.
39 mig // Feb 28, 2007 at 1:28 pm
“sending them to kill others of God’s children is not what God intended”
How do you know what God intends? The old testament is full of God’s plans. Taking into consideration that we are all Gods Children. :
24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. 25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
40 Ghoti // Feb 28, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I continuously get a “kick” out of the links provided by Google at the top of each page. Surely those advertisers would not want their money wasted on sites that will yield no financial gain.
I especially enjoy it when abortion clinic advertising money is wasted on ScrappleFace readers. Thanks, Google. Your automated channeling of “liberal” ads are obviously automatically linked to sites that even mention the person or subject (abortion, Hillary, carbon neutral conversion, etc.), with no human reasoning into which sites will benefit their donors. I would be quite happy to see ALL abortion ad monies wasted on this site.
41 Ghoti // Feb 28, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Did I break a rule, or just need to “push” harder to get a comment to post?
42 GnuCarSmell // Feb 28, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Energy-glutton Al Gore’s double-speak is uncovered. Can you say “inconvenient truth?” I do believe that’s a big fat carbon foot stuck in his mouth.
By the way, I wonder how much methane His Self-Righteousness produces. He looks like he could give a small herd of livestock a run for their money.
43 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 28, 2007 at 2:06 pm
While everybody on this planet is, in fact, God’s creation, they are not all God’s children.
44 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 2:18 pm
bober,
Are you saying we are “continuing to sin” by supporting a legitimate government’s right to put evildoers to the sword per Romans 13? You are daft.
Even Lucifer can appear as an angel of light and he can misquote Scripture just like you. One of Satan’s benchmarks is falsely accusing the people of God … and this is the road you want to go down, bearing false witness against the very elect of God, bober? Foolish men tread where angels fear to go, my friend.
I think you need to be more careful toward whom you’re pointing fingers. Secular liberals and “religious” liberals will perish from this Earth like woodchips in a bonfire. The plain fact of the matter is every person who supports abortion on demand should have their “salvation” questioned … just as you suggest, btw. There is no way that a person born of the Spirit of God can advocate that there is a God-given right to murder unborn babies in the womb. Bober, you are becoming just like the people I was talking about earlier, you call evil good and good evil. Your 180 degrees twisted.
And amen to c.a.t. at #39. Bober, you don’t know jack about what God intends. Read your Bible for once instead of left-wing newspapers, you might learn something about God’s moral economy instead of what the world vainly believes.
45 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 2:36 pm
A true child of God knows the Father and the Father knows him. The secular man is an orphan, he/she has cut themselves off from God and that’s exactly the way they want it. They curse God, deny God and spit on Messiah’s sacrifice on the Cross. God is merely honoring their wishes by allowing them to become orphans of their own choosing. I seriously doubt, “I was only kidding, Lord, you still love me right?” is going to cut it on Judgment Day. A day late and a dollar short. God has demonstrated in this life that while we were yet sinners Messiah died for us. And there are those whose ideology and lifestyle preferences mock the very provision of salvation that God in His infinite mercy and wisdom had made for those who humble themselves and bow their knee in this terrestrial realm to that Great Governor and Sovereign of the Universe.
bober’s logic: Those who scorn and mock God, sometimes even deny that God exists and who also believe there’s nothing wrong with murdering unborn babies in the womb, because they are against the war in Iraq, they are the true children of God. Those who honor God, embrace the Cross of Messiah, bring their children up in reverential awe of the Creator of the Universe yet support the government’s duty to bear the sword against evildoers only deceive themselves and will be found to be evil because they really don’t love and honor God the way they think they do.
Yeah, right. You’re twisted, bober. BTW, your reverse psychology isn’t working here. Everyone sees through your rather pathetic “arguments”. But you can keep lying to yourself if it makes you feel better.
46 Shelly // Feb 28, 2007 at 2:52 pm
diamond jim, excellent point in #26!
ola, the link in #17 reminds me of the Parable of the Two Sons. Which one is actually environmentally responsible and which one is just full of hot air?
I have a challenge for my Scrapplefriends. Can anyone think of an issue where the left does not demonstrate hypocrisy? I’ve tried and I can’t.
47 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Better bober argument: Those who are teaching their children to kill infidels and become suicide bombers for Allah are “also children of God”. Therefore free societies and particularly President Bush can’t conduct a war against people committed to the destruction of our children and our way of life because they are “children of God”.
Sorry, but I don’t remember Jesus ever constructing such an argument … unless, of course, you want to pervert “love your neighbor as yourself” to mean “love the terrorist or tyrant who wants to murder your fellow man and destroy your way of life if he had the power to do so.”
You’re a hoot, bober.
48 Terry Cowgill » The Goregas Effect // Feb 28, 2007 at 2:57 pm
[...] “How could that possibly be?” ask the global warming guru’s admirers. Simple: Gore suggests you and I change the way we live in order to save the planet, but he maintains two large residences, is ferried around in a limo and travels on corporate jets. Typical of the sanctimonious, eh — everyone else has to make sacrifices except those who demand it of others. [...]
49 upnorthlurkin // Feb 28, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I’d like to add to your challenge, Shelly. When was the last time talking to our enemies changed their minds….read solved the problem?! You don’t negotiate with terrorists, you either surrender or you defeat them!
50 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Shelly, I can’t either. The conservatives I know don’t merely whine about a problem, they set about personally doing something about the problem in their corner of the universe even if its in a limited capacity. They don’t expect government to solve the problem.
On the other hand, from welfare to joblessness to homelessness to global warming, the whining liberal defines their compassion by how much they can empower government to coerce you to give more money in the form of confiscatory taxes. This is how they want to fund their collectivist utopia - and they want us to do the same! What hubris, compulsory “compassion” in the name of collectivism!
Yet it is the rare liberal who is willing to spend every spare dollar they have to provide food and other necessities to those on welfare, to give their jobs to those more deserving or better educated who don’t have jobs, to share their own home with the homeless, to rip out their central air conditioning and use fans or hire the unemployed to wave palm fronds to circulate the air in hopes of minimizing their “carbon footprint” … you get the picture. The liberal utopian rarely lives the altruism they preach … hence they’re hypocrites.
51 seneuba // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:10 pm
#27: Warmin’sm “An Inconvenient Baby Ruth”
52 conserve-a-tips // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Boberin, re #36: I must correct you. Not all men are God’s children. The family of God only consists of those who have accepted that He exists, and that He sent His son to die in order that men could have a relationship with God. The idea that God accepts all men as His children is erroneous. He accepts them as His creation. His children is a whole ‘nother level.
All through the Old Testament, God used armies of men to punish the wicked and whole nations who had allowed wicked men to rule them. In New Testament times, God used the Roman army to fulfill the prophecies regarding the destruction of the temple and the scattering of the Jews. He allowed the Roman army to persecute the church with the end result being the scattering of the church to all the world in order to spread the Gospel. You assume that war as a punishment or a rectifying of an evil situation to be a bad thing, in the same way that do-gooders think that a murderer having to face life in prison or the death penalty is awful. But scripture says that the wages of sin is death and it means both in the body and the spirit. In the New Testament, new converts are told to “stay in the station you were in when you received Christ” meaning if you are married, remain married - if you were a slave, remain a slave - if you were a soldier, remain a soldier.
You are right when you say that all men are hypocrits. That is a given because all man is sinful. Why else would they need Christ? And even after having received Christ, man’s humaness still comes into play so much so that even Paul moaned, “Oh wretched man that I am. I do the things that I am not to do and I do not do the things that I am. Who can save me? Thanks be to Jesus Christ.”
Christians recognize their inability to be “good” and must turn their lives, everyday - every minute, over to a way of life that is alien to natural man. True Christians want to do that. Just because someone calls themselves a Christian, however, does not make them so. And if a true Christian falls and has to get back up, then how does that nullify the truth of God? That is like saying that you don’t think doctors are real or capable because people who are eating too much or smoking too much keep getting sick.
Every man on this earth has a religion. Every man on this earth has a faith in something. I see conservatives, for the most part, placing that faith in God. I see liberals placing that faith in man. That is why liberals are so angry - because men let other men down.
53 seneuba // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:16 pm
#51
That was a botched post..Oops!
Should have been:
Warmin’sm: Good one!
From Al’s appearance, the next book should be called:
“An Inconvenient Baby Ruth”
Whew!
54 seneuba // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:18 pm
#52
Can I hear an AMEN!?
55 upnorthlurkin // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Amen!!
56 da Bunny // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Shelly, I cannot come up with a single issue where the liberal position is not based upon either hypocrisy or an outright lie. Their every argument/position is a convoluted mess, based upon secular-minded nonsense and/or childish emotion. It’s all about their “feelings”…not facts.
57 da Bunny // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:34 pm
c-a-t re: 52. Great post! Especially that last paragraph!!
58 conserve-a-tips // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Darthmeister, I was reading C.S.Lewis and he has an interesting perspective on war and “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
He points out that as vessels of the Holy Spirit, we have a disgust for evil. If we are truly living by the Holy Spirit, then if our natural man rises up and does evil, we would want to be held accountable and made to face the consequences because the Spirit part of us knows that this is justice, a call to turn away from evil and this is the way that we are reminded that we can do nothing well, apart from God. Therefore, if we would expect to be held accountable for our sin as a way of loving ourselves and our right relationship with God, to treat others in the same way is practicing the Golden Rule. If a ruler or a nation is committing evil, then it is only right and loving to hold them accountable and if they do not turn from their evil, to punish them.
59 upnorthlurkin // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Arguing with a close-minded, whiny lib is for the most part, fruitless and a big waste of bandwidth. In the event you need ammo, all in one easy to understand video, I found this helpful!!
60 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Liberals apparently now believe if x amount of American soldiers die, then the cause is not noble. This must mean we lost World War II since 472,000 American soldiers died in that effort as well as 34 million civilians … which was all George W. Bush’s fault despite the fact he wasn’t even born yet.
Liberals also apparently believe, unless a Dhimmiecrat President conducts the war (like Clinton’s Balkan war conducted without either a Joint Congressional Resolution or UN Resolution), the war is immoral and ignoble simply because they say it is. And most of those libs saying this are MORAL RELATIVISTS! Go figure.
That’s why Dhimmie’s stomping their hankies about the ignoble nature of the war in Iraq is only so much bovine scatology.
61 Darthmeister // Feb 28, 2007 at 4:47 pm
From the September 2004, Atlantic Monthly:
Needless to say, Hollywood offers nearly limitless opportunities for anyone seeking to expose hypocrisy in the lifestyles of the rich and progressive. Laurie David, who dedicates herself to fighting for improved fuel-economy standards and reviles the owners of SUVs as terrorist enablers, gives herself a pass when it comes to chartering one of the most wasteful uses of fossil-based fuels imaginable: a private plane. (She’s not just a limousine liberal; she’s a Gulfstream liberal.)
One night I visited the home of the former TV star Heather Thomas (The Fall Guy) and her husband, the entertainment lawyer and philanthropist Skip Brittenham. I drove past SUVs and assorted luxury vehicles on what felt like a quarter-mile-long driveway to a mansion large enough to house one of the small Amazonian villages the Brittenhams want to save. Just the energy consumed by the house and all the vehicles would power a sizable chunk of Amazonia.
And this was nothing next to the Sunset Strip home of Stewart and Lynda Resnick, where I attended a book party for the journalist and progressive candidate-conspirator-hostess Arianna Huffington. Guests picked at smoked-salmon and caviar hors d’oeuvres beneath twenty-foot ceilings supported by towering Greek columns. Each gilded room was larger than most New York City apartments. The house would not he out of place if plunked down as an extension of Versailles, save for the enormous bust of Napoleon in one of the salons. The Resnicks, Lynda told me, are the “largest farmers in America”; they are the country’s biggest grower of fruits and nuts, and a member of the Sunkist cooperative (she urged me to try the selection of new Sunkist beverages at the well-stocked bar); they also own the Franklin Mint. Later I listened to her refer to the celebrity-laden crowd as “disenfranchised.”
Limousine liberals are such H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E-S!
62 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 28, 2007 at 5:01 pm
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”~~Luke 18:9-14
63 Fred Sinclair // Feb 28, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Boberin - If it weren’t for the serious danger involved; I would point you to a book, “Sinner in the Hand of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
The danger of course is that should you actually read it you might have your eyes opened and you would have to walk around aware. For you that would be a despicable horror - no it’s better that you continue to go about your way content in your blindness.
But on that day when you face the wrath of God’s judgement, you will then know real horror.
But then, it doesn’t have to be that way. There is an answer named Jesus - yours free and for the asking.
Your choice.
Heirborn Ranger
64 conserve-a-tips // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Well guys, I just heard the most amazing message while on the treadmill and I think that God gave me an answer to the question that has been on here. The sermon was on discipline and the minister read scripture that makes it clear that he who has not been disciplined is unable to stand up when the going gets tough and when hard times come. Either they turn to drugs or alchohol or shopping or politics
OR they run from the difficult. They just don’t want to deal with it. When life gets tough or a situation gets hard, they just “cut and run” to avoid the pain of having to make hard choices.
Does that explain anything for anybody else??
65 upnorthlurkin // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:08 pm
C A T - you’ve been hitting homeruns all day! You go girl!!
66 RedPepper // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Folks, the anticipation … the excitement … it’s incredible. Apparently, our beloved leader, Senator John McCain (ʁ-Media) is about to make an important announcement on the David Letterman show.
Could he have chosen a more appropriate venue?
Jamais !
67 mig // Mar 1, 2007 at 7:15 am
If you’re unhappy with your present cell phone service, and you’re thinking of switching, here’s an option. Planned Parenthood Wireless through Working Assets.
“Planned Parenthood Wireless is a new choice for your cell phone service. By signing up for this service, you will help preserve reproductive rights, and ensure access to comprehensive family planning and medically accurate sex education for women and families around the world.
Making the choice to switch to Planned Parenthood Wireless is similar to buying Fair Trade chocolate or sweatshop-free clothing. It’s a conscious choice to do something that helps to support a cause you believe in. I know Planned Parenthood is sometimes considered a controversial organization, but if you believe in their mission then this is a great way to support them.
Oh Brother!
68 mig // Mar 1, 2007 at 7:19 am
Prayers to Ms. RightWing.. what’s the news?
Also a big healing prayer for LettyPack…
69 Hawkeye // Mar 1, 2007 at 8:16 am
C-A-T #52,
EXCELLENT post!
Regards…
70 Harry Daschle // Mar 1, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Gore’s “Inconvenient truth”, really is true!
Well, —at least as true as the other “truths” the libs on the left tell.
The REAL TRUTH took a big hit during the 8 years of the Klinton administration when Bubba kind of “greyed” the meaning of truth !
I guess in Bubba words, it depends on what the meaning of “truth” is!
71 Harry Daschle // Mar 1, 2007 at 2:09 pm
CAT: Thank you for #52!!!
72 The Ward View » An Inconvenient Hypocrisy // Mar 1, 2007 at 11:31 pm
[...] Gore Lives Carbon-Neutral, Fat-Neutral Lifestyle by Scott Ott Scrappleface (2007-02-28) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Al Gore today expanded his call for Americans to reduce their output of greenhouse gases — the so-called carbon-footprint — adding a demand to cut the rate of adult-onset obesity, which he termed “your gluteal fatprint.†[...]
73 Buy Nintendo Wii Canada // Mar 2, 2007 at 7:59 pm
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74 For a second I thought I was reading Scrappleface… at Amused Cynic // Jul 10, 2007 at 8:08 am
[...] And, since we’ve already mentioned Scrappleface, now would be a good time to look back on Al Gores “gluteal fatprint.” (2007-02-28) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Al Gore today expanded his call for Americans to reduce their output of greenhouse gases — the so-called carbon-footprint — adding a demand to cut the rate of adult-onset obesity, which he termed “your gluteal fatprint.†Speaking to fellow Oscar winners who flew in to Nashville last night for a banquet at his 10,000 square-foot residence, Mr. Gore explained that Americans burn too much carbon-rich fuel, and eat too much fatty food. [...]
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