Shocka! Algore Might, Just Might, Be A Hypocrite

Especially if you believe this story.

I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.

In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching “Cheaters” or “Chelsea Lately” reruns.)

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.

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The Best Celebration Of Earth Hour Evah!

Yeah, I know it's old. And, yeah, I know it's been posted damn near everywhere. But this is truly how Earth Hour should be celebrated.

8:02 - Answered the door from disgruntled next-door neighbor complaining about “light pollution” and how I’m not “doing [my] part.” Gives a confused look when I scold him for lack of butane conservation after he lights up a cigarette.

8:06 - Order two large pizzas from Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, and Domino’s. Tell each person taking my order that I will tip generously if the pizza arrives before 9, but insist that if the pies arrive right at 9 or later, I will not pay.

8:09 - Wife calls and tells me she’s running late from work. I remember that I have a wife. I leave the cell phone on the table.

8:12 - Throw one sock in washing machine. Set wash cycle for a full load with hot water. Without soap.

8:17 - Pull out electric guitar and amp from closet and set up on front porch. Attempt to spraypaint PUNTER-PALOOZA in the front yard grass, but realize too late that I’ve made my letters too big.

8:19 - Ignore unattractive woman walking by that asks, “What’s PUNTE?”

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A blizzard of irony (and snow)

Hahahahahahahaha! This is just too fucking funny:

Global warming activists stormed Washington Monday for what was billed as the nation's largest act of civil disobedience to fight climate change -- only to see the nation's capital virtually shut down by a major winter storm.

Schools and businesses were shuttered, lawmakers cancelled numerous appearances and the city came to a virtual standstill as Washington was blasted with its heaviest snowfall of the winter.

Unfortunately, I have no doubt whatsoever that this cold, bitter dose of hilarious irony will have little to no effect on the beliefs of any of the eco-tards who actually showed up. In fact, I'm fairly certain someone will end up pointing to the blizzard as proof of global warming.

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EnviroFAIL

The NYT declared them the greatest thing next to the way Barack Obama looks into their eyes and smiles when they first wake up in the morning.  The Soviet of Seattle bought a fleet of them to promote green energy.  They were an expensive, epic failure, Priuses (Prii?) with an aftermarket plug-in kit.  Leftists and environmentalists everywhere had a collective full body orgasm upon news of these plug-in hybrids.  The company promised 100+ MPG. 

Turns out the kits are about as good at saving fuel on the Prius as that tattered TypeR sticker on the side of some teenager's shitty Honda tuner is at making it go faster.  The Prii have been getting an average 51 MPGs, while the smug pollution skyrocketed in the city.  Hell, they could have bought a few used Honda Insights and done better, and not had to deal with the bullshit of plugging them in.

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Hey, quail are tasty

What do you do when you find a bird thought to be extinct?  Eat it, of course!

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I Guess We'll Have To Wait Until AFTER January 20 For The Unicorns To Clean The Planet

In the same vein as celebrities burning up tons of jet fuel to fly to a concert to tell us to stop using oil, The Inauguration Of The Messiah, Vol. 1, will generate a lot of CO2.

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

In the parade, horses alone will produce more than 400 POUNDS of CO2

The total carbon footprint for the Inauguration will likely exceed 575 million POUNDS of CO2

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

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Gee, I Wonder If This TV Station Is Trying To Hype Impending Bad Weather

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Was Al Gore In Amsterdam Recently?

It seems a cold snap has hit The Netherlands. So cold, in fact, the canals have frozen over.

After more than a week of cold, an estimated 2.3 million skaters, out of a population of 16 million, have taken to frozen canals and lakes, according to a poll released ahead of the weekend.

That number is expected to double if Queen Beatrix decides to don her skates as well.

"The number of opportunities you have to skate in the Dutch winter is decreasing," said Jochem van de Laarschot, who usually speaks on behalf of Dutch food retailer Ahold but took a half a day off last week to skate.

"Once the opportunity comes up you have to get your skates out and jump on the ice," he said.

Warmer global temperatures have led to less natural ice forming in the low-lying Netherlands, where the topography of interconnected waterways makes it an ideal winter skating playground. Speed skating is the national sport.

Anticipation is growing for the "Elfstedentocht" or "11 Cities Tour," a national event where speed skaters race along a 200-km (120-mile) course beginning and ending in the northern city of Leeuwarden.

This year marks the 100th year since the race began and if held, the tour would be the first in over a decade.

Because of the thousands of skaters -- both professional and amateur -- participating in the marathon, nearly all of the ice along the route must be at least 15-cm (6-inches) thick.

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Being an eco-weenie has never tasted so good!

Do you enjoy chocolate?  Do you also enjoy the smug feeling that comes with being a responsible steward of our precious Mother Earth?  Well, there's finally a candy bar for you!

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ManBearPig strikes again!

I wonder if Al Gore was scheduled to make an appearance in Spain this week...

A freak snowfall coated downtown Madrid in white on Friday, shutting down the city's airport but providing rare opportunities for snowball fights while intrepid golfers drove their balls into the blizzard.

Flights in and out of Barajas international airport were stopped for nearly six hours from 11 a.m. (1000 GMT) because of the snow, airport officials said.

That Global Warming sure is a bitch, what with all the snow, huh?

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Stupid hippies

Looking to ward off hippies from settling in your town? It may be as easy as setting up a municipal wi-fi network:

HIPPIES LIVING in the tiny town of Glastonbury claim that a new wi-fi network is responsible for a spate of health problems.

Glastonbury, which used to be a mecca for Christian pilgrims looking for King Arthur, has now been largely taken over by New Age hippies who think that it is a place of great healing energies.

That was, until the town set up a £34,000 project wi-fi network on an experimental basis. Apparently wi-fi jiggers about with your chakras and breaks ley lines, which makes you sick.

To counter the bad karma they have surrounded the masts with orgone generators to clean the energy up, but despite claims that the generators can fix the bad energy of a nuclear powerplant they seem to be unable to deal with the terrors of wi-fi.

Perhaps a drum circle would be more effective.  Or, I know, the power of love.  Like, yeah, maaaaaaaaaaaaan.

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Yet Another Example Of Liberal Policies Making Things Worse

Seattle intentionally didn't salt the roads in order to appease Mother Gaia (I think Ace may have also mentioned this, but I'm not sure). Well, what's happened? Monster trash buildups usually indicative of a trash collector's strike.

But piles and piles of trash linger on curbsides across parts of Seattle where garbage trucks haven't been able to reach for more than two weeks.

The good news is that some collection resumed over the weekend, although the garbage glut continues in many areas.

"Our garbage area is stinkier," Beacon Hill resident Lucia Kahsai, 24, said Sunday, referring to the area in her townhouse where she stores her trash. "We've given up taking our garbage outside."

"I mean, it is looking like civic hell out there," joked Tim Tapping, 59, a software engineer in Maple Leaf who pointed to the lids on his streetside cans, which were floating on top of overflowing refuse.

Icy roads Saturday still prevented many 9-ton garbage trucks from entering some Seattle neighborhoods in the higher elevations, such as those in West Seattle and Maple Leaf, as well as areas in Shoreline, Renton, SeaTac, Burien, Bellevue, Sammamish and Snohomish County, officials said.

"A lot of people have missed service over the last couple of weeks," Seattle Public Utilities spokesman Andy Ryan said.

"It will take us time to get back to a normal schedule."

Some service resumed Saturday and Sunday. Garbage trucks hauled away trash Sunday in Lake City, Northgate and other parts of Northeast Seattle and in South Seattle.

But other areas were still waiting.

In the Maple Leaf neighborhood near Northgate, residents said they were told their garbage would be picked up this weekend.

But with roads still icy Saturday, no garbage trucks were seen in the area, residents said.

Maple Leaf residents who were particularly unlucky were those such as Tapping on the north side of Northeast 90th Street. People north of that line get garbage pickup on Thursdays. Those south of the line are on Tuesdays.

In a way, the photo is an appropriate metaphor for what liberal policies create.

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Somehow, I Wonder If Sarah Palin Will Be Blamed For This As Well

This dude learns first hand that polar bears play a rough game of tag.

The man eventually managed to take refuge in a neighbouring truck which was unlocked.

His back and head were covered in more than 100 deep scratches where the massive claws had managed to rip through his thick winter clothes and padded coat.

Barrow is the northernmost town of the United States, 340 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Polar bears are frequently spotted around the area.

They are the world's largest land predator, and are the only animals that actively hunt humans.
Adult bears grow up to 10ft tall and can weigh 95 stone.

They are predominantly carnivores, eating seals, fish, reindeer, seabirds and even whales and baby walruses.

Environmentalists have warned that there could be as few as 22,000 left in the wild, and that they face extinction because the ice they live on is melting.

The wildlife group Polar Bears International says only one person has been killed by a polar bear in the U.S. in the past 30 years.

In Canada eight have been killed and in Russia, 19.

A spokesman said: 'In all instances in which a human was killed by a polar bear, the animal in question was undernourished or had been provoked.'

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The death of ManBearPig?

There's a great column in today's Telegraph which suggests that this year may actually be the "turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming."  One can hope...

Ever shriller and more frantic has become the insistence of the warmists, cheered on by their army of media groupies such as the BBC, that the last 10 years have been the "hottest in history" and that the North Pole would soon be ice-free – as the poles remain defiantly icebound and those polar bears fail to drown. All those hysterical predictions that we are seeing more droughts and hurricanes than ever before have infuriatingly failed to materialise.

Even the more cautious scientific acolytes of the official orthodoxy now admit that, thanks to "natural factors" such as ocean currents, temperatures have failed to rise as predicted (although they plaintively assure us that this cooling effect is merely "masking the underlying warming trend", and that the temperature rise will resume worse than ever by the middle of the next decade).

And that's the problem. This has become a cult, and its most devoted followers haven't just drunk the Kool-Aid, they're swimming in it.  Besides, there's still money to be made from the crisis.

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Leave It To The Scandis To Mix Sex And Forestry

It appears as though the filthy, perverted ice chunkers wanted to see if boner pills would work work on trees.

Why? Who knows? I don't speak Scandi. But the results are, *ahem* stiffening our resolve to "experiment" longer and harder*ahem*.

For a recent project, researchers in Umeå in northern Sweden from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) concocted a potent fertilizer featuring arginine, a common amino acid known for its power to improve sperm production and blood circulation in the sex organs, the Västerbotten-Kurrien newspaper reports.

The project was headed by forestry professor Torgny Näsholm, who created a fertilizer with strong concentrations of arginine.

He then added the mixture to the soil around several young spruce trees and measured the effects.

Näsholm discovered that trees which grew in soil laden with the performance enhancing fertilizer developed stronger root systems than other spruce trees.

Perverts.

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Enjoy the snow, bmac!

Global Warming in Sin City.  What, did The Inconvenient Goof sign a contract for a revue version of his stupid slideshow?

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Something To Ponder As I Scrape The Global Warming Off My Car This Morning

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Baby, it's cold outside (and we're all gonna die)

It's been cold this year, so you know what that means...

Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.

That's right. If it's hot, it's an indication that Global Warming is a problem. If it's cold, that's even stronger evidence of Global Warming.

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Environmentalist FAIL

Polish environmentalists found several trees felled and stacked and a few more with notches cut in them.  In order to stop the raping of the earth, the Holy Seers of Gaia contacted the authorities in order to put a stop to the illegal logging operation.  Police arrived, and quickly found the culprit...a bunch of beavers building a dam.

A police spokesman said: "The campaigners are feeling pretty stupid. There's nothing more natural than a beaver."

Heh.

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Remember The Kyoto Treaty?

Aren't you glad we never ratified it?

Twenty nations including Japan, Italy and Australia may be releasing more greenhouse-gas pollution than they agreed to under the Kyoto treaty to curb global warming.

They're failing to rein in carbon-dioxide output enough to meet their pledges signed in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, according to reports by individual countries. As a penalty for missing their goals under the treaty, the nations are required to buy permits for every excess ton of the heat-trapping gas released through 2012. That will total 2.3 billion permits for 20 nations, New Carbon Finance, a research firm in London, has estimated.

The potential penalty, 36 billion euros ($46 billion) for the group based on current permit prices, and the fact that only a minority of 37 Kyoto signatory nations may meet their pledges bodes poorly for international efforts to limit global warming.

``This shows there's a lot more interest in promising stuff than actually keeping those promises,'' :S:d1" onmouseover="return escape( popwSearchNews( this ))">Bjorn Lomborg, author of the book ``The Skeptical Environmentalist,'' said in a telephone interview from Copenhagen. ``What you should be doing is investing in research and development to make much more dramatic emissions cuts much cheaper in the future.''

Amen, brother. Amen.

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