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Al Gore's 2nd Annual Carbon-Offset Going-out-of-Bu...
2007-03-21 02:30:00 Al Gore 's 2nd Annual Carbon -Offset Going-out-of-Business Sale! Ha. Mah name is Al Gore. You've heard me talk before about the dangers of global warming. Put simply, humans have destroyed the Earth. While some blame cow poots and others point to solar storms, I know for a fact that the Chevy Impala behind me -- and millions of vehicles like it -- are solely, completely responsible for More About: Al Gore , Carbon offset
And they say no one can predict the future!
By gum...
2007-03-20 02:03:00 And they say no one can predict the future! By gum, I'm out to prove "they" wrong. I can guaran-damn-tee that the following will take place within the next two weeks. I just wish my prescience worked on the stock market. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann will demand that Hillary gets the troops to retreat faster; that Attorney General Gonzales throw himself into a giant margarita blender to make amends More About: Future , The Future , They , No One , Predict
Gaffe o' the Day
Former actor Ben Jones, who playe...
2007-03-20 01:22:00 Gaffe o' the Day Form er actor Ben Jones , who played Cooter on Dukes of Hazzard, in an interview on The O'Reilly Factor: Racism is something we've got to get behind... BEYOND! BEYOND! More About: Play , The D , Actor
Iran and the U.S.: transcript from secret negotiat...
2007-03-19 02:03:00 Iran and the U.S.: transcript from secret negotiations Our patented Blogoscopic™ technology offers us several advantages over conventional blogs. You know, blogs like LGF, Atlas Shrugs, and Gateway Pundit, which rely upon gathering facts, photos, and attribution. Unburdened with these mundane details, the Blogoscope's latest junket has scooped the world press. You say you didn't know about the More About: Iran , Script , Secret , Trans , The U
Exclusive Photo: UFO shot down over Iran
Iran's Ba...
2007-03-18 15:50:00 Exclusive Photo : UFO shot down over Iran Iran's Baztab News is reporting that an "Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was completely destroyed by the country’s new air defense system" (hat tips: Gateway Pundit and Larwyn). Lucky you: we've got an exclusive photograph of the UFO after it was shot down. Iran's President Ahmadinejad inspects a UFO shot down by his country's state-of-the-art air More About: Exclusive , Shot , Down
The NCAA's 'Boss Button'
When CBS switched from th...
2007-03-18 14:21:00 The NCAA's 'Boss Button ' When CBS switched from the NCAA tournament game I was watching to a game of minimal importance (at least for me), I scrambled for a backup. Remembering the ads for CBS' March Madness on Demand service, which promised live coverage of each game over the Internet, I fired up the trusty web browser. Locating the site wasn't an issue. The real problem was the NCAA's More About: The N , Switch
Gathering of Eagles Counter-Protest: 30,000 Strong...
2007-03-18 14:18:00 Gathering of Eagles Count er-Protest : 30,000 Strong Michelle Malkin and Baron Bodissey have tremendous writeups of the Gathering of Eagles counter-protest in Washington. The motivation? There was another big anti-war rally today in Washington DC, and an anarchist website tipped its hand by announcing that they intended to vandalize the Vietnam War Memorial as part of the action, as they did More About: Ring , Test
The Problem with Plame's Testimony
Valerie Plame t...
2007-03-17 22:04:00 The Problem with Plame's Test imony Valerie Plame testified yesterday that she "played no part in deciding to send her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, on a mission to Niger in 2002 to assess the reliability of reports that Iraq's then-president, Saddam Hussein, was trying to buy yellowcake uranium from that country for use in a secret nuclear weapons program." According to More About: With
The Washington Post and Geneive Abdo's ode to Shar...
2007-03-17 16:01:00 The Wash ington Post and Gene ive Abdo's ode to Sharia Geneive Abdo, writing in The Washington Post , offers a disturbing appraisal of the Secular Islam Summit (hat tip: LGF). ...The self-proclaimed secularists represent only a small minority of Muslims. The views among religious Muslims from CAIR more closely reflect the views of the majority... If this is true, Abdo should be anything but happy
Line o' the Day
Their proposition that we should l...
2007-03-17 01:22:00 Line o' the Day Their proposition that we should let the extremists win in Iraq and that will reduce terrorism is like saying, let Hitler take France and that will secure things a bit more. Or that if only we hadn’t taken on Hitler he wouldn’t have bombed the East End. It’s a completely fatuous proposition. For the extremists, it’s fantastic that people are saying this —because the logical More About: Hat , Should , That , Line , Posi
Blue Dog Democrats Redux
Dan Riehl:
Matt Stoller ...
2007-03-15 02:30:00 Blue Dog Demo crats Redux Dan Riehl: Matt Stoller has a post up at MyDD. Below are the so-called Blue Dog Democrat s not in line on the supplemental bill. Liberal activists are targeting them for pressure. If you are from one of these districts, consider applying a little pressure the other way. These are all Dems serving in moderate to somewhat conservative districts. Let them know that deserting More About: Blue
US Taxpayers funding TNN: the Terrorist News Netwo...
2007-03-13 02:30:00 US Tax payers funding TNN: the Terror ist News Network Joel Mowbray, writing in today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required), offers a startling insight into the Middle East's information war: U.S. taxpayers fund an alternative to Al-Jazeera. The Al-Hurra network was once a voice for secular democracy, human rights, and peace. It was once a voice against terrorism. Iraqi More About: Fun , Funding
Kudos to Ted Koppel
I visited the invaluable Newsb...
2007-03-12 01:01:00 Kudos to Ted Koppel I visited the invaluable News busters site this evening and almost fell out of my chair after reading Noel Sheppard's latest post. Ted Koppel, former host of Nightline, was interviewed by Tim Russert on Meet the Press this morning. I won't spoil the surprise. Here's what happened next: Koppel: I made a little note here of something that Ambassador Khalilzad said to you a More About: Site , Kudos , Visi , Visit
UK Channel 4: The Great Global Warming Swindle
Fro...
2007-03-11 15:29:00 UK Channel 4: The Great Global War ming Swindle From UK's Channel 4, a fascinating -- if politically incorrect -- documentary of monumental importance. You must watch this video. And be sure and pass it on to your friends. Some of the highlights: Careful analysis of solar activity for the past 100 years... ...and the past 400 years link Earth's temperatures with solar activity. Over 500 More About: Wind
Is Al Gore's Inconvenient Fiction a $250 Billion S...
2007-03-10 15:03:00 Is Al Gore 's Inconvenient Fiction a $250 Bill ion Scam? A quick recap: Records show that Al and Tipper Gore paid a monthly gas-and-electric bill of $2,400 for their 20-room mansion and related outbuildings. That includes $500 a month for their poolhouse. Gore claimed that he bought "carbon offsets" to make up for his $30K annual energy tab. Where did he buy offsets? From Generation Investment More About: Lion
Associated Press Parade of Stupidity - Chapter 6,0...
2007-03-10 02:13:00 Associated Press Para de of Stupid ity - Chapter 6,033 LGF describes yet another case of APPCS (Associated Press Political Correctness Syndrome). In the Phillipines, a Christian preacher suggested that extremists who murder in the name of religion might be misguided. Said extremists called for his beheading. I guess that'll cure him. And the Associated Press, responsible for covering the More About: Soci
AP Parade of Stupidity, chapter 3,063
AP headline ...
2007-03-09 03:30:00 AP Para de of Stupid ity , chapter 3,063 AP headline (hat tip: TigerHawk and Larwyn): "House Democrats to unveil Iraq war plan" Next week, Democrats intend to unveil plans to defeat Hitler and the spread of Soviet-dominated Communism. Update 18:23 ET: Oops. It looks like the AP realized its mistake and 'repaired' the headline so as not to disclose the Democrats' Roadmap for Terrorists. "Thanks, More About: Head , Parade
"Rendering... nuclear weapons impotent and obsolet...
2007-03-09 03:00:00 "Rendering... nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" There's this: I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. -- Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, March 23, 1983 and then there's this: ...a group More About: Nuclear , Ring , Weapons , Clear , Ender
Presidential Idol
I don't feel no ways tired!
I...
2007-03-08 03:18:00 Presidential Idol I don't feel no ways tired! I come too far from where I started from! Nobody told me that the road would be easy! I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me. * * * (polite applause) * * * Thank y'all. Thank y'all very, very much. Ah really appreciate it! I'm sorry, dog, but it wasn't a good choice. It really didn't work for me. Honestly, it sounded More About: Residential , President , Presidential , Side
Concerning a Digg-style site for political news
Th...
2007-03-07 03:24:00 Concerning a Digg-style site for political news The incredibly popular LGF site, operated by Charles Johnson, has suffered a series of attacks on the popular Digg site. A certain band of --er-- left wing zealots has censored nearly all LGF stories from appearing on Digg's front-page. They do so by marking each and every story -- no matter how newsworthy -- as spam (such as this, this, and this) More About: News , Political , Political News , Politica , Site
Line o' the Day
It may not be Hillary's fault that...
2007-03-07 00:15:00 Line o' the Day It may not be Hill ary 's fault that her voice sounds like it was fashioned from metal, but it is her fault that she sounds like a car alarm when she's handed a microphone. --Kathleen Parker More About: Hat , That , Line
Al Gore: "Warm up the escape pod, Tipper!"
Al Gore...
2007-03-06 03:30:00 Al Gore : "War m up the escape pod, Tipper!" Al Gore came under fire last week from The Tennessee Center for Policy Research. The organization issued a report which said that during August 2006 Gore burned through 22,619 kilowatt-hours at his house; which is more than twice the electricity than an average American family uses in an entire year. Eco-warrior Al Gore congratulates GIM Chairman Al More About: Pod , Al Gore , Cape
Carbon credits for sale!
I noticed this exciting o...
2007-03-06 01:38:00 Carbon credits for sale! I noticed this exciting opportunity over at Wizbang, where commenter jhow66 offers a unique deal on carbon credits: If anyone wants to buy "carbon credits", I sell them for $25.00 per large zip-lock bag. This way instead of farting into the open air, I will fart into the bag and close it fast. This will cut down on the amount of methane released into the air which then More About: For Sale , Credit , Sale , Carbon
Al Gore: Eco-profiteer, Savvy Investor, or ...?
A ...
2007-03-04 20:10:00 Al Gore : Eco-profiteer, Savvy Investor , or ...? A quick recap: Records show that Al and Tipper Gore paid a monthly gas-and-electric bill of $2,400 for their 20-room mansion and related outbuildings. That includes $500 a month for their poolhouse. Gore claimed that he bought "carbon offsets" to make up for his $30K annual energy tab. Where did he buy offsets? From Generation Investment More About: Al Gore , Profit , Vest
The Gore-Milken Connection: Global-Warming Junk Bo...
2007-03-03 15:21:00 The Gore -Milk en Connection : Global-War ming Junk Bonds? In April 2005, Al Gore gave an "engaging and accessible presentation" about the trends and implications of global warming to a rapt audience at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. In addition to touting his now-infamous global warming predictions, Gore also stated, "We can’t sell our cars in China... We don’t meet their More About: Global Warming
Line o' the Day
Nanolube. Just Nanolube.
Hat tip...
2007-03-03 14:22:00 Line o' the Day Nano lube. Just Nanolube. Hat tip: Nuke Gingrich More About: Line , The D
Print out your own Carbon Credits!
Records show th...
2007-03-02 03:00:00 Print out your own Carbon Credit s! Records show that Al and Tipper Gore paid a monthly gas-and-electric bill of $2,400 for their 20-room mansion and related buildings. That includes $500 a month for their poolhouse. Gore assuaged his guilt by buying "carbon offsets" to make up for his $30K annual energy tab. Well, I've got spectacular news! Carbon Credits aren't just for the filthy rich any More About: Show , Your , Print
"Cars are saving the planet"
NewBusters reports on...
2007-02-28 02:40:00 "Cars are saving the planet" NewBuster s reports on a fascinating op-ed published in, of all places, the Atlanta Journal Constitution. University of Georgia's David Lee, an economics professor, offers a startling insight into emissions: ...Based on a recent study by the Food and Agricultural Organization, The Independent reports that "livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the greenhouse More About: Planet , Report , Port
The Associated Press Parade of Stupidity, chapter ...
2007-02-28 01:50:00 The Associated Press Para de of Stupid ity , chapter 16,212 Witness Mark Lavie's blurb on the first Arab President... of Israel: ...Arabs, who make up about 20 percent of Israel's population of 7 million, have suffered from decades of discrimination at the hands of successive governments, landing them in the top percentiles of unemployment and bottom rankings in income and education... As opposed More About: Soci
A donation has been made in your name
Friends of S...
More articles from this author:2007-02-27 03:30:00 A donation has been made in your name Friend s of Science has produced a set of climate change myths and facts. Why do I get the distinct impression that "global warming" hysteria is simply Al Gore's version of George Costanza's fraudulent charity? More About: Your , Nation , Donation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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