The REAL winner of the 2000 presidential election won an Oscar last night…Woohoo!:
Ha ha, the right wingers did not win an Oscar because of their constant attitude of, “We love corporate welfare at the expense of the planet and don’t care if the people and animals are suffering at all!” got them nothing. Maybe next year you filthy Pigs!
Congratulations Al! We are so proud of you! *THUMBS UP*
Rep. Alan Grayson's response to Sarah Palin saying he should be voted out of office:
"I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them"
(CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO QUOTE)
"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
I am so please for Mr. Gore! Now, let’s see what he has to say in September about 2008.
Woohoo! Let’s hope he announces he’s going to save the country from the filthy rotten Pigs in the White House! That would completely make my life at this point Christopher.
What about poor George? He won the hearts of corporate America and in his worthless mind that is better and a shiny Oscar.
Kay, You and me both! I’m really worried Queen Hillary may get in.
LOL Larry. Bush don’t count. I’d rather kick and spit on him then see his face. The End.
Well, if Queen Hillary does get in then I have to vote for her because I can’t vote for a republican ever again and I refuse to waste my vote on Nader. Not voting is not an option either! So, Hillary it is.
I have a feeling she won’t be on the ticket. Americans want change and there are so many more wonderful candidates out there! Al Gore is one of them.
GORE/OBAMA 2008
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Give poor George his due. He is loved by the wealthy and in his mind the rest doesn’t count.
Beside Condi is Bush’s trophy.
I bet Condi is Bush’s barmaid too, Larry. I bet there’s nothing that woman wouldn’t do for him! She’s addicted to evil.
Smoke! Al Sharpton is the man. He’s been riding that donkey ever since and he’d make a fiiiiiiiiiiiiine president for sure.
Condi has a new rival in the witch from Minnesota who planted her tarnished lips on Bush’s evil tongue at the State of the Union speech.
Condi’s been fighting for whitey her entire career. She’s a classic Aunty Juanita.
Condi’s ass keeps her in the “big house”. Remember that photo of bush leering at it? If I knew where to find it, I’d post it. GREAT shot, very telling of bush’s ……character.
Call me silly, but it doesn’t seem that Gore would have made the clever announcement joke during the Oscars if he had ruled out running. Since last night I am more convinced that he will.
I agree with Kay on Hillary. The last choice among Dems is miles ahead of the first choice among the GOP.
On the Oscar, kudos to Al. I wish Bush would steal it and give back the Presidency, though.
I’m thinking along the same lines as Mirth. It would be a cagey move for Gore to let the GOP vent their attacks on the current candidates and announce considerably later.
i agree
im happy al won.
now he needs to lead the country and save the world.
Just imagine the possibilites of a Gore presidency!
*be still my heart*
Chris From Maine, I completely agree with you about Wes Clark. But rather than him as president (which would also be wonderful), his best participation in the restoration of our country would be, mho, as Sec of Def.
Gore won an oscar and Cheney makes a cartoon;
http://extras.sltrib.com/bagley/
Mirth, Wesley Clark would Make a great Sec of State, and a better Sec Of Def would be Ex senator Sam Nunn of Georgia since he understands the intricacies of congress and would be able to work around the re-pubies there. Given the intelligence of Clark and the Fact he has served around the world in the military he would be easily a much better Sec of State than even Colin “the sell out” Powell was supposed to be.
Whoa! I hadn’t thought about Sam Nunn. I don’t know a lot about him, but your analysis of his experience and how that could benefit cooperation between Defense and Congress makes perfect sense. Clark as Sec of State also hadn’t occured to me…but that’s why you are so valued here, Professor. We all want to learn and you are a great teacher.
Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. (born September 8, 1938) is an American businessman and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for twenty-four years as a United States Senator from Georgia (1972 until 1996) as a member of the Democratic Party. His political experience and strong credentials on national defense reportedly put him into consideration as a potential running mate for Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election.
More here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Nunn
Ha! You beat me to it. I have a note on my piled-up desk that reads Goggle Sam Nunn.
Wanna see how smart Bin Laden is and how he plays Bush like the foole Bush really is;
Okay, it seems we need more updates on why Dick Cheney is too dangerously incompetent to have in any position of authority, let alone the vice presidency. You’ll see for instance that this morning Cheney showed up in Islamabad warning President Musharraf that al Qaeda is “regrouping” along the Pakistani border. Musharraf must be a little confused since, didn’t we sign off on the armistice his government signed with the jihadists and their protectors just a few months ago?
More to the point, last week Cheney claimed that Nancy Pelosi’s position on Iraq would validate al Qaeda since al Qaeda’s goal in Iraq is to show that our will can be broken. Reed Hundt chimed in and pointed out that it’s far more likely that al Qaeda’s goal is to bait us into ridiculous and unwinnable wars that will sap our military strength and financial power.
Now, as it happens, in response to Reed’s post, commenter Tom Hilton flagged this passage from the article James Fallows wrote last year in which he wrote …
Documents captured after 9/11 showed that bin Laden hoped to provoke the United States into an invasion and occupation that would entail all the complications that have arisen in Iraq. His only error was to think that the place where Americans would get stuck would be Afghanistan.
Bin Laden also hoped that such an entrapment would drain the United States financially. Many al-Qaeda documents refer to the importance of sapping American economic strength as a step toward reducing America’s ability to throw its weight around in the Middle East.
In other words, the actual intelligence we have about what al Qaeda wants — not the usual stuff Dick Cheney makes up or gets from Ahmed Chalabi or his butler or whoever — suggests we’re playing right into their hands.
How many American deaths is this goof responsible for? And who in this country has done more to advance the al Qaeda agenda and make the US more vulnerable to attack?
– Josh Marshall
The professor is here! Hi Clif.
As of right now, I’ve not heard if a right winger will be nominated for an Oscar for next year. Ppppppbbbbbbllllllttttttt, right wingers!
Gore is so smart and wise. He just goes about his life, committed to his various causes and watches as Queen Hillary reveals herself to be a Bush-like, stubborn, knucklehead and ill suited by temperment to be president.
It’s then, probably in the fall or early next year, he pounces and tosses his hat in the race. Effectively blowing everyone else out of the field.
Gore will ask Barack to be his running mate and he, Gore, will be sworn in January, 2009. Then the cleanup from 8 long, years, of Bush/Cheney and their evil destruction can begin.
Gore won’t run. He is a big time movie producer and is looking for his next project – The Mind Of George W Bush, a documentary of what goes on in the mind of an idiot and a self righteous moron.
Bush has a mind? Huh? Who knew?
Larry, that movie would be easy to make. Just have a black screen for two hours! LOL
How dsre you say there is nothing to Bush’s mind Kay. After all in the theatre of his own mind he is really something.
The chimp has phoned the Academy and is demanding an Oscar for: ‘ Mission Accomplished. ‘
franktheliberal Says: February 26th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Condi’s ass keeps her in the “big house”. Remember that photo of bush leering at it? If I knew where to find it, I’d post it. GREAT shot, very telling of bush’s ……character.
So, FTL, which revealed more character; Condi’s ass or Lewinski’s mouth?
Larry, you’re right. I forgot to mention the cockroaches that slither around his head in the darkness. They’ve never had to scatter for cover since there hasn’t been any light in that head of his for an eternity.
LOL Ox! Let’s hope he doesn’t win.
Yo Pussboy how about YOUR sheep asshole?
Al Gore, Global Warming, the Oscars and the Iraq War
That the Al Gore film “An Inconvenient Truth” was legitimized by an Oscar Sunday night for “Best Documentary” has wider implications for the future of the United States than it might seem, though admittedly it is a small step.
We know that Exxon Mobil is a significant funder of the American Enterprise Institute and has used it to attempt to bribe “scientists” to cast doubt on global warming. Lee Raymond, who was CEO of Exxon Mobil until 2005, is the vice-chair of AEI’s board of directors.
We also know that the American Enterprise Institute is the most hawkish of the Washington “think tanks,” and that its staffers were key to thinking up and promoting the Iraq War with lies and propaganda.
A=B, B=C, therefore A=C. Exxon Mobil is a big behind the scenes player in the Iraq War by virtue of its support for AEI. In fact, I think a boycott of its gas stations is in order until the company cuts off AEI and stops promoting the Iraq War and muddying the waters on global warming. (It pledged to do the latter in the past, but obviously was lying).
So the point is that the American Enterprise Institute symbolizes the intersection of Oil and War, which are the two most menacing threats to the future of America.
Only by a Manhattan Project-scale government effort to develop green energy can we hope to avert the worst consequences of global warming, which is likely to raise sea levels at least a foot, and possibly 7 feet over the next century or century and a half. (That would put a lot of cities on both coasts under water). The arctic and antarctic ice shelfs are already falling into the ocean at rates that have astonished climate scientists. The arctic alone lost perennial ice cover the size of Texas in 2004-2005! Liquid water takes up more space than ice, and the loss of white ice cover is bad because it radiates a lot of sunlight back out to space. So it is a double whammy.
But the other problem with petroleum and gas as sources of energy is that they are getting scarcer. No big new fields have been found for some time. And in one recent year China generated 40% of new demand for petroleum. If a billion Chinese and a billion Indians adopt the American lifestyle and all want 1.5 automobiles and superhighways to crawl along on, the existing stocks of oil will become objects of fierce competition. This process has already begun, and there is a sea change from the mid-1990s, when oil was still cheap and competition for it limited.
Iraq is an Oil War in the mind of politicians like Dick Cheney. It was necessary to deny it to China and other rivals thirty to fifty years in the future. It was necessary to open its vast petroleum fields up for exploration and cast aside anti-American Baath socialism.
Likewise, the religious rigidity of the Pushtun peoples of Helmand province is not the real reason for the US insistence on occupying Afghanistan. It is the vast Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gas fields that Cheney has his eye on. It was the US hope to use a pipeline from Turkmenistan to supply Pakistan and India, and so forestall a deal by those two countries with Iran. The inability of the Bush administration to calm things down in Afghanistan sufficiently for anyone to dream of putting in such a pipeline and having it avoid routine sabotage has made it likely that Iran will break out of the Bush boycott toward the East.
Hunger for future rights to petroleum and positioning the US to remain a superpower in a world of hydrocarbon scarcity is also driving the campaign to get up a war against Iran. Why can Pakistan have a nuclear weapon, and that is all right, but Iran cannot? Pakistan has very little petroleum. Iran has a lot, and maybe 750 trillion cubic feet of gas in the southwest. If it gets a bomb, regime change becomes impossible, and if Iran wants to tie its supplies up in proprietary contracts with China and India, locking out the United States, it will be able to do so.
Continued heavy dependence on gas and oil therefore not only turns the world into a hothouse, with rising seas, ever more destructive hurricanes, and possibly disastrous shifts in the ocean currents, but it also drives the United States to more and more wars.
And, note that the wars are not even successful in allowing a practical oil grab of the sort Cheney and Lee Raymond dreamed of.
Indeed, you could now, in retrospect, turn their whole argument around on them. US militarism cannot secure petroleum and gas supplies from places such as Iraq, because the pipelines are so easily sabotaged and local nationalisms and religious activism make it impossible for people to accept that kind of US hegemony.
Since the Pentagon cannot practically speaking hope to safeguard US petroleum supplies from the Gulf, national security requires a massive and rapid research and development program of green energy. A lot of green technology, especially solar, would come down in price rapidly if enough government money were thrown at it. We need to press Congress on this, and maybe Californians can craft some of their famous referendum items. That would be one way to promote a new generation of electric cars.
Green energy– wind, thermal, solar, maybe ultimately fusion, etc.– is what would allow the US to retain its autonomy and independence into the next century, and what would allow it to avoid losing more cities the way Bush and Cheney lost New Orleans. Oil and War will, in contrast, ruin us all.
Original here;
http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/al-gore-global-warming-oscars-and-iraq.html
Thanks for the post Clif! You just made the flat-Earth neocons faint. Good.
Juan Cole is my favorite writer on the Net (besides Kay, of course).
Hey Ms Kay!
I’ve been cooking today and a delish dinner awaits, but I’ll be back to read your comment, Clif, and all the other ones by you beautiful people.
Thanks Mirth. LOL I don’t ever think I’m up there with the top dogs, but the dogs I hang out with are exceptional! (all you guys)
Hi Kay/Larry …
I loved when Ellen DeGeneres made the comment about “America did vote for Al Gore …”
I loved that too Arc! I howled knowing she was right on the money. The whole audience wrapped their arms around Gore too when she said it. He was the winner of that election. Can you imagine how our nation would be right now if he was our president? I bet bin Laden would have been caught if 9/11 had happened. I bet there would be lots of peace on the Earth and I bet our country’s reputation would still be intact!