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Al Gore’s on Capitol Hill today to talk about his science! So is Newt Gingrich, for no apparent reason. But back to Al Gore! Here’s Tennessee meanie Rep. Marsha Blackburn calling Al Gore an evil criminal, just looking for a profit like your average dyed-in-the-wool socialist. (?). Then he tells her, hey Marsha, don’t you even go there, Marsha. And below we have Al Gore taking question from everyone’s favorite hero, Joe Barton. Al tells Joe that sometimes the corporations tell lies. As if Joe doesn’t know. Hey John Warner’s there too! How about that.
Gore To Blackburn [YouTube]
Gore: ‘The Bernie Madoffs of Global Warming’ [YouTube]
Retard fight!!
the teabaggers and the anti-global warming peeps need to get together and consolidate their wingnutty-ness, like propelling flaming teabags into giant papier mache globes. just sayin.
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Cool! Now that Michelle Bachman has turned the corner from “Crazy-Hot” to just plain fucking crazy, I need a new MILF-ish wingnut to obsess over. Thanks for coming to my rescue, Representative Blackburn!
How does a state produce both Al Gore (and his illustrious father) and that sanctimonious, privileged harpy straight out of hell, Marsha Blackburn?
It’s a mystery.
Marsha. Marsha. Marsha.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! Who knew the eldest Brady daughter turned into a cunt?
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Crab1: (?)
Custerwolf:
Jinx
ManchuCandidate: She’s just jealous cuz Al’s purtier than her.
I truly respect Al Gore and his dedication to this issue — but everytime he extemporaneously argues a point I agree with, I brace myself for something bombastic and stupid to come out of his mighty yap.
that barton is terrifying to look at - since when is a ghost eligible to run for congress???
god i love that he loses his patience, i really, really do.
and wow, they are the dumb. the super dumb, and they’ve never talked to bernie madoff! never!
Does every freaking woman over 35 in the USA dye their hair blonde? Blonde dyed hair and tramp stamps make white America great.
Clarksville, huh? What are the odds she’s an Austin Peay grad?
::Google:: Mississippi State, major in retail marketing. Sheesh, Austin Peay would be a step up.
Yeah, she’s an idiot. But hey, she’s the first person from TN (besides Al) I’ve heard who can deliver the English language in a way I can unnerstan’
So bonus points for being an idiot with good enunciation.
Guys, you can just admit it now: you want to see Blackburn & Bachmann in girl-on-girl porn. There that’s out of the way now.
I did like how Al just about stone-cold busts into laughter.
SayItWithWookies: I agree - however, he couldn’t have better mimed, “Marsha, you ignorant fucking slut” if he’d tried.
CrunchyKnee: Welcome to the South.
Al Gore, you are a beautiful man. Were it that I leaned that way, I would totally suck your toes.
He should know better. It’s only OK to profit from your politics when it involves killing people in other countries.
Lazy Media: You never see a politician with a tech(useful)nical degree.
Min: I take it back. Tennessee didn’t produce her. Mississippi did.
Socialism — a system of government that tries to take away my God-given right to tell gross lies and to profit from them.
Man, you’ve gotta LOVE Southern bitches. They can insult you and still do it with a sweet smile and a little twang in their voice.
CougTard.
“I never talked to Bernie Madoff!” I 100% believe Barton thinks that’s what AL Gore was accusing him of doing.
“I had a constituent ask me this, sir. Let’s call her M. Cocoaroast. It’s just for clarifi-cay-shun!”
*cough* cuntrollop *cough*
SCUZE ME!
“I stipulate that.”
WHY DOES BERNIE MADOFF HATE THE ENVIRONMENT?!?11?
I’m not saying that you’re a father raper, I’m just saying what people have asked me.
Oh and check out the big brain on Barton. Reptilian eyes.
I love the way Al TALKS SLOWLY AND LOUDLY TO TEH WINGNUTZ CUZ THATS ALL THEY UNDERSTAND. Good job, Mr. President should have been, but, if you had been rightfully seated, then we wouldn’t have Barry and that would have upset the plans to put Barry in office that were set in motion the day he was born with the FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!1!1!
SayItWithWookies: I was thinking the same damn thing. It’s like trying to be a member in Moveon.org. Barry would have stone-cold popped a smile, flirted with Thunder Cunt, and made her look so small and insignificant that she’d never do it again. Gore engages her on this nothing trash and gives her everything she had hoped for.
“Mistah Goah, ya forgot tah men-shun thayat people in mah beloved Te-has keep producin’ twat-burgas lahk me, anotha cause o the global warmin’”
“Oh, and Ms. Blackburn? This is your ass…let me hand it to you.”
This is proof that ‘TEH HUMANS CAUSED TEH GLOBE TO WARM!’ faction are in control because they didn’t allow the actual scientists to speak, both for and against. They let all the dumb fuck retards in there to speak crazy shit that makes those of us who don’t believe that the science is EVER settled look like idiots.
Al, as a fellow greenie, I wish you were here to hold my hand as I sit listening to the logger we hired to cut trees for our rebuilding. He just felled a huge cottonwood - the only tree cut that wasn’t already dead-standing - and I swear to god, as it fell it made the most ungodly moaning sound. I’ve never heard anything like it and now I haz a sad.
Forgive me Al, for committing this act of treeson.
my golf buddy from Exxon Mobile told me that Al Gore and Ed Beagley Jr. are involved in a massive solar ponzi scheme.
C is for the Cost in taxes to me …
U is for the USA - home of the free..
N is for the naysayers, who laugh at facts and trust their prayers…
T is for the trust I lend to the bastards with their own agendas…
OReillysVibrator: Well, Madoff has as much to do with climate change as the Cowboys or the Patriots, so naturally it follows that Gore is accusing Barton of being the mastermind of a massive ponzi scheme.
Crab1: How soon we forget. Jimmy Carter has a degree in engineering. Nuf said.
Al’s stomach may be a tad large, but it’s sure a lot stronger than mine.
Custersdeadhorse: I was born in 1982.
Just what the fuck does NFL football have to do with anything, especially the environment? Ugh. I’m going back to that craigslistkiller/panty collection link, now.
Custerwolf: Plant some trees later. You’ll feel better.
Of course, it’s totally okay for oil company executives to support legislation that makes profit for oil companies. But why be consistent. Also.
I think the biggest shocker is that Barton slipped and said the Patriots are the “Boston Patriots” and not the “New England Patriots” before stopping himself. What kind of self-respecting Texan doesn’t know their football?
Mad Farmer Manifest: Thanks buddy.
Al does not seem to suffer fools too well.
I can’t even bring myself to watch the Barton clip. But, I wish, just once, someone like Gore would look at Barton and those like him, knowing just how much they hate them fur-n-ners, and say:
“Come on guys, let’s stick it to those A-rab mother f*ckers and build us some good old Made in the U.S.A. wind turbines and solar panels! Jobs for real Americans! No more U.S.A. dollars for A-rabs! No more U.S.A. dollars borrowed from the commie Chinese! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A!”
Al, sometimes, you just gotta speak in language your audience will understand. Just think of the “national security” agrument for clean energy as the “red neck” argumemnt.
NoWireHangers: What I hate the most about that mean little bitch is her coyness. “Constituents want to know.” She’s like M. Malkin, telling Chris Matthews “Well, some people are saying Kerry shot himself on purpose to win a medal. ” (At which point he said “not on my show,” and she never appeared on MSM again).
Blackburn comes by her southern belleness honestly, but I don’t know Malkin’s excuse. I hated these women in high school down here in the Dust Bowl and say now what I said then, “Just say what you mean, bitch.” Fuck, I hate dishonest people. And stupid people. Where’s that fucking troll? I need someone to vent on.
Well blimey, elected wingnuts are pretty much exactly like wingnut message board trolls. They jump in and yell at you about something they know jack shyte about then sit back looking smug thinking to themselves “yeah, I gotcha!” completely unaware of their own jackassedness.
Custerwolf: Yes, I liked the “I know perfectly well what you’re doing.” It was the “you don’t know me” bit that bugged me, and I was glad he stopped at that and didn’t get all Hollywood indignant. Frank Zappa was about the only celebrity who could pull that off. Sigh…
The Cold Sea: I can totally see it– Osama Bin Laden worked in conjunction with Sleeper Agent Katherine Harris to devise the butterfly ballot, thus confusing a bunch of Old Jews in Palm Beach and setting into motion a plot that would eventually lead to a Muslin taking over the White House who will then use a “fake” DHS reports to have members of ACORN arrest right wing talk show hosts, throw Militia Members into FEMA concentration camps, and force everyone else to drive Prius’s at gunpoint as America becomes a Socialist Fascist Caliphate.
It’s diabolical.
When the oil company front-men (and women) point out that the earth’s temperature rose back in ‘0 minus 2000, or whatever the year it was that Greenland was green, I wish someone would point out that, yes, that’s true, but if we’d had the carbon emissions of today to exacerbate the situation, would anyone but fish still be alive?
You know, if you’re house is on fire, maybe it’s better to use water on the flames than kerosene.
Come here a minute: At 4:53 p.m., Representative Barton was found dead in his office from a self-inflicted gunshot. His suicide note stated that Barton concluded Al Gore had manipulated the weather to irrefutably frame Congressman Barton for the Madoff ponzi scheme, all in a plot to ensure global warming prevents the Cowboys from ever winning another Superbowl.
bitchincamaro: I dunno, but I bet the Patriots were authorities knee-deep in the NSA spying that’s been going on.
Lazy Media: Retail marketing? Isn’t that just a perfect major for a future politician?! At least she probably knows how to count which no doubt trumps Palin’s five years studying “communications.”
rachelv: Hey, ghosts are white. You got a problem wit dat?
DustBowlBlues: Tweety drives me straight up a wall sometimes, but I also give him credit for cutting Malkin off at the knees. I was watching that night and he said she would never be on his show again, and she hasn’t been. He was pretty calm about it, too. Not his usual huffing and spitting.
hahahaha
more pissed-off Gore please!
Where was this Al Gore in 2000?
Custersdeadhorse: Herbert Hoover? Engineer. Case closed.
How dare that Congresswoman accuse Al Gore of greed! Al Gore is a robot sent from the future to save the world. He has no interest in your ephemeral “dollars”, you blonde trollop. (because he knows they’ll be worthless in a few years when we switch to Ameros)
Lazy Media: And most engineers I know are Paultards or Neal Boortz followers. Most engineers think politics should work like engineering, where there’s one right answer if you can just devise the perfect, mechanistic set of rules.
Custersdeadhorse: Its not as impressive but bad president Hoover was an engineer too.
Lazy Media: That’ll teach me not to read to the end first.
Hell no it won’t.
Lazy Media:
You’re right.
Many of my fellow engineers are paultarded (some of us are sane, I swear!), but not as bad as IT guys in my experience. Oft times you will find that William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Ayn Rand are the only non IT books on an IT guy’s book shelf.
CrunchyKnee: I will stipulate that I am a woman over 35 how HASN’T dyed their hair blonde. I am also not a cunt. Is there a connection there?
ManchuCandidate: True dat. Most of my Paultarded or Boortzian friends are software engineers, combining the worst of both worlds when it comes to politics. I majored in aerospace engineering myself for four years, so I’m talking about my own tribe here.
OReillysVibrator:Ha. I see what you did, there.
I see a puny right-wing conspiracy kinda sorta developing here, sputtering around then farting. I bet they really miss all that power they abused for the last eight years. They need to punch some teabags to relieve all that anger.
I wish Barton’s time really would expire. He sounded like a total idiot and looks like he suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
ihasasad: then you should set up your hobo tent on a median strip. Away from the crowds. Since you dont mind the pollution from cars………….
or the oceans turning acidic, coral reefs disappearing world wide, cleaning up teh inevitable oil slicked beach, dead zones from oil based fertilizers, mercury contamination, or the massive species die off on Earth. (none of this is technically ‘climate change’, just simple pollution by oil/coal/gas industries)
WIDTAP: Do you not remember the 2000 presidential debates? With the scandalous eye rolling and sighing every time Dubya opened his pretzel hole. I love Al Gore. I must admit I had a bit of a crush on him during the 2000 election (I was 12 at the time and yes, a major nerd)
badmuthagoose: Master Barton’s time has expired. And so has mine thinking about his smooth, supple hands. Back in 15 min. Catch u later
Bruno: Master Barton’s time has expired…
Everybody needs to take time for some good ol’ Master Barton.
sati demise: I totally believe that we’re polluting this globe, and it’s not just the oil/coal/gas industries. I actually donut need the scientists or the Al Gore or the wackjobs in congress to tell me about that. Don’t need fancy computer models that may or may not be looking at every factor involved either.
But when you start talking about human caused global warming (that is only called that when it’s hot out) and then change it to human caused global climate change when it isn’t so warm and say that the data is in and there’s no need to discuss this any more because we’re right and you’re wrong the end, then i’ve got a problem.
Good scientist would never stop studying and would never be so pompous to say they know something is 100% fact and put it on a shelf and never look at it again. A good scientist knows his/her limits of knowledge on a topic and would constantly be open to new information.
And I find it interesting that we can have opinions on all sorts of topics but when it comes to this one it’s quite black and white, you’re either with us or against us. Why do you think that is? I’d really like to know.
I recycle, have a compost pile, don’t drive very much, turn lights off when not in a room (even when I’m in a room sometimes), throw my garbage in an actual trash can, plant plants, and bitch at my family to do the same, have nylon grocery bags and take very short showers. I’m a commie-pinko-longhair-hippie-liberal for christ’s sake.
I guess my fear is this: What if you’re wrong? What if we come to find out that in the entire scheme of things our contribution to actual climate change is negligible? What if we find out that it’s actually a combination of two or three factors that are natural?
Those who are all about it being human caused have behaved like the rightwing nut jobs when talking about the war: “You’re either with us or against us! Get out of my country! You just want to give the terrorists aid and comfort!”
I’ve had enough of closed minds.
ihasasad: You make the same amateur mistake of confusing ‘climate’ with ‘weather’ that real scientists have to correct over and over and over ad infinitum.
If they are ‘wrong’ and we crack down on carbon polluters, then we will have cleaner environments in all sectors, air, water, soil.
If they are ‘right’ and we do nothing then look for increased desertification, rising ocean levels, mass migrations of environmental refugees, &etc
I, for one, am glad that rivers do not catch on fire anymore.
ihasasad: i actually think it’s a good idea to question strongly held beliefs occasionally, however in this case you miss the point. it took loooooong time for all that loose carbon to be sequestered by our earth mama, then in the blink of an eye (in geologic time) we, humans like us, decide to release it from its earthly bounds and burn it. what’s the worst could happen, eh? at the time, hell even now, people just don’t seem to believe that a puny species like ours could actually change our environment. i don’t know how old you are but i’m old enough to remember lots and lots of song birds,butterflies in abundance and frogs, frogs,frogs everywhere. i know it’s anecdotal and it’s subtle but none the less real. go read a book.
sati demise: I readily admit I’m an amateur. I don’t go around talking like I’m an expert. I’m ready to listen to the scientists who disagree with this movement because I know that I’m not an expert and am an amateur. I’m not comfortable with other amateurs getting on a soap box and preaching to me and telling me that that the science is in and there should be no debate. What will happen if this movement is wrong is that policy on the environment from that point forward will be very difficult. We’re going to have another republican president in the future, I’m sure, and that president won’t have any problems with rolling back environmental policies that we already have in place, not to mention whatever gets put in place between now and this future time, saying that the close minded movement of the left was wrong and on top of that they had no problem shutting down communication. I would like what’s best for the environment and I would like for it to stick. The way this movement is behaving concerns me. The attitude to immediately label someone as insane, stupid, an idiot, a loser, a hobo etc. ad infinitum who questions the movement ticks me off. I will question the agenda of any movement that tells me not to.
Superman would crush all the carbon pollution into a big diamond. You, Mr Gore, are no Superman.
ihasasad:
Environmental issues aside, diversifying our energy sources
1. Stops funding our enemies (y’know, the other wingnuts),
2. Saves us a lot of money, and
3. Creates a whole new industry that cannot be out-sourced.
Unfortunately, it requires government action to get the hoopleheads (who feel they should be able to consume as much energy as they please, damn the consequences) to see the light.
Country Club Jihadi: Win.
engulfedinflames: I believe it’s always healthy to have a Devil’s Advocate. How in the world could it hurt? If nothing else is strengthens the argument and forces the side that thinks it’s right to step back and address weaknesses in the position or to look at alternatives and either say they are equally correct or that they are not. Why is this being pushed without debate? It’s this idea that the movement thinks it’s infallible that makes me nervous. The Catholic Church even uses a Devil’s Advocate when inducting saints (at least they used to).
I think that it is only the amateurs, the every day people, who honestly want what is best for the planet (and maybe some scientists) but I also believe that politicians and other scientists have an agenda that puts saving the planet down as a byproduct of what they are really after. You may say that you don’t care as long as the earth is made better. That way of thinking makes me uncomfortable.
I haven’t lived in the same place long enough to notice a rise or decline in a species. Where I am now we have lots of song birds, at least two frogs and a bunch of deer, and the interstate is in my back yard. I don’t know what this place looked like when I was a kid though. Where I lived as a kid I remember song birds, crawdaddys and bees. I’ve read Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey and know I haven’t seen what they saw.
I remember being in college when some volcano erupted (Pinatubo?) and we had spectacular sunsets here in the US. (and according to wiki the temps around the globe dropped by .9 degrees F) I know that our puny species can create a mess but mama earth can make a big mess too.
Servo: I’m all for that!
I remember having a professor who was part of a team that looked into using some sort of rock, a kind of shale (say it outloud and you sound like a true southerner, two syllables please) to use in the place of oil (this was back in ‘91 or so).
And instead of making ethanol out of corn that either we eat or that livestock eats, why not used the left overs of paper plants? or my grass clippings? How many idiots set their leaves and grass in plastic bags by the road to have the garbage truck take them?
ihasasad: paper mills. ha!
Jesus friggin’ Christ, I come here for the snark and the buttsecks and the making with the funny and whatnot. What’s with all the global warming doubters and anti-Commies and other trolls the last couple of days? Is it Breitbart’s fault? ‘Cause I’ll go key his car or stomp his face in or something.
I hope we’re back to acorns and teleprompterz on Monday. It’s like comedy comfort food in these hard times.
ihasasad: You tell em. Everyone is so sure about there global warming, it was cold as hell here today! I had to wear two coats! And gloves, and it’s almost May. There was songbirds, but they were shivering, you could see there breath, ha! Also.
ihasasad: What you remember is the expensive and energy wasting method of getting oil out of layers of shale deposits in Colorado. They all went bust. It is an ecological waste to process oil from these deposits.
Same with the oil/tar sands in Canada..but they are mining the oil sands right now. Oil scientists were predicting that when peak oil hits, we would be mining the tar sands in Canada. We are mining the tar sands.
They also suspect that the Saudis have much less in reserves than is ever reported. Think the Saudis would lie to us about how much oil they have? noooo?
The reasons to start up with renewable energy are many. Using sources that will eventually run out is one of them.
Unless we have a way to mine coal without mountaintop removal, if we could get the mercury out of coal (I would like to be able to eat the fish I catch in Vermont without wondering how much mercury is in that fillet, damit), if we had a way to safely store the toxic fly ash produced by burning coal, if we could sequester the carbon from burning coal…..if we were not funding terrible governments in the Middle East by buying 70% of the oil we use, on and on. Great reasons to develop alternative energy.
Industrial Hemp would be a great answer for bio-fuel. And they are developing types of algae to make bio-fuels. We have subsidized big oil and dirty coal and toxic nuclear long enough. Any new industry will create jobs in this country. We lost 8 years with the Cheney oil cabal.
Know who has the most current patents on electric cars? Japan. Know who is the world leader in solar technology? Germany. In fact the two solar project being built in Arizona and Nevada are using industrial solar panels made in Germany (which has some of the highest labor costs in the world). We cannot continue to let the oil lobby run our energy policy if we want to be a top player in the 21st Century world economy.
Al said, “I don’t know what ya heard about me, but I’m a motherfucking P-I-M-P.”
Custerwolf: Thanks, Custerwolf, you just killed Treebeard…
Gun-toting Progressive: Yes yes Ms. Blackburn is cute, but like down on the farm cute, not slutty hot crazy cute like Michelle Bachmann. In other words, DO NOT TAKE SHELLEY’S NAME IN VAIN SHE IS STILL TO BE DESIRED YOU WILL BE DRAWN TO THE CRAZY BLUE EYES. Blackburn probably doesn’t even blumpkin on the first date. I guarantee you Shelley does & much much more. Just not with her gay husband.
sati demise:
I with you.
imissopus:
sorry! it was late/i had a sad/i like the minds on this here site and wanted to talk/please forgive?
why don’t we exhume all the dead bodies/ burn them and turn them into diamonds and sell them to china to buy our country back?
What is this, weekend revenge on Wonkette because Jim, Ken, and Sara spend their weekends in alcoholic catatonia and can’t defend themselves? You people don’t understand. This is a war blog. We get our marching orders during the week, when advertisers are paying attention. WE WILL BURY YOU.
Texan Bulldoggette says at 3:57 pm, April 24th, 2009 - ReplyGuys, you can just admit it now: you want to see Blackburn & Bachmann in girl-on-girl porn. There that’s out of the way now.
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Well no, I want them to be happy and have a 3 way with OJ “Black Snake Moan” Simpson!
ihasasad
If you read up on the history of climate science you will quickly learn that the debate you think we should have has already been had… over and over again. No one is saying that the science is 100% proven, that is a strawman. What the vast, vast, vast majority of ACTIVE climate scientists do say is that AGW is real, and that the consequences could be very, very dire if we do not begin to act NOW. The IPCC is made up of active climate scientist from every single country on Earth, and they have concluded as such.
The debate that you think we should be having is not happening because no one has produced nearly enough evidence to contradict AGW. That is the bottom line.
also.
sati demise:
What’s sickening is the engineering genius the oil companies use to drill for oil can be easily used to drill deep into hot rock layers to power geothermal plants. Unlike oil, that heat will never go away.
The Cold Sea: ACORN rigged the 2000 election!!! GWB was a plant by ACORN to establish our Kenyan Bastard in Chief Hussein. B Osama!!
I hate her so much. Right wing inbred Tennessee tool, the epitome of everything that’s wrong with America, a common Fox News gutter whore with delusions of grandeur. Representing a random stretch of TN with nothing of interest in it. Fuck her.
No snark today…I’ve hated that bitch for a long time. Too bad her district is so fucking stupid it’ll never be a swing.
As much as I love Al he might want to check with his trust administrators before he gets all “I’ve never profited one cent” on the Congress. You never know what you might have in a blind trust despite the most explicit of instructions.
And it didn’t really seem like he answered the question in the second half of video two. But the Madoff analogy was pretty good, even if it did (or because) stump Rep. Cornhole.
grandcooliedamn: Oh god. Now I REALLY feel bad!! Actually I think it’s best if I refrain from anthropomorphisizing the tree folk. It brings back too many memories of when I was a kid. I would visit my grandparents place every sunday and across the street from them lived a couple (husband and wife tree) who used to scare me. They were very grouchy and mean. I have no explanation. I only know they scared me. I think they’re were some sort of hedge actually. So never mind. Still.
MarvintheCat: He answered Rep. Cornhole. You have to speak very simply and clearly to teh wingnuts. The Goricle said, in a nice way, this translation:
“Although you mean well, all your information on this subject is bad”…”not quite your fault, but the Corporate Oil companies have been liars about this subject for 14 years, covering up their own scientists reports. They give you money to support their cause to cover up these falsehoods for profit. Do not continue to believe a proven liar.”
These Dirty Fucking Hippies actually want to SPEND MONEY to save America’s ass?!?
Aha! There you have it: yet more proof that Obama is a closet socialist Muzlin! Science only has a 99.5% consensus on this whole crazy AGW theory thing - & note that they STILL can’t conclusively disprove that it’s actually linked to Hollow Earth troglodytes conspiring to take prayer out of American schools … Teach The Controversy!
Ha, ha. I enjoy it when whore bags are handed their butts. Thanks.