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Al Gore was a winner even before his Oscar glory:
Sunday’s Union of Young Communist’s newspaper reported acting Cuban President Raul Castro “recognized the effort of the former vice president to denounce” global warming during a two-hour meeting with youth leaders on Friday. Cuba’s official and only television media showed Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” on prime time this month …
Gore denounced global warming! Has a bolder man ever lived? Other Oscar-related highlights include:
• Jodie Foster’s comment as she arrived at the awards during a Gore Effect coldening:
“It’s freezing! Are you kidding me?”
• Jerry Seinfeld’s reaction to passionate Oscar eco-love:
Al Gore was on stage, congratulating Leo DiCaprio for being an eco-warrior, when the camera panned to the audience – and settled unfortunately on the comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who was in the middle of an epic yawn.
• Gwyneth Paltrow’s cranial alignment:
Gwyneth Paltrow tilted her head and offered a regal wave.
Always knew she was a tilter. And:
• This Oscars-morning Gore Effect alert from Ace of Spades:
I woke up in Washington, D.C. with about 6 inches of snow on the ground and the roads too icy to travel upon. The nation’s capitol (a.k.a. Prince Albert’s hometown) was essentially shut down due to an unexpectedly severe winter storm.
- Is there a way he can win a Tony too? I love snow!Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 02 26 at 11:40 AM • permalink
- Mother Gaia is either ecstatic or greatly displeased with Al “Orson” Gore’s Oscar night performance, I can’t tell which.Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 02 26 at 11:51 AM • permalink
- Algore gets national TV time in Cuba. God, I am ecstatic that this self-centered wanker lost the election in 2000. He makes Cindy Sheehan pale in comparison when it comes to being a media whore.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 26 at 01:30 PM • permalink
- What about the beaver showing up in NYC after a 200-year absence? No doubt a pseudo-Gore Effect as Nature’s Evil Land Developer is eyeing those 20’ sea level rises!Posted by Nova Scotia Mike on 2007 02 26 at 02:37 PM • permalink
- The hysterical eco-wankfest continues as Goreifies its F1 cars with perhaps the ugliest race car livery of all time. And here I thought my eyes would go blind watching this year’s Renaults. Now we’ll be subjected to not only a putrid car, but also non-stop enviro-yammering whenever the subject turns to Honda and its “bold” “ecologically sensitive” New Style.
Sorry, Button. I hope your newly retarded team finishes every race behind Super Aguri and Spyker.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 02 26 at 02:43 PM • permalink
Is there a way he can win a Tony too? I love snow!
You mean he hasn’t taken his one-man slide show to Broadway yet? In that case, he’s missing a real bet. An Inconvenient Bunch of Warm-mongering Exaggerations, Half-truths, Outright Lies and Other Assorted BScould become a dinner theater staple, kinda like Give ‘em Hell, Harry and Mark Twain Tonight.
I have only one Oscar note: I’m glad Alan Arkin scored an upset. He’s a funny, funny man and I’ve been a fan for years. Oh, and I consider Melissa Etheridge a major musical talent. I hope her winning song wasn’t too awful. (guess that’s two Oscar notes)
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 26 at 02:44 PM • permalink
- Crispytoast : So, do I have this right – all I have to do to make my car environmentally friendly is paint it green & blue? It doesn’t matter how much fuel it burns or what kind of rubbish comes out of the exhaust pipe?
My car is already coloured green.. so all I need is a tin of blue paint to throw over it a la Pollack. Cheapest upgrade ever! Screw hybrids!
- PIMF, that should be Honda Goreifies its cars.Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 02 26 at 03:29 PM • permalink
- #11
That is very, very depressing Crispy, and only 19 dys and 7 hours to green lights.
The announcers on the NASCAR telecast over the weekend said something about some eco-measure that NASCAR was taking with their fuel now. No, I don’t remember and I don’t care. Here you have no more than 43 of the most highly efficient engines running for about three hours. They are running at an event where the sponsors encourage thousands upon thousands of not so fuel efficient cars to drive 80 to 100 miles to Fontana where they can idle for an hour in line waiting to get in the parking lot.
The absolute death of common sense and rational perspective.
- Why Dave Suzuki supports Toyota.Posted by hollingshead on 2007 02 26 at 05:18 PM • permalink
- #12, Kyda,
Thanks for reporting about Arkin. He’s long been a favorite of mine, as well, and not just as a superlative comic actor, though he’s certainly that. Arkin portrayed one of the most unrelentingly vicious criminals in Wait Until Dark(with Audrey Hepburn) I’ve ever seen, and his method was as understated as that of his comedy. Brilliant stuff! He still scares me when I watch that movie!
- O/T But a big welcome back to Media Watch, whose staff are soldiering on despite barely getting four months off for Christmas.
Rather like last year, the first ep was reasonably apolitical, but give them a few episodes before they start spouting about the Launceston Examiner’s shameful quoting of someone from the timber industry, followed by an inaccurate expose of some obscure conservative blogger.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 26 at 05:53 PM • permalink
- Quite right, Salty! Arkin’s a great all-around actor (and a superb villain), but his funny side is my favorite. He’s one of the best “re-actors” around. I love watching him react to Peter Falk’s character in The In-laws. Just thinking about that pair makes me laugh. Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 26 at 06:00 PM • permalink
- That acceptance speech in full;
“My fellow rich Americans. I really do appreciate all the effort you people have put into this thing. I understand that many of you have lost all credibility with the mainstream media, political circles, and even some of your children, in an effort to further my cause. In light of all of this it is only right of me to offer my deepest thanks to everyone who believed in me enough to take me at my word without actually researching the stuff on your own.
You guys have been a riot. It is also only fair of me to let everyone here know about the joke before I tell those unbelievers. Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the unadulterated truth; Global warming was a joke I thought of in a counselling session after my defeat by that horrid Bush person.”
Though he went on to speak for an additional 19 hours, the transcript is basically a repetition of those first couple of statements. In response to a question asked by a reporter outside the building after the men in white coats arrived, Mr. Gore said simply:
“The evidence of Global Warming? Ya, that was my idea too. I actually had my dear friends Bill and Melinda help me get Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s uranium enrichment sites established about a mile underneath Antarctica. You know, I figured the heat from the reactors would make the icebergs melt, which could be pretty convincing.”Vice President Dick Cheney was unavailable for comment; though we were assured he would be back from his hunting trip with Barrack Obamba promptly.
150. Do i get loyalty carbon credits?
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 02 26 at 06:27 PM • permalink
- Andrea prefers links to stories rather than long quotes, aaron__ (especially ones from, if I’m not mistaken, Paul Krugman’s fantasy-land where the MSM having been pulling for Bush in 2000).Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 26 at 07:35 PM • permalink
- I confess I’ve been silent for far too long on issues important to our planet. This is the only planet we have and if we lose this one, we’ll never get another one (bumbadumbdumba to San fernando..)
It’s time for all of us out “there” to add our condemnation to global warming for:
.. failing to bring promised improvements to Canadian winter conditions (I’m back in Montreal for a month and I can attest to this),
.. failing to produce an increase in hurricanes, tornados, warmer oceans, etc.
.. failing to wipe out annoying island nations which have a vote at the UN even though they only have a population of 13 interbred mutants..
The list goes on. So much promised, so little delivered.
Gore and Co. remind me of the great old Irish folk song, whose name escapes me:
“the people they rant and they rave and they shout
they talk about stuff they no fuck all about”
jlc
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 26 at 07:47 PM • permalink
- ” stuff they know fuck all about …..”
The cold is permeating the very marrow of my bones. I don’t know how much longer I can hold on …….
PERVIEW IS MY FIEND
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 26 at 07:51 PM • permalink
- From “Drudge:
(it’s one of his news flashes, no permanent link. I’m just sure the MSM will pick up on this. Not.)
“POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER ‘TRUTH’
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ETThe Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday: . . .
[T]he Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
- Henceforth the conveniently all-encompassing climate “change” will be the preferred mantra.Posted by Big Johnny on 2007 02 26 at 08:21 PM • permalink
- Maybe if you play with yourself enough you can convince yourself you are a man, Azza. Keep up with the experiment anyways.
What a dipshit. They sure don’t make trolls like they used to, Andrea.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 26 at 08:33 PM • permalink
- Hey, Aaron_
Nice repetition, fuckwit.
#40 MM You are, of course, right.What do we have to do to attract a higher standard of troll here?
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 26 at 08:50 PM • permalink
- Oh, God! Who forgot to put out the humane troll traps? (I’m looking at you, andycanuck. Isn’t there a Persistent Annoying Crapulator Obliterator available?)Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 26 at 08:51 PM • permalink
- OK, #39
Look, I’m back in Montreal. I had to be present at a really long, really boring meeting downtown.
I promise I’ll be more coherent when I’m back in HCMC (Saigon).
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 26 at 08:54 PM • permalink
- \“The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization\”
Oh stop it, I nearly ruined my computer with coffee when I read that. I mena I like a joke as much as the next person but that was just too much.
Other NON-PARTISAN research of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research
– Minimum Wage Hike Means Maximum Harm for Working Poor
– Tennessee Must Learn From Connecticut’s Income Tax Mistake
– Corporate Welfare Reform: Leveling the Playing Field by Ending Tennessee’s Taxpayer-funded Economic Development Scheme
– It’s the Spending, Stupid.
etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
- Is that ecowarrior DiCaprio whose wretched movie The Beach vandalized a Thai nature preserve?
I didn’t know ecowarriors got to be on both sides! Kin I be one, Mr. Blair?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 26 at 08:57 PM • permalink
- Aaron_ GFY. In case you don’t understand:
go fuck yourself
Andrea, this person does not belong here.
Excise the fucker
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 26 at 08:58 PM • permalink
- #42 Forget humane!!Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 26 at 09:00 PM • permalink
- Global Warming is Real and Happening Now and there is a Scientific Consensus.
Global Warming is Real and Happening Now and there is a Scientific Consensus.
Global Warming is Real and Happening Now and there is a Scientific Consensus.
Global Warming is Real and Happening Now and there is a Scientific Consensus.
Global Warming is Real and Happening Now and there is a Scientific Consensus.Thought I’d take a lesson from aaron. If you repeat something enough times, maybe you’ll start believing it’s true. Hasn’t worked for me yet, but I didn’t cut/paste as many times as he did.
- Damn that Scientific Consensus hey Nick. Much better to be like say 40% of Americans who don\‘t believe in evolution or the 20% who when asked if the earth orbits the sun or vice versa, say it’s the sun that does the orbiting—placing these people in the same camp as the Inquisition that punished Galileo almost 400 years ago.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/duncan/17535/
I\‘m guessing you and most of the readers of old Timmmmayyyy\‘s blog are not one of the 28% of americans considered scientifically literate. Best you go keep up on the latest hollywood gossip, off you go now.
- If you knew as much about science as you think you do, you would indeed damn any sort of attempt to use “consensus” to decide on if a theory is true or not.Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 02 26 at 09:20 PM • permalink
- Oooh, I can’t wait for the galactically stupid troll to describe to us how “scientifically literate” he is.
Here’s a hint, fuckwit: regurgitating baseless apocalyptic propaganda is not “science”, no matter how many times your High Priest Gore repeats it.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 02 26 at 09:31 PM • permalink
- Dear mr aarseclown_
Some free advice:
If you wish to champion an argument, it helps if you first avoid revealing to one and all that you are a vile fuckwit – it tends to colour everything that follows…
Got it?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 26 at 09:32 PM • permalink
- PW:
Looks and sounds like our troll is the same guy that prompted Andrea to close registrations in the first place when he kept coming back for more after getting spanked around and banned.
So we’ll be seeing more linking to that video of Andrea’s cat? 😉
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 02 26 at 09:35 PM • permalink
- Although I do admire the troll’s mastery of the cut-and-paste. That must’ve taxed its amoeba intellect to the max.Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 02 26 at 09:35 PM • permalink
- I knew there’d be problems with Mr Blairs lack of border security.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 26 at 09:35 PM • permalink
- \“regurgitating baseless apocalyptic propaganda is not “science”, no matter how many times your High Priest Gore repeats it.\”
um maybe I\‘m missing something didn\‘t the intergovernmental panel on climate change recently demonstrate that the earth isn\‘t flat. You poor flat earthers, never mind get back to reading your bibles, the good book after all contains all the truth you\‘ll ever need.
- #68
and also pre-school swimming carnivals, I’d wager.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 26 at 09:39 PM • permalink
- Um, aaron_maroon, who’s saying the earth is flat? That seems to be your position.
You still haven’t answered my question: have you looked at The AlGore’s (precipitation be upon him) electricity bill? It looks like that Tennessee Center did what we like to call “research” whereby we investigate things called facts” to determine that Al-AlGore (hailstones be upon him) spend a whole freakin’ buttload of money on electricity last year—and said electricity creates all the evil carbon that is causing goebbel warmeneninging. At least, according to said Ala-AlGoregon (hurricanes be upon him)
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- I love it when the left show their inner self. Although even I was shocked by this turd exposing its prolapsed rectum.
You can see how foul its comments are in the family thread (While it still exists).
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 26 at 09:47 PM • permalink
- Oh, “scientifically literate” fecal extrusion, we hardly knew ye.Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 02 26 at 09:58 PM • permalink
- Hey aaron_
26 and still single, eh?. Come on girls, how can you turn him down?
I looooove your moody look, aaron.
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 02 26 at 10:01 PM • permalink
- aaron underscore
The coeds give you that nickname in college?
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 02 26 at 10:25 PM • permalink
- aaron__ on the family thread:
“I don’t discriminate, but I expect to settle down with someone tall. I hated being short and want to improve my kids chances.”
Sorry to disappoint you champ but not only are you a no account loser but you are a short no account loser(apologies to any short non-losers on here) and your prospects of settling down with anyone, tall or otherwise, are non-existent!
As for breeding- GOD FORBID!
- #82 – Under the whip
The real aaron_ made that comment.
His badly decomposing doppelganger aaron__ is trying to ride to fame on a stolen horse.
It’s a mite confusing, but not as much as his sexual proclivities.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 26 at 10:36 PM • permalink
- I have banned aaron__ and removed the Krugman article he plagiarized. By the way, the freshly banned aaron__ (double underscore) is not the same person as longtime commenter aaron_ (single underscore), so there is a third violation (besides plagiarism and trolling) to be banned for: making a screen name that is the same (or so close as to be confusing) screen name as another commenter’s. For a moment there I thought the original aaron_ had had a brain hemorrhage or something.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 26 at 10:39 PM • permalink
- If he’d just quoted a passage and linked to a source I’d have left it up, obnoxious as it was. I’d still have banned him, though, for the other two violations.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 26 at 10:45 PM • permalink
- #86
Don’t feel sorry for aaron_. I’m pretty sure that having a troll steal your name is the only way to get promoted from scalawag to minion. He’s probably at a marching out parade right now.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 26 at 10:48 PM • permalink
- 85. thanks IT.
I can tolerate a lefty troll, that’s easy time.
But you have got to be one cowardly SOB to mask your comments by mimicking someone else’s login name. My apologies to aaron_ and an appeal to the dark mistress to ban the no content weenie aaron__ who does not apparently have the courage of its own convictions.Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 02 26 at 10:48 PM • permalink
- #87. Beat me to it. That’s why I’m not the Dark Mistress I guess…Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 02 26 at 10:52 PM • permalink
- My own pick for weirdest moment of the Oscars was when Melissa Etheridge was singing her dirge from Inconvenient Truth. Strange haiku/ concrete-poetry-like injunctions about saving the planet were projected on the screen behind her, and the remarkable thing was how many of them included the word ‘pray’. Funny too, how the whole song is about ‘waking up’, when the essence of Gore-olatry is putting your reason to sleep.
- I’m getting confused.
Apologies to the good aaron_ (single underscore, or is it double?) if that is you in the dating ad. I’m sure you will find that special someone soon.
But if it’s you, bad aaron__ (double underscore), then you are an ugly, pompous, skinny, short (im not tall so i can be shortist), sad, pimply loser.
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 02 26 at 11:06 PM • permalink
#38 Henceforth the conveniently all-encompassing climate “change” will be the preferred mantra.
Posted by Big JohnnyActually, they’ve got a new phrase that I just heard tonight on our CBC: climate crisis. Look for it coming to a
whorestore near you.Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 26 at 11:08 PM • permalink
- #90, aaron_ seems to spend some time asking inconvenient questions on goebbels warming sites so I’m not surprised that he’s attracted a stalker or two. He fully deserves the promotion just for putting up with those bozo cultists.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 02 26 at 11:09 PM • permalink
- Looks like aaron_ got the same treatment I did when some troll changed one character in my blogname…..what originality, hiding behind a fake name, spewing out disproved talking point, parodying him/herself, and using lousy punctuation.
Even Bryla knows when to shut up.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 27 at 12:03 AM • permalink
- John Travolta has been boasting to Joan Rivers on the red carpet about his new house, which features its own airport for his private jet. Rivers tried to get a laugh by asking how Travolta managed to get the smell of jet fuel out of the living room.
Three cheers for Barbarino, regardless of his religious affiliation. This from the Seinfeld article here, in which Jack Nicholson looks like Mr. Clean.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2007 02 27 at 12:41 AM • permalink
- Great riff, aaron_.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 27 at 12:57 PM • permalink
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