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New terminology, thanks to Gore

Thanks to Tigerhawk for borrowing one of the left’s mindless terms and making it into a more appropriate term in today’s political lexicon:

There righty sphere is in gut-grabbing chortle mode over the revelation that one of Al Gore’s three luxurious houses uses more energy (via Glenn and everybody else) in a month than the average household does in a year. Gore, apparently, is a chickengreen, calling on others to make sacrifices he won’t make.

The most interesting thing about this is that at least some leading conservatives go on quietly conserving without demanding that everybody else do the same. Bill Frist is the rich, retired Senator from Tennessee with the green house, and Wizbang compares the household efficiency and carbon loadiness of Al Gore and George W. Bush, respectively.

Americans — at least those who do not suck up to the Hollywood nobility — can smell a phony a mile away. They will only start listening to these guys about the sacrifices they should make when they walk past them in the first class sections of regularly scheduled commercial flights. Until then, they have less credibility than a carnival barker.

Chickengreens…how appropriate!

February 28, 2007 Posted by | global warming, Gore, hypocrisy | Leave a Comment

NY Times laments "Cheney secrecy"…the day after assassination attempt

D’oh! From the Old Gray Hag:

Mr. Cheney’s trip to Pakistan was shrouded in unusual secrecy. In trips to Pakistan last year, President Bush and Secretary State Condoleezza Rice announced their plans days in advance, and reporters filed articles on their visits as soon as they landed. But Mr. Cheney’s traveling press pool was sworn to secrecy, and allowed to report only the barest details just before he left.
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American officials did not explain the extraordinary secrecy surrounding Mr. Cheney’s visit to Pakistan, a country the administration has cast as a stable nation moving gradually toward democracy. Mr. Cheney’s aides told The Times and other news organizations that the Secret Service had imposed the requirement that there be no mention of his trip until he had left Pakistan.

Now WHY would Cheney need to be so hush-hush and keep his visits on the down-low? It’s not like Islamic terrorists have tried to kill him or anything!

Oh, wait…yeah, they did. The day before this article hit the stands. Oops.

Nicely done, NYT. When you’re not busy blabbing national security details and classified material all over your front pages, you’re lamenting that the Veep doesn’t make himself a bigger target to the bloodthirsty camelhumper world. Are you that hard-up for writing material these days?

February 28, 2007 Posted by | Cheney, media bias | Leave a Comment

Hillary thinks they all look alike!

Her Highness, remembered for her Gandhi “botched” joke, has now insulted an Asian-American media organization in San Fran-istan.

Clinton staff’s gaffe with local ethnic papers
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign excluded reporters for the Bay Area’s two largest ethnic newspapers from a fundraiser Friday at the Sheraton Palace Hotel — a perceived snub that led to days of harsh coverage…

…Reporters from Sing Tao and Chinese-language daily World Journal, as well as the smaller China Press were denied entry to the noon fundraiser.

It turned out that the three papers had not been included in the mailing list for a press advisory sent out two days ahead that instructed media representatives to check in by 11:45 a.m. World Journal reporter Portia Li said she arrived about 10 minutes before noon.

Li, a prominent journalist who has worked for more than two decades in the Bay Area, said she knew such events routinely begin late and that reporters often are allowed in after they start.

But a staffer told her she was too late to get in. When Li argued, the staffer explained that because she was considered “foreign media” — which were limited to a single pool reporter — she could not go in.

Any local media who checked in by the cutoff were admitted.

When Li showed her business card, the staffer asked for two forms of identification, which seemed to Li to be insulting. She said she had never had to show identification at similar events.

“She kept saying this is only open for local media, not foreign press,” Li said. “I told her, I’m not foreign press. I’m local media. I was really angry. It’s not about myself. It’s about how the mainstream looks at Chinese (people) as a whole. Why do they call us foreigners, even [though] we have a local address on our business card?”

Ah, yes…the party of “diversity”! And you were told that the right was racially insensitive?

February 28, 2007 Posted by | Hillary, San Francisco | Leave a Comment

Environmentalism the "new religion"

Kudos to our mates Down Under for seeing this global “warming” facade for what it is. From The Age:

HARD-CORE global warming sceptics will descend on Canberra today for the release of a book claiming environmentalism is the new religion.

Former mining executive Arvi Parbo will launch Ray Evans’ new publication, Nine Facts About Climate Change, at a function at Parliament House.

The book claims climate change is nothing new and declares Howard Government investments in solar power and in cleaning up coal a “complete waste of taxpayers’ money”.

“Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States,” Mr Evans says in the publication.

“It is a form of religious belief which fosters a sense of moral superiority in the believer, but which places no importance on telling the truth,” he says.

“The global warming scam has been, arguably, the most extraordinary example of scientific fraud in the postwar period.”

The function is organised by the Lavoisier Group, founded in 2000 by Ray Evans and former mining executive Hugh Morgan to test claims that global warming is the result of human activity.

Mr Evans is a longstanding friend and colleague of Mr Morgan and a committed activist on issues such as workplace reform through the HR Nicholls Society, which he founded with federal Treasurer Peter Costello.

Former Labor minister Peter Walsh also will attend today’s function, and the group will hold a dinner to be addressed by climate-change sceptic Chris de Freitas, Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science at Auckland University.

Liberal MP Dennis Jensen has organised the function on behalf of the Lavoisier Group and expects about 50 people to attend the dinner.

Dr Jensen, a nuclear physicist, has said he is not convinced that human activity is responsible for global warming.

In an interview with The Age last month, Mr Evans acknowledged that last September’s visit by former US vice-president Al Gore to promote his Oscar-winning global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth had helped generate a lot of publicity on climate change.

But he described Mr Gore’s film as “bullshit from beginning to end”. (Sounds like Gore’s political career, too. – Ed.)

“The science from the anthropology point of view has collapsed. The carbon-dioxide link is increasingly recognised as irrelevant,” Mr Evans said.

“But the Government’s frightened.

“Cabinet, from what I understand, is by and large still sceptical of climate change, but it is scared of the drought and worried about how Labor will make use of it.”

Someone inform Ellen Goodman that there are some “Holocaust deniers” congregating in Australia!

As we’ve seen in this country, insulting the religion of Christianity is A-OK, but insulting the “religious” sensibilities of the global “warming” hysterics could get you compared to a Holocaust denier or, if you’re a meterologist (a profession that pays you handsomely to be frequently wrong), could get your American Meteorological Society (AMS) “Seal of Approval” revoked.

February 28, 2007 Posted by | global warming | Leave a Comment

   

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