Here's my political stance (and yes, I know you never asked): I don't trust government. Never have. Never will. And why? Because the founding fathers of this great nation didn't trust government. They understood that power corrupts and they worked hard to devise a system that would make it so government could not gain tyrannical control over the lives of its citizens. You see, our founding fathers were geniuses, and they devised an ingenious system to keep the government from getting all up in their business.
However, thanks to the fine work of the rich and influential, the government got all up in our business. Frankly, there's not much the average person can do about it. I have accepted that.
But this Al Gore crap? Well, it's just ridiculous.
Now, you can argue all you want about whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or whether or not the World Trade Center collapse was planned by the American government, or even whether or not President Bush can spell. I don't know and I don't care. These things cannot be proven by me in my miniature corner of the universe. However, here is what can be proven:
When temperatures increase, the water temperature of our oceans increase, which causes an increase of CO2 in the environment. Al Gore claims that it is the CO2 that causes the temperature increase. I read a few items on the subject and talked to a few friends who actually took Environmental Science class and I learned that Al Gore was wrong. Very wrong. In fact, one of my buddies even said that Al Gore's representation of the global warming threat represents the “worst kind of science: science with an agenda.”
And to think, he won an Oscar for this crap.
It was science with an agenda that said that African Americans weren't as advanced as Caucasians. It was science with an agenda that said that marijuana kills brain cells. It was science with an agenda that listed SARs as a global killer. Science with an agenda sucks ass.
Sphincter vacuuming aside, I read the following in the Canada Free Press this morning and I laughed so hard I actually hocked up a chunk of cold coffee onto my desk. Here it is:
“In the wake of the movie winning an Oscar last month, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported that Gore's Nashville mansion consumed more than 20 times the electricity than the national average. Last August, the Gore mansion burned more than twice the electricity in a single month as the average American family uses in an entire year. Gore's heated pool house alone uses more than $500 in electricity every month” (Milloy, March 12, 2007).
I mean, how awesome is that? Homeslice Gore gets in his private jet, travels all over the world espousing the dangers of excessive energy consumption, while his pool house costs more than five times a month in electricity than my apartment does. And I live in Florida where conditioned air is a right and not a privilege.
So, in conclusion, Al Gore doesn't practice what he preaches and what he preaches is not based on fact. So, essentially, he's presidential material.
God, I hate government.