History Forum / General / British History / February 2007

I wonder what he's growing the basement, but I'm sure he doesn't inhale.

I think DSH, you are the hypocrite, or probably you are just ignorant.
Any new ideas, it's propagation always came from the privileged ones.

Picking cottons for 16 hours a day after day, one had not the education
or the energy to debase the geocentric catholic dogma. ( Of course you
must be stuck at the flat earth theory still.)

In our age one needs money to have a voice. Thanks to the Supreme Court
preferring plutocracy to meritocracy.

Back to Gore. You seem to demand poor to speak for the poor. In other
word, silence them!

In soc.history.medieval D. Spencer Hines <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote:

Folks are getting scared that Gore will run in 2008.

By the way, using the logic that one should practice what
one preaches, I assume that DSH and a few others, including
Matt Drudge, will be volunteering for duty in Iraq or
Afghanistan any day now.

Hypocrite.

On Feb 26, 10:55 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemid...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Anybody know who this Tennessee Center for Policy Research is? Among
their ties are the hyperright Mass Avenue "think" tanks like Cato
Institute, Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute. Tied
to the National Center for Policy Research, Of course, nobody wants to
hear what Gore has to say so they don't listen. Both Al and Tipper
work in the place, knocking the amount of e used up.

Charges, countercharges flying over Gore's electric bill

As we noted Monday, it wasn't long before Al Gore's moment of triumph
at the Oscars sparked a political shouting match.

The bickering continues this morning because a group called the
Tennessee Center for Policy Research has issued a report that says the
former vice president's "mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area
of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average
American household uses in an entire year."

Drudge is playing the news big on his homepage. Conservative bloggers
at Townhall.com and elsewhere are saying this shoots a big hole in
Gore's claims to be an environmental advocate. Wizbang grabs the
obvious headline, calling this Gore's "inconvenient truth."

Missing from much of the coverage is a response from the Gore camp.
The liberal blog Think Progress, though, has a statement from the
former veep's office. Among the points they make:

· "Gore's family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon
footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100%
green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and
using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology."

· "Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to
offset the family's carbon footprint -- a concept the right-wing fails
to understand."

ABC News adds that Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider says both the former
vice president and his wife Tipper work out of the mansion -- activity
that presumably pushes up electricity use there.

Missing from much of the coverage is information on what the Tennessee
Center is and who's behind it. Liberal bloggers at Seeing the Forest
say it claims "to be non-partisan but only link(s) to far-right and
conservative groups so regardless of what their status is with the
IRS, this is a conservative, strongly-leaning Republican
organization."

Indeed, among the links at the center's website are ones to the Cato
Institute, Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute.

Memeorandum has other links to what's being said about all this.

of course that little drudge article leaves out the fact that gore pays more
than average because he uses green technology that currently is more
expensive but easier on the enviroment.
he pays more but actually uases less.