R is for RUDE

The standards at the Ragister can't be what they used to be and the scientific community are united in that fact.

Case in point is a guest opinion piece printed by them from a one time Iowan and current resident of Knoxville, Tennessee, R. Scott Frey (pictured).

No wonder Gingrich wouldn't sign book

Frey, allegedly, just happened to be in Borders (or Boarders) Bookstore when Newt Gingrich was there signing copies of his latest book.

Frey thought it would be fun to have Gingrich sign a copy of "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class", the title of which sounds like some conspiracy theory and might read like one per Michael Barone's review.

Gingrich refused to sign the book and I say good for Gingrich.

Frey, upon further review, is a sociologist (and probably a socialist) at the University of Tennessee who supposedly specializes in social development, but must have been absent when learning about being polite.

I loved what some of his students say about his class, and by that we mean what he teaches versus qualities he bestows, from Rate My Professors...

He is not too terribly engaging

Don't take it if you're looking for a stimulating class

Nice guy. Kind of goofy.

you will want to kill yourself during his lectures and i'm almost positive that some of the stuff we covered isn't even sociology.

Really boring class. I personally didn't like Dr. Frey... He came across as arrogant to me.

I forgot to remember

An article in The New York Times helped jog my feeble mind about "An Inconvenient Truth".

During one of the "non political" rants against Republicans, Al Gore criticizes a one time Bush Administration official for not being a scientist.

He complains that this official is editing information about "Gore Bull" warming and insinuates he's in the pocket of Big Oil.

What?

How is it possible for a non scientist to be so deeply involved in how scientific information is provided to the public?

That's right, it's ok if you're a Fiberal Dummycrat!

Although Mr. Gore is not a scientist...

“I am trying to communicate the essence of it in the lay language that I understand.”

Bought and paid for by Big Oil?

Not Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University...

I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,”...Easterbrook... told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.

“But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”

He hotly disputed Mr. Gore’s claim that “our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this” threatened change.

Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to “20 times greater than the warming in the past century.”

Getting personal, he mocked Mr. Gore’s assertion that scientists agreed on global warming except those industry had corrupted. “I’ve never been paid a nickel by an oil company,” Dr. Easterbrook told the group. “And I’m not a Republican.”

Al Gore has admitted that he fudges the facts...

"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is..."

What does "overrepresentation" mean?

“Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet,” Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at James Cook University in Australia, said in a September blog. “Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change.”

I guess it could mean that!

A couple of other things that came back to me about the schlockumentary.

You see Al Gore an quite a few shots either driving, being chauffeured and flying.

There's also his interest in strip mining, which reminded me of this August 2006 USA Today commentary...

Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

Is that the same river that runs through the movie?

I little too ironic, don't ya think.

'Bout Damn Time

In an interview with the Associated Press, Al Gore said that renovations are nearly complete to make his Nashville home a model "green" home.

"This plan has been in the works for a long time."

What's a long time to Gore?

Gore's renovation project, which he said has been in the works for months...

Months?

I believe he's owned this 10,000 square foot monstrosity since at least 2001!

What about his two other homes?

I think it's the one in Carthage that has a zinc mine and an oil well.

It's obvious that this is in direct response to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

That group, in February, made public Gore's electrical use for 2006.

Gore characterized that as a "...misleading attack by a global-warming denier group."

That's interesting because in February this is what the group said about "Gore-bull" warming...

...it's unclear whether global warming is caused by humans...

Hardly a denial.

I guess what a Gore spokesperson said then fits now...

"Sometimes when people don't like the message...it's convenient to attack the messenger."

That same spokesperson said...

Focusing on Gore's personal electricity consumption misses the point of An Inconvenient Truth...

The Fiberal point is the always hypocritical "do as I say, not as I do" and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Home Of The Hits?

I always enjoy checking sitemeter to see who's looking at the Liter and where they're located.

For example, we hit the 100,000 mark thanks to a reader in Hamburg, Germany.

Last weekend, with no fanfare, we attained our 150,000 measured hit from a reader in Franklin, Tennessee.

One of our favorite places, because it was also a group, has been gone, gone, gone so long and the scientific community is united in that fact.

However, Chilliwack checked back in today.

Chris hopes some Saturday Night we hear from Bay City, Michigan.

InCONvenient Truth

Last week I called RekHA Basu on her fiberal attitude...

Do as I say, not as I do. I'll determine what's best for you.

She believes that the high cost of gas will give a much-needed boost to public transportation.

So what method did Basu use for a trip to Denver?

She drove a car instead of taking Amtrak's California Zephyr.

This week, the Warm-Monger proved once again you can't spell hypocritical without AL and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Gore traveled to his D.C. speech in what almost certainly was an unnecessary entourage of three luxury gas-guzzling vehicles -- two Lincoln Town Cars and a Surburban SUV -- one of which was kept idling outside for twenty minutes, apparently to keep the interior cool for the driver, Mrs. Gore and the Gores' adult daughter.

Americans for Prosperity rolled video



Last month the Tennessee Center for Policy Research revisited Gore's eco-friendly(?) residence and found...

Al Gore’s Personal Electricity Consumption Up 10% Despite “Energy-Efficient” Renovations
Energy guzzled by Al Gore’s home in past year could power 232 U.S. homes for a month

Who's really the Gore-BULL warming denier?

You can call him Hypocritic AL!

4 Sure

I've been a Green Bay Packer fan longer than I can remember.

People assume you're a Cheesehead, but I tell them I'm moldier than that (though a life long friend/Packer backer did give me a cheese crown).

I was somewhat surprised to see that Brett Favre is returning for the 2007 season.

As I'd mentioned when I saw his interview after beating Da Bears, The Pack will be back, but not with #4 at quarterback.

I've subscribed to DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket since 1996, but this might be the season to actually take in a game.

As long as I'm on the subject of football, I'm going to go with Condi Rice and pick the Indianapolis Colts to win Super Bowl XLI.

Mainly because I have trouble rooting for teams in the same division as the Pack, sorry Fitzsimon's!

As a bonus though several Fiberals are upset because Peyton Manning, pictured with Favre, has supposedly given money to President Bush and Tennessee Senator Bob Corker.

I wonder how they're handling the fact that both coaches, Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith, are deeply religious?

Sports Best Time of the Year

Kick-Off, We're gonna Kick-Off! (One of the two times it's used correctly).

College Football gets underway this evening in Iowa.

The Drake Bulldogs host their first game, against the U.N.I. Panthers in renovated Drake Stadium. It'll be a battle for the Bulldogs, as the Panthers were second in the nation in Division I-AA.

The Iowa State Cyclones host the Toledo Rockets at Jack Trice Stadium.

Chris' Iowa Hawkeyes host the Montana Grizzlies Saturday.

I'm a Bob Stoops fan, I thought the Hawkeyes should have hired him instead of Ferentz, thus root for the Oklahoma Sooners. They host the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers Saturday.

The New York Yankees have an 8 game lead in the American League East and hopefully can bring back World Series title #27 in October.

The Green Bay Packers have their final pre-season game tomorrow against the Tennessee Titans. The Pack will host their longtime rivals the Chicago Bears on Sunday September 10.

College Football, Pro Football, Major League Baseball.

For me it's the best time of the year, only if it didn't lead into Winter....Brrrr!

Their lips are moving

What is, How can you tell when a Fiberal Dummycrat is lying Alex?

USA Today has an Opinion Piece from Peter Schweizer that shows Al Gore is not as green as he espouses.

Stunning on two fronts! Gore's not green and USA Today printed it, albeit not a news story.

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green....

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.

I haven't read Schweizer's book, but that's the perfect definition of a FIBERAL!