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“You call it Climategate — I Call it E-Mail-Theft-Gate”

Al Gore Abruptly Cancels Scheduled Copenhagen Appearance

Gore lecturing on how hot things are getting in New York in February

This could be a new Reality Show.

We could call it Where In The World Is Al Gore. Just saying.

Maybe he’s busy with his lawyers discussing those pesky 30,000 scientists who are suing him. You know, the ones who can’t get covered on network TV and have to appear on FOX’s Red Eye just to be heard– because they have been daring to debate what someone declared was “Settled Science” for years? Whatever his reason, he’s not showing up in Copenhagen, where thousands of people await their Profit Prophet.

It doesn’t matter whether or not you Believe in Global Warming as your Religion or not. If you do, then you have joined a Religion that rivals the Fundies in zealotry.  That’s your choice, but to me this all seems like the left of left version of the Rapture. The “Movement” has also become increasingly mean and insulting to other humans, with almost a hatred that rivals the most rabid of religious zealotry. But it just seems to me that if you believe strongly in something as devastating, frightening, insulting, hatred-inducing,  life-altering, doom-and-gloom predictive and expensive as Global Warming, Climate Change, or whatever, you ought to be able to stand up to public debate instead of using your muscle to shut down all questions. This type of behavior unto itself makes your entire premise suspicious  and doesn’t pass the smell test, whether you call it “Settled Science” or not. “The Earth is Flat” was once Settled Science too. There is no one on this earth who doesn’t believe there is always something to learn, unless the person is simply arrogant, Narcissistic and spoiled rotten. If you can’t debate and you cut and run, then just maybe you have something really unsettling to hide.

Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged during the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which begins next week.

This disappointed 3000 ticket holders.  including those who purchased “VIP” tickets at $1200  a pop. Gore didn’t make $300 million since 2004 being an altruist, that’s for sure. They wanted to hear the Sage discuss Global Warming- no, wait. it’s getting colder not warmer so let’s call it Climate Change. They wanted to hear Al  play his best part:

ClimateGaters are definitely not letting go of those horribly damning leaked emails and information, even if the networks keep pretending it didn’t happen and continuously replace that coverage by looking into new ways to cover Tiger Woods — like the good talking tabloids they have become. Apparently, a guy who chases around a ball who cheats on his wife is far more newsworthy than the thought that people in power are cheating the entire country.

Pajamas Media founder Roger L. Simon and independent filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd — both members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Oscar nominees — have called on the academy to rescind Mr. Gore’s Oscars in light of the Climategate revelations.

“In the history of the academy, not to my knowledge has an Oscar ever been rescinded. I think they should rescind this one,” Mr. Simon said Thursday.

Boy, there goes the Cap and Trade scam. I guess Congress will have to think of another way to shake down the middle class for what little money they have left. No this is not good at all. Jeff  Immelt is going to have a meltdown.

God, I hope Al doesn’t get all bloated, stop washing and grow a dirty beard again like he did after the 2000 elections. That was really disgusting.

The ClimateDepot,com, an online news aggregator that tracks global-warming news reports, referred to the situation as “Nopenhagen,” and evidence that popular momentum for the Copenhagen conference “is fading.”

Al, whatever excuse you conjure up for your abrupt cancellation, it is no excuse for never allowing debate to occur on this issue that has paralyzed the country in fear and threatened to cost middle class Americans financially to the point of near poverty. If you weren’t in short pants in the 50s, you might have been pimping bomb shelters and telling little kids that hiding under their desks during an air raid would keep them safe. And that just plain sickens me.

Maybe you should have talked to this guy instead of having his ass hauled out of your auditorium. Inquiring Polar Bears want to know.

h/t for the link to the story goes to NoEmptySuits

Founder of Weather Channel and 30,000 scientists sueing Al Gore

h/t Casper Cat

You’re really losing ground when even Bill Ayers is appalled by you.

Shamelessly stolen from RBO.

Congratulations, President Obama. In just 11 short months you have managed to alienate and/or insult Republicans, Democrats, Far Left Whackjobs, Far Right Whackjobs, Moderates, Working People, Non-Working People ,Women, Women, More Women,  Christians, Jews, Atheists, Pro-Lifers, Pro-Choicers, gays & Lesbians, The Rich, The Poor,  The Insured, the UnInsured, Small Business owners, Seniors, hawks, doves, and even Code Pink!  –and now– even former Domestic Terrorists and self-proclaimed Marxists. Nobody can say you aren’t consistent in your alienation of human beings! Truly, the only happy people are Wall Street, Health Insurers, Pharmaceuticals, The Taliban and Credit Card Companies. No mean feat for a guy who claimed not to cater to lobbyists. Just saying!

Here’s your favorite ghost writer and domestic terrorist demonstrating over your last wishy-washy decision. Now he refers to you as “The Administration”. No Christmas card for you! Oh wait, you don’t celebrate Christmas, that’s right.

Keep up the good work! We Hillary voters are counting on you to continue your path.

I’ll have the grilled In Vitro Wasted Muscle Tissue With Baked Po. May I see the wine list?

I’m fairly convinced that people will eat just about anything if it’s deep fried in lard and served with cocktail sauce on the side. This can be confirmed by simply watching this:

Yum. Sorry I missed that and I know you are too.

Sometimes I have been known to prepare things like chili with a mixture of ground beef and that fake soy ground beef that comes in a frozen bag. It’s not bad at all, but then it’s all buried in chili. I mean, let’s face it, if you get the spices right, you can put a piece of your shoe in chili. So, it’s not as if I am unwilling to try new things. But I do have my limits and I am fairly certain those limitations would be reached with this product:

It seems that scientists have now grown pork in a test tube. Well not exactly pork, but…

The research team, funded by a major sausage maker and the Dutch government, used cells from a live pig to grow pork muscle tissue in a Petri dish. After extracting cells called myoblasts from the muscle of a live pig, the scientists then incubated the myoblasts in a nutrient solution, which allowed the cells to multiply and create muscle.

In Vitro Wasted Muscle Tissue Burger

Yum! Myoblasts. Sounds delicious! And not harmful at all!

The implications of this breakthrough in “in vitro meat,” as it’s sometimes called, are potentially enormous.

Physiology professor Mark Post of Eindhoven University, who led the research team, believes it could make it possible to end world hunger. “You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals,” he told the media in the United Kingdom.

In vitro wasted muscle tissue. The other white almost-meat. I see. We love us our engineered food, yes we do! Why do I smell a whiff of Monsanto here. Oh, nevermind.

Making meat in a laboratory instead of a feed lot could also reduce climate change by eliminating billions of tons of methane and other greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals across the globe.

Ummmmm Huhhhhhh. Please Google Climate Change Scandal. Thanks!  Say, I have an idea. Why don’t you just feed this shit to Al Gore? I think that’s a great idea. He knows about serving up shit on a plate and calling it ice cream.  He’s been doing it to America since…….well……since  about $300 million dollars ago. In spite of the effort to suppress the Non Data, cows may soon be able to fart again just like Al Gore does, without fear of reprisal! This won’t be as lucrative to Al and his friends but I’ll bet it sure will be a relief. At least for the cows.

And even the scientists had to admit to reporters that they don’t know if their creation is flavorsome, because laboratory regulations forbid them from tasting anything they create.

Now why do you think that is? Go ahead, take a shot in the dark.

Now, the pork industry seems rather unconcerned about all this. I don’t blame them. Besides, I will bet what little is left of my 401(k) that for sure Imelda and Ferdinand Obama will not be serving Wagyu In Vitro Muscle Wasted Tissue at their parties. That stuff is for you peasants.

But one thing everyone agrees on is that the name In Vitro Muscle Wasting Tissue will have to go if they are ever going to sell this crap in Joe’s Steakhouse. Marketing, man, everything is marketing today. Come up with the right name for this crap and it will fly. Well, it won’t exactly be a flying pig but it will fly. Kind of like when Marketing and Public Relations started telling everyone to change the name of Global Warming to Climate Change because……..well………things were getting colder.

So let’s have a contest.

What shall we call this stuff  instead of In Vitro Wasted Muscle Tissue?

LMAO h/t to Bert.

Jon Stewart On Global Warming (psst Jon, The Memo says that’s “Climate Change” now)

Open thread, your call

Sorry gang, I don’t have anything written for today. Besides you owe me several comp days for weekends I worked, and my union steward said I could take them at my leisure. I expect double time next time I work on a weekend.

I might or might not have something up later.