***Further Thoughts Below***
This isn’t exactly new news but it is to me. In the wild and zany Wonderland of Al Gore, much has been made of his desperate pleas to humanity, particularly the United States, to cease and desist its evil polluting ways. His inconvenient truth has collected legions of wide-eyed followers marching to the deep, ominous intonations of, “Save the environment! Save the ecology! Eviscerate obese American industry!”
Hollywood celebrities, like Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio and John Travolta and others, has joined the barge out to la-la land with Al Gore navigating the tugboat. The fact that Al’s Wonderland Ride is pulling a garbage, pollutant-ridden barge doesn’t keep people from jumping on. Far from it.
I found out yesterday through a friend that Al Gore’s Tennessee zinc strip mining operation has all its toxic waste still sitting there. For those unfamiliar with the method of strip mining, know that it’s probably the worst means of mining out there. A miner would literally strip a mountainside or a hillside down into loose sediments so it could be sifted for minerals. It’s the equivalent to raping the ground.
I’m no eco-nut but I’m completely opposed to strip mining because of what it does to the land. Come to find out, that mine was in operation all the way up to 2003. In its last full year of operation, 2002, it released “4.1 million pounds of toxic” waste. And that’s the effects of one year alone.
According to the Tennessean:
Two massive white mountains of leftover rock waste are evidence of three decades of mining that earned Gore more than $500,000 in royalty payments for the mineral rights to his property.
Although the article’s lead attempted to mitigate the harm this strip mining has done, saying, “there is no evidence the mine has caused serious damage to the environment in the area or threatened the health of his neighbors,” locals around the mining operation have complained about how the operation has polluted their waters for decades, a fact that was dredged up during Gore’s presidential campaign back in 2000.
And while Mr. Gore is flying around the world giving his presentation on the dangers of pollution, lecturing Congress, and receiving Oscars from Hollywood, this mine is planning to go active again next year.
But hold that mouse button folks, it gets richer.
When conservatives and skeptics question Mr. Gore on his positions, especially his blatant hypocrisy on flying a private airplane that dumps millions of tons of pollutants into the air, he arrogantly said he could do that because he’s “offset” his carbon emissions. How does this “offset” happen?
In a spasm of aristocratic condescension, he pays a company that pledges to take measures to counteract all the pollution he’s tossing up in the air. In a word, he’s buying others off, so he can continue to pollute.
In the Middle Ages, corrupt priests sold indulgences for the remittance of sins. A few gold coins would forgive you of your adultery. A few more would give you a pass for thievery. Nowadays, we’re too sophisticated to believe in the weight of our sins any longer, we’re selling indulgences for our pollution instead. For a few hundred bucks, you can bounce around in your private jets and cruise the Sunset Strip in your carbon-loving Hummer and have the full concurrence of your conscience.
Well, this is ludicrous luxury if you’re rich, just for the Overlords, you see. Not us peasants. But I haven’t told you the juicy part yet.
The company from which Al Gore buys his indulgences is called Generation Investment Management. So, what’s juicy about that, you ask? Well, he virtually owns the darn company!
Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he “buys” his “carbon offsets” from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn’t buy “carbon offsets” through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.
Good grief, not only is this fellow lecturing us on pollution while flying across the country in his private jets, he’s conning everyone to give him money for doing it as well. He’s taken our liberal friends for a ride, and they’re happily jumping on the barge.
Like any good con artist (”confidence artist”), he not only talks people into giving him their money, the victim of the con artist discovers that he’s been fooled and in their shame deliberately covers up the evidence of the crime. Far from attempting to expose the con artist, the victim covers up the crime because were he to admit his error, he would also have to admit that he’s fallen to accusations against the very people who was supposed to trust, which in this case is the legitimate authority of the government. And every narcissist is a con artist.
Should Al Gore run for president, this should be his slogan: “Let’s us Save the Environment! Give me your Money!”
Unbelievable.
What can you say to such arrogance? Just bless him and move on.
Further thoughts:
Commentor Ymarsakar wrote:
Here’s an interview with a Polish WWII guerrila fighter in Warsaw
hattip Neo-neocon.com
The Left has learned that they cannot really resist and fight off pure destruction (embodied in the Nazi purge of the socialists, the Stalin purge of Trotsky, and the Islamic Revolution’s purge of the Left in Iran). So what they learned was that if they could exploit human nature inside a bubble of security and safety, they can live the good life without having to earn it through resisting evil and entropy. The Left’s alliance with entropy has already weakened their ability to resist their base impulses. Materialism, exploitation, and decadence is the logical extension of such degradation. (Hollywood)
Yes, many of our Leftists have made an alliance with entropy and chaos. Whether or not they do this out of true conviction, I don’t know. I don’t have a window into their soul, but I do note the consequences of such actions— dissolution and collapse.
Many liberals, however, don’t ally themselves with entropy and chaos. They truly believe that their agenda would yield the best results for America. I think they’re wrong and misguided, but I can’t hardly fault them with that, if they are truly acting through the light of their own conscience. But the true anti-American Leftists are another matter.
As with civilization’s concern for anarchists at the turn of the 19th century into the 20th, whose purpose was the induce the fall of civilization into chaos, we are facing much of the same thing.
On one side of us, we have the Islamofascists. On the other we have the revamped anarchists now disguised in Leftism. And then on the horizon, we see the rise of the totalitarians…
Sadly, one of the reasons I started this blog was to bear witness. I’ve been haunted for years by the image of the last Roman soldier manning his post on the Rhine while the Empire collapsed around him. I started this blog to attempt to inject reason into our civilizational discourse… to be one of the ones to stand up as an American and be counted.
If our Republic falls, I want to say that I wasn’t one of the ones who fed off its fruits without gratitude, that I tried to do my small part and stand against this tide of entropy and anti-life and anti-Christ…
