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Thread ID: 83773	2007-10-12 14:37:00	News From Oslo, Norway	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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600935	2007-10-13 16:30:00	A hootch is a small, personal barracks of a sort...it usually houses a few close friends...usually not in full military accreditation..but liveable. Al arrived (again en-situs, with several movie cameras grinding to document the day) and tried to interview some of the squid (me..a sailor) who were doing such a "fine job for the folks back home". We were the same guys working on his assault craft flotilla and he had just chewed us out for not being "expeditious" in the repairs..even though all we could do was disassemble the jet drives and wait for parts another two or three months...but somehow that was our fault. This double horse-faced back-stabber had several cameras filming..a pro-type 32mm or two and a couple of 8- and 16mm's to make it look non-professional.. ...and there wasn't any doubt that he was gonna use this for some future political shenanigans. I hear they all left town and went CONUS when they ran outta film.	SurferJoe46 (51)
600936	2007-10-13 19:36:00	Unbelievable considering just a few years ago they reckoned we were going into an iceage. So global cooling is out and global warming in. Be back to cooling next month. If you have ever scraped frost of window of my van here in the mornings you would shoot Gore with a ball of his owm !@#$. Ho	Ho Chi Minh (11121)
600937	2007-10-15 05:09:00	Wellllll......from a most conservative and upper crust publication from the OC (Orange County, California) comes a little tidbit that one should read about The Right Reverend of Oslo and HisMasterFullOfHimself Al "The Internet Guy" Gore.... c/p: [Former Vice President Al Gore, who says he "used to be the next president of the United States," has won the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing scary half-truths, flat-out errors and politically inspired schemes about global warming. We congratulate Mr. Gore and hope it's some personal consolation. Nevertheless, we're uninspired as Mr. Gore takes his place alongside Yasser Arafat and Kofi Annan, similarly honored with credentials of similar substance. As for Mr. Gore's campaign to scare the dickens out of everyone on Earth, we're pleased to see reality catching up to his hype. The day before the prize was announced, an English judge had something to say about Mr. Gore's crowning achievement, his documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, that claims because of global warming, "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb." The judge said the movie has nine major errors. Now there's an inconvenient truth. The errors "arise in the context of alarmism and exaggeration in support of (Mr. Gore's) political thesis," said High Court Judge Michael Burton. He ruled teachers must alert children to the errors. The judge said Mr. Gore is wrong to claim global warming will cause sea levels to rise 20 feet and that increases in CO2 precede warming when they actually come afterward. Inconvenient truths don't stop there. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, has compiled point-by-point refutations of Mr. Gore's hype and alarmism. "Nearly every significant statement that Vice President Gore makes regarding climate science and climate policy is either one-sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative or wrong," says CEI environmental policy expert Marlo Lewis. Otherwise, nice job Mr. Gore. Global warming alarmism serves those opposing free-market economics and its fossil-fuel reliance and those seeking power and profit by gaming the system once they force rule changes. Neither motive is in most peoples' interests. The Kyoto Protocol, which would force nations to drastically reduce CO2 emissions, if enforced would reduce projected temperatures about one degree over 100 years while – and this is not exaggeration – dampening and devastating economies worldwide. Worse, Mr. Gore completely ignores the benefits of a warming climate. Environmental author Bjorn Lomborg notes more lives would be saved, more crops grown and generally more benefits received with warmer temperatures. Mr. Gore's award will spur more alarmist momentum. To balance the scales, we recommend CEI's A Skeptic's Guide to An Inconvenient Truthat www.cei.org and the book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalismby CEI senior fellow Christopher Horner Editorial: Cool reception for Mr. Gore's Nobel The real 'ticking time bomb' is his combination of power politics and scary science. An Orange County Register editorial: used by EULA as long as cited text and full credits are observed and left intact. www.ocregister.com	SurferJoe46 (51)
600938	2007-10-15 05:20:00	well..for one thing he invented the internet... FWIW / for the record: en.wikipedia.org In 1999, various media outlets suggested that Gore claimed that he "invented the internet" in reference to a CNN interview in which he said, "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." [9] In response to this controversy, Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn wrote a 2000-09-29 article (originally sent via email) which described Gore's contributions to the Internet since the 1970s, including his work on the Gore Bill: “ [A]s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective. As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept.	Morpheus1 (186)
600939	2007-10-15 05:22:00	Mere Republican drivel. Thanks to its blend of wealth and political connections and location, Orange County is one of the most Republican supportive counties in the whole of the USA. So when they start attacking Al Gore or comparing him to terrorists that = pure political propaganda. Can't believe you believe enough in it to post it here. Unbelievable, perhaps you deserve Bush destroying your country.	beeswax34 (63)
600940	2007-10-15 15:16:00	Mere Republican drivel . Thanks to its blend of wealth and political connections and location, Orange County is one of the most Republican supportive counties in the whole of the USA . So when they start attacking Al Gore or comparing him to terrorists that = pure political propaganda . Can't believe you believe enough in it to post it here . Unbelievable, perhaps you deserve Bush destroying your country . Nah . . . I don't follow the policies, although I am not a liberal as was noted in a post a long, long time ago . My idea was to post some of the controversy that's going on here . . . remember that the US is at the cusp of a new presidential election . I thought that you'd enjoy seeing and reading the infighting and backbiting that's going on . Insights into another country's political processes is always interesting I think . . . and this election is just gonna be a doozie! The statements by the OC are, indeed from ivory towers (real ones) and it is a hotbed of intrigue as there is a lot of liberal infection in the area nowadays . Things ain't right in Muddville, the mighty are striking out . Something to watch: "She Who Will Be President" is looking and sounding more like a republican every day . Will she continue the Bush policies much to the chagrin of her liberal swamp-dwellers? Most here think she's sold out to the $$ and lost the ideal and policies of "Share The Misery Equally" of the Dems . I'll post these tidbits from time to time . . . but NO . . . I am not politically inspired . . . just a buoy bell here, dinging and clanging in the swells . :D Seems to me, beeswax, that you are pretty well up on the rats running the kitchen here . . . congratulations as you seem to know that the US (unfortunately) is still a very large bear in the house and still makes a lot of misery around the world . Like it or not, many people just turn from trying to make any sense of it . You are the exception I feel . Sign me: politically alert; politically inactive . It's my right!	SurferJoe46 (51)
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