the prize between Gore and the UN panel struck some as odd because the two institutions do not see eye-to-eye on climate change.
The UN panel, Gore’s co-winner, predicts a sea level rise of 13 inches by the years 2100. In An Inconvenient Truth , as well as a Gore-authored book by the same name, “he showed an undated montage of Florida sliding beneath the waves”—representing a sea rise of 13 feet or more, wrote Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the Cato Institute, who counts himself a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Michaels also pointed out a truth Gore might find—here we go again—not terribly convenient: computer models mentioned by the UN show Antarctica actually gaining ice this century, because slight warming will result in more precipitation, which will fall as snow.
Gore’s stock answer to his various naysayers and detractors, both laymen and those employed by the scientific community, is as smug as it is insulting: He heckles them. The true Gore was exposed while he was out campaigning with congressional candidates in Seattle in 2006. Gore was told about the views of Republican Representative Dave Reichert, who politely expressed doubts about the gospel of global warming. Gore cracked, “You know, 15 percent of people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat. They get together on Saturday night and party with the global-warming deniers.”
Global warming. It’s more than science. Or politics. Or even religion.
It’s a cult, and Al Gore is the man passing out the Kool-Aid. Heaven help the human who dares disagree.
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Patron Saint of Stupidity
BARBRA STREISAND
He’s very intelligent, very, very sensitive, very evolved; more than his linear years. And he’s an extraordinary human being. He plays like a Zen master. It’s very in the moment.
—Barbra Streisand, then fifty, on twenty-two-year-old tennis player Andre Agassi, 1992 U.S. Open
Shut the f@$! up, would you? Shut up if you can’t take a joke.
—Barbra dresses down a heckler, Madison Square Garden, October 2006
The arrogance of this C student who maligns his opponents’ crediblity by calling them flip floppers, is the biggest flip flopper himself! When debating Al Gore during the 2000 presidential elections, Bush spoke against nation building, yet went into Irag a year later to national build…which we now see has resulted in disaster.
—Barbra vs. President George W. Bush on her Web site, March 2006
I N THE CROWDED CELEBUTARD FIELD , there exists stiff competition for the title of Dumbest Woman Alive. Let’s take a look…
Nancy Pelosi tries to grant a tax break to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Madonna catches a phony British accent. Sheryl Crow campaigns for a limit of one sheet of toilet paper per flush. And Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears prove that literacy (nor panties) are not necessary assets for young ladies. Yet for all the sheer idiocy commonly displayed by starlets and politicians today, it is the elder stateswoman of bimbos who wins the prize, daily demonstrating that a brain is an optional accessory provided a lady has money, fame and adoring fans.
The planet’s dumbest woman has been famous longer than the younger generation has breathed, yet she shows, time and again, a breathtaking lack of awareness of her own mental shortcomings.
On her personal Web site, we see the unfiltered rantings of this unglued diva. In speeches and in stage appearances, which patrons pay big bucks to endure, we get to know a lady so fundamentally dim, she should be placed under glass and studied. Yet there she goes again and again, proving that passable grammar and common self-knowledge are commodities as rare as gifted singing pipes. She is Barbra Streisand. She is our patron saint of stupidity.
When did she begin to go off the rails?
She was born Barbara Joan Streisand (yes, her name originally