>> ^ant:

Was that Al Gore at the end, clapping?


Yeah, he was a senator when Bush Sr. was president.

Was that Al Gore at the end, clapping?

>> ^luxury_pie:
More videos of kids behaving like monkeys please. It's very cool and everybody should do it.


Why else was the internet created by Al Gore?

Remember that golfer with the big ears elected by the perpetually-fooled in 2008? His lapdog media's been lying about a "recovery" for some time now. 22% unemployment, gas and food through the roof, hyperinflation.

Palin couldn't fk things up any more than the thugs in power now. You may not know it, but the leftmedia knows she can beat His Earness next year, and so the hammering continues...

It's too bad we can't always have a brilliant genius like Joe Biden in high office, or this clown:

"Who are these people????" --supergenius Al Gore at Monticello (Jefferson's home) just before the 1992 inauguration, with news reporters present, pointing to busts of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (New York Times, January 17, 1993)

Yes, yes. Any school with famous liberals who graduated are now completely invalid as educational institutions. That's how you get around that one. Harvard Law is a crap school. So here are the conservative graduates who also don't have a valid degree according to you:

Chief Justice John Roberts
Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Justice Antonin Scalia
George W. Bush
William Bennett
Henry Paulson
Bill Frist
Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens
Mitt Romney
Alan Keyes
Lou Dobbs
Bill O'Reilly

Man... too bad they must all be idiots... and they clearly don't have a grasp on being "American".

Do you ever stop and think before you say things like that?

You don't get to invalidate someone's academic achievement because you politically disagree with them... Well, you can, but it just makes you look incredibly stupid. There's something horribly wrong with people who look down on someone's intelligence despite graduating from one of the elite colleges in the US because they disagree with them. Ridiculous...

Sarah Palin can really galvanize and lead, eh?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/07/palin-unfavorable-rating-reaches-new-high/

What, are all polls now liberally biased, too?!

And nice try attempting to make this about how well Obama has done as President. That wasn't the debate. You said Palin is just as smart, if not smarter, than Obama. She's not. Period. You can't even sanely argue that she is. She's of average to above average intelligence overall, but sorely lacks knowledge of the economy, foreign policy, and other crucial topics needed to be a good president. Plain and simple. Your political leanings shouldn't cloud that assessment. There are plenty of right wingers who also can accept Palin just isn't smart, and Obama is.

Bonus: The only person who brought up Al Gore is you. This isn't a liberal vs conservative thing. This is you saying idiotic things flying in the face of simple facts.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Did you seriously just say Obama's intellect is comparable to Palin's?!
Palin has a far better grasp on what it means to be an American than a bitter leftist who sat in a hate-Whitey church for 20-plus years. His Earness is endlessly promoted by His media lackeys, so a fair comparison is not possible.
SERIOUSLY?!?!?!? Look, gaffes aside, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School with a JD magna cum laude. Palin took six years to get a bachelor's degree in communications bouncing around from school to school to get it!
You might have had a point when Harvard wasn't a politically-correct degree mill. Speaking of kollij, we will never see Obama's kollij papers to know his genius even then. Community organizer? Do you even need higher education to become a rabble-rousing 'activist'?
Dude, if the conservative/libertarian ideology concluded the world is flat, would you spout that crap, too?! In fact, your beloved Ron Paul wouldn't tell Obama he's not smart enough to be president.
I don't need any labels to denounce His Earness. I merely observe the results of his incompetence (or genius, for those promoting the one-world illuminati worldview). His results are indefensible by any metric you care to name.
Just ridiculous. I get you don't like Obama, but that doesn't mean you should ignore basic fact. And I'm sorry, but she's simply not smart enough to be president. This has nothing to do with her ideology. Plenty of conservative politicians are out there who have the intellectual capacity to be president, but she's not one of them.
Due to an unfortunate media-created outbreak of Palin Derangement Syndrome, your observation cannot be quantified. Anyone here think Joe Biden is smart enough to operate a doorknob much less be President?
BONUS NO. 2 -- "Who are these people?" -- mid-90s Vice President and supergenius Al Gore, referring to the busts of Jefferson, Washington and Franklin during a tour of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson.

Did you seriously just say Obama's intellect is comparable to Palin's?!

Palin has a far better grasp on what it means to be an American than a bitter leftist who sat in a hate-Whitey church for 20-plus years. His Earness is endlessly promoted by His media lackeys, so a fair comparison is not possible.

SERIOUSLY?!?!?!? Look, gaffes aside, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School with a JD magna cum laude. Palin took six years to get a bachelor's degree in communications bouncing around from school to school to get it!

You might have had a point when Harvard wasn't a politically-correct degree mill. Speaking of kollij, we will never see Obama's kollij papers to know his genius even then. Community organizer? Do you even need higher education to become a rabble-rousing 'activist'?

Dude, if the conservative/libertarian ideology concluded the world is flat, would you spout that crap, too?! In fact, your beloved Ron Paul wouldn't tell Obama he's not smart enough to be president.

I don't need any labels to denounce His Earness. I merely observe the results of his incompetence (or genius, for those promoting the one-world illuminati worldview). His results are indefensible by any metric you care to name.

Just ridiculous. I get you don't like Obama, but that doesn't mean you should ignore basic fact. And I'm sorry, but she's simply not smart enough to be president. This has nothing to do with her ideology. Plenty of conservative politicians are out there who have the intellectual capacity to be president, but she's not one of them.

Due to an unfortunate media-created outbreak of Palin Derangement Syndrome, your observation cannot be quantified. Anyone here think Joe Biden is smart enough to operate a doorknob much less be President?

BONUS NO. 2 -- "Who are these people?" -- mid-90s Vice President and supergenius Al Gore, referring to the busts of Jefferson, Washington and Franklin during a tour of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson.

"One could argue that Palin's selection as speaker for the Dinner Keynote Address for this event is quite a break from tradition. Palin joins speakers like Aamir Khan (2010), Pervez Musharraf (2009), Al Gore (2008), Benazir Bhutto (2007)." -http://indiareloaded.tv/article/sarah-palin-india

Piss in the wind, normally, yes, but in this specific case, at the Sift, with the type of people in here who really cling to fact, it's worth it. I'm not angry when I say it. I fully believe that THIS place, as opposed to the rest of the net, can grasp the concept.

I could just as easily stop caring how many people believe it wrong. It's not like Savage doesn't deserve credit for it for all the work he put into it.>> ^bareboards2:

Frustrating, isn't it? I go through the same thought process.
Another annoying example....Al Gore is still credited with saying he "invented" the internet, which he didn't do.
Some things just get twisted and there is naught we can do about it.
Piss in the wind, is all.

>> ^messenger:
As I've mentioned elsewhere, and as Savage himself has said many times, he didn't create nor even suggest creating this new definition. It was his column's reader's idea to find a sexual definition for Santorum's name, and the "frothy mixture" definition was another reader's contribution to the contest. Savage provided the space, and promoted it through his website www.spreadingsantorum.com.

Frustrating, isn't it? I go through the same thought process.

Another annoying example....Al Gore is still credited with saying he "invented" the internet, which he didn't do.

Some things just get twisted and there is naught we can do about it.

Piss in the wind, is all.


>> ^messenger:

As I've mentioned elsewhere, and as Savage himself has said many times, he didn't create nor even suggest creating this new definition. It was his column's reader's idea to find a sexual definition for Santorum's name, and the "frothy mixture" definition was another reader's contribution to the contest. Savage provided the space, and promoted it through his website www.spreadingsantorum.com.

I believe you are wrong on this.

1) At the heart of every corporation is is a moral compass lead by the likes of the Boss/ CEO or board of directors. They decide moral direction. My company just got the Obama health care waiver. This is a company that ranks as being with in the top 15 largest corporations in the world. Is this is morally wrong? They also paid $0 dollars in taxes last year. Not to mention the near 1/2 trillion in government aid in the last 2 years. Finally they openly promote diversity along with domestic partner insurance. These are are all moral issues.

2)I agree that the Al Gore Flordia election was messed up. Due to the time lines involved the U.S. Supreme Court had to make the decision. Hanging chad or not he lost. From you link Bush and Gore both got 49% in Florida. The total outcome from you link shows that Gore won by 0.51%. Life is not fair and it not supposed to be fair.


>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Your argument is faulty by your own standard of morality and voting

1.
Capitalism is neither moral or immoral.
It's a self interested venture with the sole intent of maximizing profit. full stop.
It's amoral.

b : lacking moral sensibility

2.
Voting doesn't mean shit.
In 2000, Al Gore won the popular for President.

Your argument is faulty by your own standard of morality and voting

1.
Capitalism is neither moral or immoral.
It's a self interested venture with the sole intent of maximizing profit. full stop.
It's amoral.

b : lacking moral sensibility

2.
Voting doesn't mean shit.
In 2000, Al Gore won the popular for President.

Why was Al Gore never president, bobknight?
That's who the people voted for in 2000, but that's not the government we got.

Explain these things Bobknight please. No response? Cognitive dissonance much?

I know it's tough to admit your beliefs are illusions at first.
It gets easier once you know there are people who are here to support you. =]

[ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amoral ]
[ http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html ]

p.s. - C. Wright. Power Elite. look it up. learn things bobknight
>> ^bobknight33:

How could anyone listen to this and not puke?
Capitalism is a good thing. Capitalism with out morals is a bad thing.
We have the government that we have now because that's what the people voted for.

Where the FOK was Al Gore?

1. My online moniker is the first 8 letters of my high school nickname. The whole thing wouldn't fit on the scoreboard of a late 80s pinball high score board.
2. I was mute for a week with strep throat, and still managed to seduce someone using only physical comedy and facial expressions.
3. I've logged 79 of the 110 Messier Objects.
4. I once killed a groundhog because he was a legitimate threat to my food supply.
5. I can do amazing things with a map and compass.
6. I can do something with my tongue that I've never seen another human do. (This is in no way related to #2)
7. Al Gore once beat me in a foot race.
8. I can sing the theme to Land of the Lost.
9. I live closer to a trailhead than a gorcery store.
10. I am the only member of my family to live more than 25 miles away from where I was born.
11. I owe #10 to my time in the US Marines.
12. When someone asks "are there any questions" I almost always ask "What's the atomic weight of beryllium?"
13. When someone tells me the title of a book they're reading, I almost always ask, "did you get to the part where he dies yet?"
14. I can tell time and navigate by looking at the sky.
15. I love fast, upside down, looping rollercoasters, but the merry go round makes me sick.
16. I once filtered and drank mosquito infested muck as an alternative to dehydrating.
17. I bought my first couch at age 41.
18. I've never purchased a car, although I have bartered for many.
19. I once saw a medical professional use a frozen hotdog to insert a condom into a drunk guy's rectum.
20. I owe #19 to my time in the US Marines.
21. To this very day, I still have dreams about the Leonids Meteor Storm I saw in 2001.
22. I can prove the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
23. My favorite number is 23.
24. I brew damn fine apple cider.
25. I have seen many amazing things.

I just watched the rest of his stuff and its all excellent. I especially liked Al Gore vs Lord Monckton.

I replied generically on the video, but as a reply to anything regarding cap & trade this reasoning doesn't track. Maybe it would sorta be appropriate as a response if what cap & trade consisted of was a flat tax on gasoline.

I'm also for repealing the subsidization of all dirty energy -- and the entire environmental movement would likely agree with me on that (even alleged fraud Al Gore!).

So here's the only real connection. In both cases we're talking about market externalities -- cases where market transactions between two entities cause harm (or benefit) to people not involved in the transaction. This is never desirable; you want prices to reflect the harm or benefit you're causing those other people, otherwise you open yourself up to malinvestment's ugly stepsister, malconsumption (and yes, I made that word up, but it is just like that other made-up Austrian word, only regarding consumption instead of investment).

One highly-regarded way to bring externalities under the auspices of market forces is to use Pigouvian taxes. Sometimes you get some centrally-planned tax rate (like all flat sin taxes), but ideally you want some sort of market-driven mechanism setting the size of the Pigouvian tax -- which is what cap and trade is all about.

Anyways, I'm just leading you to water (100% piss-free!), I don't really have much hope you'll drink.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
http://videosift.com/video/Penn-Teller-Bullshit-Soft-Drink-Tax

Up the butthole with this one, dear sir!