Wired - The Orange Mane

Swedish Extrovert · 05-21-2006, 04:55 PM

He invented the internet (kind of) and he became America's president (almost), now Al Gore is on a mission to save the world from it'self.

Anyone see Al Gore on the cover of Wired this month? Well he is one of America's foremost environmentalists, and he is also an advocae for free market. He is talking about how consumerism, technology and environmentalism can coencide.

He has an investment group, Generation Investment Management which he presides over a board of directors that include, but not limited to: Steve Jobs (inventor of the iPod) of Apple, and Larry Paige, the CEO of Google, who represent a firm of CEOs, and lead businessmen who excercise a demeanor of personal responsibility and environmental stewardship.

In it, Al Gore talks of the global energy crisis through the use of fossil fuels, and his desire for every American to adapt to the use of Hybrid cars, and personal solar and wind electricity.

In Wired, Al Gore says there is a gold mine of oppurtunity to the entrepaneur who chooses to go green through green energy such as solar, wind and hydroelectricity saying that a simple investment will pay dividends to the consumer and the environment.

Didn't say anything about recycling though.

Kinda different than Man-bear-pig, eh?

2KBack · 05-21-2006, 05:00 PM

recycling is a crock, that's why it was left out. The only material worth the resources to recycle is aluminum.

As for the team of CEOs he has collected. I think it would have been worth his time to find someone who didn't make their money in the tech market.

ludo21 · 05-21-2006, 05:01 PM

Man-bear pig!!

Swedish Extrovert · 05-21-2006, 05:12 PM

See, I was trying to stay away from the Man-bear-pig issue.

There is so much more to Al Gore than the way South Park parodied him.

ludo21 · 05-21-2006, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MightySmurf

See, I was trying to stay away from the Man-bear-pig issue.

There is so much more to Al Gore than the way South Park parodied him.

Man-Bear-Pig!!!

sirhcyennek81 · 05-21-2006, 05:58 PM

Man Bear Pig says it all.

Hogan11 · 05-21-2006, 07:24 PM

Al Gore seems like a decent guy and all....but I could never give him the chance. Why? because of the package deal that includes that prudish PMRC wife of his...that's someone I'll never accept. She's eternally damned in my eyes for her part in that label censoring bullshat witch hunt.

Swedish Extrovert · 05-21-2006, 07:27 PM

She was? I didn't know that.

I still have upmost respect for Gore for what he is dedicating his life to right now.

watermock · 05-21-2006, 07:29 PM

At least he didn't use the N-word.

God forbid we could make hydrogen by the buckets. Now everyone start their moped while Gore gets in his Prius Hybrid. Gore doesn't have a clue. Id like to see what is in the garage while he parades for the press in some imported hybrid. Probably an Escalade limo.

Wes Mantooth · 05-21-2006, 07:53 PM

You guys need to be cereal!

Paladin · 05-21-2006, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoakum3

You guys need to be cereal!

Or something.

Swedish Extrovert · 05-21-2006, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoakum3

You guys need to be cereal!

Beat me to it.

I didn't wan't to turn this into a South Park thread, but that was hilarious.

footstepsfrom#27 · 05-21-2006, 09:00 PM

The theme's Gore advocate are called Corporate Sustainability...part of a larger and emerging business sector loosely identified as Socially Responsible Business. The top 20 MBA programs in the US and top 50 in the world are developing programs built around sustainability, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing and social entrepreneurship. If anyone's interested...here are a few interesting links:

http://www.calvertfoundation.org/
http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/index.mpl
http://www.socialent.org/
http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/whatis/
http://www.se-alliance.org/
http://www.csrwire.com/
http://www.trilliuminvest.com/

Swedish Extrovert · 05-22-2006, 02:22 PM

Al Gore just does seem like a genuine guy to me.

Too bad I couldn't get many deeper responses other than "Man-bear-pig"

sirhcyennek81 · 05-22-2006, 02:25 PM

Al Gore and genuine in the same sentence...I dont see it. The 1. inspiration for love story, 2. had his mother sing him union lullabies that did not exist until he was 27, the inventor of the internet, and the man who could have prevented hurricanes, by signing the kyoto treaty...The man tried on every personality, in the hopes one would fit, only to realize, lacking one is his personality. Making out with tipper on stage was gross.

RaiderH8r · 05-22-2006, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MightySmurf

See, I was trying to stay away from the Man-bear-pig issue.

There is so much more to Al Gore than the way South Park parodied him.

Nope, that's about as deep as AlGore gets. Man-bear-pig.

But Lady Tipper is a much more contemptable figure. Although seeing Dee Snyder and John Denver testify before Man-Bear-Pigs Senate Committee was amusing...since they owned his arse. I wonder if Tipper isn't pulling his strings on this one too.

RaiderH8r · 05-22-2006, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhcyennek81

Al Gore and genuine in the same sentence...I dont see it. The 1. inspiration for love story, 2. had his mother sing him union lullabies that did not exist until he was 27, the inventor of the internet, and the man who could have prevented hurricanes, by signing the kyoto treaty...The man tried on every personality, in the hopes one would fit, only to realize, lacking one is his personality. Making out with tipper on stage was gross.

I thought Michael Jackson slipping Lisa Marie the tongue in public couldn't be topped....but there they were....aLgore and Tipper....tipper should have had that censored.

Kyoto is another load of bull worthy of its own thread.

Swedish Extrovert · 05-26-2006, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2KBack

recycling is a crock, that's why it was left out. The only material worth the resources to recycle is aluminum.

As for the team of CEOs he has collected. I think it would have been worth his time to find someone who didn't make their money in the tech market.

I think one of them was the CEO of BP Oil.

Kinda weird to see an Oil profiteer on an Investment Firm geared to Environmentalists, but apparently BP is actually relitivley environmentally friendly for an Oil company. They will apparently be one of the first to release the new Ethonoyl, and steer clear from drilling controversy.

An Inconvient Truth comes out at the Tamarick in Denver June 8th.... I'm going to have to drive all the way out to Middleburg to see it...

sirhcyennek81 · 05-26-2006, 11:17 PM

Inconvenient truth is...the earth has been getting warmer for 1000 years. The earth was warmer in 0 ad then it is now. The oceans have been rising by .01% of a centimeter since the last iceage. There is more ice on baffin island, inside the artic circle, then there was during the last iceage. If the US and the West actually stuck to the kyoto protocol, it would not lessen co2 in the air. India, China, SE Asia and Eastern Europe would offset any cutbacks the west could make. Hurricanes, tornados, storms, droughts, floods, are not the result of global warming. Its the same pattern about earth's climate that has always existed. It oscalates (sp). F'n A.

watermock · 05-26-2006, 11:52 PM

Growing a beard to look more intelligent is just amusing. Writing greenie books to pad your checking account is as well. Whining about the election was pathetic when the biggest fraud was in Chicago, as usual. Of course, a democrat designed the butterfly ballot but that was lost in the chaos.

He rode daddy's coattails into congress. Here is a brief synopsis of Dear Daddy Gore:

Al Gore Sr. was a racist bigot who voted against the Civil Rights Bill. Al Gore lied when he said his dad lost the election because he stood for the Civil Rights Bill. The blacks were gored by Al Gore sr. and his son lies to cover up the racist background. It is easy to control the minds of people. All one has to do is change history by lying about the past. This is exactly what has happened with the legacy of former Democratic U.S. Senator Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee - the father of our current vice president - and his mythical "support" of civil rights.

In a recent speech to the NAACP, Vice President Gore said his father lost his Senate seat because he supported civil rights legislation. Fellow black Americans, let me set history straight. Al Gore, Sr., together with the rest of the southern Democrats, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 80% of Republicans (138 for, 38 against). In the Senate, 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans did (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democrats voted against the Act.

In his remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their "overwhelming majority." He did not offer similar praise to his own Democratic Party. Moreover, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, an Illinois Republican, collaborated with the White House and the Senate leadership of both parties to draft acceptable compromise amendments to end the southern Democrats' filibuster of the Act. It was Dirksen who often took to the Senate floor to declare, "This is an idea whose time has come. It will not be denied." Dirksen's greatest triumph earned him the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights Award, presented by then-NAACP Chairman Roy Wilkins, for his remarkable civil rights leadership.

Inform yourself, so you can learn for yourself about this important historical event. All official records about the Civil Rights Act can be found in the June 1964 issues of Congressional Quarterly.

Al Gore, Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, Congressional Quarterly reported that Gore attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say "in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts." Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed.

Ostensibly, Senator Gore was "elated" at the idea of young Al, Jr. going to school with black children. In reality, however, the future vice president attended an elite private school.

In the end, the Gore Amendment was defeated by a vote of 74-25. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of President Bill Clinton's political mentors, was among the 23 southern Democratic senators and only one Republican voting with Gore for this racist amendment
Source Washington Post
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art...2000Apr22.html

05-21-2006, 04:55 PM	#1
Swedish Extrovert President of the Universe Formerly known as mightysmurf Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Highlands Ranch Posts: 14,941 Adopt-a-Bronco: Joel Dreesen	Wired He invented the internet (kind of) and he became America's president (almost), now Al Gore is on a mission to save the world from it'self. Anyone see Al Gore on the cover of Wired this month? Well he is one of America's foremost environmentalists, and he is also an advocae for free market. He is talking about how consumerism, technology and environmentalism can coencide. He has an investment group, Generation Investment Management which he presides over a board of directors that include, but not limited to: Steve Jobs (inventor of the iPod) of Apple, and Larry Paige, the CEO of Google, who represent a firm of CEOs, and lead businessmen who excercise a demeanor of personal responsibility and environmental stewardship. In it, Al Gore talks of the global energy crisis through the use of fossil fuels, and his desire for every American to adapt to the use of Hybrid cars, and personal solar and wind electricity. In Wired, Al Gore says there is a gold mine of oppurtunity to the entrepaneur who chooses to go green through green energy such as solar, wind and hydroelectricity saying that a simple investment will pay dividends to the consumer and the environment. Didn't say anything about recycling though. Kinda different than Man-bear-pig, eh?

05-26-2006, 11:52 PM	#20
watermock "Hoodie Jr" "Hug me!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hot Springs, Ouachitah Posts: 77,090	Growing a beard to look more intelligent is just amusing. Writing greenie books to pad your checking account is as well. Whining about the election was pathetic when the biggest fraud was in Chicago, as usual. Of course, a democrat designed the butterfly ballot but that was lost in the chaos. He rode daddy's coattails into congress. Here is a brief synopsis of Dear Daddy Gore: Al Gore Sr. was a racist bigot who voted against the Civil Rights Bill. Al Gore lied when he said his dad lost the election because he stood for the Civil Rights Bill. The blacks were gored by Al Gore sr. and his son lies to cover up the racist background. It is easy to control the minds of people. All one has to do is change history by lying about the past. This is exactly what has happened with the legacy of former Democratic U.S. Senator Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee - the father of our current vice president - and his mythical "support" of civil rights. In a recent speech to the NAACP, Vice President Gore said his father lost his Senate seat because he supported civil rights legislation. Fellow black Americans, let me set history straight. Al Gore, Sr., together with the rest of the southern Democrats, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 80% of Republicans (138 for, 38 against). In the Senate, 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans did (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democrats voted against the Act. In his remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their "overwhelming majority." He did not offer similar praise to his own Democratic Party. Moreover, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, an Illinois Republican, collaborated with the White House and the Senate leadership of both parties to draft acceptable compromise amendments to end the southern Democrats' filibuster of the Act. It was Dirksen who often took to the Senate floor to declare, "This is an idea whose time has come. It will not be denied." Dirksen's greatest triumph earned him the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights Award, presented by then-NAACP Chairman Roy Wilkins, for his remarkable civil rights leadership. Inform yourself, so you can learn for yourself about this important historical event. All official records about the Civil Rights Act can be found in the June 1964 issues of Congressional Quarterly. Al Gore, Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, Congressional Quarterly reported that Gore attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say "in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts." Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed. Ostensibly, Senator Gore was "elated" at the idea of young Al, Jr. going to school with black children. In reality, however, the future vice president attended an elite private school. In the end, the Gore Amendment was defeated by a vote of 74-25. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of President Bill Clinton's political mentors, was among the 23 southern Democratic senators and only one Republican voting with Gore for this racist amendment Source Washington Post http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art...2000Apr22.html Last edited by watermock; 05-26-2006 at 11:56 PM..

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05-21-2006, 05:00 PM	#2
2KBack Rumblin' Bumblin' Cake is delicious Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wash DC Posts: 7,275	recycling is a crock, that's why it was left out. The only material worth the resources to recycle is aluminum. As for the team of CEOs he has collected. I think it would have been worth his time to find someone who didn't make their money in the tech market.

05-21-2006, 05:01 PM	#3
ludo21 RIP Darrent Williams Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Glendale, AZ Posts: 17,901 Adopt-a-Bronco: Paul Ernster	Man-bear pig!!

05-21-2006, 05:12 PM	#4
Swedish Extrovert President of the Universe Formerly known as mightysmurf Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Highlands Ranch Posts: 14,941 Adopt-a-Bronco: Joel Dreesen	See, I was trying to stay away from the Man-bear-pig issue. There is so much more to Al Gore than the way South Park parodied him.

05-21-2006, 05:58 PM	#6
sirhcyennek81 Yes...swooping is bad... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florence, Colorado Posts: 20,668 Adopt-a-Bronco: All of them.	Man Bear Pig says it all.

05-21-2006, 07:24 PM	#7
Hogan11 Rock-N-Roll Historian Let's take these SOB's out!!!!!! Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: W.NY.B.C. Posts: 21,300 Adopt-a-Bronco: Floyd Little	Al Gore seems like a decent guy and all....but I could never give him the chance. Why? because of the package deal that includes that prudish PMRC wife of his...that's someone I'll never accept. She's eternally damned in my eyes for her part in that label censoring bullshat witch hunt.

05-21-2006, 07:27 PM	#8
Swedish Extrovert President of the Universe Formerly known as mightysmurf Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Highlands Ranch Posts: 14,941 Adopt-a-Bronco: Joel Dreesen	She was? I didn't know that. I still have upmost respect for Gore for what he is dedicating his life to right now.

05-21-2006, 07:29 PM	#9
watermock "Hoodie Jr" "Hug me!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hot Springs, Ouachitah Posts: 77,090	At least he didn't use the N-word. God forbid we could make hydrogen by the buckets. Now everyone start their moped while Gore gets in his Prius Hybrid. Gore doesn't have a clue. Id like to see what is in the garage while he parades for the press in some imported hybrid. Probably an Escalade limo.

05-21-2006, 07:53 PM	#10
Wes Mantooth Ring of Famer Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,446	You guys need to be cereal!

05-21-2006, 09:00 PM	#13
footstepsfrom#27 helmet to helmet hitter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 16,117 Adopt-a-Bronco: Joe Mays	The theme's Gore advocate are called Corporate Sustainability...part of a larger and emerging business sector loosely identified as Socially Responsible Business. The top 20 MBA programs in the US and top 50 in the world are developing programs built around sustainability, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing and social entrepreneurship. If anyone's interested...here are a few interesting links: http://www.calvertfoundation.org/ http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/index.mpl http://www.socialent.org/ http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/whatis/ http://www.se-alliance.org/ http://www.csrwire.com/ http://www.trilliuminvest.com/

05-22-2006, 02:22 PM	#14
Swedish Extrovert President of the Universe Formerly known as mightysmurf Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Highlands Ranch Posts: 14,941 Adopt-a-Bronco: Joel Dreesen	Al Gore just does seem like a genuine guy to me. Too bad I couldn't get many deeper responses other than "Man-bear-pig"

05-22-2006, 02:25 PM	#15
sirhcyennek81 Yes...swooping is bad... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florence, Colorado Posts: 20,668 Adopt-a-Bronco: All of them.	Al Gore and genuine in the same sentence...I dont see it. The 1. inspiration for love story, 2. had his mother sing him union lullabies that did not exist until he was 27, the inventor of the internet, and the man who could have prevented hurricanes, by signing the kyoto treaty...The man tried on every personality, in the hopes one would fit, only to realize, lacking one is his personality. Making out with tipper on stage was gross.

05-26-2006, 11:17 PM	#19
sirhcyennek81 Yes...swooping is bad... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florence, Colorado Posts: 20,668 Adopt-a-Bronco: All of them.	Inconvenient truth is...the earth has been getting warmer for 1000 years. The earth was warmer in 0 ad then it is now. The oceans have been rising by .01% of a centimeter since the last iceage. There is more ice on baffin island, inside the artic circle, then there was during the last iceage. If the US and the West actually stuck to the kyoto protocol, it would not lessen co2 in the air. India, China, SE Asia and Eastern Europe would offset any cutbacks the west could make. Hurricanes, tornados, storms, droughts, floods, are not the result of global warming. Its the same pattern about earth's climate that has always existed. It oscalates (sp). F'n A.