It looks like Obama is coming to Tennessee
Plans are apparently in the works for an Al Gore-hosted Tennessee fundraiser for/with Barack Obama. A.C. Kleinheider has the juicy details.
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Gore the optimist
Tennessee’s own former VP on the current energy crisis: “(I’ve) never seen an opportunity for the country like the one that’s emerging now.”
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Maybe the Corkers and the Gores will join each other’s backyard BBQs
Bob Corker just bought a house in Belle Meade, the same super-affluent Nashville ‘burb where Al Gore makes his home.
From the AP today:
Property records show Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker’s new home cost the freshman Republican nearly $1.5 million.
The 4,000-square-foot home is located in the upscale Nashville suburb of Belle Meade. A spokeswoman [...]
Global warming: the opera
For those who thought Al Gore’s climate change movie “An Inconvenient Truth” was dull, well, this probably won’t jazz it up much.
MILAN, Italy - First it was the film and the book. Now the next stop for Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is opera.
La Scala officials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been [...]
Al Gore is looking out for your kidneys
Randy Neal points to new research indicating that global warming will be hard on Americans’ urological health.
I STAND CORRECTED: Randy says the post was actually penned by Sue Sturgis.
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Al Gore sours the Pickle
Our former senator basically suggested to KNS movie critic Betsy Pickle that she talk to the hand:
Gore spoke passionately for several minutes about his favorite subject, the climate crisis, and how the film “Mountaintop Removal,” about how coal mining is destroying an Appalachian community, ties into that problem. After he gave director Michael O’Connell the [...]
Al Gore causing higher grocery costs
Middle Tennessee reporter Brian Mosely blogs about ethanol:
Have you ever noticed that every “crisis” has the same solution: A changed or reduced lifestyle for Americans and the West? It always seems that if people get fat, it’s America’s fault due to our lifestyle. If they starve, it’s also our fault.
The only good thing [...]
Obama talks to Gore “on a regular basis”
From the AP today:
Democrat Barack Obama says as president he would consider putting Al Gore in a Cabinet-level position — or higher.
A woman at a town hall asked the Illinois senator if elected president would he consider tapping the former vice president for his Cabinet, or an even higher level office, to address global warming.
[...]
Roy Neel on Gore as compromise candidate: it ain’t happenin’
Via A.C. Kleinheider’s blogarticle over at The Nashville Post:
Al Gore confidant Roy Neel dismissed speculation that Gore might step up as a compromise candidate at a fractured Democratic Convention during a “Kitchen Cabinet” meeting of Nashville progressives.
And about that “Kitchen Cabinet:”
Inspired by Grover Norquist’s regular series of power breakfasts for D.C. conservatives, Nashville [...]
Read More..>>Al Gore vs. Lamar Alexander smackdown
Tennessee Ticket has the foolish details.
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Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton have ” a lot of fun together”
No…no, this one is NOT an April Fool’s gag:
The ad for Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection is set on a beach, with Robertson and Sharpton saying they “strongly disagree” about a lot of things, but agree on the need to care for the Earth.
On Monday’s broadcast of “The 700 Club,” Robertson said that when the [...]
Al Gore playing his cards close to his vest
In Murfreesboro last night, he didn’t offer a hint as to which way he wants or expects the Democratic primary to go:
After the MTSU presentation, Gore spoke with The Associated Press, saying he sees no urgency in endorsing a presidential candidate.
But he told The AP that he expects the nomination fight to resolve itself before [...]
Al Gore’s true green colors?
Terry Frank says Gore is all about the green, alright:
Al loves Green! Green Cash!
From the Tennessean:
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he’s making enough to put $35 million in hedge [...]
The inconvenient truth…about snakes
OK, if Al Gore really wants to get people off their rear ends and riled up about global warming, this is the story he’s been waiting for:
As climate change warms the nation, giant Burmese pythons could colonize one-third of the USA, from San Francisco across the Southwest, Texas and the South and up north along [...]
Al Gore’s subliminal endorsement
Michael Silence:
By saying he won’t endorse, he endorses Obama.
Gee. Do you think the non-endorsement was timed?
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Al Gore - “Baptist of the Year”
It’s possible that - but for global warming - hell just froze over, as conservative punching bag Al Gore gets a ringing endorsement from a big Baptist gathering:
In an introduction of Gore, Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, called the former Democratic presidential nominee a “Baptist prophet” and appeared to criticize [...]
Gore to throw support to Obama?
Kleinheider points to some talkity talk.
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Proof positive Al Gore doesn’t intend to run for president in this lifetime
He’s come out foursquare in support of gay marriage.
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No love for Al Gore
Terry Frank is no fan of Al Gore.
And speaking of Al Gore, check out this book review from the Washington Post on the evolution of robots:
LOVE AND SEX WITH ROBOTS
The Evolution Of Human-Robot Relationships
By David Levy
Harper. 334 pp. $24.95
Here’s a prediction that’ll make you squirm: In the future, people will fall in love with [...]
