We know how you must be feeling right about now. :-) ...
Posted on 09/19/2005 10:48:15 AM PDT by larry elders
Doug From Upland's siting Arianna Huggington and Al Gore exiting large vehicles at a conference on the environment in San Francisco has set the blogs afire. But there are legitimate uses for large vehicles. Really there are. The I just don't think one person driving the LA freeways in one because the want to win a collision contest at the expense of the unfortunate person they might collide with isn't one. Neither is having bigger, always spinning wheels than your neighbor. Neither is because you get a tax writeoff for a vehicle you use only for commuting and driving to the convenience store for ciggaretts and Cheesy Puffs.
The Sierra Club is an organization that uses large passenger vehicles wisely, it's the nation's number one outdoor activity organization - the Sierra Club. They use their large vehicles to take people hiking, rafting, etc. When they go afield fill the vehicles with people and gear rather efficiently, using much less gas than if they all drove individual vehicles in groups of 2 or 3. The Suburban they picked Arianna in may well have been the Sierra Club's designated airport vehicle - with features for handicapped (something the Sierra Club is known for) and perhaps airport parking sticker.
As for Gore driving an Escalade. Is that the Escalade that coverts from open-bed truck to enclosed bed (SUV?). And isn’t Gore from an Agricultural state. In fact, if I recall he’s a farm boy; probably lives on a working farm. Sorry city boy but low-ground clearance, two-wheel drive freeway flyers just get stuck in that Iowa mud down on the farm. Once again, if you nail Gore for driving an “SUV”, the BS you smell emanating as he exits his vehicle may be real and I for one am not about to tell farmers and ranchers, or people that have to drive on farm or ranch roads, they can’t have a truck or other large, high wheelbase vehicle.
It's amazing the hunger for fresh liberal blood. But just like the Swiftboat Vets before him. By the time the undamming truth of DFU's charges comes out, the little weasel will have moved on to the next unsustinable smear campaign.
His account was zotted. I wish they would allow him back in.
"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society unless the parents hold a government license ... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, founder of Friends of the Earth, and founder of the Earth Island Institute
SIERRA ELF ALF and the ASPCA - All for one - themselves
It is time to cite (see, David, the correct word) an old friend of mine. TO DAVID: When you are born dumb, you stay that way a long time.
So that's what Love Story is all about! :)
In fact, if I recall he’s a farm boy; probably lives on a working farm."
Uh huh... And he probably DID invent the internet down there on that ol' farm too. Shucks..
You rock Doug! :-)
Oh, I see. Yes, it would be fun to watch him try to communicate. Letting one in wouldn't mean Jim would have to let them all in, would it?
In case the question arises, I did not sign up under a new name and create this thread. Actually, that would have been pretty funny. I don't know, however, that I could have created a character so utterly stupid that it would have been believable.
So Al Gore drove his Escalade from his home in Tennessee to San Fransisco to attend a Sierra Club event and you don`t have a problem with that?
Why would he need to drive his big SUV when he was simply on the highway, and driving in the city? I don`t think our street/highway system is too bad yet to require this kind of vehicle. Maybe in Africa, but not here in the U.S..
Your argument defending Mr. Gore is pretty lame, IMO. Republicans and Conservatives also care about the enviroment. But we call them the way we see them, unlike you, who simply are blind to reality when it comes to one of your own.
But I would bet he rented the vehicle, which would make it even more unreasonable for him to have an SUV. Same goes with Ms. Huffington.
Open your eyes and let the light in.
You should stick to your native tongue.
Yep, it is a much better use of space with 2 people in that SUV(Arianna and her driver) than one person. I have never seen a 2 passenger SUV before. Thank you for poinitng that out. Now I might get me one of those. HERE KITTY KITTY!!! ZOT!!!
David, I know you will be confused, so I have to make an admission. I didn't go in a Hamburglar disguise. That was just a joke. I went in a long-sleeved shirt and Docker slacks --- no disguise. Sandy Berger actually went in that disguise, and I saw him stuffing IMPEACH BUSH t-shirts, tree bark, and Sierra Club organic wine down his pants.
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