Posted on 09/19/2007 9:22:55 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Australia’s Liberal Party Bans Members from Al Gore Events Photo of Noel Sheppard. By Noel Sheppard | September 19, 2007 - 12:09 ET
Warning: The following report is guaranteed to elicit uncontrollable bouts of laughter that could be hazardous to your computer if you are currently eating or drinking. Fair and final warning.
The Global Warmingist-in-Chief, Emmy award-winning Al Gore, is currently touring Australia to drum up climate change hysteria while certainly padding his wallet and emitting more carbon dioxide on the trip and during speeches than most people do in a year.
Yet, even more delicious, Australia's Liberal Party has banned all of its members from attending any of Gore's events.
I kid you not.
As reported by Live News Wednesday (emphasis added to hopefully enhance the comedic experience):
The Liberal Party has banned its state and federal parliamentarians from attending events starring former US vice-president Al Gore, celebrity agent Max Markson has alleged.
[...]
Gore spoke on the topic at a $1,000 a head lunch today in Sydney. He's scheduled to address a similar event in Melbourne on Friday.
Event organiser Markson says while he sent invitations to Liberals from the Prime Minister down, only one accepted and then promptly cancelled.
"There is absolutely an official boycott in place. We had one NSW Liberal MP [agree to come] and he had to ring back and apologise and say he wasn't allowed to come," says Markson.
For those experiencing confusion with their laughter, Liberals in Australia are different than here in America. Besides clearly having a better sense of humor, they are also to the right of center, as the current Prime Minister John Howard is a member of this Party.
Dontcha wish we had Liberals like that here?
In Australia, Liberals are conservative and Conservatives are LIBERALS............
DUmmie FUnnies 09-18-07 ("Gore." The DUmmies cry out, "Save us, Algore!")
That was the situation when John Stuart Mill mentioned that all the stupid people he knew where conservatives. In his day, they held many of the same positions as modern day Liberals.
In Australia:
The National Country Party is conservative.
The Liberal Party is moderately conservative.
Those two parties form the Coalition which forms the current government.
The Labor Party is liberal to socialist. It is the main opposition party.
An Aussie reporter on John Howard:
By god, that John Howard is tough.....
Hand it to the bloke — his are made of brass and clang when he walks.
The polls now show three in five voters want him gone. Yet he doesn’t even blush.
And he turned on his heel to march back to battle. Clank, clank, clank.
We need more John Howards in the (R) party!!!
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