Posted on 01/24/2008 11:24:09 AM PST by mnehrling
aving climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed Thursday.
Sharing a stage with the former US vice president at the annual gathering of world movers and shakers in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, the U2 frontman joked that their friendship was a source of pressure on the domestic front.
"He's been round my house and it's like... here's the recycler Al, you know... I've got a posh car, but it runs on ethanol Al," Bono said.
Acknowledging that a career in rock music was not always conducive to a green lifestyle, Bono compared a conversation with Gore to an act of religious contrition.
"It's like being with an Irish priest. You start to confess your sins," he said. "Father Al, I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying rock star.
"I'm going to kick the habit. I'm trying father Al, but oil has been very good for me -- those convoys of articulated lorries, petrochemical products, hair gel."
Bono and Gore were in Davos to push their respective campaigns for poverty alleviation and reducing carbon emissions.
.."Father Al, I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying rock star....
"I'm going to kick the habit. I'm trying father Al, but oil has been very good for me -- those convoys of articulated lorries, petrochemical products, hair gel."
I thought Al was the Pope?
They must be really tired after walking there.
I wonder if these two idiots walked to Davos. I’m guessing no.
Pardon me whilst I puke.
My wife was arranging a rental car for our trip to Arizona next month, and the company actually asked her if she wanted to spend another dollar to buy a carbon offset. She was still laughing when she called to tell me about it.
Do as I say, not as I do. Prooving the “rules” aren’t for elite libs, just everyone else must suffer for their “sins”.
Well, since Al Gore uses more electricity in a month at just his main mansion than you and I and our whole neighborhood do all year, and jets around the globe constantly in private jets and rides in SUVs, Bono (or anyone else) has nothing to apologize for. That is, if there really were man-made global warming. Which there isn’t.
How about everyone save some energy, and petroleum, and prevent noise pollution by refusing to purchase any more U2 discs?
You have got to be kiddding me!!! BARF!
At least Bono still has a sense of humor.
Carbon offset? that IS funny
More proof that it is a religion to these guys.
By Al alone yee shall be saved?
Two words come to my mind. Zinc Mine
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The boots of former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore are seen during a working session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday Jan. 24, 2008. Climate change topped the agenda as well as pursuing a workable peace process in the Middle East and how technology is ushering in a new age of social networking that knows no borders. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Guilt ridden high flyers like these two idiots should get a clue.
He’s the Occidental Pope.
Bono flies to Davos and confesses to Gore who is also “ a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying” putz?
I’ve been trying to decide whether Algore is just a buffoon who actually believes his own global warming BS, or more of a clever opportunist who’s just using it as a scam to make a lot of money. I’m leaning to the latter conclusion.
Never understood U-2’s music since it is either too advanced for my ear or too close to random noise.
This picture is in need of a captioning.
What company? I want to make sure I never do business with them ever again.
That’s sure how it sounded to me.
Enterprise
I caught that too.
Time to guzzle up the SUV and leave all the lights on in my house. I am committed to doing this every time AL GORE tells us the sky is falling.
Thanks. I almost want to make a reservation just so I can cancel it when they ask me.
Next time I rent a car, I think I will.
Confessing your sins to Al Gore is like confessing your sins to the Godfather.
Al Gore is an “energy hog” (as the new PSAs call ‘em). His publicist has made much of how Al Gore’s solar panels and other features on his house will “save power” but they do nothing of the sort. They manufacture power. His consumption remains the same. He just sucks less juice off the grid.
Al Gore Is Not My Pope.
Algore: "Git in muh belly, lil' man!!!"
He ran the same scam in the 1980s when he held Senate hearings to attain the national stage for a 1988 Presidential bid.
He played on our fears.
And being held at a world economic forum. Some “science”.
Resistance is fu-tile.
The Pope is still a priest, a priest’s priest in a sense. Saint Al Gore, is the patron of environmental arrogance and extreme Marxism. Like most gurus, Saint Al Gore lives a different standard than he preaches. His fat wallet attests to his real convictions in life.
Oh, I'd have to mess with the rental clerk.
Me: A what?
Clerk: A carbon credit.
Me: Yes, here's my Visa card.
Clerk: No, I said carbon credit.
Me: A carbon-fiber *what*?
Clerk: Nooo... a carbon CREDIT.
Me: Oh!
Clerk: So do you want one?
Me: One what?
Clerk: *sigh*... a carbon credit!
Me: What's a carbon credit?
Clerk, annoyed: It's.... (pauses to remember corporate training on this topic).
Me: Hey, don't mean to interrupt, but 've changed my mind about renting the sub-compact. Got any diesel pickups?
When they ask, just tell 'em you'll leave a payment in the car when you return it - in the form of methane.
LOL! Reminds me of Opus saying “Hairy pimples for fish nuts?”
To me it sounds like Boner is worshiping Algore.
Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, is famous throughout the
entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous.
At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, he asked the audience for
total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands ,
once every few seconds.
Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the
microphone, ‘Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.’
A voice with a broad Scottish accent from the front of the crowd pierced
the quiet . . .
‘Well, foockin stop cloppin then, ya evil bastard!’
LOL! God Love the Scots. :-)
“Do I need a carbon offset for the carbon copy my credit card makes?”
What about for the pencil I used filling out the rental application?
How many carbon offsets can I get for a book of green stamps?
Everytime Algore burps, another iceburg melts.
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