Stick to Growing Beards

ALGORE2000, the world's first bionic politician, continues to befuddle, bemuse and bamboozle his way to...a career in infomercials?

On the heels of "digital brownshirts" and all the rest, SweetAl is now attacking Canadian conservatives.

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has accused the oil industry of financially backing the Tories and their "ultra-conservative leader" to protect its stake in Alberta's lucrative oilsands.
Canadians, Gore said, should vigilantly keep watch over prime minister-designate Stephen Harper because he has a pro-oil agenda and wants to pull out of the Kyoto accord -- an international agreement to combat climate change."The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta," Gore said Wednesday while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah." And the financial interests behind the tar sands project poured a lot of money and support behind an ultra-conservative leader in order to win the election . . . and to protect their interests."

Does anyone pretend to think that he thinks he knows what he's doing? Clearly he's not running again. Clearly he can't go back to laying cable and setting up routers to build the Information Superhighway. Clearly he's persona non grata in China. He's done Saturday Night Live. We know he's written Earth in the Balance Two: Revenge of the Son of Mothra Electric Boogaloo. We know the "Lockbox" was a sham...and by the way, completely unnecessary since Social Security is totally solvent. He can't go back to his farm in Tennessee since he grew up watching the duck parades at 11a and 6p at the Peabody Hotel. So what then?

So what do you give to the man with nothing and nowhere to go? A bong and a blintz? A subscription to Ducks Unlimited? A pony? Cyanide capsules embedded in pinkie-rings embossed with Swastikas?

So on to real content. Yeah, those Canadians. They've been duped. That's the only explanation. Their very nature would indicate that they'd simply vote for the guy closest to Michael Moore. We mourn the loss of democracy in Canada and celebrate its triumph in Palestine.

Anyway, I find the article itself comical. Like here

While John Bennett, senior policy adviser for Sierra Club of Canada, isn't certain of how much oil companies and their executives donate to the Conservatives, he's noticed their language on Kyoto is similar. "They've talked about the need for a made-in-Canada plan, which is exactly the terminology Stephen Harper used," Bennett said. "They've talked about targets for Kyoto being unreachable -- that's similar."

Oh......wow. W-O-W. That's tremendous logic. I don't know if John is aware or not, but the overwhelming majority of rabid-Kyoto EU nations are not in compliance with their obligations under Kyoto. And if that's similar language, that's clearly the fault of these wacko conservatives.

And uhhhh...for any of you who actually KNOW what happened on this issue, do u find this fair and bananced?

Gore warned that Harper wants to remove Canada from the Kyoto accord, which the United States signed under former president Bill Clinton, but has refused to ratify under President George W. Bush.

Lying? No. The lingo of the competition.