Al Gore; Internet Pioneer makes good in Hollywood

What has Al Gore been doing since inventing the Internet? He has invaded Hollywood in an attempt to jump-start his political comeback that’s what. Some say he has been busy inventing global warming in the process.

Many say the science presented in Al Gore’s documentary is flawed. It probably is. The strange little man with the wild eyes (eerily gleeful, actually, on the topic of hydrocarbon levels in Greenland) who appears everywhere this topic is discussed, waving his arms and gesticulating, if I’m not mistaken, is the same strange little man who was gleefully pronouncing global cooling as a major threat not too many years ago. Leave it to Al Gore to trot this character (I think the strange little man is slightly mad) out to further his political aspirations.

But a brief look at Al Gore’s career may be in order. He served in Congress from 1977 until 1993. He then was Vice-President for eight years. I assume through all that time, global warming was either not on the radar screen of politicos, or Al was preoccupied with inventing the Internet.

Now lets see…wasn’t the Mideast oil embargo in 1973? Weren’t long lines at the gas pump, gas rationing, and concern over our dependence on foreign oil major issues before Al entered the Congress, or the Clinton Administration? They were. And what did Al, or anyone else in Washington do about it for all those years. Simply put, nothing. Couldn’t Al have launched a hue and cry for energy independence and alternative fuels through all those years at the public trough? You bet he could have, but he didn’t. Nor did anyone else in Washington.

I remember well in 1961 when President Kennedy called for a national effort to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade of the 60’s. And I remember with pride how in 1969 the Kennedy vision became reality. I remember thinking how our country, if properly led, could accomplish anything. Then in 1973, I waited for the President (the President of Watergate fame), or his successor(s) to sound a similar clarion call for energy independence and alternative fuels development. All it took was leadership and this country would have answered the call with willing hearts and minds. The leadership never came. Not from Al Gore, nor from anyone else.
This current call from Al to deal with this global crisis will also go unheeded in Washington until every drop of Mideast oil has been exploited. And then it won't matter how many caribou, polar bears, walruses, or shrimp colonies in the Gulf at impacted. We will rape and pillage the rest of the natural world that we control with as much wild-eyed glee as the strange little man who follows Al Gore around today. The strategy is painfully obvious.

It doesn't matter how many US soldiers have to die defending Mideast oil until every last penny of profit has been wrung from the current supply chain. Or as President Bush recently said, "sometimes money trumps politics."