A Salute to Albert Gore

I read today that Al Gore testified on "Global Warming" before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I didn't bother to read what he said because life is just too darn short. I have to give it to him though. Al is probably the greatest con artist of modern times. First he scares the crap out of everybody with his silly movie - a combination of propaganda and pseudo-science - all the while raking in the box office dough. Then he travels around the world spreading more fear and helplessness - and collecting generous speaking fees, of course. Meanwhile he starts a company that sells something called "Carbon Offsets" so that the guilty can buy (at bargain prices, I'm sure) to cancel out their "Carbon Footprint". [Sort of like the Church selling indulgences to frightened sinners during the Middle Ages.] When he's not zipping off to exotic locales in private jets and stretch limos he stays in one of his several houses, including the family mansion which uses something like eighteen to twenty times the electricity of the average American household. While he's there he can count the profits he's raking in from his shares of Occidental Petroleum. One wonders how much the price of oil has been affected by his crusade to "Saved the Planet". It's no wonder he didn't want to run for President again - he didn't want to take the pay cut - and who needs the grief anyway. Bernie Madoff is under house arrest for stealing billions in a failed Ponzi scheme and Governor Blagojevich is facing impeachment for selling a seat in the Senate. Al gets a Nobel Prize, an Academy Award and the adulation of millions of gullible idiots. Is this a great country or what?