LOL, if you think demanding sacrifices from the "average American" is John Edwards plan then you are even more misled than it initially appears.
Did you even read what he said? He wants Americans to "buy more fuel-efficient vehicles", buying a car is about as average as you can get for an American. So if not the "Average Americans", than whom? The top 1% rich Americans? Whomever John Edwards was talking about making the sacrifices, obviously wasn't him, is he too rich or not rich enough to sacrifice?
Yeah he is really raping the plebeians, my god, encourage them to buy a car that will spend LESS money on gas? Man he might as well make them his personal gimps and keep them in his closet. For the record, here is what I dug off his website on the environment: wow, yeah, he's really hitting the average americans hard there. LOL, so let's get this straight, he says that people shoudl drive more energy efficient cars and have more energy efficient homes. He has an energy efficient home because he went through the extra trouble and expense to make his home energy star compliant. (energy star is an EPA/DOE program). The problem is what now? Your reasoning train is sinking into the deep blue sea. Edwards is rather moderate on the environment and doesn't really play up that issue very much. I'm not sure why you're picking this to skewer him on but other than fantastic tales of 100-acre houses you don't have much ammo here.
So unless you live in a <1000sf home you can not talk about environment? Compared to other rich people with huge house, he is saving energy. Everyone should save energy from their position which is different for everyone.
that girl used to be on one of those teenage high school drama shows on the WB. i forgot the name. I think her mom on the show was rich or something.
Wow with quality posts like that it's hard to believe this forum managed to survive your self imposed exile.
I much prefer Deckard's reply, tone, and civility in the thread you refer to... and much more respect him for it in general than anyone gives a hoo-ha about your tone, condescension, and/or lack of tact, observation of the point of most threads in which you participate, or desire to see the truth of most matters to which you add your drivel.... video game boy. Stick with the limited world view of your brand of "law" which you claim to "practice" and the fictitiously latent cartoon gaming for which you're named. In other words you missed the point again. And once more, you've not been paying attention to the nose on your face. I never left.
another quality post, consisting solely of a rather poorly thought out personal attack, in the alleged name of "civility". Talk about hypocrisy and missing the point..... IROC it, you let me worry about my career which is not really relevant to this thread any more than your career or your skin color or physical appearance or body fat % or salary or marital status or anything - it's hilarious that you're trying to make an issue out of it as part of a perverse homage to the lack of civility that you exhibit; and anyway, while I deal with that, you can go on with shallow, unstimulating attacks on the issues (or non-issues in this case). Or maybe you can contribute something worthy...which is unlikely in my opinion as I have read a fair amount of your posts and not found them to contribute much.
To the topic at hand. Hollywood hypocritical? [sarcasm]No way.....[/sarcasm] Hollywood and celebrities are all about image so its no surprise to me that they don't nearly live up to their rhetoric. That said though images carry a lot of power and while I know that the film industry and those celebrities jetting around in their chartered learjets are spewing a lot more carbon than me in my Honda at least they are saying the right thing. Maybe all those people who look to Hollywood for what to wear and what to eat might actually start conserving.
If Gore defenders dont know there is a nose on there face, then Bush Lap dogs have no idea that they have a head at all. Just ......... brainless.
An Inconvenient Utility Bill: It turns out Al Gore's house uses more than 20x energy than the average American household. -- http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367 And, guess which ex-senator is green in Tennessee.
I think if you break it down by his station in life and his economical peers, he's probablly in the top 1% in saving energy.
Dude. His house is 10,000 sq ft. The average home is somewhere around 2,200 square feet. His consumption is more than 20x. This is not even defensible. It's hypocritical, plain and simple. And it's so typical of rich, high and mighty politicians pretending to give handouts to the poor, telling them how to live.
This thread makes me laugh. This thread is reminiscent of the conservatives attack on any white politian that championed the cause of civil rights. Unless you are a poor black man (or minister) that is beaten down by the MAN, it is hypocritical for a white congressman to speak out on the injustice. But we all know who was right about that one.
