The Hill of Hypocrisy

[sr71plt]

She is probably in the top .1%, meaning she is one out of a thousand. I consider that to be one of the richest women in the country.

I'm sure you can stretch "one of the most" to fit your prejudice.

Being a millionaire isn't as exclusive as it once was, and I'm pretty sure it extends below the top 1 percent. It's just pretty much that the lowest 20 percent probably aren't getting three squares a day--but considering your political views and those of your political views who are busy expanding this percentage, I doubt you want to discuss that end of the spectrum.

(And, no, I don't think a personal worth of 21 mil puts her in the top thousand of women in the States. There are women reported as giving more than that to my university every couple of months.)

 

[phrodeau]

Rather than reading lies from Gore's apologist, I would rather refer you to his utility bills: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888

It looks a bit high. He must be paying extra for the sustainable energy.

That's right, he is. It says so in the link you didn't open.

 

[about_average]

I bet people could name any presidential candidate they want and I could find numerous quotes showing them to be hypocrites.

 

[PoppingTom]

Well, she insists that teaching abstinence to teens is a good way to prevent pregnancy.

Well, thats wingnuts dumb. But hypocrite ?

 

[about_average]

Well, thats wingnuts dumb. But hypocrite ?

ok, an argument could be made it's just dumb.

Her railing against pork spending but wanted fed dollars for the bridge to nowhere is a good example of hypocrisy.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It looks a bit high. He must be paying extra for the sustainable energy.

That's right, he is. It says so in the link you didn't open.

He's still using a lot more electricity than most citizens, not to mention polluting the atmosphere by burning fuel in his private jet.

 

[phrodeau]

He's still using a lot more electricity than most citizens, not to mention polluting the atmosphere by burning fuel in his private jet.

Gore is taking action to reduce his usage as much as possible for a man in his position. He's walking the walk.

Nearly every American uses more electricity than the worldwide average. It's the established system we're all captive to.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Gore is taking action to reduce his usage as much as possible for a man in his position. He's walking the walk.

Nearly every American uses more electricity than the worldwide average. It's the established system we're all captive to.

"Worldwide average" doesn't mean much, when you consider there are some people in the world who use no electricity at all. Gore complains about other people's "carbon footprints" but his is bigger than that of most people, and he burns far more fossil fuel than most people.

You say he's changing his ways now? Why didn't he change them before writing a book complaining about others doing what he does to a much larger degree? That's hypocrisy - bitching about others doing the same thing as the complainer is doing, except doing a lot less of it.

 

[sr71plt]

Why he did it to keep you up in arms, soaking in something other than writing erotica, and having something else to bitch about on top of everything else you bitch about, Box.

 

[RobDownSouth]

He's still using a lot more electricity than most citizens, not to mention polluting the atmosphere by burning fuel in his private jet.

Classic case of wealth envy.

 

[phrodeau]

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Gore complains about other people's "carbon footprints"

That is utter bullshit. You will not find any statement by him or in his books about somebody else's carbon footprint or extravagant energy use.

 

[Boxlicker101]

That is utter bullshit. You will not find any statement by him or in his books about somebody else's carbon footprint or extravagant energy use.

He is quoted here on USA Today objecting to other people's excessive use of fuels: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm

 

[phrodeau]

He is quoted here on USA Today objecting to other people's excessive use of fuels: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm

No, he is not. The only direct quote of his in the article:

Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."

"The world", "humanity" and "we" do not mean "other people". And there's no mention of fuel use in those quotes.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/gri...e-against-the-person-youre-trying-to-pick-up/

A 21-year-old North Dakota man said this week that he revealed explicit messages sent to him by a Republican lawmaker on the gay dating app Grindr because the legislator had voted against expanding LGBT rights.

Dustin Smith told The Forum that he recognized 52-year-old Republican state Rep. Randy Boehning when he appeared in the news with other lawmakers who had voted against an anti-discrimination bill in the North Dakota House.

“And I was, like, who is that guy? I know I’ve seen him somewhere,” Smith recalled, saying that he eventually realized that Boehning had been the person known as “Top Man!” sending him sexual messages and photographs on Grindr.

“He was making sexual advances, asking me, like, my preferences,” Smith said. “He had asked for provocative photos of me.”

Boehning had also sent images, including one image of his penis.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A Tennessee Republican is making headlines for voting in favor of a national abortion ban, even after pressuring the women in his own life to have legal abortions.

Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) publicly opposes abortion and has repeatedly run for office as a pro-life candidate. Last week, he was one of 242 House members to vote for a proposed 20-week abortion ban that has become one of the top priorities for the current GOP-controlled Congress.

Three years ago, transcripts related to the congressman’s divorce trial showed that DesJarlais supported his ex-wife’s decision to legally end two pregnancies. He also had several extramarital affairs, and once pressured a 24-year-old woman to have an abortion after she told him she was pregnant with his child. “You told me you’d have an abortion, and now we’re getting too far along without one,” DesJarlais told the woman in a recorded phone conversation. “If we need to go to Atlanta, or whatever, to get this solved and get it over with so we can get on with our lives, then let’s do it.”

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/05/18/3659910/abortion-vote-desjarlais/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

gsgs comment-

From the mind of Mike Huckabee- A sixty year old man, who thinks it is appropriate to tell his "joke" about leering at teenage girls.

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"Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today."

gsgs comment-

Tell me, that there is nothing grotesque about a grandfather feeding a sexual fantasy about girls that could be his granddaughters, to others? Was he not a pastor, that looked after the people that looked up to him ?

/end gsgs comment

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05/mike-huckabee-faith_n_7215330.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...-high-school-so-I-could-shower-with-the-girls

gsgs comment-

Why would anyone approve of the twisted thinking that attempts to lead people into believing that a trans person would expose themselves to children, or sexually attack them ?

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"You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn’t it?"

"And yet today we (Extreme Religious Fundamentalists) are the ones who are ridiculed and scorned because we point out the obvious, that there’s something inherently wrong about forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment.”

gsgs comment-

Following Mike Huckabee's own logic, why was it OK for Josh Duggar and his parents to force children to suffer through an experiment in their own household ? The children suffered through psychological damage, physical damage, and trauma.

Against any sane instinct to protect their children against a molester, they kept the predator in the same household.


Children are non-nonjudgemental, unless they are taught to be prejudiced.
Children are curious, and hungry for information and knowledge, unless
they have been punished for seeking answers and exploring.

Children would not be traumatized by witnessing the existence of something new to their experience.


This is Mike Huckabee's method of feeding prejudice and hatred.

What is there, in the fact of a trans person's existence, that would waken the sense of offense in a child ?

How many harming flaws in a person, are the Extreme Right Religious expected to overlook, in order to continue cheerleading ?

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