DUmmies Squabble over Al Gore's New House

[Karin]

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cali  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-29-10 11:07 AM
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April 28, 2010 | 4:24 p.m.

Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.

The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-hotprop-gore...
 

This is a hard one to bring over because it consists of a lot of little, terse posts.  You may wish to go visit.

cali  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-29-10 12:06 PM
Response to Reply #15
16. first of all, they had to be shamed into retro fitting their Nashville home
 secondly, there is no such thing as an an energy conserving 8 bedroom home with fountains and air conditioning- not to mention the jetting back and forth.

He's a ****ing hypocrite who preaches one thing for the "little people" and lives a life style wholly inconsistent with what he espouses.

I'm sick of people like that. 

  At least they're finally getting it.  Everybody else has been saying it for years. 

wuushew (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-29-10 12:31 PM
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What net increase in consumption has Gore created?
 A rich man will become less so by purchase of this property and the resultant taxes he will pay the community.

Is your environmentalism proportionally better than Al Gore's adjusted for income?

If personal behavior was easy to shape by the good acts of others most of society's ills would have been solved millenia ago. The paradox of celebrity is well worth the needed instutional and legal instruments that Mr. Gore advocates.
 

         

cali  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-29-10 01:27 PM
Response to Reply #82
85. He frequently flies on private jets
 don't let facts get in your way. He's a terrible example. He tells us we should reduce energy consumption and hoovers it up himself like there's INFINITE resources.

But don't let your blind worship get in the way of recognizing the facts.

  I have to hand it to cali.  Today she's right, and she's mopping the floor with the Gorebots. 

Uncle Joe  (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-29-10 01:16 PM
Response to Reply #76
79. 1. Gore lives a carbon neutral lifestyle, he willingly pays extra penalties for his usage.
 

 Dreamer Tatum  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-29-10 01:21 PM
Response to Reply #79
80. I thought that the Earth's reources were finite, so what good does paying money for overuse do?

Dreamer Tatum  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-29-10 12:47 PM
Response to Original message
55. Someone should tally up the total number of bedrooms and shitters the Gores control
 
Funny, every time the Duggars fart, people here squawk about how terrible they are for having 20 kids or whatever, but at least they live on one plot of land in one house.

Al Gore, by contrast, warns us every chance he gets that the fate of the world hangs in the balance whenever I buy a light bulb, yet he's buying coastal property and yachts to add to his portfolio.

What a crock. What a charlatan.

This is actually a good read.  As Frank would say, "Oh my." 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Uncle Joe  (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-29-10 01:16 PM
Response to Reply #76
79. 1. Gore lives a carbon neutral lifestyle, he willingly pays extra penalties for his usage.

Penalties???  There should be no penalties, other than the higher heating/cooling bill.

[IassaFTots]

I think that is worth a row....

[Chris]

Heh.  When does bobolink show up and demand free housing from Algor?

[IassaFTots]

I am guessing soon enough, I notice CalPeggy thinks he should be able to do what he wants to with his  money.  She must have money.

[Texacon]

Great find Karen!  Wow.  A lot of that thread reads like it could have posted at freerepublic!  LOL

KC

[Texacon]

LOL  No sooner did I post the above did I read this;

EnlightenedOne  (108 posts)     

Thu Apr-29-10 01:03 PM
Response to Reply #38

70. He knows how to play the game
 which, apparently, you don't get. Yea, that damn obama is so greedy, he donated his full $1 MILLION prize to charity. This thread feels like I'm reading over at FreeRepublic.

 

KC

[Texacon]

Taverner  (1000+ posts)       

Thu Apr-29-10 01:02 PM
Response to Reply #3

68. So all Dems have to live in mud huts or something?

Some will do anything to avoid seeing and/or pointing out the hypocrisy.  Uhhhh..... couldn't the Gore's just rent a cabin or something?

KC

[Texacon]

Uncle Joe needs to be schooled;

Uncle Joe  (1000+ posts)     

Thu Apr-29-10 01:45 PM
Response to Reply #91

94. What part of paying extra penalties for energy usage to insure a carbon neutral
 Edited on Thu Apr-29-10 01:47 PM by Uncle Joe
lifestyle and sacrifice do you not understand?

No one makes the Gores pay these penalties, that's example until society changes over to sustainable renewable energy sources.

They're not just trying to change the "little people," but nice try on your part.

They're trying to change all of society and I believe they have made major progress.

Uncle Joe, do you not realize the only reason Algore does that is because he wants EVERYONE to buy into HIS business?? 

KC

[njpines]

This just in from Zero: "I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money."

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/29/obama-i-do-think-at-a-certain-point-youve-made-enough-money/

I guess the little hypocrites don't think this applies to Algore?

[kenth]

Uncle Joe does his namesake proud.

[lars1701c]

I am starting to think Uncle Joe is a mole. I see him more and more in other threads just Rec'ing and thanking the OP. I am sorry I just have a hunch he is padding his post count.

[JohnnyReb]

Selling hot air has made Al Gore rich....and I thought pet rocks were a scam.

[The Village Idiot]

Uncle Al is a Televangelist preaching the AGW gospel and his followers give him a pass on a few mansions and private jets and yachts.

[GOBUCKS]

Penalties???  There should be no penalties, other than the higher heating/cooling bill.

That's the penalty he's talking about. Otherwise, who would you send your penalty check to? Algore? The jug-eared muslim? Skimmer?

[Ralph Wiggum]

That's the penalty he's talking about. Otherwise, who would you send your penalty check to? Algore? The jug-eared muslim? Skimmer?

I thought the "penalty" was the carbon credits or some such nonsense that Algore buys to make himself feel better for using so much energy.

[The Village Idiot]

I thought the "penalty" was the carbon credits or some such nonsense that Algore buys to make himself feel better for using so much energy.

Its to convince the sheeple that he is "offsetting" his lifestyle, ya right.

[Duke Nukum]

If Algore is buying carbon credits he is simply paying himself as he started the carbon credit company.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I thought the "penalty" was the carbon credits or some such nonsense that Algore buys to make himself feel better for using so much energy.

Since he's buying them from himself, basically, it's a lot more like GM's 'Payment back in full' shell game than it is like any kind of penalty at all.

[delilahmused]

Plants need carbon to live...every time Gore neutralizes his carbon output he kills another petunia.


Cindie

[JLO]

I am starting to think Uncle Joe is a mole. I see him more and more in other threads just Rec'ing and thanking the OP. I am sorry I just have a hunch he is padding his post count.

Oh, I am quite sure many there are just that.  I have an account.  I believe many here and at other conservative sites belong to DU also. 

I got TS'd once, signed up again and learned just how far to go.  I've have had sub-threads pulled.  Now, I know when to quit before I get banned again.

Just a fun little game