The Daily Bayonet

EXCERPT:

In this week’s round-up, you will discover the dark secrets behind some of the most influential green groups, why polar bears are shrinking and how the world can be saved with only the judicious use of English actors.  Also, this is the first weekly round-up where I use the word skulduggery in a sentence.  How about that and a bag of chips too?

Become one with your beverage and read on, friend, read on…

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

Al must be back from vacation, or is blogging from the road, because he blessed his acolytes with numerous posts this week.  I’m skipping the post about Tipper’s photography, let’s just say that if you want to see old pictures of Bill Clinton from his pants-on days, knock yourself out, otherwise, meh.  Back to the Goreacle’s blog, he’s miffed that a group called Energy Citizens has the gall to oppose Al’s personal enrichment plan cap and trade legislation.

Al goes on to show his unique understanding of astroturf by encouraging his Gore-bot minions to sign up for what sounds a lot like a spam-marketing voicemail blast to Senators.  I encourage US readers to make a call to oppose Waxman-Malarkey, after all it’s Al’s rePower America picking up the tab for your call.  He can afford it, knock yourself out.  Talking of the repower folks, they have a new ad out, and it features a whiney guy in a green shirt.  Really.

The oddest post from Al is this one about energy-efficiency in a war zone.  I’m not making this up.  Unfortunately, Al makes reference to the Nellis Air Force Base solar power plant, which has a hidden but very inconvenient truth all it’s own:

… the 72,000 solar panels cost $100 million and saves the Air Force $1.2 million annually.  So it’ll pay for itself in about 83 years.  What a shame the useful life of a solar panel is only 20 years.

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