An Unconvenient Truth?

POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'

Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359. Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year. “As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

For Further Information, Contact: Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431 editor@tennesseepolicy.org

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer, who was hung by the SS for his outlandish idea that the Church and the Nazi state should be separate, has several thoughts that have stuck in my mind lately:

1. "cheap grace" - guarantees bargain-basement salvation which makes little, or no demands on people, thus poisoning "the life of following Christ"
2. "Who is Jesus in the world of 1933?" or more specifically, "Who is Jesus in 2007?"
3. In his dissertation The Communion of Saints, Bonhoeffer declares that the church is "Christ existing in community." The church for him is neither an ideal society with no need of reform, nor a gathering of the gifted elite. Rather, it is as much a communion of sinners capable of being true to the gospel, as it is a communion of saints for whom serving one another should be a joy.

Boogers

At school today, one of my colleagues sent me an article about doctors finding a way to grow fingers back. Wow, this is astounding. Now, I can go out, loose a finger on a table saw and then go to the doctor. The doctor will then put some pig bladder on my hand and my finger can grow back.

However, I've got a bigger money maker: a booger-no-moorer. All girls and metrosexual guys would buy this. I would not. I mean, where else would I get my midday snack?

Delicious.

Billary?

This is just hilarious. I love it how she puts her foot in her mouth. I think the thing the worries me the most is after she does it she says that we wanted her to do it. Am I Hillary's puppet master? Somebody wants that job.