Al Gore to replace Jesus Christ in California?

[LordJezo]

Looks like Al Gore is taking the place of God in California:


Hotel in CA to replace The Bible with Al Gore's book. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=us&sid=afIESX3LdgnQ)

"Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of ``An Inconvenient Truth,'' former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming."


Looks like CA is taking the first steps for Al Gore's sainthood. Force his word upon everyone and the people will eventually accept him as the new Christ.

[cupcakelove]

I'll start to worry when people begin killing in the name of Gore.

[Death Metal Moe]

Whoever killed ManBearPig gets my eternal soul.

[Midkiff]

I don't think they're doing it because of the author. They're doing it because of the facts contained in the book.

[Midkiff]

Whoever killed ManBearPig gets my eternal soul.

:lol:

[epo]

Looks like Al Gore is taking the place of God in California:

Looks like CA is taking the first steps for Al Gore's sainthood. Force his word upon everyone and the people will eventually accept him as the new Christ.

Just stop it. Really this conversation is going nowhere based in logic.

[torker]

I can't run a batch to Al Gore.
http://www.manmademultimedia.com/magazine/news/pol/2006/Al_Gore_Book_Signing_6_06.jpgs/al_gore7.jpg

[cupcakelove]

I can't run a batch to Al Gore.


http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/RSPOD/RS853~Al-Gore-Rolling-Stone-no-853-November-2000-Posters.jpg

You know that deep down inside, you thinks he's sexy.

[sailor]

Just stop it. Really this conversation is going nowhere based in logic.

i don't think it was intended to...

[LordJezo]

I don't think they're doing it because of the author. They're doing it because of the facts contained in the book.

True, people dont like the truth and by them replacing The Bible with Al's fantasy novel they will have a much easier time going to sleep at night in their hotel rooms.

[Bob Impact]

Just stop it. Really this conversation is going nowhere based in logic.

LEFT!

RIGHT!


WRONG!

GRRRRRR!

MANBEARPIG!

[cupcakelove]

True, people dont like the truth and by them replacing The Bible with Al's fantasy novel they will have a much easier time going to sleep at night in their hotel rooms.

And what's the Bible based on?

[Midkiff]

True, people dont like the truth and by them replacing The Bible with Al's fantasy novel they will have a much easier time going to sleep at night in their hotel rooms.

Oh hi, Fat_Sunny.


CAST MAGIC MISSILE

http://home.att.net/~alanj.hall/AlGoreAndGlowingOrb.JPG

[A.J.]

"Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of ``An Inconvenient Truth,'' former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming."

Toilet paper in book form.

[pennington]

Is it possible, just possible, that the Earth knows what it's doing? And that the Sun, and the universe for that matter, all play a role in this?

The Earth has had countless warming and cooling phases in the last 4 billion years. They started long before man or the dinosaurs or the first bit of slime crawled out of the ocean. They will continue until the Sun goes super-nova and disintergrates this planet and the other planets of our solar system.

[Furtherman]

True, people dont like the truth and by them replacing The Bible with Al's fantasy novel they will have a much easier time going to sleep at night in their hotel rooms.


They're BOTH fantasy novel. BOTH good for wiping your ass.

And once again, a stupid misleading topic title.

[Mike Teacher]

A line from the article linked above Really caught my eye:

"They'll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper as it marches toward becoming California's first hotel certified as ``green,'' or benevolent to the environment."

Anyone else see what's utterly and completely dead wrong with the sentence? I dont mean grammar or form, I mean dead wrong on both scientific and political, and a few other levels that havent hit me yet.

Stunningly science-illiterate Bullshit.

[A.J.]

A line from the article linked above Really caught my eye:

"They'll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals

Me too -- I thought "those urinals are going to stink and be littered with pubes".

[Furtherman]

A line from the article linked above Really caught my eye:

"They'll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper as it marches toward becoming California's first hotel certified as ``green,'' or benevolent to the environment."

Anyone else see what's utterly and completely dead wrong with the sentence?

Solar lighting? As in.... regular sunlight?

[Dougie Brootal]

True, people dont like the truth and by them replacing The Bible with Al's fantasy novel they will have a much easier time going to sleep at night in their hotel rooms.

sometimes, i just wish a plane would fall from the sky and onto your house.

[furie]

Just stop it. Really this conversation is going nowhere based in logic.


that's because it's a joke. lighten up

[TheMojoPin]

Who reads anything in a hotel room that they haven't already brought with them? And why not have both books? Not that they're comparable in any way, but don't the Gideons distribute those things either for free or dirt cheap? Going out of their way to make it sound like they're replacing the Bible with Gore's book is making a comparison/contrast I don't even understand in the first place.

[Dougie Brootal]

that's because it's a joke. lighten up

thats the scary thing...its not. he really believes this shit.

[TheMojoPin]

sometimes, i just wish a plane would fall from the sky and onto your house.

Ease up. Nobody's said anything even close to deserving that kind of a response.

[torker]

Did Jesus have a lisp?

[Fat_Sunny]

Ease up. Nobody's said anything even close to deserving that kind of a response.

Only 10 Hours Into The New Regime And This Forum Is Already Out Of Control! Hee Hee.

[Mike Teacher]

Anyway,

"They'll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper as it marches toward becoming California's first hotel certified as ``green,'' or benevolent to the environment."

OK not that anyone cares, it's not a left-right thing at all just some really bad science writing. The sentence implies that this hotel is benevolent, that's it's good for, the environment.

There's a Universe of difference between something a hotel being certified as green, and it being 'benevolent'. Benevolent connotes/denotes that the hotel is good for, it improves, it heals, its adds to the surroundings. Ack. It's just 'less bad' then all the other hotels, and not really that much 'less bad' when you read what it takes for a hotel to be certified 'Green'.

Ack.

Similar thing happened with 'Beach Renourishment' and 'Beach Replenishment' when they realized that dumping sand onto the ocean floor neither nourishes or replenishes anything whatsoever.

Just a few more drops in the ocean of bad science writing/reporting

[TheMojoPin]

Only 10 Hours Into The New Regime And This Forum Is Already Out Of Control! Hee Hee.

Yeah, like it's suddenly mutated away from being the bastion of civility and level-headed thought it was yesterday.

[A.J.]

Did Jesus have a lisp?

No, but He had a beard.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41679000/jpg/_41679560_bearded_203ap.jpg

[AgnosticJihad]

"Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of ``An Inconvenient Truth,'' former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming."


As long as there is still a book in the room for me to rip pages out of and roll joints with, I don't care what the title is.

[Mike Teacher]

Thinking about it; both books Are about ending up in a really really warm place.

[torker]

Rocky Raccoon will welcome the change.

[A.J.]

Rocky Raccoon will welcome the change.

Bravo Sir. Just...bravo.

[Dougie Brootal]

"Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of ``An Inconvenient Truth,'' former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming."


As long as there is still a book in the room for me to rip pages out of and roll joints with, I don't care what the title is.

:lol:

[sailor]

Yeah, like it's suddenly mutated away from being the bastion of civility and level-headed thought it was yesterday.

i blame the new mods!

[ChimneyFish]

Rocky Raccoon will welcome the change.

Bravo Sir. Just...bravo.



I just can't believe it took 32 posts for someone to throw that out there.

[Midkiff]

Is it possible, just possible, that the Earth knows what it's doing? And that the Sun, and the universe for that matter, all play a role in this?

The Earth has had countless warming and cooling phases in the last 4 billion years. They started long before man or the dinosaurs or the first bit of slime crawled out of the ocean. They will continue until the Sun goes super-nova and disintergrates this planet and the other planets of our solar system.

Yeah, but this is the first time humans have been around to throw in gajillions of megatons of pollution to make the equation worse.

[TheMojoPin]

gajillions of Megatrons make the equation worse.

D'uh.

[Midkiff]

http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/decepticon/1984/megatron.jpg

[Snacks]

True, people dont like the truth and by them replacing The Bible with Al's fantasy novel they will have a much easier time going to sleep at night in their hotel rooms.

And what proof do you have that the bible is about truth? No one knows for sure about the bible, for all we really know its a fantasy novel. The first super hero book like batman or superman.

Atleast Gore can back his book with actual science. I know a lot of you like to listen to Bush and follow his lead. We all know he doesnt beleive in science.

The bible shouldnt be in every room anyway. What if your no religious or practice another religion? If someone wants to read something let them bring it themselves or offer to sell them a book of choice, dont force anything on anyone.

[TheMojoPin]

Why do they need to replace the Bible with Gore's book? Again, I don't see the comparison. The only answer I see is that they're acting like the book represents the "Right" and that Gore's book is the "Left" and they're just making a snarky and pointless and non-existent "battle" between two books that have NOTHING to do with each other for just a little publicity. If they wanted to have Gore's book to make an eco-statement, why not just add it to the rooms and leave the Bibles? Why does one have to go for the other? What does removing the Bible "prove" about having a more eco-friendly business?

[Yerdaddy]

It's just not going to be the same anymore when I reach in that drawer to give the hooker a whack on the ass with a Gideon Bible and it's Al Gore in there. It's not going feel so much dirty as disheveled and unkempt.

[Yerdaddy]

Why do they need to replace the Bible with Gore's book? Again, I don't see the comparison. The only answer I see is that they're acting like the book represents the "Right" and that Gore's book is the "Left" and they're just making a snarky and pointless and non-existent "battle" between two books that have NOTHING to do with each other for just a little publicity. If they wanted to have Gore's book to make an eco-statement, why not just add it to the rooms and leave the Bibles? Why does one have to go for the other? What does removing the Bible "prove" about having a more eco-friendly business?

It's not necessarily a right-left thing at all. The Gideons have been puting bibles in hotel rooms for a hundred years because they think people need the Bible. Could be owners just don't think people need the Bible but keep the tradition of a book in the drawer alive with something they think people could use. If I had a hotel I wouldn't put Bibles in my rooms; I'd put a basic science textbook or the newspaper with the sports, celebrities, opinions and all the sections that show me how to make Hollidazzle Eggs cut out.

[TheMojoPin]

It's not necessarily a right-left thing at all. The Gideons have been puting bibles in hotel rooms for a hundred years because they think people need the Bible. Could be owners just don't think people need the Bible but keep the tradition of a book in the drawer alive with something they think people could use. If I had a hotel I wouldn't put Bibles in my rooms; I'd put a basic science textbook or the newspaper with the sports, celebrities, opinions and all the sections that show me how to make Hollidazzle Eggs cut out.

It's just very telling that they went out of their way to raise a fuss over how they were specifically replacing the Bible with Gore's book. I think it speaks volumes and it's ultimately incredibly petty.

[torker]

Replace all the phone books with Dianetics and call it a draw.

[Furtherman]

In the nightstand to the left of the bed I'd put this:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31V+hsYo6FL._AA240_.jpg

In the nightstand to the right of the bed I'd put this:

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X8KYPRYQL._AA240_.jpg

And in the bathroom:

http://images.overstock.com/f/102/3117/8h/www.overstock.com/images/products/bnt/FC0836218515.JPG

[Yerdaddy]

It's just very telling that they went out of their way to raise a fuss over how they were specifically replacing the Bible with Gore's book. I think it speaks volumes and it's ultimately incredibly petty.

Where's the "fuss"? They just did it and Bloomberg wrote it into the article as an appealing lead. As a journalist I would have done the same thing, but it doesn't mean it was a political point on the part of the hotel owners. Could just as likely be they're just non-evangelical atheists and they don't feel obligated to put bibles in people's rooms.

[badmonkey]

Looks like CA is taking the first steps for Al Gore's sainthood. Force his word upon everyone and the people will eventually accept him as the new Christ.

You bring the cross, I'll bring the nails.

Badmonkey

[torker]

In the nightstand to the left of the bed I'd put this:

http://www.marclamonthill.com/mlhblog/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/mcgreevey%20book.jpg

In the nightstand to the right of the bed I'd put this:

http://www.cheaplubes.com/ProductImages/astroglide/Astroanalshooters_L.gif

And in the bathroom:

http://static.flickr.com/71/164661618_2b36c098c4_m.jpg



Nice!

[Furtherman]

Nice!

Hahahaha!

[Gvac]

Here's one thing I wish everyone would keep in mind - anyone with any level of intelligence questions EVERYTHING.

I crack up when I hear people say things like "The Bible is all lies, Al Gore's book is all truth."

Use your heads.

There are literally millions of scientists who question man's role in the climate change.

To accept a completely unproven hypothesis as fact is ludicrous and naive.

[Midkiff]

There are literally millions of scientists who question man's role in the climate change. To accept a completely unproven hypothesis as fact is ludicrous and naive.

True. And let's be fair...

There are literally billions of halfway intelligent people who question some bullshit scroll written in a cave by retard goat-herders.

[Fat_Sunny]

True. And let's be fair...

There are literally billions of halfway intelligent people who question some bullshit scroll written in a cave by retard goat-herders.

Fat Didn't Know That Gore Herded Goats And Lived In A Cave. But You Got The Retard Part Right!

[TheMojoPin]

There are literally millions of scientists who question man's role in the climate change.

Are there?

I'm really not trying to be a smartass, I'm asking in all seriousness because I have no idea.

[Gvac]

Absolutely, Mojo. There are hundreds of books on the topic, too. It doesn't make for a good news story, though, to say that we're not all going to die soon because we're destroying the planet.

[TheMojoPin]

Absolutely, Mojo. There are hundreds of books on the topic, too. It doesn't make for a good news story, though, to say that we're not all going to die soon because we're destroying the planet.

Wait, wait, wait...don't lump pundits and talking heads trying to make it sound all doom and gloom in with the part of the scientific community that's saying humanity is likely making global warming worse and say that they're the ones actually running around saying we're "all going to die soon." They're not. Whether you meant to do it or not, you basically just contrasted that line of thought with the anti-man is making global warming worse crowd as if the latter are infinitely less hysterical and levelheaded. Secondly, I'm still trying to figure out where you got the "millions of scientists" figure from. Thirdly, how many books there are on ANY subject doesn't prove anything. I've seen multiple books that claim we're all just living out a computer program controlled by sentient lizard-creatures (and I'm dead serious about this), so just because something is printed doesn't make it the truth or correct.

[Gvac]

I didn't say the scientists who believe that man is responsible for global warming were hysterical, I said they make a better news story than those who don't.

I know full well it's not the scientists themselves who decide what gets put on TV and in newspapers.

[badmonkey]

I've seen multiple books that claim we're all just living out a computer program controlled by sentient lizard-creatures (and I'm dead serious about this), so just because something is printed doesn't make it the truth or correct.

"That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything."

Badmonkey

[TheMojoPin]

I didn't say the scientists who believe that man is responsible for global warming were hysterical, I said they make a better news story than those who don't.

But at the end of the day, that doesn't matter. If their argument was the fringe, it wouldn't get the coverage it gets despite the "if it bleeds it leads" nature of the story. The issue isn't who gets the coverage, but whose argument stands up best. At this point, the majority opinion that mankind is contributing to global warming is standing up to the scientific method. That's why it's the majority opinion above anything else. No, it's not ironclad...good science never is and can always be shown to be wrong. To this point, however, most of the opposing theories don't stand up to the scientific method. That's why they're not widely accepted within the scientific community, which is why I seriously doubt the "millions of scientists" statement.

[Gvac]

Tell you what, Mojo...google "Global Warming" and go to Amazon and type it in.

See what results you get.

[TheMojoPin]

Tell you what, Mojo...google "Global Warming" and go to Amazon and type it in.

See what results you get.

OK, I did. I'm still nowhere near "millions."

[Yerdaddy]

Tell you what, Mojo...google "Global Warming" and go to Amazon and type it in.

See what results you get.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4356/gomige3.jpg

[Yerdaddy]

Tell you what, Mojo...google "Global Warming" and go to Amazon and type it in.

See what results you get.

We've been round and round on this issue on this board. Every time someone who sees something in the press that might count as evidence against man-made climate change there's a whole new thread that looks exactly like the ten before it - deniers scoff and poo poo global warming and the rest of us challenge for a real source and eventually some crack-pot's article published on a freakishly right-wing website gets posted and shot down and the argument dies. It's the same thing every time, chronicled right here in black and white on the board as proof.

So if what you're saying is true - that "millions of scientists" disagree, (or even, say, tens of thousands even), why is it that none of you deniers have been able to post more than a couple (being generous) of credible pieces of evidence against climate change on the board in the last few years? In all due respect.

[torker]

Tell you what, Mojo...google "Global Warming" and go to Amazon and type it in.

See what results you get.
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[IamFogHat]

From Christ's tomb to Gore's lock-box. The cosmic ballet, goes on...

[Yerdaddy]

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Customers who bought this item also bought:

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[high fly]

Looks like Al Gore is taking the place of God in California:


Hotel in CA to replace The Bible with Al Gore's book. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=us&sid=afIESX3LdgnQ)

"Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of ``An Inconvenient Truth,'' former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming."


Looks like CA is taking the first steps for Al Gore's sainthood. Force his word upon everyone and the people will eventually accept him as the new Christ.


Yeah, I heard this on Limpbaugh, too.
He said the same thing as you!
Fancy that.

[A.J.]

deniers scoff and poo poo global warming and the rest of us challenge for a real source

I believe poo poo IS the source of global warming.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4356/gomige3.jpg

[sailor]

Yeah, I heard this on Limpbaugh, too.
He said the same thing as you!
Fancy that.

limpbaugh? for real? that's the big pun that's going to make us all split our sides laughing?

[Midkiff]

You're a naughty boy and that's concentrated evil coming out the back of you!

[Midkiff]

limpbaugh? for real? that's the big pun that's going to make us all split our sides laughing?

What I found funny was the part where he called out the dude for parroting Limbaugh, which is every hayseed's modus operandi. See cuz, they can't come up with their own opinion. Hayseeds suck.

[Furtherman]

I've seen multiple books that claim we're all just living out a computer program controlled by sentient lizard-creatures (and I'm dead serious about this), so just because something is printed doesn't make it the truth or correct.

To be fair, in an infinate universe, there will be a race of peoples or things than can create their own universes and mathematically, the chances of living in an artifical universe are greater than those of living in a natural one.

But whether they are sleestacks or not remains to be seen.

http://politisink.com/pics/2006/04/sleestack2.jpg

[TheMojoPin]

To be fair, in an infinate universe, there will be a race of peoples or things than can create their own universes and mathematically, the chances of living in an artifical universe are greater than those of living in a natural one.

But whether they are sleestacks or not remains to be seen.

http://politisink.com/pics/2006/04/sleestack2.jpg

Well played, sir...well played...