March, 2006 -- In the middle of February former VP Al Gore flew to Saudi Arabia and spoke harshly about America's treatment of Arabs.  None of the big media made a fuss about this.  They were busy trying to use a hunting accident to get current VP, Dick Cheney, to resign.  The port security gambit, aimed a bit higher, was still in the future,  the very near future, and would finish the cover for the Dems.  It is the last explosion which holds the attention. With internal party polls showing 2006 and 2008 disasters based on a core Americon vallue called national defense, something had to be done, and done quickly.  It isn't that Gore matters a hell of a lot to the party players, it is what the incredible dunce is capable of accomplishing with his big, stupid mouth. So that you understand this properly, it has to do with a funeral celebration up in Gopher Prairiie, Minnesota a while back.  A noisy one.  It had -- we'll call them -- effects on the next election.

It wouldn't have if this had been the old days.  But Chronkite, Rather, Brokaw and Jennings, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and the L.A. Times -- the vast American leftwing media conspiracy's total control of the flow of information no longer exists.  What these idiots, these Terry Morons and David Gregorys, say is held up to the light of fact by patriots who hang out on Free Republic and Lucianne dot com, by the Sam and Sadie Spades of talk radio, by the fighters at FOX and the Washington Times -- and even way down at the grassroots by the footsoldiers who turn out publications like this one.  (Plenty of guts, but little glory and even less money.  Prime benefit -- read: motive?  The sight of harpooned liberals flopping all over the place.)

The Gore speech we bring up here was attended in part by people connected to Osama bin Ladin.  For those of you who wonder about this, Saudi Arabia is the home of the Wahabi sect of Islam from which bin Ladin draws his view of the world -- assuming his belief isn't the kind one usually attributes to power mad wannabe dictators.  In extremis, Hitler didn't mind sending Nazi children to their death, either.  Harvests of shame, indeed

Who is addicted to oil?

The Saudi family runs Arabia.  They would be nothing but desert sheiks living in camel-skin huts if that region did not sit on gigantic reserves of it.  The Saudis did not discover the oil, did not invent the machines which generate the worldwide need for it and did not invest either the money or the effort needed to initially tap those reserves. They were camped on the largest lottery ticket in history when the world switched from steam to gasoline and diesel.  They just happened to park their camels in the right place at the right time, and became trillionaires. 

Among the things they do with this money, besides buying luxury goods, is to hire construction companies to build structures in their desert kingdom.  Cities, factories, power generation sites and distribution networks, hospitals, hotels, palaces, etc. Osama bin Ladin's name is on one of those construction companies, and one expects at least some of the contracts he has been given are actually investments in personal security for the Saudi royal family.  It's Osama's variation on the method Jesse Jackson has used for years, but both the threat and the profit in the Saudi case make Jesse look like a small time thug.

So,since we fuel our entire economy with oil, the wealth of the Islamo-fascists who slaughtered all those Americans on 911 came directly or through Saudi job contracts of some kind, indirectly, from America.  But this goes deeper than the generic American thirst for muscle car gasoline. You've heard the constant din about the Bush/Cheney big oil connections.  Al Gore of Tennessee is a Democrat.  A liberal.  One would think from his blather that he wouldn't be caught dead with connections to big oil, but, unfortunately for the purity of the American Left, he is the scion of a family which has long had large stock holdings in Occidental Petroleum.  

It's kind of surprising, I suppose, to some, but not to me.  Hypocrisy is the central theme of the American Left.  The modern Democrat Party is shot through with it like veins of silver in the Comstock tunnels.

Ignore the bells and whistles

So, to bring this home, we have lucky desert nomads allowed by vastly more powerful and intelligent cultures to retain ownership of a region rich with the black gold, acting against their best interest by allowing a terrorist faction of Islam to flourish in the shade of their luxurious tents because they either agree with that faction or prefer that people other than they be executed in the name of Allah.  And, into this desert spider's web comes Al Gore to make a harshly critical speech about the nation of his birth, right in the heart of the birthplace of the cult which generated the worst and most cowardly attack on U.S. soil in living memory.  And, if some of the reports are accurate, and we think they might just be, he was in part paid to do it by people on friendly terms with the very man who planned and ordered the execution of that 911 attack.

The liberals often talk about the "appearance of impropriety" when criticizing members on the right side of the political aisle.  They haven't said a word of criticism about this Gore trip.  It reminds one of the biblical adage describing the man who can see the sliver in your eye but not the beam in his own.  How can Gore get away with it, you ask?  Well you could put it down to a mainstream press and Democrat establishment which despises America.  Or, you can say that these are people who have deluded themselves into believing America is only good when they hold the reins of power.

My vote is the latter.  Really stupid people who have named themselves after a philosophy, democracy, but who actually hate the approach because the system it generates doesn't keep them permanently in charge of everything and everybody.

I have written this so that in the cloud of cubic zirconium charges you don't lose sight of the diamond of disrespect comitted by one Al Gore two trumped up, anti-Bush media punts ago.  

(LL)

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