[deMolay]

What I find surprising is how much cover he gets from the MSM, as in he had strongly held believes. Barely any coverage. Now I submit to you all if he had been a Tea Party guy. The coverage would have swamped out Hurricane Earl coverage. As to responsibilty between this site and the Leftwing EnviroMENTAL whackjob. None. Maybe Al Bore should be held responsible if anyone.

[Xenophobe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', '
')
Did this lunatic fringe website push him over the edge? What moral responsibility would we share for doing so?

[PrestonSturges]

He mentioned “"Stopping ALL filthy immigrants and their filthy anchor babies".

I think he probably got that part from Rush, not Al Gore.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')aving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing
is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes,
Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.

[PrestonSturges]

Just like the guy who flew his plane in to the IRS building was supposedly a Marxist. Who owned a private plane, and cheated on his taxes.

And the white supremacist who killed the black guard while attacking at the Holocaust memorial, he was supposed to be an obvious liberal.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'J')ust like the guy who flew his plane in to the IRS building was supposedly a Marxist. Who owned a private plane, and cheated on his taxes.

[deMolay]

Seems that this Leftwing Loon was overwraught about Discovery Channel not giving enough coverage to Global Warming. He was a devout believer in manmade global warming. So yes he had a Religion. http://www.ketknbc.com/news/discovery-c ... al-warming

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ound s like he's been reading this board too much.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote(' ', '
')Did this lunatic fringe website push him over the edge? What moral responsibility would we share for doing so?

[Tyler_JC]

Does this make Al Gore guilty of inciting violence?

[Pops]

That is an interesting question Pup.

One thing I've noticed is that the popcorn crowd seems to have thinned here at po.com. Maybe it's just the general decline in posts but many of the Enviro-Rambos, Overnight Armageddonists and wink-wink-nudge-nudge-pass-the-ammo posters seem to have either moved on to someplace more radical, grown tired of sneering at the starry eyed Energy Fairies or, what I think is most likely, caught their tit in the econo-wringer and found that real life doom is an unemployment line.

I never would have thought how really hard it is to keep a message board open yet accessible to a mainstream audience. I think most regular posters would be surprised at how much the volunteers here go around about exactly how to achieve the right balance between free speech and promoting discussion to as wide an audience as possible without forcing our own biases.

This isn't Transition's feel good ministry or TOD's (generally) dry analysis or Some-Guy's personal axe grinder; this is pretty well whatever you want to bring up/question/debate/pontificate - as long as it's somewhat about energy (and many times less about energy than others).

Let's be honest, even though "peak production of a finite resource" as a theory is pretty straight forward, just about everything else is disputable. Not only that, but because there was so little official information correlating with what proponents of near-term peak were laying out several years ago the topic was (and still is) ripe for attracting those with shiny hats.

All in all I think po.com has done a pretty good job at staying moderate considering (aside from software/hardware) we are entirely self organizing - we've zigged and zagged as different personalities (both volunteer and poster) have come and gone but we seem to usually come back on bubble.

[roccman]

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[patience]

Who would want to do that? Looks like a really bad idea to me, to put yourself on TV like that.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('patience', 'W')ho would want to do that? Looks like a really bad idea to me, to put yourself on TV like that.

[timmac]

Pstarr has a $20,000.00 heater in his living room ready for the next coming ice age, give him a call..

[Ferretlover]

I wonder if this is the "Doomsday Preppers" program?