Al Gore's son was pulled over for speeding on a California freeway early Wednesday and arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs, authorities said. Al Gore III, 24, was driving a blue Toyota Prius about 100 mph (161 kph) south on the San Diego Freeway when he was pulled over by sheriff's deputies who said they smelled marijuana, said Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino.
Al-III is his own man, and it's clear he has some problems. Whatever one thinks of AlGore (and I dislike AlGore intensely), I wouldn't use his son's misfortunes to attack him. Let's hope Al-III gets the help he clearly needs.
I think it's hard to be the son or daughter of a politician.
Isn't this the same kid who was stopped in North Carolina for the same thing the last time Big Al ran for president? Or was that another one?
I think it was this one. He's been having problems for quite a while.
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I didn't know a Prius could do triple digits....I'm impressed (with the car, that is).
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I wouldn't use his son's misfortunes to attack him
Yet, it remains extremely difficult to avoid the conclusion that imbibing substances that contribute to delusional behavior seems to run in the family.
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When it says that he had perscription drugs in teh car, I'm assuming that he didn't have a prescription for the drugs.
He should have tried, "I'm late for a floor vote." It works for Kennedy's.
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He was hit by a car when he was young and has had extensive surgery. This isn't to excuse him. There is no excuse for being a drunken danger on the road, especially on a holiday when families are traveling.
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Gladys,
Thats the whole point about the "Yerba Buena".
It does not tremendously improve on your cognitive skills.
OTOH he may be congenitally stupid.
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Al Gores son is not Al Gore.
He's not in politics, so it's none of my business.
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Not to pick on III, either, but does he know that the Prius mpg is very poor at 100 mph? I mean, you're not running on electricity at that point. I would've thought that Jr. would've taught that to III.
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In California, going 100 MPH is a crime (not an infraction). Jail time, etc. Of course, the drugs don't help, and DUI is also a crime.
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I'm sure he will be able to buy some jailtime-credits from his dad without any problems so he won't see Jail.
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#7: "Why do we put up with this double standard BS?"
Because we're principled and mannered and stuff. The Left never pretends to be. It's all part of that "no absolutes" thing: Conservatives must live up to their standards and Leftists don't bother because they haven't got any. So from that perspective its All Good.
Reuters finds it notable that Gore Jr. was driving a hybrid Prius.
So even as Gore was being arrested for driving high on marijuana and endangering the lives of others, he was tackling a moral threat, (Dads words) global warming. Talk about needing a little perspective.
Its worth noting that Gore was driving at 100 mph when stopped by police. The much-ballyhooed Prius claims 61 mpg in city driving (EPA figure) which is proven bunkum. Real world tests put its city mileage at a still impressive 50 but only 42 mpg on the highway (poor compared to comparable diesels) where the batteries' juice drains quickly and the car runs mostly on its gas engine.
At 100 mp[h], needless to say, the Prius is sucking down some serious fossil fuel.
Tim Blair notes that a Prius can be made to go 100 mph, but it takes a while to work it up to that kind of speed.
In August 2000, the then-Harvard bound high school senior was nabbed for speeding on a North Carolina highway; news the media held for days so as not to embarrass his father, who was in the midst of being nominated for president at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles at the time.
At the family's request, the press also declined to report young Gore's 1996 suspension from the tony Washington, D.C. prep school St. Albans after he was discovered smoking marijuana in the cafeteria.
"[Vice President] Gore called leading news organizations around Washington and asked them not to run the story, and all complied," reported Newsweek's Bill Turque in his book "Inventing Al Gore."
As several people have already commented, Albert III needs to get himself straightened out before he hurts himself or someone else. The VIP treatment is not helping him.
I can understand Albert Jr. being motivated to minimize the consequences to his son out of love (and out of selfish political calculation--and I can't see into his heart so I don't know which motive is driving him in what proportion). However, with an addict of any sort, if you mitigate the consequences of their self-destructive behavior, all you do is give them license to keep doing it. Albert III needs a good hard smackdown, so he gets the cause-effect relationship sorted out. Then, he needs rehab--and a rehab focused on personal responsibility, with hard consequences for backsliding. (Think R. Lee Ermey instead of Dr. Phil.) I hope he gets it.
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My understanding is Al Gore used to get high every day for many years. He stopped only when he started his political career.
So yes, I think it is fair to make Al partly responsible for his son's troubles.
Al
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I am also against using someone's children to attack them. Al^3 has a loopy mom and dad so it's no wonder he has a substance problem. But Al^3 needs to be a man and face his charges. I give it about two days before we here about police abuse.
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The older sibling, the daughter, has always been the bright/approved of one. This young man has been doing all the acting out in a stuffed shirt family for years. One day he will (I hope) decide he has nothing to lose by being his own person, getting his shit together and letting his family find their own way.
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But the men talk only about quality issues; baseball, beer, NASCAR, hunting, getting laid; while women; wait a minute; does nagging actually qualify as countable words?????
#11
Elegantly efficient, Nimble Spemble. I've had as many intense -- and presumably word-count laden -- conversations with eg. soccer dads as soccer moms, though generally on different subjects. Key for me, I learn new and interesting things from both.
#14
This sounds about right. I probably say "Yes, dear" about 8000 times a day.
Good on you Rambler.
Many men wish their wives were so good at saying yes.
#15
Dunno about that. I don't talk much around the house compared to my wife. That woman could talk the ears off a elephant.
Fortunately she is such a sweetie I don't mind.
Rome, 4 July (AKI) - Desert locust swarms from Ethiopia and northern Somalia are expected to cross the Indian Ocean and could reach India and Pakistan in the coming days, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Wednesday. "This potentially dangerous situation should be closely monitored in both countries," the agency cautioned.
"Desert Locusts usually fly with the wind and can travel up to about 100-150 km in a day, said FAO locust expert Keith Cressman. Locusts can stay in the air for long periods of time. For example, locusts regularly cross the Red Sea, a distance of around 300 km.
Crossing the Indian Ocean on monsoon winds is part of the natural migration cycle of Desert Locusts and has already occurred in the past. Moreover, two recent tropical cyclones have caused heavy rainfall in Pakistan and western India, creating unusually favourable breeding conditions for locusts until October along both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border. Coastal areas of western Pakistan could also be affected - for the first time in many years - FAO warned.
The governments in India and Pakistan have been warned and they deploying field teams, equipment and resources in Rajasthan and Gujarat, India as well as in adjacent areas of Cholistan and Tharparkar deserts in Pakistan, FAO said.
Meanwhile, across the Red Sea from the Horn of Africa, Yemen is facing the worst locust outbreak in nearly 15 years. Desert Locusts have infested large areas of the country's remote interior across to the Oman border in the east. FAO is organising a 5 million dollar emergency aerial control campaign in the interior of Yemen that will start later this month.
Locust numbers are likely to increase dramatically as a second generation of breeding continues in these areas. Agricultural crops in Wadi Hadhramaut and other areas including the Sanaa highlands could be at risk. A very small part of an average swarm eats as much food in one day as about 2 500 people, FAO said. Jiminy Cricket!
If the locust control campaign in the Yemen interior is not successful, there is a risk of numerous swarms forming and invading countries along both sides of the Red Sea during the autumn, FAO said.
The campaign will fund two helicopters, pesticide, equipment, vehicles, and locust control and logistics experts. It is due to last 30 days but may be extended.
THE US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk has arrived in Sydney Harbour. The super carrier, accompanied by four other US navy ships, will berth at the Garden Island naval base and remain in Sydney until Tuesday.
The ships had been part of the joint Australian-US military exercise Talisman Sabre in Queensland.
Meanwhile, acting NSW Premier John Watkins has extended a warm welcome to the Kitty Hawk's 5000 "cashed-up'' sailors. "We hope they have a great stay while they are here until next Tuesday,'' Mr Watkins told reporters.
The Kitty Hawk is no stranger to Sydney, having berthed here before in 2005 and 2001. Its familiarity has done little to dampen the enthusiasm for its arrival with talkback radio callers charting its course into the harbour.
Sydneysiders wanting to catch a glimpse of the mighty craft have been urged to catch public transport to the harbour. Sydney's CBD traffic was chaotic when thousands of people flocked into the city to see the Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mary II as they were docked in Sydney in February. In a bid to avoid a repeat of those scenes, extensive clearway and no-parking provisions have been put in place around the Woolloomooloo area.
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Had the joy of visiting Perth in the early 80's on the Constellation. There was a 'dial-a-sailor' bulletin board where you could take down a card and call the girl(s) listed. If you made it to the bulletin board. guys came back to the boat on duty days just to recuperate, if you get my drift......
JERUSALEM - Israels parliament on Wednesday approved Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts new Cabinet appointments to fill vacancies created by a series of official scandals.
Ronnie Bar-On, a longtime Olmert confidant, took over as finance minister, replacing Avraham Hirchson, who resigned Sunday over a police investigation into allegations of embezzlement at a workers union he headed in 2003. The resignation was a blow to Olmert, who considered Hirchson of his Kadima Party a key ally.
Olmert named Haim Ramon, another ally, as vice premier. Ramon is a former justice minister under Olmert who was convicted of sexual misconduct earlier this year after forcibly kissing a female soldier. He will step into a post vacated by elder statesman Shimon Peres, who was recently elected as Israels ceremonial president.
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Sure, we hit an iceberg, but we got the deck chairs all re=arranged.
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Hamburg, Germany doesn't have a lot of really nice days in the summer. Typical daytime max is in the low 70s F in July. They get a lot of days with light precip (say 0.1 inch or so).
Here is the forecast for the Hamburg airport (near where the Save-the-Gore) concert will be July 7 (forecast from WUnderground)
Saturday:
Rain. Overcast. High: 62° F. / 17° C. Wind West 15 mph. / 25 km/h. Chance of precipitation 60%.
Saturday Night:
Chance of Rain. Partly Cloudy. Low: 53° F. / 12° C. Wind West 11 mph. / 18 km/h. Chance of precipitation 50%.
I presume the performers and other big shots will have a seat under a canopy of some kind.
This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the so-called Summer of Love. Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.
Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.
The Summer of Drugs climaxed with the Monterey Pop Festival which included some truly virtuoso musical talents such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, both of whom would be dead a couple of years later due to drug abuse. Other musical geniuses such as Jim Morrison and Mama Cass would also be dead due to drugs within a few short years. The bodies of chemical-infested, brain-dead liberal deniers continue to stack up like cordwood. . . .
There is a saying that if you can remember the 1960s, you were not there. I was there and remember the decade in vivid, ugly detail. I remember its toxic underbelly excess because I was caught in the vortex of the music revolution that was sweeping the country, and because my radar was fine-tuned thanks to a clean and sober lifestyle.
Death due to drugs and the social carnage heaped upon America by hippies is nothing to celebrate. That is a fool's game, but it is quite apparent some burned-out hippies never learn.
Ted Nuggent, the "Motor City Madman," is the composer of "Wango Tango," "Terminus El Dorado," and "Cat Scratch Fever," and a better guitarist than Hendrix and day.
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Needed to be said. America is still trying to recover from the 60's OD.
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I visited the Haight-Ashbury area in March of '67, and the experience made my skin crawl. I've been a Conscientious Objector to the Sexual/Drug/What Have You Revolution ever since.
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Why wax nostalgic for brain-altered, pan handling and intoxicated sex with someone who has railroad tracks up all four limbs and smells like a broiling dumpster? San Fransisco still has the Tenderloin District. Come visit.
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The epitaph of the Baby Boomer generation will be, "We tried to destroy the American way of life, and almost succeeded."
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Why did I describe Nugent as "better than Hendrix"? For one, I've always thought Hendrix' sound was just too drugged-out. (Nugent's no Mark Knopfler, but at least he's more or less grounded in reality.) Also, seeing as Hendrix died by his own stupidity, he's no longer playing guitar or doing much of anything.
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#8 Mike, ya' mean Nugent is still composing, while Hendrix is de-composing? :-D
*ducks, runs*
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Haven't heard about Ted for a long time until I heard his song Kiss My Glock (YouTube).
#12
Penguin, the Nuge admits that he skirted the draft, not by going to Canada but by going to his draft physical reaking of feces and not bathing for a couple weeks - it's in his book. No better or worse than Hendrix who got booted out of the 101st for claiming homosexual tendencies in the early 60s.
I've been playing guitar for about 20 yrs and grew up a lil' down the road from "Amboy" street & Ted's old neighborhood. Where I'm from - Ted's an icon. My point, comparing guitar players is like comparing actors, ultimately who cares, all comes down to taste. Imho - Hendrix's debut was earth shattering no-doubt. Axis was fairly disapointing to me (I know what sacrilege to talk bad about Jimi) and Electric Lady Land was okay. Hendrix had the one colossal debut that changed everything and some great live stuff. I think his other couple albums are a little over rated & might bit incoherent.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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THE US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk has arrived in Sydney Harbour. The super carrier, accompanied by four other US navy ships, will berth at the Garden Island naval base and remain in Sydney until Tuesday.
