Danger: Avoid Death

Well, yeah, I’d say that’s good advice for us all, but in this case “Danger: Avoid Death is the winner of the “Wacky Warning Label Contest” sponsored by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch.

The “Danger:Avoid Death” label was attached to skid loaders,  thanks to lawsuits filed by trial lawyers.

Second place went to this warning on a T-shirt transfer: “Do not iron while wearing shirt.”

Third place went to the warning label on a baby stroller storage pouch that read: “Do not put child in bag”.

Honorable mention to this warning on a letter opener: “Caution: safety goggles recommended”.

You can’t make this stuff up, and as the contest organizer says, “Predatory lawyers know they can file ridiculous lawsuits against innocent product makers and blackmail them into a cash settlement—even in cases which a user has ignored common sense.”

I figure when politicians start hollaring about how they represent the will of the people, the people they represent are the people who need to wear goggles when opening a letter.

Enough Hypocrisy and Inconvenient Truth To Choke A Polar Bear

After picking up his Nobel “Peace” Prize in Oslo, Al Gore was off to Bali where 190 nations are attempting to launch negotiations on a new global climate treaty.

Sez Gore: “I am going to speak an inconvenient truth. My own country the United States is principally responsible for obstructing progress is Bali…”

But “obstructing progress” didn’t start in Bali, it started on Gore’s watch as VPOTUS, an inconvenient truth, if there ever was one.

Reuters reports that this remark was greeted with “rapturous applause and cheers.”

Jeez! What kind of person whips up frothing hatred for his own country aboad in order to elevate himself?

Unfortunately, Gore didn’t tell the whole story of how “my own country” obstructed Kyoto, because that inconvenient truth would make him look bad in the eyes of the world, and we all know how important “the eyes of the world” are to people like Gore. If Gore was completely honest, which he seems incapable of being, he would have confessed his own failings during the 8 years he was VPOTUS and he actually had the power to DO something about climate change, rather than just lecture others, which he does now to wild applause.

Those who read beyond the pap that the AP pawns off as news will know that in 1997 the Senate shot down Kyoto by a vote of 95-0, which is about as bipartisan as it comes, saying they could not vote for any protocol which would harm the U.S economy. Gore signed Kyoto symbolically, but he never did the hard work, or spent political capital to make it happen. An “inconvenient truth”, no?

In his speech at Bali, which is not about science, but rather a frothing partisan rant, “Gore counted one year and 40 days to the day the United States would have a new president to succeed George W. Bush. He predicted that a successor who would do more to act on global warming seriously. “

Well gee, who would be more “serious” than Al Gore? And what did Al Gore do for Kyoto and global warming when he had the power to do something? Nada.

Unfortunately for Gore, the USA is not a dictatorship where the POTUS can ram through policies without consent of Congress, the Supreme Court and the people, who I can assure you are not ready to walk the global warming walk if it interferes with their jobs, lifestyle or money.

Al Gore needs to stop lying to the “international community” and to himself about what the USA is willing to do, even with a Dem POTUS and Congress, and quit whipping up hate against his own country in order to make himself look good.

I expect a backlash to Gore’s inconvenient truthiness and his craven hypocrisy.