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Today I learned via Twitter from baseball great Jose Canseco that Al Gore is dead. And here I thought it was just Futurama that thought this:
Jose doesn’t stop there, nooooo, he adds that if we don’t keep fight global warming by wearing flannel pajamas and recycling, and stopping our mass consumption, the polar bears are toast and we are all going to fry.
You really can’t make this stuff up. Here’s Jose’s twitter feed capture:
Predictably, the reaction on Jose’s Twitter Feed is as colorful as many on field arguments in baseball we’ve come to know.
Update: this juxtaposition from earlier in his Twitter Feed is priceless:
Yes, let’s stop all that “mass consumption”.
*For those of you unfamiliar with the pun I made in the title, it is one of the all time great movie lines uttered by Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own.
h/t to Eric Nielsen for bringing my attention to this over at The Slanch Report
The Pompous Git says:
March 29, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Pompous, Jose injected steroids and “other” performance enhancing drugs for years…I doubt you are doing the same…
BTW it was a joke, hence the h/t Mr Mackey… Google: South Park Mr Mackey and have a laugh. 😉
u.k.(us) says:
March 29, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Hmm – that’s so true! especially after Ms Sherri or whatever her name was!
I suppose it doesn’t help that there aren’t many CAGW protagonists with the capacity for real thought? Otherwise, why would they be such vehement activists? LOL
And aerosmith is doing a new tour…
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/aerosmith-cheap-trick-global-warming-tour-2012-305470
Maybe he ought to see if Sheryl Crow is available.
It’s always great to see celebrities conserving energy that’s normally wasted by active brain cells.
Maybe steroids make one especially sensitive to warm temperatures…
Besides the climate idiocy, he’s borderline illiterate.
Ouch.
I never realized that steroids could turn your brain to swiss cheese.
I believe that my IQ fell a dozen points reading the tweets……
Hate mail is simply an indication you’re headed in the right direction. The amount of hate mail indicates you’re facing strong winds of adversity. And it’s the strong wind on an airplane that keeps it aloft. Congratulations.
John M said on March 29, 2012 at 2:48 pm:
Remember, if you go to one of her houses it’s BYOTP.
Hopefully you can find a bathroom with a locking door so you can flush in private, otherwise she’ll be looking in the bowl to verify you only used the one sheet she begrudgingly gave you. After all, humans are depraved and unnatural, as she is well aware. Have you ever seen any natural creature kill a tree when disposing its dooty?
The Pompous Git says:
March 29, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Truth serum comes to mind–I’m sure voters would even contribute to cover the cost. But for your arthritis pain, consider massive applications of tea tree oil–I’ve used it for effective relief of the little buggers that cause the inflamation. Just get the highest quality you can find and don’t worry if you smell somewhat obnoxious to those around you.
jonjermey says:
March 29, 2012 at 1:20 pm
This is why baseball players don’t get Nobel Prizes.
Not yet , but In this age of post-normal science , it`s only a matter of time ….
Would anybody like to guess what level of the population shares that level of literacy and rationality? It explains a great deal about the individuals that they vote for, the ideas they espouse and the choices that they make in the course of their daily lives..
Jose, “Baseball been very very good to me.”
Al, “Global warming been very very good to me.”
Jose, “Al Gore taught me to stretch truth like single into double. We all know Al sick. Me say he dead.”
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
March 29, 2012 at 4:42 pm
“… Have you ever seen any natural creature kill a tree when disposing its dooty?”
Seen the dog scatter it in dirt and leaves and then drag it’s arse across the yard.
That count?
A Hagerstown Suns fan has informed me that apparently there IS frying in baseball:
http://mlblogsbensbiz.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/hag_20tentmenu.jpg?w=555&h=416
Global warming on steroids.
“I do so wish that some sort of performance-enhancing drugs could be given to our politicians… ”
Sleeping pills would work.
Brian H says:
March 29, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Stacey Brown got two!
RockyRoad said @ur momisugly March 29, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Tea tree oil’s great for subacute pain; not so great when it becomes severe. It’s wonderful in the long hot baths Gits are so very fond of 🙂
Being ever so fond of garlic, there are many who find the Git obnoxious 🙂
Eric said @ur momisugly March 29, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Yup! Got the joke. When he was still in primary school, the Gitling used to tape South Park (and Red Dwarf) as Gits go very early to bed. We used to watch the shows the following day.
That’s it, I’m following Jose. Good stuff!
LamontT says:
March 29, 2012 at 12:10 pm
If he wants me to freeze in my house without heating I’ll take a polar bear skin robe to wrap myself in. That should keep me nice and toasty.
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I can’t believe that’s what they want from the lower masses. Why would they want to make us live just like our great grand parents.
Kill a bear, skin a deer, trap a beaver, club a seal….just like our great grand parents.
Now, the question is….what the hell do they really want from we citizens? I don’t think they’re being honest with us concerning their motives and goals.
I like my standard of living and would want everybody to live as well as they can.
Unlike the folks at UN and the IPCC I think getting energy to the third world is the right idea.
It would appear that there’s no spelling in Baseball either…..;-)