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“And “excessive” needs to be mentioned in the same breath as “hypocritical” when describing Moore’s own personal habits when it comes to “emissions”, as The Washington Times exposed in 2011: Mr. Moore is a jet-setting multimillionaire living a life of luxury, leisure and fame. He travels in a private plane and a fleet of SUVs. He is completely detached from the workers he claims to defend. In fact, he has misrepresented almost every facet of himself in order to forge a false “little guy” persona. As Peter Schweizer convincingly documents in his superb book, “Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy” (Broadway Books, 2005), Mr. Moore is a fraud.As The Daily Mail detailed, “detached” is indeed the best way to describe Moore, who owns a $2 million home on a lake in Michigan, as well as a Manhattan apartment on Park Avenue. I can only imagine what Moore’s “carbon footprint” works out to. Al Gore is arguably better known for his environmental activism than the eight years he served as Vice President. Yet Gore owns a 20-room and pool house mansion in Nashville, Tennessee that used 221,000 kilowatt-hours of energy in one year–more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours. According to the Beacon Center of Tennessee, his utility bill would be roughly $30,000 a year, more than the median income of Nashville residents. His private jet and limo use has drawn widespread criticism for hypocrisy, as did his $500 million sale of his television network Current TV to Al Jazeera – a media organization backed by Arab oil money. Gore even had the gall to go after other networks for being “sponsored in part by oil, coal and gas companies” in his latest book The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change.”

“First Lady Melania Trump handed out awards at the 2017 International Women of Courage awards ceremony on Wednesday at the U.S. Department of State, where she was introduced as a campaigner for the safety and security of women and girls around the world.”

““The main thing I really want to do is to have a plan…My main concern is for her not to end up in a detention facility.””

““The public in public housing [are] crossing guards, school workers, health care workers, maintenance workers. A lot of elderly people, a lot of disabled people. And I don’t know where they’re going to go.””

““In the vast majority of states, you will get life or considerably less in prison for murder; but if you murder a police officer, you are almost certain to get death. So the truth is that including police in hate crime laws is merely a political statement ― and an unnecessary one at that.””

“+ Donald J. Trump is the first president in modern history to not release his federal tax returns. + He blamed the decision on an IRS audit, even though the bureau has said it’s fine for him to release them anyway. + He has also said that Americans don’t care about his taxes, a statement that polls have repeatedly disproven. 😒 😒 😒”

“Clear proof that the democrats have controlled the education system to the point of indoctrinating them to their narrow minded point of view. It's criminal and should be treated as such. How do you like your "teachers" now?When confronted with the truth, their facial expressions say it all. These youngsters are NOT being educated. They are being indoctrinated.This is why we need a new approach to education. If this is our future we are in terrible trouble.https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=378097575892288&id=257...https://youtu.be/auDBu8Poi_Mhttps://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=378097575892288&id=257...”

“Uber was a corporate scab at the JFK taxi strike in solidarity of the protest against the immigration ban. Their CEO is an economic adviser for Trump. Now that people are calling for people to #DeleteUber, he's trying to do damage control. Tell him you're not buying it.Take the pledge and tell Uber you'll be spending your hard-earned money elsewhere: https://actionsprout.io/D0FA91”

“PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE CANNOT BECOME A NATIONAL POLICY!!!!!!Please watch this video and share. Everything you will see is 100% true. I know these days we rarely get the truth but this is. We must stop Scott Pruitt from becoming the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...the health of our children and our planet depends on it. Please call 1-866-347-8815 or go to http://bit.ly/2jSMKeL to get connected to your Senators and tell them to Reject #PollutingPruitt. If it’s busy, please keep trying. Your voice counts.”

“Simply Reprehensible- Obama’s Exit and the Democrats’ BoycottIn the final few days of his presidency, Barack Obama is determined at long last to go out of office in a blaze of glory, by revealing his latent and utter contempt for his country, which has so roundly rejected his presidency in their refusal to elect Hillary Clinton as his successor. As he himself told the country during the campaign, this election of 2016 was essentially a national referendum on his presidency, and the voters effectively said, “No, thanks,” much to his chagrin. So incensed that his presidency was, in essence, rejected by the voters who, save for California and New York gave Trump a landslide in both popular as well as electoral votes, he has decided to unleash the unlimited contempt in which he holds much of the rest of the country, in his actions since the election- actions he most assuredly would not have taken, had Hillary Clinton won the election. These acts of pure spite include U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power’s abstention of a United Nations vote to condemn Israel (for settlements in the West Bank and Israeli presence in parts of Jerusalem), his continued release of most of the remaining Guantanamo detainees to countries unwilling to keep these imprisoned terrorists off of the battlefield, a record and staggering number of prison sentence commutations, primarily benefitting African-American felons, and, most egregiously, his pardon of Army PFC Bradley (aka Chelsea) Manning, against the wishes of his own Defense Secretary and legislators from both parties. Had Private Manning been convicted of treason, as was he/she originally charged, he/she might have faced the death penalty, but he/she pled down these charges in a bargained agreement that sentenced him/her to thirty-five years, instead. Now, thanks to the outright treachery of Barack Obama, Bradley will walk out of prison having served less than seven years.Since his “apology tour” in the early months of 2009, in a host of actions regarding his use of multiple federal agencies to target his political opponents, in the foreign policies he has pursued, in the domestic policies and use of executive orders that have effectively stymied small business in particular, Barack Obama has spent the entirety of his presidency lowering the standing of the United States in the world, in order to vouchsafe his assertion that the United States is anything but exceptional. Worse, his actions regarding issues of race have largely set this country back sixty years, as evidenced by the rise of Black Lives Matter and the increasing level of police killings across the country- both of which can be traced to how he handled riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, as well as his reaction to the 2009 arrest of Louis Gates. Despite what has been reported as his own personal popularity, based upon polls conducted by the same entities which guaranteed Hillary Clinton’s victory, it is also no stretch to say that, as president, Obama has consistently not acted in the best interests of America. Given the abject failure of his signature Affordable Care Act, Obama’s historical accomplishments (i.e. his legacy) as president basically boil down to having been elected the nation’s first black president, and little else.As of this writing, sixty Democrats in the House of Representatives (one third of the entire Democrat caucus in that chamber) have determined to boycott the inauguration of Obama’s successor, Donald J. Trump, in the final few days before what is supposed to be an orderly and peaceful transition of presidential power. What these reprehensible representatives are doing is nothing short of the betrayal of the United States Constitution they have sworn to uphold, and by such actions they have thus betrayed the constituents they represent, in their petulant and pathetic protest of Trump’s presidency. Not unlike the actions of Private Manning, who clearly violated his/her own vows to defend the Constitution by releasing classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010, these congressmen and congresswomen have effectively told their constituents that allegiance to their political party (forgive the term) trumps their allegiance to the county, at large.As evidenced by the way President-elect Trump has reached out to his opponents, both Republican and Democrat, the new president will ultimately rise above the scorn with which these Democrats have held him- not that they deserve any further regard from him. The fact of the matter is that Trump can pursue his agenda without their help, assuming a united Republican caucus in both chambers of Congress, and when the time comes for these sixty reprobates to run for re-election, their constituents would do well to remember that, when the time came for the country to be reunited, if only for a day, they were nowhere to be found. Furthermore, as President Obama exits the White House, smug in the sense of his own flawlessness, the country can look forward to transcending his ultimate failure to faithfully serve the people who put him in office.Yes, January 20th, 2017 cannot come soon enough.-Drew Nickell, 18 January 2017© 2017 by Drew Nickell, all rights reserved.author of “Bending Your Ear- a Collection of Essays on the Issues of Our Times”now available at Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/Bending-Your-Ear-Collection-Essays/dp/1633932907?... 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