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"Noman Lapetos" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> "bob" <bob@indigo.com> wrote in message 
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>> Global.Cooling.Is.Here@Al.Gore.Has.Lost.It.gov wrote:
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>>>Record lows across the Southland!
>>>Where's the *heat*, gory "uncle" Al Gore?
>>>Must be in the same lock box as that InterNet thing that you created.
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>> Making up a stupid name for a single post.
>> How long will abuse@comcast.net allow it to keep its account?
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>> In 1999, on CNN, Al Gore said "During my service in the United States
>> Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Meaning he
>> introduced the legislation. Although he didn't "invent" it, he does
>> deserve much credit for making it happen.
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> Gore said he invented the internet. He also said he invented Global 
> warming and has a house 20 times bigger than the average American.  Gore 
> also said he was elected and not Bush.

No. He did not say he invented it. He said he helped to create the 
intitiatves in Congress. Oddly enough, the men who DID create it give Gore 
credit.

Go back and look at the numbers in the popular vote between Bush and Gore. 
Last time I checked 'em, Gore's number was still larger than Bush's. 
Granted, he lost the electoral college, but it bears repeating that the Bush 
campaign thought the result would wind up exactly the opposite, i.e. that 
Bush would win the popular and lose the electoral, and had a plan in place 
almost identical to what Gore tried, including a protracted court battle to 
overturn the result.

As for his home being "20 times bigger than the average American," Google 
and Snopes are your friends.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

Neither the square footage nor the energy usage figures seems to come to "20 
times bigger."

Larger? You betcha!

But neither Bush nor Gore is hardly the "average American." For better or 
worse, both have been elected to two of the highest offices in the land, and 
at least one of them has been pretty successful at growing the traditional 
family businesses and bettering his financial position. The other basically 
succeeded at precisely one of the several business ventures he tried and 
even managed to lose money in the oil business during some pretty good times 
for that business.