my FREAK FLAG is flying high for AL GORE (redux)

[nashville_brook]

getting my AL GORE FREAK on





it's not difficult...






how can you not love the one who speaks for the trees...





he is one of us...





and he is a winner...




OUR ONCE AND FUTURE LEADER





can tame the FLYING MONKEYS




WE WANT OUR HOPE BACK






WE'RE TIRED OF THE NIGHTMARE WE FIND OURSELVES IN





2000 stolen dreams. what a difference ONE VOTE




what a difference ONE YARD





the GENTLE GIANTS of Tennessee






WILL HAVE THEIR COMEBACK SEASON





in his name... i fight to heal our sick elections...




and always will be...

[Demoiselle]

1. I'm with you, Nashville.. (eom)

[graywarrior]

2. Wicked cool!!!

:thumbsup:

[Rainbowreflect]

3. Cool! Al Gore is my hero too.

[LaPera]

4. Define "freak flag"?

[nashville_brook]

8. it's used in a lot of ways, here, it denotes a loudly announced unpopular desire

[LaPera]

14. No. It is about long hair. Freak Flag get it? David Crosby first used it in 1970

(almost 40 years ago) in the song "Almost Cut My Hair" on the CSN&Y album Deja Vu as a statement about men with long hair, and being proud of it, as well as the paranoia that also went along with it...guys were getting killed, beat up and harassed by police & rednecks simply because they had long hair and just a few years earlier long hair on a man was never seen in this country.

[nashville_brook]

20. well then, like any wonderful term, it has evolved and stayed in use...

[Tanuki]

32. No, Jimi Hendrix used "freak flag" in 1967, in "If 6 was 9", with the meaning

much more like what Nashville Brook indicated. It is not specific to hair. You can listen to the cut here:
http://play.rhapsody.com/jimihendrix/axisboldaslove/if6was9

[symbolman]

42. Actually, it's a

State of Mind..

It means, I'll do whatever the fuck I want, but don't plan on stepping on any toes, unless YOU are UPTIGHT, wearing a suit, cutting off your hair, being THE MAN, etc.

FREEDOM Basically :)

[helderheid]

5. Rec 4 and YOWZA!!

DROOOOOL!

[nashville_brook]

12. a superman quality...

[wicket]

19. So yummy!

:D

[LaPera]

23. Don't sell yourself short, I'll bet you were too when these photo's were taken ....

thirty-five years ago. Shit, Tipper was a stone fox 35 years ago!!!!

[nashville_brook]

25. one of the things i love about this couple

is that they have aged in such a pleasant, comfortable way. you don't get the feeling they were ever self-involved pretty-people.

[helderheid]

36. I wasn't a twinkle in my parents' eyes 35 years ago ;)

[Carni]

26. Damn!

Just DAMN!

[peacetalksforall]

6. "how can you not love the one who speaks for the trees..."

Thank you for that phrasing. I am a little weak in the knees from those beautiful words.

[nashville_brook]

9. ...

[nashville_brook]

7. we've been told, for far too long, that there are no heros...

that the postmodern condition has dispensed with the anachronism.

i beg to differ.

With An Inconvenient Truth, Gore has brought more attention... more focused attention... on the problem of global climate change than ever would have happened without an unthinkable climate catastrophe. we're already having medium-sized climate catastrophes -- now we have a popular framework we can use to understand our situation better.

he's a hero for this, and he's a hero for fighting the good fight and continuing to fight the good fight DESPITE the larger-than-life unfairness he experienced in 2000.

you're a hero when you fight the battle despite your bloody knuckles. you're a hero when you speak for that which has no voice to thank you. you're a hero when you set aside your personal comfort in order to do the work that needs to be done.

he is, and always will be my hero.

[johnaries]

13. Don't forget what he did for Katrina victims.

http://www.algore-08.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=288&Itemid=78

Gore airlifts Katrina victims out of New Orleans

[nashville_brook]

21. thank you! i was looking for the Katrina stuff to add to this...

again, with the acting selflessly and without fanfare. he's amazing.

[nashville_brook]

30. (from link above) on GORE's Katrina heroism:

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.

Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on Sept. 3 and 4. However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: "Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."

On Sept. 1, three days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, Simon learned that Dr. David Kline, a neurosurgeon who operated on Gore's son, Albert, after a life-threatening auto accident in 1989, was trying to get in touch with Gore. Kline was stranded with patients at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. "The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute -- food and water running out, no power, 4 feet of water surrounding the hospital and ... corpses outside," Simon wrote.

Gore responded immediately, telephoning Kline and agreeing to underwrite the $50,000 each for the two flights, although Larry Flax, founder of California Pizza Kitchens, later pledged to pay for one of them. "None of the airlines involved required a contract or any written guarantee of payment before sending their planes and volunteer crews," Simon wrote of the American Airlines flights. "One official said if Gore promised to pay, that was good enough for them."

He also recruited two doctors, Spickard and Gore's cousin, retired Col. Dar LaFon, a specialist in internal medicine who once ran the military hospital in Baghdad.

Most critically, Gore worked to cut through government red tape, personally calling Gov. Phil Bredesen to get Tennessee's support and U.S. Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta to secure landing rights in New Orleans. About 140 people, many of them sick, landed in Knoxville on Sept. 3. The second flight, with 130 evacuees, landed the next day in Chattanooga.

[grace0418]

10. That 1st pic looks like a cross between Harry Connick Jr and Jeff Goldblum.

Is that really him? He was hot!

[Carni]

28. Yes! It does look like them!

I was thinking the same thing as soon as I looked at the first photo!

[otohara]

11. Hero and Sexiest Man Alive

Wow, those early black and whites I had not seen.

[nashville_brook]

15. they're from Tipper's photography book...

i scanned them a long time ago to illustrate the point that Al was not the way the press had characterized him.

[dogindia]

16. more than yes. K and big big R

We have got to get it done. When this thread finishes....let's repost it and keep it going. Until he agrees to run and he is finally elected for the second time.

Harrah for Trees and Al

[hippiechick]

17. .

:applause:

:applause:

[Warren DeMontague]

18. And, he's a Deadhead.

:thumbsup:

[nashville_brook]

22. my old thread

had a little "sunshine daydream" reference attached to the face paint/paddling pic. warms the cockles of my heart... down to the sub-cockles.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. down to the sub-cockles... Nice Dennis Leary reference.

Funny stuff- even though (as I'm sure he'd admit) he got some of his best material from the late great Bill Hicks, may he rest in peace.

[SharonRB]

24. Great post

Thanks for the pics.

Our current and future president -- Albert Gore, Jr.!

[NoSheep]

27. K & R. I trust the man.

[hashibabba]

29. Awesome! Thanks for posting all these great pictures. Personally,

I think he's MUCH more handsome than Harry or Jeff. But then, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!

And thanks for the Superman joke, too. I'm going to use that on my sig lines on my e-mails (as well as the OP's pictures sometimes!).

[The Count]

31. One suggestion: Under "ONE VOTE" - put a photo of Scalia.

There are some unaware of what happened in the past 2 elections.

[nashville_brook]

35. farking-A... right you are!

very good edit... my time has run out to edit this, but i'll certainly add that.

[Chimichurri]

33. He's hot.

[Gold Metal Flake]

34. What is his current economic philosophy?

Does he still stand with the Clinton/DLC/Hamilton Project/Rubin/Friedman philosopies or has he moved to a more progressive platform aproaching or joining with Edwards?

He ain't running (yet), and he may not have made his thoughts known as to where he comes down lately. I don't want to make assumptions based on his Global Warming work and I am not interested in any opinions that are not from him. Anybody know?

[nashville_brook]

37. doing some quick googling... you find that his remarks on economic policy

have largely been in response to the mess Bush has made of the economy. he's called for using real number instead of "Enron" accounting. he's called for better personnel in economic leadership positions. he's called for incentivising renewable resources and backing away from the oil economy.

here's a speech he gave to Brookings. it's in PDF format.

http://www.brookings.edu/comm/transcripts/20021002.htm#TRANSCRIPT

[ms liberty]

38. Geat photo essay...

Some of those pics are in Tipper Gore's excellent book, "Picture This." She's a really gifted photographer, and Al was and is a great subject.

[nashville_brook]

39. i couldn't remember the name of Tipper's book... "Picture This"

thank you.

i scanned a bunch of these photos from that book to illustrate the first photo essay i did. tipper is indeed a wonderful photographer. also love the non-Al pictures of her trips to Africa, etc.

[DesertRat]

40. Wonderful. Thanks!

:applause:

[dogindia]

41. Enormous KICK............

[northofdenali]

43. K&R - I am bookmarking your post

to share with my husband when he gets home, and with my best friend, and with my stepdaughter, and everyone else.

And I've emailed the thread to my entire list....

Al Gore is my President.

[Digit]

44. Intelligent AND gorgeous!

Great pictures!

[HeeBGBz]

46. Go Mango

Need a real man in office.

[Cha]

47. Nice pics except the

one of the creepy little man lookin' like a toad.

Al Gore Scored at The Oscars in 2007!

[mzmolly]

48. This is my first FREAK FLAG FEST.

I dig. ;)

[byronius]

49. DAMN WHAT A COOL THREAD!

Gracias!

[a la izquierda]

50. yay!

he's speaking at the university of oklahoma on thursday. i cannot wait!!!

[Stephanie]

51. Go brook!

K&R

[Apollo11]

52. Cool photos -- great message!

Let's all find ways to show our support for Al Gore! :patriot:

Read Rolling Stone magazine: WHY GORE SHOULD RUN -- AND HOW HE CAN WIN
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13248532/why_gore_should_run__and_how_he_can_win

Get ready for Al Gore's next book - The Assault on Reason - out in May!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600877.html

Visit the following websites:
www.algore.com
www.algore.org
www.draftgore.com - Sign the petition! :)

:kick:

[nashville_brook]

53. i'm so psyched about the new book!

he couldn't have picked more relevant subject!