22 Replies to “In Conversation With Tom Friedman’s House, A Continuing Series ….”

  4. How about collecting a fee on imported oil and using the money to pay for developing oilfields, refineries and distribution infrastructure in the US, instead of wasting it on non-productive government spending?
    Better yet, collect the fee only on fuel used in California.

  5. Friedman’s or Al Gore’s?
    No doubt the power feed is under ground. No sign of power poles or lines.
    Bloom Box in the basement?
    tinyurl.com/yjr2mqk
    CBS Video….The big guys, Staples, Google, Walmart have it.
    You won’t believe it.

  6. What a bumbling tool, the Contract from America advanced by some in the Tea Party via open process clearly states NO CAP AND TRADE which can be translated into NO ENERGY TAXES, NO PRICE ON CARBON or for the Friedman’s of the world STFU Green Boy with your condescending China Communists have all the answers BS.
    Tom you should have spent a little more time trying to understand the Tea Party movement before you showed up with your Green Leftist Agenda disguised as a you poor losers will never be the majority unless you adopt the position of the real loser group who will never ever be the majority.

  7. how about that two faced Obama over praising the coal miners doing the eulogy at their funeral a year after he said he was going to tax coal companies into oblivion.
    even the MSM should have picked up on that one.

  8. Cal; most of the crop of current reporters in the “msm” still report the death of a 92 year old with the preface “unknown the cause of death at this time”, that is how stupid they are! 3000 plus coal miners die annually globally, can you imagine the morons in the msm if 3000 Homer Simsons running reactors died annually, there would be no more forests. These are the morons that publish their communism every day, pathetic.

  9. When bambam was campaigning, he made a big deal about Exxon making something like $1,350 per second in profit. The CEO pointed out they pay about $3,450 per second in taxes, $15,000 a sec. to operate. It costs Exxon a billion dollars a day to operate. He can’t live without that.

  10. Hey, don’t dis Tom Brady! He has shared custody of his child and he needs the space. I’m sure that he and Gisele will employ many when the house is built. And that doesn’t include all the jobs that went into building it.

  11. Supermodel:
    a semi-androgynous face on an ectomorphic body type with access to the best plastic surgeons and who by coincidence somehow also has some of the best features of the mesomorphic body type on show. Easily taken in by scamsters of the WWF/UN peddling nonsense.
    Super model: Ashley Graham.

  12. fantastic. one thing friedman has said about the green initiative in north america that i like: “we’re having a party over here instead of a revolution”. he means it as a call to arms of course, trying to get everybody other than himself and his cronies to take it seriously…. but it is pretty funny when you think about these people holding candle-lit parties (someone ought to tell them that the candles are still releasing carbon into the atmosphere) thinking that they are achieving something.

  13. Wow,
    I just can never understand how some people can contradict themselves and not see it. We are supposed to be like the Chinese. They are only making money because Europe and the west are trying to compete while half of our population tries to hold us back. While we try to be green, China feeds our consumer economy with cheap badly made goods and make a fotune doing it.
    China continues to build some of the dirtiest power on earth, pays workers a paltry wage, and we know that human rights abuse abounds. I will take our system of trying to compete in the global market while continuosly trying to limit our footprint on the environment. Lets stop living in a fantasy world and work on cleaning up some environmental effects that we can actually work with at this time.

  14. James Cameron, the Canadian-born director and producer, has been an outspoken critique of the Alberta oil sands.
    Here’s his house:
    http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/james-camerons-house/view/?service=1
    Okay, okay, it’s “only” 8300 square feet, although I don’t think that includes the small house near that massive second swimming pool.
    What is wrong with people? If you wish to proselytize about global warming, you can’t credibly do it with a Godzilla-sized carbon footprint.

  15. There sure is a lot of hot air coming out of that one house. Here’s an excerpt from a 2006 Huffington Post piece by David Sirota:
    “(Tom) Friedman lives in ‘a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7½-acre parcel just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club.’ He ‘married into one of the 100 richest families in the country’ – the Bucksbaums, whose real-estate Empire is valued at $2.7 billion.”
    (…)
    “Far from the objective, regular-guy interpreter of globalization that the D.C. media portrays him to be, Friedman is a member of the elite of the economic elite on the planet Earth. In fact, he’s married into such a giant fortune, it’s probably more relevant to refer to him as Billionaire Scion Tom Friedman than columnist Tom Friedman, both because that’s more descriptive of what he represents, and more important for readers of his work to know so that they know a bit about where he’s coming from.
    “I don’t think everyone needs to publish their net worth. But Friedman’s not everyone. He’s not just ‘doing pretty well’ and is not just any old columnist. He’s not just a millionaire or a multimillionaire – he’s member of one of the wealthiest families in the world, and is one of the most influential media voices on the planet, who writes specifically about economic/class issues. If politicians are forced to disclose every last asset they own, you’d think at the very least, the New York Times – in the interest of basic disclosure – should have a tagline under Friedman’s economic columns that says ‘Tom Friedman is an heir to a multi-billion-dollar business empire.'”
    Ayep. I’m guessing that Tom “what, me worry?” Friedman – and Sting, and Tom Brady, and Giselle Bundchen, and James Cameron, and Tim Robbins, etc etc etc – could scrape up the money to pay for a 50% increase in his monthly energy bill.

  16. Okay, okay, I’ll admit it; I’ve got a man crush on Tom Brady! Tom says “go green” and I’m there.

  17. My favourite supermodel is Purge Daley, who was featured in a couple of Mallard Filmore episodes last week, telling us to stop breathing for a day on Earth Day to save the planet.

  18. oh cummon it’s the sentiment that counts – neocon meanies, always ruining a good left wing fantasy with your wicked reality checks. You’re all just mean!

  19. The fools, they should have followed the Suzuki/Gore formula and purchased/built several modest (3-12,000 sq ft) abodes versus a single 20,000 sq ft abode. That would be much more environmentally friendly wouldn’t it? I mean if Suzuki and Gore do it, it has to be. Right?

  20. Kate your hilarious – there’s no shortage of good one liners on this site. “just think of the Earth Hour parties!”

  21. @cal2 – my thoughts exactly – both the coal mine and the rig explosion incidents do nothing, but help his agenda along.
    Any word yet as to what caused the rig explosion? Unlike the coal mine – there were no prior saftey concerns – the rig had recently passed 3 safety inspections with flying colours.

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