Hmmmmmm... [Politics/Religion]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7041082.stm


Now, I'm not much on conspiracy theories but yesterday (maybe Wed.) the Beeb had a front page story describing how An Inconvenient Truth cannot be shown in British schools without opposing opinions presented as it, and I paraphrase the judge, contains at least nine unsupportable declarations of fact.  I was going to post a little "yesterday v. today" thing making fun of the irony.  However, I can't find the bloody story.  Did they remove it?   

And some claim American media is biased.  The Beeb is so over the top they even use "quoted" RSS story titles when the story doesn't jive with their opinion.  For example, they'll title a story "Twin blasts 'kill 27' in Baghdad".  Nobody in the story is quoted as actually saying 'kill 27'.  It's as if they'd prefer to substitute '27 murdered - blood on the hands of George Bush' but can't so they airquote instead. 

FWIW, I believe global warming is a real thing (not quite the doomsday scenario Al Gore would have us believe but definitely happening) we should do something about and the war in Iraq is a horrible mistake.  Please don't take me to task on those subjects.  I just wanted to dig at the Beeb.  They've been doing this sort of *feces* for ages.

I saw that Beeb story yesterday, although I couldn't find anywhere that listed what the 9 facts (out of over a thousand IIRC) were.

Alot of the wingnut 'Factual Errors' in Fahrenheit 9-11 amounted to things like:

'The picture of Don Rumsfeld has the wrong tie for the date he made the quote in question, ergo he never said the WMD were in Tikrit'

or some such nonsense.

Anyway, the entertainment value of watching people stumble all over themselves complaining that this is absolute proof that there is a global conspiracy against the Republican Party in the US far outweighs the remnants of the debate.

One was that the movie declared numbers (10s/100s/1000s??) of polar bears were drowning because they had to swim long distances between ice.  Apparently the study Gore quoted provided only that a family of four died due bad weather. 

Stuff like that.

I don't see this as a competition between who tells the more bull*feces* stories.  I see it more that most of us are somewhere in the middle and when you tell a bull*feces* story we start to question the rest of what you say.  Goes for Al Gore.  Goes for George Bush.


I think crises such as this will be what finally pushes us into serious alternative energy research.  Whether they be economic/social/environmental or whatever.  I presume/hope it'll work out.  I really do.  Big JIT guy here. 

Hell no.  He's probably $100k a speech at this point.  Maybe even a bonus if everyone stays awake.