BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 01:48 PM

Last I heard (this morning's news), it looks like the Federal Way school board is backing down from the religious pressure and will allow the film to be shown after all. But the battle is still going on.

An interesting side note is that, in the Federal Way area, all the movie rental places are out of copies of "An Inconvienient Truth" because a lot of parents are renting it and showing it to their kids at home. One father said that after watching the movie, his daughter (eighth-grade) dashed around the house turning off all the lights that weren't being used and said that she wants to enter politics so she can do something about environmental pollution and global warming. She's motivated! Surprised the hell out of her father!

In any case, it would appear that Frosty E. Hardiman's crusade to stop the showing of "An Inconvenient Truth" in the Federal Way schools may have backfired on him. It's stirred up a lot of interest and people want to see the movie so they know what all the fuss is about.

Ya know what, Frosty? The Lord works in mysterious ways!

(snicker snicker snicker)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 12:34 AM

"It seems that, in Japan, ignorance is considered shameful."

Your wife is right, Naemanson. Ignorance, particularly of this magnitude, is shameful.

And it would appear that GUEST,"Truther" wallows in ignorance as well. Some folks just love a good wallow.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 10:58 PM

GUEST,Truther, you do realize Stephen Colbert is a put-on, don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 10:48 PM

*grin* they DO crawl out from the woodwork, don't they? You s'pose roach powder in the cracks would help?

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 10:41 PM

Then I suggest you return them to your dark passages where at least they make somebody more comfortable.

A

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: GUEST,Truther
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 09:48 PM

Al Gore's a pro rassler who took a dive in the 2000 election and now shills for the big-money "fix-it" corporations that are going to tax you til you bleed to fix a non-existent problem. What a whore. His movie is bad science, he's a bad actor, he's a GOOD whore though, and he's not worth any more effort from these digits.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 08:18 PM

" All the little sub-routines and sub-assemblies tie in to one large uber-box labeled "FM Process occurs here"."

... with no code, but the comment

Must really write something useful here...

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 08:15 PM

"Maybe they will experience their own "inconvenient truth" when their Rapture occurs!"

or doesn't...

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 07:32 PM

Well, God made the sandbox.

Whoever put the cat turds in there is up for grabs, though.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Hrothgar
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 07:30 PM

Maybe God made them - and they provided their own polish.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 06:50 PM

No, Greg. They made themselves. Whether or not God exists... they made themselves. Trust me on this.

And then too, government, church, and school propaganda helped make them what they are. God is not behind any of that, as far as I'm concerned. People are responsible for every last iota of it.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Greg F.
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 06:42 PM

God must love flaming arseholes- he's made so many of 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Naemanson
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 05:50 PM

I tried to tell my Japanese wife about the "debate" between religion and reality. I had been reading in Archaeology Magazine about a Gallup Poll asking Americans about science. It seems that 49% of Americans do not believe in evolution and 51% of Americans believe that dinosaurs and humans co-existed.

She was incredulous. She asked me how they could be considered 'educated'. She wanted to know what the vaunted American education system was good for.

So then I explained to her that the President of the United States does not believe in evolution, that he was one of those in that 49%. This floored her.

It seems that, in Japan, ignorance is considered shameful.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Bee
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 05:28 PM

Why people think that their religion should be allowed to dictate their version of reality to the rest of us is beyond me. It seems much worse in the US than in Canada, but perhaps that's just perception.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 03:33 PM

A computer consultant? Hmmm....not someone I'd trust to work out the logic of a large system, anyway. I can see the block diagram now. All the little sub-routines and sub-assemblies tie in to one large uber-box labeled "FM Process occurs here".

A

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 03:23 PM

Maybe they will experience their own "inconvenient truth" when their Rapture occurs!

Sign me, Disgusted,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 03:02 PM

That's some fucked-up shit. Where's Spencer Tracy when you need him?

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Don Firth
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 02:36 PM

Washington State, particularly western Washington, is a pretty progressive area (hence the epithet of some years back, "the forty-nine states and the Soviet of Washington"). But there are a few areas, such as a small town near the Canadian border and a couple of pockets northeast of Lake Washington, where the Dark Ages are still in force. I wasn't aware that Federal Way (between Seattle and Tacoma) was one of these until I heard this story on the local news.

The would-be American Taliban strikes again!.

Red alert! Shields up!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 01:50 PM

Might be such a "sign" but ain't nobody agrees if The Elect are gonna be taken up before, during, or after -- or at all.

Me, I opt for the last.

Subject: RE: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 01:26 PM

I wouldn't advise him to look forward to Judgement Day with any great confidence of a favourable outcomem to the hearing.

Subject: BS: 'An Inconvenient Truth'-banned
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 12:53 PM

well, in one school district, anyway...and some folks wonder why religious fervor in general gets some of us upset. Dictating to schools what they 'approve' for education is just one example.


"FEDERAL WAY, Wash., Jan. 24 -- Frosty E. Hardiman is neither impressed nor surprised that "An Inconvenient Truth," the global-warming movie narrated by former vice president Al Gore, received an Oscar nomination this week for best documentary.

"Liberal left is all over Hollywood," he grumbled a few hours after the nomination was announced.

Hardiman, a parent of seven here in the southern suburbs of Seattle, has himself roiled the global-warming waters. It happened early this month when he learned that one of his daughters would be watching "An Inconvenient Truth" in her seventh-grade science class.

"No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation -- the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet -- for global warming," Hardiman wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board. The 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day.



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