Oh golly, karma comes full circle with this one.
Cartoon by Josh, of www.cartoonsbyjosh.com
BTW, note to other bloggers: Josh encourages distribution of this cartoon, just cite it as I’ve done above – Anthony
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Great stuff Josh, keep ’em coming.
‘Rage of Stupid’ might work just on its own? Anyhow, great caption.
Ah, dear old Franny and chums. Rarely have so many owed so much to so few…
BTW, I hear that Sony UK has just dumped 10:10. If true (and I believe that it is) other big sponsors will surely follow suit.
Like it -couldn’t we call it Al’s new film – An Inconvenient Spoof ?
Josh,
Funny. Aren’t you letting old Eugenie, Franny, Daniel, Lizzie and the whole 10:10 team off a little to easy.
Can’t you get into that edgy ‘British’ Curtis genre stuff?
Love your stuff.
John
No More Gore!
No More Gore!
I think we should call this video “An Inconvenient Gore” !
More British humor here than in that infamous 10:10 snuff film.
I love it, but agree that there is more scope here for Josh, and he could hit harder.
REPLY: This is probably just one of many to come – Anthony
I can’t believe O2 are still supporting the creeps who made it. I’ll be switching to another provider if they don’t come to their senses.
Tesco – the biggest supermarket chain in the UK – runs a mobile phone service which uses O2’s infrastructure. I’ll be letting them know why I’m not shopping with them anymore if it comes to that too.
Now we know exactly how they think !!!
Never forget that this 10:10 group amongst many others is also funded by UK Government agencies including the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust. If these Quangos, (Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations), have managements that think like this and have let this outrage happen, they should all have their funding terminated by a government who is trying to save money.
This is especially so when one considers the futility of Man-made Climate Control by the reduction of CO2 emissions.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0_SNSM8kg
10:10 supporters on their website are:
SPONSORS
O2: is the UK’s leading provider of mobile phones, broadband and SIMs. O2 is partnering with 10:10 as part of its Think Big initiative and will be selling 10:10 Tags in its shops across the UK
Note that Sony and Kyocera have already been withdrawn as sponsors
etc.
Too much gore from alGore and his circle.
From the Saul Alinsky playbook, they apply ridicule. Especially when they have no science. Now the ridicule is back at them.
The Guardian are still pushing 10:10.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/05/government-department-energy-use
Are they punch drunk or are the red buttons real?
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of people.
Shytot October 5, 2010 at 8:25 am
LOL
When I stop and think about how this must have come about, presuming these people are not operating under the any-publicity-at-any-cost kind of mindset, I have to think that the script for this short film came about in a laugh session at a meeting.
We’ve all been there, a brainstorming session of some kind, and someone makes a ridiculous suggestion half-teasing/half-serious, and it somehow blossoms into something that is at least seriously considered if not attempted. I have to think that these people, perhaps meaning well, had a brainstorming session about how to get their message across and someone half-jokingly/half-serious pipes up, “What if we make the deniers heads explode?”
In retrospect, the laughter that must have come from the utterance of those words is quite disturbing to me.
And of course, desperate as the environmental activists are to get control of the message again, they simply turned off all the filters and ran with the ridiculous suggestion. All the while they were convincing themselves that it was “funny” because they were only “fake” getting rid of people they disagree with. Not one of them was able to step outside of their own belief structure/paradigm and see what they were really saying, “Eliminate the undesireables”
You are seeing into the inner workings of human madness, my friends.
Gore-gate really doesn’t work … all the “gates” have two or more syllable precursors, as in the daddy of them all, wa-ter-gate. And besides that, Gore-gate doesn’t scan …
Splattergate, splattergate, ten-ten Fran,
Blow up a kid as fast as you can,
Roll it, pat it, explode it for free,
Save all the Carbon for baby and me.
Now, there’s one for Josh to get his teeth stuck into.
Sony UK dumps 10:10
http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/businesses-distance-themselves-from-1010-campaign-over-tasteless-film-1841.aspx
This episode proves what a dead-ender Davey Gould really is. While portraying himself on WUWT as the the very soul of moderation and reason Ol’ Davey defended this POS video to the very bitter end. Even as 10:10 bailed, The sponsors bailed, and the public was almost universally outraged Ol’ Davey insisted that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the video, and it was in fact the people that objected to the video that were wrong. If I read Dave correctly he thought that the video was wonderful because it poked fun at the over sensitivity of Skeptics.
Meanwhile in other news … unnnnnnnnnnprecedennnnnnnnnnted early snows in California, Scotland, Finland, France, Switzerland, Italy, India …
I know, I know, weather, not climate.
What was the reasoning behind the film? Watching the interview on YouTube with Franny, you can see how she believes that ordinary life doing a job and sitting in traffic is “pointless”. She wants to do something meaningful, something which ordinary people are too selfish, deluded, or dim to appreciate. I don’t get that she’s a terribly mature person — they want to change the world but don’t understand what’s important to ordinary people. So then the Frannys get frustrated because people don’t listen, and out of frustration they start making jokes about violence.
There has been little mention of this Gorefest in the MSM in the UK! Frankly that’s not good enough – whatever happened to investigative reporting?
I’ve just written to the Carbon Trust in the UK to ask that they distance themselves from this or explain why they support it. I’ll post their reply here too, assuming they reply!! My letter:-
Dear Sir / Madam,
It is my understanding that your organisation is associated with and partly funds the 10:10 organisation. http://www.1010global.org/uk
You must by now be aware of their recently released short film that under the pretext of good causes displays extreme and lethal violence towards those not following the central tenet advocated by 10:10? It includes as a central point extreme violence against children and other members of the public at large. The underlying message within the film is that those in disagreement with “the cause” can be terminated thus cajoling everyone else into the same belief system.
To be clear – the stance as taken by 10:10 is fundamentally the same bullying tactic used by terrorists. Surely the position of supporting such an argument is considered untenable to yourselves and more specifically your funding decision makers?
I simply ask for confirmation that the carbon trust distances itself from 10:10, publically removing funding and any support. If however it is the carbon trusts’ position that it supports the public actions of 10:10 could you please indicate that this is in fact the case and indeed explain why funds supplied by UK citizens, myself included, are being used in this fashion?
Please reply by return.
With full apologies to Big Jim & Billie Sol . . .
The money line is at 45 seconds “So Bilie Sol, what’s yer opinion of the recent films coming in from Europe?
them 10:10 fellers blow’d themselves up real good eh?
@ur momisugly Jeremy says:
October 5, 2010 at 9:56 am
………………………………………………You are seeing into the inner workings of human madness, my friends.
I agree. And I also think we have not seen the last of this kind of thing, either in the context of climate or other fanatical “causes” . And not all will be “pretend” film productions. As the disease progresses each new one will try to “top” the last one. The justification given is that the last one failed to accomplish the objective, so more and more violent means are obviously required “to get the message across”. We’ve seen this progression time and time again.
Our two weapons are fear, suprise and a ruthless devotion to Al Gore. Sorry,
Our three weapons…
Wait for it……. (Josh may have to draw a cartoon of Greenpeace’s lemonade stand)
SplatterGate: When Greenpeace is given lemons, they make lemonade http://www.freedompub.org/profiles/blogs/splattergate-when-greenpeace
Excerpt: “In this case, the Greenpeace spokesperson once again deflects the narrative back to their propaganda about scheming skeptics, and you know this will soon be regurgitated by left-wing bloggers in viral form. Thus, the fundamental premise of the video is promoted after all – anybody with opposing viewpoints must be viewed with suspicion. “
In addition to violent video fantasies, the climate change movement has brought us:
* James Lee, a climate change terrorist, who took hostages at the Discovery Channel. He had an “awakening” after watching Al Gore’s flim, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
* An Argentine couple, who last March shot their baby, then killed themselves in a suicide pact because of global warming. Fortunately the baby survived.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/7344329/Baby-survives-parents-global-warming-suicide-pact.html
I know that it’s not fair to tar the entire movement with these three brushstrokes; nonetheless, it seems possible, even likely, we will see more of this as the climate change agenda is frustrated.