Review: Earth
by John NolteAnyone who’s figured out that Global Warming is socialism disguised as nonsense will immediately understand why DisneyNature’s “Earth” was dropped into theatres and aimed at your children on Earth Day. The subtext, as defined by a running subplot involving the struggle of “Papa the Polar Bear,” is how the warming of the earth is endangering the cutest animal families you ever will see. This warming is never openly blamed on man, but it no longer needs to be. Years of dishonest propaganda have laid that groundwork so well that “Earth” can toss off the warming fallacy in the most effective of ways: matter-of-factly.
Propa-nonsense or no, the saving grace of any theatrical nature documentary should be the photography, but I’ve read that “Earth” uses footage from, and is nothing more than a boiled down version of, the “Planet Earth” television series (recycling?), and it shows. There aren’t more than a few shots that rose above my childhood memories of what good ole Marlin Perkins introduced in Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” every Saturday afternoon in the seventies.
“Just as the mother lion protects her cubs, you can protect your family with Mutual of Omaha …”
Eloquently and at times playfully narrated by James Earl Jones, “Earth” follows the sun and — except for a quick stop here and there to tour a rainforest or to watch some baby ducks attempt their first flight – follows three animal families over the course of a seasonal migration. Elephants trudge across a harsh desert, humpback whales swim many oceans and polar bears venture over miles of ice. All are driven and guided by nothing more than instinct in a ritualistic search for food in a harsh world whose immediate threat is the carnivore, but whose arch-villain is … man.
The whales have the easiest time making their migration destination but the others are victimized by — wait for it — “the planet warming.” Thanks to SUVs and George W. Bush, the desert has increased in size and now the elephants have a much longer walk than they should and the net effect of a longer journey is increased exhaustion that makes them more vulnerable to predatory lions. You would think this would be good for the lions. More food would increase their numbers. Unsurprisingly though, the film doesn’t go near what could be a positive outcome of “the planet warming.”
Where it does go is waaaaayyy out on this ice with Papa the Polar Bear, who roams miles from land in search of the seals that will feed his adorable little newborn bear cubs.* But thanks to capitalism the thaw comes sooner than normal, the ground melts out from under Papa’s paws and he’s forced to swim miles in order to reach land. Weakened by the swim, he doesn’t have the strength to take down a walrus for food. That this might increase the walrus population is another possibility the film doesn’t touch.
Another open question is how the filmmakers know Papa the Polar Bear is “weakened,” (he seemed fine to me fighting those half-ton walrus) or that his swim is any longer than it was before Wal-Mart became a superpower. His ultimate fate is also never revealed. We’re left with the impression he lies down and dies of starvation, which made me wonder why Nature Boy didn’t put down his g**damn camera and toss the poor thing something from craft services.
There are a few compelling moments over the doc’s 95-minute running time. A coordinated night-time lion attack on a herd of elephants desperate to guard their babies is a definite high point, but the overall narrative is episodic with too few wowsers for the eyes. But it is a film made for kids who will be enamored with the animals, caught up in their plight, and grow into another mindless minion in the forever secured Democrat majority.
*UPDATE: Papa bear scouting for food for his cubs is an assumption of mine based on the “family” theme of the film, not something the movie states. A commenter stated male bears don’t do this, so blame me not the filmmakers.
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It's so sad because I used to love the Disney nature films. I still love nature docs of all sorts including the Mutual Omaha's Wild Kingdom series, and I eagerly scour them for new footage of things I've never seen. I really hate being proselytized to by the Church of Goreball Warming while I'm at it. No one disputes that climate changes, but all it takes is some study of the planet's past to realize that Earth has no perfect climate and that the ice sheets are transient visitors here. All of the wonderful species we have are a result of the climate's many changes, and if we were to actually be able to stop our climate just as it is, what would that mean both for them and for us?
A well-written and funny critique of the latest attempt to indoctrinate youngsters into believing the religion of man-made gloBULL warming. I planned on avoiding this movie anyway. Apparently, I made the right decision.
Do they show the cute part where Daddy Bear eats Baby Bear because he was, well, hungry?
Love the point about the walrus population and about the lion populations that could benefit from global warming. Global Warming alarmists frequently claim that melting icecaps will kill 100 polar bears this century…roughly the number of polar bears that are poached EVERY YEAR. I say congratulate the bearded and ringed seals who have been polar bear yum yums since forever ago. What makes me suspect they won't notice one polar bear per year is gone?
I miss Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom: "As Jim tries to free himself from the steely grip of that deadly python, let's talk about the term life policies…"
I hear the leading cause of global warming is the filming of nature documentaries.
It really is sad that so many nature documentaries have to be so filled with propraganda. Since I have always loved nature shows. Planet Earth in particular featured so much incredible footage and really makes you appreciate just how beautiful our world is. The fifth episode did include a Global Warming cheap shot by the narrator but the footage was still so compelling that I still enjoyed it. No real desire to pay for a movie ticket to watch what was just broadcast on television.
My favorite scene from my childhood was Disney's "Wonderful World of Animals" segment where the cougar jumps from one high rock to another, misses, falls, and breaks her back. And now, a word from Purina Cat Chow. I haven't recovered to this day, which explains a lot.
the idea of suicidal lemmings has become one of the fundamental metaphors in our culture. and it's a myth, created by disney film makers in 1958. they herded the poor critters over a cliff deliberately.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
they're doing the same thing today. only we are the lemmings.
The planet has been doing an awesome job of killing off plant and animal species for over three billion years. Environmental stress is a part of nature. Animals adapt or die. People are taking a pretty shortsighted view of "climate change", forgetting that the climate's always changing, and has drastically changed countless times before man or industry came along.
Interesting reading after learning about Lord Monckton not being allowed to speak to with Al Gore today. I googled his name and found an interesting website.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton_papers...
Its very lucky there are no polar bear here in Arkansas……
I bet they are good with Famous Dave's BBQ sauce and a whole plate of fried tators !!!!!!!!
As Homer Simpson would say ……HHHMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Its very lucky there are no polar bear here in Arkansas……
I bet they are good with Famous Dave's BBQ sauce and a whole plate of fried tators !!!!!!!!
As Homer Simpson would say ……HHHMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I'm not entirely sure (and too lazy to look it up right now), but I don't think "papa" polar bears provide for their "family".. I think it's mama and the cubs on their own…papa takes care of sperm contribution and then splits. And then, as another poster hinted, watch out when papa or any of the other big boys come around after cubs are born and out of a den…they want only to eat "Baby".
Thx for the heads-up, John. Without seeing any previews, I pretty much assumed that this global-warming subtext would be there. Hollywood is becoming so cliche with all these subtexts: all conservatives are bad, all gays are insightful, all black kids are all poets waiting to be discovered, all Christians are all hypocrites, all big-businesses are evil, all rich people are completely insensitive. For the supposedly creative branch of humanity, they sure seem stale.
I gotta tell someone an anecdote from a few months ago.
I was watching some nature show on PBS. It was about whales.
While watching, I was gritting my teeth, waiting for the global-warming propaganda. I was not disappointed. The scientist being interviewed was spewing some stuff or other about how we're destroying the whales' habitat.
Then, there was an interesting segment where the scientist actually acknowledged a sort-of error in their research of years past. For many years, the scientific community thought the whales were dying because the whales' main food source (some sort of protozoa) were being killed off by man-made global warming.
Then (astonishing to me) this scientist actually admitted that they were wrong. It wasn't man-made global-warming that was killing the protozoa. Instead, the protozoa were moving around to different places in the vast ocean, and this unexpected movement was messing up the system they were using for sampling the protozoan populations. And, the reason the protozoa were moving around was because of (what is now known to be very natural) fluctuations in the temperatures of the oceans. These tidal currents that cause warm and cold waters to be constantly moving.
Then… (get this… this is rich)… then, right after admitting to the documentarian that years of his research was ultimately worthless (about protozoan populations) because of modern Science's lack of understanding of the complexity of Nature (i.e. tidal currents)… right after admitting this error in judgment… without missing a beat, this scientist immediately (instinctively?) returned to the next stanza of the Company Song, and told the camera that he was concerned because evidence shows that man-made global warming is now complicating the protozoa's ability to survive in these tidal currents!
It was just hilarious! He admits to a HUGE level of ignorance (tidal currents) but then still manages to be convinced that he knows enough to assert that man-made global warming is threatening the existence of these protozoa.
It was an absolutely amazing thing to behold. He was deft. He was smooth. And, boy, was he ever "on message".
What's that they say about repeating a lie often enough…?
C'mon America! It's time to turn off every connection you have to Old Hollywood. And, let's start rebuilding Rome.
Eagerly awaiting the New Hollywood!
I never knew there existed so much underlying crap involved in a simple nature show. I see your point and agree. The earth has been around for a very long time, a billion, trillion? I don't know the facts but am pretty sure the earth will survive we mere humans. Do they make non-propaganda nature shows for kids anymore?
Isn't it special that algore & associates have a created a cottage industry on the myth of Global Warming, now climate change, soon to be mediocre global incidents. This guy has found the booty in the BS, and he's not about to let go. When confronted by the carbon benefits of Nukes, he stumbled and mumbled and said he's very unsure, Unsure? Over sixty years of safety without one fatality, and proven clean energy and he's still unsure? The only thing this stiff should be unsure about, is how to collect another nickel on this galactically stupid foolishness.
Yup, I looked it up…male polar bears kill and eat cubs. So what a load of absolute BS they are foisting on kids. What happened to Disney over the years?!
If mankind with its capitalism and modern technology had been around during the times of the dinosaurs and wooly critters, most of those creatures would have never become extinct– With the exception of pachycephalosauruses. I effing hate pachycephalosauruses! They're so STUPID!
LOL @ "Nature Boy put down his camera and get Papa some food from craft-services" !!! Got tears in my eyes!
Polar Bear liver is deadly poison.
Newt was able to take his place. He pointed out that Cap and Trade is a 1.8 Trillion dollar tax on the US economy over the next 8 years.
This is handy: http://joannenova.com.au/globalwarming/skeptics_h...
Additionally, if human technology had existed back then, there would have been a portion of society blaming itself for the increased frequency of volcanoes, tectonic plate shifts, and mass dinosaur migrations.
Polar Bears are some of the most vicious of bears. And they're thriving of late.
If you believed the environmental scare of the 1970s, there should already be polar bears in Arkansas.
I wanted to take my kids to see this but I don't let them see Global Alarmist entertainment any more…which is almost every kids movie. Thanks for the heads up.
But like the dreaded Japanese blow fish, if you cut it just right. . . let the other guy try it first.
And nine hundred million people.
Life on earth has been around for two billion years or so. During the time before man, 99% of all species that ever existed had gone extinct, and the earth had gone from one big volcano, to one big snowball, to one big ocean, to one big continent, and then back again, two or three times. According to the chicken littles of global warming (oops, I mean climate change), man will accomplish all of that in five to fifteen years. And they call us arrogant.
All starving and fighting over whale oil — because there ain't no more crude.
Iger has been taking the company left more and more. The plot of Wall-E, the spiking of "The Path to 9/11" DVD release and now "Earth". All in Iger's lap, who's a big Democratic booster.
Which is no problem, since there wouldn't have been any food or fresh water by now anyway.
I know what you mean about propogandizing. I was watching a Naked Science episode about how the Sun was influencing climate and weather on Earth. I figured that they might have to acknolwedge the MMGW skeptics in this episode. OOOOHHH NNNNOOOO, we couldn't have that. After the first five minutes which were all about how man is causing irreversible climate change, the show then launches into the remaining 50 minutes in which we discover that scientists are only now beginning to uncover the drastic and dramatic effects the sun has on our global climate including causing sudden and dramatic periods of both warming and cooling. I was laughing so hard I was crying it was that tragic.
I'm told that capitalism killed the dinosaurs. If only they had more effective regulation and kept each other to a reasonable level of profit, they might still be around today. *sigh*
They're pretty mean to dumpsters too.
Excellent comment and excellent nom de plume. I, too, am "sicofitall."
And no trees for firewood — acid rain.
Wait a minute, am I thinking? There weren't going to be any whales either? Remember Star Trek IV? Shoot, no heat.
Man, it was looking bad for us. It's a good thing we elected Ronald Reagan and he fixed all of that!
I miss Steve Irwin…
I was assuming that was what Papa Bear was up to. The movie never stated that. So blame my assumption, not the filmmakers.
The whole theme of the film (besides Al Gore is right) was family and protective parents, that's why the assumption…
So, wait… you say right off the bat that the film NEVER openly blames global warming on man, but it's STILL "propaganda" because… why? Because it mentions warming at all? Because you're psychic and have read the mind of everyone involved in the decisionmaking process at Disney and the BBC?
I mean, I've joked about it before, but… is this REALLY gonna be the strategy, guys? Really? Don't reconsider anything, don't look for common ground, don't formulate alternative solutions…. just maintain that it doesn't exist? Seriously? Am I really watching 21st Century "conservatives" drive over the Monkey Trial cliff… again?
Also: John, you're a fine critic so this isn't meant as any kind of dig on you, but I ADORE the way your negative reviews are so often deluged with comments thanking you for the "head's up" (as opposed to gratitude for informative criticism or good film journalism) – most of which can't help but read like variations on "Thank you for relieving me of the burden of forming my own opinion through actually WATCHING something before I judge it." Which CERTAINLY doesn't contribute to "conservative" movie audiences being percieved as closed-minded and intellectually incurious or anything, right?
Now THERE'S hope and change you can believe in. And he didn't promise to do it all within 24 hours of inauguration.
I'd love to introduce one of them to one of those dippy, vegan, we're-all-voyagers-on-the-same-planet, idiots who don't realize that they would be lunchmeat to a polar bear. Reminds me of that IMBECILE in the documentary "Grizzly Man" who was eaten by a grizzly bear because he thought he could tame one. Whatta maroon.
"Am I really watching 21st Century "conservatives" drive over the Monkey Trial cliff… again?"
No, you are participating in the 21st Century "progressive's" drive over the Global Cooling/Overpopulated Earth/Ozone Hole/Acid Rain cliff again.
I was going to throw Y2K in there, but that really wasn't a progressive thing. That was just pseudo-intellectuals scaring a bunch of people to pay them to prepare for a non-event.
Come to think of it, that does sound a lot like Al Gore & Friends…
Yeah… no.
Here's the thing: "Right" or not, the "progressives" are WINNING on this ticket. As in elections, positions and public support. The Elephant Party is becoming the Ingoring The Elephant In The Room Party, it's cost them and it's going to continue costing them.
See, the fun trick to the "progressive" side on this is that even when they've been wrong about the looming threat, the "fix" is usually something that ends up seen as worth-doing anyway: Ozone hole or acid rain or NOT, pumping toxins into the air is a BAD thing, and doing less of it is a good thing. That's just logical. Same deal with overpopulation. Is it a "bomb?" I dunno. Maybe not. But there ARE too many damn people on this rock, that I know for damn sure. And if there's a NON-genocidal way to go about shifting-gears on that, you bet I'd like to explore it.
ECO idiocy and propaganda know no bounds. But, we have the solution:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/1a4af347eb/eco-c...
I don't want to waste $10 to be lectured when I have the internet. I didn't go to the movies for this.
*MissQuinn*
Look at the cute little polar bears: http://www.gifbin.com/982508
So a red flag goes up every time I see a GREEN symbol or climate warming gets thrown in my face. My baby girl has about three years of tranquility left until school which will probably turn out to be public, and I'm already coming up with a battle plan to beat back the green scare. That and the "those poor people" logic that will be jack hammered into her skull. As a single dad with no partner to back me up, it scares the hell out of me.
I used to LOVE watching the more educational channels on TV, but it seems to me that these days even if the subject is ancient Babylon somehow towards the end they have to squeeze in climate change. It infuriates me. It's everywhere else too.
I guess green is the new red.
"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism,
but we can ASSIST THEIR ELECTED LEADERS in giving Americans small doses of socialism
until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism."
- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
The end "fix" justifying the means may work for you. It does not for me.
I don't care how many elections either party wins. Calling a natural bi-product of life a toxin in order to spread socialism is not something I will ever support.
Telling desperately poor people in Africa that they shouldn't produce electricity because white people feel guilty about being too wealthy is immoral in my opinion.
That's the problem with the religion of environmentalism. It's not the intentions, its the unintended consequences.
Or the part where Baby Bear ate Nature Boy because he was, well, a bear?
So the enlightened progressives shift gears on the population thing while the cave men from the third world multiply like rabbits?
"So, wait… you say right off the bat that the film NEVER openly blames global warming on man, but it's STILL "propaganda" because… why? Because it mentions warming at all? Because you're psychic and have read the mind of everyone involved in the decisionmaking process at Disney and the BBC?"
Guess you missed the part where he said it was released on Earth Day, the official birthday of lefty greenism, whereas Global Warming is the official party line for lefty greens. The connection's crystal clear to anyone who A) has lived in the United States for more than a week, and B) isn't being intentionally obtuse.
"…which made me wonder why Nature Boy didn’t put down his g**damn camera and toss the poor thing something from craft services."
K. You stole that line from the late, great Sam Kinison, John, but I'm gonna let it slide because "Nature Boy" makes me laugh out loud every time I read it.
LOL. LawhawkSF, You kill me.
Thanks for the link, Debbie. Lord Monckton was on Michael Savage's radio show Friday and was very well spoken and informative. There are so many reasons i love BH, but learning about cool new sites is way up there on the list.
I predict that BH will continue growing and improving. My thanks go out to Andrew Breitbart and John Nolte and all the contributing writers. I love you guys………..and gals.
Yes! I was the victim of attempted brainwashing by that film when I was shown it in grade school back in the late 60's/early 70's. For decades I propagated the myth of lemmings running off cliffs until someone at the NRO Corner did a bleg about the film, and it was revealed to be a hoax at Snopes.
One of the biggest challenges every generation of kids has is to overcome Disney eco-propaganda.
Ha! You oughta live up here in Northern MN (Canadian border Manitoba & Saskatchewan) and drive across ND sometime…and SD and MT and WY. Teeming with people….just teeming. Fly over all of western Canada and, I assume, most of Russia…TEEMING. Oh, and hardly ANY trees either…(oh wait, that's just ND).
I'd say in the case of MoveBob that it's B. He knows damn well what this is all about and then he goes on to insult posters because they aren't open-minded enough to plunk down money to watch propaganda….
Poppa bear would have eaten the cubs given the opportunity male bears do not take care of the cubs and regard them as a threat .If he kills cubs, momma bear bear comes back into heat and he gets to breed again . Much like libs and abortion
John,
It starts at Age two. My grandson likes "The Magic Schoolbus" so I was watching with him last week. The show was about saving the wetlands (a very good idea), however, the "green" propaganda was laid on with a trowel INCLUDING praising Al Gore, though they slightly changed the name.
Saw a clip of Algore speaking before Congress (does anyone else think maybe he's Jabba the Hutt in disguise?) and while he was speaking, it dawned on me that in 1992, he was after the automobiles; now he's after the automobiles and the coal plants. Meanwhile he's flying around in a private jet and wastes more energy per month than a small town. Do these bozos take a HIPOCRITIC Oath when they're elected?
from Bambi to Earth, nothing has changed- they just went from animation to live animals.
Wait!! animals eat other animals!?!? How did Bush cause this? How long has this been going on? I thought that tofo met all nutritional needs. This thirst for blood is just unnatural.
we could all throw those CFL bulbs at each other. that ought to take care of it.
I cannot take seriously an industry (Kingdom Hollywood) full of paranoid hypochondriacs who are so removed from nature that they must fly to the outer limits of Africa just to find out what it is like to poo in the woods.
Drew Barrymore, listen darling, pooing in Africa is the same experience as pooing in your California backyard so there is no need for you to fly in your private jet to do in Africa what you can do at home.
One thing is certain, Kingdom Hollywood would never a movie from either novels "Fallen Angels" by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn or "State of Fear" by Michale Crichton.
About "Fallen Angels", it is remarkable that something written in 1991 was so prescient about the draconian environmental movement. Some conservative producer should get their hands on a copy and turn it into a script; it has all the making for a block-buster.
as someone with a bachelor's degree in environmental biology*, it pains me to see how intellectually LAZY the entire earth sciences community has become. there is no longer any curiosity as to the actual cause of a panoply of natural events. #%&*%$ EVERYTHING is now #%$&*$ MAN'S $&%*#$ FAULT!!!! it appears no one bothers to do any real research any more. just blame it on mankind- especially capitalism & SUVs- and go collect your next govt grant on the way to your Nobel Prize.
*that's right, i'm a conservative with a degree in Environmental, Population & Organismic Biology from the Univ. Of Colorado- Boulder (yes, CU-Boulder). if anybody deserves to be on the endangered species list, it's me.
I am not so sure it's laziness, I think they're punching their ticket for the gravy train. I will yield to your knowledge, however.
the flaw in your reasoning is the assumption that anyone on the left would have such venal motives. as we all know by now, only those of us on the right are ever guilty of greed and avarice. they, on the other hand, have but the most noble (Nobel?) aspirations and interests…
But there ARE too many damn people on this rock, that I know for damn sure.
Oh really? Then we should finally follow the well-established and documented natural order of life and supplant weaker species. Darwin documented it, many naturalists have, the dominant species must take over. We obviously have not been acting as Nature dictates, and this must be rectified. Per Nature, we can have a much higher number of humans than we currently have, which is well accomplished by taking over the niches of existing animals. Then we will achieve a new balance of sustainability, which will likely be below the initial surge in population as things settle out, or we will somehow get wiped out, which of course is natural and will open up space for new species.
As we begin acting as other species do, we needn't concern ourselves with what happens. A species going on to change an ecosystem is frequently documented. Even changing an environment is noted, the Amazonian rain forest largely contributes to its own weather which is the result of its plant species. Thus "climate change" and "environmental impact" are for all intents and purposes meaningless phrases, whatever happens as we establish our dominance is natural and must be accepted. Oh, and concepts of "sustainability" derived from "carrying capacity" of the land, garnered from the "hunter and gather" mindset, mean nothing. Even ants grow crops so it's natural to cultivate, and they also manage aphids so "animal husbandry" is also natural, we are entitled to develop farming as we can to support as many humans as possible.
First to go, giant panda bears. There's some territory we can take over immediately. They're hardly surviving as it is, are dependent on a few bamboo species which they must consume tons of to survive which is highly inefficient and uses land we can plant on, and they reproduce too slowly to be a good meat source. They're best attributes are already reproduced as stuffed toys for kids. Of course that's just my stated preference, I don't like large creatures with fangs and claws that can readily kill marketed as child-friendly and cute to hug, others will have their own.
This thirst for blood is just unnatural.
Excuse me, the vampire bats, ticks, and mosquitoes want to have a word with you. BTW, to save time later, what's your blood type?
Movie Bob, you're a fine contrarian, but you do spin off in that left-wing rhetorical trickery every once in a while, and this is one of those times.
The thanks for the "heads up" is usually for alerting folks to the liberal talking points, which, if people trust that I'm not making them up, aren't subjective. People don't want to get beat over the head no matter how good or bad the movie might otherwise be.
And we all form opinions based on oustide influence: The trailer, the logline, something a friend said, something a reviewer wrote… then we MAKE UP OUR OWN MIND.
By your odd, rhetorical trickster standard, we must experience everything first hand or were close-minded and intellectually incurious.
How many movies at blockbuster do you NOT rent because the box cover is lame? That's judging a book by it's cover, you should rent them all or stand accused of being incurious and close minded!
It appears some people have made up their own mind to give my opinion some credence — that's still making up your own mind.
If I stole the joke — something I am certainly not above doing — it was only by accident.
And as much as I like Kinison, I doubt he was the first one to watch a nature show and wonder why the idiot behind the camera didn't save some poor little animal, though he may have been the first to voice it in a routine on stage.
Don't tell Hollywood that the thirst for blood is unnatural! They are breaking out those dang vampire shows left and right! This is bug box office and tv viewing for them right now! Oh? Animals? Now that's another story! Real animals are just sweet gentle creatures looking for a better way. It's all those blood thirsty humans/vampires that is the problem. BTW, did anyone shoot any of the starving animals they were filming, to put them out of their misery? Or maybe to make a nice new fur coat? I think I understand why I am never offered jobs like this……………………………….
Sam's line was in regard to those commercials for starving kids in Africa, where the camera seeks out the most forlorn and long-suffering faces it can find. Sam asked (almost word for word as you did), "Couldn't the camera guy give the poor kid a sandwich or something?" (Then he mimics the cameraman handing one to the kid, at which point a director runs up, screaming "Nooo! Don't feed him! He has to look hungry or it won't work!")
P.S. I wasn't serious about accusing you of theft. As you say, I'm sure Kinison himself wasn't the first to think of it.
Oh. And I just read "Nature Boy" again and it made me laugh again. I get such a kick out of that for some reason…
Ok, as an aside, I have to say that I HATE the fact that Hollywood has rewritten the vampire (a really neat character with a lot of interesting implications about the human soul, about evil, and about immortality) and has turned it into a 90210 sex toy. Vampires have gone from horrific undead creates to over-sexed 20-somethings. Really ticks me off.
My favorite skit George Carlin ever did was the one where he talks about how arrogant people are, and that the Earth, when it tires of us, will just shake us off like fleas. I have always believed this. I grew up in the country, we weren't poor, more middle class, but we always conserved, and protected our environment, it's how you live! When you depend on nature, then you automatically take care of it. You surely don't need some arrogant a**hole scientists, who have spent their lives in big cities, going to Ivy league schools telling farmers or those who raise animals for profit, how to "Go Green." THEY ALREADY DO, TO SURVIVE! It drives me batty! I am not a nature show watcher, but I miss Wild Kingdom,. too. It seemed honest.
You guys crack me up. Even better, I always feel like I learn something from you guys. Thanks.
You are a brave, brave person. I got my degree from another university in the conference, and I know how bone-headed you had to be to avoid being brainwashed by the student body at Boulder. Kudos to you for resisting the indoctrination; you have a stronger will than I.
According to my hubby, Mr. Nature Show, Bears and other animals, (Lions, Tigers, etc), the male will eat the offspring sometimes just to put the female back in heat again. Sounds gross, but he watches that stuff religiously. So, in other words, Papa Bear might just get a whim and eat Baby Bear? Oh well.
As do their sponsers … because we all know that only money from Big Corporate interests invalidates research, never money from evironmental whacko groups.
That's the Vitamin A concentration, in small amounts it's tolerable. Read up on Retinol, the animal version of it. Vit. A can be of marginal use and even harmful above an adequate level, even normal supplements are suspect.
We've tended to forget what predators instinctively know, there are lots of needed nutrients found in organ meats. You might have to go easy on certain livers, but there'd be less need for several supplements and/or an extensively varied diet if we were properly carnivorous.
That's the Vitamin A concentration, in small amounts it's tolerable. Read up on Retinol, the animal version of it. Vit. A can be of marginal use and even harmful above an adequate level, even normal supplements are suspect.
We've tended to forget what predators instinctively know, there are lots of needed nutrients found in organ meats. You might have to go easy on certain livers, but there'd be less need for several supplements and/or an extensively varied diet if we were properly carnivorous.
Hey Bob, have you ever lived through an ice age? If not, how would you know global warming isn't a good thing? Or perhaps humans are allowed to occasionally use prior experience and expert opinion as guidance in these things. Watch now as I avoid both snark and a juvenile winky face to close my post.
My Hubby wants to know if you can picture Al Gore caveman hawking Carbon Footprint Offsets to the Neanderthals, Andrew? I guess if you are a non-believer in this situation they just feed you to a large critter. Or throw you in a volcano.
MovieBob is ALWAYS intentionally obtuse. He drinks all the KoolAid, and blames anyone here who doesn't agree. I don't remember John saying, I am not going to do a review of this movie from my point of view, it might upset MB. He also never says Don't go see this movie! anywhere I can see, so I guess MB needs to make his own blog and be a reviewer and he can say whatever he wants. Not that there's not 1 billion lefty movie reviewers already or anything. I love the over population lie. Try getting out of the big city, you will see plenty of room across the world. I have seen plenty of open spaces all across this planet while traveling, and as noted above, even here in the midwest and northern territories. Geesh.
AH, I guess I should have kept reading before posting, brad c. I noted the same thing on the first page of comments just now.
Al Gore? No, robotics weren't invented yet. Though, they apparently did have a pretty advanced rock(et) program. *chuckles*
Seriously, I could see an Algore preaching, "take only berries, leave only non-carbon footprints" and carrying signs that said, "cave fires contribute to global ice age" and "we're killing the wooley mammoth."
Other nut jobs of the time would probably include the "the world will end at 999 B.C." crowd, the "dinosaurs are people too" people, and of course the "cavelessness" advocates.
mrm-in-wnc, unfortunately people like you are in short supply, and with the continued indoctrination in schools, and before, the movement is growing. I refuse to feel guilty to live on this planet and consume. I will leave that to someone else who needs to have something to angst over.
Thank you, I blame Lawhawk. He seems compelled to teach us something.
The most revolting animal myth is the feminist lie that male lions don't do anything but eat the best part of the kill and then lie around and look handsome, while the lionesses do all the work. This is ingrained in kids in schools until they absolutely believe it. I believed it too.
Then I saw a documentary where a lion hunt was filmed at night. Once the lionesses had made their kill, hyenas moved in to take the downed animal. The lighter, faster lionesses couldn't protect the kill. Then the male caught up and broke the back of the alpha hyena with one blow from his paw. He scattered the hyenas and the lion pride settled down for their well-deserved meal.
The most evil thing about feminist propaganda is denying the beautiful way that God made us to fit together like puzzle pieces. The big male couldn't run fast like the females, but his size and power protected them. The myth of the lazy male lion can be seen today in the stupid television shows where the man of the family is an idiot while the women are smart and clever, or the great numbers of women who are single moms. Who needs a man, anyway? I'll tell you — I'll shout it from the rooftops. We do!
Same thing with male Rhinos (no political pun intended).
Something similar, AlGore selling this pile of sticks, arguing only those should be used to preserve those trees for future generations. He'd probably also pile fallen trees for future use so no live ones would get cut down. Bugs, rain, and the basic unassisted making of mulch are natural processes not man-made disasters, therefore he'll never acknowledge they exist and wonder who's been stealing from the pile and leaving moist pulverized tree bits behind.
"…it appears no one bothers to do any real research any more. just blame it on mankind- especially capitalism & SUVs…"
That's because, to the left, there is only The Project, and that project is political. People on the left (I'm talking about your committed lefties here, not you average useful idiot on the street) have exactly zero actual interest in the planet, the animal kingdom, or anything else they claim to be working on behalf of. Their interest is only in their political goal–the destruction of Western, Christian civilization and its replacement with a totalitarian system (Communism, Radical Islam–it doesn't matter, as long as it's totalitarian). All else is but a means to that end and anything goes in pursuit of it.
If it ever became obvious that capitalism is better for the environment than the radical protectionism they champion, they wouldn't change their views to conform with what's better for the environment, they'd simply drop their no-longer-useful "green" pose and take up a different strategy.
Don't forget the 200+ year old vamps sexing up the under-18 crowd. Granted back when they were young the "age of consent" was about five seconds after you realized you had something, with marriage ten seconds later, but come on! Forget the hypnotic eye zap, they'd know way more about manipulation than those kids would ever realize. Speaking of creepy, yecch!
You are correct; polar bear mating is of the 'wham, bam, thank you, ma'am' variety; polar bear families are always single parent. On a related point, polar bears eat seals, not walruses; an adult walrus weighs almost as much as Al Gore and would be more than a match for an adult polar bear. I know these things because I actually met Marlin Perkins once when I was a kid and he told me.
I love the late-night "Save The Children" charity commercials, featuring the Santa Claus who hasn't missed a meal in quite some time. Does he hand out candy and gifts when done filming? Well, it was nice of him to take time off his vacation in Mexico to visit a nearby slum. Provided that wasn't so he could write it off as a business-related travel.
I hadn't thought about it that way, but you raise a good point. My beef is that they've turned "the vampire story" into a soft core porno.
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The Neanderthals may have listened to caveman Al; they've been extinct for 50,000 years or so. Our Cro-Magnon ancestors apparently paid no attention.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
Corrected link.
But I still like the old Lemmings PC game. Well, no less than I did. It was somewhat annoying… Ah the heck with it, there should have been a "Let them all die!" mode.
Anything that can take my head off with one swipe is not on my list of "useful critters that must exist." Afterwards the killer whales can take some of the seal overpopulation (whales are useful for oil and meat), the rest will make good coats in the coming ice age.
Spoilsport alert, with "fatalities" you have to include Chernobyl-related deaths, and that was a crappy reactor design that never left the USSR. Some would also include TMI, whose design has been supplanted by ones with water storage above the reactor for automatic flooding in a power emergency thus precluding any amount of core meltdown. And then there's the earlier military applications, subs etc, which we don't know much about. All old designs that'd never be built these days by any respected modern country, and such history should be disregarded, but seeing as "progressives" see the future by looking back to JFK and FDR…
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