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Two further acts sign on to Live Earth:
Keith Urban and Taking Back Sunday are joining the blockbuster line-up of performers who will be playing Live Earth New York at Giants Stadium on 7/7/07, Live Earth organizers announced today ...
“Global warming is something that will ultimately affect all of us on this planet,” said Urban, who is taking time out of his “Love, Pain & the whole crazy World Tour” to appear at Live Earth New York. “And if there is one thing that music can do, it is to bring people together despite their politics or differences.”
When in Sydney, Urban drives a Bentley Continental GTC; check out its EPA greenhouse gas score. Urban drives an identical 12-cylinder unit in Nashville, too. As for Taking Back Sunday:
“We all have our own beliefs, but I really feel that the issue of Global Warming is not a political issue up for debate. It’s strictly a case of our survival in the near future, and it is proven scientific fact,” said Fred Mascherino, lead guitarist for Taking Back Sunday. “The truth is that the more we know the more hope we all have.”
Not much hope for Fred, then.
Mascherino added: “Our actions can directly help to change the course of the climate problem. Making small changes in your life can add up and make a big difference.”
Go tell 24-cylinder Keith about it. Meanwhile, Turkey withdraws from Al Gore’s coalition of the colding:
The Istanbul, Turkey leg of the upcoming Live Earth global spectacular has been cancelled.
Local media suggests the 7 July (07) concert failed to attract sponsorship or promised financial support from the Turkish government.
And why might sponsorship have been so difficult to attract?
Turkish music industry sources say local businesses have shied away from sponsoring the show for fear of criticism from environmental groups who may accuse their factories of helping stoke global warming.
Environmentalists against Gaiapalooza! At least the carbon-generating community is still with Gore:
95 TRIPLE X GIVES YOU THE
LIVE EARTH GLOBAL GETAWAY!!
THE SHOW IS JULY 7TH, 2007
WE’LL FLY YOU AND A FRIEND TO THE CONCERT OF YOUR CHOICE:
NEW YORK’S GIANT STADIUM, LONDON’S WEMBLEY STADIUM, SYDNEY, AUSTRAILIA, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, TOKYO, JAPAN OR SHANGHAI, CHINA!!! JUST FOR QUALIFYING YOU’LL PICK UP A CD OF YOUR CHOICE FROM ONE OF THE STARS !!!
Via Tim A., who notes that the flight-offering radio station “is in Vermont, too.” An Australian station is promoting the same sort of deal, emails Drew H.:
Triple M has been trumpeting its official support for Algore’s Live Earth concerts.
Now, on the ‘Wil and Lehmo’ show, they have a competition ...
To win tickets to Live Earth.
The New York one.
And what’s included in the prize? Plane tickets to the US.
HA!
What really burns my butt is when these entertainers get up in front of a microphone or a groupie and start saying things like “its a proven scientific fact” and then go on to talk about their act, as if just SAYING that makes it true. For once I would like to see them challenged with the questions “how much scientific education have you had?” (probably no higher than a 7th grade level) and/or “can you cite the scientific reports that will back your statement up?”
But noooooooo….
Tell Urban and TBS to SHUT UP AND SING.
Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 23 at 03:49 PM • permalinkThose people must really, really hate Canada and are trying to destroy Canada’s fledgling citrus industry.
You mean to tell me that the orange groves have not been advancing inexorably upon Canada’s borders? How can this be?
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 06 23 at 04:01 PM • permalinkI don’t think the Bentley Boys would approve of this. What with the Blower Bentley, and the Speed Six.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 06 23 at 04:50 PM • permalinkI’d snap up the plane ride then give the concert tickets to some local homeless addict.
I’d sit in a pub in Sydney or London (well out of earshot of the crap music) and get pissed while my junkie friend was backstage, hopefully mistaken for a rock-n-roll musician and treated to hot groupie sex and loads of cocaine and Jagermeister.
Win-Win.
#8 JDB doesn’t work like that. There’ll be some clause in the fine print of the copmetition rules saying that you have to go to the concert and report back for the station’s listeners. It’s seriously cheap advertising for them to do something like that, so they’ll milk it for what it’s worth.
Of course, you can always find yourself an evil doppelganger in another country to stand in for you. I’m sure there’s one somewhere.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 23 at 06:50 PM • permalinkHmmm. Where is all the money from these concerts going?
It’s going to be spent on raising awareness!! Where have been for the last two decades? We all know that the optimal solution to every problem is to “raise awareness”.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 06 23 at 06:53 PM • permalink#7 - The Goracle has to get the cash to pay those electric bills somewhere.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 23 at 06:57 PM • permalinkA concert on 7/7/07? They’re commemorating the second anniversary of the London Tube Bombings. No doubt there will be requiem music and tasteful mourning hangings for the victims of those Muzzie barabarians. They will..what’s that Richard? It’s a concert about what? Pull the other one, it’s got bells on. It’s really about Al Gore’s AGW fantasy, his assault on reason?
Feh.
Somebody had better remember that two years ago the barbarians bombed London.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 06 23 at 07:51 PM • permalinkWell allied to where is all the money going is the question why are the bands signing up to do it ?
The answer is self evident. Exposure to a large audience (re )-launching of some established acts of the past ...but let’s face it its far less about rescuing the earth from whatever perils man is causing and far more to do with giving profile to bands that could do with the publicity -(a number of them are currently relaunching due to the rego. being up on their Ferraris and their end of month cocaine bills starting to stack up .
What for me is dissapointing is that many of the people headlining are talented and respected folk in their own right - a lot of people hang on their every word . Their talent is of course as musicians -not analysts of impending man induced global cataclysm. Unfortunately they are very powerful and influential people so the hypothesis gains undeserved credibility and momentum among the masses.
As a group unfortunately it is a fact that they tend to be left leaning on most issues…and very few major names in music that I am aware of (Can anyone reading help me here ?), argue that man induced climate change has any more basis than any other religion . Lets face it as Tim’s column in the Daily Telegraph of 24/6/07 illustrates the movement has morphed from global warming one ,(which was more readily and easily able to be disproved , to a climate change one where their trickiness leaves everything within the realms of the unproveable.
Colder? Thats that bloody Man induced Climate change !!!
Warmer? Same
Drier ? Snap
Wetter? You betcha
More Storms/less storms , no change, you damn well name it its all down to the same bogeyman. And what an all encompassing bogeyman it is..This religion has been taught to my children in the local state school as fact. Full stop. I resent it. If any other religion was rammed down their throats like this the left leaners would drop ther mung bean sandwiches into their soy milkshakes in horror.
The whole Live Earth thing annoys the hell out of me but I can’t help but feel anything other than powerless as this cursed juggernaut gains momentum.
My virginity as a Timbo blogger is now broken.
(PS I am an unashamed sycophant when it comes to Tim’s writing. I consider he is at the top of the top shelf.)
What odds a cold snap on 7/7/07?
Stock up on tires -we’re going to need all the combustible fuel we can get.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 08:10 PM • permalink#16 Welcome, Wacko. Tim is indeed at the leading edge of the tectonic plate.
Others have already linked to this article by Melanie Phillips The Global Warming Scam, but I’m doing so again to keep it in front of the readers. That cloistered clown of a Prof. in the thread above should take note. Some academics just don’t learn.Oops—sorry Tim, I fixed your link to the EPA ratings page for the Bentley, and for some reason updating the post pushed it back an hour. I have no idea…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 23 at 08:57 PM • permalink#22 Dan—LOL! Really.
#15 Michael—“Somebody had better remember that two years ago the barbarians bombed London.”
According to those idiots, London deserved what it got. So, a buck, or a euro, or whatever, says you won’t hear a peep.
Which leads me to #17 Margos, not much return on the investment there *grin*
I heard some local clown of a DJ mention Gorapalooza tonight. “It’s to raise awareness of the problem of climate change - and everybody knows it’s a problem.” Sadly, I soon discovered that I’d left my cell phone home, so I couldn’t call the station and heap some abuse on his fool head. Took all the fun out of my night.
Welcome to all our new posters. Did you guys bring beer?
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 23 at 11:07 PM • permalinkAnother good one to read is the Intelligence Squared debate held in New York in February.
They had luminaries from both sides appear, and the transcript makes great reading. Especially the last section where there were questions from the audience and more spontaneous debate between the panelists. Also, Michael Crichton’s speeches are all good stuff.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 12:51 AM • permalinkI think Tim should have a contest, too. The winner could get a huge pile of old tires, 5 gallons of gasoline, and a butane lighter. They could cover the tires with the gasoline, set them on fire with the butane lighter and then go watch something other than Live Earth on the TV while putting just about as much CO2 into the atmosphere as those being flown to one of the venues.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 24 at 01:15 AM • permalinkAnd this is what happens when you have sanctimonious green nazis running music festivals:
“All day, festival-goers were accosted by the so-called Green Police. The group, dressed entirely in green and with green hair, would approach those doing something they considered less than ecologically friendly, blow whistles and shout at them until they stopped.”
#30 Now that’s funny…(or not.) At least the Hell’s Angels charged 40 cases of beer for their barbarism, those guys did it for their own self righteousness.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 24 at 03:55 AM • permalinkThere’ll be some clause in the fine print of the copmetition rules saying that you have to go to the concert and report back for the station’s listeners.
The ringer potential in this warms the cockles of my RWDB heart. (It also inspires the sort of manically evil giggling that regularly terrifies my coworkers).
The group, dressed entirely in green and with green hair, would approach those doing something they considered less than ecologically friendly, blow whistles and shout at them until they stopped.
I’d stop only long enough to go buy the biggest hamburger I could find so I could eat it slowly and lasciviously right up in their faces.
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“Global warming is something that will ultimately affect all of us on this planet,”
Especially if there’s a well-paid gig involved.