"No Pressure" Bad for the Blood Pressure
A fan of the English newspapers (I have them all listed on My Favorites), I saw the 10:10 campaign mini-slasher movie when it was first posted last week. I believe it was The London Times. Nothing like a wave of nausea to go with your bowl of oatmeal.
The still shot advertising the link showed an English cschoolroom. A subtitle stated that it was about reducing our carbon footprints. I wondered if this was some sort of “Harry-Potter-Goes-Green” message from the Greenpeace movement. I was hardly prepared for what followed.
Miss School Marm (said to be actress Gillian Anderson, though scarcely recognizable in this character), perky, and cheery, very kid-friendly, asks which students will volunteer to help in the effort to reduce carbon emissions. All but two pupils raise their hands. One bright-eyed student declares that her family will be taking the train for their next holiday instead of the family buggy.
Then the teacher asks who doesn’t approve. Two scowling students acknowledge their dissent. But that’s okay, the teacher says. “No pressure. It’s your decision.” The bell rings for the end of school. However, she stops them, saying “I just have to press this little button here, then you can go.”
There’s a blast and a red, gory shower of flying body parts. When it’s all over, nothing is left of the two dissenting students, not even their carbon footprints. Their blood-splattered classmates sit in shock.
Alas, the movie doesn’t stop there, although you’d think that was enough. A company of employees and a soccer team are put through the same rigorous test. By the time I was through, I was convinced I’d witnessed an anti-global warming commercial.
But no; it was brought to us by some climate group called 10:10. The producer is some maniac by the name of Richard Curtis. They say the film short was met by general outrage and pulled within 24 hours. Even climate and greenie groups criticized it.
Freedom of speech and dissent are practically at that threshold. According to a recent item in the National Review’s “The Week” news highlights, Health and Human Resources czar Kathleen Sebelius wrote a letter to health insurers who’ve been warning their policyholders that Obamacare is responsible for their premium increase. She demanded that they cease and desist in their criticisms. A strong implication was in the letter that non-compliant insurers will be excluded from the new health exchanges Obamacare is crafting
According to the National Review, Sebelius warned that there will be “zero tolerance” for disagreeing with the administration’s ‘favored experts.’ The socialists have reinvented Staple’s Easy button.
It’s now the “Queasy” button and anyone who dares to stray from the prescribed message will find themselves proscribed and facing permanent detention. It’s enough to make you sick.
The still shot advertising the link showed an English cschoolroom. A subtitle stated that it was about reducing our carbon footprints. I wondered if this was some sort of “Harry-Potter-Goes-Green” message from the Greenpeace movement. I was hardly prepared for what followed.
Miss School Marm (said to be actress Gillian Anderson, though scarcely recognizable in this character), perky, and cheery, very kid-friendly, asks which students will volunteer to help in the effort to reduce carbon emissions. All but two pupils raise their hands. One bright-eyed student declares that her family will be taking the train for their next holiday instead of the family buggy.
Then the teacher asks who doesn’t approve. Two scowling students acknowledge their dissent. But that’s okay, the teacher says. “No pressure. It’s your decision.” The bell rings for the end of school. However, she stops them, saying “I just have to press this little button here, then you can go.”
There’s a blast and a red, gory shower of flying body parts. When it’s all over, nothing is left of the two dissenting students, not even their carbon footprints. Their blood-splattered classmates sit in shock.
Alas, the movie doesn’t stop there, although you’d think that was enough. A company of employees and a soccer team are put through the same rigorous test. By the time I was through, I was convinced I’d witnessed an anti-global warming commercial.
But no; it was brought to us by some climate group called 10:10. The producer is some maniac by the name of Richard Curtis. They say the film short was met by general outrage and pulled within 24 hours. Even climate and greenie groups criticized it.
Freedom of speech and dissent are practically at that threshold. According to a recent item in the National Review’s “The Week” news highlights, Health and Human Resources czar Kathleen Sebelius wrote a letter to health insurers who’ve been warning their policyholders that Obamacare is responsible for their premium increase. She demanded that they cease and desist in their criticisms. A strong implication was in the letter that non-compliant insurers will be excluded from the new health exchanges Obamacare is crafting
According to the National Review, Sebelius warned that there will be “zero tolerance” for disagreeing with the administration’s ‘favored experts.’ The socialists have reinvented Staple’s Easy button.
It’s now the “Queasy” button and anyone who dares to stray from the prescribed message will find themselves proscribed and facing permanent detention. It’s enough to make you sick.
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