I’m way behind the curve on this one, but I just came across some websites documenting Michael Moore’s mendacity:
Category: World
Sauce for the goose
Colby Cosh derides the CBC’s opposition to financial accountability and whistleblower-protection legislation:
Adscam has revealed the changed standards for
21st-century government. When the world was young, and the government
took 20% of your paycheque and gave you services that worked, you
might be willing to remain what economists call “rationally ignorant”
about the details. Now maybe 40% of that cheque vanishes, your
mother’s coughing blood in the hallway of the nearest ER, and your
country has no army. And here comes the guy from the CBC telling you
that his expense account should be a state secret. No sale, comrade.
It’s a mad mad mad mad world…
People in England are getting in trouble with the law for using vegetable oil in their diesel cars . . . because they’re not paying the diesel tax. So much for the environment…
In any case, using vegetable fuels is generally a net loss in terms of energy. Until now. Canada’s Iogen claims to have developed an enzyme that turns ordinary cellulose into ethanol. So next time you need to fill your car, just mow the lawn.
More things in heaven or earth…
Laputan Logic has collected reports about the discovery of a previously unknown civilization in eastern Iran. The civilization seems to have been contemporary with, and possibly even predating, the Sumerian and Indus valley civilizations.
What’s funny about this is I’ve been reading a bit of Graham Hancock — one of the more reasonable of the Ancient Astronaut crowd — who proposes lost civilizations in the Persian Gulf.