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I was just watching the news and they announced that an Irish documentarian was cut off in a Q&A session with Al Gore. While over hearing the accent, Suzanne shouted, “That’s Phelim!”. Sure it was. Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are the Irish directors the movie, Mine Your Own Business. When I was at Seattle University, I hosted Phelim and Ann on campus. It was a great honor to be involved with their Seattle premiere of the film. After the showing, Phelim invited me to have a drink at a pub. I was sad to remind him that the American drinking age was 21 and that I was only 19.

Phelim was at an Al Gore talk at The Society of Environmental Journalists. Phelim is making a documentary titled Not Evil Just Wrong. He is looking at many of the errors that the British High Court has found in Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Would you believe what happened to Phelim when he asked Gore about the Court’s ruling? Journalists killed his mic. Journalists censored Phelim and protected a politician.

Watch for yourselves.

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I read this review from the Daily Mail for the upcoming release of 2012 and thought that they were being mean and overdramatic movie buffs. Hey it’s the end of the world and things are going to get crazy. Well…I WAS WRONG!!! After watching the trailers for the film, I couldn’t agree more. This movie is RIDICULOUS! Just watch for yourselves.

The first trailer for end-of-the-world disaster movie 2012 proved there really was no stunt too ambitious or too silly for Hollywood’s latest blockbuster.

It portrayed an epic story of a world ravaged by fires, earthquakes, meteor showers and floods and a heroic struggle for survivors.

And the three-minute trailer also found room to show planes flying between crashing skyscrapers, continents sliding under the oceans, and roads torn to shreds like ribbons.

The second trailer not only proves the first trailer’s point, it triple-underlines it and follows up with ten exclamation marks.

Trailer #1

Trailer #2

The M1 is the epitome of BMW’s greatness. I have always wanted one and hope to one day buy a ‘81. I have hoped that BMW would one day bring back their beloved supercar. I was excited to see a while back in ‘08 that BMW was working on a M1 prototype….and am angry to have just hear some “confirmed” rumors that BMW is bastardizing the M1 by making it a hybrid.

I understand that BMW is not Ferrari and will probably never perfect the supercar at a profitable rate but why not try? Why would BMW limit perfection? The 2012 M1 is supposed to go 0-60 in 4.8 seconds. Don’t get me wrong, that is fast but not faster then the 2008 Audi R8, which BMW is positioning as the M1’s competitor.

Okay, I understand the whole green thing is perceived as important to BMW (hence those stupid commercials) but why call it an M1?

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