John Mortell’s blog

RNC attack ad on Obama…

I only just heard about this movie, but I have to say, I’m quite impressed with their ‘fake’ presidential ads. What’s kind of worrying though is that I’m waiting to see something similar in real life… I especially like the ‘some of the facts in this ad are exaggerated, while others may be completely fictitious’ disclaimer at the end of some of them…

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Just goes to show me that if I live long enough, anything can happen:

I have to say that so far I’ve not been too impressed with the idea of drilling for oil in the U.S itself. The fact that such oil would take years (apparently) to make any difference on the market, that the amount of oil that would be released from such drilling and the destruction of the wilderness areas that the oil lies under all seem to suggest to me that its more of a ‘let’s look like we’re doing something’ measure rather than any sort of intelligent policy….

You watch this kind of match where they have solid mat wrestling and high-flying in what seems to be a ‘normal’ (i.e. not PPV quality) match and you really have to wonder what people see in the WWE: