{"id":6694,"date":"2009-09-30T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T22:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/09\/the-age-of-stupid.html"},"modified":"2009-09-30T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T22:53:17","slug":"the-age-of-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/09\/the-age-of-stupid.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Age of Stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said in the past of Al Gore, if they really want me to believe that the planet is in trouble, they should act like they believe it themselves. Evidently, no one involved in &#8220;The Age of Stupid&#8221; actually believed what they stated in the film: &#8220;Flying is the single worst thing an ordinary individual can do to cause climate change.&#8221; And when questioned about it, they tried to silence the question instead of answering it.<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6-cvK9vxA6M&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6-cvK9vxA6M&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object>Just one more example of the elites excepting themselves from the standards they want to impose on the rest of us.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/timblair\/index.php\/dailytelegraph\/comments\/theyre_special\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said in the past of Al Gore, if they really want me to believe that the planet is in trouble, they should act like they believe it themselves. 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