No, that's what guests on this show sound like. Sigh, our biggest embarrassment aside from Piers Morgan, Jeremy fucking Vile

I don't agree with Kirk, but I thought he was pretty reasonable here (the bar has been set pretty low - I mean, watch Bachmann get interviewed). He dissembled a bit - but he didn't just flat out refuse to present his position (or complain that the question was unfair) as many have done recently.

Piers really wanted to stick this question, but he didn't do so effectively. I think he had a chance to tease out a better answer, and didn't take it.

Maybe something like "OK, so if you had this heart-to-heart, and your kid is still gay.. what do you do? Would you be comfortable having his partner over for family dinner? If they were together for a long time, could you support some kind of civil union between them?"

In the end, he got the worst of both worlds - he interjected and seemed combative, while still letting him off easy.

It's a little slow, but stay with it for an interesting first hand account of a visit to an oil refinery in India, and observations of the managers and workers there. Lee also visited a nearby the pier where massive container ships dock with a manager named Jitesh.




"A few moments pass as we all stood, just watching.

Out of the silence, Jitesh says to me “Do you see what we are doing here Mr. Lee?”

I asked “What’s that, Jitesh?”

He replied, with an unexpected, sobering tone: “We are destroying future generations for now, and forever.”






Full transcript of the uninterrupted essay is here:
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/earthmatters/2012/02/20/oil-executive-sons-testimony-prince-rupert-northern-gateway-pipeline

Here ya go.



>> ^jonny:

dead

@Marinera, apparently not: http://videosift.com/video/Occupy-Oakland-Shuts-Down-Port-of-Oakland
Though there is still no accurate indication of numbers. >> ^marinara:

it's a big protest, but not big enough to break through the news blackout


@csnel3, I just found out that they're marching to block the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth busiest container pier. I'll update the description.>> ^csnel3:

Thats a lot of people. Why are they marching in a shithole? They must have been not allowed in the financial district.

A bit of googling and I find this interview from 2008:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1844711,00.html

Reads like what he said in the video, so maybe Seth was mocking Piers for bringing up such a dated issue? Didn't remember talking about it to a Time magazine reporter? The whole TV interview is staged?

>> ^cosmovitelli:

Piers Morgan is a shit stirring mercenary tabloid c t.
With any luck he'll be summoned back to the UK to answer for going through peoples bins and voicemails for the last 20 years along with the Murdoch monsters.
And then hung.
In case that's not clear, I don't really like him.


He's got a hell of an investigative crew though. Seth was genuinely amazed he found this crap out.

SHUT UP PIERS

Piers Morgan is a shit stirring mercenary tabloid c**t.
With any luck he'll be summoned back to the UK to answer for going through peoples bins and voicemails for the last 20 years along with the Murdoch monsters.
And then hung.

In case that's not clear, I don't really like him.

*quality
Beautiful! When I was a kid, me and my parents used to make a summer trip to Northern Norway every year. We usually visited Tromso to do some fishing there (I remember whaling boats coming in, and lots of fish followed them, and we fished from the piers - though I might confuse some of this with Narvik, which was our other favorite place )

If I remember right, there was also an aquarium that has lots of cool fish, like piranhas! We never went during the winter, so I couldn't see Northern Lights like this. But at least I have seen northern lights plenty of times in Finland too

"God did it" isn't an explanation either, its a diversion. I wish more people could cope with not having an explanation for everything, accept their own ignorance and not be scared by the unknowns.

I'd have asked Piers why he is Catholic. He appears to believe in a spiritual being that created all things, but why subscribe to a mainstream religion? Oh right, argumentum ad populum.

Not just for his idiot views on religion, but because of his astounding lack of logic with most subjects. Piers is a moron...a horrible interviewer, and should not be on t.v. He is a very lucky man.

>> ^quantumushroom:

There is no need for incivility. It's fair to call a national figure a dumbass--being in the spotlight invites criticism--but not other sifters. kofi is not out of line. If your facts hold water you don't need the insults.

>> ^BansheeX:
>> ^longde:
Ron Paul is a filthy fucking statist. Below are some of his relevant 2009 budget requests (still looking for his 2010 and 2011 earmark requests):

Subcommittee on Homeland Security:
• $8.8 million for FEMA for drainage at Cove Harbor in Aransas County
• $2.2 million for FEMA to reconfigure and stabilize Capano Causeway Pier
• $500,000 for FEMA for Aransas County drainage master plan
• $35 million for FEMA for drainage in Friendswood
• $10 million for FEMA for drainage project for Friendswood/Clear Creek
• $10 million for FEMA for drainage project for Friendswood/Clear Creek
• $5 million for FEMA to recycle household hazardous waste in Friendswood

You're a dumbass. RP has always voted against the appropriation. Earmarks are 1% of the budget...



WHAT?! Since when can't I call other sifters Dumbasses? Fuck them...everyone on here is a bastard and I hate them...AHHHH FUCK!