I'm betting that Gasland wins the Golden Globe for Documentaries

[malaise]

tonight and that someone tears the Dick of a war criminal a new one.
Here's the Guardian's review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/16/gasland-review-dick-cheney-oil
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This quiet, hard-hitting documentary began when director Josh Fox wondered why a company was offering his family $100,000 to drill for gas on the lands around their house in rural Pennsylvania. Discovering the pollution being wreaked locally, he set out on a journey of discovery that took him across America, where gas companies everywhere are destroying the environment and poisoning people by using hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") to drill for gas.

Fox makes lucid a complicated story, and behind it lies Dick Cheney who, as CEO of Halliburton, oversaw the development of the devastating engineering equipment used in fracking and then, as vice-president, chaired a federal Energy Task Force that brought about legislation making gas drilling exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act and helping to neutralise the Environmental Protection Agency.

Cheney, the great outdoorsman, nearly killed a friend while hunting. That was nothing, however, compared with what he's been doing to thousands of his fellow countrymen. He deserves to be in the dock alongside the Soviet politicians responsible for Chernobyl. Essential viewing.
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Imagine the Dick on a morning show this week when/if I win my bet. He may croak on air.

[lame54]

1. Does his name have to be Fox?

[malaise]

3. I noticed that too

:fistbump:

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, Gasland is an incredible documentary. It should be aired nightly so people

get what is happening.

[hughee99]

4. I bet they don't,

but only because the Golden Globes stopped giving away awards for Documentaries in the 70's. I like it's chances for an Oscar, though.

[malaise]

7. Oops and LOL

I was confusing Golden Globes with Writer's Guild - that ceremony is February 5th.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Is Waiting for Superman nominated?

It got way more publicity.

[malaise]

8. Yep but for Writer's Guild

hughee99 is correct - no awards for Documentaries tonight. We'' have to wait for February 5th.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. I also think it will win.

Also, I hope that it does!

[WCGreen]

9. Gasland was one of the best documentaries I have ever seen....

It was engaging, moved well and ended up on an even note that was a quiet call for action...

[Kurovski]

10. It should win

I had a pretty visceral reaction to it, so of course, such things should be greatly rewarded and heeded.;-)

It had some humor in it too. And it just reams the dickens out of Dickster and his dickish pals.

[old mark]

11. It will probably be banned here in PA-the new governor and many of the GOPers

who took over the state were financed by the gas industry and there are not enough Democrats left in the state legislature to oppose anything they might want to do.


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