Monday, December 04, 2006

Save the idiotic penguins yourselves!!


We UNFORTUNATELY went and saw Happy Feet. Started off really slow then got kind of exciting in the middle and just when you saw it start to become an OK movie it turned into some kind of political CRAP. I don't use that word often however this occasion requires strong language.

I call it a "Hollywood celebrity love fest for no good reason". One message is that even if the great penguin in the sky says something should be a certain way and that is the way we have always been that we shouldn't care about being born different. You can apply that many different ways but I think it was pretty clear.

Second the message was that by fishing we are destroying the penguins habitat. Now, be careful here. We do need to be cautious that we don't upset the ecosystem in any place so much that the animals that live there all die off. However, if the earth has been here millions or billions of years and they still aren't dead, either they are strong enough to make it or they just haven't been eliminated by a more dominant species.

Thirdly, and probably the most disturbing, was the message that the UN could do something useful. Of all the organizations, that it the least useful of all. If you want to get something done that is useful you should contact the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, or maybe some other charity that actually really cares about people. They should take all the money from the film, and each of the actors should take the millions they got from the film and give it to charity. Then maybe I would listen. Maybe...

Please don't further the cause by seeing the movie. It is not worth it.