Will Ferrell impersonating Bush

I have found this funny video of Will Ferrell impersonating Bush and talking about global warming. It’s one of the funniest thing I have ever seen and, at the same time, it’s disconcerting. I wrote down its transcription to help better understand it all those non-native English speaker out there:

and now a special address
from the president of the United States
on Global Warminghello America

it’s me here
your president
your commander-in-chief of the world
and I’m at my ranch in Crawford Texas
just taking a little R&R
you know, relax and growing out my soul patch
playing a little freesbe golf
with Condi Rice and Dick Cheney
having a good time
but still keep my eye on the ball
and there is an issue that has come to my attention
the issue of the so called global warmings
that are happening on our planet
for centuries the rays of the sun
have warmed the surface of our earth’s crust
and apparently those rays’re intensifying
in such a way that it’s increasing lava flows and
cut!
… I don’t know what the hell I am talking about

global warming is an issue that my administration
is very concerned about
deeply, deeply in a deep kind of concerned way
it’s a… I don’t…
I start my day and I think about the warming of the globe
and how we can get it warmer
cut!

rest assured that the issue of global warming
is something that my administration takes very seriously
not right now Condi! we’ll play later

I’m sure by now you’ve all heard
what liberal scientists are trying to say
it seems that liberals and godless taxraisers
are trying to make me look bad
by using such things as facts and scientific data
cut!
what?
Mr. President you can’t say that they’re using facts
right
Facts are real, they’re not disputed
how do you know that?

what kind of book is this?
Jesus, why didn’t you tell me it was a pop-up book?
Those things scare the crap out of me.
I don’t think that’s the kind of science book we’re looking for
we’re talking about global warming
what kind of science book would you suggest?
there’s a lot of books
One filled with facts maybe?
Yes!
Yeah, I’d bet you’d like that

When you think back to biblical times
when Adam and Eve talked to that snake 6000 years ago
when the world was created
it was hot back then too
why do you think Adam and Eve were naked?
See what I’m saying?
I mean, I’m not making this stuff up
you didn’t hear Adam and Eve running around
talking about emissions standards or hybrid cars
in fact, Adam and Eve drove an Excursion
cut!

Let’s talk about something that really matters
like keeping steroids out of T-ball
cut!

I think the polar ice caps suck
who cares about having a place
where a bunch of penguins can have an orgy?
cut!

Global warming, don’t worry about it
we got a bead on this thing…
you know, we just need to get nature to co-operate with us
we don’t need to listen to nature
nature needs to listen to us
cut!

Mr. President, you asked me to tell you
when the Rangers game’s on?
It’s on right now.

Oh Gee… What inning is it?
It better not be past the third inning

Fertility vote collapses

The referendum has failed to reach the 50% turnout figure necessary for it to be valid. Only about 25,9% of Italian voters cast their ballots in the two-day referendum.

Excluded those unable to reach the polling places for external causes, the result has proved that about 74,1% of Italians are either persons who don’t give a damn, or ignorants, or arrogants (those who deliberately didn’t vote to impose their opinion on the others).

This is a clear demonstration Italy has a system which facilitates these kind of persons to rule the destiny of the country; how can there be hopes of progress in such conditions?

Turnout has been affected by a call for abstention made by the Catholic Church. I feel a strong sense of discomfort and also some kind of disgust thinking about it. Taking advantage of the disengagement and the indifference often shown from Italians in occasions like this one to induce the abstension seems deeply immoral to me, especially from an Institution which cannot be regardless about the morality.

Assisted fertility

Italians are being called to the polls on Sunday and Monday (12th and 13th of June) in a referendum on revoking controversial rules on assisted fertility. The ground rules of Italian referendums are that, irrespective of the proportion of “yes” and “no” votes, more than 50% of registered voters have to turn out in order for a ballot to be valid.

What is happening is that those contrary on revoking such rules have been promoting a campaign to boycott the referendum in order to invalidate it so that, joining to those who will not go to vote, they will have better chances to have things on their side.

I believe that for such a delicate and complex topic it cannot be stated what is right and what is wrong, in an absolute way, otherwise there wouldn’t be the need for a referendum. Therefore I think it is right to do what the majority of people believe and hence is very important that everyone will go to vote.

I will do what I consider to be fair and what my conscience tells me is right. I will go to vote not with the claim of being from the right side, nor with the hope to win: I have full respect of both the positions and I will truly and sincerely accept the decision of the majority whatever it will turn out to be.

I totally disapprove the act of boycotting the poll: this attitude is despotic, arrogant and anti-democratic. The people who will act like that will impose their opinion on the others, and this is intolerably unfair, independently on which side will turn out to be the right one.