{"id":249,"date":"2006-06-19T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/249"},"modified":"2006-06-19T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T13:20:48","slug":"not-that-we-were-influenced-by-the-money-or-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/249","title":{"rendered":"Not That We Were Influenced By The Money Or Anything…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that GMC Electric Car exhibit at the Smithsonian…?  Oh…missed it did you<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Smithsonian removes electric-car exhibit<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON — Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution has removed its EV1 electric sedan from display.<\/p>\n

The National Museum of American History removed the rare exhibit yesterday, just as interest in electric and hybrid vehicles is on the rise.<\/p>\n

The upcoming film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" questions why General Motors created the battery-powered vehicles and then crushed the program a few years later. The film opens June 30th.<\/p>\n

GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian’s biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display.<\/p>\n

A museum spokeswoman says the museum simply needed the space to display another vehicle, a high-tech SUV.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The Smithsonian has no plans to bring the electric car back on view. It will remain in a Suitland storage facility.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Emphsis mine…]  Nothing to see here people…  Just another proud American institution of science and history kowtowing to the political realities of our times.  Move along…move along…  Perhaps you’d like a nice trip to the Grand Canyon gift shop<\/a>…?<\/p>\n

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Imagine you’re a columnist. You decide to write something about how the National Park Service is allowing a creationist book<\/a> to be sold in their Grand Canyon stores, over the protests of its own geologists, who point out that NPS has a mandate to promote sound science. Hawking a book that claims that the Grand Canyon was carved by Noah’s Flood a few thousand years ago is the polar opposite of this mandate. So what do you write? Well, if you’re Republican consultant Jay Bryant<\/a>, and you’re writing for the conservative web site Town Hall<\/a>, you declare<\/a> that this as a clear-cut case of Darwinist atheists censoring freedom of speech in a desperate attempt to squelch Intelligent Design.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They’ll be closing down Cape Canaveral soon, because sending rockets up into space might break the crystal spheres the planets and the sun orbit around the earth in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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