Jackasses need funding - do concert

From Drudge:
Courtesy British Antarctic Survey

Yeah -- right, shitbags. You get your money from the government to study that shithole -- so you can commune with penguins or whatever you birkies do down there ... so you wanna do a concert to draw attention to your plight. "Live Earth" -- oh god -- gimmee a dollar. The Klown sayeth -- get a real job and get off my payroll.

In an effort to fulfill his promise of a concert on every continent for his “Live Earth” event on July 7 to 8, Al Gore approached the British Antarctic Survey in February to explore the possibility of flying a band in to its Rothera Research Station in Antarctica.

No, he was told, July is mid-winter in Antarctica, and no planes or boats can get in or out.

But all was not lost. BAS officials told Gore that a band was already in place on the South Pole. BAS press representative Linda Capper told blogger Tim Slagle, “We have a house band — five of our science team. They are very good indie rock-folk fusion. The remaining 17 will be the audience on location.”

They’ve never played in front of an audience. To make matters worse, the band, named after a Greenlandic word for “summit,” will be playing outside on the ice, where temperatures could be as low as minus ten degrees Celsius. One of their colleagues will film the performance for broadcast on TV and the Internet.