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The "DUH" generation...will it destroy the Republican party?


School days...school days.


Ah yes; most everyone remembers them fondly.
 
But inside our hallowed halls of education, what's taking place could be more aptly be described as a school daze-- a leftist-slanted, decidedly liberal way of not instructing our children in the "three R's", but rather feeding them a constant stream of "San Francisco" style mainstream liberal teachings.
 
Today's students aren't being educated-- they're being indoctrinated!
 
The children of today can't read, write, add, subtract, multiply, divide, or spell, or even speak English correctly. They, like, uh, like, can't communicate too well-- unless it's by text messages.
 
But these youthful, ecological tyrants can talk all day about how plastic bags are destroying ocean life, or argue vehemently about why the United States should never have gone into Iraq. They learn all about social injustice, and the necessity of trying to be "fair" to everyone at all times.

Many elementary school children are profoundly troubled by the thought that global warming will eventualy burn up their earth. And in almost every school (and college), students are led to believe that CO2 is a poison gas, and its release into the atmosphere must be placed under some type of government authority.
 
Today's children aren't being taught science; but they can tell you why we should use the new light bulbs. And they can talk extemporaneously for hours about coastal cities being swamped because we refuse to give up oil-- the commodity which is basic to our economic strength.

Today's students don't have a clue about why it's critical to construct new power plants and refineries (to enable the U.S. economy to expand along with its population). But instead they're taught to hate the big oil corporations. Thus, they retain a basic anti-capitalist, pro-socialist, anti-American liberal inbreeding.

So what is going on in the classrooms of today? Apparently not education.
 
In 2007, only 36 percent of American eighth graders were rated ''proficient'' in reading on the National Assessment of Education Progress. The math results were similar. This means hundreds of thousands of students, having reached the threshold of high school, have yet to master the ability to read critically or do basic computations, let alone grasp the essentials of science, history and civics.

Today's high school graduates can't make change, or compute percentages; many couldn't qualify for a part time retail job even if it were available
 
But this isn't even the worst problem. Yes, it's bad enough that we'll have 75 million functional illiterates interacting throughout our society for the foreseeable future.

Let's call them the "duh" generation.

And functional illiteracy is only the beginning; the worst problem is political demographics-- the effect this dumbed-down generation will have on future elections.

Just in the last election, Barack Obama won by a 52.7% vs. 46% margin over John McCain; but Obama didn't exceed 50% in any voting groups, except for the under 25 (69%) and the black vote (94%).

Could this portend future doom for the Republican party? Definitely!

Political conservatism is slowly going the way of the incandescent light bulb. The National Education Association (teacher's union) is seeing to that. Anecdotal stories of liberal-slanted teacher-classroom incidents abound:

Last summer, in the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, a ten year old boy had written a letter to president Bush, and got a reply. But when the excited 4th grader brought his letter from the President to school, his teacher told him to put the letter away, citing, "no politics in class". Then the same classroom teacher instructed all her students to write a letter to President-elect Obama several months later.

In the classrooms of today, republicans merit zero tolerance:

In Carmel, California, a 16 year old high school girl, the only Republican on her debate team, was told to... "sit down and shut up until you have something intelligent to say''.

American Enterprise Institute's magazine published a survey of voter registrations. More than nine out of 10 teachers belonged to the Democratic party.

Disturbing stories have surfaced over the past months, further highlighting just how far many segments of American education have now elevated Barack Obama.

A concerned parent reveals that his 1st grader son complained of having to pledge allegiance every day at school to a huge projected image of Mr. Obama.
The 6-year old told his father that the teacher put up a large image of the new president next to the flag. What is worse is that he said all of the kids in class each faced Obama, instead of the flag that hangs in the corner.

What the heck is going on...is this supposed to be what we call citizenship in the community?

Or what about citizenship in the nation? The liberally-slanted history that today's students are being taught is so polarizing, it's almost as if we're splitting into 2 nations --the old vs young, depending on WHEN one went to school

Modern American history textbooks speak little of the American  Revolution, or Civil War; or the 2 world wars; or all the United States stands for-- freedom won through hardfought victory over tyranny through all its years.

Today, revisionist history texts focus on the U.S. as an imperialistic, racist country, with groups being pushed in & out of slavery; groups have been denied rights, and America's bullying of nations.

The story of the Klan is given more weight as an influence in the country than all the great inventors, all the great Presidents, and all the great statesmen of our American past.

On campuses, conservative opinion doesn't qualify as respectable inquiry. You won't often find conservative principles discussed, or patriotism argued on the American campuses of today

Imagine the America of the future:

A country where all the doctors, engineers, and architects are foreign, due to today's  inability of teaching science or math properly.

An America sliding to its inevitable third world migration, where enviro-radicalism abounds:  Recycling bins everywhere. People riding bicycles, and driving little insect-like "green energy" cars to work. People living in small houses, with green "living" roofs, sleeping in 55 degree bedrooms-- to both conserve energy and the save environment.

And imagine the politics-- our Constitution, hanging by a thread...traditional marriage, individuals right to property, freedom of speech-- all under assault, becoming subservient in the name of moral equivalency.

And a constitutional amendment forbidding animosity towards homosexuals-- that preventing two people from marrying one another is discrimination. Such an amendment would be a likely offshoot of the inevitable march toward a one-party form of liberalism, that would guarantee a communal life, with no liberty, and the pursuit of social injustice.


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global warming vs. reality...the Taxman cometh

 

 

 

It's all so very interesting: If  we were to believe the mainstream media news being broadcast these days, we would be led  to think that America was mired with two daunting problems -1) the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression (false);  2)President-Elect Obama’s energy policies will address our severely deepening climate change crisis (false again).

 

But actually, premise #2 (Obama's energy policies) may actually trigger # 1 (a Second Depression), and bring the greatest financial crisis since 1933 to a head, if we continue the pied piper march off the precipice (i.e. the "consequences" of global warming).  We may actually be moving in a direction to third world energy dependency (all OPEC), whereby America may never recover its glory days of the past.

 

And just what type of climatic consequences are we facing ? In a previously hidden San Francisco Chronicle television interview, Obama was revealed saying that he wants to implement..."an aggressive CO2 cap-and-trade system that could bankrupt coal companies".  He further stated..."energy prices would skyrocket as a result". So if Obama's out to bankrupt coal companies, how will that affect electric and utility bills in another few years? 

 

And Obama believes that global warming is a critical issue, and besides cap & trade, he supports the use of solar energy, wind power and biodiesel. But why is this all so critical to do NOW? Is the environment really on the precipice? Or is it because Mr. Obama knows that scaring people to death is very good for the environmentalist business?

 

And Obama isnt the only one employing political scare tactics.The U.N. Climate Panel (panel of disinformation) claims human emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, are blanketing the planet., and the resulting increasing temperatures will bring more floods, heatwaves, more powerful storms and rising sea levels; so RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! 

 

But ironically, the United Nations first chairman of the climate panel, John Houghton, wrote in 1994 that..."unless we ANNOUNCE disasters, no one will listen". And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the crux of the matter: the U.N., Obama, Sierra Club, and all the other radical environmentalists have foisted upon us a huge mythological, so-called problem that doesn't even exist!

 

If the so called threat of global warming wasn't constantly being drum-beated in the news, would anyone even be capable of discerning anything so sinisterly wrong, that it could destroy us all if we don't act AT ONCE?  Example: if someone were to emerge out of a 30-year coma and go outside, they would probably wonder... "what in the world is going on with all this climate change hype? I don't notice anything different with the world!"

 

And that's the point: climate change is a political hoax of biblical proportions! Take a walk outside; have you noticed anyone in your neighborhood rolling on the ground, coughing violently, and gasping for clean air? And are we about ready to abandon our furnaces because the climate has gotten so dangerously warm? And are people fleeing away in panic from the coastlines ahead of the fast-rising sea levels?

 

But yet, all we get is warning after warning, threat after threat, and guilt trip-upon-guilt trip, that burning coal is similar to releasing some lethal form of krypto-chloro-mustard gas, and every time you start your car, or eat a cheeseburger you are damaging the environment; and the oceans are about to swamp the cities and replay Katrina vs. New Orleans. And to what end?  It's the master plan to politicize the weather, and open up the way to tax our heavy industries, and raise the cost of gasoline to the point of forcing us into those hideous, insect-bodied, green cars of the future.

 

But curiously, less than half of Americans surveyed, or 47 per cent, said they were prepared to make personal lifestyle changes to reduce carbon emissions. So evidently, much needs to be done to inform consumers about measures such as 'green' taxation' or carbon trading, to help them understand how much higher utility bills and gasoline will cost in the near future.

 

And even more curiously, what would have happened to Obama if he'd campaigned for president on this particular platform of "change"?

 

So what's all the rush about? If we listen to Obama and the way climate change is being hyped, you'd think there was something akin to a plague of locusts sweeping across the country, devouring the world before them. In a recent D.C. press conference, Obama addressed the nation..."The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over," Obama said, after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming.

 

Obama continued..."We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years...this is a matter of urgency and national security... and it has to be dealt with in a serious way."

 

But what kind of scientists is Obama listening to? Mad scientists! Carbon dioxide is not an air pollutant. It is plant food. All life on Earth depends on CO2. It is natural. It forms the bubbles in bread, champagne, and Coca-Cola. You breathe it out, and plants breathe it in. The Earth contains a lot of CO2, but the atmosphere contains so little that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rightly calls CO2 a “trace gas”. But the liberal media will have none of the truth!

 

But If CO2 is a such a powerful greenhouse gas, we would have seen a great warming trend in earthly temperature history, going all the way back 250 years ago to the dawn of the industrial revolution in England. But we haven’t. Recent temperatures, according to the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, have been scarcely warmer than they were 70 to 100 years ago, when meterological records were starting to be kept.

 

Fossil fuels are not ruining the environment; and the world is not running out of oil. The truth is that we’re all married to fossil fuels. And divorce is not currently in the cards for many of us. Securing the country's supply of oil for our military and for economic expansion  is more important to national security than tackling climate change.

 

But the politics supporting the notion that fossil fuels equal some sort of calamity around the corner, is leading us to the very thing we want to avoid; a slow-motion economic train crash, caused by the government's liberal agenda over climate change and energy policy,

 

John Coleman, the founder of the cable TV Weather Channel, recently weighed in last month on climate change: (quote) " Some dastardly scientists, with political motives, manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus" (unquote). Of course, none of the major media outlets chose to pick up the story, or give Coleman's comments any national exposure.

 

 

But how about the recent national report quoted  from a magazine article saying that... "a huge chunk of sea ice had broken off an island in the Arctic". So what happened? Boom! All the “man-made” global-warming extremists jumped up and started crying about how we are all doomed, and how this sea ice was just another sign of the end of the world.

 

But if the meda had bothered to cover to the end of the article, it would have also reported that the island had at one time been free of sea ice about 1,000 years ago, which is evidence that mankind has never been a factor, and never will be able to cause this vast earth to warm up and trigger some climatalogical event of apocalyptic proportions. It is simply not within our power!

 

The latest observations from balloons and satellites confirm that warming is not happening. Therefore greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are not a major factor in the world climate. This fact alone is sufficient to sink the manmade global warming hypothesis. But the media remains slanted, and constantly reports about "computer-based climate models" as providing the evidence "supporting" claims that the world is "dangerously warming", and there will be rapid rises in sea levels and the like. Yet these same models failed to predict the temperature peak in 1998, and the steadily cooling trend that set in from 2002.

 

 

So what does it all mean? Well, it means that only ignorant, uninformed, idiopathic people believe that man is causing global warming. But with the dumbed-down state of our educational system, and the liberal slant of the news, there are enough ignorant uninformed people to total 75%, which is the number of Americans who have been brainwashed into voicing, "they want something done about it" . So lets all blame the sun!

 

The effect of the sun is the major reason for global warming, to the exclusion of all others. Solar flares and sun spots are the real reason earth gets warmer or cooler. And ocean currents, such as El Nino and La Nina', are the reason for the melting at the poles.

 

So just ask John Coleman-- it may be a shock to readers that many scientists do not understand the earth’s climate very well enough themselves to make informed judgments about the ACTUAL (not perceived) danger of global warming (er…climate change).

 

Past events in recorded history show warmer climates have been accompanied by more rain, longer growing seasons, more crops and more land to settle on, and bringing upon times when past civilizations have prospered. CO2 is no problem; it is not a toxic emission, but rather, the gas of life.

 

The problem is climate change policy, not climate change, which is beyond man’s control. Global warming is a widely accepted myth. World temperatures have fallen from their peak ten years ago while CO2 has been rising rapidly. The world was much warmer in the Bronze age 4,000 years ago and there was much less airborne CO2 then, because none of the rain forests had been cut down. The bounteousness of world vegetation goes up with CO2; so we could use more CO2, not less.

 

But now, with the prospect of an increasingly Democratic Senate, and a president who will go along with the madness of climatalogically futile energy policies, look for a revival of the old Beatles song, "The Taxman", from the 1966 Revolver album, a bitter song about how much money The Beatles were paying in taxes back then...

        

        "If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
         If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
         If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
         If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet...
         Taxman!"

 
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