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Another washed up musician with a dead career goes moonbat. I hope Boy George, Linda Ronstadt, and Morissey saved him a seat.

I said it before and I'll say it again. If algore thinks humanity is the problem, he should set an example and take himself out. If all the tree hugging enviro-wackos did the same, the problem would be gone.

PBS's Jim Lehrer: selling a senate seat is not a big deal.

They're evil...and wrong.

PUBLIC EDUCATORS NOW WANT YOUR TODDLERS

Having succeeded in virtually wrecking the American public education system, the American Federation of Teachers, AFT, partners with the National Education Association, NEA, now wants to work on America’s toddlers.

Although technically separate organizations, the AFT and the larger NEA hooked up, partnered, some years back since they are mirror images of one another in terms of common goals, philosophies, and “projects,” (http://www.nea.org/aboutnea/NEAFTPartnership.html), point being that anything said about the AFT applies equally to the NEA.

And much can be said and written about these two teacher unions. See, for example, articles published here, including “Educational Fudging,” (http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=189), and “America’s Schools: Freefall into the Third World,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=210.

Now, AFT President Randi Weingarten has announced that her group wants to reach out and do unto toddlers, three year olds, what they’ve been doing to older kids for decades, namely indoctrinating rather than teaching them.

Needless to say, she doesn’t spell out the AFT’s intent in quite those many words. Instead, Ms. Weingarten says, “The research is completely conclusive of the issue that our brains develop faster between birth and five years old than they do pretty much at any other time,” which is probably true.

As the Big Bad Wolf would put it, an apt metaphor for the AFT and the NEA, “Better to propagandize you, my little dears.”

Weingarten concedes that kids, (babies, actually, at age three), would be better off in their home environments but “some” don’t have “good” homes. Therefore, her illogical conclusion is that all three year olds should be in school where greater “opportunity” can be presented to them.

May God forbid that any kids be home-schooled since that abominable concept has long been considered anathema to the AFT/NEA and almost the equivalent of child abuse!

Weingarten is seconded by former Assistant Education Secretary Susan Neuman who also presents the case that “most of our children need child care, regardless” but it should be in a “quality environment.”

It’s unclear if Ms. Neuman was issuing notice to the AFT/NEA that lax child care would be unacceptable.

It’s an unfortunate fact of American life today that, in order to provide a good and comfortable home, even with families with with two parents, both often have to work outside the home.

Weingarten is using that fact of life to make her case for our public educational system to get its clutches on younger and younger kids. It began with full day kindergarten, progressed to pre-K “education” and is now focused on pre-pre-K children.

That progression has two aims in mind. There’s the obvious goal of creating more jobs, and a greater membership, for the AFT/NEA, and the less obvious purpose of molding the minds of three year old babies.

That “molding,” as noted in previous articles, incorporates such ideas as creating acceptance of diversity, especially acceptance of homosexuality as simply a variation from the norm, and inculcating socialist, Democratic Party principles.

(For doubters of the latter, please see http://fwcon.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/wea-fined-extorts-money-from-teachers-for-democratic-party/ and http://www.heartlessandbrainless.com/2008/09/breaking-teachers-union-stranglehold.html.

So, here we are, America. We have a proven failed educational system run by the AFT/NEA which now aims to expand that failure to toddlers.

As the song goes, “When will we ever learn, when will we everrr learn?”
(http://genelalor.com/)

None of this would have happened if only they'd be allowed to marry. /liberal

77% think media making economic crisis worse - no word on whether media did so by getting a socialist elected

$1 Billion bailout for abortion mills:
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/12/16/stop-the-bailout-for-planned-parenthood/

New Yak's governor at it again with taxes on sin foods and fun; among other things. What? No hooker tax?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_re_us/new_york_taxes

"One of the proposed hikes is a so-called "iPod tax," which would tax the sale of downloaded music and other "digitally delivered entertainment services" by 4 percent.

There also would be higher taxes on gas, taxi rides, cable and satellite TV service, cigars, beer, movie and sports tickets, and health spa visits, to name a few items.

Paterson seems to be fighting both obesity and budget deficits with a proposal for an 18 percent tax on soda and other sugary drinks containing less than 70 percent real fruit juice."

snowjobama - don't waste your question!

Chicago Area Libdouches bid $450 for dinner with an unrepentant terrorist at charity auction.

Scientists Call AP Report on Global Warming 'Hysteria'

"The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980."


Another interesting bit:

He took issue with the AP article's assertion that melting Arctic ice will cause global sea levels to rise.

"When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is floating ice, because it's displacing water," O'Brien said. "When the ice melts, sea level actually goes down.

"I call it a fourth grade science experiment. Take a glass, put some ice in it. Put water in it. Mark level where water is. Let it met. After the ice melts, the sea level didn't go up in your glass of water. It's called the Archimedes Principle."

He called sea level changes a "major scare tactic used by the global warming people."

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I'd rather the politicians(and their supporting media toadies) stick to politics and leave the science to actual scientists.

VtheK, thanks for that nauseating link. I don't even like occupying the same planet as that guy, let alone PAY to have DINNER with him and his loathsome wife. Can you imagine?

Concerning the post on Patterson's taxes. He's never been where I live in NY's northern wilds. There is nothing to do up here. Beer, satellite TV and gas-powered vehicles are about all we've got. He taxes those and he's got a revolt on his hands. People up here aren't rich like the Park Ave NY'ers. They feel these taxes.

Why not apply a $100 flat tax to every greygoose pretentious martini served in Manhattan?