Education and Globaloney: School Teaches Humans Are the Villains

There once was a time when the favorite villain in any movie was the Nazi. In the 50s and even into the 60s, Nationist Socialists were everywhere on the screen.

Today's evil-doers?

Human beings.

Human beings are consuming resources, something they were doing long before today's teachers consumed enough resources to obtain a teaching license.

The Soviets had their political education commissars, responsible for the idealogical indoctrination of their pupils. The hapless teachers mentioned below would perhaps have qualified as commissars.

A sad tale of a poor clueless school district and their poor clueless charges.

Third-grade teacher Debbie Robles made her acting debut before a packed auditorium of youngsters at Rancho Elementary School in Novato. She bombed.

Playing the villain in a school assembly Wednesday aimed at educating the students about global warming, Robles - dressed in a witch's black attire and prancing around the auditorium as "Queen Carbon" - drew the biggest response from more than 500 students who attended two "Curb Your Carbon" assemblies.

"My own daughter Hannah asked me, 'Do you have to be my mother today?'" Robles said.

Teachers, parents and volunteers helped organize the assemblies and participated in the skits to help raise awareness about global warming and what people can do about it - exchanging traditional light bulbs for compact fluorescent bulbs, for example.

School officials distributed more than 500 CFLs last week.
Source: Marin Independent Journal

-Sigh.-
60+ years after World War II and the Nazis are still the villains.

Only this time, they're disguised as techers and having their students perform the global warming goosestep.

by Mondoreb
[hat tip & graphic: RidesAPaleHorse]



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Big Sugar is a Big Sugar Daddy: Big Bucks to Pols Who Help Keep Prices Artificially High

Big Sugar is a Big Sugar Daddy.

We hear much talk about the evil of "Big Oil". But one industry with a much higher profit margin than Big Oil is Big Sugar. Political contributions from the sugar industry ensure consumers foot the bill. U.S. consumers pay much higher prices for sugar--and every food item that takes processed sugar--than they would have to if Big Sugar's wasn't protected by market forces of supply and demand.

It's been estimated that the price consumers pay for sugar is twice as high as it would be if Big Sugar weren't pampered by the politicians that get Big Money from this Big Sugar Daddy. More from Dan Morgan, at the Washington Post:

When U.S. sugar farmers needed help this summer defending a $1 billion, 10-year subsidy plan in a new House farm bill, they found it in some surprising places.

Among the 282 lawmakers siding with Midwest and Gulf Coast growers on a key vote was Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), who represents Queens and Manhattan's East Side. The only sugar refinery in the New York area is well outside her district.

Four days after she voted against a measure that would have derailed the new subsidy plan, Maloney hosted a fundraising event at Bullfeathers restaurant on Capitol Hill that netted $9,500 in contributions from sugar growers and refiners, according to Federal Election Commission records and Maloney's election attorney, Andrew Tulloch. Tulloch called the timing of the July 31 fundraiser -- dubbed a "sugar breakfast" on the campaign finance report of one group -- a "pure coincidence."

Pure coincidence?

How can spinners say such things with a straight face?

So far this year, nine sugar farm or refinery groups have made more than 900 separate contributions totaling nearly $1.5 million to candidates, parties and political funds, according to federal election records and CQ MoneyLine. American Crystal Sugar Co., a Minnesota-based sugar-beet cooperative with 3,000 members, has made 317 contributions totaling $819,000. In July alone, its political fund contributed more than $70,000 to 26 House members, 24 of whom sided with it on the July 27 sugar vote.

The sugar industry contributes heavily to politicians, the politicians contribute heavily to the sugar industry, using trade legislation to allow sugar prices to be artificially high. Nice arrangement for both, bad arrangement for working families trying to squeeze another dollar out of the food budget.

Americans are being asked to foot the bill every time they have a candy bar or take the top off the sugar jar. They've been shouldering this burden for a long time.

Big Sugar Daddy is spooning out Big Bucks to see it remains that way.

by Mondoreb
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ANNOUNCING: "DBKP Political Cage Match"

Above: Action from the upcoming Clinton-Gravel DBKP Texas Cage Match
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Nov 3-Hillary "Cacklin'Clinton" VS. "Invisible Mike" Gravel
Nov 4-Mitt "The Maulin' Mormon" Romney VS. Mike "The Hearless" Huckabee
Nov 5-Bill "Close Encounters" Richardson VS. "Judicial Joe" Biden
Nov 6-"Johnny the Maverick" McCain VS. Ron "The Mad Spammer" Paul
Nov 7-John "The Poverty Powerhouse" Edwards VS. Dennis "Kid" Kucinich
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