March 3, 2007
L'Eggo My Lego
2/28/07
Some
A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in
According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership." According to the teachers, "Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation."
The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."
They claimed as their role shaping the children's "social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity ... from a perspective of social justice."
So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers' anathema to private property ownership. "If I buy it, I own it," one child is quoted saying. The teachers then explored with the students concepts of fairness, equity, power, and other issues over a period of several months.
At the end of that time, Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." The teachers quote the children:
"A house is good because it is a community house."
"We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes."
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=022107C
Bill would mandate nicer term for illegals
February 27, 2007
TALLAHASSEE -- A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from the state's official documents.
"I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami...
...
"'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better," she said....
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/70227062/1075
Man Bites Dog: The Axis of Evil takes on canines
"I call on the judiciary to arrest all long-legged, medium-legged, and short-legged dogs along with their long-legged owners," Gholamreza Hassani told worshippers last month, according to an Iranian newspaper, "otherwise I'll do it myself."
… Iranian officials regularly confiscate dogs and execute them unless the owners can provide adequate paperwork; even then the animals are often beaten and abused, and sometimes put to death anyway. In June, the sale of dogs was banned.
...While the Koran makes few references to dogs, the Hadith -- the collection of sayings of Muhammad's contemporaries and closest followers that forms the spine of Islamic law -- contains over 400 references to dogs, almost all of them derogatory. Dogs are simply "unclean"; according to one widely cited hadith, angels cannot, or will not, enter a home that contains a dog...
...even in secular Iraq, Saddam Hussein first made a name for himself as a boy by torturing and killing dogs with a white-hot steel bar.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_23_54/ai_94960967
Taxi Cab Jihad In
February 28, 2007
Cab Drivers in the Islamic State of Minnesota are refusing to carry customers who have alcohol and Blind people with seeing eye dogs. In the home of country western music last month, a cab driver took it upon himself try and eliminate two infidels from the planet by using his taxi as a weapon of mass destruction.
More at
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/02/28/taxi-cab-jihad-in-america-separation-of-mosque-airport/
Homosexual Activists Consider Targeting
2/27/2007
In an article warning about the increasing trend toward private and religious schools in the province,
The article quotes Tony Lovink, a homosexual Christian teacher in the
The Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in
more at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07022706.html
Lawsuit Raises Questions About Putdown
02/28/2007
When a few classmates razzed Rebeka Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay."
Those three words landed the high school freshman in the principal's office and resulted in a lawsuit that raises this question: When do playground insults used every day all over
…."The district has a statutory duty to protect gay students from harassment," the district's lawyers argued in a legal brief. "In furtherance of this goal, prohibition of the phrase `That's so gay' ... was a reasonable regulation."
...Rice's parents, Elden and Katherine Rice, also claim the public high school employed a double-standard because, they say, administrators never sought to shield Rebekah from teasing based on Mormon stereotypes
http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?contentGUID=f2799ebd-4c2f-4494-8218-257a4a247f78 and also
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07022706.html
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
National Geographic News February 28, 2007
Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.
…In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the
"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.
Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
The global warming on Mars must have been cause by the man-made probes and rovers we've been sending… Yeah, that's the ticket!!
Media Ignore Al Gore’s Financial Ties to Global Warming
Former Vice President Al Gore has built a Green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself…
…as reported by Bill Hobbs in
[H]ow Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspaper's report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management:
Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe...
Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks…
Fascinating. So, as Dr. Global Warming travels the world in his private jet while spending 20 times the average American on energy for his home, all the time telling us its okay because he’s buying carbon offsets, he’s actually purchasing these investments from himself.
Furthermore, and maybe more important, Gore stands to benefit financially in a potentially huge way if more and more people buy into this junk science...
…Riehl marvelously concluded:
If Al Gore is successful with this latest scheme, Gore and his cronies are going to be much more $green$ than most of the earth….
read the entire article at: http://newsbusters.org/node/11149
Al Gore Inadvertently Breaches Airport Security
March 1, 2007
Former vice president Al Gore was involved in a security breach at the
"There are no exceptions. Everyone must go through security," airport spokesperson Lynn Lowrance said.
Wednesday at the
"He made his way to security, waiting for him to come through the check area, then he saw him pop up past security in a sterile area," Lowrance said.
Gore and his group bypassed the metal detectors, a blatant security breach. Lowrance said an American Airlines employee took Gore around security directly to the gate...
...A person being escorted by an armed federal officer is the only person allowed to bypass security.
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6165069
"All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others." George Orwell's Animal Farm
Some say this was a stunt designed by him to show the world that he does fly commercial airline… could be. I think he did expect this privileged treatment because I can assure you he still gets security briefings/training on some level and he knew good and well that he was by-passing security. You don't get to be the smartest man in the world without knowing these things.
To back up my claim that Al Gorebal-Warming knows about airport security...
...President Clinton announced the formation of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security on July 25, 1996 and a few days later, Vice President Al Gorebal-Warming, commission chairman, led a site visit to
...The Gore Commission held six public meetings, hearing from over fifty witnesses representing a cross section of the aviation industry and the public, including families of victims of air disasters. Recognizing the increasingly global nature of aviation, the commission cosponsored an International Conference on Aviation Safety and Security with the
Source: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2891
Conflict between global-warming governors, skeptical climatologists
March 1, 2007
State climatologists in
The most recent of these state-paid climatologists to get into trouble over the global-warming issue is David Legates, a
Minner reportedly chastised Legates due to his stated belief that some claims about man-made climate shifts and global warming are exaggerated. And state-paid climate specialists in
more at: http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/conflict_between_global-warmin.php
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
By Mike S. Adams
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Yesterday afternoon, I logged on to the "Global War" blog (global-war.bloghi.com) of Associate Professor Julio Pino – a Muslim convert who teaches at
Hardly able to believe what I was reading, I called Pino at his office in
…But, just in case you were curious about the purpose of this site, it is provided in the upper right corner: "We are a jihadist news service, and provide battle dispatches, training manuals, and jihad videos to our brothers worldwide. All we want is to get Allah’s pleasure. We will write ‘Jihad’ across our foreheads, and the stars. The angels will carry our message throughout the world."
… Maybe Pino isn’t really the "Most Dangerous Muslim in
But, just to be fair to Pino, he is more balanced in his teaching than a lot of my colleagues at UNC-Wilmington. In fact, he’s even willing to criticize an occasional Democrat. He says that John F. Kennedy once planned "genocide against the Cuban people" in the 1960s. He also claims that President Bill Clinton killed "more than 500,000 Iraqi children" in the 1990s.
Although obsessed with the notion that
Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the
Entire article at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2007/02/28/me_and_julio_down_by_the_schoolyard
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