Exxon propagandizes for Common Core during Masters

Exxon employs thousands of engineers and geologists. Naturally, it is concerned about the quality of the U.S. educational system.

Like many large corporations, Exxon believes the Obama-Jeb Bush -Bill Gates-backed Common Core scheme will improve education. Reality check: This top-down federalization of academic standards and testing will do just the opposite not only for math education, but across the pedagogical board.

Informed parents, activists, and educators gave the edu-propaganda a big, fat “F.”

Tweet responses to ad at link.

… .@Exxon buys ad time on #Masters to endorse anti-American Common Core educational "standards" - for shame another corrupted element.

Exxon Mobile is going all in for Common Core. Nothing like Communist Education Propaganda During The Masters. @CBSSports @MichelleMalkin

RT @michellemalkin: I hate the fact that Exxon is running ads during Masters supporting #CommonCore. They should clean up their oil spills

Hey Exxon Mobil-you supporting the Common Core is not helping anyone, especially the Common Core. EVERYONE HATES YOU

This is beyond stupid for Exxon - because you damned well know that somewhere inside Common Core is a global warming hatred for oil companies. These idiotic weeny oil company execs think they will win the PR war by pretending to hate oil as much as the leftists do. History is proving them wrong.

Energy is necessary and a doggoned good thing, and no liberty or freedom can be had without reasonable priced energy. The energy companies should be proud of that, instead of always running ads pretending they are in business for some other reason. No wonder no one likes them....they don’t even like themselves.

The energy companies should be proud of that, instead of always running ads pretending they are in business for some other reason.

Much like when BP was running the cartoonish ads touting themselves as a “green” company? While having one of the worst safety records?

I’m no greenie, but having one’s production assets explode and burn is one lousy business model (regarding BP). Lack of a solid safety program put in practice gets awful expensive.

why don’t you check the Chemical Safety Board’s report on the BP Texas City explosion.

Disclosure statement: I am a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas. I serve chemical plants and refineries, specializing in instrumentation and control systems, as well as safety instrument systems. Add to that participating in countless Process Hazard Analyses, Layer of Protection Analyses, and writing and implementing maintenance procedures essential to the safe operation of facilities.
Some people choose to take short cuts, and some companies turn a blind eye to those shortcuts. If the former insist on taking shortcuts, they get walked out the gate. If the latter turn a blind eye toward shortcuts, they are setting themselves up for disaster. BP has fallen into the latter.
http://www.csb.gov/bp-america-refinery-explosion/
I can name a few incidents that were caused by a vehicle engine left running while in a process unit and becoming an ignition source. That is a shortcut that is explicitly prohibited in any process plant (three are BP Texas City, Buncefield Fuel Depot, and the Exxon Bayway fire that is described in the Charlie movie - an Exxon employee who was in a big hurry because he was going on vacation after his shift, and spent his vacation and then some in a burn ward.)

Good Lord, I hope you don’t work anywhere on the Gulf Coast. Especially on the Houston Ship Channel.

Yes, Nobama made the situation of the BP Deepwater Horizon with what amounts to obstructing the cleanup, but that does not excuse some of the glaring deficiencies of BP. Shortcuts KILL!

Well, I’m tempted to take your word for it. Then again, you gave me a “dot gov” website - and my default position is to believe the opposite of anything ever said on a “dot gov” site.

At any rate, my statements about global warming and Common core stand.

Even though csb is a “dot-gov” website, their reports and video presentations tend to be quite dry, as well as heavy on technical content.
BTW, one of the safest facilities that I have been in is owned by Flint Hills Resources, owned by Koch Industries.

Don’t know your statements on Gorebull Whining, but that is another form of Lysenkoism. Common core is yet another dumbing down, a continuation of the Dewey lie.

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