Help me combat my leftist teacher (vanity)

myself

[paul51]

If she drives an SUV, firebomb it.

[kidd]

source: http://www.cei.org/gencon/027,03154.cfm

The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the Untied States
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Via fax

Dear President Bush,

We write to thank you and express our support for the positions you have taken on the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. We applaud your decision not to attend the summit in person. Although so-called environmental groups may in the next few weeks pressure you to attend, we believe there are good reasons not to give in to this pressure. Even more than the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the Johannesburg Summit will provide a global media stage for many of the most irresponsible and destructive elements involved in critical international economic and environmental issues. Your presence would only help to publicize and make more credible their various anti-freedom, anti-people, anti-globalization, and anti-Western agendas.

We support your insistence, conveyed in the preparatory discussions leading up to the summit by Undersecretary Dobriansky, that one of the key conditions for sustainable development is good national governance. The sad fact is that many of the poorest “developing” nations are not developing at all. Their people are mired in poverty and environmental degradation largely because of oppressive and incompetent government. The World Summit may be considered successful if it follows your lead and proposes ways to encourage building government institutions based on the rule of law and that respect people’s civil rights, including the right to property. In this regard, your proposal to base new foreign aid on the recipient nation’s progress in improving its own governance is most welcome, and we hope it will be adopted by other donor nations. Most foreign aid over the past five decades has been wasted by incompetent and corrupt governments, and much of it has been counter-productive because it has been used to prop up brutal, rapacious regimes.

We also strongly support your opposition to signing new international environmental treaties or creating new international environmental organizations at the Johannesburg Summit. In our view, the worst possible outcome at Johannesburg would be taking any steps towards creating a World Environmental Organization, as the European Union has suggested. As Undersecretary Dobriansky and Assistant Secretary Turner have argued, signing more treaties and creating more international bureaucracies does not address the shortcomings of existing treaties and organizations.

World Bank studies have concluded that there is a direct correlation between national prosperity and environmental quality and that environmental conditions improve rapidly as poor nations become wealthier. What will therefore create the conditions necessary for sustainable development is implementing policies that lead to economic growth. This is not what entrenched international environmental interests want to hear, and so we congratulate you for your courage in making the case for global economic growth.

Of the specific environmental issues on the Johannesburg agenda, you have correctly identified the lack of clean drinking water as the greatest environmental obstacle for hundreds of millions of people around the world to achieving sustainable development. Any progress that can be made on addressing this critical issue at the summit will be most welcome. Conversely, the least important global environmental issue is potential global warming, and we hope that your negotiators at Johannesburg can keep it off the table and out of the spotlight.

We understand that there will be determined opposition at Johannesburg from the international status quo to adopting the enlightened and progressive policies you have proposed. We want you to know that you can count on our support for the determined efforts you and your administration are making to change direction on these critical global issues.

Sincerely,

Fred L. Smith, Jr.
and Myron Ebell
Competitive Enterprise Institute

(and many other signatories)

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

I am just takling Atlas Shrugged for the first time, if you can believe it, Rand came into my sphere late in life. She will be required reading for my kids.

[The Other Harry]

Well, actually, you can probably get her fired for saying that.

You'd need to look at the rules. But in most school districts, it is not legal for teachers to try to influence how people vote.

I think you could probably take her completely out of the game. That is what I would go for if I were you. It would take a little work, but it sounds to me like she's handed herself to you on a plate. That's what I would go for.

[mallardx]

OK, that made me laugh hard...and I know you were kidding...

[Steven W.]

ask her how she felt about Bill Clinton not going to South America to sign the Kyoto treaty because he couldn't get a single vote for it in the Senate where it was later nixed 96-0 or so; instead Clinton sent Algore. Liberal logic is always so enflamed with logicless passion, don't you know ;)

[Publius6961]

Johannesburg... Johanessburg...
Isn't that the conference which went south and degenerated into demands for reparations?

That would have been Jesse Jackson, then, not Colin Poweell.

[zchip]

Try and understand what it is that your teacher wants you to know and "understand." Regurgitate it faithfully on your exams and get a good grade. Pass and get your degree, or whatever.

Then don't look back. Move ahead with the understanding that you don't have to buy into the leftist group-think that predominates the educational system.

[LibWhacker]

Here's one.

Do a Google search on Bush Johannesburg Summit. Lots of old articles about it will come up. Look for anything from World Net Daily, etc. . . . You know, the non-lamestream media sources. Good luck.

[1FreeAmerican]

Next time your teacher spouts something political in a science class stand and ask if this is an enviromental SCIENCE class or an enviromental POLITIC'S class.

[kidd]

source: http://www.cdfe.org/bush.htm

Bush to Skip Earth Summit, Powell to Lead Team

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By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will not attend the Johannesburg Earth Summit this month and will send Secretary of State Colin Powell to lead the U.S. delegation, officials said on Friday.

An official said Bush, who is spending August at his Texas ranch, was not going partly because he was planning a major trip to Africa early next year.

-- excerted ---

[SwinneySwitch]

"He sends Colin Powell and all they do is bitch. He should've sent James Watt."

He should start sending Laura, so she can be a senator and run for president!

[genefromjersey]

Where ( approximately ) do you go to school ?

[Mr. Mojo]

You elected to take this ridiculous class, or is it a requirement?

[Dark Knight]

Bravo!!!

DK

[wizardoz]

Also I recommend reading Ayn Rand's excellent book: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Written in the 1970's, every word rings true today--and punches a neat hole in the sternum of eco-maniacs.

I second that motion! I carry that book around with me, was reading it today between classes. Also, he should get a copy of The Skeptical Environmentalist written by a Swedish scientist who was a former member of Greenpeace... still he started doing his own research.

[alisasny]

I just read throught this thread and I laughed as you probably did.

Perhaps you professor would prefer they send the good ole Rodney King for world food and peace. Perhaps your prof could explain to us why Rodney was worth the death of some 50 innocent people and billions of dollars in damage.
Perhaps your Idiot can even tell us how much of his bucks Rodney gave to charity. Just perhaps.


If he cant tell any of that ask him how Dean is going to save the day.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Today she told us that "President Bush didn't attend the Johannesburg Summit [on global environmental issues] and sent Colin Powell instead. These are things you should consider when you vote."

Heh. I couldn't agree with her more. The fact that Bush doesn't waste his time and our money going to things like "the Johannesburg Summit" to get lectured by Euroweenie nincompoops is certainly something I am going to consider when I vote. (For Bush.)

I'm looking for articles or op-eds that rationalize Bush's non-attendance or reveal some of the anti-Americanism that was present at the meeting.

I'm confused. Why is there a presumption that the President of the United States should necessarily go to such a thing in the first place? Seems like it's your teacher who needs to "rationalize" this, not you.

[mhking]

Just damn.

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