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The End of the World as We Know It (Welcome to the “post-American era.”)
nationalreview.com ^ | April 25, 2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/26/2009 4:16:02 PM PDT by keats5

According to an Earth Day survey, one third of schoolchildren between the ages of six and eleven think the earth will have been destroyed by the time they grow up. That’s great news, isn’t it? Not for the earth, I mean, but for “environmental awareness.” Congratulations to Al Gore, the Sierra Club, and the eco-propagandists of the public-education system in doing such a terrific job of traumatizing America’s moppets. Traditionally, most of the folks you see wandering the streets proclaiming the end of the world is nigh tend to be getting up there in years. It’s quite something to have persuaded millions of first-graders that their best days are behind them.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; bho44; earthday; obama; steyn

1 posted on 04/26/2009 4:16:03 PM PDT by keats5
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To: keats5
Traditionally, most of the folks you see wandering the streets proclaiming the end of the world is nigh tend to be getting up there in years. It’s quite something to have persuaded millions of first-graders that their best days are behind them.

hahaha

2 posted on 04/26/2009 4:19:09 PM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com LIBERTY FICTION at libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: keats5

and I don’t feel fine.


3 posted on 04/26/2009 4:19:48 PM PDT by Perdogg (University of North Carolina - 2009 NCAA basketball champs)
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To: keats5
Here's some real (video) propaganda from the enviro-whackos at the World Wildlife Fund ... Noah Wyle PSA Polar Bears

4 posted on 04/26/2009 4:23:26 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Perdogg

Twenty years of cartoon propagandizing coming to fruition. Not good.......


5 posted on 04/26/2009 4:23:45 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Perdogg
When I was that age, I was deathly fearful of nuclear war. So, when I grew up, i joined the military to make sure the commies and general foes of America stayed on their side of the world. This might not all be a bad thing.

The more kids learn what a farce global warming is, I am confident we are going to see a lot of these rebel against this junk science propoganda-polooza. here's hoping

6 posted on 04/26/2009 4:24:55 PM PDT by McCloud-Strife (Lenin was a community organizer too)
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To: keats5

OK.... this is actually, a sad, scary article


7 posted on 04/26/2009 4:25:55 PM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com LIBERTY FICTION at libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: McCloud-Strife

The rest of the article is about how much scarier the real world is instead of that made up GW stuff


8 posted on 04/26/2009 4:27:16 PM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com LIBERTY FICTION at libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: GeronL

Yes, it is tragic....there is no one to take the baton from us - other than a coalition of those that hate the west AND Israel.


9 posted on 04/26/2009 4:28:45 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: keats5

Even the worst of the pessimists of the global warmists do not foresee much geothermal upheaval for the next century or so. Who’s been teaching these kids’ teachers? A POX ON THESE WITCHES!


10 posted on 04/26/2009 4:33:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: All

I think that Pakistan is the most likely disaster that will unhinge the Obama presidency.


11 posted on 04/26/2009 4:39:11 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: keats5
It’s quite something to have persuaded millions of first-graders that their best days are behind them.

Only Steyn gives is classic lines like that. And all too true as the enviro nut cases have far too much access to our school kids.

12 posted on 04/26/2009 4:42:57 PM PDT by Will88
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To: keats5

good one


13 posted on 04/26/2009 4:45:56 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (the obamination will ruin this nation)
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To: keats5; GeronL
he’s determined on a transformational presidency, one that will remake the American people’s relationship to their national government...state control of the economy, and much else.

Hence, the attacks on capitalism, transforming private sector control of capital to the Statists' control of the means of production.
14 posted on 04/26/2009 4:55:17 PM PDT by Canedawg (Support and defend the Constitution, and fight back against the Idiocracy.)
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To: Lysandru

Al-Qaeda with nukes, that would wake anyone up.


15 posted on 04/26/2009 5:18:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: Canedawg

It ain’t working for Venezuela


16 posted on 04/26/2009 5:30:03 PM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com LIBERTY FICTION at libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Will that be this year or next?


17 posted on 04/26/2009 5:37:15 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: keats5

The environmental anarchists are now apparently in the catbird seat. Stand by for further events.


18 posted on 04/26/2009 5:44:12 PM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (Sun Tzu "The Art of War")
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To: GeronL
It ain’t working for Venezuela

It doesn't work in Cuba either, or anywhere else it was tried. And it will fail here too- it's a utopian dream of left wing ideologues, who don't even have the wisdom or ethics to govern properly.
19 posted on 04/26/2009 6:33:30 PM PDT by Canedawg (Support and defend the Constitution, and fight back against the Idiocracy.)
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