Posted on 11/27/2006 5:08:31 PM PST by Nachum
My daughter came home frightened to death after her "physics" class was shown the Al Gore movie. I would love for FReepers who have good source material to help us refute her teacher.
The teacher is a rabid democrat and obviously shoved this down the kids' throats. The class are kids, ranging in ages of 16 to 18 (juniors and seniors).
Any links to printable material would be greatly appreciated.
I would educate my child on the side but not encourage the student to "debate" the teacher on a political subject like this. It's a no-win situation. The child will just get a worse grade. The entire educational system is teeming with liberals with views like this. The problem is systemic and requires structural remedies. You should take this up with the school board yourself and not encourage your child to take the teachers on.
Simply ask her to consider the idea of a static world, a static universe......and WTH, a static mind.
Does this mean I am a really mean republican since my hubby has a nice, big buck hanging in our garage and I can't wait for the steaks?
In the past several weeks, I have gathered document after document from FR articles - which I have supplied to my boss at work who also saw the movie and declared it was "scary" and he's over 50.
Just use the search bar in FR and try several key words - like global, warming, cooling, environment, etc. and you should have a great many really good articles which totally refute everything Gore says in his movie.
When you have your information - confront the teacher with your information - and demand equal time. Or, contact other parents in your daughter's class and distribute the articles you find - or call a meeting at your home and discuss a plan to overwhelm the school - and force the school admin to STOP SHOWING THAT GARBAGE!
Nobody is going to do it for you - you parents are going to have to get together and stop this junk being foisted upon your children.
Nah,,enjoy it. Hope you can scare some dems with it!
Just take her to disneyland go on its a small world ride she will never get that out of head eyether
My father raised me to hunt and fish. I have seen birds shot while hunting and then ate them for dinner after. The same goes for the fish I've caught. Now that I keep kosher, the animals are slaughtered in a more humane way, but they are slaughtered none the less.
It is mostly a kind of sensibility to having to kill animals for food. We have gone from an agrarian society to an urban society. When one is removed from the actual process of procuring meat to eat, it is shocking when it is observed occasionally. Those that have had to deal with the process of obtaining meat themselves tend to be less squeemish about it.
It's an all girl's private parochial school. Not much flirting goes on there
Are you sure ?
So true! (I hated Disneyland!)
Er, I mean, global WARMing.
Yes. They are not a very "wild bunch". Thank God.
Well, we do hang it off the front of the garage and laugh at the thought of my socialist democrat (their term) neighbors who really hate hunting. :)
The tough part about rebutting man made global warming is where to start--there's a ton of material. The church of the global warming would like you to think their side has an overwhelming consensus, and only the fringe or scientists paid by big oil disagree with them, but it's not so. It is a lot easier to get reporters to beat down your door for a story if you postulate a bigger and scarier disaster scenario than the last guy though, than if you are a skeptic trying to refute that junk.
Basically, you have to rebut them point by point, and search for material for that specific point. It helps if you've read enough to know the catch-phrases. For instance, if you've seen that global temperature graph that takes off like a rocket in the last hundred years, and wonder if it's really true, you'd google for words like "global warming hockey stick". Also, looks for names of the scientists involved, and see what other people have to say (because the issue is so polarizing, if you want to get opposing view, add words like "fraud" to the search). For instance like "Michael Mann global warming fraud", or "James Hansen..."--or cut right to it and go for IPCC (and find out that a thorough review by various world GOVERNMENT organizations is part of their "scientific" review process).
For some plain common sense, read some of Michael Crichton's speeches:
http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/
If you have to read just one, try HIS "Aliens Cause Global Warming" speech, if not for the title alone.
Here are a few links for starters:
http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm
The senate EPW site has several papers, including this:
http://epw.senate.gov/repwhitepapers/ClimateChangeWebuse.pdf
http://epw.senate.gov/w_papers.cfm?party=rep
In general, be suspect is someone tells you it's the hottest ever, most hurricanes, the ice caps are melting as an unprecedented rate, the polar bears are drowning for lack of ice, etc. (During the medeival warm period, England grew grapes and had a thriving wine business, and vikings settled Greenland and raised cattle. We've just had the mildest hurricane season in a decade. The polar bear population is stable. Antartica's ice cap is growing.)
The bottom line is that we are coming out of the coldest period in modern history--the brutal little ice age--so expect a bit of thawing here and there and thank goodness for it.
It's sad that children are being dragging into the propaganda. If you really want to see something sad about this mess, look at what the UN is pushing to the kiddies:
http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=265811
s/he didn't say WHAT scared her daughter .. maybe it was having a rabid democrat teacher shoving his ideology down the kids' throats in class by making the Gore movie part of the curriculum ?
Boycott the NEA. They're all Democrats. It's time to put an end to the relationship between the Democratic Party and these supposed educators.
"Any links to printable material would be greatly appreciated." ~ Nachum
There is more useful ammo in the speeches below than your daughter could ever hope for.
Michael Crichton Speeches
http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/index.html
"Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century"
Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
November 6, 2005
"Testimony of Michael Crichton before the United States Senate"
Committee on Environment and Public Works, Washington, D.C.
September 28, 2005
"The Impossibility of Prediction"
National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Janaury 25, 2005
"Science Policy in the 21st Century"
Joint Session AEI-Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
January 25, 2005
"Environmentalism as Religion"
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA
September 15, 2003
"Aliens Cause Global Warming"
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
January 17, 2003
"Why Speculate?"
International Leadership Forum, La Jolla, CA
April 26, 2002
"Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media"
American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, CA
January 25, 1999
"Mediasaurus: The Decline of Conventional Media"
National Press Club, Washington D.C.
April 7, 1993
Bio:
CRICHTON, (John) Michael.
American. Born in Chicago, Illinois, October 23, 1942.
Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. (summa cum laude) 1964 (Phi Beta Kappa).
Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65.
Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965.
Graduated Harvard Medical School, M.D. 1969; post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California 1969-1970.
Visiting Writer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988.
More: http://www.crichton-official.com/aboutmc/biography.html
bttt
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