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Gene Lalor | January 19, 2010
Sometimes it’s not worth the bother to open a newspaper or switch on the boob tube to catch the news. Much of it could have been written by the average freshman journalism major before it hit the wires.
For example, Chai Feldblum, recently nominated by the president to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), last month published an article titled, “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion” in which she made what would normally be an outlandish assertion.
However, considering the outrageous beliefs and statements of other Obama appointments, Ms. Feldblum’s views should have been anticipated.
“Just as we do not tolerate private racial beliefs that adversely affect African-Americans in the commercial arena, even if such beliefs are based on religious views,” she wrote, ”we should similarly not tolerate private beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity that adversely affect LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] people:” http://bit.ly/4P5EIj
Translation: We don’t care if anyone has a moral problem say, with homosexuals trying to recruit high school and junior high school kids to their lifestyle–which they do. Just keep it to yourself if it in any way “adversely affects” LGBT-ers, including if your stated beliefs make them feel bad.
The Libertarian Lexington Institute has released a report showing that more Americans can identify the Gosselins of TV fame than can identify the founding father of the Constitution or who the first chief justice of the United States was.
Talk about a waste of paper and bandwidth! Most Americans can’t identify the current chief justice or George W. Bush’s father, even if they do know who won the Golden Globule Awards and the unwed fathers of the progeny of Hollywood starlets.
The cause of the massive ignorance? The failure of schools to teach. As the report goes on to say, “(S)chool reformers need to do much more to restore history as a vital subject in American education:” http://bit.ly/8mQ3eF
Well, no shoot, Sherlocks! What’s next? A study of why teen proclivities lean toward dating rather than studying geometric theorems?
Here’s another exercise in futility: The United States Department of Health and Human Services has determined that the 150 billion dollars the government spent on Head Start programs was money largely dispatched down a gaping rathole.
The HHS’ “Head Start Impact Study Final Report” found that kids got a very temporary boost “in education and health during preschool when compared to other low-income children not participating in Head Start. But by the ends of both kindergarten and first grade, those benefits had ‘largely’ dissipated:” http://bit.ly/5bj0BM
In passing, it’s noteworthy to observe that HHS would be a principal administrator of Obamacare should that atrocity ever see the light of day, thereby giving HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibellius the opportunity to squander trillions instead of the pittance of mere billions.
Finally, these predictable news tidbits on yet another fiasco, global warming/cooling/climate change all of which may be occurring, just as they occurred hundreds, thousands, and millions of years ago without the help of homo sapiens. But hope springs eternal with professional “warmists/coolists/change-ists” bent on blaming mankind.
Hot on the heels of the failure of COP15, the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December and the preceding revelations of scientific fraud at the CRU in Britain’s East Anglia University in November comes a new admission and good news for polar bear and glacier lovers.
Apparently, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC), those same people who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with the Inconvenient Liar, Al Gore, has screwed up–again–this time with respect to the Himalayan glaciers.
Just 2 years ago, after exhaustive research, the IPCC concluded “the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.” After “a series of scientific blunders,” the IPCC is about to issue an Emily Litella, “Nevermind.”
The IPCC must be flabbergasted since its glacier warning was totally predicated on a news story in New Scientist which in turn was totally based on a phone call to the story writer, Syed Hasnain, who since has conceded he was just guessing or, as scientists say, speculating: http://bit.ly/7hu5Rf
Closely related to the glacier lie is the tale of a biased BBC weather super-computer which was so accustomed to being fed global warming news that it could no longer be objective and compute any weather that smacked of cold.
It had forecast that merry ol’ England would suffer through a barbie in the summer of 2009 and bask in a balmy 2009-2010 winter. The summer was a “washout” and the winter has been brutally frigid: http://bit.ly/5FzCbL
We can all save ourselves a ton of time by discounting most “liberal” news, which includes news emanating from the Obama government, news too obvious to read, and any “good” news associated with the United Nations.
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