Good Morning
This morning I hope will be a little different, not a lot different, just a little. First off, I have to give credit to the BMN Google group because it is still a wonderful source of communication and fairly high activity. Hugh started out with  an absolutely hilarious thread called "My Next car" I’ve included a custom image and link to the page. Give it a click, it’ll make you laugh for sure.

 Seriously folks, why would the United States nationalize General Motors, instead of a healthy company like Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart: We’re hiring 22,000 I’m afraid of what this sort of economic lesson is teaching young people.  Of course I’m more of a poetic justice type of guy, I’d love to see people reap the real rewards of their outlandish lifestyle, but that’s just me being me.

I have to face reality too, but in the land of Brian’s ego-bubble, some small part of me would enjoy seeing   the girl who stood in front of the DMV with a cell phone glued to her head for two hours straight with not one single pause, get taken out of the gene pool. Why not? Or is everything I believe in crazier than the logic that cell phones do emit an intolerable level of microwave energy and exposing oneself needlessly for hours on end may prove to be a health risk. Who knows, perhaps this next generation has already modified genes and are more tolerant to close-range microwaves and it will be the old guy standing next  to the twitterer and neurotic cell phone user who will fall over dead, just for thinking about it too much.

I still think and I know it doesn’t matter at all what I think, but America should use its new found influence in General Motors to steer it in the direction of mass transit. Why sell off Hummer? Just close the obscenity down, forget the brand, nobody cares. Use the factory and the skilled assembly line workers to build modern rail cars and fuel efficient engines. Still don’t think people will ride the rails? Take a look at this article in the Journal a day or so ago.

Rail Runner To Reach 2 Million Rider Mark This Week

Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Associated Press
      The New Mexico Rail Runner is about to celebrate another milestone — 2 million riders in less than three years of service.
    The lucky person to be designated the official 2 millionth passenger will be notified at the South Capitol Station on Wednesday following the arrival of one of the early morning trains. That person will receive a certificate and a pass to ride the train for free for one year.
    Lawrence Rael, executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments, says reaching the 2 million mark this quickly has exceeded expectations.
    Officials say the Rail Runner has become the fastest start-up of a commuter rail train in the country in the past 20 years. It currently carries an average of about 4,500 commuters a day between Belen and Santa Fe.
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Yep I know all us New Mexicans already heard about this, but I think it is pretty damn cool. 2,000,000 people took the train in New Mexico. Don’t make me say I told you so. Now, extend the Rail runner up to Las Vegas so we can join the rest of the state. I’m not terribly naive, I realize the train needs to go to a larger population area first, but what say we all keep the words of encouragement about the Rail Runner at the forefront of our thoughts. Think, Las Vegas, Watrous, Clayton, Cimmeron, Eagle Nest, Red river Taos, and back down toward Santa Fe. Why not? Travel the New Mexico northern triangle by train, it will encourage tourism, indeed I can’t see a downside to rural mass transit, as long as the keep a lid on expenses, or write off those expenses as jobs for New Mexicans, we need this, right?

The  point I’m barely able to make is we as a country need the train now and we needed  it yesterday, so get with it governor
sincerely
Brian Rodgers

 

‘Global Citizenship’: An Unsustainable Social Injustice

by Adam Baldwin

“Why in an age when so many have acted only in pursuit of narrowest self-interest have the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of this generation volunteered all that they have on behalf of others… Why have they been willing to bear the heaviest burden?” – President Barack Obama, Memorial Day 2009  

Good questions, Mr. President.

Our posterity

One answer is that those American heroes certainly did not sacrifice their all to secure the Blessings of Liberty for self-interested public school employees to recruit, re-educate, politicize and socially transform our Posterity — American school children — into “Global Citizens” that campaign in the name of environmental “Sustainability.” 

People familiar with modern public education should be well aware by now that one of the ‘Re-Thinking’ pursuits in K-12 school districts these days is the values inculcation of belief systems that sustain “global citizenship.”

This political mission is commonly advocated while suppressing and/or demonizing varying, skeptical viewpoints — to which students are lawfully and ethically entitled under national and statewide academic freedom codes and regulations. 

Global citizenship is a postmodernist incarnation of Cosmopolitanism and “world citizenship,” one of a number of controversial political causes for which William Carr’s National Education Association advocated in the 1950s – back when the NEA began promoting the notion that the United Nations was the only hope of mankind.

Mr. Carr once wrote: “Teach those attitudes which will result, ultimately in the creation of a world citizenship and world government.”

Sustainability a.k.a., “sustainable development” crystallized in the United Nation’s Brundtland Report. It states, in part:

‘Sustainable development’ is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”; “An additional person in an industrial country consumes far more and places far greater pressure on natural resources than an additional person in the Third World” and “in the final analysis, sustainable development must rest on political will.

DE-GROWTHERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

Wither General Motors and the incandescent light bulb…

Of course, acknowledgement of natural resource conservation and humanity’s place in ecological systems is an important aspect of elementary education.

But, the administration of dis-informational, faith-based political values systems (in the name of ‘science’) — to the exclusion of scientific method’s required skepticism and educational ethics’ practice of varying viewpoints — is, at the very least, unprofessional and deserving of vigilant critical scrutiny.

Statist canon like “social justice,” “global citizenship,” environmental “sustainability” and “multicultural education” are now pervasive in American schools, but are not sustaining captive young minds.

Parents, not educators, have the right to decide values, articles of faith and creeds for their children. Of course, children are free to make up their own minds whether to accept them over time. But it is not the job of public servant educators to undermine or contradict parents. That would be hostile.

Students do not attend public school so that teachers can make them hate American culture, society and their own species; that the human race is some kind of dangerous animal that must be culled by Planned Parenthood, or world government.                       

It’s bad enough when what they teach is false. They also lay extreme guilt trips on children that make them question whether they are killing our species and planet.

Such mind-numbing is a hostile act intended to brown/blackout common sense, faith, familial bonds, logic and reason from ‘green’ minds.

Wither ‘question authority’ and ‘dissent is patriotic’?

Small wonder charter and home-schooling are now such successful growth industries nationwide (against which – surprise! – the NEA et al. politically oppose funding).

Teach your children well…

How to impact positive change?

The same as one would were a public school or teacher discovered proselytizing religious scripture on the taxpayers’ dime.

Teach yourself well, as well.

Investigate and de-code these politically (not educationally) charged buzzwords and creeds, and specifically how they are being unprofessionally, unethically, even unlawfully propagated in your community’s public education system.

Access and read your local school district’s policies and state education codes and regulations concerning controversial issues, educational ethics, political neutrality and academic freedom.

Lodge formal complaints where appropriate. Follow-up in writing with your superintendent and school board when your district’s mission plan and/or teachers enact similar bullying as previously reported here, here, and here.

Unless of course you feel that America’s students – our Posterity – should not be burdened with varying viewpoints in public school, and that ‘this is one that’s no longer a debate.’

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – Gen. George S. Patton

Lexicon:

Global Citizenship

Sustainability

World Citizenship

Social Justice

Multicultural Education

Academic Freedom

Pass it on…

UPDATE: My thanks to reader/writer Ashley Thorne for calling my attention to these two articles on ”Sustainatopia”:

http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doc_id=697 
http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doc_id=787

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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