From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 23:42:26 MDT
> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >
> >In any case, there is not enough evidence to claim global
> > warming is such a fraud that it is brainwashing to teach it to children.
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote: Thats funny, cause I recall when I was in school the
> liberals were doing
> this sort of crap all the time. I was in grade school in the late 70's and early
> 80's, when lefties were
> subjecting school kids to scare stories about nuclear annihilation, how
> MAD and Ronald Reagan was going to kill us all...
The political left was active in the grade schools in the 60s as
well. I think that is what pushed me so far right in my early years.
Last spring I had an opportunity to judge an elementary school
science fair, and the results were quite distressing. Perhaps
2/3 of the projects were made by getting online, typing the
subject into Google or equivalent, randomly printing out an
a few paragraphs on the topic along with a couple random
pictures, then pasting the utterly meaningless the results
onto a piece of posterboard. In short, it was exactly what
I mighta done, had we an internet in our lazy elementary
school days. It was quite easy to tell which families did not
have internet access, for those projects actually contained
at least a modicum of actual information.
The top 40 competitors were given a chance to interview
the judges. We had a couple engineers, a professor of
mathematics, a doctor, a chemist, a biologist, and I was working
on THAAD at the time. We were asked to describe our jobs
and how we used science therein, etc. Not knowing how
brainwashed they were or how much they knew about war,
recalling that they were in diapers when the Gulf war was
waged, I described a military opponent as "the bad guys,"
not using the more familiar term "commies" at all.
I described how in a military conflict the bad guys would fire
a missile at the U.S. soldiers, who would spot it on radar and
fire the THAAD missile at the incoming missile, intercepting
it midair in a spectacularly expensive but harmless explosion.
I stopped at that point, intentionally avoiding the continuation
about how the the good guys would then fire another missile
back which would make the bad guys regret ever having
been born. I thought it best not to say, "Then the bad guys
shit their pants." etc.
Afterwards, the kids voted unanimously that I had the way coolest
job. The lefties must have missed this bunch. spike
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