Utah Bans 13 books. (I need to go out and get these.)
Showing posts with label Anti-Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anti-Education. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2024
Monday, February 12, 2024
Monday, October 30, 2023
Thursday, March 09, 2023
I think I have to blog about this anyway!
Well, actually: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1316/BillText/Filed/HTML Proposed bill text...My takeaway: in short if you are PAID for a blog about an elected official it is a form
of campaigning/advertisement and needs to be tracked due to campaign
finance laws
But still, let's visit DeSantis' reign in Florida and all the wonderful things he hath wrought!
Ron DeSantis' White Boots Steal Focus As Ian Recovery Continues
"You're not allowed to pass a 'Don't say gay' bill then show up in public dressed like Nancy Sinatra," one late-night TV show host joked.
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Thursday, February 03, 2022
Friday, July 17, 2020
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Kansas is voting on a bill that will ban any book that talks about sex from public schools
Because knowledge about sex is dangerous... but owning guns is not?
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Fear of blow holes, the educated, jellyfish and bees.
Being afraid of education, of the educated is a sign that what you are comfortable with is wrong.
Mysterious Siberian blow holes.
How about shopping for a new body when yours wears out?
Pork production, and the need of another book like The Jungle.
No word for blue until the modern times.
The warming of the oceans means more jellyfish.
Viking burial site has Islamic coins.
Recycling all types of plastic just became harder because China has cut back.
Chicago black site.
Bees in danger world wide. (Thanks for the article link, Steve!)
Discussion on a college campus about the 'problem of whiteness' exposes the very problem as a white freakout occurs.
When good people see police brutality in action and respond accordingly.
What does the collapse of Libya mean to the rest of the world?
Mysterious Siberian blow holes.
How about shopping for a new body when yours wears out?
Pork production, and the need of another book like The Jungle.
No word for blue until the modern times.
The warming of the oceans means more jellyfish.
Viking burial site has Islamic coins.
Recycling all types of plastic just became harder because China has cut back.
Chicago black site.
Bees in danger world wide. (Thanks for the article link, Steve!)
Discussion on a college campus about the 'problem of whiteness' exposes the very problem as a white freakout occurs.
When good people see police brutality in action and respond accordingly.
What does the collapse of Libya mean to the rest of the world?
Monday, October 07, 2013
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Wow...
Ann Romney: "Throw out" the American public education system.
Bring on the elitist private schools and the uneducated masses....
Bring on the elitist private schools and the uneducated masses....
Monday, August 06, 2012
From my facebook thread
What is wrong with this picture? A flipped out nazi racist shoots up a Sikh religious group even as we land a SUV-sized rover on Mars.
We are told by Fox News and the NRA that we must accept these shootings of innocent people as an expression of our freedoms and that we are to shrug off the deaths as mundane. On the other hand, we casually accept the fact we are capable of sending a huge and complex appliance to Mars millions of miles away and land it gently in a carefully chosen crater to look for intelligent life and to study geological strata.
If we are capable of such fantastic science and logical thought, why do we accept acts of such heartbreaking stupidity? Why can't we fix this?
Suzie Kidnap: we can fix it. we need to get people of normal intelligence to pay attention to politics. right now, the oligarchy has a brain dead army of simpletons who will carry out their kings' every command, and vote as they are told. and that army is basically unopposed at this point.
Ellroon Gravenstone: Which is why education and science are being mocked, and faith is praised more than intelligence. I just can't get my head around how we can walk into this Era of Stupid without protest. How can the army of simpletons be greater than those of us who think?
Suzie Kidnap: i don't think they are greater in number. i think they are more motivated because they have been stirred up by wedge isssues; race, abortion, the gays. they are paying attention, and most of the normals still aren't. i fear what it might take to wake people up. the pace of these massacres in increasing in an alarming way. i am starting to be afraid to go out of the house.
Ellroon Gravenstone: Recall the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia where they killed all the doctors and other educated 'elites'... and then wonder when Fox News will incite the next moron to go kill those who dare to read books. (Fahrenheit 451 anyone?)
Ellroon Gravenstone: I remember one man entering our living room which is lined with book shelves. His first sentence was an aggressive,"Have you read all these books?".... He was mollified to hear I hadn't. Didn't show him the rest of the house ... bookshelves in every room.
Suzie Kidnap: we can fix it. we need to get people of normal intelligence to pay attention to politics. right now, the oligarchy has a brain dead army of simpletons who will carry out their kings' every command, and vote as they are told. and that army is basically unopposed at this point.
Ellroon Gravenstone: Which is why education and science are being mocked, and faith is praised more than intelligence. I just can't get my head around how we can walk into this Era of Stupid without protest. How can the army of simpletons be greater than those of us who think?
Suzie Kidnap: i don't think they are greater in number. i think they are more motivated because they have been stirred up by wedge isssues; race, abortion, the gays. they are paying attention, and most of the normals still aren't. i fear what it might take to wake people up. the pace of these massacres in increasing in an alarming way. i am starting to be afraid to go out of the house.
Ellroon Gravenstone: Recall the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia where they killed all the doctors and other educated 'elites'... and then wonder when Fox News will incite the next moron to go kill those who dare to read books. (Fahrenheit 451 anyone?)
Ellroon Gravenstone: I remember one man entering our living room which is lined with book shelves. His first sentence was an aggressive,"Have you read all these books?".... He was mollified to hear I hadn't. Didn't show him the rest of the house ... bookshelves in every room.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Virginia Foxx... instead of looking for the kill..
Is feeding from the trough.
Unfortunately, there is more bad news. Foxx recently introduced HR2117: "To prohibit the Department of Education from overreaching into academic affairs and program eligibility under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965." In other words, "no regulations allowed." Dismantling oversight, transparency, disclosure and regulation is a necessary condition for the for-profit colleges to continue their parasitic business plans, and the industry is looking for people just like Foxx to represent them so they can reconfigure government to aid and abet their plunder.
Paid industry go-fers like Foxx are everywhere. The corporate media, such as The Washington Post (owner of Kaplan University) or any of the cable or "corporate news networks" continue to advance the notion of for-profit colleges as "real" colleges and universities, when, in fact, they are nothing more than diploma mills that steal money from Title IV funds and leave students - mostly minority and working-class students - with phony degrees and in debt peonage for life. Add to this the amount of money these schools pay for marketing and advertising, especially in low-income and minority neighborhoods and venues - a whopping 25 percent or more of their costs - and we see that these companies are set for spiraling growth unless the system is changed.
And this is the whole point: by commodifying education and removing public competition through outright ownership of the government, the for-profit neoliberal providers will continue to snake into the public treasury and nefariously destroy education and intellectual life in America and internationally, where they are now busy creating new burgeoning markets while leaving deracinated youth in their wake. These vulture capitalists will stop at nothing in their efforts to reduce education to little more than a commercialized online video game show - a project which, if successful, will have the consequence of destroying both intellectual life and democratic reality.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Seeing stars
McCain Voted For Same Bill He Attacked Obama For Voting For, Labeling It Pork-Barrel Spending [my bold]More by Jules Seigel of the Huffington Post:
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Adler hosts over 400,000 school children and visitors every year and is considered one of the best science education facilities in the country.
However, with parts and support no longer available for its aging projector, the planetarium theater sometimes is dark, leaving visitors without that valuable teaching tool to explain space to them.
McCain's hammering Obama for alleged pork-barrel spending earmarks for a projector for Adler Planetarium during the presidential debate Tuesday night was all the more galling for two reasons. First, because the funding request for a new projector was not approved and second because McCain, like Obama, voted for what McCain is now labeling pork-barrel spending.
The Obama campaign had this to say about the situation:
"Senator Obama is firmly committed to enhancing our nation's science education programming, and he joined a bipartisan coalition of Illinois Members of Congress including Senator Durbin and Congressmen Kirk, Jackson Jr., Davis, and Emanuel in requesting funding to enhance and restore the Planetarium. Before leveling dubious charges against this science programming again, John McCain should check his own record - he voted for $200,000 in funding for the Adler Planetarium."
Funding for the Adler Planetarium education programs of $200,000 was included in the FY06 Commerce/State/Justice appropriations bill.
The Adler Planetarium slur reveals both the slovenly nature of the McCain campaign's opposition research as well as the cynical and tone-deaf disconnect from reality. This is a high-tech scientific educational project, not an entertainment device. When I was a child and teenager growing up in New York, the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History was among my favorite places to visit. It was an important factor in the formation of my life-long interest in science and technology.
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The Planetarium item dramatizes the know-nothing, anti-science, anti-education attitudes of the McCain voter base, as well as his cynicism. I think this is an opportunity to highlight that. The United States should be financing the world's most effective and entertaining museums, science exhibits and educational facilities. The Defense Department was once a leader in promoting education in many different ways. It was a strong factor in the country's cultural and economic development before the Reagan revolution began pushing non-military science out the window.
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