The nannies are increasing, especially in the educational arena.   Gotta watch those kiddies . . . real close now.  These two stories are just the tip of an tsunami that is about to flood the entire health care industry and devastate the entire economy, if any kind of cap it and tax it manages to make law.   It’s nanny tyranny. 

IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.   Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Seventh-grader Adam Marino is getting a firsthand lesson in civil disobedience.  The 12-year-old and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, are defying Saratoga Springs school policy by biking to Maple Avenue Middle School on Route 9. The Jackson Street residents pedal more than four miles together each way to the middle school on nice days despite being told not to by school officials and police.

Start warming up your kisser as we’ll all be kissing some additional freedoms good-bye soon.  Kids can’t ride their bikes to school.  Neighbors can’t watch other children.  We all will be forbidden to buy incandescent light bulbs.  You must recycle.  Your toilet paper is too soft.  Your car burns too much fuel.  Your home is too cool.  Your home is too warm.   Disciplining your kids must be done by professionals.  You should drink bottled water.  You should not drink soda-pop, eat meat, and especially pork (offends Muslims), and don’t you ever dare to say a prayer while on school grounds, get your flu shots for the yearly flu, the newest flu, the oncoming pandemic of this and that sort of thing, and while you’re at it, beware of the ice pack melting as it might flood your home down the stream which has been diverted to nourish the two-toed frog that is about to go extinct, not to mention the polar bear, the panda mouse, and tree huggers ripping up Chicago to protest the Olympic torch, but it’s OK if the chief educational nanny advises boys to use a condom when having sex with older men, and it’s OK if Muslims get a special prayer room in schools, and it’s OK if Congress gives themselves pay raises and increase their expense accounts, and It’s OK for the deficit to climb out of sight, and it’s OK for liberals to call conservatives liars, and on and on it’s OK for the other 30 nannies (czars) to think and plan the US remodeling program because we’ve finally got a black president who acts as if the constitution was, and the bill of rights was meant for the 18th century, and he was given a mandate to nanny. 

The election of 2010 can’t come any sooner as there will be a multitude of new faces occupying the seats of Congress.

Just as a tax has now become a “fee” and restricting freedom has become social diversity, so the cap and trade bill in the house may become the pollution reduction bill in the Senate.   That’s the preferred language of John Kerry “insisting it is not a "cap and trade" proposal but a "pollution reduction" bill. "I don’t know what ‘cap and trade’ means. I don’t think the average American does," Kerry said.”   Kerry is right on one point.  He IS ignorant.

All Kerry would have to do is read a bit and he’d get an understanding of what all of this none sense is all about.  Kerry and the rest of the democrats should put the Heritage Foundation on their reading list and it would open some thought processes, raise some questions and possibly even advance into some critical thinking and a little bit of understanding of both sides to such an important issue that would drastically change the economic situation of the entire economy.

The Wall Street Journal tracks down three of the economists who originally helped come up with the idea of cap and trade and finds that all three do not believe the system can be used to stop global warming. Then University of Wisconsin graduate student and now University of Wyoming professor outlines two problems with carbon cap and trade:

The first is that carbon emissions are a global problem with myriad sources. Cap-and-trade, he says, is better suited for discrete, local pollution problems.

The other problem, Mr. Crocker says, is that quantifying the economic damage of climate change — from floods to failing crops — is fraught with uncertainty. 

Heritage has a clickable map of each state and how a cap and trade bill as envisioned by pollution control freak politicians would effect that states economy.  My home state of Oklahoma would take a hit of $1.317 million loss in personal income.   A hit of a decrease in GDP for the state of $3.188 million, and a loss of 12,622 non-farm jobs throughout the state.   How will your state stack up?

That’s not all.

• A family of four can expect its per-year energy costs to rise by $1,241;
• Including taxes, a family of four will pay an additional $4,609 per year;
• Aggregate GDP losses will be $9.4 trillion;
• Aggregate cap-and-trade energy taxes will be $5.7 trillion; and
• Job losses will be nearly 2.5 million;

If politicians would REALLY investigate all issues thoroughly, rather than listening only to the one side that sends the most cash their way, then this entire scenario would never have gone this far.  But, then the dictionary would be stable and stability is boring.

Talk about disparity.  Liberals love to talk about the unfairness of various disparities across America, but then they create more disparities.  Talk about a real irritation to fairness, a major disparity.  Talk about the silent majority being awakened, demonstrated by the 9/12 Washington get-together.  This one just adds more frosting.   Facts please, just give us the facts and we’ll decide for ourselves.   "OH, MY GOSH!"

As researchers for The Free Enterprise Nation began compiling information about the pay and benefits disparity that exists between government/public education and those who work in the private sector . . . they found another reference to shocking pay and benefits practices in the public sector.

What goes around comes around.  Going on right now in the UK is a battle over home schooling by the citizens of England.  It’s the citizens against the government, and guess who wins those battles.

A recent British report calls for the government takeover of home schooling.

Using a UN document, The Convention on the Rights of the Child Treaty, Britain is proceeding ahead to make homeschooling so difficult that parents will be forced to forgo any attempt to educate their children at home. 

• "It would require all home schoolers to have to register with the equivalent of the federal government.
• “. . . they would have to be available for home visits…from government officials to separate them and ask them questions about their home schooling, whether they like it, etc."
• “. . . all home-school curriculum would be controlled by the state.”

The US has not ratified this treaty, but Senator Barbara Boxer of California is pushing Obama to review the convention, which has been knocking on our shores since 1995, when the treaty was signed.  She wants the treaty ratified, like now, when a crisis lurks and the opportunity is ripe for changes.   Arne Duncan, Obama’s education czar, is a puzzle, so far.  Likely his most controversial pronouncement to date is the recommendation of a gay high school for Chicago while he headed the Chicago system.    This could be indicative of the liberal progressive direction Arne will have on education in America. 

You may have heard of the situation of homeschooling in Germany, where a family was pushed to leave their homeland and seek asylum in the US to protect their children from being removed because the family decided to homeschool their kids.

The same kind of thing has happened in Sweden.  “Dominic Johansson, who was forcibly removed from a plane by a fully armed police unit minutes before the family was due to take off to start a new life in India.”

So now, what direction will the federal government under Obama take in regards to homeschooling in America?   How many congress-people would push for regulating homeschooling with mandatory approved national standards, curricula, textbooks, and testing, with in-home monitoring by officials to insure the rights of the child are being met?  It all sounds so reasonable.   Barbara Boxer for one.  How many others will fall for it?  The liberal mind would ask:  “who could possibly be against such a national program to insure that no child is left behind, abused or neglected, and has the opportunity to acquire the approved social skills for successful living?”

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.”  Karl Marx.

Obama is addressing the UN about all sorts of things, one of them about the vision and predictions of catastrophic effects on the earth by man made carbon emissions, the members of the UN arrived in their limos and long motorcades dumping tons of carbon emissions in New York City.

President Obama’s motorcade, are 20-to-30 vehicles in length. It’s so long - it seems that when the front of it reaches the U.N., the back end is still back at his hotel.  CBS News.

Could these long motorcades possibly be a competitive thing among the members, a show of strength, a show of their power, a show of one-upmanship over the others, something like a kid in the playground demonstrating how he can do something the other kids can’t. 

Highlights of Obama’s remarks to the UN include:

• "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.".
• "The time has come for the world to move in a new direction,"
• "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed."
• "If we are honest with ourselves," he told world leaders, "we need to admit that we are not living up" to the shared responsibility to meet such challenges.
• "I say this not to sow fear, but to state a fact: The magnitude of our challenges has yet to be met by the measure of our actions,"
• "The world must stand together to demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise and that treaties will be enforced,"
• "the danger posed by climate change cannot be denied — and our responsibility to meet it must not be deferred."

New World Oder?  How often has that been mentioned as part of the UN agenda?

Are any of them aware of, or do any of them care that thousands of high level weather scientists disagree about the earth is being warmed over by our carbon emissions?   Take Bjorn Lomborg "The Skeptical Environmentalist", and Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute who was one of the chief climate modelers for the UN, but now has turned an about face.

Nope, these big whigs of the UN don’t care.  The agenda is to bring the United States down to their level by emptying the pocketbooks of Americans to fund their own inadequacies of running a country that could duplicate what the US system has done.  

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against all your magic charms, which you use to ensnare my people like birds. I will tear them from your arms, setting my people free like birds set free from a cage.  I will tear off the magic veils and save my people from your grasp. They will no longer be your victims. Then you will know that I am the Lord.  You have discouraged the righteous with your lies, but I didn’t want them to be sad. And you have encouraged the wicked by promising them life, even though they continue in their sins.  Because of all this, you will no longer talk of seeing visions that you never saw, nor will you make predictions. For I will rescue my people from your grasp. Then you will know that I am the Lord."  Ezek 13:20-14:1

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.”  That’s Steven Chu, the Energy Secretary of the US., speaking to us.

You’ve got to understand.

Are you listening.

It’s about your behavior.

It’s won’t hurt much.

A small adjustment.

You’ve got to understand.

It’s really is very important, so pay attention.

He’s talking now, so listen up you adolescents.

You’ve got to understand how important this is.

What?  You don’t buy it.

Who do you think you are?  Have you not heard that “. . . there’s very little debate” that a new green energy economy will bring economic prosperity, Mr. Chu told reporters.

No more debate.

It’s over.

Get used to it.

Fall in line.

Comply.

That’s the way, good little boys and girls, you’re doing just fine now.  Who’s that kid still standing up back there?   Sit down and shut up.

Ah, there’s only one thing to do with arrogant fools like this.  Throw the bums out who gave and/or approved that this guy had an office to go to.   Was he vetted?  Was Dr. Chu investigated by congress?  Was Dr. Chu and his siblings, his entire background, checking accounts and trash investigated as Sarah Palin was torn apart by the wolves of the media? 

Now, he’s the Energy Secretary.   Another indication of who is Obama.

Today, September 22nd is World Car Free Day and we should, we ought to, we must go all the day long without the use of the single family car, not one mile, not even a short hop to the market, not even to take the kiddies to school, nor to music lessons, nor to the drive-in widow on the way home.   Leave it in the garage, on the street or wherever the beautiful newly purchased trade up from the clunker is stationed at night.  Park it.  Do not drive.  That’s the message from the folks at World Carfree Network.   Just one day of the year to make a statement.

Instead, ride a bike, take the bus, or walk.  “As the climate heats up, World Carfree Day is the perfect time to take the heat off the planet, and put it on city planners and politicians to give priority to cycling, walking and public transport, instead of to the automobile.”

While you’re thinking about it, think of how are you going to get to work on time if you live in the suburbs and work in the city, or live in a rural area 23 miles out of the nearest town where there’s work, or if the public transportation is 15 miles away and it delivers you 5 miles away from work.  It’s a beautiful day, so walk to the bus stop.  Walk to the grocery store carrying home 4 bags full.   Walk to the dry cleaners and back.  On the way home from work, it started to rain, you’re soaking wet and you’ve had a horrible time pushing the pedals to honor this day, to make a “green statement” so that the politicians and city planners would get off their butts and create a sustainable climate for all of us.

Now think about doing this in freezing cold January.

The mail man just informed you he would only be delivering your mail once a week now, since his vehicle has been impounded and he must now walk the streets.  Well, they used to anyway, so what’s the big deal?   Yep, they had 3 times as many route men then as they do now.

The pizza delivery people said sorry, but you’ll have to pick it up yourself, it’s raining and the law does not allow commercial cycles on the streets during inclement weather.  

You want to send flowers to a friend, sorry, but that can’t be arranged anymore.  You can pick them up and deliver the bouquet yourself.

You’ve been laid off because car dealers in town have been shut down as the city planners decided to go environmentally sustainable to save the earth from catastrophe.

The city planners decide that your neighborhood has to go so that a terminal can be built for the high speed trains.   They’ll be happy to relocate you in a high rise.   The city planners notify you that your lot will be reduced by 1/2 to accommodate a bicycle path, and you got to get rid of the kids playground.  The city planners notify you that you’ve violated an energy usage code by installing Christmas lights on your home.  You’ve violated a code by cutting down an overgrown tree and planted that shrub in the wrong spot.  The city announced a tax hike on property taxes to pay for the upgrades in public transportation, along with a bicycle tax to build the paths, along with a utility tax increase to pay for the new improved underground utility installations to make the city sustainable against wind, snow and ice storms, along with a usage tax on bottled water, on soda pop, coffee and sugar, on cereals, cookies, Twinkies and cake, on meat, pork chops and chicken, and clothing made of wool and fur (animals have rights too), on wood for fireplaces, on plastics and cement too, as they’re not biodegradable.

Then the State gets involved following the lead of cities to maintain the federal subsidies.

On and on it would go to satisfy these green radicals.

Contrary to all their beliefs, the earth is not warming, but is going through one of it’s normal cycles, a cooling period that may last a couple more decades.

This should be news.  One would think that this should have been broadcast loud and clear from mountain top to the continents between the seas, but nary a word has been said on the local news at drive time, nor 6 in the morning. 

A leading scientist of the UN IPCC has switched his standing and is now saying the earth has been cooling and is likely to continue this cooling cycle (meaning, the earth is not warming up) for another decade, ten years or so.   So why the switch?  Why has a proponent become an opponent?

So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?

Latif is one of the leading climate modellers in the world. He is the recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has contributed significantly to the IPCC’s last two five-year reports that have stated unequivocally that man-made greenhouse emissions are causing the planet to warm dangerously.

Yet last week in Geneva, at the UN’s World Climate Conference–an annual gathering of the so-called "scientific consensus" on man-made climate change –Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering "one or even two decades during which temperatures cool."

The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man-made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.

But as Latif pointed out, the Atlantic, and particularly the North Atlantic, has been cooling instead. And it looks set to continue a cooling phase for 10 to 20 more years.   Scientists pull an about face on global warming.

As much as the media likes to stretch a controversy and lead with that which bleeds, they neglected this opportunity to stir the paste.   Why?

As the author of the article says: Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn’t marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?

Now don’t tell me that the media folks are thrilled with the prospects of fighting global warming all across the globe with caps and trades, reducing the usages of vehicles, and even the air conditioners that keep the media cooled down during a hot interview.  No, that can‘t be right, not at all.    They are pledged to be impartial news reporters.

A new poll of doctors found that many of them (45%) would quit practicing medicine if the Obama medical Care reform became the law of the land.   The older doctors nearing retirement would retire early, the people now in medical school would consider another field, while those in the middle years of their profession would grit their teeth to see how it goes under the tyranny of government run health care.

From the pen of one physician, Paul Hsieh, MD, who practices in the south Denver metro area:

One reason that many physicians are skeptical of the proposed “reform” is because they already know what government-run health care is like, in the form of Medicare. Medicare is “single-payer health care” for the elderly. Many proponents of universal health care want to create “Medicare for all,” claiming that it’s a model of efficient, compassionate care. But as the New York Times recently reported, more doctors are opting out of Medicare (or limiting the number of Medicare patients they are willing to accept) for two simple reasons: “reimbursement rates are too low and paperwork too much of a hassle.”

Finally, physicians are concerned that universal health care will compromise their ability to practice according to their own best judgment and conscience. 

Is your doctor getting ready to quit?

Again, it’s rather an easy question.  Do you want your doctor, and his/her recommended specialist guiding you to make decisions about your own health care, or do you want a team of bureaucrats limiting those decisions based on some “comparative effectiveness research” statistics? 

Medicare is already broke and is soon doomed to bankruptcy.  So why would so many prefer a new and improved medical plan that covers everyone between the borders, when a government medical plan for seniors is not working?   Oh, it just need more money, is that it?

Back to square one.   Money!   Throw more money (our taxes) at the problem and it will solve the inadequacies.   Hmm.  The war on poverty was started in the mid 60’s and it continues today still throwing money around to relieve poverty.  Hmm? 

The state of education in the US is indicative by a test administered to students in Oklahoma. 

Oklahoma high school students are ill informed on the constitution, and only one in four can name the first president of the United States, according to a recent survey.
The survey was conducted to find the students’ level of basic civil knowledge. It took 10 questions from the test candidates for U.S. citizenship take. It was sponsored by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs think tank to coincide with Constitution Day on Thursday.
The passing rate for Oklahoma high school students was 2.8 percent, compared to 92 percent of candidates for U.S. citizenship.
"In that miracle at Philadelphia 222 years ago, the Framers gave us a document which they hoped would secure our freedoms," OCPA Vice President Brandon Dutcher said in a statement. "But they knew that only a well-informed citizenry could remain free. If these survey results are any indication, we are very much a nation at risk."   Tulsa World

Do you think it’s only in Oklahoma that high school students have very little knowledge of the founding of this country?   Would similar results be the same across the country? 

Sad and Pathetic. 

Comparing the knowledge of current high school kids to the knowledge of the people going for citizenship was clever, as it showed that immigrants must study our countries history to pass that citizen test, and those running our public school system think that the historical development of the US is an unnecessary factor of education.

A nation at risk.  These kids will be given the responsibility to vote in a few years.