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We all should celebrate our national holidays with full of life.

In response to: Happy Independence Day - Fourth Of July Celebrations

We are gonna hit the lakefront in St. Cloud for fireworks and stop by Circle K on the way. Thanks for tip on the 25 cent dogs :)

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thanks

In response to: Season's Greetings from KSIB and GHN

Thank you for the insight.. It's not everyday we think about stuff like this. Not many people inform others of the not so obvious things to look for.

Thank you Marcus and everyone else at KSIB,Carl Cricket! Keep the good stuff coming and please know that we appreciate you keeping it real.

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I really appreciate posts which contain interesting info and which I am always eager to read! Keep on working!

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

Just don't remember all of that stuff going on back then. We agree that parents should be concerned about ALL aspects of their child's education. Guess the opinion should have been made clearer that the politicians all raising heck over the President making this speech probably could have been protested with a bit more class.(no pun meant)

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

With all do respect Carl, when President H.W. Bush addressed students in 1991 (which I think is what you are referring to) there was quite a bit more "baloney" so to speak - including an investigation by the General Accounting Office and a hearing on the subject.

Further, The Washington Post ran a front page story declaring the speech to be carefully staged for the President's benefit.

The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props - The Washington Post

The House Majority leader at the time, Richard Gephardt, stated the next day that

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

My personal believe is that any parent not concerned with their child's exposure to politicians (of all flavors and parties) is irresponsible.

- Marcus Tilghman

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

It seems that, throughout all of this nonsense, we've been able to see how much the respect for the office of President, has declined.
We never had so much baloney when George Bush (Sr) did the very same thing, but that was many years ago. It's too bad that it has gotten to this, not teaching our children what the word respect means, and how it should be applied to everyone.
What has happened to all of us?

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

Through all of this controversy, politics on the homefront certainly will be heard by the children. Which "speech" would be more important to our future generations, those of adult's arguments in front of the children, or those directly including our children's future?

I would choose the latter.

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

At the time of my comment I had not yet had a chance to review the actual teacher's guide so I used the word "suspect." There have been plenty of articles written about it though, so I will quote from one now.

Critics are particularly upset about the lesson plans the administration created to accompany the speech. The lesson plans originally recommended having students "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."

The White House revised the plans Wednesday to say students could "write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals."

"That was inartfully worded, and we corrected it," Higginbottom said.

Some parents are not convinced.

"Is this part of the district curriculum or a way for the White House to get into classrooms?" asked Mesa parent Linda Grant, who has a seventh-grade daughter who will opt out.

Source: http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=113310

Having read the teacher's guide now, I can certainly see why some have termed it "Indoctrination Material." I hope everyone takes the time to read it and form their own opinions though. I tend to believe that the schools should instruct the approved district curriculum and leave the politics out of school, regardless of who is attempting to inject their own political views.

I have no idea what Jay Wheeler might say on the subject and don't quite understand the reference to him. What matters to me is what the parents of the community say.

Best Regards,
Marcus Tilghman

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

You suspect? Sir, with respect, to what do you base that on? Would not self righteous patriot, Jay Wheeler not have spoken about this "assignment" or something questionable? Will you or one of yours, research this and find the "assignments" that were to be handled by administrators? Looking forward to it.

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

I believe the speech was not the issue, but rather the assignments that were to be given to the students afterward. The administration has since changed those assignments from what they initially intended.

The speech seems fine to me as written. Given the fact that the administration had to change the assignments given to the students however, I suspect the originals contained questionable items, else they would not have been changed.

Marcus Tilghman
http://guardianhost.com

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

I looked and looked. I studied and re-read. I fail to see why anyone would think this speech is Socialist, Terrorist or an attempt to brain wash young minds. What I do see is a man, elected President by the people, trying to do what John Kennedy did. Motivate the youth, their parents and grandparents into becoming what we once were, a proud nation! Add that to the fact that this speech was delivered to the press and the public 24 hrs prior to being on tv and it bothers me that ignorant, fearfull and easily swayed educators in Osceola County, and elsewhere, decided to censor it. Have they forgotten when this country interred the Japanese during the war? Ignorance and fear. A crowd mentality.

In response to: President Barack Obama's Speech to School Students

Keeping this address from students is ignorant.

Maybe it was the mention of "critical thinking"...

In response to: 31,000+ Scientists Agree That Global Warming is a Scam

You want to know the truth about "global warming"?

The truth is, we would be hard pressed to change our environmental variables, even if we tried too. Our planet has vast systems of regulation that most scientists do not fully understand.

That said, all real scientists know that continuing on the path we are on will have catastrophic consequences. Maybe not in this generation, or the next, or the next, but eventually, it is inevitable, and not as far away as some may imply.

We must learn to live a more sustainable lifestyle, that is the bottom line.

Deny our influence on the planet, and our interdependence, you simply deny physics and what most people understand as reality.

This argument is really about ownership of energy. It is a massive grab by power producers that used to be regulated and owned by the population that depended on it for survival. Now we pay for private profit on a required survival commodity.

In response to: 31,000+ Scientists Agree That Global Warming is a Scam

please don't pick on poor Deluded Don - he's not quite right in the head... don't you know...

In response to: 31,000+ Scientists Agree That Global Warming is a Scam

Don,

Now you are just telling untruths...

The current list of petition signers includes 9,029 PhD; 7,153 MS; 2,585 MD and DVM; and 12,711 BS or equivalent academic degrees. Most of the MD and DVM signers also have underlying degrees in basic science.

From the Petition Project Webste:
Signatories are approved for inclusion in the Petition Project list if they have obtained formal educational degrees at the level of Bachelor of Science or higher in appropriate scientific fields. The petition has been circulated only in the United States.

All of the listed signers have formal educations in fields of specialization that suitably qualify them to evaluate the research data related to the petition statement. Many of the signers currently work in climatological, meteorological, atmospheric, environmental, geophysical, astronomical, and biological fields directly involved in the climate change controversy.

http://www.petitionproject.org/qualifications_of_signers.php

It seems as if you are regurgitating go green propaganda here without actually stating any facts to back up your claim.

It would be nice if you would bother to post exactly what it is you feel is false in the subject report, or at least describe whom you believe is the "credable scientific community" that disagrees with it.

In response to: 31,000+ Scientists Agree That Global Warming is a Scam

The list you refer to contains mostly MD's, DVM's, scientist of unrelated fields and lay people; not scientists from this specific field. Once again, the credable scientific community has rejected the paper.

In response to: 31,000+ Scientists Agree That Global Warming is a Scam

Sorry Don, I disagree. I submit to you that simply because the topic has been politicized does not make any discussions for or against the theory politically motivated.

You have given no evidence that the OISM is politically motivated, other than referencing a politically motivated blog ran by "scientists" that are in the business of global modeling; a field that's financial success depends upon the belief that man is effecting the warming of the Earth.

In my view, the paper is meant to show that an overwhelming number of scientists dispute the theories put forth by your so called "legitimate scientific community." When 600 scientists claim the entire scientific community accept their theory as fact, when in reality more than 30,000 say its lies, you might consider evaluating the other side of the coin.

You do not have to be a scientist to state whether or not you believe what you have just read.

Thank you for your comments!

In response to: 31,000+ Scientists Agree That Global Warming is a Scam

I believe what I have given you is sufficient to suggest they are more politically motivated than scientific.
Since I'm not a scientist I'll have to refer to the legitimate scientific community which does not accept the referenced paper.