Teaching Glenn Beck's most valued beliefs in
school

post from Jesus' General on 26 October 2009 08:07:00 PM. © Jesus' General

Glenn Beck
Fact Engineer

Dear Brother Beck,

Although I can't fault the work you've done promoting the teaching of biblical science in our schools, you've done nothing to expose our nation's children to the Mormon science of the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price. That's a shame. As one of America's most influential Mormons, you should be working hard to ensure that an LDS-based science curriculum receives the same consideration as intelligent design.

This year, millions of American children will be taught that Native Americans are descended from Asian people who migrated here over a land bridge. Not a single public school teacher will tell them the real truth: Native Americans, or as we call them, "Lamanites," are actually Jews who came here by boat in 600BC.

Nor will they be taught that God cursed the Lamanites by giving them dark skin. And who will tell them that the Book of Mormon promises Lamanites that they'll become "white and delightsome" again, after they've embraced the Gospel? Or that the Prophet, Spencer W Kimball, saw the delightsoming begining in the Sixties:

I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today.... The day of the Lamanites is nigh. For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised. In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos, five were darker but equally delightsome The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl--sixteen--sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents--on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather....These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness. One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

Our nation's children will never know about this wondrous miracle, because gentiles won't allow Mormon anthropology to be taught in our schools.

The same holds true for LDS astronomy and physics. You won't find a map of God's home solar system, the Kolob System, on a classroom wall. And no student will learn that God was able to create the earth in 6 days because he was on Kolob time (1 Kolob day equals 1000 Earth years).

But you have the ability to change all that. All you need to do is get on your TV show and demand that our fellow conservatives work as hard to promote the teaching of Mormon science as they do to promote biblical science instruction.

Once we've taken care of science, we can begin promoting an LDS-based history curricula. That'll be where the real fun begins. As I once told Brother Buttars:

Imagine if you will, the many hours of joy we could provide to our children if we taught true, Latter Day Saint history. Kids love to hear the story of the 2000 brave stripling warriors riding their heroic tapirs into battle against their iniquitous Nephite brethren. Why shouldn't they have the opportunity to learn about it in our schools.

Let me know if I can lend a hand.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

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The Agribusiness Assault On Our Health And Rights

post from Crooks and Liars on 26 October 2009 08:00:44 PM. © Crooks and Liars

On November 3rd, there will be a Constitutional Amendment on the ballot in Ohio. This is no ordinary ballot initiative. Its very existence and marketing has been bought and paid for --to the tune of millions--by national and international agri-business corporations, such as Pioneer Hi-Bred International (owned by DuPont, a "developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics"--healthy!--and grantee of 100K to the effort),the National Pork Producers Council (113K), and the United Egg Producers (200K!).

(Join our Facebook Group and help us stop this travesty!)

Now why, you ask, would these Big Agra players get involved in a state issue, and to support a campaign that is for touchy feely things like "food safety" and "local control?" I'm not sure, but it might be that this corruption of Ohio's Constitution will provide "food safety" much like George W. Bush provided "healthy forests," "clear skies" and a "mission accomplished." In other words--and I know this will shock you--they're lying. And they're lying with millions of dollars they've acquired, by being, like their "products," pigs at a trough.

So what is Issue 2, what will it do, and why should you care about it if you're not a resident of the Buckeye State? It's simple: Issue 2 was put on the ballot overnight by state legislators bought off by Big Agri-Business and their mouthpiece here, the Ohio Farm Bureau. Why? So that they can corrupt Ohio's Constitution to give the Governor the power to appoint a board of unaccountable agri-business cronies to make decisions in smoke-filled rooms about all farming practices in Ohio.

I know what you're thinking. Unaccountable, corporate-influenced governing has worked out so well with TARP money and preemptive war, we might as well try it with farm policy.

With Issue 2's passage, those only interested in their bottom line can (and you can bet will) stuff millions more animals into smaller and smaller crates together, increasing the likelhood of H1N1 and E. Coli outbreaks and mutations and their capacity for animal cruelty. They can ignore the waste caused by big factory farms that contaminates the water we drink. They can allow workers to be exploited and placed in situations that endanger their health, while putting family farms--held for generations--out of business.

And why should you care if this passes in Ohio? For all the reasons above, but also...because you're next. This amendment was a reaction to successful efforts to rein in their greedy, dangerous and abusive practices in California (Prop 2), Arizona and Florida, among others. If they can use the camouflage of bought off Democratic and Republican Establishments, millions of dollars in lies, and an off-year low-turnout election to enshrine their corporate malpractice into state constitutions, they can fly under the radar while endangering our health, undermining the people's right to petition (another amendment would be needed to overturn it if passed, as the new board's decisions would supersede ballot initiatives, legislative decisions and opinions by the State Department of Agriculture) and spiking their profits.

How can you help? Well, we only have 10% of their budget. But we have the grassroots energy. We have you.

So please join our Facebook group. Tweet this. Blog it. Call and email everyone you know in Ohio. And be prepared when this garbage dressed up as a gift inevitably makes its way to your state.

(Watch this video for more on this - the 1st minute and then from 5:22 on)

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Full Disclosure: I am proud to be a consultant in the effort to beat back Issue 2 in Ohio

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Movie Night: Cat Ladies

post from Firedoglake on 26 October 2009 08:00:00 PM. © Firedoglake

I love the kittehs! I have always had at least one cat, sometimes as many three, ever since I was a toddler and uh one of the main reasons I fell in love with my ex-husband was that he had always had cats. Finally a man not ?allergic? to cats, who loved[...]

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EU breaking up mega bank to stop 'too big to
fail' problem

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 26 October 2009 07:58:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

There is a bit of momentum in the US for this now that Washington has taken notice of voter anger over the bank bonuses. For now, the Dutch are leading the pack though we may be seeing much more of this in the coming months. It's unfortunate that the bankers failed to notice how fortunate they were to still have jobs despite driving their businesses and the global economy into the ground. As they always do, they viewed the bailout as a way to maintain their excessive lifestyle and as a confirmation of their superiority. ("We're so damned important and everyone knows it.)

Everyone has had enough and the Volcker plan to eliminate "too big to fail" may finally be making progress. Break them up and if they fail, tough luck, but we'll be fine. The global powerhouse ING is about to be broken apart. This better be the new trend.

The group said Monday that it had wrapped up talks with European Union officials that had led to its decision to separate its banking and insurance businesses, seeking to divest the latter over the next four years.

?Negotiations with the European Commission on the restructuring plan have acted as a catalyst to accelerate the strategic decision to completely separate banking and insurance operations,? the company said. ?ING will explore all options, including initial public offerings, sales or combinations thereof.?

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We can do better for our children

post from The Politics of Jamie Sanderson on 26 October 2009 07:51:00 PM. © The Politics of Jamie Sanderson

A report released in October shows that 10,440 children in the U.S. are known to have died from abuse and neglect between 2001 and 2007, but experts say the real number may be as much as 50 percent higher. The difference is due to varying definitions of abuse and neglect in the states, as well as inconsistent record-keeping and data collection methodologies. Child protection leaders say the situation makes it impossible to provide an accurate assessment of abuse and neglect of children in America.

The report from the Every Child Matters Education Fund shows that more than 1,760 U.S. children are documented to have died from abuse or neglect in 2007 ? a 35 percent increase since 2001. It says that the combination of millions of vulnerable children and inadequate resources leaves states stretched too thin to protect all children who need it.

This report serves as a wake-up call for federal lawmakers. National leaders in child protection, law enforcement, educators, policy makers and others gathered in Washington, DC, October 21 to kick off two days of intensive discussions among diverse organizations to identify the policies and resources needed to reduce deaths from child abuse and neglect. Congress must soon take up work to reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, or CAPTA, which provides federal funding to states to address child abuse and neglect.

While there is no funding level or formula that guarantees a reduction in child deaths, states that invest in a strong social safety net for children ? including health, social services, education, plus child protection ? experience fewer child abuse/neglect deaths, on average. Experts suggest that this is because fewer families experience difficulties in the first place, and that if child abuse does occur, case workers can investigate more cases more thoroughly, thus protecting more children from potential harm.

The report finds that Rhode Island spends the most per capita ? spending $181.34 per person to protect children. Other states that make significant investments in comparison with their counterparts include Pennsylvania ($137.89), Alaska ($129.02), Vermont ($126.31), and California ($121.16). The five states spending the lowest amount on child protection per person include South Carolina ($14.72), Mississippi ($28.82), Maine ($31.88), Nevada ($34.02) and Arkansas ($35.99).

And seeing the fact that our state doesn?t invest heavily in our children, it should be no surprise that we see high levels of abuse. It is sadly noted in Greenville.

?Parents and families are under much more stress than they ever have been,? said Shauna Galloway-Williams, executive director of the Greenville Rape Crisis and Child Abuse Center. The center saw 435 children in the first eight months of this year, a 33 percent increase over 2008, Galloway-Williams said. The number of children under 2 years old more than doubled from 10 to 22, she said.

However, child abuse and neglect death rates have dropped. In 2007, South Carolina had a 1.81 rating, down from 2.26 in 2001.

Kentucky had the highest rate of death due to child abuse and neglect in 2007 ? 41 deaths, or a rate of 4.09 per 100,000 children in the state. Other states topping the list include South Dakota (4.08), Florida (3.79), Nebraska (3.59) and Missouri (3.51). States with the lowest rate of child death from abuse or neglect in 2007 are Delaware Rhode Island, Idaho, Maine and Montana.

Experts say stopping deaths due to child abuse and neglect requires addressing poverty, particularly during challenging economic times. While no level of household income or educational level makes a family immune to this issue, a child living in poverty is 22 times more likely to be abused than children living in families with an annual income of $30,000 or more.

We can do better.

Urge your lawmakers to make stopping child abuse and neglect deaths a priority in Washington. The current child protection system is stretched too thin to help all children. Congress needs to adopt new policies and commit new resources to safeguard vulnerable children all across the country. They need your help.

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Harry Reid's Public Option Presser

post from MyDD on 26 October 2009 07:47:48 PM. © MyDD

Here's the conference Josh was talking about. This is probably the boldest thing Reid has done as Majority Leader. The Q&A includes some interesting words for Olympia Snowe: On a related note, Congress Daily says the House may vote as soon as the[...]

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CNN Comes In Last

The network that literally invented cable news just came in dead last in ratings, with MSNBC heading in the wrong direction too. The official monthly numbers will be finalized at 4 p.m. Monday and will include results from Friday. CNN executives conceded[...]

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Schumer Explains What Happened

So what went down at the end of last week between the White House and senate Dems? The crux of the matter was that Reid et al. were confident they could get the 60 votes to put a real public option in the bill and believed it was worth trying. The[...]

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